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- • ..••• ■ - !>■■■' ”: : ■ THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Johnston Urges Strong Price Laws; Price War Confined to Large Cities BUSINESS AS USUAL— For some time the home towner has been uneasy over the nation’s economical outlook. Headlines in the last few days haven’t helped his uneasiness any. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston’s charge that the nation Is sitting on an “economic time bomb’’ that may explode into runaway inflation next fall, unless congress keeps a strong program on the law books, caused considerable comment and worry. On top this the beef industry—all the way from farmer to grocer—was in an uproar over his charge that the beef industry is trying to ride roughshod over the American housewife with a cry of “damn the consumer and full pockets ahead.’’ Noted for speaking his mind, Johnston said that “business as usual’’ has an ominous, ring to me at a time when men are dying in bat tle in Korea for a free way of life. He added that the consumer, the housewife, is not going to be the forgotten American if I can help it. Shortly before making these statements Johnston proposed a new wage formu la pegging pay ceiling to liv ing costs and permitting for millions of workers an im- Economic Stabilizer Johnston mmediine boost ranging up to 12 ^ P er cent above the , .damn the consumer and full pockets ahead. levels of January, 1950. The belief is becoming more universal that the government must take a firmer stand and con gress must enact stricter laws governing prices and wages. The threat to the nation today is as great from the inside as from the outside. SWEET MUSIC —And while home towners tried to understand state ments from Washington on the economic situation, the average small town resident read of reports from New York, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta of red-hot price cutting wars following the supreme court fair trade decision with a feeling of awe and incredulity. To many it was like sweet music of yesterday. Tens of thousands of gleeful shoppers—men and women—rushed wildly through New York bargain basements in search for nationally ad vertised goods that had been marked down, some of it as much as 40 per cent. Small electrical appliances, summer-weight suits, cosmetic items, best-selling novels, sheets, pillow cases, nylon hose and girdles were marked down again and again. It was a consumer’s paradise. Home towners then took a quick look at their local newspapers in the hope that Main Street merchants had some new bargains. Most of them, however, were disappointed. The big city price-war had not yet reached the home town level. And economists reported it was not likely to. Most retail organizations predicted the New York price-war would level off quickly, with prices from 8 to 15 per cent below the former fixed- price levels. Trade sources, also, pointed out that the price-war was not likely to spread because most home town merchants signed fair trade contracts. On top of this, consumer goods may become tighter as the summer pro gresses and defense needs begin to eat into present backlogs. HOW CLOSE TO WAR? —The man on Main Street, who never knows all the facts, received a shock that sent a shiver of fear down his back as the MacArthur hearing continued in Washington. The shock was delivered by Adm. Forrest Sherman who told senators that the U.S. government so feared a world war last December that its field commanders were or dered by the high command to “increase their readiness” and the Medi terranean fleet went to sea. Sherman said the orders were issued after MacArthur told the joint chiefs of staff that the U.N. should accept an armistice in Korea “on the best terms available” and the army would have to quit Korea unless the war could be carried against Red China. Sherman’s testimony before the armed services and foreign relations committees again impressed the average American with the fact this nation barely escaped World War III in recent months. Many are wonder ing how close to war we are today? RURAL BANK DEPOSITS UP- Rural banks, largely farmer-owned and reflecting farmer finances, have shown amazing increases in deposits during the past 10 years, a recent survey of seven states revealed. One bank, in an Illinois town of less than 400 population, increased its bank deposits from $168,000 in 1940 to $3,480,000, more than 20 times as much. In the same 10 years, its population dropped from 500 to 359. Coun try banks, generally, in the seven-state midwest survey area, showed de posits rose from three to 20 times, many of them 10 times, in the 10-year period. The survey was conducted