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Raleigh, December 1.?Thla Is the day on which officials ot the 100 counties of the State are being In ducted Into office and many new faces will greet the visitors to these offices tomorrow. In the office of superior court clerk alone twenty six changes have occurred and new registers of deeds number thirty two. A number of these officials wer* defeated for re-nomination In the June primaries and quite n few,of them met defeat at the polls In the general November election. The sweeping Democratic victory In No vember displaced Republicans In many counties hitherto considered Impregnable, reducing the number of Republican counties from thirty two to halt a dosen. Minor changes In personnel are noted In many of the Democratic counties and ap pointive officers in a number of them will likely have to "walk the plank," especially those who made bad guesses In making a choice of candidates for county commission ers in the primary last summer. "To the victors belong the spoils." Under the provisions of the 1919 statute, the board of commissioners of each county in the State are re quired to appoint a County Supervis or of taxation, who shall be a free holder in the county, an experienced and practical business man with the knowledge of the valuation of real and personal property, and who shall have been a bonaflde resident of the county for at least twelve months. The supervisors will work through tax listers la each town ship from January 1, to April 1, the tax law now providing that all prop erty shall be assessed at Its true val ue of January 1, and that taxes shall be charged against the owner of record on April 1, at which time tax listing starts. In a meeting here on December 10, the State Board ef Assessment, composed of the Commissioner of Revenue, the Attorney General, the Chairman of the Corporation Com mission, the Secretary of the Coun# ty Government Advisory Commis sion, and Leroy Martin;- representing the Governor, will provide as far as possible uniform procedure and practice In the assessing ot real and personal property. All county super visors have been Invited to attend and participate In the deliberations. The prospects of lowering assess ments on land is viewed with con cern here, since this action would In many counties necessitate In creases in tax rates, unless some way of reducing operating expenses can be found. A number of counties have already been discussing the ad vlslblllty ot co-ordinating the work of official agencies which may dis place a number of minor officials and transfer tbeir activities to other de partments. i. -1 ?*9 EsKUUUUlJ, IB IUB B1UBBU Bl along the line. State departments and institutions hare had their "innings" before the State Advisory Budget Commission and will next present their claims to committees of the General Assembly. All teld these State agencies have requested appropriations aggregat ing a little more than $78,000,000 for maintenance and permanent im provements. The Budget Commission is expected to par these requests and the General Assembly will probably do likewise. Requests from the gen eral fund, which the Advisory Com mission is now considering, repre sent an expenditure of 848,173,191. For maintenance $43,976,622 and for permanent improvements, $4, 202.769. The Highway Department wants 917,663.365 for maintenance and 95,892,122 for road construc tion. The Department of Agriculture asks for $544,1(7 for the year 1981 32 and $546,582 for 1932-1933. Di rectors tor the North Carolina dtate Fair are on the list for $28,660 for next year's operating expenses. Stating that the report of the State Tax Commission is already be hind the schedule fixed for presen tation to duly constituted official au thorities prior to the convening of the General Assembly, Allen J. Max well, State Commissioner of Reve nue, declines request of Representa tive-elect A. D. McLean, of Beaufort, for public hearings before the Tax Commission on tax laws before the solons reach Raleigh In January. Mr. Maxwell, who Is chairman of the Commission, suggests to Representa tive McLean that an earlier request might have been considered. It is now too late, but an opportunity for full discussion of the subject will be afforded before committees of the Oeneral Assembly. A general sales tax is suggested by Representa tive McLean as the method of re lieving the burdens of ta*. on prop erty. The anorlhl rnmm tDDOlntid by Governor Gardner several montha ago to make a study of prison sys tems In this and other states has "done a good Job of It," according to an Intimation from the Governor who says the report recently handed to him Is "the most comprehensive document on penology ever filed In the South. The report contains MO pages and lays down a ten-year pro gram, It Is said. The report has been referred to a sub-committee compos ed of A. D. McLean, J. W. Bnnn, B. B. Jelfreas, T. L Blant and . George Ross Pon, to draw a concrete list of recommendations for Consideration of the.General Assembly, ooverlng the next blennlum. This committee Is schedaled to meet here on De cember 5th to formulate the pro gram, which may take Into consid eration the utilisation of the MOC, 000 bond Issue authorised by the 1027 General Assembly for a pris on farnewhlch has not been expend ed. Dr. Howard W. Odum, of Chapel Hill. Is an advisory member of the sub-committee. With the announced purpose o< relieving unemployment conditions Governor Oardner has named Bu gene Newaome. of Durham, chair man, of a group designs0M as a "Council of Unemployhsent" to oar ry ont a relief program In the State and oo-operate with President Hoo ?er'? relief body selected sometime ago. Other members of the council are: F. D. Orlst, Raleigh; R. R. Lawrence. Winston-Salem; Joseph Separk. Oastonla; Robert