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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1969
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS.FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE OF THE MAJOR problems facing the new Administra
tion and the Congress this year is mounting pressure for top-to
bottom tax reform. It is impossible to tell at this point just how
much progress will be made, but the issue promises to be a
lively one in the months ahead.
The departing Johnson Administration left behind a set of
tax reform proposals, and President Nixon has his own task force
at work on the federal tax system.
We need a thorough examination of the Internal Revenue
Code with a sharp eye out for fundamental reforms that can lead
to a more effective and equitable tax structure for everyone con
cerned, individual and corporation alike.
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THERE IS A GREAT need to find the ways and means to
close the gap between people on one hand, who by one means
or another, are avoiding their fair share of taxes, and those on
the other hand who are carrying more than their fair share of
the tax burden.
Loopholes that can be employed to grant special privileges
to select groups should be closed to prevent wanton tax dodging
and, at the same time, we ought to try to give tax relief where
it is most needed and deserved—particularly among the elderly
and low-income workers.
In these areas we have people who are least able to bear
excessive taxation, but who pay in too many instances a very
high percentage of their income, even though it may fall at or
near the poverty level.
I hope that the Senate Finance Committee, which handles
all tax legislation and of which 1 am a member, will especially give
careful study to this aspect of the tax system.
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IHE TAX EXEMPT STATUS of some so-called nonprofit
private foundations also demands a thorough going over. This tax
break very often works to their benefit when in reality these
foundations are doing business, making money and competing with
bona fide taxpaying private businesses.
And, there is increasing criticism, which I believe is justified,
of the tax free standing enjoyed by militant pressure groups
whose sole aim is to stir up trouble and influence legislation.
These are some of the issues involved in tax reform. There
are of course many more, and we can expect to be hearing more
about them in the near future.
Nails Tailored
For Every Need
NEW YORK (a)—Thought
ful do-it-yourselfers are dis
covering that it pays to take
a good hard look at the little
things.
Like nails, for instance.
They’re also discovering
that there really is a differ
ence when it comes to buying
nails. Recognizing this dif
ference can mean money in
NOTICE
The Tax Books are now open for
The return of 1969
State and County Taxes.
Returns Must Be Made By March 31, 1969
To Get Homestead Exemption.
Also 1969 Automobile License Tags
Must Be Purchased
By April 1, 1969
Get Your Togs Early
And
AVOID PENALTY
W. J. HAMMACK
TAX COMMISSIONER, EARLY COUNTY
your pocket and a better
quality job.
The nails that are making
such a big hit with homeown
ers today are made of alumi
num. Among the many rea
sons for their growing popu
larity are these:
Strength Retained
Unlike other nails, those
made of aluminum won’t rust.
This retains their high
strength throughout the life
time of the structure without
staining.
Drivers Tests
Given To Seventy
Early Co. Drivers
Exhaustive mental and physi
cal driving tests were given to
70 drivers for the Early County
Board of Education here Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday by
the Mobile Driver Testing Lab
oratory sponsored by the Geor
gia Motor Trucking Association,
Inc.
The tests were given by co
ordinator Carl Roddam, lab su
pervisor of the State Department
of Education, and Sgt. R. T.
Crouch of the Safety Education
Division of the Georgia State
Patrol.
In operation since 1949, the
Driver Testing Lab has tested
approximately 200,000 persons
over the state, these were most
ly truck drivers and school bus
drivers, but a great number of
high school students and others
have been tested to determine
such factors as vision, color,
perception, visual speed and ac
curacy, steadiness, hearing and
driving knowledge.
Some of the same equipment
used by the Air Force in testing
prospective pilots is used in the
laboratory tests.
Mr. Roddam said the lab was
established with the aim of re
ducing highway accidents in
Georgia by enabling incompe
tent drivers to discover their
deficiences and by acquainting
capable drivers with their handi
caps so they may make allow
ances for them.
Housed in a van trailer, the
unit is operated by the Trades
and Industrial Division of the
State Department of Education
and the Safety Education Divi
sion of the Georgia State Pa
trol , under the sponsorship of
GMTA.
The first test is a dashboard
mockup-complete with steering
wheel, clutch and brake and a set
of flashing lights, two turn signal
lights and two other bulbs indi
cating "go” and “stop”. The
lights are timed to correspond
with typical driving conditions.
An electrical timer computes
how quickly the driver reacts to
his signals. Sgt. Crouch, pad and
pencil in hand, keeps score.
Next is the steadiness test -
not recommended after a rough
night. It consists of moving a
rod down a slot which becomes
progressively more narrow.
When the rod makes contact on
either side of the slot, a light
flashes to let the score-keeper
Tax Deductions
Require Proof
Os Contribution
Failure of some taxpayers to
substantiate their charitable con
tributions caused the loss of all
or part of the amountthey claim
ed as a deduction last year.
Substantiation of charitable
contributions is one of the most
frequent problems encountered
in the audit of tax returns, C. G.
Lane, Local Representative of
Internal Revenue Service, re
minded area taxpayers today.
