White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-06-15


court upheld the constitutionalitv =,
the per cent severance tax on fur.
This decision means the states VII
tory for tax on raws hides sent on,
of the state, which is collected and
used principally by the Departman,
of Conservation. 1t is estimated that
more than 100000 annually will bo
derived from this tax.
Atlanta, Gal M. Blumenthal n,
New Orleans and A. T. Hunt NJ
Hodge, La, have been awarded the
scholarship gold az" at the Georgia
School of Technology this year out NJ
a class of twenty-five students. This
is one of the highest honors awarded
and is given to only per cent of the
junior class who have made the high.
est standing in all their class work
during their first three years at Tech
Baton Rouge-Tha annual meeting
of the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis
League was held here. The feature
of the gathering was a visit to the
Greenwell Springs property which has
been purchased by the Anti-Tuber
culosis League, the first link in the
chain of hospitals planned to provide
for the control and determination OF
tuberculosis. The property consists
of 34S acres of timbered land situated
on the Amite river, with a hotel won.
derfully adapted for the care of tu
berculosis patients. With little or no
expense, the place could be made to
accommodate at least 100 patients.
Covington.-The Boy Scouts camp
will be open here June IA and will
continue until September Is. A per-
manent mess hall building will be
built and the troops of Scouts will oc-
cupy the camp during the summer.
The site owned by the Scouts is an
embankment on the Bogue Falaya
river twenty-five feet above the sur
face Of the water.
New Orleans.-Prohibitio enforce
ment officers exchanged shots with
rum runners" at dawn in Bayou ST.
John near Spanish Fort The Way
farer, 30-foot launch, it's skipper
Charles Peterson, S22 ST. Charles ST.,
an forty-fiye sacks said to contain
24O quarts of whiskey and champagne
were captured. No one was hit by
bullets.
New Orleans.-Ten babies have died
in New Orleans the last few months
for lack of proper care, according to
Miss Mary Railey, secretary of the
Child Welfare Association, which is to
send out letters to all it's former sub
scribers asking help for the children
of the city. every one Of these chill
dren might have been saved with
little care" said Miss Railey.
Baton Rouge.-A local option kind
bill is to be introduced in the
Legislature. The bill has the back
ing Of the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions
Clubs of Shreveport in addition to
number of other civic organizations
OF the North Louisiana city The bill
provides that parishes or school dis
trlcts OF parishes may conduct an
election for the voting of the kinder
garten tax, which to carry must re-
ceive not only by a majority of the
voters but majority of the assessed
Baton Rouge.-The fight to stop
the waste of natural gas in Louisiana
by curbing the use of this product in
the making Of carbon black, opened at
public hearing of the Senate com
mittee on conservation.
Shreveport.-Miss Dorothy Schulze
OF Monroe was unanimously elected
president of the Louisiana Federation
OF Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, to succeed Miss Nell B. Lynn
OF Shreveport, who after three years
IN that office, pleaded stress of bust
ness to escape further service.
Monroe.-Thousands of flood refu-
gees in Catahoula and Concordia par
lshes must be cared for until autumn,
II SUFFERING is to be prevented, is the
opinion of Capt. w. w. Cooper. com
mander Of the Monroe National Guard
company, who has returned here.
capt Cooper said that 5000 persons
IN the Black river flooded area. for
Instance OF SO to so miles around
Ionesville, are receiving rations at the
hed Cross depot there. In Harrison
ourg there are $500 refugees, he said.
VINO are being cared for, and there are
approximately 1,500 at Cicily Island.
CoVington.-A Committee to inves.
'isate the cost and feasibility of
over Lake Pontchartrain.
linking Orleans and st. Tammany par
sues, was appointed at mass meeting
u cltizens OF ST. Tammany, Washing
lou ana Orleans parishes, called to
aiscuss the project The causeway
was endorsed in resolutions adopted
a. the meeting as the most feasible