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/ *-\ THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Editor’s Note: While Winchell is on vacation, Jack Lait is act ing as guest columnist. Miscellaneous Midgets— The Windsors will return to Amer- ica next winter. The Riviera bores them. Their villa is still mined and they have to tread narrow paths, marked out for them. . . . The Rob ert Youngs, New Yorkers who en tertained Eddie and Wally at New port last summer, are abroad and have visited them. Young, a busi ness tycoon, has offered the duke a post with one of his companies. . . . \ It is unlikely that commerce will attract Windsor; even more unlike ly that his family, which controls his income, would sanction it. Odds are that he will buy a house in Palm Beach, where he and his duchess have many friends. . . . “Doc” Hol den, who was Fifl Widener Wich- feld’s second husband, is believed to be Windsor’s undercover finan cial agent in New York. Contacted at Newport, he refused to discuss his associations with royalty. The Duke family is in the movie business. And Doris is active in person. The tobacco millions are helping finance Independent Artists, Inc., which includes in its roster Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and her husband, Dudley Nichols and Frank Vincent. . . . Hermitage Press will publish, on Oct. 5, the new book by Nick Kenny, “How to Write, Sing and Sell Popular Songs.” What Nick doesn’t know about the intricate, slightly crazy business wouldn’t in terest anyone. Among the mass of material will be an expose of song racketeers. Caveman, Get Your Club— Raymond Loewy, the artistic industrial designer (of autos and what not) has a 750 h.p. eruiser, the Media Luz, which he designed, berthed at the eso teric Sands Point (L. I.) Rivi era. When Loewy expects guests, he sprays his cabins with a perfume labeled Savage Love! Midtown Matinee (By Tom Weath erly). It was a southbound Fifth avenue bus. She got on at 57th street. . . . With apologies to Rogers and Hart: My heart stood still. . . . “This is it,” I thought. . . . Never before had I seen. . . . Such a seraphic vision. ... All pink and gold. . . . With shimmering gray- blue stars for eyes. ... A red, red rosebud for a mouth. . . . And a tip- tilted nose. . . . My pulse raced. . . . My head reeled. . . . And my knees clicked together. . . . “There comes a time in the affairs of men, etc.” ... I said to me. . . . And, brother, this is the time. . . . Watch her closely. . . . When she gets off. . . . You get off. . . . Then tip your hat. . . . Gallantly but with deco rum. . . And say something like this ... “I beg your pardon, please don’t misunderstand. . . . I’m not trying to be fresh. . . . But I just couldn’t help speaking to you. . . . All my life I’ve dreamed about a girl. ... I never knew her name. ... I never even knew she exist ed. .. . Until just now. ... In other words . . . You’re the dream come true. . . . And I couldn’t let a stu pid convention take you from me. . . . I’ve just got to know you.” . . . Just then the bus stopped and she moved toward the exit. ... As she came opposite me. . . . She raised her left hand to grasp the stanchion. . . . And there they were. . . . Those two symbols of posses sive priority and self-imposed servi tude. . . . The diamond solitaire and the platinum band. . . . Oh, well, there’s always the French Foreign Legion! The average honest nightclub draws about $20,000 a year on its concessions, usually half their gross intake. . . . This is frequently paid in advance, often two or more years’ quota at the start, to finance the venture. . . . Banks lend money to concession contractors on prospects, trusting their keen judgment, based on intensive experience. . . . One typi< al club let us see its books. . . . If grosses $21,000 a week, counting al. sources. . . . The original invest ment was $105,000, of which the con cessionaire put up $50,000. . . . Shows and two bands (plus reiief bands on nights off) cost $5,000 a week; costumes, dance directors, etc., amortized, $500; advertising, $1,000; payroll, kitchen, waiters, press agent, manager, $2,500; lin en, electricity, incidentals, $1,000. . . . The. enterprise breaks even on $15,000-a-week gross intake, figur ing food and liquor purchases at about one-third the total receipts. ... On $20,000, the profit is $4,000; on $25,000, $7,500. Com Off the Cob—Laraine Day furiously hunting an apartment in the Sutton Place sector—she’s in terested in a legit show and wants to park here a while. . . . Henry Hull was summoned to fly to Hollywood to act in support of Charles Laugh- ten, and pressui e was turned on to get him a reservation across the map. The “part” was six minutes of lying in bed, while Laughton read him the story of David and Gohath—out of the Bible. . . . June Haver’s sister, Evelyn, hurrying to N. Y. to be a model. L