ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Council To Consider Increase In Water Rates
City Budget Carries Cut
$7,430 Under Last Year
Total This Year, Exclusive of Waterworks, Is $166,417,
Against $173,848 Past F iscal Year; Tax Values Es
timated at $6,500, 000, Off $500,000
Aprospective cut of $7,430 in the
City of Henderson budget for the
fiscal year 1935-39 appeared in the
tentative budget introduced at the
monthly meeting of the City Council
Monday nignt. The budget will be
open to inspection at the eity clerk’s
office for a month until the regular
monthly meeting the fourth Monday
night in ugust.
The total proposed budget for the
coming year was $166,417.21, includ
ing $92,733 for the general fund and
$73/584.21 for debt service, with an
item of 75.00 on revenue anticipation
notes included in the general fund
bracket. For the 1937-38 fiscal year,
ended June 30, the budget was $173,-
848.17, which included $99,855.78 for
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the general fund and $73,992.39.
The figure? do not include water
works items, except the debt service
for that department. The water works
department is self-sustaining through
revenues from the sale of water to
customers in and near the city.
Tax ’'alues for the 1938 listings were
estimated at $6,500,000, which is,
1 roughly, half a million dollars less
than the nearly $7,000,000 valuation
in 1937, the decrease being accounted
for by the loss of something like $400,-
000 in intangible taxes, which the
State has taken over. The city gets
back half of the revenue from in
tangibles it lost, but this amounts to
only about $1,700, according to an an
nouncement from Raleigh last week.
Srnitersmt Uatltj Htspafrlj
liUING^FOR
Mention Made of Desirabil
ity for Reserve Fund for
Department
A meeting of the Henderson City
Council has been called for Friday
night of this week to consider in
creasing the water rates charged
consumers. The matter was casual
ly brought up at the Council’s regu
lar monthly meeting Monday even
ing, but the whole project was defer
red until the special meeting.
During the brief mention of the
water department finances Monday
night, something was said of a re
erve fund for the department, and it
was presumed that may be one of the
grounds for the proposed increase.
Mayor Henry Powell had a written
tatement prepared to read to the
board in vpposition to the proposal,
>ut was headed off when decision was
•cached to hold the Friday night
neeting.
It was recalled today that the water
epartment once had a reserve, which
,vas expended.
i Thos« who have learned of the like
; hood of an increase in water charges
ave been bitterly opposed to it. One
pinion expressed was that the water
; lepartment was “the best paying bus
, ness in Henderson’’ already and no
eason for an increase in charges to
be public could be seen.
Plans of those advocating the in
! asc were not revealed at the
ecting Monday night, but it is un
erstood a full and free discussion is
a prospect for the special meeting
et for Friday.
■EW CHANGKFOR^
Several Pdlicemen Raised
Slightly to $420 Aggre
gate Annually
Salaries of city employees were
igreed upon by the City Council Mon
lay night without any reductions
nade for any employees, and slight
ncreases for five policemen, amount
ng in all to $420 annually.
Four policemen were raised S6O
2ach to a total of $1,260 and one was
raised S6O to $1,320 annually.
When the board came to the ques
ion of fixing salaries, a recess of 45
minutes was taken, during which time
in executive meeting was held, which
asted more than an hour. Only mem
bers of the Council attended that ses
sion, even the mayor, the city clerk,
he assistant city clerk and the city
ittorney all retiring to leave the seven
nembers to their own deliberations.
~)ne member was absent
In times past salaries have been
4xed when the new city board organ
zes the first Monday in June after
he election early in May. At that
ime the matter was deferred until
he regular June meeting. When that
ime came, the salary matter was car
ded over until an adjourned meeting
lanned for two weeks later, at which
ime a further postponement result
'd until the regular July meeting.
There was some talk even then of
leferring the question still further,
'ut finally the idea of setting sfla
;es Monday night prevailed. A com
mittee had been appointed several
veeks ago to make recommendations
o the Council for a salary scale. A
meeting had been held, but no agree
ment reached, and one member of the
ommitiee had been absent later, with
he result tijat the other two were in
lisagreement. Th e committee con
sisted off Aldermen M. W. Wester.
T. W. Ellis and M. Y. Cooper, the
after being absent
ROANOKE^RAPIDS
MEET POSTPONED
The trip which the Henderson Lions
"Hub was scheduled to take Wednes
lay afternoon to Roanoke Rapid?
•as behß postponed because of bad
veather. Instead the local club will
have its usual luncheon meeting at 7
t’clock at the Capitol Case.
