The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-05-02
TAX COMMISSION
FOR THE STATE
Prominent Citizens Appointed
to Get Real Values on the
Books. MIR. d. S.
BOYKIN APPOINTED HERE

State Tax Commission in the list of
new property revolution law passed
this year. The appointments of dis
trict and county supervisors were an
nounced yesterday afternoon.
The army officers called into State
service, to handle the biggest piece
of work the State has undertaken
in centuries, are Majors John D.
Langston, of Goldsboro; Major J. J.
Bernard of Raleigh; Major A. L. Bull
winkle of Gastonia, and Major j.
Hardin Howell, of Gastonia. They
will respectively supervise the assess
ment of property in the Third,
Fourth, Seventh and Tenth tax dis
tricts as arranged by the commits
sion.
The other district supervisors are:
First: P. H. Williams, Elizabeth
City.
Second: E. J. Becton, Kinston.
Fifth: c.. NJ. Vanstory, Green's
boro.
| Sixth: A. A. James, Laurinburg.
| Eighth: j. o. Cobb, Winston-Sa-
lem.
Ninth: D. M. Buck, Bald Noun
tain
The one hundred counties are di-
vided into ten districts and arrang-
ed as follows:
First: Beaufort, BERTHE, Camden.
iChowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates
Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank
Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washing
ton.
| Second: Carteret, Craven, Greene
Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, and
Pitt.
Third: Bladen, Brunswick, Co
lumbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pen
der, Sampson and Wayne.
Fourth: Edgecombe, Franklin
Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Northamr
ton, Vance, Wake, Warren and Will
son.
Fifth: Alamance, Caswell, Dur
ham, Granville, Guilford, Orange
Person, Randolph and Rockingham
Sixth: Chatham, Cumberland
Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery
Moore, Richmond, Robson and Scot
land.
Seventh: Anson, Cabarrus, Cleve
: land, CASTOR, Mecklenburg, Stanly
IUnion and Lincoln.
Eighth: Alexander, Davidson
Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Rowan
Stokes, surry Wilkes and Yadkin
Ninth: Allegheny, Ashe, Avery
Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Mellow
ell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Watauga
and Yancey.
Tenth: Buncombe, Cherokee
Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson
Jackson, Macon, Madison. Poll
Swain and Pennsylvania
The State Tax Commission regard
the choice of supervisors as fine a sc
of able, men as can be found in tn
State. Particularly well known ar
the four army officers who have bee
I selected for district supervisorship.
The other six are men who have al
ta1ned success in the business worl
and who are, for the most pari
widely known as men of affairs i
their respective territories.
Major John d. Langston, who wa
practicing law at Goldsboro befor
he became draft executive in Mort
Carolina, has gained wide recogn
ition in the administration of the sc
lectve service law, having been act
ing chief of the classification divi.
ion in the Provost Marshal's ofic
when the army was making it's hea,
test calls upon tn, manhood of tn
nation. He reflected much credit q
2, himself and the administration
! North Carolina, and after going ,
It Washington, quickly won recogn
ton in handling the intricate m;
1t ch1nery of raising the army.
Major A. L. Budwlnkle is prom
s. nent barrister at Gastonia but hs
hardly gotten on his "cits' befo,
the Commission drafted him f.
It work I'M the Seventh district. Mai
Bulwinkle was battalion command
In in the 18th Field ARTILLERY and nri
to that time was an officer in 4
North Carolina National Guard.