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Sittings From the Legislature By M. It. DVNNAGAN Special Writer for The Democrat Rnleich. X. C.?{The House of Representatives of the North Carolina General Assembly, after eliminating: Article 6 of the Revenue Bill, the three per cent, general sales tax, by c .53-50 vote, and refusing, 65 to 36, to insert in its stead the Newman selected commodity sales tax, directed the finance committee to rewrite that article and bring it back to tlie House Tuesday night, until which Liflje the House practically adjourned for *he Easter week-end. By its action in turning down both forms of sales tax, the commodity form more decisively than the general form, the House has moved up certainly another week, at least two weeks longer, adjournment of the j General Assembly. But, ere another week is gone, that body is expected to adopt a general sales tax, possibly modified some, and possibly including some parts of the selected commodity tax, but to adopt it. In any event, its adoption seems assured, for if the House fails to include it in the bill going over to the Senate, the latter body is expected i<> insert it and send it back to the House, with j s fine other eliminations from the present Hoitse measure. Revenue Bill" Short The present House revenue bill is about ?S,000,000 a year short of producing a balanced budget, on the basis of the appropriations bill, already passed by both houses. Three inereas- j e? were made, one taxing the stock in foreign corporations, -the other a one-half-mill per kilowatt, hour of electric power, and the third on corporate franchises. These increases are expected to be eliminated by the Senate, which has already turned two of them down. Scaling these and adding <* sales tax that will bring in around $9,000,000, as the three per cent general sales tax is expected to tie, would balance the budget. Even though defeated, the general isx: poKftihly modified, is the host bet. finally, if not included by the House in the first place. In the light of this week's developments, few see any prospect of adjournment before- the end of April, and the legislators may drink their first legal glass of beer or wine in Raleigh before they adjourn. Short Sessions During Ea3ker The Senate, which had cleared its er??A?v and was practically twiddling its thumbs waiting for toe h(?u.-:e iu ?cud ovc.r the rcven??* bilk decided to observe the Easter season and arranged for short perfunctory sessions, just coming witmr. tne -cbivrtitutivna: requirement ?? d-ily meetings, until Tuesday at noon.*The House, seeing nothing could be done with the revenue bill and even in Uw, (orn ? l/\niv .. ~ r K;llc from i's own committees and from like Senate, followed that lead Friday, and will not hold any more real sessions until Tuesday night. Legislative achievements the pusl week have been below par, due to the time the House has spent on the revenue bill, thus allowing its publie calendar to grow day by day. While there are several bills of more or less importance on that calendar, it would not take long to dispose of them, under pressure of hope of early adjournment. They can be killed or passed in a hurry. 109 New Bills Introduced Summary of the past week, the sixteenth of the session, shows that 109 new bills were introduced, 83 in the Senate and 76 in the House, bringing the session's total to 1,881 bills introduced, 1,320 in the House and 561 in the Senate. Also 87 hills were ratified and became the law last week, including 19 of a public or general mature, and 68 local blils. This iniCtudes a few which were passed and ready for ratification, but not actually ratified. The marriage laws, since live-day notice by minors was abolished and the requirement for physical examination changes to require the groom to furnish a health certificate, or else undergo examination, has an amendment which requires couples marrying outside the Slate to file a copy of the marriage certificate with the register of deeds of the groom's home county within 30 days after the marriage, paying 50 cents for recording. By which it may not be necessary for children born from now on to hunt ocer other stales to prove parental union. Slight changes have been made to safeguard funds in hands of guardians of incompetent World War veterans or of children of such veterans. Start toward restoration of citizenship may be made as soon as sentence of a felon is