VOL. XLVI. -
. NO. 14.
J. W. NOELL. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY . EVENING^ APRIL 3, 1929.
A
Good Town
To Live In.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
We
Welcome
New Comers.
NEW TAX BOOSTS
STATE'S DAILY GAS
- BILL TO $6,810.00
One Cent A Gallon Tax On
Gasoline Will Yield Income
Of $2,500,00 Yearly
BECOME EFFECTIVE APR. 1
When filling station operators all
over the State moved up the price of
-gasoline at midnight March 31st to
take care of the additional one cent
tax imposed by the Legislature to
Taecome effective April 1. they added
^ *6.870 a day to the total sum Tar
W "Heels pay for thc-lf gas.
Based on estimates that each one
cent a gallon tax on ga&oline will
yield $2,500,000 a year, the five cent
tax which became effective today will
Teturn Just short of $35,000 a day to
the State Treasury, or a total of
"twelve and one-half million dollars a
year. With gasoline selling at 18
cents a gallon less the tax. and 23
cents a gallon plus the tax. the same
course of calculation shows that North
Carolinians are spending between 55
and 60 millions a year for their motor
luel.
This is approximately double the
amount spent th manning and main
taining the entire put^lic school sys- j
tem of the State for one year.
The gasoline tax ^is the highest tax
collected by the State. At present
price levels it amounts to approximate- .
Jy 28 percent ? or a ' round flftv -cent
piece every time a motorist gets 10'
-gallons of gasoline put Into his tank.
He pays $1.80 for the gas and $0.50
for the tax.
But kicks on the tax. high though
It Is, are practically none. The .rea
son: every cent' of it goes into road
construction and maintenance, and on
? good road, as every motorist knows,
a gallon of gas will go much further
than on a poor road that he actually
gets more for his money out of the
tax-burdened gas than he would were
th*re no gas tax and onlv mud- roads. "
Until this year, proceeds from the
gas tax. which was inaugurated ot 1
jjtent a gallon in 1921. have gone to
^uildimr and maintaining State roads
only. Now that system is nearinsr
completion, aiyl .the proceed* from the
- old 4-cent tpx are ample to provide
f^r Its maintenance and for retiring
the $115,000,000 In boipds issued to
bnild the State road system.
The 1 -cent -boost was added to aid
the counties in maintaining their
roads, heretofore kept up solsly from
Tevenue from ad valorem taxes. To 1
the $2 500.000 slated to be realized
from the boost, half a million will b?
added from other highway revenues. <
giving a total of $3.000.000^Xor counfv
T^ad maintenance, or in /mher words.
113.000.000 reduction in th? much com
plained of ad valorem Uix rates.
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County Commission
ers Met Monday
The board of County Commlsslon
wk ?rs were in session Monday. Owing
p to it* being a holiday they were only
In session a short time. Only two
things were acted upon, other than
allowing the usual bills. ttioSe beln?
the re-election of Mr J. S. Walker
as County Auditor, and an order was :
passed to borrow twenty-five thous
and dollars to rebuild the colored
erhool In Roxboro. It v'Ml be recalled
? that this school building was destroy
ed bv fire some time since, and the i
facilities for this school have been In
adequate since. The colore^ citizens
have" raised quite a nice "stim. some
thing like two thousand dolla.- 1
1>elieire, and the action of the Com
missioners will be commended in j
l?-ndln? a helping hand.
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Tax Listers For
The Year 1929
The following have been named a*
Tax Listers for the various- town
ships for the year 1929:
Allensvllle Township: J. L Gentry .
.. Buihv Pork: D. L Whitfield.
Cunningham: J. R. ?iWanklin
Plat River: Mrs. C. A. Hamlili.
Hotlnway: J. B. Barrett.
Hit. Tlr/ah: J, L. Cothran
Olive Hill: T. C WagstafT. '
Roxboro: O. W. Walker.
Woodsdale: B. K. Mitchell
J. 8. WALKER
Tax Supervisor.
Wake Forest Glee Club
The Wake forest alee Club will
V In Roxboro Tuesday, April 16th
It has U males voices and a 13-pleCe
orchestra .You will be delighted over
the performance Don't forget ? the
date.
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Cuba In length would reach from
New Jersey to the State of Illinois.
