The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08
RALEIGH
BRIEFS
Star-NeWs Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
LYNN NISBET

RALEIGH, August 7. The
Greensboro News, in its leading
editorial yesterday, sort of took the
State Hospital at Raleigh ito ride
for its request of the budget COM
mission for $92, 00O.O0 for construc-
ton of a water system. On its face
the proposition does look absurd.
The News editor admits he doesn't
know anything about the care and
treatment of insane. Also he
doesn't know much about the local
situation with respect to the State
Hospital and the Raleigh water
system. Not many citizens OF Raj
eigh know much about it, so a
Greensburgher may be pardoned
for his ignorance.
The water supply for the city OF
Raleigh comes primarily from
Lake Johnson, on Walnut Creek.
If that source is inadequate, Lake
Raleigh, on the same creek, is
called upon, and if that fails there
is an auxiliary source at Rand's
Mill on Swift Creek. Point in all
the present argument is that Lake
Raleigh belongs to the State Hos
pital, along with a good many
acres of watershed around it.
e. What the hospital now wants with
the requested $92, 900 is to set up a
filtration plant and private water
system so that it can use its own
water directly from the source,
without the necessity of it passing
through the city mains and fltra-
ton system. What the budget com.
missio nand the general assembly
will do about it remains to be seen.
This column expresses no opinion
of the economic soundness Of the
idea. But in simple justice to the
hospital authorities it should oe re-
membered that the proposition is
for more effective use of a vital as
set already owned, rather t h a n
launching out into experimentation
in an alien field.
The North Carolina News Bureau
has discovered a young man almost
as versatile as George Washington.
Tom Fearing Of Manteo last week
a prize for proficiency in gog-
gle fishing-a sport which he took
up just a month ago. Tom is also
captain of his own fishing boat,
and during the Lost Colony sea-
son he takes five separate minor
roles in the cast of that play. Dur.
ing the winter off-season for his
other activities he takes up tickets
at the Metropolitan Opera in New
York. When not busy at other pur-
suits he helps his papa run a drug
store at Manteo.
Speaking of that. google fishing
episode: This is a new sport for
eastern Carolina waters. The first
public contest was held this year,
and hereafter it will be an annual
event. Scene for the contest is
among the wreckages of old YES
sells off Kill Devil Hill.
Additional hope for relief from
the sales tax was offered by Gov.
ernor-nominate Broughton in h S
address to the Food Dealers con.
vention in Raleigh Monday night.
Broughton said that his recent
campaign for tn gubernatorial
was waged on the slo-
gan Take the sales tax off the
dinner table," and that he is now
more than ever convinced that the
promise implied in that slogan can
be realized during the next legis-
lature.
incidentally, the Food Dealers
brought several high
powered politicos to the speakers
table. Mr.. Broughton was intro
duced by Libby Ward, speaker of
the last house of representatives.
Hoey also spoke, being
presented by Reg L. Harris, Demo-
cratic nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor. The Governor urged CON
servation of food supplies as a mea-
of national Iofopeo n