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" 11 ?tmmmmmrn i |i _ _ *^*^57 ^s%MTE9MM'Wm9&9& Must Pay N. ??? I" < Commissioner of Beve noe Addresses North Carolina Merchants' Associatgfa In Annul Now Bern, June 8.?The sake tax moat he paid hp the ym i heaee, m the law require*, and in no saae absorbed must transmit the tax coHactrd each month amount to 3 per eat at their gross sales, for it will be just too had for the merchant who tries to "chisel," Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, who is in charge of the oforcement of the sales tax and all other state revenue laws, today told the hundreds of machete* from every section of the state attending the an nual convection of the North Caro lina Merchants' Association. For the most of the merchants of the state have baa and still -are co operating with the Department of Ra venae and are observing both the spirit and letter of the sales tax law, there are some who are still trying to "chisel" and get by without paying the tax to the state or the amount they should pay, Maxwell saiL These tre the merchants the department is going after harder than ever?and It is going to be rough going for them, Mr. Maxwell said. "The merchant who collects his tax when he sella his merchandise, who keeps an accurate record of his sales and then reports his tax col lections promptly and accurately, nothing to fear?end the sales tax will not cost him any money," Mr. Maxwell said. "It ia only the occasional merchant who tries to beat the tax who gets caught and who finds that the sales tax is ex pensive to him. "For with the system of collections we now have and without efficient field auditing force, it is virtually impossible for any merchant to try to cheat himself, the state or his fel low merchants without getting caught sooner or later. In one single county, within a period of two months, we recently collected $56,000 of de linquent sales taxes. This should in dicate the thoroughness with which we are now collecting tee sales tax ?nd with which we intend to continue collecting it I bring you the pledge adequate funds are now avail able and will be use* to bring about as complete observance of this law by all merchants ss reason could ex pect "We are now installing an ade quate system to check-up on sales tax returns with prompt follow-up on all delinquencies. We are also increasing our force of field audi tors, and every merchandising busi ness in the state, no matter how small it may be, may expect a check up from these auditors. No honest merchant need fear it and it is not our purpose to try to ran up a large delinquent tax account or to take advantage of the merchant in any way. But we do expect to get the amount of sales tax due the state each month." * The list of new rules and regula tions announced for the collection of the sales tax for the coming two years, beginning July 1, is as fol lows: ?? 1. No tokens will be used for the collection of the fractional part of tee sales tax, although individual merchants or group# of merchants may use credit slips, such as are oar being used by five and ten cents stores and other rartety stores, hi order to secure a. more equitable dis tribution of the tax. 2. Merchants will be required to keep more complete records than over before, and at tee invoices tete purchases from manufacturers and wholesalers, as well a records of sales to retatf euutoamrs. S. Where adequate records are ueb tag, tee J.ijisiUmmf of Revenue wfltrjrieess the tax on the best in ties it may deride upon, up to 10ft per cent at the tax doe. ? 4. When the exempted articles go back into the sales tax taw July 1, teg owcttti must keep eareful and aril rate record of ftaMtebs of ex empted articles separate arid apart from the neeords at tee sales oi articles on which tea teles tax must be nafe 5. The sataa tax* after July 1, mute be paid, a aH sataa of buRdinfl materials te either tea uasrs or eon tracUMU, except on rough and dresaec li?(hut ate mill mark) brick hollow tfle, sand, gravel, erushec stone, rock and granite. JL^jjfca teajmita teeaRe prid m Mended, ate aa piaidfrirnii ij drug* - " tiMtpotxadtl fore eieiuptad from tea aatae tax. ? ii ? i * Chfldren'g Story Hour To Be Held Methodist Church Beginning Monday, 9 A. M. at the Methodist chords, a Children's Story Hear will he held for the boys and girla of the Primary, Junior and In termediate departments. Books, One Two and Three of CTaasifistf Stories, and published by the Methodist Pub lishing Boose, will be need. TSe pnpil will here opportunity to lean\ the Scripture that centers about the greet characters of the Bible. This Story Hour will be under the tfireethm of Mias Bettie Joyner. Miss