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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1959 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Annfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. ; COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR The Beaufort Gazette has an editorial which breathes the right spirit; and it brings the happy news that Senator Rod gers and Representative Harvey are scrutinizing the cost of government in Beaufort County and don’t intend to let ex penses get out of hand, as we say. Let’s see now: “Senator Rodgers has called upon the county board of directors to closely scrutinize county expen ditures, with an eye to trimming if at all possible. Represen tative Harvey has said that he thinks the ‘line can be held’ on county taxes, or maybe lowered a little. The county board of directors has recommended the appointment of a tax col lector, for the purpose of collecting back taxes and assuring that all taxable property is listed on the rolls, and has re commended the enacctment of legislation permitting the tax ing of all boats in the county. Citizens generally are in agreement that all should share equally, according to their means, in the cost of operating the county government, whether their property be real estate, boats, automobiles, or what not.” Beaufort has always had good men in the General As sembly. Let me urge the gentlemen from Beaufort to hold a firm grip on the State also. Look over the county budgets. Most “Delegations” oper ate their counties with due regard for the tax-payers. Now if they will steer the Ship of State in the same manner they will avoid all dangers of reckless navigation. We use a lot of oil in this country. For example I don’t “chop” wood or bring in scuttles of coal, running in and out of the rain and cold. Today we have oil and gas—and some have electric heat—button comfort and convenience. You’ve heard of “heat pumps”—well, that’s another story. But just think of it; push a button!’ Clean, instant heat!! Now about oil: “About 700 million gallons of petroleum products are de livered every day to consumers in the free world. To accom plish this vast distribution task, the oil industry has been re quired by the nature of its commodity and of its markets to develop an array of highly specialized equipment—fleets of .ocean tankers, river barges and other small craft, motor tank trucks, special railroad cars, pipelines, storage facilities. The system is designed to handle both very large volumes and minute quantities. For example, it can deliver several hundred thousand gallons of fuel oil to a transatlantic liner, ten gallons of gasoline to a motorist, or a few ounces of some highly specialized lubricant to a laboratory. The distributive networks extend to every in habited region of the earth. The customers range from giant power-generating stations to small shopkeepers. Pipelines by their very nature escape attention. Many people are scarcely aware of their existence, let alone of their tremendous extent, up and down and across the nation. And yet the pipeline network of the United States is a vital art erial system that feeds energy to every region of the country, an indispensible part of the fabric of our industrial society in time of peace, a decisive one in time of war. No other na tion has anything comparable to it. So vast is this pipeline network that in twenty-four hours, through all the days and nights of the year, five mil lion barrels of crude oil and oil products pour into its thou sands of separate, slow-moving streams. Altogether, the net work covers 180,000 miles—enough pipe to encircle the globe more than seven and a half times. (Another, separate pipe line network is even larger—natural gas lines in this coun try cover about 500,000 miles.).” My oil man keeps the drums full; he is ever watchful and ready. And he is just as watchful and ready on the first day of the month. So watchful and ready that he mails his state ments on the day before the first of the month; and being a solemn Presbyterian he sends it even earlier if a Sabbath intervenes, so as not to do business on Sunday. Share and share alike. Well, let’s consider that: “The nation’s co-ops, by and large, are groups of people who share and share alike the costs and the successes of their cooperative efforts, whether they are electrification sy stems, seed stores, or whatever. In one way, they are much like shareholders in American industry who put their dollars to work in the nation’s economy. , But in another way, they are vastly different. Some of the co-ops are exempt by law from paying taxes; others can avoid taxation by issuing little pieces of paper to sharehold ers telling them what their earnings were and how much money they have in the coop. Most co-op shareholders don’t pay taxes on these certificates, either, for Federal courts have held that their market value isn’t determinable. The earnings are thus not taxed until cash is received. Some co-ops have other happy gimmicks aside from tax avoidance or exemption. The Rural Electrification Adminis tration, for example, lends money to co-ops. The R. E. A. gets the money from the Treasury for 2 %, but the Treasury must borrow money as high as 4% from the rest of the tax payers in order to permit the R. E. A. to borrow at such a HALF-PAST TEEN I PONT SEE WHY THEY'RE SO UPSET CHER A SIMPLE low rate. The idea behind the birth of R. E. A. was to spread elec tricity in rural areas for farmers who didn’t have any, and whether one agrees or not that that was a good idea in 1935, its clear the situation has changed completely. ‘Three out of four new users currently being added are non-farm users’, Budget Director Maurice Stans reports. One-half of R. E. A. electric power now goes to industries, communities or non farm families. Obviously, R. E. A. has grown up in 1935, only 11% of the nation’s farms were electrified, while today 95% are con nected to outside power systems. Yet R. E. A. co-ops pay no taxes at all. Now, before we hear from the co-op lobby in Washington, we would like to make it plain that co-ops are doing nothing illegal. The law makes it perfectly permissable for their members to shirk their fair share of taxes. But don’t let anyone tell you they’re paying a fair share when the rest of the taxpayers carry part of the tax-free co ops’s cost of borrowing money to use for expansion