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VOTE THE
CRACKER
TICKET
Vol. I.
RICHMOND DELEGATION ANO COUNTY COMMISSION HAVE MADE
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN THEIR SERVICE TO PUBLIC
Tax Rate Lowest
Any City-County
In Entire State
Progress and economy marks
the outstanding record of the
Richmond County Board of Com
missioners during the past five
years’. The board has not only
lived within its income, but it
had a surplus at the end of each
year from 1940 through 1945.
Richmond County’s tax levy is
the lowest of any city county in
the State of Georgia. The levy
in 1935 was 7% mills. This was
increased to nine mills several
years ago in order to meet the
deficit in income to the county
which was caused by the state
homestead exemption law. While
this deficit was considerable, skill
ed administration of the county’s
affairs, enabled the commissioners
to meet it with an increase of
less than two mills in the tax rate.
Total income and total expenses
of the board from 1940 through
1945 were:
Total Total
Year Income Expenses
1940 $527,107.61 $503,210.70
1941 509,709.93 499,359.53
1942 506,844.11 450,471.66
1943 509,282.24 444,339.08
1944 523,215.99 476,443.11
1945 553,340.30 512,730.60
Chairman Frank Miles, Charles
H. Pitts and Frank Hooper who
are candidates for reelection in
the Primary election on April 16th,
pledge continuation of the honest
and economical management of
the county’s fiscal affairs and a
progressive and constructive pol
icy that has been practiced by
the board of commissioners' since
the Cracker Administration was
elected to office January 1, 1935.
Among the accomplishments of
the board of commissioners are:
1. Built a thoroughly modern
county jail and jailor’s residence
at a cost of approximately $200,-
000.00, of which amount the
United States government provid
ed about $45,000.00. This project
did not cost the taxpayers' of Rich
mond county a penny’s increase in
taxes.
2. Streets and drains were con
structed and drainage ditches
were dug beginning January, 1941
in the following subdivisions:
Kings Wood, 246 houses; Brans
ford Road 10 houses; Pendleton
Road, 25 houses; Lyndon Grove,
77 houses; Bedford Heights, 60
houses; Albion Acres, 210 houses.
Approximately 508 other houses
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THE AUGUSTA COURIER
CITY HAS MADE MARKED PROGRESS
UNDER ITS CRACKER LEADERSHIP
“We feel that the City of Augusta may be justly proud of the
progress made during the past three years.”
So said Mayor W. D. Page in his annual message to the City Council
last January.
Yes, there was “appreciable and permanent progress,” and this, as
the Mayor pointed out, “was made despite the fact that during that
term we were engaged in a World
War which commanded our en
tire energies', attention and re
sources.”
Now, ‘just what was done?
Well, let us see:
The sum of $923,047.00 was ex
pended for debt service charges
and principal payments. This in
cluded the reduction of principal
indebtedness by the sum of $639,-
067.00.
Although the total outstanding
funded debt at this time $1,892,-
235.15, it should be borne in mind
that the City does not have any
floating debt, and that every cur
rent obligation through December
31, 1945, has been paid or funds
provided therefor.
In addition to this, the City
has placed in its Post-War
Replacement Fund, from cur
rent income, the sum of TWO
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Also, funds have been set aside
for purchase of the 18-inch auxil
ary water main constructed by the
Federal Government.
During this time, $40,204.91 was
expended for permanent paving,
and $52,019.91 for sewer improve
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FRANK R. MILES
Chairman, Board of Commissioners
AUGUSTA, GA., APRIL 8, 1946
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ROY V. HARRIS
Dean of Richmond Delegation
Cracker Tacks
Remember back yonder when
we had that “business efficiency
expert” administration—and a lit
tle of it proved a heap too much?
Remember when the Augusta
Herald—just a few months ago,
said of Roy Harris: “He would
make a good Governor. He knows
more about State affairs than
Ellis Arnall would learn in a hun
dred years”?
When—
The editor of The Herald held
high the Cracker banner and
yodeled its praises far and wide?
(In hopes of what, we wonder?)
When—
C. E. Gregory, a political writer
for The Atlanta Journal, which is
now fighting Roy Harris, said of
him, only last December: “Speak
er Harris has had a long record
of faithful service in both branch
es of the General Assembly”?
Harris, King and
Holley Sponsored
Important Bills
Some of the most constructive
legislation enacted by the General
Assembly of Georgia in years, was
authored or sponsored and sup
ported by Speaker of the House
Roy V. Harris, Pierce King and
W. W. Holley of the Richmond
county delegation, their records
reveal.
At the January session of the
legislature the Richmond dele
gation sponsored and secured the
adoption of some of the most far
reaching legislation in the state’s
history. The 80-million dollar
road building program will bene
fit Augusta and Richmond coun
ty greatly, as will additional funds
for purchase of school books and
for old age pensions.
The proposal to increase school
teachers’ salaries at least fifty
per cent will benefit every school
teacher and their families in the
state.
The Richmond delegation that
has made such an outstanding
record in the state as legislators
are seeking reelection in the pri
mary of April 16th.
Among the measures Rich
mond’s delegation authored or
sponsored and fought to enact
into law are
1. Three-year 80 million dol
lar road building program. This
will benefit highways leading in
to and out of Augusta.
2. Funds for paying school
teachers on a 12-month basis.
3. Fund to purchase free
school books for children in
creased $600,000.
4. Additional $1,000,000 yearly
for treatment of tuberculosis. Se
cured $10,000,000 hospital from
United States Government at
Rome, to be used for treatment
of tuberculosis patients.
5. Forced State Department
of Health to fill up bedsat Alto
with tuberculosis patients. There
are 20,000 people ill with tuber
culosis in Georgia.
6. Georgia had no public
health program prior to this year.
Money appropriated for state
wide public health program. Prac
tically one-half of the young men
of Georgia of military age in the
prime of life were unfit for mili
tary service during World War 11.
7. Secured sufficient funds for
feeding, clothing and treatment of
unfortunate patients at the Mil
ledgeville Hospital for the Insane.
These people had never had
enough food, medicine, clothes
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INSURE
GOOD
GOVERNMENT
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