(C«atinned from h|« Omi
Clara Lee, a Checker at the Pig
fly Wiggly store In Dunn, has man;
:ustomer.s who buy tha^ much ant
twee every time they come to shoo
there I* even a lady, who keeps a
Tome for teacher* near Buie’t
Creek. whose shopping hst fre*
juently runs more than forty dol
tara. Last summer, when the Youth
Chump at Falcon was operating
Checkers nimbly ran off bills be
tween a hundred and two hundred
toilers.
Thia happens to be the week that
Eh* giant Piggly Wiggly chain fa
jsltfcrating its S5th anniversary, tl
is also very near the time whet
ht Dunn branch of Pigglv Wlgglj
irill have completed its fourth yeai
rf service to its customers. And
perhaps not by coincidence, the
Checkers in Piggly Wiggly storw
ill across the nation are involve*
in a tiny special kind of contest.
Clara Lee and two other girt
who act as Checkers at Piggly Wig'
fly — Doris Altman and Lexsim
Depning—have entered the “Check
er of the Year' contest. The na
tional winner is to receive a tw<
seeks trip to Europe during whict
the will -ee the Vatican in Rome
Ltfrnp through Montmartre in Par
is. rg d hit many at the Old World !
tabled sights and cities.'
Between the three of them, the*
prls represent three' classes ol
Checkers Lexzine is a newcame:
md has been at her Job only since
he week before Christinas. Clan
iituation Is going to worsen—bul
he way to keep it from doing that
s to see that all dog-owners obey
the law."
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CONGESTION
Billy Rose Sets
Date With Joyce
NEW YORK — Banta
! Rose and blonde Joyce Math
for their wedding — April :
Kisco estate.
This was disclosed yesterday by
Joyce who is recovering at Doctor-;
Lee has been working as a Check
er several months. Doris Altman
is an old hand, and has been at it
four years. It's not as eaav a Job
as you might think.
Suppose you were a Checker, for
g moment. Could you keep it
straight in your mind that Lux
bath-size bar* are two-for-twenty
three. Lifebuoy two-for-twenty
seven. Swan three-tforrtwentv-six.
Dial two-for-twenty-seven. Ivory
three-for-twenty-six. Sweetheart
three-for-twenty-«even, Palmolive
j three-for-twenty-six? You couldn't?
But a lot of checkers have. Those
i figures sire from one tiny corner of
Clara Lees memory, and there are
thousands of other figures she has
mastered in the period she has been
working. Many products are mark
ed, but many aren't, and it takes
a mighty good Checker to, ripple
along, never — or hardly ever —
. unsure of a price.
No wonder the Supermarket In
stitute decided that perhaps the
Checker should be glorified little
with a contest. When 10 regional
winners go to Cleveland later this
year, they will be given a series of
tests on personality, speed and ac
curacy in checking out a standard
order. The Institute obviously hopes
that this will help to dramatize th*
very real skill involved In this ev
eryday occupation.
To enter the contest, a CheckH
must confirm that she is familial
with the Checker's Creed — ar
Interesting document that may no*
be quite so elevating as the oath
which doctors or lawyers or even a
sailor takes, but is impressive in its
own way.
This Creed states, for instance
that it is part of a Checker's Jot
“to be cheerful even when it seenu
most difficult.” Try that, some
time, when you’ve been on yom
feet all day, it is rush hour at the
grocery store, and you have a nice
line of twenty people to serve, each
with a basketful of groceries
Plenty of Checkers manage it
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Food, and LowerPrUe.
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PLENTY OF FREE PA
ERWIN, N. C.
T cakTs
n Broadway showman Billy
ews have finally set the date
t at Billy’s sprawling Mount
I Hospital from an emergency appen
dectomy performed last Thursday
Billy, who has been wooing Joyce,
ex-wife of Milton Berle, for fire
years, gave her an 11-carat dlam
Mistress Of
Mussolini
Is Reburied
ROME, Italy itft — A motor-hearse
today carried the body of Clare'‘ i
Petacci. mistress of Benito Mu,
solir.i. to Rome for reburial after a
secret exhumation from a grave in
a Milan cemetery.
Authorities granted relatives per
mission to transfer the body to
Rome's Verano cemetery almost 11
years after Miss Peacci was "ex
ecuted'' with the Fascist dictator
by partisans.