into fields hardly anybody but the socialistic planners had in mind when R. E. A. was created. And they certainly aren’t sharing the ioad when co-ops avoid taxes by issuing non-taxable but highly valuable paper to the members. Private industrj^ splits shares, too, but private industry pays as high as 52% of its profits. The Administration has proposed some measures to spread the tax load all of us carry by including the co-ops. It would be too much to suggest that the co-ops would be happy to pay more of the burden of Government. But it cer tainly isn’t too much to suggest that Congress should see to it that the co-ops and the other citizens should bear the tax burden share and share alike,” says a great paper. As to that the Farm Bureau position is just and timely. For example, “Plans should be made for ‘order reduction’ of income tax rates. Taxes levied to increase revenues in an emergency should be terminated when the emergency has passed. Certain areas of taxation now taken over by the fed eral government should be systematically restored to state and local governments. The resolution opposed a general federal sales tax and urged elimination of excise taxes vchich effect production and distribution costs. The federal government should replace taxes lost to lo cal governments through acquisition of property by the na tional government. Federally owned property which is used to produce for sale commodities Or services that normally are supplied by private enterprise should be subject to payments in lieu of taxes, including federal income taxes, in amounts comparable to the taxes levied on similar privately owned property and income, the resolution said. ” Have you ever been stuck? I don’t mean in a business deal; I’m thinking of glue. Well, now, what about glue? “The Eastman Kodak Co., which tries to focus the com siderable talents of its research scientists on developing the photographic art, unexpectedly found itself in a sticky situa tion last year. Kodak chemists, tinkering around the dark came up with a new kind of super glue instead. Setting im mediately, without pressure of any kind, one drop of the sub stance proved capable of bonding two pieces of steel together firmly enough to support a two-and-a-half-ton truck. When word of its remarkable strength got around, inquiries poured in by the thousands. Its enthusiastic reception points up the new importance which both the government and industry today attach to ad hesives. Glues, of course, have a long history of workaday usefulness as household menders and envelope seals, and as vital ingredients in a host of manufactured products, notably in furniture, linoleum, tapes, books and shoes. However, in recent years a surprisingly varied assortment of synthetic adhesives has taken hold commercially. For example, glues made from resins helped create the burgeoning plywood bu siness. Other synthetic adhesives are used widely in the pack- ackaging industry, for everything from corrugated cartons to cellophane bags.” F ROSTED glass on shower tub enclosures or windows may be cleaned by using a stiff-bristled brush and detergent suds for cleaning. Rinse thoroughly. Chromium fixtures will respond to sponging with warm, soapy wa ter. Polish with a clean dry clotix. If the buzz on an electric fan be comes annoying, place several THIS WEEK'S RECIPE Dill Pickles (Makes 3 gallons) 10 quarts water 2 cups salt 1 quart vinegar 4 tablespoons pepper 1% pecks cucumbers 5 stalks dill Make a solution of water, salt, vinegar and pepper by bringing to a boil. Fill crock with cleaned cucumbers, lacing dill between layers. Add hot solution. A slice of onion or garlic may be added to crock, if desired. Cover crock and let mixture stand for several days before using, jars may re place the crock, if desired. thicknesses of newspaper under neath it. When flower vases leak, pour melted paraffin in them and let it harden before placing the water and flower arrangement in it. To prevent from marking furniture, glue a piece of flannel on the bot tom of the flower container. Picture glass is best cleaned with a cloth dipped in hot water with a few drops of alcohol. Polish immediately with chamois. Moistened soda placed in insect bites is a good way to stop much of the itching. If cellars are damp and musty place charcoal or unslaked lime on trays or plates. They will help to dry the air and sweeten the room. If walls arc whitewashed, this will help also. YS% Dress Pattern No. 1350—As cool as c soda when the temperature soars—sman little casual dress, sans collar, and with choice of sleeves to suit the occasion No. 1350 is in sizes 12, 14, 16. 18, 20 Size 14, 34 bust, short sleeve, no collar 5 yards of 35-inch. Needlework Pattern No. 378-N—As "cute as a button' this terrier panel is sure to win the wholehearted approval of the en tire familyl NO. 378-N has hot-iron transfer) color chart. Send 35c for each dress pattern, 25c tor each needlework pattern (add 5c for each pattern for first-class mailing) to AUDREY LANE BUREAU, Dept. "NWNS," 367 West Adams Street, Chicago 6, Illinois. DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Outside C. Eugene Buzhardt to Howard D. Gray and Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gray, one lot $500. W. Fulmer Wells to Raymond E. Kyzer and Carolyn F. Kyzer, one lot $5.00 and other valuable con siderations. Ruby Smith Kunkle to Eula S. Smith, one lot and one building on Langford Street, $5.00, love and affection. Bush River No. 3 Carolina Tree Farms, Inc., to Frank R. Ivey and Olean C. Ivey, 21 accres (part of Hugh K. Boyd property), $10.00 and other val uable considerations. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Frank A. Reed and Mrs. Brama R. Reed to Ford B. Springfield and Opan B. Springfield, four acres and one building, $5,000. Pomaria No. 5 Perry F. Halfacre to Perry E. Halfacre, one-fourth of an acre, $5.00 love and affection for son. Prosperity No. 7 G. Ridgell Bowers to Joel R. Bowers, one acre, $5.00 love and affection. Katie Enlow Hart to Mary Nell Boozer, 23 acres, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. GET DOWN TO THf BUSINESS OF BUYING OR SELLING WITH A NEWSPAPER AD SURE-FIRE RESULTS, LOW IN COST TOO •Xpldns ajtjua s.ppiOM aaaj aqj jo juaa jad qi, iCp^euiixoadde jo T 33 P! u jo spunod 000‘000‘09S moqe paonpojd epeueo ‘ijjei Supina Notice... 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