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Thursday, December 29, 1949
IDE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
D. T. ESPY Editoi and Manager
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The 801 l Weevil
Is No Santa Claus
The National Cotton Coun
cil in an unoffcial preliminary
estimate predicts that insect
damage to the 1949 Georgia
cotton crop will amount to ap
proximately $40,964,000.
Even in this day when as
tronomica 1 figures are com
monplace. 40 million dollars is
a lot of money. Divide it up
and take it out of the Christ
mas stockings of some 225,000
Georgia farm families and this
disastrous damage strikes
home even more sharply.
The boll weevil is no Santa
Claus. He and his cotton com
panions, according to the Cot
ton Council estimate, this year
took about S4O out of the
stocking of every man, wom
and and child living on a farm.
Georgia’s annual per capita
farm income is about $l5O.
Based on this average, each
member of a farm family in
the state would have had ap
proximately eight per cent
more money to spend with
Georgia merchants had not
cotton insects destroyed an es
timated 21 per cent of the
crop.
The Cotton Council, with the
goal df an integrated pro
gram of cotton insect control,
is sponsoring the third annual
Cotton Insect Control Confer
ence in Birmingham on De
cember 19-20. Government and
state research and education
al agencies, the cotton indus
try. insecticide and equipment
and equipment manufacturers
will meet to plan a fight
against cotton pests.
Achievement of the confer
ence goal and reduction of
such appalling cotton insect
losses as were inflicted this
year would mean more dollars
in the pockets of Georgians.
No effort should be spared to
effect these savings.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir .
In 1933 individual and corpo
ration income taxes totaled $750,-
000,000. In 1949 these taxes will
run to an estimated $33 billion,
or roughly 40 times as much.
Some of us are old enough to
recall rather vividly that good
year 1933. Every bank in the
country was closed. Fear gripped
the people. The national econo
my appeared to be cracking
apart. Factories were idle. Six
teen million men and women
were tramping the streets look
ing for jobs, many of them hun
gry and cold.
National income in 1933 was
. approximately $44 billion. In 1948
it was $225 billion. Deduct taxes
paid in each of these years from
the national income and the
amount left was $43 billion in
1933 and $192 billion in 1948. In
other words the American peop
le have more than four times as
much money left now, after pay
ing income taxes, as they had in
1933.
We have prosperity now in
stead of depression. Who would
want to go back to 1933. even to
cut to level of that year. I wish
everybody a Happy Christmas
and a Happy New Year, and that
our prosperity and good times
will continue.
Yours truly.
H L. ABRAMS
Lyerly, Oa.
— diißir:
I vere gratified by the won
।nd "esponse last Wednesday,
at St, when hundreds of
Th atteiA^d the benefit
of Ai nd brought toys for
nlng t>ys and girls of this
Mrs. i
ents, h your columns we
ilton <e to thank all parents,
Mr. school teachers and
was io cooperated so whole-
Mrs. 1 in this effort to see
the hone was forgotten on
The* Eve.
Mrs e that each of you has
teachoy from these acts and
day It may have a merry
Mrs. and prosperous New
guest.
Scoggr Yours truly.
Icy . Veterans of Foreign
Mr » Wars
and A®, American Legion
and fat ■ ——
S ’ND NEWS
„ Watson Millican
Miss Myra* r vpr l v wpr „ '
week-end wit _T y i
wrt x eno wn and
dav Saturday
Mrs Lizzie High of
vllle Is spend! o ?
her stater. Mrs Bunday
nn »» Mr ? 15 s hell Vaughn
Mr and Mrs „ Joh
Tenn, Mr.
J D White Rr. w M
Mr and Mm.
and Mrs. Bob House were guests
of John Vaughn and Mrs. Hes
ter Clark Christmas day.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Vaughn
and Mrs. Cecil Vaughn, of Mem
phis, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob House visited Mr. and Mrs.
George Flemister, of Rome, Sun
day.
Vernon and Ray Millican, of
Lyerly, spent several days last
week with their aunt, Mrs. Ben
Vaughn and Mr. Vaughn.
