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Siftings From the Legislature By 3L R. OITNNAGAN Special Writer for The Democrat I Raleigh, N. C.?The Senate d placed briefly the important appi priation bill the past week to consi ex. pas.s and send to the Sena the Senator Francis "beer" bill, th completed and sent ovev the appi juration* measure, only to have t house "throw it back" by refusal concur, this necessitating a conf< cr.rc .omnuitee to try to iron c the badly tangled measure. More enthusiasm than has be ?e-.n so far this session was sho\ ever the "beer" bill, the first to cor befoie the Senate, and the first either house since the Congrc passed anil President Roosevelt sig ed the measure to the same intei Th* bill, as passed by the Senal provides for the sale of beer, wii and other light beverages with n rr. re than 3.2 per cent alcohol, b prohibits operation of places sole or primarily for their sale?meanii no beer gardens. A tax of $2 a ba rel, or two cents a bottle, is impos by the State, and municipalities a allowed to place a $25 tax on plac selling such drinks in and within t\ miles of their corporate limits, Referendum Bill Voted Down The Senate voted down the Sen tor Waynick amendment to allow I referendum on the measure, b adopted amendments allowing rad and newspaper advertising of wii unci oeer, legalizing tne sale May and eliminating the requirement th the revenue go to the school fun The Senate vote finally was 33 11. Ir. the House the bill was piac< on the* calendar for action early th week. Predictions are that it is ce tain to pass that body, probably tv to one. It may uc aiiu-nJeil U pr vide for wholesalers and manufactu ers, and otherwise, but it seems su ihat beer and wine will be legal a *cles of trade aft>?r May 1, and tl two months of revenue for the pre ent fiscal year is expected to he materially in paying teachers ai .Stale employees. Thsf appropriations measure is d? for a stormy finish. The House se: to the Senate a measure which th: body tore to pieces, bringing out greatly increased appropriation^ wi modest increases in all items. In a dition to these increases to depai merits institutions and agencies. tl senate adopted an amendment, sik ed by 27 ot the oil Senators, caiiii for $18,000,000 for operation of I B eight -""?*>"= school without ad vi 1?*<- The aueslion of wheth the chifter districts could or cou not levy ad valorem tax for supp! ment to the school fund arose, b was not definitely answered, tl aluWuient being that that Questi< would be answered in the school m rhinery bill. The house appropriations cmbraei a reduction of about 44 per cedt the salary schedule from the appr priations of two years ago, the Sc ate measure, as finally worked o sought a cut of about 32 per ceil Senator A. H. Gwyn, ttot-kinghai made strenuous effort to reduce a propriations approved by the Sena to the salarv cuts would be abo -10 per cent, as a compromise belwei House and Senate figures, but wit oui success. The House, immediate rafter neceiving the measure Frida refused to concur in the Sena changes, and conference committe were named. A deadlock may be e pected, as the houses are so f apart, and adjournment may reached in two more weeks?but is not likely. The House and Senate got loget or on the revenue machinery bi The House agreed with the Sena not to tax stocks in foreign eorp rations, and the Senate agreed remove the 33 1-3 per cent lin placed on reductions of property vi ues for taxation. These were the ma points of difference. ? The two houses also got togeth on the N. C. Bar Association mei ure to take from the Supreme Cor -and placp in the hands of a lawy board examination of applicants i licenses to practice law, providi for disciplining and for disbarri lawyers for unethical practices, b !*e right -of appeal to the coui was inserted and retained. The finance and appropriatio committees were in .session over t week-end, the former on the rei nue bill, and a general sales tax w j ajriteu upon, me liiLe ieii u 1'"n uu the appropriations measure is neai complete and it is estimated hi much more revenue will he ncedi It is apparent that the appropriate .snsm-e will necessitate new ta: and general sales seems to t>e i choice. And that will mean anotl fight. Two weeks more is considei a minimum for finishing the le( lative work, but longer is likely, cv expected, as the factions are goi to have a hard time getting toge er, both on appropriations and re nut measures. Thought of the drain on the lef lative pocketbook was taken Frit when Senator Hinsdale, immune fr its benefits, introduced a bill to p i mit the county commissioners to i I aytual expenses, not exceeding $i .lay each, and from March 4, of (Continued on Page 7) WA Ah VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 40 -J is La Foliette Reports ^ Former Governor Philip La Fc lette of Wisconsin, just return* e(j from a tour of Europe, called upt re President Roosevelt to report coi e3 ditions, particularly in Russia. L VQ Foliette has been mentioned for Federal post in return for suppoi given the President during the can j paign last fall. ijCOVE CREEK TEAM 10 | "! WIN IN DEBATE at ('' High School Student* Will Go ^ Ch&pel Hill for Final* of State Tournament. Rev. OHve to Preach at Finals. r Cove Creek high school's debati w teams won in the triangular debaj last week, both the affirmative a ,e negative being* victorious. The si I_ ject for the State-wide triangu, debate this year was, "Resolved, tl .s" North Carolina should adopt the sa tax as a feature of the State syst? ' of revenue." By agreement in tl district the term "sales tax" was c( ,e strucd to mean a "luxury tax" a 11 * not a "general sales tax." Cove Creek's affirmative team i R bated Sparta high school's negati at Boone. Cove Creek's negative < bated Boone's affirmative at Spai and Sparta's affirmative debat Boone's negative at Cove Creek. n" Wheeler Farthing and Stanley 1B Harris Jr. consiiiuieu Cove Creel in affirmaive team, and Ferd Mich; " i Hii'j js,ck v augnan trie negative tea ?YjBy reason Of Jr'ttaVHlg1 'IfWlP' Uw'utT l'l bates these young men will vltcr ! c finals at Chapel Hill April 13th a ul 14th to compete with some other 1;1 or more high schools for the Ayco ,n cup. a~ In the final basket ball game the season, Gove Creak won o\ :d Cranberry with the narrow margin in one point, the score being 34-! o- Since the iocal gymnasium was co n- plated, out of eight games playi lit Cove Creek has won seven, the oi it. defeat being to the Appaluchi n, freshmen. Among the teams play p- were Butler, Jefferson All Sta te Jefferson High School, Millers Crei ut Cranberry and West Jefferson. >n Plans are practically complete i h- the commencement exercises. R> ly Eugene Olive, pastor of North Wilk y, boro Baptist Church and forme te pastor at Chapel Hill, will pre* es the baccalaureate sermon Sunday i x- cning, April 20th. at 8:00 o'clo ar This sermon will be held in ' be Methodist Church. (Thursday moi it. irirr at 11 *3ft T>r J. TV Rankin v deliver seventh grade diplomas a h- talk more especially to the childi 11. of the grammar grades. The sen te play, "Boots and Her Buddies," v o- be presented on Friday night, M to 5th, while the final exercise will tit Saturday night, May 6th, when i il senior class will render their cl .in program and diplomas will be awa ed. The public is extended a core icr invitation to attend all these ex ts- cises. irt The annual agricultural decla er ers' contest was held last week. '1 or winner from each grade were: Jar ng Sherwood, eighth; Stanley Har ng ninth; Charles Mitchell, tenth, ? iut Borl Henson, eleventh. In the f: rts contest between these four, Stan Harris won, thus entitling him to ins ter the district meet at Ashevi he which was also held last week. re as MARY HELEN COOPER itil DIES AT BLOWING RC -er Mary Helen Cooper, aged 7, dau dw ter of Mts. Helen Cooper of Bli ed. ing Rock, died Sunday morning : >ns lowing a lingering illness of mi ces months' duration. Funeral servi fne w?o conducted from the home M ier day afternoon at 1 o'clock by ed Rev. Sexton Buchanan of the B1 ;is- ing Rock Presbyterian Church, i rnn Inlnrm PaII ^ In tL? Pnif n vu iiiwi uiciiw ivnuncu *11 vik' v?ii.w ing family burying ground near Rami th- TRe little girl is survived by ve- mother, one sraall brother, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. cis- Criteher, all of Blowing Koch. lay om The beer bill passed the House er- a 3 to 1 majority, as was the < >ny in the Senate. Representative Gi > a of Watauga was among "he meml the of the House not voting on eii reading. ' ...If; ' ' " ' : lW. ' ' *%i Ion-Partisan Newspaper, De BOONE, WATAUGA COl? ]TmmSNSTot ! ANXIOUS TO SELL BEER IN BOONE ^ Purveyors of Other Merchandise Nou-* committal as to Whether They Will Offer Brew. New Legislation Chief Topic of Conversation, and Sales or Nesr-Beer Show Sharp Increaaai' City May Not Issae Licenses. With the passage of the hill through both houses of the Legislature legalizing 3.2 per cent beer, conI versatron on .he streets of Boone has I i become more or less monopolized by J opinions on the effervescent bever4 | age. A hasty review of the business '* | places of the town, however, reveals j that those merchants who would he m j supposed to handle beer, are in no a" j hurry about making up their minds, and some of