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Con- ■sus shows. By 1945 employment in manufacturing had increased to 362,- 30C, a gain of 66,081 workers, or u total gain in tho 15 years of 23,1 per cent. Employment in agriculture, on, the other hand, steadily declined fiom .500,000' in 1930 to 400,000 in Cruise-In Theatre I mile north of Liliington on 16-A—^Atljolning Air Port THUR.SDAY—FRIDAY AUGUST 14-15 “BELLS OF ST. MARY'S With Ring (Vo.sby — Ingrid Rerginan SATURDAY AUGUST Ifl “CARIVAN TRAIL''--In color With Eddie Dean GUEST PEST—Short Chapter No. 8 of “IlLAIvi'; OF SCOTLAT^D YARD” SUNDAY—MONDAY AUGUST 17-18 “SWING PARADE OF 1946” IVItli Gale Storm, Phil Regan, 3 Stooges • SOLID SERENADE"-—“JERKY TURKEY" Shovt.s I'UESDAY—WEDNESDAY “CLUB HAVANNA” Witl» Tom Neal — Margaret Lind.‘ay “SWING SHIFT!' CINDEHELLA’’—short AUGUST lJ>-520 Sunday show .starts 0:Ot)~On(> show Sunday—2 .shows on week nigiit.s—7:30 and 9:30 RESERVED SECTION FOR COLORED Batgam Dajr SPECUIS ITEMS LISTED BELOW AT 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT HOME TYPE BATTERY CHARGERS TAYLOR JR. ELECTRIC WASHERS BABY BOTTLE STERILIZERS AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC TRAVEL IRONS ELECTRIC BROILERS ELECTRIC RECORD PLAYER HYDRAULIC JACKS STEEL YARD BROOMS OIL MEASURING POTS ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLS SHOTGUN CLEANING RODS 2-CELL FLASHLIGHTS TOBACCO THERMOMETERS l-GALLON GLASS CHURNS ICE CRUSHERS KNIFE SHARPENERS PRESSURE COOKERS CAN OPENERS HAND GRINDER TROUBLE LIGHTS KITCHEN EXHAUST FAN PINTS, GRAPHITE OIL ELECTRIC CLOCKS FOLDING IRONING BOARDS SOCKET WRENCH SETS 50-INCH ENDLESS BELTS HAMILTON LIME SPREADERS 250-BUSHEL GALVANIZED GRAIN BIN GALVANIZED STOCK TANKS MEN'S LEATHER BILL FOLDS 20-GALLON GARBAGE PAILS HARVEY RED HEAD CORN SHELLER RADIO HEAD PHONES SLEDGE HAMMERS 4-WHEEL FARM WAGONS, rubber tires Purdie Equipment INCORPORATED PHONE 7 DUNN, N. C. “WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL” 1940 and to an estimated 396,000. This comparison is complicated and does not present a true picture, due largely to the fact that 136,666 ser vice men and women had been dis charged and had not been reabsorbed into tho oni'ployed - labor force in 1'9'46, Chairman Kendall pointed out. By 1946, employment in manu facture, as reflected by employing firms covered by the Employment Security Law, accounted for more than half of the non-agricultural em ployment in the State and nearly one-third of all employment, Includ- ' Ing ai ■■'•'ulture, forestry and fishing. ' Chairman Kendall announces that Harnett county in 1945 bad 1,937 I workers engaged in manufacture, or I 69.1 percent of the total covered em ployment in this county in 1946, as compared to a State average of 66.9 percent. Manufacturing employment In the county in 1945 represented 29.'3 per cent of the total non-agricultural employment in 1940, as reported by tho i;. S. Census, compared to a I State average ratio to total non-ag ricultural omploymdnt in P940 of 43.9 'Percent. BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICAN BUSINESS THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 15, 16 (By Reynolds Knight) There seems to be a great deal of “wishful arithmetic” in the now me thods the Department of Commerce is using to figure out America’s "na tlonal income,” chief indicator of business, industrial and agricultural activity. Many billions of duplicated income dollars apparently arc in cluded in the $178 billion dollar na tional income which the Department added up for 1946. Government, for oxamplo, claims 11 contributed $23 billion dollars to the national income. This figure in cludes tho pay of federal, state, county and municipal employees. But where did it get this money? The answer is obvious. It look the money first in taxes from the wages and salaries of individual, and from the gross oarnings of business. Thus, government’s "contribution’’ consists of taking from you to pay another. Tho numbor of “unseen guests” at your supper table each night has grown rapidly -over the years. * * I), THINGS TO COME. —• Synthetics are finding Increasing new uses in tho sporting goods field, with mold ed plastic golf club heads the latest . . . “Make your own” business or industrial charts and graphs made possible with a new type of slotted visual control board called tho "Trendicator” , , . One southwestern WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER (Continued from page three) than they were a year ago. An Winston-Salem food prices had more than doubled iu the past five years—^rising 107.6 per cent since .lanuary 1941. The ^rt'h Carolina delegation in Congress, and a lot of the congres sional secretaries, have gone home for the greater part of the recess period between now and the first of the year, or to spend brief vacations before returning to Washington. , Rep. Carl T. Durham, of Chapel, motored out of Washington with his family Saturday • mornl’ig, Aug. 2, the last Tar Heel lawmaker' to go home. Before him was Rep. C. B.. Deane, of Rockingham, wjio motored home with Mrs. Deane and stopped off for a few days in Richmond, Va. The State’s two Senators, Clyde R. Hoey and William B. Umstead, had gone home earlier in the week. 'Both have busy speaking scliedules in all parts of the state during this month. railroad is adding special infants’ and children’s menus to its dining ciir service . . . New adjustable all purpose costume jewelry Is designed to bo useful and ornamental to the “younger set” from nursery through college ago . . . Boon to busy build ers is a new electronic “segregator,” which sorts many articles, such as screws, nuts and bolts, into three classifications . . . New synthetic oloansing detergent developed' for use in automatic washing machines works equally well with hard or soft water and requires no water softener . , . Westinghouse has introduced a now semi-circular fluorescent lamp said to provide more light than a 60 watt bulb with one-third the power consumption . . . More than 500 ba sic combinations are possible in a new line of 12, 14 and 16-foot all- Btoel truck bodies designed and built to meet individual fleet operators’ requirements. * * ♦ BITS O’ BUSINESS.—Total U. S. farm income—nearly $12 billion for the first six months of ■li9'47—'is 26 per cent ahead of farm cash receipts for the corresponding period last your . . . R^etuni of worn-out mili tary equipment from global battle fields is being urged to avert what steel experts predict will be a "grave shortage” of scrap steel next winter . . . 76,000 now urban dwellings wore started and 62,800 were com pleted in June to establish a 20- yoar peak construction record . . , You will bo able to travel in style oil credit under a now installment payment plan which 60 major rail roads will put into effect September 1 ... It now looks as though the U. S. is sure to have another auto- iiiakor. Last week tho Tucker Corpo ration, which hopes to make the wideIy-publici«od Tucker Torpedo, got tho money it needed. Investment firms raised $17,600,000 for the company through a common stock flotation, one ot tho largest equity deals iu recent years. North Carolina’s sleepy seashore town of Southport soon may have tl'.c mountaineer dean of the Tar Heel delegation for a summer guest. Fanner Boli Doughton, Ninth Dis trict Representative since March 4, 1911, i.s interested in a little bit of peace and quietude, and after more than 3 6 years In Congress, with his rugged constitution, he has come to learn what a lot of younger members have concluded — that Washington and your own home town are no places for rest or recreation. It might be added, also, that anywhere in a congressman’s district is defin itely no place for him to rest. Anyhow, Parmer Bob has been in quiring Into the Southport situation, and State Senator S. Bunii Frink of the B-runswick County c^apltal has been advised to be on the lookout for Mr. Doughton. Southport is noted for its quiet and natural beauty and 'has been re- fered to by Editor Carl, Goerch of The State Magazine as the North Carolina town he’d best like to retire to. If Farmer Bob goes from his na tive mountains to the soasho're, it looks like Southport will be it. Parmer Bob has worked hard for 83 years now, and after all, he real ly owes himself a vacation. If he keeps on driving so hard in Congress for eight or ten more years, he might overwork and have to take a long rest. North DukotaiL decided there would be a Republican investigation. But the investigation never seem ed to get under way', and toward the end of the session so many protests were heard concerning the holding up of the nominations that Danger gave the signal for the Senate" to go ahead and act on most of the nom inations. A few, however, remained uncon- fiimed and some were withdrawn. In North Carolina, the withdrawn nomi nations Include: Robert White, Dunn; Esther H. Bullock, Delco; Myrtle B. Smith, Hayes; Betty W. Wall, Pee Dee, and Samuel L. Sand- erliii, Shawboro. November. Miss Gibson, a War Department employee who is walking proof of the theory that North Carolina Girls are good-looking, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Gibson. She for merly taught school In Long’s home town, and that is where he first met her, Lang, a war veteran and a gradu ate of the University of North Caro- ! liua, is well known throughout 1 North Carolina. 