Mr.and Mrs. Fred Stephenson,
lof Memphis, spent a few days
I this week with relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Herndon
and Sylvia, of Montgomery, Ala.,
and Major John E. Herndon, of
Pensacola, Fla., were supper
guests Saturday night of Mr.and
Mrs. Mark Strawn.
Miss Miriam Holland, of
(Washington, D. C., is spending
(this week with her family.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hubler
| left Monday for their home in
St. Louis after spending Christ
[mas with R. L. Holland and fam
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Strawn
spent Saturday night and Sun
day in Chattanooga with Mrs.
Strawn’s family, the Delaneys.
Mr. and Mrs. JI. P. Adderhold
and Frank had a Christmas din
ner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G.
S. Holland.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Jackson,
[of Lyerly, were dinner guests
i Sunday of R. L. Holland and
I family.
Mr.and Mrs. Harley Bandy, of
Trion^spent Saturday night with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Mark
[ Strawn.
j Mrs. John Pollock and Miss
[Pearl Burney, of Lyerly, visited
relatives here last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Harris, of
Chattanooga, spent Monday with
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Strawn.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hensley,
of LaFayette, visited Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. White last Wednes
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie McAfre.
of Gadsden, and Mr. and Mrs.
James White, of Summreville,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. White.
Mrs. Claud Ratliff visited Miss I
Mayme Smith in McCall’s Hos
pital in Rome last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bennett
and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Stephen
(son spent Monday with Mr. and
Mrs. Enoch High at Gore.
Mrs. Ross Clark entertained
( with a Christmas dinner Sunday.
Those presents were: Mrs. R. P.
Brison. Emmadean and Bob, 1
Miss Emma Hense, Miss Eva
Worsham and Frank.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Stephen
son spent Sunday in Chattanoo
ga.
Oscar Ratliff, of near Gad
sden. was visiting here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon and chil
dren had dinner Sunday with
Mrs. Mattle Worsham and fam
ily
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ratliff, of
Trion, and Mr. and Mrs. Wiley
Ratliff, of Rome, visited Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Ratliff Monday.
Mrs. Della Moon and Mrs. Inez
Greer, of Summerville, visited
Mrs. Minnie Holland and family
Monday.
Mrs. Evelyn Strawn spent Sat
urday night with Mrs. Claud
I Ratliff.
(Last Week’s Letter)
Mr. and Mrs. Alf Strawn en
tertained Sundav with a family
Christmas dinner Those enjoy
ing the event were: Mr and Mrs.
Blake Cofer. Miss Barbara
Strawn and Mr and Mrs. Dave
Strawn and sons, of Rome; Mr.
and Mrs Arch Taidley, of Chat
tanooga: Mr and Mrs. Harley
Bandy, of Trion; Mrs. Evelyn
Strawn. Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Strawn. Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Strawn. Bob. Patsy. Thomas and
Gail Strawn.
Mrs. George Hubler and Pam
ela. of Alton. 111., arrived Sunday
for a week’s visit with R L. Hol
land and family.
Mrs John Pollock and Miss
Pearl Burney, of Lyerly, were
guests Thursday afternoon of
Mrs Gilbert Holland.
Mrs Della Moon and Mrs. Ed
Worsham, of Summerville, vis
ited Mrs Minie Holland on her
birthday.
Misses Mary and Bertha Hol
land were shopping in Rome on
Saturday.
Mrs Harley Bandy and Mrs.
Willard Jackson spent the day
Tuesday with Mrs. Mark Strawn.
Mesdamcs Bob House, Ben
Vaughn and Hester Clark visited
Mrs George Flemester in Rome
Thursday
Mesdamcs Ross Clark, Bob
White and Harold Strawn went
to McCall's Hospital Thursday to
sec Miss Mayme Smith.
Miss Emmadcan Bryson came
Thursday from the University of
Georgia to be with her family.
Mr. and Mrs Ben Vaughn vis
ited Mrs Walt Millican in Lyer
: ly Sunday,
Mrs Wil) Gaylor and Cecil were
shopping in Rome Monday.