flep&Ue/i in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Comspondant WNU Washington Bureau. If If Era St.. N. W. Residential Mortgage Debt For ’47 to Reach 41 Billions OOST of construction, purchase and credit in the housing pro gram field by the end of 1947 will result in a net increase in the residential mortgage debt in the na tion of 41.2 billion dollaia, accord ing to estimates of the Veterans’ Emergency Housing administra tion. Of this stratospheric figure, Ex pediter Wilson Wyatt says that new homes and apartments planned un der the VEHA will need credit of 15.4 billion dollars and that exist ing homes not under the program are expected to require an addi tional 14.5 billions; or a total of 22.9 billion dollars for the period. Add to this figure costs for pur chase and repairs of existing homes of 8.3 billions this year and 5.5 bil lions in 1947, plus 730 million dol lars in long-term new homes begun in 1945 and subtract the repay ments, and you get the estimate of 41.2 billion. While these figures seem astro nomical for the two-year period, it is pointed out that in 1930 the net residential mortgage debt totaled 30 billion dollars and for 10 years dur ing the thirties there was little home construction and some reduction in the total debt. Far Behind Schedule At the end of the first six months of 1946 out of the goal of 1,200,000 housing units for the year, only 496,- 000 units had been started with 225,000 homes completed. With shortages still continuing in some construction items and deliveries still slow and fitful, it can readily be seen that to complete the task set out for themselves, VEHA has a herculean job to do. In a recent report the housing ex pediter says: “Purchase and repairs of existing houses, as well as other non-pro gram home financing needs, will take approximately 8.3 billion dol lars of lending in 1946. In addition there are 730 million dollars in long term mortgages on new homes be gun in 1945. For 1947, non-program lending requirements are esti mated at 5.5 billions, one-third less than in 1946. “Almost half of the total need of 29.9 billions will be filled by repay ments on outstanding debt, allowing for advance as well as scheduled amortization. Trends for the first four months of this year indicate that 3"large volume of refinancing, together with sustained high in come, will result in a volume of re payments in 1946 approximately 40 per cent above the 1945 volume. In 1947, however, repayments prob ably will return to a level near 1945. “Subtracting those needs which will be met by repayments, the net in the home financing debt would be 15.2 billion dollars by the end of 1947, or a total net increase in residential mortgage debt of 41.2 billion dollars. Since the total net public and private debt in 1930 was 190 billion dollars and the residen tial mortgage debt amounted to 30 billion dollars, the estimate of 41.2 billion dollars 1% years hence is not excessive when compared with the present total net public and pri vate debt estimate of 400 billions.” Plenty of Money Ready Wyatt points out that the needs in the home financing field, insofar as VEHA is concerned, can be met from three major sources: net in creased savings of individuals in lending institutions; liquid assets held by lending institutions, and po tential direct investments by indi viduals and the secondary credit facilities of the Federal Home Loan. With this huge jackpot of billions of dollars in the construction indus try, one would think that the “take” in the usual way would be sufficient, but government already has filed several hundred suits against lum ber and material companies alleg ing illegal practices. These include diversion of lumber to the shipper himself at a fictitious address to be held for resale; resawing without upgrading; refusing to produce standard size and turning out over size lumber commanding a higher ceiling price and requiring remilling for construction use; charging for more lumber than delivered; cutting and delivering short lengths; il legal wholesale selling at retail prices and plain over-ceiling sales, accomplished through on-the-side cash payments or similar devices. • • • High Coats Feared A “strong likelihood” that the current residential building booi will collapse within 12 to 15 mont' s is seen by Ramsay Wood of the division of research and statistics, board of governors, Federal Re serve board. “If prices turn down before costs have overtaken them, building may be sustained, but if, as seems more likely, costs are as high as prices when the decline comes, building will be curtailed,” Wood says. Oklahoma Sets Sesquicentennial Noting First White Settlement Historical Pageant Planned As Highlight of State Fair By WNU Features. MUSKOGEE, OKLA.