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These building are ideally suited for HOMES, GA RAGES, BARNS, and any type of UTILITY BUILDING. Can easily be taken down in 8ft. sections and re built at a nominal cost. They are complete with windows and floors. AH are constructed of excel lent yellow pine, covered with mineral surfaced, waterproof, asphalt siding. WHILE THEY LAST, 10 BUILDINGS, EACH . $195.00 We have also, for immediate sale, (1) 20 ft. x 100 ft. demountable buildings, bolted in sections, covered with weather hoarding. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, EACH . $400.00 GALVANIZED SHEET IRON 4c Per Square Foot A large assortment of thoroughly seasoned bright lumber, windows, doors, toilets, lavatories, com plete buildings, sheet rock, insu'ation board, fixtures, refrigerators, radiators, space heaters, shingles, benches, and many other items too num erous to mention. STAR LUMBER CO. Gate No. 27, Camp Davis Holly Ridge 211 Stock Market Quotations! Prev. Yes’day Close Slose Alleghany . 3 Vi 3 Vi Aly Chem and Dye ..185Vi 187Vi Allis Chal Mfg ...._ 40 40 Vi American Can .. 79% 78% American Car Fdy .. 42% 43 American Roll Mill 36% 37 Vi Am Smelt % Ref .... 57 57% IA T and T .150% 150Vi ! American Tobacco B 68% 68% 'Anaconda . 34% 35 ] Arm 111 . 14 14 Vi Atlantic Coast Line 49% 50 Atlantic Refinery ..36% 37% Baldwin . 15 15 Vi Baltimore and Ohio 12Vi 12% Barnsdall . 36% 37Vi Bendix Aviat .. 29% 30Vi Beth Steel .103% 105 Boeing Airp —. 22% 23% Borden .. 42 42 Budd Mfg . 10% 10% Burl Mills . . 20% Bur Ad$l Macl^. 15 14% I Cannon Mills . 44 - Case J I . 46% 47 Caterpil Trac . 59% 59% Chrysler . 63% 64% Ches and Ohio . 42% 43% : Coca Cola .181 181 Corn! Cred . 42 41% iComl Solvv . 22% 22 Comwlth and South 2% 2% Consol F.dis . 21% 21% Cons Vultee. 13 13% Cont Can . 32% 32% Corn Prod . 65% 65 Curt Wright . 4% 4% Purt Wright A . 19 19 Dow Chem . 3p% - Doug Air . 43 49% j Du Pont .187 187K : Eastman Kod . 44% 44% ! Firestone . 49% 50 Gen El . 34% 35 Gen Foods . 34% 35% Gen Mot . 57% 58 Goodrich . 55% 56 Goodyear . 44% 45 Gt Nor Ry Pf . 38% 39% Int Harvest . 87% 87% Int Tel and Tel . 1214 12% Johns Manv . 41 4144 Kennecott. 47% 48 Ligg and M B. 86% 8714 Loews . 19% 19% Lockheed ._. . 14% Lorillard . 1914 20 Mont Ward . 55% 56% Nash Kelv . 17% 1814 Nat Bis . 31% 31% Nat Cash Reg . 41% Nat Dist . 21 21 N Y Cent . 14% 14% No AM Av . 9 9% No Pac . 21% 21% Packard . 4% 5 Param Pic . 22 21% Pennev J C .. 42% 42% Penn R R . 17% 18 Pensi Cola . 24% 24% Phillins Pet . 61% 62% j Pitt S and B . 19% 19% Pullman . 53 53 Pure Oil . 27% 28% Radio . 9% 9% Radio K O . . 9 Rem Rand . 12% 13% Repub Stl . 26% 27% Reynolds B . 40 40% Sears . 37% 37% Soc Vac. 16% 16% Sou Pac . 47% 48% Sou Ry . 38% 40 Std Br . 26 26% Std Oil N J . 76% 78% Stewart War . 14% 15 Swift . 