Mrs. Clyde Bennett, Mrs Clyde
Stephenson and Mrs Harold
Strawn were shopping in Rome
Friday.
Mr and Mrs M. M Allen, of
Lyerly, visited Miss Minnie Hol
land and family Sunday night
The improvement of the un
derstanding is for two ends;
first, our own increase of knowl
edge to others —Locke
ALPINE NEWS
By Mrs. T. T. Toles
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dempsey,
of Oak Hill, spent Tuesday with
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Tucker.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman White,
of Menlo, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest White, Betty and Sadie
White, Monday afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Reece and
children, Bobbie and David, of
Menlo, were Sunday night sup
per guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glad
stone Dempsey and children, and
Mrs. Smatha Dempsey.
Miss Dixie Nix, of Trion, spent
Monday with Mr. and Mrs.
Fletcher Toles and son, Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tucker
and Mr. and Mrs. Lesley Tucker
and sons, Dennis and Ralph,
were the Saturday night supper
guests of their parents, Mr. and
and Mrs. C. L. Tucker.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Powell
and children, Charlene, Joyce
and Wayne, spent Sunday with
(Mrs. Powell’s parents, the Rev.
and Mrs. S. G. Morris, of Jack
sonville, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank White, of
[Atlanta, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy
White and daughters, Linda and
Brenda, of LaGrange, were the
week-end guests of their par
lents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest White,
[Betty and Sadie.
Gus Cargle and son, Pete, of
Blair, Okla., spent Friday with
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Purcell.
Billy and Bobby Padget, of
Chattoogaville, w’ere the week
end guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. O.
Dickerson and family.
Mrs. Blane Padget an d I
[ daughters, Patsy and Carolyn,
I visited Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson,
I Sunday afternoon.
Those visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lumsden Sat
urday night were: the Rev. and
Mrs. J. A. Sentell, Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. James
Moseley and son, Charles Norton, i
and Mr and Mrs. Finn Crowe, all
of Alabama.
Miss Hazel Toles spent Friday
night with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Toles and
Miss Blanche Toles, of Oak Hill
Miss Glenda Beth Purcell
spent Thursday night with Mr.
and Mrs. D. F. Spraggins and
daughter, Linda, of Menlo.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe King, of
Menlo, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest White and Betty and
Sadie? Saturday night.
Miss Faye Carter has returned
to Berry College, after having
spent the holidays with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Car
ter and children, Gladys, James
and Gene.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mcßay
and son, David, of Centerpost,
and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Wil
liams and daughter, Charlotte,
of Trion, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Powell and family, Sat
urday night.
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Koonce
and children, of Summerville,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Walters and children.
Mr. and Mrs. Lesley Tucker
and sons, Ralph and Dennis,
were Sunday dinner guests of
Mrs. Tucker’s parents. Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Spraggins and grand
son. Ronnie, of near Menlo.
Misses Mavis and Pat Demp
sey, of Fort Payne. Ala., spent
a few days the first of the week
with Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone
and children. Gerald. O’Bera and
Maxine, and Mrs Smatha
Dempsey.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lumsden
spent Christmas Day with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Lumsden, of Centre, Ala.
Mrs. Floyd Dickerson and Al
fred Dickerson, of Summerville,
visited Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Dick
erson and family, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Purcell and
daughter, Jo Ann, of Pennville,
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs J H Purcell and
Joe Henry.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold White
were Saturday night supper
guests of Mrs. White’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A W Vernon and
Harold, of Lyerly.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Morrison,
of New Moon. Ala., and Mr. and
Mrs. Leon Morrison, of Gadsden,
Ala., visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl
ton Tucker. Sunday night.
Mr and Mrs. Arthur Wilson
and family, of Buford.visited Mr
and Mrs. Gladstone Dempsey
and children, and Mrs Smatha
Dempsey Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Romle Purcell
and children, of LaFayette,
spent Monday afternoon with
Mr and Mrs J. H. Purcell.
