South Boston
Plans Elaborate
Festival Program
South Boston, Va., (Special to
Times) —Visitors to the fifth an
nual National Tobacco Festival
to be held in South Boston, Va..
September 7 and 8 will receive
souvenirs to Tobaccoland in the
form of beautiful 32-page pro
grams of the celebration. An
nouncement was made this morn
ing after the contract for the
programs had been given to
Brown-Morrison Company of
Lynchburg, Va.
The booklet, which will be
9x12 inches in size, will include
a complete schedule of events to
take place during the two days of
festivities. It will also include nu
merous photographs of the cele
bration.
A synopsis of “TOB AC ARO
MA,” mammoth dramatic produc
tion depicting the story of tobac
co, which will be enacted by a
cast of over 500 upon a stage
150 fe;t in length, will also be in
the program. The natural amphi
theatre, in which “Tobacaroma
will be staged, is situated, with
in the corporate limits of South
Boston amid towering virgin
pines, and will seat approximate
ly 15,000 people.
A full page photograph of Re
gina Tobacco V, who will rule
over the celebration with medie
val pomp and ceremony, will ap
pear as a frontispiece to the book
let.
The cover for the program will
■carry out the theme of the Fes
tival, an attempt being made to
catch the mood of the celebration
m a symbolic photograph. Al
though color will not be used on
the inside pages of the booklet,
Festival officials said that the
cover would appear in four col
ors.
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Amendments
May Interfere
With Merit Rating
Raleigh lf the amendments
now b-.ing considered to the So
cial Security Act are adopted by
Congress as they have already
passed the house of representa
tives, the new legislation would
interfere with the merit rating
provisions of the North Carolina
Unemployment Compensation
Law, as provided in the amend
ment adopted by the recent ses
sion of the General Assembly,
Chairman Charles G. Pcwell, of
the State Commission, told a
group of employers in Gastonia
recently.
The North Carolina amendment
meets the requirements of the
Social Security Act as now writ
ten, but does not meet the re
quirements in the amendment
being considered. The State law
includes a maximum 2.7 per cent
of the payrolls of North Carolina
employers, with reductions for
stable employers who meet the
requirements after four years of
experience. The Federal amend
ment requires an appropriate av
erage of 2.7 per cent, which
could not be achieved under the
State law. An alternative in the
proposed amendment is a stand
ard for the states, which requires
that a minimum of $5 a week be
paid eligible claimants for total
unemployment. In most other
respects the State law meets the
proposed standards, although the
law would have to be changed to
make it conform.
"It is a question of whether we
need the amount in our fund that
would be produced by the ap
proximate 2.7 per cent of the
payrolls subject to the tax. Wash
ington officials think it is requir. <
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td. We doubt that, and feel that
our law will produce income suf
ficient to keep our fund solvent,”
said Chairman Powell. (The Sen
ate Finance Committee, at - this
writing, has struck out these a
mendments.)
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Unemployment
Fund Has Nice
Balance Now
Raleigh—Receipts of the North
Carolina Unemployment Compen
sation Fund have exceedrtt $25,-
000,000, while benefit "payments
exceed $11,000,000 Chairman
Charles G. Powell, of the State
Commission, reveals.
Receipts through July 6, a
mounted to $25,039,594.05, includ
ing $24,628,441.48 in contributions
from liable employers and $411,-
152.57 in interest on the balance
in the United States Treasury.
Benefit payments to unemployed
and partially unemployed work
ers through July 6 in about 18
molnths, readhedj $11,009,0145.90,
Mr. Powell said. This leaves a
balance in the State fund of
$14,030,548.15 as of July 6, which
: ncludes the pooled fund and the
amount being credited to indivi
dual accounts under the merit
rating plan.
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95 Percent
State Textile
Students Get Jobs
Raleigh, N. C. Dr. Thomas
Nelson said today that at least
95 per cent of the 60 Textile stu
dents in the 1939 graduating class
at North Carolina State College
had secured positions. He also
said that the others have been in
communication with prospective
employers and may already be at
work as several requests for
Textile graduates have been re
ceived since commencement.
Thus the Textile school of North
Carolina State College maintains
its enviable record of being able
each year to place all graduates.
Dr. Nelson said that the suc
cess of the Textile School in this
respect was due to the fact that
textile employers had found that
its graduates could go into the
textile industry and with a cer
tain amount of practical exper
ience fill executive and technical
positions in practically any phase
cf it. Many textile plants now
make it a practice to employ tex
tile graduates each year so as to
have a trained man ready for any
opening which occurs in their or
ganization.
