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PAGE TWO ANT1 SALES TAX GROUP TO REVEAL ITS REVENUE PLAN Dr. Kulph McDonuld and Followers Will Present Case to Finance Committee This Week. Appropriations Group Holds Frequent Meetings. Many Dills Dumped Into Hopper. Eighty-six .Measures Passed. By M. II. DV XX AG AX i Special Correspondent > Raleigh. X. C -Promts o: >;hc rev enue plan of the anti-sales group ov the General Assembly, by which it is claimed that the sales tax can be avoided and even more money raised for schools and other State needs, early this week, to be placed before the Finance Committee, gave hope of early action on this proposal. Chairman R. Gregg Cherry of that committee appealed to the group to place its plan before the committee, where it belonged, for action. The group, hea led by Dr. Ralph McDonald. Forsyth, and W. L. Lumpkin, Franklin, previously claimed the committee was "stacked" and planned i to present the substitute measure or. j the floor of H . > and Senate. Chair- j man Cherry said it would delay work j if that were done, asking the group to place it before the committee, then, if it were voted down, it could later j come up on the floor, which is expected to produce the hardest fight so far made in the session. The committee had approved removal ;* the $10 limit of sales tax on large purchases, making the tax three per cent of total sale price. Milk may be excluded from the taxed j items. Opponents of the sales tax claim this is one step toward victory i in seeking to remove the sales tax | entirely Other items in the tax sched-1 ule have been increased by the committee. Amkrmiri:ifmrt?i ftrmin It.iev The Appropriations Committee, likewise, has been holding: frequent meetings and hearing" appeals for more money. School folks, about 1,000 strong", were in Raleigh Wednesday, while labor and highway employees painted a poor picture of conditions of workers under reduced salaries Superintendent Clyde A. Erwin asked for ?22,000.000 for schools and 25 per a-iit incmasc m teacher salaries. This would please Governor Ehringhaus. he has sairl. if revenues can be fount! to do it Dr. Frank Graham appealed effectively for increased appropriations for the State University for living salaries for teachers. Unless the sales lax fight holds up matters too long, the Revenue, as well as the Appropriations, bill may be expected to be approaching final form the latter part of this week and may soon pet to House: and Senate floors. Then the other conunittees, holding few meetings because many of their members were in the more important meetings, preventing quorums, can begin work properly. Several bills struck snags and went over the week-end to this week. In these are the drivers' license bill, the cosmetic art amendments, and others. The sub-committee of the joint road committee recommended reduction of license tag fees for cars to -10 cents instead Of 55 cents per 100 pounds. and a minimum of $9, instead of the present 512.50. Only S6 measures of all kinds, resolutions, local and public bills, hart ^ been passed Saturday, out of more than 150 hills introduced to that time. Tolls lienmvvd frnni Bridges Tells from the Chowan, Capo Fear and North East river bridges were removed in acts passed, the highway division taking over bond payments. Married men under 21 years of age may now renounce the rights of curtsey, as minor married women could do previously. The tax was removed from male breeding animals. An act passed allows State employees to direct payments of insurance, dues, etc. from their salaries. The law on discharge of State witnesses by soliciiuia was amended. A new law. provides for restoring burnt, lost, destroyed or stolen court records. Walkathons, marathons and the like are illegal after April 1st. Congress was memorialized to pass New^Kidneys If yon could trade your neglected, tired and lazy Kidneys for new ones, you would automatically get rid of Night RLunar. Nervo.rsnerjt. Dizziness. Rheumatism. Burning. Itching and Acidity. To correct functional kidney disorders, try tbo guaranteed Doctor's ?p<cml prescription called CYSTEX (Sisa-tcx). Must fix yoa ?p in 8 days or raoac7 luck. At aJ Cr'_*g;st?. Crazy Water Crystals We have just been appointed agents for the famous Crazy Water Crystals. TTpprs n<" this effective mineral salt will find us equipped to serve them at all times. WATAUGA DRUG STORE 1 i j _ ni Doughton, Iron Man of ' ; Congress, Is Detained I From Work by Storms j Sleet and Snow Make u lmpossi II uic ivi .