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PAGE EIGHT Colonial Report Says Consumers Spend Less To Eat Food Prices Lower To day Than They Were In 1935 Food prices today are lower than they were in 1936 on the basis of working purchasing power, according to figures released in the 1962 an nual report of Colonial Stores In corporated, of Atlanta, large South eastern food chain. Largely responsible for this inter esting and significant fact, says the report, are the modem mass food dis tribution and selling methods of chain food stores, which enable them to operate on the lowest net profit of any retail industry in the nation. Colonial 'Stores, for instance, with a net profit in 1962 of $2,302,281 after taxes on income, earned a net profit of 1.1 cent on each dollar of sales, Jo seph Seitz, of Atlanta, president of the company, reported. Colonial Stores’ sales in 1952 again set a new record, Mr. Seitz said in his report to shareholders. The $214,-, 995,018 total for the year was $12,-1 201,819 or 6 per cent greater than' 1951 sales. Colonial had net earnings of $3.14 per share on 669,789 shares of common stock in 1952, compared with $2.96 in 1951 on 668,639 shares. The Colonial report, in a special article dealing with the growth and progress of the retail food chain in dustry in the United States, called attention to the fact that the food consumer, with higher wages today, spends less of his income after taxes for food than he did in 1942 or 1933. The report pointed out that in 1933, it took 27 per cent of the consumer’s personal spendable income to buy the same amount and type of food that in 1951 required only 19 per cent, accord ing to figures released by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Actually, consumers are buying more and bet ter food today, requiring about. 25 per cent of spendable income, the report said. TWO MASSES PASSION SUNDAY IN EDENTON CATHOLIC CHURCH March 22, at 9 and 11 A. M., the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered, including sermon on “The Most Precious Blood <xf Jesus”, Holy Communion, followed by Rosary in Honor of Our Lady of Fatima fori Conversion of Russia and immediate, I universal and everlasting peace, Sun day School, with confessions for half hour before services, in St Ann’s Catholic Church, Edenton, stated Father F. J. McCourt, rector, who in t more engine power! Advanced Loadmaster engine— -4 standard equipment on 5000 and 6000 Series heavy-duty and for ward-control models, optional on 4000 Series heavy-duty trucks. more braking power! In 1953, all Chevrolet trucks up I to 4000 Series heavy-duty models W • have “Torque-Action” brakes. w /////m '//////// my// yMSMfo. % % Series 4000 and above use extra- Jp mW My w'* P P tt large “Torque-Action” brakes in W W'M V m'* y front, “Twin-Action” type in rear. i * 4»iiWWl t#lC 5 . more staying power! ' fkm WffW-f%. ff||» more economy! U4J CJ W/W/WMM If MM. m The new stamina of Chevrolet mb m MMM. W M vm «rw WW, MM* trucks, plus extra gasoline econ fomy in heayy-dnty models with improved Loadmaster engine, re duces hauling costs per ton-mile. fic MOKE CHEVROLET TRUCKS IN uci than any otmr makii Knu TI I n ifsiniuii! f/ I ■ ■ m I in armaria - \ \ 1 in value V v SnSssSmSms* j|) sales / Jit fc „.. ’ fC-1-i—ili™ «/ ,|»»imW inLWVj OtoaUM to itptndaU on cveUaMv ./ wWriUJ ■ ' '.I ' vites everybody to all services. Week days at 8:16 A M., Mass, Ootmmunion, Rosary for Peace. Lenten (Fridays 8 P. M., Rosary, (Stations of the Cross, Benediction, confessions. Saturdays 7.-30 P. M., to 8.80 choir practice. ' Pvt. Cleaven L. White Stationed In Japan i Pvt. Cleaven L. White, son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. White, Route 1, Edenton, is now serving in Japan with the Its Cavalry Division. Replacements from the U. S. are getting battle knowledge from vet erans of the Korean conflict during rugged field maneuvers. The Ist Cavalry spent 17 months in combat before being rotated out of the line in December, 1951. It is now part of the security force for the Japanese Islands. A tank driver in his unit, White entered the Army in January, 1962, and received basic training ait Fort Knox, Ky., where he was last Sta tioned. In civilian life he was engaged in farming. j Vets Question Box | Q —My NiStLI term policy has lapsed for two months. (But it hasn’t yet jcomie to the end of its term. How/ .can I go about reinstating it? < A—'You may reinstate it by sub mitting a written application, accom panied by two monthly premiums pro vided you are in as good health as you were when the premium lapsed. Ap plication forms may be obtained at any VA office. Milk Production In N. C. At Record Peak Milk production in North Carolina during February was estimated at 117 million pounds, a record high for the month. (Production during Febru ary dropped seasonally from the 124 million pounds produced during Jan uary anl compares with 116 million pounds produced during February 1952 and the 1942-Sl February aver age of 101 million pounds. There were 378 thousand milk cows on farms in the State during February 1963, comparing with 361 thousand (during the same month in 1952. For the nation, milk production con tinued at a record-breaking mid-win ter rate as the seasonal upswing got well underway in (February. Produc tion on farms in the U. 