The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-11
RIA EIGH
B r E FS
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
RY HENRY AVERILL

good laugh for those who remem-
her the fight which Wen up to
the North Carolina supreme court
and resulted in the Carolina Power
and Light company's taking over
the Johnston county electrical CO.
operative:
The Federal Rural Identification
administration as recently as the
first of this month, listed the
Johnston County Electrical Mem
bership corporation as one of the
"s~uccessful cooperatives" which is
paying back interest and principal
on the loan made by the govern
ment. The list shows that the cor
poration had repaid $226,94 of in
terest and $4,000 of principal,
strangely enough, it does not
seem that the charter of the CO.
operative has ever been cancelled,
despite complete taking over of the
lines by the C. P and l..
With only a little more than
three months Of the year gone,
there have already been IS deaths
in automobile train crashes in
North Carolina; whereas there were
but 10 during the whole of 1889.
There is now a much stronger
chance now that North Carolina
will have an exhibit at the New
York Worlds Fair this year.
The fair committee met Tuesday,
conferred with the governor and
with New York representatives;
and after the conferences the out
look is quite different from before,
which it seemed certain the state
was definitely out of the fair.
1t seems that committee mem
bers are of the opinion they will
not suffer nearly 81 much this
year from labor "racketeering" as
was the ease il 1889. With the ex-
hibit already set up, the only serv-
ice which must be bought from
labor this year is j~anitor service,
which would cost no more than
500 a month.
John Caffey, a member of the
fair committee, was here for its
Tuesday session. He is also a candi-
date for congress from the sixth dis
trict and in conversation with your
Raleigh reporter he expressed great
confidence that he will unseat Carl
Durham, Of Orange, who was chos-
en- in 1898 after the democratic can-
didate Judge Lewis league of High
Point died before the general cleo
ton.
Caffey said he is spending practi,
cally all his time in the field, has
just named an Alamance county
manager, and plans 500 to carry
his drive into Durham, home OF
Oscar Barker, a third candidate who
vas alose r~unner-up to Judge Tea,
que two years ago.
FLASHES, mimeographed bulletin
Of the North Carolina Automobile
Dealers association, makes no bones
about urging the motor a dealers
to support legislative candidates
who can be expected to support mea'
sures favored by the association.
"All candidates for the legisla'
ture will have announced by Apri,
49," said Flashes. Select these can
didates from your county who yoU
feel will have knowledge of o u
problems and will lend assistance tt
our needs, and vote for them or
May %. Let the candidates whom
you support know that you are FOL
them prior to May 25. They neet
your support now; we will neec
their support later"
The same FLASHES" showed that
sale Of passenger cars in March
1910, was almost a thousand VI
from the same month of last year
4,478 to 3,498.
Chevrolets and Fords so far out
distanced the rest of the makes
that there vas no real comparison
Between them they accounted for
well over half the total, with 2,4O5
Chevrolet 1922; Ford 1,083.) The
drop to third-place went all the way
down the 1876 Plymouths.