County Tax Equalization Program
Has Mow Been Completed
- By F. W. McGOWEN
- County Accountant
The tax equalization program has
.1 been completed and a good Job
Y has been done. , -
: -The bounty Board of Equalize
At - il T"l .1 1 I.. ..J
uuil ttiiu ncviewucu i-uuifictcu iw
work.'. About the samChumber of
v matters as usual were presented to
' the-Board. This attests to the good
work done by the Appraisal Com-
mittees. - "
The total valuation of the County
...dll 1 ..I m nfnl.l OQ ff Mfl AAfl
U Will DO aupiUJUlUnWlJ 0,UUUUU
- 00, which is over $4,000,000.00 more
. than it was last year,'
- ,The Board of County Commiss
ioners after much consideration
( has fixed the 1047. county tax rate
r -at $1.50, which is 10c less than last
year. It is expected that the tax
rate wMl be further reduced in
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pairs and additions
school buildings.
are made to
The Board endeavored to make
the 947 tax rate $1.40, but after
' several meetings with the County
Board of Education -, to discuss
school needs the rate was estab
r Ushed at $1.50 the additional 10c
- all going for schoolaV'v'.WI'-U?:
Ppr 4947,!tax,te.Ui made-Hp as
- follows! General County Fun I .15:
Poor Fund ,05; Health Fund 07;
t Cost of Administration Of QAA anC
" ABC-; Funds .01 Vr,r County Debt
' Service .36; Old Age Assistance .06;
Aid to Dependent Children .02
Aid to Blind .01 W, Current Expense
i School Fund - County Supplement
.23; : Capital Outlay .SchoolFund
- .38: Debt Servtce.School Fond 15.
Analysis OI IVt l propeny
- taxollar - lOo of each dollar will
" be spent for: Board of Commission?
' ers', Listing and. Assessing taxes;
eluding deputies; General Elections
and Primaries; County Accountant
and Tax . Supervisor; Maintenance
and repairs of courthouse and
grounds; Register of Deeds Q ce,
including' assistants;, Coroner and
Cost of Inquests; Forest FireTro-;
tectioi.; Maintenance and repairs
of County Jail and malnta'ning
. prisoners; A part of Cost of Coun
ty Welfare Office; Farm and Home
- Agents, their Assistants,; and re
pairs and maintenance of Agrieui
" tural Building; . County ; Service
Officer; Superior Courts, including
Jurors and Fees; uenerai vouiuy
Court, Including utneers ana
aerk Superior Court's Office, in
cluding. Assistants;, and County Li
brary Service. - -
3-30 of each dollar will be spent
for; County home inmates, who are
boarded; Outside poor relief; In
- digent pupils; Burial Expenses o
poor; Hospitalization of poor. -,
4.6c of each dollar will be spent
1947 Combines
And Threshers Must
Get Permit ;
- Operators of combines." and
threshing machines in Duplin are
reminded that they are required to
obtain permits to operate in North
Carolina. The permits are obtained
through the Register of Deeds. Of f
ice. There is a fee of 50c for these
- permits. Handy dally recofd hooks
are provided along with forms on
which to report the acreage thresh
ed and bushels obtained from this
acreage. :.-:. V -' v; ';
- Farmers and- businessmen need
infonriatiori resulting from these
records- to 'make plans lor better
and safer-farming. Also; agricultu
ral leaders heed totals and aver
ages for general program planning.
. The State Threshers' ' Law Is the
means for getting such information
on small grains. vvv-VfcJvV r.-.VV
The purpose of this.law Is for In
formation and-ot for revenue. It
seeks cooperative aid and. interest
andjiot compulsion or resentment
Reliable plans , must be developed
.from information originating at the
" f armsr thus, the threshers' records
provide the best .basis for county
; vain stastistics for program plan
us usage.' The source and usage
within the county itself. Opera-
s must obtain: (1) Permit or 11-
card; (2) Daily record book:
; ! r report blanks upon which
t, I . ''"'r entire operations
for: County health department, in-
' eluding various clinics held; Sani
tation; Vital Statistics. . .
le of each dollar will be spent
for: A part of Cost of County Wel
fare Department, in -Administering
'bid Age Assistance and Aid to He-
pendent" Children Funds. ,
i 4c of each dollar wilt be spent
for: Old Age : Assistance to needy
persons who are ,65 yeai-sor more
of age. - A'- '.. -.',1.4c
of each dollar will be spent
for: Aid to needy Children. ,
. lc- of each dollar will be spent
forr Aid to needy Blind. -
t 24c of each dollar will be spent
for: Principal, and interest on out
standing debt of county (Total of
Debt outstanding is $1,607,659.10.
