OVERSEAS NEEDY AID TO BE TOPIC OF MECTNOV. 1 CROP Organization Will Be Set Up For Macon County Saturday Church, farm, and civic lead er of Macon County will meet Saturday m Dining at 10:30 o'clock at the Agricultural building to ciscuss organization of a local drive for the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP), the nation-wide lnLerchurch pro giam to send farm commodities to the needy overseas. The meeting was called by D. D. Oross of Waynesvllle, who recen ly was named county CROP convener by a group of persons in the county interest ed in the Ch'istian brotherhood program. Last year CROP sent 2,392 railroad carloads of food to the needy aboard. . At the meeting, the CROP program, which is sponsored by Church World Service (22 Prot ectant denominations), Luther sn World Relief, and Catholt Rura1 Life, will be explained b Mr. Gross, CROP supervisor foi Macon and several neighboring counties. The need ab ard wil be discussed, and the pioposec participation by Maccn Countj outlined. CROP is a na ion -wide pro pram to fill Friendship Foid Trains with bulk commodities, such as wheat, corn, beans, and milk for the needy overseas. Principal emphasis in the drive is In North Carolina and 2D other top agricultural states. All Interested persons are in vi ed to attend Saturday morn ing's meeting. Vary Pumpkin Pie By Using Egg, Gelatin Pumpkin pie ? deep yel'ow spicy fl'ling within tender pas try crust. It's the harvest time indisputable dessert favorite In many homes throughout the country. For variation, try a fluffy chiffron pumpkin pie made with unflavored gelatin and egg whites. It's an ideal dessert tri umph for entertaining. To In sure pastry tenderness and flavor use lard as the shor en ing agent, says Keba Staggs, widely known food expert. The pastry can line either little in dividual tart pans or the tra ditional sized pans. Pastry pumpkins cleverly arranged ov er the pie filling add a season al touch. Still another way to receive new pumokin pie compliments is with nuts? chopped pecans, walnuts or peanuts. Add the nut meats to either she filling or to the .whipped cream topping. For more flavor changes, add lem on Juice, apple cider, grated orange rind or maple sugar to pumpkin custard filling. / i Here's How To Add1 New Touch To Old Dish Add a new touch to an old dish and the family Is certain to take renewed interest. An example suggested by Reba Staggs, home economist, is add ing chopped tart apple to a favorite bread stuffing. This is an especially tempting combina tion to bake be .ween two slices of ham. Cooked chopped prunes, apvi cots or raisins make a colorful surprise stuffing for plump rit pork chops or for a cushion style pork shoulder. Tart cran berries add still another distinct touch to stuffing. They are frist chopped, then cooked in fat te to e being added to a bread dressing. Canadian-style bacon offers an opportunity for clever In dividual fruit-stuffed servings. Sweet pineapple slivers are add ed to bread stuffing that goes between two slices of the bacon. The slices are skewered to keep the stuffing securely Inside, then slowly baked. S. S. Class Spends Week-End On Wayah The Young People's class of the Franklin Methodist church had a week-end camping trip at "JTI h Haven" on Wayah Bald. Ollmer A. Jones, the class teacher, and Mrs. Jones were chaperones. Approximately 20 members of the class attended. CARD OF THANKS We sincerely thank our many friends and neighbors for their loving kindness shown us dur ing the Illness and at the time of the death of our two little daughters. Mr, and Mrs. John Swafford All over the world today there are people teaching bitterness and hate. Here in America we have learned to live together in friendship. For us here at A&P, it has been a wonderful and thrilling ex perience to get from those with whom we compete day after d^y such astounding evidence of friendship and respect. The things that have happened since the anti-trust lawyers from Washington brought suit to destroy A&P have amazed us. While we sincerely believed that we had earned the friendship of millions of consumers for whom we have provided better food at lower prices, and the friendship of millions of farm families for whom we have provided a better market for their produce, we were not prepared for the avalanche of offers of support. \ But most of all, we have to confess that we had underestimate :> the fine sportsmanship of many of our competitors all over the country. Can anyone believe that these competitors would rush to our t'efense if, as the anti-trust lawyers allege, we had been trying to put them out of business? We and they have fought hard for business. There are nearly 350,000 individual grocers competing with us. They have a larger share of the nation's grocery business today than they had ten years ago or twenty years ago. Many of them do as good a job as we do, and they make it plenty tough for us. Now, day after day, these same competitors are letting us know that they are in our corner. All we can say is, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Isn't America A ]Vcnderful Country! Who hollered for Unci ?cal customers. WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THE A&P PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. The A&P is keeping food prices down. We in turn keep our prices down; and that helps us to sell more fo^ the entire pack of many a cannery. Those canneries pack the farmers' crops. What would the farmer do with his highly perishable crop if the food chains were eliminated as big volume buyers? COMPETING CHAINS, MAYBE? No. Practically every chain