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ipeace on €artf) Christmas is more than a day or a season. It's spirit lasts forever with an ever deeper, stronger faith in "Peace — Good Will —To all Men.” • • • • - Christ))!'^ '1 nne ant1 1 'SRUUiai DUAPMACY Jjut with all the sincerity in .the world antf with a genuine appreciation of /your courtesies and favorsT^^ / t T \ CAROLINA CAMERA Dial 2-2882 121 Market Street Gkiiiimai OBtsuing May the spirit i of Christmas, Love, Cheer and Good Will Be with you always and bring you Happiness and joy forever. Smith Builders Supply, Inc. CASTLE HAYNE HOAD WILMINGTON, N. C, Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service NEWURYORT PAYS I DESPITE ITS PLAN Sponsors Deny Idea Was' Bad Charging No Cooperation NEWBURYPORT, M*ss. OJ.R) This busy seaport city is keep ing step with the rest of the na tion’s high cost of living these days. It marks the end of a brief spell in the limelight resulting from Newburyport’s revolution ary price-plan. Reverberations were felt even in country hamlets last spring when the Northeast Essex De velopment Council announced that Newburyport merchants were offering consumers a 10 per cent across-the - board re duction in an effort to curb in flation. The movement attracted at tention throughout the nation and soon some storekeepers in various parts of the country were offering their eager cus tomers a 10 per cent blanket re duction. But not everybody approved the Newburyport Plan. There were those who said its spon sors were publicity seekers. The American Retail Federation was reported to have advised cham bers of commerce to resist any price reductions modeled a f ter the now-famous plan. Sponsors Uncconvinced In Newburyport today, house wives know what it is to com plain about spiraling costs, just as do their fellow - sufferers throughout the nation. But do sponsors of the now defunct plan feel they have failed? The answer is an un equivocal no. For instance, ask John Swan son, the hardware merchant who originally conceived the idea for the plan, how he feels about it now. Swanson would tell you that the Newburyport Plan died be cause of lack of co-ooeration from other cities. He felt that : Newburyport just couldn’t put it : across by itself. Co-Operation Lacking I Swanson said the plan was aimed at manufacturers and suppliers of raw materials who were supposed to co-operate by cutting their prices 10 per cent. In that way, the merchant, Swanson said, would not be left holding the bag. As things turned out, Swan son continued, some manufac turers co-operated, but the ma jority did not. And he olames the lack of co-operation on the premise that the plan was mis understood. Most of the cocmmunities who imitated the plan, he explained, thought of it only as a novel sale designed to reduce heavily mounting inventories and to bring in some cash. Most of them, he said, did not regard it as an effort to reduce high prices by distributing the bur den of reductions. Think it Helped But Swanson and the North east Essex Development Council do not think of their plan as a total failure. They believe it helped stem the tide of inflation and they think prices would be even higher today if some of the nation’s merchants had not shown their opposition to infla tion. Besides, Swanson said, in Newburyport the customer is now the friend of the retailer, even if he doesn’t like to pay the prices asked. This friendship, he cotnends, is the direct result of the New buryport Plan, which proved to many doubters that retailers hate high prices just as much as do customers. Expert Warns Farmers Of Soil Depletion CHAMPAIGN, 111., (U.R) —The University of Illinois has warned farmers that big corn and soy bean crops during the war years have intensfied the drain of com mon minerals from the soil. O. L. Whalin of the university extension staff said firing of corn in Illinois durng August was due mainly to the lack of soil nitro gen not the drought. He estimated that in Illinois alone only 1,500,000 tons of nitro gen were returned to the land in the last five years, compared to the 3,300,000 tons removed in har vested crops. I Wright’s Cleaners CASTLE HAYNE ROAD AT JUNCTION WRIGHTSBORO TELEPHONE 6825_ Meat No Help, Vegetarian Says In Boosting Program BY DON JENNINGS United Press Staff Correspondent HARRISBURG, Pa. — OJ.PJ — Donald D. Deibler, vegetarian, wants to know why all the fuss over meatless Tuesday. “People are better off with out meat,” he says. “It’s only a second-hand food anyway.” Furthermore — and this is where Diebler places the most emphasis — he believes people whoi eat the flesh of an animal are downright inhuman. Diebler, who with his wife swore off meat four years ago, considers the vegetarian diet the most healthful and most econo mical. His recipes read like a govern ment food-saver’s dream. He can prepare a tasty “steak” that comes in a can and ready to fry. It can be made from wheat gluten, mushroom broth, extract of brewer’s yeasts, vegetables, salt, water, vege tables protein derivatives and an artificial flavoring made from what. Nohting “second-hand” about that steak, Diebler says. The in gredients come directly from na ture. Spaghetti Favored Italian spaggetti and chop-suey are other favorites In the Diebler household. Fish or poultry never get on the menu. The Dieblers class themselves' among the higher - grade vege tarians, know as “Vegans,”, who abstain from animal by products such as eggs, milk, but ter, leather and wool. One pound of soybeans (grown in his garden) produces eight gallons of vegetarian milk, Dieb ler found. He points out this is obviously more efficient than feeding a pound of soybeans to a cow and getting only one gal lon of milk in return. Diebler’s shoes are made al- ■ most entirely of plastic. He said he tries to refrain from using leather products wherever pos sible. His garden, one of *he healthi est in the neighborhood, thrive? without the benefit of an’mal fer tilizer. He uses ashes and other substitutes and says he finds his crops are less subject to plant i diseases. ‘Shoe Vam*’’ Hat Styles | Forecast For Women BOSTON (U.R)—A “vamp” style is forecast for women’s hats next spring. Exhibitors at a Boston fashion! show said the "vamp” did not re fer to a type of woman, but was named because the new styles resemble the shape of a shoe vamp. The back of the head style, they said, is changing into a for ward-jutting line, high in the front. If the air were as dense at all altitudes as it is at sea level the layer of air around the earth would be about fivS miles thick. f AT CHRISTMAS While we're going about the business of wishing every body a Merry Christmas, we don't want to forget that we owe our friends our sincerest appreciation for making pos sible one of the best years we have ever enjoyed in this com ■v,unity. Then!, ■,e.., ee;!i and e.e.> one. Stcieto 29South 7n>nt$t. Wilmr.iyton, 7Z.G. It is not riches or elaborate gifts that make a Christmas merry ... but the simple, familiar wishes of neighbors and friends, plus an unassailable faith in our Lord and Protector. With this thought, we raise our voices in the age-old greeting, “A Merry Christmas to each and everyone.”
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