LARGE CROWDS ARE
ATTENDING SERVICES
LITTLE BUCK LATTA
PAINFULLY INJURED
Fractures Skull In Fall From
Moving Car Being Driven
By His Father
Lity? Back Latta, three year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Latta, suffered a very painful ac
cident Sunday morning near the
Village of Prospect Hill. , when he
fell out of an automobile driven
by his father, and occupied by the j
whole family. Little Buck was
playing in the back seat of the
car when the door opened sud
denly and he fell to the hard pave- j
ment. suffering a painful fracture
of the skull. He was immediate
ly carried to Watts hospital and
upon exkmination it was found
necessary to perform an operation.
A late report stated that the tit
tle fellow was getting along nice
ly and wi,th no serious develop- |
ments will recover.
LOCAL-HIGH SCHOOL
DROPS TWO GAMES
Will Play Hillsboro High School
On Local Diamond Mon
day, April 8th At 3:30
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On Monday and Tuesday afternoons
Roxboro high school played two of
the strongest teams in this section.
The Danville team won the State
chamvtfoaship of Virginia last year,
and Raleigh is expected to be a strong
contender for the championship of
North- Carolina this yearT"
In Monday's game Danville scored
\n the first inning, but Roxboro soon
took the lead and kept it until the
eighth when Danville scored two runs
to tie the score, and then two more
in the ninth to win 9-7. The san\e
story was repeated in the Raleigji
n:nme. fy looked- like it might be Rox
boro's game until the seventh inning
when Raleigh scored *to tie the count
5-5. In the ninth they * scored two
more runs. It looked as though Rox
boro had started a rMly in the ninth
but it fell short one run. -The game
ended 7-6.
Next Monday, April 8th. Hillsboro
will plav here. Friday of this week
the locaLs will invade foreign territory
when they* meet Henderson high
school.
Mis* Newton Won
The Gold Basketball
Professor Knight elves another gold
basketball for the highest scholarship |
made by a member of the girl's team. !
The team was one that we can feel
proud of- In the first place the play
ers are to be praised because their
school work came first The follow
in* Is the order in which th? girls !
are rated: Flora Newton 88. Dorothy
Wlnstead 84.11, Mary Gentry 83.80. |
Mary Woody and Poy Oliver came
next with an average of about 75. The
other players did good work too. In
tuftlco to Mary Woody it should be
?aid that she had trouble with her
eves or she would have given the
other girls more competition.
The team won about 20 games and
|st six. Thev are to be praised for
doing good work and representing
their school as they did. The main
reason for giving the ball Is to keep
the pupils from letting anything come
in between them and their work. The j
basketball has scholarship- plavsr on
It. Mr. DsvltWon suggested that the
most suitable thing to put on the ball
would be scKblarshlp-nlayer. The play
?r that won this ball, will be proud
of It because It means that It was
won for hard work In school work.
B. B KNIGHT, Coach
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A,. & T. Quartette
.Entertain Olive Hill
Last Friday night ? the quartette
from the A. & T. College. Oreens
boro, gave', an entertainment at Olive
1111 hteh school. This quartette has
not state-wld?, but nation-wide fame,
?tnd the evening was moat pleasantly
"n toyed by aH lovers of music. Negro
nlrltuals was sang mostly, though the
-losing was from one of the. high
' class operas.
William A. Belter Production "Syn
thetic Sin", with Colleen Moore and
\nttnn Moreno, flaying 'Palace Thea
*<f Monday At Tuesday, April l-Hh
Matinee Monday 3:00 P. M. -
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Services Being Conducted Daily,
Morning At 8:00 O'clock;
Evening At 7:45
GREAT MEETING EXPECTED
'? The revival services which are be- i
tng conducted at the Methodist. Pres- !
byterian and Baptist churches got
under way last. Monday Evening. |
congregations were on hand at all of
the churches, and the Ministers arc
| gratified at the interest be in? shown ;
in the meetings.
Rev. Mr. Alexander Is doing the |
[ preaching at the Presbyterian churchi.
Rev. Mr. Smith at the Edgar Long
[: Memorial, and Dr. J. M. Haymore at
ihe First Baptist. Preaching service
every evening at 7:45 In each of the
churches, while a morning service
[ will be held in the Presbyter
ian church each day at 8 o'clock. The
visiting Ministers will alternate in
conducting the morning service. " |
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Roxbcro Girl Wins
Honorable Mention
In the North Carolina high School
Latin contest Roxboro again , scores.
It will be recalled that ii) last year's '
contest the cup was won by a Rox- 1
. boro high school student, with first |
and second honorable mention also
coming to this school. This year Miss
Lois Poster. Durham high School stu
dent. won the cup, with first honorable !
mention goin? to Katie Lee Stewart j
Of Meban? :second to Don Lacy of
Roc lev Mount; third to Marian Mc
Cracken of Durham: fourth to Helen)
Strowd of Durham, and fifth to I
Katherine Winstead of Roxboro.
