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jr. 0 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER FRIDAY Rev. Williamson Uncle Sam Still Disposing Of Far Flung Properties World Honors American Heroes O , r., An v. "h Mi ' 1 IW ' U By CLARKE BEACH WASHINGTON Winding up a $330,000 000,000 operation like Un united States' share in World War II is big business in itself, even when only the tag ends of the job remain to be done. Uncle Sain, who has been selling things like mad for the past year or two, still is one of the world's largest real estate dealers The War Assets Administration has about S9 .000.000.000 worth of real and personal property left in the United States. About ! per cent of our wartime holdings abioad have been disposed of. most of them to the governments of commies in which the prop erty was situated. Our major for eign properties novt are in (Jei mariy and Japan, where our occu pation forces still have u-e for I hem Sales Continue The property still owned in this (ouiilry is about one-half real es tale and one-half personal prop i rt Officials expect to sell iicarlv .ill the personal property by next January. Some of the real estate will be sold or leased by then, but it is believed thai much of it will -till be lei 1 on liic govei mifcnl hands. Aimy and Navv Munition. Hoard oHuials say lhal about )U0 war plants will be held by the govern ment permanent h and that about l.i0 oilier war plants are now lor ale or lease under a recapture ar langement by which the govern ment will be able to get them back in case of emergency. Of the 100 plants to be kept about 40 are held hv the War De partment, to private part. Deah eluded for is holding 12 of Hies. Thev are to be leased industry ir whole or in already ':s i been con 10 of r in The Navy about i-l plants. About 1 liav been leased, and the Nnvv Oeii.'i Iment is consider ing leasing the . einainder 1. end-Lease Problems The lend-lease phase of the war operation which involved about $50,000.000 000. is being cleaned up in relativi lv minor, million-dollar lots. When lend-lease was term inated we arranged for many of tlx government concerned to receive the goods contracted lur and i. tended them long term credit Some of these orders have vet to be filled All major countries cM-cpl Rus sia have auieed on si 1 1 li-ments of then lciic!-lea-e accounts The terms agreed on in nearh all cases provided lhal the I . S absorb the cost of imlil ar items and that the coontiie.' concerned pay for the civilian goods -till on hand and Usable. Ibesia leccnlly informed this government that -he was readv to discuss tel ins Straightening nut the vast legal lend-lease agreements, to provide lor lawyers Britain and c IT il ' 4 tangle created bv th patent i nt i i eham'e however I- expected work toi inanv years and engineers in both the tinted Stales Kach nation was permitted to use each olhi-r's patents without restrict ion while lend-lease lasted, with the understanding lhal claims of patent ovvneis would be met al ter the war, Patent Questions WHITE CROSSES, ROW ON ROW" This American cemetery near Luxemburg is just one of 16 in foreign lands. By ALEXANDER G. GEORGE l Newsfeatures Writer WASHINGTON America's sold dier dead overseas are being hon ored this Memorial Day at services in military cemeteries in nearly every part of the world. By next Memorial Day the bodies of the thousands of World War II service men which now lie in for eign soil will be resting in their homeland. Steel caskets, in which the remains of soldiers, sailors. Marines and Coast Guardsmen will be broguhl home, are arriving in Europe. The law requires bodies to be returned if next of kin desire. The first ships bringing back bodies of the war dead are ex pected to reach this country in British patent holders under tin-agreement have until June : October. The plan is to return 1 first the remains of those who , now rest in about Hi cemeteries I in Europe, Africa and the Hawai ian islands i These include the Henri Cba ' pelle ceineteiy. Belgium; U S. mili ! tary cemeteries. St. Laurent, Krance; Cambridge, England; Net tuno, Italy and (,'ela, Sicily; Eur opean c e in e t v r y , Casablanca, French Morocco; the American cemeteries at (ialsa. Tunisia, and Tunis. Also these cemeteries