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REMARKABLE SESSION OF LEGISLATURE ENDS COUNTIES HAND OVER authority Length I* Due Partly To Revolutionary Change* In The State Gov. ernment GIVE TAX RELIEF (Special To The Herald) Raleigh, June 4.—The North Caro lina General Assembly which adjourn ed sine die at 9:00 o’clock on the ev ening of May 27, was, in many re spects, one of the most remarkable sessions ever held h_v a lawmaking body in North Carolina not only in the length of the session, but in the type of the legislation and deviation from normal policies whih it achieved. No other session has lasted 141 days or 121 legislative days, except the 1808-69 reconstruction period session f 146 days from which 12 days ot Christmas recess must be taken, leaving only 136 days. It establishes u new record for length and develop ed into an endurance test. No other session has taken from the local units and vested in the state more authority, particularly in the maintenance of roads and schols and in the administration of county, city and local district fiscal affairs. These local units gave up authority '.nd autonomy to a greater extent than ever before, trading, in their dis tress much loose, inefficient and in effective administration for what is expected to be a greater concentrat ed and more effective handling of governmental affairs. No other session has taken back NORFOLK to DURHAM Via: Roanoke Rapids, Rosemary and Weldon lo TO NORFOLK Lv. Durham — 11 a.m.—6 p.m. Roa Rapids — 1:45 & 8:45 p.m. Weldon _ 1:55 & 8:55 p.m Ar. Norfolk _ 5 p.m. & 12 p.m. TO DURHAM Lv. Norfolk 8 a.m.—4 p.m. Weldon_ 11 a.m.—7 p.m Roa. Rapids 11:10 a.m.-7:10p.m. Ar. Durham 1:55 p.m.-9:55 p.m. 2 Big, Clean, New Comfortable Buses Daily. L. E. GRESHAM BUS LINES DURHAM, N. C. to the property owners of the State a greater measure of tax relief, for which real estate owners were clam oring. All taxes were not removed, but the operation of the highways, the schools and the local governme nt laws will bring a reduction of an average of 57 cents to the property owner, or almost half of the tax bill in many counties. No other session has placed upon big business the amount of taxes that was levied against such business by the recent General Assembly, a tax that would not have been reached but for the insistent demand for land •ax relief. The burden has, in a large measure, been placed on more suc cessful business, that most able to pay, and, while apparently more than a just share, may not be an onerous ■Hiraen. The closing day of the session marked the passage and enactment of several of the most important pieces f legislation of the entire session, chief of which were the Revenue, Ap propriations. Machinery, School and several others. me Kevenue Act provides for col lection of nearly $30,000,000 a year, Of this, $17,350,000 is for schools, in cluding $15,700,000 for the six months t.f rm, to be supplemented by the ap proximately $1,300,000 from fines, forfeitures, penalties, p.di and dog taxes, to be collected and used loca'ly 11,500,000 for the extended term and $150,000 as an emergency fund. This sum includes the estimated $4,5000, 000 from the 15- cent ad valorem tax for the current expenses of the six months school operation. A cut of ten per ecent in amount paid for salaries, wages and fees of onp'yees and officers in all State departments, a cut of not more than 10 per cent for teachers and a cut n< t exceeding that of the teachers for the State institutions, are included in the Appropriations Bill. The Universi ty’s appropriation was cut to $721, 000 for each of the two years, while the other State institutions general Boring First Helium Gas Well The tirst well in America in search of helium gas Is being sunk in the San Fernando valley near Los Angeles by A. F. Mercer, who is seen above examining matter brought up by the test drill. were cut some to help lessen the ex pected deficit of $1,500,000 to $2,000, 000 a year, on the basis of present business conditions. The Machinery Act provides for no 1 evaluation of property, the 15-cent :.d valorem tax being on the basis <<f the 1930 valuation. The shool bill put into effect the operation of the six month sterm by the State with the aid of the 15-cent tax from the counties and provides for some of the desired economies in school operat ion and management. State Supt. A. T. Allen is not at all displeased with the outcome of the school measure, which gave promise at times of re sulting in crippling the school work. The last act passed provides for continuing the