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BRUMM1TT GIVES
VIEWS ON SCHOOLS
Questions Relation to Special Char
ter Districts Answered by Attorney
General- New Eiiucational
Laws Reviewed.
Raieigh.- School questions, relating
to continuance of boards of trustee
in special charter districts, unused
and unspent balances in such dis
tricts. uncollected tax levies and oth
crs related, asked by State Superin
tendeiit A. T. Allen, are answere<
by Attorney General D. G. Bruinmitt
as follows:
''11 In a special charter district
whether it is or i3 not classified a:
an administrative unit, the existing
board of trustees and their duly elect
e<i successors will, under the proviso
at the end of the second paragTapl
in section 4 of the (3cbool) act. b<
retained as the governing body o
such district. The membership o
such board, as vacancies occur, wil
be chosen in the manner as hereto
fore set up under the particular spe
cial charter.
"Such a district, when not erecte<
into a city administrative unit, "Re
comes a part of the county school sys
teni and the county administrate
unit. Teachers in such a school are tc
be selected by the board of trustees
subject to approval of the county su
perintenden1; of schools, and subjecl
to the making of the contracts witl
them by the county board of education.
And. in all other respects, except
as indicated in the paragrapfc
above, such district takes the status
of other districts within the county
system.
"2. Unused and unspent balances
in the operating or maintenance func
of a district, proceeds of specia
maintenance taxes collected prior t(
Hie date the act was ratified, Ma]
15, 1933, may be budgeted and spenl
in the next school year, in accord
ance with the purpose for which the}
were voted?that is, "to supplement
the funds for the six months school
term for that district."
"3. The proceeds cf special maintenance
taxes, uncollected at the date
of the ratification of the act, May 15
1933, Should, in a district having debt
service requirements, he applied tc
that purpose, payment of unpaic
teachers vouchers for the year ir
which the tax was levied, being a pre
ferred claim.
"4. A different situation is present
ed with respect to such uncollects
Fhas no debt service requirements. I
portion of the language in the con
eluding paragraph of section 4 of th?
act is susceptible of the construction
that in case such taxes as colloete<
are to be used as a part of the coun
ty debt service for schools. Sine*
iuv?0 ? * > ?j ,
ncii; V01.CU tuiu pel ill OJ
the people of the district, the pre
. . sumption is that such result teas nol
intended. So long as a school is main
tained for the children of the distrlcl
wherein the taxes were voted unc
paid, the proceeds of such maintenance
taxes, there being no debt serv
ice requirements, are to be used foi
the purpiose for which they were voted?'to
supplement the funds for the
six months public school term foi
that discrict.'
"Therefore, such taxes as collected
under the circumstances set out
should be so used for the school yeai
1933-34, or subsequent school years.'
BEECH HAVEN" CAMP OPEH5
IX BANNER ELK COMMUNITY
Banner Elk.?Beech Haven Camp
for girls, under the direction of Mrs
Annie McCoy, of Knoxville, Tenn.
opened here last week-end. The camp
is private and membership is by in
vitation. Thirfw <>-' ' -1
: BBS cue m &i.tnuuance
and six counselors.
Dr. C. H. McDonald, founder o:
tne life-saving worn 01 uie America!
Red Cross, is expected this week. Dr
McDonald, a distinguished naturalist
will show moving pictures of th<
snake3 in the Everglades of Florida
Also expected this week is Henrj
Woodman, of the Aaheville School
for Boys, who will direct woodcraft.
The fifteen strawberry growers who
formed a small selling association it
Catawba County this season realized
S2,847.28 from their sales.
ill Hickmam DROVE
A SET OF TIRES
lS.OOO Mil PC CO * Set
"WEW CELEBRATED
WITH A BUS BLOWOUT..
Where Howard Ma
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f Anthony Lake Hatchery, at Pineols
1 to the public for fishing this Huron*
enterprises in the mountains.
