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1 1 1 1LY. LXZTTQZD, N. C rrr?AT. JAKTJA T, Y ; i 1. Washington We got the budget fmm th Wlill ' Haima Inst week. Imagine a book larger than a catalog it has over 1200 pages and in fine print Some of the reporters called right away to see wha was my re action to the budget REACTION My reaction was that it will take a long time to wade through a budget as big as this one is and one that proposes to spend about 66 billions of dollars. That being the case, it's not possible to immediately say where cuts can be made, but 1 honestly feel that some cuts must be made. The budget, as proposed, will show a de ficit of 2.9 billions of dollars for fis cal 1955 to operate the Federal gov ernment. I. believe we must balance the budget. Commendable steps in that direction have been taken and the gap has been narrowed, but a little more fat has to be squeezed out of it We must do this to keep from raising the national debt limit I hope and believe Congress can find a way to do it. OPPOSITION The Senate worked late at night to get the debate completed on the Saint Lawrence Seaway Bill. I voted against it So did Senator Hoey, I feel that the construction of this project would do a lot to disturb our expanding port facilities. As you know, North Caro lina has spent over seven millions of dollars in our port projects. There are many other reasons why the pro ject seemed unnecessary. The Senate passed the Bill 51 to 33. It now is up to the House of Representatives. SCHOOL BILL I joined with Senator McClellan and a number of other Senators in the in troduction of a bill to provide for. Federal assistance to the states in the! construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities. Under the proposed bill, North Carolina would be helped. Our schools need It to take care of the rapidly expanding school population. We prepared the bill to eliminate any danger of Fed eral control and supervision of the public school systems of the several states. My thinking is that some of the money we are now spending over seas for economic aid can be put to good use in this country where the greatest need for assistance exists. The bill is patterned after the Hill Burton Act which has done so much for our folks in the hospital and pub lic health field. RETIREMENT I am in favor of the Mason Bill which would allow tax exemption for all retired employees with retirement incomes up to $125 per month. This bill is being studied by the House Ways and Means Committee and I think it is sound. It seems unfair to tax retired folks who have such a little amount of money anyway. LETTER CARRIERS Delegates of the North Carolina Letter Carriers Association came by to see me last week. They were from (all tna A Mtvflt PfivnllTlft " it T ttffl a member of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, they felt that' I should have the benefit of their think ing about salary increases. I was glad to see them. I told them how impor tant all postal workers, including rural carriers, are and how they represent Uncle Sam. I think we are all proud of what the, postal workers and rural carriers are doing, and I am anxious to see that they are treated fairly. " ' : VISIT TO OXFORD I am looking forward to my visit Friday night in jOxford. The Tobac co Experiment Station there has done outstanding work. The people here in Washington speak most highly of it and they point out it's the largest in the world. Dr. D. M. Crooks, head of the tobacco section of the Agricultural Research Service, came by my office) to invite me to see what, is being done in the way of tobacco research at1 Beltsville, Maryland. I accepted the invitation. He knows of my inter est in research. I believe it can so a long way toward solving our agricul tural surplus problem, , THIS-AND-THAT Last week, I had the pleasure of taking ten Boy Scouts from the Oc coneechee Council in North Carolina in to visit the Vice-President They were fine representatives of youth and the outstanding work Scouting is doing. They were visiting Washing ton with their District Scout Direc tor, Mr. Russell McLean of Dunn . . . One of my Senate colleagues found himself driving a taxi the other morn- big during a snowstorm in order to get to work. The taxi driver was pushing the car and when they got it started, the Senator just kept on driv ing for fear they would stall strain . . . The budget breaks down roughly into tnese chunks of the tax dollar: 68 1 cents for major national security; 22 cents for charges fixed by law such as interest, veterans, grants to states, and 10 cents for other items. The in come is planned this way: 43 cents from individual income taxes; 81 cents from corporation income taxes; 16 cents from excise taxes, 6 cents from customs and other taxes. That leaves four cents, which, according to the President will have to be borrowed. tobacco a much less tiresome.job, too. The new techniques developed to plants harvest and cure the crop, have cut the labor requirement to less than a third of that formerly required. The principal, changes in aromatic tobacco production include the use of automatic transplanters, curing on wire rods instead of the string meth od, the use of heat in the curing pro cess, and numerous short cuts in bal ing the leaves. .- : v Piedmont North Carolina farmers are pi oducing, aromatic tobacco with only one per acre. Services of young sters in their teenB can equal the labor output of an adult male in the harvest ing of the crop, since the leaves are small and little strenuous ltibor is re quired. ".-; ;:" ; The use of artificial heat removes a lot of the risk involved in curing the leaves, resulting in a much . higher quality leaf that invariably brings a higher price. Growers using heat cur ing units have averaged more than $1 per pound during the past several years. ;.'. ' The market for aromatic tobacco is relatively unlimited. Less than 10 per cent of the present American con sumction is now grown in the Unit ed States- No acreage allotments are required U produce aromatic tobac co. .' " .. ' - " ;" If you're interested in this $1,000- per-acre crop, contact your local coun ty farm agent He has all the latest information on its production and adaptability in your area. 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