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Put Your Payroll Savings on a Family Basis Make 10 par cant lust a Starting ? ".'olnt PKIDAY, JUIiV 80, l?4i< (Eight Pages) NUMBER 2D REDUCES TAX RATE TOWN 1943 TAX RATE $1.85 The Board Met Monday Night and Adopted the 1943-44 Budget; Total Budget Amounts to $85, 198.00; Interesting Com parison -- I The Board of Town Commis sioners met In special session Monday night. The following members of the Board were pres ent: W. C. Webb, F. H. Allen, W. p. Barrow, R. C. Beck and W. J. Cooper. Commissioners W. G. Lancaster and W. J. Shea rin were absent. The purpose of the meeting was to adopt a permanent Bud get of Expenses for the fiscal year 1943-1944, and to adopt a Tax Rate for the 1943 taxes. After discussing the estimated Department expenses and Debt Service requirements, as estab lished in the temporary budget previously adopted, the Board passed a motion to adopt the fol lowing Permanent Budget of Ex penses and Debt Service require ments or the fiscal year 1943 1944: Department Expenses General Government $10,680.00 Street Department 7.150.00 Light Department 30,776.00 Water Department 9,390.00 Police Department 6,760.00 Fire Department 3,765.00 Total Department Expenses $68,521.00 Debt Service Requirements Bonds to be retired $ 8,500.00 Interest and Exchange on Bonds 8,177.00 Total Debt Service Requirements $16,677.00 Grand Total of Depart ment Expenses and Debt Service Require ments $85,198.00 After calculatiug estimates of revenue from taxes and other sources, Com. R. C. Beck made the following motion: "That a Tax Rate of $1.85 per $100. OX) valuation be adopted for the Fis cal Year 1943-1944, applicable to the 19.43 Town Taxes." This motion was seconded by Com. W. B. Barrow, and was adopted by an unanimous vote. There being no other business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned. Comparison Looking back to twenty years ago the following facts are of in terest to the citizens of Louisburg. The Bonded Indebtedness of Louisburg in 1923 was $327,000. 00. The Bonded Indebtedness of Louisburg in 1943 is $171,008.00. The Town Tax Rate in 1923 was $2.85. The Town Tax Rate for 1943 is $1.85. We do not know what per cent of actual values were listed for taxation in 1923, but we think that at present real and personal property is listed at not over 50 per cent of it's actual value on the whole. In 1933 the North Carolina General Assembly passed a State wide Act reducing real estate values 20 per cent. This action forced the Town of Louisburg tax rate upward from $1.95 to $2.25. In 1938 the citizens of Louisburg voted to issue $18,000.00 in Ar mory Building Bonds, which ac tion forced our tax rate upward from $1.85 to $2.00. In 1923 the Louisburg Power Plant was equipped with two Semi-Diesel Engines with a ca pacity each of 150 H. P. Today it is equipped with one 375 H.P. Diesel Engine, one 360 H.P] Die sel Engine, one NEW 225 H.P. Diesel Engine and still operated one of the first old type 150 H.P. engines which was originally in stalled whan the Town abandon ed steam engine generation. Since 1923 the Town of Louis burg has constructed a modern water filter Plant and Sewage Disposal Plant. We have added several miles of paved streets and sidewalks, and we have construc ted the Armory and Municipal Building. FRANKLINTON SCHOOLS TO OPEN ? ? ? v W. P. Morton, Superintendent of Franklinton Public Schools, announces the following opening dates for the schools: Franklinton Public School will open Wednesday morning. Sep tember 1, at 9 o'clock a. m. Albion Academy and B. F. Person Graded School will open on Monday morning, August 23, at 9 o'clock a. m. Concord, Copeland-Perry. Kat esville, Kinches, Mt. Olive and Wilder's schools will open on Monday morning, August 2. at 9 o'clock. CO-CHAIRMEN NATIONAL WAR FUND I>R. A. l'ACL HAGBV MK. W. B. HAIIKOW WAR FUND ORGANIZATION A. PAUL BAGBY AND W. B. BARROW, CO-CHAIR ME N ; Meeting Friday Night Ap points Executive Commit tee; To Raise $125,p00,000 National W^r Fund More than one half of the $125,000,000 to be sought by the National War Fund in a nation wide campaign next fall will be used for service to our armed forces, it was announced today by A. Paul Bagby and W. B. Barrow, Co-Chairmen, of Frank i lin County Unit of National War j Fund. The announcement was made in a detailed budget report presented by Winthrop W. Aid rich, president of the Fund. The budget figures issued to day show needs of National War Fund member agencies totaling $125,000,000, of which $67,672. 