ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Hospital Merger Beaten
By County Commissioners
As Chairman Breaks Tie
f
Lengthy Discussion of Ques.
tion Is Had At Meeting
j of Board on Tues
day Afternoon
Doctors are heard
before the voting
Proposal Had Been Made
That Further Considera
tion Be Given Matter, But
Action Is Pressed and Mer
ger Is Lost by Chairman
Adams’ Vote
Th; negative vote of Chairman S.
R. Adams killed the proposed merger
of the Vance County Hospital with
Maria Parham hospital when the
Board of County Commissioners took
a vote on the queston Tuesday aft
ernoon. The vole came after a lengthy
discussion.
Commissioners W. P. Parrish and
W. V 4. Grissom favored the merger
and Commissioners E. L. Fleming
and S. B. Rogers were against it,
and the chairman was called upon to
ca*t the deciding vote.
Dr. R. T. Upchurch and Dr. H. A.
Newell conferred at some length with
the board prior to the vote. Consid
eration was given the question at the
afternoon session of the commission
ers.
It was said there was a disposition
to name a committee from the board
to confer in greater detail with the
Maria Parham hospital boalrd, but
that soni'' members of the board press
ed for immediate action.
Those favoring the merger claimed
the hospital section of the Duke En
dowment would give greater assis
tance in hospitalization here if there
were a merger, and that great bene
fits would accrue to the county in the
future by reason of the expected en
lavgemen' of the hospital facilities.
Had the merger been voted, the pre
sent county appropriation for relief
treatment at the county hospital
would have gone to Maria Parham
hospital and all cases cred for at the
county hospital, if of a strictly hos
pital nature, would have been trans
ferred to the Maria Parham hospital.
Miss Jones Will
Re-Open Her Studio
Miss Dorothy C. Jones will re-open
her studio for instruction in voice and
piano on Monday, September 11, it
was announced today.
Both ola and new pupils are re
quested to communicate with her be
fore that time in order that a sche
dule may be arranged for work.
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■ 79 Prisoners At
Jail Last Month
During the month of August
there were 79 prisoners in all con
fined at one time or another in the
x Vance county jail, it was reported
*1 to the Board of County Conunls
| sinners Tuesday by K. I*. Davis,
51 jailor. At the end of the month
there were 23 persons in the jail
awaiting disposition of charges
t against them to be tried at the j
October term of court, or serving
■ sentences, or otherwise confined.
I A total of 547 jail day* were
served during August by the num
erous prisoners committed there as
guests of the jailor for varying
periods of time.
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: VANCE SIXTEENTH
FOR TAX RETURNS
i
197 Returns or One for
Every 138 Inhabitants
Here In Year 1931
Vance county stood sixteenth in in
come tax returns to the Federal gov
ernment made in 1932 for the year
1931. accoiding to data furnished by
the Treasury Department and contain
ed in a compilation in the current
issue of ihe University of North Car
olina News Letter by Dr. S. H. Hobbs,
Jr., of the department of rural social
economics.
The exhibit shows that Vance rank
ed well toward the top of the coun
ties of the State, with 197 returns filed
or one for every 138 inhabitants. War
ren county was 42nd from the top,
with 04 returns filed, or one for
every 248 inhabitants, while Granville
was 47th, with 98 returns or one for
each 293 inhabitants. Franklin county
was 73rd from top, with 51 returns,
or one for every 579 inhabitants.
The State total was 2i,822 returns,
or one for every 128 inhabitants. Less
than half those filing returns actually
pay tax. Mecklenburg leads in the
number of returns filed, with 3,403. or
one for every 37 inhabitants. Jones
county was 100th from top, or at the
bottom of the list, with only two tax
returns, or one for every 5,214 in
habitants.
For the year 1929 nearly 29,000 per
sons filed returns, and in 1930 there
were slightly more than 26,000 returns
filed to the Federal government from
this Sta+s.
MORE INSTRUCTIONS
GIVEN FOR PUPILS
Additional instructions for the
guidance of pupils on the first two
days of school this year were issued
today by Prof. W. D. Payne, prin
cipal of Henderson high school.
