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be T m Year, In Advanoe. •FOR QOO, FOR COUNTRY ANO FOR TRUTH" Single Copy 5 Cental VOL. 36 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1925 NO. 51 AUTO HUES LESS REVENUUE DEPARTMENT SHOW* DECREASE OF $48,007.02 SINCE TRANSFER. Raleigh. A net increase in the expense of col lection of the State Highway Funds and State Auto Theft Funds of $48, 077.02 was announced for the five months of April 1 to August 31, 1925, over the same period during 1924 by the State Department £>f Revenue. During the five months of this year total collections increased $1,725,676.35 over the same period last year. The five months period covers the time during the present year since the transfer of the duties of collection from the Department of State to the Department of Revenue. The only increase in expense shown Is in the Auto Theft Fund where an Increase of $21,758.87. This increase is explained by the statement that dur ing the five monthg covered in 1924 no expense of the Auto Theft Bureau was charged against the fund except the salaries of inspectors. This year the total expense of the bureau is charged against the fund. With collections for the Highway Fund from gas and automobile licenses taxes amounting to $7,248,664.45 this year as against $5,536,259.88 last year, the collections for this fund show an increase of $1,712,404.57. Theft fund collections increased from $78,746.49 during the period ill 1924 to $92,018.25 during the period in 1925, an increase of $13,271.76. Expenses in the collection of the Highway Fund dropped from $243, 691.61 in 1924 to $173,825.72 in 1925, decrease of $69,765.89. Expenses o'f collection of the Theft Fund increased from $17,965.69 in 1924 to $39,724.56 In 1925, an increase of $21,758.87. Adopt Uniform Fertilizer Tag. Announcement of adoption of a uni form fertilizer source tag for North and South Carolina was made by Com missioner of Agriculture William A. Graham. The agreement, which was entered Into by Mr. Graham and Dr. H. M. Stackhouse, of the South Carolina fer tilizer board, follows adoption of a resolution adopted by fertiliber manu facturers doing business in this state at a recent meeting called by Mr Gra ham. The resolution asked that such an agreement between the two states be reached. In announcing adoption of the uni form fertilizer source tag for the two atates Mr. Graham stated the tag would read as follow*:: •, .* "Mineral nitrogen (or ammonia equivalent) 60 per cent of the total derived from nitrogen of soda, sul phate of ammonia. “Organic nitrogen (or ammonia equivalent) 40 per cent of the total derived from fish scrap, cotton seed meal, dried blood. ^ “Potash for manure saults, kainit.” The tag, as outlined above, the com missioner' stated, Is simply a typical tag and is not to be construed as limit ing the manufacturers in their sources or in the ratio between the mineral and organic nitrogen. While no advertising matter may be carried on the tag, Mr. Graham said whether the name of the firm in each Instance should appear would be op tional with that individual firm. Only Ingredients used in the fertilizer would be permitted on source tag, he empha sized. He added, however that “if any manufacturer should temporarily run out of any ingredient, a substitute of equal agricultural value may be used, provided this office is notified and ap proval given. The matter of rigidly enforcing the 1923 amendment to the state fertilizei law relating to source tags has claim ed Mr. Graham’s attention for some time. State Leads In Electric Power. North Carolina stands first with South Carolina a close second among the South Atlantic States in the de velopment of electric power, according to an investigation just completed by the United States Geological Survey. Figures compiled by the federal bu reau show that the horsepower capac-' Ity of North Carolina developments amount to 534,600, South Carolina 507, *15, Georgia 394,794, and Virginia 117, 869' Iu 1924 the horsepower capacity •f North Carolina was 431,500, South Carolina 357,510 an<J Virginia 109,798. ! of oteworthy significance is the atatemet by the bureau that the South •Atlantic States are making more prog ress in power development than the Mew England group of states which formerly led In that field of enterprise. 