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ftt* -.n A BETTER COUNTY THROUdH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES Number 45 m Mrs. Flossie Crooitt Dortch Stroud Mrs. Riggs Rouse Fletcher Hollingsworth ■MM Faulkner Ml ' ' E. ^Soward f nngmimingii Mrs. C.' B. Simmons W. F. Grant Earl Tyndall W. Allen Sutton Earl Kinsey Casco Sparrow Tom Htucper Hugh E. Hardy Emmett Jones Glennie Harper p :enson In 1833, Just as the dregs of this generation’s worst depres sion were being felt end feared Lenoir County had a tax revalu ation. As might have been ex pected the temperament of the times was pessimistic and the result of the revaluation was downward, as perhaps it should have been at that time. sSSFjS&S s tacked onto that lHHl valu an But not until 1952 was an actual the Lenoir Commissioners scientific and professional evalu ation and equalisation has been completed and taxpayers of the county afe having their first op portunity to put in their com plaint* about hpw it has hit Under the law, thethird |ton ^ -»s “Eouallzatiom DaV" and on that their property . has not been properly evaluated. That day came on Monday of ,this week and 36 persons show ed up to register various com plaints. There were other writ ten objections that were not reached in this deliberation on Monday and further hearings will be held next week to take these up. - A surprisingly flattering com mentary oh the evaluation is the dS^ST away hwpy^e’Sy understood exactly what the sit uation was. This, of course, was not the unanimous consenus since same did not agree after having the workings of the change explained to them. ■ Among those to appear were Fltzhugh Wallace, Jr., who ask ed that the valuation of the Kinston Country Club be low ered from its new value of $47,000 to something more nearly in line with the old value -of $0,030. This request was de nied. E. 8. Howard of Jtak H01 TownaWfp wanted his property lowered from the new figure of M.560 back to the neighborhood of the value $1,760. “No,” was axua^\tP bis request. Awlof Institute, _behalf of his moth Mrs, Id* Hardy, went away nappy when he was shown that values placed to his mother’s property were & bit lower than prices placed on adjoining farms. Mrs. Gladys McCullers, of La Grange, asked consideration of Continued on Pape 8
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