000 is for services to armed for ces, $40,099,000 for United Na tions Relief. $3,621,000 for refu gee relief. $800, 00Q for adminis trative and campaign expenditur es, and $12,808,000 for a con tingency fund to meet needs which may arise out of changing war conditions. The budget, prepared by a committee headed by Gerard M. Swope, of New York, is to cover needs of the member agencies of the National War Fund for the i fourteen months period ending October 1. 1944. In addition to the $125,000,000 to be raised for National War Fund agencies, local community chests and war funds are expect ed to raise at least another $125, 000,000 to meet needs on the home front, and to finance social and health services. In making his report President Aldrich said: "The budget com mittee has examined all requests for funds with a view to deter mining the extent of needed re lief, whether the relief could be supplied from any other source, whether supplies to meet the need were available, whether shipping space was available, whether there was adequate supervision of dis tribution, whether the relief pro jects conformed to the strategic requirements of the United Stat es, and whether costs of distribu tion were at a minimum." The net requirements of the National War Fund member agencies for 1943 and gross bud gets for the fourteen month per iod ending October 1, 1944 are as follows: Services to Armed Forces; USO (United Service Organiza tions), $61,227,000; United Sea men's Service, $4,125,000; War Prisoners Aid, $2,320,000. United Nations Relief; Belgian War Relief Society. $325,000; British War Relief Society, $5. 698,000; French Relief Fund. $2,183,000; Friends of Luxem bourg, $121,000; Greek War Re lief Association, $5,122,000; Nor wegian Relief, $200,000; Polish War Relief, $3,750,000; Queen Wilhelmina Fund, $200,000; Rus sian War Relief, $10,155,000; United China Relief. $9.873,0D0; United Chechoslovak Relief, $23?,000; United Yugoslav Re lief Fund, $2,238,000; Refugee Relief; Refugee Relief Trustees, $2,809,000.; United States Com mittee for the Care of European Children, $812,000. The Franklin County Unit of the National War fund met Friday night in Loulsburg. and appoint ed the following Executive Com mittee: Rev. S. E. Mercer, Franklinton; Mr. J. D. Morris, Youngsville, R. 1; Dr. M. C. King, Franklinton; Mr. W. B. Tucker, Louisburg; Prof. C. A. Harris, Loulsburg; Mr. L. H. 'Dickens, Loulsburg, R. 2; Rev. H. T. McFadden, Louis burg; Mr. D. T. Dickie, Hender son, R. 1. A. Paul Bagby and W. B. Bar row, Co-Chalrmen, Franklin County Unit. Loulsburg, N. C. Fill The Pitchers I With Bonds and Stamps 01 Molly Pitcher' Day; Na tional Tag Day Set foi August 7th ".Molly Pitcher slio stood by her nun i .And rammed the charges home, sir; .And thus oil Monmouth's bloody field A sergeant did become, sir." The Molly Pitcher of the Bat tle of Monmouth carried pitchei's of water to the men on the hot iusty battlefield. Then when her husband was wounded at his cannon she took his place and fired his gun with the skill of a Veteran. For one day, August 7th. the lLouisburg Boy Scouts of Troop 20 will promote the sale of War [Stamps by featuring the red, Wvhite and blue tags with War I Stamps attached. Their goal will be to have every citizen here wearing a tag by the end of the (day. Give the Scouts your support by buying the Molly Pitcher tags from them. George M. Manning Dead George M. Manning, of Ingle side. died at his home Tuesday afternoon after a short -illness. Funeral services were held (Wednesday at 3 p. m., from the home by the Rev. Mr. Russell, of .Wake Forest, and the Rev. E. D. Dodd, of Kittrell. Burial fol lowed in the Trinity Methodist Church cemetery. Mr. Manning was if native of Halifax County and was former ly associated with his brother, Thad Manning, in publishing a newspaper at Henderson. He al so was connected with the pub lication of papers in Halifax | County, N. C., and in California. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Sallie Macon, of Franklin County; one daughter, Mrs. Frank Freeman, of Charlotte; three sisters, Annie and Pattie Manning, of Durham, and Mrs. [Roger Patterson, of Havre, Mon tana. , Mr. Manning was one of Franklin County's most highly [respected citizens, and was al ways interested in all civiq and other activities of his County, Community and State. In his going Franklin County has lost a valuable citizen. o JOHN S. HARRIS DEAD John S. Harris, of Loulsburg, Route 1, died at the Mary Eliza beth Hospital in Raleigh Tuesday morning following a brief illness. Funeral services were held from the Harris Chapel Baptist Church Wednesday at 3 p. m., with the Rev. Charles Howard officiating. Burial followed in the family cemetery near the home. Surviving are three brothers, R. T. Harris, of Zebulon; J. B. Harris, of Raleigh, and J. H. Harris, of Alexandria, Va.; and several neices and nephews. MILITARY UNIT RETURNS 8th Co.. N. C. S. G.. Louisburg's Military Unit returned home Wednesday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock after having spent ten days in camp at Fort Bragg. The boys report a good time, although they had plenty hard work. All were well and In good spirits on arrival. ? o ? ? Seaman Sam says: "A min is never happy until he la married ?then It is too late." CODNTY TAX RATE $1.02 FRANKLINTON SCHOOL QUESTION CLEARED County Commissioners Adopt 1943-44 Budget Saturday Night; Budget Totals $202,195.76; Tax ( Rate Same as Last Year The Board of County Commis sioners met in the Commission ers Room of the Court House on Saturday night, from a recessed meeting of July ,46th. The following commissioners were present: J. Z. Terrell. Chairman. T. S. Dean. H. T. Bar tholomew, Percy" W. Joylner, Ho ward S. Pearce. At the reconvening of the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, on Saturday 24 July, 1943. the following mo tion by Com. Pearce. seconded by Com. Bartholomew, was duly car ried; that the Budget of the Franklinton Public Schools, be. and it is hereby, approved for the fiscal year 1943-1944. In such amount as will give the children of Franklinton Township schools the same per capita from County sources as is received by the school children In the other schools of the county from coun ty funds, under the budget of Franklin County Board of Edu cation. the funds to be paid to Franklinton from County sources being as follows: Current ex pense. $4,127.62; Capital Outlay. $1,187.68; Debt service. $3,615. 75. A roll call vote was asked for and is as follows: For the above motion: Corns. T. S. Dean. Howard Pearce, H. T, . Bartholo mew. and Chairman J. Z. Terrell. Coin. Percy W. Joyner voiing no to the above motion. Motion by Com. Pearce. sec onded by Com. Dean, and car ried. all members present and voting, that the Franklin County budget be adopted for the fiscal year 1043-1944. A copy of said budget is on file in the Register of Deeds office and in the County Accountant's oflticj, providing a tax rate the same as last year. A copy of same having been pub lished in the FRANKLIN TIMES. The following tax rate was levied : County General Purpose .15 Poor .15 County Home .05 County-wide Debt Sefvice .37 Health .04 .76 Kchooht . Current Expenses .10 Capital Outlay .04 Debt Service .12 .26 Total $1.02 Roads Dunn .20 Harris .55 Youngsville .23 Franklinton .23 Hayesville ' .67 Sandy Creek .43 Gold Mine .75 Cedar Rock .20 Cypress Creek .63 Louisburg .21 And In order to provide . reve nue from Schedule B license tax es as provided by the Revenue Act, there is hereby levied the maximum amount permitted to be levied by the County upon the occupations, activities, uses of property and for the purposes set forth in Schedule B. of Article 2. of Chapter 158 of the public laws of 1939. The County Budget as approv ed provided $75,922.96 for the General Fund. $5,044.00 Salaries and expenses of the Health De partment (County's part), $46,-. 