33 Years Ago -IN Washington County Items gathered from issue of The Roanoke Beacon published Friday, Sept. 30, 1892 Mr. L. L. Owens left Tues day morning for Norfolk. Mr. J. S. Chesson is having another room built to his res idence. Miss Mary Hilliard spent some days at Roseneath dur ing this week. Miss May Walker of Cres well, was the guest of Mrs. A, Barden this week. S. K. Everett, dealer in fanev wines and liquors Dv the drink or measure. ) Mrs. Henry Hornthal spent last Monday in Roper as the guest of Mrs. Ida Blount. Miss Jennie Sexton o f Edenton, has been visiting Miss Neva Johnston at Rose neath this week. Jn the absence o f Capt. Williams, who is sick at his home in Williamscon, Capt. G. W. Harney is in command of the steamer Plymouth. ' Mr. H. D. Carstarphen, who left Plymouth nearly six years ago for New York, re turned Wednesday for a short visit to his mother and friends. Mr. J. S. Leggett has been in Baltimore this week where he went to attend the mar riage of his brother, Mr. A. S. Leggett, who was united in holy bonds of wedlock on the 28th, to Miss May Tigi sar. False Repoit It has come to my attention that certain reports have been circulated in various parts cf the county charging the Board of Lounty Commissioners have levi ed an increase of 30c. on each $100.00 of Personal and Real property. Tnis report is absolutely false and without foundation. The Commissioners did, however, levy an additional tax of 3c. on each $100.00 of Personal and Real property to be applied or the Road Fund and to take care of arrearage in funding bonds. W. J. JACKSON, JR., County Auditor. Married in Rich mond News was received here Wed nesday announcing the marriage of Miss Annie Leggett to Mr. Cecil Hooker. Our information is that the wedding took place in Richmond on Tuesday. The bride is the only daughter of Mrs. O. R. Leggett of this place and enjoys a wide circle of admiring friends. Mr. Hooker is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hooker and is well known in this section. He is at present employed by the Plymouth high school. We wish them all the happi ness and prosperity possible. Subscribe to The Beacon ~i_ I School System May Be Altered. ' Plan to Make Adjustment of Schools in Washington County Now Being Considered By Board. If the plans of the board of education are successful the be ginning of the 1926-’27 school term in this county may be met with a decided change over its present status. A plan is now on foot which would unify consoli dation and school terms and at the same time equalize the tax assessment so that all parts of the countv would share the bur den of maintenance alike. The present term, however, will not be affected in any man ner and will continue on as they now are for the remainder of the • term now in progress. Under this proposed arrangement all high school students might avail themselves of accredited high, school facilities, and if the plan is carried out and within a few years all elementary students will have standard elementary advantages. Sometimes hence this plan will be submitted to a referendum, but no time has been positively set for the election as yet. Under this plan the following will constitute the school ar rangement: Plymouth (now accredited) all of Plymouth township. Roper (now accredited) Beech Grove, White Oak, part of Plea sant Grove and part of Swains. Mackeys; part of Pleasant Grove, part of Albemarle and part of Swains. High school stu dents to be transported to Ply mouth, This school to be accred ited elementary. Skinnersville; a proposed building will be ereeted at some advantageous point; part of Al bemarle, part of Scuppernong and all of Piney Grove. High school students will be transport ed to Roper and Creswell. Creswell (now accredited); Mt. Tabor and part of Scupper nong. Cherry; to continue with its present territory, with high school students transported to Creswell. This school will be ac credited elementary. It will be necessary to main tain a small tvpe school in Wen ona. From information and figures obtained by the school board it is estimated that the county wide assessment will not \ary but a few cents from a proposed fifty cent tax on each one hun dred dollars of personal and real property. The tax as it now stands is: General county wide tax for six months terra; 70c. Plymouth. $1.00. Chapel Hill, 20c. ] Jackson, 30c. Roper, 48&c. VVenona, 30c‘ Beech Grove, White Oak and Roper, working in conjunction, me. Mackeys, 75c. Swains, 30c. Pleasant Grove, 10c. Albemarle, 15c. Piney Grove, 30c. Scuppernong, 30c. Creswell, 45c. Cnerry, 30c. M t. Tabor, 30c. It is our intention to give cur readers all information possible to secure on tax questions in all elements of the county govern* ment from time to time. For future reference we would sug gest that you clip and file these figures as we publish them. RECORDER'S COURT In the Recorder’s Court here Tuesday the following cases were disposed of by Judge Nor man. Will Patrick, assault; guilty; assigned to county