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Imwi)d MRS. 'RACE PLYBON, Correspondent Royal Neighbors met on Fri day afternoon with Mrs. Luey Lyle. The usual business ses sion and social time was enjoy ed. Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Pyle and children arrived Saturday, com ing from Seattle, Washington, for a visit with relatives. Virgil Miller and his assistant, Mr. Johnson, of Weeping Water, were working with electrical fixtures here on Saturday. Bryce Quellhorst is enjoying a furlough from the army with his wife, Mary Alice, and daugh ter. Nancy, and other relatives and friends. He was here for a short time at the holiday sea son, also. J.J.iu. ULl LiiU X Xi.Xl CLlill ItUJJ Ahlene Fitch have been having some extensive improvements made in their home interior. The ceilings have been lower ed in two rooms, the upper glass windows removed, and three floursecent lights installed along with other changes. Ah lene won the largest light for a poem she wrote. Mrs. Dorothy Reeve Mills is in a Lincoln hospital for a min or operation. Eldon Oehlerking is now serv ing as rural mail carrier as an assistant to Earl Horton, and Eldon has been carrying the mail most of the time since the snow storms. Rev. Val Johnson, County President of the Cass County Fellowship Association, Rev. C. JIIWJI.UL'tflL for the very latest r-.w. k-. T.v at ai i in i MODERN MAGIC - New automatic Gas ranges cook oven meals with out a look from you! MATCHLESS lighting Broiler, oven, top burners . . . all light in stant'y, automatically! v.. A $ y pr 1 FEATHERLISHT baking No "hot spots," nocool cracks fo catch corners, m an even heat acid-resistant air-circulated Gas oven! of new Gas SMART COOKS KNOW that for ease, speed and lasting economy any new Gas range built to "CP" standards is tops! This all-automatic Gas rangs is one. And we have more brands that meet the same high "CP" .-I! "J wS-U t AJf "i1m '''far E. Wilcox and eleven others j from Elmwood, attended the ' meeting at Union cn Sunday evening. TINY ISLE SHELTERS A-BOMB REFUGEES Washington, (U.Pj A tiny island ; covered with coconut palms has become the Pacific home of the Bikinians. Kili, in the southern Marsh- alls, is one mile long but is suf- ficiently ferflle to provide the 181 displaced persons of the atomic bomb test with food, drink and shelter. The island was once a valuable coconut plantationop erated by Japanese and German holders, according to the Na tional Geographic Society. It al so grows breadfruit. Although the Bikini atoll measures over 21 miles, its form er inhabitants chose minute Kili in preference to 11-mile-long Wotho, which was recommended by the Navy. They also preferred Kili to Rongerik, which is larger than Kili but which they feared because of an ancient curse, thought to have poisoned the fish in surrounding waters. The new settlers of the little island have begun their simple tropical life which centers around the coconut tree. It will supply them with nuts, milk and leaves and is expected to yield a greater harvest of copra than they were able to gather on Bi kini. j Americans visiting 1 1 a 1 v, : whether tourists or business ! men, will need only passports hereafter, no visas being re quired, it is announced by the ' Gdynia America Line. TAILORED heat Gas gives dozens of exact Top-burner heats phis automatic heat control. Hi w CLEAN-CUT DESISX No BLUE RIBBON broiling- dirt in the Sizzling steaks and chops! porcelain As only a new smoKeiess ranges. Gas broiler can do it! quality requirements. Come in and choose the one that suits your "New Freedom G as Kitchen. "Then f or the next work-saving step, let us show you the new Servel Gas refrigera tors. They stay sUent, last longer! Unicameral Echos By Bernie Camp Director of Information Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Tax Increases Proposed Monday, January 31, was the last day during which new leg islation could be introduced to the Unicameral; except on the request of Governor Val Peter son, or by majority consent of a legislative committee and of the legislature as a whole. During the twenty legisla tive days, a total of 529 bills was introduced for consideration. One hundred twenty-three measures were submitted cn January 31. Not the least of the measures submitted were those having to do with taxation and fees for the financing of the state gov- ernment and its agencies. Senators D w i g h t Burney, Hartington, and William Metz ger, Cedar Creek, on January 19 submitted a two percent sales tax bill (LB 234) which would provide the state government with an estimated $20,000,000 a year. On January 25, Senator Les ter Anderson, Aurora, intro duced LB 300, an income tax bill which would, he estimated, provide $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 annually. January 31 saw the introduc tion of a number of tax meas ures. Senators Arthur Carmody, ; Trento; Otto J. Prohs, Ger ing; and Victor Anderson. Lin coln, introduced a bill (LB 399) to