AN AI>VKRTKUiU MEDIUM THAT BRINGS RESULTS The County, VOLUMN LXH. LOUI8BURG, N. CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 10S1 TEN PAOES NUMBER 17 A. F. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION 91. SO Per Year BVHRYBODY BOOST LOUISBURG EXPLAINS NEW SCHOOL LAW! State to Maintain Six Mon&s Term I Reasonable to Expect Special Tax Rates To Be Less This Year With Larger Tax Re duction Fund Supt E. L. Best, very kindly con sented to give the FRANKLIN TIMES | the following very clear and Informa tive digest of the new school law,] particularly as it affects Franklin | County: According to we new scnooi law, alter July 1st, 1931, the State will support the Current Expanse of the six months school tern aecordtng to State standards. Heretofore the county has been making a levy tor the Current Expense of the six months gohoot and receiving aid from what vtas known as the State Equalisation Kund. Now the State will pay for all the Current Expense for the six months school term, and th? cOunt.es are required to levy a 15c tax to aid the State in running the schools. This Uc levy must be made on 1980 val ues. No county is allowed to levy any more than the 15c rate on the 1930 -aiues unless it gets the approval ot the Board of Education, the Board of County Commissioners and the State 1 oard of Equalization. In the school year 1930-M Franklin County had to levy 54c for the support of the Cur rent Expense of the six months school. If the values remain the same, there fore, the Current Expense bf 'the six months school for 1931-32 will cost trie tax payers of the county 39c less on the one hundred dollars valuation o; property, by the State's supporting the six months school. The following are the Hems that will be paid for by the State after July 1: 1. Salaries of . superintendents, principals, teachers, all clerical help, per diem of Board of Education, Wel fare Officer, and all instructional sup plies for the schools. 2. The operation of* school plants, such ha, janitors, fuel, janitorial sup plies and such other items as may te found necessary for the efficient operation of the plant. 3. Maintenance of plants, such a?, repairs on buildings, grounds, heatlnf p'ants, lighting plants, plumbing, firfH nlture, etc. 4. fixed charges, such as, insur ance and rent. 5. Auxiliary agencies which in cludes the transportation of pupils, library books, health Work, interest on temporary lp'ahs, etc. The Board of Education of the coun ty will make out its budget for the Current, Expense and send to the State Board ot Equalization in Ra leigh who wil approve the same in whole or in part. This budget having been", approved by the State Board ot Equalization will be sent back to the county, and the county is required to operate its school for the six months t^rm on this approved budget. What Capital Outlay and Debt Service funds are required will have to be approved by the Board of County Commission ers as heretofore and a levy, made in the county for the same. If a-school runs longer than the six months term, funds must be provided for this extended term by local tax. To aid districts having an extended term the ne wlaw provides for an ap propriation of one and one-half mil lion dolars known as the fax Reduc tion Fund. This fund is distributed to the districts in the State that have a local tax and extended term, by the State Board of Equalization, and each district has to reduce Its local tax l;y the same amount It receives- from this Tax Reduction Fund. . The. bid law provided one and one-quarter mil lion dollars as a Tax Reduction. Fund and this year the live high school dis tricts in the county had to reduce their local tax levies as follows; , i The Bunn Special Taxing School District was reduced from 60c to Sic. The Cedar Rock-Cypress Creek Special Taxing School District was reduced from 60c to 19c. The Qold Sand Special Taxing School District was reduced from 60o lo 22c. The Youngsville Special Taxing School District was reduced from 60c to 17c. The Epsom Special Taxing School District was reduced from 60c to 2 Sc. Inglealde, a local tax district, re ceived $16.47 from the Tax Reduction Fund and its r&te was not rednCM any from 20c. Mapleville, a local tax district, re ceived $177.62, which reduced Its tax rate from 30c to 28c. The Board of Education or the Board Of pounty Commissioners have nothing to do with the allotment of this Tax Reduction Fund. As stated above, (his is made by the State Board of Equalisation to each district. Next year the. State Board ot Enualliatlon. will have one and one-half million