NEW GAS TAX
OF ONE CENT
IS EFFECTIVE
A one-cent per gallon tax on
gasoline throughout North Caro
lina began on gas storage as of
sirturdey night.
Sunday North Carolina mot
orists started paying an addition
al cent per gallon on the gaso
line they use.
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Highway patrolmen of this
area were busy through last
week passing out tax forms and
giving instructions on inventory
and collection of the extra cent.
The Legislature boosted the
tax from six to seven cents per
gallon- to help pay the state's
$200 million secondary road
program.
Revenue Commissioner Eu
gene Shaw announced last week
that elaborate plans were made
to collect the additional tax on
gaaoline stocks held by whole
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CANNON
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salers, filling stations and con
sumers who had more than 100
gallons on hand as of midnight
Saturday.
Dealers gave inventory of the
gasoline they had on hand as of
December 31 and will pay the
additional one-cent tax by Jan
nary 20. Those who fail to make
the inventory and pay the tax
by Jannary 20 are subject to
a penalty of 25 per cent.
Members of the State High
way patrol will assist the Reve
nue department in checking up
on the more than 18,000 dealers
in seeing that the inventories
are made and supplying forms to
filling station operators.
Shaw explained that normally
the gasoline tax Is paid by the
oil companies directly to the De
partment of Revenue either
when they bring it into the state
or when they remove it from
storage. The oil companies, in
turn, collect the tax from the
user In the form of higher prices.
Beginning Sunday, the oil
companies simply paid the De
partment of Revenue seven cents
per gallon instead of six cents
per gallon.
Shaw estimated that there will
be several million gallons of
gasoline in the hands of whole
salers and filling station opera
tors on which the six cents has
been paid and on which the ad
ditional one-cent levy will be
due.
The additional one-cent tax is
expected to take in more than
$7 million a year. The law re
quires that this money be used
exclusively for the purpose of
repaying the |200 million the
state will borrow for the secon
dary road program.
Singing At New Hope
Church January 8th
The pastor, Rev. L. M. Luns
ford, announces that there will
be an old fashioned singing at
New Hope church on the "Brush
ies" Sunday night, Jan. 8th,
beginning at 7 o'clock. All choirs,
quartets, duets, trios, and so
loists are invited to attend and
take part in this service.
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Hampshire hogs are proving
to be highly popular with farm
ers in Vance County.
omen
IN TH?
IURCH
?aArieL
"A Friendly Center Club," tor
men and women sixty years of
age and oxer, has been started
At Center Church House, Hart
lord, Conn. The club meets every
Friday afternoon from two to
four. <Its program of recreation
and) fellowship Is sponsored
Jointly by the Downtown Inter
Church Committee, the Greater
Hartford Council of Churches,
and the Welfare Committee of
the Hartford Women's Club.
Mrs. Noble Lord, of the Center
Church of Hartford, Is general
chairman.
Says the nation's only woman
to preside over a federal court?
Judge Florence Allen: "Ab we
look out into the world which
Is fraught with so many tensions
balancing uneasily in the peace
which Is actually called the 'cold
war,' we realize that only one
[mighty force can change the
drift toward a new 'Dark Ages,'
?an upsurge of Christian faith,
vital and actually applied, in
every kind of situation, person
ally, nationally and internation
ally.'' "V
Miss Clementina Butler, found
er and chairman during thirty
years of the "Committee on
Christian Literature for Women
and Children on Mission Lands,
Inc.," died recently in Boston.
Mass., at the age of 88. Mis.
Butler was the daughter of Dr.
William Butler, founder of the
missionary work of the Metho
dist church in India (1857) and
in Mexico (1873). Miss Butlei
was born in Bareilly, India
and served with her father and
her brother in both India and
Mexico; her brother, Dr. John
W. Butler, succeeded his father
as superintendent of the Mexico
emission. The Committee of
which Mi3s Butler was founder
is each year one of the piinciph
recipients of the offerings oi
American church women through
the World Day of Prayer.
To help tighten the bonds of
cooperation and understanding
between West African YWCA's
and assciations in other parts o
the world, two West African
women, one World's YWCA of
ficial from Oeneva, and another
non-African woman are now
touring Nigeria, Liberia, the
Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone.
While they, are visiting local
YWCA's they are also in touch
with educationalists, church
leaders, social workers, trade
unionists and government, offi
cials exploring the possibilities
of expanding YWCA work in
West Africa.
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Exports of wheat and wheat
products in 1949-50 will be
smaller than in recent years.
Toxaphene Is now recomr
ed for the control of ticks, lice,
hornflies, and sheep ticks on all
livestock except dairy cattle.''
This material is of special value
in the control of ticks.
m ~
- The worst insect enemy of
alfalfa is the grasshopper.
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AND
MONDAY
January 8-9
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