Augusta County Budget Slashes Tax Bills and Spending
Staunton Va May 2 The Augusta County Board of Supervisors adopts a 1932 33 budget lowering tax bills by about 111 000 or 40 percent year over year The plan trims county revenues to about 9 000 more in receipts than expenditures totals 445 000 down from 653 000 in 1931 The average carpus county district tax rate falls to about 1 26 from 1 67 Salaries are trimmed including teachers bus drivers and janitors with a ten percent cut baseline except teachers earning 100 or less monthly lose five dollars while those above 100 monthly lose ten dollars A county road levy is abolished reducing thirty cents of the thirty to forty cent cut for tax payers.
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Staunton
Augusta County Board of Supervisors
Carpus
Two West Point Cadets Missing After Canoe Found Upset
Two second year United States Military Academy cadets Alan J. Light and Leo A. Skeim were missing after their canoe overturned in the Hudson river near Bannerman's Island north of West Point. An army amphibian plane and cadet canoe squads searched the river edges while authorities scouted banks and the Newburgh police were alerted. The capsized canoe was found by a trackwalker who failed to notify police promptly.
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West Point
N. Y
United States Military Academy
Hudson River
Alan J. Light
Leo A. Skeim
J. M. Weikert
Bannerman’s Island
West Shore Railroad
Newburgh
Light
Skeim
Mr Ritenour Resigns from Winchester Democratic Committee
D W Ritenour submits his resignation as a member of the Winchester Democratic Executive Committee elected at a mass convention on April 25 1932 in Winchester Virginia He states he has not acted for selfish motives and will continue to serve as a Democrat and private citizen while pursuing the wishes of the masses.
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D. W. Ritenour
Democratic Executive Committee
Liberty With Order Burke Quote
A compact note quotes Edmund Burke asserting that liberty is inseparable from order and virtue, stating true freedom cannot exist without shared social order and moral conduct.
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Burke
Me I Cant Read Among Sixth Grade Homework Challenges
A Virginia Pilot remark notes how parents struggle with their sixth graders homework and reading tasks and the modern education burden on families.
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Virginia Pilot
Atom Split Achieved by Cambridge Pair Under Rutherford
Lord Rutherford announced that Drs. J. D. Cockroft and E. T. S. Walton, both at Cambridge, have split an atom under his supervision. He cautioned the immediate commercial value is unclear, noting energy gains require vast particle counts, while stressing the discovery advances atomic science and may broaden knowledge of matter and energy.
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London
Lord Rutherford
Cambridge
Carl Anderson
California Institute of Et
J. D. Cockroft
E. T.S. Walton
Rutherford
Macfadden Unable To Attend Shenandoah Festival
Bernarr Macfadden, famed New York publisher, sends regrets via secretary. He cannot attend the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival due to a Cleveland engagement, but extends best wishes for a delightful event. He also thanks Frank Boucher of Capitol Theatre for arranging photos at Admiral Byrd Airport.
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Bernarr Macfadden
New York
Emma Howard Wight
Macfadden
Richards
Shenandoah
Jail guarded for protection of a prisoner
A local jail is heavily guarded by Sheriff Lucas and special officers after strangers left, amid ongoing protection for an incarcerated individual. Fry, a slow speaking colored boy, protests innocence about the schoolgirl assault, claiming alibi and naming N. T. Sedwick as employer. He says he saw another colored man on the road. authorities dispute this. Fry asserts familiarity with the girl, who lives nearby.
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Fry
N. T. Sedwick
Sedwick
Lucas
Sedwick House
Arithmetic Is Regarded Mostly Dead Wood
Washington May 1 Dr Robert K Speer of New York University argues on NBC that eighty five percent of arithmetical instruction is dead wood He says most of the curriculum including arithmetic should be discarded and only arithmetic needed for daily tasks like buying, making change, reading and writing letters remains essential
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Washington
Robert K. Speer
New York University
National Broadcasting System
Florence high school pupil Evelyn Martin wins state violin prize
Evelyn Martin of Florence and Alex won first prize in a state contest for high school violin pupils held at the Woman's College in Montavallo receiving high praise for her unusual skill.
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Evelyn Martin
Florence
Alex
Woman's College
Montevallo
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