The principal said it is important
that each pupil bring pencil and
paper when they report tomorrow and
Friday, each day. Prof. Payne also
said he would like for every pupil
who wishes to take a re-examination
in any subject to call at the office
und give him his or her name and
the subject in which the examina
tion is desired.
J. H. BRIDGERS HOME
FROM BAR MEETING
'_ , ■
! J. H. Bridgcrs has returned to his
i home in the city from Grand Rapids,
| Mich., where he has been attending
the meeting cf the American Bar As
j social ion at which he was elected a
| member of the State Council. Mr.
J Rridgers attended the World’s Fair In
Chicago and visited in Washington
1 on his re f urn to the city.
Utett&mamHattjj Btsfrafrii
Teachers Are Announced
For All White Schools
Meeting Held Here and Final Instructions Given For
Start of New Term Tomor row; Rollins Speaks To
White Teachers; Color ed Teachers Also Meet
Following a meeting of teachers
here today in advance of the formal
opening of the fall term of the public
schools of the city and county, the
. lists for all whit e schools in the city
and county were announced by Sup
erintendent E M. Rollins. There were
several changes in the aggregate list,
but the vast majority of the teachers
in the schools last year are back for
another year. All principals are re
turning.
The white teachers met at the Hen
derson high school, where they were
addressed by Superintendent Rollins,
whose subject was “The New Era.’'
Instructions as to the conduct of the
schools were delivered to the teachers
A meeting of the colored group was
held at the colored graded school, and
much the same procedure was fol
lowed there. It was announced that
a speaker from the State Department
of Education in Raleigh would ad
dress them.
Pupils will report all over the city
and county tomorrow for registration,
and will return on Friday for lesson
asignments. Active class room work
will be started Monday, with full- j
day sessions everywhere.
Teachers whose names w’ere an
nounced today for the Henderson city
schools follow:
Henderson high school —W. D.
Payne, principal; Mrs. J. Y. Paris,
Mrs. Gladys Weir, Miss Julia Bethea,
Miss Ruth Cordle, Miss Atleen Tur
nage, S. M. Crowder, H. H. Powell,
Dennis Latham, Miss Lily Kyle, Miss
Maxine Taylor, Miss Shtnnon Mor
ton.
Central- Frank M. Barnhardt. prin
cipal; Miss Lucy Kittrell, Miss Verdie
Noble, Mrs. Frank Barnhardt, Mrs.
J. W. Rose, Mrs. Carlton Radford,
Miss Alienne Wiggins, Miss Blanche
McDade, Miss Maude Winston, Miss
Lillian Massenburg, Miss Minnie
Franklin, Mrs. L. J. Rux, Mis Ora
Hahn.
West End —Miss Sue Kelly, prin
cipal, Miss Susan Lamb, Miss Matilda
MA AT OXFORD MEET
Local Club Largely Repre
sented; Gathering Hears
Carl Goercn
About 80 percent of the membership
of the Henderson Kiwanis club at
tendd? th chartr night program of
the Oxford Kiwanis club held there
last nigh’, and many of them were
accompanied by their wives. It was
also annual ladies’ night for the Ox
ford club. The visit of the local club
takes the place of its regular Fri
day night meeting for this week.
The meeting was in charge of C.
E. Coble as toastmaster. The address
of welcome was made by Will Hick
preident of the Oxford club, and the
response was by Rev. I. W. Hughes,
past president of the Henderson club.
Included in the talks made during
the evening was the principal speakei
Carl Goeich, of Raleigh; John S. Mc-
Donald, of Raleigh, past lieutenant
governor of the district* and Ralph
Barker, of Duiham, present lieutenant
governor of the fifth division of the
Carolinas district.
Ladies from the Henderson club
who attended Mrs. I. W. Hughes and
Miss Alice Hughes, Mirs. D. T.
Dickie, Mrs. M. C. Miles, Mrs. W. C-
Cates, Sr„ Miss Helen Kimball and
Mrs. C. O. Seifert, Mr. M. L. Wood.
mrs.pTc.fittsis
SEVERELY BURNED
Exploding Oil Can Sprays
Woman Burning Her
Seriously; Home f
Destroyed
.Mrs. P. C. Fitts was seriously burn
ed yesterday afternoon as she at
tempted to build a fire with kerosene
at he.r home on Henderson, route four
the oil can exploding burning her ex
tensively on both arms and one leg
and burnra her face, according to the
information received today. She is in
Maria Parham hospital.
