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R. F. D. No.
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SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930.
NUMBER 43.
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(Jiir Johnston
I aiizing Fund
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3oard Rescinds $32,000 of
$52,' /O Cut and State Board
Accepts.
The State Board of Equalization,
after an all day hearing lata yester
day afternoon unanimously passed a
resolution against any cut in John
ston county’s allotment of $111,000
from the State fund. The resolution
followed a full hearing of the com
plaint of the Johnston County Board
of Education that the budget ap
proved by the Johnston County Com
missioners would not permit the
“business-like, economical and effi
cient operation” of the schools of
the county. It also followed the
adoption of the commissioners of the
original budget to the extent of
$569,300 as compared with their
own previous figures of $538,500 and
til© board of education’s figures of
$590,250.
Opening of the eight month school
terms in Johnston County has al
ready been defemad from October
6 to October 20 and there was no
assurance yesterday that the con
troversy is at an end, as Superin
tendent of Schools H. B. Marrow and
Norman Sheppard, attorney for the
board of education, both declared
that they did not think it possible
to operate the schools on the revised
figures and that an appeal to the
clerk of the Superior court and hence
to the courts was likely.
Not Get Together
However, the board of education,
which some months ago voted to
havi0 no lawsuit and to abide any
decision the board of commissioners
might make as to the amount, has
yet to meet and consider the matter.
The resolution of the State Board
of Equalization dealt only with the
total sum of the budget approved
by the County Commissioners, but it
was passed only after the commis
sioners had been forced to substitute
cuts of specific items for a general
cut of like amount, which would
\ have left the application discretion-
, ary with the board of education.
I Hearing Prolonged
The hearing was dragged out by
many hours because of the reluc
tance of the board of commissioners
to reduce specific items and that
course was only taken after J. T.
Edgerton, the chairman, had been
placed on the stand and asked wheth
er or not he approved each specific
item under the heading “current ex
penses other than teachers’ salaries,”
to which the blanket reduction was
confined.
The State Board of Equalization
then took its third recess for a con-
' ' ferenoe of the commissioners and
tlie result was the paring of such
items by $16,700, the two local
boards having previously agreed to
a reduction of $4,200 by eliminat
ing several teachers asked by the lo
cal board of education but not ap
proved by the State Board of Equal
ization.
This was the only agreement
reached, but the two boards were
only $8,000 apart at the end, the
board of education having announced
earlier during the quest for a com
promise that they would agree to
$577,000 and nothing less:.
- Two Warm Tiffs
)The meeting was so largely attend
ed as to cause adjournment to the
State Capitol, but the move after
ward was rescinded because of the
inability of Miss Elizabeth Kelly,
who has recently been ill, to climb
the steps in the Capitol. It was
featured by two warm tiffs between
memebrs of the board and James
R. Raynor, prominent Johnston Coun
ty Republican and attorney for the
board of commissioners.
Repeatedly during the hearing and
at its conclusion, J. D. Parker, for
mer, Assistant United States Attor
ney, who appeared yesterday as
special counsel for the commission-
was commended for his fair-
Mailing of Tax
Notices to Start
Off This Week
Congressman Pou
Kiwanis Speaker
Smithfield, Oct. 22.—The prepara
tion of the tax notices had been de
layed until this week, awaiting the
special tax r^tes of the various
school districts of the county which
the county superintendent of schools
is required to furnish to board of
county commissioners on or before
the first day of August in each year.
The county auditor has been very
much inconvenienced and delayed in
starting this work because of the
fact that he had been unable to get
from superintendent H. B. Marrow a
statement of these special tax rates.
Not a single township could he get
rates for until this week, and he
probably would not have had any of
these rates before the election but
for the fact that the board of coun
ty commissioners were about to start
mandamaus proceedings in an effort
to force Mr. Marrow to furnish these
rates.
In the meantime the Democratic
speakers have been telling the tax
payers that the Republicans were
holding back these notices because
they knew the taxes were going to
be higher, when as a matter of fact
everybody in the county will get
the benefit of the cut of 20 cents
on the $100.00 worth of property
on the county-wide rate and the
people of the county will pay be
tween $80,000.00 and $100,000.00 less
tax in 1930 than they paid in 1929.
The mailing out of the tax no
tices is expected to start about Fri
day of this week.
If any township in the county
pays more taxes this year than in
1929 it will be because of some
special tax over which the county
commissioners have no control.