1 Howard Marmoi
Is Remarkable
^ Distinguished Automobile Engineer Hi
tion of the Mountains; Public. Ms
Anthony Lake Hatchery; Slice
Fishermen; Remarkable
1 By A. T. ROBERTSON JR.
5 Three miles beyond Linville. at j
Pineola, is Anthony Lake and fish!
hatchery, one of the finest fish hatch- j
j eries in the mountains, built and op- j
* erated by Howard Marmon. one of
America's greatest automobile engi-1
5 necrs. This summer for the first time,
[ since its establishment in 1927, the J
hatchery's rearing pools are open to
the public for fishing, upon payment
r of a nominal fee.
Owner Has Never Fished
The story of the Anthony Lake
hatchery is one of fascinating contradictions.
It was built by a man who
s has never fished, and never visited
* another fish hatchery.
Ten years or so ago Howard Mar>
men, formerly head of the great mo|
tor company which bears the family
1: name, became interested in the de*
j velopraent of this section of the moun
Itains. a truest at Eseeola Inn at]
" IL-lnville. It was far from being Mr. i
* I Marraon's first, visit to the mountains; j
j in ' nis youufir '"uaya SpCT.~
L|several summers with bis family in]
the Tennessee mountains, camping i
? one summer at the foot of the Roan,!
1 the great bald mountain, which has
1 held a deep attraction for hira as for
thousands of others. The Linville re-|
2 gion early caught his eye; a legend (
f has it that while still in his middle'
~ teens, he was so carried away with |
- tr.c section sr.p.t he purchased a tract ;
of thousands of acres, drawing a draft j
L on one of his family's banks to pay
1 for it; a purchase which was not!
made permanent but which forecast
the time when he retired fi*om the
active leadership of the Marmon Company
and left Indianapolis to make
51 his home in the village of Pineola.
Mr. Mormons* interests in this section
have been varied and remarka- j
[ tale. Soon after settling here, satisfy
ing a desire which he had carried for
[ many years, he built Anthony Lake.
of 65 acres, formed by a small creek.
Completion of power lines through
ihij t-crritcrv nut an end to anv idoa i
" of the establishrneut of a local hy-j
dro-electric plant; at the same time,:
i a disaster of several years previous?
. :thc mountain flood of l&lfi?took a
, i hand in the destiny of the beautiful
> lake. Prior to the great floods of 'IS,
- a lake at Montezuma had been stock .
ed with bass; when the darn at Montezuma
broke, the bass found their
[ way through the streams of this seci
tion and abounded in Mi'. Marmon's
. new lake. They were a great attrac,
tion for his friends who liked to
: fish there.
The lake also abounded in trout.
' But bass are not friendly to trout.
I In fact, before long, they had devoured
almost all of them. If trout
were to survive in Anthony Lake,
i they must be given encouragement,
i Therefore. Mr. Marmon built a hatchI
ery across the road.
Mis method in setting about this
undertaking was characteristic. No
fisherman, never having been inside
a fish hatchery, but desirous of keeping
trout in Anthony Make, he wrote
to the Department of Commerce at
Washington for information, and received
in reply Bureau of Fisheries
Document No. 955, "The Artificial
Propagation of Brook Trout and Rainbow
Trout, with Notes on Three Other
Species." Following the instructions
contained in it, be built what
is one of the finest fish hatcheries
in all the mountains. He still hasn't
been inside anybody else's hatchery.
Some day, he says, he hopes to run
over to the hatchery at Roaring Gap.
