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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT ."HE -'OST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C„ UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 (Eljs (Ergnn Satlg lc Per Copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) Per Covy 1c Vol. 12. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON. N. C., TUESDAY, FEB. T, i9^9 CURB REPORTER The weather is nice and bright just like March . . . J. N. Jackson going to his office from the barber shop. No news from him . . . . Wayne Creasman buying a maga zine at the drug store. Wiayne is the weatherman , . . Chief Kiser picked up a pair of ladies gloves somebody lost on the street . . . Louis Avant says he is in favor of the highway coming through Tryon without having to cross the railroad. Says it can be done if enough Oak Hall bank opposite the stores is cut away and the road run alongside of the track, then around the depot and down where the old box factory was, then under railroad coming into Trade fjceet near W. 9. Green-Tom Cos -a’s office. F. W. Crandall likes that, too .... St Augustine, Fla. is the oldest city in the United States and much of it is in Spanish design; some narrow streets, one so narrow that a man can stretch out his arms and touch both sides; Lere is located the oldest house and the oldest school house, the oldest fort, the Fountain of Youth, an early Indian burying ground and other points of ‘interest that would claim the attention of inter ested students for several days. The oldest house has many anti ques from all over the world. In St. Augustine you feel as if you were in direct touch with the old Continued on back page ! N. G. Sales Tax j To Be Retained i . Raleigh, Feb. 6.—The general J assembly’s joint finance committee : gave its official approval today to the policy of continuing North Carolina’s three per cent retail i sales tax on a permanent basis. J The tax was enacted as an emer ■ gency measure in 1933. By an overwhelming oral vote j the committeemen adopted the I greater portion of the sales tax j article in the 1939 revenue bill, ! which is expected to become North j Carolina’s permanent tax law. j Only a scattering of “no” votes i was heard. Left open for further study was | a section of the article allowing j exemptions and providing for the j diversion, if needed, from the high ; way to the general fu"d of an | amount equal to the application of j the sales tax on gasoline. At present, certain basic foods j are exempt from the sales tax, j and the pending revenue bill also | would exempt ice and medicines. | Considerable pressure has been brought to exempt, also, all food for home consumption, horses and mules, farm implements ocsting less than $25, fishing twine and j certain basic building materials. The committee also approved an ! amendment to increase license tax es paid by operators of “amuse ment” *and “vending” slot mach ines. Representative Uzzel of Rowan, member of a sub-group which drafted the proposal, said it would bring in "between $200,000 Continued on Back Page
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