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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.
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UNPAID
1958 TAXES
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