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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
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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. Vou will
enjoy the healthful climate with 5*60 sunny
days per year, the miles of ocean beach
es, the winter sports, and life in a model
city. 5 acre Trailer Park on main High
way West, with country store ano 5
cabins only $37,500, with half cash.
CHAS. W. NICOL, Broker
§48 8W 37th Avenee Miami 35, FlorUa
ELECTRIC MOTOR REWINDING^ and
Repair Shop. Fully equipped. Sacrifice,
Retiring. Eleetrio Motor Senrle* Co., 109
S. Washington. Albany, Ga.
Additional unit for quarters, also on
S remises. 5 acres of land with 280 ft.
rontage on U.S. 1. Inventory included in
sale price of only $19,000. Investigate
this buy. PIONEER MOTOR CO.
Ormond. Fla.
BABIES ARE
ALWAYS IN SEASONI >1
BABEE-TENDA, the naUonaUy adver
tised. all-purpoae safety chain needs lo
cal sales representaUve. See our adver
tising in Kiy Issues of Parents Maga
zine, Woman’s Day, A.M.A. Journal,
Baby Talk. etc. For full detaUs write
Sales Manager . _
ZSZS Sonth 7th Avenne, Birmingham, Ala.
POULTRY BUSINESS, Netting $300 prof-
it weekly. $4500 handles equipment and
good lease. Write Rente
Hollywood, Florida.
equipment ana
#1, Bex $•$»
TOURIST COURT, Restaurant. Filling
Station and Home, 6 units, 700 ft. on
Highway 17, real bargain at $29,500., with
half cash. E. J. TeRonde, Crescent City,
Florida. • •
WANT te get away from big eitloe?—in
vestigate this. 5 and 10 Cent Store in
fast growing town on main west coast
highway. 28 miles from .gulf. 8 miles
from “Ole Suwannee’* heart of hunting
and flahlng section. _
• Bex 787, Chlefland, Fla.
MEN’S WEAR STORE: Profitable, mod-
em fixtures, new stock, nationally adv.
lines. Large industrial payrolls. Owner
recaUed USN. Apply D. C. Collier,
BarnesvlUe, Ga. Telephone 73.
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTRIC Fans of all kinds. Order dl-
rect from manufacturer and save one
third. Write today for catalogue and
prices. MERCURY ELECTRIC Corn., 1
Wyandotte, Dept. B. Kansas City, Me.
719
FARMS AND RANCHES
STOCK FARM in Taylor County on
U. S. 80 and Ga. 22, 15 miles east of
Talbotton. Georgia. 243 acres under wire.
Beautiful and comfortable old .nine-room
heuse with all conveniences. Sale price,
tlC.000. Will sell herd of Black Angus
cattle and registered bull at just a little
over beef prices. This place known as
John Allen Garter farm for 75 years.
Klar Milling Co.. Americas, Georgia.
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collectings ftarean of Credit Control of
Ameriea, 719 Lee Bellding, Kansas City
(•) Missouri.
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HELP WANTED—WOMEN
WOMEN earn extra money at home. Sew
our ready cut “Rap-A-Round.” Easy—
S rofitable. Hollywood Mfg. Co., Dept. A,
ollywood 46, California.
MACHINERY A SUPPLIES
MACHINERY FOR SALE
H.F. H.R.T. 60-inch
ONE 100
16-ft. Lombard Iron Works Boiler i
stack, front, etc. Also one 12x18 (
tinental Steam engine made by Con
tinental Gin Co. with balance valve. May
be seen at our plant. Woodville, Georgia,
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COMPANY
Unlen Paint, Oa.
PERSONAL
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25c each. 6 Scenic Postcards, $1.00,
fidential. Write today. B. Ror
East 116th Street, New York
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PEACOCKS'■■Celerfel India Blues. South’s
largest Flock. Prompt shipping. Mated
mature pairs in full plumage $65.00, Year
Old pairs *50.00. R. H. MeCrae, Bex
57S-W, Eustts, Florida.
BABY CHICK Specials— 100% Pullorum
Passed. All Popular Breeds. $10.90 and
up. Send for free price list today.
Piedmont Hatekory, 18 College St., Green
ville, Boxtk Carolina.
REAL ESTATE—MISC.
SEE IT Sexth 1V4 miles on paving from
Corner High School. Two good dwellings.
Mi bottom land, 212 acres best type all
around farming soil. $100.00 acre.
D. Bagwell, Sr., warrt«
Rt. 2, Ala. Phene 6591.
owner, John
TO RENT OR LEASE
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.—742 N. Greve
St., 5-rooms, 1st Boor, elec.. $150., 4-rms.,
upstairs, gas, *90 per mo. Large cool
rooms. Mrs. R. P. Freeman, Henderson
ville, N. C.
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OCEANFRONT Rooms *10.00 per week.
Heart of Beach.- Write L. Kirkwood, 4*0
E. Adams St., Jacksonville. Fla.
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