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Golden Valley News
June 27, 2019
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tax refund application
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BISMARCK - Tax Commissioner paid by industrial consumers, farmers
Ryan Rauschenberger reminds con- and ranchers is refundable because
sumers that July 1, 2019, is the last construction equipment, tractors and
day to apply for a refund of the state combines generally don't run on pub-
fuel taxes paid on gasoline/gasohol in lic highways,
2018. Fuel purchased for use by an emer-
"A refund of the tax paid for fuel gency medical services operation also
purchased to power farm, ranch and qualifies fora refund of the tax. Emer-
industrial equipment used off-road is gency medical services operations
available to qualified consumers," may reqUest a refund of 23 cents per
said Rauschenberger. "State gasoline gallon for purchases of gasoline/gaso-
or gasohol taxes paid on purchases hol or non-dyed diesel fuel and eight
made during 2018 are eligible for the cents per gallon of aviation fuel.
refund." The Agricultural Products Utiliza-
The deadline is typically on June tion Commission (APUC) receives
30 of each year. Since that date falls 1/2 cent per gallon based on the re-
on a Sunday this year, the deadline funds requested by industrial con-
has been extended to July 1. sumers.
Farmers and ranchers may receive In 2018, $184,296 in refunds were
a refund of 23 cents per gallon, and issued for nearly 800,000 gallons of
industrial consumers may request a motor fuel sold in 2017. Refunds not
refund of 22.5 cents per gallon for claimed stay in the Highway Distri-
gasoline/gasohol purchased. Gasohol bution Fund.
is a mixture of gasoline and ethanol, For more information on the motor
with the most common mixture of 90 fuel tax refund, taxpayers may visit
percent gasoline and 10 percent the Office of State Tax Commis-
ethanol, sioner's website at
State taxes collected on motor www.nd.gov/tax/motorfuel/forms/re-
fuels are intended to go toward high- funds or call the Motor Fuels Taxes
way maintenance. However, thetaxes Section at (701) 328-3126.
of screenings for
f(
requires monitoring
BISMARCK - Utilizing screen- North Dakota law requires
ings for feed can be an inexpensive, landowners to do all things necessary
yet effective supplement for feeding and proper to control the spread of
livestock. However, screenings may noxious weeds in the state. They
come with some risk if they include have many ways of spreading. To aid
seeds of weeds that are invasive or in the control of noxious weeds,
difficult to control, farmers and ranchers should work
"When a farmer or rancher takeswith local weed officers and exten-
possession of screenings, they are re- sion agents to identify and report
sponsible to control any noxious noxious, weeds. Early detection is
weed infestations originating from key to a rapid response.
those screenings," Agriculture Com- More information on noxious and
missioner Doug Goehring said. "If ' ' "
mvaslve weeds is available at
you feed screenings, it is important nd.gov/ndda/plant-industries/nox-
to monitor places where the cattle are ious-weeds or by contacting the
fed, where they may have foraged North Dakota Department of Agri-
and where manure was applied." culture at !701) 328-2250.
Some think that the scourge of
smallpox was present around
12,000 years ago, however, we
know for sure it was here 3,000
years ago as it was found on the face
of an Egyptian Pharaoh mummy.
We know that it caused many large
and devastating epidemics killing
about 35 percent of infected adults
and 80 percent of infected children.
Even during the 20th century, small-
pox still resulted in 300-500 million
deaths world-wide.
Pictures of people suffering from
this miserable viral illness show
skin of face and body breaking out
with dime-sized firm white or red
blisters. People also commonly de-
veloped fevers, vomiting, spread of
blisters into mouth and eyes, and
too often came to a wretched and
miserable death. Ifone survived, the
common facial pox scars could be
extremely disfiguring and some-
times affected the cornea of eyes
causing blindness.
During the tenth century in
China, someone began inoculating
the fluid from 'a smallpox blister
onto abraded skin on the arm or leg
of a healthy individual, allowing for
a single pox to get started in a con-
trolled way. This worked fairly well
except that the procedure made
them infectious to others for a while
and resulted in death to the recipi-
ent one percent of the time. Con-
tracting smallpox killed about 35
percent of adults, so reducing the
rate to one percent was an improve-
ment. This rather dangerous process
of inoculating live smallpox became
popular in England during the 16
and 1700s.
Smallpox was given the medical
term variola from Latin for spotted
pimple. It had been commonly
known as the red plague until in
Prairie Doc
By Dr. Richard P.
Holm
Britain during the 1600s it was
called smallpox to distinguish it
from great-pox or syphilis.
Noting that milk maids rarely got
smail ox, in:A796 British :rural
physician Edward Jenner found that
inomiiating the fluid of the milder
diseasecowpox provided .for sub-
starttial ,immunity from ,smallpox
without significant risk to the recip-
ient and without the danger of
spreading smallpox. Jenner called
the cowpox inoculate "vaccine"
after vacca, the Latin word for cow.
With a vaccination campaign
lead by the World Health Organiza-
tion, world,wide deaths reduced
from two million per year in 1967
to none in 1977. I find it nothing
short of a miracle that in those ten
years, human smallpox infections
were virtually eliminated from this
world. It was a miracle wrought by
human intelligence, the ingenuity of
creative and resourceful minds, and
the scientific method,
It was the miracle of vaccina-
tion.
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