KHrabsth Lang wiB direct the music, to which, time win he given each day. The following will teed in scripture teaching and story telling: Misses Mary Friar Rouse, Bertha Joyner Lang, Margaret Lewis, Loriine Bass, Dorothy Smith, Jean Thomas, Frances Joyner, Verona Lee Joyner, Mrs. Lynn Eaaon. On Wednesday afternoon a picnic social will be given to those three departments of the Church School A recreational program will be given at the city play ground with swim ming and games and a picnic supper. On the following Sunday morning, those attending the Story Hour period will give their commencement pro gram. We are sure that with a full cooperation of both parents and chil dren, the Church will serve us in a fine way. Rev. D. A. Clarice, Pastor. WHO KNOWS? 1. Will the Government help an unemployed person find a job? 2. Is installment buying increas ing? 3. How much does the "sweet tooth" cost the American people per year? x4. How does the output of the average working man compare with 1929? 5. How many passengers use the air lines ? 6. What supports the 4,200 foot span of the Golden Gate bridge re cently opened in California? . 7. How does present farm income compare with pre-depression years? 8. What is the largest fossil ani mal structure found in the United States? 9. Does the Soviet Union claim the entire Arctic region? 10. What are the total assets of the Ford Motor Company? \ (See "The Answers" on page 4) SaytniMsiiK In AnuMMiit On Friday, June 4th, the Septua genarian Society held its seventh an nual meeting at the Christian Church with Hon. John Hill Payior, acting as Master of Ceremonies. After the meeting was called to order by the president, Watt Parker, J. H. Moore, Superintendent of Schools, welcomed the Septuagenarians and Rev. C. B. Mashbora responded for them, wel coming them also. After singing "America," led by Rev. Lb R. Ennii and accompanied by Miss Serene iTurnage, invocation was ted by Rev. J. X. Duncan. \"l A unique contest was wdnrtsl by Rsv. Mr. Bonis, who hqd all members of the organisation ring "In tha Sweet Bye and Bye," then all over 76 sang the same refrain, then all over 80. After the roll call and minutes of the last meeting were read by the Secretary, Mias Wiiabsth Davis, and reports of the various committees, and < fir president were made, Mr. Payior explained the workings of tha Social Securiey Act aa regards pensions for the aged. He announced tahred at that time from the Welfare Officer for the County, and that pay ments would be made en August 1st Short speeches ware made by vari ous members of the org anisettes, ex pressing their pleasure at being able ts attend, and gratitude for the or ; ganixatkm of the Septuagenarians. II ' was found that twenty-six septus : genariana were present and ten octo genariana, Mrs. Mary Joyntr Beaman , 88, being die oldest lady present ant r A. P. Turnage, 87, the oldest man. A committee was appointad"by tin I presiding officer to drew uptResola r Mens- for the departed members, tht I committee being composed of Jona Bfldy, Will McArthur and Watt Pte i tet r After a few remarks from preri i dm* Watt Barker, regarding Jb pw I pose pad merits at tha Society, ^ad - bit of its history and future aim the Society adjourned to a pfeai agreed on die church ground*.? w Aariadng aa wfcac* wqre Mfe ESjSV' " . 18-11 Wlrtl JMg A ' gj I I H I I WT mmI A 1 vw^nB>^ ww. ^ XXDWBCIIA /^MiBlw I - ^ . I j| /? I New Ben, June 8.?The body of! George W. Howard, assistant po?t-| mhster ben, wis found in the Noose j river at Oriental this morning follow ing discovery of bis car then last! No available details wen immedi-l ately available. - I. Mr. Howard, about 46, bad beenl 11 o'clock Sunday I ( 'morning when be left bis home tell-1, ing bis wife be was going to the j country club to get bis golf dub*.L He was to ban taken part duringr the afternoon in a golf match in I FamviBe between teams of tbatij place and New Bern. I He did not go to the country dubl and was not seen again until falsi body was found. |l Postmaster R. R. Eagle said a|. cheek of Howard's accounts revealed Ij them in perfect shape. FOUNTAIN NEW8 11 (?y mg. it a rvunanoio ||< PBRSONALS Mrs. EUa Jefferson is visiting rela- j' tives in Winston-Salem. J Flossie Windbam of Saratoga is ' visiting Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ellis. Mr. C. I* Owens continues to im-j j prove from a recent illness and oper- j? ation. I j Miss Ann Marie Jefferson is ah guest at a house party at White Lake J this week. Mr. R. L. Eagles of Richmond, Pa., h is visiting bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. I ] F. L. Eagles. M Mrs. Carl Eason of Raleigh is a M house guest this week of her sister, 