Total amount of principal due r. xt
fiscal year is $94,759.10. Total am
ount 'of interest due next fiscal
year is $76,726.25.'
15.3c of each dollar will be spent
for: General Control expense not
supplied - by the Stater Vocational
.Agriculture; Home Economics; Re
pairs to school buildings; Repairs
and replacements: ' Furniture and
Instructional Apparatus; Repairs
and replacements: Heating, lighting
and plumbing; Apart -of Cost o
Water, Lights and Fuel; Insurance
on buildings and equipment; State
Retirement Fund; Apart of Cost
of Dental Program.
25.4c of each dollar will be spent
for: New Sites; New Buildings, Al
terations ; and Additions to Old
Buildings; New Furniture and In
structional Apparatus; New busses
(not replacements,, which are. furn
tehed- bftbe state); Libraries; NewF
equipmentfior Superintendent's'
Office; County Garage... ' , ; ?
10c of each 'dollar will be spent
fort Payment of principal, and in
terest on -outstanding -school debt
A little over one-half of our county
tax dollar goes for schools.' :
If you have a farm, a house and
lot or personal property valued at
$2,Q00 on the tatf books, your 1947
county taxes on same will' bo $30.
$15.20 of this amount will be for
schools; $7.20 for County Debt Ser
vice; $1.40 for health; $3.20 for
Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent-Children,
. Aid to Blind- and
Poor Relief; and $3 for all other
expenses of the County, Including
salaries of all County Officers and
Assistants. . i -. ' 1
- If you are between the age of 21
and SO years, your poll tax wil' be
$2; - $1.50 of this will be used for
repairing school buildings, and 50c
for poor relief . , ,'
A If you pay $1 tax on a male dog,
and have him vaccinated against
rabies, you ill get credit for 75"
on your dog tax. The other '5c
wilf go for repairing public schools.
Ex Gov. BroUghfon
To Speak In Duplin
June 15,2:30P.M.
Home Coming' Day at Bear
Marsh Baptist Church will be held
on June 15, beginning at 10:00 A.
M. A sermon bv"a former pastor,
Rev, J.M. Duncan of Murfreesboro,
will be preached at 11:00 A. M. For.
the afternoon program the' former
Governdr J. Melville Broughton of
Raleigh will speak at 2:30. There
will, be special music during the
h Everyone is Invited to come and
bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the
fellowship. s . "
Church Bulletin :
Methodist Church Program, Rev. A.
M. Williams, pastor. Sunday School
10 A. JI4. Worship Service 11 A. M.
Youth Fellowship 7 P. M- . - t
Vacation Bible School June M3
at 9 A. M; for ages 4-HJ. Rev Rob
ert Nicks, a Duke University stu
dent, will preach Sunday morning
and assist in Bible School.'. ; i .
Church C'jlbtin ,
4 The preaching schedule for the
Duplin J' " "A t Circuit for Sun
day, Jt 'nvfi: ,
ii ii tymmmmm-.
REV; L." C,' PRATER, of Camp
Hill, Alabama, is the new pastor at
Outlaw's Bridge Church. He is a
native of Texas. "He ; served as
Chaplain in the Army, 41 months
of his service was in the Pacific.
He will preach his first sermon on
the second Sunday in June.
"AMOtlGUS
TARHEELS
. By W, T; BOST
(Greensboro Daily News)
Raleigh - Scouts sending back
word to possible candidates for gov
ernor made the doleful declaration
that the Johnson bandwagon rolls,
If not relentlessly, .very merrily
along. ;yx;ri,'--: ...
The later Max Gardner had a ssy
lng almosf as, solemn s-the Scrip
tures. "You can't buck a tread,
Gardner said, referring especially
ta the Inability of the Sinynons or
ganization to stop Kitchin in 1908;
to the "Kitchin organization in Its
futule effort to arrest the Simmons
machine; to the incapacity of the
Simmons ' machine to beat" back
Bickett whose . trend 'was eight
years old; to uaraner s -laiiure .10
beat the Simmons forces when tney
chose to make a last stand against
woman suffrage, and finally to the
Bailey effort to stop a trend of his
Own making. t , '
To -be sure, "trends" can be
bucked successfully, as Gardner
himself could have testified. Onto
he bucked the sales tax trend and
beat it. He would have. had to sur
render to it later, but he was not
governor then. Still, trends are
very . hard to head off. Charlie
Johnson's candidacy has ..become
a tremendous swing. It has been
gathering momentum eight years.
