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Jo* Lanier Son of * g u* I am sure the mailman has delivered your new tax bill by now and that a tax increase has been forced upon you is no longer just a news story ? it is fact. The printed figures on that card verify you are to pay more of your income to the Duplin County Tax Collector by order of your county commissioner. Your county commissioner has said you are to pay more regardless of whether or not your income is more or less, regardless, regardless, regardless. . .Your income has nothing whatsoever to do with the increase in county taxes. If income did have some basis for the rate hike, there would have been a rate decrease in Duplin County. Two of the commissioners who said to increase the taxes in Duplin County are off in Milwaukee. Wisconsin having a good old time listening to Helen Keddy sing at the National County Commissioners Convention. . .They are spending some of this increased tax that was "needed." When I am told a tax increase is needed just to keep things at status quo. . .and then a couple of commissioners using this tax money, take off for a convention. I feel a little frustrated. . .No wonder no one believes government when it speaks. While you were sweating in the tobacco fields, or shoveling whatever one shovels in a chicken house, in this 100 degree weather this week. Commissioners Calvin Turner and Dovie Penney were cooling it in the beer capital called Milwaukee. . .They took along Russell Tucker for company, and probably took spouses and friends. . . It w ill all come out as usual ? the taxpayer got it in the end. . .1 suppose I should be thankful though. . .After all. there are four more commissioners that could have gone. . .They could have taken the county manager, Ralph Cottle, and his secretary. Judv Brown, on this pleasure parade. . .1 am sure the county employees would have liked this convention money put in the form of salary increases, since there was extra money on hand to waste. . ***** The Friends of the Hospital (Duplin General Hospital in Kenunsville) have invested their moneys in decorating the maternity wards. The drab blue and grey walls now have lively, bright and cheerful wallpaper covering them. The change is almost as great as the hearts of those who are paying the bill. It really makes me feel good to see or hear about someone investing their resources in a project to help others just for the pleasure of helping. Down the hall awavs from the O.B. unit, there is another project taking place ? a decorating project. This project is being handled bv one lady. She is buying the wallpaper and installing it herself in the Out-patient recovery rooms. I am told Dr. Mure's wife was wallpapering into the wee hours of the morning. When talking of good things happening at Duplin General Hospital, there is no way to put a value on the great job the Ladies Auxiliary is doing. Not only are these fine ladies helping the hospital, they are helping the patients and visitors as well. . .Like the wall decorators, their only pay is the satisfaction of knowing they are helping ? an perhaps a "thank you" now and again. . .Son-of-a-Gun. . . . County Approves Hospital Board The Duplin County Board of Commissioners l ist Tues da\ approved the 9-membcr hospital hoard nominated by the former hospital board of trustees. Last week, the hospital board, following wishes of the county board and recom mendations of a study of the hospital's financial situation appointed a new hospital board consisting of eight volino members and one non-voting member. The board previously numbered 2H members. The old board dissolved it sell at midnight J une JO. file new board took office July I. subject to confir ma lion bv t lie county com missioners. The county ow ns the hospital which was fi nanced by county bond issues. It leases the facility to the hospital board. The commissioners reject ed a Board of Hducation "request for an additional $8".750 to pay the salaries of 2Vi principals and eight teachers aides to help the system retain accreditation by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges. The commissioners last month budgeted $1.890.58b front county funds for the school svstem. The appropriation was the same as that for the 1982-8.1 school year. Commissioners Chairman W.J. Costin responded to the plea of School supporters for the additional money with. "The county is poor. We have a lot of people out of work. The state has not added funds to reduce class ' si/e. We're obligated to keep up the school buildings and we receive no money from the slate for that." In other action, the board approved a resolution asking the Farmers Home Adminis tration to obligate funds for the proposed Albertson com munity water system project in northeastern Duplin County. During a hearing on the water svslem proposal. Bob Pitlman of Rivers and Asso ciates of Raleigh, a consult ing engineering firm, esti mated the project cost at SI..125.000. He said an FntHA grant of $(>07,qoo and a state grant of $31.1.100 may be available if local resi dents would approve a bond issue of S.I 1.1. KM) in a re ferendum. FmHA would buy or guarantee the bonds, he added. I'ittman said the first two payments of such a bond issue would consist only of thv interest. He estimated the interest would be STO.(XX) each of the first two years. The proposed system would take in S58.1XX) a year in fees, a study In FmHA indicated. The estimated water rate would be SI2 per month for a minimum of 2.(XX) gallons. Pittntan estimated the average fee would be Sin a month for 5.(XX) gallons. 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