The Henderson Lions had planned
o meet the Roanoke Rapids club in
i softball game, and afterward they
•vere to have a joint luncheon meet
ing.
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68-lb. Pumpkin Grown
A pumpkin grown by Charles D.
A.llen, on the Raleigh road, is being
displayed in the window of Allen’s
Barber Shop. It was said the pump
kin weighs 68 lbs
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
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1. To which race do the Hawaiians
belong?
2. How soon after it is rendered, does
a decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court become effective?
3. What is a helicopter?
4. Who won the 1938 National Inter
< ollegiate Golf Championship?
5. \ r, iat is the fruit of the oak tree?
6. V, iat sport is nicknamed the "sport
oi kings?” ft
7. Name the important TJritish island
possession off the south coast of
nina.
8 For what state is "Empire State”
the. nickname?
9. What is the hold of a ship?
10. Did Switzerland maintain neutral-’
ity during the World War?
Council Orders Property
Sold For Taxes Sept. 12
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Votes for Police Court To Be Held Every Morning In
stead of Three Times W eekly; Clerk’s Office
Hours Changed to One Hour Longer
■I Sale of property for delinquent tax
accounts was ordered by the Hender
spn City Council Monday night, to. be
iheld on the second Monday in Sep
tember, after due advertising four
weeks prior thereto. The sale is to
follow, it was understood, one week
from the date of the county’s sale
of property for taxes.
The Council also voted that city
police court be held every morning
in the week, except Sunday, instead
of three times a week custom in vogue
for the past several years, during
which time the court has been held
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
mornings.
The Council also ordered that the
city clerk’s office and the watei
works office be open each day ol
jthe week from 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m.,
instead of closing at 5 p. m., as
heretofore, with an allowance made
for Wednesday afternoon closings
during the summer season when mer
ichandising establishments of the city
£ive their employees a half holiday.
The Council also voted to transtei
the burden of the debt service of sew
iage bonds from the city general fund
! jto the water works department.
|j Instructions were voted to the city
attorney to bring suit at once againsi
ipropery owners living outside the city
j; limits whe are served by the city
sewer service, where those porperty
owners are unreasonably in arrears in
their payments of the sewage fee ol
$2.50 per month. A list of delinquents
was read to the Council at the meet
ing, and some owed more than S2OO.
It was ordered that these accounts
in the future be transferred to the
water department, which will bill foi
the service quarterly, and when cus
tomers become in arreas on the sew
erage item that water service be cut
off until payment is made.
The question of how to distribute
i the proceeds from the sale of city
1 101 EST SCALES OF
GINNERS IN VANC
County To Bfe First in State
To Be Visited in Two-
Year Project
Ginners’ scales in Vance county
/ill be the first tested in a two-year
>rogram to be launched immediately
iy the North Carolina Department ol
tgriculture to determine the accuracy
i cotton gin aVia Other heavy duty
cales in the State, according to an
.ouncement today by C. D. Baucom.
/eights and measures chief of the de
partment.
Auer Fance county ginners’ scales
lave been tested, adjoining counties
will be visited as rapidly as possible,
-t was stated. The testing began this ;
week, following completion ol a spe
cial truck to carry the 11,000 pounds
of test weights necessary in the work.
Fred F. Johnson, gin inspector fu
the department’s warehouse division,
said that “the scales testing work wili
be kept as far ahead of the ginning
season as possible.”
“We are making these tests, not
with the view of inconveniencing the
ginners, but solely to aid them in se
curing correct scales,” Johnson added.
“Often as not, incorrect scales are in
favor of the farmer, and therefore, ii !
is as much benefit to the owner as
to the grower to have scales in re
pair.”
Ten Vance People
In Summer School
For Wake Forest
Ten Vance county people are stu
dents in the Wake Forest College
summer school, according to an an
touncement from the college. They
re: Mrs. Mary Sheperd Bass, W. R.
Turner, Jr., Elsie M. Woolard, H. A.
Newell, Jr., W. H. Furman, Jr. and
Frances Boyd all of Henderson; Susie
H. Alston and Belle C. Graham, of
Townsville; Mrs. Ruby O. Langston,
y. Kittrell, and E. O. Young, Jr., of
Middleburg.
Enrollment at this session of the
Wake Forest summer school is 1-
002, made up of students from 20
itates, 95 North Carolina counties,
China and Brazil. Sixty-seven col
eges are represented. Men and wo
nen ate about equally divided.