them openly doubt the a wisdom of adding the suds. The peorl pie. generally speaking, so far as ina" fcerviewed, find scant fault with the enactment of the b*?er hill, but it is understood that petitions are being [Q made up to the end that beer may lU still ho taboo in Boone. |r^ Town Fathers May Object "V Then there is the foiling that the city council may decline to issue incenses for ihe sole of the brew. One to member of the board, however, s*at? ed when interviewed that he did not believe the municipal government would or should be permitted to ban beer, and tvr-dietcd that enactment ng of the beer legislation would cut the consumption of intoxicating llquovt nd seventy-five per cent, ib- Many local prohibitionists believe lar that unlicensed sale of the beverage iat would follow on the heels of adverse les action by the board, and there is no -Tn particular reason for belief that more his beer would be sold one way than the >n- other. nd Grocery and drug stores report an unprecedented sale of near beer durle ing the past two weeks, the increase ve in sales amounting to four and five le- hundred p??r cent. One chain grocerV rta has received orders to clear out s?\ remaining sujcxs At u price (??!?*/- j cost.. ;?s no falls for -fh<? dcalcohfrlized 1 A. bevcvtige are expected alijer May 1, TriiCil-SlS ^ ? CONVENTION WILL t, BEGIN NEXT FRIDAY er ? of1 First Denominational Meeting Held 13. in This Section Will Draw Delem nates from Large Territory. Inspi-^ ?d, rational Meeting Begins Friday llv Afternoon and Closes Saturday an Afternoon. ed rs, The first denominational meeting ek, to be held in this section comes to the Boone Baptist Church Friday tor when from 500 to 000 delepa.es will iv. gather at the West Central Regional es- B. Y. P. IJ. Convention. The meeting i rly is scheduled tc begin at, 2:45 on Friiclt day afternoon and will close on Satev urday afternoon at 4 o'clock, accordck. ing to announcement coming to Rev. he P. A. Hicks, '.he local pastor, from rn- Miss Winnie Rickett, B. Y. P. (j. secnil rotary. nd The territory embraced in this dis en trict includes Wadesboro, Grecnsior horo, Winston-Salem, Statesville, .ill i Charlotte, Morganton, and it is ex lay pectsd tna'; an unusually large group be of delegates will make up the pontile vention, and bp benefited by the ass purely inspirational program which rd- will be participated in by some of iial the leading figures in Baptist denomer inational work. Mr. Bryan Hard of Cramerton, district president, will im- preside, and the general theme of the [Ire program will be "Looking Unto Jenes sus," ris, Mr. Hicks, in announcing the ind meeting Tuesday, insisted that the na! country churches send delegations ley to '.he convention, and enjoy the proen gram s_nd the meeting with officials lie, -of the organization and leading pastors of the denomination throughout the State. CK COLLEGIANS DEFEATED gh- A basket ball team made up of aw- ladies of the town emerged as vicfol j tors over one made up from the mem?ny j bers of the college faculty in the col ices lege gymnasium Tuesday. The score on-1 was 31 to 3 in favor of the city folks, the whose six was composed oi the JViow lowing: Inez Gragg, Grace Mast, Floand ra Greene, Alice Edwards, Pauline her Bingham and Pansy Keys. The fac>00. ulty line-up: Misses Dale, Harwell, her Wary, Jackson, Ledbnter. her N. FINDS PAY LOST 20 YEARS Whitehall, N. Y.?Cyrus Chilson, veteran railroad conductor, was wearby ing a broad smile Monday. He had :ase rceoveved a pay envelope containing eer $145 which he had given up for lost >ers 20 years ago. Chilson found the enther velope in the pocket of an old vest while doing some house cleaning. A. DE voted to the Best Interest !TY, NORTH CAROLINA, TiiURSD. Germany and Unite On the left is Dr. Hans Luther, n ed States, succeeding Frederick vo Morris cf New York, new America ted by President Roosevelt during M APPROPRIATION FOR A. S. T. C. IS S mirrm ? nnnnnn liIV&PI l\ BUUM ""Sense of Fair Play" Prompts Senate to Raise Figure Recommended by Budget Commission $17,000. Wide Discrepancy Exists Between Figure.