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Established May 16, 1907.
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VOEXXI MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MRCH 22, 1929 10 Pages This Week 1750
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Troy Wild Saves Play
mate From Drowning
(Special to The News-Record)
A tragedy was averted in the
Foster-Laurel section last Thursday
when Troy Wild, 14-year-old son of
W. H. Wild, plunged into the badly
swollen waters of Laurel and rescued
8-year-old Blake Farmer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Fawner, who had ac
cidentally fallen in. The smaller
boy was crossing a foot-log when he
became dizzy and f el into the water.
He was borne down stream rapidly
fnr nhniit 2B vards. barely halting in
an eddy where his companion just
managed to reach him before another
current caught him. The boys
bin- rock and waited
js patiently as cold, wet clothing and
'nhnttorinir teeth would allow, for
help to arrive.
Neither were any the worse for
the accident, except that Troy lost
his shoes in his scramble-dash through
the creek.
The rise to fame of Charley Curtis
proves that this country will do some
thing for an Indian when an Indian
does something ior ine country
: THE PUBLISHER'S COLUMN mn
: ABOUT VARIOUS MATTERS
: WHAT THE MADISON COUNTY HOS-
PITAL WOULD COST YOU A YEAR
Cannot Cost Seven Cents On The
Hundred Dollars
MAY NOT COST HALF THAT AMOUNT
Under the law governing the establishment of county hospitals, a
notice of which is running in this paper, the people of the county can
not be taxed over one-fifteenth of one cent on the dollar s valuation of
property STOP! Don't get the idea that means 15c on the hundred
dollars: It's easy to think that way if you do not stop and think twice.
One-fifteenth of one cent on the dollar means lc for every fifteen dol
lar', valuation of property! How many cents on the hundred dollars?
As many as IB is contained times in 100, or six and two-thirds tmies.
6 2-3 cents is the maximum amount that could be assessed no matter
IFlFSiTDir3
WHAT IT WILL COST TAXPAYERS
At the request of various persons in refeard to increase of the tax rate in the event the hospital
election is voted favorably by the people. I make the following statement.
The Law provides that the tax in any event cannot exceed one-fifteenth of one cent on the
dollar This amounts to 6 2-3 cents on the $100 valuation of property.
The proposed bond issue cannot exceed Thirty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($37,500.00). On the basis of the present tax valuation of the property in Madison County
Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars to meet the interest on five peir cent Thirty Seven
Thousand Five Hundred Bonds and create sinking fund would require about 3c tax on the
One Hundred Dollars of taxable property, which. would be about 30c on the Thousand Dol
lars of taxable property. This amount would be reduced each ye,ar as the bonds are paid
off. t .
The Duke Foundation will pay $37,500.00 if the county votes the bonds. The corporations
and other interest will pay about three-fourths of the taxes required for this proposition
and the farming class about one-fourth.
J. N. WHITE, County Auditor.
THE DUKE FOUNDATION WILL PAY $1.00 PER DAY FOR
CHARITY PATIENTS.
NO DUKE HOSPITAL CAN BE OPERATED FOR PRIVAJE GAIN.
NO INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP CAN PROFIT FINANCIALLY
FROM OPERATION OF THE DUKE HOSPITAL.
THE LOCATION OF THE HOSPITAL MUST BE APPROVED
AND PASSED ON BY THE DUKE FOUNDATION PPxiJSS
HOSPITAL WILL NOT BE PLACED ON THE I S L A N D OR ON
MAIN STREET OF MARSHALL OR AT THE CAROLINA PALI
SADES. i -
THE DUKE BOARD MUST APPROVE METHODS OF MANAGE
MENT. . v
A BOARD OF DIRECTORS MANAGE THE HOSPITAL WITH
OUT PAY; ,
V NO DOCTOR CAN BE A TRUSTEE OF TH E HOSPITAL.
