85 Percent Property Assessment Adopted by County Board
County commissioners in a special session adopted an 85 percent assessment on merchants and manufacturers after a lengthy argument. The vote 4-1 with Joe F Hoffman dissenting. The new rate, effective April 1, 1940, reduces the previous 85 to 100 percent scale for certain cases. The board also reviewed a school repair and construction report estimating about 150000 for repairs to white rural and Negro schools.
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Greensboro
E County
Cial
Joe Foffman
Gh Point
Board of Educat
E Negro
Eensboro
High Point
Death of Rev. George S. Gresham rector of St Stephen's
The Rev. George S. Gresham, 51, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Goldsboro, died at Goldsboro hospital after a stroke. A Massachusetts native he led the church since 1932 and earned the Silver Beaver Award for Tuscarora Council work. Survived by two sisters in Ossipee New Hampshire and Lexington Massachusetts.
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Goldsboro
George S. Gresham
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Goldsboro Hospital
Gresham
Massachusetts
Tuscarora, Council of the
Boy Scouts
Allen Jay school adds five classrooms and new auditorium
Plans include converting the Allen Jay auditorium into five classrooms and building a new auditorium. Jamestown would gain a new high school while the existing building becomes an elementary school, or the project would add ten classrooms and an auditorium with the building reworked into elementary and high school use.
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Allen Jay
Jamestown
First Piggy-Back Flight By Airt Carrier Pigeon Carries Canary
NEA Service reports a historic 20 mile pigeon piggy-back flight from Elizabeth New Jersey to Manhattan carrying a live white roller warbler canary to 10 year old Margaret Gillen at St Clare Hospital. The canary traveled in a special air cooled aluminum pullman strapped to the pigeon's back.
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Airt
Elmer W. Lower
NEA
New York
Margaret Gillen
Patrick Gillen
Manhattan
St.Clare Hospital
Hudson River
Elizabeth
N. J
New York City
Robert J. Rechon
NBA Service
Margaret
National Wild Life Federation
Washington
Federation
Rochon
Swift Pigeon
New Jersey
NBA
Robert J. Rochon
Income Tax Exceeds March Budget Shaping Deficit
March income tax receipts reached 501.1 million dollars three days before month end, surpassing Roosevelt estimates by about 75 million but still trailing March 1938. The fiscal year deficit totals 2.32 billion, with public debt rising to about 39.97 billion as borrowing continued.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Social Security Unemployment Benefits Reach 34.7 Million
The Social Security Board reported that unemployment benefits totaling over 34.7 million dollars were paid to unemployed insured workers in February. The figure shows an increase of about 5.5 million from January with payments listed for North Carolina and South Carolina among others.
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Washington
Social Security Board
North Carolina
South Carolina
Educators Hear Daniels At Southern Assn Meeting
Prominent educators gathered in Memphis for the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools annual convention. Jonathan Daniels from Raleigh will address the theme on the South’s economic problems and the role of schools, with Mark Ethridge of Louisville delivering the keynote on the 1939 theme.
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Memphis
Tenn
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Jonathan Daniels
Raleigh
N. C
Mark Ethridge
Louisville
Association
Sowers Club Elects Salisbury Recovery Leaders
S. O. Sowers, a Southern Railway employee, is elected president of the Salisbury Townsend Recovery Club. W. H. Woodford, also a Southern employee, is named secretary-treasurer.
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Sowers Club
Salisbury
S. O. Sowers
Southern Railway Company
Salisbury Townsend Recovery Club
W. H. Woodford
Southern
Dorothy Thompson to Speak at Chapel Hill Program
Dorothy Thompson the columnist and radio commentator will speak at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill tonight. A live broadcast of America's town meeting of the air will follow featuring UNC President Frank Graham Senator Josiah Bailey and John Rust co inventor of the cotton picking machine. They will discuss Is the South Our No 1 Economic Problems.
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Chapel Hill
Dorothy Thompson
University of North Carolina
America
Frank Graham
University
Josiah Bailey
John Rust
Memphis, Tenn
South
Untaxed Liquor and Farm Wagon Seized in Rocky Mount
ABC officers halted a wagon near Rocky Mount on March 30 and found 15 gallons of untaxed liquor along with part of a still. The driver beat his mule furiously as officers closed in, raising suspicion.
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Rocky Mount
ABC
Mystery Play Sponsored by Asheboro Women Club
Asheboro Business and Professional Women sponsor The Ghost Bird a mystery comedy to be staged April 4 at 8 pm in Park Street School auditorium. Local cast except director F Myrick Russell. cast includes Mrs W K Lewallen Gilbert McCain DeEtte Austin Catherine Patterson Odell Redding Elmer Blalock. Proceeds benefit the club treasury home for business women in the city.
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Asheboro
Park Street
O Hammer
Gilbert McCain
DeEtte Austin
Catherine Patterson
Odell Redding
Elmer Blalock
Asheboro Woman's Club Plans April General Meeting
The Junior Department hosts the April general meeting at Mrs. T. A. Burns home with Miss Roberson of Samarcand Manor as guest speaker explaining the delinquent girls facility. Delegates named for the state convention in Raleigh include Mrs Lovett York Burns Proctor Hull Kiesewetter Cox and J W Cox with Mrs Roy Champion joining from the Senior Club.
