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OMITlED TAX WILL BE PAID BY BOTTLERS DIVIDE COUNTY ROADS Plan Consolidation o f Small Elementary Schools; Other State News (Special To The Herald) Raleigh. June 18.—The most glar ing and most expensive error made fl9 a result of the discoveries follow ing (he recent hectic (Jeneral Assem bly session, involving about $100,000 i although glaring will not be expen sive at all. unless some technicality prevents the North Carolina Bottlers from making a gift of about that much money to the State of North Carolina during the next two years. The tax on bottlers, about $100, 000 for the biennium soon to end, was lo be doubled for the next two years. Then the luxury tax measure entered and its 10 per cent caused the tax on production machinery of the bottlers to be cut back to the figure of the past two years. When the luxury tax failed, the tax was again doubled by the conferees, but this revisal failed, to get in the revenue act as ratified. Th« revenue department discovered the omission. But the bottlers had agreed to a doubling of their tax. reluctantly, to be sure, but preferred that to the 10 per cent tax. So. J. Elmer Long, for mer lieutenant governor and attor ney for the bottlers, comes to Raleigh to announce that the bottlers had {greed to the doubling, they did it in good faith, they intended to pay it, and pay it they will, if there is any way to do it, in spite of the law, ev en if it has to be in the form of a donation. Admittedly the State needs the money and will probably find a way i to accept it, since the bottlers are j willing to pay. Also, it is one of the best publicity stunts imaginable. Moreover, it will probably save the bottlers from making up the differ ence two years fiom now, and still more. The State Highway Commission, announcing tha tall local road mat are t.o by taken up through the local engineering staff, as contem plated by the road law in making the commission a State-wide body, has divided the State into five divisions, with headquarters at Ashwilly fcaiis l>i i v or Concord, Greensbro, Fayette ville and Tarboro, and rach of these divisions is later to he divided into five districts, Chairm in E. B. Jef fress announced after the meeting l .st Thursday. The divisions, with engineers and assistants and counties composing them: Division A, Tagboro, .T. (I. Gardner, engineer, J. D. Taylor, as sistant; Currituck, Camden, Pasquo tank, Perquimans, Gates, Chowan, Hertford, Bertie, Northampton, Ha lifax, Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, Pitt, Greene, Lenoir, Carteret, Craven, Pamlico, Beaufort, Martin, Washing ton, Tyrrell, Dare and Hyde. Division B, Fayetteville, R. E. Showden, engineer, R. Markham, as sistant; Onslow, Pender, New Han over, Brunswick, Columbus, Bladen, Sampson, Duplin, Wayne, Robeson, Cumberland, Scotland, Hoke, Moore, 1 ee, Harnett and Johnston. Division C, Greensboro, W. F. Mor son, engineer, D. M. Ra. assistant; ' -ike, Franklin, Warren, Vance, Granville, Person, Durham, Orange, aswell, Alamance, Rockingham, Mokes, Forsyth, Davidson, Guilford, Randolph, Chatham. Division D, Statesville or Concord, H. E. Noell, engineer, F. S. Klutz, assistant; Montgomery, Richmond, Anson, Union, Stanly, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Wilkes, Allegheny, Surry, Yadkin, Iredell, Davie and Rowan. Division E. Asheville, J. C. Walker, engineer, T. T. Betts, assistant; STORE Now Franchise Dealer for the Vogue We take p.easure in announcing that we have been fortunate in securing the franchise for the ne / line of Vogue Electric Lamps and Shades, distinctive and of unu sually high quality and value. 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Sam D. Scott, Wayne County, was named director of county highways. Further organization to handle the 45,000 miles of county highways will be made later. A. A. F. Seawell, Sanford, rep resentative from Lee County and au thor of the Seawell banking act of the lecent session of the General Assem bly, has been appointed-assistant at torney general by Attorney General 1). G. Brummitt, to succeed Frank Nash, who, in turn, has accepted the post of clerk of the N. C. Supreme Court, succeeding Edward Seawell, whose term has expired. The new appointee is considered an able law year and well suited for the post. He is expected to become a candidate for the Attorney Generalship to suc ceed Mr. Brummitt, a prospective candidate for Governor. Hundreds of thousands of dollars I will be saved in the operation of' ■ '-bools in North Carolina through abandoning hundreds of small ones ] and the two teacher elementary and high schools and consolidating them with nearby larger and more effici ent schools, according to LeRoy Mar tin, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, Many of these schools should have Keen abandoned earliler, but were < ontinued because of local feeling and politics, Mr. Martin said. Now that the State is operating