The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-26
GOVERNMENT
INSTITUTE TO
HOLDPARLEYS
Important Official Groups
Will Meet Here Thurs
day, Sept. 3

Announcement has been made
at Chapel Hill that Hendersonville
will be the scene of one OF Tour
district conferences arranged IN
the state beginning next Monday
when three important groups OF
officials, city and county attor-
neys and tax officials, city and
county law enforcing officials and
municipal accountants treasurers,
clerks and other city fiscal Off
Gals will meet under the auspices
of the Institute of Government.
The conference to be held here
will be Thursday, Sept. 8, and will
be for the western district of the
state. The others will be at Tar
boro, August 81; Fayetteville,
Sept. |; Charlotte, September =;
Graham, Friday, Sept. 4.
The conference of law enforc-
ing officers in each case will start
at 1890 o'clock and the confer
ences for the two other groups at
2 o'clock.
The meetings will be devoted
primarily to informal discussion
of a number of practical problems
of current Importance to each
group of officials in their work.
A strong and inclusive program OF
timely and vital subjects has been
worked out for each conference,
and officials are invited to bring
any other question or problem on
which they wish the information
or experience of other units.
The system of district confer
ences of officials was inaugural
ed by the institute last year and
proved a distinct success, the last
such series drawing an attendance
of more than 1000 officials, not
counting the conferences for high
school principals and social sci
ence teachers which drew another
thousand persons.
Plans for the preparation of a
guidebook for law enforcing Off
GERS and the development of a
crime detection laboratory for
North Carolina will be worked out
at the gathering Of this group.
Other important problems for dis
cussion include floating criminals,
enforcement of street and high
wav safety laws, and health, accl-
dent, and pension funds for police
and their dependents.
The Institutional staff will be
drawn from the judges and sollcl,
tors of each district supplemented
by G. N. Lowdon, CONAN" in
charge of the federal bureau at
Charlotte, and Albert Coates, d.
rector of the institute.
The three proposed amendments
to the state constitution on tax
matters, the homestead exemp-
ton amendment permitting CLASH,
fication of property, and the local
debt limitation amendment, and
their effect on cities and counties
of each district, will take an I'M
portant part in the discussion at
the conferences of attorneys and
tax officials. Other subjects will
be the several important tax de-
cisions handed down by the state
and U. S. supreme courts recently
and the effect they will have on
the tax bills and finances of local
units. and a series of important
problems having to do with tax
collection and foreclosure.
One of the principal objects OF
the conferences Of municipal &C
countants, treasurers, clerks, and
other fiscal officials lis to work
out the details Of a cooperative
program whereby cities and towns
may secure the benefits of COM
narrative information on the cost
of various municipal functions IN
other units. Important subjects
for discussion include uniform
classification of revenue, expendl-
ture, asset, and libabitl accounts;
uniform Technology and princl,,
pies of accounting, and improved
methods for financial reporting. to
administrative officers and citl-
zens.