Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-17

now assistant regional director with
the Resettlement Administration, and
said to be seeking another place to
land before Resettlement is liquidat-
ed, but that he refused it because the
salary was not large enough. Reports
also are that this same job was of
fered to Ben Kilgore, son of DR.. B.
w. Kilgore, to whom Scott has now
offered the job as head of the food,
Oil and analytical division, aut that
Ben Kilgore declined the offer be
cause of the inadequate salary. Still
another report is that the job was of
fered to George Ross, now with Reset
Element and regarded as one Of the
biggest political powers behind the
Scott throne and that he also rejected
the offer.
The trouble in all four cases. ac-
cording to reliable reports, was that
Scott offered the job to these others
at anywhere from $500 to $4,55O a
year, only to find that the Budget
Bureau would not approve salary of
more than $4,000 a year-the salary
Richardson has been getting.
There are also indications that
Scott has not helped himself in legis-
lative or even in political circles for
merly friendly to him by his announce
ment that he has offered the job as
chief of the division of foods oils and
analysis to DR.. B. w. KiIgore, for
merly State chemist and now presi-
dent of the Pine State Creamery, and
active in the high councils of the
State Dairymens Association. It is re-
called uder the late Commissioners
William A. Graham, father of the pre-
sent commissioner, and that this fric-
ton continued under the present Com
missioner Graham until DR.. Kilgore
finally left the Department of Agri-
culture and went out to State College
as dean of the school of agriculture
1t is generally conceded that DR.. Kill
gore was not able to get along very
we'll with DR.. E. G. Brooks, when he
was president of State College, and
that he not long after that retired to
devote his time to his creamery and
ice cream business here. Scott now
proposes tc put pr: ki,gore back in
| charge of the division. which must
! pass on the purity OF dairy products
and enforce the pure food laws, in
Guiding the inspection of all diaries,
cIeameries and ice cream manufacture
ing plants. This would put DR.. Kill
gore in the position of one creamery
head and ice cream manufacturer in
speeding and passing on the purity of
the products of all the other cream
cries, diaries and ice cream manufac-
turers in the State, it is pointed out.
| The belief is also prevalent here
now that DR.. r. w. Leiby was dis
missed by Scott as chief of the divis-
ion of entomology and C. H. Brannon
| of State College extension division
appointed to succeed him, largely as
the result of interdepartmental jeal-
ousies existing between the State
! College chronological division and
that in the Department of Agriculture
and certain factions at State College
i which have been out to "get" Leiby
| for some time. 1t was learned here to-
day that the elmer circle at State
College had known that DR.. Leiby was
to be let out by Scott for the past two
weeks or more. Friends of DR.. Leiby
maintain that he was summarily dis
mis- sed by Scott on the basis of un-
| supported charges and misinforma-
ton, supplied mostly by those con
nected with State College, and with
out being given an opportunity to be
heard in his own behalf.