I I ! 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. I 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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