'S. during the month is estimated at 8:5 billion Pounds, a new high for February, and I an increase of 6 per cent from the 8.2 (billion pounds last year. Knowledge is proud that he ."as leam’d so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no 1 more. —Cowper. j THURSDAY MARCH 19, 1968. (No. 5 of a series) Nature is the major enemy of roads not weight snd traffic! Smoothly wheeling weight has no de structive impact on a properly built and maintained road. Everything Built by man has to be protected against ravages of the elements. Heat, cold and moisture, in all their extremes, give our highways a terrific going-over around the clock —twelve months a year. Water works unceasingly to un dermine our highways. Innocent drops of rain keep eating away at the shoulder and slab joints. Water de stroys surfaces, too. It gets into tiny i crevices, freezes, expands and, before you know it, the crevice ia enlarged to a point where the entire surface is -pocfuiMilmL'*. Snow Is Rough on roads. Salt and other de-icers are necessary, ior safety, but have a damaging chemical action. Extreme heat and cold ex pand and contract road-surfacing materials. These and moisture are the worst enemies of the highway. Whan A Highway foundation has been weakened by water or snow, when a road surface has been scaled by alternate freezing and thawing, then every passing the can contribute to further damage. Weight, which ought to roll smoothly and harmlessly over a high way, will roll unevenly, bumpily. No matter if the car is s light psssenger machine or a big truck—no matter if it goes 20 miles per hour or 60 there’ll be added wear when weather has roughed up the road. That is the only way in which traffic ever hurts a highway. It is dis tinctly a secondary effect, brought about only after the ravages of the weather have gotten in their dirty i work. I It’s Invisible Congressman (to visitor) —Now is there anything else around the capitol i I can show you ? Visitor —There is, I’d like to have a 'look at that “pork barrel” I've read so much about. SV I Bad Motor Manners Cause Os freatest Number of Accidents Failure To Grant Right of-way Is Greatest Offender Failure to grant the right-of-way caused the greatest number of auto accidents last March, Highway Safe ty Chief H D. Jones of Raleigh says. Accidents in March, 1962, caused 1,113 injuries and 74 deaths, he gaid, and most of them wens the result of bad motor manners. Hie Motor Ve hicles Department’s Highway Safety Division and the National Safety Council are featuring Motor Man ners as the safety theme for March, Jones declared. He said there were 3,357 reported motor vehicle accidents in March of last year and appealed to Tar Heel motorists to reduce this by at least 18 per cent this month. The dollars and cents loss from wrecks came to $7,030,000 in March a year ago, Jones said. ‘Have you ever stopped to figure out how many permanent improvements we could have in our state, if only the tax pay ers and their representatives would decide to stop this useless waste? There’s just one Step between you and tragedy,” the safety chief assert ed. “None of our good citizens would permit anyone to go beserk and shoot down citizens without doing something about it, but still they haven’t become aroused or concerned enough to pre vent the slaughter that takes place on our thoroughfares most every day.” “Death took only five holidays last March, make safe driving—and walk ing—a habit,” Jones concluded. Thrice i s he armed that hath his , quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. —Shakespeare. -- SEE US FOR YOUR PAINT NEEDS We Carry a Full Line of GLIDDEN PAINTS AND VARNISHES Harrell & Leary Phone 459 j HAYSEED I By UNCLE SAM DO MORE Do macs than talk, say something. Do more than earn, save. Do more than spend, profit. 'Do more than think, meditate. Do more than preach, practice. Do more than hear, listen. Do more than listen, understand. Do more than advise, help. Do more than pray, watch. Do more than read, observe. > Dp more than resolve, act. Do more than pity, assist. Do more than advocate, defend. Do more than look, observe. Do more than assert, prove. Do more than promise, fulfill. Do more than think, know. Do more than hope, work. Do more than suspect, be sure. Do more than ejrist, live.. CONVENIENT SHOPPING EDWADDS Drill MARKET FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES DAILY OPEN SIX DAYS IN WEEK FROM 7 AM, TO 10 P. M. SUNDAY HOURS: 7TOIIA. M, AND 12:30 TO 7P. M. EDWARDS OPEN AIR MARKET East Church Street Extended Near Edenton Peanut Company % ■ ailyyl Him *' a f.V - X » B 111 l _ | BOTTLED |V - ■III ******* fIMIMMm Mtimruy 10 e mum mSSSBSSSSSS^ Nothing is denied to well-directed labor, and. nothing is ever to be .at tained without it. —(Sir Joshua Reynolds- ARTHRITIS? I have been wonderfully bloused In being restored to active life after be ing crippled in nearly every joint In my body and with muscular soreness from heed to foot I had (Rheumatoid Arthritis and other forms of Rheu matism, hands deformed and my ankles were set Limited space prohibits telling yea more here but if you will write me I will reply at once and tell you how I received this wonderful relief. Mrs. Lesa S. Wier 2805 Arbor Hilla Drive P. O. Box 3122 Jackson 7, Mississippi
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