—To the astronomer and the geologist 150 years is the merest fragment of time. Even the student of recorded history stands in no awe of such a period. But to the more finite-minded people of Oklahoma it represents a consider able span of time. In fact, it measures the period that has elapsed since the first white settlement in their state. That is why they’re going all out this year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of that event. In accordance with a joint resolution of the state senate and house of representatives passed*^ in 1939, Oklahoma will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the day when Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau, a French fur trader, hd a peaceful invasion into the uncharted South west and set up a trading post at the site of the present-day city of Salina in Mayes county of north- eastern Oklahoma. In Muskogee, some 50 miles south of the site of Chouteau’s settlement, plans are being pushed for a cele bration to carry out the legislative resolution. Seeks Trading Post. In the early spring of 1796, Chou teau left St. Louis, where he was a member of an influential family of traders and merchants, to find a suitable location for a new trading post among the Indians of the South west. Traveling southward along the Grand river, the Frenchman found the site he had dreamed of—a place where an abundant supply of game, mostly deer and wild turkeys, abounded among thick timber which would provide a ready source of building material. By what Chou- j teau must have regarded as provi- 1 dential good luck, the site also stood near an inexhaustible supply of salt, ; a vital necessity to his men and ani- | mals. To crown the good features of the location, the river itself would furnish transportation facilities. The pioneer lost no time in con structing a large log trading post at what is now Salina. Post Abandoned. < Economic reverses, however, dis appointed the French explorer, who discovered that the territory was not the permanent home of any Indian tribe and that prospects of support ing a trading post, however pro pitious the location in other re spects, were insufficient to justify making the venture a permanent settlement in the area. Chouteau returned to St. Louis and for six years the little trading post stood silent and abandoned in the wild loveliness of a primitive country. But in 1802 events trans pired that gave new life to the set tlement. Through the traders' ef forts the Osage Indians of the Mis souri valley removed their homes to eastern Oklahoma. It was a double victory for the Frenchman. He had sought re venge on the Spanish government which had taken his trading monop oly and given it to one of its subjects. By the migration of the Indian from the Spaniard’s trade territory, his business was virtually ruined. In addition, it created a mar ket for Chouteau’s abandoned trading post to which he re turned to start the 150-year pa rade of progress which has made a great modern state from a wilderness. A celebration to be held in con nection with the annual Free State fair at Muskogee, scheduled for the week of September 29 through Oc tober 6, will bear Gov. Robert S. Kerr’s stamp as the “official” Ok lahoma commemoration of her ses quicentennial. Pioneers to Participate. During three da>s of the fair, a colorful pageant will be presented. Several hundred eastern Oklaho mans, many of them direct de scendants of early-day pioneers, will appear in the pageant, which will portray the arrival of Chouteau in the state and the story of the little trading post. C. E. Chouteau, an official of the Indian agency at Muskogee, will fill the role of his illustrious ancestor. The fair, a gala panorama of mid way gaiety and agricultural and ed ucational exhibits, yearly draws thousands of visitors from eastern Oklahoma and adjacent Arkansas. In addition to the sesquicenten nial pageant, fair visitors will be able to view a comprehensive dis play of the state’s agricultural and industrial outputs. The fertile farms which dot Oklahoma will contrib ute their animal and vegetable produce to the fair and the modern educational institutions of the sec tion will present exhibits. Fairgoers may see the original site of Chouteau’s landing by a short drive from Muskogee and may visit other interesting historical spots near this city, the original capital of the Five Civilized tribes. FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT . . . An artist’s conception of the old Chouteau headquarters post near Salina, the first white setUement in Oklahoma. ORIGINAL SETTLER . . . Found er of the first white settlement in Oklahoma was Maj. Jean Pierro Choteau, French fur trader. War Treks Fail To Lead Farm Youths to City Life in the armed forces, which introduced thousands of farm youths to glittering cities and far away lands, did not dim their love for farm life. More than a million veterans of World War II have re turned to farm work throughout the nation, it is revealed