* for Three State Teachers! Colleges. If: Raleigh, N. C.?Out of a sense of fair play, the Senate has boosted the appropriation for the Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, to $60,000, which is approximately $17,000 more than the figure recommended by the Budget Commission and the joint appropriations bill as adopted by the House of Representatives. The Senate approved the joint O&mmittee bill figures for the East Carolina (Teachers College and the Western Carolina Teachers College a& SR4.2R0 and SiO.OOO respectively.! The committee bill's recommenda-' wOr. for the Carolina Teachers | College was the same as lhat recom- ] ^needed by the Budget Commission, had _ increased the ?uip;ci fieure 5E $30,260 to $40,000. The House, before sending the appropriations bill to the Senate, had approved the joint committee's figures for the three institutions. Officials of the Appalachian State Teachers College did not appear before the joint appropriations com-! mitt.es and ask for an increased ap-; propriaion durting the recent hearings. The only one of the schools to j get a boost from the joint appropriations committee was the Western Carolina Teachers College, which the committee raised to $40,000, or approximately $10,000 more than the budget commission recommended. At the same time, the committee accepted the budget commission's recommendations for the Eastern Carolina Teachers College and the Appalachian Teachers College. Senator Hants of Forsyth County pointed out to the Senate that a wide discrepancy existed between the figures for the three institutions, presenting statistics that tire the East Carolina Teachers Colege, where the enrollment is 000, the per capita cost is $125; at the Western Carolina Teachers College where the enrollment is 400, the; per capita cost is $120, and that at the Appalachian School, where the enrollment is 1,100, the per capita cout is only $40. BEER AT THE WHITE HOUSE Washington.?'Beer will be served at the White House in moderation when it's legalized in the District of Columbia.. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, herself a teetotaler, said Monday after a conference with the President. TWO LOCATWUJI REPRESENTAT ' Raleigh, N. C.?Two Watauga County bils were introduced in the Legislature Tuesday by Represcntatve Greer, of Watauga. One would permit the board of county coniutMlcs^:, in discretion, to abolish the Recorder's Court of Watauga County, previously established. The other provides for changing the boundary line* of the town of Blowing Rock and Watauga Township in Watauga County. This bill provides that Blowing Rock Township line shall be extended from the sugar tree corner on Rich Mountain, via John Lewis' and the power dam on Boone Fork Creek; thence a line to the top of White Rock Mountain, said line to be run so as to leave Calvin Coffey, E. H. . IHHHBBm MOC1 s of Northwest North Carol \Y, APRIL 6, 1933 t d States Ambassadors ew German Ambassador to the Unit- Pe n Prittwitz. On the right is David H. n Ambassador to Germany, nomina- Cfe arch. <-'3 REVALUATION IS ? ACTED UPON BY COUNTY BOARD! \Y'? Commissioners Expect to Make Horizontal Cuts in Property Valuations pc Under Tax Supervisor's Office. af Action Is Required Under the Pro- Of visions of the New Machinery Act. No Genera! Change Expected. !/"| u In accordance with the provisions of lh.: new machinery ac;, the county 8 commissioners in session Monday took I up the question of revaluation of real property for taxes. The legislation s? leaves the method of revaluation in the discretion of the county commissioners, allowing them to order a horizon.si reduction or to appoint assessors and appraisers to go over all the property on the tax books. The se former method was approved here. jj. Just what the percentage of re- ar duction in valuation will be has not se been determined, out an attempt will n? bo made \o adjust whatever inequali- fc I tits might liave oeeh. The tax i?lc aT I may, be changed, of coarse, either g, I way. With] a lowered valuation the at I rata mtist be higher or vice versa. ;n | However, the rufT ^ frecF SMHBtiMEfi i valuation upon tne tax rate cannot ! definitely be determined until after | the Hill now before the legislature ?> | providing for the State-supported 8j months school term shall have been luiapOScii of. 73 Die As Airship Akron x* Crashes Into the Ocean t0 lif New York.?In a blinding electn- th cnl storm, the Akron, mightiest dir- g\ igible ever to cruise the sky, was [ plumme ed into the turbulent Atlan- F< | tie early Tuesday warning about 20 | wiles off the New Jersey shore, and ft, ' at dusk hope had waned lor seventylone missing members of the crew. ! Of the 76 men aboard the "Mis- o tress of the Skies'* as she crashed, fvur were rescued, but one of them ft died before he was brought ashore. A day of searching by water and by air brought the discovery of only one body of ;ihe ill-faed crew float- i ing on the ocean. f Fourteen hours after this major disaster, the J-3, non-rigid Navy airship, crashed into the sea 1,000 yards off the. Jersey coast, with a loss of : twr< IIVPS. nc cV?a fr**- A l-nA? C victims. Rear Admiral William -A. Moffet, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, was among those