The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1961-04-14
GIVING EACH A PROPER SHARE OF THE LOAD.
(The Mooresville Tribune)

Tery Sanford faced the people of North Carolina three
times before he entitled by law become Governor of
this time faced them he beat back his oppon
ents Democrat and Republican, by overwhelming plurality
and majority
give the children of North Carolina decent chance life
He advocated not only adequate school buildings and sufc
high school crrcua of the future he pleaded should be
comprised of science mathematics languages fewer
courses IN har-do piccoo baton weightfng In short he
advocated that the children of today get with their stud
les and quit horsng around.
was then, inevitable he propose to the General
Assembly tax program that would make his goals in edu
cation possible And was characteristic of his courage that
ne chose the most feasible and equitable plan possible DESPITE
the great political risk involved
In recommending tax plan that would lift the sales tax
exemption on everything across the board food Cover
nor Sanford became, may term very popular
this time, profile in courage.
The sales tax food will furnish $25 million year to
ne schools Ihs IS one and one-haf cents day for each
person IN the state The sales tax drugs will bring $685.
600 per year the schools This is an average Of cents
per year for each person in the state
We, like the Governor think tax cigarettes and to-
bacco would be reasonable Such however would fall
$15 million short of the S25 million necessary Furthermore
the Governor was informed from unmpeachabe
the General Assembly that tax cigarettes
would be blocked. Why try the impossible?
Actually there is nothing unfair wrong, or terrible
about sales tax food At SO have had such
tax Tor years among them nehborng states of South
Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee We had tax
in North Carolina Melville Broughton conceived the
loea Whe Governor to use its elimination political GIN
mick to help him win his to the United States
North Carolina and in Mooresville.
President Franklin Roosevelt asking for million
jobs via the PWA to end the dole We had nearly % million
peone the relief roles In North Carolina industry and
agriculture were leaning against the In Mooresve
textile n'ants running two and three week. often
only two shifts and with whole sections plants shut
down. Tax at ame low Schools and pub
lie services were suffering at every facet.
And yet, in those years had Scent sales tax in
North Carolina food probably this sales tax that
kept the state solvent and kept Open
There was no weeping waing in those davs about
sales tax food The people had job to- do-aford
sort Of education and school opportunity to their children
They did it. And there reports of death
don during those years in North Carolina.
The political grandstand boys of course yelling
high heaven about such Course being put the poor
peope back home Actually it is the poor people
benefit most by adequate schools And actually
few people in North Carolina that cannot
paw cents dollars worth of food school support for
their children is in most such cases. about the only tax
they'll pay.
We know, for instance rowing family in Iredell
county that has sent five children throuph high school
hasn't paid enough school tax to buv single stick chalk
used at the blackboard bv of these children this
family has bought and traded through the taken
long trips and otherwise had extra money spend.
If we want to educate the children Of our state we
must be willing to pay for it The tax plan will add $500