dollars to give to the districts of the New Baseball Chief William Hsrridge has been ejected president of the American Baseball League, succeeding the late Ernest RarnarxL . ? State Instead of one and one-quarter million. ? It eeeme natural, therefore, to expect that each district should receive more from this fund than it did last year, when only one and one quarter million dollars were distri buted, and It is hoped, therefore, that the local tax rates will be even less in 1931-32 than in 1930-31. According to the new law the teach ing load has been Increased and a number of teachers, In the State will be eliminated. Franklin County will probably loBe from ten to fourteen teachers. New requirements have been made for one, two and three teaeber elementary schools, and no high school will be allowed to run that has fewfr than fifty pupils In average daily, attendance. The State xlcard of Equalization will determine which of these schools must be con solidated and after coming to a decis ion, Will hOt furnish money tor the running of any school that is not con solidated according to its. plana. Sfncefhe State is going to support the six months school term, it will check arid supervise the work in detail through the proper county authorltlee. and all expenditures will have to be made according to State standards. This new law is set up on the basis of complete State support for the six months term according to State stand ards. The people of the county, therefore, should adjust their think ing as rapidly as possible to that con ception as the General Assembly of 1931 has written it Into the law. Frank Nash Paid $23 for "Fortune" In German Bonds Raleigh, June 9. ? Frank Nash, as sistant attorney general who will be come clerk of the North Carolina Su preme court July 1, became a "mil lionaire" for $23. Cleaning up his desk in the attor ney general's office today prepara tory to moving Into his new quarters, Mr. Nash ran across $1,500,000 of se curities he has held since 1924. "I better take these along," he said. "I bought them in 1924 for $23 just to feel like a millionaire." The securities are German gov ernment and munloi])al bonds and worthless unless Germany strikes an era ' of overwhelming prosperity, Mr. Nash said. He said shortly after he bought them the German counsel at Washing ton offered him $10 for the "Invest ment to get the bonds out of circula tion." * ? Shooting Occurs At Poetical Spot Fayettevllle, June 9. ? Fayettevllle yollce are working on a neat crime puzzle while Fannie Mae Saber, negro cook, la recovering from a pistol wound. Fannie Mae says a strange a- an, apparently drunk, rushed up and shot her while she was picking a magnolia, but the police shortly after found a discharged revolver in her room In the servants' quarters at the home of Edgar Allen Poe, where she cooks. The shooting occurred half way between the Poea' and the home if Oliver Wendell Holmes, who Uves next on Bradford avenue. Th?j cook was In company with another negro woman and a negro prise fighter when the assailant appeared, she saya. Auxiliary T^O Meet Mrs. Cecil R. Sykes will entertain the American Legion Aailllary, Tues day afternoon JYfre 16th at 4 o'clock. Mrs. W. H. White has charge of the program tor this meeting. Mrs. J. Forrest Joyner, Sac'y. Subscribe to The Franklin Tlm?$| --- ? ? Farm Board Not To Dump Cotton Washington, June 8. ? Carl William*, farm board member, said today tbe a, 300, 000 bales of cotton held by the Cotton Stabilization Corporation will not be sold at present low prices. This policy of holding the cotton for improved prices, he said, will be continued beycnd July 31. He did not fix a time limit . The farm board has promised not to authorize Its sale prior to July 31. A meeting of the Cotton Stabilization Corporation and tbe American Cot ton Cooperative Association will be leld on June 25, probably In Washing ton. At that time a more definite an nouncement a c to future policies may be made. Storage ( barges. -? - Williams declined to say how long 'ihe (jotton, on which storage charges tire between $3 and $4 a year, woufd be held. He intimated, however, that the purchase price of 16 or 17 cents a pound would not be asked. The cotton was brought fromr the 1929 crop, and has been in storage neal-ly a year.