Another problem in the con
tribution area that appeared on
last year’s returns was the claim
of the full amount paid for a
ticket to a charity ball, theater
benefit, or banquet as a chari
table contribution.
Mr. Lane said that only that
part of the ticket price in excess
of the value receivedby the buyer
may be considered a charitable
contribution.
"When $lO is paid for a ticket
at a charity banquet and the meal
would normally cost $4, then only'
$6 may be considered a chari
table gift,” he said.
To help taxpayers avoid this
mistake on 1968 returns, IRS
has requested all charitable or
ganizations selling tickets to fund
raising affairs to clearly indi
cate on the ticket the amount that
is deductible. Identifying the de
ductible portion of the ticket
price should end this problem,
Mr. Lane said.
know where the foul took place.
Then the school bus drivers
were directed to an instrument
which tests their field of vision.
Then with their nose planted
firmly in a slot cut into a par
tial circle, they are asked to tell
the testing official at what point
they are able to detect a white
marker he brings around from
either side. An unsatisfactory
score here indicates the driver
has "tunnel vision”.
Some persons claim the night
vision test is the toughest. When
you peer into a darkened box,
the instructor flips a switch turn
ing on a small bulb inside the
box, you are asked to identify
letters - and it isn’t easy.
Next comes an overall eye
test which determines the degree
of color perception, vertical and
lateral balance of vision, fusion
of your eyes, and strength of vi
sion in each eye. That’s fol
lowed by a gadget which finds out
whether the driver has good depth
perception- or distance judge
ment; he is asked to line up with
strings, three little toy cars
which appear at a great dis
tance.
Contrary to general opinion,
the unit does not revoke drivers'
licenses. Rather, by showing
a driver his faults or defects,
it enables the average driver
to take steps to correct his handi
caps or compensate for them.
Superintendent of Early County
Schools Lonnie Chester, said,
“Most of the drivers on the 39
school bus routes have been driv
ing for several years, and most
of them have had tests like this
before. We have exceptionally
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FELDER & SON, INC - Court Square, Blakely Ga.
Willie J. Bryant
Awarded Plaque
Private Willie J. Bryant, 19,
son of Mr. Elder Bryant, Jr.,
4200 S, W. 21st Street, West
Hollywood, Fla., has been award
ed a plaque at the U. S. Army
Training Center, Infantry, for
scoring highest in his company
on the physical combat profi
ciency test.
Pvt. Bryant, Company' A, Ist
Battalion, Ist Brigade, earned
the award by scoring 498 of a
possible 500 points on the test.
The PCPT consists of five in
dividually-scored events one
mile run, 40-yard low crawl,
run-dodge-jump, man-carry' and
horizontal ladder.
These events have been care
fully chosen to demonstrate the
most significant areas of streng
th and stamina necessary to the
infantryman.
Pvt. Bry'ant’s wife, Alma, lives
with her mother, Mrs. Clemmie
Smith, Willis Cain Homes, Apt.
A-2, Blakely, Ga.
Following completion of basic
combat training, Pvt. Bryantwas
promoted to pay' grade E-2 under
an Army policy providing incen
tive to outstanding trainees.
NEW TOP TEN LIST
SAYS SOAK IT TO ME
Lists of the top ten of ev
erything from best-dressed
women to least-liked politi
cians flourish at the start of
every year. And now they’ve
chosen ten of the most
common stains found on
clothing and home furnishings.
According to the Cleanliness
Bureau of the Soap and Deter
gent Association, they are
coffee, tea, fruit juices, eggs,
tomato (in any form), choc
olate, gravy, sauces, baby for
mula and perspiration.
In the past each of these
stains required its own special
treatment, but now science has
discovered a single remedy for
all ten. The answer is enzymes.
Pre-soaking for 30 minutes or
more with an enzyme-active
powder gives the enzymes time
to loosen and lift out stubborn
stains that bleaches can’t
bleach out and detergents can’t
wash out. After the enzyme
pre-soaking, stains simply wash
out in the regular laundry rou
tine.
good drivers, all are very in
terested in the welfare of the
students and are cooperative in
following thru with al 1 safety
measures.”
Drivers taking the tests were:
Charlie Black, Earl Chandler,
Buddie Cleveland, Joe Glass,
Harry Houston, Joseph W. Mc-
Cormick, Charlie Moore, Hilton
Phillips, Davis Pyle, Leona
Reese, Carlton Scarborough,
Eleanor P. Sheffield, Albert
Temples, Mittie Tiner, Lucile
White;
Arlester Brown, Brice Ford,
Harry Greene, Thomas Harris,
Ed Hicks, Willie Hightower,
George Hutchins, Ethelia D.
James, Johnny Mells, James Mit
chell, Bernice Mosely, Charlie
Moses, Major Powell, Melvin Po
well, Allen Speight, Alvin Thomp
son, Z.L. Wade, Sr., Fred Wim
berly, L. C. Winn, Lige Wright,
Robert Wright.