In view of the success obtained
by Textile graduates of North
Carolina State College, Dr. Nel
son believes that the textile in
dustry is a fertile field for tech
nically trained young men and
'.ays that it is one vocation which
offers North Carolina boys an op
portunity to win success and re
munerative employment in their
own state.
Os the 57 American boys in
this year’s graduating class, ’ at
least 44, or mere than 77 per cent,
will be located in North Carolina,
6 will be located in South Caro
lina, 2 in New Jersey, and 1 each
in New York and Tennessee. One
Mejycan and two Chinese grad
uates have already returned to
their native countries where their
fathers are officials in textile or
ganizations. Annually, the Tex-
PRICES
Livestock prices declined
sharply during the month end
ing June IS, while gains, cotton,
and most other groups of farm
commodities advanced slightly,
reports the U. S. Bureau of AgrL
cultural Economics.
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SUMMARY OF UNIFORM ANNUAL BUDGET ESTIMATE
of Person County, North Carolina
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1939, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1940
Published in Compliance with Requirement of the “County Fiscal Control Act”—Sec. 7, Ch. 146, P. L., 1327
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Column 7 Column 8
Estimate of
Total Estimate of (Col. 1, less Uncollectible (Col. 3, plus Estimate of Tax Rate
Budget Revenue to be Col. 2) Taxes, Com- Col. 4 Estimate Tax Rate of Last
FUND Requirements Available Tax Levy missions on Total of Property on SIOO Preceding
Other Than to Balance Collections Amount of Valuation Valuation Levy
Tax Levy Budget and Tax Pay- Tax Levy
ers’ Discount
General $24,355.74 $11,031.48 $13,324.26 $2,664,85 $15,989.11 $10,750,000.00 .15 j .15
County Home 5,011.00 2,231.56 2,779.44 555,88 3,335.32 * .03% .03
Court and Jail Operations 6,046.42 1,076.42 4,970.00 994.00 5,964.00 « .05 .05
Health 3,875.00 1,125.97 2,749.03 549.80 3,298.83 ~ .03 .03%
DEBT SERVICE:
Bond Interest 36,822.50 9,534.60 27,387.90 5,457.58 32,745.48 .31 .55
Courthouse and Jail Eonds 10,520.00 1,812.14 8,707.86 , 1,741.57 10,449.43 .10 .11
Refunding Bonds 8,613.50 336.77 8,276.73 1,655.34 9,932.07 .09 Ms .00%
SCHOOLS:
Debt Service 30,898.14 4,971.22 25,926.92 5,185.38 31,112.30 .29 .31
Capital Outlay 7,653.85 3,976.26 3,677.59 735.51 4,413.10 .04% .07%
Current Expense 20,405.03 20,405.03
SOCIAL SECURITY:
Old Age Assistance 7,837.50 2,428.40 5,408.67 1,081.73 6,490.40 .06 .05
Aid to Dependent Children 3,705.00 1,508.83 2,196.17 439.23 2,635.40 .02% .03
Dept. Public Welfare 6,530.49 630.45 5,900.04 1,180.00 7,080.00 .06% - .05%
* $1.25% $1.45
tile school draws students from
Canada to Mexico and from other
foreign countries, but about 75
percent of the enrollment is from
North Carolina.
'New Textile Building
The new four-story, fireproof
Textile building is rapidly near
ing completion and will be ready
for occupancy when the College
opens its Fall session in Septem
ber. Within the past two years
the Textile School has completely
modernized its weave room and
added considerable new equip.
SHIRT SALE
$1.65 SHIRTS NOW SfffpSi
fi Wm
4 for $5.00
The Buy of the Summer
Long’s Haberdashery
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ment to other departments. It is
the policy of North Carolina
State College to keep its Textile
School thoroughly modern and
provide its students with the best
instruction obtainable in the tex
tile field. Consequently, as soon
as the new building is completed,
a unit of woolen machinery will
be added, the research facilities
increased, and considerable new
equipment for weaving, knitting,
and processing rayon and cotton
yarn and fabrics will be installed.
North Carolina high school
graduates who are seeking for a
vocation that affords them un
limited opportunities for success
in pleasant surroundings should
investigate the possibilities in the
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various phases of the textile in
dustry, for there is room for ex
ecutives, technicians, chemical
Privilege Licenses
Are Now Due
Another 5 percent penalty
will be added to unpaid pri
vilege liceses if they are not
paid this month. This will
make 10 percent in all. Better
pay now.
Five Percent Added Each Month If
Not Paid.
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City of Roxboro
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THURSDAY, JULY IS, 1939
research workers, as well as for
those of artistic temperament
who can create new designs.