The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-07-21

Democrats does not include the
amount spent by various Labor
committees ($2,45O,944).. virtual
ly all of which went to the Demo-
Gratis. Let the COP take warning!
NEW LOOK. A road we always
hated to travel, win or lose, is the
one from Raleigh to Chapel Hill.
We remember our first trip over
it about rs years ago. No N. C.
road in two decades showed less
change, and more wear. The curves
were terrible (they still are). They
leaned in a way designed, it SEEM
ed, to throw you into that scrubby
pine thicket or the swamp (still do).
There was room for cars to pass,
but it wasn't easy. Still isn't.
But, hooray, from Chapel Hill to
a crossroad we'll on the way to Ne
son gargantuan machines now ply
their trade.
And, to make a long story short,
Chapel Hill will soon have to the
east as beautiful an entrance as
any city in the State-a boulevard
no less-four lanes and all the trim
mings. Glad to see it - and 20
years overdue.
HELP WANTED. Despite the
20 per cent pay increase for teach
ers provided by the 1861 Legisla-
ture, there is still sharp shortage.
The average big daily paper in
the State is running about Is want
ads per day from principals and
superintendent begging for
teachers. Many of them need 3-5
teachers to fill vacancies and ad-
ditions.
Hint: Do as other administrators
are doing-go to some other state
where the scale and the climate are
not as good as in North Carolina.
Scores of schools awarded new
teachers for the term beginning in
September will not have them by
that time-and will not have
enough rooms for them by next
year this time. Critical situation
truly.
FUTURE. Although State Re-
publican Chairman W. E. Cobb, Jr.,
lost out as defendant in $780,
900 filed against him by Demo-
cratic election officials in Madison
County, there was nc overwhelm-
ing joy in the verdict among
Raleigh Democrats. They see an
apl.eal-and possible trouble.
FIELD OFFICES All is not
sweetness and light in the sales tax
changes though frankly better than
rad been anticipated.
Any consumer who feels he is not
Treated fairly. CT who does not
understand the tax as it now ap-
plies. should get in touch by
pnc ne, letter or visit with the Reve-
nue Dept. He need not come to
Raleigh. . since there is sales
tax field office within only a few
miles of every tax payer in N. C.
If you would like list of these
offices, write the N. C. Revenue
Dept, Raleigh. -. or contact your
local merchant.
TIRED OF SFECKING. North
Carolina, now the leading furniture
state in the nat;cn, has achieved
fame through the Kennedy rocker.
1t is also achieving nationwide
renown through the reborn craze
for "early American" furniture.
Some of our furniture factories
have found new fortune in this
field.
Although these early American
items come in 4 wide variety of
colors, they are all alike in one re-
spect: flyspecks. This is must say
furniture people.
A friend of ours in Wilkes Coun-
ty works at a Ronda furniture
factory in the paint department.
He is the expert fly-specker of the
place. >. and is getting pretty tired
of flyspecks day-in-day-out. A
man in High Point developed a
"splatter gum. AMI the friend
near our farm has become acutely
adept in it's use. After chair, for
instance, has been painted, it moves
through his department - and
comes out with the old-fashioned
appearance as from 10000 flies.
"Them stylish stores say it isn't
really early American if it amt got
them fly specks", says Friend Fly
Speaker.
TIRED. House Speaker Joe
Hunt showed just how wholesomely
early American he was during the
last days of the 1861 legislative
session. Growing impatient with
some lawyers attempt to pick the
bones of every bill, Hunt growled
one day: "I'm getting tired of you
all trying to pick fly specks out of
pepper" House members roared. i.
and bills moved faster.
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