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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.
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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.
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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
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ily. Questions may be addressed to the
above Bureau and they will be answered
in a subsequent column. No replies can
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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. The prefix tele in such words
as telegraph and telescope means
what?
7. How deep is the lake formed
by Boulder dam?
8. Dolly Madison was hostess of
the White House 16 years. How
was this possible?
The Answers
It^he sense of smell.
2. Thailand.
3. Twelve years old.
4. James J. Braddock in 1937.
5. Let the buyer beware.
6. Far off.
7. Over 500 feet.
8. Thomas Jefferson’s wife died
before he became President, so
the wife of his secretary of state
was officially hostess for eight
years. Then James Madison be
came President for two terms.
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Patrons of the first cafeteria had
to eat standing up. The first self-
service restaurant was the New
York City Exchange buffet, opened
for men only in 1885.
Mark Poisonous Medicine
Bottles of poisonous medicines
kept in the medicine cabinet should
be marked as a warning; wrap rub
ber bands around the neck of the
bottle or stick pins in the cork.
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