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JUDGE ENGLISH IS CONVINCED LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL (Continued from page one) Court for said County and appointed a Judge and Prosecuting Officer for said General County Court under the provisions of Chapter two hundred and sixty one, of the Public Laws of North Carolina one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three; 33 attend ed by Chapkz- cigfcty-five of the Pub lic of North Carolina of the -"Extra Session one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four and Chap ter two hundred and forty-two and two hundred and fifty of the Public I^tws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty five and Chapter two hundred and thirty-two of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and authorized said Court to begin the transaction of business on and after the first Mon day in June one thousand nine hun dred and twenty-nine, and WHEREAS, said Court was organ ise! or attempted to be organized and to transact such business as pro vided in said Resolution after the first Monday in June one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and has continued so to do up to and in cluding the month of December one thousand nine hundred and thirty and has; attempted to continue to transact said business during the month of Janunrv one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and WHEREAS, the present Board of Commissioners of Transylvania Coun ty, North Carolina, at their regular meeting 011 December first one thous and nine hundred and thirty passed a resolution abolishing said Court for the reasons that in the opinion of the Board of Commissioners, that the public interest of the County of Tran sylvania does not require the main tainanee and operation of said Gen eral County court, and that same is a needless expense to the taxpayers of said County and which said Reso lution abolishing said Court was properly and duly introduced and adopted by said Board of Commis sioners at said regular meeting of said Board on the first Monday in Decem ber one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and WHEREAS, the said Judge of said General County Court and the Solic itor of said Court have refused to recognize the action of said Board of Commissioners and are proceeding and attempting to carry ou ?.nd operate said Court: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the general Coun ty Court of Transylvania County, North Carolina is hereby abolished. 1 Section 2. That Sub-Chapter five, Article twenty-four, Sections one thousand six hundred and eight (F) to Sections one thousand six hundred and eight (DD) and all acts amenda tory thereto are hereby repealed in sofar as same relates tu TranSyl-,?mki County. Section 3. That Chapter two hun dred and sixteen of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty three and chapter eighty-five of the Public Laws and Extra Ses sion one thousand nine hundred and iwenty-four and chapters two hun dred and forty two and two hundred and fifty, Public Laws of one thou sand nine hundred and twenty five and Chapter two hundred and thirty two of the public laws of one thou sand nine hundred and twenty seven and all Law and Acts amendatory thereto, are hereby repealed insofar as same relates to Transylvania County and the General County Court therein. Section 4. That the Clerk of the Superior Court shall immediately transfer and docket into the proper Docket or Record of the Superior Court of Transylvania County, each and every case remaining upon either the Civil or Criminal Docket of said General County Court at the date of the ratification of this act and said criminal and civil cases shall take their places on the docket of said Su perior Court in their regular order and shall be duly tried in said Su perior Court when reached for trial. Section 5. Any salary or salaries due to the Judge, prosecuting Offi cer or Clerk of the said General Coun ty Court at the ratification of this act, shall be prorated and pay to said Judge, Prosecuting Officer or other officer of said Court as the salary provided for by the Board of County Commissioners of Transylvania Coun ty at their regular meeting on the first Monday in December one thou sand nine hundred and thirty. Section 6. That all Laws and Clauses of Laws in conflict with this act to the extent of such conflict, are hereby repealed. Section 7. This act shall be in .force from and after its ratification. I In the General Assembly read ? three times and ratified, this the 13th day of January, 1931. SALES TAX BEING URGED IN HOUSE Brevard News Bureau Raleigh, Jan. SS. The sales tax, long feared by the merchants of the Btate, hit the Gen eral Assembly square in the fact at the brief session Saturday, when one bill, introduced in both houses, would seek to raise revenue for the six months school t^/a by "a gross income caieS tax, based on the West Virginia law, and another, introduced in the House, would place a tax on gross re tail sales for the same period. A third bill, based on the South Carolina law, was promised for Monday night. The first, bill, introduced simultan eously in both houses by the Harnett county legislators, Senator Batiett and