35% - Securities for Investment Inquiries Invited , KIRCHOFFR & ARNOLD ASSOCIATES Insurance Building —Raleigh Johnston Building—Charlotte HENRY A. JOHNSON, Representative 35 Woodtawn Ave. — Witminuton — Tel. 2-6542 . .... Tl erc’s only one way to buy Insurance . . . the planned way, based on a complete analysis of your needs. Star! the New Year right by let ting us analyse your needs .now. Let us explain how you can get complete coverage and save money with our DIVIDEND-PAYING mutual policies. Livingston & Co. MUTUAL INSURANCE *40 Princess Street Dial 6047 . .. .. .. .. ...... u u u u U U U •. u U U u U UV Tex Co __ 597/b 60 ! Un Carb .101 101 j Unit Airl _ 16% 17 Unit Aire _ 24% 257s Unit Corp - 2% 2V2 Unit Fruit .—. 54% 54% Unit Gas Imp- 21 21 U S Indus Chem. 39 - U S Rubber. 467s 47 U S Smelt and Ref .. 42% 4374 U S Steel . 7772 78% Vanadium . 15% 15% :Va Caro Chem- 10 - Warner Pic .—.... 13% 13% 'West Un A . 207s 20% ' West El . 3074 30% Woolworth . 4574 457i CURB Can Marconi . 1% - Cities Service . 38 38% Colon Dvmt . 37s 4 El Bond and Share ..117s 11% UNLISTED SECURITIES __ The following bid and asked prices are obtained from the National As ; sociation of Securities Dealers, Inc., and other sources but are unofficial. They | do not represent actual transactions, they i are intended as a guide to the approxi ! mate range within which these securi ties could have been sold Jindicated 1 bv the ‘bid”) or bought (indicated by the “asked”) at the time of com pilation Dec. 18; BID ASK As of 12-18 As ofl2-18 Acme Aluinum Alloys- 5 5 1-2 Ace Aluminum Alloy pre. 11 13 12 Alabama Mills -12 3-4 13 1-4 American Air Filter-13 3-4 14 1-2 American Bakeries Co. — 26 1-2 30 1 Amer. La France F. Corp. 8 3-4 9 3-4 American Trust Co. (Charlotte, ' N. C. _ 695 — American Yarn Sc Processing Co. xd _ 13 1-2 14 1-2 Auto Finance Company — 45 46 1-2 Bank of Manhattan - 22 1-2 23 1-2 I Bassett Furniture Industries 1 30 3? Bausch & Lomb Optical 14 1-4 15 5-8 Bird & Son, Inc. _ 18 3-4 19 3-4 Blue Bell, Inc. .-'- 16 17 Buda Co _15 16 1-4 , Buffalo Bolt Company_13 3-4 15 Butler’s, Inc._ 6 1-2 7 1-4 Butler’s, Inc. 4 1-2 per cent Preferred _ 21 1-4 22 1-4 Cannon Mills Company “B” 41 42 Carolina Insurance Company 25 Caro Power & &Light Co. 27 3-4 28 1-2 Carolina Power & Light Co. i $5 Pfd. _ 111 114 Carolina Telephone & Tele ! graph Co. _ 161 — j Chadbourn Hosiery Mills, Inc. _ 7 1-2 8 Chadbourn Hosiery Mills, j Inc. 4 1-2 per cent Pfd- 36 38 ! Coble Dairy Products 5 per | c6m Preferred_ 47 50 Colonial Stories, Inc_ 26 1-4 27 1-4 Colonial Stores, Inc. 4 per cent Preferred_ 44 46 Cross Company _ 2 1-2 3 Chase National Bank_ 33 1-4 34 1-4 Dan River Mills xd_18 19 Dan River Mills 4 1-2 per cent Preferred xd _ 107 107 1-2 j Dictaphone Corporation _ 27 1-4 20 Dixie Stores _ 27 1-2 28 1-2 Drexel Furniture Company 14 15 Dwight Manufacturing Company - 38 1-4 39 1-2 Edison .Thomas A. *,B'* __ 15 1-4 17 Empire District Electric Co. — —--— 11 1-2 12 1-8 Erwin Cotton Mills xd 19 1-4 20 1-4 Foremost Daries. Inc. _ 12 3-4 13 3-4 Foremost Daries, Inc 6 per cent Preferred_51 — Gamble Brothers_ 6 1-4 7 1-4 Garfinckel, Julis & Co., Inc — - 17 _ j Garfield, Julis & Co Inc. 4 1-2 per cent Pfd. _ 20 — 1 Garlock Packing Co _ 19 1-2 20 7-8 Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company _ 21 3-4 22 3-4_. ' Giddings <&: Lewis Machine Tool - 11 1-4 12 1-4 Cleaner Harvester Corp. 23 7-8 24 7-8 Gordon Foods, Ine. xd 5 1-4 6 Crimnnell Corporation __ 29 1-2 30 1-2 Haynes, P. H. Knitting Co. I (par $o» xd _22 - Houston Oil Field Material - 6 1-2 7 3-8 International Detrola _ 7 3-4 8 3-4 International Textbook Co. 9 3-4 10 3-4 Irving Trust Company __ 14 3-4 15 1-2 Jefferson Stand Life Ins Co - 27 1-4 28 1-4 Kendall Company _ 37 38 1-2 KLngport Press _ 11 12 I Life Sc Casualty Insurance Co. of Tenn. _ 18 1-2 19 1-2 Long Bell Lumber _ 18 3-4 20 | May-McSwen-Kaiser Companv _ 12 1-2 13 1-2, Monumental Life Insurance Co. _ 40 43 ! Moore Handlev Hardware 10 1-2 11 1-2 Mooresville Mills, Tnc. 13 1-2 14 1-2 Morganton Furniture Company __16 17 National City Bank of N. Y. 38 39 National Contained Corp. 4 3-4 per cent Prd. _ 59 3-4 61 New Britain Machine Co. __ 25 26 3-4 North Carolina Railroad Co. _ 195 — Northwestern National Life Ins. Co. _ 19 — Occidental Life Insurance Co. _ 5 1-2 — Ohio Water Service Co __ 18 3-4 20 1-4 O’Sullivan Rubber Company ___ _ 3 3-4 4 1-2 O’Sullivan Rubber Company $20 Pfd. _ 15 18 Peninsular Telephone Co., ~ 43 — Pidemont R and Norther Rail way _ 65 — Pilot Full Fashion Mills xd 10 5-8 11 1-2 Riegel Textile Corporation 42 46 Roberson, H.H. -37 — Rose’s 5-10-25c Stores - 50 — Rulane Gas Company (new) xd & x stk d_4 4 12 Rulane Gas Company 5 1-2 per cent Pfd. - - - 50 — Saco-Lowell Shops- 45 47 San Caros Milling- 9 3-4 10 3-4 Scott Sc Williams _ 20 1-2 21 1-2 Seaboard inance Preferred 49 3-4 51 1-2 Security Life & Trust Co., 62 — Solar Aircraft Preferred 13 1-2 15 1-8 Sonoco Products Company 31 1-2 — South Atlantic Gas - 9 3-8 103-8 Southern Webbing Mills — 10 — Standard Forgings - 9 7-8 10 3-8 Standrad Stoker- 21 1-2 23 1-2 Stonecutter Mills - 9 1-2 10 1-4 Stromberg Carlson 4 per cent Pfd, _ 35 1-2 37 1-2 Talon, Inc. - 35 37 Taylor-Colquitt Comp, xd 38 1-2 40 Textiles, Inc. - I® 1® Textiles, Inc. 4 per cent Pre Thiokol Corporation - 2 3-4 3 1-8 ferred -24 ^ Tidewater Power Co. 7 7 1-2 Towmotor Corporation — 16 17 1-2 Twin-Coach $1.50 Pfd.- 24 1-2 26 United Transi - 4 3-4 5 1-4 Vicor Products Corporation 9 10 1-4 Wachovia & Trust Co.- 63 64 1-2 Warner & Swasey Co.-10 1- 11 1-4 LOCAL QUOTATIONS Furnished bv Allen C. Ewing & Co. Bid Asked Aviation Shares .50c _ 5.10 5.54 ACL of Conn. 4.00a_ 52 54 Boston Fd 2.16b_ 19.68 21.28 Carolina Insurancec 1.40a 26 28 Chase National Bk 160a _ 33 35 McBee 40a ex div 10c 6 5-8 7 1-8 Mass Inv Tr 189b ex div. 40c __ 25.13 27.17 National Transit Co _ 4 1-4 4 1-2 Natl Tran Pd & Ma Co ex div 30c _* __ 6 1-4 7 Peoples Sav Bk & Tr 3.00c 80 Red Rock Bot (Inc.. Ga ) 4 1-2 5 1-2 Security Nat’l Bk .80c __ 27 Standard Stoker 3.00c ex div 75c _ 21 1-2 23 1-2 Tide Water Pwr Com 60a 7 7 3-4 Wilmington Sav & Tr 2.00c 49 - a. Indicated annual dividend rate b. Income and profits dividends paid in nest 12 months. c. Paid in 1946. The above quotations are nominal and are believed to be indications of the price at which the securities may be purchased or sold. rOTrONTSFFJD OIL NEW YORK, Dec. 20.