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ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS City Tax Levy Reduction Os 20 Cents On The SIOO Valuation Given By City Council Total Assessment Estimated At $6,250,000, Slightly Above Last Year; Money for Government Charity Mattress Factory Here Placed in the Budget * A tax late of $1.25 per SIOO valuation was fixed by the Henderson City Coun cil for the 1934-35 fiscal year at the monthly meeting of the Council for August, held last night This compares with a levy of $1.45 per SIOO valuation for the past year, and represents a re duction of 20 cents. The property val uation on which th rate was based was $6,250,000. slightly up from the $6,130,- 000 valuation for 1933. The only increase put into the bud get in its final form before its adop tion last night that was not included in the tentative figures offered a month ago was $290. Half of this was a donation to the Salvation Army, and the other half went for support of a Federal government charity mattress factory here, planned to furnish em ployment to persons without work The total amount of the budget for general expenses was adopted to in clude $73,744, which compares with $.‘2,522 or that same purpose last year. Dept service items ,ln addition to gen eral expenses, will total $47,064.86 for the coming year, as compared with j $110,631 50 last year, a reduction of some $73,000. General expenses and debt service I combined will be 5120.808.86 the 1934- j 35 fiscal year, as compared with $172.- j 153.50 last year. Tiie tax levy for the j general fund for the new year is 95 cents as compared with 60 cents last year, and for debt service is 30 cents i the coming year, as against 85 cents a year ago. The heavy increase for general fund j expenditures is due to the urgent nec- i essity fo r< expenditures on replace, j ments for eq*ipment for the street de partment. fire department, urtek re pairs. and other equipment charges that must be taken care of this year if the city government and its activities are to function properly. The debt service items both last year and this year include the obligations of the water department, but this is self-sustaining and does not require a tax levy. The grant of SIOO toward support of the government’s charity mattress fac tory was made after E. G. Dorsey, of the local relief office appeared before 666 LIQUID TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS Checks Malaria In 3 days, Colds first day, Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 minutes. Fine Laxative and Tonic Most Speedy Remedies Known The Farmer and Our Bank Our bank helps in build ing up farming re sources and in raising farm earnings. We like to keep in close touch with farmer friends and hope to see them in the bank much oftener than we can vis it them. Feel free to phone us whenever we can help you to attend to any bus iness in town. Some customers find it more convenient and equally satisfactory to bank with us by mail. First National Bank In Henderson Henderson, N. 0. the Council and requested it. The gov ernment is engaged in this sort of ad venture into business in other locali ties. and has met with strong opposi tion from the mattress-making branch of industry. A representative of a fire engine manufacturer appeared before the j Council to discuss the cost of repairs ' to the engine on the older of the two fire trucks now in service. His figure was $2 437. The Council left the mat l ter open for the time being without 1 taking action. Mrs. 1.. D. Wall appeared before the board and requested that a street light be placed on the corner of Hargrove street near her new residence. The mat ter was turned over to W. M. Coffin, street superintendent, with the request that, h° locate the.light... J. H. Hinton asked the Council for street repairs on Arch street, by th<* use of rock and gravel pulled t>p from Garnett street when the new paving work was done The Council agreed to the undertaking, and to do the work with street department labor on : condition that property owners would pay for the tar Alderman T. W. Ellis was appointed to serve with the city attorney as a ! committee to investigate the claims of ! the First Baptist church with respect I to charges against the chui'ch for j street paving, now advertised for sale. MORTGAGE BOARD MEETS TOMORROW A meeting of the Farm Debt Ad justment Committee of Vance county is to be held tomo rjw for the pur pose of organizing and electing offi cers. The date was set a week ago when a meeting had been called, but some of the members found it impos sible to be present and the organi zation sitting was deferred. The mem bers of the board are: W. A. Hunt, J. H. Brodie, B. H. Perry, E L. Fleming and J. E. Kimball VICIOUS DOG CASE DROPPED BY MAYOR Gertrude Scott, colored, was before Mayor Irvine B. Watkins in police court today on a charge of permitting a vicious dog to run at large and bite •David Wells, a minor. The mayor found the facts otherwise, however, and set the prisoner free. It was the only trial of the day in the municipal tribunal. As we understand their problems and appreciate their needs, we are al ways ready to do our best for our farmer cust omers. Proficient farmers and this bank work together just like a well-matched team. Just step into our bank with your crop checks. You can deposit or get cash for all or any part. By concealjijg his cur rency, many a farmer has lost it through fire, theft, accident or de struction by rats. Bank your harvest proceeds. Fixed At CELEBRATION DATE IS BEING AWAITED Power Company Delays Naming Time for Comple tion* of Project A definite date for the staging of the celebration contemplated by the city on completion of the white way and paving improvements on Garnett street is being awaited by the com mittee in charge of arrangements be fore proceeding with greater speed. The Carolina Power and Light Com-' pany. which is erecting the lighting system, is delaying the naming of a date, although urgent requests have been made on officials of the com pany to be more specific so that plans may be rushed along. It is claimed by company spokesmen that they can not be asbolutely specific as yet. Little advertising of the