finished, instead three years to begin, un der a new law. Seed loans are now included with Federal crop liens ant chattle mortgages, in the law regu lating charges for registering sucl 5v?e*?iitwawfo New Banking Ltwi 1-egal machinery has been provid ed for reorganizing closed banks i: not more than one-third of the depos iiora file objections to reorganizing the law empowering fiduciaries t sign depositors agreements. The 90 odd banks now closed, with branchc-5 including the N. C. Bank and Trus (Continned on Page 7) WAI A Non v uLUHE XLIV, NUMBEIv ?2 r? ? - I j< g races Hangman s Noose j V/inniv Ruth trntcncrd by ] ' an Arizona court to be hanged to- l' morrow on a murder charge, was, i on Tuesday, granted a week's reprieve by the State Board of Par- 1 j dons and Parole. ^MJC^WlLlT; SPfiNn ?S7 040 ? ! K'M. iji Mr jVTt/ttfLi I' ON ITS SCHOOLS! i Decrease uf $14,886.18 Under Previous Year. Larger Counties Pay a 1 Larger Percentage of State Fur.d. ? Standards a?d Teaching Raised in ' More Than Sixty of State's One ^ Hundred Counties. ^ \ Raleigh.?Public schools in about * 65 of it he 100 counties of the State will be benefitted in varying degree * by adoption of the $16,000,000 for an right-months school term, but many of the remaining 35 counties will be t greatly injured unless they are per- ' mitted to provide supplements to thu ' State funds, Dr. A. T. Allen, State ' superintendent of public instruction, ^ .states, after getting out a compara- * live table for the 100 counties. The $16,000,000 from the State would have $022,020.66, estimated, j added to it from the county funds ' derived from poll and dog taxes and fines and forfeitures, making $16, 'J22,L<:it;.(>i> available the next two 1 years, in contrast- Us ..budgeted aati asafe-o? *28.??2.487._5i lor 'ho eight 1 months of the present school year, a ' drop of $6,470,774.77 .11 cost for the ; j eight months terin. _ T!. o * |J5 8,3 2 3.7 4 1 [-being 5?c?t tth ywr for the .ninth month, if that is eliminated, would make the cut still more, $7,139,668.- < | 51, for next year. ' While standards and teaching j would be raised in more than sixty ' counties, they would he considerably 1 lowered in the remaining counties, i which are the larger and represent probably two-third.', of the State's : population, Dr. Allen points out. Naturally the larger counties pay a lnr- ' ger percentage of the State fund, while, unless they arc permitted to supplement, their own schools would ' be greatly reduced, without the priv- ' ilege of spending their own funds to 1 .try to hold them up to or as near ' present standards as possible, Pr. Al- 1 ion said. ' Not considering the $668,839.74 ' budgeted this year in 62 counties for ; the ninth month, the figures compiled ' by Dr. Allen show the decrease in 1 amount budgeted for this year to that 1 available for next year under the $16,000,000 allotment in some of the larger counties, as follows: Guilford, $1,162,343.52 to $709,829.99; Mecklenburg, $955,106.06 to $637,413.74; Forsyth, $893,290.58 to $542,488.2S; | Buncombe, $818,881-79 to $-176, 484.12; Durham, $639,957.65 to $358,933.69. Watauga County would rceeivfe no*: year $8-1,057.69 from the State fund, $2,991.63 from county fund", a total of ?S7,G49.32 for schools, as compared with $101,935.48 the-present year for eight months, a decrease of $14,8186.16, in addition to the $1,350.00 spent on the nine months this yerr. FISHING LICENSES NOT TO BE SOLD BY DEPUTY WARDEN'S Fishing license will not be put in the hands of all deputy wardens this year, as has been the custom during past seasons, but will be placed on sale at conveniently located points over the county, according to a statement made by County Warden H. Grady Farthing Monday. Mr. Farthing urges that all deputies keep on the lookout for offenders whether they have licenses to sell or not, and states that this privilege has nothing to do with the satisfaction the warden has given his of1 fice. Some of the most active wardens, he continued, will not be asked to sell fishing licenses this season. ? W. M. U. QUARTERLY MEETING The Woman's Missionary Union of 0 the Three Forks Association will hold " a quarterly meeting at Middle Fork >> Church next Sunday, April 23rd, at t 2:00 p. in! The public is cordially invited to attend. T Ti nuvji -Partisan Newspaper, Devc BOONS, WATAUGA COUNTS m nnqiiiif* i wo rpn I il DAIAUVAIU 1VJ BE RECRUITED IN FORESTRY CORPS Relief Agencies