the schools, these important economies can be made effective and the pupils will be given better instruction in better buildings. A compilation of figures show that, exclusive of the six larger coun ties not participating in the equaliz ing fund, 615 elementary schools, 114 white and 201 colored, have been operating with less than a daily av erage attendance of 22 pupils, and 225 high schools, 187 white and 38 colored, have been operating with a daily average attendance of less than 50 pupils. Halifax County, the report shows, had no white and two colored elemen tary schools wtih a daily average at tendance of less than 22, and six white and one colored high schools with a daily average attendance of less than 50 pupils. The State board last year aided 24 counties in white rural school super vision, paying $23,499 of the total cost of $67,000, and aided 37 counties in colored rural supervision, paying $17,213 of the total cost of $46,457, Mr. Martin has found. Halifax County spent $3,300 in white and $1,150 in colored rural school supervision last year, of which the State paid 954.08, the report shows. Considerable discussion has de veloped around the action of Presi dent E. C. Brooks, of State College, in recommending and his board in following his suggestion of abolish ing the office of dean of the gradu ate school, held by Dr. Carl C. Tay lor. Charges of personal dislike on the part of Dr. Brooks, objection on the part of North Carolina textile Itchy Toes Hand Ringworm, Athlata’a foot Why suffer from the queer skin disease causing severe Itching of toes and feet, cracking, peeling skin, blisters, Ringworm, Trench Foot or Crotch Itch, when you can avoid in fection and quickly heal your skin with Dr. Nixon's Nixoderm? Based on the famous English Hospital for mula, discovered by a leading Lon don skin specialist, Dr. Nixon's Nix oderm acts with amasing speed, be cause designed for this particular skin disease. Nixoderm la guaran teed. It must stop itch and quickly heal your skin or tbs small cost SlU be refunded. Taylor-Matthews Drug Store. men to Dr. Taylor’s speeches and ac tions, and others have been made since the action was taken last week. Tne incident gives promise of still more airing. Dr. James M. Parrott New State Health Head Raleigh, June 18.—Dr. James M. Parrott, of Kinston, was elected State health officer succeeding the late Dr. Charles O’H. Laughinghouse, at a meeting last week of the new State Board of Health, of which Dr. J. T. Burrus, of High Point, Senator from Guilford County, was elected presi dent. Governor Gardner has given his hearty approval to the election of both men. The health officer, un der the new law, must be appointed by the Governor. VEPCO 56 MILE LINE FINISHED *_ High Voltage Line From Here To Petersburg Virginia, Is Now Working COST $750,000 Completion of the new high voltage transmission line fifty-six miles long, erected between Petersburg and Roa noke Rapids at a cost of $750,000, was announced recently by the Vir ginia Electric and Power Compay. The new line has a carrying capa city of 115,000 volts and required the use of 600,000 pounds of copper and 250,000 pounds of steel wire, a total of 425 tons of wire. It was built by the Stone & Web steif engineering corporation on a right-of-way 150 feet wide requiring the clearing of 750 acres of land and the transportation of 80 tons of ma terial and 100 men daily during the course of construction. The Petersburg-Roanoke Rapids transmission line completes the third side of a triangular transmission sys tem that has its point of origin at the hydro electric plant at Roanoke Rapids, N. C., with a high powered transmission line extending east to Suffolk and Northwest from Suffolk to Petersburg and the third side of the triangle running almost northeast from the Roanoke Rapids plant to Petersburg. Additional transmission lines extend North from Petersburg through Richmond to Fredericksburg and South into the North Carolina territory from Roanoke Rapids. The new line has been given its fin al inspection and is now in use, ac cording to the power company offi cials. The new line not only prevents the danger of shortage of power thru the breakdown of one side of the tri angle, but permits inter-connection and exchange of power with the Vir ginia Public Service Company Occo quan, Va„ Lee Hall and Roanoke Ra pids, but with the Carolina Light and Power Company at Roanoke Rapids and Battleboro, N. C. The construction involved the v.orking out of many engineering problems and a vast amount of tem porary construction, particularly at the North Carolina end of the line, where it crosses the Roanoke River, At this point the 2,900-foot transmis sion line span consists of three steel towers, one 103-foot anchor tower on the north bank, a 114-foot tower on the south bank ad a 175-foot suspen sion tower in the middle of the seream THE LAUGH I S ON THE SUN ... 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