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GRIER DRY CLEANING AND LAUNDRY «
“HOME TOWN CLEANERS**
Telephone Belmont 381
BELMONT, N. C.
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Grade “A” Paateorbed
DAIRY PRODUCTS
569 W. Franklin Art. Tel. 6354
GASTONIA, N. C.
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F. C. TON, INC.
TEXTILE MACHINERY — SUPPLIES
GASTONIA, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
L. I. BROWN 6R00GERY
Phone 2654
BELMONT, N. C.
Labor’s llusinesd Appreciated
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
ELMORE INSURANCE AND REALTY CORP.
INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE
Of All Kinds
North Main Street
BELMONT, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
A. F. 6RI66 S SHEET METAL WORKS
SIO North Oakland
Tel. Gastonia 7141
GASTONIA. N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
NMSSEY-CURK COMPANY
DEALERS IN HARDWARE
Telephone 168
MT. HOLLY, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
SUMMEY DRUG CO., INC.
PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY
107 So. Main St. Telephone 9
MT. HOLLY, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE
7 No. Mata St.
TcL 306
BELMONT, N. C.
Gastonia-Thriving Spindle City
**The Spindle City of the South ” a bee-lave of business activity the year ’round. Sit
uated on the Southern and Piedmont and No them Railways 24 miles southwest of Char
lotte. A city that welcomes new friends and new business enterprises. Many induce
ments to outsiders to cast their lot in Gasto.iia are offered by the progressive people of
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You’ll like Gastonia’s civic-mind-1
edness. It'* a city where people!
go to church on Sunday; where the j
civic ciuba sink their teeth intoj
useful projects; where legitimate
enterprises get loyal support. *Aj
need for more hospital facilities
brought forth a WOO,000 response.
Gastonia has: A daily news
paper, the Gazette—17/MO circula
tion; two radio stations; civic
clubs, Civitan, Kiwanis, Lions, Op
timist, Rotary, Altrusa, Pilot;
American Legion Poet; Music, Gar
den, and Woman’s Clubs; Merch
ants Association; 68 churches; 4
hospitals; Bank assets, $31 ,000,000.
(December 31, ’47). Two building
and loan associations; library with
county-wide bookmobile service;
Boy and Gill Scouts. We hope you
will make further inquiry about
auy phase of life in Gastonia that
is of interest.
Greater Gastonia can count 60
textile plants in its limits. In
Gaston County there are 140—the
largest number to be found in any
county in the United States. This
relatively small county produces
more than 80 per cent of the fine
combed cotton yarn made in this
couqfry and is known as “The
Combed Yarn Center of America.”
Some of Gaston County’s 120
smaller, diversified industries, con
tribute to the needs of a balanced,
self-contained community; others
distribute their products aO over
the world. Textile machinery, for
instance, is exported to almost ev
ery nation on the globe.
Sixty-on* machine shops sad ma
chinery manufacturers engage in
work which varies from intricate
microscopic precision operation to
the machining of large equipment
and parts.
Gastonia aril] be able to meet
your most exacting needs in air,
rail, truck and bus facilities. A
number of bus lines operate in and
out of Gastonia. There is also an
efficient city bus system.
Industrial Products — Active
spinning spindles in Gaston Coun
ty: 1,226,000. Annual industrial
payroll in Gaston County: 665,000,
000.
Value of manufactured products
in Gaston County 6200,000,000. In
dustrial employees in Gaston Coun
ty: 29,000.
April Employment
Under March
Washington, May 6.—Employ
ment in April was 172,000 above
that of March, according to a
statement by the Barca a of Census.
For the week ended April 0 to
tal civilian employment was 57*
647.000 for the corresponding week
in March.
Unemployment for April waa
3.016.000 compared to 3,167,000 for
the corresponding week in March.
A drop of 161,000. The total num
ber of idle in April was about
800.000 above that of a year ago.
Approximately 600,000 of those
unemployed in April had been
looking for work for four months
or longer. The corresponding num
ber was 500,000 in March and
300.000 in January.
HOUSE APPROVES BILL
FOR HOUSING CENSUS
Washington.—The House passed,
222 to 61, a bill calling for a census
of housing next year as part of
the regular population count which
comes every 10 years. The regular
census is expected to cost $70,000,
000. The bill sent to the Senate
would add $15,000,000 to find out
what kind of living quarters Amer
icans have.
Anniversary Greetings
PIEDMONT NILS
GASTONIA, N. C.
Anniversary Greetings
Saunders Dry Cleaniut Co.
319 E. Franklin Ave.
Vel. 5-4012
GASTONIA, N. C.
Anniversary Greetings
Rustin'* Furniture Co.,
lueurpurited
Complete
HOME FURNISHINGS
270 W. Main
TeL 6360
GASTONIA, N. C.
