The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
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!, Capital Letters
By Thompson Greenwood

men in North Carolina who sub
scribe to Washington letter
which is circulated privately and
weekly at a substantial subscrip-
ton fee are feeling low and lone
ly this week, for their informer
from the District of Columbia has
informed them that as things
look now FDR will be elected for
a fourth term, whoever the Re-
publican nominee may be. Re-
member this prediction, for that
Washington letter-writer is Meth
er pro-New Deal or anti-New
Deal. He calls the shots as he
sees them and lets the chips fall
where they will. Incidentally, he
is correct about 80 per cent of the
time-not bad country pitching.
SWAN SONG-Garland Porter,
who resigned his position as di-
rector of the State News Bureau
last Tuesday to enter private bu-
siness, said this week that he will
soon have articles in Woman's
Digest Country Gentleman, Out
door Magazine and This Week.
Ironically enough, the publicity
he will give North Carolina after
his resignation will be greater
than that given while he was
heading the News Bureau. Of
course the stories were written
while he was a bureaucrat.
BUFFALO-They have all
sorts of guys in the Army now
and some of them are pretty lit
erary. It is impossible to say
who is responsible-he might be
in Italy or in the Pacific now
but on a beautiful winding road
which traverses the southern half
of the Fort Bragg reservation is
the following sign: ''The Yadkin
Road-Said to be a buffalo trail
connecting the upper Yadkin
River pastures with those of the
lower Cape Fear. Used in Co.
lonial days by emigrants passing
westward, through the Revolu-
ton by CORVALLIS and during
the Civil War by Sherman's
troops"
WANT AD-Back about 20 or
30 years ago there was a song
about going back to Dixie-"my
heart turns back to Dixie and I
must go"-which was quite pop
ular. Well, within the past few
weeks the State has received in
quiries about North Carolina
farms for sale. They came in
from Chicago, New York, Mich
igan, Detroit, New Jersey-about
Is in all. These folks either
want to come back to Dixie or
are interested in becoming Tar
Heels. One can't become a
Southerner just like that, but we
all down heah will be glad to
have these folks come down to
live with us-pow'ful glad.
For instance, E. Edward HUFF
fer, 1413 L ST., NV, Washington,
D. c., wants as follows: II ex-
pect to retire in the near future
and I am interested in buying
from 500 to 1000 acres of very
cheap land cd. note-No such
animaD for the purpose of con-
servation of game, with at least
SO acres tillable. Am looking for
rolling ground with good water
two miles from a state highway.
The buildings are not important.
VOTES-While DR.. Ralph Nc
Donald, gubernatorial candidate,
is not missing any sections of the
State IN his travels, he is expect
ed to camp out right much in the
counties of Durham, Guilford,
Forsyth and Mecklenburg. In
these areas labor is strong and
where labor is strong the doctor
is not weak. Due to the fact that
w. B. Umstead, Cherry's mana
ger, is very powerful in Durham,
DR.. Mcdonald may lose that
county, despite the heavy labor
vote. Since Broadhurst is from
Guilford and Mcdonald is from
Forsyth, however, these impor-
tant votes may go to Mcdonald.
CASTOR, although a labor county,
will 60 for its home boy, and
since Cherry is from the general
Charlotte territory, Mecklenburg
may swing over to the major.
Although Cherry has not said
anything against labor-in fact,
he has performed some fine serv-
ice for labor-McDonald is being
more and more identified as the
labor candidate. Whether this
will hurt or help remains to be