The home was destroyed by fire, it
was said.
Only meagre detail of the accident
were learned here today.
14 Dead, 25
Injured In N. Y. Wreck
(Continued from Page One.)
splinters and twisted steel.
Every hospital in Binghaimifcon,
J ohn son 'C4it.y> Endiccltft &enet
ambulances to the scene.
iMotoreta (traveling Ion 1 a ISlbaite
.highway that skints the tracks where
(they Ootlow fthe Susquehanna river
converted their machines into ambu
lances carrying injured to operating
rooms.
N. H. King, of Elmira, engineer
( of the milk train, running between
Horn ell and Hoboken, said.
“I d din’t see the signal lights in
time to stop. It happened too quiok
| ly\ We coming; .around a
curve." m ~, .i , .„, ■i
Lamb, Mrs. Malta Bachelor, Miss
Agnes Edwards, Mrs. R. J. Jones,
Miss Lily Kimball, Miss Elizabeth
Graham.
Clark street—Miss Agnes Moore,
principal; Miss Mildred Barnes, Miss
Frances, Wloodlief, Mrs.- Mary Cowan,
Mrs. C. M. Cooper, Jr., - Miss May
belle Gary.
North Henderson—Mrs. Mary Craw
ford, principal, Miss Elsie Woolard,
Miss Elizabeth Fox, Miss Ida Hay
wood, Miss Ruth Carter, Mrs. Stephen
Brewer. Miss Thelma Finch, Miss
Agnes Pegram.
South Henderson—Miss Mariel Gary
principal, Mrs. W. D. Payne, Mrs.
W. R. Turner, Mrs. C. E. Ellis, Mrs.
Pirie Poythress, Mrs. Blanche Upton,
Miss Irene Woodlief, Miss Garnett
Meyers, Miss Sallie Lou Davi, Miss
Anne Sally.
Teachers in the rural schools an
nounced are as follows:
Aycock— -W. C. Poe, principal;
Misses Beatrice Harward, Helen Win
go, Lucille Hunt, Sarah McCallum,
Frances Crowder, Mrs. w. C. Poe,
Misses Altie Stone. Nettie Rice, Jame
Clayton. Ellen Johnson, Elizabeth
Hardaway.
Zeb Vance C. A. Dees, principal;
J. B. Mills, H. H. Vestal, Mrs. H.
H. Vestal, Misses Annie Fuller Young
Elizabeth Stewart, Sue Hunt Boyd,
Willie Gee, Ruth Hudson, Mildred
Murrell, Nannie Smith, Miss Averette,
Mrs. Ruth Byrd.
Dabney— B. A. Scott, principal; S.
B. Crews, Misses Alma Kimball, Sara
Huff, Maude Warren, Ethel Brad
shaw’. Annie Belle Dean, Susie Al
ston, Elizabeth Cheek, Mary L. Speer. !
Middleburg—C. P. Rogers, prin-!
cipal; Edwin O. Young. J. G. Boyette.;
Misses Margaret Joyner, Annie Mae i
Sorrell, Nancy White, Mildred Stew- !
art, Swannanca Baucom, Katie Mae
Newton, Mary Swain.
Townsville—A. L. Isley, principal;
W. H. Roberson, Misses Bessie Wal
ker, Helen Reamy, Margaret Rober
son, Thelma Duncan, Annie Carroll,:
Annie Hall. '
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pßh —' LEAVES ARE USED
leaves—no stem—no stalk. And every W4 Timw ,/ /* .. /
Lucky is fully packed with these choice thefnest tobaccos -
tobaccos. Round, firm —free from loose ALWAYS fllCpltlCSt workmanship
ends. That’s why Lucldes.always please. ALWAYS luckiesplease /
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SHERIFF COLLEGTS
SI4,OOfIIN AUGUST
Report Made To County
Commissioners at Meet
ing on Tuesday
1931 ACCOUNT IS $l9O
Arrears for 1930 Colic, tod Also In
Sum of $137; Small Sums Real,
ized In Fees and I’rivi.
lege Licenses
A total of $14,564.23 was collected
in 1932 taxes during August by Sheriff
J. E. Hamlet*’s office, he reported to
the Board of County Commissioners
Tuesday. Added to this was $33.75 in
fees for the salary fund and $33.50 in
privilege licenses, a total of $67.25,
and a credit for rebates of $23 was
added, making a total credits of sl4 _
654.48.