lost on the Akron. Irish potato growers of Allegha- 11 uy County have bought 100 bushels t( of certified seed in adding to the ^ production of a seed crop for sale J* later to eastern growers. ? NTRODuCED BY { IVE GREER TUESDAY e Hollifield, Troy Coffey and Dal f Church in Watauga Town*hip; then t from White Rock to top of Grand- c father Mountain; thence with Cald- ? well County line to corner of Wa- j i tauga and Bio-wing Rock Township Jr lines near the Daingerfield estate, *j This bill provide* that the prop- ] erty included m Blowing Rock ] Township shall bear the same uniform taxation that now exists in j Watauga Township, and that the i Register fo Deeds of Watauga < County shall transfer the property t taken into Blowing Rock from Wa- { tnuga Township without ccst to the citizens owning property in said territory. Both bills were referred to the committee on Counties, Cities and ; Towns. 1 _ $1.50 PEB YEAS WATAUGA BANK IS i IXPECTEDTOOPEN N A FEW DAYS | organization la Faat Taking Form, Is Is Said. Stockholders in Meeting Wednesday Expected to Draft Final Plan for Increasing Capital of Local Institution. Hood May Sanction Opening Soon. The Watauga County Bank, closed ice the beginning of the bank holiy on March* 6\h, may open for regir business within the next week two, or just as soon as reorganiiion details are approved by the ate Banking Commissioner; it. was irned Tuesday evening. The stockholders of the institution e in session today (Wednesday) | d our of their deliberations is exctcd to come a clean-cut reorganition proposal, which will likely .. ? : Al? UVWI ai'WUV bUC tCIIUWltlllg Ol I-lie pital stock to an extent satisfaery to the Raleigh officials. How sch money is to he provided as capil in the reorganized hanking intution was not revealed. The records of the local institution ?re gone over a few days ago by ate bank examiners, and it is unrstood that after 'their audit had ached Raleigh, reorganization plans ;re promulgated. The stockholders meeting is excted to last the greater part of the ternoon, and definite action toward ening the bank will follow. BStlVECHRlSTiAiN FELLOWSHIP WEEK ries of Pre-Eaatev Services to Ee Held at Boone Baptist Church. Special Music to Feature Daily Programs. A series -of pre-Easter fellowship rvices will be conducted at iha tpiist Church, beginning Sunday id continuing through Easter. The rvices are to l>a of a consecrational iture anu 'music is to be a special ature. Those in chavge are very lxious"vhafirmoinlicTs of thc ee^-- - _ cgation and friends of the church Tend these services, and are tru??t- h c that it -will oe /] Rsi. i ur Ui-- The ?elk'TO- aswcffl g program has been arranged: Sunday morning, April 9?"The cdication o? Our Youth to God," i s Winnie ltickett. of Raleigh. Sunday evening?"Open Doors," Rev. P A Hicks, pastor. Monday evening?"Christian Obii itions," J. A. Williams. Tuesday evening?"My Obligation My Church and the Church's Obration to Its Members." W. D. Farling, Clyde R. Greene, H. K. Eg: rs and J. T. C. Wright. Wednesday evening ? "Christian orgiveness," Smith Hagaman. Thursday evening?"The Church's esponsibility for the Unsaved in the immunity," Roy DoLaon. Friday evening ? "Confession of ur Sins," by the Pastor. Sunday morning (Raster)-- "The isen Life," by the pastor. Sunday evening?Easter musical rogram, by the choir. \m BOY WINS H0N0RATA.S.T.C. 'armon Stuart Chosen as Best Orator at Local College. To Eater Stain Content at Elon. Spoke on "Prohibition." (Skyland Post) Carmon Stuart, graduate of Heal \g Springs High School, -was chosen j represent the Appalachian Stat* eachers College in the State omtoical contest, to be hold at Eion Col!go on April 2Sth. Mr. Stuart, in the trials, delivered n eight-minute address on 'Proiiiition." The contest began with eight ntrants, with fouv remaining after limination trials were held in the ppalachian and Rankin-Wilsoa library societies. Two contestants remained, and ought through a tie to a victory by he 18-year-old sophjomore. Those ompeting in the finals were Leroy Jossamon, last year's winner, apeakng on the subject, "A Sehse of Honor," Boyd Baucom, speaking on "A true Evaluation' of a Uar.," By?o? is88; jathan. speaking on "America Must race the Gang World." The judges for the contest were attorney Wade E. Brown, of Biowng Rock, Mrs. Linney, teacher of >ral expression from Charlotte, and . he teacher of English in Boone High School. rAX COLLECTOR BILL RATIFIED Raleigh, N. C.?The General Assembly has ratified the measure eve- yif>. ding the office of tax collector for -TjSl *
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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