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THE NBWBBBBT »PW FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 19i6 Five Meet Death Off Cooper Span CHARLESTON, Feb. 28.—Relatives today accepted a^ a fact that five persons lost their lives when the automobile plunged into the Cooper river last Sunday immediately after a 10,000-ton freighter had smashed a 240-foot breach in the huge John P. Grace Memorial bridge. The victims were listed as Elmer R. Lawson, 33, a Navy yard elec trician, his wife, their children, Rob ert, 7, and Diane, 2, and Lawson’s For a Better REPAIR JOB Ose HASTINGS ♦ PISTON RINGS scon AUTO PARTS Phones: 35-W and 578-W LAIRD RADIATOR WORKS AUTOMOBILE RADIA TORS BOILED OUT AND REPAIRED WELDING 1312 Caldwell St Phone 337 R - U AWARE? Xhe Primitive four- -fOED HORSE O* America Hi?. HORSE WAS ONLV IX INCHES HIGH AT the Shoulder. IT HAD TOUR WELL DEFINED HOOFS ON THC FRONT FOOT ANO Three on the hind foot • UWIV1ASAL »C»TU«C» CO It's a Bull’s Eye every time you shop at the W. E. TURNER- JEWELER! We have the things you’re looking for: Diamond Rings, Bridal Ring Sets, Birth- stone Rings for men and women . . . buy here and you’re sure to please witlf gifts that will last a lifetime. ISUX f • 104.7$ lra«3t n.ing 75.Ci> DOVER Sef 287.50 fNgoftmcnt Ring 200.00 ^n««t include tederot to* DIAMOND RINGS Trod* Mark R*gis>*r*d W.E. Turner JEWELER HOME Demonstration By ETHEL L. COUNTS Home Demonstration Agent MOST VETERANS NOT REQUIRED TO FILE INCOME TAX RETURNS U. S. Lenient With Members of Armed Forces According To Law 4-H Club members are getting ready to do their bit by joining var ious contests which have as their ob ject the encouragement of raising more food. The following girls will raise 100 chicks each through a contest spon sored by Sears and Roebuck: Mable Hipp, Katherine Hawkins, Roxdell Taylor, Billie Dove Koon, and Nar- vice Hipp. You will hear more from them as they may want to sell you some fryers before long and some pullets in the fall. Mary Pinner Koon, Mable Hipp and Jean King are entering the Na tional Junior Vegetable Grower's contest. The long list following are going to grow at least l-8th of an acre of vegetables. They will keep a re cord of vegetables used, sold, or giv en away and exhibit four pints of "anned vegetables for judging. Sears- Roebuck gives seed and plants to all contestants and prizes to garden and canning winners. The following have signed up: Una Summers, Drucie Connelly, Annette Hawkins, Lois Price, Josephine Lightsey, Clara Lou Ruff, Betty Jean Wicker, Sara Long, Rillie Dove Koon, Estelle Murphy, Petty Allen, Rose Mary Folk, Peggy Minick, Doris Moore, Carolyn Creoles, Alice Jean Boland, Roxdeh Taylor, Vivian Floyd, Helen Mays, Jovce Mays, Atinie Long, Reba Hawkins, Hazel Minick, Katherine Hawkins, Patsey Kingsmore, Violet Kinard, Hazel Kinard. The contests mentioned aTJoVe' aVe full but there is still plenty of room in another garden contest for those who want to help out as well as have lots of fun. For those who do not want to un dertake a full garden there is a t<y mato contest which is run on a club basis. Here there is room for all and the seed are furnished free of cost. Those who wish to participate should send in their names at once. At this time of the year we all like to change things around in the home and give the house a thorough cleaning. This is also a good time to freshen up things with some paint and rearrange to make the work easier Plan to save steps and stoop ing. Do you have to carry the dishes to a cupboard after drying them or do you just reach up and put them in a cabinet. Do you stoop to get wood or is your wood box on legs? Is your working surface the correct height or do you work with stooped shoulders? Do you sit to do as many tasks as possible? Ask yourself these questions and then do something about it and see if it isn’t easier to smile and to have more time for your family and friends. mother, Mrs. Robert Lawson, of New Britain, Conn. Husband Arrives The latter’s husband, Robert Law- son, accompanied by a son, Clinton, arrived here today from their Con necficut home. » Both said they en tertained no further hope that the family had escaped death. First reports, after the steamer Nicarauga Victory rammed the two- mile long steel bridge, were that it was uncertain whether any automo biles had run off the breached span. Later or, some witnesses said they saw one, and perhaps two, cars make the plunge. Since Sunday, however, investiga tors have been told by a number of witnesses that a green sedan hurtled into the stream, Robert Ra mos, the latest, identified the Law- sons family from snapshots as oc cupants of a car he saw on the bridge immediately before the acci dent. No Trace of Car Apprehension for the Lawson family’s safety arose after they fail ed to return to their home here from a Sunday afternoon drive. Divers were unable to find any trace of the car in the debris at the scene of the crash and diving opera tions were suspended temporarily because, a Navy officer said, it was considered too dangerous to continue them while wreckage was still hang ing from the stern of the steamship, which remained jammed into the bridge. After the vessel is moved and the wreckage cleared away, resumption of diving is planned. By Alexander R. George WASHINGTON, . Feb. 28.