in Hawaii: Scholield Barracks. Mokapu. Nuu anu and flalavva on Oalui island; Homelani on llilo. Makaweli on Kauai; and .Makavvao. on Maui island. Congress authorized the return, at government expense, of the 1 bodies of women as well as men in j the armed forces and of civilians j attached to the armed forces. The Quartermaster Corps, in : charge of the return, recently bad I received 8,t0 replies to 20,000 letters of inquiry seat to families. Some 77 percent wanted their war dead returned. And C3 per cent of those desiring their re turn said they wished them to be buried in private cemeteries at home. Meanwhile, all of this country's 1209 military cemeteries abroad have been beautified with shrubs and flowers, the building of fences and the erection of markers. In row upon row, white crosses and stars of David rise from the greens ward. On every grave, this Memo rial Day, there will be at least an 30, ROUND STEAK 58c lb. PORK CHOPS 52clb T-BONE A 7 vkai, -' STEM69clb. HAM 69c lb. Chops 59c lb. BEEF ROAST- - 42c lb. PORK ROAST- - 39c lb. C. E. DOTSON - BUTCHER GREEN FRESH BEANS 2 lbs. 23c CUCUMBERS : lb. 17c LARGE HEADS NICK BUNCH CABBAGE 2 lbs. 13c CARROTS 8c NEW NO- 1 LARGE HEADS POTATOES 5 lbs. 27c LETTUCE i5c LARGE STALK NO. 1 SWEET CELERY 19c POTATOES 2 lbs. 17c LARGE EARS WHITE LARGE RED C0RN u- doz. 38c TOMATOES ctn. 24c ALL OUR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ARE KEPT FRESH BY MODERN REFRIGERATION We Have a Complete Line of Groceries at OUTSTANDING LOW PRICES tout's mm Comer of Main Street, Hazelwood and Sulphur Springs Road Phone 387-R Louie The Loon Mistakes Runway For Lagoon MAHTlNSIiUIiO. VV. Va. P) Louie the loon, a hit shaken up after a helly landing on the concrete runway of Martins hurg municipal airport, recup erated in a ncarhy spring while officials considered how to get him airborne again. K. ('. Parkinson, airport manager, said the bird which must land and take off from water apparently mistook the glistening runway for a body of water "and came in with out lowering its landing gear." The loon skidded about 20 feet, lost a few feathers, skinned its neck and feet, and was generally jarred. "That didn't do him a bit of good," Parkinson remarked. "We thought at first it was a big wild duck, but it had a different hill, so we looked it up in an encyclopedia and dis covered it was a loon, which can't operate from land." Airport officials placed the bird in a small stream, but found the "runway" wasn't long enough for the loon to take off. "The book said it requires about 300 feet of water for the loon to take off, and there's no water around here like that. "So, we'll let him rest up a few days, then probably take him up in a rub plane and t?ive him a head start from the air," said Parkinson, add ing: "Now we know how they got thai expression, "crazy as a loon ' " 1940. to file llleir elaimc Ampr, icans can lile their claims against the British indefinitely Onp lend lease expert estimates it will- take i.i or i:n years to sort out the thousands of patented process that went into the making of war materials. There is still a littU wnr-hnrn construction to he completed. The Federal Works Agency expects to have seven ornieefs slid in ih. building stage at the end of June. it nas completed nearly 100 in the past year. This work, carried on hv the Bureau of Community Faeilitipn was known as the Lanham Act program. Under it the federal government put up almost $500.. 000,000 to pay in whole or in part for the construction nf c-hnnlc hospitals, sewers and other facili ties in comiminitips whih re ceived a sudden large influx of military personnel and war work ers. Work Continuing Where projects were under rnn. struction at the war's end and where the war-created need still continued, the government is con tinuing the work to completion. The Federal covernment'c no.. roll has dropped considerably. jutri-e are now z,ZBb,20Z employes under civil service, compared to o,au,bi in April, 1945. m Washington, to relieve in gestion during the war, a decen- iimmauoii program transferred many federal offices into the m The government now wants them 10 recentral ire" Pnnimu. . . -.m.aa i an been asked for funds In hrino th. boys home, and the matter is be ing considered in connection