Congressman Edward W. Pou was
the principal speaker at the weakly
meeting of the Selma Kiwanis Club
last week. He spoke on “How
America Can Keep Out of the Next
World War.” The speakiar seemed
to think that there will be another
world war, basing his conclusions on
the fact that he had heard from
some sources that the Germans and
Italians had set apart great areas
of territory for the sole purpose of
manufacturing poison gases. Mr.
Pou said he believed that the in-
fluenca epidemic was a result of
German poison chemicals.
The speaker said: “The way to
keep out of another world war is
to be friends to other nations. We
cannot slap other nations in the
face and expect them to be our
friends.” He also stated that the
American tariff policy has made an
enemy of every nation under the sun.
He then stated that the way of the
next war is by way of a big navy
and that we should have a navy not
equal, but superior to any other navy
in the world.
Following the address of Congress
man Pou, Program Chairman H. H.
Lowry called on Rev. D. M. Sharpe,
pastor of the Selma Methodist
Church, for a few remarks. Mr.
Sharj>e stated that his life is dedi
cated to the cause of peace in the
world. The peace that we seek
must be baasd on the ideal of a
world brotherhood of mankind, an
ideal set forth and championed by
Jesus Christ ,the great Prince of
Peace. “This peace,” said the speak
er, “can come only by a mutual un
derstanding between the nations of
ihe world.”
New Registration
Galled In 3 Townships
In Go.—Selma One
Mrs. J. W. Odom, Of
Princeton, Dead
New Registration Means that Every
body Must Register Anew, Re
gardless to Former Elections.
Princeton Mourns Death of Beloved
Woman — Funeral Held Friday
Afternoon and Interment is Made
in Fremont Cemetery.
Republican Speaking
Appointments
The registration books are now
open and will remain open until Sat
urday, October 25th, 1930. A new
registration has been called for
Smithfield, Selma and Banner town
ships and everybody in these town
ships will have to register in order
to vote in the November election re
gardless of the fact that you may
have been voting in either of these
townships in the past. A new reg
istration means that everybody must
register anew. We are printing be
low the list of registrars for the
different townships in the county:
Wilson’s Mills, N. R. Wilson.
Clayton, J. M. Turley.
Cleveland, Seba R. Johnson.
Pleasant Grove, H. C. Hicks.
Elevation, W. L. Massengill.
West Banner, Jim Poole.
East Banner, W. H. Strickland.
'Meadow, J. Mang Wood. '
Bentonville, L. G. Westbrook.
Ingrams, S. M. Boyettte.
Boon Hill, W. J. Woodard.
Micro, J. A. Peele.
Pine Level, C. H. Brown.
Beulah, A. G. Moore.
Wilders, Marvin Price.
O’Neals, S. B. Strickland.
Selma, W. L. Etheredge.
East Smithfield, Tom Stallings.
West Smithfield, W. D. Avera.
PRINCETON
ers,
ness.
“If the county commissioners had
had Mr. Parker to advise them, they
would never have gotten into this
mess,” bluntly declared. Miss Kelly
after Mr. Parker admitted that both
boards had failed to conform to the
law, the Board of Education, in fail
ing to list its excess, requests: over
the allowances of the State Board of
Equalization and the County Board
of Commissioners in failing to speci
fy its objections to the budget.
“’That is a reflection on me and I
resent it,” asaierted Mr. Raynor, who
then declared a settlement would
have been reached much earlier if
Miss Kelly had not “butted in.”
This statement referred to a dec
laration of Miss Kelly’s that “this
board could budget $30,000 as easily
as $1,000” when Mr. A. McL. Gra
ham, delegated by the Board of
Eqqualization to conduct its inquiry
asked if a settlement could not be
made on the first offer of Mr. Park
er, to add $25,000 , to thle amount
approved by the commissioners.
The second tiff with Mr. Raynor
came from F. S. Spruill, the mem
ber of the board whose district in
cludes Johnston county.
Mr. Raynor charges that th^tfom-
missioners had been kept in ignor
ance of necessary data.
“You don’t know what you are
talking about,” asserted Mr. Spruill.
“This board has sent everything to
the board of commissioners that it
has sent to the board of education.
In making a revised budget to
meet the commissioners’ $52,000 cut,
the Board of Education had eliminat
ed 84 of the county’s 433 teachers,
that action giving rise to a lawsuit
now pending in the Supreme Court.