to Begin Monday the Enrollment of State's Quota for Federal Reforestation Program. County's Quota Figured on Population and Percentage of Destitution. Working Out Details. Watauga County will be allowed o contribute 21 men to the Federal eforestation army, it was learned Tuesday, following a meeting of the ;en state district relief supervisors leld in Raleigh. The percentages for :he various counties were arrived at >11 the basis of population as well as percentages of destitution as repealed at the meeting held under the iirectior. of the Governor's office of *eiief. Applications for the jobs will be received by the various county relief lirectors at their offices beginning lext Monday. Between now and that .ime, it was said, details will be comj'cted and placed in the hands of rountv relief offices, it being impossible to receive applications for the obs before complete details have jeer. worked out. A total of 6,500 will be recruited | n the State for the Federal proIrani, Mecklenburg County leading he list with 253. It is understood o ;hat the men will be taken strictly 7 rom the unemployed and those who 0 lave been receiving governmental aid p icretofore. s| f STONY FORK BAPTIST SUNDAY ir SCHOOL RALLY TO BE HELD __ Following is the program for the JT Stony Fork Baptist Sunday School 1 ally, to be held at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, five miles east of Boone, on April 30th, 1033, as compiled by Cari Triplett,, assoeiational uperintendent: Ten o'clock a. m., Sunday School; 10:-Z5, devotional period, Lee Church; 11:00, get acquainted; 11:15, "Our ol Task," Rev. B. F. Wilcox; 11:30, b. 'Organization and Co-operation," by f< toy Keller; 11:45, "Grading the Sun- oi lav School." W. M. Brown; 12:00 pi icon, dinner; 1:00 p. m., "The lt-eli- in :iun vf i!i- Church and the SopdAy _n< School," Rev. R. L. Barnes; 1:15, ci iffijeekly Teaehevs Meeting," Wade Brbwhl 1:30, **l'ersonaT Work of iiirc| >i suncTaiWScndotr Officers and Teach- >> ?rs," Rev. R. H. Shore; 1:45, "Hear- tl ng and Doing," Rev. R. C. Eggers; h; 2:00 song; 2:10, "Christ's Command," aj Rev. W. D. Ashley; 2:25, a word ei "rom each superintendent; 2:45. or- II phar.r.gc appeal by Wade Bvers. w THt? WlKli/1 ic iin-lfn/l frt ? *li ittend this meeting. ?== BETHEL HIGH SCHOOL TO HOLD FINALS NEXT WEEK The Senior Class of Bethel High School will have their class exercises >n "Thursday afiternoou, April 20th, at 8:00 p. m. The graduating exercises will be held on Friday evening at the same hour. Hon. Wade Wil- xn liams, of Charlotte, will deliver the literary acidress after which Prcfessot Smith Hagaman will speak. Diplonias will then be delivered to fif- pQ teen high school and eight seventh ?rade graduates. air Sunday morning at 11 o'clock the so( Reverend J. L. Jenkins, president of rej Boiling Springs Junior College, will as deliver the commencement sermon. tc( This will be in Bethel Church. Saturday evening the Senior Class efj will present a play, *'The Eyes of no Love." The public is cordially invited be, to attend all the exercises. St, State of North Carolina j wli Renews $5,670,000 Note ^ Raleigh?Governor Ehringhaus announced Friday upon his return from f Kia.tr Vai?\i- V, n Uo /I Kofln ch/inoeoflll ?*? i ..r? ? a_ renewing for sixty days at G per cent interest the $5,670,000 in North Carolina short-term notes maturing there April 17th. The renewal was negotiated, the * Governor said, without reducing the notes by $1,000,000 as New York e bankers had sough*., suggesting this *f amount be taken from the State's " sinking fund. . Rhringliaus said the note holders " were "convinced" North Carolina's ' record of reducing its cost of government was "better than any other ' governmental unit, in the country." " Ehringhaus also announced the State "has secured renewal for sixty 1 days at 6 per cent, interest of the $2,350,000 in short-term notes held ' by North Carolina banks, maturing ' Monday. ' No move has been made to renew 1 the $1,560,000 in notes, held by North 1 Carolina banks, maturing May 25th, < nor tne ^ooo.uuu xn notes nexo uy New York banks and $1,817,000 held ' by State banks maturing June 1. 