EACH DOCTOR WORKING IN THE HOSPITAL MUST BE AP-
PROVED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
DOCTORS MUST OPERATE FREE OF CHARGE .WHEN BOARD
OF DIRECTORS DECIDE WHEN PATIENTS CANNOT PAY
V ALL DUKE HOSPITALS NOW IN OPERATION AS FAR AS
" KNOWN MORE THAN PAY EXPENSES.
.MASS "MEETINGS
Dr. W. S. Rankin, Director of the Duke Foundation, will be in Madi
son County on the 3 and 4 of April. He will be able to answer your
.questions regarding a Duke Hospital ; Dr. Rankin will speak:
April 3 at MARSHA HIGH SCHOOL at 2:40 o'clock.
April 3 at M ARSHALLHIGH SCHOOL at 7:30 o'clock.
April 4 at WHITE ROCK at io:00 o'clock;
April 4 at HOT SPRINGS H. S. at 2i30 o'clock. i
April 4 at MARS HILL H. S. at 7:30 o'clock.
UNDERSTAND THIS OFFER. k ;
V, VOTE APRIL 9. J
THINK IT OVEIt
r ' tiif -!a i- ' it .m tn , fiirnr-a a nt.tlp. vou will find that
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will not likely require that amount. Property in Madison is valued ior
Uxatiwi at over ten and a half million dollars. If we assume that the
hospital would be aelf -sustaining, the actual amount necessary w
woWd be $1250 sinking fund every year to pay off the $37,500 in 80
.yeato and the interest What the interest would amount to would de-
petjd upon how the bonds were sold, but it would not be more than 6
pr cent Many think not over 6 per cent and maybe even lew. But
"even vfcf you figure the interest at 6, the first year the interest would
'miujit to $2250 and that amount added to the sinking fund, $1260,
- total $3500 year, which is less than 3c on the hundred dollars of
proberty. Every year, as the bonds were retired, the interest item
woiilJte less and less. This means that if you are paying taxes now
on 1XQ0 valuation, the hospital would add 3c to your taxes a year.
If lau'are paying on $200 your tax would be increased just 7 cents a
yea j If you are paying on $500, your tax would be raised 17 c, on
$1000 the increase would be 35c, and 35c for every thousand dollars
worth' of property you list for taxation. No 'matter what might be the
deficit; in the operating expenses of the ho&pital, the increase in taxes
couW not exceed twice this amount under the law. So that nobody
shohld worry about the amount of taxes this hospital will cost them. If
you&f&mily never gets sick or needs hospital service, be thankful that
yoifaxe helping someone who does need such service; for many people
these" days have to go to hospitals, and many of them are not able to
pay iheir tway.
' We made a mistake last week in figuring and said that it would
tost Mn and Mrs. Wyatt at Rolling Fork 15c a year. We find now that
thefost would hardly be more than half that amount, probably some-
thinf between 5 and 10 cents.
' J the Duke Foundation matches this amount as a gift, inera are
no L&ings to it. You do not have to pay interest on the Duke gift.
It if n absolute gift, and in addition to that the Duke fund gives $1.00
a day for charity patients. How can Madison County afford to lose
this; gift and this help from the outside?
. I 'One requirement of the Duke fund is that the hospital helped by
thii fund shall not operate at a profit. If it made any .money one year,
th stirplus would have to go back and be absorbed in the operating ex-
pelses the next year, or month as the case may be, thus reducing the
chlrge to patients. Dr. Knox, pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Marshall, in speaking Monday night, said this gift is a God-send and we
caiinit afford to lose it. Other counties are clamoring for it and if we
fail in this election, some other county gets it.
WAT THE LEGISLATURE DID FOR MADISON COUNTY
f' Well it is over! That memorable body which created such a stir
in italeigh is a thing of the past. But the effects are not over It was
a battle to the finish and the war-scarred veterans have returned to
make their reports. We have not seen all of them, but we learn from
Represntative Hutchins and others that the results down there as at-
feeting Madison County finally resulted about as follows:
I The Board of Education of Madison County will be composed of
'ttl following members: Dr. R. L. Moore, of Mars Hffl. Mr. Calvin H.
