Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-23
Four Salary Increases
Granted By The Council
City To Furnish Water for Kings Daughters Park Pool
for Summer; Council Dec lines To Zone Section of
City; License Allowed Pin Game Machines

Debt service obligations in the sum
of SGT, EO6.25, due July 1, will be met
promptly by the City of Henderson
under an order of the City Council at
its regular monthly meeting for June
Monday evening. The money to meet
the payments will be realized from
the sale CT short tenn notes in the
sum of $4,000 which were sold by
the States Local Government Com
mission in l.a!eigh today to the Sc
curity National Bank.
The remainder of the money not APP
piled toward debt service will be used
in the liquidation of current operat-
ing costs The paper is tax antici-
patton obligations. Mayor Irvine 3.
Watkins, City Clerk S. B. Burwell and
y. c. Loughlin, finance supervisor of
the city, went to Raleigh today to be
present at the sale of the notes.
Salaries for all city officials and
employees were fixed by the Council
Monday night. There were four in
creases all the others remaining the
same. The combined increases amount
ed to $3.50. In the wateworks depart
mcnt the cashier and bookkecper was
raised from $1,26O to $3.50 per year,
and the night Waterman at the plant
was raised from $720 to 5000. The
assistant city clerk was raised from
81 800 per year to $1,000, and the five
chief from $1,62O to $500 per year.
committee Ct ladies from the
Kings Daughters appeared to support
a written request by Mrs. George A.
Rose, ST., for that organization ask
ing that the city furnish free water
for the operation of the swimming
pool at the park during the summer
season. The Council agreed to supply
thee water in the amount of thre
changes weekly.
A lengthy petition was presented
asking that the Council zone" the
large city block FOUNDED by Mont
gomery, College, Charles and Clark
streets by restricting building opera
tons in the territory to residential
property The petition was received
and filed without any action one way
or the other, since it was felt the
Council did not have the authority for
such a procedure.
Agreement was reached to license
five-cent pin game machines as de-
fined by the revenue act of the 1885
legislature, and on the condition that
if declared illegal by the State SUI
preme Court such licenses would be
automatically revoked without a re-
fund. The license fee was fixed at
$40 annually. A. A. Bum appeared
before the Council and asked that the
action be taken by the Council.
The city clerk was authorized to
levy on personal property, if neces-
sary, to collect unpaid 1885 city tax
accounts.
A report was made to the Council
by Aldermen c. M. Hight, ]. w. Gill
and Street Superintendent w. M. Cof-
fin on the condition of the sewage
disposal plant a mile east of the city,
and 1t was stated that no every of
fensive doors" were detected on their
visit to the site. They reported the
plant in good condition. The commit
tee was named at the May meeting
of the Council after complaint had
been filed about the alleged unsani-
tary condition.
The Council reelected Mrs Henry
Perry as trustee for the H. Leslie
Perry Memorial Library for a term Of
three years.
w. ". Burwell manager of the local
office of the State Unemployment Ser
vice, had written request for con-
tinuation by the city of it's monthly
contribution of SIS toward mainten-
ance of the office here. No action was
taken pending the writing of the new
budget for the coming fiscal year.
The filter report and balance sheet
of the waterworks department were