1 The $12,283,000 in short-term ' notes outstanding -were issued during 1 the Gardner administration to meet deficiencies in revenue. / Sufi. - ' .V:.: .. ^45lraSfc'"?v uWZT V m ^ :; M >ted to the Best Interest rt NORTH CAROT--TNA. THURSO Jobless Enlisting in itei Herewith is pictured the launching 00 unemployed for President Roi he enlistments are for six months i f 18 and 25 years. They receive assed upon by relief committees in licws jobless making applications, N rom rolling army kitchens, and Nt lg )epositors K Of Bank; O Three meetings of the depositors F the Watauga County Bank have ten held within the past few days :r the purpose of submitting rerganization plans, which when aproved, should result in the reopenine"au<t?k fsr esatfabout the first of May. Offials are highly pleased with the Ltondancc at the meetings and the '-yktAfc- has E?~r?dcd <-I?-iwo._ tirds of the depositors, it is said, ive signed the reorganization greement, three-fourths being ncctsary, according to law. It is beeve-d that the other aignatui'es ill have been secured within a few sys, and then final aeiaiU for the iOcal f irms Ex Beer; Legal Co With lepra! beer only ten days away North Carolina, indications are it for the first time in the history the city the foamy liquid is to be :ered for sale at several different ints within the town -of Boone, ree or four local business men have eady signified their intention of iuring dispensing permits, and one ail establishment has gone so far to publish advance announcement lay of the coming of the brew. Unofficial information is to the 'ect that the city officials will make attempt at prohibiting the sale o( er locally other than to restrict s licensing in accordance with the ate Jaw. iThe new machinery act lich will no doubt be ratified withConvention To J > . ri/r .1 ?uy umces t^ai A convention of the Democratic aUrs cf the town of Boone will e held in the courthouse Tuesday vening at 7:30 o'clock, acccrding 0 an official call by Chairman T. 1. Moore, which is published tolay. The purpose of the assembly 1 to name a Democratic slate of andidates for Mayor and town alIcrmen to be voted on at an elecion to be held on May 2nd. It is sspecially desired that there be a arge gathering of both roen and romen voters. It is generally understood Lit*.I iM W 1 AIJ U D nvyur murcu. ?uu nran aicn ia. 0. Perry, Brantley Duncan and R. L. ulay would, if their services were demanded, accept the city posts For another term, and it it considered likely that they will again be nominated. However, there is considerable talk of other proposed tickets, but no candidates have come forward to ask for either of the nominations. Saturday ie the last day to register for the city election. J. B. MOC ts of Northwest North Car< AY. APRIL 20, 1 A'I ' '^T" ; of the recruiting drive to enlist 250,osevelt'a Reforestation Service plan, duration fcr jobless between, the ages $1 per day and the applications are the respective territories. Photo No. 1 o. 2 shows meals being served recruits >. 3 shows recruits off for conditionally To Aid pen By First opening will be pushed to completion. Under the State-approved plan, depositors will receive- in stock in the new bank one-third of the total amount of their deposits. This i? "anlul stock, together with the relinquishment of old I stock uitu 1 he nf a like | j amount by the original stockhold j - toxrelhrr with other minor r?an?" in thf itructure of the institution, will n;siic of the local bank a safe and sound institution, capable of weathering any storms, in the opinion of local business leaders. Commissioner Gurr.cy P. Hood shares this opinion. peel To Handle inmodity May 1 in a few days calls for the levying of a municipal tax of $15 where beer is to be consumed on the premises, or $10 "off premises.'" The county commissioners will collect the tax where permits are issued to sell brew outside the corporate limits <?f any town, and the State tax on barrels has been raised from $2 to $2, and' on bottled goods the levy is dropped Ifrom 2 to 1 cent per 12 ounces. Legal beer, which is rapidly bei | coming "old news" in other parts of ; wie coffntry, is swu a main topic 01 conversation locally, and an occasion-; ; al bottle lias filtered through to resi dents of the town, who have pro: nnnced the beverage good but nonintoxicating. Name Candidaies led; Election 1st CAUSE OFTYPHOID AT BANNER ELK IS | FOUND; REMEDIED Information from Banner Elk Wednesday indicates that the cause for the epidemic of typhoid, which made the closing of the college there necMf-ary, has been found, and is being speedily removed. State Board of Health officials thit the illness came | from a temporary polution of Elk ! i :_f ?