The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • 26

26 THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, 30, RALEIGH, 1958 N. C. Thursday, Morning, January Test Case Utilities Body Appeals Water Service Ruling The State Supreme Court will decide whether the State Utilities Commission I has authority to force small water companies that crop up on the outskirts of Tar Heel municipalities to provide adequate service. Commission appealed to the high court yesterday from a superior court decision holding that the Commission has no power to regulate two small Gaston County water companies. The outcome of the case "will affect some other companies," Utilities Chairman Stanley Winborne said.

"It will affect similar operations in the The people involved in the Gaston cases are in a dilemma. They paid between $100 and $150 for tapping onto the lines of New Hope Road Water Company and McLean Community System. Raleigh Heating Air Conditioning Co. Thatcher FURNACES AIR CONDITIONING 2005 Poole Rd. TE 4-0223 Bordens, It's extra-good because it's made with extra cream.

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They get their water from the City of Gastonia, which also charges them a meter fee and about double the city water rate. So many "taps" have been sold that the water pressure is low enough to create a health problem, according to the findings of the Commission. Neither the water companies nor the City of Gastonia will assume responsibility for expanding the facilities to provide an adequate water supply. The water companies say they aren't responsible because they don't actually supply the water. The water not the city, own the facilities, Gastonia contends.

The city permitted the companies to hook onto the city water mains to get water to the suburbs involved. Numerous complaints were lodged with the Utiilties Commission before it acted in the Gaston cases. One resident of the area said the water pressure was so low that had to get in his car and request his neighbors to cut off the water so he'd have enough to wash his hands for supper. The Commission's order ruling that the companies are public utilities subject to regulation was reversed by Judge P. C.

Froneberger on Oct. 24. $25 Fine Ordered For Reckless Driver John Walter Smith, 41, who was charged with drunken driving, yesterday was found guilty in City Court here of careless and reckless driving. Judge Albert Doub fined Smith, whose address was listed as 3008 Lewis Farm Road, $25 and costs. Smith was arrested last January 11 on U.

S. Highway 1 just north of Raleigh by State Highway Patrolmen Lloyd Burchette and Roy Duncan. He was represented yesterday by Raleigh Carl Gaddy. Reprieved Julius Bunton will not die Friday in the gas chamber at Central Prison. Governor Hodges yesterday granted Bunton a 30-day reprieve.

Bunton and John Kallock Negroes, were convicted of first degree in the robberyslaying Clifford W. Phillips, a High Point taxi driver, on January 15, 1957. Kallock was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Bunton. was sentenced to death as the man pulling the trigger when Phillips was fatally shot and robbed of about $15. In the case of Bunton, who lost an appeal to the State Supreme Court, Governor Hodges said that "because I want to give further study to all details in the record, I am granting reprieve of 30 days." FUEL ANY ALL TODAY ORDER GRADES AMOUNT COURTEOUS FUEL OIL SERVICE IS OUR MOTTO PARTIN'S SERVICE AUTO STATION REPAIRS 446 Hailfax St.

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List during this extension and avoid the late listing penalty. WAKE COUNTY TAX DEPARTMENT TAX SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE On Agricultural Assignment Raleigh Man Returns From Africa 1 DEDICATION SUNDAY- new Salvation Army facility at 215 South Person Street, which will be dedicated Sunday at 3 p. m. at a public ceremony and with Col. George H.

Marshall of Atlanta, chief secretary, as speaker. Thomas E. Green Jr. is chairman of the Raleigh Advisory Board of the Army. Open house will follow the dedication.

(Waller Studio photo.) New Gun For Roundup An ingenious new method of rounding up animals that elude all ordinary methods of capture was demonstrated here yesterday to around 200 North Carolina veterinarians meeting at State College. The method involves dosages of nicotine injected into the muscle of an animal by means of a flying syringe shot from 1.50 caliber carbon-dioxide rifle. The weapon is designed specifically for propelling the automatic projectile-type syringe, from 50 yards away. The nicotine, when administered in the proper dosage, will calm the animal enough for a man to put a rope on it, load it on a truck, or do with it almost anything else he pleases. Dr.

Frank A. Hayes of the school of veterinary medicine of the University of Georgia, explained that it has about the same effect as a few good puffs on a strong cigar has on an 8-year-old child. Dr. Hayes pointed out that veterinarians would find these instruments most helpful in rabies control. Aged Ben Johnson Freed; State Not to Ask Return Eighty-one-year-old Ben Johnson will not be brought back from New Jersey to serve a prison term in North Carolina.