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Nearly ono-half of the State ot ;
Tennessee is still covered by timber. '
MUCH OF STATE S
TAX MONEY SPENT
TO RUN SCHOOLS
Only Four States Are Spending |
More Money For Schools
Than North Carolina
N. C. PERCENTAGE IS 1.91
' ,
North Carolina Is up among the j
first five of the states In the amounts
of money spent for the maintenance
of schools, according to the ' Research j
Bulletin of the National Education j
Association, which reveals that only
four slates in the union in 1926, the
lajt year for which complete figures
are available, spent a greatetr* par- j
centage of their taxes on schools than
North Carolina. ?
This State spends 52.18 per cent
of its tax "money on education. beftig ;
topped bv only Wyoming which led
the country by spending 61.14 per
cent. Nebraska. Iowa and Colorado.
The average for the country was 42.17
per cent.
The statement was made during the
recent convention >of the North Caro
lina Educational Association here that
only a third of- the states were spend
ing les per' capita for public school
education than North Carolina. No
one questioned the acccuracy of these
figures, but th? comparisons did not
take Into consideration the expendi
tures for colleges and that in North
Carolina _the expenditures for negro
pupils per capita Is rather low.
North Carolina also ranks high In
the list of states that have Invested
heavily In per cent of value of school
property, the bulletin showing that
this State ranks fifth in that respect.
North. Carolina's percentage L< 1,91.
The average for the country Is 1.41.
California. Florida, Michigan, and
Oklahoma top this State.
LEGISLATION LOCAL
TO PERSON COUNTY
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Mr. Harris Gives Synopsis" Of
Bills As Passed By The Re
cent Legislature
HIGHWAY COM. DISCUSSED
TERMS OF COURT
No change was made In the pres- ?
ent schedule of courts except that the i
January term was made two weeks
instead of one. ? The first week of the
two weeks term Is for the trial of ]
both criminal and civil cases. The
second week of the term is for the trial
of civil cases only. This act was ap
proved by the Board of Commissioners.
BONDS VALIDATED
An act was passed which validated
a bond issue of 178,000 which the I
county had authorized and actually J
sold. After the sale was made. It was
discovered that some ert-ors had, been
made In the published notices. For
this reason the legislature was request
ed to pass this act so as to prevent
the necessity of going through all the
details again.
TOWN OF r6xboro
The Town of Roxboro now owes a
balance of *9000.00 on Its fire station
and truck. Notes have been given i
for this, and they are being paid at j
the rale of tlSOOOO annually. An Act
wis passed making it legal for the
town to continue to handle this Just
as at present. '
FOX HUNTING
The closed season on foxes was
made from March 1st to September
1st of each year. During the remain- '?
der of the year they cannot be trap
ped ' of SHol except when they are
caught destroying domestic fowls or
animals.
HIGHWAY COMMISSION
For several years no election of
TownsKlp Commissioners has ? been
held, and It was felt that' a new me
; thod of selecting the members of the
, Central Highway OomnHwton ought
to be provided. An act was passed In- ;
creasing the Commission to five mem - i
bers and appointed B. E. Love, F. D. I
Long. D. E. Whitfield, R A Burch and '
J, O. Chambers. Until the law is changed
the members will )>e named by the .
General Assembly same as the School i
Board Is named The above members '
were named for two years from April
1. 1029 Any vacancy that might oc
cur will be filled for the unexpired '
term by the Board of County Com- '
missloners
COUNTY COURT
Under the existing law the County J
CbmmtuMnBrs had no* authority to
esuit&lsh a County Court. Air act
was passed giving the authority to
establish such a court If they think
the same Is necessary or expedient.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
K. E Bra d? her. Geo. W. Walker. W.
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Traffic Problems ?
Then And Now
With a prospect of 25.000.000 motor
vehicles on the roads in r929. every
T7. s. municipality that boaits* more
than one Main Street is gV.ii? thought
to the tra Tic problem. All ovtr the
country thev are talking of tunnels
r' nd elevated 'roads, stop lights and
mechanical cops, to prevent further
congestion of the streets. N
To listen to our traffic experts, one
?v fnild think they had something en
tirely new on their hands. Why, even
Rome had the same question to tackle
The Lamp, published by the Standard
OH Companv <N. J.) has an Interest
ing article In its current Lttue ' or!
transportation In those days. The Ap
olan Way, it says, had become a ver
itable race course. In and out be
tween the lumbering ox carts and
stately litters. Roman youths used to
drive their noisy chariots at a reck
less pace. A Jaywalker's only chance
was to emulate his namerfake and fly
across Finally. Caesar had to pass a
law about It.