Fishing at UnviDe Today
Today, Linville has still another
lake, Kawana by name, which covers
ten or fifteen, acres, and is used by
members of the summer colony for
swimming and for fishing, as it Is
well ntnflfAd TJTitVl Via D.I A nfltrvnn T ?1w>
Mr. Manr.on reserved for "the use of
his friends who like to fish. It is only
this summer the hatchery has produced
such a surplus that even after
he has given away hundreds of thou-1
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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY
irmon Raises Trout
V: . : '-.sr? >r^''| 1
COURTESY PLOWING ROCKET
l? three miles beyond UnviUc. Open
er. It is one of the most interesting
I
i Fish Hatchery
for Its Interest
33 Turned His Attention to This Secly
Now Fish in Rearing Pools at
ess Assured to Most Unskilled
Story of Development.
sands of trout, over and above those
used to stock Anthony Lake and those
sold to fishing clubs throughout the j
mountains, an embarrassing number
of trout remain. Therefore, the rear- j
i ing pool of the hatchery, on the left j
side of the road from Linville, has
(bcen opened to the public, upon pay!ment
01 a fee. II i.*> a sorry fisher-1
man indeed who fails to take out all;
the fi3h he wants, from the teeming!
pools. All fish caught are charged for ;
at the current price of sixty cents aj
pound.
450 Pounds of Beef-Hearts Weekly
Anthony Lake hatchery contains at.
present *150,000 trout, which consume j
450 pounds of beef hearts every week. J
The fingerlings are inside the hatch-!
ery building; the larger fish are nr- j
ranged in a series of eight pools, ac-1
cording to their size, the smallest, |
in the uppermost pool where Anthony!
Creek makes its winding exit from.
t the"woods; the largest, eighteen inch-.
| es or more in length, in the pool near- j
\.^t thr. -~n;? Viritirs *?'-!
| lowed to fish in this last pool, which |
j contains the brood stock, but tnou- j
j sands upon thousands of trout bewil-?
I der the eye. in the smaller pools above. |
There are in addition six concrete
rearing pools, not open to visitors.
Artificial Fertilization
C. W. Keller, m charge of the hatchery
for several years, explained I he
system of artificial ftrlOizaUun of
eggs, practiced during the spawning
season, which lasts from late OctoTier
through November. The mature trout
are gathered up in nets; and the eggs
stripped from the females. The spawn
from the males is then placed directly
on the eggs, which are thus fertilized
much more surely than if left'
to nature. Naturally, the proportion j
of eggs to hatch out is one out of.
seven hundred; with artificial fertili-|
zation, it is seventy-five per cent. Mr.'
Marmon has in his possession a re-!
raarkable enlarged photograph of a:
tray of artificially ' fertilized eggs,
showing the minute fish just emerging
from the shells. Visible through
the tiny egg-shells are the eyes of j
the fish yet to be hatched.
Necessary Mountain Industries
The fish from Anthony Lake hatchery
are sold to individuals and clubs
wishing to stock their streams, after j
the supply available at the State:
hatcheries has bceD exhausted. Fishj
conservation, Mr. Marmon believes, is;
one of the necessary mountain inaus- i
tries?not through the number of men
directly employed, which is rather
small, but through its effect upon the
vital tourist industry of Western
North Carolina, whose streams, fully
stocked with trout, will attract many
more thousands of visitors than now;
His interest, however, has not been
confined to his fish hatchery. The
marraon nurseries, at Pineoia, are one
of the largest in this section. Hisj
farm, near Spruce Pine, is a model of ]
iis kind, ana in recent weeks he kasj
become interested in the possibilities j
of the kaolin and feldspar which arc;
abundant in Avery and adjoining
counties. Combinations have been'
worked out which produce a clay ^
equal to the fine English clay used
In the beat of American-made chinaware.
When the matter was called
to uia attci'itiuu ,d Sliuil wliilc ogu,
he replied, "I don't know anything
about kaolin, but come back in two
or three days and 1 will." In the interim,
he informed himself thoroughly
in regard to the local kaolin and
its possibilities.
The possibility of successful manufacture
of chinaware in this section,
like many other industrial opportunities
all through Western North Carolina,
Mr. M&rmon says, waits on
the future of President Roosevelt's
new creation, the Tennessee Valley
Authority. He is, and has been for a
lifetime, deeply interested in the life
of the mountains. In the establishment
of industries adapted to the i
mountains, Mr. Mormon sees their <
ETcatest hone ansiswssrgv
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THURSDAY? BOONE. N. C.
maxwhTraps i
MERCHANT GROUPj
Commissioner of Revenue Answers
Resolution of State Retailers. Docs
Not Agree. Reviews Provisions of
General ^ales Tax.