Mr and Mrs. Herman Buffing
ton. of Rome, and the Rev. and
Mrs J A Sentell. of New Moon,
Ala., were the Sundav dinner
guests of Mr and Mrs. Taylor
Toles. Hazel and Tommv.
Mr and Mrs H B Glllreath
and daughters. Nancv and Jack
ie. of Trion, visited Mr and Mrs
Charles Powell and children.
Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs Bob Dempsey, of
Summerville, were the Mondav
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs
Gladstone Dempsey and children
and Mrs. Smatha Dempsey
Mr and Mrs, Herman Buf
fington and Mr and Mr and
Mrs Ralph Toles and son. Lynn,
al of Rome. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor
Toles and son. Tommv. of
Alpine, Mr and Mrs. Ernest
Weaver and children. Jeanell and
Maurice and Mrs Molly Weaver.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
all of Henegar, Ala., and Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Cavin and children,
Johnny, Marilyn and Susan, all
lof Trion, visited Mr. and Mrs.
[c. R. Toles and Miss Blanche
(Toles, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold White
(visited Mr. and Mrs. Walt Vern
lon and daughter, Sandra, of
I Summerville, Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Smatha Dempsey spent
Sunday with Mrs. N. E. Yar
brough and Mr. Yarbrough and
children, of Oak Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tucker
visited Mr. and Mrs. Will Weaver
and family, of Broomtown, Ala.,
Sunday afternoon.
Those visiting in the home of
Mr.and Mrs. Arthur Hurst Sun
day were: Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Holbrooks, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
[ Kitchens and sons, Mr. and Mrs.
[Joe Denson and son, Joe Faye;
[Mr. and Mrs. Emory Martin and
[daughters, Linda and Emily; Mr.
and Mrs. James Leonard and
Roy Hurst, all of Summerville,
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wofford
and family, and Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Lumsden.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Morrison
and Cuye, of Rome, were Monday
night guests of Mrs. Smatha
Dempsey, Mr. and Mrs. Glad
stone and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Day and
[family, of LaFayette, spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Purcell and family.
Mr. and Mrs. James Crowe and
Barbara, of near New Moon, Ala.,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone
Dempsey and family and Mrs.
Smatha Dempsey Monday after
noon.
Sand Mountain News
(Last Week’s Letter)
By Mrs. Z. M. Cooper
The Rev. J. O. Crabb filled his
regular appointment at the
church here Sunday afternoon.
Sunday School will be held
Sunday and every Sunday at 10
a. m. wth Herschell Mathis as
superintendent. B. T. U. is held
each Sunday night with H. M.
Rosser as leader.
The Farm Bureau meeting will
be held in the home of Z. M.
Cooper Friday night. Dr.
Herman Gray is expected to be
special guest at this meeting.
The Community House is under
construction but won’t be fin
ished by Friday night. It is
hoped to have it ready by Jan
uary.
Jadie Price, of Trion, is spend
ing this week with Mr. and Mrs.
[Ernest Price.
Miss Bonnie Mae Bridges
[spent Sunday night with Mrs.
[Robert Brown.
Linwood Owens, of Trion, is
spending this week with his
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Owens.
The Ret. J. O. Crabb was din
ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Owens, on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Tucker
and family have moved from
Sand Mountain to near Sum
merville.
Mrs. Maggie Owings, of Trion,
and Mrs. Carl Alexander, of
Baltimore, Md., were visitors in
the W. H. D. Club last Friday in
the home of Mrs. H. E. Mathis.
G. L. Rosser, of Berryton, was
[Monday guest of Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Rosser.
Mrs. Dooley has been sick for
several days but is improving
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Rosserand
sons. Lamarr and Vernon, Mr.
and Mrs. Z. M. Cooper and chil
dren, Rachel and Sidney, went
to Rome Saturday night.
Mr and Mrs. Wayman Milliam
and daughter, Joyce, of Rome,
were guests Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. Huston Cargle.
