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PAGE FOUR THE NEWS-JOURNAL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1954 The News-Journal RATION At EDITORIAL Sghc5T,4N Published Every Thursday at R'ord, N. C Subscription Rates $3.00 per year in advance 6 Months $1.75 3 Months $1.00 in advance FALL DICKSON Editor and Publisher Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N. C, under the Act of March 3, 1870. "A SENATOR LENNON REPORTS iV HERE'S HOW... BUILD A CLOSET UNDER BASEMENT STAIRS Storage spaca under the basement stairs can be pro vided by using tha construc tion already in plaea. With a minimum of additional fram ing and paneling, neat and attractive "extra room" ii added. A frame of 2 I ' made to fit beneath the stalre aa shown in the drawing. The dimensions will depend upon the height of the basement and stair landing, but these are typical. By building the frame flush with the outside edge of the itair atringer, the stringer may be used to hold the wood ' paneling. Cloeet frame mem bers are toe-nailed to the joista and stair framing. Tongue and grooved boards, If used for paneling, will pro vide a dustproof closet. Or, if plain boards are used, the closet may be lined. As a fur ther precaution against dust, unevenness between the stairs and landing and the basement wall should be caulked. At the lower end of the stairs, the closet should be 30 inches high. The space be tween thia end and the bottom step may be used aa a small closet, with its own door, or left open for miscellaneous storage. Washington The Senate last week approved by a 45 to 42 vote the nomination of Mr. Al bert C. Beeson to the National Labor Relations Board. I voted a gainst his confirmation. My vote was based entirely on what I considered misleading testimony given by him on various occa sions before the Senate commit tee. Mr. Beeson, in my judgment, . Withheld pertinent and important facts. Tax Exemption Senator George has introduced legislation which am supporting to increase the personal federal tax exemption and the exemption for dependents from $100 to $800 for this year. I strongly favor this because it will provide more take home pay in the pockets of workers which will increase pur chasing power and will stimulate productivity. In other words, if passed, this would mean a man, wife and two children would not pay any federal income tax on the first $3200. It will also eliminate much of the red tape of records because it will make it unneces sary for many to file returns. The excessive tax burdens at all levels are doing much, I am con vinced, to slow down our econo my. This is why I have maintain ed that we must cut our foreign economic spending drastically. Committees The work of a Congressional committee is sometimes subject to considerable criticism. I have felt that committees should not be used to promote person and party. But we should never lose sight of the fact that Congres sional committees are the real source for getting facts upon which legislation can be based. Most of the committees are hard working, sincere, and are ren dering a vital service. I have thought that some of the commit tee activity is distributed among too many groups and could effec tively be accomplished by a single joint committee. Those committees of the Congress which are daily going about their duties quietly are never noticed by the public at large. We should remember that a committee not only se cures facts for all of the Con gress, but it also serves as a source of information for the country. Hawaiian Statehood The Senate leadership decided to take time out last week from debate on the Bricker amendment to take up the Beeson confirma tion. By the time this is in print, I hope that we can move ahead with other legislation after com pletion of S.J. Res. 1. I under stand that the Hawaiian statehood measure will be the next business before the Senate. I am opposed to the granting of statehood to Hawaii at this time. These rea sons will be brought out from time to time, but I do not wish to take up valuable space with a long-winded discussion of this matter now because so many folks are not interested one way or the other. Senate Colds The common cold is a miser able companion. I took one last Sunday and have sounded like a bee in a jug all week. Colds and frMAI MM4 h-i's' r-i'tm ihu-p " m ' What's All This Talk About 114 RACKET ALLEY? flu have hit the Senate preity hard. Senator Kefauver has been in the hospital with flu. This-And-That The VFW national conference here last week was exciting. I had the pleasure of attending with N. C. VFW Commander, For rest V. Dunstan, of Elizabeth City. In attendance were 12 governors, members of the Cabinet and Congressmen. General Mark Clark was the guest of honor. . .Jun iors and seniors from Charlotte's Central High School came by the office. . .Mr. Flake Shaw and a group of distinguished N. C. Farm Bureau members and officials were in Washington and we had the opportunity 'if visiting to gether. . .The White House Con ference on Highway Safety brought many of the leaders of the Tar Heel State to Washington last week. Excess Planting To Be Expensive For Cotton Farmers Raleigh Farmers will find it considerably to their advantage to plant within their cotton ac reage allotments this year, H. D. Godfrey, Administrative Officer of the State Agricultural and Con seravtion Office, reminded grow ers today. "It is fairly well understood," Godfrey explained, "that under the cotton marketing quota-acreage allotment program, each pound of excess cotton grown by farmers who do not comply with their cotton allotments will be j subject to a penalty. I "What's not always under stood or remembered is