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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Banks Report Increased Farm Loans; Reds Ask Peace Talks Be Resumed FARM REPORT—A recent survey of rural bankers in the home towns scattered across the great midwest farm belt presents a new and somewhat startling picture of farm economy in the nation. Briefly, the survey indicates that farmers are borrowing more money this year, for that matter, than in several years, to make ends meet from day to day Reports a Kentland, Ind., banker: Operational loan demands are terrific. Three years ago farmers of the area purchased machinery with cash and had a surplus for operational expenses. Today 65 to 75 per cent of machinery sales are on credit arrangements. A South Dakota banker presents this picture: For the first eight months of 1951 bank loans have increased 25 per cent over last year. Says an Iowa banker: Loans are up 15 per cent over last year Capital is tied up in machinery and livestock. Says a Dover, Minn., banker: About 90 per cent of the farm machinery Bales in this area are on credit. Loans have increased 10 per cent. These conditions, midwest bankers report, are caused by the con tinued decline of farm prices, nearly 7 per cent since they reached a record high last February. In addition, farm operating costs have continued to increase. As examples, fertilizer, which was selling at $44 a ton F.O.B. Chicago last fall, now sells for $64 a ton. In Minnesota farm hands are drawing $15 a day without board, comparing to $10 a year ago. Iowa farmers who paid $11.75 a 100 for binding twine last year must now pay $16.75. These examples indicate, midwest bankers say, that overall farm costs are up approximately 15 per cent over last year and 2 per cent over February when farm prices began their decline. The only solution, according to the U.S. department of agriculture, is to keep farm prices at a high level. To accomplish this the department is expected to start a campaign this fall urging farmers to withhold crops from market. At present only six of 30 major commodities are bringing the parity price declared by law to be equally fair to growers and those who buy their products. Calm on ’Bloody Ridge’ Gl’s relax among blackened stumps of trees on the devastated slope that is known as "bloody ridge" on the east central front of » Korea. This ridge was taken from the Communists after some of the hardest fighting in the Korean campaign. MONTH OF DECISION _It may very well be that future gener ations of American school childrep will study the month of September, 1951, in their history books as the month of decision—the month during which the free world consolidated its position against communism. For during the month four significant things happened: (1) Forty-nine nations met in San Francisco and signed the Japanese peace treaty which put that nation firmly on the side of freedom. (2) The ministers of France, Great Britain and the United States met in Washington and decided upon a contract with West Germany that amounts to a treaty and which will greatly increase West Germany’s con tribution to the defense of free Europe. (3) Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, twelve Atlantic Pact countries debated and solved many military and economic problems related to their common defense. (4) In Washington Italian and United States representatives discussed important revision in the Italian peace treaty, especially clauses relating to Italy’s armed forces limitations. All this activity adds up to strengthening of the free world’s defenses against Communist aggression and thus, in turn, the very home towns of this country. THE HALF WAR— One American soldier, who can be said to represent the average small town youth who makes up the United States army, said recently when informed that the Communists have unexpectedly asked for renewal of peace talks at Kaesong: “Let’s get this thing decided upon one way or another. “We’ve been half fighting and half not fighting for months now.” This attitude is typical of most American soldiers in Korea today. Foreign correspondents report the men want a definite yes-or-no answer to whether there will be peace or not. If it is to be a fight they want to get at it and gain a clear cut decision.. This attitude is becoming more and more apparent in the small towns of the nation, too. This business of talking while men fight on a limited scale is not the American way. If there is to be peace, the American reasons, let’s have it without a lot of beating around the bush. If it is ^ to be war, let it be all-out-war. POSTAL RATES-The house-senate conference committee will report within a few days upon bills passed by the house and senate to increase rates on postcards, newspapers, magazines and some other types of mail and services. Although the senate and house versions of the bill are different in . some detail, the two bills are similar in that they would raise rates on second-class mail, which includes newspapers, magazines and other periodicals by 30 per cent over a three year period in stages of 10 per cent a year. The bills are also in agreement on postal card rate increase from 1 cent to 2 cents. The final version of the bill is expected to produce somewhere in the neighborhood of $126,000,000 of additional annual postal revenues. POLITICAL SCENE—Following his visit to North Dakota, Sen. Robert Taft returned to his home in Cincinnati where he told reporters: “If I got the same reception in a few more states, I think I’d decide to run (for president).