Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week
MERCHANTS WARNED
AGAINST PRICE RISES
Raleigh—A warning to mer
chants of the State against dras
tic price increases following the
termination of OPA was issued
by President Oliver P. Matthews
of Gastonia and Executive Secre
tary Willard L. Dowell of Ral
eigh of the N. C. Merchants As
sociation.
Matthews and Dowell said in a
statement:
“’The sudden termination of
griee control focuses the atten
tion of the consuming public up ■
on retail merchants.
“The President, in his veto
message, implicity challenges
business to produce and distribute
foods and merchandise in ample
supply at reasonable prices. This
challenge can and must be met.
“Retailers have a precedent for
meeting this situation, for from
1939 to well into 1942 when the
price control act was adopted,
they voluntarily did everything
within their power to hold prices
down and protect consumer in
terests. They were so successful
in this voluntary assignment that
they won high praise both from
legislators and price control of
ficials. They can and will do it
again.
LOAN ASS N WILL
MEET ON JULY 10
Julian H. Scarborough, presi
dent of The Federal Land Bank
•jf Columbia since 1934, and chair
man of the Bond Committee of
the 12 Federal Land Banks in
the United States, will be the
principal speaker at the annual
meeting of the North Wilkesboro
National Farm Loan Association
being held in the Town Hall,
North Wilkesboro, on Wednesday,
July 10, according to an an
nouncement made by O. H. Bra
cey, Secretary-Treasurer of the
association. < -
The. meeting will begin prompt
ly at 10:30 A. M. and the busi
ness session will include reports
of operation during year 1945
Two directors will be elected to
serve the association for terms of
three years each. An entertain
ment feature has been added to
die program, in the nature of a
mm contest among the members
jhd guerts wi^i cash prizes to
'dtp winners.
“All farmers and businessmen
interested in agricultural credit
me; invited to attend the meet
ing,” President Dancy stated.
President Urges Voluntary
Control As OPA Is Ended
Washington—Price and rent
controls came off, at least tem
porarily, at midnight Sunday.
Now the question is whether they
can be revived.
A lapse was assured by these
three actions:
President Truman’s sharp veto
of Congress’ version of OPA ex
tension, which he said would
:ead to disaster.” He- said the
action which Congress finally
took would visit a “great calam
.ty” upon the nation.
A House vote of 142 to sustain
and 173 to override the veto, 38
short of the two-thirds necessary
to pass the measure over his
nead.
Senate adjournment until Mon
day without action on a tempor
ary extension, and a House agree
nent not to vote until then on
ceeping controls past the dead
ine which comes with expiration
f the present price control law.
The Senate quit in the midst of
frantic efforts by the leadership
in both houses to get action on a
temporary measure.
President Truman called on all
ousinessmen, producers and land
lords to abide by price control
egulations even though controls
xpire after midnight tonight.
In a radio address to the nation
0 hours after he vetoed the
mendment riddled OPA exten
ion bill, Mr. Truman cautioned
he entire country against “short
Army Changes
Enlistment Date
Important changes to existing
egulations concerning enlistment
Or re-enlistment in the Regular
Army have been announced by
the War Department, Lt. John L.
Lindsay, Commanding Officer of
the Lenoir recruiting station,
stated today.
The new regulations, effective
July 1, shorten the period of
time from 90 to 20 days in which
men may re-enlist and retain
, their wartime grades. Prior to
! the effective date of the new reg
i ulation, soldiers honorably dis
| charged and desiring to re-enlist,
have 90 days from date of dis
charge to do so, provided enlist
ment was effected prior to July 1.
For complete information con
21 NATIONS PLANNING
SPECIAL PEACE TALKS
Paris—The Big Four Foreign
Ministers probably will agree to
call a 21-nation conference on
Axis satellite peace treaties for
about July 25, well-informed
sources predicted last night.
Meeting after a week-end in
which Russian Foreign Commis
sar Viacheslav Molotov was be
lieved to have sought final show
down instructions from his Gov
ernment, the Foreign Ministers
will have on their program: (1)
Italian colonies; (2) the future of
Trieste and Venezia Giulia which
Yugoslavia demands from Italy;
(3) setting the date for the peace
conference and (4) proposals for
a central administration for Ger
many.
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, accusing Molotov of “ve
toing world peace,” had demand
ed that the peace conference be
called for July 20, and ha<4, said
that if plans for it failed the
blame would lie squarely on Rus
sightedness and impatience,” and
partisanship and greed.”