-*nnu tsixnci Kepresi'ii! 1 talive to Keach His Office Be- | fore 6:30 hs the Morning. j ROBERT L. DOUCJHTON Washington. D. C.?The iron m?.?? of the House of Representatives | has a grievance. This 72-year-old representative, Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, has found the streets so icy and slippery for the past few day3 that he can't reach his office until <3:30 a. in. That's 30 minutes later than usual. Other and younger members openly marvel at both his physical and mental endurance, for his usual day's schedule now is something like this: He works on mail from 0 to 0:30; presides over his important Ways and Means Committee's h.vyrinorc r.n the P res id ent' s social security program from 9:30 to 12:30; listens to del-ate on the floor until the House adjourns around 5; finishes up on office odds and ends afterward. Not once in the last, throe years has he had even a cold. Born, on a farm at Laurel Springs, North Carolina, he started life as a horse trader. Once he drove some horses to market 75 miles away He sold them all, except a saddle horse, for a good profit. As he left town, a buyer offered an unexpectedly large sum for the saddle liorse. Doughton sold it. swung the bridle, saddle, blankets and heavy pack over his own back and walked 70 miles home. In summer "vacations" Doughton still can pitch hap all day?beginning at 11awn -arid be fresh enough after dusk to dictate letters. i " j legislation to increase the price of po tatocs and take the profit out of war in rrsolutions enacted. Another invit cvl Chief U. S. Forester Silcox to ad i: SS a joint session, which ho did. Governor Ehringhaus' public schoo textbook rental system plan wai among the new measures introduced It would set up an initial fund o. j 32,000, GOG. from Federal agencie: probably, create a commission of five J the Superintendent of Public fnstruc j tiori apd four others named by th( j Governor, to work out a plan wbict i may be inaugurated after approval j by the Governor and Council of State Liquor Control Bill Senator John Sprunt Hill's liquoi control bill was introduced Friday. It provides for State wholesale purchase and bottling, with retail store control, the State getting 20 per cent profit and the counties the balance estimated at Si.bOO.OOO for public welfare, relief, old age security, employment, etc. Among bills of a State-wide interest introduced during the past weeli were: Bill to appropriate $3,000,000 foi immediate use in repairing roads anc: bridges of State and county highwaj systems. Another beer bill would increase alcoholic content of beer and wine tc conform to national laws, with increased taxes for handlinP' it" ir? t*?r Stale. Levy excise tax of one-half mill per kilowatt hour of electric power generated and sold in the State. Increase salaries of solicitors of the State courts from $3,900 to $4,500 plus S750 for expenses. Require election of Commissioner of Revenue by popular vote. Require coroners to file statements, with two witnesses, with clerk of Superior Court of money and personal effects found in bodies of deceased persons. fclnforce payment of poll tax by all persons employed by the State. Create civil service board for all public school teachers and professors at educational institutions, and provide pension plan. Pay Confederate pensions monthly. Provide for historical markers along State highways at place of historical interest, established by committee of historians, with $10,000 fund asked. Provide for jail sentences for WATAUG A DEMOCRAT?EVEt D* I CL ?ig increase ouowu In Internal Revenue Washington. D. C. Collections of internal revenue rose 43 1-2 per .cent during 1934 to total $2,994,17$,; 572, the Treasury announced lust week in d comparative statement by ; districts and states. .' Collections for the previous year i were $2,01)0,0-17.279. AH general classes showed an in j crease. ( The list was led by agricultural adjustment taxes with an upturn of 257 per cent but this levy was r.ot in effect for all of 1933. Corporation income tax returns jumped 36 per cent with individual income returning: in increase of 20 per cent. Miscellaneous income was up 28 per cent. Gain Being Made in War on Bootleggers Washington. D. C President Roosevelt said last week ths govern j ment. has gained the upper hand in | the war on bootleggers. I Aroused by more than thirty deaths j in upper New York State from bootleg liquor, Mr. Roosevelt ordered a j special investigation which revealed ; the supply came from rubbing alcohol and non-freezing