The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
NO LONGER VILLAGE

and big things are planned for it
whether it has bobby sox frosh
and sophs or not.
By 1870 they figure there will
be 1O,95O students; 1850 in student
families; 10000 in normal Chapel
Hill; ALSO connected with health
affairs; and ISIS in Carrboro.
ON MARCH 1? q. We can't see
it, but talk is still heard that Gov.
Luther Hodges may try to replace
John Larkins as Democratic chair
man for the State when the Execu-
tive Committee meets here on
March /.
Well, as general rule, COVER
nors of North Cardinals titular
heads of the party-have had their
say-so on the craftsmanship. But
two or three have failed and thus
suffered at least temporary loss
of face.
Luther Hodges may fail, too, if
he tries to make a change. We
hear his choice, if he can get by
with it, might be Cloyd Philpott,
one of his more ardent supporters
in the 1857 Legislature. Philpott is
a wealthy furniture manufacturer,
and a truly outstanding young
man, from Lexington.
| LOSS AND GAIN When
William Womble, well-to-do-and-
smooth-as-velvet Forsyth County
| representative, decided he would
not attempt to return to the Legis-
lature next time, folks here said
Governor Hodges lost a good
| friend.
But then Henry Hall Wilson
see earlier in column-said he
could not be back with us, and so
Gov. Hodges lost one of his most
determined critics. Wilson, YDC
warhorse and smart, is from Union
County.
GEORGIA POLITICS On
the same day that we announced
here in North Carolina that D.
Leon Williams had resigned as ex-
ecutive director of Georgia State
Ports to become director of the
North Carolina Ports Authority,
Time Magazine appeared on the
newstands with this:
anxious to become a world sea-
port, cambridge, Ga. (pop. 1862
enjoys two advantages: u it strad-
dies the Flint River, los miles
from the Gulf of Mexico; q it is
the home town of Georgia's frog
voiced Governor S. (for Samuel)
Marvin Griffin. Last week a state
senate investigating committee
complained that Bainbridge's home
town boy has been doing too much
in trying to overcome natures
oversight. The Griffin administra-
ton has spent half a million dol
lars for 40O-foot pier, transit
shed and sulphur unloading facili-
ties :"
WHY The article continued
for third-of-a-page and showed
how Senator Human Talmadge
and Senator Dick Russell were
moving in on Griffin because he
wasn't agreeing with them on the
man for the next govunuh of
Georgia. Some of those who had
| it in for Griffin seemed also to
have it in for Ports Director D.
Leon Williams. They intimated he
was in the middle of it. And here
we had agreed to pay a N. Y.
firm $500 to "find US a good
man.. They had recommended
Williams. We, apparently, had
blindly followed them.
At present, we are back-peddling
as fast as possible under the cir
cumstances. Williams is going to
have a hard time getting into the
$18 600 position he seemed to hold
so firmly two weeks ago. Even if
he does, there will be lifted eye
brows all over here and half of
Georgia.
| PHRASE +. And to borrow a
| phrase from the Raleigh News and
Observers column, Under the
Dome, $40 borrow phrase from
the Bible, the State Ports Author
ity was born into trouble. Yes,
it has been in a DANCED mess al
most from the beginning. Remem-
Der this: not all the red cedar
whiting as done down at the serv-
ice station.
S.I.