ie Past Week
MANY
S jUIEAD
Success—A Staggering
array of problems which ultima
tely may affect every citizen of j
the world is confronting states
men of 55 nations at the second
regular United Nations Assembly
this week.
The headaches are there—
Palestine, the Balkans, the veto,
and plenty more.
The colorful Assembly Hall in
Flushing Meadows of New York
City is ready for the opening gav
el at 11 a. m., e. d.t., Tuesday.
Top United Nations secretarial
officials, from Seeretary-cSeneral j
Trygve Lie throughout his cab-]
inet, believe that the way in which
the delegates face up to the prob
lems and handle them will de-J
termine largely what force the
United Nations will be in world]
affairs in years to come.
Lie and his associates realize!
it is a tough job. But they say
they are confident the; Assembly
will meet the challenge.
Delegates wondered whether
the most trouble would come
from the Palestine problem or. the
Balkans situation which the Se
curity Council failed to settle af
ter long days of debate.
PAUL B. JOHNSON
TO BUN FOB SENATE
Jackson, Miss.—Paul B. John
son, Jr., the. man who finished
second in the race for Governor
in Mississippi's Democratic pri
mary August 4, will announce his
candidacy for the Senate term of
the late Theodore G. Bilbo.
Johnson was quoted by mem
bers of his headquarters’ staff as
saying he had decided to make
the race after holding a series
of conferences throughout the
State;
The youthful son of a former
Mississippi Governor will become
the sixth announced candidate
for the seat made vacant by the
death of Bilbo in New Orleans
last month.
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UNEMPLOYMENT IN
N. C. IS AT LOW MARK
Raleigh — Unemployment is
much less prevalent in North
Carolina than in the nation as
a whole, Henry E. Kendall, chair
man of the Employment Security
commission of North Carolina an
nounced today after comparing
state figures with those of a study
of unemployment conditions
throughout the country by Silas
F. Campbell, director of Research
and Statistics.
In North Carolina In May, 1946,
only 2.5 per cent of the workers
protected by the employment se
curity law were unemployed,
less than half of the nation-wide
average of'5.2 per cent of insured
workers who were idle. In Calif
ornia and some of the New Eng
land states the ratio ran as higli
as 9.6 per cent. ,
In September, 1946, the nation
al average of unemployment was
3.5 per cent of all insured work
ers, as compared with 1.7 for
North Carolina, still less than
half of the national average.
ITALY REDUCED IS
WITH NATIONS AGAIN
Paris—Democratic Italy, reduc
ed in size and faced with a formi
dable reparations debt hks rejoin
ed the family of nations with for
mal ratification of the peace trea
ty, with the Allies. Similar cere
monies will be held in Moscow’s
Kremlin, where the treaties with
Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and
Finland will be deposited.
Although Italy will be paying
off her $360,000,000 reparations
debt to Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece,
Ethiopia, and Albania for the next
seven years, tomorrow's brief
cereihohy will mark the end of a
national advehture which started
with the Fascist march on Rome
25 years ago.
Tomorrow at 11 p. m., Italy re
turns to independent statehood,
and thus ends the twilight period,
which began Sept. 3, 1943, when
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Marshall Pietro Badoglio signed
the Italian armistice convention.
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WE’RE AIL III THE
SAME BOAT
Telephone companies the coun
try ovei chare many problems—one of them it the record
number of dahy loaf distance calls now being made.
Along with this is the fact that most companies are oper
ating with limited long distance facilities. This naturally
•lows long distance service sometimes, especially during
peak hours. So, if you have a abort wait occasionally, it
■imply means that lines are busy here, or along the touts
^Jg the city yon are calling. —a
Central Telephone Co.
ELKIN, N. C.
For Sale
Two Brand New Long Wheel Base
Ford Trucks
Two speed axle, big tires, heater and defroster.
Also one new 1947Dodge
Long Wheel Base Truck
With Stake Bed and Heater
WILL SELL STRAIGHT OR TRADE
Terms - . .
Can
Gwyn Porter Motors
Galax, Va.
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Text Of Marshall’s Policy1
Gets Pres. Truman’s Approval
Aboard Battleship Missouri —
President Truman read and
thoroughly approved a foreign
policy speech which Secretary of
State George C. Marshall made
Sunday afternoon in New York
at the opening of “United Na
tions week.”
' 'This .was disclosed by Presi
dential Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross as Ihe massive Missouri
plowed through white-topped seas
east of Surinam on a northwest
ward course which is expected to
cross the path of a giant hurri
cane dome time next week.
