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The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. ?. J. CARTER' Publishers 1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?i94S SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $?.?0 (In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $8.00 (Outside Wilkes and And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffice at North WOhes x>ro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March 4, 1879. Thursday, June 12,1947 Father's Day Is Sunday, June 15 Sunday, June 15, will be Father's Day, the one day in each year set aside to hon or "the forgotten man" of the home. While the day will never have the emo tional significance of Mother's Day, it should be a day to honor and remember the man who pays the bills and provides for the material necessities of life. It has been the custom in modern times to honor father with a gift on Father's Day, which is designated on the third Sunday in June each year. , It is fitting that the attention of chil dren should be called to the goodness of their fathers. There are those who are reared and educated who are never taught to realize that their food, their clothing, their education, their amusements and the other things necessary are paid for by the toil and efforts of father, whose supreme, deire is to provide them with whatever is necessary for comfortable, de cent and useful living. Father doesn't have a Santa Claus who dishes out his income. It takes work and sacrifice to rear a family. When son or daughter g"oes out for an evening at the movies or other places of entertainment the child often fails to realize that it costs father an hour's labor. On the one day in the year to recognize father why not let him know that you ap preciate all he has done for you? Wilkes Polio Chapter Has Excellent Report Often people are asked to give to cam paigns and are sometimes made to won der how their contributions are used. The Wilkes chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis yearly makes a public report of receipts and ex penditures, which lets the people know how the money they gave is being used. Thfe report of W. Blair Gwyn, treasurer of the Wilkes chapter, shows a total of $4 ,364.46 in cash disbursements for the year. Of that amount $3,154.46 was used in direct aid to patients for individual care. This was paid out for a total of 21 pa tients in efforts to rehabilitate them to' normal health, and included hospital care, cost of corrective operations, braces, spe cial shoes and other items which the pa tients were unable to pay for. All will agree that it will be well worth everything just to get one victim out of the cripple stage so that he or she can lead a normal life and earn a livelihood. The next largest item in cash paid out ?by the local chapter was $1,200 to Bap tist hospital in Winston-Salem. Wilkes, with other chapters, paid the funds for equipment in a special department of that large medical institution so that patients in acute stages of the disease can be treated. For this immediate section that ward will be used in much the same man ner as the emergency hospital was used at Hickory during the 1944 emergency. All must agree that the $1,200 was well spent in making sure that future patients can get prompt, efficient and modern care ahd treatment. " - M . it is fitting that such organizations re port to the public from which it derives "its funds. If it's the little things in life that count we had better start saving our pennies. Fire's Toll Among Children Speaking over a decent radio broadcast sponsored by the National Board of Fire Underwriters,' Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, told of the terrible toll fire takes among the children of the country. In 1944, said Mrs. Rohde, 6,000 chil dren under five years of age died in home accidents?and burns accounted for 2, 000 of their number. In 1945, 7,500 chil dren seriously crippled from burns 'were being cared for by state agencies. The number of similar victims in private homes is not known, but must be far greater. "These children died or were crippled needlessly," .added Mrs. Rohde. "These tragedies in most instances were due to adult carelessness or negligence. Let us not wait until tragedy has brought the full force of this to us. Let us begin a campaign of prevention at