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Nelson true and Metal
Coeqaioy
No. Marietta Ext.
TeL 5*0281
GASTONIA, N. C.
Anniversary Greetings .
Manning Department
Stare
Gastonia's Largest Small
Department Store
1216 W. Franklin Ave.
TeL 7922
GASTONIA, N. C.
PRICE FIXING CHARGES
FILED AGAINST 247 FIRMS
The V. S. Department of Justice
brought formal charges of illegal
price fixing against 247 business
corporations during 1948—the year
of highest prices in American
history, a survey disclosed this
#eek.
These business concerns, some of
them the largest in the country,
are among the 314 firms brought
into court for violating the anti
trust laws last year.
A complete list of the firms
against which price-firing, monop
oly or other anti-trust charges
were filed by the Justice Depart
ment last year is published for the
first time on pages 4 and 5 of this
issue of The Machinist.
Altogether price-fixing arrange
ments were turned up by the Jus
tice Department in 19 industries
in which the concerns avoid com
petition on prices by agreement or
understanding to charge identical
prices for their products.
Herbert A. Beigpon, assistant
attorney general in'charge of the
Anti-trust Division, told The Ma
chinist that only once before in
history have so many business cor
porations been apprehended in a
single year for illegal price fixing.
. Of the suits filed last year, 186
corporations were charged in civil
proceedings while 152 firms have
been indicted under the criminal
provisions of the anti-trust laws.
These include 24 corporations
against which the Department has
brought both civil and criminal
charges.
Bergson disclosed that in the fu
ture most price-fixing charges will
be criminal proceedings.
“In mp opinion,” he declared,
“most price-fixing cases should be
criminal. At times, though, we run
into price fixing situations where
an association or an exchange was
the medium through which the
price-fixing arrangements were
made. In some of those cases it is
necessary to seek a court order dis
solving the association or ex
change.”—The Machinist.
Hartley Gets
"Bronx Cheer"
AtC.ofC.SpiU
That G.O.P. liability, Fred Hart
ley," continues to flit from one
Chamber of Commerce meeting to
another, defending (at so much
per) that law he wrote along with
Sen., Taft and a staff of NAM
lawyers.
Recently he addressed the Queens
(N.Y.) Chamber of Commerce and
called the law a potential force for
“great industrial peace.”
He then expressed regret that
there has been a great deal of em
phasis in the wrong direction”
since Not. 2, and clamor to repeal
it.
It’s obvious what a union work
er would say to such an argument.
But imagine Mr. Hartley’s shock
when one of the businessmen at
tending the dinner shouted:
“Boloney!"
Now, how do you suppose that
“union agitator” ever wormed his
way into the Queens Chamber of
Commerces—N. J. Labor Herald.
Anniversary Greetings
P. P. Leveitis Co.
Wholesale
FRUITS & PRODUCE
408 W. Main St.
TeL 7225
GASTONIA, N. C.
Annivresary Greetings
Rhyne's Flowers
Flowers For An Occasions
Dallas Road
Dial 7842
GASTONIA, N. C.
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E. R. MORGAN
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
GASTONIA, N. C.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED GENERAL
CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA
“Skin — Integrity — Responsibility”
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BEN F. STROUP
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
At the Crossroads Rank, N. C.
DEPARTMENTS
Dry Goode, Groceries, Hardware, Smokers Supply,
Southern Dairies Ice Cream, Cold Drinks, Drug
Sundries and hundreds of other items.
26th Year in Business
STORE HOURS
9 A.M. until midnight weekdays — 5 P.M. until midnight Sundays
Your Patronage Appreciated
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
BBJflONT DRY GLEANING COMPANY
South Main Street Telephone 514
BELMONT, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
E. E. WADE’S THEATRES
BELMONT, N. C.
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WOOD REALTY COMPANY, INC.
214 Realty Building Phone 5-4541
GASTONIA, N. C.
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SPENCER-RHYNE BOOK STORE
257 W. Main St. Phone 5-2356
GASTONIA, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
SMITH’S CUT RATE DRU6 STORES
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
157 W. Main Ave. — 121 W. Main Ave.
Tel 5-2354 or 5-2191
GASTONIA, N. C.
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
SMITH CHEVROLET COMPANY
SALES & SERVICE
508 W. Franklin Ave. Telephone 6396
GASTONIA, N. C
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M. A. RHYNE & SONS DAIRY
Vew Hope Road XeL 5-2702
GASTONIA, N. C.
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RANKIN & ARMSTRONG
QUALITY FURNITURE
124 So. Marietta Street
GASTONIA, N. C.
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PIEDMONT IRON WORKS
ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
North Marietta St. Extn. Phone 5-0321
GASTONIA, N. C.