|_ Williams said it could be held for Lfty years without deterioration, and was the "neareat to gold in tbe Treas ury of all agricultural commodities.'' "Tbe bulk of it is held at Oalvooton, Houston and New Orleans. * He said cotton cooperatives have reduced tbetr holdings from the 1930 crop to considerably under 2,000,000 bales. Their original holdings amount ed. to 2.SQO.OOO bales. Tbe total held by, the 'Stabilization corporation and cotton cooperatives for better prices. Williams Bald, is a little more than .',000,0*0 bales. Williams expressed the Opinion that American cotton farmers can com pete with the entire world In raising o nd marketing cotton, but did not in clude Russia in hla statement, be cause of what he termed "abnormal, conditions" In that country. He said the farmers would raise, their crop 2 or 3 cents cheaper this year and even more cheaply next year. Hi added, however, that tlila would inevitably reduce the farmers' stand ard of living. - To Draw Plans For / Prison This Month Raleigh, June 9. ? With North Caro lina's prison population at Its great est figure in the history of the state Governor Gardner this afternoon said the prison board and an advisory pris on commission would meet the lat ter part of this mopth to prepare plans for th? construction of a new central prison. The 1931 general assembly provided $400,000 for the construction of the rew plmpt which was recommended by P special commission wh{ch made a ?survey <.p{ prison conditions in the state and suggested a program of re fcrm to the legislature. Birthday Party Little Miss Jewell Dennis delight fully entertained a number of her friends at a birthday party on June 9th, this being her ninth birthday. She was the recipient of many lovely end useful gifts, which were opened soon after the guests assembled and which were duly admired and ex claimed over by a group of children, j Many games were played amidst much ! merriment and Joy. The children were then called into the spacious dining room where they were served Ice cream cones and cake and given different colored suckers. Those present at the"party were: Marie and Horace Hilton, Charlotte and Claude Colllnfa, John Sledge, Margaret and Douglas House, Hortease Williams, Louise Long, Margaret Matthews, Blaine Miller, Dorothy and Jane Per son, Emma GrlfTln, Ida Pearce, El ton Bledsoe, Brn?at Pearce, Chrlsteene Pearce, Jackson and Pauline Coley, , Hugh and John Perry, Eleanor Pearce, Crlchton Claire Cwthrell and Henry Vearca. No Icebergs Floating Washington, June 9. ? Br some strange freak of nature the froien Northland, of Glaciers has just pre sented this spring the prise mystery of all aeafarlng time, by keeping tight-locked somewhere within the vast confines of the northern seas the whole fleet of giant lceberga,. which every year before this had floated with ita deadly menace ' Into the steamer lanes of the North Atlantic. Not a single Iceberg has been sight ed this year by the International ice patrol, maintain* by thlr govern ment for several -shipping powers of the world In the Interest .of safety to human life and precious cargo. Experts of (he United States coast guard describe this complete absence of Icebergs so far this year as posi tively unprecedented, not only In the annals of the Iceberg patrol, but In tte memory of seafaring men. rtfr FIRST CLA8S JOB PRINTING PHONB ^0. 118 i Cotton Week A Success \ * Raleigh, June 9. ? U. B. Blalock, ?ice-prealdent and general manager t?f the North Carolina Cotton Growers Co-optratlve Association, yesterday termed the first "National Ootton Week" a "complete success". The first week In June was set aside as "cot ton week" In an attempt to Increase the demand for cotton which for years uas been the South's greatest money trop. A review ot newspapers, Mr. Bla lock continued, showed universal In terest In the history of cotton and Its uses, which now number 832. Radio talks, style shows, displays and other IbeCTuins featured cotton and cotton prctluets during the week. "National Cotton Week" was usher ed In North Carolina by an elaborate page&nt, "The Voice of Cotton", pre Mrted In Concord May 28 and 29 with X cast of nearly 1400. Over 10, 000 persons saw the show which not only told the story of cotton's progress from 1200 before Christ to the pres ent, but introduced many new uses for cotton products. .. Feat urine new uses for the fiber, a cotton style show was held In Greeiis loro during the week with "Gate City" girls acting as models. Home and County agents through out the cution belt held style shows and educational meetings during the week to stimulate greater Interest In Uie use of cotton products. Government Needs Student Nurses The U. S. Civil Service Commission -announces an examination (or Stu dent Nurse for duty at St. Elizabeths Hospital at Washington, D. C. There' will probably be about 60 positions to be