in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wis consin, Minnesota and Missouri. All of the towns had less than 600 popu lation. PEACE RUMORS CONTINUE—Rumors of peace in Korea con tinued to circulate in many world capitals although they were denied by high government officials. The move, if any is made, apparently will come from the United Nations side. > Some reports indicate the United States might be willing to halt the fighting at the 38th parallel provided it was a “real” settlement with as surances of no further Red aggression. Observers in the far east, however, were skeptical that any peace feelers will come from Peiping. They might come from Moscow. Com munist China might be thoroughly licked, but they could simply call its ‘’volunteers” back behind the Yalus river boundary and sit and lose little face. SAME AS REFUSAL—The Russians now say they are willing to hold a foreign ministers’ meeting if the ministers would discuss the North Atlantic pact and U. S. bases in Europe. The Soviet note with the big ”if” was sent to the U.S. after $ weeks of meetings in Paris by deputy foreign ministers of U. S., France, Britain and Russia. According to western diplomats the Russian note amounts to the same thing as refusal to attend a foreign ministers’ meeting. The U.S. has told the Russians many times they would not discuss the North Atlantic pact. The new Soviet line is that U.S. bases in Europe are **the essential cause of the worsening pf relations between the U.S.S.R. and the three powers.” Price-War Shoppers Ifs not likely to happen in the home towns. (See story above.) BIGGEST CATALOG EVER Sears, Roebuck Mails Largest Catalog Home towners and rural families have for years received the Roebuck catalog will soon get the new edition. It is the biggest sale catalog the firm has ever pub lished, containing 404 pages. A year ago, the corresponding sales book contained 294 pages. of items, ranging from pools to wire records are of- at knock-down prices. Notable by their absence from the current catalog are certain appli ances that were featured a year ago. The sales book at that time contained refrigerators and wash ing machines at special prices. This year they aren’t listed. Automobile tires are also missing from this year's catalog; a year ago they were offered less than the regular prices. EMBARRASSED . . . R o c c o Fiscbetti of Chicago, III., pal of the late A1 Capone, attempts to shield his face from the camera shortly before testifying at a closed door senate crime committee hear ing on Chicago rackets and gam bling. SCIENCE FOR ROMANCE . . . Mrs. Clark Gable plans cruise to Hawaii with Mrs. George Vander bilt and Mrs. Charles Howard. It will be a scientific fishing expedi tion. Mrs. Gable recently filed suit for divorce from her husband and Mr. Gable filed countersuit. ADONIS OFF TO BIG HOUSE ... Joe Adonis (left), racket king, who was sentenced to from two to three years for violating New Jersey’s gambling laws, enters a deputy’s car for the trip to the state prison to begin serving his sentence. The hatless man in rear is James “Piggy” Lynch, who was sentenced with Adonis. In addition to the prison term, Adonis was fined $15,000. This is the first time in jail for the racket boss. SECRET WEAPON . . . Could be that bats of Cal Abrams, hitting around - .463, are keeping the Dodgers going in their pace-setting in the National League this year. His average topped big leagues when this picture was snapped re cently. JET ACE TELLS STORY . . . Capt. James Jabara, Wichita, first jet ace by virtue of his fifth and sixth “kills” in Korea recently, address es newsmen at a press conference in the Pentagon. He said the MIG- 15 is as good as the F-86 as a combat airplane. JUNE BRIDE . . . Myrna Loy be came the bride of Howland Sar- geant, deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs, at the army chapel at Ft. Meyer, Va., recently. They win make their home in Georgetown, Va. EAST MEETS WEST . . . Red dominated East Germany and anti-Red West Germany are represented by Kurt Edel of East (left) and Karl Von Alt (right) of West, as they get together to sign an agreement to send one delegation to represent all of Germany in the Olympic games at Helsinki in 1952. President of the United States Olympic committee is signing the agreement made by the two representatives of areas that can’t seem to agree on anything else. REINFORCEMENTS FOR IKE . . . The first member of the first con tingent of the U.S. fourth division is about to step off the gangplank at Bremerhaven, Germany, as the first reinforcements for the western European defense army of General Dwight Eisenhower arrives from the United States. The G. I. looks as if he is about to run