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Monday, March 13,1950 Safety Awards Are Presented Industries During the past year a number of local industries have received awards from the North Carolina Industrial Commission for having operated an entire year without a lost time accident among employes. The award has been given Wilkes Hos iery Mjlls company, American Furniture company, Wilkesboro Manufacturing company. Joe Darlington Poultry com pany and possibly other firms in this area. It is an excellent record, especially in hazardous occupations where many are employed, to operate an entire year with out an accident that would cause an em ploye to be out of work. Safety is not only humanitarian, but it is a good investment on the part of- em ployers. When an employe who knows his job is out of work the firm loses his ser vices. Often he cannot be readily replac ed. Great strides have been made in recent years in making jobs safer for employes, to the mutual advantage of all concerned. The accident record in local industries is vterylow; which reflects credit on manage ment and labor for promotion of safety programs and safety education in the plants. —v Properly Valuation And Fair Taxation Recently Rockingham county hired a group of outside experts to make what the chairman of the board of county commis sioners termed the fairest and most equi able tax valuation in the history of the county. Commenting on the subject, Harry Da vis, board chairman, stated: "Every one of the parcels of real estate, together with fixtures, machinery and equipment, in Rockingham County now has an up-to-date conservative valuation, - equitable with the valuation of other pro perties in the county and producing a uni form and fair basis of taxation. "A fair and soild basis is now provided - for this continuing appraisal process, as provided by law by which an equitable taxation policy can be maintained through the years. ' "Many new types of. construction and much new equipment never before taxed, as well as many parcels of land which have not been listed for taxation at all, are now included in the property valua tion and will now carry their share of the local tax burden. "The Rockingham County taxable pro perty has been increased, but the total will not be ascertained until tax listing has been completed this month. "The increased valuation will result in a lower tax rate for 1960. This tax rate at present cannot be defined, but conser vative estimates -place it at 50 per cent of the present mileage rate." But, according to recent reports from Leaksville, many citizens howled that their property valuations were too high. In response to the protests, the com missioners of that county made a 30 per cent reduction in all valuations, which probably gave the complainants some de gree of satisfaction for no reason at all. When the valuation was completed and before the cut was made it was estimated that a 80 cent tax rate would finance the county. The reduction in valuation will mean a higher tax rate, and if report* that ~~~~~——-—— -yy £&' <9 » a the reduction was across the board are true, each taxpayer will pay the same amount of tax as if the reduction had not been made. All of irhich is puzzling and represents a study in human nftture. A fair and reasonable valuation is much to be desired over ridiculously low figures. A lower tax rate with valuation of some sustantial degree of market value is a much better selling point for development that a high tax rate and very low valua tion. V" o- s Many Are Missing Good Entertainment On Friday and Saturday nights here the Community Little Theatre put on a play. "The Man Who Came To dinner." This comedy was well rendered by peo ple in our own community and .those who saw the play were well entertained and received more than their money's worth. But the sad part was that the audiences were not as large as they should have been. The Community Little Theatre is a non profit organization of local people, who get much recreation and valuable train ing in their work in the Little Theatre. This organization represents a starting point for those who have ambitions for the stage and dramatics. It also offers train ing for those who wish to improve their talents in appearing before the public. It is very definitely a community asset that needs and deserves support, not just from a small group, but from all public spirited citizens who wish to see a valuable addi tion to our community life thrive among us. o Even a business man can do as he pleases; he can advertise or he can let his competitor get the business. o When you see a man stuffing a child in an auto trunk nowadays it isn't neces sarily kidnapping. They might be looking for a rattle in the car or they may merely be on their way to a drive-in movie.