The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1962-01-26
BY EuLA N. GREENWOOD

GREENWOOD
see her become publisher as well.
She succeeds Max Campbell, who
died a few days ago after a lin
gering illness. Mrs. Transeau's hus-
banl, now deceased, was of q pro-
minent Yadkin family -.
-. CHARLES GOLD, Insurance
Commissioners, remains at Memorial
Hospital in Chapel Hill n.criti-
cal condition and was visited
there last week by Gov. Terry San
ford. Gold may not complete his
term of office -.
TOMB SILENT As secret as
Central Intelligence is the N. C.
Revenue Dept. on tax matters
who pays, and how much
1t is the Government business
/. :. not yours and mine -. unless
it gets into open court how
much this or that person or firm
pays in license fees or taxes. They
play it that way; and have law to
support them.
! Reports persist there is more to
come on the Burch- Brewer affair
(this time Burch y -. but is isn't
likely to be from the Revenue peo-
pie.
TOOK THE FIFTH, +. The few
words that drifted out of the Burch
questioning before Revenue Com
missioner William Johnston sound
ed strictly bigtime.
AS Johnson's door opened for an
instant, David Cooper of the Raj
eigh News & Observer said he
heard one of the Burch's-pere or
free say: 81 stand on my consti-
tutional rights 80"
Thus it could have been that Ar
ticle v of the U. S. Constitution,
now infamously famous, was being
heavily leaned on by the objects of
Johnson's interrogatioIls.
Be that as it may, it is interest
ing to note that the attorney for
the Burch's was William Hatch.
AS member of the House in the
Wake County legislative delegation
in 1949 he did more for Kerr SCOTS
program than anybody else and
was later rewarded with Superior
Court judgeship by Gov. Scott. But
he hasn't been Judge now for sew
eral years
Incidentally, one of Kidd Brew
er's closest friends is-or was
Edwin P. Friedberg, regarded by
many as Raleigh's ablest tax at
torney.
HOW MUCH? -. We have all
been hearing within the past few
days about the billions it will take
to run the U. S. in the year that
lies ahead of us. But how much is
a billion? We read the other day
that if your fountain pen were en-
larged a billion times, the point
would be longer than the Missis-
sippi River and the cap would be
big enough to enclose the earth!
B NOTES Have you noticed
how First Dist. Congressman Her
bert Bonners name has cropped
up several times in Drew Pearson's
report of some apparently shady
ship deals out of Washington? -.
and he, sometimes almost alone,
came through as pure as rain water
standing solidly for the right
thing and makes us think you
couldn't beat him with a. ten-foot
pole
-. Not so feet. from the news
room of the Raleigh dailies is Raj
eigh' newest beer parlor. Its name
is perfect {. Byline Tavern!
-. 1t begins to look like swampy
stepping for Alvin Paul Kitchin Of
Wadasboro. AS one of our staunch-
est conservatives, can he beat out
for Congress Liberals C. B. Deane
of Rockingham, a Baptist like him
self, and John Pressly Kennedy,
Jr. q. B. Harvard and A. B. and M.
A. at Cambridge, 1943)? Kennedy,
who has served two terms in the
State House, is already running
against Kitchin .. and Deane just
might ~. for he is still smarting
a little from the Kitchin Gaming Of
six years ago 80. s4.
-. Whether it's because they
can't visit Cuba any more, the ex-
pense involved, the time, etc, we
wouldn't know =. but three groups
which had planned ocean cruise
conventions this year will not take
them: N. C. Food Dealers ASSN,
Southern Retail Furn. Assn, and
Carolina Farm Equipment Dealers
Assn =. Insufficient interest /. 5.
or Internal Revenue Dept. |?
"a. These two Raleigh buffers
were out playing golf one Sunday
morning in December when they
heard their church bell ringing. It
kept ding-donging and bore down
ID. .