Mr. Parker made it clear that his
board approved all items for teach
ers and approval was finally substi
tuted for failure to approve or dis
approve the items for rural super
vision and teachers’ supplies, the
only exception being the seven teach
ers included by the county board
of education and not by the State
board, which the former agreed to
waive.
Debt service items were also ap
proved.
The controversy came over miscel
laneous items for which the law
fixes a minimum of 10 per cent of
teachers’ salaries, amounting in the
case of Johnston county to $27,000.
Told by State Superintendent A. T.
Allen that the average for the State
is 20 per cent, the commissioners
agreied to that figure but insisted
that the individual items were mat
ters for the board of education and
not for them.
The board of commissioners main
tained this attitude for several hours,
even after Mr. Parker had recom
mended to it the ^577,000 compro
mise offer of the board of educa
tion.
However, when forced to specify
the board reduced the items for coal
from $9,600 to $6,500* for janitors
from $9,100 to $6,000; for repairs
from $5,000 to $3,000; for clerical
help for the superintendent from
,200 to $1,200; for the superintend-
endent’s traveling expenses from
$300 to $150, and made similar re
ductions in aeevral other small items.
Mr. Parker stated the new bud
get can be raised without increas
ing the one dollar tax rate already
levied for schools in the county.—
News and Observer, Oct. 16th.
Harward Deficit
Set At $176,624
Auditor Gives Final Figures or
Shortage of Late Durham Official.
Durham, Oct. 20.—As the climax
of an investigation which has been
in progress since the latter part of
April, L. F. Delamar, auditor, today
submitted a detailed deport to the
Durham County Commissioners,
showing a total shortage of $176,624
in the books of the late Sheriff John
F. Harward. ,
Of this amount $140,892 represents
unaccounted for funds in the 1929
tax - books. ' The audit goes back to
1923, over which period of time the
bolding company is partially respon
sible for the loss, but it has not
yet been determined to what extent.
R. P. Reade, county attorney, is
making a study of the report in
order to ascertain the amount for
which the bonding compaiyy is liable.
According to the report, the short
age the previous year. The ma
jority of the fake receipts were
signed by J. J. Thaxton, deputy col
lector, who is now charged with mis
behavior while in office, and em
bezzlement. J. M. O’Briant, also a
deputy under Sheriff Harward, is in
dicted on a charge of misbehavior
while in office. The sheriff was bond
ed in the amount of $55,000 each
year.
Democratic Glerk Of
Gourt In G u i 1 f o r d
Gounty Short $55,000
Investigation Shows Vouchers in
Name of Dead People Cashed—
“Great Majority” Found to Be De
ceased, Says Solicitor.
(Greensboro Daily News)
“Investigations made by Mr. Car
ter as to Confederate pension checks
handled by Mason W. Gant, former
clerk of Guilford Superior court, in
dicate an apparent shortage in ex
cess of $55,000,” State Auditor Bax
ter-Durham informed a Daily News
reporter yesterday.
Solicitor J. F. Spruill, of Lexing
ton- said that “the great majority
of pensioners whose names appear
as payees on the check totaling
more than $55,000 are deceased, eith
er deceased Confederate veterans or
deceased widows of Confederate vet
erans. In the cases the evidence is
designed to show that the names
of pensioners were indorsed by Ma
son W. Gant and the signatures at
tested by Mason W. Gant—in the
manner in which certain Lemuel S.
Dixon Confederate pension checks
were handled as heretofore indi
cated.”
Bill Stevens of Duke University
was at home last week-end, the
guest of his parents. Dr. and Mrs.
R. S. Stevens. ■
John Vernon Woodard of U. N. C.
was the guest of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Woodard last week
end.
Mr. and 'Mrs. J. A. Massey and
children of 'Greenville visited in town
Sunday. Mrs. Massey and children
are visiting Mr. J. W. Odom and
Mrs. Calvin Gurley this week.
Misses Biuoe Brewer and Smithie
Lee, student nurses at the Johnston
County Hospital, were the guests of
Miss Brewer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Andrew Brewer, last week-end.
Mrs. L. A. Rainey and children of
Goldsboro were visito’rs in town Sun
day.
L. D. Mitchell and C. S. Peele at
tended the State Fair at Raleigh
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Betty Pittman of Cradock—
Portsmouth, Va., is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Annah Peele.
Raymond Snipes, an English in
structor in the Snow Hill High
School, was at home last week-end,
D. C. Massey made a business
trip to Salisbury last week-end.