He also asked all OPA em
ployees to remain at their “battle
stations.”
Mr. Truman said congressional
delay in enacting a workable
OPA bill had brought the coun
try to a “brief period” in which
price controls will be lacking.
In the event of further delay
by Congress, in spite of his urg
ing for immediate action, he said
the United States must depend
jpon the patriotism and good
sense of its citizens.
“Therefore, I call upon every
businessman, every producer and
.andlord to adhere to existing
regulations, even though for a
short period they may not have
the effect of law,” Mr. Truman
said.
ATTENDS BOYS’ STATE
A. B. Hurt returned this week
after spending the past two weeks
as counselor of Boys’ State at.
Blacksburg, Va. Around 300 weiW"
present this year.
cerning the changes in regulat
ions, contact your nearest re
cruiting station or Army Post.
The recruiting station in Lenoir
is located in the Post Office Build
ing.
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America has been synonymous
with progress. Progress has also
been the byword of The North*
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are the facilities offered by this
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IOANOKE ISLAND PLAY
OPENS IN DARKNESS
Manteo — Roanoke Island’s
‘Lost Colony” was truly lost—in
larkness—for about 20 minutes
Sunday night, the result of a pow
er failure which darkened the
whole island during ceremonies
marking the season’s opening of
the historical drama.
W. B. Fearing, president of the
Roanoke Utilities Company, said
the failure was caused by a 20
foot piece of copper wire thrown
over main power lines near here,
causing a short which threw auto
matic switches in the power plant,
blanketing this tiny island in
darkness.
Director Sam Selden was being
introduced by Paul Green, author,
of the play, when the power fail
ed. He spoke to a first-night
crowd of some 2,500 in the dark,
without amplification, and was
followed by former Governor J.
Melville Broughton, who intro
duced members of the Roanoke
Island Historical Association—in
total darkness.
CANCER IS TREATED
WITH ATOMIC ELEMENTS
San Francisco — Successful
treatment of two types of skin
cancer with atomic research by
products was reported by Dr.
Bertram Low-Beer, University of
California radiologist, to the
North American Radium Society.
This presumably is the first
practical medical application of
radio elements such as will come
from atomic Ovens. The substance
is radiophosphorus.
While the substance used by
Dr. Low-Beer was made in the
cyclotron, it can be made in rel
atively large quantities in the
ovens which now turn out plu
tonium for atom bombs.
Dr. Low-Beer reported 100 per
cent success in the treatment of
36 cases of hyperkeratosis, and
98 per cent in 52 cases of basal
cell carcinoma. Both of these are
shallow cancers and if caught in
the early stages often can be re
moved successfully by surgery or
X-ray treatment, or with radium.
The radiophosphorus also was
found to be 88.6 per cent suc
essful in eliminating warts from
"■e hands. 94 per cent on warts
of thf ^foles of the feet, and 93.6
ar e'eWt on warts under the fin
gernails.
Cook vegetables in little water
tnd do not throw that water
down the sink, put it in the soup
ot, national farm nutritionists
say.
-Behind
Your Bonds
Lies the Might of America
FOOD PROCESSORS
The Campbell Soup Co. plant at
Camden, covering five city block*
and employing 4,500 persons. Is only
one of New Jersey’s vital food proc
essing establishments that add to
the Nation’s wealth behind Savings
Bonds. Other big name firms with
huge investments in the state in
clude Coca Cola.. Mixwell House
Coffee. Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp.,
National Sugar Refining Co., and
Thomas J. Upton, Inc. World orders
will keep them busy for years.
U. & Trtmrr Dttartmtw
YOU CAN FIND
THEM HERE
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Atomic Explosion Is Less
Than Expected By Experts
Off Bikini Atoll—The fourth
atom bomb in history exploded
with a flash 10 times brighter
than the light of the sun Sunday
but of the 73 “guinea pig” ves
sels that were its target, only
two were sunk, one was capsized,
and 12 were damaged.
Vice-Admiral W. H. P. Blandy,
commander of Task Force One,
warned the public, however, not
to be hasty in judging the results
of the experiment.
Two tremendous concussions,
touched off by a split-second nu
clear fission, mushroomed a
peach-colored pillar of fiery cloud
50,000 feet into the air followed
by a gigantic bubble of fog. The
explosions centered 500 feet over
the carrier U. S. S. Independ
ence.