—Most war veterans will not need to pay an income tax or even file a return for 1945. That’s because the law how ex empts from taxation all active serv ice pay of men and women in the armed forces below the rank of com missioned officers. Such pay is tax exempt not only for 1945 but also during any year in the present war, beginning January 1, 1941 and end ing when the President proclaims the termination of the war. Refund Is In Order This is a brand new law and any enlisted man who paid tax on serv- ive pay during the war can get a refund by filing a simple claim with the collector to whom he paid the tax. The law also exempts from income tax the first $1,500 of service pay received by a commissioned officer in each year beginning after De cember 31, 1942. This $1,600 exemp tion is allowed also to any citizen or resident of the United States who is in the military service of any other United Nations during the present war. An officer in the U. S. armed forces ordinarily will not be re quired to file a return unless has pay was $2,000 or more. That’s be cause no return i» required from any individual unless his income was $500 or 'more together with the fact that he gets a special $1,500 exemp tion, making his total exemption at least $2,000. Any serviceman, who is outside the continental United States or on sea duty on March 15 may postpone filing his 1945 return and making a tax payment until the 16th day of the sixth month after he comes back. This cannot be postponed, however, beyond the 15th day of the third month after the war is officially ended. Taxes by Installment If a serviceman owes any tax he may extend its payments up to the 36 months. Payment can be made in 12 equal quarterly payments. This applies to tax due on service pay received as a commissioned officer for any taxable year beginning after December 31, 1939 and before Jan uary 1, 1947, or the tax which an enlisted man owed at the time he went into the service. An extension may be obtained by filing an application with the col lector of internal revenue before the date on which the first installment will be due. No interest will be charged if installments are paid on time. If any installment is delayed, interest on that installment will be at 6 per cent from the due date until it is paid. Here are some sample dates when first installments are due: service man discharged before December 1, 1945, first installment must be paid May 1, 1946; discharged during De cember, 1945, first installment due June 15, 1946; discharged January, 1946, first installment due July 16, 1946; discharged February, 1946, first installment due August 15. GIVE! Many a disaster victim would be unable to reestablish himself and family without Red Cross help. A contribution of $100 to the 1946 Red Cross fund wlil repair the average flood-damaged home sufficiently for comfortable living again. NOTICE I am now equipppd to do any kind of lettering on Monuments in any Cemetery. N. W. REED 130 Sproles St. Greenwood, S C. RADIO AND TELEVISION SALES - SERVICE We Specialize in— PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS AND SOUND EQUIPMENT Sale of for Rental INTER OFFICE COMMUNI CATION SYSTEMS Geo. N. Martin 1303 Friend St. Phone 74-J Directly Opposite Poet Office War is Never Over for the RED CROSS They need your Red Cross today-and for ; tomorrows! T HEY lie in hospitals, thousands of America’s finest, sick, blinded, cruelly maimed in the fight for our freedom. Who is to write their letters, hear their troubles, answer when they call for "Mom”? Mom can’t be there. But your Red Cross can, and must be there. Many thousands more young Americans are still overseas. They, too, count on the Red Cross for comfort and cheer in the long, weary months of waiting to come home to you. And whenever, wherever disaster strikes here in America—fire, flood, tornado, famine —your Red Cross must be ready with aid for the victims. It must feed and - shelter those left hungry and homeless, and when the first shock of emergency is over, take up the long, ardu ous work of rehabilitation. Yes, there’s a big job still to be done. Is it too big? Not for the Red Cross. Not for you— because you are the Red Cross. Give generously. Give now. Give a little more than you think you can afford. Remem ber this is your chance to say, "Thanks! Thanks, Soldieas for all you’ve dpne!” Your Red Cross Must Carry On... GIVE! • x ✓ American Legion Post No. 24 . Bowers Insurance Agency John B. Scurry, Chappells, S. C. '5