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Houston Taxpayers Kick In $8,389,000
How much of the money that the Federal
government collects annually from residents of
Houston County, via the tax route, is needed to
meet the interest charges on the national debt?
How much will the local population be forking
up during the current year, through their income
taxes and through excise and other taxes, as its
share of these interest charges?
The answer is -- approximately $8,389,000. That
is their share of the carrying costs alone. It will
not reduce by a particle the debt itself, which has
now reached the awesome total of a half trillion
dollars.
Houston Schools Set
Graduation
Beginning This Fall
The three public senior high
schools in Houston County
will, beginning this quarter,
hold lormal graduation
ceremonies at the end of each
quarter Perry High, Nor-
Ihside High ol Warner Robins,
and Warner Robins High will
all operate under the new
procedure, according to
Houston County School
Superintendent David Perdue
Perdue last Tuesday
told the County Hoard of
education at their meeting in
Perry that the procedure was
being worked out He said that
parents ol prospective grad-
Retired
Teachers
I Gather
S Members of the Retired
S Teachers of Houston County
4 met at the Twentieth Century
Restaurant on Wednesday,
£ Oct il, at 12 noon
J Olficers (or the coming year
5 were installed by Nola
i Hranlley They were Frances
S Coney, president; Mabel Hay,
5 vice president; Kathryn
S Taylor, secretary; Krnesline
% Mason, treasurer; and Ruby
1 Hrady, cosigner of checks
|| (iuesl speaker for the
a program was Mrs. Fleanor
•jHalranum ol Warner Robins,
Stale President of the
jt Association of University
k Women She gave an in
| leresling and most in
< lormalive talk on the Kqual
k Rights Amendment
< All retired teachers are
$ cordially invited to attend the
5 dutch lunch meetings at the
£ Twentieth Century Cafeteria
I on the second Wednesday of
I each month at 12 noun.
| Bank Os Perry
I Bank Announces
I Dress-A-Doll
i
President Lewis M Meeks
announced this week (he
opening of the fourth annual
Dress A Doll Program al The
Dank of Perry Dress-A-Doll is
a prize contest in which The
Hank lurnishes all of the dolls
and prizes, while individual
contestants donate their time
and skill to sew original
costumes lor the dolls.
Anyone who wishes to help
give a heart warming
Christmas gift to a deserving
child can stopm at The Bank's
Main Office, the Eastgate
Branch, or the Grant Plaza
Branch and pick up a doll to
design ami sew an original
costume for
Furnished by The Bank, the
dolls stand 18 inches tall and
come dressed in shoes,
stockings and tauter clothing
Contestants linish dressing
(he doll in any one of seven
different design categories:
Fancy dress, sensible dress
i dresses I, sensible dress
• pants suits), storybook
character, bride, special
category Hinder 15 years of
age) special category <nur
smg home residents).
Contestants have Irom now
tuilil November 25 to complete
ihe costume and return the
doll to either the Mam Bank,
the F Kigali* Branch nr the
uales will be notified in
writing Perdue said, “Most
parents like the idea,
providing there is a formal
ceremony."
Under previous procedures,
if a graduate desired a formal
ceremony, he had to wail until
the end of the school year to
gel his diploma. This I
arrangement had inherent I
problems, according to I
Perdue. One ma jor snafu was |
that students ending (heir
school work in fail, or winter
quarters, usually were
already in college, or at work.
Under the new setup, an
estimated seventy-one
students will graduate at the
end ol tall quarter. Ol this
number, 12 are at Ferry High,
2tt at Nnrthside, and 30 at
Warner Robins High. Caps
and gowns are now being
ordered, as are diplomas.
Superintendent Perdue
firmly pointed out that early
graduation was “entirely
voluntary". He said the school
system encourages students
completing all graduation
requirements to remain in
school until spring graduation
to lake “supplementary"
courses to heller prepare
them lor college.
The lour quarter system
introduced two years ago has
brought about the “early"
graduates. Perdue said many
students, when they have
completed graduation
requirements, stay in high
school, taking a minimum of
lour courses and leaving at
noon.
Grant Plaza Branch for prize
and judging and display.
Serving as judges for this
year's Dress-A-Doll Contest
are: Mrs Ruth Purser. Mrs
Ruth Rogers, Mrs. Thelma
Easley, Mrs June Vogt, and
Mrs Terri Malone First place
prizes in each of the seven
categories will be awarded
and a $ UK) Bank of Perry
Christmas Club Account will
go to this year's Grand Prize
Winner.
The public is invited to
attend the annual Christmas
Open House to be held at the
Main Office on Sunday.
December 1. from 2 00 to 5:00
P M Christmas decorations
and ornaments by creative
local Perryans will be
displayed as a special interest
feature along with the dolls
and holiday refreshments. +
Following the Open House
Showing, the dolls will be
turned over to the PAL
Program and the Happy Hour
School lor distribution to
needy children as Christmas
gilts
f Anyone willing to share
such handmade decorations
and ornaments is urged to call
The Bank al HH7-2554 so that
yours may he mclud<*d in the
displac '
For the nation as a whole, the present cost of
carrying this debt is nearly S3O billion a year, the
latest figures show.
Related to the average family in Houston
County, it means that some $4lO of the amount
being collected from them annually by the
government is to pay the interest on the debt.
The debt ceiling has been raised frequently in
recent years, chiefly to cover deficit spending.
President Ford has asked Congress to help
eliminate such deficits in the future by reducing
governmental expenditures.
G/iorit City.
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On National Debt
Since 1960, according to the Treasury Depart
ment, the interest on the national debt has soared
from $9.2 billion a year to the present level of S3O
billion.
The net effect, for Houston County families, is
that they are paying more than three times as
much in carrying charges as they did then.
Just how large these interest costs have become
may be realized by comparing them with the
outlays for other governmental operations, as
detailed in the 1974 budget.
The S3O billion required for interest this year is
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three times more, for example, than the govern
ment is spending for education and manpower
training combined.
It is over four times the amount that is being
spent in the field of health care and five times as
much as is going into general revenue sharing.
The only way to wipe out this burden would be to
pay off the debt of $495 billion, which is practically
impossible and is seldom suggested.
Houston County’s share of the repayment,
based upon local incomes and population, would
be over $138,419,000.
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