While all the bickering and wrangling by opponents of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Marketing Association has been going on; while insinuations and accusations have been going about almost as thick as mosquitoes during the summer time, with charges and counter charges against this and that official of the association, it is a noticeable fact that not one has the slightest reference been made in any derogatory manner or way to the regime of Mr. George A. Norwood, president of the association, one of Goldsboro’s most highly esteemed citizens.
The opponents of the association would have the public believe that the association was “rotten to the core.” They have attempted to prove that Manager Patterson and many others have filched money from the growers and have used the association to their own means and ends to the discomfiture of the growers, the members.
But not once in all of this barrage of accusations has the fair name of George A. Norwood, the president of the association, been mentioned. In other words, the work of Mr. Norwood, as president of the association, has been without reproach. He has dealt fairly and squarely with the association, with its members and the public at large. The record of President Norwood cannot be assailed. It is unimpeachable, it is unblemished and stands out bright and clear above all the others.
It is with genuine pleasure that The News calls attention to this fact. The News and all Goldsboro is and has always been proud of George A. Norwood. He is a man among men, honest to the core, alert, able and energetic. A fine citizen of the city, county, state and nation.
From the editorial page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, April 6, 1926
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