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The highlight of last week was the Inauguration of President Bichard Nixon as the 37th Pres ident of this''Nation. By far, the most important part of this oc casion was the President’s inaug-\ uration speech. A careful analy sis shows it to be one void of dramatics and rash promises. In its best light, it could be con sidered as a plea for unity among all citizens of this Na tion. To me, his statement that “we have found ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificant pre cision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord here on earth,” was one of the most im pressive of the entire speech. Oh yes, Chief Justice Earl War ren used a bible while admin istering the oath of office to the President. Last week the House had only token sessions. Within a few days, the Committees of the 91st Congress will be announced and I have been assured of continu ing on the Agriculture and Mer chant Marine and Fisheries Com mittees. In somewhat of a sur ‘ prise it was learned thsft Con gresswoman Shirley Chisholm and Congressman Allard Lowen stein were actively seeking a place on the Committee of Agri culture. The surprise is that both represent strictty urban dis tricts from the City of New York. Also, another North Caro linian, “Vinegar Bend” Mizelle, was named to the Agriculture Committee by the Republican Party. On Thursday, January 23,1 in troduced legislation which would exempt the field service of the Department of Interior from the manpower cutback ordered by the Bureau of the Budget last year which restricted the fill ing of vacancies to six out of ten resulting in the net loss of 292 permanent jobs in the Park Service. This does not include the hundreds of temporary em ployees who were displaced by this order. I believe this bill to be necessary in that the recrea tion and tourist trade continues visitors of all National Parks was to increase. In 1967, the total 139 million, while in 1968, esti mates are it will exceed 162 million people. If this legislation is successful, it will also elimi nate the necessity of leasing campsites to private operators and will permit Park Service em ployees to continue to operate T—-;— the campsites in their usual ef ficient manner. I think it. is safe to predict that there will be little if any sensational legislation introduc ed in this the first session of the 91st Congress similar to that enacted in the 88th, 89th and 90th Congresses. Also, I hope and believe.; that this Adminis tration will recommend a return to more state and local control of Federal monies. This, of course, can be accomplished through the mediupi of “block grants” and a further minimum of Federal bureaucratic require ments. This prediction is based on- low tone of the President’s Inaugural Address and the over all conservative background .of his Cabinet appointees. As the 91st Congress is now constituted, out of 435 Members there are 40 who were not here last session. Of this number of new Members, there are 21 De mocrats and 19 Republicans. When I entered the Congress on February 10, 1966, of th4 11 North Carolina Congressmen here at that time, in just three years, four are no longer here. Either by retirement or defeat, Congressmen Harold Cooley, Horace Komegay, Ralph Scott and Basil Whitner are no longer a part of the delegation. This 4s an unusually large" turnover inasmuch as the South has the reputation of keeping their Con gressmen in office in order to achieve seniority in the Com mittees and on the House and Senate Floors. Sgt. Jimmie Dail In Top Unit Sergeant Jimmie R. Dail, son of Mr. and Mrs. Preston E. Dail, of 2316 Richland Road, Kinston, has been recognized for helping Ms unit earn the Air Force Out standing Unit Award. Sergeant Dail, an aircraft me chanic in the 437th Military Air lift Wing at Charleston AFB, S. C., will wear the distinctive service ribbon as a permanent decoration. The sergeant is a graduate of South Lenoir High School, Deep Run. His wife, Sylvia, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Dawson Sr„ of Kinston. --, For Tho Finost DIAMONDS — WATCHES - SILVERWARE RADIOS FOXMAN'S EC(J Business School Among Top in Nation ■ mi The East Carolina University School of Business, largest and oldest of the seven professional schools at ECU, is doing yeoman service these days and'is geared to groW for the future. That is the conviction of its energetic new dean, Dr. James H. Bearden, after some five months in the top job. , Dr. Bearden, who joined the facul ty here in 1959 and later be came assistant dean, tool: the reigns last fall from Dr. Elmer R. Browning, the veteran who had guided the business program since its inception 33 years ago. Dean Bearden cites figures to show that his school, with 51 faculty members and more than I, 850 students, is ’.preparing around 28 per cent of the gate’s business and commerce gradu ates with bachelor’s degrees from public colleges and univer sities. He points out that ECU’s is among an elite group of 132 American business schools with accreditation by the American Association of Collegiate'Schools of Business and that ECU has me of the two schools in the state offering the Master of Bus iness Administration (MBA) de gree, a credential held in high esteem by the business commu nity. A departmental alignment in the School of Business, begun during the Browning administra tion, is now operational. Four departments now offer 107 courses supporting majors in ac counting, business administra tion, marketing, management, real estate, distributive educa tion, economics, office adminis tration and business education. Tax Rules on Children Covered In IRS Booklet A $600 exemption may be tak en for a baby bom anytime dur ing the year as long as cer tain tests are met, according to J. E. Walt District Director of Internal Revenue for North Car olina. One of the basic requirements for claiming a child as a. depend ent is that the taxpayer provide more than half the child’s sup port for the