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PAGE EIGHT MTMULLAN ISSUES RULINGS ON LAWS Digest Os Recent Opinions By Attorney-General Covers Many Subjects A digest of informal opinions issued recently by Attorney General Harry McMullan: Under certain circumstances boards of clounty commissioners have authority to, hire out pri soners, but statute provisions must be complied With strictly. Authority to hire out prisoners must be authorized specifically in the judgement of the court. The State of N|orth Carolina does not recognize common-law marriages, and there is no way in which a common-law marri age can be consummated legally in North Carolina. County commissioners have no authority to pay a salary or a per diem to members of county rationing or price administra tion boards, nor to make any al lowances to such boards for traveling supplies, or other bfcard expenses. A constable has county-wide jurisdiction and may make an ar rest in his county without a war rant to the same extent as any other officer is authorized to make such an arrest. It is unlawful for a person to transport fortified wines in ex cess of one galllon unless the wine is in actual course of de livery to a county ABC store. Under the constitutional pro hibition against “double office holding,” one person cannot hold I the positions of judge of a re-! corder’s court and United States commissioner at once. Bonds required of peace offic-1 ers appointed by the Governor j should be made payable to the] State of North Carolina. When a witness is subpoenaed and appears in court, separate fees should be charged for the subpoena and the appearance. A vacancy occurring in the General Assembly shall be filled by holding a special election with the writ of election to be issued by the Governor. The State registrar of vital statistics 'is under no obligation to furnish certified copies of death certificates for members i of the armed forces who have 1 died in service or to furnish' birth certificates Dor children of persons in military service with-j out requiring payment of the re- 1 gular fees provided by the con-; solidated statutes. A municipal ordinance Which ; imposes a privilege tax upon 1 landlords engaged in renting' space to agents or to itinerant salesmen for the display of mer-i chandise net regularly carried in' stock for retail trade is “discrim- j inatory and violative of the; equal-protection clause of the' 14th Amendment to the United 1 States Constitution. The consolidated statutes pro vide for the election of three justices icf the peace from eachi township at every general elec- j fion for members of the General' Assembly. If the township has only two candidates, one a Re publican and one a Democrat, and both receive some votes, both are entitled to be certified; as elected. Although clerks of the superior court ordinarily are entitled to receive in advance their fees son the performance of any duty, the clerk should not require payment in advance for the re cording of an order of the court signed by the judge of the sup erior court, as the minutes of the court would be incomplete with out the order's being recorded. McMullan Issues Continued no. 2 The General Assembly may not validly enact a law giving the exclusive right to manufac ture and sell a fertilizer to the person who has devised a form ula for it; for the exclusive pow er to enact laws granting patent rights is given to Congress by the Federal Constitution. County commissioners have full discretion to sell property : acquired by purchase at a tax foreclosure sal?. The commis-, sioners should seek to obtain the best price possible fl:r the prop-; Municipal corporations may sponsor and operate community projects such as nurseries, lib erty, whether more or less than the unpaid taxes, raries, etc., which ar? financed on funds obtained from a grant from the Federal government under the Lanham Act. If no municipal debt is incurred and rio taxes are levied, it is im ! material whether such projects ! are necessary expenses. A corporation has no authority to pay dividends except out of surplus or net profits. I A widow’s application for pay | ment to her of a year’s allow i ance out cf the estate of her ' husband must be made within one year from the death of the husband. A person under 21 years of age is not eligible to b? a municipal policeman. " I 1 TAXI MEN GET TOGETHER | RATE TO BE LOWER . ... ' ■■ I (continued from front page) | made necessary because of short age of gas and reduction cf mile age allowed to taxis. Also men tioned was heavier load of work because of restriction on the use of private passenger cars, but it is understood that not all taxi drivers were in agreement with the up-scale and that several of them were not n/ctified of the first meeting until a short time before it occurred. Under the present solution, which may be temporary, rates begin at 20 cents for one passen ger. The Woods prepared state ment reads: “Following last week’s an nouncement of an advance in Taxi rates especially affecting the users of Taxis at Longhurst, Ca-Vel, and |cther industrial sec tions, came the “freeze” on the 1 operation of private automobiles. The public’s reaction to this in crease in Taxi fares was in the attitude that the Taxi opera- j tors were taking unfair