In; 1940 he had many temptations
to run for governor. Everybody was
doing it, but he chose to let every
body do it. It wasn't his day in
1944, but that was a good time to
slip in a word for 1948. Treasurer
Johnson let his friends among the
sheriffs, - county commissioners,
'"j.iJ'll'i;.'; ' - .V": v-
bankers, manufacturers, county and
city governments keep up the tsuc.
After the war some- financing cer
tainly, would have to be done. The
state would need a man who had
known the feel of public money
The treasurer, it universally was
agreed, knows it: That .is the Irres
istible treria.;; : : , ..
" The treasurer showed rare good
Judgment in picking his turn to
run. .If times , had . cauea ior u
educational renaissance ad a.hea
venborh orator to whoop em up.
Candidate ; Johnson . would . have
been at a disadvantage. A talkative
man is all right In talking times
If the'same old 'story of Bailey
and McLean. Bailey had been boost
ing McLean for years,, Indeed, the
Raleieh lawyer-tried to get him to
run aealnat Bickett 'in -1916, bU
that was war-Ome with America- on
the dge of -It McLean knew, that
a superlative speaker was neeaea
So; In 1924 after Bailey had boom
ed 'McLean ahd become a. pbrtioh'
of a ureat 'trend; he hadn't a chance
to stop .tile-man whom he had help
ed to. g-iifl suc'-i itr,ptus. The btate
knew in 1924. tha what it needed
was not an Akron, like Bailey but
a MoseS like McLtan. That's exact
ly what had happened; Personalities
are not counting now! These scouts
send back word that the bandwagon
Is ovorlord.J. but tiie public piles
( i 1 d.Mi.e ii. wir'res to be a pass-
cn 't. '"' be sure, Johnson
ii' fin'l v!l look a ood
Negro Driver Plows Info House
By MRS. ST ACT BRITT
. Saturday morning at 1:15 Hel
liard Smithr6f heat- Kennnsvtll
driver of a , truck owned by John
Cameron, logger oi uasue Havne,
formerly of Kenahsville, lost con
trol of the truck and ripped two
telephone poles' out before plowing
into the side of the A. J. Strickland
apartment 'on College Street in
Warsaw; damage J amounting to
over $500. t '
Smith, driving ast toward Ke
nansville, at a high rate of speed,
hit one pole then; broke off a sec
ond pole before hitting the house,
The terrific" impact tore the out-
side apartment steps loose from
the house and completely demolish
ed the end of the front Dorch inn'
foundation, the truck coming to a
standstill on the porch.
Walker McNeil, who occupies the
lower apartment, and his family
were asleep in an adjoining room
Warsaw Girl Graduates At North
Carolina School For Deaf.
Among the 12 students to gradu-1
ate from North Carolina School for
Deaf at Mbrganton on May 28 was
young lady from Warsaw, Miss
Frances Jones, daughter of Sheriff
and Mrs. Ralph Jones, who entered
school there in the fall of 1934.
Graduation exercises was help
at eleven o'clock in the school au
ditorium which, was filled to capa
city. Diplomas were presented by
Dr. H. E. Rondthaler, President of
the Board of Direct!, The add
ress was given by Rev. M. George
Henry, paster of Xirace Episcopal
Church pf Charlotte and was in
terpreted in sign by Rev James For
tune of Durham. Rev. Fortune U
an Episcopal minister but since he
is the only regular minister to t ie
deaf of this state, his services are
somewhat nondenominational In
character. ' ; jt
w Miss" Jones was an outstanding
student She -was crowned May
Queen at the May Day Celebration
this year, being chosen by vote of
Khe student body. She was Vice
President of the Senior Class; Pres
ident of . the Tepha Club and Cap
tain of the Basketball Team. Also
House Of Representatives Cuts
Farmers Home Administration Funds
By MARION C. HOLLAND .