once." It is not the children who make the mis | takes of omission and commission that! are responsible for most fires. It is not the children who are inexcusably indifferent to the danger. It, is, instead, parents who fail to take the simple precautions that will prevent the great majority of fires-? and the communities which lack adequate fire safety laws. The ghastly toll will continue to grow? until every adult in the country joins in the campaign to conquer fire. T u r EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. This is being written while I am literal ly, "up in the air", and about 7 thousand feet at that! Travel by plane is becoming increasingly popular. It is certainly more comfortable, and according to statistics, is far safer than traveling by automo bile. Day flying, and particularly night fly ing, has been made an exact science by radio. In the first place, the pilot is able to communicate with the ground and the various' airfields which are along his route as plotted by the special maps which he uses. He can thus secure weather reports as he goes along. By this method, he can also receive landing instructions. But the greatest marvel of the radio is what is called flying "blind" by the radio beam. The pilot, wearing headphones, listens^for the sound of the radio beam sent out by the radio stations attached to the various airfields below him. He has a map of these. When he is flying "on the beam," the direction of which is indi cated on his map, he hears a steady hum in the earphones. If he gets "off the beam" to the right, he gets another signal ?"A", which is a dot-dash. If he goes to the left, he gets still another signal ?"N", which is a dash-dot. As long as his radio works and he follows his map, he can keep his plane on the planned course and can expect to reach his desti nation, even though he can not actually see the ground. The resemblance between flying by the radio beam and daily living is so striking that no one can miss it. We can't see into the future. We live from day to day, hour to hour,?yes, minute to minute! All of \\a have a destination, one of two, Heaven or Hell. Many of us seem not to have made a positive selection, however, if actions are to be judged. Almighty God has provided a divine radio beam?conscience. When we live according to the divine will, to the divine plan for each individual life, we are "on the beam." There is inward peace, the steady hum of contentment. But when we get "off the beam," that steady hum of peace and contentment is interrupted, and conscience signals its warning. This we can ignore, and many do, but the warning signal is reflected in confused thinking, erratic actions, loud and selfish talk. We can go to the left of "the beam,' as we break and ignore the great moral laws of God and engage in sin and un righteousness. We can also go to the right of "the beam," and make our interpreta tion of God's plan for us through the Gospel so severe, forbidding, and joyless, that we also lose "the beam." Follow that steady hum of peace and contentment which tells us that we are on the divine course to the "Father's House," and are living as the*Psalmist calls it, "in the house of the Lord." '? ?Bf A B NORHAL ABSURDITIES By DWIGHT NICHOLS ?t al MORE ABOUT SPORTS? Wilkes post of the American Legion here has courageously taken hold of a big job in spon soring junior baseball in Wilkes county. In the first place, it is a very expensive project, taking much money for equipment and trans portation. Pord - Motor company* through Yadkin Valley Motor company, local Ford dealer, put up a large part of the Initial cost of about $500 for uniforms. These are very expensive uni forms, but are of high \ quality and should last for several years of junior baseball. This partx of the cost will not have to be paid out pext year. Wilkes Is a ibig county, and many of the boys have difficulty reaching practice sessions and games here. A little more co operation on the part of the pub lic, and especially the parents of the boys, would help a long way. ^Junior baseball Is a big job, calling for a lot of free vfork and much money, but It will be worth every cent and every hour It costs In building future citizen ship. A start must be made some where in provldin'g wholesome recreation to divert boyB' interest from liquor Joints, stills, ' the bootleg