— (/P_ Bleach able cottonseed oil futures closed 50 to 100 higher, sales 75 entraets. HIGH T,OW I, AST Mcb . 28.25 27.70 28.00b Mav . 27.20 20.75 27.15 .Tly . 26.75 26.45 26.85b Sep . 26.00 26.00 16.00 b—bid STOCKS FINISH RECOVERY WEEK __ % Increased Buying Attribut ed To 17 Billions European Aid MARKETS AT A GLANCE NEW YORK, Dec. 20—(^)— Stocks—Higher; oils lead selective advance. Bonds—Improved; rails marked up. Cotton—Steady; mill buy ing. CHICAGO Wheat—Strong; short cov ering. Corn—Strong; short cov ering. Oats—Firm; new record high. Hogs—Nominally Steady. Cattle—Nominally steady. NEW YORK, Dec. 20— (ff) — The stock market today emerged from another recovery week with the fastest Saturday upswing in eight months although strength was selective and many pivotals exhibited rising reluctance. Throughout the week tax sell ling caused frequent stumbles but reinvestment demand was an im portant offset. Professionals still accounted for much of the buy ing which was based partly on hopes for a substantial year-end rally. The list enjoyed a last minute bulge Friday when the President announced a $17,000, 000 European aid program. Pros pects of heavy foreign spending bolstered numerous issues in the final proceedings. Rails continu : ed to sprint on good income statements and expectations of rate boosts. Oils led the push in the short stretch, buoyed by mounting prices and demand in this field. Touching 1947 highs on the dav were Amewda Petroleum, which finished un 4 at 100: Beth lehem Steel un 1 5-8 at 105. Ohio 011 un 1 5-8 at 33 3-8, Texas Gidf nroducing up 7-8 at 22 3-8 and Chicago Corp. up 3-8 at 12 1-4. On *he day’s losing end were Woohvorth, Spiegel, Interna tional Harvester, International Nickel. American Can, Ameri can Tobacco “B,” N. Y. Central, and Paramount Pictures. Forward curb leaners for the Sday included Creole Petroleum, Woodley Petroleum, Kaiser Frazer, Louisiana Land, Pante nec Oil and Salt Dome Oil. Backward were New England Telephone, American Gas. Unit ed Machinery and Aluminum of America. On Monday the big board made it eight successive sessions without an average loss on 1, 430.000 shares, best of the week and a maximum since Oct. 24. There were scant repercussions from the defeat of the Republi can deflation bill in the house but profit cashing by quick-turn traders stalled many issues. Thej list ran into offerings Tuesday and showed an average loss on 1.080.000 shares. It was the first dip since the relapse of Dec. 5. Skeptics regarding price con trols and foreign affairs trim med accounts. The market returned to the upside Wednesday on 1,230,000 shares with rails climbing in re sponse to rate hopes and grow ing operating revenues. These was another setback Thursday on 1,130,000 shares with adjust ment of accounts for income tax purposes receiving the principal blame. The advance was resum ed Friday on 1,240,000 shares. Passage by Congress