Governor Hodges yesterday commuted to time served the term of Johnson so that he will not have to return to North Carolina. The Governor said he has "given careful consideration to the record" of Johnson, a Negro convicted in 1916 of second degree murder and given a 5-years sentence, and who escaped in 1928 from the North Carolina prison system after serving over 12 years of his sentence. The arrest of Johnson on a minor charge in New Jersey recently disclosed his identity. "Our own Board of Paroles, do the New Jersey authorities, recommend that his sentence be counted to time served and that his return to North Carolina not be requested," the Governor stated. Governor Hodges added that his decision in Johnson's cases "does not alter the general policy that I follow of not giving commutation consideration to escaped prisoners until they are returned to North Carolina and recommitted to the prison system for a reasonable period of Johnson is in poor physical condition and is senile, it was stated, and he had been a law abiding citizen until his recent arrest.

In addition, all of his ties are in New Jersey. Raleigh Among Points Hit By Post Office's Changes Changes in the Fost Officer Department announced in Washington will affect North Carolina's two district operations offices at Raleigh and Charlotte, and the district transportation office at Greensboro. The full effect of the move, however, still is not known, Kenneth Brown, chief of the Raleigh district office, said yesterday. He said, "We will be affected by the change, but we just don't know how much yet." He said field service offices will replace the operations units, and he added he believed their duties would be to maintain service, arrange schedule changes and otherwise expedite the flow of mail. He said his operations office performs those functions addition to handling allowances and personnel matters.

The latter, he added, would be under the jurisdiction of the regional office at Atlanta as a result of the changes. A field service office would replace the transportation unit at Greensboro, but the vehicle terminal would remain, continued. Youth Is Guilty Of Vulgar Talk Over Telephone A teenage Negro youth guilty of asking a telephone en operator in Fuquay a vulgar question will be sentenced today by Judge Raymond B. Mallard in Wake Superior Court. Testimony tended to show Ernest Lee Davis of near Fuquay called the operator, Mrs.

Frances Fish, from a pay station quay, asked her what her name was and then asked her the obscene question. The youth was sentenced to two years in prison in a lower court and had taken the case to Superior Court on an appeal. Mrs. Fish, an attractive red head, and Mrs. E.

E. Fuquay, another operator on the Fuquay exchange, testified yesterday as to the nature of the call. Both broke into tears on the when asked to repeat the language they heard. Around the City A standard first aid course will begin February 3 at the Red Cross Wake County Chapter House, 301 North Blount and will meet every Monday and Wednesday for five sessions, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Instruction is free, and all interested persons are asked to attend the first class.

Suit for $8,659.60 was filed in Wake Superior Court yesterday by Ziv Television Programs Inc. of New York against the Sir Walter Television trading as WNA0-TV Station of Raleign for an alleged amount owned for certain film or telecasts. The estate of R. G. McGrady, who died Jan.

5, has been valued at $6,200, according to a preliminary inventory filed yesterday in Wake Superior Court. Two daughters were the beneficiaries. The Broughton High School Ensemble will give a musical program today at 1 o'clock at the Raleigh Civitan Club's luncheon at the Sir Walter. Kinney A. Fey and Lucille Johnson were issued a marriage license yesterday by the Wake Register of Deeds.

Four Patrolmen Get Promotions Following written and oral examinations given yesterday, four city patrolmen were promoted to sergeant, Police Chief Tom Davis has announced. Putting on stripes Feb. 1 will be Patrolmen Ellis M. Meekins, Conway H. Haswell, William F.

Crocker and Albert A. Bunn. They were selected from a field of 17 who had passed preliminary examinations and were interviewed by a board consisting of SBI Director Walter Anderson, Lee Craven of the Employn ent Security Office, and Maj. Dave Lambert of the Highway Patrol. Byways of the News BEEF 'Straight' Charles Cravens POLICE "Straight out of the bottle," said the defendant.

The solicitor was surprised. "Straight out of the bottle?" 1 he said. "I didn't have a cup," said the defendant. "So I drank it straight out of the bottle." His friends took the City Court witness stand to say that he was a good, church-going man. He was driving on Downtown Boulevard and the cops stopped CAROLINA MOON Garner Phone EM 2-2621 Blue Plate Kraft SALAD DRESSING 29c 20 APPLE oz.

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TOILET TISSUE, NECK BONES Ib. 3 rolls Virginia Plantation FRESH PICNICS, lb. and BACON Cedar Farm lb. By DAVIL MURRAY. Two and a half years without black-eyed peas and corn bread is a long time for a Southern boy.