A 'tall statue of Miss Petacci, the
face turned upwards to the sky
and the arms fully extended be
hind the back, already has been
set in place over the newly - dug
grave.
Luncheon Head,
Bragg Engineer
Receive Honor
The keeper at the school lunch
room at Anderson Creek and an
operating engineer of Fort Bragg
have been named by the Anderson
Creek Run tan Chib as man and
woman of the year
Mrs. Louise Wilson and Cbyt
Saunders were named for the honor
by virtue of "outstanding personal
and and civic qualities '’
! Saunders, who has been an op
erating engineer for the Fort Bragg
Post Engineers for the past 14
years. Is a native of Newton hi
Catawba County. For the past ten
years, he has lived in Anderson
Creek.
Ip the Rurtten dub be has run
the whole gamut of offices, serving
as sergeant-at-arms. secretary,
vice-president and president. He k
a member of the Church of the
Covenant PresbyterUn Church in
Manchester. t
Sounder i has also rendered ser
vices to the Boy Scouts. Right now
he is having what he considers a;
rewarding experience as a member
of the Young Fanners class of Ah- ,
demon Creek school.
Mrs. Wilson, supervisor of the
school, irachrocm for the past two
veers, is a lifelong member of the
Flat Branch Presbyterian Church
and take a highly active role In
'■-.urth, school and community ac
tivities. She is a charter member
of the Anderson Creek Borne Dem
onstration Club.
Antioch Hosts
Bantisl Ladies
At Antioch Baptist Church on
March 23 the Woman’s M5*Jonary
Union* of the Uttle River Baptist
Association will meet in annual
session.
Mrs. A. D. Frazier at Durham,
regional superintendent, will be
present for the meeting which has
the theme. “Hi* commission . . .
Our MiMton.*
A missionary on furlough Cram
Indonesia, Mia. W. B. Johnson,
will also be on hand. So will Miss
Beverly Neileon, Sunbeam chair
man and field worker for North
Carolina, and Mra. H. M. O’Quinn,
president of the Woman's Mission
ary Union.
The associational superintendent.
Mrs. D. B. Andrews, will preside.
Rev. Lester T. Marsh, pastor at the
host church, ha* cleared the way
for the mirating.
Gas Fumes
Kill 6 In
One Family
NEW YORK W — Six members
of a Brooklyn family died today
In their gas filled basement apart
ment and a seventh was fighting
for her life In a hospital.
CAROLINA TYPEWRITER
A Add. Mochin* Ssrvics
Ml E. Canary 8t Dana. If. <i
rfcsae MM
1 Day Service
ond ring last wwwnd. Joyce rt -
veoled. -
Billy, iho formerly was Wed to the
late Fanny Brice and to swim »t »
Eleanor Holm, wiU be Joyce’s third
husband, tier first was Col Oonzab
Comer. son of the late Juan Vin
cent Cornea Veneuela dictator.
They were divorced in 1#40. Joyce
and fierie were married and divorc
ed twice. s
yam'*! in Divorce Sait
r
Joyce was named by Eleanor as
the other woman in her divorce
suit.
The romance of Joyce. 36. and
SiUy. 56. became generally known
in July 1951 when Joyce slashed a
wrist and threatened to Jump from
Billy’s apprtment atop the Zieg
feld Theatre. Sixth Ave. and 54th
St.
That incident, at which Billy
made the no wclawdc comment
that “now is the time for a man
to have a wife." uncovered a fly*
tag trip to Canada by Joyce and
Billy. Rose used his real home of
William Samuel Rosenberg for the
occasion.
Misa Holm lat^r had Billy* ap
artment raided, got a divorce ana
$30,000 annual alimony, one of th *
largest ever in thia jjtate, plus
$200,000. tax free, to be paid to her
over a 10-year period.
AttfcND CONVFNlION
Among those from Dunn attend*
ing the State W. M U convention
in Winston-Salem this week were.
Mrs. E. P Russell, Mrs. R A. Dun
can, Sr , Lillian Draughon. Mrs.
H. A. Wtttbrook, Mrs. R J Den
ny, Mrs L C. Maynard, Mrs H.
| Paul Strickland, and Mrs C. D,
I Bain.
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