tilled and high school graduates between the ages ot 18 and 30 will be admitted to the examination. This position In addition to quarters, sub sistence, laundry and medical atten tion pays a salary of $288 per annum. Applications will be accepted and Competitors examined at any city within the states of Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and the. District of Columbia where a frst or second class post office ia located,. Appropriate application form may b?] secured from the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examin ers at any first or second class post office and muit be on file with the manager, Fourth U. S. Civil Service District, Washington, D. C? not later than July 1, 1931." Curb Market A Success The Hpme Demonstration Clab Mar ket opened for 'the first time Satur day, June 6th at 8:00 A. M. in the Al len Building next to the post office with sixteen women selling. Quite a few were present and tor the first s-alee day it was felt that it was suc cessful. At nine o'clock the draw ing took place and Mrs. Robert Smlt? wiik held the lucky number and re ceived a basket of groceries. Bach ; Saturday morning the Market will < pen at 8 A. M. and the drawing will take place at 9:30 A. M. The following Woman's Clubs had producers selling. Kpsom, Cedar Rock, Gold Sand, Bunn, Mitchlners, Wood, Maplevllle, Seven Paths, Harris, and CenterVUle, Miss Timber lake Entertains Miss Elisabeth Timberlake delight fully entertained the members of the Friday afternoon dontract Club at her home near Loulsburg the past week. Quantities of garden flowers were used to brighten the living room, for the occasion. At the conclnqfon of the game, the hostess, assisted by her sister, Miss Lucy Timberlake,' t erred delicious refreshments to the following: Misses Max Allen,. Jewel Clark, Lucie Clifton Boddle, Helen Smith wick, Lucy Burt, Annie Perry Neal and Mesdames Mack Stamps, Sam Watktns and Conrad Sturgeea, of Henderson. Charles Hoyt, of Washing ten P. S. Allen, and F. N. Eserton. At The Louiftburg Theatre Next Week The following is the program at the ' Lonlsburg Theatre, beginning Saturday, June 13th: Saturday, 'June ISth ? Wallace Beery in "The Secret PIx," also corn ed* and serial "The Indians Are Cafen*." Jlonday and Tuesday, June 16-16 ? Norma Shearer and Robert Mont gomery In "Strangers May Kiss." Wednesday. June 17th ? George Bancroft In "Derelict." Thursday and Friday. June 18-19 ? Marlon Davles in "It's a Wise Child." Saturday, June 20th ? Richard Ar ies ?nd Pay Wray la "JUe Conquer ing Horde," also chapter No. 9 "The Indians Are Coming." After Lindy'a Mark Ruth Nicholt U reported all jet (or an attempt to crots the Atlantic by W. J. Woodlief Fatally Burned Mr. W. J. Woodlief was fatally burned at his store and filling sta tion at Mapleville. abogt five milts east of Loulsburg, Saturday ntght when he was delivering some gss to s colored man and some of the fumee of gas escaped about him and were ignlWd fry the gas lantern he carried with nini. He was badly burned on one side, fill of his hair was burne4 from bis head and he received much injury from inhaling the flames. He was immediately carried to a hospital In Rocky Mount for treatment where he di'^d on Sunday night Mr. Wood lief was slzty-ona years of. age and leaves his wUe and two sons and one daughter. The funeral services were held at Mapleville Tuesday atternooi. at four o'clock. Ordered To Training Camp Over 950 young men from North and South Carolina have received orders to report at Fort Brags. N. C., on Fri day, June 12th, (or one month's ser vice with the 1931 Citizens Military Training Camp. The canlp this year *111 be commanded by Major Harvey D. Higley, of the 17th Field Artillery, Fort Bragg. Major Higley, born in Iowa, is a graduate 'f:-' On one item their poliey Is adamant ? under no circumstances will the Lruenlng government permit Ger many to participate in any teaneuver designed to bring Europe tato a united front against America. In any conversations between the heads of the German government and the visiting America cabinet mem bers the point will be mad* that Ger many and Britan both wish to work r. 1th America as a friend In deciding what course must be pursued. ? DOSS BOTH ENTEBTAISS Miss Dorothy Hoth delightfully en tertained a large number of the local younger set at a party honoring her guest, Miss Florence Norwich of Hen derson, on Wednesday evening at flight o'clock. The home was beautifully decorated Ing was enjoyed by the guests. Mr. Bill Morria tarnished splendid mbslc For the Ths treshments of ice cream and rake.