In the month of August $137.15 was
collected on 1930 back taxes and
$190.60 on 1931 back taxes, the report
showed.
The August collections included pay
ments that wore made by property
owners immediately prior to the ad
vertising of taxes for sale in accounts
in arrears. ,
CHECKS ON COTTON
REDUCTION MAILED
County Agent Sanders Notified of
First Batch Sent Here From
Washington Office
The first batch of checks for dis
tribution to cotton growers who par- '
ticipated in the recent crop reduction
campaign by plowing up portions of
their 1933 crop are expected here to
morrow, County Agent J. W. Sander
said today. He said he had received a
letter from the Department of Agri
culture in Washington notifying him
that about 20 checks had been mail- 1
ed.
A total of about 650 growers par- j
ticipated m the sign-up campaign in !
this county, and hundreds of addi-}
tional checks are expected within the '
next few weeks for distribution in the I
county.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMB ER 6, 1933
County Tax Rate Around
$1 Looms As Probability
As School Budget Voted
T °‘ a °* $72,063.57 Appropriations for Schools Passed.
Calculations on Basis of $ 16,000,000 Property V,!„ ’
ation Would Put Rate at sl.Ol
A tax rate for 1933 for Vance coun
ty somewhere around $1 on the SIOO
valuation appeared likely today with
the adoption by the Board of County
Commissioners Tuesday afternoon of
the school budget for the year.
The school appropriations voted
totaled $72,053.37, which would re
quire a tax rate of 45 cents on the
basis of a property valuation of $16,-
000,000. The amount was slightly less
than liad been asked for in the esti
mates submitted by Superintendent E.
M. Rollins, ana compared with sllO,-
992.96 for the schools’ last year, in- j
eluding the extra two months term'
and certain extras that had been in
cluded and levied for. The school tax
rate last year for county support was
63 cents, but to that had to be added
an 18 cents levy to get the amount
required for the Statewide 15 cents
property tax for schools, making a
total of 81 cents to compare with the
prospective 45 cents rate for schools
this year. The 1933 State legislature
took over the entire support of the
eight months school term throughout
the State.
The conr.ties must still levy taxes
for debt service, maintenance of their
property and the like.
The commissioners prior to their
meeting this week for September, had
already adopted the county budget for
purposes other than schools, and that
amounted to $88,698.86, and called for
a tax levy of 56 cents on an esti
mated $16,000 000 valuation, as against
a levy of 40 cents last year on $17,-
500.000 valuation, which was not real
ized. This portion of the budget was
approximately 25 percent larger than
last year, in actual money appropriat
ed.
The prospective levy this year ap
pears now to loom as about 45 cents
for schools and 56 cents
purposes other than schools, t‘he com
bination making sl.Ol. Last year tS'
total was $1.21 for the ent.re CoUn i
w.de tax rate. Should the prospective
igures stand, it will mean a redim
tmn of 20 cents on the SIOO Valua
tion, on a property assessment mar*
than a million dollars under the iW>
figure.
CIVIL SERVICE NOW
IS OFFERING JOBS
Announcement was made today at
the post office of civil service jobs
that are open and for which salaries
are paid ranging from $1 440 to s*>'
600 per year. The opening include
mountain trail builder; mountain
tractor operator, crawler type; moun
tain truck driver; operator of motor
grader, power blade grader; operator
of traction grader; road foreman of
mountain road and trail construction
and general foreman of mountain
road and trail construction. Competi
tors will not be required to report f or
a written examination, since experi
ence will count largely in qualifying
an applicant. Any further information
desired may be obtained at the post
office.
Around Town
No Police Court,.—No session of po
lice court was held today.
Gets Suspended Judgment.— ln the
only case tried in recorder’s court to
day M. K. Abbott was charged with
being drunk and drew a suspended
judgment on payment of the costs.