—The Greensboro Daily News. o— A California jury has acquitted Mickey Cohen, charged with calling the police nasty names. We think California ought to pass a law giving the - much-bombed Mickey a right to call a policeman what ever he pleases every time a bomb jgoes off in his house. —The Crreensboro Daily News. o : LIFE'S BETTER WAY J WALTER E. 1SENHOUR High Point, N. C., Route 4 t WHERE IS OUR COMMON SENSE? Common sense tells us many things if we would stop and take heed. Every man and woman with common sense knows that the beer, wine and liquor traf fic is a curse to any nation. It makes mil lions of alcoholics, helps fill our courts wrecks homes, destroys lives of thousands of people, fills our prisons with thousands of criminals, destroys the characters and morals of our youth througout the land, and, saddest and worst of all, sends mul titudes to hell and keeps them out of hea ven. How can any man or woman vote for, or stand for, or partake of such an evil? Where is the common sense of mil lions of our people? What has become of their conscience? To say nothing of their Christianity, it seems that common sense, conscience and principle would be enough to keep anybody from upholding the curs ed beer, wine and liquor traffic with their vote, their money and their influence. Surely those who partake of alcohol, and those who deal in it, and those who stand for it, just silently say to their con science, their principle, their common sense, their manhood and womanhood, their morality and even their souls: Now just step aside. Don't bother me. Let me haye my fling. I want my own ungodly way. I want to do as I please and let the sonsequence be as it may." How awful, O How Awful, to curse, blight, wreck and damn humanity with alcohol and send multitudes of precious, PRECIOUS souls to hell and cheat them out of heaven and eternal life and glory! Man, woman, how can you do it? How can you treat wour own dear children like that, or the dear sweet children and youth of your nation like that? Don't for get that God will hold you responsible. O let common sense, reason, your better judgment and the Spirit of our blessed Savior turn yoO to God and away from the broad road to hell! C„ . „ aympnony tiijoys II! "I ||_^_ A J iisii were zm The Norths Carolina Little Symphony gate concerto here Thursday before htfhly appreci ative audiences, In the afternoon before the school and In the evening before a large audience of adults who are enthusiastic to hare the symphony return next year. Benjamin J. Swattn, director of the symphony, wrote to North Wllkesboro Mayor R. T. McNlel the following letter after their performance here: Hon. R. T. McNlel, Mayor North Wllkesboro, N. C. Dear Mayor McNlel: I am prompted to write this letter of appreciation In behalf of the North Carolina Symphony Society and on the occasion of our recent concerts for the chil dren and adults In North Wll kesboro. The Symphony appeared in a special program for a capacity audience of children last Thurs day afternoon, and I wish to tell you that I was proud of that au dience. The children were both delighted and most attentive and appreciative. Not only did they demand extra numbers, bat they were so interested and delighted with the music that we were in spired. I should also like to state that it was a privilege to play for such a fine and appreciative au dience of adults in the evening. I trust that our concert appearanc es in North Wllkesboro will be annual events that will increase in significance with the years; for we are living in an era of deteriorating human relations when the great cultural and spir itual values, including finest music, are among the few per manent values in the world. 1 trust that you will submit this letter to the newspaper for publication so that the citizenry - . of North Wilkesboro will know of oar appreciation. Yours very truly, ' • Hi BENJAMIN P. SWALIN. Burnsville, N. C. —,—. o John Dudley Howell Is Token By Death John Dudley Howell, former colored resident of the Boomer community, . died March 6 at Goklsboro. Funeral service was held Tuesday at Thankful church at Boomer with Rev. Q. P. Lowe in charg*. Surviving are his wife and eight children: Prances, Ottis, Graham, Conrad, John R„ Bertie and Lucille Howell and Pansy Fletcher. o - Four-H Club boys, attending a tractor maintenance school in Ra leigh recently, met "Jim Care less", a straw-stuffed dummy. "Jim" had left off the safety guard covering the power take off shaft on his tractor, as many farmers do. As the boys watched, "Jim" got his pantleg caught in the shaft, was quickly pulled down and spun around, scattering straw in all directions. "Thia could happen to you," the boys were told. ' ••tv.v:3S
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