SPRING CREEK NEWS
(Las Week’s Letter)
By Betty Hines
The annual Christmas pro
gram was held at the Spring
Creek Baptist Church Sunday
with a large attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hawkins
and Barbara Hines were shop
ping in Rome Saturday.
Diana Lewis was dinner guset
of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Reece
' Sunday.
Miss Frances Palmour. of
Reinhardt College, is spending
i Christmas holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grady
। Palmour.
Mr. and Mrs F. M. Wardlaw
and Mrs Ella Pettyjohn were in
LaFayette Friday.
Mr. and Mrs J. D. Wilbanks
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Smith Sunday.
Mrs. Ester Lewis was week-end
j guest of the Rev. and Mrs. Frank
Lewis and family.
Mrs Rita Caldwell and Glen
da were visiting Mr and Mrs. E.
R Wells Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Pettyjohn
and Mrs Ella Pettyjohn and
Luther were shopping In Sum
merville Friday.
The community was glad to
see Mrs Joe Smith at church
Sunday after a long Illness
Miss Nadine Wells was supper
guest Sunday of Miss Barbara
Hines.
Mrs Louise Night was visiting
Mr. and Mrs Milton Wilson.
Sunday
Mrs. J D Hawkins and John
were visiting Mirs Alfred Prttv
john Sunday
NEWS NOTES
BOY LOCKS SELF IN VAULT
Washington — Johnnie Ar
nold, 11, fled from teasing
friends into an abandoned vault
in the locker room of the Stage
crafter’s club, pulled the door
shut and locked it. When hi s
playmates could not relaese
him, firemen were called.
They used an acetylene torch to
cut a small hole into the vault
so the boy could breathe and
then cut another one large
enuogh for him to crawl
through. A tear - stained but
smiling boy emerged.
PREMONITON PROVES TRUE
New York — Once a week,
[ Miss Renee Cohen, 24-year-old
I bookkeeper picks up the pay
roll of her company at a bank
and takes it a few blocks to the
shoe machinery firm where she
works. Recently, she had a
premonition of trouble and,
instead of carrying the $1,205
payroll in her purse, she
[slipped the bills into the pages
(of a magazine she had under
[her arm. A few steps from
[ the bank a man leaped from
[ a car, grabbed her purse and
[fled. She saved the payroll.
[ however.
BURNED IN ’4B, HOME FOR
CHRISTMAS
Washington, D. C. —Little Mike
Rector, 4, who has been in Cas
ualty hospital since November
12, 1948, as a result of burns
which covered over 70 per cent
[of his body, is going to get home
for Christmas. He will have to
[return to the hospital for more
'skin grafts, however. The boy
[ was burned when his cowboy’ i
(suit caught fire.
FIVE BABIES IN YEAR
Atlanta, Ga. — Mrs. Thelma
Gibbs. 27. has set some kind of
record — she has had five ba
bies — all of them born since
last Christmas. She has eleven
month-old twins, Wayne and
Jane , and month-old-triplets, i
Lynda. Brenda and Glenda.
York. Pa. — Edwin Young.
67. had just finished chopping
down a tree on his farm when I
the tree toppled over on him.
He died forty-five minutes later
at the York hospital.
—
FIREORKS KILL SERGEANT
Turnell, Ark. — Maurice E.
Mims, of Clanton, Ala., a 26
year-old arm sergeant, trapped
in a small service station, was
killed when stacks of Christ
mas fireworks ignited and filled
(the room with flaming explo
sions. Two other men escaped
injury by plunging through a
[glass door. The fireworks were
set off w’hen a penny package
of lighted firecrackers was
tossed on the floor. They start
ed exploding and hit a big
stack of fireworks. Mims was
trapped behind the exploding
i fireworks and could not escape.
NOT CONVINCED
Toledo. Ohio — Hailed into
court for knocking his mother
in-law unconscious, Harry Mar
inski. who weighs 180 pounds,
claimed “self - defense.” The
judge wasn’t convinced, how
ever, as his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Hazel Tipping, weighs only 100
pounds.
