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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.
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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.
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