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Varrrn Krrorii Published Every Thursday By The Record Printing Company BIGNALL JONGS. Editor ? DUKE JONES, Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS "Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N. C." QTTRQPDlPTinM P ATT?C ? ONE YEAR, $3.00; SIX MONTHS, 11.30 OUDO^XVir 1 lKJPi IV A 1 Il?> . oux OF STATE: ONE YEAR. $4.00j SIX MONTHS. 12.00 Reflection On Taxes Perhaps in the final analysis it makes little difference in how taxes are levied so long as they apply generally and the point to remember if governmental agencies are to spend money somebody has to pay the bill and as a general rule it is the ultimate consumer, which includes us all. But, on the other hand it is possible to spread these taxes so as to work a real hard ship on a lot of poor people. Most persons of property in War ren County with whom we have talk ed favor an increase in sales taxes in order that taxes may be reduced on property, which is part and parcel of "getting the tax off me and putting it on someone else." Almost invariably those who favor an increased sales tax explain that there are many people who would not pay any taxes whatsoever if it were not for the sales tax, when what they actually mean is that they would not pay any direct taxes. They also always add that they are not in favor of paying taxes for anyone who is just too sorry and lazy to work. Admittedly, there are a consider able number of people in this county who seemingly are not over ambi tious and who have a decided antipathy to any and all forms of labor. But there are also hundreds of poor people in the county who work when they can find work, and with steady jobs who work for wages too small to afford a decent stand ard of living. There are also hun dreds of other citizens who are gain fully employed in our factories, stores and other industries, in most cases paid as little as the minimum wage law will permit. It is of these people we think when we plead for no increase in the sales tax before the possibility of taxes on whiskey and cigarets are exhausted. What the increase would do, if the objectives of those favoring the increased sales tax is realized, would be to reduce the tax on the property of many well-to-do home owners and put it on their cooks; it might even reduce the tax on our own business and place it on our employees who certainly are far from overpaid. If we want to smoke cigarets and drink whiskey, two utterly wasteful and useless habits, then we think these items should be furthpr taxed before we urge th?i* t' H other necessities of hard*. ~ poor people of the coi?r.cy be fur taxed. A Sense Of Values M ?j i The activities of the hippies, the beatnixs and other misfits are often overemphasized and as a result a whole generation of young people are damned by those who forget how many normal, wholesome and ideal istic young people there are. This was called to mind by two editorials in The Chapel Hill Weekly of Dec. 11. The first recounts the editor's experience with two young boys of Chapel Hill who contributed funds to the Miners Fund sponsored by The Weekly. The second, merely Incidental to the first, dealt with an anonymous young man who felt remorse over the destruction of pri vate property. This anonymous young man, lock ed in the Duck Pond areaon Thanks giving night and cutting a couple of strands of barbed wire to get out, wrote a letter to The Weekly, ex pressing his regrets and enclosing $10 to pay for the damage, asking The Weekly to locate the owner. The Editor tells the aftermath in "A Later Word From Anonymous." We believe there are hundreds of thousands of Peter and Les Ingoes In the United States and many thou sands of young men with a sense of right and wrong, and that their ac tions should be recounted. The first editorial, "A Sense of Values," is printed below and is followed by the second, "Later Word From Anony mous," hardly less noteworthy: A Sense Of Values Monday afternoon two youngsters came dash ing Into the Weekly office with a wad of dollar bills thick enough to choke a bUly goat. One of them said, "One hundred dollars for the miner's fund." They wheeled to bolt out again. The folks in the front office stopped them. The youngsters, Peter Igoe, 11, and Las Igoe, 10, explained that they had collected the money on Sunday afternoon and "about five min utes" on Monday. For most of Sunday after noon they had worked the clientele at the Intimate Book Shop. The five minutes on Monday afternoon bad been needed to round oat the hundred dollars. ReluctanUy the Brother* Igoe stood still for a picture. Then a reporter started get i for the photo. a't want his name used. The that the paper vu using entire staff U the Neigb ?nd had already printed tbe people who had worked . The paper would try ' J?' point is that seventy-eight miners won't be coming home to their families this Christ- I mas." Les looked down. His lip was trembling. The reporter looked away quickly. He seem- j ed to have something stuck in his throat. When he got his throat cleared he took down I the rest of the information and got away from | there fast. "I can't take that," he said. Later Word From Anonymous The prisoner of the Glen Lennox Duck Pond, I although he still hasn't revealed his identity, has directed that his penance money be con- | tributed to a good cause. In a letter this week to L. C. Croft, manager I of the Glen Lennox development, the young | man wrote: "I have just read the column in the Weekly | (Dec. 8) and I sincerely appreciate your feel ings on my behavior. I also appreciate your offer to return the money to me, but I am afraid that I would not feel right in taking it back. I did commit a wrong deed (in cut ting a couple of barbed wire strands after | being locked in the duck pond on Thanksgiv ing night) and I feel that to clear rr.y con science I must pay for it in some way. ' 'Therefore, If you feel that the damage was negligible, and payment was not required, I wish that you would turn the money over to the Weekly Miners' Relief Fund for me. I don't really need the money, and to make some miner's family a little happier this Christmas would clear my guilty mind of the whole incident. "I thank you for performing this deed for me, it will certainly make me feel a lot bet ter. Long live the duck pond, and I remain yours, "Anonymous." Mr. Croft and the Weekly would like to assure "Anonymous" that his ten dollars has been added to the Relief Fund and his con science and guilty mind have been formally declared cleared. The Joy Of It Detroit Free Press Do-lt-yourself fun is back with news that | stilts abig with children again. Stilts c.Vi be store-bought but they can be I made on the spot. We used to nail pieces of two-by-four to discarded mop handles and stump around to see what the world looks like from the height of a 12-year-old. S was a real | thrill .... This may be a beginning of a trend to- | ward other simple pleasures, such as play ing Knight of Old, with a broom tor a I horse and a helmet made from an old sauce pan. The beat shields were the oral lids to | copper wash tollers, hard come by any more. But a garbage can lid Isn't bad, and gives | oat a good martial clang .... Quotes mi M which breaks ad that which bend*.."