FESTIVAL MARKS END OF HARVEST Castle Hayne Growers Cele brate $500,000 Crop On Wednesday A mid-summer harvest festival in celebration of the completion of a $500,000 vegetable crop was held yesterday by truck farmers of the Castle Hayne community. About 400 persons attended the festival, according to estimates made by A Senday, president of the STRAW HATS AND PANAMAS Cibson's Haberdashery North Front Street Castle Hayne Growers and Ship, pers association. The celebration, nigh'.ig'nted at L p. m. by a gigantic barbecue dinner, marked the end of the sum mer’s harvesting of a vegetable crop termed successful in noint of volume but not in point of profits. The season began about April 2 with the lettuce crop, of which $250, 000 worth was plowed under the soil for lack of a suitable market. The lettuce was followed by beans, beets, carrots, cucumbers, and squash, with the final harvest held about July 4. The half-Million dollar vegetable crop has been matched by a naif million bulb and flower crop so far this year, it was estimated. As of June 1, traffic deaths in the United States had totaled 13,180. Traffic fatalities for the month of May came to 2410. The 13.180 death figue represents a 43 per cent increase over those killed in 1945. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service PORTRAITURES COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY - ^ ROBERT HODGKIN, JR. Studio at 103 Vj Princess 6627 —Telephones— 2-1331 Food Prices Soar \ WASHINGTON, July 25. —(/Pj— The Bureau of Labor statistics re ported Thursday that wholesale food prices since OPA expired have advanced 25 per cent and now are a third higher than a year ago. BLS reported this in an announce ment of its weekly index of whole sale prices of 900 commodities. The index rose 2.9 per cent during the week ended July 20 to 124.2 per cent of the 1926 average. The index has risen 10 per cent since OPA expired and 18 per cent since the war ended. It is 41.9 and 28.7 per cent higher than in the corresponding periods of 1937 and 1929, respectively. For the week ended July 20, average wholesale prices for farm products advanced 3.4 per cent and for food products 6 per cent, BLS said. The average prices of other commodities included in the index, including manufactured products, advanced only .8 per cent. BLS did not say what part of the food cost rise was accounted for by withdrawal of subsidies. Thugs Steal Sugar ATLANTA, July 25.—(U.Ri— City police Thursday tackled one of the sweetest cases in the city’s crime history. Thieves, believed to be bootleg gers. broke into the Dr. Pepper Bottling company Wednesday night and made off with 6,500 pounds of sugar, which they hauled away in two of the company’s trucks. One of the trucks was found Thursday. The intruders also damaged an additional 1,500 pounds of sugar. Ready To Quit Reliable sources report that President Higinio Morinigo (above) of Paraguay had ask ed permission from the armed forces to resign and leave the country. Morinigo’s entire cabinet also presented th/yr resignations. (International). Battleships of the U. S. Navy are named after states of the union. Truman Stand* Pat On American Plans WASHINGTON, July 25. -(^Pi President Truman Thursday reit erated his advocacy of the Ameri can plan for control of atomic energy internationally, notwith standing Russian rejection of it at a United Nations commission meet ing earlier this week. Asked at his news conference for reaction to the Russian views stated by Ambassador Andrei Gro myko, the president said he had no comment except that he was still behind the American plan. Mayor Favors Plan “I am 100 per cent in favor of giving all city policemen and fire men one day off per week,” Maj'or W. 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