Rmof the Sandy Mush section, Mr. Lee Ramsey, Mr. Jasper Ebbs,
S Mr; Wiley M. Roberts, of Little Pine, Tlw lt three named W
',SW&ttA before. - - '' - '. . : .
'A bill was passed by Representative Hutchins reducing the worK
on roads to four days or five dollars.
A bill was passed changing the November term of court from No-
vember to January, thus avoiding the conflict with Thanksgiving.
The County Commissioners remain the ame as before the legisla-
ture The bill introduced to change the number to five instead of
three was reported unfavorable, later brought up in the Senate and de-
feated. ..
The state law passed at this ression increasing tax on gasoline
from 4c to 5c will give Madison County about $27,000.00 a year. This
will eliminate the amount now set aside for road purposes in Madison
The state school bill passed increasing the equalization fund will
tend to lower the rate of taxes in Madison County.
For Marshall a bill was put through making the banks in Marsh-
all the town treasurer, requiring the banks to keep a correct set of
books. The chief of police is required to collect water rent and his
salary was not increased. .
We have not yet learned the nature of the bills affecting the town
of Hot Springs or any other town in Madison County, if any were pass-
ed.
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MORE ABOUT THE COUNTY HOSPITAL .
Ever since the hospital matter was submitted by the conunistsioners
to be voted on the 9th of April, we have been seeking information and
trying to give the readers of this papr such information as could be ob-
tained. And we shall be glad to give outaa many points as possible
from time to time. The paper will be late this week on account of
holding it to get as many facts before our readers as possible, as we
realize that there will be only two more issues of this paper before the
election. While we have been stressing the importance of this matter
from the first, our people do not seem to have given it very much
thought until the last few days their attention seeming to be more
towards Raleigh, where much friction has caused even the hospital mat-
ter to anffer.
At first this writer was not sure that he would favor this hospital
proposition. Like many other people, we did not understand it We
have tried to study it from the standpoint of the taxpayer, from the
standpoint of the patient and from the standpoint of the doctors. The
result of study is that we favor it, with facts now before us. If we did
not believe it wxmldhe for the benefit of the poorer class of people, we
would not favor it If any person in Madison County sympathizes with
the poor people it is this publisher. He has visited many of the homes
in the county and seen the living condition in almost every section. He
knows how hard it is for them to get hold of money to pay taxes, or to
buy the necessities of life, in many cases, and he would not advocate
any measure to extract one tent from them if he did not believe firmly
it would result in their benefit Moreover, we would not favor it if we
did not believe that the people would favor it when they have under-
stood it As we see it this is one way of getting ,those able to pay help
those who are not able, and if the poor people kill this matter, they will
have nobody to blame but themselves when they are sick and begging
help to go to a hospital where they must pay. The wonder is that the
more wealthy people of the county would favor it at all, as they are the
ones who will bear the burden. It will not coat the poor people much
if anything and they are the ones to be benefitted. We will write
some more later.
WHY YOUR ARTICLE IS NOT PUBLISHED 4
Wo have more than one article in this office this week some for and
some against the hospital, and some seeking information, but we have
given all the space to this matter this week that we can afford to give.
Moreover the points given this week seem to answer the most vital mat-
ten which concern our voters. We may answer more fully next week.
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MRS. MOORE'S ARTICLE ON THRIFT
One of the finest and most valuable discussions appearing in this
paper ever is the one this week headed "THMFT'' by M". B. Moore
of Mare HilL By all means read it Yon would do well to clip It out
and keep It. " -
MISS MORRIS
EXPRESSES
APPRECIATION
R. F. D. 6
Marshall, N. C.
March 19, 1929
Mr. Kfcnrv. Editor.
Marshall News-iRecord
Marshall, N. C.
