PAGE TWO Mhv jtatit; JUtxsrb r RECORD FUBUSHIM} COMPANY , • At Sit EMt C»n*ry Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE T THOMAS P CLARK CO., INC. 200-217 E. 4tnd Ei, New Tort 17, N. X. _ ■— Breach Olfioe* In Every Major City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES !»▼ CARRIER: 20 cents per week; $8.50 per year Jn advance; Si for six months, $8 for three months. IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BT CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: IMi per e%s»~ year; $3.50 for six months; ft for three mantis. OCT-OV-STATE: {8.50 per year .in advance; {5 for six month* IS for three months. 611 Sered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. (£ Hinder the l»ws of Congress, Act of March 3. 1879. Every afternoon, Monday through Friday SR&t/- Service Is Cheap j* What affect do railroad rate increases have on the most things that people buy? The answer is, •“Practically none.” j Some facts recently made public by William T. Faricy, {president of the Association of American Railroads, tell the tetory. The total effect of the rate increases authorized] Sthis year, applied to all rates on everything and at every j jjjstep of the way, amounts to no more than one-third of one Jper c£ut of the wholesale values of commodities at destina tion,%£ftid a smaller percentage of retail prices. Further more, he said, the increases in the average revenue re- JceiveoTby the railroads for hauling such basic items as livestock and wheat, or wheat and flour, or leather and j fshoes- in no case amount to more than a small fraction of j nnp cent, a pound or whatever the ordinary unit of sale; Sikjrßfe. 'This is true even on combined freight movements Averaging hundreds of miles. # As Mr. Faricy pointed out, “Freight rates were among J[he last prices to start rising, have risen far less than prices |h general, and are today an even smaller part of prices oian they were when war began in 1939. Truly, if there! were nothing in the present economic situation more infla- 1 fionary than the increases in railroad freight rates, wej Cnlght-ari of us look to the future without misgivings. Jtt-ls. folly to oppose reasonable increases in railroad reignT charges which are plainly made necessary by the i hflation in wages, prices and taxes. The rails are the! (ackbone of our strength, civilian and military. No indus-1 ry c n .give its best when it is starved for revenues. The! ailroads ask only for rates which will pay 'the bills, and j eave a modest profit for the people whose savings make] rur magnificent railroad plant possible. i- I c; ' Powell Money Over pelf Spent In Dunn ■ half of the money due R Putin from the Powell Bill has Ren expended for much needed ■uipment, it is shown by the rec ■rdATJffhe City Clerk’s office. V'Ntffdhase- of this equipment will do much more toward improving the city streets and the direct ex penditure of this money on street work alone. City Manager O. O. Manning points out, since one of the provisions of the bill is for the purchase rental, operation and maintenance of such equipment Higehest priced piece of equip ment included in the purchases is » grader and cab which together . cost *10,112 35. A truck and dump body cost $2,81080 and a compressor and the necescsary tools $2,731. All the purchases totalled $15,654.33. The amount allotted to the town of Dunn under the terms of the bill is $23,496. The money, is how- ] ever, earmarked exclusively for atreet maintenance and improve ment and any number of a govern ing body or municipal employe can be held personally liable for any unauthorized eqpenditures. Some of the things for which the funds cannot be used are, street lighting, sidewalks, payment of principal pr interest on bonds I FLOWERS HAVE I ALWAYS BEEN A I REMINDER OF I DEEPEST AFFECTION 1 LEE'S FLORIST ■FakYrcimd Rd. Dunn Ambulance Service II Phone 207^ j! CROMARTIE FUNERAL HOME j DUNN, N. C. CATCHER AND SKINnITI i&tAL Call Day I Or Night Yk A 7 jfl&b * In x° ur ! whether issued for street purposes i or not. parking meters, street signs, l -garbage-.; collection, traffic police - men’s salaries or police cars or mo torcycles. Exception to the street lighting are lights for traffic control, such as pedestrian lights or other traffic signs necessary to trafiic control. Gerald R. Smith Given Promotion Gerald R. Smith, USN, son of Mrs. Elsie S. Smith of 500 East Edgerton St., Dunn, N. CT, was rencetnly advanced to the rate of recently advanced to the rate of He is presently serving on board the destroyer escort USS Walker I with the Pacific Fleet. Receiving and sending radio com munications is Smith's job. He is also the teletype repairman. He is responsible to see that the radio system is in constant working order. He entered the Naval service in Feb., 1950, and received his recruit training at the U. S. Naval Train ing Center, San Diego, Calif, i QUINN'S FUNERAL HOME 24-HOUR SERVICE PHONE 3306 211 W. HARNETT ST. DUNN, N. C. I l l'l' These Days £ckcbklf THE CASE OF JOSEPHINE BAKER I have never seen Josephine Baker on or off the stage. She is apparently an actress born in the United States but is now a French citizen, which is her privilege. I also see by the newspapers that she is a Negress, which seems to me to be neither here nor there. A mild furor is being stirred over the lady’s visit to the Stork i Club, a restaurant and saloon which j I have bc°n to four or five times. The owner of this place is Sher man Billingsley, wlio is pleatans to know. It seems that Miss Baker got into the Stork Club