INCOME RISE
The median or middle - sized
income* of American families
has risen from $1,500 in 1941 to
$3,120 — an increase of more
, than 100 per cent, even after
taking into account the heav
ier income tax rate, according
to the Federal Reserve Board.
] Civilian employment in the
executive branch of the Govern
ment totaled 2,057,064 in Sep
tember, a reduction of 33.045
from the previous month. Cuts
in civilan employment in the
military establishment of the
nation accounted for an addi
tional reduction of 29,910 In the
first four months of the present
fiscal year
FIRE LOM
The monthly fire loss in Octo
ber. when thousands of Ameri
can communities observed Fire
Prevention Week, fell to S4B
-a new 1949 low. Estl
pnated losses for the first ten
.months of 1949 were $547,141,000,
a decline of seven per cent from
Ihe same period of 1948
WORLD FOOD PRODCTION
Ample harvests In the North
ern Hemisphere have turned the
tide against postwar world
starvation according to the
United States Food and Agri
cultural Organization, which
points out. however, that food
production still lags far behind
world .needs. The F. A O. said
food production during the last
year Improved in every region
except Australia and New Zea
land.
FREEDOM FAIR
The Sesqulcentennial CommU
sion. preparing for the one
hundred and fifieth anniversary
celebration of Washington's es
tablishment as the National
Capital is expecting an influx
of more than 15.000.000 visitors
to Washington next year. Amer
ica’s progress under the free
enterprise system will be em
phasized in the seven-month
celebration, in which all of the
i states and territories and about
40 foreign nations are expected
to participate with exhibits and
pageants.
A preliminary program of
pageants and parades will start
April 15. The Freedom Fair
itself is scheduled to open July
4 and run until November 22,
the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the first meeting
of Congress in the newly-es
tablished Federal City.
CROP SUPPORTS
At the end of August, the Fed
leral Government had invested
$2,680,000,000 in surplus farm
[commodities, according to the
I Agricultural Department. Os this
I amount $1,042,000,000 had been
paid to farmers as price-support
[loans on such products as corn,
wheat, tobacco and cotton and i
[the remaining $1,638,000,000 was
[spent for the purchase of com
[ modifies under price-support
I operations.
ICED DUCKS CRASH
Washington, D. C. — Finding
several ducks which had crash
landed on the streets, their
wings thick with ice. sympathet
ic townspeople took them into
their homes, thawed out their
wings and released them. W’hen
last, seen, the birds were head
ing South.
tired, takes a nap
New York — After hours of I
wandering through the fairy- [
land of gifts in a Brooklyn de
partment store. Angelo Cruz, 12,
was so fagged out, he went over
to rest on a divan in the furni
ture department. A watchman
found him asleep on the divan at
2:30 the next morning.
IN HIS FAVOR
Tokyo—Kazuro Fujii hired ai
man to install a burglar alarm in
his house, but Fijii’s house was
burglarized anyway. The thief
made off with all of his clothing
Fujii called police and they nab
bed the burglar. It was the man
who had installed the burglar
alarm—he had failed to rig the
alarm so he could loot Fujii’s
home undisturbed.
CLEANED OUT
Memphis. Tenn.—Thieves en
tered the home of Mrs. T. E
Hicks and hauled away, in a
truck, her living-room suite, two ,
bedroom suites, an icebox, two i
stoves, a washing machine, sev- i
eial tables, chairs and clothing. |
AIR BASES TO CANADA
The U. S. Air Force has turn- i
ed over to Canada two wartime
built airfields in northern Que- :
bee — at Mingan and Fort Chi- I
mo. A few U. S. A. communi-1
cations and weather men will re
main at the bases temporarily to
carry on their work until the
Canadian Department of Tran
sport can take over operations.