Latham, AsheTllle; Dr. Carl Taylor, Raleigh; Oscar A. Hamilton, Wilmington; E. B. Crow, Raleigh; Albert 8 Kelster, Greensboro; Mrs. Palmsr Jerman. Raleigh; O. H. Pago, Rocky Mount; Reuben Robinson. Caaton; Julian 8. Miller, Charlotte, and Dr. J. M. Parrott, Kinston. The grdup is ex pected to hold Its Initial session here tomorrow with Frank Bane, of Washington,' representing President HooTsr's committee on unemploy Of general Interest in the State of North Carolina is the meeting of the special hospitalisation commit tee today to select the area in which the new Soldier's Heme for Disabled Veterans is to be established. Gorsr nor Oardner was requested by a special committee representing the ?arlous towns of the State offering sites to attend the hearing and speak ior North /laosalUa Hut hsnsa, busy and seat Odns M. Mull, tel. Sep tire counsel. Supporting Mr. Mull in the effort to bring thta Home, which will he aeUbllahed aomewhere In the Sonth, to North Carolina, la Thorn dike Seville, chief engineer of the Department of Conaervatlon and Development; Bran W. Slpe, statls tlckm of the department, and Col. J. W. Harrelaon, director of the de partment. No Individual sites are being oonsMered at thla meeting, but repreaentatlvea are expecting an opportnnltr *to be heard after the general area U selected. Fifteen towns and cities of the State are bid ding for the Home. According to the bl-ennlal report of the Salary and Wage Commission , recently completed employees of the State have received small bat steady Increase In salary since that body waa created by the General Assem bly of im. In ltl4-lt there were tit State employees receiving |1< ttt.Stli In 1117-tl, ttO employes reOelved tl.Bt7.ltl; la ltlt-10, tt? oyes were "the reolpenta" of " ""0. The largest Increases Atpldyes el the De )h*ervatk>B end De ant on a coo ant of enactment lawn. It la said. The report not Include personnel decreases ainos the cloSe of the last fiscal year employes tl.Vt4.ll June t9. In 1925 there were flfty three employee In the Department of Coneerrntlon end Development re reiving $75,500, end In 1?30, there were 1*7 employee who "pulled down" IISM17. While the County Government Advisory Commission doee not nt present have anything to do with the supervision of county and dty deposits In banks, the next General Assembly will probably authorise such a course. Recent bank failures, which .tied up millions of dollars, will doubtless strengthen the sug gestion which may have the approval of Governor Gardner. The legisla ture may also be asked to broaden the Jurisdiction of the State Sink ing Fund Commission so as to In clude notes Issued In anticipation of taxes", said to be the only class of bonds or notes, which do not now some under the Jurisdiction of that body. Improvement Is reported re garding the situation In Western Carolina where bank failures lately have tied up large iui^i of State funds that wees unprotected. On December the 4th the Bute Board of education - will recetvs sealed Mds on arithmetic, writing and drawing text tor use In the sis mentary schools of North Carolina for a five-year period beginning next year. The three text book* core ring theee anbjecte at preeent have been in nae for nine yearn and the State Text Book Commission recommends a changa. pro Tided the bids submit ted oa new books show a material redaction nnder the present scale. In kin biennial report recently is sued Vn. A. Graham, commissioner of Agriculture, urges tax relief for the farmers and warns against over prodaction. The Commissioner advo cates diversification of crops as a means of helping solve the tax prob lem. His report is addressed to Gov ernor Gardner and members of the next General Assembly. The harvest season finds North Carolina farmers facing a serious situation and the outlook for lfiSl la viewed with a degree of alarm. The seriousness of the situation Is emphasised by the relation of prices received by farmers to the price* paid tor necessities by while them, according to Frank Pi State-led erst crop statistician. Dean L a Bchsub. of State Co says the outlook for cotton next year appears to he hnpalias a* far an bet ter prices to The recently hopeless se far an bet ly completed^TtoMlai AdT. report of the State Board of Health shows that O.I per cent of the 111,711 children examined during the past two rears hy the Board hare been found to ha suffering from enlarged tonsils; that oae-etxth of the ehUdrea enrolled In the 1,177 schools Inspected were suffering from aaKaatritlon either by tech of nourishment, or because of beta* Improperly ted; that more than one thtrd were found to hare had teeth res and were iMiUl and 111 had defective eyes and were without Kinases, field " (Continued en Page r ore Powerful than any gasoline I "ESSO, beyond a doubt, is the Motor Fuel for fire equipment, ready at the sound of the gong' to re?> spond to the speed which is necessary to keep our low percentage of fire loss at a very proud mark, ~*** regardless of weather conditions. "For power, ESSO speaks for itself. On a recent test ESSO pumped more gallons of water per minute than any other fuel tested, and I do not hesitate to say that the fouling of spark plugs in our equipment is a thing of the past since the Giant Power Fuel has been in use. Fin chitf j. r. Sonij, of Ou Rocky Mount, n. c.. Fin Dept. "As a motor fuel for future service, I hereby pre .. . lit 11 nii i7ni*r na-tn r>iM ^ /nr opr?? mwjf C'rmi/f yvr ?550, exclusively, one hundred per cent."? ?/r^ Chief J. R. Sorsby, of the Rocky Mount, iV. C., Fire Department. Equipment end Personnel, Rocky Mount, North Caroline, Fire Department. Tkit Ititimonitl mat *p"tj f^Tin I'J^'m". ffW' "More powerful than any gasoline and costs no more by the mile." STAN DA RD OIL COMPANY OP NEW JERSEY
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