Henderson Daily Dispatch

WAYNICK PLEASES
AS NEW HEAD FOR
STATE HIGHWAYS

High Point Editor Considered Eminently Suited for Road Work Responsibilities

IS NOT POLITICAL
SELECTION AT ALL

Waynick Made Remarkable Record as Reemployment Director; Newspaper Training Fits Many Men for Gruelling Public Service Demanded In Some Jobs

Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter
Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville.

Raleigh. Dec. 5.-Selection of Capus M. Waynick. editor of the High Point Enterprise as assistant chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission. with the full authority of the chairman as long as Chairman E. B. Jeffress remains incapacitated by illness is being heartily commended on every hand here today

In fact it is generally agreed that the appointment as assistant chairman is in fact equal to the appointment as chairman .since Waynick will have as much authority as if he were chairman. and since few believe Mr. Jeffress will ever be able to again return to active duty as chairman. even though his condition improves materially over what it is at the present time.

The appointment of Waynick as acting head of the highway department did not come as a very great surprise in informed circles here. since many have felt for a number of weeks that he was among those

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being seriously considered for the post. In fact this correspondent some five or six weeks ago, wrote a story to the effect that Waynick was being considered as a possible successor to Jeffress at that time, and said that he was considered as one of the most able and competent of those being mentioned as possible appointees.

This feeling has been growing steadily in many circles ever since, although Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus continued to remain as silent as the sphinx, despite the daily questioning by newspaper men. But it was known that the governor has had a very high regard for Waynick's ability to perform any kind of job assigned to him ever since the 1933 General Assembly, in which Waynick was a member of the Senate committee on finance and chairman of the committee on Constitutional Amendments.

That Waynick's appointment is in no sense a political appointment, but given him solely because he had already demonstrated the ability to perform difficult jobs under difficult circumstances, is the consensus of opinion here. It is also regarded as doubtful if Waynick would ever have been considered for the highway post but for the record he made as director of the National Reemployment Service in North Carolina, and which post he relinquished November 15 after serving as its chief executive for some 16 months. When the Department of Labor in the summer of 1933 decided to set up the National Reemployment Service to assist the Public Works Administration and the Emergency Relief Administration in putting more people to work, Waynick was selected for the job, without any political endorsements whatever, and he agreed to take over the task of setting up a Statewide organization. He completed this job in record time and was the first State director to set up a reemployment office and organization in every county in the State. It is understood that in Washington the Department of Labor officials were inclined to be skeptical when he told them he had completed the organization of the Reemployment Service in this State in the time he did, since he had his organization actively functioning weeks before other states completed their groundwork.

It is expected that Waynick will take to his new job in the highway department the same vigor and enthusiasm and capacity for turning out a tremendous volume of work in a short time that he has shown in his other jobs, and which is generally regarded as one of the outstanding characteristics of any successful newspaper man. There is probably no other business where a man must be able to turn out a larger volume of work, make quicker decisions and put in more hours than in the newspaper business. It is generally agreed that it was his years of experience in the newspaper business that made Jeffress so successful as the head of the highway department. It is now expected that Waynick's newspaper experience is going to be of great assistance to him as he takes over the helm of the highway commission from Jeffress. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that Waynick once worked with Jeffress on The Greensboro News and that he now comes to the highway job from the editorship of a paper in the same county.