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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNT AINEEB
FRIDAY
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New Sugar Coupon Will
Be Effective June 1st
WASHINGTON (AP) The
government moved up the cash-in
date of the next sugar ration stamp
from July 1 to June 1, but said it
must last for five months.
An Agriculture department an
nouncement said it must last until
Oct. 31, when rationing and price
controls expire unless extended
by Congress.
Today's action was taken, the
department said, to spt ed sugar
into consumer channels before the
heavy movement of wheat and
other com.-nodities this summer
burdens transportation facilities.
Supplies from a big Cuban crop
are piling up in eastern refinery
centers to create a "temporary sur-
Man Survives Five
Days Trapped In
Overturned Auto
OAKLAND. Calif 'APi "You
don't know how wonderful a human
being is a fellow human being
when you want one . . . "
These were the words of 26-year-old
Ernest Kenneth Steele,
released from a five-day nightmare
of being trapped beneath his over
turned car just 150 feet from a
busy highway.
It may cost him hi right arm.
plus." partly because consumers j mangled and gripped in a vice of
have been slow to cash in Spare
Stamp No. 11 which became valid
April 1 for JO pounds.
The action came as many in the
sugar industry predicted either an
end of rationing before Oct. 31 or
;in increase in the ration because of
improved supply prospects and
slowness of same European coun
tries to take Cuban supplies.
The government has promised
individual consumers 35 pounds
this year compared with 25 last I
ear. Oliicials say it is too early
to know definitely whether there
will be any change.
The departmenjt said that ap
parently many huuschuld and in
dustrial users, finding supplies
available at present, are postpon
ing buying.
Urging early purchases, the
agency said a last-minute rush to
cash unused sugar ration coupons
when transportation facilities are
over-taxed by the movement of
other commodities could result
:n local shortages.
The department also took steps
o encourage industrial users to
et supplies earlier and to build
up larger inventories.
They may now apply June 1 in-
.cud of June 10 as announced
. arlier. for their allocations for the
. uly-September quarter. They also
ay buy their full allotment as
ion as it is granted. Heretofore
t icy hae been required to limit
inventories to 30 days require
i ents.
Use Outside Green
Larn to use the leafy tops of
oung beets or outside green
I -aves of the lettuce and cabbage.
These like other greens are cheap
FDurces of vitamin A, and also con
t dn ether vitamins and iron-
torture for five long clays and
nights as he lay pinned beneath
his car.
He was rescued late Monday
almost by accident by linemen
stringing wire through Franklin
canyon west ol Martinez. It was
into this 35-foot gulley that his car
had plunged last Wednesday when
he went to sleep at the wheel.
A man's thoughts are long under
such conditions not even the 36
hours on a raft he spent after a
Pacific torpedoing compared with
it, Steele said in a bedside inter
view today "This was the works.''
"I wouldn't go through those
five days again (or anything in the
world No one will ever know what
it meant to me to have help come."
Steele, a Navy combat veteran,
thought a lot about his wife.
With a piece of glass he scratch
ed the message. "Mae. don't for
get I love you." on the side of the
car.
"I yelled. I prayed. I shouted
and banged. 1 cried for my wife.
But I never gave up hoping
never.
"I couldn't seem to raise any
body. I must have heard seven or
eight men go by. Cows and calves
went by. I thought surely some
farmers would find me.
"I could see water. I don't know
how it got there, but I could see it.
I was thirstier than I was hungry.
Devils seemed to have put that
water where I couldn't get it . . .
"Oh, out the nights were long
and cold. I'd doze off for a while,
and then there they would be again
long and dark and cold.
"I prayed, all my kid prayers,
"I'd yell and cry for my wife.
. . I scratched that message for
my wife on the car. It was all I
could do."
Drs. Seaver and Lockard
OPTOMETRISTS
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WILL BE IN WAYNESVILLE FRIDAY EACH WEEK
Masonic Buildln? . . Hours 8:00 to 1:00
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted
H. M. Seaver. O. D. John C. Lockard, O. D.
Chases Cotton Westward
Weevil damage is partly respon
sible for the expansion of cotton pro
duction in west Texas and Oklahoma
where the hot, arid climate prevents
the insect from becoming abundant,
and in the irrigated sections of New
Mexico, Arizona and California,
where it has never become estab
lished. But there is evidence that it
is becoming better acclimated to ad
verse climatic conditions.
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THE
First National Emk
ORGANIZED 1902
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Member Federal Reserve System i
Selections
For Canton
Are Made By
Aldermen
AH But Two Selective
Positions Are Filled
By Town Board
Monday
Holding their first session since
their election here a Week ago,
members of the Canton town
board of aldermen Monday night
placed their approval on several
major reappointmnets Of city em
ployes and deferred two others.
Mayor P. Paul Murray presided.
On motion of Alderman P. D.