of the bill to restrain living costs was un inspiring trendwise but the big White House foreign relief plan SEE KAMER AND SEE BETTER Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted DR. W. A. KAMER Optometrist Bulluck Building Fuel Oil PROMPT DELIVERY GODWIN. OIL CO. Phone 7765 DRUMS - TANKS “IS ZAT SO?” No use arguing after an auto mobile accident. Let our “All-in-One” Auto mobile Policy insure you against practically every in surable motoring hazard. COVERS: Liability - Fire - Theft - Property damage • Collision - Plate Glass - Earth ;juake - Hail - Explosion Transportation - Personal Ef ects - Towing - Riot - Flood - Windstorm - Damage by Fall ing Aircraft. Iff Princess Street BONDS RALLY DURING WEEK NEW YORK, Dec. 20—W— Railroad issues rounded out a seady week with a lively rally in the ' ond market today. In the fastest Saturday trading with a few exxceptions in more than two years, favored carriers advanced fractions to around 2 points. The rails rolled into the final stretch of the year on one of the best weekly performances since August. After an early summer advance. Prices hit a peak around July, held their ground for a couple of weeks, then started a long slide downward. Low for the year was touched Dec. 9, with the Associated Press average of 20 representative car riers ot 88. By the close Saturday, the averag - had inched up to 88.4. NEW YORK COTTON NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—(AP)— Cotton futures were steady to day.. Traders were incluined to await fresh developments from Washington on price controls and long term aid to Europe. Futures closed 70 cents a bale higher to 40 lower than the prev iouse close. Open High Low Last Mch 35.87 35.95 35.78 35.85 up 3 May 35.60 35.70 35.49 35.55 up 3 Jly 34.54 34.60 34.38 34.44 off 8 Oct 31.57 31.61 31.53 31.54 unch Dec 30.85 31.00 30.85 31.00 upl3 Mch 30.68 30.70 30.68 30.70 upl4 n—nominal. NEW ORLEANS COTTON NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.—(#> —Cotton futures advanced here today on trade buying and short covering. Spot sales amounted to 176 bales. Open High Low Close Mch 35.90 36.00 35.82 35.92 up 8 Mav 35.63 35.71 35.52 35.62 up 5 Jly 34.49 34.58 34.39 34.50 up 8 Oct 31.58 31.68 31.52 31.57but> 6 Dec 30.92 31.00 30.88 30.92bup 7 NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 20.—OP) —Spot cotton closed steadv un changed. Soles 176; low middling 31.55; middling 35.55; good mid dling 36.05. brought a late upsurge. Five stock exchange seats sold dur ing the week at prices ranging from $55,000 to $58,000, with the latter quotation recorded Friday. CARD OF THANKS The family of Rev. Charles N. Phillips take this means of ex pressing our sincere appreciation to his, and our many friends for their kindness and sympathy during his illness and death. Your kindness and sympathy are more deeply appreciated than any words of thanks can aver t x- j press. Mrs. C. N. Phillips; Mrs. Nell I Watts, Daughter; Margaret and1 E. 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