traffic and myriads of kinds of questionable and evil ? -ap pursuits. The boyd are under a handi cap in junior baseball in that they have not previously had opr portunity to play and see good baseball over any reasonable length of time. But now is the time to start, because we are al ready 15 years late. Fifteen years late because high schools haven't provided places for school boys to play, and communities have also fallen down on the job by not having community baseball teams. The county is waking up to some extent. This year the schools of the Wilkesboros had baseball teams, and North Wil kesboro has a very creditable all star baseball team in the Yadkin Valley league. The are a number of community teams which are playing better than average base ball. These include Fairplains, Mulberry, Mountain View, Roar ing River, Millers Cre^k-Purlear, Boomer, Clingman and possibly others in the county, suits are going to show that bout 99 per cent of the boys tirely and regularly engaged athletics are going to make staqtial and reliable The future criminals whose' tivltlee will cost society enor mously in numerous ways are not going to come from that group. Let's give the boys a chance. Sam P. Mitchell ; Civil Engineer CITY AND FARM SURVEY8 PROPERTY PLATS * Office 2nd Floor Baak of North WHkooboro Building Office Phone 227 Residence 566 k Levying Special License and Privilege Taxes . For the Town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1st, 1947, and Ending June 30th, 1948. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of North Wilkes bo ro, North Carolina, in regular session assembled,-that the following special license and privilege taxes be and the samd are hereby levied for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1947, and end - ing June 30th, 1948: 1. Advertising, outdoor, Sec. 151 ? , $12.50 2. Advertising by mechanical sound device in or on motor vehicles, Sec. 151% .Prohibited 3. Auction Sales of Real Estate, each sale, Sec. 111. 12.50 4. Automobile and Motor Vehicle Dealers and Service Stations: (a) Automotive Service Stations, Sec. 153, each location 3.75 (b) Motorcycle Dealer, Sec. 153-1, , 10.00 (c) Automotive Equipment and Supply Dealer, Wholesale, Sec. 153 1 16.00 (d) Automotive Equipment and / Supply- Dealers, Retail Sec. 153 3.75 (e) Automotive Equipment and Supply Dealers, Wholesale, and having no located place of business but selling to retail dealers by use of some form of vehicle, Sec. 153 25.00 (f) All persons, firms and corporations engaged in the bus iness of dismantling motor vehicles and selling parts there from ?-? 20.00 (g) Motor Vehicle Dealers, Sec. 153 (4) 20.00 (h) Motor Vehicle Dealers not maintaining a place of busi iness in the Town of North Wilkesboro but doing business therein 25.00 Persons, firms and corporations dealing in USED MOTOR VEHICLES exclusively are liable for tax set out above. If the business is of a seasonal, temporary, transient or itiner ant nature, the tax shall be for each location per annum 300.00 5. Bagatelle Tables, Etc.. Sec. 131 10.00 0. Bakeries: Every person, firm or corporation operating a bakery or selling bakery products inside the city 50.00 7. Barber Shops and Beauty Shops, Sec. 140: > (1) BARBER SHOPS: Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating a barber shop, for each barber chair, whether used or not, per annum 2.50 (2) BEAUTY SHOPS: Every barber, manicurist, Cosme tologist, beautician, or operator, per annum 2.60 8. Battery Service and Tire Repair Shop, Sec. 153 3.75 9. Beer, and Wine, retail, license tax due first day of May, Sec. 510 (see schedule in State Revenue Act). 10. Beer, and Wine, wholesale, license due first day of May, Sec. 506 (see schedule in State Revenue Act). 11. Bicycle Dealers, Sec. 117 10.00 12. Billiard and Pool Tables, Sec. 129 Prohibited 13. Boarding Houses, (see also tourist homes and hotels)? Every person serving for pay within a residence at least as a boarding house operator and shall pay license tax per annum of ?