inner . sanctum, which is called the Cub Room. Part j of the Billingsley set-up is to make it difficult for his customers to j get into the Cub Room. The snob i appeal of the place is supposed to operate so that if you cannot get in. you will want to and will be a better customer for the privilege. Miss Baker got ih the first time she tried, which must make her the envy of many who have never been I able to get in at all. If any dis i cnmina’icn was shown, it was in ■ favor of Miss Baker. I am told that she ordered a | filet mignon and got a sirloin steak. So they threw a picket line I about the place. In a restaurant like that, you always have to w»ait j long, that being part of the snob appeal. If a customer is in a hur ry, he can get served faster at some hamburger heaven. So, Mies Baker waited long for her steak and for her wine and got sore and made a noise. Nobody threw her out for making a noise, although that has happened to others who made noises, Billings ley telli-g them never to show their faces in his joint. That did not happen to Miss Ba ker. although it would seem to me to be Billingsley’s privilege to re ject customer* who disconcert other customers and spoil his business. The fact that Miss Baker got into • the Cub Room of this restaurtmt . proves that Billingsley did not keep - her out because she was' a Negress'- ■ That he did not ask her to leave after she made a fuss shows that : he was more polite than usual, i One world imagine that with all ; I that is going on in the world, peo j pie would have more on their minds than whether this French actress was delayed in getting her steak I and wine, but immediately a lot of I self-lntei ested great minds jump ed into this situation and fixed it all up with racial prejudice, picket ed the place, pronounced a boycott, In which conniving politicians join ; ed. If Eillingsley served me pig’s ! knuckles instead of Hungarian gou lash, would it be race prejudice? As I said. I do not go to these places often, preferring to eat at home with my wife and children when I get a chance. Tlie conver sation at our table is more inter esting than the by-play in these 1 night spots, particularly as I hate to see women scared to smile be cause they fear their rigid make-up will crack. The problems of my little daughter at school are more stirring than overhearing gossip about who is fixing to marry whom in order to get some additional ali mony in due course. Nevertheless, I once went to a place with my wife and three Chi nese friends and we were rejected. So we went Jo tire Stork Club where we were made welcoiqe al though somewhat crowded. I did not picket the other place. I simply never went there again. That is my privilege The right to stay away is a noble human one which Eleanor Roose velt should incorporate in the doc ument which she Is drawing up for the United Nations. Also, the right of a proprietor of a place, where people go to spend a pleasant eve ning, to keep cut anyone who dis turbs the kind of decorum his cus tomers prefer ought to be Inviol able. The whole business looks to me like something developed to spoil Walter Winchell’* business. Ap parently some excited radio com mentators and columnists. wanted Winchell to throw Billingsley out CARS - TRUCKS MB PJUM ttKCOBD, DCNR, K 0. > “Looks like less’n 3,soo—but don’t forget we receive 40% of the television fee ... ” College football, so wonderful because of the setting ftf Qlragyg sections and the “I’d die for dear old Rutgers” spirit of finally has a rival in what might be called the University of ''itSjy Marciano. -‘“AO9 When Marciano fought Joe Louis, between 7,000 and.B,ooo residtms of Brockton’s Mass., moved on to New York. Friday is pay day in Brokcton’s leather factories, but on this occasion, Brockton declared Friday to be a holiday and leatner craftsmen were paid off on Thursday night so that they could board buses and trains for Madison Square Garden. Notre Dame never had a more loyal following than Marciano. They don't like him simply because he is a good betting prosposition, these Brockton fellow townsmen. Though there’s no ivy on the Mar ciano walls, the spirit he generates is like that inspired by an Alma Mater. Marciano once worked in the leather plants of his home town, just as his dad worked before him. -‘T had to give it up ,” he said, wryly. It was too much for me.’’ "Is the work that hard?” this reporter asked. •“No,” he said. ”1 just couldn’t stand the smell of leather." He’s been throwing it effectively ever since. Apparently Marciano has in flamed Massachusetts as no other fighter succeeded in doing, since the halycon days of other redoubtable Bay Stater, John L. Sulivan. Boston Press Club has a fascinating exhibit of famous page 1 stories. Collected by AP’s Jim Smith, and hung in the clubroom Is a front page from the first American newspaper published In 1690, Publick Occurrences, Boston Globe's story on Lizzie Borden trial, Boston Post’s coverage of sinking of the Maine, Boston American’s story of the Lindberg flight and the Boston Herald's reporting of the bacco-Yan zetti jjriat ...: TV Jeebies," penned by WCAU’s Paul Ritts and illus trated by Dick Strome, now in the bookstalls .... Jamaica hurricane relief show at Carnegie Hall, Monday nleht .... The Arnold Stangs named her Deborah jane. Dear Ed: Betchß didn’t know there's a tree on Riverside Drive dedicated to President Grant, by the Chinese Government of that era! it is signed by "La Hung cnang. Guardian oi the Prince, Grand Secre tary of State, Earl of the First Order, and