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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1931
Page
5
The state tackles the extended two month term of the tax reduction fund. A 1 600 000 allotment, part of a 17 000 000 six month total, will finance two months of extended term costs. State aid to special charter districts will cover the gap between district levies and projected expenses, with some districts receiving no aid.
White Eagle cents and the extended term prompt state wide averages of 14 cents. In many districts a 14 cent levy will not cover extended term costs, with the state paying the difference. Martin reports budgets from 75 counties so far. A 1,500,000 tax reduction fund is due to be allotted within two weeks after budgets and equalization calculations are completed.
Itching skin remedy advertises fast relief from burning inflamed skin redness and eruptions. Claims include curing itching eczema and piles with a money back guarantee if not best ever used. Box priced at 35 cents at drug stores with home use emphasis.
Randolph county Fair Association directors met Tuesday in Asheboro and approved lowering season tickets from 2.50 to 1.00 for all five days to widen attendance. They also outlined plans for exhibits and amusements. Mrs Fox’s condition at High Point Hospital improved slightly after a critical week, doctors remaining cautious.
Richard Grant and Ernest Lassey began September 12, 1930, from Chicago on a 6000 mile canoe voyage. They traveled the Mississippi to the Gulf, then up the Atlantic coast to New York and the Hudson River, entered the Hire Canal to the Great Lakes, and completed the circuit back home after nearly a year.
The Carville Louisiana leper colony now prints a weekly mimeographed newspaper titled Sixty-Six Star. Spanning about four pages, it features sketches, a sports column, announcements, jokes, a motion picture column and social notes of colony members.
Asheboro Aug 27 Work will start Sept 1 on a three story 55 by 50 foot addition to the Derwick Silk Throwing Mill. A basement lunch room will be expanded into a cafeteria. The two upper floors will house machinery boosting output by about 50 percent. Current staff is 225 with 75 to 100 more needed. Total investment over 300000 when finished.
In Baltimore a canary named Dickie disrupted a Southern police court as Magistrate O'Donnell and officers chased it. After several misses, Dresneene finally captured the bird. The court declared contempt and sentenced the canary to a cage for an indefinite period.
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