It's time enough to hinder his growth. There comes a time for catching-up and filling-up with all the tasty, that black- takes eyed nourishmenta goodly number of meals plus a fresh batter of country butter to smooth over the corn bread. Dr. Louis M. Smith Jr.

of Raleigh He's knows about catching up. just experienced the lengthy black pea layoff, and this month, while at home, Dr. Smith has treated himself to Southern style eating. Agricultural Advisor. The agricultural advisor had been in South Africa for two and a half years, in the land where supper plates are void of peas, corn bread, sweet potatoes and turnip greens.

It's such a land where collards are unknown and Southern fried chicken and a cool glass of buttermilk But are it's a the where his nine year-old son, Murdock, learned to handle a rod and reel in the fresh streams around Pretoria, S. A. cities for South Africans, was Pretoria, one of A three capital Smith's residence. It's the executive capital site, with judicial and legislative capitals located elsewhere in South Africa. Dr.

Smith had the job of explaining American foreign policy matters on agriculture to South Africans. He handled matters of American surplus disposal and marketing developments of agricultural products this country. Governmental duties sent Dr. Smith at least 50,000 miles through the anchor land of the African DR. LOUIS M.

SMITH JR. Continent. The lanky N. C. State graduate says Africa is a land of intrigue and he admits his most joyous travels were with his family in their toy-like Mercedes auto.

It seems just a bit of a car, but it cost Dr. Smith 1500 pounds. That, he explains, would be the equivalent of $4,200 in American dollars. The Smith children, Susanne, 11, and Murdock, were enrolled in a private school in Pretoria. Murdock completed the third grade and Susanne the sixth.

Dr. Smith noted that South African school terms run from January to December. Youngsters have a six-week holiday in December and part of January after the school year closes in December. The Smith children completed their grades prior to sailing for this country. -Summer In Capetown.

When the Smiths left Capetown, swimmers were enjoying the midsummer beach season. City Hall Group Prepares To Start Work On Survey Chairman Earl Johnson of the Citizens City Hall Committee yesterday announced the completion of committee membership. Purpose of the committee, which was initiated by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce following the failure of the third city hall bond issue, is to study the proposal for a new city hall. "It is our purpose," Johnson said, "to investigate the proposition from every angle and then come up with a definite proposal which we hope will be acceptable to both the City Council and the people of Raleigh." The full committee, which represents a cross section of Raleigh citizens, is as follows: Charles D. Arthur, R.

D. Beam, Clifton L. Benson, Fred J. Carnage, Carl E. DeVane, Mrs.

Harold G. Finch, Fred Fletcher, Mrs. Alfred T. Hamilton, Lloyd D. Hardy, Charles A.

Haywood, Jack T. Howard, Earl In Raleigh to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Smith of 2010 Poole Road, Dr.

Smith and his family leave for Washington today for a new assignment. They will make their home in Herndon, near the capital city, where Murdock and Susanne will attend their first public school class. Once settled in Herndon, Dr. Smith says, he plans "to grow roots and stay awhile." The roots, of course, will be the wandering type so that young Dr. Smith can journey home from time to time for a plate of blackeyed peas.

MASONIC NOTICE An Emergent tion, being Meeting No. 3180, of William G. Hill Lodge No. in 218, the A.F.&A.M., Masonic will Temple, be held 1520 Caswell Street, Thursday evening, January 30, 1958, at seven thirty o'clock. Work in the Master Masons Degree.

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In announcing the changes, Postmaster General Summerfield said Civil Service rights of the employes involved would be fully protected and their continued employment assured. Summerfield said 91 district operations offices and 99 transportation district offices, to which local postmasters have been reporting, will be eliminated. He added the changes are expected to improve service and reduce administrative costs. The changes were worked out in a conference in Washington last week with officials of the 15 regional offices attending. Aluminum represents oneeighth of the earth's crust, but it is so intricately concealed that its existence eluded scientists until it was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy, British electrochemist, in 1807.

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But this guy says, "Straight out of the bottle." "They say you're a good man," said the judge. He found him guilty of careless and reckless driving, which saved his license. The guy expelled a breath in relief. "But," continued the judge. "Don't you drink anymore whiskey." The guy nodded that he would not.

A cynic whispered, "That's like telling him to cut off his NOTE to Governor Hodges: A member of the Town Board in Maxton said he was confident that Klan activity in the area had something to do with the town's loss of a prospective industry.