DeW'eese and seconded by Alder
man Lloyd Sellers, Alderman Rob
inson was appointed mayor protem.
W. Luther Snyder and Robert L.
Williams were reappointed city tax
collector and accountant, respec
tively. J. D. Mackey was retained as
superintendent of streets and wat
er. J. R. Sechrest also was reap
pointed water technician. C. L.
Westmoreland and H. L. (Dick)
Setzer were reappointed chief and
assistant chief, respectively, of the
Canton fire department.
E. M. Geier, cashier for the
Canton division of the Champion
Paper and Fibre company, was
reappionted clerk and treasurer of
the town.
R. K. Collins was reappointed
building inspector for the south
section of Canton and Robert Col
lins was appointed for the north
section of town.
W. M. Bryson was appointed
electrical inspector of the south
section of Canton while Wilbur
J. Stevenson was named for the
north section.
Dr. Frank rate was appointed
chairman of Canton sanitary board.
Although the official minutes
failed to record the action, it was
understood that Alderman Sellers
was named chairman of the street
department, DeWeese chairman of
the water department, and Robin
son, chairman of finance section.
It was further revealed that
Mayor Murray would head the
Canton police department as chair
man. The appointment of chief of po
lice, now held by W. N. Stroup,
was deferred until a late date as
was the office of town attorney now
held by T. A, Clark, re-elected a
week ago as proseccuting attorney
for the Canton police court.
PILOT GETS A TICKET' FOR FORCED HIGHWAY LANDING
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HIGHWAY TRAFFIC Is Jammed about a small two-seater single-engined plane, which made a miraculous forced
landing in the middle of . the Henry Hod Sob Parkway in New York City, when the"motor cut out shortly
after Its takeoff from ihe iirpoyt at TeteYboroIf . J. The pilot, John M. Jewett, Jr., 23, a Ninth Alif'.th-ce
veteran, was handed Uee Simmons for-landing on the parkway without a permit. (International)
TRIGGER SETS OFF
HAPPY DAYS FOR
CHILDREN IN MOVIES
HOLLYWOOD Geewizz,kids,
little 10-year-old Bobby Driscoll
and his movie girl friend, 8-year-old
Luana Patten, certainly have a
break.
in a movie
They're working
with Roy Rogers!
I talked with Bobby's mom, Mrs.
Isabel Driscoll, and she said he
was up every morning early these
days, pacing the floor while, she
got ready to go to the studio with
him. He wanted to enter the lot a
half-hour early at 8:30, to Jalk to
Roy and his horse Trigger, but the
child-labor laws won't let him
enter until 9.
Mrs. Alberta Patten said Luana
was bouncing right out of bed at
7:30 so's not to keep Trigger wait
ing. The first day a lot of wonder
ful things hapenped she got her
fringed suede cowgirl outfit with
boots and yellow felt hat but she
told her pa what was best of all:
"Daddy, I got to sit on Trigger!"
Bobby and Luana are in a se
quence, "Pecos Bill," in a Walt Dis
ney folklore movie. Around a camp
fire and artificial cactus inside a
sound stage, Roy tells 'em what
makes coyotes howl.
Growing movie fame doesn't
seem to have spoiled Bobby and
Luana. Bobby, born in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was discovered for
pictures by a barber in Pasadena,
near here, whose son was a movie
actor. Luana, born in Long Beach,
also near here, was spotted bv a
magazine-cover photographer on
the shore there. She has been on
nearly 200 magazine covers and
a lot of calendars since she was
two and a half.
Bobby has to keep his room
clean at home and dries the even
ing dishes when he's not working
on a picture. Luana does the same.
They reckon they've seen just
about every Roy Rogers movie in
the last few years, at Saturday
matinees. Fact is, I went to one
with Bobby, and he sat on the edge
of his seat the whole time. Bobby,
has seen about. 30 Rogers pictures
and liked "My Pal Trigger" best.
ny Slips v;J
thing but freedom and integrity."
Longstreet, who was in London
as a Time' magazine editor during
the blitz, argues that less extrava
gance Bets Tilgher quality.
As an example, he cites two
pictures about the chance meeting
of a man and woman in a rail
road statiorf. Scenes for "Brief
Encounter" were shot, in an actual
British"" rail 'station on a number
of mornings between 3 and 6 a.m.
"Over here, practically the
same story,. 'The Clock' with Judy
Garland and Robert Walker, was
killed by production values. It
was too rich, too ornate. The Eng
lish, who oan't afford to build a
Pennsylvania Railroad Station, as
Hollywood did, give you a warm,
honest,' real thing."
He thinks Alfred Hitchcock
directed his best movies in Eng-
land-'The 39 Steps," for example,
"made , for a company that was
practically bankrupt but left him
completely alone."
Six months to a year shouldvbe
spent preparing a screen story in
stead of an average of 15 weeks,
he maintains.