1 Mrs. Raymond Cook. J Miss Helen Brown Jefferson spent 1 a few days recently with friends andj| relatives in Greenville. Miss Ella Flamming of Greenville L is spending a few days this week J j with Mrs. Hardy Johnson. L Miss Julia Ward Roddick left Wed-1. nesdsy for Wake Forest where she ] will attend summer schooL I] Cecil Lang; of Walstonburg spent It several days recently with Nina I ] Es telle and Carol Yehrerton. |( Miss Edna Gardner, a teacher of I Kanapolis is at home with her pa- [ rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Gardner. I Mr. and Mrs. Earl Trevathan and < sons, Earl and Turnage, spent the I week end in Chapel Hill with rela- j: tives. Mrs. Ernest Hunt is recuperating nicely from a recent operation fori appendicitis in Pitt Community bos-1 pitaL I Mr. Charlie Meekins of Elizabeth I, City and Miss Alma Leggett of Wash ington visited Miss Lorna Brothers,! Tuesday. Dwight and Gibba Johnson left J Sunday for Salemburg where they! will enroll in summer school at Pine land Junior College. Miss Nina Estelle Yehrerton left] Thursday for Chapel 'Hill where shsl will enroll as a student for the All State Music Course, j Miss Mattie Las Eagles and Wil liam Eagles left Tfcoeday for Dur-I ham, where they will attend summer school at Duke. University. Mr. and Mra M. E. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. a M. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Yelverton were guests Sunday at a- birthday dinner given in honor! of Mr W. W, Yeivcrton at Eureka. j Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Beasley and! son, Berebee, visited relatives in] Ahoskie and Colerain, Sunday, they] were accompanied by William Eagles,] Frank Owens and Cecil Lang. I Jean Eagles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brace Eagles, is recovering froml an operation for appendicitis per [ formed Sunday at Woodard-Horring ' Hospital in Wilson. Mrs. Hardy Johnson had as her (tinner guests Wednesday, Miss Ell* [ Flamming of GxesnvUle, Mrs. Fred die Sproek of Charlotte, Mrs. JsCk , Lewis of FannviBe, Idas Christine . Smith and Miss Lucille Yehrerton. e ? ' r? i NEW CLIPPER te - " ; .T l- f Baltimore. ? The new Bermuda - Clipper of the Pirn-American Air ^ ways will ttny 82 paanngire and ? a useful load of 18,000 pounds, accord h teg to its beOdera, the Sikorsky Air * OTHER ISSUES COMB UP. CLAIMS ABOUT VICTORY. | PORK BARRS3L TACTICS. BRITISH TRADE PACT. MISSES MANY WORKERS. a. p. l. amd c.lo. fight. helium gas available. pwa-wpa argument. business will pay. (By Huge tone* Special WaHBiiMl , Correspondent) , While the President hu recently t Maintained hia "no compromiss" at* titude is regard to the court reform ^ program it ie apparent that there u ( a new attitude towards legislation at ) the Capitol. Previous to the Social Security decision the. Houee practi :ally marked time while the Senate 1 Committee conducted its prolonged \ kj.?rtny 0n the court measure. There res a general imprest ion that new legislation would await the outcome 1 ?f the court MIL The present picture is that Con- * pass is beginning to torn its atten- 1 Lion to other matters and that the 1 President is not strenuously oppos- ' ng such procedure. Consideration of ' the relief bill has proceeded in the Souse and, besides the wages and lours proposals Congressmen have >egun to consider the new JlAA and wrtain amendments to tighten the Securities Exchange Commission Act. Besides there is increased at tention being paid to tax evasions by ( those in the higher income bracket ] ind some serious Consideration of necessary amendments to tighten up , the existing law. The reorganise- 1 don of the Federal Government is ba ng gently stirred and an expanded 1 TV A program to spread toe Govern ment's electric development over the i ution is to be considered. i Meanwhile, there is considerable nrgument about the Court reform j proposals, with opponents maintain- ] ing that recent decisions of the Court lave been in line with past progres sive interpretation, thus illustrating j the adaptability of the Court to do its part in meeting the needs of the ( nation. In fact, one of the interest- ' ing sidelights on the Court bill fight las been the great glee with which die opponents of the Preisdent have < flailed each successive New Deal vie- < tory before the high tribunal. Na turally, the opposition insists that the ] President's proposals in February i lad nothing to do with the new atti tude of toe justices, who, they insist, ( lave decided the various cases with- ] nut regard to the tempest raging around their heads. v -J ? ? - " 1 On the other side, the supporters ?f the President, while admitting the ] apparent change