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Special to Tlw Democrat ALL IN VAIN . . The dry forces swept Into Raleigh last ?Mk from throughout the State, virtually filled cavernous Memorial Auditorium here, and Try BISMAREX for Add Indigestion. Insist on genuine BISMAREX and refuse other so-called Anti acid Powders, recommended to be "Just as good. BISMA REX is sold in Watauga county at BOONE DRUG CO. The REX ALL Stars HJUme ? Sorftcfrtyfear {imGa43*x&f*ir SRUSTOOAY made one of their best presenta mtm ' in ywn. County after county is going bone-dry, legally, and other counties are planning beer and wine elections. The people *eem to be getting pretty warm about their inability to ob ain a Statewide referendum on alcohol. Well, they might as well for get Raleigh and go ahead with their county-to-county plan. Un less all signs fail, the Legislature is going to do exactly nothing to dry up the ABC counties and ci ties during this session. If the Allied Chungh League folks knew as much about the present voting machinery of the House as they do about the evils of alcohol, they would not be wasting their gaso line, their breath, and their time in Raleigh cavorting*. But the vote is coming one of these days, and the Legislature was impressed with the biggest hearing held this session. PRECEDENT . . .The Legis lature, which has looked on , while Governor Kerr Scott has been doing things, pulled an eye- 1 brow-raiser of its own last Fri day. Scott had said he would t talk to a joint session of the Gen- i eral Assembly on the liquor ref- < erendum "if invited." The in- 1 vitation was presented to the House. Prior to Friday, these "invitations" had been merely ai matter of form and always re ceived a unanimously favorable vote. But there was a chorus of negative voices in the Scott liquor referendum invitation. Old timers here cannot recall when this has happened before. So, Governor Scott breaks yet anoth- ? er record. i COOPERATIVES ... A sub committee of the two Finance STUDENT TO STUDENT FRIEND TO FRIEND Golly dum, gee! Go have a sandwich where we go? Best place I know, and are we welcome. SHO, well, let's go. ALSO CURB SERVICE Milk Shake*, Real Thick, Regular Also DRIVE-IH SODA BAR L. A. HENSON, Owner RG00ttki*<*. ???. '. *?? '* V * ',?., ??<-.*;. NOTICE . t , TO WATAUGA TAXPAYERS Committees has been appointed to look into the matter of putting a tax on cooperatives similar to that collected from corporation* The Department of Tax Research thorough study ol cooperatives ? as instructed to da ? during the past two years. Its opinion is that a tax on coopera tives would not yield over *50, 000 per year in revenue to the State. However, it is apparent that cooperatives do not want any new form of taxation what ever. Willard L. Dowell, execu tive vice president and secretary of the N. C. Merchants Associa tion and a constant thorn in the flesh of the co-qp% pointed out in a private hearing before the sub-committee last week that his organization has no fight what ever with marketing cooperatives or .with any cooperative which is not selling merchandise in com petition with regular merchants. The merchants merely want those coperatives which sell the same type of merchandise the mer chants sell to pay the same taxes they are paying. They want that and nothing more. If the cooperative leaders were smart, they would submit to ? in (act, request that a tax be placed on them. It would not cost them over $90,000. This would be an excellent public relations move. It would to a great extent re move the shroud of suspicion which now lies over the cooper atives. If this is not done, the controversy will continue through this Legislature and into succeed ing Legislatures. MORE TAXES . . . Larry Moore of Wilson and Grady Rankin of Gastonia, chairmen of the House and Senate Finance Committees, said last week their groups are waiting for Governor Scott to send forth bills to increase taxes with which to carry out his "go forward" program. On Friday afternoon. Governor Scott said it is up to the legislators to draw up the tax bills. However, they feel this way about it: The Advisory Budget filed a balanced budget with the Gen eral Assembly calling for a 20 per cent increase in salaries for all personnel, including school teachers. This is all the increase which can be had from funds on hand and revenue expected to come into the State Treasury within the next two years. Any further increases will have to come from new taxes. Since not one member of the Legislature was elected on a plat form of new taxes, they want to stick with the budget recommen dations and go home as soon as Those who have not paid their taxes for I 948, may re ceive a 2 per cent discount by paying them by Tuesday, March (. 1948. I am anxious that as many as possible pay their taxes im mediately and receive the benefit of this cash discount. Incidentally, 1 wish to thank the taxpayers fqr their fine cooperation in the past and solicit a continuance of their helpfulness. Until Further Notice The Tax Office ' >" .... . : J. . ' , ? ? '2%^**' -'M"'" \s* ..