Helen Raines visited in Brogden
last week-end.
Ed Peele visited friends in Zebulon
Tuesday night and attended the
State Fair in Raleigh.
Friends of Miss Annie Capps of
Bucklesberry will he sorry to learn
that she died at her home early
Monday morning, after many months
illness.
Everyone was very glad to know
that school opened Monday morning.
We are glad to welcome the old
teachers back again and hope that
•the new ones will like us well enough
to want to come back another year.
Friends of Mrs. W. Brock of Buck
lesberry will be sorry to learn that
she is seriously ill at her home.
We wish that she will soon be well
again.
The host of friends 6f N. C. Holt,
who has been very ill at his home,
will be glad to learn that he is
vi^ry much better.
Mrs. N. C. Holt entertained the
Princeton Bridge Club a't her beauti
ful home Wednesday afternoon.
Princeton, Oct. 20. — Thursday
night, Oct. 9, at 10:30 o’clock, Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Odom, aged 63, died
at^her home near here. Though she
was confined to her home for ten
months, di.slease did destroy the
charm of her lovely disposition nor
the unselfish solicitude that she -had
for her loved ones. She -will be
missed greatly by a host of friends
as well as relatives. Her daughter,
Mrs. Calvin Gurley of Newport
News, Va., stayed with her all the
white she was ill, and Mrs. Gurley
will especially feel the loss of her
mother.
Everything that friends, relatives,
or physicians could do to comfort
Mrs. Odom was done during her ill
ness. In the early summer she was
taken to a hospital in Wilson; not
getting any better, she was brought
home. Then several weeks later
Mrs. Odom was taken to the John
ston County Hospital. Being too
weak to undergo an opej-ation and
growing weaker all the time, she
was brought home again.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at two o’clock in the Bap
tist church here of which the de
ceased was a member. Rev. W. 0.
Andrews, pastor of the Baptist
church, conducted the services, assist
ed by Rev. A. C. Turner, pastor of
the Methodist Church. Intennent
was made in the Fremont Cemetery.
Pall bearers were: her two sons,
Hal Odom of Pine Level,- and John
Odom of near Princeton, and her
four nephews of Fremont, Frank,
Ed, June, and Braxton Smith.
Mrs. Odom, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Smith, was born in
Fremont, March 20, 1866. She was
twice married. The first time to
David Rhodes of Duplin county, who
preceded her to the grave several
years ago. Her second marriage was
to J. Will Odom, and to this union
four children were born: Hal B.
Odum, Pine Level; Mrs. W. Calvin
Gurley, Newport News, Va.; Mrs. J.
A. Massey, Greenville; and John
S. Odom, Princeton.
She is survived by her sevond
husband, her four children, and stev-
eral grandchildren.
The following is a list of Republi
can speaking appointments for the
dates and places named:
October 24th, Pipe Level High
School, Mr. Raynor.
October 25th, Kenly, street, 3 P.
M., Mr. Raynor.
October 27th, Sandy Ridge Clay
ton Township, Mr. Alford and Edger-
toh.
Oct. 27th, Corinth Holder High
School, Mr. Raynor.
Oct. 28, Stancil Chapell, Mr. Al
ford.
Oct. 29, Benson High School, Mr.
Raynor.
Oct. 31, Smithfield, Court House,
Mr. Raynor.
KENLY
(By MELBA WATSON)
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(By MRS. W. G. STEPHENSON)
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Starling and
Mr and Mrs. Ed Mooneyham attend
ed a reunion Sunday of their father
Mr. Whitley. Miss Myrtle Jones,
Mr. Roscoe Jones and Mr. Earl Pen
ny of Smithfield ■visited Miss Ila
Mae Raford Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Grice visited
their son Mr. Frank 'Grice near
Moore’s School house Sunday.
Mrs. W. G. Stephenson is visiting
her sister Mrs. J. H. Wheeler of
Tarboro.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
Mattie Price is on the sick list this
week but hope she will be out again
soon.
Mrs. Miriam Eason and Mr. Clyde
Glenn of Durham attended a Big
Dinner in Raleigh Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Polie Pool and chil
dren were visitors in Wilson Sun
day afternoon.
Mrs. Kessy Daughtry and Henry
Daughtry, Mr. George Daughtry and
also Miss Minnie Bailey were visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Daughtry
Saturday afternoon.