of the Court to a . more liberal interpretation of banc laws, maintain that new attitude has teen brought about by toe President's ' proposals and that, due to his in- 1 sistence upon his program, the jus tices have been forced to feet reali- ' ties and to abandon former positions. < Talk of passage of the President's ' reform measure is not so strong es it was and the rumor is that it will be i allowed to rest for a while. The < President's contingent insists that re gardless of the outcome of the legis lative battle, thi Chief Executive: has secured ttemiiigitous results through the striking silaiiissr ? of toe Govern ment in ifie opinions recently handed down. Thoy ^na^braM toe saying about the general who won many bat tles but lost "the war by declaring that the-President has accomplished his main objectives by winning favor able decisions from the Court which cannot be affected by toe outcome of his legislative proposals. The effort of the House to ear mark a considerable part of the bil lion and a half doUdr relief appro priation, which was averted by a series of concessions from the White House, undertaking to provide for certain projects from available foods, has been hailed in many sections of the country as an; exhibition' of con gressional independence. Some' ob servers have viewed it as an attempt on the part of CoSgreSs to appro priate funds for spedflrpurposes?a proper function of Congress and a move against lump suta appropria tions to ba expended bp the Execu tive. ? " ? - '? " .' "? v. While there is something to be said in favor of direct- oppmpriations by Congrats, there is also much to be said against the procedure. In practise, while operating under the assertion of congressional power, the: - a.% n im linm nhaaiijiww metftod often lUMIW Unttfoiy port barrel tactics. In fact, this means that the money is distributed in a way to take cw toe congress man's political sitmation&t W" member betting so mueR of toe pie to be allotted in accord*** with Us 487 Daring: Week of May 28 A total at 1,790 taififr 4iid Ifitf wom en were placed in privtte or public employment by the State Employ ment Service daring the week ended limy 29, R. Mayne Albright, acting iirector, announced yesterday. 'Of tht 2,487 placements, 1,819 were in private industry, according to the report and of the private place ments, 666 were in regular positions. . This brings the total of private placements to over 60 per cent of dl placements for the fiscal year, rhroagh May 29, 92,662 placements sad been made of which 46,469 were n private industry. During the reek, 1,897 workers were rei,ue?t id by employers and only 78 jobs remained unfilled at the close of the veek. Placements were <n 17 ?t/fer ;nt industries and >n 9d different xxupations. nBaHaaaaaMMBMMaMMMMMMMH>a?v WALSTONBURG NEWS ' PERSONALS id Mr. W. V. Reddick in Southern Pines, Sunday. Janie Marlowe is visiting relatives n Kenly this week, Mr. W. P._ Moore of SnoW Hill was n town Tuesday P. M. Rev. C. C. Ware of Wilson visited n Walstonpurg, Thursday. Mrs. Ray West, Jr., spent last week vith her mother near Snow HilL Mrs. Sprah Revell of Kenly is visit ng her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Mar owe. Miss Ruby Marlowe is visiting her lunt, Mrs. J. T. Barnes in Raleigh -.his week. Miss Hyla Jackson of Wilson spent Sunday and Monday , with Mrs. Tina Mae Dixon. President H. S. Hilley of Atlantic Christian Callege, Wilson, was a visi ?r here Tuesday. " Mr. and Mrs. F. L- Eagles and Larry Eagles of Fountain visited Mr. ud Mrs. W. E. Lang, Monday. Mrs. A. N. Bullard and sons, Rob ert and Max, of Fayetteville, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C, Brown, Sunday. Bob Tj>ng has returned to summer ichool in State College after a two greeks vacation at his home here. ? Henry Burch has returned to Ms tiome here from Wake Forest Col lege for the summer holidays. Mr. Wm. Reddick, Mrs. W. V. Red lick daughters, Juanita and Em ma Jean and Dorothy Gardner, visit Mrs. Floyd Sutton and daughter, Neta Marie, of Farmville spent Tues day with Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Shackle ford. Mr. and Mrs. Ray West and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Craft attended a mail carrier's banquet in Grimesland Wed nesday P. M. Friends will regret to learn that Mrs. R. T. Walston is in a Wilson hospital where she has undergone a serious operation. Miss Name Shirley of King's! Business College, Raleigh, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and G. C. Shirley near here. , Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gardner and children, Jimmie and Ola Grace, were <|iniu>r guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Gardner