The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-26
BUSINESS WEN OF. BESSEMER TO AID. SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
Taxable Valuation Of City Property Is Placed At
 $8,283,00O
BESSEMER BUREAU !
 THE AGE-H ERALD ,
Bessemer, Ala, Sept. 25 J

Bessemer business men are plan hing to aid the athletic association of the Bessemer High school in plac- ing financing of school athletics on substantial basis. A meeting of several merchants and officials of the school organization is to be held in the next few days. A preliminary meeting was held Tuesday afternoon at Pegram- Patton Drug company.
 It was pointed out that, as the merchants aided each year in financ- ing athletics, they should be invited to take part in the work of the rganiZation. Several merchants ta- vor plan to cooperate with school officials in handling the finances ana to assist in arousing more enthusi- astic response among the citizens Tor athletics.
 A new system of ticket sales for football games will be the immediate work that a joint committee will map out. It is felt that moro vigorous campaign of selling season tickets will result in much larger attendance at the games and will also arouse more interest among the citizens. Three forms of tickets are proposed, one for general sale in town, another for sale among high school students and third for sale among children of the grammar schools A more profitable basis of dividing gate receipts with visiting teams and for games Bessemer plays away from home will also be suggested.
 Bessemer's team has a majority of games this season at home and this ts considered the opportune time to place in effect whatever changes are to be made in handling the crowd.
 TAXABLE VALUATION Ss,2s3,OOO
 Taxable valuation of property in the city limits of Bessemer is placed at SS,2S2,40S, a slight increase over that of last year, according to the tax book, which has just been turned over to the city. The books com piled by E. c. Jones from the county record and are open for inspection in the office of City Clerk J. M' Scott.
 The city council will meet october 2 at s o'clock to hear objections to assessments made on these books for the current year. Property own CTS will have the privilege of eX- amining the books prior to this time, and filing any complaints with the council at this meeting. Other- wise the assessments will remain the tax being payable on 0ctoner eo |; City tax rates this year will be sl'oO per S1OO, which includes the recent 3 mill tax voted for school purposes.
 There have been many readjust- ments in the past year, in most cases taxable valuation having been re- duced. The valuation on the books of the city does not include public utilities and a few other large cor porate items, which would amount to several million dollars more.
 KIWANIS CAMPAIGN ON
 The second meeting of the klwanls club since the beginning of an at. tendance campaign will be held Wednesday afternoon, and much m terest is being taken by opposing sides. This will be the first test or interest the campaign has aroused, and a special effort has been made by both teams to have 100 per cent attendance.
 pr E. P. Lacey is captain of one side. while c. H. Stevenson heads the other. This is the second attendance campaign the club has carried out and it has been found to add con siderably to the attendance and the interest among the membership.
 LICENSE IS ASKED
 Application was made Tuesday morning by F. A. Feramur of Bes- semer. to operate two interurban bus lines from Bessemer to Birmingham. G. F. Goodwin represented MT Fer amur and stated it was proposed to establish bus line over the south Bessemer road and another over the north Bessemer highway. It was pointed out that the line over the north Bessemer road serves a large territory, which has no street car ser vice. 1t was further claimed that the bulk of the business done by the taxi line would be the hauling of pas sengers from Bessemer to Birming- ham. The Birmingham commission will give an answer to the apphca- ton at a later date.
 MISSION GETS QUARTERS
 New quarters were established this