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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
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NOTES AND COMMENTS
Life is a question of checks and balanees
to be exact, bank balances.
THE MARCH OF DIMES
The March of Dimes is conducting its 1959
camvaign with anew program. Polio now ap
parently dealt a fatal blow, the National Found
ation seeks other dragons to slay.
An attack will be launched against arthritis
and birth defects-congenital malformations
but as long as polio patients need care and re
habilitation the March of Dimes will provide it.
In 1958, for example about 50,000 polio victims
received aid from the National Foundation
which totaled approximately $18,900,000.
Other funds raised during the 1959 drive will
be used for a greatly enlarged research program
This activity is devoted to studies not only of
arthritis birth defects and polio, but of virius
diseases and disorders of the central nervous
system in general.
The need to train more medical specialists
also is being met by expansion of the profession
al education program. Polio, arthritis and birth
defects have crippling factors in common, de
mand the attention only highly skilled and well
trained professionals in health can give.
Patient aid will be extended in 1959 to cover
victims of arthritis and certain birth defects
through the age of 18. The degree to which this
program can be brought to life depends in large
part on public support of the March of Dimes.
CUBA AND CASTRO
The dictatorship which has plagued Cuba for
so many years has now been broken. It remains
to lx 4 seen just exactly what kind of government
will be brought into being under the guiding
hand of Fidel Castro, the rebel leader who has
been fighting the deposed dictator, Fulgencio
Batista, since 1953.
However, one must assume that it will be an
improvement, even though there are charges
that Castro has a number of fellow-travelers in
his entourage. This is denied by others, and only
time wiff tell the story on Castro’s government.
It is encouraging to note that Castro has nam
ca a provisional president, but it remains to be
seen whether he will be able to resist the tempta
tion to take the power of government into his
own hands. He probably has the power, and the
military machine, to enable him to do so at the
present time. We should think that he will pro
ceed with his plans to arrange elections, and it
goes without saying that Castro will be a popu
lar candidate should he decide to run for the
job in Cuba.
Asa rebel leader, Castro persevered and has
done Cuba, and the democratic world, a service,
as far as things stand at the moment. Whether
he is fitted for the top job in administering the
government of Cuba or not remains to be seen.
He has probably earned his right to a chance at
the task, however, and we suspect that he will,
in the end, wind up in the top chair in Cuba’s
government.
The Forsyth County News
ABOUT YOUR EYES
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Remarkable progress has been made in re
ducing the number of new cases of blindness
among children.
Not only has blindness due to infectious dis
eases decreased sharply among school-age chil
dren, but loss of sight due to the administering
of oxygen in high concentration to premature
infants has become rare.
But eyesight among adults should still be bet
ter protected and there are many of us who do
not think enough about the gift of sight.
Persons in the United States who are either
totally blind or with impairment of vision suf
ficiently great to prevent normal activities num
ber 345,000, 2 per 1,000 of the population. New
cases are estimated at 30,000 yearly.
The most frequent causes of blindness very
generally have their onset in middle and later
life, and include specific eye conditions of un
known etiology, particularly glaucoma and cata
ract, and such general disorders as arterioscler
osis, high blood pressure, nephritis and diabetes.
Males have a higher blindness rate than fe
males, which results in part from the higher in
cidence among males of blindness due to acci
dents and to the earlier development of arter
iosclerotic and other degenerative changes.
Much can b done to prevent blindness, ac
cording to the statisticians.
A study in Baltimore showed that half the
cases of blindness could have been prevented.
Early diagnosis and treatment of pathological
eye conditions are the best available means to
conserve sight. Periodic health checks, particul
arly among people past midlife, should include
examination of the eyes for glaucoma and cata
ract, as well as for changes due to degenerative
vascular diseases.
A word to the wise, kind reader, should be
sufficient.
TWO BRANDS OF JUSTICE
Old lawyers and veteran court reporters
know from experience that pretty girls seldom
have to pay for their crimes, as do men. Women
can shed that calculated tear, look defenseless
and fragile, and beautiful, and sway a jury be
yond reasonable bounds - especially a jury com
posed mostly of men or solely of men -as
many are.
In the fine state of North Carolina recently
a pretty thing hired a man to kill the wife of a
man she had fallen in love with. This could
happen in any state, and we are not among
those who think that one section of the country
is better than another, or more virtuous, etc. -
as the leftwingers constantly chant.
But in this case it happened in North Carolina.
Interestingly, the man hired by the cute thing -
who just a couple of years ago was a co-ed in
college -was a private detective. And killing
wasn’t exactly in his line. So he turned his cus
tomer in -as he should have done.
So the case comes to trial and what happens?
The pretty thing pleads guilty, admits the above
circumstances. And what is her sentence? Ten
years? Five Years? One Year?
Her sentence is nothing, actually, thought the
judge put a one-year suspended sentence on the
books. But she serves no time, is freed, and the
effect of the one-year suspended sentence is
negligible. What do you think would have hap
pened to some poor fellow, especially if he had
come from the wrong side of the tracks, who
stood the same trial And women think they live
in a man’s world! They should hope they keep
on living in it. They get preference and equali
ty, both, in U. S. society, and they can usually
take their choice.