in a bureau of agricultural economics report. Veterans on farms by July 1 to taled 1,045,000, according to the bu reau report, the number including 713,000 farm operators or members of farm operators’ families, and 332,000 hired workers. Veterans comprised 9 per cent of all persons employed on the nation’s farms. The number of veterans on farms was slightly more than three-fourths the number of warm workers who enlisted or were inducted up to July 1, 1945. In the Northeast and on the Pacific coast, the number of veterans re turning to farms was larger than the number who entered the armed services. In other sections they were from 70 to 80 per cent. A total of 11 million was engaged in farm work. SERVICE EDITOR'S NOTE: This news paper t through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspa per Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W^ Washington, D. C., is able to bring read ers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his fam ily. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this news paper regularly. On-the-Farm Training I ASK ME ; * I ? ? ANOTHER ? ? ? I A General Quiz r^.. fv. fv. fv. fv. fv. fv. {V. ^ The Questions Program To Stress Value of Cittzenship To New Prospects WASHINGTON.—Plans for a na tionwide program to emphasize the “worth and meaning of American citizenship” to prospective citizens) were announced by the justice de^ partment. The department said the program “will be a continuous effort to stress the ideals of this country and the significance of American citizenship from the time of entry of a poten tial citizen to the moment when citi zenship is granted him by the court, and even beyond that.” A national advisory committee on citizenship is to be named by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark to assist with the program. The program will include: 1. Publication of a pamphlet con taining significant facts about the United States to be given to pros pective citizens and visitors to this country. 2. Preparation of a booklet to be given to each new citizen to em phasize his responsibilities to this country. 3. Enlisting the aid of the bench and bar, civil and educational au thorities and patriotic organizations in the effort to stress the signifi cance of citizenship. TRAVELERS ARE ‘JOLTED’ Vacation Costs Soar to New All-time Peak War-weary Americans, reveling in the lifting of travel restrictions, gasoline rationing and steady war time duties, are hitting the high ways and byways by the millions this summer and fall bound for their first vacation jaunt in long years. Not only on the highways arc .hey receiving a jolt, however, for va cation costs, which climbed through out the war years, now have soared to a new all-time high. Thousands are being jolted by boosts in the rates of resort hotels, inns and cottages. A few resort places haven’t raised the ante since last year, but virtually all charge substantially more than they did in prewar and early war years. Surveys of hotel directories show that the increase in rates range generally from 15 per cent to more than 100 per cent since prewar days. Many inns which were aban doned before the war because of guest shortages have reopened and are doing a capacity business at rates as high as $50 a day for two persons. Travel experts say an increase amounting to more than 50 per cent is quite typical in most sections. A few old inns, apparently de sirous of maintaining the goodwill of patrons, have made surprisingly small increases. At the other ex treme, say officials of travel organi zations, are some unscrupulous op erators who have used room short ages to gouge the vacationing pub. lie. Other Costs Hiked. Food sold along the highway also costs more. Boat and bicycle rent als and golf fees have been raised, in many instances by more than 100 per cent. Fishing and hunting guides also are asking bigger pay. Barring a business slump, vaca tion costs probably will be as high or higher next year. The American Automobile association expects that many potential vacationers, now hesitant about* driving the old car any distance on poor rubber, will have new cars or new tires by next summer. Here’s Fish Stories—but These Didn’t Get Away from Census Takers LONG BEACH, CALIF.