celebra tion can be begun until the date is known, and speakers who are to be invited here for the occasion cannot be asked until a date can be told to them, so that they can mark it on their list of engagements. And until something definite along this line is known, other committees likewise held back, since they cannot proceed in ignorance of how far to go in their preparations. There is a desife. often expressed bv citizens, that the work ought, to be speeded up. It is pointed out. that if the oelehratirn is delayed too far into the fall, the weather may be so cool that crowds that had been expected for the event will not ven ture out in as large numbers as are hoped for in the way of acquainting visitors with the attractiveness of the efty’s main business street. Business To Feel High Farm Prices (Continued from Page One.) market floors when the auction sales were held last veek. Then he follow ed the market visit with a trip to the stores. He found automobile compan ies with orders for all the cars that they had and then the demand not satisfactory. That coud have looked bad. To Mr. Page it seemed well. The same dealers who handle these cars trade in other hardware. “I have sold more nails today /han I have hand led in three months before,” Mr. Page said one dealer in the east told him. That meant the farmer’s barns, houses and other quarters .were going to get repairs and construction that had been denied these many years. ‘‘Of course, they will buy automo biles,” said Mr. Page. "But what of it 7 I think they have been having hard enough timd for several years to just ify them in getting new cars or bpt-C f>r ones than they do have. After all, North Carolina has a road system. If business is too bad to make people use it we are in a pretty bad fix.” Mr. Page did not say whether as a banker he would pass a loan with whirh to buy a new car, but he had very definite ideas as to the right ot farmers to spend some money after they have made crops that are produc ing it. And it has been a full 15 years since anything comparable to what is going on now was seen on North Carolina Tobacco markets. Roosevelt Advised To Allay Fear (Continued from Page One.) not co-ordinated well with dicta “for bidding” cost increases. * * * Reflation or Inflation? • Conservative financiers shake their heads gloomily. They see in “refla tion” merely the groundwork for in flation. They are not interested in a return to 1928 prices through artificial means. They wish there would be no “boom” in the stock market. They desire “a steady recovery”. But impartial economists say those conservative financiers are as “wrong” as the administration. Those economists assert that the conservative financiers desire a re turn to the status quo of the past decade. But our age, they say, is a different one. If we return to the period of unrestricted production, al ways trying to sell abroad, never buying abroad, what shall become of us? If our own buying power is not spread over the broadest possible mass of our population, can any business exist? * * * Further Devaluation? The dollar is likely to sink further. Wall Street hears that the President may reduce the gold content of the dollar to 50 cents. That would be accomplished by raising the price of gold to s4l. Wall Street hears also that the President will announce he will go no .further after that in dollar devalua tion. That will reassure the “sound money’ people but ■will not appease the silverites, who are insatiable. * * * “Coming Boom” Wall Streeters say that economists have been taking too seriously the latest pamphlet by Major L. L. B. Angas, a London broker, who prides himself on guessing “ahead of the market”. In writing “The Coming American Boom”, Mlajor Angas was not speaking of fundamental business recovery or of jr,er. being put back to i work, Wall Streeters say* Henderson Daily Dispatch $1.25 For 1934-35 Fiscal Year tofScoit October Civil Term To Have Plenty of Both, Records Indicate OTHER TERM 15 BRIEF Docket for Criminal Week Very Light So Far. Despite Long Time Since Last Session Was Held Divorce suits and litigation involv ing various automobile wrecks in the county in recent months or years make up a large part of the ctyil docket as at present constituted and awaiting disposition at the next term of Vance Superior Court, which will be held a little more than a month hence, in October. Judge Walter L. Small of Elizabeth City, is scheduled to preside. The criminal docket at this time is very small. There are compara tively few cases on the calendar, and an unusually small list in view of the long time since the last term of superior court, which was in June, and will be four months by the time the October term convenes. There are no criminal cases involving cap ital punishment, and most of them so far are minor charges. It is expected there will be some 20 or 30 divorce suits for trial, while there are also mapy suits involving automobile wrecks, in which litigants are seeking financial remuneration for injuries or damages. These are, of course, on the civil docket, which will follow the week of criminal court. There is the possibility, of course, that many more cases may be added to the docket of both criminal and civil terms, but if they are put on at the same rate as in the past two and a half months since the June court, at least the criminal docket will be unusually small for an October ses sion here. MR. AYCOCK GIVEN PENSION BY PAPER J. R. Bunn, News and Observer circulation agent in this section, said .oday that paper would retire on a pension next Saturday, September 1, D. E. Aycock, of this city, who has been a salesman for the paper 23 years. Mr. Aycock is in his eigh teenth year. The pension will amount to approximately twothirds of Mr. Aycock’s net profit on his sales bus iness. He started off by selling five copies a day and worked up his list to one of the best in the system. He fs one of Henderson’s oldest citizens and a man who has.the respect and esteem of those who know him. WRONG BRICK SENT TO DABNEY SCHOOL While progress is being made in the construction of the new Dabney high school addition of four rooms, there has been a slight delay, it was learned today. Brick that was order ed for the walls was found, on arrival to be of a different shade from those in the present building, and E. G. Flannagan, architect for the project, refused to permit their use. The gov ernment has never sent its check hero yet for the money to be used in the project, although the county’s bonds have been printed and signed and are ready to be delivered to PFA authorities for more than a month. ADKIN JOHNSON 766, PASSES AT GILLBURG Adkin Johnson. 