WANTED!
LAKE LANIER PROPERTY
From Two to Fifty Acres, rough land. Pre
fer West side. Write full particulars.
Marie S. Payne
Sandy Springs, Georgia
The trouble with highly-pressured emotions
is that they drop suddenly to anew low.
Go-getters are mainly responsible foi the
business idea that the profits justify i
•TAX FACTS #1
Selecting The Proper Tax Form
(This is one of a series of articles 'the
filing. The articles arc based on information p (he
American Institute of Certified Public Accountant. ' andt
Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants,
ation with tha Internal Revenue Service.)
TP you are one of the millions of American wlUi
1 spends the lion’s share of his income feeding, clothing,
housing and entertaining his family, chances are the
little you can do to reduce your 1958 federal income
—but you owe it to yourself to try.
First of all, decide which of the
two individual tax forms you are
going to use to report your in
come. If you choose the wrong
one, you may automatically cut
yourself off from a possible tax
savings.
The easiest way to file Is to use
the simple 1040-A Form. It’s a
card the size of a check, on which
you answer a few simple ques
tions and have the choice of
either computing your own tax
or letting the Government do It
for you.
You are permitted to use the
card form if your gross Income
consisted only of wages, divi
dends or interest totaling less
than SIO,OOO, and if you did not
have more than S2OO of gross
Income apart from that listed on
your W-2 withholding slips.
Facti to Consider
Before deciding to use the card
Form 1040-A, you should consider
these facts:
1. Your tax will be figured
from a table which allows you
a deduction of about 10 per cent
of your income instead of Item
ized deductions for contributions,
taxes, interest paid, medical and
dental expenses, etc.
2. There is no provision in
this form for filing as the "head
of household", as a “surviving
spouse” or for claiming special
credits for dividends and retire
ment income.
If you are sure that these two
points would not cost you any
tax savings, and your Income Is
within the limits for filing a
Form 1040-A. you might as well
use this simple card form.
Whether to I ter. ire
When you elect to use the reg
ular Form 1040, you still must
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THE CUMMING METHODIST CHURCH
Pilgrim Mill Road
Rev. G. Horace Couch, Minister
Telephones: Church Office TULip 7 —2900
Parsonage Tl'Lip 7 —2379
“WORSHIP SERVICES’’
Sunday Morning Worship Service 11:00 A. M.
Sunday Evening Worship Service 7:30 P. M.
Wednesday Night Prayer Service 7:30 P. M
“CHURCH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES”
Sunday School 10:00 A. M.
Mr. Clyde Mize, Church School Superintendent
Methodist Youth Fellowship (Sunday Evening) 6:30 P. M.
MYF Activity Hour (Sunday Evening) 8:30 P. M.
Mrs. Clyde Mize, Co-counselor
Junior Fellowship (Saturday Evening) 7:30—9:00 P. M.
Mrs. M. P. Holbrook, Co-counselor
“CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS”
OFFICIAL BOARD MEETING 730 P M.
Mr. Milton Patterson, Chairman
(Tuesday night after third Sunday every third month)
CHOIR PRACTICE (Every Wednesday Night) 8:15 P. M.
WOMEN’S SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE
(First Monday of every month) 3 ; qo p. jyj.
Mrs. Dan Devine, President
WESLEYAN SERVICE GUILD
(First Tuesday of every month 8:00 P. M.
Mrs. Doris Graham, President
METHODIST MEN’S CLUB •’'‘Supper Meetings**
(Tuesday after fourth Sunday every month) 7:00 P. M.
Mrs. James E. “Tommy” Gravitt, President
Thursday, January 15, 1959^
decide whether to Itemize deduc
tions or take the standard deduc
tion which usually amounts to
about 10 per cent of your income
or SI,OOO, whichever is less. Gen
erally, you will save by itc niz
ing deductions if you:
(1) Own real estate
(2) Had unusual medical ex
penses
(3) Had deductible child-care
expense
(4) Suffered losses from fire,
storm, accident or theft
(5) Made fairly large charit
able contributions
If you are supporting a de
pendent, although you are un
married, you may be able to
qualify as a “head of household
and figure your tax on a special
table that gives you part of the
advantage enjoyed by married
couples filing Joint returns.
You mav qualify for a "head
of household” status if you pro
vide more than half the support
of a parent, and more than half
the cost of maintaining the par
ent’s household even If the par
ent does not live with you. You
cannot claim a "head of house
hold" status If you file a Form
1040-A.
The 1040 Form Is arranged
again this year so that a tax
payer whose income was entirely
from wages needs to use only the
first one or two pages. Pages
three and four are for other
types of income and for comput
ing the special credits for divi
dends and retirement income. __
The instructions which coma
with your tax forms give further
Information on how to select the
correct tax form. Help Is also
available from the Internal Rev
enue Service.