923.00 County-wide Debt ser vice; $33,453.89 Township road debt service, and $40,851.91 for County-wide Schools. This makes a grand total of $202,195.76. The total tax rate for any township can be determined by adding the County tax rate of $1.02 to the township road tax rate. The total will be the to tal tax rate of the particular township. This completing the work be fore the Board adjournment was taken. Wednesday Holi day Trough Aug. The FRANKLIN TIMES has been requested to announce that twenty-seven Loulsburg business house* has agreed to continue the Wednesday afternoon holi days by closing at 12 o'clock on Wednesday afternoons through the month of August. Therefore those having business with Louis burg business houses will bear this In mind and arrange their business for other times than on Wednesday afternoons. i o Women aren't afraid of any thing, not even their husbands. $ 15,000.00 FIRE LOSS IN TWO FIRES THIS WEEK ( The First^Was at Cotton Storage House of A. W. \ Person Early Sunday Morning; Second at Home Of "Pig" Egerton On Kenmore Avenue Monday A costly and very stubbon^ lire was discovered in A. W. Pei'son's cotton storage house on the Sea board yards about 3:10 o'clock Sunday morning, by Policeman W. Z. Moore. The alarm was spunded and the fire department responded promptly, but the fire being so hot and confined to the inside of the building It was some time before water enough could be put on the blaze to cool it to a point that the firemen could get close enough to do ef fective fighting. Evidently the fire had been burning for many i hours before it broke to a point 'where it could be discovered. Af ter the fire many were seen who smelled the odor of cotton or cloth burning many hours be fore. ' r' Soon after the firemen sub dued the blaze to where they could do effective work it was brought under control and ex tinguished us far as cotton could be said to be "put out." There was one hundred and thirty-eight bales in this house most all of wtjich was damaged, the estima ted loss being $12,000. which was insured. The building also belonging to Mr. Person sustain ed a damage estimated at $2,500 and was partially insured. This building adjoined anoth er with over two hundred bales of cotton in it. which escaped damage, by the effective work of the firemen and the strong divid ing brick wall between them. On Monday about 12:30 o'clock the alarm was again sounded and the fire was located at a resi dence on South Kenmore Avenue occupied by "Pig" Egerton. col ored. It seems the fire started in the kitchen and made its way through the house practically destroying the top before the fire i department could get it under j control. The damage to this building and contents would run jaround possible $800.00. Coffee Washington, July 28. ? The War Food Administration and thy OPA tonight announced the sus pension of coffee rationing, effec tive tomorrow. The joint announcement coin cided with President Roosevelt's radio address In which he dis closed the national drink was be ing removed from the rationed list and hinted strongly at an impending increase in the sugar ration. He attributed the moves to a vast increase in available ship ping space and greater success ir. the war against U-boats. ? o DR. W. C. PERRY ELECTED Supt. W. F. Mitchell, Secretary to the Franklin County Board of Health informed the FRANKLIN TIMES that at a recent meeting of the Board of Health, Dr. S. P. Burt was elected a full time Health- Officer and Dr. W. C. Perry was elected a member of the Board to succeed Dr. S. P. Burt, who resigned to take the place of Health Officer. Both of these elections are splendid. Dr. Burt is fully qual ified and is making a most effic ient and satisfactory Health Of ficer, while &Dr. Perry is one of Franklin County's leading phy sicians and is well qualified to fill the important place as mem bers of the Board. IRISH POTATOES