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Asheboro
Roberson
W. A. Underwood
J. A. Spence
Ed Steere
JL. EB. Milks
Clarence Lovett
Curry Loflin
James, Riddle
Julia Thorns
Raleigh
Mike York
T. A. Burns
Fred Proctor
Ray Hull
Ernest Kiesewetter
J. W. Cox
Roy Champion
Industrious Women in North Carolina Earn Vast Food Value
North Carolina Home Demonstration Club women and 4 H Club girls reported producing or valuing food products worth 829000 plus dollars in the previous year. Economist Cornelia C. Morris of N C State College Extension Service noted the figure and its significance for food conservation and marketing.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Cornelia C. Morris
N. C. State College Extension Service
Fexil A Grisette Reports Big Hospital Savings Gain
The annual report from Fexil A Grisette executive director of the Hospital Saving Association of North Carolina shows 1938 year end membership at 83 436 up 45 518 from the prior year. The society spans 91 counties with a growing membership in the state.
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Shelby
Fexil
House Defeats Bill for Hike in Tag Prices
RALEIGH March 30 AP The House killed a bill to provide hospitalization for auto accident victims funded by adding 30 cents to license costs. The vote 54 48 after Mull of Cleveland switched from aye to no. A companion move sought to block action with a 56 41 vote. Senate rejected a liquor votes bill for municipalities over 2 500 population. Joint marker panel 4 1 to keep senate recede from its amendment. A joint session to elect UNC trustees set tomorrow afternoon.
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Raleigh
House
Mull
Cleveland
Fenner
Nash
Acton
Senate
Joint Conference
Folger
Surry
University of North Carolina
WPA
Four Cornered Wedding Planned by Brooks Memorial Ladies Aid
Ladies Aid Society No. 2 of Brooks Memorial M. E. Church sponsors a four cornered wedding at Brooks Memorial Church this evening at o clock. Mrs. Cora L Evans presides over the society.
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Ladies Aid
Brooks Memorial Ladies Aid Society No. 2
Brooks Memorial M. E. Church
Cora L.evans
Church Rehearsal and Usher Boards Meet Friday
The senior choir of Women's Memorial A. M. E. Church will meet at the church Friday evening at 7 o'clock for a rehearsal. The senior and junior usher boards will meet at the church at the same hour.
Comets Victory Over Twentieth Century Club In Softball
William Penn high school Comets, led by John Baker Philip Moore and J Miller, beat the Twentieth Century Club of Leon ard Street 9 to 3 on the Willam Penn campus. Harold Davis struck out 19 of 30 batters.
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Willam Penn
Comets
William Penn High School
John Baker
Philip Moore
J. Miller
Twentieth Century Club
Leonard Street
Harold Davis
Comet
First Lutheran Church Calls Rev C Ross Ritchie
Concord reports Lexington First Lutheran Church selects Rev C Ross Ritchie for pastor after 11 years at Rocky Mount Lutheran. Ritchie is a Cabarrus County native.
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Concord
First Lutheran Church
Lexington
C. Ross Ritchie
Rocky Mount
Legionnaires to Meet Concord Tonight
American Legion members from the fourteenth district will assemble in Concord for the annual meeting tonight. State Department Commander Burgin Pennell of Asheville will deliver the address.
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Concord
American Legion
Fourteenth District
State Department
Burgin Pennell
Asheville
Local Weather Summary and Blustery Coastal Conditions
Partly cloudy and colder tonight with showers this afternoon along the north coast. Friday will be fair and cooler on the coast with rising temperatures inland. Strong easterly winds near the coast shift to northwest tonight. south portion sees fresh to strong winds, overcast with rain tonight. Charlotte area records show mixed temperatures and rainfall across stations, including Asheville 86 48 36 and Birmingham 66 58 1.38 inches.
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North Carolina
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Charlotte
Weather Bureau
H. L
R'tall
Asheville
Oveseese
el Scelkvetiecd
Augusta
Birmingham
Charleston
Suscess
Gomes
Key West
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
Miami
Mpls-St. PB
Escoveres
DP Catee Puto
Mt. Mitchell
New Orleans
Ae Boer
Security chief seeks rise in old age pension taxes
The old age pensions system would require similar contributions to the railroad retirement plan. The Senate finance committee rejected increases in the import tax on vegetable oils and fats after President Roosevelt threatened to veto. He argued trade agreements and reciprocal trade are vital to economic recovery and foreign policy, and cotton subsidies were ignored in favor of a bill letting farmers reclaim up to 3 million bales of cotton stocks used as government loan collateral.
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Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Harrison
D-Miss
Senate Agriculture Committee
Jesse Jones
RFC
Social Security Office Visit At High Point Post Office
A Greensboro Field Office representative will be at Room 209 in the High Point Post Office on Friday March 31 from 1 to 5 p.m. to offer information and service to employers and employees about the Old Age Insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.
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Greensboro
The
Social Security Board
High Point
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