% 0 City Commissioners Study Tentative $213,521 Budget THE ROANOKE RAPIDS % , VOLUME XXXIII ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1948 NUMBER 49 Federal, State Conciliation Officials To Enter Contract Talks Between Halifax Paper Company And CIO Union - I --- --—- - .Union Demand v cational system have bee brought about by a demandii public rather than through ai innovation or constructive effor on the part of those responsib for our educational system t day. “School men may tell yi that it is impossible for you have this or that for your schoi but when they find that the pu liq demands it, they usually ma age to have the demands met Blum stated. The speaker spoke of the vi t uable work which has been C£ : ried on through the vocatior i department at the Middlebu school and expressed the ho , that a vocational training dep£ ment would be set up in t i schools of this county. He s£ I that he knew there is a ne for it and also a desire for su a program, for he had to tu • down a number of Warren Cot ty boys who had applied at t i Middleburg school for vocatior l training. j i Tentative Tax Rate Of $1.15 Like Last Year’s The Roanoke Rapids City Commissioners in a special ses sion Tuesday afternoon studied a tentative balanced budget call ing for an expenditure of $213, 521.41, based on a tax rate of $1.15 per hundred. The commissioners did not adopt the budget or the tax rate, but set the tentative figures af ter a long session and tentatively left the tax rate the same as last year. The adoption of the bud get probably will be made at the first meeting in September. The tentative budget compares with the last fiscal year’s actual expenditures of $185,388.24. The increased estimated expenditures during the coming fiscal year were caused largely by the fact the city must retire approximately $24,000 more of its bonds during the coming year. The fact that the tax rate has not been increased under the proposed tentative budget is at tributed to an estimated proper ty valuation jf $16,000,000, a $2. 000,000 increase over last year. The bonds and debt service charges in the tentative budget which must be paid during the next year are broken down as follows: total amount of bonds to be retired $27,000; interest, $16,541. Roanoke Rapids has ne ver defaulted in payment of its bonded indebtedness, a city offi cial added. The city has a total bonded indebtedness of $592,000. Listed in the budget disburse ments for 1948-49 are the ex penses for the various depart ments of the city. Administrative, $9,300 compar ed to last year’s cost of $8,923.72; Fire Department, $19,732.05, compare^ to last year’s cost of $25,512.46; Health Department $411, same as last year; Jail: 1 $302.65, actual cost last year; Po lice $43,212.40 compared to last ; year’s cost of $41,674.71; Sani 1 tary Department, $28,275, com ’ pared to last year’s cost of $26, ’ 650.97; Streets: $51,235 compar | ed to last year’s cost of $47, 577.80; Street Lights and Power; $6,200 compared to last year’s ' cost of $6,160.29; Stop Lights • S240, doubling last year’s cost of $120; Additional stoplights S338.80 compared to last year’s ; $1,777.58; Municipal building, $4, 312 compared to last year’s cost ’ of $4,811.45; Tax Department $5,600.56, compared to last year’s actual cost of $4,558.32; Miscel laneous $7,363.45 compared to last year’s actual cost of $4, 781.84; Mosquito Control $3,000, same as last year; Unpaid bills [ $3,239.61 compared to last year’s $2,927.45 and vital statistics $500 compared to last year’s cost of $498. Also included in the tentative budget for 1948-49 are these items: $7,000 for piping the ditch s across the Rosemary Manufac ' turing Company’s property near ? Tenth Street, and a $5,000 loan to the cemetery fund. The city several years ago se j cured permission to dig the 1 ditch across the manufacturing I company’s property with the sti pulation that when the com pany was ready to use the land ’ the city would pipe and cover the ditch. The company notified the commissioners several weeks ’ ago that it was ready to utiliza " the land. Included in the budget are the _• following expenditures: Halifax County Health Department $345, fire hose $1,200; DDT spraying 1 $435, calcium chloride for dust treatments to the city streets $1,400; City library $400; City Recreation Commission, $1,000: T-Q+ oroflinifmn AA 'NT-i:_ al Guard $1,000. Included in the list of capital expenditures, tentatively set for the next fiscal year, is a new street sweeper to dost $9,500, a new snow plow $400 and a new weed mower $400. p Estimated revenue lifted in the tentative budget for 1948-49 a includes $165,950 from property taxes, $23,000 from the AEC ' board; $6,000 from privilege in licenses; $2,000 from auto and a dog licenses; $1,200 from inspec 0 tion fees; $7,000 court costs'; $4,. 500 refund from the state for beer and wrine sales and $600 miscellaneous, n * Herkimer Papers Shed i- Light On History n ALBANY, N. Y. (U.P.) — A g collection of unique manuscripts y acquired by the ftew York State ts Library has thrown new light on le Gen. Nicholas Herkimer’s Mo > hawk Valley campaign during >u the Revolutionary War. to The documents include a list >1, of soldiers wounded at Orisk b- any, artists’ impressions of the n- conflict and excerpts of battle accounts of some of the Herki mer family who served under the 1- general. r- Famed for his successful de al fense of the Mohawk Valley, rg Herkimer made his triumphant De stand in an effort to relieve a rt small garrison threatened by le the invading British. Although id overwhelmed by superior forces. Hi he prevented the British from :h joining Burgoyne in the Hud rn son Valley. n- Burgoyne thus grew progres le sively weaker and was finally al defeated at Saratoga in one of *s}Uiod Suiuju; ai{} . *