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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1948. 3 Speaker DR. PHILIP M. STIMSON.

Chapel Hill, April Philip Moen Stimson, associate professor of clinical pediatrics of Cornell University, will address doctors in the eastern and Piedmont sections of the State this week at the final two programs of the Postgraduate Medical Courses being sponsored by the University of North Carolina Medical School and Extension Division. Dr. Stimson will speak in Raleigh Tuesday, April 13, and in Greensboro Wednesday. His subject will be the same in both Advances in Etiology and Treatment Poliomyelitis." He will conduct a clinic at 4 p. m.

Tuesday Nurses Home of Rex Hospital in Raleigh, and following dinner at 6:30 at the CaroHotel, will give his lecture at 8. He will follow the same schedule in Greensboro, conducting the clinic at the Polio Center at ORD Base and addressing the dinner session at the O. Henry Hotel. HALIFAX VETS NAME UMSTEAD AS SPEAKER Scotland Neck, April States Senator William B. Umstead of Durham will be the featured speaker at a meeting of the members of the American Legion and their wives which will be held next Tuesday, April 13, at 8:00 o'clock at the Scotland Neck High School auditoriumstead will be the guest at the annual meeting of the 1 members of the American Legion of Scotland Neck.

Enfield and Whitakers. (Advertisement) RASH ON HANDS FOR "AGES" Disappeared in 7 Days! -writes a grateful woman of Pittsburgh, after she began to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment to aid relief. just a week her hands were as nice as they used to be! Cuticura Soap and Ointment are scientifically medicatedamazingly effective. Still the same low price. Buy at druggist today! caused PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ARE WORTH MORE THAN MATERIALS Ridgeway's EYEGLASS OPTICIANS FERVICE Shirt Tail Lure Pays Off Negs Head, April Rhem, Coatesville, jeweler who caught his limit of large mouth bass here four days in a row, landed his largest when using only a piece of shirt tail for a lure.

It happened this way: Rhem ran out of pork rind on spoon lures he was using to land several fish weighing up to pounds. As a last resort he changed over to the piece of white cloth from his shirt and got a mighty strike. Finally he landed his fish, the largest he had, taken of the four days he fished. According to Guide Johnny Moore's scales, the fish weighed pounds. was the largest of this fresh water species be taken from any of the Head fresh water ponds so far this season, according to Mrs.

Lucille Purser, who receives daily reports from the guides catering to fresh water anglers. Tar Heels Win Fellowships Two Tar Heels and a graduate of the University of North Carolina were among the 112 recipients of Guggenheim Fellowship awards announced today in New York by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Sam Byrd, a writer and native of Mount Olive, won his second Felfield lowship of for fiction. creative He won writing his" first award in 1946. The other Tar Heel winner was Dr.

Henry Shepard Fuller, assistant professor of preventive medicine in the Gray School of Medicine attending physician Veterans Administration office in Winston-Salem. Willie Wang, who writes under the name William Woods, UNC graduate who won a Fellowship. A native of North Sutton, New Hampshire, Wang author of "The Edge of Darkness" and "The Street of Seven He will use his Fellowship to work on a novel. studied at the University of Florida, and later went to New where he began an acting in 1929. He appeared in several stage plays, and in "Tobacco Road," he played the part of Dude Lester in 1,151 consecutive performances.

For his performance "Tobacco Road," Byrd received Literary line Digest award of "Best Young Actor on Broadway, Season 1933-34." He also produced several plays, inciuding "White Man," "Journeyman," "John Henry," starring Paul Robeson, and "Good in association with Sinclair Lewis. PLAY PROJECTS BACKED BY ASHEBORO COUNCIL Asheboro, April for Asheboro's city-sponsored summer recreation program have received financial backing here as the city council approved two budgets for the season. The new swimming pool now being completed by the Asheboro Memorial Foundation will be operated by the under an agreement made recently. Over $100,000 has been the site by the foundation, and contract for a $12,000 bathhouse has been let. One budget covers costs of operating the pool.

Second approved budget provided money for four playgrounds in the city, including one for the Negro population. Director of the recreation program is Jack Burroughs, high school coach here. DEED REMOVES CLOUD OVER WAYNE PROPERTY Goldsboro, April deed has been filed, in the Wayne County Register Deeds office which removes, a the cloud Mount upon the Olive title of grammar the school. Under the deed E. B.