Representative Young, places a tax, collectable quarterly and witlrn a month, u,i mining, quarrying, tim n'pnufrcturine:. real estate dealing, wholesalers, jobbers, banks, steam and street railways) tel egraph, telephone, express, electric 1'Kht and other public service corpor ations, contractors, all kinds of amusements, all professions, and any other business not included in the list, at rates ranging from l-20th of 1 per cent to 1 per cent. It exempts mutual savings banks and Building and- Loan Associations, educational, charitable, religious, fraternal, labor, agricultural and community trade or commerce bodies, organized for mu tual benefit and not operate'd for profit. The second, introduced in the House by Representative Day, of Onslow, would require every retail merchant to pay a graduated annual gross sales tax, ranging from l-20th of 1 per cent for annual sales up to $400,000 to 1 per cent on annual sales above $900,000, the tax not be in lieu of any special state license or occu pational tax. Both have as their object raising funds for state operation of schools and removing the county or local ad valorem tax for that purpose. Retail trade organizations arc al ready. have been for some time, in fact, lining up their forces to oppose such measures, and lobby activities will be greatly increased during the cumin); weeks of the session as a re sult of these bills. Lots of folks are getting best of results from using Want Ads. Only cost twenty-five cents ? and they are indispemible for quick selling. Ford Shows Faith in Future by , World Wide Construction Program Top? The Ford plant at Edgewater, N. J., opposite New York City. Center? The new plant at Long Beach, Cal. Bottom? A model of the plant being built at Dagenham, England. HE Ford Motor Company's faith in the future ot business, and especially in the future of the automobile, is evidenced by the fact that it is "spending more than $60,000, 000 for new plants and improvements in the United States and In foreign branches apd associated companies. ?"* The company has nine new plants under way throughout the world, while pl^ns are being formulated for several others not yet announced. Wherever possible the new plants are being erected on sites accessible to botb rail and water transportation so that, with oacb form of transportation supple menting the other, substantial savings will be .effected. 1 Five of tho new plants are in the United States, as follows: f-ong B^ach, California? This plant, TPf-ently completed to serve Southern California, has a capacity of 400 cars a day. Operating at capacity it employs 2,600 men. Edgewater, New Jersey?The Edge water plant, one of the company's larg est assembly branches, has just been completed to serve New York City and surrounding territory. It has a capacity of 600 cars a day and employs 6,000 men. Richmond, California ? Work was started recently on a plant at Rich mond, to be completed next year. It will have a capacity of 400 cars a day and will employ 2,400 men. It will sup ply cars to the San Francisco area. BufTalo, New York? This plant will have a capacity of 400 cars a day and will employ 2,500 men. Seattle, Washington ? A site has been acquired and plans for a plant are being drawn. * A new manufacturing plant being erected at Dagenham, England, eight een miles from London, to supplant the present works at Manchester, will be completed next year, it will bo the largest automobile factory in tile world outside the United States. Its capacity will be 200,000 cars a year. An assembly and manufacturing plant is being built at Cologne, an as sembly plant at Antwerp, and a service plant at Stockholm. Two branches one at Perth, Australia, and one at Port Elizabeth, South Africa? were com pleted. In addition the Ford Motor Company Is spending several million dollars to increase the power capacity of thr Rouge plant at Dearborn, Mich., aim several million more" in mlscellauem: Improvements. ?*_ SALARY CUT DRAWS FIRE FROM MANY * Brevard News Bureau Raleigh, Jan. 22. The 10 per cent salary cut, pro posed by Governor Gardner and in cluded in the budgets general ap propriation bill, presented last week, is meeting with some opposition, largely on the ground that it will de moralize labor in industry and result in general cuts over the state. It i? agreed among lawyers that salaries oJ the constitutional officers, including seven in the executive branch, 25 Su preme and Superior Court judges anc the 170 legislators, cannot be cul during their terms of office, but ii the bill is enacted, they are not 'likelj to face criticism by not returning 1C percent of their salaries. Opposition is expressed by state employes in Ral eigh and elsewhere, teachers and citj and county employes, all of whoir would be included, unless their re muneration had been cut to that ex tent within a year or they receive less than $50 a month, the cut to be come effective next July 1 and foi two years only. The Constitutional Convention pro posal of the governor is before th< General Assembly in the form ol a bill introduced by Representative Victor V. Young, Durham, providinj that the proposal be submitted to the people at the next general election November 3, 1932, the delegates to bs elected