FARM BUREAU
NEWS
Marketing is Top Problem in
Agriculture, Lanier says - Farm
Bureau must solve marketing
problems to help agriculture,”
William L. Lanier, President
of the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation, told County Farm
Bureau Presidents assembled in
Macon, February 13-14, to dis
cuss Farm Bureau program and
problems.
Lanier declared that the num
ber one problem in agriculture
today is marketing and that the
farm federation must work close
ly with the U. i Department of
Agriculture, the Foreign Agri
cultural Service and the V. S,
State Department to advance
markets for an efficient Ameri
can agriculture.
Farm Bureau Presidents from
county chapters throughout the
state opened a two day confe
rence that ranged from discus
sion of Farm Bureau Programs
and services to rural health pro
blems and the responsibility of a
President to an office secretary.
Lanier said that the farm fed
eration was solidly for the
"90-10" legislative proposal as a
means of establishing sanity to
tax laws in Georgia. He related
that property taxes are growing
by leaps and bounds for home
owners, businessmen on main
street and land owners.
"If those who want something
for nothing have to start paying
for some of theirwants they might
curb some of their wants,”
Lanier said in declaring that
the liberals were destroying the
desire for people to own property
by placing excessive tax bur
dens on property. He likened
the insistant demands made by
liberals and the cost to own
property like cutting off a dog’s
tail an inch at a time.”
Adreon Harden, GFBF Presi
dential Assistant, outlined to
county Farm Bureau Presidents
the status of Farm Bureau's
29-point legislative proposals.
Mrs. J. Andy Rape, Chairman
of Georgia Farm Bureau Women,
from McDonough, told the County
Farm Bureau Presidents that
“the best place to build Farm
Bureau is at the local level.”
She said that with Farm Bureau,
a family organization, farm
women stand ready to help in
Farm Bureau programs, ser
vices and legislative activities.
Olin L. Lalndsey, Vice Presi
dent of Columbus Blue Cross-
Blue Shield, advised farmers to
increase their group room rate
contracts from SB, $lO, or sl2
per day to $25 or S3O and warn
ed that semi-private room rates
in the major hospitals today are
S2B or S3O and more with costs
slated to go up due to increasing
hospital costs. He said that
Farm Bureau members in the
group FB Columbus Blue Cross
plan would be given the option
on May 1 for effective date of
August 1.
Other subjects included Farm
Bureau Marketing Association
program, the FB Broiler pro
gram, insurance and investment
services, service company in-
LEWIS LLEWELLYN
Is This Prophecy
To Be Fulfilled?
Are we really on the road to
ruin?
Looking at the disorder and
dissension on our campuses, as
well as other troubled areas of
our national life, a writer in the
London Daily Telegraph predicts
that 1972 will be a fateful
year for the United States.
By that time, he says, “The
American nation will be in a
state of nervous collapse.”
Our condition, just three or
four years from now, he prophe
sies, will be like that of the
French nation last May—when
France was paralyzed by strikes
and simultaneous student re
bellion—but with the significant
difference that we will have no
"Great White Father" to restore
the people to sanity.
Will events prove the prophet
of doom to be right? Or will we
act wisely, as a nation, and con
trol our own destiny?
Not Only Here
The disorder is not confined
to our country. Student rioters
and rebels have caused havoc
and destruction in other places
—as far away as Tokyo Univer
sity and as near as Sir George
Williams University in Montreal,
where damage estimated at
$2,000,000 was done by students
and non-students who occupied
the school’s computer center for
13 days.
Although the current wave of
dissent, disorder, and disruption
is not limited to our country, it
is our country for which we are
responsible. It is in our country
that we must take the actions
required to halt the destruction
of our society.
It seems quite clear now that
many of the radicals leading the
disruptive movements are not
corporation, and a report from
Mrs. James C. Ray, Secretary-
Treasurer, Georgia Farm Bu
reau.
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at all interested in integration in
this country. Their goal seems to
be disintegration.
Will they succeed?
The Kerner Commission, in
vestigating civil disorders in the
United States, declared that the
country's greatest need was to
“generate a new will.”
Another way to express this
thought would be to say, “We
need to regain our sense of pur
pose and principle."
Though it has become fash
ionable to sneer at the Puritans
and our other early leaders, it is
difficult to believe that these
God-fearing people would have
allowed our nation to get into
the position that it is now in.
In First Place
The Los Angeles Times, in an
editorial some time ago, said,
“The old-fashioned folks who
founded this republic put religion
first in their program. It was
the brightest star in their sky.
. . . They rose above their seas
of trouble on the wings of faith."
Was it the fact that they put
God first that led to the growth
and prosperity of the nation?
Jesus said, you know, “Seek
ye first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you.”
This is still a sound principle—
for individuals and for nations.
God does not lead those who
follow Him to adopt unsound
courses of action. On the con
trary, He guides and guards
His own.
But can we expect God to lead
us out of our present difficulties
while we lock Him out of our
schoolrooms?
How about putting into prac
tice again our national motto,
“In God we trust”?
"We want to emphasize, Clean-
Up - Fix Up to make our city' a
lovelier place in which to live.”