ALEXANDER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR, SEPTEMBER 25th THROUGH 30th, IS A COUNTY AFFAIR !
2nd Section
VOLUME 60 NUMBER 30
THE TAYLORSVILLE TIMES
TAYLORSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JULY 6, 1950
2nd Section
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Raleigh
Roundup
(By Eula Nixon Greenwood)
(Editor’s Note: The column is
written this week by Tom Outlaw).
Time Marches . . . This is what
Time, the weekly newsmagazine,
says in this week’s edition about
the nomination of Willis Smith for
the U. S. Senate:
“At first, big Willis Smith, a cor
poration lawyer who stood for the
South-as-is, couldn’t decide wheth
er to make another try for the U.
S. Senate. In last month’s North
Carolina Democratic primary ban
tam Fair Dealer Frank Graham
had led him by 53,383 votes. But
since Graham did not get a clear
majority in a four-way grade, Willis
Smith was entitled to a runoff.
Smith didn’t know whether he
could muster enough money and
votes. At the last minute, he de
cided to try.
"HA got a real campaign break:
the Supreme Court’s decisions on
segregation in Southern colleges
and interstate dining cars. The
dust those decisions stirred
UP
could measure by their Affect in
North Carolina, the most progres
sive of Southern States.
“Last week in the runoff, Law
yer Smith won his case by 18,000
odd votes . .
These excerpts from the Time
article are carried here merely to
present some of the out-of-State
thinking on the recent primary.
Note the phrase; “North Carolina,
the most progressive of Southern
States”.
Time also runs a neat
one-column photo of Mr. Smith.
Rearranged ... The Young
Democratic' Clubs executive com
mittee meeting . . . scheduled to be
held July 1 as an all-out Graham
victory celebration for Dr. Frank
Graham . . . with national speak
ers who support the Truman Fair
Deal program, was hastily post
poned last week and the program
is being sharlply overhauled. Rea
son:
various speakers notified
YDC President Terry Sanford that
they would not be available for
the July 1 date.
Jimmy Byrnes ... Just across the
line in South Carolina the veteran
Jimmy Byrnes, former U. S. Sena
tor, ex-Supreme Court Justice,
former Secretary of State, and “As
sistant President”, is running for
Governor. Time carries this week
a long article on this race, pointing
out how Mr. Byrnes is making his
political rounds with the other
candidates in a big Cadillac with a
Negro chauffeur. The magazine’s
opinion on the outcome, as gather
ed from discussions with various
people, in this spot “just a little bit
south of North Carolina”: Jimmy
Byrnes will win by a landslide.
Hoke Norris . . . Thirteen years
ago right along now Frank Gil
reath, who with his sister wrote
“Cheaper by the Dozen”, the movie
version of which is now playing
about the State, and Hoke Norris
were here in Raleigh for the As
sociated Press. Now
come
an
orchid for Hoke, who is a specialist
in labor reporting for the Wins
ton-Salem Journal. He has just
won a Neiman Fellowship award
by Harvard University to outstand
ing newspaper writers. For many
Sr year now North Carolina news
men have been looking to the day
when one of their number would
be chosen for this high honor.
Norris will spend his year at
Harvard studying labor and social
issues. He graduated at Wake
Forest, where his parents mov
ed in 1930 so their sons, Frank
and Hoke, could go to college. His
father, a minister, still preaches,
and many a Wake alumnus recalls
with pleasure the quiet, friendly
hours they spent as roomer at the
Norris home. Hoke graduated at
Wake Forest In 1934 and began
work, like many another North
Carolina newspaperman, with the
Daily Advance in Elizabeth City.
From 1937 to 1946 he was with the
Associated Press . . . with three
years out for Army duty.
I Hoke still likes to recall how
Herbert Peele, until recently pub
lisher and editor of the Daily Ad
vance, placed a bag of oranges by
his reporter’s typewriter each time
Norris would cub dowd with a bad
code in the dose.
Architect’s Dream . . . Matthew
Nowicki, acting head of the De
partment of Architects of the State
College School of Design, left
Raleigh last week for India carry
ing architectural plans for a new
capital city in the Junjab Pro
vince.