The burst of atomic fury caus
ed the following damage to the
ships spread across Bikini lagoon,
according to Admiral Blandy’s
spokesman who made his esti
mate more than three hours later.
Sunk: The destroyer U. S. S.
Lamson, lying beam ends.
Heavily damaged: the subma
rine Skate, anchored astern of
the battleship U. S. S. Nevada,
the bull’s-eye ship, and the car
rier Independence, floating to the
right of the Nevada.
Negligibly damaged by fire:
Battleship Nevada, heavy cruiser
Pensacola, carrier Saratoga.
Damaged by fire, extent not
stated: U. S. destroyer Wilson,
ransport Briscoe.
(The Independence received
her heavy damage from fire.)
Negligibily damaged, cause not
stated: Japanese battleship Na
?ato, Oiler No. 160, Landing Craft
Medium No. 1.
The blast itself blew the flight
leck “island” off the Independ
ence and heavily damaged the
superstructure of the Nagato.
The fire on the Saratoga ap
peared to be dying out. It seem
'd likely that the gallant “Old
Sara” had been able to take all
hat science, as well as the Jap
unese, could deliver.
The red-painted Nevada, aim
ing point of Bombardier Major
Harold P. Wood, Bordentown, N.
J., of the Super Fortress “Dave’s
Dream,” was apparently only
superficially touched by the blast.
No damage was visible on the
dreadnaught in television shots.
The damage pattern indicated
that the heaviest impact was not
necessarily inflicted at the center
of the explosion. Major Gen.
William E. Kepner, commander of
the task force, said the bomb drop
was “better than good,” but
thought the bomb dropped to the
left of the Nevada—the heart of
the target.
Bright Tobacco
. Quotas Urged
The outcome of the tobacco
referendum on July 12 will not
only affect the welfare of grow
ers in 1947 but also largely de
termine their economic future in
the postwar era, says R. Flake
Shaw, executive secretary of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau in
a communication addressed to
farm leaders in North Carolina.
He points out that the only pur
pose of an adjustment program is
to keep a properly balanced re
lationship between supply and de
mand. Therefore, he and his or
ganization favor the present mar
keting quota system, with such
increases or decreases in produc
tion as may be deemed necessary
to meet the requirements of the
consumer.
Again he points out that to
bacco farmers can produce suffi
cient tobacco to meet the require
ments of the consumer, and that
marketing quotas have resulted
in much more efficient methods
of production.
There are 335 thousand farm
families engaged in the produc
tion of flue-cured tobacco. “To
bacco has been the principal crop
in North Carolina, and to a less
er degree in all other flue-cured
belts, for many generations,”
Shaw says. “It has been the
foundation of the economic life
of the community in which it was
produced.
“Prior to the marketing quota
system, when farmers planted ac
cording to their own inclinations
and without regard to the require
ments of demand, the economic
level of the tobacco farmer was
near the bottom. His standard
of living was low. His family
had no luxuries and were depriv
ed of many of the necessities of
life. His farm buildings, in many
instances, were dilapidated be
cause he was without money to
keep them in repair. Only in
rare instances did the children of
tobacco farmers have the advan
tages of an education in institu
tions of higher learning.
“It is important that, you vote
your convictions on July 12.”
During the last 30 years prices
of cows have doubled, while '
prices for horses have just about
been cut in half.
And follow instructions in
the Bell Blue Book. To get your copy
send 10c with your name and address to—
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“Fair Play Our Policy”
To Our Customers,
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A statement of our policy on New Chevrolet
Considering the demand for New Chevrolets and the urgency of your
needs for transportation, we feel that in fairness to you, we should pub
licly announce our plan for distribution of new cars and trucks' and to
answer many questions you would like answered. We have a policy, and
we are outlining below what we believe to be a fair and equitable plan.
1. All bonafide orders have been numbered consecutively as taken and
will continue to bear that number.
2. Cancellations will automatically step up delivery of your order. No
order will be inserted to take the place of a cancellation.
3. New orders taken today must be placed in line and delivered in
their order.
4. We seriously need and must have used car trade-ins to enable us to
furnish transportation to many customers who cannot wait for a new car
However, buyers of Chevrolets without trade-ins will have the same
priority as those with trade-ins providing that the trade-in must not be dis
posed of between the date of order and the date of delivery.
5. Customers will be notified when their names come up for delivery.
6. We ^will contribute no support to the black market in automobiles.
No extra bonus will alter our policy. Prices to all will be in agreement
entered into by OPA and General Motors.
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Castevens Motor Co.