Supt. W. F. Mitchell, of the Franklin County Schools, in formed the TIMES Wednesday that he has received two car loads (60,000 founds) of Irish potatoes for the school Cafeter ias in Franklin County given to the schools by the United States Department of Agriculture, thru the War Food Distribution Ad ministration. He has already allotted these to the schools op erating cafeterias on a per cap ita basis and they have been de livered. These will be a great help to the schools and through them to the many children in the county. ? ? : People who seldom think are ;so startled when they generate an original thought that they rush to get it copywrighted or patented, firmly expecting ttoat the world will pay them magnifi cently. ? ? - SUPERINTENDENT W. P. MOKTOJi of Pinehurst, N. <\ and Pulaski, Tenn., lias accepted the Super infendency or tlie Franklln ton Public Schools. W. P. Morton has already mov ed to Franklinton and has assum-| ed his duties as Superintendent of the Franklinton Schools. Mr. Morton has had the best possible training and some very success ful experience both as high school principal and as superintendent j of schools. He received both the B.S. and M. A. degrees from Peabody Col-| lege, Nashville. Tenn. He has! done special and graduate work at the University of North Caro lina, the University of Tennessee, j the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. N. V. He, is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Fraternity. Mr. Morton was formerly the Superintendent of Schools at Springtield, Tehn.. and at Oalla-| tin. Tenn. He was at one time Headmaster of the Columbia Mil itary Academy. He was for four-; teen years Superintendent of the Pinehurst Public Schools of Pine hurst. N. C. Under his ^direction and super vision. tlie schools 'where he has served as superintendent havej made marked progress. While he was superintendent at Pinehurst, the enrolment more than doubled and two new buildings were erec ted. Mr. Morton lias been otter ed several positions in North] Carolina as the result of his line work at Pinehurst. Mrs. Morton will also be an asset to Franklinton and coin-l uiunity. She was the former Sliss Eunice Gibson, of Laurin- ; burg. She has had several years^ of successful experience as a| teacher. Mrs. Morton has accep- 1 ted a position in the Franklinton Elementary School. WAR NEWS London. July 28. ? Marshal Pietl'O Badoglio spent tile Fascist! Grand Council and its dread sec ret courts front the life of the| Italian nation by special decree tonight as police started mass! arrests of Fascist newspaper exe cutives and radio propagandists and turbulent crowds deinonstrat-j ed against Fascism for peace. Badoglio's special decree made formal the dissolution of the en-| tire Fascist Party and Bern re ported that he had ordered that; members of the Fascist courts, j who had sentenced thousands of i patriots to prison, be held for! disposal by army court martial. ' Washington, July 28. ? Wake Island, tfhere a handful of Marines wrote an Imperishable chapter in American history in the two weeks following Pearl Harbor, may be next on the Amer ican time table of reconquest in the Pacific along with Kiska. This was suggested today with disclosure that the tiny but vital mid-Pacific island was blasted for the second time in four days Tuesday by big Liberator bombers which broke through another | formidable screen of enenty fight er planes and anti-aircraft fire and bombed designated targets. Seven Zeros Downed The Japs sent 25 challenging Zeros aloft but American gun ners shot down seven, probably destroyed five others and hit three more. In the last previous raid on Wake Saturday the Lib erators destroyed nine of 30 in tercepting Zeros, probably de stroyed four others and damaged five more. London, July 28. ? Violent fighting has broken out between Italian and German troops in northern Italy, according to re ports seeping out of the war we&ry land of fallen Fascism, where grave disorders bordering on outright revolutibn were said to be sweeping Milan. Accounts reaching Madrid said active Italian military resistance in the north at Milan and Turin was blocking a German attempt to pour ten divisions into a line along the Po River, where the (Continued on Page Bight) FRANKLIN FOR QUOTAS STATE GIVES OVER WHELMING MAJORITY V ????? 