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Mr. Jack Rider Jones County Journal Kinston, N. C. Dear Jack: Your Editorial in the Jones Journal April 14 (about Fund Drives) was interested and time ly. You have always generously supported the Cancer Crusade Campaign and we who do the “pick and shovel” work appre ciate both your personal and ed itorial support. You, I am sure Jack, will be interested in our set up so to speak. It is that each county unit sets its own quota. They are never handed down from state or national headquarters. The local volunteer workers set a quota they think will offer a challenge to themselves and stimulate a response from don ors on whom we are totally de pendent for any measure of success. As you pointed out some counties are better organ ized and conditioned to sup port volunteer programs than others, and so it is that a quota that may be a challenge in one county or community may not be Lenoir Countians Paying $535,000 per Year on Super-Highways; Have to Go 50 Miles to See Where Money is Spent As far as Lenoir County car owners are concerned, how cost ly an undertaking has the na tion’s 41,000-mile highway pro ject become? How much are they contribut ing toward the construction costs at the present time through gas oline and other auto taxes? In the past year, on the basis of data from the Bureau of Public Roads, they turned in no less than $535,000. Not included in this amount are the auto-use taxes collected from them by the state. The money went into the gov ernment’s Highway Trust Fund, which pays 90 per cent of the cost of construction. The other 10 per cent comes from the stat es. A new look is being taken at the progress of the interstate road system because of a propos al by the Administration to in crease the taxes by $1.6 billion over an eight-year period. Most of this rise would fall on trucks and buses. Since October 1, 1959, when the government boosted its tax on gasoline by one cent a gal lon, Lenoir County car owners have been paying an ayerage of $30 a year into the fund. That is the amount of tax in curred for a car that travels 10,000 miles a year and gets 14 miles to the gallon. For the number of cars in use locally, it adds up to the $535,000 total per year. The national highway system was begun in 1956 and was sup posed to have been completed by 1972. Delays have occurred along the way, however, moving the target date to March, 1973. Of ficials connected with the work now believe it will stretch out well beyond that. The costs, too, have gone far beyond expectations. The ori ginal estimate was $27.6 billion. That figure has been revised up ward, year after year, and now stands at $46.8 billion. It will probably go $3 billion higher than that eventually, according to the experts. If the highway project is com pleted by 1973, car owners in Lenoir County will have eight more years to pay. Their total contribution In that period, based on the number of cars now in opera RENEW YOUR JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION TODAYI tion locally, will be $4,277,000. This assumes no further increase in gasoline taxes. The road system is expected to pay off in reduced travel time, lower operating costs and greater safety. i a challenge in another. The quota might be unattainable or may be too easily attainable so the decision of the quota in our cancer crusade is always left to the discretion of the dedicated volunteer worker and I use the word dedication in its true sense. In Jones County I per sonally know workers who give not only of their time and effort but a part of their annual leave to do this volunteer work. 00 you can see these volunteer workers are not lenient with themselves or the quotas be cause they know well the im portance of carrying on the work of this life-saving organiza tion through education and ser vice. Educating and alerting people everywhere to the dang er signals and what to do about them is a service rendered to those who are victims in the matter of supplying drugs, band ages and dressings, maintenance of hospital beds, wheelchairs and transportation. I might add this service is made available because 40 per cent of each dol lar contributed stays in the county, for the above services. Another cause of these dif ferences in quota assumed is that offtimes these volunteer workers when setting up their quota are so mindful of some immediate need by some patient First Cattle Feeders Field Day Set April 26 at N. C. State The first cattle feeders field day ever held in North Carolina has been scheduled Tuesday, April 26, at North Carolina State University. Tar Heel beef cattle produc ers will be given latest informa tion of feeding beef cattle. They will also hear remarks from ex perienced farm and ranch man for the above services. This pressing need, I am sure, to some degree determines the quota they set for themselves. Yours very truly, Tom H. Foscue President, Jones County Unit Member Board of Directors North Carolina Division American Cancer Society agers on the practical applica tion of scientific information. The program 'Begins at 9:30 a.m. at the Dairy Farm Pavil ion, N. C. State University. It is sponsored by the N. C. Cattle man’s Association in coopera tion with the University. “Feeding cattle is a very im portant subject for our live stock producers,” points out A. V. Allen, specialist in charge of animal husbandry extension. “We anticipate the largest ex pansion of our beef industry in the next five years to come in cattle feeding,” he added. Among the speakers at the feed ers field day will be Sherrill Williams, Newton Grove, who will discuss his management pro gram as it deals with handling Continued on page 4 JARMAN FUNERAL HOME 24 Hour Ambulance Service Air Conditioned JA 3-5143 KINSTON, N. C. CHEVROLET CUSTOM CAMPER WITH SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR OUTDOOR LIVING! Want to make life more enjoyable? Get a specially equipped Chevy Custom Camper pickup. Add the camper boily of your choice. You can use the truck for work with body detached, then mount your camper body and head for the great outdoors. Go where you want, stop when you like. You’re free as the breeze! And you can go often because it doesn’t cost much. A Chevy Custom Camper will add a most pleasurable new dimension to your life. 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