Raleigh.?"A part of our difficulty
is that you are trying tc impress the
Commissioner to do by regulation
what, you endeavored to have the
General Assembly include m its statute
and which it refused to do," Commisaioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell
has written to Secretary Wiliard
Dowell. of the N. C. Merchants Association,
relative to the resolution
adopted by the merchants in WinstonSalem
a few days ago.
"I cannot agree with the statement
of the resolution that there is
an 'expressed mandate' in the
and if there were there would be ho
occasion for requesting the Commissioner
of Revenue to make a rule to
that effect." Mr. Maxwell writes, indicating
some impatience wi-.jl the
merchants.
Mr. Maxwell writes that he has
considered carefully the resolution
ra/nmcto Vii'm tn nilu AX._ !
ery mercharI in .ii* State be -squired
under criminal inhibition to show the
sales tax as a separate charge on every
sale. He points out that thousands
of merchants have no facilities
lor showing the charge separately
and that probably millions of
sales are made daily on wnich no
price ticket is used.
"Should the mere failure to furnish
a price ticket with the tax shown as
a separate charge be made a criminal
charge oh every one of these transactions?
I don't think that's a crime
and I cannot assume responsibility for
trying to make it a crime," Mr. Maxwell
writes. Nothing can be accomplished
by rfyeb regulation, hp believes,
saying that "The tax is three
per cent, of total salos cf taxable
merchandise." without reference to
price additions made in the schedule
he has announced, since the schedules
are intended to average the
amount of the tax. "The tax liability
of every merchant to the State is a
straight three per cent," be reasserts.
However, Mr. Maxwell shows that
he has changed the rule so merchants
having facilities lor doing so and so
desire, may how the tax as a separate
charge added to the price on
each sale, and merchants not bavinty
such facilities are to post in their
?a?plaairrL showing that the
three per "cent: tax is added to the
sitlucs price- rdr. iaaxweir~ poiuui out
that he is merely trying to facilitate
the collection of the tax and to aid
the merchants in making the best of
an admittedly bad situation, and he
intends to enforce the law as sf rieMv
as humanly poMiblp.
Baby Will Be Given
Away at Blowing Rock
By ARNOLD COFFEY
Who will get the baby ? No dog.!
cat or any other animal, but a real
live baby, six months old and of good
parentage, will be given away to the
person holding the lucky number at
the "Wayside Brown" entertainment
at the school auditorium at Blowing
Rook Saturday night, July 8th.
Harold O. Brown, columnist on the
Charlotte Observer and founder of
the Wayside Shut-in Club, is known
to thousands throughout the country
as "Old Wayside." His radio program,
" 'Mongat Wayside Shut-ins,"
each Friday and Sunday over Station
WHT, Charlotte, is very popular,
and sets throughput the country
arc tuned in to catch the inspiring
words of "Old Wayside."
Wayside himself is a cripple, for
he has lost the use of both limbs.
uneu called "the cheerful old Englishman,"
he sticks u> his slogan,
which is "Yours for the Smile."
Through him books, magazines, radios,
talking machines, wheel chairs
and cheerful letters and postcards,
artificial limbs, eyes and all kinds of
help is given to the crippled people
who must remain indoors and called
"Shut-ins" by Brown, "Wayside" is
fairy god-father to thousands of the
crippled, bed-ridden shut-ins
The Wayside Entertainment is
sponsored by the Christian Endeavor
of the Blowing Rock Church which
will open the show with a thirtyminute
rip-snorting, funny blackface
snow, then Old Wayside goes on with
his program and Uncle Joe Robertson,
banjo king of the two Carolines,
pretty girls and the orchestra of Professor
Bill Goldman. For the grand
finale, some childless couple, bashful
uCCuCiCr Or oh}" oii <u?wu wil mc uiuui ,
happy by going home with a sixmonths-old,
handsome, real, live baby.
