Under wartime conditions, when new home construction has been sharply curtailed by material shortages and when war housing is necessarily reserved for occupancy by the most essential war workers, the maintenance of a sound financing system for older home properties has become increasingly important, W.T. Pate, state director of the Federal Housing Administration, said today.
James Harris has helped to keep the lights on in Philadelphia for more than four decades but he also may have made a few enemies along the way by having to pull meters for unpaid bills.
State sales tax collections in Philadelphia increased by $31,090 in August when compared to the same time a year ago, according to figures from the Mississippi Department of Revenue.