roads for for ty days. Linwood Smith, gambling; de fendant plead guilty and judge ment was suspended upon pay ment of cost. Will Pittman, Abram Petti ford, Henry Pettiford, Sam Hen ry Miller, Wilmer Barnes and Charlie Epps, gambling; fined ten dollars each and cost. B. R. Barnhill, worthless check; guilty; prayer for judg ment suspended for six month upon payment of cost. Girls Have Try-out in Washington Misses Mildred Dixon and Lossie Hardison represented Washington county last Satur day in the district try-out for home demonstration clubs in Washington. Their demonstra tion was on "Table Service” and was in the form of a “movie”. Miss Smith, district agent writes: "The judge3 were all delighted with the unique demonstration and the unusual personality of the girls who gave it, but since they had to follow the state score card they felt that the Hertford county foods team would score above.” It was decided by Miss Smith and the judges that the demon stration be slightly changed and that the team represent the dis trict in room improvement at the state fair in Raleigh. Be sure to keep up with our county team, which wih demonstrate twice dailv during the state fair, October 12-17. Clubs Meet Representatives from the var ious home demonstration clubs in this county met September 29th, at Plymouth to discuss plans for the work for the com ing year. A more detailed ac count will be published next week. EMMA GREY MOREHEAD, Home Agent. Our former esteemed citizens and friends, Rev. and Mrs. J. I). Howell, now of Swansbora, an naunce the arrival in their fam ily on Sept. 25th, of their daugh ter, Mary Elizabeth. Literar Club Meets The Thursday afternoon Liter ary Club held its first fall meet ing last Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. A. Blount with sixteen members present. Mrs. Sidney Ward, the newly elected president, presided over the meeting. The business hour was passed chiefly in the discus siun of, and laying of, active plans for the coming year. The various committees made their reports. The library committee made announcement of three re cent gifts, a splendid collection of books from (Vlr. and Mrs. J. S. Berryman of Washington, D. C., a set of Rudyard Kipling’s works from Mrs. Herman Horn thal of .Norfolk, and ten dollars from Mr. C. L. Groves for the purchase of books, this repre senting the prize he was award ed in the Fourth of July parade. The club had as its honored guests Mrs. Vernon Ward and Mrs, Wilson of Robersonvi le, who came especially to tender a personal invitation to the club membeisto attend the district meeting of the Women’s Club which will be held in Roberson vilie on the 21st, of October, .vjrs. Rhodes of New York, Mrs. Clarence Blount and Mis3 Made line Moore were also visitors. The last part of the meeting was turned into a social hour, during which the hostess served a delicious ice course. ARMY 1 PLANS INVOLVES MILLIONS FIRST TEN YEARS WOULD CALL FOR 79 MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY. Washington. — Disclosure to the Presidents airboard by war depart ment witnesses that the approved pro ject for expansion of the army air service would cost approximately $79, 000,000 a year for the first ten years and $60,000,000 a year thereafter to maintain a peace time fleet of 2,500 planes and other auxiliary aircraft served to bring to light that this is only one of nearly a score of similar projects now under study at the de partment. Seine of these, which aro regarded as even more urgent from a national defense viewpoint than immediate air service expansion, involve almost equally as large expenditures in addi tion to present army budget figures. There is much speculation at the department as to whether the Presi dent's air board will not find it neces sary to weigh these and similar non air service problems of the navy to some extent before its recommenda tions for aviation can be formulated. The army air extension project is founded on proposals submitted by Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the air service, to Secretary Weeks two years ago and referred to the board headed by Major General William Lassiter, then on the general staff, for findings. It involves a ma terial and personnel expansisn pro gram covering ten years to (reach a peace strength of 4,000 officers and 25,000 men operating 2,500- planes. The only cost item dealt with by the board was its recommendation for a $25,000,000 annual appropriation for new planes and operations. Subsequent full cost studies pro sented to the air board by Brigadier General Hugh Drum each year for the first ten years as around $79,000,000 and the continuing cost of upkeep there after at $60,000 000. These figures were based on pay, housing, subsist ence, medical, quarter master ord nance and signal corps increases necessary for the complete carrying out of the peace time air project which represents about one sixth ol the stx-fleld-army full war strength national defense plan. The air strength on a war footing would be 22,616 officers. 