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Eighth District Rep. Bill Hefner,
D-N.C., voted against the nickel-a
gallon increase in the federal
gasoline tax that would finance
$5.5 billion in highway, bridge and
mass transit improvements.
? Hefner said, "The tax burden of
our people is already too great,
and our people must depend on
their automobiles for transporta
tion to and from work, often from
great distances."
He said, "Our economy is just
too weak at this point to penalize
our people with additional taxa
tion."
Hefner pointed out that North
? Carolinians began paying an addi
? tional three cents a gallon for
gasoline in July of 1981 . The three
penny levy was approved by the
North Carolina Legislature to help
pay the costs of improving the
state's highways.
North Carolina is a "donor"
state, which means it pays more
taxes into the Highway Trust Fund
than it receives in return from the
j|fund.
Although Hefner voted against
the gasoline tax bill, it passed the
House by a vote of 236-169. The
Senate is expected to begin its
deliberations on the proposed tax
soon.
Hefner said he supported an
alternate proposal to obtain the
money for the highway, bridge and
mass transit improvements by cap
ping the third year tax cut at $700
Iflfor those individuals who earn
more than $45,000 a year.
He said, "This was another ap
proach that would have raised the
necessary funds without hurting
middle class taxpayers. Unfor
tunately, the House didn't have an
opportunity to vote on that pro
posal."
Hefner said he strongly supports
new federal jobs that would be
w created by putting people to work
repairing and improving the rapid
ly deteriorating highway in
frastructure.
However, he said he could not
support a bill that would do so
much harm to the citizens of our
state and the trucking industry that
is so vital to the North Carolina
economy.
While the trucking industry has
? supported the five-cent per gallon
^fuel tax increase, it has opposed
the special truck taxes. Truckers
say the special taxes on their
vehicles would be "devastating."
The proposal would increase
federal highway taxes on the truck
ing industry by almost $2 billion
annually, forcing a lot of trucking
companies out of business and
resulting in a high loss of jobs,
ft Hefner said, "Those which do
survive will pass the increased costs
on to their customers. Since so
many consumer goods are
transported by truck, this will sure
ly fan the fires of inflation."
The proposed new federal
gasoline tax would take effect on
April 1 of 1983.
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library News
Open house was observed at the
library Mon. Dec. 6. Our own
Suzanne Cameron Linder spent
Monday morning with us as part
of our Open House program and
was presenting the booklet
"Railroads in Hoke County";
which she helped Paul Fu,
Regional Consultant, compile
from existing material.
Folks came, visited a while, and
upon leaving received home made
candy made by members of the
Woman's Club.
Members of the library board
were so generous with their time to
come and be hostesses for this oc
casion.
This occasion was also
disignated as a commemoration of
Sandhill Regional Library
System's 20 year existence of whic
we have been a member for seven
years.
DECORATIONS
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones is showing
an ice creamy snow scene; a lovely,
colorful village with all the little
folks, houses, sleds, dogs, etc. The
young folks are really enjoying
this. Hope you will too.
Also, the Woman's Club spent
so many hours decorating the
library. Please, while you are in
town shopping come by and see the
lovely, live Christmas tree with
homemade decorations with
nostalgic toys at the base to in
trigue any child. Seasonal poinset
tia and hurricane lamps with
candles.
There are lovely camellias, red
and white, that were also given by
one of our trustees. The library has
never looked so pretty. We want
everyone to see it and enjoy it as
we do.
We owe so much to the
Woman's Club. We remember so
well when, seven years ago; the
new library project got off to such
a good start with all the good
ladies who worked so hard, from
the Woman's Club. Again we want
to thank them for everything.
SRLS - CHRISTMAS LUN
CHEON
Mrs. Cameron and Mrs.
McDiarmid spent Wednesday,
Dec. 8 in Rockingham at a book
buying session and a special
Christmas covered dish luncheon
in honor of Ms. Karen Sewell who
is leaving the Regional Office and
will be joining the staff of Cone
Hospital in Greensboro as the
Area Health Educational Center
librarian.
There were gifts given out to all
with lucky numbers. Other gifts
and coupons from local and
general short order restaurants,
health spas, etc., and Ms. Sewell
received gifts from all regional
library members.
BOOKMOBILE
The Bookmobile is still off the
road until further notice. Patrons
will be notified by phone and news
paper. We are sorry for this in
convenience but shortage of help is
felt in the library as well as in many
other places.
WORKERS - GOING AND COM
ING
Two students who were working
a few hours in the afternoon with
us have going to work at Sky City.
Audranitta Morrison is still with us
on Saturday and Monday nights.
We hope to get another student for
a few hours a day.
There isn't much satisfaction in
keeping someone just long enought
to learn which shelf books go on
and which are adult, junior or easy
readers. This does not include lear
ning our filing system, the desk,
and so many other things we need
extra help for to keep your library
running smoothly.
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WHY CHRISTMAS
STOCKINGS?
Christmas before last the row of
stockings hanging on our fireplace
expanded from nine to eleven, to
accommodate the two new babies
born to our daughters the previous
August.
Then, during the post -Christmas
sales last year, my oldest daughter
and her husband came in with yet
another stocking.
"Why did you buy that?", my
wife asked.
"We got it for half price," they
responded.
"That was silly," I told them in
a fatherly tone, "a bargain isn't a
bargain if you don't need it."
Then they dropped the bomb.
"By next Christmas," they said,
with knowing looks, "we'll need
it."
And, sure enough, with young
Joshua now in the family, there'll
be an even dozen stockings on our
fireplace this year.
The other day, as 1 con
templated what it would mean to
fill 12 stockings, at today's prices,
I asked myself, "Why do we do
it?"
"Good question," myself
responded. "Why don't you find
out?"
That sent me to the library on a
search for the origin of Christmas
stockings. And, just in case you,
too. are among the perpetuators of
that quaint and expensive custom,
1 thought I'd share the results of
my research.
It all goes back to a familiar
legend associated with the life of
St. Nicholas, a fourth-century
bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor.
He's the fellow whose name was
changed by the Dutch to Sint
Nikolaas, then to Sinter Klaas.
This name, brought to our country
by the Dutch settlers of New
Amsterdam, eventually became
Santa Claus.
Anyway, it seems that St.
Nicholas got three sisters out of a
real pickle. Since the father of
these unfortunate young ladies
couldn't afford a dowry for them,
they were doomed to stay forever
unmarried. Or it seemed.
But St. Nicholas heard of this
predicament and went to their
house on three successive evenings,
heaving a bag of gold through a
hole in the roof each time.
That hole in the roof was there
to take care of the smoke which
came from the fire pit below. (This
was before the day of fireplaces
and chimneys).
Following their usual custom,
the three daughters had washed
out their stockings and hung them
to dry on the rail around the fire
pit.
With saintly precision, Nicholas
not only tossed each bag of gold
through the smoke hole in the
roof, but, also, into the ap
propriate stocking each time.
With the possibility of more
bags of gold dropping into stock
ings by night, a tradition was born.
To this day, hopeful children
everywhere hang up their stockings
on Christmas Eve, knowing
beyond doubt that St. Nicholas
(now Santa Claus) will come down
the chimney (no longer a smoke
hole in the roof) and fill them with
-- if not bags of gold ? all kinds of
good things.
I'm not a kid anymore. But I
like to keep my stocking hanging in
an accessible place on that magic
night before Christmas. Just in
case.
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