The Southland advocate., 1950-04-15
CHURCH ACTIVITIES
RALEIGH ROUNDUP
By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD

headed, known as Red" and a
Cleveland County native, a few
weeks ago resigned as executive
of the Dairy Foundation at State
College to become head of the
First Federal Savings and Loan
Association here. Prior to going
with the Foundation, he held a
responsible position with the Wa
chovia Bank & Trust Co. He went
to the Wachovia from an execu-
tive position with the State School
Commission.
He will likely be replaced by L..
L. Ray, Alamance County native
who for the past several years
has done a wonderful job with
the N. c. Dairy Products Associa-
ton. 1t is known that Ray has
been offered the job with the
Dairy Foundation. He is expected
to take it. You Should see an
announcement about this in the
papers very shortly, if you haven't
already. Before going with the
Dairy Products folks (Coble,
Southern Diaries, Biltmore, ETC.
Ray was with the Duke Power Co.
COLLEGE BOYS Last Fri
day afternoon as Unive- ity Chan
cellor Bob House and acting Pres
ident Billy Carmichael were intro
ducing new School of Administra-
ton Dean Tom Carroll to direc-
tors of the N. c. Business Founda-
ton and to officials of the State
erch a n is Association, Len
Broughton Smithey from
good Wilkes County family-walk-
ed into George L. Benefits room
two blocks off the campus and
shot Bennett, killing him. A few
minutes later Smithey, S0-year-old
war veteran, killed himself with
the same pistol he had used to
end the life Of the 22-year-
Wadesboro senior. Meantime, stu
dents were scattering from the
campus for an Easter weekend
at home. The killings in Chapel
Hill came as the trial of 23-year-
old Raymond D. Hair of Fayette-
vile, up for first degree murder
in the death of Roy Coble, another
Wake Forest student, last Decem-
ber, was coming to a conclusion
in Raleigh. Neither Coble nor
Smithey was an enrolled student.
Just as President Thurman Kit
chen's Christmas was ruined by
campus murder on the eve of the
holidays, so was Easter a black
day this year for Chancellor House
and Acting President Carmichael.
College officials are constantly
working to improve not only their
physical plants, but thA.rAhntal at
titudes of the students, and the
Christmas and Easter killings at
Wake Forest and Carolina will
cause them to devote even more
attention to the mental habits of
their flocks. Parents can help.
WAR TALK Visitors from
North Carolina in the Nations s
capital last week were astounded
at the amount of war talk heard
in Washington. While we get good
doses of this type of conversation
via the press and radio here in
the Old North State, 1t certainly
isn't the main topic of conversa-
tion. We still have the weather,
Kerr Scott, the Senate race, and
what the preacher said last Sun
day. In Washington, Desease,
nothing else seems to matter. You
hear it from drivers of taxicabs
and right on up the line to U. s.
Senators and various members OF
the Cabinet.
If the war atmosphere hangs as
heavily over Moscow as over
Washington, then some kind OF
shooting war seems to be just
around the corner. 1t is to be
hoped that this is the same corner
around which prosperity sat ir
1930-31.
INSIDE DOPE In strictly
off-the-record discussion with
nobody willing to be quoted - the
inside information is that the U
S. is prepared to go to war with
Russia in the event Joe Stalin's
armies march into Europe; and
this may include an invasion OF
Yugoslavia by the Russians. Ques-
tion seems to be ii this country
would attack Russia if she sem
her legions into Tito's territory OF
wait until she moved deeper into
Europe.
You can hear in Washington or
good authority that Uncle Sam is
preparing 10 take over the opera
ton of the English Government
and use England as a base of wal
if there is European invasion by
Russia.
CRISIS GOVERNMENT This
column certainly doesn't make q
habit of delving into national and
International affairs. Neverthe-
less, we seem to be more world
minded than a decade ago in this
State and we are certainly much
closer to Washington.
Now it is difficult to decide
whether all this war talk is being
pushed at this time as a part OF