172 920 mer and 8,766 planes. No attempt yet has b jen made to estimate war strengtl sis. — _ __ BE NOTABLE SEMI-CENTENNIALS OF REOPEN ING OF STATE UNIVERSITY TO ^ BE OBSERVED. Chapel Hill—October 12. the 132nd birthday of the University of North Carolina, will go down as one of th j most impressive days in the institu tion's history, according to plans work ed out here in the office of Pr: side..'. Chase by the committee cn public cc casions and celebrations. On thr. j date the University will celebrate th semi-centennial of its re-open": g fo. loving the Civ:! War. Prominent educational leaders from all parts of the country have promis ed to attend. The principal speaker will be P. P. Claxton. former Tar II.-cl and former United States Commission er of Education. Among the visiters will be presidents of several educa tional institutions: a checking showed that eighty-five have" designated faculty members to attend as delegates. There will be the usual founder’s day exercises by local alumni associa tions throughout the country, but hun dreds of the institution's eleven thou sand alumni are expected to make the occasion a home coming lo return hero for the principal celebration. The semi-centennial will occupy just one day, but that promises to be a day brim full of events of high import to the educational world. It will be a three part program. There wni be ex ercises in the morning in Memorial Hall when the principal speakers will deliver addresses followed by greet ings from delegates. President Chase will preside. Next on the program will be a luncheon at the Carolina Inn at which the invited guests will include the speakers, delegates, trustees, alum ni, members of the Supreme Court and Council of State and members of the class of 1S75 The afternoon program will 1 e given over to the dedication of \ enable Ilall. the University's new Chemistry build ing, said to be the best equipped in the South. Prominent chemists vdl do Jiver addresses. Among th :a D •. Charles H. Herty, former preshlent of the American Chemical Society; Dr. Edgar S. Smith, former p vo.n of tho Un’versity of Pennsylvania, and D-'. Boltwood, head of the Dop.U'in.ent ct Chemistry at Yale. Children’s Building For Sanatorium. Sanatorium.—The board of cl rectors of the North Carolina Carat.: am at their next quarterly meeting. Oct 7, will pass on tentative plans f-r ' to new children's building to be c d In the near future. The annua: : e; ■ i for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1: will also be passed upon at thO m.cl ing. The new nurses’ home is no’: t pro cess of erectoin. It is c::ncc that it will be ready for occupancy ay Janu ary, 1926. It will contain room .'or a t nurses in addition to reception "com class room and diet kitchen for spec ** practice. When completed t.l ? build ing will solve the problem of hi ooir.g for the Sanatorium nurses. 1,300 Students at Opening. Puke University.—First ch: v 1 ex orcises were held at Puke u. ’■ o.s.. at the official opening of the i istitu tion for the 1925-1926 term, with Presi dent William P. Few addressing tho students Prior to the morning chapel service nearly 300 seniors gathered at the flagpole for the traditional flog raising. While the steam shovel and other machinery, which had been busily at work just outside the building, sus pended operation, President Few spoke briefly, giving a word of welcome to the students and expressing the hope that they would make the most of what promises to be the greatest year in the history of the institution. Ap ropos of the $4,000,000 building pro gram, now in progress, and the much more impressive program which is to come, President Few urged that the students be "builders of character making the most of their opportunities. About 1,300 students heard him. Meeting Comes to Closs. Salisbury.—The national camp. Pa triotic Order Sons of America, adjourn ed their 33rd biennial meet here after installing and listening to the officers who will guide the camp’s destiny for the next two years. j The business of the day had to do principally with strengthening tho or ders line of offense against changes in the immigration laws and pi dging loyalty to the order’s principles regard ing patriotism and pure Americanism,
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