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Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week GENERAL MARSHALL RESTS IN HONOLULU Honolulu—General Marshall is making the most of his oppor tunity for complete rest before he goes to Washington and plunges into the arduous tasks awaiting V'him as Secretary of State. There have been no fetes or din ners or streams of well wishers who customarily besiege distin guished visitors. For one thing, the army is seeing to it that the man who wears five stars is not disturbed unnecessarily. Military police patrol the Fort Derussy grounds near the small but taste fully furnished home where Mar shall relaxes. For another, Mrs. Marshall is relieving her husband as much as possible of some of his duties. She assisted in sorting and answering the flood of congratu latory messages that descended upon the General after his ar rival Wednesday night from Nanking. FOOD PRICES ARE NOW ON WAY DOWN Chicago—There appeared good food news this week for the na tion’s housewives—retail prices generally are on the way down. There’ll be no more sharp 36 SURVIVORS SAVED FROM FAR EAST CRASH Manila—A search plane led a ship 40 miles off its course yes terday and effected the rescue of 36 survivors of a Far East Air transport which crashed in the South China Sea off Northern Lu zon. Five persons still were missing and presumed lost, but search for them was continuing. The C-54 airliner “Miss Luzon” bound from Shanghai to Hong Kong, crashed while, trying to reach the Philippines after bad weather closed the Hong Kong field. The survivors, whose indentities and physical conditions were not yet established, were picked up by the U. S. Army Transport General E. T. Collins after spend ing nearly 24 hours in three rubber life rafts on choppy wa ters. boosts in food prices, virtually all food industry sources said yester day. And a country-wide spot survey of representative cities showed that more retail food prices are being marked down than up. The survey of retail prices dis closed prices have been reduced for eggs, cheese, lard, fresh and Attention Farmers Get Your Phosphate Here! We Now Have 46 Per Cent Buy Your Feeds at SPARTA, N. C. cost OF HOUSING IS EXPECTED TO DROP Washington — An industry spokesman held out the hope this week that the high price of housing is coming down. Tyler S. Rogers,, president of the Producers’ Council, national organization of building product manufacturers, said in a state ment: “The construction industry plans to build a million or more new dwelling units during the year 1947, at costs which are ex pected to average 15 to 20 per cent below 1946 peaks. “This volume of new houses at more normal value levels will un doubtedly deflate abnormally high prices for existing houses.” Rogers reported that increases in the prices of building products since the removal of ceiling “have been surprisingly moderate, aver aging only about 15 per cent, and are well below the former black market prices which ranged as high as 100 per cent over official price ceilings.” 18 KILLED IN CRASH NEAR WINSTON-SALEM Winston Salem—A Miami bound Eastern Air Lines passen ger plane out of De'troit crashed in the hills 85 miles northwest of here, near Fries, Va., at 1:40 a. m. Sunday during a driving rainstorm, carrying 18 of its 19 passengers and crew to a flam ing death. The DC 3—Trip 665—slithered through a thicket of tall pines, shearing away its wings, and crashed 200 yards away into an embankment near Virginia High way 94 to explode in a fiery shower. The lone survivor, William Ellis Keyes Jr., 21, of Boynton, Fla., was dragged screaming from the flaming wreckage by two moun tain wood cutters of the com munity. He was carried to a Galax hospital for treatment of burns and cuts and later was reported in satisfactory condition. canned meats, canned citrus fruits and dried peaches and dried ap ples. Food industry spokesmen predicted lower prices in canned goods upon receipt of the Summer pack. Gordon C. Corabley* president of the Institute of Food Distribu tion, said in an interview in New York that “the basic downward trend in retail food prices has been gathering momentum since mid-November after reaching a peak in mid-October,” IN CAR PRODUCTION • • • IN TRUCK PRODUCTION OtirfC IN COMBINED CAR AND TRUCK PRODUCTION! AGAIN at the dose of 1946— xl when America’s need for new motor cars and trucks is most urgent —the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors leads all other manu facturers in automotive production. This means that Chevrolet is first in passenger car production—first in * truck production—first in com bined passenger car and truck ' production ... despite the fact that all Chevrolet plants were dosed com pletely during the first three months 4! of 19461 Naturally, Chevrolet hopes to be able to build more and more of these fine products which America is buying so eagerly—the only motor car giving BIG-CAR QUALITY AT LOWEST COST—the only truck giving BIG-TRUCK QUALITY AT LOWEST COST—the complete Chevrolet line which stands out as the lowest-priced line in ita field! Meanwhile, it stands to reason you’ll get bidder value and quicker delivery by purchasing the product of America’s largest builder of cars and trucks— Chevrolet 1 Mf M .