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Railroad President Says He'll , Take Own Private Car Over Salary Br MERRILL SWEDLUND Anderson, Ind. (AP) ? Ike Duf fey uyi it'i more (un to have a private car on the Central Indiana Railway than to draw a salary aa president. Almoat every Saturday and sometimes once or twice dur ing the week he rounds up a group of "neighbors" on the 44-mile line and they ride in the luxurious pri vate car attached to a freight train. His wife serves hori d'oeuvres. "Anyone who wants to play rail road can come and we'll play rail road," Duffey says. Behind the fun is solid business success. The little line had been piling up big losses since 1899 - as high as $249,000 in one year ~ when Duffey was made president in mid 1951. That year there was $8, 900 profit. Last year there was $39,787 net, and he was offered a salary. He took the private car instead and still works for $1 a year. Duffey got into the livestock and meat business at 16 and friends say he made a million before he was 26. He retired at 43, owner of three packing plants. But he couldn't take retirement and he loved railroads. That's when he ap plied for the unpaid job as rail road president. With 32 employees, he began to dig the 44 miles of track out of the weeds. "Everyone along the railroad is our neighbor," he say "I don't know anything about the mechani cal side of it and I don't care to. I just love the click of the wheels on the rails." He's spruced up railroad b.uild ings and encouraged new business es along the line. One firm which bought an old plant couldn't even find the railroad siding in the weeds. But that kind of thing is changing fast. He spends most of his time out on the line and the thing he stresses most is neighborliness. The birthday of a customer's child is a good excuse for a trip in the pri vate car. When one family lost its home in an explosion, there was a box car for temporary furniture storage. He atill sponsors baseball excur sion trains to Cincinnati, some thing he started before he quit the meat packing business. But most of his attention goes into the rail road. "I don't feel the Central Indi ana is on a sound basis yet," he says. "When it is, well, then we can talk about a salary." Typographical Error It Cause of Family Spat Chester, Pi. (AP) Alex Dia mond, a 5th grade pupil, will use a speller and not the newspaper the next time he gets stuck on a word. He had an argument with his moth er over the spelling of Pennsylvan ia. He thought it was Pennslyvania because that's the way it was in the newspaper. The newspaper apologized on the front page, explaining the error was a typographical mistake. Travel ia hie luxurious private car ia Ike Duffy'a pride and joy. But he wear* a denim Jacket out on the line. He'a shown here on the atepa of his car. With the Armed Forces Pfc. Leslie G. Roberts , Graduates from School I Corps, Korea ? Army Pfc. Leslie G. Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Roberts, 1901 Arendell St., Morehead City, recently was graduated from the I Corps Non commissioned Officer Academy in Korea. A squad leader in the 25th In fantry Division's 14th Regiment, he received instruction in leader ship of units, map reading and other military subjects. Private First Class Roberts, a graduate of Morehead City High School, entered the Army last De cember and arrived in Korea last May. , Camp Gordon, Ga. ? Pvt. W. Ward King of route 2 Beaufort will graduate this week from The Southeastern Signal School, Camp Gordon. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King. Private King received training in the operation of military commun ications equipment, climaxed by a week of field training under simu lated combat conditions, during his nine-week course. Little Creek, Norfolk, Va. (FH TNC)- Paul Douglas King Jr., of Duke University, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. King, 104 N. 28th St, Morehead City and Robert T. Ad ams, of the University of South Carolina, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Adams of Newport, N. C., are among the approximately 700 Na val Reserve Midshipmen receiving three weeks of amphibious training here at the U. S. Naval Amphibious Base. Known as NAMID *55, a con traction of NAval Reserve MID shipmen, the training includes classroom and practical work both ashore and afloat. To climax their training, the Midshipmen were in tegrated into task forces of amphib ious ships and acted as crews in beaching landing craft at Camp Pendleton, Va., in a sea-air exer cise recently. The operation will conclude am phibious indoctrination at the am phibious base this summer for two regiments of Naval Reserve Mid shipmen and a contingent of Na val Academy Midshipmen, a total of approximately 2,200 trainees. U. S. Forces, Korqa ? Army Pvt. Charlie N. Smith, 21, son of Mrs. G. D. Wetherington, Route 2, Newport, is now serving with the 46th Transportation Truck Com pany in Korea. Private Smith, a dispatcher, en tered the Army in May of this year and completed basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. ' / ' M Tune Up For Health By JACK POBUK M r Toalag II Sun sometimes is important (or health. It ii one of the world'! oldest remedies. The medical men of ancient Egypt used it thousands of years ago. Modern sci ence finds sun light one of the vital keys to life. It is * good idea to spend part of every day out doors. Get out in the sun. Also, try last week's exercise for eight counts and follow with this one. Knees Bend Stand with your feet comfortably apart, hands crossed at wrists in front of body, fists clenched. COUNT 1. ? Bend knees, rais ing heels, swinging arms sideward & lift H // and upward, opening hands, palms up. COUNT 2 ? Return to starting position. Repeat counts 1 and 2 eight times. Reds Offer Cut Rate Literature Tokyo (AP) ? The Communists arc offering magazines and books at less than cost to put across their way of life in a country where family budgets allow little reading matter. American weekly news maga zines printed in Japan give pub lishers a slight profit at 70 yen a copy. Monthly pocket size maga zines sell for 100 yen. But well printed magazines from Red China and Russia sell for as little as 20 yen. Russian and Red Chinese publi cations cost news dealers nothing. Even so, few news dealers handle red publications. Red salesmen also offer school books at less than publishing costs to parents of school children. Each book carries this theme: "Thank you Father Malenkov for a happy childhood." New England Oranges Dover, N. H. ? (AP) ? Charles Secus, a barber, undismayed by New England's climate, raised an orange tree in the window of his shop and is looking forward to a small harvest of oranges. t NEW Chevrolet WICKS IHor**0*1 More woH( per day! You save time with lower loading height and bigger load space in most models . . . new power in all models . . . plus scores more features I em More woric per dollar ! i ? chkJ ytm'n ahead m the M at I(m start! ftew* tU Km to hvyl MmtIIO MALI MOST TRUSTWORTHY TRUCKS ON ANY JOB I Tntda Sav with m New Chmvrolt! Co M In and gtl a money-sa'inj deal on the new Chevrolet truck that'i jort right far your job! SOUND CHEVROLET COMPANY, INC;. 1308 AKENDEU ST. PHONi 6-4071 MOtEHEAD CITY, N. C - ii? ? lm-nnmn 1 1 """J* Steward Makes Speaker System Minneapolis, Minn. (AP) - Ron Robbing, (light steward with North Central Airline, Inc., has invented a pint-sized speaker system which he says delivers sound similar to that heard in a concert hall. Ross, who spent a year and a half per fecting his system, says the secret lies in the design of his cabinet and a new arrangement of the speak ers. The cabinet, made of plastic, is prism-shaped. The front grill measures 19 inches square and the sides of the cabinet taper off like a wedge to a point nine and one half inches behind the center of the grill. It's supposed to be placed in a corner of a room. Inside the cabinet, Ross has mounted five baffles and five speakers one for the treble tones, one for the middle ranges and two fos bass and one for the very low bass. Arranged properly, they form chambers acoustically de signed for maximum reproduction. Robbins has applied for a patent August 1 is Independence Day in Switzerland. Farmer* Short en Cash,' Turn to Bartering Pontile, Mich. (AP) ? Harris Shultx, ? grocer, uyi eaah so Ik* firm is drying up. On tba frtnf* at Detroit, one of the nation's moat heavily industrialized areas. Grocer Shultx tradea with fanners on a barter baaix. Meetly be takes eggs for staples. Normally he gets only a few down a day, but the average baa gone up to IS dosen now. They've been accumulating ao faat he couldn't dispose of them to henleaa cuatomera. Once be had 200 doeen on hand. Falling farm pricea, he says, are shortening the farmer's caah and he's turning more and more to bar tering. Boy's Classmates Raise Funds to Replace Glasses Jarbalo, Kan. (AP) ? Paul Schmutz, 12, lost his eyeglaases when fire destroyed his home. Schoolmates raised $29. SO to buy him a new pair, but the doctor who fitted the glasses refused to take the money when he learned of the circumstances. Paul's schoolmates didn't want the money back either. So they bought him other articles needed to replace those lost in the fire. II Three Cents WONT TAKE YOU TO THE BANK BUT IT WILL DO YOUR BANKING YOU A?k us for further details about banking by mail. FIRST-CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO. US ArtaMl 8 L Morehead City, N. C. 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