Flowers and wife deeded to the Wayne County Board of Education all that block in Mount Olive bounded on the west by Southerland on the north by West John Street, on the south by West James Street and on the east by N. C. Highway 117. LAN -PEARCE 0 FLEXIBLE CANTILEVER SHOES 09 011 Lon) 5) 0 10 101 Women In White 4 Prefer "THE SCOUT" 0 a Nurses and waitresses depend on "'The Scout" by Cantilever for the support and foot freedom their long hours call for. There's nothing like this famous 74 last.

0 5 1295 0 5 0 0 0 4 5 5 5 SECOND 5 FLOOR 0 5 4 0 5 00 05 4 "Raleigh's Shopping Center" 5 55 5 5 5 0 Humorist Bob Patton of Morganton, above, a Tar Heel humorist, will speak at the annual banquet of the Rocky Mount Mills in Rocky Mount on Tuesday night, April 13. BAR ASSOCIATION PLANNING CRUISE Members of N. C. Bar Association to Take Norfolk-Bermuda Trip June 10-15 Wilmington, April 50th anniversary convention of the North Carolina Bar Association will be held in the form of a cruise from Norfolk, to Bermuda on June 10 to 15. Edward L.

Cannon, of Raleigh, secretary of the association, announced here yesterday following a conference of the Executive Committee. Greater part of today's meeting was devoted to discussion of arrangements for the conventioncruise, expected to be attended by approximately 400 members of the State bar. Efforts were made to have the ship sail from either Wilmington or Morehead City but it was found that the sailing from the Virginia port was more feasible. for the greater number of the association's members, Cannon said. Four committees reported at today's session.

Tom Leath, of Rockingham, told of the activities of the public relations group and Welch Jordan, of Greensboro, reported for the insurance committee. Winfield Blackwell of Winston-Salem, revealed plans for a taxation institute to be held in September, and albert Coates, director of the Institute of Government at University of North Carolina, reported on the work of the post-legal education committee. Attending the conference here were John Manning, of Durham, chairman of the executive committee; Clifton Moore, of Burgaw, Alan Marshall of Wilmington, John Rodman of Washington; Cannon and Blackwell. WC APPOINTS JUDGES FOR TEXTILE EXHIBIT Greensboro, April George E. Linton, dean of the Textile Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and Gladys G.

Miller, teacher, author, lecturer, and home furnishings stylist, also of New York, have been appointed members of the jury of selection and of awards for the 1948 International Textile Exhibition at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Noma Hardin, chairman of the exhibition and assistant professor of art at Woman's College, is the permanent third member of the jury. The exhibition will open ber 1 for a month. Entries will include woven rugs, women clothing fabrics, woven draperies and upholstery, napery (woven or printed), printed textiles, woven synthetics, and woven linen. Purchase awards totalling nearly $2,000 will be made in connection with the exhibition.

Textiles purchased will become a part of the permanent collection of the Woman's College Art Department. Last year's exhibition contained more than 200 entries from this country and Latin America. THREE PERSONS HURT IN WAYNE ACCIDENT Goldsboro, April and Mrs. Frank Bedford, Mrs. Earl Bedford and daughter, Route Pikeville, were admitted to Goldsboro Hospital Saturday morning following a collison between their car and a truck.

W. H. Miller, Jr. reported that none of their injuries were serious. All were in a state of shock, hospital attaches said.

The wreck occurred at Pike's crossroads. W. E. Seymour, who answered an ambulance call, said that the car was almost completely demolished. Electric lines were also down, he said.

EIGHTH GRADER WINS WAYNE SPELLING BEE Goldsboro, April Carroll grader Mount Olive school, won the spelling match championship in the Mount Olive auditorium last week. Other contestants for the honor were Dan Fagg, Saddie Whitfield, junior; and Kenclarions nedy, junior. Mrs. Lucy Johnson, seventh teacher, pronounced the words to the contestants. Joe Carroll will receive a medal on award day at the end of the school year.

UNC Draft Advocates Plan Meet Chapel Hill, April A conscription group on the University of North Carolina campus will meet in Hill Hall Monday night at 8 o'clock to answer arguments set forth by an anti-conscription group at a spirited held two weeks ago when those in favor of conscription outvoted the anti-faction by 394 to 95. meeting. it was announced, will take form of an open discussion of the present world situation, number of faculty members scheduled to speak on the geographical, historical, political, scias aspects. Called by Bill Corley of Atlanta, who led a group of veterans at the earlier meeting sponsored by a newly-formed Committee Against Conscription, the pro group announced a statement that "we want to present to the campus a complete analysis of the problem confronting the United States today. FIELD OF CANDIDATES ENTER PITT CAMPAIGN Dr.

