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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1939
Page
5
High treasury officials outlined a possible tax bill allowing corporations to balance losses from bad years with profits from good years for income tax. Restoring loss carryover could cost little if many firms stay profitable, while broader consolidation aims to reduce filing burdens and taxes across corporations.
A corny aphorism claims peak athletic potential lies between ages 1h and 30, suggesting youth and early adulthood offer prime performance windows.
Washington March 3 Senator Bone said a large group of senators would propose blunt tax legislation to remove profits from war funding. The plan would impose steep personal and corporate rates up to 97 percent if war starts, aiming to replace the current tax system and deter war profits.
Harry Lampie, head of the Probation Commission, is seen as a strong candidate for the State Industrial Commission when a successor to J Dewey Dorsett is chosen. Governors may wait till the legislature adjourns. Parole and Probation merger is deemed unlikely. Influential legislator Fred Seeley from Carteret county also features in the discussion.
The article notes Claude Abernathy and Marvin Ritch show uneven floor leadership as the Revenue bill moves. It compares current zeal in the House to 1937 and explains state tax yields hinge on fluctuating business conditions, complicating NC budget balancing.
Denture wearers struggle with denture breath and hard to reach scum. Polident powder dissolves denture grime, stains, and odor without brushing or acids. Approved by Good Housekeeping and dentists, it costs about 20 cents at drug stores.
Bladen's Bombshell Page angrily opposes cutting the sales tax from three to two percent. Rowan veteran Pete Murphy quips that opponents should try jumping in Bladen Lake. Page owns the lake bearing his name and voiced the sharp reaction.
Realty transfers cover multiple townships in Guilford County including High Point and Morehead with deeds from L B Frazier to L B Cagle and Sizemore paddocks to Edwin D Steele. N A Napier conveys Oak Hill park tracts to N P Napier and Mara Napier. City of Greensboro sells Piedmont Heights parcel to Laura May. Additional transfers involve West Lake drive, Chancery place and state highway 61 parcels.
Representative Seely notes a misprint in the revenue bill allowing counties cities and towns to levy any tax on pronologists. The Carteret man asks what it means and is told the sky is the limit. Some lawyers say phrenologists are the only items local units may tax at will while other taxes follow state limits.
Considerable fireworks are expected at a public hearing on a bill to extend Raleigh city limits. The measure, no longer a local bill, has drawn interest from legislators statewide amid chatter in lobbies and lunchrooms in the capital.
Senator Miller of Arkansas told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that the freight rate structure is a crazy quilt and a hodgepodge. He urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to review all rates and devise a fair, independent system, noting southern and agricultural regions face discrimination in favor of industrial east.
The Interstate Commerce Commission motor carrier bureau announces approval of the merger between Greensboro Fayetteville Bus Line Inc and Queen City Coach Company of Charlotte. The action grants consolidation of bus services linking Greensboro Fayetteville and Charlotte under a single operation.
Army orders released yesterday list Lieut. Col. Milton H Taulbee of Birmingham Alabama as transferred to Fort Bragg North Carolina from Washington March 44.
World output of platinum in 1938 is estimated at 450,000 ounces, slightly up from 448,000 ounces the previous year. The figures reflect ongoing mining activity and supply dynamics in the metal market.
A historic report notes London residents consume more than 160 billion cigarettes each year, highlighting widespread smoking habits, public health concerns, and potential policy implications for urban health departments and local authorities.
President Roosevelt authorized the navy to build four 6,000 ton cruisers in private shipyards under the Vinson Trammell act. Total cost about 48 million dollars, about 12 million each. Charles Edison cited lower cost faster delivery and uniform equipment sourcing as benefits.
Pope Pius XII opened his regular audiences and received William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston and George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago in separate sessions.
The Thomasville city council postponed action on granting a ten year bus line franchise after taxi operator Lee Hagler and resident H F Moore presented petitions. The council also plans to buy a new police car, appoints city officials, and votes curb work for the City Memorial Hospital grounds.
A February health report by Miss Ella Dorsett lists one case each of diphtheria scarlet fever measles and whooping cough in Thomasville. Quarantines were enforced and 161 syphilis clinic patients plus 40 immunization clinic patients received treatment. Dorsett made 236 nurse visits including 130 morbidity 82 health service 14 social service five field calls. She spoke to the Kearn Street PTA and conducted Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick at Church Street school.
Some ferns bear as many as 50,000,000 spores on a single plant and each spore is capable of producing a new plant, highlighting the extraordinary reproductive potential of ferns.
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