the fact that a grower who does not plant within his cotton allotment will lose any cost-sharing assistance which might otherwise be avail able to him under the Agricul tural Conservation Program, and his cotton likewise will not be eligible for a Government price support loan. "So it's to the grower's finan cial advantage to grow only his share of the national cotton mar keting quota which is the a mount of cotton produced from his acreage allotment. Of course all cotton grown within the al Irtment may be marke'ed free." Cotton marketing quotas were approved by 94 per cent of the growers who voted in a national referendum on the question last December. The quotas are made operative through acerape allot ments, which are established for States, counties and individual farms. y y Just What Ygu Have Been Waiting For SENSATIONAL TV CLEARANCE SALE SOME NEW - SOME USED - SOME SHOPWORN BUT ALL GREAT VALUES! Small Down Payment, Balance up to 24 months Sale only as long as our present stock last We Install and Service the sets we sell Two Trained Radio and Television Technicians The Best Channel-Master Antennas and Equipment RAEFORD TELEVISION COMPANY Post Office Buiding Phone 485 MARTIN L. WEBB DAN CAMPBELL, JR. MerJ"'c?l Meeting Held At McCain The McCain Sanatorium Staff was host at a, medical meeting to 14 doctors, attending from the Sanatoria of Wilson, Black Moun tain, and Chapel Hill, Wednesday February 17. Four Original papers were pre sented. Dr. Lynn Johnson pre sented a paper cincerning the de velopment of cavities, prepared by Dr. W. C. Hewitt and herself, which is to be published in the near future. Dr. M. G. Morris spoke on surgical resection for tuberculosis. Two papers on the current work progressing in the Laboratory were given by Dr. Harold Gentry and Warren Jones. Intercstin : cases were presented and discussed. Dr. W. F. Itolli.scr, surgeon, of I Pinehurst. and Dr. J. P.' Chap man, Jr., chest surgeon, of Ashe villc, also attended the meeting. Jt's The Plan That 3 1 Covnis In Bookeeping V I The first signs of spring for the beekeeper are his bees gath ering pollen from the earliest flowers. With this activity from the bees most beekeepers start making plans to take advantage of what may be "The best honey year I remember. . Plans of many types and with varying degrees of completeness are made, but no plan is better than the information upon which it is based, says Harry Silver, Swain County farm agent. Silver, a bee and honey enthu siasts himself for many years, would not dare start a new honey season without a complete set of plans. Where does he get his in formation? Silver relies upon W. A. Stephens, bee specialist for the State College Extension Service, a man who Silver says "probably knows more about beekeeping and the problems of beekeeping than any man in North Carolina." Beekeeping and the production of honey is a growing business on thousands of North Carolina farms, says Silver. And his aim is to make it even more profitable. It can be an excellent profit making "side-line'' on almost any farm. This year when the price cost squeeze is expected to hit the farmer even harder than in 1953, Silver is recommending a few colonies as a real opportunity The investment is small and the income can be large, with proper management. Addenda (Continued from Page 1) 30 or 40 people take the trouble to tell me in the past week that they, too, feel that the McLau chlin School should have a full time principal. If enough of them will tell the same thing to mem bers of the county board of edu cation, it will help them in their thinking, too. The Jaycees inform me that the maintenance of the center sections on North Main Street has been taken over by the town or the highway commission or some body, and that they no longer have their bcautification as a pro ject. We have received no report on the March of Dimes this week. State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: How can I keep my income taxes lower? ANSWER: There are many ways, but you must be alert at all times. First, sales of breeding, draft, and dairy animals can be treated as sales of capital assets (land). Such sales should be re ported on Schedule D. Only half of the gains (income) need be reported as income. The require ments are that the animals must have been owned for one year and the animal must have been sold for draft, breeding or dairy purposes and not primarily for sale in the ordinary course of the farm business. Secondly, when the sale of the farm includes the sale of the farmer's residence and he buys property within one year after (or before) the sale, which he uses as his new residence, the gain from the sale of the old re sidence may be excluded from the gross- income provided the cost of the new residence equals or ex eeeds the sale price of the old one. Also, the elderly farmer who wants to retire often parts with a large share of his life's savings in income taxes by outright sale of his farm. The Installment sales method (similar to buying a car on time) reduces taxes and main tains his investment In a safe place. The downpayment cannot be more than 30 per cent of the selling price. The seller thereaf ter reports total yearly payment during the year received and Is taxed on only half of this amount ill Be Closed On WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS Until Further Notice DUNDARRACH TRADING CO. R i;e As KT GET TOP DOLLAR TRADE-IN FOR YOUR USED TIRES The Demand for Firestone New Treads is So Terrific Today that We Need Thousands of Good Sound Tire Bodies to Keep Our New Tread Shops Operating to fill the Demand! TiteDe Tovny tszssr DELUXE CIIAMPIOU TIRES! 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