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Price Of Cm Detroit, April J.—The Ford Motor company fell in line to toy with a downward price trend In the auto industry and announc ed reduction# from $11 to $120 In Ford, Lincoln and Mercury ear*. The reductions^ attributed to "fmoreaeed avail&Wtty of mater ials and Um> small decrease in prices of some materials'', ^are ef fective tomorrow. Ford car Hst prices are drop ped from $12 to $30; Mercurys from $8o to $120, and all Lin coln and Lincoln Cosmopolitan models are reduced $100. Certain truck models .are re duced $10 to $40. Ford's price cut is the fourth In the auto industry in less than six weeks and leaves only Chry sler corporation of the "big three" without any recent price reductions. Chrysler raised pric es on its 1949 models introduced In February and March. ^ Announcing the price cuts, the Ford company said in a state ment: "It always has been the policy of the Ford motor comp any to keep prices Just as low as coats will allow. "Added production made .pos sible through increased availabil ity of materials and the small de crease in prices of some mater ials should enable us to mak« seme reduction in our productioi costs. The car and truck decreas« is a reflection of these factors and we are passing the benefit! along to the buying public im mediately. i "There is (still a current heavj j demand for Ford and Mercury ' automobiles. Firm productioi schedules have been set for tlw i summer months of June, Jul} and August at the highest month I ly production rate since April 1947. This should permit us t< maintain our high employment' i 'Pard first reduced prices ii 'January, 1948. These cuts, how ever, were wiped out by increase! the following August when. th< company settled with the CIO United Automobile Workers foi an if 1-2 cent hourly pay rat< and six paid holidays. Salisbury Girl Is Fatally Shol I Salisbury, April 4. Funeral services will be conducted at ' Rowan Mills Baptist church here at 4 p. m. Tuesday for Evelyn Allman, 19-year-old victim of an accidental shooting. The Salis bury girl, an employe of the Rowan Mills, was fatally shot at Hartsville, S. C., late Sunday evening 'by another girl. The two were among a group of young people in an automobile examin ing a pistol belonging to another member of the party and thought not to be loaded. The bullet, fired while Miss Honeycutt was handling the weapon, entered the Allman girl's head. Miss Allman was the daughter of the late A. A. Allman and Mrs. Stella Allman. Survivors, in ad dition to the mother include four brothers, Cecil Allman of the U. S. Navy, Lloyd Allman of Rowan Mills, and Donald and Wayne Allman of the home, and a sister, Sue, of the home. —— o — Mrs. Elsie Church Funerol On Tuesdoy Funeral service was held on Tuesday at two p. m., at Mount Pleasant Baptist church for Mrs. Elsie Church, 88, resident of the Mount Pleasant community, who died Sunday. Rev. A. W. Eller and Rev. IMr. Caldwell conducted the service. Mrs. Church leaves the follow ing sons and daughters: Adol phus Church, Mrs. Albert Mather ly, Mrs. Rosa Huffman, Albert Church, and Mrs. Albert Trip let, all of Purlear. Sesame is an excellent oilseed producing plant that will grow well in certain areas of the United States. Business Census Will Begin Soon Statesville. — Preliminary ar ; rangements for launching the na tionwide Census of Business In this District, which includes Wil kes county and 11 other counties In this area, are underway this i week according to Harry B. Moore, district supervisor of the Bureau of the Census which is located in the city hall in States . ville. , The business census, not to be confused with the general popu [ latlon census to ibe taken later, . is scheduled to begin early hi , April, according to the latest , word from Washington, Mr. , Moore stated. Approximately 4, . 500 census takers In 300 district offices throughout the United States will report on the 1948 business operations of en esti mated 3,000,000 retail, wholesale and service trade establishments in the country. Information on sales volumes, i payrolls, principal merchandise lilies, and other rasic items about the county'e distributive system will be collected for the first time in nearly a decade. The most recent business census was con ducted In. 1940, oorerlnf actM tles in 1839. As a result of the new census, authoritative information on the number of trade and service es tablishments, classified by kinds of business groups, together with summary sales statistics, wilt be come available for the entire na tion. Manufacturers, Wholesalers, retailers, and other business men interested In moving goods Into final consumption without delay. Til BQtf have a complete picture of effects of population and in* a tiki; , cone chance* which hare taken pla ce since pre-war years. '[lie district office in States e will be responsible for cen work in the following coun ties Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Ca dwell, Catawba, Davie, Ire dell, Rowan, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin. — ] lake a Date Now with Better Lining — Clean Up. J DRAIN TILE FOR SALE 4-inch, 8c per foot At Our Plant at Rjoaring River Stone Nocks 4-In., 6-In., and 8-In. Widths. No (hntside Treatment of Blocks ampaess. Necessary for E MARSHALL Phone 45-F-20 & WOLFE Rjoaring River, N. C.
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