** And while the senator was making this statement, reports from Europe continued to circulate that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was definitely interested in becoming a candidate, but only on the Republican ticket. The general, observers reported, would reject the Democratic bid because he did not want to be hampered by hanger-ons. As for Senator Taft, observers said Eisenhower would try to beat him out because he felt the Ohio solon’s isolation reputation would ruin this country’s defense program and battle against communism. § f ' *.,> ... -• . ; * • •. y . PAY INCREASE—Th® house passed a series of bills increasing the pay of more than 1,500,000 government employes by a total of $670,045,600 a year. The bill will be reported soon from senate-house conference where differences will be ironed out between it and a senate version previously passed. The house version provides: (1) A flat $400 pay increase for 1,043,614 government workers—totaling $417,445,600; (2) increases of $400 to $700 a year for 500,000 postal tyorkers—totaling $235,760,000 annually; (3) an $800 limit on increases for 42,000 postmasters and 26,000 postal supervisors —^totaling $19,690,000 annually. DEFENSE PRODUCTION » 50,000 Annual Plane Manly Fleischmann, defense pro duction administrator, reports the nation will soon have the capacity to pour out 30,000 tanks and 50,000 planes a year—plus strategic stock piles “to carry us through a year of total war.” In a speech at the 70th American Federation of Labor convention in San Francisco, he said stockpiles of strategic materials needed to Output Possible carry through a year of all-out con flict would be available even though the United States is cut off tem porarily from all foreign sources. He also pointed out that steel capacity will be up 18,000 tons over the output before the Korean war and there now is a 90 per cent increase in primary aluminum capacity, with proportionate in creases in electric power. UMPIRE DIES . . . Bill Klem, Na tional League umpire, died recent ly in Miami at the age of 77, death being attributed to a heart ailment. He was an umpire for 36 years and worked in 18 world series, more than any other man in history. NATO SCHOOL HEAD . . . Vice Admiral Andre Lemonnier of France heads the North Atlantic defense organization’s “West Point” in Paris to train officers and senior officials. He continues as General Eisenhower’s naval deputy. GIANT MUSHROOM ... Joe Pic- cioli, 45, of Chicago, HI., displays a huge mushroom that he found in the vicinity of Waugonda, 111. The huge vegetable tipped the scales at a little over 30 pounds. The diam eter measured approximately two Jeet. TO WED NICKY HIjLTON . . . Betsy Von Furstenberg, 19, movie starlet, is engaged to Nicky Hilton, Elizabeth Taylor’s one-time hus band. She was born Countess Caro line Maria Felicitas Agatha Eliza beth Von Furstenberg-Herdringen, too long for a stage name. THEFT SUSPECT JAILED . . . Roscoe McKean struggles with detec tives as he is booked at University jail, Los Angeles, as Leimert park thief suspect. He said he was an ex-inmate of Minnesota reformatory and had given tip that guards had beaten George Sturdevant of Los Angeles to death. “If they send me back to Minnesota, I know they’ll kill me,” McKean pleaded. “Do yon think they’d let me live after 1 named those guards?” He was held on suspicion of burglary. TRAIN DEMOLISHES DEPOT . . . Railroad officials are seeking the cause of a freak accident which recently killed one person and injured five others when a Monon railroad streamliner failed to take a curve and plowed into the center stone Monon railroad station. The ill-fated train was bound to Chicago from Louisville. Photo shows the demol ished railroad station and the wreckage of two of the units of the die sel locomotive that pulled the fast streamliner before the wreck. FAIR WEATHER . . . The time for state and county fairs and fall. festivals is with us again with its fair weather and ladies fair, and the Los Angeles county fair in Pomona, Calif., is following tradition in this picture with its display of beauty and fine livestock. Just to be sure a blue ribbon Suffolk lamb will look its best, Betty Wilson adds a few final touches to its grooming. MISSING DIPLOMAT’S WIFE . . . Mrs. Melinda MacLean, wife of British diplomat, Donald MacLean, returns to London from the Rivie ra. She was reported to have dis appeared for a time to join her husband. FORMER RIVALS SH&KE HANDS . • . New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey Is greeted by President Truman at the White House v as Dewey called to confer with the President on far-eastern matters. The con ference marked the first time that Dewey, twiee-unsnccessful GOP presidential candidate, has been in the White House during the six years of Mr. Truman’s administration. The New York governor had just returned from a trip to Japan and other eastern countri*** Scott’s Report pONGRESSMAN Hugh Scott of ^ Pennsylvania deserves a medal for high-jumping at conclusions. With considerable flourishes and a great air of being