19 of Every 20 Votes Cast In North Carolina Are in Favor of Quotas u Franklin County farmers cast 2081 ballots for the Acre am' Control in Saturday's ref erendum, according to figure* (liven out by the County Com mittee. Tile vo(e by separate questions was as follows: No. 1, for 3 years and t year, 1848. No. 2, for 1 year only, 72. To tal on questions 1 and 2, 1020. No. :i, for II years only, 144. Total for questions 1, 2 and 3, 2081. Growers o f flue-cured tobacco, balloting Saturday in a six-state area, voted overwhelmingly la favor of continuing tobacco mar keting quotas for three years. Only very partial returns were available from five of the states at 10 o'clock Saturday night, but the figures for those states fol lowed the pattern of the vote in North Carolina ? and approxi mately 19 out of every 20 grow ers voting in this state cast bal lots in favor of quotas. The North Carolina totals ? on the basis of complete returns from 40 of 72 tobacco-growing counties? were: For three-year quotas, 46.281; for one-year quo ta, 1.092; against quotas. 2,599. This represented a percentage of 94.8 votes ill favor of quotas. The total of 49,972 votes cast in those 40 counties represented 70.6' of the total vote of 142,243 cast in 1940, when a percentage of 87.1 voted in favor of a three year quota plan which expires with the 1943 crop. A two-thirds majority is neces sary to carry in an AAA referen dum. but there was no doubt that the compilation of complete re turns for the Carolina^, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia will show a filial count in keeping with the overwhelming favorable vote indicated by the early re turns. The 10 o'clock compilation fur nished by the Associated Press from its Atlanta office listed these votes by states: Georgia ? 206 for three-year quotas; none for one-year; 85 against. Florida ? 2,073 for three-year; 184 for one-year; 381 against. Alabama? 39 for three-year; none for one-year, 5 against. South Carolina ? 5,963 for three-year; 432 for one-year; 785 against. Virginia ? no figures. The Alabama figures represent ed practically complete returns, as there are few growers in the small area of that state in which flue-cured tobacco is grown. From the time the first returns began trickling in, it was appar ent that the producers of tobacco were expressing with ballots their conviction that marketing quo tas are essential. North Carolina was far head of the other states of the flue cured belt in assembling the re returns. Saturday's balloting had been preceded by a campaign in whith agricultural leaders and farm organizations cited the figures of quota years to demonstrate the advantages, of marketing quotas. The campaign urged the produc ers to vote favorably. In map ping plans for the campaign, the leaders expressed confidence of a favorable vote but feared lest overconfldence might cause many growers favoVing quotas tp stay away from the polIS. The cam paign was aimed at "getting out the vote" in addition to urging supjjort for quotas. ELECTED PRINCIPAL Prof. R .S. Stevens, of Holly Springs, in Wake County, has been elected Supervising Princi pal of Gold Sand School and has accepted. He is expected to ar rive and take over his duties in the next few days. Prof. Stevens comes to Frank lin County highly recommended for this important work. PROGRAM AT TH? LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday. July 31: Saturday ? Roy Rogers in 'Idaho' and Patric Knowles in 'All By Myself.' Also 'Daredev ils of The West.' Sunday-Monday? Lana Turner and Robert Young in 'Slightly Dangerous.' Tuesday ? Michelle Morgan and Alan Curtis in 'Two Ttckets To London.' Wednesday ? Robert Preston and Ellen Drew in 'Night Plane From Chungking.' Thursday-Friday ? Bod Abbott Lou Costello and Glnny Sim* in 'Hit The Ice.'
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