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ALLEN M SUMS Foq ASKS MORE THAN ? EXPANDING STAll system! Recommendation tha of the state equalization cation purposes be least HO counties of tliel S2.650.000 be appropriate Mb|by the 192f? Gene is^f- huled by Superintd lie Instruction A. T. All cuulal report to the G-ovj eral Assembly. Mr. AlleJ progress made during yeairs in education and declared that I tln^ be continued through etinial period. He divij priation requested into $2,200,(100 for teachers' 000 for transportation and $71 a stimulating fund. The last' would be used in carrying for work in tho counties, of pro mininium school term of eight ill the schools of the !*) counti Citing the progress made State (luring the last live yea educational lines, Mr. Allenf that the value of school prope increased from $24,057,838 in $60,544,130 in 1024; total per expenditures for public s?h poses increased from $12,21 1920 to an estimated amount 000.000 in 1921; total per capi ?moved from $17.07 n 1920 to $4^ 1924; total number of teacher' ployed increased from 16,854 to 2 and total public school enrollme creased from 691.249 in 1920 Uj| 406 in 1924. Some of the defintiS things had occurred as a result of the in? scope of the educational pro in the Jive year period, 1020-1924 sive, wore given by Mr. Allen il report. He declared that Hie u| the high schools way shown increase in white enrollment, 294 to 67,707; the increa high .school graduates f; 7.023; total number of larger consolidated rural creased from an uneslima Good Road Bonds Issued. With bonded obligatioi counties and municipalities! nig at $184,62"), 473, And t| state, at $9S,1S7.C00, gj debtedness in North amounted to $2S3.47?j Highway construj the greater portion! ty bond money, taj the slate highway 7GS for county road $123,417,768, while ihel up tJie larger part of thl debtedness by investments] water and sewerage systen e-d streets. All but about 11 millii state government has bee tinder legislative authori2 the last four years for fin "program of progress." * dates of all the various iss counties and municipalities available, it is evident t units of government have 1 sued most ?-t' iieir bonds i four or five yea, is. Bonded indebtedness of t and counties has increased i 12 months $14,000. The to ported to State Auditor ham June .:!0, 192.'*. am mint c citie sand counties to $134, And new builds issued during ending .Fuiie .'(0. 1924. I lie. da latest available report, bring to flN1,?2r..473.or.. County bond In suns have bo | or <i li?> l'ol lowing purpose;*: Schools, $i4, 568. 9112 SO: i-oj f>i i 1 1 k ? ? . $58, 117,768 09; coul j;ul? ami otlnv <?? >11 n I y purpc I'.'M -tiis r.ii, railroads, $966,217.1 in?: lxnidsf $5.38U,ooo ? total 1 bonds, $87, 062,358.14. Municipal l>ond issues ha\ for these purposes: Schools, $15,61 >.850 ; liglJts^ sewerage, streets and lirle equipment. $66,529,764.91 ; pu| provomosts, $8,0005.000; r| 209.200; funding bonds, ij total -municipal bonds, $97,5>3,1 A check on municipal ahli bond issues, incidentally, was by the state until about thre ago. when the legislature pa^ act directing the counties an<j cipalities to report all bond is| ?the state auditor. Since tlT state auditor's office hais kept of the issues, making avadlabl maition on the financial condil the various units of governmei Infant Deaths Increase. The percentage of deaths am fants in North Carolina increasf 79.1 per thousand 1922 to J thousand in 1923, according to nuai report of the Bureau o Statistics of the Health Depart In 1923 the total number o deaths in North Carolina we while there were 549 materna or a ratio of 6.5 per one t births. Washington county had th Mt intent mortality rate.
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