FHA Supervisor -'
. 'The lower house of congress last
week cut Administration funds" for
the Farmers Home Administration
40 below what the President had
recommended for the fiscal year
1947-48 which begins July 1 1947.
r The House cut the amount . of
money , Available for operating
loans, that is loans for farmers to
meet farm operating and family
living expenses, 33 1-3. During
the present year, approximately
400 fanners in Duplin County cb
tained loans of this type with "which
to meet their 1947 operating ex
penses. ..v ''.'.-'.,
. No money was appropriated for
farmers to borrow to buy farm
for - themselves under what' was
known -as the Farm Ownership
Movies Made Here
In
t KenansvUle and the Miller Com?
munity were literally in the lime
light , Wednesday and Thursday
when it was thp center of movie
making for the State Board - of
Health showing the work of thi
organizations that are working fcr
better health in ' North Carolina
such as the doctors, druggists and
various health departments. .
These; movies -show what, they
ire doing and what .service jttie
public can be rendered to make
North Carolina a healthier place.
They also, show how much health
ier we would-be If we use the fad
itles offered and some of the things
we need to make it a healthier
state in which to live. -
families have bought farms in Du
publlc to understand their owr re-spons'V-Hity
for the health of the
r ' """ 'n we ell r't rr-
and narrowly escaped injury.- He
rushed Outside in time to have a
few words with the negro, learning
his name, before he fled in the
darkness. Nearby residents, hear
ing the crash rushed to the scene
and in company with Patrolman
McColman and Policeman Rogers,
searched the neighborhood but
were unable to locate the fleeing
negro, v
Alex Matthis, of Warsaw, also ar
employe of Cameron, and who ha?
Deen in company with the negro
earlier in the evening, annenrprf
on the. scene and identified the
truck. Officers went to the honw
of Smiths father, who Dromised
to bring him. to Warsaw as soon ac
he arrived. Saturday moraine
around 9 o clock Smith p.ivp him.
self UD-tO officers at the RtricL-lsnrl
residence and was placed in the
County Jail. He posted a $500 bon1
President of the Young Peoples'
Meeting and Vice President of the
Goodwill Literary Society.
In basketball she was selected on
the all-tourney-team, Winston-Sa
lem Journal Sentinel Tournament
last March after playing in only
one game and made such a fine
showing that she' was' chosen out
of 900 for the Star berth.
Three Graduate Same Year
The Sheriff and Mrs. Jones are
proudot Jthft,. unusual -record of
havingr three members of their
family graduate this year.
' The first to graduate was a dau
ghter, Martha, who completed her
nurse training at Grace Hospital in
Richmond, Va.," on February 24th.
and become a Registered Nurse.
The next was daughter Frances,
who became deaf at the age of two
years from Spinal Meningitis. The
third was son G. I. Sam. who served
overseas with the Second Armored
Division, graduated from Campbell
College May 2S.
Sam will continue his study of
medicine this fall at Wake Forest
and Frances will enter Galludet
College at Washington, D. C.
program. Under this program, 53
families have bought forms in Du
plin County. Twenty of them have
already made -final payment on
their farms. In general, the remain
ing 33 are ahead of schedule on
their repayments. Neither was
there any money appropriated in
this category for returning veter
ans to buy farms.
In view of this drastic cut, the
organization is reducing employee'
in the counties and in Washington
to come within this budget before
July 1, 1947 which means that ap
proximately 40 of the present
employees will be dropped by July
1, 1947. It is anticipated that this
cut will seriously hamper the pro
gram as it has previously been ad
ministered. the health of our neighbor.
Mr. Williams, a central character
representing' a normal North Caro
lina citizen, is played by Dr. J. O
Bailey of Chapel Hill. The directoi
of the picture was Gorden W-h'-n
hour of Chicago who has been work
ing on a series of pictures for the
United Nations. Cameraman vas
Fred Porrett who has done lots of
Hollywood background shooting
and has done pictures about hea th
in ; Latin America and Alaska.
George Stoney, script writer, is
from WinstpnSalem. All of these
men work for the Southern Educa
tional Film Production Service,
connected with the University oi
Georgia. . j.;
This troop will be in Duplin
County for about two days getting
scenes in the health department
and in the town of Kenansville and
in, the Miller Community. .
' Some of the local patrons It Ke
nansville who took part in ths pic
ture were Messrs. H. C. Dail, N B.