"Hollywood will have to get
simpler, more honest, and more
direct," Longstreet summarizes.
"It will. It is run by very clever,
shrewd people."
BASEHART'S HEAD
KEEPS ITS SHAPE
WHEN FAME COMES
HOLLY" WOOD . Zancsville,
Ohio, and way points will be glad
to know that movie gold and im
minent stardom haven't swelled
Richard Basehart's good-looking,
brown-thatched head. ' '
A few years ago he was a $6-a-week
part-time reporter for '..the
Zanesville Sunday Times-Signal,
writing obituaries, notices of Ladies
Aid meetings and (once) scooping a
fellow reporter.
Now Dick earns $2,000 a week
while acting in movies at Eagle
Lion Studio under a contract that
guarantees him a minimum of
$20,000 a year.
No swimming pools or fancy
Garage And Auto
Consumed By Fire
At Clyfle Tuesday
Fire of unknown origin caused a
total loss to the' garage and automo
bile parked inside at the residence
Of Dr. A, C. Downs at Clyde, be
tween 3. 'and 4. a m. Tuesday.
, Property loss" ' 'as placed at more
than Jj.'OOO.'
Members of the family first
learned Of the' lire about 4 o'clock,
when' arising, by being told of it
by two Dixie Transfer truck driv
ers who saw the blaze spreading
from the'garage to the residence
and pounded on the door to arouse
the family. By that time the garage
roof was caving in ,and the near-
reau
til!-
Hulking
in
tatei
Cl
trimmings for Dick, however. He
feft'd. his wife. Stephanie, live in a
ih6tel room furnished wih a sofa,
two easy chairs, a "big bed, an elec
tric refrigerator, a'small bar, and
"an electric " plate. Stephanie pre
pares'bolled eggs and coffee for
breakfast" and' has cooked a full
course chicken dinner oh the one
heat unit. ' tJsually' they dine out.
They hoped to move shortly into
a six-room house.
Dick. Who tfot into pictures via
the New York stage, has completed j nisiuny i
two movies not yet released. The brtiuiilii pi,,,,, Tly J
nrsi was' "cry won" wun Bar
bara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn.
Eagle-LJon's "Repeat Perform
ance," in which Dick appears with
Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie,
will have its world premiere May
22 in Zanesville with Dick in at
tendance. The studio plans a top
starring role for the quiet-spoken,
27-year-old actor in "Career in
Manhattan."
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Political dope from a smoke
filled dressing-room: Albert Dek
ker, gang leader in "The Killers,"
now busy at 'other villainy in W.
Lee Wilder's "Complex," may run
for mayor of Los Angeles in the
next election. ' "I'd ' make a good
politician," quips the handsome,
40-year-old Albert, "because I've
played so many gangsters." He was
a member of the state assembly in
1945-46.
For once cameramen welcomed
a cloud overcast when a movie was
on location; it gave the proper gray
of dawn, for newsboy scenes in
"Fighting Father Dunne." . . . Roy
Rogers just completed nine years in
movies; "I've made 70 pictures and
Trigger hasn't" fallen once," the
western, star told me, squatting to
knock the' sound-stage floor for con.
tinued good luck.
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laaium cannot be ul
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metals addal to givf
hardness.
by side of l lie housl
A call was placed!
fire department whl
a truck and had tj
control soon after tl
The automobile,
sedan, was insured,
garage was not. Set
funriture and otlj
items that had beeii
garage also were col
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9 ATTRACTIVE ITEE-2S TO CHOOSE FRO.
ENGLISH MOVIES
DECLARED BETTER
tOR LESS MONEY
HOLLYWOOD Stephen Long
street says Hollywood producers
admit privately that the English
are making better movies than they
are.
But they are confident that they
can top the British product. With
U. S. boxoffice returns reported
in a trade-paper survey to be 20
percent lower than a year ago, the
outspoken writer offers picture
makers a few suggestions:
Less interference with directors
from the Front Office . . . More
time for writing screen stories . '. .
and less expenditure of money,
simply for the sake of expensive
looking scenes.
Longstreet, 40, florid, and heavy
set, is ihe author 6f many short
stories and about 30 books, In
cluding the novel "Stallion Road"
and the screen play from which
it was filmed. He also wrote the
movie, "The Jolson Story." "
Uncocking a pipe from hand
some teeth, he pronounces Eng
lish movies presently "much supe
rior" to Hollywood's partly be
cause: "The English,' having no great
stars and' if they have, we im
mediately steal fhem give fcni
known actors, writers, and direc
tors a chance. They have the
courage of desperation." ' " '
'Their writers and directors are
permitted to work without' busi
ness-offlce interference, ' he ;'saysl
and "there are two to four people
working "on'i story 'instead 0 401
Ovef here, the "Front Office buy
the story and tells the '- director
what to do with it. He lias every
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