The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-12-26
To ASK STATE
FOR MILLIONS
Want slS,OOO,oO0 When Only
S2,CG0,OO0 May Be Raised
Annually
III" Inlc.~wh n, Bureau. :
7OT I.aw,ers Building.
rs X. d. POWELL

RALEIGH. Dec. 23-Any
little boy or any little girl who
happens to find in her stock
ing Christmas morning about
half the toys he or she asked
/ Santa Claus iOr--and doesn't
cry out loud about it-has ,,n-
dcrstanding enough to know
how lot Of institutional and
department heads in North
Carolina are going TO feel when
the legislative appropriations
committees finish pruning the
letters they have written to the
North Carolina Budgett COM
, mission.
For. IN short. with some OF old
| Shnla's Ia Christmas bills un.
pnid, the governments Kris kripGle
| l. hring asked IN put out S0,0OO.-
OOO for maintenance and appropriH'
/ ton when his financial agents say
the best they can d0 II To get him
another two million next year and
maybr Two million more the next
year.
".And that doesn't lake any nr.
,Ouni or The deficit, IL there Is
one" Grand Old Man Rufe Dough-
ton, whose deputies bring In tho
shrkrI', said before turning toward
the SNOW capped Blue Ridge 10
spend his Christmas Day. I'VE
hnycn'' n thing Ia do with that
that's the business Of The auditor
nnd the TREASURER"
Members Of the State Board Of
.\sSr sIncnl, Including Governor
DOuglItOn. were ustOundcd when
they read that the institutions and
departments were asking for $1,000.
600 additional for maintenance and
administration during the next nj.
rnnium aud $I.:OO,OOO for perinuD-
rni improvements To bc made during
the sam" period.
With The assistance. at times, or
Attorney General Manning aud
Chairman ". y. Ire. 0f the Cor.
prrnii"n commission who, with
GuNrrn"r ImrshlOn compose the
board nnl ur Assistant Attorney
G"nrrIl Frank Nash. the Revenue
Commissioner has concluded the
tentative daft of The next tnx rails.
in. hill Ia hr rIlarirI by the legisla.
iTrr. The hr'l II can In stretched
fnr. mrrur,lins 10 the commissioners
own figures. j. S2.,0OlI.00O annually.
The hnard has not "dpflnitcly de-.
i"rInimcd'' 10 f"rdnmrnd sxtru draft
on inlIrrilnnrr nnh franchise taxa-
hlrs bat IN" income tax rate. Cover.
nor lmI.hinn says. will have ~ be
raised. However. The amount Uf
the rni>"--llr matter of graduating
IL and - OILS Still Ia he deter.
min"d.
10 Pay on Pleasure
WiHf Mr.. Average Man Is going
Ia grl - u bclulcd Christmas gift
from III" legislature. according 10
nll Indications now, Is sales tax
ou his cigarettes. his soft drinks
and his movie tickets. Milndy Is
gning 4" Il" lriird upon for her COS.
mriir.. her moyir tickets and other
IuNmrirS. " will take mn increase
in lIi" inr0mr tax rate aud the slles
tax I" round ont the two million.
Onr S...b.DO The State will be
asked by the board 10 recall Is the
quarter nr u million now going out
of ih" State Treasury Ia the high.
waySiukirg fund. Furthermore,
ihcr" viii hr quite gn argument
over IL" potential S2JO,O,U expected
from ilr inN Io br levied against
III" hiIS tines when these demon
rarrirr. nr" finally brought under
il" ihruii!" "f u rOnImissiOu-aDd
The Corporation Commission IL
seems IL viii lw.
~ hn, mrrn prclicicd--to resort
to u Gyrrilc ""nicmporary's phrase
I'r. T.. q. i'rooLs topped the list
Of petitioners who asked increases
"f The Ir:i lniurr.. Since its re-.
Dr"anizaiinn, IL has been quite mp.
parent iimI the States technical
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