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I i A THURSDAY. DECEMBER 7, 196d HARNETT COUNTY NBWS-PttM*»l»«d at LUilactoa* H. 0. PASS SEVEN cost and availability of labor; close ness to markets; cost of transporta tion; and, cost and availability of power. Raleigh. N. C.. Dec. 6.—Lots of folks are wondering why the State —with a 112.000.000 balance five months ago—needed to borrow $•10,- 000.000 last week to tide it over ilie next three months. .Administration critics will make the most of it. They’ll try to make it iippear that the State is headed tor bankruptcy under Governor Scott. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's Just that expenses for the last several months and for the next few months are outrunning income. But a big swing in increased income to the State comes every year when the ijicome taxes paid—mostly dur ing the first six months of the year. Then is when the year’s surplus is made, with income far outrunning o.vpenses. it's sorta like a tobacco farmer. He has plenty of money on hand in tlie fall of the year, after he’s sold his tobacco. But come spring, and planting time, he often has to borrow money to buy fertilizer and plants. Actually, you could blame the present borrowing on the 1949 Legislature. It left Raleigh with the general fund facing a 13,000,000 deficit for the 1949-51 budget. In addition, it put a rider on the appropriations bill calling for a teacher pay bonus. That last was put on by administra tion opponents, with their tongues in their cheeks. They never expected it to be paid because they were sure the general fund would wind up in the red. .And they wanted >to be able to go home to the teachers and say, ‘ see. what we did for you—we tried to get you a raise.” That expected 13,000,000 deficit pills the more -than 17,000,000 it will take to pay the teachers their bonu.s will make up the |10,0'00',000 than was borrowed. Actually, the contingent pay boost, or bonus, was authorized when the Advisory Bud get Commission saw that revenue for the current fiscal year apparently would w’arrant it. So. despite having to borrow the 10,000,000, the State will wind up with the budget in balance by June .'10. 1951—the end of the erfrrent fiscal year. In fact, the way things are going, there might even be a few million dollars surplus by that dale. fluence—or pressure—of the entire North Carolina congressional delega tion may be the deciding factor in getting the drydock in operation at Wilmington. However, recent devel opments indicate that the Maritime •Administration may be willing to lease a part of the Wilmington ship yard, and that will be the deciding factor. In addition to bringing employ ment to between '300 and 400 per sons, plus revenue from ships being refitted at Wilmington, the drydock would augment the $6,000,000' State Port terminals and dock now being built at Wilmington under the re cent bond issue. Development of a ship repair center there also would aid in the effort to get steel mills to locate in eastern North Carolina, since shipbuilding Is a tremendous consumer of steel. Notes from Washington: Aui attempt to raise the federal tax on cigarettes from 7c to 90 a pack is not expected to succeed. A boost from $9 to $10 per gallon in the U. S. liquor tax is expected, however. A plan that will aid North Caro lina in getting new Industry—par ticularly war Industry—Is being worked out. The government is work ing on a plan for on-the-Job training in the plant using local workers. In other words, the idea is for a plant that moves to North Carolina to train Tar Heels, for the jobs rather than bring in 'personnel from else where. The main idea of the plan is to prevent mass migration of workers from one area to another, such as the movement of thousands of people to California during the last war to work In airplane plants. Price controls may be put ou meat by springy A report that tire rationing is not in sight brings laughs from auto supply houses. Tit’es aren’t rationed to them by the government, but they get only a small “quota” from tire manufacturers. Ceceniber 12 at 11 a. m. in Wash ington. U. S. Senators and represen tatives from North Carolina will ga ther in the House Ways and Means Committee Room. There they will meet with Gover nor Scott, members of the State Ports Authority, and Wilmington representatives to coordinate efforts