with, the Independent Offices Annmm-i. atlon Bill. About 17 Of everv 20 chl lng in New York hurhnp" hunt nit - VM as fuel. Summer Trips Set For Ex-Troopships NEW- YORK (TP) Allocation of two former troopships to carry American flag. The work of identifying the dead (will go on for some time. Of some '328,000 who lost their lives abroad in World War II, the bodies of 1209,000 are buried in known loea ! lions. About 2f)0,000 of these have been identified. An additional 17, 1 126 bwdies are known to be recov j erabie. Others have been buried at I sea or are among the missing, j The cost of the return and final I burial program is estimated at Isoine $200,000,000. Congress lias j set a time limit of five years for its I completion An Unknown Service Man sol idier, sailor, V:ari..e or Coast Guardsman oi World War II will eventually be laid to rest beside !the Unknown Soldier of World War I in Arlington National cemetery. teachers and students between Eu rope and America this summer was announced by Lawrence Duggan, director of the Institute of Inter national Education. The vessels, Marine Jumper and To Attend S. F. Rotary Convention Rev. M. R. Williamson, president elect of- the Waynesville Rotary club, will leave Monday, June 2, to attend the International Rotary convention which meets in San Franc if co, June 8-12. Club . delegates from this sec tion of North Carolina will entrain in Asheville and at Spartanburg will join the special train taking Rotarians from the two Carolinas. Other groups will join en route, at Atlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans and El Paso. Stop-over privileges have been arranged in New Or leans, San Antonio, El Paso, the Grand dnyon and Los Angeles. At the conclusion of the conven tion the special train will return via Salt Lake City, Denver, Colo rado Springs, Kansas City, and St. Louis, with stop-over privileges at each point. The train will reach Asheville on its return, Wednesday, June 18. Advance information is that 12, 000 Rotarians will: attend the con vention from over 50 different countries of the, world, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bryson, of Brldgeton, N: J., announce the birth of a daughter, Paula' Ann, on May 24. Mrs. Bryson was the for mer Miss Hazel Caldwell, daughter of Mrs. D; FV Underwood, Sr., and formerly resided in Waynesville. Marine, Tiger, each with a capac ity of 900 persons, will make eight crossings to, accommodate the ex change students and professors. Already 4,000 bookings have been made, all by Americans. The project- is being underwritten by the government and is supervised by the State Department. First sailing for Europe will be June 6. 1 tars In Joined tu. Tl . i" l.ouKulle Kv dn"u t'mes C New 0r, UI"'. Tai,,pa Trii JnR,"n Times-Hen 'I Period CIIKVROLKT Picj - 'Him """i. Mimd i ires- Hindus 'STHKKT CAR I'lectnc fixtures painted; good "" in' make J "K. Weld, Sir nunc vviilcr one ul lH-t lnai ti'1 S72.HU eJ liraiiin. Welch LOST - -Kev ri"ii7 111(1 line pus ( 4IM-.J. BltOODKH KoiTi si"' l-l'-Gas fir control, airunJ hlW mil )J Welch Street KIM! SAl.K-2ndM range Cwod conf W. We're Prices Reducing to $70 Per Thousa The Amazon river has tome 1.100 We know Lumber prices are too high. We know that important building operations eluding homes for returned, veterans, is be retarded because of hicrh prices of build a. materials. We know we can do something about it, and ducing our lumber prices is our first step Please note that we are takincr this step nei because of lack of business nor because of altruistic motive, but because we want to prices adjusted to a more normal level building operations speeded up. Call us t, -i.'L. i" T: r i p-MfM'Wr ,uiior manor ana nee; estimaies. AH frrrminrr tin 1R ( nJ i :J- J 1: i 7011(17 Pine Sheathing, Sized $70.00$ Hardwood Sheathing, Sized $50.00 J Rock Wool Tnsulation Batts 6'-c ft Glass.Wbol Insulation 6' cE Kimsul Insulation 6cE 24 x 24 Glass Size Check Rail Windows $5.00 24 x 20 " " " " " $4.75 24x16 " " " $4.50 24 x 14 " " " " " $4.25 HEAVY" GAUGE n T Tl MTtT.Ti. . a a m o iun 1II.FT. Ult We have a full line of PAINTS Kemtone Texolite - Varnish Shellac Unseed Oil Phones 82 -83 'Build With Wood' c At The i tributaries. - .
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