E. L. Henderson, Former ECTC Professor, Seeking Seat in House Greenville, April in Democratic primary, May 29, increased considerably during the past few days, since Dr. Paul E. Jones of Farmville announced his candidacy the State Senate.

Other candidates are Arthur B. Corey of Greenville, incumbent, and J. Ficklen Arthur, Greenville tobacconist. W. Jasper Smith of Bethel, chairman of the Pitt County Board of Commissioners the past two years, announced Friday for a seat in the Lower House of the General Assembly and a surprise.

Other candidates soprane House are S. O. Worthington of Greenville and Frank M. Kilpatrick of Ayden, incumbents, and Dr. E.

L. Henderson, East Carolina Teachers College faculty member for 21 years. He was deposed by President Leon R. Meadows shortly before Meadows resigned as president several years ago, and a short time before Henderson would have been entitled to retire on a pension. Four incumbent members of Pitt County Board of Commissioners are up for reelection.

They are J. Vance Perkins of Greenville, District G. H. Pittman, Marvin Smith of Chicod, District and M. Brown Hodges of Grifton, District 5.

Zebulon Vance Bunting of Bethel and J. T. Dupree of Belvoir are seeking the commissioner's seat vacated by W. Jasper Smith in Bethel District 2. Wayland Hunsucker, mayor- of Winterville for 12 years, is oposing Marvin Smith in District 4.

Judge Dink James, incumbent, is a candidate for relection as judge of county recorder's court. The political campaign got into full swing here today, and some surprises are expected next week. 14 UNC STUDENTS JOIN NATIONAL FRATERNITY Chapel Hill, April new members today were received into North Carolina Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta, national social fraternity at the University of North Carolina. Climaxing six months of orientation, members of the chapter honored the initiates at a banquet at 7 p. m.

in the Carolina Inn. Associate Justice A. A. F. Seawell of the State Supreme Court, Raleigh, was the principal speaker.

New members received into the chapter were William Parker Andrews of Flat Rock, Joseph Bach of Upper Darby, Harry Buchanan of Hendersonville, George Carr of Leland, Johnny Lester Clements of Crewe, George Crowell of Lenoir, Edwin Davenport of Rocky Mount, Garrett Fitzgibbons, Cartersville, Bobby, Jonas Johnson of of Ponte Atlanta, Vedro Beach, Harold Rouse of Farmville, Jack Stokes of Norfolk, Jim Phillips Thomas of Baltimore, and Andrew Williams, of Hamlet. ASSOCIATION RETAINS DAVIDSON PROF IN JOB Davidson, April George B. Watts, Davidson College French professor, was re-elected secretarytreasurer of the American Association of Teachers of French, according to results of the balloting announced here today. Professor Carriere of the University of Virginia elected to the presidency for a twoyear term beginning in September. He succeeds Professor Jacques Fermaud of the University of Minnesota.

Other officers elected on the ballot were William N. Locke of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, vice-president, and Helene Harvitt of Brooklyn College, editor-in-chief of the French Review. Professor Fermaud was named the association's delegate to the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Association. IMMUNIZATION CLINICS SCHEDULED IN HARNETT Dunn, April for the annual immunization in Harnett County anounced today by Dr. W.

B. Hunter, county health officer. The clinics will be for the vention of typhoid fever, diphtheria and whooping cough. The clinics will open on Monday, April 19, and will continue through 24. Vaccinations will be administered in the health offices Lillington and Dunn each Saturday from April 24 through June 29 from 9 a.

m. until noon. A schedule has also been worked out to serve citizens in every part of the county. Third Party Forming at Wake Forest Wake Forest, April Wallace and his third party has nothing on a group of Wake Forest students who have organized a new party to compete with Progressive Fraternity and Student Political parties in coming student elections at Wake Forest on Wednesday, April 21. The four-plank platform announced last week is as follows: (1) Abolish the office of vice-president in the Student Government; (2) Abolish all political "If the students have the facts; presented to them in a non-partisan discussion by the men best qualified to discuss the problem, they will be able to make up their own minds as to whether or not they favor the proposed tion legislation," Corley said.

Chancellor Robert B. House will serve as moderator of the discussion. Speakers will include Dr. S. T.

Emory, geography department; C. H. Pegg, history department; Dr. C. B.