66 year old negro blacksmith and farmer, died at his home this morning about 12:30 o’clock in the Gillburg section of the county. He had been ill for 30 days. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at Mt. Olive church, near Gillburg. The Negro was well thought of by both races in his community Besides his wife, he is survived by n number of children and grand chil dren. CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? See Page Four 1. —ln the book of Genesis what is the name of the first man? 2. Os which country is Saskatche wan a province 3. —What is pharyngitis? 4. —Which nation owns Rio O’Oro? 5. Who was (Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol? 6. —Who was Diocletian? 7. —Name the second president of the United tSates. ijf 4 - 8. —Who was Francis Marion Craw ford? 9. —Name the oldest of the Greek letter fraternities. * * 10. —What famous defense in the World War was commanded by Gen eral Sarrail? „ ECZEMA For twenty years I made a study of ECZEMA and have a satis factory treatment. P. R. Hardee, M..D. Stem,3f. C. * JOHN REA VIS BIG FACTOR IN COURT Name Mentioned in Three Warrants Accused in Two of them, Before The Recorder John Reavis, colored, figured in three cases tried by Recorder R. E. Clements in county court yesterday. That court held no session today. In one warrant Reavis charged Warren Hare with assaulting him with a deadly weapon, namely a stick, but his honor couldn’t see the point and discharged Hare. In another war rant Reavio was charged with being drunk and got 3 days on the roads. In still another he was charged with trespassing on Warren Hare’s prop erty, and on that count was given 60 days in which to be a guest of Jesse Gupton’s State highway hotel east of the city. » The only other case rtied at the Monday session was that in which Algie Henley, white man, was charged with assaulting his wife. She came into court, and asked permission to withdraw' the warrant, which was granted on condition that she pay the costs. MYSTERY DRAMA AT THE MOON THEATRE "The Man With Two Faces”, a {First National melodramatic murder mystery thriller opens at the Moon theatre tomorrow with Edward G. Robinson in the stellar role. The picture is based on the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Alex ander Wollocotton which was one of the hits of Broadway the past season. It is said to be one of the most baffl ing mysteries ever presented, with a strange and unusual denouement. Added to the program is another chapter of the thrilling play “The Wolf Dog”, with Rin Tin Tin, Jr. A comedy finishes the program and free lemonade will be served the patrons. Important Notice! Every year prior to the opening of the Hender son Tobacco Market, local merchants are greet ed with smiling faces and open palms by repre sentatives of state newspapers, who have come to help them advertise their business and to re lieve them of as many of their advertis ing dollars as possible. In buying advertising space in newspapers with large circulations, many advertisers overlook the fact that only a small portion of the large circu lation they are buying is m their trade territory, yet they must pay for the entire circu lation regardless of where it may be. Using Henderson as an example, advertisers here are asked by outside newspapers to pay an advertising rate three times as large as the rate charged by the Daily Dispatch, when it is ex tremely doubtful if any out of town newspaper can offer half as much circulation in the Hender son trade territory as that offered by the Daily Dispatch. This is certainly true as to rural sub scribers, because the large newspapers after leaving their immediate home territory, circu late chiefly in the towns instead of the rural sections. In other words, it is just like asking a Henderson merchant to pay $9.00 for one pair of shoes in some other town, when he can buy two nairs of the same shoes in Henderson for $3.00. All of which makes advertising in the State news papers, as far as local merchants are concerned, not only expensive, but very unnecessary, unless one just wants to make a contribution. Think It. Over! TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1934 TR INEeITLED Only -Fee Account of Col 4 onel Perry’s Records Remains Open After several sessions have been held, the latest that of last Saturday, which lasted for several hours, the Vance Board of County Commissioners has satisfied itself as to a settlement in the trust fund accounts in the office of superior court under the adminis tration of (the late Gjlonel [Henry Berry. All items !are accepted in a clearing up of the records in trust fund items, it was learned today. Final agreement has not been reached as to the r fee accounts, but it is anticipated thki an entire smooth I WHAT GASOLINE «—^ K GIVES 15% TO 20% 11 yl I MORE SMOOTH SINCLAIR 1 POWER ? H-C "| I '— — gasoline —I ing out of that section of the rec ords will be reached very shortly, and that the entire matter will be cleared up to the satisfaction of all concern ed. A lengthy audit of the records has been made by the Walter Charnley Auditing Company, of Charlotte. John Erwin, of that organization, who made the exhaustive study and audit, was here last Saturday in conference with the commssioners, as was also P. A. Smith, local auditor, represent ing the estate. Both sides have found themselves in agreement on most matters thus far, and hope to go the full distance soon. Meantime, a supplementary report is being written by the Charnley audi tors incorporating the explanations and settlements that have been mu tually accepted, and this is to be pre sented to the board at a nearly date, it is stated. The crab spider spins no webs and can walk backward or sidewise more •easily than forward.