in Wilson, Sunday. INVITATIONS RECEIVED The following invitations which will be of interest in this community have been received here: Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Jeffers request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Ruth. Hope, to Robert Long Fields on Fri day, the twenty-fifth of June, at ten o'dock, at the First Baptist Church', Elkins, West Virginia. MRS. ELLA GAY SHIRLEY i Mrs. Ella Gay Shirley died at the home of her-daughter,' Mrs. J? ; Bj Parker, near here Monday afternoon after a few day's illness.,, . j Funeral services were conducted at the home Tuesday afternoon at foui o'clock by the Rev. M. A. Woodard Free WiB Baptist minister, of Win terville. j.,: Mrs. Shirley is survived by j t^c sons, W. J. and J. T. Shirley, twt daughters, Mri. J, -R. Parker am W*'W. I W. G. Gay and Mghtjialf bro^Wi and riatm; Ro^ W. E; Ptoj The Summer Bible School at the Presbyterian Church began Monday and will continue through next week. The school is held each day from Monday till Friday from 9 a. ra, tiR We are fortunate in having Mi^s Mary Mulcay, who has been secured by Urn Committee on Religious Edu cation of Albemarle Presbytery Jo conduct Summer Bible Schools in tfie Presbytery this summer. She j* superintending the school and teach ing in one of the deportments. We are also fortunate in having Miss Delphia Parker and Miss Serene Turnage to teach in the other depart ments. ... .. The school is for the young people of the town who are not in Summer Bible Schools elsewhere. Those be tween the ages of 3 and sixteen will be welcome. Work Sheets Must Be Prepared By June 12 "Don't forget that June 12 is the last day to? sign a work sheet for the 1937 soil conservation program," warns E. Y. Floyd, of State College.: All growers who have not signed up either last year or this year must deliver their work sheets to their county soil conservation offices by Saturday to become eligible for pay ments, he added. Work sheets are necessary in help ing plan a farm's program of soil connservation and in determining how much diversion and soil building payments are earned, Floyd explain ed. "If you operated under a work sheet last year, but have made a change in your farm since then, notify your county agent at once," he pointed out Employers Facing Pmaities Unless Security Tax Paid Penalties Ranging from 5 to 25 Per Cent Face Delinquents on Unem ployment Insurance Raleigh, June 9.?Penalties ranging from 5 to 25 per cent in excess of the amount of tax called for are like ly to be imposed upon those em ployers of eight or more persons in North Carolina who are subject to the unemployment * insurance pay roll tax under 'Htle IX of the Fed eral Social Security Act, it was point ed out today by Collector of Internal Revenue Charles H. Robertson. The Social Security Act imposes a tax of one per cent on the 1936 pay rolls of all employers who employed eight or more persons during that year, and the payment of this tax was due April 1, 1937, Collector Robertson pointed out. "Each employer is entitled to a credit of 90 per cent of the Federal ^?Trl provided he has contributed or paid 90 per cent of the total .tax due to the state unemployment compensation fund, under the di rection of the State Unemployment Compensation Commission," Collec tor Robertson said. "But under Title IX, we wish to impress upon those employers who have not yet paid their , tax, that they will not be per mitted to deduct the payments they make to the state unemployment compensation fund, unless these payments were made prior to the date for filing the Federal tax re turn, which was April 1, 1937. This means that those employers who have not paid the one per cent tax on their 1936 payrolls to either the state or the Federal government before April 1, 1987, will have to pay a tax of nine-tenths of one per cent on their payrolls to the state, a tax of one pier cent to the Federal government and then be liable for an additional penalty amounting to from 6 to 25 per cent of the amount of tax paid. ' - % Collector Robertson pointed out " that this 'tax is entirely separate , from the old age benefits tax levied ? under TRle VJHof the Bodal Se curity Act and which feqnires W* > employers and employes to pay s tax. The tax for unemployment in suiB^ of one per cent on the grosi payrolls of all ertpfoyen of eight oi more persons, H payable tmee a yeai 1 by the employers. The old age bene i fits tax of one per, eent on salaries I paid to one or more employes, Is pfcf j able monthly by both eraoloyert am t totem ttS Welfare Officer i^ent for Prptft meca^ucal job. I - i ? .. ?? 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