Early American travelers had their
traffic troubles, too. Stagecoaches used
to whirl over the rocky roads at break
neck speed? sometimes going as fast
a* fifteen miles an hour. But the, pas
sengers never complained. Thev were
too busy keeping their respective ver
tebrae In proper alignment
Even had there been traffic light at
the cross-roads they woulBn't have
done any good, for the -onlv effective
brake was a mud hole or the edge of
a cliff. It would always have been a
race to Ijeat the light If one coach
got by, there was no motorcycle cop
to chase him. . .
Had the race been a tie. of course,
no one would have been the wiser.
New Members Qualify
Th? Board of Education met last
Monday, and the three new member*
nopolnted by the legislature qualified,
the new members belpg Messer* Oeo.
W. Walker." E. E. Brads her and Ralph
Cole. Mr. W. R. WUkerson was re
elected chairman The boArd at pres
ent Is composed of W. R. Wllkerton.
O. G Davis, Oeo. W. Walker, E. E>
Bradsher and Ralph Cole.
The board adjourned to meet on the
13th. when they will probably elect
a County Superintendent.
R. Wllkerson:, R. O, Cole and O O.
Davis were appointed to the Boar4'for
the term of two years,.'
Colleen More with Antonio Moreno
In "Synthetic Sin", playing Palace
Theatre. Monday A Tuesday, April
t-9th. Matinee Monday 3 00 P. M.
This little 13-year-old school girl,
Helen Teqvilliger, Is becoming one of
the most famous girls in America. |
t-istening in on the radio pn Inaug- j
uration Day. she caught Justice Taft
misquoting the oath of office, when he |
swore in Herbert Hoover as president. :
Miss Terwilliger- said that the Chief
Justice had said "preserve, ?maintain i
and defend" rather than "preserve,!
protect and defend." and Taft replied
that the variation must be attributed
to the' defect of an "old man's mem
COMMENCEMENT
SPEAKER NAMED
Reverend B. It. I.acy Jr.. D. I).,
Will Deliver Baccalaureate
Sermon. Before Class
On Sunday morning. May 26th. in
..the Roxboro high school auditorium,
the Reverend B. R. Lacy.9 Jr., D. D.. j
President of Unicn Theological Sem
inary. Richmond. Va.. will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon before the grad
uating class of our high school. Doc
tcr Lacy is well known in North Caro
lina and in adjoining states, and we
privilege of having so able and so
distinguished a divine to address the
seniors and attending congregation
cf Roxboro and surrounding commun- j
lty on the commencement occasion
mentioned. .
On Friday ni?zht. May 31st. Doctor
Elbert Russell. t>ean of the School of
Religion of Duke University, will de- j
liver the literary addre?5~&efore the
graduating class of the local high
school. Doctor Russell is a man of
wide reputation both ate Scholar and
speaker, and we feel fortunate in- 1
deed to have secured him as the
speaker on the program for the grad
uating exercises.
Caught Taft Error.
Bethel Hill Wins
Easter Game 5 to 4,
The Bethel Hill baseball team woir
a close and exciting game from Scotts
burg on the l^JtMr's diamond before a
large paster Monday" crowd. The
game was hard fought and the out
come In doubt until the last man was
out in the ninth. Bethel Hill took
the lead early only to^lose it in the
fifth. Bethel Hill took the lead again
and went thto the ninth leading 5-2.
| Scottsburg got on to "Wllborn for two
runs with runners on third and first
after two were out in "the ninth. At
this stage Montague went into the
br>x and retired the pinch batter on
three pitched balls.
WUborn E., starting his first game
of the* Season, was In rare form. Not
a Scottsburg player reached first base
until the fifth Inning when two runs
were scored as a result of an error.
The game was played wtthou any
"squabbling" and was much enjoyed
by the large crowd which was on
hand..
An Enjoyable Trip
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Hester and Mr
and Mrs. J. J W Instead have re
turned from a trip through Western
North Carolina. Oeorgla and South
Carolina . Mr. and Mrs. wTnstead vis
ited Mr. and Mrs, C. L. Allison at
Sylvia, and Mr. and Mrs. Hester vis
ited their son. Theo Jr.. at Riverside
Academy. Oalnesvllle. Oa. After leav
ing OalneSvllla they visited _ Stone
Mountain Atlanta, Vldalia. Sa
vannah, Oa.. then on to Charleston,
S, C? and the Magnolia Gardens
The ladies Say they can not describe
the beauties of the noted~gard*ns:
but you will have to go and see.