Boney, Cenus Dail, P .R. Stephens,
r -t.rl, Dr. G. V. Goodinc,
' " r ' y aid
Chained in
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CONNEAUTVILLE, PAMary Mehalko, 20, is shown as the was
found by the police, chained to a chair in her bedroom. The girl'
father, Charles Mehalko, 45, who was arrested on. charges of cruelty
to a minor, chained the irl to. prevenT her from eloping with Raymond "
Smith, of nearby Kerrtown. Maryumished bail for her father short
ly after he was jailed. -
Hattie Gavin Back
In Jail On"-,
Abortion Charge
Hattie Gavin, Warsaw Ne
gro woman, is back in jail
'awaitbic hearing before Jus
tice of the Peace C. B. Sitter-
fson ;Jhere ; Fridajr. if iernoon ;
June ' 6th. Hattie is cbarsed
with performing an abortion
at her home recently in War
saw on a colored girl from
Rose'HilL i
State FBI officers are inves
tigattaur - three and possibly
more eases In the county this
week, according to Sheriff's
officers.,
Hattie was already released
under a $2,500 bond on char
ges of performing: an abortion
on a Guilford County NegTO,
who died as a result recently.
Gen. Deavers
To Speak At
Legion Convention
Carolina Beach General Jacob
L. Deavers, commanding general or
the Army Grottnd Forces and one
of the most colorful military mer
in the. nation's history, will del' or
the main address during the North
Carolina American Legion's June
14-17 convention at Carolina Be. ch
The four-star general will maVe
his speech at 11:05 A. M. Monday,
June 16.-
Gen. Deavers was rimed crm
manding general of the U. S. Forces
in the European Theater in May
1943. Between then and the war's
end he became, commander of the
Norn African Theater, deputy-
commander-in-chief of Allied For
ces Headquarters, deputy supreme
allied commander of the Mediter
ranean Theater and commander of
the Sixth Army Group in France.
In June of 1945 he succeeded Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell as commantlin?
general of the Army Ground For
ces, the position he now holds.
Mrs.RoyH.Cales
Mrs. Roy H. Cates died of a heart
attack Sunday at 5:30 a. m. She was
a leader in religious and social ac
tivities in her community. Funeral
services were held from St. Gabriel
Church at 1 p. m. Monday, with the
Rev. Robert Kellerman, officiating.
Burial Was in the Phillips Chapel
cemetery In Alamance County at
4:30. Surviving are her husband;
four sisters, Cliff, Lela and Kather-
ine Mable of Decatur, Ga and Ms.
June Cromartie of Elizabethtown.
Infested Areas
To Gal DDT.
"The N. C State Department Of
Agriculture n" l tV U. S. Depart
ment '' v i c-f i:
Her RoonY
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to control infestations of the Japa
nese beetle which occur in rela
tively light numbers in various
places.
Modern mist blowers will be wed
to apply DDT to the foiiage in the "
vicinity of known infestations.. The
sible to disperse relatively , amal
tensive leaf areas, and the mist is t
carnea in airDiasis xrom ine lur
bine blowers. The State is furnish-
ina thp lahnt anH m atarial' anil ttr
special machines and operators a-f
provided by the Federal Bureau of
Entomolo'Tr. It is hoped that one,
app'ication car. be made to the fol
iage at about the time of beetle
emergence. According to field stS
during 1945 and 10 5C. the DDT sol-
utions applied i l tiiis way leave a -residue
which is effective for a
period of from two to three weeks. '
In some cases it may be necessary .
to make a second application.' .;
L. F. Weeks, County Agent, aks ,
property owners and residents to
participate with the State and Fed
eral Government in this beneficial
work by giving them permission
to apply the material to foliage '
on their premises. No direct ap
plications will be made to forage
crops, grazing areas or home vege
table gardens. ,
it may not De possiDie io appiy
mis material wiin maciiuiea iu
areas, especially in rear yards of
v. ho wish to apply DDT may secure
a 10 dust at local stores and ap-
ply with hand dusters. The dust
is an effective control but should
be reapplied after rain, if necess- f
arv. Should you desire further in
formation please communicate with
CctntyAcnfs
Office
L. F. WEEKS -
Arrangements have been made
for Duplin County Tobacco Grow
ers to visit the Oxford Experinvrr
Station on the afternoon of July 7
On this trip the tobacco growers -will
see the results of the many
varieties and fertilizer tests that
are being conducted at the Station.'.
Someone will be present to ex
plain the different experiments and -
give results of the tests. The various
methods of curing tobacco will also
U ... ,1 : - -J ...V. . . nwafu mat,.,
we dluuicu. iuuoc win f Lit.
ing this trip by special bus may
An sn liv rntifvinff the CoUDtv
Agent's Of ice and. arrangement?
will be made for bus transportation.
This will be a one day trip. :
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Thanks, Folks
' The, family of E. A. Newtc
wishes to express their thanks i
the people of Ko""'- " ' 1 ; -v''
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