'Before the war, he Washington News Letter _ - gal 3 served as state director of the Na- tlonal Youth Administration, and he 'has been politically active since his ' campus days. There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the re pose of minds.—Lavater. The N. C. Democratic Club of Washington has figuratively^ thumb ed its nose at fate and announced today it would hold its Twelftih;iCoix- gressioiial Banquet and Ball on, yes, you guessed, Friday, February bs.' Kid Brewer, formerly of Winston-' Salem, president of the eluh, said tho banquet would be held at the Mayflower Hotel. i In discussing the Friday the 13th . date, Brewer chuckled when he re called that last year the club held' Its banquet during a swirling snow- ‘ storm. Anyhow, he said, the storm ! did not keep many good Tar Heels away since more than 600 attended the banquet last year, including Kay Kyser and his wife, the former Geor gia Carroll. ' * ^ , This midwinter affair each year honors the State’s congressional delegation,' : Camp LeJeune, the Marine- Corps east coast base in Onslow County, will be one of the two Marine train ing centers under the Universal Mili tary Training program, when, as and' if Congress gets around to establish ing a UMT system, it has been learn ed in Washington. The ENC camp The Senate left behind a list of unconfirmed postmaster nominations in North Carolina, Tho nominoes have been the sub ject of a fight between Senate Civil Service Committee Chairman Wil liam Danger (R., N. D.) and prac tically the entire Senate. Danger said that some of the nominations Presi dent Truman sent to the Senate for confirmation were "political.” So the would specialize in amphibious war fare. Marion J. Shuffler, of Wilming ton, secretary to Rep. Clark and 12 years in Washington, said he has never seen a Congress fumble around' as much as this past one has, "It started off at a snail’s pace and slowed down after that,” he said. Wedding bells will ring this Fall, for a North Carolina congressional secretary and a Tar Heel girl. It' hasn’t been formally announced yet, ’ but Miss Catherine Gibson, of, Gib son, has yielded to the entreaties of John A. Lang, Jr., of Carthage, -sec retary of Representative Charles ©. Deane, to become Mrs. Lang. The day has not yet been set, but the wedding will take place sometime in^ ANKLETS 11 PAIRS, for fl.09 BY PREPAID PARCEL POST Slight liiiii>erfcrt« of regular 25c-S5c flue anklets for infants, children, or ladles. Cuff tops, assorted colors. Pleaise .state sizes. SOUTHERN SALES COMPANY 1*. O. Box a020 Dept. BNX K.VOXVILLE, TENNESSEE SPECIALS for BARGAIN DAYS THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th, 15th and 16th WASH, GliEASE, OIL CHANGE, CRANK CASE FLUSHED, ORIGINALLY $4.75— SPECIAL PRICE $3A0 SUPREME SERVICE STATION Dunn, N. C. Music is the harmony of Being; but the music of Soul affords the only strains that thrill the chords of feeling and awaken the heart’s harp- strings.—Mary Baker Eddy. I shall t'ry to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall ap pear to be true views.—^Abraham Lincoln. PI,EASE SAY "I SAW W IN THE News." THANK YOU. L & S Hardware Specials-Aug. 14-15-16 i'' •>', Complete Line DuPont anc) Gleem Paint Outside House Paint gallon $4.90 Flat Wall Paint gallon $3.25 \ Screen Doors each $6.25 White Enamel Sinks, size 16x24, each $9.25 Aluminum Wash Pans 65c Universal Electric Irons $9.95 Single Hot Plates each $2.49 Electric Toasters $1.99 Beautiful Sets Dishes— SS'-piece Set only $22.75 See Us For Electric Water Pumps, Building and Plumbing Supplies^ Asphalt Shin gles and Roll Roofing, Cement, Brixment, Mask’s Lime, Fibred Plaster, Finishing Lime, White Cement, Keene Cement. li & Hardware PHONTE 3S4 DUNN, N. C
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