Recreational program Suspended
The recreational program, under
he supervision of the Recreational
Project, WPA, will be suspended this
week, Mrs. W. D. Payne, head of the
project, is attending a conference in
Chapel Hill.
Claim Votes In Samp
son Are Illegal
(Continued from Page One.)
tions board, said at the luncheon re
cess this afternoon that study had
been made of data in each of thr
numerous protests before the board
involving both the' first and second
primaries. Th study Was still under
way on the protest against the ah
sentee vote in Davidson county in
the vote' in the second primary in
Lhe Congress yace for the eighth dis
trict.
cemetery lots came up, and it was
decided to leave the matter to the
two mmbers of the council —Aider-
man D. C. Loughlin and M. Y. Cooper
—who are members of the city ceme
tery committee, the other three mem
bers being citizens. The idea appeared
to be assign a part of the proceeds
to a permanent maintenance fund and
the other to go to the general fund
for payment of the cost of the pur
chase of the new section of-the ceme
lery.
Mayor Powell announced appoint
ment of the same city censorship com
mittee to serve during another year,
these being C. M. Hight, member of
the Council; Rev. I. W. Hughes and
J. C. Kittrell.
A mass of other detail was trans
acted by the Council, consisting large
ly of routine, including adoption of
an ordinance changing the name of
Railroad street to Dorsey avenue. The
street runs parallel with the South
ern Railway from Young avenue to
the Raleigh highway.
A petition was received from col
ored citizens of Merrimon street ask
ing for two street lights. It said,
“some one is throwing bricks in ou ’
houses at night and we can’t see who
it is.” The matter V'ns referred to the
supervisor of public works.
Petitions were received from Henry
A. Dennis and Eric G. Flannagan, the
laUer representing the vestry of Holy
Innocents Episcopal church, asking
that the city pave the block of Petti
giew street between their properties
vi: d from Chestnut street back to
Walnut street. The Council voted to
lo the work "as soon as possible. *
An ordinance was amended fixing
fees for electrical inspection on a
sliding scale based on the number of
outlets. The electrical inspector will
get one-half of the amount, the rest
to go into ;the general fund. The
electrical inspector is the chief* of the
fire department.
M. N. Jordan asked to be relieved
of water charges for a period of, 11
months when he was living outside
the city and his house was not oc
cupied. The amount assessed wtas
$22.50, which was allowed. He said he
had been away from the city for five
years until some months ago.
J. G.' Tolson asked the Council to
rebate his taxes for the People Drug
Store as a result of his recent fire.
The board took the view that the
property was listed as of April 1,
and ordered the petition received and
filed.
Application of the new Carolina res
taurant on Garnett street for on
premises beer and wine licenses was
granted.
Mayor Henry T. Powell, as man
ager, presented the monthly filter re
port and balance sheet for the water
works .department, which were re
ceived and filed.
All but one member of the Council
were present for the meeting.
Alderman M. W. Wester, supervisor
of finance, submitted the annual city
audit as recently completed by Wal
ter Charnley & Company, of Char
lotte, which was received and filed.
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TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1938
FOUR NEGROES HELD
IN CHICKEN THEFTS
Quartet Taken In Raleigh by Police
Authorities Returned Here
For Trial
Four Henderson Negroes were cap
tured in Raleigh this morning by Ra
leigh police, and returned here by
Sheriff J. EL Hamlett and J. W. Hayesi
to answer charges of theft of chick
ens, the sheriff said.
The four are Furman Faris, Lewis
Haywood, Garland Burt and Jasper
Jones.
Sheriff Hamlett said the Negroes
admitted to him that they had stolen
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Green Lights
Ahead
“There must be green lights ahead to encourage the
spirit of enterprise if permanent recovery is to be
achieved. Government and business cooperation is the
need of the hour.”
ORVAL ADAMS, President,
American Bankers Association
We agree. Cooperation has been the keynote of Ame
rican progress in the past, and will continue to be in
the future.
As part of the nation’s sound banking structure, this
bank will continue to cooperate in promoting progress
in its community.
@ First National
Bank
Henderson,, N. C.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
chickens Owners of the chicken,
were not given by the sheriff pend
ing further investigation.
The Negroes were offering thp
chickens for sale in the Capital city!
AROUND TOWN
License Issued —A marriage license
was issued yesterday at th e Vance
Registry to a colored couple, John
Henderson and Alice Talley, both of
route 2, Henderson.
Deed Recorded— A lot on the Ox
ford Road changed hands yesterday
in the only realty deed filed with the
Vance Registry. W. M. Burwell and
wife sold the lot to Vergie Hayes for
$lO and considerations.