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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
9
A three quarter hour filibuster led by Senator Jackson of the twenty first to dispense with the tax equalization abolishment bill delayed the Senate meeting before adjourning Wednesday at approximately 1 o clock. Nearby remarks noted the session nearly closed as the filibuster continued.
Painful, swollen feet with corns bunions and ingrowing nails are blamed on germs in skin pores. Rozium, a French prescription, is advertised as cooling cleansing soothing deodorizing healing and astringent destroying germs quickly restoring health and comfort to skin and nails. 35c at all good drug stores and your money back.
Jackson urges reopening tax fight while opposition blocks votes. Golucke pushes a five member committee to probe twelve district agricultural schools to ensure lawful operation and avoid abrupt abolition. Joint highway department probe panel named. chiropractic licensing bill passes senate with strong medical support and future amendments planned. Governor contract authority on Ducktown litigation debated.
Judge Dan W. Green of Birhinns ham Ais was reelected leader at the Masons Annuity Grand Lodge annual meeting in Atlanta at the Ansley hotel. John Aldredge was elected vice president, R. E. Edwards secretary, and C T Nunnally joined the board. Minor constitutional changes were adopted as delegates from southern states reported the annuity in fine condition.
Fitzhugh Lee Camp No 6 United Spanish War Veterans selects delegates John P Haunson commander and H L Henry quartermaster for the national convention. The event will be held in Minneapolis with the camp hosting Saturday afternoon for Atlanta veterans and their companions. Trucks will meet the party at Lake Hast at 8 o clock for transport to the federal prison farm melon cutting. Committees of Fitzhugh Lee and Roosevelt camps discuss plans and dates for a state wide reunion of all Spanish war veterans.
The state income tax bill, aimed at replacing the ad valorem system, is referred to a five member subcommittee by the appropriations committee. Senator Walker will name the remaining members and the panel will confer with the governor and tax commissioner to set tax rate limits and exemptions. The senate committee favors the tax but wants strict limits. A separate bill would require agents collecting state funds to remit all money to the treasurer without commissions, a practice deemed poorly recordable. Senator Fleming congratulated Walker, calling the measure the best business bill of the session.
Charles Cook, cashier of the motor vehicle department, says license tag prices will drop on August 1 for the second half of the decal year ending March. Many owners plan to wait for the cut, while others rush purchases before then as 1981 tag sales are expected to rise after August 1.
A bizarre feature story reports a charismatic, unnamed Irish Bohemian poet and his companion touring from New York to San Francisco seeking a kiss wager with 1,000 girls. The stunt draws editors’ attention as Greenwich Village hosts the poetic pair while Yonkers women are promised first opportunity.
The following new bills were introduced in the house on Wednesday. Items include creating a state veteranarian within agriculture, marriage license posting for non residents, repealing the property tax equalization law, charter reform for Macon under a city manager, circuit realignment, eight pilots at St Marys, local drainage levies, banning spiked wheels on paved roads, railroad livestock injury settlements, and more among General and Special Judiciary, Municipal, and Drainage measures.
An erratic consensus of local figures argues over heat and rain effects. While merchants and farmers blame dryness or wet spells for crop fate and golf greens, a weather man notes June’s heat but says rainfall projections remain uncertain with showers forecast for Thursday.
C. Haden urged the Georgia Illiteracy Commission to raise private subscriptions totaling about 10 000 dollars to accompany a state grant. He noted 18 500 dollars appropriated in 1919 and claimed about 20 000 Georgians were taught to read and write with volunteer aid. The proposal seeks legislative commitment only after private funds are secured.
Atlanta Sacred Harp singers and North Atlanta Christian Harmony will host a singing convention at Brown Memorial church on Saturday and Sunday. Dinner will be served both days. The public is invited.
Charged with having a quart of whiskey concealed in his gate, Barfield faced federal court Wednesday morning. He was fined 200 after arrest and arraignment before U S Commissioner W C Carter, bound over to the grand jury, then pleaded guilty in district court following a bill of criminal information.
James A Belflower newspaper man and attorney announced his bid for Third Ward council seat to replace Fred C Woodall. He currently serves as park commissioner and pledges free textbooks for public schools, freedom of speech, ward improvements, and police reforms.
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