-? ?_ ? - ?? wo| ?>iu mivrumuoa i* null inc epidemic is now thought to be under control, no new cases having developed in the past six days. About thirty cases of the malady are said to have been contracted in that community. Steele is the register, but those who have previously voted in a city election are not required to re-reg . iHH RAT :>lina $1.60 PER YEABL HOMICIDE CASE DRAWS SENTENCE OF 7 TO 10 YEARS General Brown Must Serve Time in Penitentiary for Killing Father-inLaw. Was Last Case on Criminal Docket. Ten Civil Case* Have Been Trlea and Numerous Continuance*. Court to Last Remainder of Week. *. General Brown, of ZionviJle, was sentenced by Judge T. B. Finley in Superior Court last Wednesday aft| ernoon to a term of from 7 to 10 years in the State Penitentiary for the slaying of his father-in-law Dillon Pennell, the fatal shooting having occurred in last November. The defendant's testimony, it was generally agreed, was damaging to his case, and it had previously been thought that a plea of self-defense might result in acquittal. The encounter was ! precipitated when Pennell came to ' the home of Brown in an alleged intoxicated condition and started an argument. The prisoner, however, stated in his testimony that be shot his wife's father in the back. This was the last case on the criminal docket, other judgments of the court having been published last week. [The Recorder's Court had tak en care of most of the cviminal actions. Court is expected to adjourn by Friday afternoon. Ten civil cases have I bgen disposed of, and judgments in several others. Perhaps fifteen rej main yet for trial, not counting a I number "which have been continued. Of paramount interest this week was the case of A. L. Triplett vs. Deep Gap Tie and number Company, which involved 200 acres of land from which the plaintiff did not wish to be ejected as a result of a tax foreclosure. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff which was set aside by Judge Finley as "contrary to the greater weight of the evidence.-' \ SPROLES BUTLER ' PASSES TUESDAY Well Known Young Man Dies trom | Fe-.-.'r. K?en >n 111 HtaltK for Some- Time. Funeral Wedj nesday. fi.t Mountain City. Sproies Bubier, 22 years old, sori ~T of Mr. and Mrs. Donley Butler of Banner Elk, dted at his home there luesuay morning at 5 o'clock, xyohoid was said to have been the im| mediate cause of death-, although he I had been in poor health for a number of months. Funeral services were held in Mountain City. Teitn., Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and interment followed iu the community cemetery. A number of Boone people were present for the obsequies. Surviving are the mother and father, An aunt, I Mrs. Jim Rivers, resides in Boone. Deceased was born and reared at Butler, Tenn., and was a student at the Boone college for two years, when he resided at the home of an aunt, | Mrs. J. A. S proles. Later he attended the Teachers College at Johnson City for a term, and was enrolled at Lces-McRae when his parents moved to Banner Elk a few months ago. Young Butler was quite as well known in Boone as in his home community, was a bright, congenial youth, and made a wide circle of friends throughout this section. Henry Yates Badly Kv PC.I* Wfc? It/jr Mr. Henry Yates, ox the Y?Jm . Cruris section, was seriously injured Friday afternoon, when he was struck by an auto driven by Mr. Perry Moody, of Sugar Grove, the accident taking place opposite the courthouse in Bosnc. Mr. Yates was thrown lo the pavement, the left leg broken above the knee, and three ribs fractured. He was rushed to the hospital by Mr. Moody and was later removed to the home of his son, MrBob Yates, in this city, where- he is showing satisfactory improvement. The accident occurred, it is understood, as Mr. Yates stepped from behind a parked auto into the path of the oncoming machine. The driver used every means to avoid the impact, and no blame is placed on him | for the unfortunate accident. Seed Loan Office Will Close on April 25th The Federal Seed Loan Office, which has been in charge of Mr. S. C. Eggers since its opening, will close on April 25th. Mr. Eggera is ; very anxious that all farmers of the county, who yet have business to transact, do so at their earliest opportunity, in order to avoid congestion on the last day or two.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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