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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1930
Page
3
Eastern North Carolina residents argue the $6.5 million equalizing fund mainly helps Piedmont and western counties, not the east, amid calls for tax relief. Governor Max Gardner and others counter that actions have reduced eastern taxes and aided schools and roads.
An advertisement touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a cure for feverish, fussy babies and children with colic gas sour belching and vomiting. It claims fast comfort within minutes and promotes a free information booklet from The Phillips Co. New York. It also discusses tax relief funds and school equalizing aid distributed to eastern Carolina counties with figures from state records.
A study of 41 eastern counties Northampton Onslow Pamlico Pasquotank Pitt Robeson Sampson Scotland Tyrrell Washington Wayne Wilson shows they received 40 percent of the school equalization fund and 40 percent of combined school and road aid, while contributing only 18.9 percent of state revenue and paying less into the treasury than they received.
Democratic leaders argue that eastern Carolina counties were not neglected as they received 3,104,073 more from the state treasury than they contributed and got 40 percent of the 9.5 million annual fund for schools and roads. The fund, authorized in 1929 by the Democratic General Assembly under Governor Gardner to cut county taxes, earned Republican support.
Harry Sell of Wilmington won the Wake Forest freshman class election for president of the class of 1934. The race for other offices was tight, with a second election to determine the remaining winners. Vice president candidates were Charles Russell of Waynesville and Wallace Temple of Zebulon. secretary nominees were John W. Cole of Charlotte and Bradford White of Rome, Georgia. treasurer contenders were Herbert Baucom of Waynesville and George Gornto of Lumberton.
Ida Blankenburg of Tulsa claims to be Lotta Crabtree’s daughter and seeks the Boston estate. She faces six months in jail for perjury and contempt, with plans to appeal to the U S Supreme Court.
A historical overview notes diphtheria mortality in New York City dropped from 125–145 per 100 000 in 1885–1895 to 10–20 per 106 900 in 1915–1925 as medical advances reduce deaths. It details antitoxin, toxin antitoxin, Schick test, and the newer toxoid, with emphasis on child susceptibility and evolving prevention.
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