* ttH MM Bwnamlwr... LARGEST PRODUCTION mtint QUICKEST DELIVERY oPyour new oar. Place and keep your order with ua for a new Chevrolet and get Moppet value aa well ae earlieet poeaible delivery! CHBVaOUT-LOWIST-MICPD LINE IN RE FIELD! Castevens Motor Co. spabta. n. c. Taxes May Be Cut And Budget Sharply Slashed By Congress Washington — Representative McCormack of Massachusetts, House Democratic whip, conceded probable House passage of a 20 per cent reduction in income taxes, “because the Republicans have got the votes.’’ But he denounced the cut— fathered by Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) of the House Ways and Means Committee and endorsed by Senator Taft (R-Ohio)—as an “unsound” approach to fiscal pro blems. McCormack, himself a former member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, suggested instead a study of methods de signed to ease the tax burden on “the little fellow”—possibly by boosting exemption on earned in come. President Truman’s estimate of the necessary spending in the fis cal year starting July 1 is $37, 500,000,000. Harold E. Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota j and an announced candidate for President, joined fellow Repub licans yesterday in attacking this figure as too high. “Sharply padded,” said Stassen of Mr. Truman’s budget. “Waste ful and extravagant.” Stassen told a news conference he is laying before individual members of Congress a proposal to cut $5,000,000,000 out of the President’s budget. He suggested continuing enough of the wartime excise (luxury) taxes to raise another billion dol lars to make the total income $38,500,000 000. There tnen would be $6,000,000,000 to work with on his calculations, he said. Stassen would handle this as follows: 1. Reduce the national debt by $3,000,000,000. 2. Cut personal income taxes by 12% per cent, a total of $2, 500,000,000. 3. Reduce taxes on small busi nesses by $500,000,000 by elim inating duplicate taxation on earnings and dividends drawn from such enterprises. Stassen said he would not favor reducing army-navy funds below Mr. Truman’s estimated $11,587, 000,000 but that there is plenty of room to cut in other activities. When he submitted his budget, Mr. Truman called it realistic and hard-boiled. More Recruits Needed In Army Plans for intensifying the army recruiting campaign in Sparta were announced this week by Sgt. Francis M. Darcy, commander of the U. S. Army Re cruiting Station in Lenoir, who said that the nation-wide drive is now aimed at the goal of 40,000 volunteers each month. Sgt. Darcy pointed out that the standards of the regular army are constantly being raised and that men unsuited for further military training or for army ca reers are being weeded out. Our new army of technicians requires quality as well as numbers, he said. Whitehead News Mrs. Lee Joines and Mrs. Arza Crouse spent Tuesday with Mrs. Harmon Joines. . Rev. Fred Blevins will preach at Liberty Baptist church Satur day, January 18, at 2 o’clock, Sunday at eleven. Liberty Bap tist W. M. U. will meet Saturday at 1:00 o’clock. Every member will please come. Mrs. Elvira Caudill celebrated her 97th birthday last Thursday. She goes into the dining room for her meals, also reads most of her time, the daily paper and her much treasured book, the Bible. She looks well and trys to make everyone happy that visits her. Rev. Charlie Wooten and fam Conservation Farming News John Calico and Carl Glasco, of the Edmonds community, used ditching dynamite to drain ad joining pasture field^ Cooperat ing together will enable many farmers, who have adjoining farms, to get conservation work done. Fred Osborne, of the Turkey Knob community, plans to strfp crop his cultivated land next spring. He believes that this method will save a great deal of his soil from washing away. C. E. Estep, of the Pine Swamp community, has had soil samples taken where he plans to sow ily have recently moved into their new home. Misses Lillie and Floss Hollo way spent Sunday with Miss Ruth Caudell. ladino clover and orchard grass for hay. The Soil Conservation Service assisted Paul Sturgill, of the Bledsoe Creek community, in staking off his fields for strip cropping. Paul is doing a good job of farming now, but is in terested in doing even better. S. G. Goldman, of the Cherry Lane community, is cooperating with the New River Soil Con servation District in planning a complete conservation program on his farm. The termination date of the principal wartime price support programs will be December 31, 1948. (HOW TO GET QUICKL RELIEF from painful ) COLD MISERIES x£/\UET'666JWW!g &TRY IT. inn-QUICK SSS COLD PREPARATIONS I From where I sit... 6y Jos Marsh Shift’s Cows Are ASI Arisfcere's Siiiit Iliads, who owns the Leaf :. 'lai~y, jjJayjrd host to govern • :-A T&jpcstors Wednesday. They r’pected his barns for cleanliness, is milk for huticrfct content, and i-3 cows for health. 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