&? *. .." * / f".? Will Close At Noon EacE Saturday V W. R. Cottrell, YJ, 1 1 k V * i * , " TAX COLLECTOR, WATAUGA COUNTY possible. NO SURPLUS' . . . People throughout the State are still tklking about that "surplus in Raleigh." Put this down as a fact: There is no surplus in Ra leigh. There was a surplus last summer. The Advisory Budget Commission had on one hand this surplus and it dipped intc .the future and tried to guess what the State's income is going ? to be from July 1, 1949 through June 30, 1931. So, taking the surplus and the expected income, it sat for several weeks and then .laid down recommendations as to .where the surplus and the ex pected income have be^n allocat ed. _ If you, dear reader, want new services, you will have to pay for them with new taxes or with bond issues. There is no surplus in Raleigh. And, when you go ground talking about a surplus, jyou are merely blowing pretty |bubble8 in the air. Wilkins P. Horton of Pitts boro, big wheel in North Carolina politics for the past 15 years, still wants to be Governor. He is telling frif ds in the Legislature that he is a candidate for 1992. . . One of Governor Kerr Scott's main advisors is University of North Carolina President Frank P. Graham. Another is Harry Caldwell, Ohio native and master of the State Grange. They are saying Caldwell has his eye on the Governor's office next time around . . . Congressman Monroe Redden of Henderaonville, close friend of Senator J. M. B rough ton, is re ceiving a terrific buildup in his plans to run against Senator Clyde R. Hoey . . . Rural electrification specialists of the U. S. Department of Agri culture point out that one kilo watt-hour of electricity? coating only a few cents ? will do about the same amount of work as a strong man working hard for 24 hours, or three eight-hour days. COVE CREEK | HI SCHOOL NEWS The Cove Creek boys' basket ball team won the tournament of the Highland Conference in Wilkes bo ro by defeating Appa lachian with * score of 27-26 in the final game on Saturday night They had. on Friday night won from Sparta in an equally close game with a score of 31-29, while having already won easily against Taylorsville on Thurs day night. Trophies and awards were presented over the Elkin radio station last Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'clock. The Cove Creek girls were de feated by Appalachian in the opening game on Thursday night. An all-star tournament will be played in the local gymnasium this week starting on Tuesday night. The Cove Creek All-Stars have already won in two tourna ments and have been runner-up in another. Fans are promised some high class entertainment as more than sixteen teams have al ready entered this week's play. Pat Mast of the senior class went to Asheville on Monday for an inter-view with the Angler B. Duke Scholarship Committee. He was selected along with several other seniors in this part of the state for a second interview. Mr. Tom Winkler and Mrs. Casey of Boone gave a very in teresting chapel program for the high school pupils last week. We look forward to a return engage ment from these talented musi cians. BITING Brisbane Australia ? It was cat against snake in Ipswich, near here. A snake bit the cat owned by Kevin Bailey, 6, An outsider stepped in and killed the snake. When the child patted the cat in sympathy, the cat bit the boy, and the child was taken to a hospital. Then the cat died as a result of the snake bite. OVERSEAS CEMETERIES lines of fighting in Europe, American wax dead from 400 Africa and the Pacific area, overseas cemeteries will be ?????? brought together in fourteen Truman plans Federal aid to permanent military cemeteries in states for home relief. Europe, Africa, and the Philip pines. Of the 297.880 identified casualties overseas, about 84 per cent will be brought back to this country for burial. Approximate ly 100,000 will be finally Interred in these permanent cemeteries which are markers along the Cut Flowers, Corsages and Funeral Designs GIFT ITEMS Phone 214-J E. Kins Stmt Boone Flower Shop FOR SALE GRAND BLVD. ? Good brick house, with private apartment up stairs. Hot air furnace, good location. Come in and price it. LOCATED ABOUT ltt MILES FROM BOONE on Hodge* Gap road. Beautiful 8 room stone house, with full sized basement, water, hot air furnace, with 22 acnes of land. Located on hardsurface road, school bus and Mall route. Telephone service. A beautiful home and price is right. HOWARD STREET: Good Business building. 69 ft x 40 t, full sized basement. Priced to sell. * ; . . GOOD 9 ROOM HOUSE made into apartments, on lot 179 ft. x 255 ft. with 30 ft. x 50 ft. Block Building used as wood shop. Come in and price it. SERVICE STATION and General Store and Supplies for sale A good going business, located on two main high ways leading from Bo-jiie. Long term lease on property. Come in ana price it. GOOD 6 ROOM HOUSE with water, lights, small orchard, with 5 acres of land. Located about 1 mile from Boone on hardsurface road. Price $10,500.00. GOOD 15 ROOM HOUSE ? three baths, insulated( new furn ace, lot 160 ft. frontage by 170 ft. Located near the college entrance, very desirable for college students and tourist trade. Price is right. We have good lots for sale in all sections of Boone. Very desirable for building purposes. FINANCE YOUR HOMES THROUGH THE F. H. A AT INTEREST TRI-COUNTY REALTY CO. Depot Street - Phone 144-M P. O. Box 12 BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA E. F. COE, Manager. YOU touch the starter? and your car wakens with an expectant purr. You touch the gas treadle? and off you sweep, on a wave of buoyant power. Minutes, miles tick past, with a lift in every one of them . . . A dream, you say? Not for a Buick. Not for your Buick, if it's kept always at its brilliant best ? by Buick specialists! We have nothing but Buick spe cialists in our service department ? men who know the heft and feel of every wire, washer or widget under a Buick hood, without looking. ft fit 1 ? W hen they do a tune-up or repair job on your Buick it's more than just a scientific, thoroughgoing, conscientious piece of work. They' 1 1 baby it a bit ? and on the road you'll feel the difference in their craftsmanly touch. This priceless kind of care costs you not a penny more. In the long run ? by keeping your Buick always a Buick ? we save you money! Howtmc CMKWsee? Headlighh dim or dhcolorad? Let in give you eaiiar, tafar night driving with a n?w pair of low-to?l Sealed Beam unHv In addition, wall line up the headtompi ? check generator charging rate ? inspect voltage regulator ? dean battery termi nals and cablet. Snick care keeps Snicks best Wat&uga Sales & Service 400 N. MAIN STREET BOONE, N. C.
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