Dear Mr. Story:
I've been meaning to write you in
onnracintinTi of vour editorials which
have been appearing of late in your
paper. They have hit tne nan on me
head and have added 100 value
to your publication. I'd like to see
some of them particularly those re
garding the law making and unmak
inor in Rnlpiirh nnbliahed in the
' "& o J
Asheville papers or even more exten
sively. It has seemed to us ever
since we have been here that too
petty details are attended to there
in Raleigh, which should by right
come under local county legislating.
Vnni. crivintr na inf nmnation and
soliciting debate regarding the pro
posed hospital is a fine thing.
I'm always in favor of better fa-
oili.iaa fnr iarintr for the sick and
needy, and feel sure that if a business-like,
just and public spirited
group of people can be persuaded to
act on a Hoard oi management, ior
such an institution as is being dis
cussed, it will mean a great tning 10
Madison County.
A well conducted County Hospital
could not help but very materially
raise the standards of both nursing
onH morlipnl wnrlf aa well as bv Cut
ting a stamp of approval on and im
petus to all work done along me line
of Public Health.
Yours very sincerely,
MARY T. MORRIS.
BOUNTY ON BIRDS
TO DISCONTINUE
Raleigh, N. C.
April 13, 1929.
MEMORANDUM TO COUNTY
GAME WARDENS:
The bounty offered on tie follow-ingyredatory-
birds and tbe-jjrildftt
will be discontinued April f, 1929:
Cooper's Hawk, 25c; Sharp-shinned
Hawk, 25c; Crow, 15c; Wildcat,
$2.00.
You should receive any of the a
bove birds or the wildcat for bounty
up to this date, April 1, and make
certificate to the Department where
the claims are correct, even tho your
certificates are not sent in until after
April 1.
Please give this matter, that the
bounties will terminate for this year
on April 1, such publicity from now
on as you can in your county. Per
haps, your local newspaper or papers
will carry it as a news item.
Termination of the bounty money
on April 1 becomes necessary because
we feel that it would give an oppor
tunity to those who would violate
the State game law to kill game ani
mals and game birds under the pre
text of hunting for hawks, crows and
wildcats.
While we have not expended the
full amount of the fund set aside for
the payment of these bountis, still it
has resulted in the destruction of a
great many crows, hawks, and wild
cats, and in the whole, the Depart
ment is highly gratified with results
obtained.
C. H. ENGLAND,
State Game Warden.
DEATH OF JOE RICE
Mr. Joe Rice of Hopewell died last
Sunday morning at his home, at a
bout three o'clock. He was 65 years
of age, and his death was caused by
pneumonia fever.
The funeral service was conducted
Monday morning at 11:00 o'clock in
the Methodist church at - Walnut: '
Several ministers had a part in the
service, Rev. N. H. Griffin, J. H. Bal
lard,' B. E. Gutherie, R. H. Morgan,
and Rev. Mr. Sprinkle. After the
funeral the body was laid to rest in
the Walnut cemetery.
Mr. Rice was one of the best citi
zens of his community. He was a
member of the church for forty
yeans and had been a member of the
Masonic Order for a number of years.
He was true to his church, his lodge,
his community, his home, and best of
all, to his God.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Joe Rice; two brothers,
Jim Rice, of Walnut, and Job Rice
of Walnut Creek. The following
children survive: Mrs. ' Magnolia
Reeves, of Walnut Mrs.' Nettie Har-
rison of Black Mountain, and three
sons, Paul, Will, and Reuben. -,
Mrs. Nancy Haynie, sister of Joe
Rice, died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Jim Roberts of Barnard, on
Tuesday morning. , She was buried
in the Walnut cemetery on Wednes
day afternoon.. The funeral service
was conducted from the Baptist
church by Rev. Mr. Sprinkle of Pine i
Creek. - .- . .u-.-j j:.'- -A :
' "I've got one advantage over you
still," said the horse as he looked at
the auto that was sharing the barn.
"When I'm worn out I can be worked ,
Bp into canned beef and Gum-drops,,
and you can't- The Pathfinder.