G.V. Hawkins, popular rural letter carrier of Shelby, has been elected president of the North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers Association, which closed a two-day session in Greensboro Saturday. This is a deserved honor coming to Mr. Hawkins, who has been one of the most active members of the association within recent years. He was a delegate two years ago to the national convention and was instrumental in having the letter carriers meet in Shelby last year when he was active in their entertainment. About 100 people attended the convention in Greensboro last week.
Other officers for the ensuing year are:
Vice President O.W. Hines, McLeansville; secretary, J.P. Turner, Burlington (re-elected); treasurer, W.P. Cook, Asheville.
Officers were installed just before the session ended.
Delegates chosen to attend the national convention are Carl Howard, St. Pauls; John Norwood, Norwood; Neal Thompson, Vineland; J.S. Devinney, Julian; A.S. Barnes, Wilson.
The convention voted to meet next year at Salisbury.
The convention went through a busy day. Committees made their reports, routine business was handled and resolutions adopted.
Chief among the latter was one asking senators and congressmen to give united support in behalf of the equipment bill, asking that it be brought up at the next session of Congress, passed and made retroactive to July 1, 1924. The equipment bill proposes that rural carriers be allowed six cents per mile for equipment. It is not a salary bill, but the carriers think they should have some compensation for equipment.
Another resolution put the association on record as desiring all roads used by carriers in discharge of their duties be made public roads; another that carriers be paid by postmaster; another that rural carriers be free from license tax on automobiles used for carrying mail exclusively.
From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Tuesday, July 8, 1924
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