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GUTHRIE MACHINE SHOP METALIZING — QUALITY REPAIRS TOP SPINNING ROLLS P. O. Box 2805 Phone 5-5434 415 Bessemer City Rood GASTONIA, N. C. GREETINGS FROM A FRIEND LOWELL, N. C. Gastonia Combed Yarn Corporation Gastonia, N. C. Anniversary Greetings HOLSUM BREAD "TODAY AND IVIRY DAY" HOLSUM GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA College Terms Set For 24 By 2 Unions I By ARNOLD BE1CHM AN New York C«rr*spoitd«nt AFL New* Service New York.—Six young people are going to attend college free starting in September as a result of scholarships established for them by the American Federa tion of Labor trade unions to which their fathers belong. In one week, Local 3, Inter national Brotherhood of Electri cal Workers and Local 32-B. Building Service Employes In ternational Union, supplied enough money to give a major educa tional opportunity to youngsters who otherwise might not have the chance. The college the youngsters are | going to attend will be Columbia j University. Local 3, which es tablished its two annual scholar ships last year, pays for a 51 year course leading to a degree in electrical engineering at the j Columbia School of Engineering, Local 32-B pays for a 4-year • ccurse for two girls to attend i Barnard College and two boys to attend Columbia College. By 1953, Local 3 will be sup porting the college education of j eight young men, prospective electrical engineers all, and Lo cal 32-B will be supporting by 1954 a total of sixteen boys and girls at Columbia University, making a total of twenty-four children of AFL workers. • j The scholarships were initiated by the unions and details worked | out in co-operation with Dean Harry J. Carman of Columbia C ollege. Local 3 already has two of its electricians’ children at Colum | bia College and last week the! college announced that the two young men had made unusually high scholastic grades in their | freshman year. These scholar ships are sponsored by the Joint Industry Board of the Electrical Industry. Local 3 also is supporting two I children of its members at Cor nell University and its School of I Industrial Relations. These two ! awards are made annually in the name of the Rev. William J. j Kelley. O.M.I., former chairman j of the New York State Labor Relations Board. _ EXCISE TAX CUT AND FEPC KILLED BY “DO-NOTHING” | 81ST CONGRESS Washington. — The fumbling, do-nothing 81st Congress has killed legislation to reduce excise taxes on many cost-of-living items and to establish a Fair Employment Practices Commis sion. Outbreak of war in Korea was the reason given for killing the excise tax cut urged by the American Federation of Labor. Unfortunately. death of this legislation also blocks higher taxes on profiteering corpora tions well able to pay. About the only thing workers can expect from this Congress is an expansion of the social se curity system. Both houses have 1 , GREETINGS U. S. Casualty Co. 523 N. Tryon St. TeL 5-6031 CHARLOTTE, N. C. How to Make a Terrace i.. ... ^Creased form, . set _ pn levelled ground, is filled with jfoncrete. _ Pitied form it levelled prior to applying colored topping A tablespoon of plaster color, sprinkled on each square is troweled into concrete surface (left). When form is set, (above) re move frames and pour mortar into joints. —— “' ♦*«-. *..« The terrace, above, is made from a form made of sixteen 22-inch squares. No extra preparation of ground is required. Sauaree are filled with concrete colored with plaster colors to individual taste. Described in detail in the March issue of American Home Magasine, it costs 8 cents a square foot, and a minimum of work to complete. passed measures and the bills ire now in conference. _i_ The Senate has refused to go along with the House for a meat axe reduction of U. S. employes, rhe crippling of the federal serv ice proposed by the House was protested by AFL President Wil iam Green as “false economy.” Congress plans to adjourn by August 1 unless the Korean crisis forces a change. AFL President William Green has blamed the failure of the 81st Congress on the “sorbid and disgraceful political alliance” of Taft-Republicans and Byrd Dixie crats. The next Congress, he said, can be improved only by the defeat of House and Senate members of this alliance. