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! Handle Melons
j With Care To
I Avoid Losses
1 "Handle With Care" should
I be the motto of every Tar Heel
watermelon producer at harvest
ing time this year, according
i to H. R. Niswonger and H. M.
! Covinton, horticulture specialis
j for the State College Extension
! Service.
Careless handling of melo η s
( cost producers a good deal of
, money which they had to pay
out in damage claims last year,
the specialists said. Much of
1 the damage was due to the care
. lessness of pickers, and more to
carelessness in loading and haul
ing the melons from the field.
To help producers aviod simi
lar disastrous losses this year,
the horticulturists issued a
check list of helpful hints in con
nection with melons harvesting.
Their suggestions follow:
Harvest only melons, and do
not pick green or over-ripe mel
ons.
Do not press down on top of
melons to determine ripemess.
This practice often damages the
fruit, brusing the rind and crack
ing the flesh.
Cut all melons from vines,
leaving the stems as long a s
possible. Do not stand melons
on end, since this practice also
may bruise them.
Keep the bottom side of the
■k
melon down when the sun. and
do not pile melons in the field.
Handle carefully to avoid skin
injury to the melons. Do nor
drop or jar them.
Carry melons to the shade or
load them as soon as pick e d.
But before loading, inspect truck
or wagon for nails or cleat s
with sharp corners which may
injurt the melons.
Finally, do not load melon s
more than five layers deep in
the truck or wagon when haul
ing to railroad cars.
Cost Of Vacation
Joins Bandwagon
Of Rising Prices
MINNEAPOLIS (U.P.)—Yo u
can't win when it comes to va
cations this year.
[ Take a trip, even a short one—
nothing fancy—and it will cost
! from 20 to 100 per cent more
! than it did in 1940.
Maybe just stay at home and
roast winers in the back yard?
Nope. Wieners are nearly three
times as expensive as in 1940
and weiners buns are up about
90 per cent.
ι That cruise from New York to
Nassau, Mavana and Miami is
j an example. A little pinhing
j here and there, and the wanerer
; could scrape up $120 for the 12
day trip in 1940. Now the same
cruise costs $218.50 minimum,
ι an increase of 82 per cent.
Almost all the trips are the
same way wuu uuc-uiuu w
! fourth of the increase due t ο
transportation taxes. The rest
I is just plain old inflation in sum
mer clothes, according to th e
family economice bureau of Nort
! western National Life Insurance
Company.
Accessories Soar
I It not only takes more dough
to get to the vacation grounds,
but such things as sports cloths
and fishing tackle and tenn i s
rackets have zoomed shywar d
also.
ι The only major drop has been
in the area of coverage of wom
en swim suits—but the price
still increased from 40 to 60 per
cent.
Golf clubs have about doubled
in price, with 1940's $6 woods
now retailing at $10 and irons
jumping from $5 to $10 in the
eight years. A steel casting rod
that sold for $11 before the war
is $17 today, with lower-priced
rods in about the same propor
rion.
Luggage Expensive
Another place where inflation
and taxes grip the traveler is a
100 per cent rise in the cost of
luggage. Cameras have about
doubled also, although camera
film, along with auto tires, are
two of the few items which have
increases in price only through
added taxes.
Senate group warns fuel-oil
reserve is low.
Hollywood News
Betraice Pearson, who was
under contract to David Selz
nick for a year without doing a
lick of work, was snapped up by
Roberts Productions for "Tuck
er's People" with John Garfield.
Now she has been set by Enter
prise for "Deborah," an original
story by Dick Collins about a
school teacher.
Janet Leigh is a smart girl.
While on the set, she makes
friends of the working crew.
When "Act of Violence" was
finished recently, the crew gave
Janet a lovely present.
Every time we turn around,
another picture is set for Greg
ory Peck one of the busiest
actors in Hollywood. The latest
is "A Tale of Two Cities." He'll
have a few weeks off when
he finishes "Yellow Sky." Then
he'll report to MGM for "The
Gambler," in which he'll por
tray Russian Novelist Dostoev
ski. Next year. Peck will do
the Dicken's role which Ronald
Coleman performed in the Selz
nick-MGM version in 1935.
Director Vincent Sherman be
lieves he has another Bing Cros
by in Gordon MacRae. MacRae
is to be starred in "Into the
Night," which will also have
Ronnie Reagan. Edmond O'
Brien, Dane Clark and Eleanor
Parker.
Paul Lees, a Marine who was
so badly wounded on Guadal
canal that he lost almost all of
his vision· is finally getting a
break in Hollywood. He will
play a prize fighter with Alan
Ladd in "One Woman," and
Mona Freeman's husband in
"The Heiress." Lee's wife reads
his lines to him twice and he
knows them perfectly.
After working with five men
with beards in "Yellow Sky."
Anne Bater went home only to
find husband John Hodiak grow
ing one for his next picture.
Harry James is planning an
independent production, entitled
"Downbeat for Two," which will
star Buddy Clark and his own
song-bird, Marian Morgan.
It always happens in Holly
wood! June Ally son. a gorgeous
blonde, had to dye her hair
black for "Little Women." Eli
zabeth Taylor, whose a brunette,
had a blonde role, but they do·
cided to give her a wig. Won
der why they didn't reverse the
parts and let each girl keep her
own color of hair?
Esther Williams is really en
joying rehearsing "Take Me Out
to the Ball Game." with Frank
Sinatra and Gene Kelly. She de
clares, "This is the part I've
been waiting for."
After being in this country
for fourteen years, Sabu plans
to return to his homeland, In
dia, where he plans to film his
own production—a jungle pic
ture to be shot in the wilds
north of New Delhi.
We hear that Fred MacMur
ray and Claudette Colbert will
be reteamed in "Genuius in the
Family," the story of a Pulitzer
cultivates a faculty for absent
mindedness. Resulting compli
cations are ridiculous.
Conscription Urged
On Australians
CANBERRA (U.P.)—Conscrip
tion in Australia to help Britain,
the empire and the United States
is strongly advocated by Maj.
Gen. Clyde F. Steel, engineer
in-chief of the Australian mili
tary forces from 1942 to 1946.
"Australia was very lucky in
the last war," he said, "in hav
ing United .States' aid in sav
ing this country, but it would
be stupid if we merely relied
on having an ally to save us
the second time."
Steele added that he hoped an
adequate professional army
would be made available to
share occupation responsibilities j
throughout Europe. * I
Conway
Wardell Maddrey left Monday
to return to work in Fayetteville.
Mrs. C. W. Vann left Friday
to spend two weeks with her
father in Wadesboro, N. C.
Mrs. Grady Ricks left Friday
for a visit with her parents in
McCall, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long spent
Sunday with Mr. Long's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Long,
in Murfreesboro.
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Hoice Cou
sins and children of Norfolk vis
ited her sister, Mrs. J. W. Col
lier Sunday.
Miss Ruth Gray of Suffolk re
turned home Sunday from a visit
with her grandmother, Mrs. U.
S. Grant.
Miss Hilda Bell of Rich Square
visited Mrs. J. W. Collier Satur
day.
Mrs. Simon Odoui and chil
dren and Mrs. Julian Liverman
were in Murfreesboro Friday.
East And West
Swap Seafood
SEATTLE (U.P.)—What the
the governor of Maine over q
governor of "Washington said tc
seafood dinner last year started
the whole thing.
"I'll swap our crabs for your
lobsters,offered Gov. Mon C.
Wallgren, reaching for the melt
ed butter.
"Agreed!" replied Horace A.
Hildreth of Maine.
The first shipment of fat
Dungeness crabs has left here
from warm Pacific beds for
Maine's cool, lobster - nipped
shores. A tank full of lobsters
will make the return trip by
train.
Lobsters in the Pacific are less
frequent than sea serpents. And
a Dungeness crab wouldn't be
caught dead east of Puget Sound
—except on ice.
For 50 years, previous admin
istrations to Gov. Wallgren's
have tried transplanting lobsters.
It's never worked.
The job, once again, was
dumped in the laps of each
state's department of fisheries.
One year's research revealed the
swap might work, with air trans
portation and modern breeding
tanks.
"Lobsters should thrive here,"
said Washington's Milo Moore.
"Our inland sea is full of micro
scopic tid-bits that lobsters
love."
The cra^bs and lobsters will
stay for a while in special
tanks. Once rehabilitated, the
displaced crustaceans will be
dunked in the ocean to start
producing the makings of many
excellent seafood dinners.
Both Reed and Moore figure
it'll be about six years before
shellfish fanciers of both coasts
will be eating lobster or Dunge
ness crabs at a reasonable price.
Busy Beaver Gets Even
For Loss Of Sticks
NEWBURGH, N. Y. (U.P.")
John Orth, director of the Trail
side Museum at Bear Mountain,
tells a story about a beaver and
some boys.
Each night the beaver depos
ited a pile of sticks on a lake
dock near a boys' camp, he re
lates. Each morning, the boys
used the sticks for their camp
fires.
That went on for some time,
until one morning the boys look
ed for the expected pile of sticks,
only to find their dock floating
out in the lake.
The beaver took his revenge
by gnawing away the pilings
under the dock.
Modern Version
FORT WORTH, Tex. (U.P.)—
Police got a report on a middle
aged "Mr. Godiva," after he had
frightened a 35-year-old wait
ress. She said he drove ahead
of her in his car and jumped
out in the nude. She fled.
Northampton Will
Wage Campaign
Against Rats
Jackson—A campaign against
rats will begin in Northampton
County Tuesday, August 3, when
j the County Health Department
and the Extension Service
agents join hands in a rat erad
ication program. Every com
munity in the county will be
visited.
Northampton County Agent P.
H. Jameson said that the cam
paign should be good news to
farmers in the county and call
ed on them to join in the war
fare. An estimated $400,000,000
of American grain crop is lost
each year through ravages of
rats and chickens and livestock
are murdered in great numbers,
the agent said in his appeal to
agriculture men.
The agent said that rat poi
son would be made available to
farmers at central places posted
before August 3. Ked Squill is
the poison his group intends to
use. He said it is highly re
commended by the Department
of Agriculture.
Jameson called the rat pub
lic enemy No. 1, and said that
a valuable reward of thousands
and thousands of dollars in sav
ings would be won if all citi
zens cooperate in the move. An
estimated one hundred and fifty
' million rats run loose in the
ι United States today, the officer
I pointed out.
Homesick Cat Returns
I Al'ter 400-Mile Hike
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (U.P.)
—A homesick cat walked more
than 400 miles in a month and
returned here footsore and trav
ehvorn.
Year-old Fluffy, an angora,
deserted the trailer of the Ben
Hansberry family at Buffalo, N.
Y., while they were en route
to a new home at Moses Lake,
Wash.
The provincial-minded pussy
padded up to the back door of
their former home, where neigh
bors found him mewing sadly.
Arrangements were made to
ι forward him to the Hansberrys
i by air after a rest cure.
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For or Against
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (U.P.)—
Voters in Glynn County. Ga., ap
parently have found the way to
take personalities out of politics.
When the election comes up
July 22nd, citizens will get bal
lots with no names. Rather they
will be given two choices: "For
the city court judge to stay in
office" or "Against the city court
judge staying in office."
Sixteen jet fighters to mako
test flight to Germany.
Foreign-aid food affected by
I U. S. failure to join wheat paer.
ι
Town Attorney
Is Reelected
Warrenton—William Jay lor Ji.
was reappointed town attorney
by the Board of Town Com
missioners at a meeting of the
board held Friday, Jylu 9.
Taylor's reappointment is i η
line with a new ruling whi ch
advocates the appointment of
town attorneys to serve for two
years, the same period that town
commissioners are elected.
Taxpayers Got Break
On College Buildings
AMHERST, Mass. (U.P.)—The
University of Massachusetts,
state-owned and operated, will
have almost $3,000,000 worth of
new building by 1969, and all for
nothing.
The gift will come from the
Alumni Building Corporation, a
private concern organized by
university graduates, which has
built or is planning to build $2,
859.600 worth of buildings on the
school's 700-acre main campus.
By 1969 the buildings, provid
ing living quarters for students
and faculty, will have paid off
their original cost and current
upkeep by a self-liquidating pro
cess and will become the sole
property of the state without
cost to the taxpayer.
Public works of 120 billion
charted for possible job slump.
Hand Oat In Church
Produces A Handout
MILWAUKEE (U.P.)—Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Gallitz were un
able to sit together in church,
so Mrs. Gallitz sat in an empty
place and motioned for her hus
band to sit behind her.
When the collection began. #
Mrs. Gallitz found she had no
money. She neld out her hand,
palm up, behind her, and a
coin was dropped into it.
When services were over, she
turned around to talk to her
husband—and found he had
been seated six rows back. Wno
ever had been sitting behind her
had left.
Hard-Earned Bicycle
Vanishes With Thief
GREEN BAY. Wis. (U.P.)—
(Young Wilbur Kuske worked
hard and saved his money to get
the motor bicycle he wanted.
He took jobs in stores after
school and on Saturday. He did
a slate of evening chores and
ran errands by the dozen. At
last he had saved up enough. Ψ
But today W.ilbur's back do
ing the same dialy stint, trying
to earn reward money. While he
was in school his new, hard
won bicycle was stolen.
The Old Harvard Spirit
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (U.P.)—
To attend his Harvard class re
union, James J. Pates traveled
13,328 miles from Java.
POET GITS HIS GITTAR—Poet Carl Sandburg Joins in the !
fun as the mountain resort town of Hendersonville, N. C.,l
stages one of its frequent community square dances. Taking j
over the microphone and strumming his guitar, the noted)
poet and biographer entertains resting dancers with ditties,
from his collection of ballads.
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