Yang Yu, Envoy Extraordi nary, Prime Minister of Plenipotentiary of China., also Vice President of the Board of Censors.” Best, Dave North .... Fourth annual Com* munion breakfast of radio and TV Industry Sunday, Nov. 25. at the Waldorf-Astoria Highlighting the opening of the campaign, Nov. 8, of the N. Y. Ass’n for the Blind will be a documentary film ‘‘l See The Wind,” with a cast of 18 blind and partially blind children in The Lighthouse Nursery School. Dear Ed: Knowing your exceedingly great kindness at all time to the ASPCA, I feel compelled to give you the correct version of the Ginger Rogers story which appeared In your column. In early May, 1949, Miss Rogers reported that a dog could - be seen from the windows of the Sherry Netherland Hotel on an adjoining roof. The dog appeared to be without shelter and water. This dog had been brought to the society’s attention on previous occasions. On eacil complaint an investigation was made which bore out the information given to Miss Rogers in a letter dated May 9, 1949. At that time she was told that the owner had provided a well-built shelter which could not be seen from neighboring buildings. While the dog had access to this at all times, he apparently preferred to be at large on the roof where he had an abundance of room for exercise. He was always found in good physical condition, and gave every evidence of being highly regarded by his owner. I know you will want this information, for you would not wish to either embarrass the owner or have it appear that the ASPC had been neglectful. Sincerely, Sydney H. Coleman, ASPCA. Conrad Hilton trying to reconcile Elizabeth Taylor and his son .. Ingrid Bergman down with the flu Carmel Myers and Paramount exec Arthur Schwalberg honeymooning in Florida .... When Sonja Henie completes her tour, she’ll open in Rotterdam, Holland .... Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner to wed in the East, next week Mussolini’s remains traced to the Cathedral of Pavia, in northern Italy . . K. T. Stevens expected to inherit at least $1,000,000 from the estate of her dad, the late Sam Wood. He was one oi Hollywood’s great directors. for not serving M.'ss Baker faster. They involved Winchell in race prejudice because he did not come to the defense of a French lady, who also happens to be a Negress, who was given a sirloin steak in A g %V / A c i I I '*l . r* t A | AT* . I f V?\ h"** t II | | | SV,; . i ,W m..ml. . f TICiAN stead of a filet mignon. To make his race prejudice more positive, Winchell was not around when the worst happened. How can be pos sibly explain that? Why is around when nathfcq; happens? »*¥! nisbet, ’ .1,. , j ■-»-■ ■■■■■■ '' ■ BATTLEGROUND. Circum stances largely beyond control of North Carolinians may make this state the battle- ground for a show down fight for control of the na tional Democratic party and the government of the United States , in 1952 and for several years there after. That is not a new or unique position for North Carolina to be in. From earliest days of national life, this state has been in key po sition to determine national policy. Next to last of the original thir teen states to ratify the federal consitution, it was next to last of the Confederate states to secede from the union. INFLUENTIAL North Caro lina delegates to the national Demo cratic convention had large part in no’T'toatlng Woodrow Wilson for the presidency by invoking the two-thirds rule at the Baltimore convention In 1912, and our dele gates also had major influences In renominating Franklin Roosevelt by abolishing the two-thirds require ment at the 1936 convention. Ada mant attitude of then Governor Gregg Cherry in 1948, supported by former Governor Broughton, sena tor-nominate, and Joe Blythe, na tional committeeman and treasurer of the national Democratic com mittees, and other state Democra tic leaders at Philadelphia, is cred ited with holding North Carolina primarily, and by indirect influ ence also holding Virginia and Tennessee, in the regular Demo cratic column when Georgia. South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi went overboard for the State Rights party. So, the role of key position t Frederick OTHMAN WASHINGTON—I guess I better tell you about thr lunch the Com missioner of Internal Revenue did n’t enjoy; there was nothing w'rong with the food, but the poor guy still could have used a slug of baking soda afterwards. Weeks ago Commissioner John B. Dunlap arranged to speak at the National Press Club on the subject: The Average Tax Collec tor Is an Honest Joe. When time came for him to make liis talk, collector Joe Mar celle of Brooklyn. N. Y., whom he’d fired the night before, was on the lam. G-men were looking for him to serve a Congressional subpoena. Thatt was bad enough. But somebody over at the com missioner’s office had announced he’d also suspended Theodore Isaacs and Elias Schulman, tax agents in New York and Brooklyn. At 12:37, when Commissioner Dun lap was plowing into his roast beef, another mastermind at his headquarters appealed to the press to hold up this snnouncement. At 1 p m., when the commission er should have been finishing his apple pie with cheese on top, he was pondering what to do about Messrs. Isaacs and Schulman. At 1:11 p. nr. the announcement we.it out quoting him as saying they d been bounced for sure. Then he made his speech * The b’g, bald Dunlap, a tax collector all hi* life except while he was working his way up* «- ‘ weight instead of deadweight. 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