in the know, Scott announced that General Eisenhower would accept the Re publican nomination. However, here Is an almost verbatim account of Congressman Scott’s talk with General Ike in Paris, on which the Pennsylvania Congressman based his earth- shaking prediction: Scott asked Eisenhower if there was any “hope” of Ike’s accepting a GOP draft nomination for the White House. Scott added: “I know you’re a good Republican, General—isn’t that a fact?” Before Eisenhower could reply, an aide, Brig. Gen. Charles T. Lanham, who was present at the meeting, broke in jokingly: “I’ve never beard the Gen eral say anything to indicate that he isn’t a good Republi can. This struck Elsenhower as so funny that he reared back\ and let go with a belly laugh that almost shook the window panes. Ike made no further comment, but Congressman Scott took this guffaw to mean that Ike not only was a good Republican—which no body denies—but would consent to lead the party in the 1952 election. Labor Flirts With Taft Most important backstage move in the works by a small group at the A. F. of L. convention in San Francisco is to dump Truman and patch up labor relations with the chief author of the Taft-Hartley Act, Sen. Robert Alphonso Taft. This move is certain to be de nied, but here is the master-mind ing behind this strategy. A group of Republicans inside the A. F. of L. high command went to San Francisco with the idea of going back to the old Sam Gompers policy of keeping labor aloof from either political party. Headed by Canny Bill Hutcheson, head of the carpenters union, long a GOP stalwart, the group includes George Meany, influential secre tary of the A. F. of L.; and Dave Beck, number two man in the teamster union. The question of sticking with the Democrats has come up at almost every A. F. of L. meeting recent ly. And a majority in the past has won out on the plea that labor would get a black eye if it turned on the political party which pulled it out of the depression years dijring FRD’s day and battled the Taft-Hartley Act during Truman’s day. But now the following deal with Taft is being discussed by one or two in the A. F. «f L. high com mand. In retarn for dumping Harry Truman, Taft would agree to amend the Taft-Hartley Act. In fact, he has already intro duced a bill in the Senate to help out the building trades which has all the earmarks of a deal with GOP Bill Hutche son of the carpenters. The Taft concession violates all of Taft’s previous moral prin ciples and repeals not only part of the Taft-Hartley Act but the Wagner Act. For it not only would abolish elec tions in building trades unions but would protect the union from any unfair labor prac- • tlces charge by another union. In brief, this would permit an employer to back an election* with a phony union which in no way represented his men. Lewis Plots Meanwhile, another labor move outside the A. F. of L. is being hatched by John L. Lewis and Harry Bridges, head of the west coast longshoremen, who was kicked out of the CIO after his conviction for having lied about being a communist. v Bridges has sounded out the re tail clerks, the carpenters, and other west coast labor men on -staging a giant rally in Los Angeles on October 8, the same day Pres ident Truman is slated to attend a $100 Democratic dinner in Los Angeles. Chief Speaker at the labor rally would be doughty John L., long a bitter Truman enemy, who, it is planned, would blast both the President and auto work ers chief Walter Reuther. Washington Pipeline Senator O’Mahoney of Wyoming complained over the phone to As sistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg that the defense de partment wasn’t getting enough credit for its painstaking work in formulating the $60,000,000,000 de fense budget. . . . Congress soon will pass a resolution, sponsored by Rep. Peter Rodino of New Jersey, demanding that Czechoslovakia re lease another American prisoner John Hvasta. — SHOPPER’S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY SCHOOL LUNCH BOX TTOW ABOUT that school lunch box? Is Johnny raving about the good lunches he eats away from home? As good as he ate all sum- meV at home? You know what he likes, you know what will keep fresh and in shape till noon-time. You know what’s good for him, and what will hold him in anticipation all morning, and all the long afternoon till he comes home from school saying, “Gosh, Mom, that lunch today was yummy.” So pack ’em in. Mom! The ideal lunch box includes this four-way deal: a substantial food, a crisp, crunchy food, milk and a sweet. Vary those four, and you’ve got something for every day of the school week. Protein-rich sandwich fillings— egg salad, meat, cheese, fish or cheese spread, peanut butter or even baked beans, make a substan tial main course for that pause that refreshes and nourishes. For that 1 satisfying crunch-crunch, a fruit or' vegetable will do perfectly—some thing like carrot sticks, celery, or that perennial favorite, apples. Milk, hot, cold, malted, chocolated, any way Johnny likes it best, is just the right drink for his midday meal, too. For that sweet tooth, make it some thing easy to pack—like cup-cakes, cookies, or a sturdy pudding in its own little pot. He’ll be the envy of all his palg with that wellfilled lunch-box. Easy to Make Bunk Beds Ideal for Boys HE dimensions given on the pattern are for standard size twin-bed springs and mattresses. Use selected quality of stock sizes of lumber, and ordinary hand tools. Pattern 236 is 25c. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 ~ Bedford Hills. Tfow Pork CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS * INVEST. OPPOR. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY—Llncolnton, Oa. Two-story stucco building, 70x72 ft. lot fronts ISO feet on Atlanta-Columbus highway. Cafe furnished, doing nice bus!-, ness. Balance of building rented, bring over $250 per month. Llncolnton is grow ing. Completion Clarks Hill, Thousand* at sightseers will use this highway dally. Unusual opportunity for anyone knowing how to operate this type of. business. Price $20,000. ' Terms can be arranged. H. H. Bell * Ce., Realtors, sis Marion BaHding, Aageaia, Georgia.-' MUST SELL DUE TO ILL HEALTH Grocery and Meat Market combination. Plenty of Parking Space. Very Reasonable. Downtown Location. Call or see: MR. J. E. GORE ISO E. Haines St. - Phone 44« Plant City, Fla. You can vary the bread for the sandwiches, too, with jhe help of your own baking or that favorite grocer of yours. Whole wheat one day, raisin another, nut, rye, or oatmeal another, or banana for a special treat on assembly day. Or the good old hot-dog roll, scooped out and filled with chopped cheese and aiives, or whatever he likes best Use plenty of butter—your store has plenty—and spread it and the other filling right to the rim of the bread slice. Johnny will eat all his crusts, if there’s something else to eat with ’em. FARMS AND RANCHES FOR SALE—84 acres. New $-room house. New barn. Lots of timber. On power, mall and school bus lines. 3 miles north of BlairsvHle. .1 mile off highway. See New man Wright, Blairsville, Ga. Rt. S. 4M acre <*«*; Fai^rr ready fixed. SO miles south of Atlanta. C. J. Garrett, Bremen, Georgia. LIVESTOCK MINNESOTA Ne. 1 Hogs. Superior Breed ing-stock. Boars, Sows, Gilts, Registered. Prices reasonable. W. E. Poole, Rt. t Spartansknrg, Sonth Carolina. MISCELLANEOUS SHETLAND PONIES For Sale"— 30 bred mares, geldlnga, L. L. Williams, Cordele, Ga. Pk. 432-M. BLUB and Red 1946 Erecoupe with 126 hr. since new. one owner. Would like to trade for boat 30' or 35'. Must be in good shape. Will pay diff. Percy Plessala, 1946 19th St., Pert Arthur, Tex. Ph. S-9803. BURIED TREASURE. If you have re liable information concerning buried or sunken valuables, for share in return I can furnish capital and equipment (radio metal detector, diving gear, etc.) for , search. MR. TOLES, P.O. Box 324, St. Clair Shores, Mich. '•* SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. HOLLANB BULBS for springtime beauty. Azaleas, CameUias, Roses, Shrubbery. We are now booking orders fer fall and spring d<Sivery. Write for free colored felder. IN WOOD LAKE NURSERIES, Bex 263-X, Thomasville, Georgia. Moist but ooze-proof—that’s the secret of the perfect sandwich. With all manner of oil paper and all sizes of plastic bags available at your store, you can be sure that that box lunch will be as fresh and tasty when Johnny opens it up, as it was when you packed it before break fast. Itie plastic bags are economi cal, too, for they can be used again and again. . U. S. SAVINGS BONDS Are Now U. S. DEFENSE BONDS • 1 „ - i vt v-’iSaal HEAD COLD WATERY MISERY LOOK AHEAD -And while you’re making up the lunch box of the day, why not look ahead, make up a batch of fixin’s and store ’em In the freezer? It’ll save you time op busy future morn ings, and in the long run, save you money too. For there’s no waste of food, or that pressing need to use it up right away, at the expense of daily variety. Big hearty sandwiches, cake, cookies, pies, individual cartons of fruit can be prepared and frozen a month in advance. Johnny can pick out his own favorite day by day, and you won’t be harassed with /that feeling of a thousand things to do at once those busy school-day mornings. People Honest? Cafe Operator Finds Them So COLUMBUS, O. — Mrs. Edith Brown, owner of a lunch room around the corner from the G. Ed win Smith Shoe Co., will tell you that people are honest. For years Mrs. Brown has op erated the lunch room. Her only bookkeeping system was a list of first namei on a piece of card board. When the plant finally closed down recently, Mrs. Brown had 40 persons on the cardboard tally sheet. Every one of them showed up to pay off. “I know it’s a terrible system,” said Mrs. Brown, "but I trust the workers. People are Jionest.” Town's Accident Record Broken After 20-Years HARVARD, 111. — The 20-year record of no motor vehicle fatali ties in the community of Harvard (population 3,100) has been broken. William Hutchinson, 29, was killed, and his companion, Tom Brady, 22, seriously hurt when the motorcycle they were riding went out of control as it turned a corner and crashed over a curb. Mayor John McCabe revealed it was the town’s first fatal accident ia 20 years. w'?H FAST 2-0*Of action of PINERO NOSE BMPS WNU--7 41—51 Faster to Mvsterole nst only brings fast bat its great pain-relieving medi< breaka up congestioa in upper — fhial tubes. Musterole offers ALT, the i benefits of a mustard plaster without the bother of making one. Just it on chest, throat and back. MUSTEROLE enjoy the best Costs only 2$ aweek&rthe average isunilyl EBB