The text of Marshall’s speech
was received by radio. The Secre
tary of State will deliver it at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New
York at the inauguration of U
nited Nations week sponsored by
the American Association for the
United Nations.
Ros§ said the speech deals with
U. S. foreign policy and that the
President approved it thoroughly.
The hurricane was about 1,300
miles ahead of the Missouri late
Sunday. ^ , •
The running sviell and wet
decks kept the President inside
yesterday afternoon, but in the
forenoon he accompanied Captain
Robert L. Dennison on his week
ly inspection of the ship’s per
sonnel.
As the President walked along
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the ranks of white-clad officers
and men he stopped occasionally
to chat with crewmen. The old
soldier in the Chief Executive—
he was a World War I captain of
artillery—emerged when he came
to the marines.
In several cases he took a ma
rine’s rifle away from him and
squinted critically down the bar
rel. He found no fault, however.
After the inspection, the Pres
ident visited the 56-bed sick bay
and chatted briefly with Charles
A. Scott, Egermont, Miss., sea
man who was taken aboard the
S. S. Del Sol, a southward bound
freighter, earlier in the week.
During the afternoon, the Mis
souri passed the halfway mark
between Rio de Janeiro and Nor
folk, Va., having traveled slight
ly more than 2,500 nautical miles
since Sunday afternoon.
Topia News
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Mrs. Alton Johnson, of, Wash
ington, D. C-, is visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Fields.
Mr. Blain Ward, of Miami,
Florida, is spending a vacation
with his mother, Mrs. Della Ward.
They were dinner guests of Mrs.
D. M. Pugh, Sunday.
Miss Mary Lou Grubb spent
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Doughton Meets With Park
Group; Discusses Parkway
Congressman R. L. Doughton
met with the North Carolina
National Park; Parkway, and
Forests Development Commission
in session in Boone this week,
which discussed increased ap
propriations for the Great Smok
ey Mountain National Park in
1949.
The commission met with Rep
resentative R. L. Doughton of
the Ninth District to present its
views on further development of
the Smoky Mountain vacation
area into a number one park.
Rep. Doughton pledged his sup
port to the commission’s propos
als.
Of immediate concern to per
sons in the Boone and Blowing
Rock area were the discussions
pertaining to the Blue Ridge
Parkway, which has not been
completed from Boone to Ashe
ville.
Sam Weems of Roanoke, Va.,
superintendent of the parkway
projecf, outlined the proposed
program of work for this year.
He said a link of approximately
five miles is now being con
structed between Boone and
Blowing Rock, but that the need
for a large bridge probably will
delay the completion of the high
way fdr some time. The bridge
cannot be built at present, he
said, because of the high prices
of steel. Another section, between
Bull Gap and Oteen, is expected
to be contracted for this year, he
said, and a repaving job will be
done oh that part already com
pleted around Deep Gap.
The question of immediate, ex
tension of the parkway through
the Moses H. Cone estate near
Blowing Rock was left open by
the commission.
Sunday night with Misses Beu
lah and Grace Fields.
Miss Ruth Loggins, of Pennsyl
vania, is spending sometime with
her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J.
H. Loggins.
Mrs. Tamsy Caudill spent a
week with her brother, Andy At
wood of Wagoner, recently.
A GOOD JOB FOR f&O U
U. S. Army'
C H OO S E"TH I S
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OW FOLKS COME BACK
(m IN EVERY SEASON.
Jm FOR OUR GROCERIES,
0\ THERE'S A REASON/,
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Potted Meat
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SERVICES FOR
SUNDAY ANNOUNCED
Rev. William C. Crummett, pas
tor of the Laurel Springs Method
iest charge, has anonunced the
following services for Sunday:
Chestnut Hill at 11:00 a. m., and
j Nathan’s Creek at 8:00 p. m.
The public is cordially invited
to attend these services.
An abnormal appetite as shown
by cows eating dirt or chewing
i wood or bones is evidence that
■ the ration is deficient in mineral
' matter.
Sale Of Cattle
Nets $15,467.50
The dispersal sale of the Aber
deen Angus cattle, of the herd of
the late Eugene Transou, held
Friday at the Locust Grove Farm
near Sparta, netted $15,467.50.
The top animal was sold to
Wade Hampton, of Sparta, for
j $420.00. Those from Ashe county
purchasing registered stock were
] Felding Miller, of Laurel Springs,
price paid, $230; G. W. Stringer,
Wagoner, price paid, $175.
Others from Ashe buying stock
and prices paid are J. W. Gam
i'ill, West Jefferson, $255; second
purchase, $335; Roscoe Oliver,
Silas Creek, $140; and Van Miller,
Laurel Springs, $107.50.
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