The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-07
SPECULATION
HINGES UPON
APPOINTEES
Some May Be Made To-
day; Governor Not Well
and Very Busy
By j. G. BASKERVILI.
The Times News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH. June 1.-THE long
awaited and much discussed APP
pointments to be made by Gov
ernor ]. C. B. Ehringhaus still
have not been announced, with
Indications that day or two
more may yet intervene before
they will be announced. Gov
ernor Ehringhaus had hoped to
be able to announce at least some
of the appointments by Tuesday.
But he was confined to his bed
in the mansion all day MONDAY
with recurrence of kidney trou-
BILE from which he has been suf-
fering intermittently for several
months. Today he is scheduled
to make commencement addresses
both at Elon college and at the
University Of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, which he this morn
ing insisted he would carry out,
in spite of his physical condition.
Late this afternoon he is sched-
uled to participate in the com
mencement exercises at Duke
university, Durham.
So with being i'll and having
to make three commencement adj
dresses yesterday and today in
addition, it is agreed that Gov
ernor Ehringhaus has not had
much opportunity to finish up his
appointments. However, it was
indicated yesterday from sources
close to the governor that the
fist batch of appointments may
be released today, with the others
to follow as rapidly as possible.
One reason for this is undoubted-
ly the necessity for some of the
new department heads to be nam
ed Immediately in order to get
the necessary machinery running
when the new fiscal year comes
into being July l. This is par
ticularly true of the department
of revenue, which must get It's
plans made and machinery set up
for administering the new 3 per
cent general sales tax that goes
into effect July l. 1t is also
agreed that with the new duties
to be assumed by the highway
and public works commission UNI
der the consolidation with the
state prison, that whoever is nam
ed the new chairman must have
little time to get things ready
and in order before the consoll-
dation becomes effective.
No more is known here as TO
who will be appointed to what
than has been known. There is
the same speculation. But in the
final analysis it is agreed that no
one knows anything and that
what speculation there is, is bas-
ed entirely on gueSses and
lunches. 1t is known, Of
course, that the friends Of both
Chairman f. B. Jeffress of the
state highway commission and of
Superintendent George Ross Pou
of the state prison, have been
waging an intensive campaign
in their behalf, urging each for
the appointment as chairman of
the new state highways and pub
lie works commission, which will
include both the highway depart
ment and the state prison. There
have been limitations during the
past few days, however, that the
intensive drive that has been
made for both Jeffress and Pou
has so embarrassed the governor
that neither may be appointed
and some one else named to this
post. One of those mentioned as
a possible clark horse" for this
appointment is State Senator Ak
en- of Catawba county. Represen-
tative Will w. Neal of Marion, a
member of the present state high
way commission, is also being
mentioned as a possibility for the
new craftsmanship. Others think