into tongh opposition all at once. Actually, he and his fellows were given a cordial welcome by French General Juin, commander of land forces. FIGHTS FOR CHILDREN . . . The former Peggy Boyce Thompson Schultz, who recently married tenor Morton Downey (left), enters New York supreme court to fight suit by her “ex,” Polish Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, for partial custody of their two children. She charged that the prince is unfit to have custody of the two children who were born of her 10 years of marriage with Prince Alexander. Attorney for Mrs. Downey, Arthur Stryker, is at right with briefcase. SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY W 4 L U. gwt * -ji i SEWING CENTER B EFORE YOU start making those summer clothes, may I ask where do you do your sewing? In the bedroom, like most women? In the dining-room, like the next high est percentage? Or the next, the living-room? Or do you belong to the lucky 10 per cent who have a special sewing room? Even without a special room, you can have a sewing center in even the smallest house! There’s a place for everything—and this is the place! The place for that compact sewing-machine, which adds a good furniture piece when not in use. The place for a sewing cabinet, another graceful and attractive home furnishing— with a shallow drawer for the little things like pins, needles, tape meas ure and scissors—and another slid ing tray in the deeper drawer for your thread and small tools—and, if roomy enough, for your patterns and materials. Think of the time and trouble you’ll save with this central source of supplies—and economy begins and ends with time! Now you’re ready to go to your store for your patterns, materials, thread, buttons and bows. And, like the smart shopper that you are, you’re ready to abide by your fa vorite clerk’s wisdom of choice! KEEP IT SIMPLE If you’re a comparative novice at home-sewing, confide in your clerk, and enlist her help in picking out simple, novice-proof patterns first of all. She will advise patterns with as few pieces to worry about as possible, and help you pick out the fabrics most adaptable to them. If you want to make up something soft and drapable, she will find a pat tern for you with that same softness- of, design. Or if you like something crisp, she will pick a more tailored pattern. If you have your heart set on a revolutionary style you’ve' never worn before—for your own satis faction’s sake, try on a ready-made dress in that same style, before spending you’re carefully-budgeted money on a pattern, and your pre cious time on a dress you’re going to have to wear only in secret! In choosing your materials, don’t trust your eye exclusively, but make the over-the-counter test with your clerk’s guidance. Rub your finger lightly over the design on the right side. A test was made recent ly on some “permament-finish” organdy, which completely lost both its finish and design in one wash ing. But that was the exception that proved the rule that most organdies will stand up under repeated laun derings and cleanings. These are easily identifiable, because the de sign is almost as clear on the wrong side of the material as on the right. But if you’re in doubt, your clerk will be happy to let you have a sample to try out. After all, she’s as interested in your being satisfied as you are yourself! Children's Village Made Good Citizens of 50,000 DOBBS FERRY, N.Y.—The Chil dren’s Village, vocational training school and home for underprivileged and maladjusted boys, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. It is a privately operated institution. With a faculty of thirty and facili ties that would be the envy of many a small preparatory school, the Chil dren’s Village occupies 250 acres of rolling, wooded land high above the Hudson river. While offering academic training, the school stresses manual arts and gives courses in carpentry, electric ity, shoe, repairing and automotive mechanics to prepare the boys for gainful occupations. The school has turned out 50,000 youths, rehabilitated and trained for useful citizenship, in its first 100 years. The present enrollment is 400 boys, ranging from 10 to 18 years old. Small Maryland Town Makes Sizeable Tax Cut CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Every time the word tax is mentioned everyone immediately thinks of in creases. The town of Chestertown has reversed the trend. It has cut the tax rate by 25 cents per $100 for 1951. The new rate is 40 cents per $100, lowest the town has enjoyed since 1910. The town (population 3,135) has a $84,395 bank balance. Washington budget makers should take notice. Forgotten Man JUTOST HOUSEWIVES don’t real- ize it, but the honest meat dealers are the forgotten men in the big squabble over the price of beef. These wholesale and retail meat men are caught between two of the most powerful and vocal groups in the nation—the organized meat packers and the angry, unorganized housewife. Hundreds of these wholesalers and retailers have been taking their beating in silence because, if they protest, they fear they’ll be black balled by the big packers. And they have good reason to fear the pack ers’ wrath. \ Said one meat wholesaler: “If I complaih to the OPS, and the packers And out about it, I’D never be able te boy an other pound of meat. I’d have to leave the meat* business and become a wholesaler for vege tarians.