Robson, department of political science; Dr. Nathan Rosen, physics department, and Madison Pearson. NIGHT SCHOOL TONIGHT "Learn more, earn more." BUSINESS KING'S COLLEGE As a writer, Byrd received the Houghton Miffin "Life in America" prize in 1942 for "Small Town South." In the same year Byrd went on active duty with the Navy, serving as beachmaster on Omaha Beach on D-Day and at Okinawa landing. his 1946 award, Byrd spent part of the year writing a novel in England. He is expected to complete that novel under the current Fellowship.

Dr. Fuller's project will be studies of the taxonomy and distribution of the mites of the family Trombiculidae, in relation to their transmission of dieases. While holding the Mosely Traveling Fellowship of Harvard University, Dr. Fuller did researcha and study in England, the Netherlands. As an undergraduate he held the Bullard Fellowship.

Prior to his Winston-Salem work, Dr. Fuller filled positions at the Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts General Hospital, U. Typhus Commission. Dr. Fuller is the author of many technical articles which have peared in medical journals in America abroad.

The Guggenheim awards were established in 1925 by the late U. S. Senator Simon Guggenheim and by Mrs. Guggenheim as a memorial to a son, John Simon, died in 1922. Foundation's endowment when now amounts to $29,000,000.

Under terms of the provisions of the Foundation, scholars and artists of high ability are given Fellowships which enable them to further their work of research and artistic creation anywhere in the world. WF CO-EDS TO ELECT OFFICERS THURSDAY Three Candidates Competing for Each Office in Campus Election Wake Forest, April 300 coeds at Wake Forest 'College will go to the polls Thursday morning to elect new officers for the 1948-49 school year. Running for president of the Women's Student Government are Eloise Fowlkes, Rocky Mount junior, Grace McElveen, Safety Harbor, junior, and Eleanor Spit-1 tle, Mt. Holly junior. Candidates for vice-president are Merle Dotson, Quantico, junior, Marcelle Milloway, Kannapolis law student, and Alice Puryear, Avon Park, junior.

The race for secretary will be among Ellen Walker and Margaret (Candy) Crumpler, Durham sophomores, and Vivian Snuggs, Wake Forest sophomore. Competing for the office of treasurer will be Edith Allen, Warrenton junior, Candace (Candy) Scarborough, Wendell sophomore, and Miriam Morris, Sanford junior. The Women's representative to the Student Council will be elected from Jewell Adams, Holly Springs sophomore, Kitty Isbell, Arlington, junior, and Shirley Upchurch, Durham sophomore. Billie Bryan, Wake Forest freshman, and Mary Gilmer Cocke and Emily Olive, Wake Forest juniors, will run for the position of Town Girl's Representative on the Women's Executive Board. Students will vote on Dorothy Jones, Wake Forest junior, Colleen Brown, Winston-Salem junior, and Dorothy Price, Greensboro junior, for Social Standards Chairman.

The coed election precedes the men's election which is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21. VOTE BOARD ELECTS CHAIRMAN IN VANCE Henderson, April C. Cooper, Henderson insurance representative, yesterday was named chairman of the Vance County Board of Elections when that body met to organize for the coming elections campaign. C. H.

Tanner was electsecretary. Both are Democrats and third member, representing the Republican party, is Thurman Hicks. At the meeting, the new elections board appointed registrars for each of the 13 voting precincts in Vance County, five of them in Henderson Township. Cooper announced that dates for county offices may now file with him, and warned that the final date for filing is next Saturday, April 17. Only four candidates thus far have filed.

D. P. McDuffee and Edison T. Hicks for recorder, and Mark Woodlief, of Kittrell, and Claude Tunstall, of Sandy Creek, both for county commissioner. A number of vacancies will have to be filled this year.

Cooper said registration books will open on May 1 and will close on May 15. May 22 will be challenge day. Joins Hardware Firm. Goldsboro, April N. Null has become affiliated with the Hub Hardware in Goldsboro as a member of the firm, A.

C. Hodges announced. For the past 10 years Null traveled Eastern North Carolina as a manufacturers' agent. A native of Tennessee, has lived in Goldsboro since 1937. "REVENUE ACT OF 1948" TAX ADVANTAGES Open to Husbands and Wives The community property principle, affecting the rights of spouses, is a provision in the new Federal law relating to estates, and gifts enacted April 2, 1948.

Have you made your Will? If so, it should be reviewed promptly by your lawyer. Your will ought to be carefully prepared by your attorney and adopted by you in the light of present conditions, to assure maximum tax advantages open to married persons. Are you thinking of making a gift? We suggest a conference with you and your attorney. There is no time like the present. Telephone or write for an appointment for yourself and attorney, or we shall be glad to call at your convenience.

