The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-26
TAX ASSESSMENTS
FIXED AT HEARING
Final Decisions Reached on Many
Ls6ngs Subjected to Review.
Nest Increases Net Questioned
some TO Be CUT S FER CENT

With Mondays meeting of the
county commissioners the question.
of tax assessments approached final
y. settlement. Decisions were reached
on the listing of several pieces of
property about which there had been
differences of opinion. A far greater
total of property was put down at
just the figure suggested by the alder
men, in the absence of any protest
I. from The owners.
e. At the close of the hearing the
commissioners adopted resolution
that cut of 5 per cent should be
made in the assessments of all houses
and lands which which had h not been the
subject Of any .re-examination This
does not apply to any case in which.
after discussion and review, the COM
missioners set down what thev
thought fair figure.
Some of the most important
changes from last years assessment,
decided upon after the aldermen's
first recommendations had been re-
viewed. are as follows: The review
was not in every case due to a pro-
test from the owner, bat may have
come about at the instance OF either
the aldermen or the commissioners
c. L. Lindsay home place, $4,000
Qast Year, to $4,000. Archibald
Henderson, $4.SOO to $4,000. A.
B. Robertson Estate holdings, corner
of Franklin and Columbia streets,
$4,000 to $2O,0O0:f f. V. Howell
home place, $4,000 to $4,000. E. v.
Howell, North street, $2,92S to So
900.
Wallace Patterson, 5000 to So
500, j. NJ Bell, $1,000 to $4,000.
Property including Strowd garage,
the SHACK" the Coop" and vacant
lot fronting on Franklin street, near
the Picllwick 0,400 to $2S, 700.
II. NJ. Wagstaff, $6,400 to $S,400.
kluttz home place, including Beard
and McGehee homes, $500 to $22,-
400. kluttz business property, in
GLIDING two homes in rear on Rose
mary street, $4,000 (about) &
$S7,SOO.
Some of the increased assessments
to which the per cent. cut will ap-
ply are:
L. +. Hickerson, $4,000 to $500.
H. II Williams, $4,000 to $4,000.
Mrs. Eben Alexander, $4,000 to 81
800, Isaac Emerson (adjoining new
Baptist church) $4,000 to $500.
+, c. Branson, $1,000 to $500.
Miss Nellie Robertson, 5000 to $1O,-
7000. j. vi Booker, $4,000 to St4,-
I fGAUffffirT 61Utbb thOme place, $I,g6U
to $4,000. A. T. o. Fraternity, $4.-
~ 500 to $1,000. A. s. Wheeler, $4,-
300 to $500 p. II. Winston, $5,-
400 to $4,000
W D. Toy, professor in the Univer-
sity, appeared before the commits
isoners said he approved thoroughly
what they were trying to do in equal
Zing assessments, and urged
, them to stick to their own judgment
and not be influenced too much by
owners protests, He said he thought
the figure they putt upon his prop
erty was fair
The commissioners got shock
when Francis p. Venable, Kenan pro-
feSsor of chemistry and former Pres
ident of the University, walked into
the hearing and asked to have his
assessment raised $500 to equal that
Of his neXt-door-neighbor j. NJ. Bell
Mr.. Venable was in high good humor,
complimented the commissioners and
aldermen on what they were doing,
and said he thought he had as good
a house as his friend Bell and should
not be assessed for less. He asked
jug" Whitaker to hand him his alb
stract and changed the figures on Z.
Another citizen who suggested that
his assessment was too low-this was
at the previous meeting-was ]. G.
deRoulhac Hamilton 4.
7 In last weeks issue of this paper,
through an error, H. NJ. Wagstaff
was represented as saying that the
1922 assessment upon his property
was too much. What he was talk
ing about, of course, was the pro-
posed increase for 1923. The COM
missioners considered again the value
of the WagstaF house and decided
on $4,000 instead Of $4,000.