Remember, folks, this show is for a
good cause, so come and see "Wayside"
Brown.
Despite the drouth, John Rowe of
Catawba County harvested 1,000
uuaneis 01 oaa xrom a 15-acre field.
Gives up all her titles and abandons
even her children to live the
"simple life." Monte Carlo's restless
princess, tired of her royal surroundings.
See The American Weekly, the
magazine distributed with next Sunday's
Baltimore American. Buy your
copy from your favorite newsboy orj
newsdealer.
"Little Fgypt"
Zeftnes All, 21, of Alexandria,
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ijgji pi, is uic unne r.gvjii ot
Chicago '8 1933 World Fair, where
*be dances daily to make oldtimor*
forget the Little Egypt of 1893.
Feature Attractions at
Pastime Next Week.
William Faulkner's dramatic tale!
of present-day youth, "The Story of |
Temple Drake." comes to the Pastime j
Theatre Monday, with Miriam Hop- j
kins in the title role and Jack DaRue, |
and William Collier Jr. heading the!
supporting cast- Miss Hopkins, custj
as a wild young aristocrat, whose;
wildness, however, has the fortunate j
quality of knowing its own limits, is.
in love with Gargan, a young attorney.
She refuses his offer of marriage
because she feels she is not good enough
for him. A desperate gang then
takes a big hand in the. fates of the3e
two, and the climax is most thrilling. |
On Tuesday, the Pastime presents j
a feature attraction called "Storm at j
Daybreak." Kay Francis and the
well-known Walter Huston play the
leading roles in tliia gi-eat play, and
Manager Hamhv states that it is one
of the most publicized dramas of the
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year.
Chariea Bickford, Richard Arlen.
Mary Brian. Jean Hersholt, Louise
Dresser, Andy Devine and George E.
Stone piay the leading roles in "Song
oi the Eagle " drama portraying the
march of events in two decades,
which plays at the local show-house
on Wednesday of next week. The
picture, a thrilling chronicle of war
and peace, of prohibition and speculation,
of depression and sorrow, swings
cn into the future, dealing boldly
with th. question of what is to follow
thc legalization of beer and the restoration
of prosperity.
A ballet entitled "Dance of the
Maidens," one of the most spectacular
dance sequences over filmed in
Hollywood, will provide a high point
of interest in "1 Loved You Wednesday,"
coming to the Pastime on
Thursday, the 13lh. Conceived and
staged by Sammy Lee, the Fox dance
director calls this ballet the masterpiece
of his career?ami he has put
on more than 150 dancing shows for
the "Follies," 'Vanities" and many
other famous Broadway productions.
Elissi Land) and Warner Baxter play
the leading roles.
If tense drama, amusing comedy, ?"
deft direction and splendid histrionic
presentation contribute anything to
your enjoyment of motion pictures.
then don't fail to see "Self-Defense,"
the entertaining Moncgram melodrama
starring Pauline Fredericks, that
plays on Friday, the 14th. This picture,
says Manager Hamby, "is one
of the smoothest running, most convincing
and most amusing presentations
that it has been my pleasure to
offer local theatre-goers for many a
moon, and I can unhesitatingly recommend
it to any resident of this
city looking for pure entertainment
value."
Garbed in outlandish wigs, plumed
hats and costumes of the Robir. Hood
era, Laurel and Hardy make their
latest appearance in "The Devil's
Brother," a fall-length pi-oduction in
which the comedians are seen as a
]>air of daring brigands whose adventures
must certainly be the funniest
m which these inimitable with have
yet been seen oil the talking screen.
In their current picture, to be shown
at the Pastime on Saturday, the 15th,
they run the gamut of tomfoolery
from flirting with milkmaids and being
pursued by an unsuspecting bull
to making a narrow escape from the
hangman's noose and being engulfed
in a variety of hazardous occurrences
out of all of which the invariably
come out on top slightly bruised but
smiling.
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