entire year. If a child is bom, or dies, during the year this support test has to be met for the months the child was alive. Another test for dependency is that the child must either be related to the taxpayer or be a member of the taxpayer’s household. The child must also be a citi zen or resident of the United States to be claimed as a depend ant. The exceptions to this rule are for a child who is a resi dent of Canada, Mexico, Panama or the Canal Zone. Wall said the requirement that a person cannot have income of $600 or more a year and! be claimed as a dependent by ano ther taxpayer does not apply to a child who is either .under 19 at the end of the year or a full - time student for topae part of five months of the year. When the' cluld is under 19 or is a full-time student, his Ex emption could be claimed*-on different tax feturas. The cl “ would claim his own on the return he was to file and his parents y jgjem I Seeks MS Jud# Her f I* Piesid linal indict Coumty District sharp v -. assr- . _ rou tine traffic^violations. Hardy’s judgments ih other categories were comparable to those issud in th past by Judge Buck Woot en. Federal Tdx Refunds May Be Delayed by Errors North Carolina taxpayers can expect .a delay in receiving Fed eral income tax refunds because of errors in computing the new tax surcharge, J. E. uraii Dis trict Director of Internal Rev enue for North Carolina observ ed recently. / Early tax returns filed at the IRS Service Center in Ghamb fee, Georgia shows an unusually high percentage of returns with mistakes in computation of the surcharge. In some cases, tax payers are not computing the ad ditional tax, he noted. The surcharge was effective for only nine months of 1968. Cimseqpently, the rate for the calendar year 1968 is 7% per cent. Most salaried taxpayers experienced increased withhold ingrafies to reflect the surcharge during the past year. Mr. Wall urged taxpayers to read their instruction booklet which provides step-by-step methods of calculation. In the case of Form 1040, Page If of the instructions carries the tax sucharge tables. For the card Form? 1040A, taxpayers should consult Page 8 of the instruc tions prepared for taxpayers earning. less than $10,6001 If a tax return is property pre pared, it takes 4 to 6 weeks to issue a refund, Internal Revenue Service officials said. Completes Basic Airman Joseph S. Briley J son of Mr. end Mrs* Jo«eph Briley Sr^;80l Dacby^Ave,, Kir ton, has ‘ camplefcfed djMic traj ing at Badoand AFB,f!$x. ] Bafiet Lessons To Be Given The North Carolina State Bal let Company, resident ballet at East Carolina University, is of fering young dancers of the state a five-week ballet workshop at ECU next summer. Scheduled JUne 23 through July 25, the workshop can ac commodate up to 80,-st*cbents. All must be at least' 11 but not over 19 years old and all must have had some previous train ring in ballet. Classes will be small so that studehts will get individual help as needed. The faculty will in clude professional staffers from the state ballet and guest teach ers. Further information is avail able b^ writing to Ballet Work shop, ECU Division of Continu ing Education, P. O. Box 2727, Greenville, N. C. 27834.. & Hardy w*f u.—, _. _ of something more than 600 cas es on the Lenoir County cofcrt docket the majority '<if which have accumulated doringthe al most unbelievable confusion that has resulted from the beginning of the new court system la the county on the first Monday in December. . Benjamin Gay. of Wilson route 3 was given a year in prison for speeding 120 miles an hour, reckless driving and failing to stop for police siren and lights. He appealed to superior court. \ Herman Byrd of Pink Hill | route 1 appealed a six-month jail ? term he was given for speeding 100 miles an hour. Shelby Skinner of 905 Candle wood Drive was fined $25 for reckless driving. Larry Thomas Taylor of Snow Hill route 3 and Xdnwood Sand erson of Pink Hill route 1 were each fined $100 for drunken' driving. Michael Paramore of 707 Plaza Boulevard was fined $25 for following too closely (a type case; that usually carried pay ment of the $15 court eosts in Wooten courts.) Gilbert Sturgis of Jacksonville was fined $25 for speeding 82 miles, an hour. Wayne Jarman of Trenton and Charlotte Stallings of Kins ton route 6 were fined $25 for failing to yield the right of way. Bruce Patterson of 513 Lib erty Hill Road was fined $25 for failing to reduce speed to avoid an acddent. Josce Marie Wills of 80S Wil liams: Street: was fined $25 for makmg; an Improper turn Flank Hi# of New Bern route 3 was fined $25 for faffing to redness speed to avoid an acci dfedfc Richard Vinson of 212 East rLenoir Street was fined $100 f°r reckless driving, driving without a license and public drunkenness. George Weston of Pink Hill route 2 was fined $25 fisr speed ing 60 mites an hour in a 35 mile zone. Carl Sandlin of Kins* ton route 7 was given from 30 to 180 days in jail for a second drunken driving offense. Alton Dail of Snow Hill route 1 was fined: $25 for failing to re duce speed to avoid an accident Raymond Bari Carter Jr. of Grif ton, charged with drunken driv ing> was fined $25 for reckless driving. ■* On the happier side of the fense, Hilda Witherington of 740 Cavalier Circle was found not guilty of failure to yield right of way, Gary Allen Herring of La Grange route 2 was found not guilty of driving on the wrong side of the road,' and Themas Waller of, Trenton was found not guilty of speeding. Other non-traffic cases result ed in Douglas Turner of Deep Run route 1 and Annie Clark of 810 Caswell Street being order S to make good a worthless eck and pay the $15 court costs. ' ! Raymond Lee of Kinston paid wsts aft|r haying a 30-day jail term suspended for stealing. Elbert Byrd of Kinstori was fined $25 for carrying,*conceal ed weapon,, assault with a dead Eddie Outlaw of Kinston was fined $25 for public drunken ness, disorderly conduct and irearntdclno -—*—t—
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