?Lowell Mostly Personal By BIGNALL JONES My wife, an excellent home maker, finds pleasure and In struction In looking at TV pro grams by Peggy Mann, John Harris and the French Chef, and often Is seen with pencil and paf>er taking notes. Just how necessary this Is I am sometimes doubtful and almost certain It is a waste of time In the case of the French Chef, as she has not yet cooked chick en or beef In wine, and garlic and too much onion Is an abomi nation to me. More to the point, she cooks so well now without any further Instruction that I find it practically im possible to reduce weight with out a sacrifice greater than I have been prepared to make. But it is John Harris and his garden column, which I concede is good, that has caused me some difficulty and bewilder ment. For several years we have had a muscadine grape vine at the back of our yard and also had a scuppernong vine on the end of the same trellis. This vine ti.ed two years ago and last year we planned to plant another, but for one reason or another we failed to do so. This year we were determined to plant another, and that is where John Harris came into the picture. About a month ago John Har ris conducted a program on grape vines to which my wife listened. From what I can learn he said that the Dearlng was a goud vine, but suggested that the Manteo and several other hybrid varieties might be better. He said that it was the proper time to plant a grape vine. Whereupon, the next day my wife went to a nursery and found that the nurseryman had the Dearing, but none of the other varieties. So a couple of Sun day's later we went to a nur sery near Raleigh and found that they would not get any grape vines until after a real cold spell. He said that it was too early to plant grape vines and expressed strong doubts that the varieties suggested by John Harris were any better than the Dearing. On the way home my wtfe expressed strong doubt that the nurseryman knows as much about it as does John Harris. So now I am afraid that the planting season will pass before we can make up our mind just what is the best kind of vine to plant. This seems to me to be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. I don't know anything about the different varieties of grape vines and when it comes to such things I am usually content to trust my wife's experience bas ed on several years of exper ience. I don't know what kind of scuppernong vine Cousin Johnnie Davis had but when Boyd would take a bunch of us in our courting days to this vine on an early faU moonlight night Letter To Editor RAISING TAXES To The Editor: Most everyone has his own pet Ideas about how to raise taxes?mostly to let the other fellow pay most of It. Also there are a lot of Inequities In pro posals that are made. They should be fully considered. For Instance, how would atax on tobacco and drinks be less burdensome on poor people than a general sales tax? Are there any statistics to show that poor people smoke or drink less than those who could afford It? The simple fact Is that some at us will pay very little luxury tax. Would that help the poor peo ple? The opposition to tax on to bacco in this state is probably no greater than Is the opposi tion to most any other tax. Politicians just Imagine It would be unwise to levy one. More and more farmers are having to pay property tax on their tobacco allotment values even though that isn't popular either. Which reminds us of other privileges which have also a capitalized value. Truck and bus route franchises, the privilege to operate a taxicab, to sell beer and wine or even such things as a license or certi ficate to operate a bank or a barbershop, to teach school, practice law, own a franchise or leadership for certain pro ducts are all somewhat similar to a tobacco allotment. Wouldn't it be nice if all of us privileg ed people could have the pri vilege to stand united and all pay a tax on our privileges? Perhaps the most unfair tax in the country is the property they were good enough for me, as were the grapes on Mrs. Dell Jones' vines In our child hood. Vines were usually obtained in the old days by getting some friend to root a vine by putting a brick over it. I tried this a number of years ago as a friend told me I could get a slip from his vine and as a consequence I got the worst case of poison oak that I ever had. All leaves were off a number of roots under the vine and with some little effort I ma naged to grub up what seem ed to be an extremely well rooted plant and take it home. As a result I probably became the only man in Warren County to plant poison oak. Afterwards we got a vine from a nursery - but just as it was beginning to - bear in any profusion it died, and afte r that we had to rely on black grapes. It seems that the scuppernong is a specise of muscadine, but I am not too sure about that. I had always thought that musca dines were a species of wild grape that we found while hunt ing, or the black grapes grown by a few citizens of the county, and of which we have had good luck. tax. Ii can never be appraised In a complete and equal man ner to all. It is seldom In line with ability to pay. It is often a tax on savings that is five to ten times as much as the tax on savings in a bank. It is much more of a burden on business with a slow turn over. Most absurd of all its tendency.to<pa*allze pr and to reward those with no Initiative. So I can go for some more sales tax. Let's take off some of the limitations. Let the man who can afford a Cadillac pay the full three or four percent or whatever the tax may be, just like the fellow who can only .co^r/wuh. little rtfvtajpn the sales tax is not a bad tu at all. R La one that all of ua have to pay. ? WILLIAM H. 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