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VOLUME IV. NUMBER 38
Commissioners
Set Tax Hate
For County
Approve Guilford College
Fire Aid
Final passage of tlie 10 45
county tax rales and tentative
approval of a fire protection
ulnn advanced by citizens of the
Guilford College community
were the two leading matters of
business transacted by the county
commissioners at regular session
recently.
In the matter of tax rates, the
board adopted a final resolution
which sets 72 cents as the county
wide operating rate for the
year, passed the usual 82 poll
tax levy, imposed the Greater
Greensboro and High Point
school district levies and set the
' annual Bessemer sanitary district
levy.
Greater Greensboro school district
taxes are 20 cents (or prop;
erty inside the city limits and
29 cents qutside the city and
within the district; the High
Point rate is 22 cents; and the
rate for Bessemer sanitary dls*""
trict is 43 cents.
Budget and school appropriations
have previously been passed.
Claudius Dockery, Dave Pai
sons and Charles Coble appeared
as spokesmen for the Guilford
College residents to apply
ford College residents to apply
for financial aid in establishing
a proposed fire station, the requested
advance to be repaid
within three years.
The commissioners, pending
further negotiations as to equipment.
land and building, tentatively
approved aid up to $5,000
and a committee of three. Commissioners
James A. Doggett,
William G. Ragsdale and Lloyd
C. Amos, volunteered to work
with the Guilford College group
with further plans.
Spokesmen said the plan calls
* for creation of a special district,
r incorproation, pro rata assessment
for operating expense purposes
against the Improved property
of participating property
owners, and purchase from the
fovemrrrent. Drobablv through
the next Charlotte procurement
office, of a used fire truck.
Volunteers from the community
would man the equipment,
which would Include a used gasoline
tank truck with'a capacity
of 750 to 1,000 gallons of water
which would follow the truck on
any fire call of consequence. The
fhre truck Itself, they said, would
carry a load of 250 gallons of
water, according to information
they have already obtained. Citizens
would finance the land and
building. The used tank truck
could be purchased from one of
the pipe line oil companies, they
L'i saM.
J \ Commissioners expressed inr
i terest in the ^luilford College
,i plan on the ground that It might
|v * be used by other rural communl\
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Whooping Cough
Cases Increase
According to a report presented
Guilford county commissioners
Monday by Dr. R. M. Bule,
county health officer, nine cases
of whooping cough and three of
tuberculosis were discovered in
the county during July.
The health office conducted
anti-typhoid clinics in the west
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month, the health officer stated,
the health office personnel administering
4,247 doses of antityphoid
vaccine. In addition. 320
doees of toxoid were given In the
clinics.
The total number of all vaccines
for the month, including
those given in the health office,
was 5,048.
The health office made seven
home visits, two hospital visits
and 24 trips to the county Jail.
Thirty-nine Inmates of county
institutions were examined and
treated.
Other activities hicluded 27
office calls, 11 office conferences.
two food-handler examinations,
one work permit examination,
one consultation with other
doctors .and 37 Wasserman tests.
Dr. L. E. Monroe, presiding
elder of the Oreensboro'A. M. E.
district of the Western North
Carolina conference, was in the
city Tuesday of Lh Is week on
business.
Rev. J. W. Tabron, pastor of
: Union Bethel A.?M. E. church,
Winston-Salem, was in the city
Tuesday of thli^week.
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