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■ ' - ; - THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1957 Skyrocketing Trend In Motoring Taxes In Last Decade The tax burden on the nation’s motor vehicle users has steadily grown-bigger and bigger through out the -last decade and a new all time record' appears a certainty for 1957, when the total is ex pected to reach $8 billion, Thomas B. Watkins, president of the Nor th Carolina State Automobile As sociation said today. The motor club official made that forecast after detailed stud ies of the latest available figures on the motoring tax "take” in the United States. “In 1955,” he pointed out, "spec ial motor vehicle taxes totaled $7,296*329,000 according to such authentic sources as the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, the Bur eau of Internal Revenue, tha Board of Investigation and Re -9 search and the automobile manu-j facturers. These were special tax es on motor vehicle users. Not included were income and proper ty taxes on motor vehicle, body, parts and tire factories, garages, dealers, repair sheps, terminal £& and tr.yck, and taxicab and bus operating companies. HEfc>'*The $7.3 billion in taxes were made up of gross registration re ceipts totaling $1,482,648,000; net state gasoline taxes of $2,543,- 045,000; special city and county levies totaling $250,000,000; bridge, tunnel, ferry and road tolls of $285,000,000; and Federal excise taxes totaling $2,735,636. "The skyrocketing trend of these motoring taxes began in 1946, just after the end of World n n Personal Service Makes the ' \ * - difference! J * ' * I For Prompt, Fair Treatment l 1 AFTER You Have A Loss j Depend. On f i ? I Roberts Insurance Agency \ ■ fc, TELEPHONE 270 BURNSVILLE. N. C. J «... ' 1 - ■ jd l M ffr A W {Bfalp. a%ij / c../•• ' • ■• •• k9| T»|||r^;'-,. :rn^BsmmM^m «k, y£.-/ ~-. A | Make a habit of steady saving and you, too, will read a story of happiness ahead | savings account here ... add to it regularly «E> *^j-j’ L r 1 ...watch it grow to dreams-come-true size! ■&,, THE NORTHWESTERN BANK 11§^^| ; Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation \ w ffv ■* BURNSVILLE, N. C. War Two, when the total collected from the sources indicated above •was $2,570,227,000. By 1950, the to tal had zoomed to $4,359,361,000. And now a total almost double that tremendous sum is in 0 pros pect for next year. “Where motoring taxes proper ly are applied to motoring pur poses, there has been little resis tance to these levies from the motoring public, which under stands full well that its continu ing demand for modern highways cannot be met without additional taxation, tlowever, there is defi nite and growing resistance to di version of motoring taxes to general state purposes,” Mr. Wat kins declared. Agricola, the** 16th-century Ger "father of mineralogy.’’ pop ularized the term 1 ‘•'fossil.'' I 1 comes from the Latin fossilis meaning "dug up". » • • Turkey, a geographic bridge be tween Europe and Asia, has 4,454 /rules of coastline but only 1,631 miles of land border. * » » .For peak flavor, remove chorst from the refrigerator half hour before serving it. 'f • » • Six states produce almost 81 per cent of all the coal mined through surface operations. Ohio lends with Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ken tucky, West Virginia and Indiana following in that order. In 19.33 latest year for which full statistics are available, Oh*io produced more than 21 million tons through sur face operations. w J m W. A. Dobson DANIEL BOONE BOY SCOUT COUNCIL TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING W. A. Dobson, Regional Execu tive of Atlanta, Ga., will be the .speaker at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Daniel Boone Council of the Boy Scfehts which will be held at the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville on January 14, at 6:30 p. m. Some 300 Scout lead ers and their wives from the tourtee’n counties of the council are expected to attend. C. Hennessee of Sylva, coun cil president, wiH preside. Keys will be presented leaders for completion of 3 years training and outstanding performance, and an attendance cup awarded to. the district with the greatest attend ance. Award of Silver Beavers to I three Scouters with long records ’of outstanding performance will be, made. Officers for 1957 will be install ed and new members of the Exe cutive Board introduced. These include James H. Bailey of Mar shall, T. G. Ford of Asheville, Bill Smithy of . Spruce Pine, Walter Straus of Brevard and B. E. Col kitt of- Waynesville. District chairmen who will take office are Andrew Gennett of Asheville, Don Randolph of Canton, Kirk Newell of Hendersonville, C. A. Bales of Robbinsville, Rgv. Roy Bell of Sylva, Harry Lantz of Spruce Pine and Dr. E. O. Bryant of Brevard. There will be a tribute to Scout Executive A. W. Allen who will retire in May. The annual report will show that ’there are almost five thous and boys and leaders in the Scout ing program in the Daniel Boone Council area. CTHE YANCEY RECORD GASOLINE TAXES IN THREE j DAYS NOW TOP \ FIRST YEAR’S TOTAL Somewhere in North a service station "pump on Thurs day, January 3, registered the fraction of a gallon of gasoline that will bring to SBOB,OOO tha amount North Carolina motorists, will have paid in gasoline taxes just since midnight of New Year’s Eve. This, it was polled out today by S. Gilmer Sparger, Executive Secretary of the North Carolina Petroleum Industries Committee, j is as much money, in three days, as the North Carolina state gas tax produced in a whole year, fol lowing its' original enactment in 1921. And there was no federal tax on gasoline then, or until 1952. Sparger noted that the present 71-4-cent state gasoline tax is expected to take in an estimated! $92.7 million this year, while .the; 3-cent federal tax will bring tbtal motor fuel tax collections in this state to an estimajfd $129 million. This, he pointed out, means that gas tax revenues