advan- | tage of the public in increasing ' the fares especially at this time. ' “Pursuant to these complaints from the public, City Manager Percy Bloxam and Chamber of Commerce Secretary W. Wallace Woods, asked that the Taxi operators meet with them and discuss different angles of this : price increase, and how it as ; fected the public. This meeting ! was held on Saturday afternoon, in the Police Court room at the ! City Hall, with practically every Taxi operator present. “Some of the pertinent facts bncught out in this meeting were as follows. (1) The Taxi opera tors contended that increased rates were necessary, due to a decrease in mileage allowance: I the increased cost of operations, i especially repair parts: some in- ; cr;ase in gasoline and tires, and other necessary materials. (2) j Also stated, was the fact that on ; many occasions, the Taxis had to operate with only one or two passengers for the entire dis tance to Longhurst or Ca-Vel I when individuals would request { individual Taxis to take them j when one Taxi could serve the entire group with one trip, thus increasing the pay load and sav- ing unnecessary op: ration of the extra Taxi. “For the benefit of the War Program as a whole we think the public should endeavor to ride in groups in Taxis, as well las private vehicles thus saving I on essential War materials such j as gasoline, tires, etc., which are , just as valueable if used in pub- I lie transportation as in privately I owned automobiles. “After a full discussion of the ; different pros and cons concern ing the increase rates Mr. Woods I i and Mr. Bloxam retired from the meeting to allow the Taxi opera ! tors to deride among themselves what shlculd be done concerning , the new rates. Outcome of the meeting was that the Taxi comoanies would return to the old rates in effect before the increase, for the pre sent at least, and they asked the i cooperation of the public in try | ing to arrange to have several , people ride in each Taxi on each ! call icr trip. It was evident that the plans for this increase in rates were made some time in advance of the recent ruling on gasoline, and the increase rates and the freeze on gasoline were coincidental. The Taxi operators further expressed their apprecia tion for the support given them by the public, and "hope that they can continue to render val ■ uable service to /our community in the way of transportation.” i i CITY COMMISSIONERS APPROVE ADDITIONAL (continued from front' page) missioner Thomas, the Saint Mark’s Episcopal church and a cross to the Bruce Newell resi dence. Oorrsction of this connec j tion has been sought for the past 8 years. City employed library clerk will be Mrs. Margaret Howard, at SSO per month, from March through June. Mrs. Howard is the present WPA clerk. Mrs. A. B. Buchanan, now WPA driver j clerk, will be retained on part j time basis as library clerk for j the bookmobile, her salary to 1 come fnem County and State ! funds. Miss Grafton’s report to City Commissioners was as follows: “Withdrawal of WPA, as of i February 28, will affect the en- j tire country and most important to citizens in Roxboro wh*> are interested in the Person County j Public library is the coming es- j feet of withdrawal of the library . WPA staff. “Work of the WPA staff of; the library is largely for bene- . fit of City of Roxborjj residents | and for this reason the problem ! of continuing the support of this j staff is a City of Roxboro prob- ! lem and not a Persion County problem, despite the fact that I County Bookmobile service is j maintained. j “To meet this problem there is needed an increase of S2OO, this sum to take care of minimum clerical salary at SSO per month, March through June, to end of the fiscal year. j “So that you may see the im- j pcrtance of the library to Rox- j boro, we are presenting statis- I tics of Roxboro use. Average j months are used so that figures ! will not be loaded (high). “934 Roxboro citizens are ac- ; tive library borrowers. This is | 20 percent of Roxbbro’s popula- i tion. “Men 188, women 372, and ; children 374. “You will see from the above i table that service is not limited !to “women and children.” The I true picture cannot be given for the men bscause some send their wives for , the family literature. Os the 188 men it will be inter esting to note some (of the profes sions that are represented. “These are namely: high sch ool principal, state contractor, postmaster, post office clerks, bankers, insurance representa tives, farmers, Chamber of Com merce officials, town officials, lawyers, ministers, teachers and State officials resident here. Galley One “Use cf. the library in the City of Roxboro is growing, as can be shown by comparative figures: in 1942 total number of books circulated in the City was 5,774, against. 2,077, in 1941. Breaking down these figures shows that 1942 circulation of books for adults was 632 in non-fiction, and 3,134 in fiction, against 117 in non-fiction in 1941, and 1,471 in fiction, ffcr the previous year, j 1941, while most remarkable , growth hast been in increased circulation of juveniles, 5,774 for i NEW YEAR As the New Year gets off to a Good Start we * J 11» |fll want to Tell You How Much We Appreciate The Business That You Gave Us Last Year. This Year May Find Us Short of a Few Things That You Could Ordinarily Get But We Are Going to Do Gur Best to Keep You Sup plied With The Things That You Will Need. Pittard Furniture Store DEPOT STREET. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. 1942, against 2,077, in 1941. Sim ilar parallels of increase may be cited for the County and its bookmobile, but problem under discussion is here confined to the City of Roxboro. “One of the most appreciable increases in the City is the read ing of non-fiction, 632, against 117, to which the answer is the new and different types of books being furnished under an ex panded program. Result of new books for children speaks for it self, with its four hundred per cent increase (of circulation in the City of Roxboro. “May we quote from President) ' Roosevelt: Libraries are directly | and immediately involved in the I conflict which divides the world, I and for two reasons: first, be cause they are essential to the ! functioning of a democratic soc | iety; second, because the con i' temporary conflict touches the j integrity of scholarship, the I freedom of mind, and even the j survival of culture, and libraries are the great tools of scholar ship, the great repositories of culture, and the great symbols of the freedom of the mind.” Commisioners present, in ad [ dition to Thomas and Hall, were George Cushwa and Lester Brooks. Also present were May or Winstead and City Manager Bloxam. Absent was Commis siloner Gordon C. Hunter, who was in Concord for a Board of Trustees meeting of Jackson Training School. i TWO NEGROES GO UP j UNDER JUDGE DAWES | i (continued from front page) j months; Clyde T. Carr, 30, three charges, SSO and costs, with li cense revoked 12 months for speeding, $10; and costs fbrcible j trespassing, and judgement sus pended with costs for resisting . an officer; Cateb Royal, 27, Ne gro, possession for sale, sls and costs; Vincent Hughes, speeding, continued; Tom Terrell, 55, as- I sault on female, suspended with costs; Jack Gilbert, 32, Negro, assault on female with deadly . weapon, 12 m|cnths in jail, s>us- | pendsd on condition that he not I molest his wife and that he pay I fine of $35 and costs. . Also, Ethel Odessa Carver, 24,/! charged with abandonment of children, warrant withdrawn by j husband, Harry Carver, costs ' paid; James and Pete Black, Ne- ; groes 24 and 17 years of age, , manufacturing whiskey, not ! guilty as to Pete, with 8 months | in jail for James, suspended on j payment of $125 and costs; j Charlie H. Newman, 18, Negro, j speeding, $lO and costs; Elbert Pettiford, 21, Ira Jay, 26, Luther j and Joseph McCain, 48 and 24, ! all Negroes, assault with a dead- I ly weapon, $8 to a surgeon and costs for Pettiford, not guilty for i Jay, $lO and costs, each, for the twj) McCains. Also, Jim Gregory, 45, resist- I ing arrest, .suspended; A. C. , Tate, 60, nole contendere for as sault with deadly weapon, $lO and costs; Zeb Woods, 18, Ne gro, assault with deadly weapon, not guilty, and David Harris, Negro, 22, eight months in jail, for assault with deadly weapon. SUNBEAMS MEET Monday afternoon at 4:00 (o’- clock the Sunbeams will meet! with Janice and Greer Park' at | their home on South Lamar St. SERVICE GROUP GOES TO RALEIGH FOR SESSION Teachers Have Material On Rationing Program. Meeting To Be Held Here Mrs. L. Sanders McWhorter, Person chairman of the Com munity Service obmmittee of the ! War Price and Rationing board, today said that plans are being made for a meeting to be held at the Court House, Roxboro, at which War Ration Book II will be discussed. Date of the meeting, which will be in open forum form, will be announced soon. Speakers will include members of the Comunity Service committee and representatives from the War Price Rationing board. Mem bers of both the committee and the board are spending today in [ Raleigh to attend a State-wide j War Rationing book conference. I Now being distributed in Per- ; son County and Roxboro to pub lie school teachers are handbooks j and pamphlets designed to ex plain the hows and whys of ra- j tioning and the intricacies of the [ point system. In addition to Mrs. McWhorter and Philip L. Thomas, the last named Person chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board, those from here who are in Ral eigh for the conference are: Miss Virginia Brandon, Mrs. John Harkey and Miss Irene Jones, of the Board, Flem D. j Long and J. C. (Bill) Walker, as j interested citizens, and R. B. ! Griffin, one of several members 1 of the Community Slervice com- I mittee. Miss Jones was recently ap pointed as Rationing Board and War Price clerk. Private Irving W. Claytbn has j returned to Camp Sibert, Ala. ! after a short visit with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Clay ton. BUY BONDS TODAY! Open as Usual Bargains as Usual Business as Usual ... '■■■■. .J./ ..■■■■ During Repairs To Our Store Come In And SAVE MONEY Young Mercantile j Company Main St. ' Roxboro. N. G. SUNNYFIELD CORN Flakes ~Bc ff\ oats ~ 9c REGULAR OR QUICK COOKING DATED ENRICHED Mavel Bread 511 c SUNNYFIELD FLOUR FOR Pancakes 4 Pkgs. 25c ANN PAGE BLENDED SYRUP g 19c SUNNYFIELD ENRICHED FLOUR “ 51c Nice Selection of Fresh Fruits and VEGETABLES THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 194$
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