Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-12-18
|CKES IS MAN WHO
URGED HIGH POINT.
Responsible for Furniture
City Planning Own
Power Development
Daily Dispatch Bureau
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Raleigh Dec. 18-Secretary of the
Interior Harold Icllt; inspired the
CITY of High Point to go into the
power business on a large scale, w.
s. OBJ. Robinson, Charlotte attorney
for tho Duke Power Company, init
mated to the Supreme Court as ne
opened the utility's argument in its
appeal from judgment of Judge Hoyle
Sink that the Guilford city has
legal right to issue 100000 IN bonds
for construction of a power dam on
the Yadkin river in Davie county.
The Ickes action was taken in re-
venge for the Duke company's as
sertion of what it conceived to be its
rights in the now-famous Greenwood
county, South Carolina, power contro-
versy, Mr. Robinson stOutly asserted
The company argues that High
Point can't issue the bonds without
a vote of the people under the gen
eral law of the State, and, further,
that it can't issue them at all under
the debt limitation amendment put
into the Constitution in 1886.
The city contends the bonds are
srecial revenue .Onds which Go not
entail an obligation or debt of the city
Judge Sink agreed with the High
Point contention.
Case of Milford EXum, Wayne
county white man under sentence of
death for the murder OF q Negro, Jim
Williams, IN robbery attempt, was
argued before the Supreme Court.
Counsel fer the condemned white man
argued that his confession should not
have been admitted in evidence be-
cause the Wayne sheriff held him
inconlmunic2do over in Snow Hill i'll
violation of a special 1887 statute de-
claring that all prisoners must be
speedily told OF the charges against
them and permitted to confer with
friends and counsel.
When Benton Stacy succeeded
Capus Waynick as director of pur-
chase and contract, it was the sec
ond time that the Rockingham man
had stepped into shoes just discarded
by the High Point newspaper mar.
In the 1888 General Assembly, Mr..
Waynick was a State senator. In the
1885 c. A, Mr.. Stacy came to the
upper house from the same district.
One of the widest of reports had it
that the appointment of State Sena-
tor Stacy to the purchase and contract
post was made because there existed
great danger that he would be defeat
ed for the State Senate of 1889 -
cause of his support of liquor legisla-
ton in both 1885 and 1887 General AS
semblies
The story had it that the Stacy
constituents, who voted dry after be-
ing given the opportunity in 1885,
would punish their senator for his es-
pousal of the wet cause in the legis-
lature.
Evidently those who put out that
sort of yarn must think the public is
even worse than Barnum pictured it;
for there could be no possible reason
for Governor Hoey, a staunch dry,
Saving the face" of a chap whose
alleged dereliction of duty was a de-
sertion of the dry cause.
Total automobile license revocations
in North Carolina rose to Ii, ASP as a
result of this weeks activity along
those lines.
Filling station operators of Nortt.
Carolina can do much to advertise
the States attractions to visitor:
from other states, in the opinion o.
Governor Clyde r. Hoey.
eff filling station men will con
stitute themselves unofficial member:
of the hospitality committeeman
many of them do-they can be of ire
mendous assistance in the campaign
to advertise North Carolina" the gov
ernor said.