are now being collected from North .Caro lina highway users at a rate of $1 million every three days, or as much money'within three days as ' the 1-cent 1921 tax produced in .... :■ . • TOP AIR AWARD . . . Vice Pres. Nixon presents air force chief of-staff Gen. Nathan Twining and Pres. Wm. M. Allen of Boeine Aircraft Co. with twin Collier trophies for B-52 stratofortress. t < • ft . $ •r-< • ..: ~ 1 ' ■ y s#- : j^ijlilll MT —— . ~rj-"vj r. rWßSin* i ™w— ! ——^msbb toIWMUa i*ii^. RI o.M.,SM In ~** The Del Rio Rancft Wagon ' ~ The Rench W. r n FIVE NEW FORD glamourwagons long, low and loaded with Go! Leave it to the station wagon leader to make the big news for ’571 And what newsl Wagons so big, so full of fine-car prestige that you’ll wonder how it can be done at low Ford prices. If your choice is the Country Squire, you’ll be proud to pull up at the finest places in this new glamour wagon with its wood-like trim. If your needs call for a 6-passenger wagon with four doors, you’ll love the new Country Sedan. It has almost nine feet of loadspace—' nearly a foot more than ever before. There’s still another 4-door Country - Sedan. It has the extra third seat for 9-passen ger room. And, as in all Ford wagons for ’57, you have the new single-control handle r" BANKS-YOUNG MOTOR CO. PHONE 256 or 270 FRANCHISED DEALER NO. 1010 BURNSVILLE, N. C. )a whole year. j “It to trse,” Sparger said, “that y.ixaia are now B-B timey qg mqny | motor vehicles in use in North Carolina as there were in 1921, and that many of these vehicles are receiving greater use, but this only partially explains the fact •that gas tax revenues are now running 169 times as high.” The big factor, he added, is the present combined state and fed eral tax rate of 101-4 cents a gal lon, which he said is equivalent to a 48' per cent "sales tax” on i gasoline. ! . HUBERT STYLES ARRIVES IN SAN DIEGO, CALIF. San Diego, Calif. (FHTNC) Hubert Styles, fire control techni cian third class, USN, son of Mr. I and Mrs. Carl R. Styles of Green i Mountain, N. C., and husband of I Mrs. Mildred I. Styles of Ashe -1 ville, arrived at San Diego, Calif., Dec. 21 aboard the destroyer USS Taussig. The ship completed six months’ in the Far East where she operat ed with Task Force 77. Ports visited were Kobe and -Yokosuka, Japan; and Hong P Kong. . NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of yancey Under and by virtue of the pow er of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust executed by ELMO EDWARDS and wife, LOUETTA EDWARDS, dated 28 March 1956 and recorded in Yancey County Mortgage Deed Book 41, page 509, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and said Deed of Trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure, the under signed Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash at the door of the Courthouse in Burnsville, N orth Carolina, at noon, on the 4th day of February 1957, the property conveyed in said Deed of Trust, the same lying and being in the Town of Burnsville, Burnsville Township, Yancey County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING on an iron stake j in the South property line of West I Main Street and in the Northwest | corner of the Tri-County Oil Com- I pany’s lot, said stake being 201 feet South of the center line of 1 the existing concrete paving and running thence S. 21-30 E., 146 feet with tile Tri-County Oil Com pany’s line to a stake in the cen ter of the branch; thence a South westerly course with meanders of branch to a stake in Roberts & Johnson Lumber Company line; thence N. 22-39 W. 196 feet with Roberts & Johnson line to a stake in the South property line of W’est Main Street, said stake being 20 which opejis both the wrap-around liftgate * and tailgate with one motion. And they can’t be opened from inside! There’s good news, too, about Ford’s popular Ranch Wagon. This 6-passenger, 2-door model features Ford’s new subdued tones, and smart interiors which defy muddy little shoes and drippy chocolate cones. In the wonderful way diat Ford can take a fine thing and make it even finer, the Del Rio Ranch Wagon goes beyond the Ranch Wagon in style, fabrics and trim. Better take a Ford wagon for a spin. You’ll agree that for styling it’s a sweetheart . . . for work and power, it’s an obedient slayel Now Is The Time To Think Os That HOME COMFORT Electric Range Write FRED HONEYCUTT feet South of the center of the concrete paving; thence N. 07-69 E , 112 led pamUal Mm, ter of the Street to the .point of BEGINNING, containing 0.46 acre. AND BEING Bio same tonA de scribed in a Deed dated W March 1956 from Roberts ft Johnson Lumber Company to Elmo M. Edwards apd wife, Louette Edw ards, which Deed Is recorded In Yancey County Deed Book 114 page 177. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding and unpaid Town and County ad valorem taxes. This 2nd day of January, 1957. G. D. BAILEY, Trustee January 10, 17, 24 and 31 NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA YANCEY COUNTY l Having qualified as EXECU TRIX of the estate of CHARLES E. LAURENTS, deceased, late of Yancey County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned (or her Attorney, E. L. Briggs,) at Burnsville, N. C., on or before the 22nd day of Dec. 1957, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to the said estate will please make lmmediase pay ment. This the 22nd day of Dec. 1956. H H * Mrs. Helen G. Laurents, Execu trix of the Estate of Charles E. Laurents, Deceased. - Dec. 27, Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24-31 SUBSCRIBE TO THU RECORD Ntw 'ST fonts hare,e too§kost shakedown truite h history! The '57 Ford brcke 455 national and i ntarnational record? from 1 kilometar to 50.000 miles at Bonneville. Utah For 50,000 miles, two '57 Fords aver aged over 107 and 108 mph respectively. This time included alt pit stops the greatest endurance feat ot all time! Ask for Your FORD STATION WAGON Action Tott Today Ji
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