Camp Fire Girls
TK? Camp Fire Olrlx of Helena en
tertained the faculty of Helena High
I School on March 22nd. They also
invited Miss Rose mien Bryan. Dur
ham county demonstrator, to teach
them basketry Monday. March 26th
1 ?Mary Charlotte Terry.
EQUALIZING BOARD Of
OPINION THAT SCHOOL
ACT IS WORKABLE LAW
Leroy Martin, Executive Sec
retary, Gives Out Statement
About Equalizing Act
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CO UN TP SUPTS. TO MEET
In view of the somewhat conflicting
stories that have been written dur
ing the past several days anent t he
discussion of the t929 school act bf
the State Board of Equalization, which
has charge of the distribution dur
ing -the next two years of $13.000, MO
for the support of school* in the State,
LeRoy Martin, executive secretary of
the board, at the rquest of local news
papermen. Friday gave out the fol
lowing statetment relative to the exe
cutive meeting here Wednesday and
Thursday of the Board of Equalization:
"The Statet Board of Equalization
rnnmnri tn Kp nf Hip opinion that the
school measure enacted by the re
cently adjourned General Assembly
Was. so far asr the board is concerned,
workable and contained much to be
praised, Very little dissatisfaction was
evident on the part of the board con
cerning that portion of the bill which
affects directly the work of the board.
Apparently a great deal ojf the con
fusion and* misunderstanding arising
out of the measure is due to the fact
that it. as a whole deals with two sub
jects but' has been construed by many
as relating to only one thing ? the dis
tribution of the equalizing fund.
"The board, in .its recent meeting,
agreed definitely as to the portion of
the bill dealing with the work of the
board and that portion bearing di
rectly upon the county authorities in
the administration and organizattion .
of their schools. Regarding the lat
ter there are, as in any law, many
minor details to bo worked cut and
decided. That this is a matter 'Tor
the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction and the Attorney General
seemed to be. the opinion of the board.
NVw ? Duties Of Board. #
"The first among the new duties
placed upon the board is provided in
Section 4 of the Act. which direct*
the board to assemble information
and data relative to cost of school
supplies, equipment and current ex
pense for operation and to transmit
such information to the several coun
ties in order that those counties may
have the benefit of such information
for comifarison wfrth other counties
and looking toward some economies
that, in the short time between now
and the making of the May budgets,
the board will be able to accomplish
^ great deal along this line, but every
possible eCTort to aid the counties in
a more economical operation Qf th&
schools will be made. This, at pres
ent, is the only duty In addition to
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Attended Miss
Burns' Recital
The following from here attended
! the recital given by Miss Janle Bums
at Meredith College last week: Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Burns. Mr. and tft s
J. A. Long, Mrs. A. S. deVlamtng,
Mrs. M. R Long. Mrs. Anna Brad
sher. Mrs. P. J. Hester Mrs. E B.
Bradsher, Mrg. Ft. L Wllburn. Mrs,
Sallle Morris, Miss Maude Barnes,
Miss Annie Long Bradsher, Miss Sue
Richmond, Miss Mabel James, Mr; R,
P. Burns and D. K Richmond.
Triangular Debate?
The Triangular debate between Rox
boro High School and Loulsburg High
School will be held In the central
school auditorium on Friday evening
l of this week. Djbat# begins at eight
o'clock.
At the same-time the negative team
from Roxboro will debate the PraxA
llnton team at Frankllnton
Afflrmatlve debaters: Hazel Brook*
and Janle Carver.
Negative debaters: Evelyn Wlflmra
afid Huel Gentry
New Highway Board
| One of the acts pertaining to this
County as passed by the last legMa
tu re was the change in the County
Highway Commission The old aat
was repealed and the board changed
from three to five, naming the new
boards, as follows R. A. Burch. i. O.
Chambers. Dr. B. E. Love. D. L.
Whitfield and F D. Long.
The new board met Monday and or
ganised by electing Dr. B. E. Ln?
chairman, and R. A Burch as snpar
vlsor of the roads. The election of an
attorney was postponed to soma fh
| ture meeting.
The Opening Rptaode of "King Of
Tm Jungle" with Klmo Lincoln, at-'''
Palace Theatre. Flrday. AprU 5th.