The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-19
W|KLE MAY RUN FOR
THE LEGISLATURE
VIII Lead Fight for COnsti-
tutiOnal Reform
INCREASE TAX RATE
Declares Anniston's Tax Rate Should
Be Increased to Make Necessary
Improvements-Mak Rope
From Pine
INCREASE TAX RATE

Admission September 1s-Cspecial9
Mayor ]. L. Wikle of this city will lead
the fight before the next Alabama legle-
lature for a constitutional reform that
will enable the city of Admission to m
crease it's tax rate, and he has intimated
that he might become candidate for the
legislature on a platform embodying this
plank as his paramount issue This
course however, is undecided
The tax rate in Admission at present is
" of per cent, and Mayor Wikle says
that 1t works great hardship on the
city to have to make the improvements
demanded by growing city with the
relatively small amount of revenue avail
able under the constitutional limitations
He will make an effort to enlist other
cities with him in his fight
Mayor Wikle gave out the information
as stated in referring TO the city schools
s'Contrary to the inference drawn from
published reports the mayor said we
made an increase In the appropriation Tor
the public schools of Admission this year
of $1,000. The board of education asked
for SIS, 600 and we gave them $4,000, and
in view of this it. seems to be that they
ought to be able to employ the additional
teachers said to be needed"
Mayor Wikle says that he has been
confronted with great financial problem
this year in keeping the city's expenses
within the budget limitations The new
Jail demanded by DR.. Oates, the state in
spector, the necessary increase in the
school fund, new bridges, new Streets
more lights, accruing interest and other
items have combined to make this cru
cial year in the eitys history financially,
he says.
1t costs about s. per capita to finance
the city of Admission under the present
population, Dr. Wil<le says, and 25,000 more
people could be taken care of without
material increase in the fixed expense, the
per capita expense being reducd accord
ingly.
..Our present constitution is out of date
in many respects" Mayor WlKle says,
'.and / am going to make fight before
the next Legislature to bring about re-
form. Such a step has become impera-
tive with us, and l believe 1 can secure
the cooperation of other cities in the
state in my fight"
Positive announcement was made
Thursday by President Z. L. Turner cr
the Admission Chamber of Commerce and
M. l.. Maury manager of the Lynchburg
Foundry company. of the location in this
city of a plant for the manufacture ,f
rope for cores in the pipe business out of
the ordinary field pine that grows In
abundance around Admission. Mr. Maury
heads the company which will operate
this new industry, and plans have been
completed for the location of a steel and
concrete building in the northern part Of
the city near the plant of the Lynchburg
foundry.
This plant will be an innovation in the
south and one of very few such plants
III the country.
The women of the Admission Parent
Teachers association will make applica-
tion at the next meeting of the Admission
city council for "a license free to conduct
lunch stands at all of the city schools
A very few minutes is available to the
school children during lunch hour and
the women plan to serve lunches to the
children for a nominal sum-
The attendance at the Alabama Presby
terian College for Men this year viii
break all records, according to DR.. E. D
McDougall. The work of the eighth an
nua1 session of the school is now under
way, but students continue to arrive and
DIR. McDougall says the increase over last
year will be great.