-??5,00 ' one meal a day for as many as ten people shall be classified 14. Bondsmen, Sec. 109% 15.00 15. Bottlers, Manufacturers and Distributors of Soft Drinks: (a) High Pressure Equipment paving manufacturers' rating capacity of more than 24 and less than 40 bottles per minute, Sec. 134 (see schedule) 13.12 (b) Distributing Warehouse, as provided in State Revenue Act, as amended, Sec. 134 (see schedule). (c) Every person, firm or corporation distributing or job bing bottled soft drinks, Sec. 134 (see schedule) 7.50 16. Bottled Soft Drinks, retail, Sec. 144 2.50 17. Bowling Alleys, Sec. 129% ??Prohibited 18. Brokers and Commission Merchants, Sec. 133 50.00 19. Cafes, Restaurants, Cafeterias and Lunch Stands (see res taurants). ' 20. Cap Pistols, dealers in, Sec. 146 Prohibited 21. Carnival Companies, Sec. 107. Every person, firm of corporation engaged in the business of carnival company or a show of like kind, per week or part of week _....100.00 Upon riding devices which are not a part of, nor used in connection with any carnival company, per week or part of a week ? 5-00 22. Chain Stores, for each chain or branch store, Sec. 162 50.00 23. Cigars, Cigarettes or any Tobacco Products, wholesale or retail, Sec. 149 10.00 24. Circuses, Menageries, Wild West Shows, as provided in . 1939 State Revenue Act, as amended, Sec. 106 ((see sched ule). 25. Gleaning and Pressing, (see Pressing Clubs), Sec. 139 26. Coal and Coke Dealers, Sec. 112: (a) Wholesale, agent or principal 76.00 (b) Retilul, agent or principal 15.00 27. Contractors and Construction Companies,- Sec. 122 10.00 28. Cotton Buyers and Sellers on Commission, Sec. 133 50.00 29. Dirks, Bowie Knives, Daggers, Sling Shots, Leaded Canes, Iron or Metallic Knuckles, Sec. 146 ?200.00 30. Dry Cleaners (See Pressing Clubs), Sec. 139 . 31. Electric Light Companies, Sec. 203 200.00 32. Electricians, Sec. 155 ? 7.60 33. Emigrant and Employment Agents, Sec. 154: Emigrant Agents, per annum 500.00 Emigrant Employment Agencies, Sec. 154 | 200.00 34. Elevators and Automatic Sprinkler Systems, if a principal office or branch office: (a) Selling or installing, Sec. 122% ? 100.00 (b) Repairing, Sec. 122 3-4 7.50 35. Express Companies, Sec. 205 20.00 36. Filling Stations (see Automotive Service Stations). 37. Fireworks, dealers in, Sec. 146 ., Prohibited 38. Florist, each location ?, 10.00 39. Fortune Tellers, Sec. 124, per annum 200.00 40. Garages, each location, gee Sec. 153 ; 3-75 41. Gasoline and Oil: (a) Wholesale Dealers, Sec. 13? 25.00 (b) Retail Dealers, Sec. 153 3.75 42. Gypsies and Fortune Tellers, Sec. 124 500.00 43. Hat Blockers (see Pressing Clubs). 44. Heating Contractors (see Plumbers). 45. Horse and Mule Dealers, Sec. 115, per annum 12.50 40. Hotels, Sec. 126: (a) For hotels or rooming houses operating on the Amer ican plan for rooms in which rates per person per day are: Less than $2.00 pdr room ? i .30 $2.00 and less than $3.00 per room .45 $3.00 and less than $4-50 per room , ? .90 $4.50 and less than $6.00 per room 2.10 (b) For hotels or rooming houses operating on the Europ ean plan for rooms in which the rates per person per day. are: m Less than $2.(00 per room -- -62VB $2.00 and less than $3.00 per room ?^ 1.60 $3.00 and less than $4.50 per room 2.25 $4.50 and less than $6.00 per .room 2.75 47. Ice Cream Manufacturers, Sec. 161 ?? K25 48. Itinerant Merchants and Salesmen, Sec. 121 (d) _100.00 60. Metallic Cartridges, Sec. 145 (a) ??. 5.00 61. Morris Plan or Industrial Banks (as provided in Section 158 of the 1945 Revenue Act, as amended) 62. Moving Picture and Vaudeville Shows, Sec. 105 62.50 63. Moving Picture Shows, traveling, per day or part of a day 25.00 64. Musical Records, Sec. 147 5.00 65. Newspaper Contests, Sec. 136 ?. ; 25.00 66. Palmist, Sec. 124 J 200.00 67. Pawn Brokers, Sec. 118 200.00 68. Peddlers, Sec. 121: (a) Peddler, on foot, each : 10.00 (b) Peddler, with horse or other animal and with or without vehicle, each 15.00 (c) Peddler, with motor vehicle, each $25.00 to 200.00 (Item (c) may be graduated according to size, weight, ca pacity, value of goods or other classification). See schedule in Revenue Act. (d) Itinerant Salesman ? 100.00 49. Junk Dealers, Sec. 168 15.00 50. Launrdies, steam, electric or other motive power 12.50 51. Laundries, out of town, Sec. 150 12.50 52. Lightning Rod Dealers or Agents, Sec. 125 20.00 53. Loan Agencies or Brokers, Sec. 152 ??100.00 54. Lunch Stands. (See Restaurants). 55. Manicurist, Sec. 140 2.50 56. Marble Yards, Sec. 160 ? 25.00 57. Markets, fresh meats V 26.00 58. Markets, fresh fish and oysters only 10.00 59. Merchandising or Vending Machines, Sec. 130? (a) Music Machines, each ? 