activities of the State Tax Commission, specifying a study of the listing and assessing of pro perty for taxation. This measure was about to be killed because of the requirements of a two-thirds majority lo pass it on its three readings in died oft* the opponents, allowing the • ensure to pass. A lait day act was the filing of the up ort of the committee investigating | reports of attempted bribery and cor ruption, instignatd by Senator H. S. Ward. The committee’s report was that no Senator had been found to have violated his oath of office, that no competent evidence was introduced to show that S. Clay Williams and W. N. Reynolds, president and offici al of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com pany had tried to bribe a Senator, but the difference in testimony of Senator John Hinsdale, Wake County, and I). H. Pope, chairman of the \\ ake Board of Commissioners, should be called to the attention of the soli citor. Senator Ward filed a supple mental report, in which he vented his spleen on “big business” and parti cularly the Reynolds company, which was referred to the committee with out public reading. The much discussed racing and pari-mutuel betting bill made its third [appearance last week, in the guise of an agricultural and stock-breeding or ganization, wanted by Representative W. W. Neal for McDowell County. It was passed in the House bat killed in the Senate, A like bill for Bun combe County met a like fate earlier in the session and one for Polk Coun ty, passed by the Senate at first, was brought back^to the floor and killed by that body. The usual last minute rush attend ed the closing hours of the session. A number of bills cnsigned to the table or other burial places, sought to get out and I y. but most of thorn wc.it hack to a long resting ; lace. The Session was nocicably free from last minute legislation, although a few measures got by. A last day slaugh tering was not large, due to the long time for such activity, but the bills to redistrict the State as • i senatorial districts and to reapportion the mom hers of the House of Representatives, went to the table, despite the consti tutional requirement .Dec .use of per sonal ambitions and sectional squab 1 ling. The 1931 General Assembly passed 1206 measures, 1147 laws and 59 ie solutions, out of 2102 bills an dissolu tions introduced, leaving 896 which failed to pass. Probably 300 public bills were enacted, and 100 of those were probably amendments, changes, corrections and minor measures, leav ing 200 of general and State-wide i.i t.erest. Probably 900 are local mea sures, or an average of about nine to each of the 100 counties. State wide measures of general in terest passed last week follow: Permitting municapalities and counties to provide for making bonds and notes become due before maturity Make uniform pleadings and pro ceedings for all courts except courts of justices of the peace, inferior to the Superior Courts, when summons from such inferior courts is issued to run outside the county by such infer ior courts. Providing for an additional mem ber of the State Board of Equaliza tion on account of creation of a new congressional district. Promote standardization of trans portation systems for school children and to provide for economical trans nortation. Amendment relative to recoprocity extended to non-resident auto own ers. Reducing ad valorem taxes in coun ty-wide special charter and local tax school districts of the State. Amendment relative to auditing of county accounts. Amendment to act providing for in corporation and maintenance of co operative organizations. Revise law as to establishing cart ways to make it conform to new road law. ""Repealing the Judicial Conference. Amendment relative to compulsory ■ school attendance. Prescribe powers and duties of N. C. Corporation Commission, permit ting a complete report of holdings, investments and revenues of public service corporations. The Womans Club held their regu lar monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. W. F. Coppedge Thursday af ternoon with Mrs. Edwin Coppedge as assistant hostess. Mrs. T. S. Dickens and Mrs. Willie Dickens gave an in teresting program on slenderizing the stout and becoming styles of the thin. Mrs. Hazel Wheeler gave a talk on art. FOR SALE! Nitrate of Soda —And— Top Dressing W. O. Thompson Rosemary ,N. C. Or Dial R-424-6 IfOtVl Don’t Rasp Your Throat With Harsh Irritants "Reach for a LUCKY instead" Now! Please!—Actually put your finger on your Adam’s Apple. 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