i
GI HOME-LOANS
During October, almost 40.000
applications for GI home loan [
। guaranties were received from I
lenders, according to the Veter
ans Administration, which states'
that the GI home-loan market I
is the best it has been in two
(years. Applications have been
rising steadily since last April. [
when a long downward trend
was reversed. Os 15.000.000 World
War II veterans eligible for GI [
loan guaranties, almost 1.625.000
have used part or all of their en
titlement to finance the pur
-1 chase of a home. The face value
of their VA-guaranteed mort-1
gages is almost $9,000,000,000
HELPLESS WARDS
This country’s wars have left
lit a heritage of 243.981 helpless
wards, according to the Veterans 1
Administration They include
52.023 mentally incompetent war
veterans. 154,951 minors and 7.- (
107 mentally incompetent bene
ficiaries or heirs of veterans I
Those who became wards dur-[
ing or after World War II totaled ‘
137.635. of whom 15,647 were vet-'
erans of the recent conflict.
LAY-OFFS
The Department of Defense j
has dropped about 116,000 cl-i
vflian worker since the start)
। of its economy program last
summer. The Army completed its
worker-reduction on November
Ist and the Air Force about De-
To the Editor and Voters of Ward 3:
I have offered myself as candidate for Councilman here
and have been living here 14 years In the midst of the com
munity. I have observed the many improvements that could be
made. Much has been done, but there is plenty yet to be done.
I was first to qualify in this place for the coming term and
did not expect so many to come in for this position But I am
not going to back down. 1 have served in this capacity in
other cities and hnd much experience with many kinds of
construction work.
I am not connected with any political scheme, but made
up my mind to ask the voters for this Job. if you see it that
way and wish as free voters to vote for me as a free man If
you do this and I am elected, you can be assured I will do my
best for the benefit of all and give attention to what you
suggest. 3
I have time to give this attention and study needs in this
ward and do my part for the city's welfare. I shall spend many
times more than the little pay 1 get for the benefit of al).
w. s. SITTON
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cember Ist. The Army’s part
was the lay-off of 41,000; the Air
Force, 18,000. Because the Navy
had the biggest proportion of
cuts assigned to it—76,000 work
ers to be dismissed—and because
the projects of closing down
such plants as shipyards in
volved more complications, the
time for completion of the Navy
lay-off schedule was extended to
the end of the current fiscal
year, next June 30.
FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Private United States invest
ments abroad were estimated by
the Commerce Department to
[total $15,300,000,000 at the start
of this year, and are said to be
rising at a billion-a-year rate.
Some $11,400,000,000 of the total,
it is estimated, are in the form
of “direct investments”—opera
tions abroad by American firms
through foreign branches or
subsidiaries.
WHEAT PLANTINGS
Many farmers are cooperating
with the Government in cutting
down their wheat plantings for
fear the bottom may drop out of
the market next summer, ac
cording to the Agriculture De
partment. In an effort to avoid
a wheat surplus, the Govern
ment has ordered farmers to re
duce 1950 plantings 10 per cent
or do without price supports
next year. Those who overplant
their allotments wall have to sell
their wheat on the market for
whatever price it will bring.
CAPITAL EXPENDITRES
Expenditures by U. S. business
of new plants and equipment
probably will reach $4,400,000,000
in each of the third and fourth
quarters of this year, while total
capital outlays for the year are
expected to be $17,900,000,000 ac
cording to the Securities and
Exchange Commission and the
Department of Commerce.
I Hereby Announce os
Candidate for
Councilman of Ward 3
In City Election Jan. 7, 1950
I will always be for those
things which will make our
town a better place in which
to live. The only promise I
make is that I will always do
the best I can for my ward
and the town as a whole.
Your VoTe and Influence Will
Be Appreciated
and my actions, if elected, will
show my thanks to you.
Curtis Meacham
(Paid Political Advertisement)
For
JUSTICE OF
THE PEACE
For the unexpired term
of Levi McGraw.
Election, Jan. 28, 1950
Jesse L. Shuman
(Paid Political Advertisement*
FOR MAYOR
j. l. McGinnis
FOR COUNCIL
First Ward
JOE RAGLAND
Second Ward
DR. B. LOVINGOOD
Third Ward
A. F. McCURDY
Fourth Ward
W. G. RUTHERFORD
Subject to City Election,
Saturday, January 7,
1950
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