5.00 (b) Weighing Machines, each 1.25 (c) lc Food Vending or Merchandising Machines .25 (d) 5c Food Vending or Merchandising Machines .50 (e) Cigarette Vending Machines (Operator's Occupation Li cense) _ 10.00 69. Prenologist ,each person engaged in the practice of, Sec. 116 ; 200.00 70. Pianos, Organs, Victrolas, Records, Radios and-or accessor ies, dealers in, Sec. 147 5.00 71. Pistols and-or Blank Cartridges, Sec. 145: (a) Dealers in Pistols and Metallic Cartridges 50.00 72. Plumbers, Heating Contractors, Steam and Gas Fitters, Sec. 155 7.50 73. Pressing Clubs, Dry Cleaning Plants and Hat Blockers, Sec. 139 25.00 74. Radios and-or Accessories, Sec. 147 5.00 75. Restaurants, Cafes, Cafeterias, Lunch Stands, Sec. 127: Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating a restaurant, cafe, cafeteria, hotel or other dining service on the European plan, drug store or other place where prepared food is sold shall pay the following tax: (a) Tax based on number of persons provided for with chairs, stools, or benches, and shall be fifty cents (56c) per person, with a minimum tax of $2.50 for each business. (b) All other stands or places where prepared food is sold as a business, and drug stores, service stations, and other stands or places, where prepared sandwiches only are served shall'pay a tax of 2.50 76. Security Dealers, Sec. 132 .. 25.00 77. Service Stations, (see Automobiles).' 78. Shoe Shine Parlors, or Boot Blacks, per chair or stool, Sec. 141 r .50 79. Shoe Repair Shops, each 6.00 80. Soft Drinks, Retail, Sec. 144 2.50 81. Shooting Galleries, and Skating Rinks, Sec. 131 10.00 82. Soda Fountains, each-carbonated draft arm, Sec. 144 6.00 83. Taxicabs, per vehicle 10.00 84. Tinner and Sheet Metal Worker ! 25. 85. Telegraph Companies, Sec. 206 10.' 86. Tobacco Warehouses, each Sec. 142 50T(K) 87. Tourist Homes, Sec. 126%: (a) Home or Camp having five rooms or less 5.00 (b) Home or Camp having more than five rooms, per - room 1.00 88. Undertakers, Embalmers and retail dealers in coffins, Sec. 114 2? 25.00 89. Weighing Machines, requiring a deposit of 1 cent, Sec. 130? 1.25 ' , And all other trades, profession^ or businesses conducted within the corporate limits of the Town of North Wilkesboro, North Caro lina, which are subject to special license or privilege taxes and of the mnvinmiiw amount allowed by the laws of the State of North Carolina for cities and towns, as provided in the Revenue Act enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina, session of 1939, as amended by the sessions of 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945 and 1947. If the business made taxable or the privilege to be exercised un der this ordinance i8 carried on at two or more places, a separate Town License for each place or location of such business shall be reqr: 1 All special license or privilege taxes levied under this o: shall be due and payable to the Town Clerk on or before the fi of July, 1947, or at the date of engaging in such business, trade, em ployment and-or profession, or doing the act, and after that date shall be subject to a penalty of five per centum for each thirty days that the t-aT remains unpaid in addition to other pains and penalties which may be imposed for continuing or engaging in business without the required license. , . , Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who or which shall conduct any business or carry on any trade, employment or profession which is subject to Town License Tax, without the required Town Ldrimse for the privilege of conducting such business or carrying on such trade, employment or profession, shall upon conviction be fined not exceed ing Fifty Dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Provided that ea6h day or part of a day that such business is conducted or such trade, employment or profes sion is carried on without Town License, shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. A,., Should any part or section pf this ordinance be declared ifffclid by any Court, it shall not affect any other part or section of th\S or dinance. Adopted this 3rd day of June, 1947. TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA T. S. KENERLY, Mayor ** W. P. KELLY, Town Clerf^ TO TAXPAYERS: This Special License and Privilege Tax Ordinance was published in The Journal-Patriot, in the issue of June 12, 1947.
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