in the grocery business had more sales last year than the year before. One chain that we know a lot about Increased its food business 21% last year and is up 19% in the first eight months of thi3 year. THEN IT CERTAINLY MUST BE THE PEOPLE! Like fun. If th^ people hated food chain stores, would they have spent 91/: billion dollars in them last year? Folks like tho low prices and high standards of chains - and the bettor the chains are run, the better folks like them. Does This Sound as Though We Need Help? Thorofare Super Markets came into existence 10 years ago. The food chains Thorofare replaced were doing about three million dollars worth of business a year. Housewives liked our policies well enough to boost their purchases in our 90 stores to about 30 million dollars a year. We call that a vote of confidence. And we're going to keep right on proving that as long as we stick to good brands and better-than-average selections at rock bottom prices, we can compete with anybody in the business. And keep right on growing, tool ? ? ? We don't believe any chain will be punished for being efficient, or for pleasing housewives so well that it is forced to grow. We, too, believe that it is a storekeeper's duty to bring the public the best food at the lowest possible prices, and hope to see the chain store way of doing busi ness vindicated. And as long as the producers, the employees, the cus tomers, the wholesale grocers, the independents and the competing chains thrive so well, we will continue to think it's a good way to do business. I Welcome A&P Competition J We Agree With A&P Yss, ws want our A&P competitors to stay in business on their present scale because we know what it would mean to the American people without them. We are only one store and are striv ing to serve our community with good food at low prices, but the A&P is a nationwide organization serving the American people everywhere with good food at low prices. Destroying the A&P would mean elim inating competition nationally in the food field which every poor man knows consumes the major portion of his salary. We congratulate the A&P for a job well done. Keep up the fight. Wa welcome any fair competition which helps us bring lower food prices to the consumer. SCHWEGMANN BROTHERS GIANT SUPER MARKET 2122 St. Claude Avenu. H.w Orl.au coimt"?*'s opinion Tke Great MlantU 8. Podfe*" Co. self-styled ? osiers" of ... government recently made head lines as a result of a move to de stroy the A&P. Frankly, we don't like it. A&P is charged with having con trol of SOME of the production and processing ends of the food busi ness. As a result, they can offer foods at low prices. So What... And if monopoly of the food busi ness is charged, that sure hands us a laff. We... at P.P.M. are grow ing like wildfire. Seems like we're able to sell better foods " nr!" ? at better BECAUSE prices. Your increasing patronage of our stores is positive proof that A&P has no monopoly on the food business. Let's get down to good old Ameri can horse sense. A&P is doing a good job of serving the people of this country. They're no bogey men. We are for them 100% in controversy. e ? ? ? like myself, many hundreds of Independent groc ers got their start with the TEA COMPANY. ? ? ? ? The great A&P is not detrimental to the progress of the grocery business. On the contrary, A&P has always been beneficial to any open-minded businessman who be lieves in FREE ENTERPRISE. Founded on the principle of FAIR PLAY and FAIR PRICES, A&P developed from a humble start to its present commanding position in the field of retail merchandising. ? ? ? ? My experience as a former employee of the TEA COMPANY has served me well. I attribute my success to the ideas and methods tried, tested and proven by the A&P stores ? at a great cost. ? ? ? ? A&P upholds the rights and privileges of a good worker. I know this from personal experience. A&P is ever on the lookout to promote sincere and ambitious employees to trustworthy and important positions and has never crossed the efforts of any employee to enter into business for himself. A&P helped me to start In business ... IS THAT AN ACT OF A COMPANY MONOPOLIZING THE GROCERY BUSINESS? NO! A&P taught me to serve the public BETTER ? MORE ECONOMICAL and MORE EFFICIENT, thanks to the start given me by B. F. VINSON. this "am on. Pres. PROVIDENCE PUBLIC MARKETS PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND ? ? ? ? During the depression of the thirties, A&P paid higher wages than any other chain. A&P has striven to keep up the standard of living in this country. I shudder to think what would happen to its 110,000 employees if it was forced out of business. e ? ? ? I am not afraid of A&P competition ? I welcome it. It's democratic ? it's the American Way. Paul Si impdon PITTSBURGH, PA. SIMPSON'S SUPER MARKETS 765 Moreland Ave., S. E 580 McDonough Blvd., S. E. Atlanta, Georgia ?Mr. Simpson was named "Grocer of the Year for 1948" by the National Retailer Owner Grocers' Association. ??*!??? / ?L\ \ % THE GREAT ATLANTIC & The Anti-Trust Suit Against The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. This suit is another threat against our great American system of free enterprise. The A&P Co. has always been clean, above board competition and any successful independent merchant, if he is honest, will admit that they have taught him a great many things regard ing merchandising, reducing overhead, bet ter buying, etc., thus lowering food costs foe the great American Public. QUALITY GROCERYfiMARKET ?yfaUumeobyood thuu}>> to Sat H.T.VAN_NATTA_ R.O.VAN NATTA muli# WATSIKA, IUINOIB PACIFIC TEA COMPANY