The B. Y. P. U. met Sunday night
at six thirty o’clock at the Mission
ary Baptist church for the purpose
of organizing. The meeting was
called together by Mrs. Robert Nix
on. The following officers were elect
ed: President—Mrs. B. Carroll Stin
son; vice-president—Miss Irene Ed
gerton; secretary—Mrs. James Allen
Hodge; treasury—Delmas Lassiter;
group captains—Guy Edgerton and
James Watson. About twenty people
were present at this meeting and
each one is invited to return to the
meeting next Sunday mght, and all
new members and visitors will be
hear,tily welcomed.
The many friends of Mr. Monroe
Godwin of near Kenly will be sorry
to learn that his condition is but
little improved. Mr. Godwin had a
stroke of paralysis nearly four
weeks ag'o and has been confined to
his bed since that time.
Mrs. Polly Ricks died at her home
last Friday morning about eleven
o’clock. Funeral service was con
ducted at the home on Saturday
afternoon at two thirty o’clock by
Rev. Worley of Selma, pastor of
Kenly F. W. B. church, and Rev.
Landrum, pastor of the Kenly Pres
byterian church. The remains were
taken to the Buckhorn cemetery for
burial.
Kenly school year began Monday
moining, October 22, with an en
rollment much larger than in past
years. Many visitors were present
and welcomed at the school on this
day. Professor G. T. Whitley made
■-a talk lexplaining the delay in com
mencing school and other important
points. Also a member of the school
board. Lawyer P. D. Grady made an
interesting talk, welcoming the
teachers, both old and new ones,
back to Kenly school. The new
teachers for the year are as fol
lows: Miss Mildred Carmichael of
Dillion, S. C.; Miss Lillian Williams
of Kinston; Mrs. Uzzle of Wilson’s
Mills, M.iss Mattie Vine Mayo of
Greenville; Miss Hazel Bro.wn of
Selma; and Miss Kelly of Cleveland,
N. C.
FAVOR WEIGHT BASIS
FOR AUTO LICENSING
Election Official Is
Held To Grand Jury
High Point, Oct. 22.—The Republi
cans won the first round in what
may be a Ion glegal bout at a hear
ing held 'this afternoon in High Point
municipal court, when Judge Lewis
Teague held that the prosecution had
offered enough testimony for hold
ing Grover Kerr, Democratic regis
trar, for the Superior court grand
jury, on a charge of infractions of
the state election law. Bond of
$300 was furnished.
Asheville, Oct. '22.—The state de
partment of revenue will recommend
to the 1931 general assembly that
state automobile licenses be deter
mined on a weight basis rather than
horsepower, it was announced by
Sprague Silver, of Raleigh, director
of the motor vehicle bureau, depart
ment of revenue.
Mr. Silver arrived in the city to
day from Raleigh to attend the eon-
ferenee of mo'tor vehicle commis
sioners opening at the eGorge Van
derbilt hotel tomorrow. While the
scale of weights has not been fixed.
Director Silver said the department
would recommend a minimum li
cense of $11 as compared with
$12.50 now. The maximum license
under the proposed change would be
several dollars less htan the present
maximum fee of $40.
Miss Katherinle Alford, a member
of Macclesfield school faculty, spent
the past week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Alford.
Mr. Guy Alford of Raleigh was %
week-end guest of his parents. Rev.
and Mrs. J. W. Alford.
Miss Elsie 'Grady left Sunday for
Wilson’s Mills where she will teach
school this year.
Messrs. W. T. Kirby, Dallas and
Ransom Johnson attended the State
Pair at Raleigh last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Gaskill of
Selma spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Hooks.
Miss Grace Watson of this city,
along with the teachers of the'Kenly
school faculty attended the Johnston
County Teachers’ meetings at Smith-
field Saturday moi-ning. Miss Wat
son who is 1st grade teacher at
Glendale school this year, also at
tended the teachers meeting at Glen
dale Saturday afternoon.
Mr. L. C. Wilkinson, Jr., of the
University of N. C., Chapel Hill,
spent the past week-end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wil
kinson, Sr.
A group of Kenly people attended
the church at the F. W. B. church
of Greenville Sunday. Rev. Minoc
Godwin of this section conducted this
service. Those who attended were
Mr. R. L. Pittman, Rachel Perkins,
Misses 'Glennie and Estelle Pittman
who spent the remainder of the day
with Mr. and Mrs. Hardee of Green
ville,' and Misses Eva and Claree
took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. S.
M. Waters also of Greenville.
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