We are in the business of acting in all capacities involving a trust relationship. We want to be named the Executor of your Will. "A Good Investment" for you to make in Citizens Trust, for your family. TRUST DEPARTMENT FIRST CITIZENS CO. CITIZENS TRUST A CAROL Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation "Let me tell you about our operations (for 1947, that "Eighty-two million times as sound as one joy American Mutual's friendly protection dollar!" beams Mr.

Friendly. "That's Ameri- and service. They share an opportunity to can Mutual's condition as the result of its save through dividends that have never healthy growth in 1947. During the year been less than an opportunity open premium income broke all company rec- to you and your business, too! If you'd ords. Assets and surplus shot up.

So did like the story in detail, write me for a copy number of policyholders. More American of our annual report, 'Our Savings Are businesses and families than ever now en- Your FINANCIAL STATEMENT as of December 31, 1947 (As filed with New York Insurance Department) ASSETS LIABILITIES Investments: Reserves for: United States Government Securicies $54,150,976.86 Claims and Claim Expenses $44,549,274.25 Collateral Note 135,000.00 Commercial Paper 2,983,371.20 Unearned Premiums 10,464,635.84 Railroad Bonds 2,726,369.97 Dividends to Policyholders (not due). 5,663,573.00 Public Utility Bonds 983,804.98 Taxes, Expenses Accrued and Industrial and Miscellaneous Bonds 1,186,935.02 Miscellaneous 5.159,801.60 Stocks 6,432,651.00 Real Estate (Home Office Building) 494.449.75 Total Liabilities $65,837,284.67 Investments $69,093,558.78 Reserve for Total Contingencies 4,000,000.00 Cash In Banks and Office 9,831,131.85 Guaranty Fund 1,000,000.00 Interest in Accrued Course Collection 236,080.51 Surplus Premiums of 11,372,242.69 (Not over 90 days due) 2,940,732.15 Other Assets 108,024.01 Total Admitted Assets $82,209,527.30 Total Liabilities and Surplus $82,209,527.30 NOTE: Bonds which qualify for amortization are stated at amortized value: all other bonds and stocks are at values adopted by the National Association o. Insurance Commissioners. Securities carried at $4,131,763.38 in the above statement are deposited with State and other legal authorities as required by law.

Guaranty AMERICAN MUTUAL LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY Home Office: 142 Berkeley Street, Boston 16, Masa. Local Office: 31 St. James A venue, Boston 16, Mans. THE FIRST AMERICAN LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY of the student body; (3) juvenate campus spirit by more social activities, and (4) Abolish compulsory class attendance and midterm examinations. A partially completed slate of officers includes Harold T.

P. Hayes, Winston-Salem law student, who will run for the presidency of the Student Body; Edith Henry, Fuquay Springs junior, who seeks the office of secretary, and Bill McIlwain, Wilmington sophomore, who is A candidate for treasurer. The third party has no candidate for vice-president since abolition of this office is a part of its platform. A spokesman for the third party said the group would concentrate on getting votes from the approximately 600 students who did not vote in the 1947 election last April. Hayes will run against John Matthis, nominee of the Progressive Fraternity party, and Wilbur Doyle, Martinsville, senior, candidate Student Political Union party, for the biggest post on campus -the presidency of the Student Body.

WILLIAM J. BAILEY, President and Treasurer, Clinton Cotton Mills, Clinton, S. C. J. E.

BROYHILL, President, Lenoir Chair Lenoir, N. C. J. L. COKER, President, Sonoco Products Company, Hartsville, S.

C. J. HOLMES DAVIS, Chairman of the Board, Spoftord Mills, Wil-. mington, N. C.

CAROLINAS ADVISORY BOARD ELeas M. JOHNSTON, Greenville, S. C. ARCHIBALD C. LINEBERGER, Treasurer, Rowan Cotton Mills, Salisbury, N.

C. W. M. McLAURINE, Charlotte, N. C.

JAMBS E. MILLIS, President, Millis Corporation, High Point, WILLIAM MUIRHEAD, President, William Meirhead Construction Company, Durham, N. C. EDWIN PATE, President, Z. V.

Pate, Laurinburg, N. C. LAURENS D. PITTS, President, Industrial Cotton Mills Company, Inc, Rock Hill, S. C.

FRED W. SYMMES, President, Nuckases Manutacturing Company, Greenvite, S. C..

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