increase the state gasoline tax from five cents to six cents per gallon. This bill was intro duced at the request of Gover nor Val Peterson. Senators Fay Wood, Seward; Lester Anderson, Aurora; and Don Hanna, Val entine, introduced a measure (LB 401) to increase auto licen se fees from three and five dol lars to ten dollars per year, with graduated increases on farm, and local trucks, closely approximately commercial fees on trucks rated over three tons by manufacturers. Senators Fay Wood and C. C. Lillibridge, Crete,' proposed a highway use stamp (LB 402) to be invoked by the state highway engineer when additional funds are needed to match available fed eral highway funds. The state engineer would be authorized to set the value of the stamp between $1 and $5 depending upon the needs for matching. The sales tax bill provides for a tax of two cents on every dol lar for purchases over 15 cents. Its proponents claim it would be one way of equalizing the tax burden and distributing it to all citizens of the state. Opponents argue that such a measure would work a hardship on low salaried people. The income tax measure pro vides a tax of one percent on net incomes up to $5,000; two percent, $5,000 to $7,500; three percent, $7,500 to $10,000; and four percent for all over $10, 000. Corporations doing business in Nebraska would pay two per cent on net income. Exemptions are provided for. Proponents point out that such a measure would tax people most able to pay and who do not in many cases own real property. Op ponents argue that a state in come tax invades the domain of federal taxation. An increase in state gasoline taxes is an integral part of the Governor's Highway Advisory Committee long-range highway program. This tax would pro vide the highway department with an additional $3,60.000 a year for "matching federal funds." Opponents of the meas ure, among them the state's farm organizations, insist the highway department does not need additional funds, but needs instead more efficient admin istration. Present highway funds, they declare, are suffi cient for matching and carry ing out a long-range program if well handled. The increase in automobile and farm and local truck licen se fees is another proposal from the Governor's Highway Advis ory Committee, suggested to give the highway department added funds for the long-range program. It would provide an estimated $2,500,000 in added reveune. The highway use stamp is another medium for giving the highway department added funds. It would put an added $3,000,000 in department funds at $5 based on 1947 registra tions. Opponents argue that this measure almost certainly would be invoked to increase depart ment funds and at the maxi mum figure. There are, they in sist, no real guarantees under the law that the stamp will be used only as an emergency measure. The stamp fee is very similar to the federal automo bile use stamp imposed by the federal government during the war. The motto of Washington State is Al-Ki, meaning Bye and Bye. Wescottfs Good Clothes Nothing Else Since 1873 Rural Leaders Hornemakers rSD H iWl fry When Chamber of Commerce Secretaries from outstate Ne braska convened in Omaha recently they met with Omaha leaders to plan the third annual Leadership Recognition program for Rural Hornemakers. Planning the program (left to right top row) E. IS. Hawley, Nebraska City; Harris V. Osterberg, Norfolk; Robert Garey, Hastings; A. Eugene Haylett, Scottsblnff and L. J. Bible, McCook. (Bottom row) Penelope Anderson, May Yard, Bertha Schmitt and Inez Coppon, ail from the Womens Division of the Omaha Chamber. Recognition of rural hornemakers will be given at 13 district meetings, with a final three state meeting in Omaha on May 5th. Women from all Nebraska counties, 22 Iowa and 12 Kansas counties will vie for leadership awards. EIRE STARTS OPERATING OWN MERCHANT FLEET New York, u.R The maiden voyage to New York of the S. S. Irish Pine, the first of five new ships, inaugurates a new venture in world trade under the Irish flag. The new fleet with its ac commodations for passengers and the latest cargo handling facilities, will maintain a regu lar service between European and American coastal ports. The Irish Pine of 7.500 tons and 16 knots speed, will be fol lowed shortly by the S. S. Irish Cedar, S. S. Irish Oak and S. S. Irish Alder, operating in con junction with the State Marine Corporation. New York. Until re cently, Eire had no deep sea ton nage under her own flag and her trade was mainly in the hand of Britain and foreign powers. 