—Here’s another fish story—it concerns size —but not those that got away. At least, California fish and game com mission hopes none got away, for the story deals with the commis sion’s semiannual population census of fish. The commission takes its census by three major methods, the results of all three being correlated to de termine estimated number of fish to be offered for sale or taken to canneries. In the first method, a list of com mercial fishing boats, together with their time and place of catch, is kept. As the second step, five samples of 50 fish each are taken from catches throughout the fishing sea son to check the average size of fish in each catch. Size is determined by counting the rings on the scales. following the method utilized by archeologists in checking tree rings to determine a tree’s age. For each year a fish lives a ring is seen on its scales. Third method involves tagging samples of 100 fish taken from a rep resentative catch, the fish then be ing turned loose until the next sea son, when researchers check catches to determine percentage of older fish reappearing. One year after V-J Day saw 1,250,000 veterans of World War II enrolled in some form of education or training under the two laws providing such facilities for war vet erans. According to Gen. Omar N. Brad ley, VA director, the greatest prob lem facing the G.I. educational and training program is that of the col leges in securing teachers and in providing classrooms and living quarters for this tremendous influx of students. General Bradley pre dicted that in the next year this fig ure would be doubled. One of the newer forms of edu cation is on-the-farm training, com bining class work with practical su pervised farming. To supplement the educational program, VA has prevailed upon the army and navy for release of more than 2,000,000 text books for veterans studying un der Public Law 16 and the G.I. Bill. General Bradley expressed con cern over failure of the veterans to take advantage of their govern ment insurance. Less than one out of four veterans have premiums up- to-date on government insurance and almost 10,000,000 eligible vet erans are now without National Service Life insurance, while origi nally 95 per cent of them carried the insurance when they were in the armed services. In other words, 90 billion dollars worth of economic security has been permitted - to lapse. One of the important objec tives of VA during the coming year will be help to veterans in re instating their insurance. Questions and Answers Q. My husband joined the army April 1, 1946. We have two chil dren, two and four years of age. Also a good farm, cows, mules, hogs and chickens. I must care for all of these things. We got the farm worked this year by my helping to do much of the work, which I was unable to do. My health is not good. I am 26 years old and he is 29, will be 30 in February. I have no one to stay with me except his 70-year- old mother. He wants to get out of the army and work his farm next year. Is there any chance? Please help me.—Mrs. D. W. T., Moulton, Ala. A. He should have no trouble ob taining his discharge since he is a father. Suggest he contact his com manding officer and apply for his discharge. Q. During 30 months of army service I sent my parents an allot ment every month. Now my par ents are dead. Can I collect the amount I sent them from their es tate when sold?—C. W. J., Green Pond, Ala. A. This is a legal question and you should consult a lawyer* Q. I am a widow with one son who is now 16 years old, an aged father-in-law, aged 82, and another son serving overseas. I get a fam ily allowance which is insufficient to supply the needs of our house hold and the stock, etc. Living ex penses have risen, as you know. Would I be permitted to take a job to supplement the family allowance and still be entitled to it?—Mrs. M. A. M-, Dana, N. C. A. There is no reason why you shouldn’t take a job. Q. Can you tell me where the 383rd Infantry is now? Are they dis charged? They trained in Camp White, Ore., and later went to San Luis Obispo, Calif., and were shipped to the Pacific.—M. P., Wood, Calif. A. The army says the 383rd In fantry was inactivated February 3, 1946. Q. I was discharged with a med ical disability from the navy in World War I with tuberculosis and am unable to do manual labor. Can you help me in any way? A. You should apply to your near est office of the Veterans’ adminis tration and ask for a disability rating. If your illness was the result of your navy service it would be a service-connected disability, but even if it is not service-connect ed, you likely would be entitled to a disability pension. Q. My father entered service nearly three years ago, claiming he was a single man and not naming his children as dependents. He was discharged a few months ago, and we never received allotments dur ing the entire time he was in serv ice. We were all under 18 years of age. Is there anything we could do about it now?—Miss M. L. C., Cere- do, W. Va. A. I am afraid there is nothing to be done now. To be sure, how ever, you might write to the Office of Dependency Claims, War De partment, Newark 2, N. J. 1. What is lacking in a person who is anosnic? 2. Where is the “Land of the j White Elephant”? 3. How old were the Dionne quintuplets on May 28, 1946? 4. Who did Joe Louis defeat to < become the world’s heavyweight boxing champion? ■ 5. What does the maxim “Ca- \ veat Emptor” mean? 6. 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