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Am it doetd iu legislative ?? ?too last ?etk, the Arkansas Gen ?ml Assembly voted overwhelm lady against a biU which would have removed the saloa tax on food. ?1H11 Ceold Use Stmt Among those running for the office of Lieutenant Governor in North Carolina in 1093 were' Luth er Hodges of Rockingham county; Roy Howe of Pender county; and Ben McDonald of New Hanover county. They finished in that order. Roy Rowe was the only one of the three who had had legislative experience. He is still in the thea tre business. Mr. Hodges Is now V. S. Secretary of Commerce. Of the three, McDonald is more in the news? in southeastern North Carolina ? than the otljpr two com bined. He is on television literally hours each week with hi* own show. McDonald Is also In the hair-growing business. His ada say, among other things: "Ben McDonald, Wilmington TV commentator, bald for years, now growing hair, using odorless salve." About Roy Rowe we wouldn't know ? but, we saw the winner of the 1092 settoo In Raleigh last week. He could do with ? goodly dose (usually known as "dost") of Ben's salve. General Alex Andrews There is no better known, and no stronger, family in Raleigh than the Andrews'. They havt managed the town at times as mayor and the Episcopal Church as lay lead ers. Thus we are glad to see another one of the clan achieve new prom inence. All of which is by way of saying that Alex B. Andrews of Raleigh has just been msde the first Tar Heel brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. The ap pointment received scant press notice ? snd thus the mention here. Gen. Andrews, founder of the A. B. Andrews Co., is a Raleigh at torney and an alumnus of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Steadily Increasing It 1( no wonder that the State now plana to go to retail mercbanti again aa tax collector! to Improve the schools. The N. C. Department ol Rev enue reports that as of the close of busines* this past December 31, there were 80,241 active retail merchants in this State. This fig ure, they explain, includes anybody who paid the $1 fee required to become a merchant. In 1942, North Carolina had only 34,000 retail merchants. Mecklenburg county, for inst ance, had 9,037 active retail mer chants as of this past December ? and led the State ? but ten years before hid only 3,667. Incidentally, schol principals and school boards and school com mittees and school teachers might give a little thought to this: Education would get better sup port from merchants (who collect about $90 million per year in taxes for schools (if these schools would close up the little stores many of them operate in direct competition with service stations, snack bars, drug stores, etc., which they must depend upon for tax support. A Different Tune When Governor Sanfcrd an nounced that a sales tax on food should lead the way to Better Schools in North Carolina, the group that came up with the most bitter protest ?u ths N. C. Baken Council. Last week It wu the Governor'! turn at bat. We do not mean to imply that it would not have hap pened anyway? of courae It would have? but last week the bakers had something besides the food tax to think about: "A 90 per cent increase In the price of bread used at State hos pitals and educational taptltutlons waa cited Thursday as the 1 medi ate necessity for an anti-price fix ing bill introduced in the General Assembly. "J William Copeland, legislative counsel to Gov. Saaford, said that since July 1 of last year, State institutions have regularly encount ered identical bidding ... on bakery products. "As a result, he said, the bread bill at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh has jumped this year to approximately $00,000, compared to 121,000 last year. . . It was going to be intereatlng to see if the bakers would fight the price-fixing bill aa bitterly as they are fighting the food tax bill . . . or the other way around. No Chmt Ob It As the week wore on. Identical low bids on iu gsr and aalt con tract! ihowed up In the State Di vision of Purchase and Contract. It began to loo kas if Westing house and General Electric and the other industrial giants had no corner on price-fixing. Meantime, the light bulbs in our house are about aa dependable as lightning bugs. All are made by GE, too. We used to laugh at an old colored friend of the family who called bulbs "bugs." If he were living today, we would feel like going to him wlfh abject apolo gies. He was right. Our big General Electric pur chases ? like our refrigerator and stove ? are solid as a rock after more than a decade of hard use. But our light bulbs are not nearly as dependable as tulips, daffodils, dahlias, and bulbs of that type. GE could learn a lesson there! 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Membership Fee I5c per f 100.00 Face Amount FIRE -AUTO WINDSTORM LIABILITY 1ACCIDENT-HEAL BURGLARY ONE-STOP SERVICE Where you con take care of every In surance requiremen^you might have quickly and economically. Stop in. COE INSURANCE AND IREALTY COMPANY Wt MAIN STKEKT. BOONE. N. C. ? DIAL AM 4-StM E. P. COE, Manager Willow Valley News Items Mr. and Hn. C. W MeHuaton Ut Greenaboro vieited mm the week end with Mr. and Mn. DU lard Greene. Mr. and Mn. Baker Ward and Mr. aad Mn. Carre th Ward vtaited Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mn. Cuiter Ward. Mr. and Mn. Oicar Harmon and daughter ot Knoiville, Tanneaaee, vial ted with Mr. and Mr*. George Harmon Sunday. There *u a Baptismal service at the Willow Valley Baptlat Church, at the regular monthly meeting, Sunday night The viait ing minister, Roby Greene, brought the evening meaeage. The regular monthly tinging la to be returned ouce again at the Willow Valley Baptist Church and the next singing is scheduled for Saturday night, March 29. It Is hoped that there will be a large Dumber attending All gospel quartets, choirs, sod singing groups are invited. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McHuston and Mr. and Mrs. DUlard Greene visited in the Bethel community Sundsy. CABD OF THANKS We wish to express our appre ciation to our friends for their many acts of kindness snd sym pathy shown us during the death of our loved one. ? The J. C. STORIE FAMILY. Zionville News Notes The Rev. Y. Z. Grady of Ctail howie, Vs. assisted by other* who have visited Jerusalem and the Hold L*nd will show films they made while visiting there, at the Zionvllle Baptist Church Satur day night, April 1. Everyone if welcome. Jack South of Pennsylvania 1a visiting hi* mother, Mrs. Lillie South. Mr. and Mr*. Allen Cornett visited over the week end with Mrs. Mae Brown who has been ill. Mr*. Clint Winebarger and daughter, Mis* Joann Winebarger, Kenneth Wilson and Sonny Har rison, all spent Friday night with Mr. and Mr*. Vance Vine* at Bur lington. Mr. tad Mr*. Kemp Wilson of Buoue v Kited Sunday with Mr*. Maggie Norn* and they were ac companied by Mr*. Norri* while they viiited Mr. and Mrs. W. R Holman at Mountain City, Tenn., and Mr. and Mr*. Hoover Phipps at Trade, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Hort Hodges re turned from St. Cloud, Fla. last week after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. James Layng. The Hodges are visiting other relatives in Vir ginia this week. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Thoma* and family visited Sunday with M{ Clyde Wallace at Trade, Tenn. Mrs. Wilms Wilson, Jimmy and Glenda of Route 2, Boone visited Mr*. George Miller, Sunday. II you're not getting service ~ like this, switch^ now to our ?=? "Watchdog" Oil Heat Service! R. D. HODGES, Jr. Dealer ESSO Producti ?xArcwoor AM 4-8801 BOONE, N. C. 0,lMM?,B,?,c,
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