Prime Minister Nehru gave the
now to Punjab to build a capital
city from the ground up, the con
tract being placed with a New York
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architect, Albert Meyer, who beck
oned to the State College professor.
a native of Poland and a consult
ant to the United Nations design
board, to draw up the architectur
al plans for the city. Nowicki’s
plans included civic centers, busi
ness areas, residential sections, and
government buildings. Provisions
will be made for a population of
150,000, with plans for expanding
to 500,000. So, the world continues
to build, and sometimes it seems as
if we are playing a game of bowl
ing ... set ’em up and knock ’em
down.
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Increased Public Interest . . . The
voters on May 27 and June 24 who:
stood up to be counted surprised
all the amateur Gallops as to the
number who would go to the polls.
Also, attendance at the highway
safety conference last Tuesday
brought more surprises. Schedul
ed to meet in the hall of the House
here originally . . . and this seats
only about 200 .... the meeting
grew so large that it was moved,
bag and baggage, to the State Col
lege Textile Building Auditorium,
which holds about 500 folks.
Chairman John Parks and his
conferees diverged widely upon
ideas, methods, etc., to accomplish
their purpose. But all were to
gether in thinking that traffic ac
cidents must be decreased. All in
all, it was one of the best meetings
ever held here and somthing good
.... including a watered down ver
sion of automobile inspection by
the next Legislature . . . may come
out of it. A salute to Chairman
Park . . . and to Governor Scott.
To Geneva . . . Americans are
flocking to Europe this summer
and included among the travelers
are scores of North Carolinians. Dr.
Clyde Erwin, for instance, North
mannered superintendent of pub
lic instruction, is on his way to
Geneva, Switzerland, to serve as
chairman of the U. S. delegation
at the international conference on
public education. The conference
will discuss curriculum reorganiza
tion and devote some attention to
the rehabilitation of school sys
tems in war-torn countries. Forty
seven nations . . . Russia isn’t in
cluded . . . .will be represented.
Five-Year Term . . . Allan Lang
ston, Raleigh attorney and friend
of the people, was named by Gover
nor Scott last week to a five-year
term on the State Probation Com
mission. He succeeds Dr. Clyde
A. Erwin, who asked to be relieved
of the membership on the commis
sion at the expriation of his term a
month ago.
Amiable ... N. C. Agriculture
poultry experts, feed manufactur
ers and fertilizer representatives
were always in disagreement and
at each others’ throats only a few
years back.
But now they sit
amiably together around a confer
ence table and work for the com
mon good. Credit for this miracle
—111- ee 4. 41e —*88e=4 eahm in I
should go to the present setup in;
the Agriculture Department, to
legislators and farmers who realize
that more is accomplished through
frand discussion and cooperative
effort.
Recruiting . . . Capt. Joseph M.
Pearson, head of the Raleigh
Station Area, and T. Sgt. M. L
Christian, stationed at the Army
and Air Forces Recruiting Offices
here, spent most of their time last:
week answering questions on the,
draft, the Army Reserve, and other,
military matters brought on by the
country’s participation in the Ko
rean conflict.
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Zephyr All-Season Awniags
“breathe." Ventilation is super-in
duced by the scientific thermo-syphon
principle. Interiors, actually up to
12* cooler in summer. But Ztgbft
comfort is not for summer only.
Zephyr Doorhoode keep stoops shel
tered and dry; keep muddy tracks
out. Window awnings shelter against
dampness, stuck windows and
weather deny. Moderate initial cost;
upkeep, repairs and replacements
practically nil. Phone us for full de
tails. Cost estimates free.
California Redwood or
Aluminum Baked on Fin
ish. Choice of Colors.
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Phone 2922
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MOTOR CO.
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Taylorsville, N. C.
HUI Farms
The legume birdfoot trefoil, ap
pears to be the best answer to the
hill farmers’ problems, according
to a Cornell agronomist
it will
help get poor soil in production,
increase pasture yields and reduce
the need for buying high amounts
of protein feed.
This Tax Business Can
Extend Beyond Grave
Philadelphia.—Might as
well
brace yourself for the bad news.
Alimony payments are deductible
from income taxes only so long as
a man is alive to make the pay
ments.
ductible.
After he’s dead—not de
That seems to be the
general idea behind a court deci
sion on alimony insurance pre
miums.
This fellow Myer Blumenthal of
Philadelphia carries an insurance
policy for $65,000, to provide ali
mony of $100 a week for his ex
wife after his death. He claimed
that the premiums on this insur
ance should be deductible item on
the income tax. Went to court
about it, too. The court said no.
The premiums are not deductible.
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