11-TON CARRIER PLANE TESTED BY NAVY Quonset Point, R. I. (U.R An 11-ton airplane, one of the heav iest ever designed solely for car rier duty, is being tested off the Atlantic coast. The Navy said the craft com bines the heaviest concenration of torpedoes, rockets and ma chine guns ever set on a single engine, carrier-based plane. The new plane, known as the Martin AM-1 Mauler, is being tested on the U. S. S. Kearsarge. I North Carolina's death rate is the lowest of all the states east of the Mississippi (7.9 per thousand . (Compiled by Nebraska Press Association) Lincoln, Nebr. The Nebraska legislature shifted into high gear this week, and settled down to the job of handling the 529 bills before it. Senators may drop legislation into the hopper at will during the first 20 days of the session. Thereafter, however, an affir mative vote of 22 members of the unicameral is required be fore any additional bills may be added, and the legislature tra ditionally is reluctant to have its agenda lengthened to any great extent. The $500,000 storm emergency fund requested by Gov. Val Peterson was enacted, but the expense of bringing relief to the stricken counties already had accounted for that sum. j Peterson said it was impossible to give a aonar-and-cents re port on the costs of helping Ne braska farmers and ranchers shovel themselves and their livestock free of the disasterous blizzard. But he pointed out 300 bull dozers were operating in the state for eight days before the appropriation bill cleared the legislative machinerv. even under the speed-up allowed by j the unicameral. The cost of op erating the gigantic 'dozers has been estimated at $10 an hour, and the machinery has been used as much as possible. Added to this is the expense of the national guard, called out in different parts of the state to aid in the emergency. And many senators are un happily aware that in addition to this emergency expense will be the cost of repairing roads once all traces of the "Blizzard of '49" have melted away. This may bring support to the proposal of Sen. Norris Schroed er, Hoskins farmer, for a change in the formula which counties' GAP1I0L NEWS Plan ram share of gasoline tax collections are distributed. The state and the counties split the revenue, j 50-50. Tinder nresent law 45 rPr rent of the counties' share is based on motor vehicle registration, a similar amount on farm popu lation, and 10 per cent on one farm population. Schroeder pro poses this be changed, with the amount of money coming under the non-farm, or city, popula tion classification to be govern ed by the number of open miles of roads in each county, exclu sive of state and federal high ways. "It isn't reasonable that any county should continue to re ceive county gas tax money to 1 support roads which are now supported by the state and fed eral government," he said, lab eling the present formula "un just." SETTING A NEW WORLD STANDARD OF, LOW-COST & fie Cass "Many counties are virtually excluded from participation In the 10 per cent classification based on city population. This is unfair." Nineteen counties would lose under the Schroeder formula, while all others would gain. The 19 losers: Adams, Buffalo, Burt, Cass, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Hall, Jefferson. Lancas ter, Lincoln, Madison. Otoe, Richardson, Sarpy, Scotts Bluff, Thurston, and Washington. Sen. Don Hanna, Valentine rancher, offered a bill to save , the state an estimated $67,477 a year. He wants to repeal the "vicious discrimination" under which the Board of Control is forbidden to serve butter sub stitutes at any state institu tions but the penitentiary and the women's reformatory. But the agriculture committee kill ed the bill, by a 6-to-3 vote. Hanna said he would try to raise the bill on the floor of the legislature. Opposition to his proposal generally is based on the argu ment that present law requires Nebraska-made butter to be served at the institutions. Oleo is manufactured of products not grown in the state, and re peal of the law, therefore, would be an under served slap at the dairy industry. Since farmers make up the bulk of Nebraska taxpayers, the argu ment goes, they are entitled to preferential treatment at the lawmakers' hands. Hanna countered it would be as logical to forbid the institu tions to serve dried prunes which also are not grown in Ne braka. In fact, he said, if his butter bill is defeated he may introduce a '"prune bill." Both factions concede the money involved WOUld not af- ! fect the dairy industry in any , i wai Finding smoother sailing in the unicameral is Sen. Ed Hoyt's proposal to remove the 3.5-mill ceiling imposed in many counties, and allow all to levy up to the constitutional five-mill limit. The McCook senator said many are forced by necessity to violate the law, and the legislators apparently are willing to go along with his move. The deadline for introducing bills brought a flurry of pro posed measures dropping into the hopper. Chief among them were recommendations for put ting the state in the wholesale liquor business, at an estimated &ejgfim( aSouf most .Beau ffflii You'll find that now more than ever before Chev rolet merits the title of being "first for quality at lowest cost"; and that it is, indeed, the most beautiful buy of all, in all these features and in all these ways. 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