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THIS WL?K III WASHINGTON With only a short time to go before the get adjournment date of June 19, GOP leaders are ask ing themselves with some mis givings, "upon what record of accomplishment can they go to the people in the coming cam paign." The Republi&ms, in control of the Congress for the first time KODAK FILM DEVELOPED AND PRINTED Portraiture ? Reunions ? Photo Copies Weddings ? Specialists in Baby and Child Photography FILMEK QTUDIO DOONE 301 Wni photo Service D n. c. Main Phone Day 280- W; Nite 245- W BIG AUCTION SALE OLD SMITHEY BEAN MARKET _ _ . Saturday June 19, 11 O'clock 51.500 WORTH OF NEW AND USED FURNITURE of all kinds, including soma electric appliances, will be sold to the high bidder, also 1*29 Model A Ford Roadseter. JIM BROWN, Auctioneer ANNOUNCING Summer School will open Tues. June 22 9:00 a. m. High School and Boone Demonstration School since the Hoover era made great promises of economy,, of reduced taxes, or reducirg employment in the government, and of ending labor unrest. They made other promises in the congressional campaigns during 1946 ... in cluding housing, long-range farm program and many other do mestic issues. The first session of the 80th Congress enacted the Taft-Hart ley act and hailed it as the Magna Carta of Labor. To date it has not cured labor trouble ? whether it will or not remains to be seen. The first session pledg ed itself to slash from four to six billions of dollars from the na tional budget, but when defici ency and supplemental ap propriations had been completed, you could take any of a half dozen sets of figures and the cut, if any, was woefully small. The second session, jojrt end ing has enacted a tax reduction measure which will last until the congress reconvenes in January when all responsible leaders admit a new and higher tax law will be enacted. Whether this one year's tax reduction can be regarded as carrying out the pledge of lower taxes is a ques tion much debated. On economy, and with only a few major appropriation bills yet to be enacted as this is written, congress has appropriated some thing over a billion (Collars more than President Truman asked in his budget of $39.7 billion dol lars, a net increase to be exact of $1,218,000,000. As for a reduction in the public payroll of a million employees as promised by Rep. John Taber, of New York, only a dent has been made. As a matter of fact, public employment is on the increase instead of a decrease. Of course a fe?v thousand em ployees were automatically dis charged with the demobilization lof war agencies after peace 'came, but the discharge of these ^JoUsmoiile" {Ae?J *?ne! JJ That ioe will bom a toog of power and ecoocwnr . . . OkUmobiU tone-op. Factory methoda, trained pMiniim Oidamobile parta . . . tbew are the a?K*iee ia really "in harmony" with yoor Make a note now ... to bring 7 oar ear is Koal BLUE RIDGE MOTORS BOONE, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Buchanan cordially invite you to visit Buchanan's Automatic Laundry Next to Boone Super Market, Boone, N. C. We are equipped with the new commercial Bendix wash ers and can help you do your whole washing in 30 min utes. We have an especially perfected soap and a new powdered bleach that we furnish at a minimum cost. You'll find a friendly atmosphere in our shop and each wash will be given our personal attention .?Our waiting room is aft-anged to help you relax while you wash. Re- ^ creation for t^ children, too. Call 66-M for information and appointments. BUCH ARAN'S AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY Phone 66-M Boone, N. C. employees was In no wise the re sult of congressional actioiFEarly in the session the GOP steering committee had looked over the President V budget and decided that a 2.5 billion dollar cut could be made. So the house got busy on the regular departmental ap propriation bills and slashed some $575,000,000 of the Truman budget. At the same time when it had completed action on supple mental and deficiency appropria tion bills it brought about an in crease of $1,200,000,000 more than the Truman budget. Some of this was tax refund money which congress failed to provide in the 1047 appropriations. The< biggest increase was $822,000, 000 added over opposition of the White House and the defense ad ministrator for national defense. These and other increases in the "extra" appropriations wipe out more than .three billions from remaining bills, including funds for army-air force, navy,, veterans and foreign assistance, all hard to cut from a political standpoint. Some say the task is impossible. Generally speaking deficiency appropriations' are for immedi ate use in the current fiscal year and usually result from^ earlier reductions by congress which they have to put back ? such as the $800,000,000 for tax refunds. Supplemental appropriations generally are for the next fiscal year and are more often a re vision of the original budget, al so sometimes resulting from con gressional action in deferring consideration of budget esti mates. There are two other congres sional practices which mislead the uninitiated in budget calcu lations: One is the practice of "contract authorizations" which permits an agency to contract for expenditures without setting up any definite budget and which means deficiency or supple mental appropriations in the fol lowing session. The other practice is "lending authorization," which is an appropriation for an agency to lend and which is returned to the treasury at some future date. RECORDS and ALBUMS Columbia - Decca R. C. A. Victor SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED) WEEKLY "HIT PARADE" Radio Electric Co. Boone, N. C. ? Phone 298-W| Bus Terminal Bldg. GIVES Malarial Chills&Fam RELIEF ft>rl5(frtYfc?ar l? Cood Shot Repair SnUSTOOAY Daniel Boone Shoe Shop CHA8. C. ROGERS, Mgr. POLICY LOST? ...SO WHAT No Med co worry or scarry "hti you're imatcd through thit agency ? your protection goea right on! We keep ? complete and accurate record of the io ? urance of all oar policy - holdeta ? whether they can they 're coaaaed. WATAUGA Insurance Agency e. r. Co*. Box It. Boooo. If. C. Ktuui m Miiiim ?MtlMi J WHAT'S COOKING? CALL 2tf-i Such an authorization would be the amount appropriated to the rural electrification administra tion to lend to coops, or to re clamation projects and which are paid back to the treasury over a period of years. These ap propriations are not truly govern ment expenditures since they are paid back with interest, but when a cut is made, they counted as "savings" by Small grains in the Stpte doing nicely and stands are ter than average. She's considerate of others She never interrupts when line is in use She releases line in emergency She gives party called time to answer SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Sunday, June 20 Is FATHER'S DAY Give Him Gifts From Belk's WE SUGGEST: TIES PAJAMAS SOCKS TIE CHAINS, TIE CLIPS SHIRTS HATS UNDERWEAR SUITS SHOES, ETC Gifts bought at our store will be wrapped Free Prompt and courteous service at all times. Belk's Dept Store . ~ * Boone, N. C. The Home of Better Values _____ ________
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