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Official Organ The Bulletin Irwinton, Ga. Friday Sept. 8 1950
You get that
Friendly Service at
Culpepper’s
Choice Meats &
Groceries
Super Market
Union Trading Stamps
Don’t HOARD There’s even
SOME TO SPARE
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Retailers depending on mid
dle and lower income groups
should brace themselves; pre
pare for the shock when proposed
new income tax rates go into
effect this fall. The burden falls
on their customers.
* * *
Income tax increase on a mar
ried man with two children and
an income of $3090 to SSOOO will
be 20.5%, but —a F^.OGO in
come only 14%. i • 3 increase is
lower as incomes go up.
* * *
Retailers should bear this in
mind in planning fall inventories.
If you sell yachts you probably
won’t see much change. If you
sell beef, you will.
* * *
Even if prices go no higher,
most families will have less to
spend for essentials; little, if
any, for luxuries. . y
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The public statements of poli- ’
ticians aje to the effect that ex- I
cess purchasing power will be
siphoned off.
* * *
Washington statisticians who
follow the mounting cost of living
say “What excess?” Proposed
I tax increases on business are
just as unrealistic.
* * *
And still politTcs go bn as us
ual. Congress plans to spend s4l I
r million .. . $26 million for re
packaging, $lB million for :rars
- portation to give away food st acks
already bought and stored to <- p
prices up. This stock inc/x :
■ butter 192,000,000 pounds; chcc :
80,000,000 pounds; dried
332,000,000 pounds; dried c ;
107 million pounds.
©National Federation of 1., -nf •
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r A fanner once gave the best answer'fo'tfie questlffla^
j *Uow can you tell when the fish are biting?” ... His sug
j gestion, “Go fishing every day and the day you catch a fish’
f —that’s the day they are biting” •.» k
Put it this way. If you have
a wife and two children, an in
come of $5,000, all the income
taxes paid by you this year, and
by 96,915 other families in your
same circumstances, will just
pay for giving this food away to
relief agencies.
* * *
One cynical observer in Wash
ington last week remarked
“We’ve advanced a leng way
from the old-fashioned cociabst
theories of taking from the ‘haves’
to give to the ‘have-nots’.
* * *
” “Now we take from the ‘have
nots’ to give to the ‘have-nots’.”
* * *
In fact/new business taxes will
bear down heavy on small busi
ness—will not be too far away
from World War II peak. On
huge outfits, such as a motor
‘company heading for an unprec
edented billion dollar profit this
■ year, the new taxes will b^ just
slightly more than half World
War II peak.
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The most plausible reason given
for this discrepancy in Washing
ton is that with November just
around the corner, no politician
wants t<\ offend the few big cam
paign fund contributors.
* * *
,As predicted in this column,
there is a concerted drive in
Washington to amend the pro-*
nosed Defense Production Act of
1930 to suspend all anti-trust laws.
\« * *
Commerce Secretary Sawyer is
r- . nnv e. Attorney General
v ■ • I’^eGrath says the pur-
■ 1’ act can be accom
' v. lira* this. Next week
■ ' ' " o into detail on
Parker’s
Pharmacy
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST
Robert Parker Mclntyre, Ga.
Soda Fountain Service
COSMETICS, CANDIES, MAGAZINES.
Have you seen our nice new fountain ?
THAT SPECIAL GIFT
HOGUE’S FLOWER & GIFT SHOP.
GORDON, Ga. Next to JEWEL THEATRE Phone 37.
Special Flower Arrangements, Houquet, Corsages.
Pot tael Plants, Azaleas, Carels <V Novelties for every
Occasion. S^iiforo, Terra —Lite, Tri — ogan, Hyponex,
Verta green, Flora - life, and Reliance Azalea Food.
GORDON VARIETY STORETIW‘ 4 YS WHAT
YOU NEED. 5,10 25 & SI.OO
ON THE CORNER. COME SEE US ?
Snow’s SERVICE STATION.
Handles those extra vaIue “GATES" TIBES
A full line of GARDEN SEEDS just arrived. The best.
—TEXACO PRODUCTS ~
Mclntyre, Ga.
"BETTER STOP” BEFORE YOU GO’’
■ ONLY YOU CAN Utmemtei - ONLY YOU CAN «
PREVENT | PREVENT
FOREST FIRES FOREST FIRES
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