** Here is what the meat middle men are up against: When the government freeze was imposed last January, choice beef in carload lots was selling for a top price of 53 cents a pound. Despite the freeze, and in direct violation of the government’s order, the price of exactly the same carload of beef continued to mount. By April the price had moved up to 57 cents, was even quoted openly at this figure in the trade journals. Grocer Gets Squeezed This four-cent rise at the whole sale level meant about a 10-cent rise per pound to the housewife—if the local grocer passed on the ille- S al increase. But if he didn’t pass ; on, he had to pocket the loss and thereby risked going bankrupt. More recently OPS has adopted a new pricing formula, whereby each cut of beef is given a specific price, and the price must be posted for the housewife’s inspection. This new scheme is aimed at showing up the price gouger and bringing an end to the black mar ket. But, to get around the law, some packers—including some of the biggest names in the industry —have now come up with a new wrinkle. They’re forcing their cus tomers to accept tie-in sales, to buy unwanted cuts of meat in order to get the most salable cuts. One wholesaler, for example, was re cently forced to buy 4,000 pounds of highly perishable sausage he couldn’t possibly sell. Nevertheless the packer required him to buy the sausage before he could purchase a single carload of beef. Net result of this price goug ing by the meat packers is an intolerable squeeze on the wholesaler and retailer. Frl«nd of Bit Business GOP Congressman Kenneth Keat ing‘of New York has emerged as the newest congressional champion of big business. Keating’s district, Rochester, N.Y., is a long way from California; yet it was he who pulled chestnuts out of the fire for Pacific Gas and Electric in California and sponsored the amendment killing urgently needed government power lines. Colleagues who wondered what the Rochester, N.Y., Republican was doing meddling in California affairs also were astonished when he popped up as sponsor of another project of the big-business lobbies —aimed at crippling the antitrust laws. His amendment would undecut a plan proposed by another Republi can, Herbert Hoover, who, when President, urged that the Clayton anti-trust act be strengthened in or der to prevent the acquisition of “assets” such as factories and equipment in mergers that created unfair trade competition. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman both followed up Hoover’s recom mendation and finally this impor tant addition to the Clayton anti trust law was passed by congress last December. One of those who voted for it was Rep. Keating of New York. However, when it came time to appropriate funds by which the federal trade commission could put the new law into op eration, Keating had a mysteri ous change of heart. He calmly rose on the house floor and sabotaged the measure he had once championed by offering an amendment canceling $245,000 of enforcement funds needed by the trade commission. The amendment carried by a vote of 73 to 49. And since a law is no good without funds to enforce it, the law Keating origi nally voted for now becomes just so much printed paper. Small Alrlinas Mild-mannered Sen. John Spark man of Alabama, the conscientious chairman of the small business committee, is burned up over pres sure from the civil aeronautics board to suppress a report lam basting the major airlines. Mysteriously, a copy of this re port disappeared from the commit tee offices and was seen by air lines, though marked “confidential.” The report criticized the CAB’s order closing down the independent, nonscheduled airlines on June 5. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT. BUSINESS & I' VEST. OPPoR. ENJOYABLE Money-making opportunity in owning and operating a Motel TouriBt Cabins or Trailer Park in or near Miami, the Nation’s fastest growing city and pa tronized by the most tourists. 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