Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-03-02
Capital Gossip
Nv HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh. March 2.-The Atlantic
and East Carolina railroad Is DONG
unusually we'll under lis private
management and has 50 far been
able 10 meet every obligation II IN
dertook when it leased the old Mill
Let Road from the Atlantic and North
Carolina. in which the State was
the dominant stockholder'
That At least is the very pretty PIC
.,,,,a noin1ed by T. r. Buchan, VICE
president of the road. VINO mas Ills
headquarters in kin>ton. Mr.. btlcNan
said that the road has Just htaIieo "
cbacl for the February rental. max
inc il paid ND in full through mat
month, the sixth under private oper-
alton. r.
Not only that but the a. and Z. I.
has already laid. in the 1'r$' hall-
wear of its lease agreement more
than half the ties il agreed 70 lay
dining the first year. More than
% moo new croSStieS are part OF
Tho r,-oSed. he said. even though
none - all were put down III ule
first SIXTY days after the new opera
tors started business.
The agreement calls Tor laying
10000 new ties in the inst year I'M
der lease.
Mr., Buchan has become Il most
enthusiastic booster Of eastern Nor'"
Carolina and kinston. IN particular.
There isn't finer. more hoSpi'a-
bls people in the world" he old your
Raleigh reporter. 4 haven't touno
bad man in eastern North Carolina.
The Supreme court OF North Caro-
lima hasn't any no coaching lfotn
side lines" rules such is are IN ell
feet in football and some other Sports.
That, n least. was obvious Friday
morning when ". S. OBJ. Robinson.
senior counsel for the Duke Power
company. repeatedly "cued his
Younger associate. ". S. Mcclure.
while the latter WAS arguing the
High Point power cases.
It may have been just Tor show,
or it may have been because Els as
SOCRATES carried tie expense money
but Wilmington'> Mayor rom Cooper
strengthened the impression ne VIII
run for Governor - the "oroke
candidate by borrowing i've collars
from Finance Commissioner Louis
Fisher OF Wilmington. when the two
city officials found they'd nave ~
stay over IN Raleigh Thursday AlShl
after a hearing before the highway
Commission on the matter OF con-
structing d truck lane around VIII
mington.
Attorneys are always respectful,
sometimes almost TO the point Oh
being obseQuious, when arguing pc
fore the Supreme court, but once III
a while one lets the justices know
that they have only themselves to
blame if the argument sometimes
goes far afleld.
For instance. in Fridays High
Point power case hearing, the Duke
Power Company'S Chief attorney,
W. S. OBJ. Robinson, had talked on
and on. bringing out points about
which he had been asked specific
questions: ~
If l can ever get back to where
l started, I'll take that up" he said
as the Chief Justice queried on
new angle. I've been answering
your Honors' questions and its taken
me long way from where l was.
II went into the Supreme court
record that the some more than
score Guilford industries which IL
nally interviewed in the power con-
troverSy thought for a long time
that the City was merely bluffIng
about building a power plant.
I'VE thought the whole thing was
bluff to force better rates from
the Duke Power company, said Car
ter Dalton, attorney for the indus
trialsts, and it wasn't until we saw
. that the city actually intended to 60
: through with building plant that
, we ept i'm. Il
: I'D ssu' got some CONCESSIONS
didn your, asked Justice Heriot
. Clar'-3n.
i'"Oh, yes, we did,, replied the at
torney. -