in the same manner and th< same number as members of th< House of Representatives, 120, t( meet in the House of Representative: at noon on Wednesday after the firs' Monday in May, 1933, remain in ses sion not exceeding 30 days for receiv ing suggestions, adjourn for 60 day: and reconvene, the total time in ses sion not to exceed 60 days. Apparent ly the proposal is meeting with favor the legislators realizing the inade quacy of the amendment-laden con stitution adopted in 1868. While the Educational Commis sion's report, calling for an eigh months' school term, elimination o many charter districts and consolida tion of control and purchases to ef feet economy, is receiving commerrd ation, a trend is seen toward the stat* taking over and operating the six month constitutional term now pro vided. A bill to tl?at effect has beoi introduced and mai.y think this cai and will be done, while ethers Balievi the state should meet the cost of th. eight months term. The state oper ating the six-month term may be i compromise measure, if the eight month term bill fails of passage. THE RIGHT WAY TO TRAVEt is' by train. The safest. Most com fortable. Most reliable 2osts less Inquire of Ticket Agents regardinf greatly reduced fares for short trips SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM 'CULLOWHEE BOY IS i RISING RAPIDLY Cullowhee, Jan. 21. ? Western Car oina Teachers College is watching with interest and pride the scientific work of Lyndon H. Hargraves who , graduated from the college in 1917. , Mr. Hargraves is engaged in arch , aeological work in Arizona. The Na- j . tional Geographic Magazine has been ' ; giving accounts of the research work ' i of Mr. Hargraves in the line of tree 1 ' ring dating. Since the spring ol 1 ; 1928 when Dr. A. E. Douglas, of the : . Steward Observatory of the Univer [ sity of Arizona, selected Mr. Har : paves to conduct the First National 1 ! Geographic Beam Expedition, he has ' r lived with the Hopi Indians, learned ' t their language, taken up their mode 1 i of living, and was adopted by them. . In this way, he gained access to the ' rooms in the village where he eager- ? i ly examined and collected sections of i . beams of great antiquity. ' . | In 1929 Mr. Hargraves was sent to , : conduct the second National Geo- , . graphic Beam Expedition. "The re- ' ? suits of these expeditions are : (1) | many of the pueblos of the southwi st , . were assigned to absolute dates In ? , our own calendar and to a continu-i j ous absolute chronology back to 700 , A.D. ; (2) sequences of culture traits , of the pre-Spanish pueblo Indian were ascertained; (3) sunspot activ ities were traced into prehistoric time and their periodical occurence ; were established more firmly. \ i At present Mr. Hargraves is head ' j of the Archaeology Department of . the Arizona State Teachers Colleg. I at Flagstaff. Nine- Tenths Preventable 3 Nine-tenths of all the diseases of ? the American people can be traced * directly to constipation, doctors say. > Constipation throws into the system - poisons which taint and weaken - every organ of the body and make them easy victims for any germs . which attack them. Prevent constipa t tior and you will avoid nine-tenths f of all diseases, with their conseauent pain and financial losses. Heroine, the good old vegetable cathartic, will relieve constipation in a natural, " easy and pleasant way. For sale hy DAVIS-LONG DRUG CO. i! SOMETHING TO SELL? TRY OUR WANT ADS. / DEBT PAYING PLAN I NOW IN OPERATION IN TRANSYLVANIA ( Continued from page one) to tome one else in payment of $6 on iccoant or for merchandise. The ma who then get! the check is expected to pasa it along to some one he owes ?>r wishes to purchase goods from, and so on, until the 25th endorsement is placed on the check, when Mr. Ori U'iQ redeem it for face value in cash The mass meeting heard of the de tails of the plan, endorsed the rec ommendations made by the committee (rom the Ministerial association, with some amendments, elected Mayor Whitmire and Pat Kimzey to serve with Mr. Orr as an executive com mittee in handling the details of the plan, and a large number of those attending signified their intention of obtaining cne or more of the checks and starting them in circulation. An orchestra, directed by Prof. Carter, furnished music during th? evening and added much to the et4' joyment of the program. Mr. Hollowell, who is secretary of the Hendersonville Chamber of Com merce, and former editor of The Bre vard News, displayed two of the Hen dersonville checks, which are denom ination of $10, one of which had 20 endorsements on it, and the other had S5 endorsements, showing that the first check had paid $200 and the other $350 in Hendersonville ac counts. Only $20 in cash for thes<' two checks had been used in paying this $610 debts. Any one interested in relieving the distress of the town may help by go ing to the Pisgah Bank and start on.: of these checks in circulation. WANTED Highest Market Price paid for Clean Fresh Eggs You can stiil save Money by buying your fruit and pro duce from us. 'TRULUCK'S' Next Door to The Canteen WE ARE DISTRIBUTORS FOR Golden Glow and Dixio Kentucky's Best Coals. 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