in influencing the Maritime Admin istration to lease a portion of, the idle Wilmington shipyard to Jack Buncher of Pittsburgh. Bund' r lia.s agreed to lease the iS.OOC !on Xuvy drydock set aside for Wi !. ir.g'.on. if he can get part of the shipyard. The drydock Is stored in Panama awaiting a deci sion. Ironically, the drydock was secur ed for Wilmington by then-Senator Frank Graham. His successor, Willis Smith, who won in a bitter primary fight, will be ashv-d to help make it possible to get,the drydock 1o North Carolina. Opposition to the idea is expected from snipyards and drydocks operat ing along the Atlantic coast, and in- If you see a United Nations flag floating above the Agriculture Buil ding here, It’s one Commissioner L. Y. Ballentlne got from the home- folks. The UN banner was made for Ballentlne by the women of the Oak- wood Community - Club in Wake county. Ballentlne has lived on a farm in that Wake county commu nity all his life, and learned the three “R’s” in the old one-roum Oak- wood school, now consolidated with others in the area. He was given the flag at an annual community dinner. A lot of '’orth Carolinians are glad that the Tat: Keel state wasn’t picked for the H-bomb materials plant site. In fact, some of them have been beard to say that they thought it was still too close, being in South Carolina. The South Carolina site was taken because: (1) not too many people, comparatively, would be displaced; (2) because a large, flat area of land was available; ('3') because there are seven hydro-electric power plants In the immediate vicinity: (4) because plenty of water was available. A big—in fact, one of the biggest —rubber companies has its eye on North Carolina in the search for a place to build a $25,000,000 plant. Offlctals say these things are the most important in selecting a site: ULLINGTON THEATRE—LILLINGTON, N. C. SHOW HOURS Monday tbrouffh Friday At 7:00 and 9x00 P. M. Saturday continuoua show from 1:00 P.M.—11:00 P.M. Sunday At 3:00 and 9:00 P. M. Matinee Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 3:00 WEEK OF DECEMBER 7. 1950 THURSDAY-FRIDAY DEC. 7-8 ‘‘WYOMING MAIL” —with— STEPHEN McNALLY—ALEXIS SMITH Plur: Sport and Comedy SATURDAY Double Feature DEC. 9 HARBOR OF MISSING “TRAIL TO LAREDO” —•with— Charles Starrett MEN” —with— Richard Denniny Plus: Chap. No. 9—“Desperadoes of the West” Also Dog Show Cartoon SUNDAY.MONDAY DEC. 10-11 “JACKPOT” —with— JAMES STEWART—BARBARA HALE Plus: News—Sport—and Bugs Bunny Cartoon TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY . DEC. 12-13 “SO YOUNG SO BAD” —^with— CATHERINE McLEOD—PAUL HENREID Plus: Sport—Mick^ Mouse and Pluto Cartoon Gov. Scott stole the show at the National 4-H session In Chicago when ■he told the kids he was in favor of 18-year-olds being given the right to vote. “If they’re old enough to be re sponsible for a' half-mtillion dollar Jet plane, then they’re old enough to accept the responsibility of voting,” he said. The Governor’s attitude is not new. In his inaugural address, he said much the same thing. At the Southern Governors’ Con ference, GoV. Scott and Gov. Sid Mc- Math of Arkansas were tbe only two who did not yell for federal aid for civil defense programs. Ironically, neither of the two states fall into the States’ Rights category, and some of the governors who have hollered the loudest about states’ rights were the first to want federal aid. It was reported at the meeting that Texas and North Carolina have the best civil defense programs in the South, with the Texas program being considered one of the best in the nation. Scott’s comment about civil de fense was that "the people seem, more interested In the program than do the leaders.” It always has seemed funny to me, that the folks who yell loudest about states’ rights are among the first to stick 'their hands out for federal government money. How can they expect to take the money and not take some form of federal control? Folks who don’t want federal gov ernment telling state governments what to do should remember this: MOTHER OF THREE LEADS GRADUATING COLASS . . . aira. Sllta- betb Straohan Freret, 29, reads a story tor her three ohJldren, Norman, Payne, and Charles (from left), at her Washington, D. C., home after she led the graduating class of 131 law students on receiving her di ploma from George Washington University law