ingredients He I said at his press conference that the . x rertsiu v uau miuwu cm* supply lor ! bootleggers from these two sources land added an agreement had been | reached for joint control on the Canj adiari border, the first of its kind m history, described as one of the finest, illustrations of friendly co-operation among governments. drunken drivers, mandatory. Empower executors and administrators to continue farming operations of deceased persons until end of the calendar year, and enter into contracts. CHEVROLET lias ah But never before has standing values as these fi Standard Chevrolet . . . pow* rolet engine . . . setting a i stamina and reliability. Ar . . . beautifully streamline* t appearance . . . the Fashio indeed, are values that eyee CHEVROLET MOTOR COM] TUC HITU1 CTH i ilk it kn <i i h *46! w. tY TH URSPAY?BOONE, N. C. GROWING FOOD ON VA11M BETTERS FAMILY LIVING The cash earnings of live-at-home fnrme**s :ir-' only a small part of their roai ; .onie. says Dr. C. Horace Hamrural aoelolosist at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment ' Station. In,, fact, he says, the incomes of i: n families compare favorably with these of average industrial families when account is taken of all the benefits provided by the farm. A recent survey of dS farm fanii representative industrial si) >wcd that the average cash i ! of both group3 wa? about $lt000 a year per family. As. it- from $40 worth of food obtained from small gardens, the indusi trial family had to buy all of its supphes out of the $1,000. But the farm family obtained $540 worth of food and other living items ifroih the farm. And ii did not have to pay out cash for water, fuel, house rent and some food The farm family paid cash for 40 ' per rent of its living and obtained the other <30 per cent directly from the farm. The industrial family paid icash for 06 per cent of its living and :got four per cent from the garden. Dr Hamilton oolnts oui thaf the r. e a farm family lives at home, the .highe*- is its standard of living. Livi:"4 t home also makes the farmer 'moi i independent of economic conditions it: the rest of the world. Tl is for this reason, ho explains, thai the New Deal programs for agricultural rehabilitation, subsistence homesteads, rural inuustrial villages, and the iike. IXTit VMritAl. KASKKT UALL AT BETHEL HIGH SCIIOOX, Every boy in Bethel High School is now playing intramural basket ! hall There are four teams of large ; boys and two teams of small boys. At noon recess three games among the large bovs and one game for the Ismail boys determine the day's winjners. The members of the teams win J ys specialized in giving extra value. Chevrolet offered such big and outne Chevrolets for 1935. The New red by the improved Master Clievlew high in Chevrolet performance, d the new Muster De Luxe Chevrolet i . . . longer and notably lower in n Car of the low-price field. Ilere, I all previous Chevrolet values. You 'ANY, DETROIT, MICH. Compare Che mdard Chevrolet Coach iflDARD CHEVROLET HH AND UP. Lint price of New Standard Roadster at Flint, Mich , $465. With bumpers, spare tire and tire lock. the list price is $20.00 additional. Prices subject to change without notice. 1MB II IMMM :{|J n jfflHSBE R. CHE\ BOONE, NOB iiiug the most uuiiy championships" ; during' a period about two weeks receive as a prize a bag of candy. The , winners of the last tournament which ] was run off in a different manner, were as follows: Vann Farthing, captain. Billy Farthing, Dick Farthing, Edmund Farthing. 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Armour Fertilizers supply a ba!a:::-:rl ration of the .i y plant foods and, in addition, minor or secondary plant foods which arc a Wo c ential. Armour's a'o improves the soil, for crops to follow. Mon-acid * rming. it leaves no harmful j| .icids in the soil. Made in near- ^ by plants?to suit your land and crops. See us for all your fertilizer needs. rcdisuu 5 H CAROLINA t t ever placed on cars of such greater operating economy, lets give even higher gasoline xlels. And as for performance >k you to do ... decide icith a ?power?and smoothness so [>y to confirm the wisdom of quality at low cost. May we sse new Chcvrolets?today? '. terms. A General Motors I'nine LIIXF CHFVDfll FT UP. List price ot Master Do ? Coupe at Flint, Mich., $560. i bumpers, spare tire and tire , the list price is $25.00 addisi. Price? subject to change out notice. Knee Action opal at $20.00 extra. DEALER ADVERTISEMENT CO. 9
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