school recently. Her success formula, she says. Is “Going to school miUtes keeping house interesting, and keeping house niteresis me In sohopt." ^ The only time you have complete control over the way something Is done is when you do It yourself. If you want someone else to do tlie Job, you have to pay. Just like you can't expand state services without paying more taxes -that’s Just simple arithmetic. Incidentally, the Advisory Budget Commission will unanimously rec ommend a balanced budget to the General Asembly. Their recommen dations will not call for new taxes— not even for lifting exemptions on the sales tax. And the recommended budget will be very little more than the one for the current biennium. 'However, Gov. Scott will point out some things he thinks should be done in his message to the legislaturs. These probably will incude a stream sanitation program, expansion of the highway patrol, and reinstatement of the motor vehicle inspection law —a different version from the last one, however. In other words, the legislature will •be told: “Here’s what we can do on an ‘as is’, basis, Here’s what ought to be done—'but you can’t do it with out more money. And you can’t get more money without more taxes.’ Which probbaly 'means that very ■few, if any,, new or expanded ser vices will be added by the Geeural Assembly, because legislators are no toriously '8 spineless lot when it comes to raising taxes. The Governor got a “Thanksgiving Day” note from Shallotte, - In Bruns wick county. It came from Dr. R. M. Holden, who expressed thanks to Scott-and his administration for “the wonder ful things that are being done for us here in Brunswick.’’ Holden said the road and school program was putting the county on the way to become “self-supporting" and that the only '!fiy In the ointment now” is a 4G-mile squi.re area with out a telephone. The State’s automobile dealers have a friend in Congressman C. B. Deane of Rockingham. He’s fighting to get the Flederal Reserve Board’s ‘‘Regulation W” changed in respect to auto sales. That regulation cuts the number of months allowed for car-payment histaliinents from 2il to 16. “Fifteen months is not long enough to pay for an automobile for persons of an average income,” Deane said in a statement to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. “An automobile Is not a luxury. It is a real day-today necessity to mil lions of our people . . . There is a great segment of our population who must have automotive transportation to reach their work. Particularly is this true in my district which is seml-rural and where thousands and tl'.oiisands of workers travel from five to fifty miles daily for indus trial employment.” Under Regulation W, Deane said, everybody “except the few who can afford extreme terms” is denied this needed transportation. "1 therefore . . . ask that your ■board reconsider its action . . . and increase the number of months to a minimum of 18 for the purpose of installment credit for the purchase of automobiles.” LAND POSTERS for sale at The News office. Post your land and psoteet your property as well as the birds. GREGORY’S RED BIRD CABS PHONE 2851 ERWIN» N. C PLEASE SAY “I SAW IT IN THE NEWS.” THANK YOU. When new or old fim to stop MW. 1 contains only asfib be^ ftd, proves tnmdieatf m no aar> codes to dhtotb natsie’s proosw. It goes riidtt to die sent cf Ae troiAle to aid nature sooths and heal nw, ten der, inflamed bronchial menbcaiMe. Quuanteed to idease yon or draokt rehmdiiiioa^. CieoiMhionheietood the test of maiqr aeillioiis of nsan. CREOMUKSION LAND POSTERS Mr. Farmer, do you know tkat great damage is done to your property eack year ky pee^le who tTMpaM upon your land? Get some land postma from our office and poet jrour land. It will pay you. We kawe pontare that forkid cutting timber ae well as hunt ing and fishing. THE NEWS OFFICE UUUNCOON. N. C. You can pay more but you canY buy better! Ntw Winftd Hood OfMintnt New Extra Power Windshield Wipeii New Weelherprool Horn Mounlm* New IteceHed Heedliehls "DwI Spinner" Grille New Styled Peihm: i.lthl$ New ‘tneftlon-QiiM" tntm Mouitiins The UB is built for the yeura ahead! O Why pay more for a car when you can't buy more Beauty . , . more comfort , . . more get-up-and-flo ihan you get in the '51 Ford with the 43 new "look Ahead" featur's? 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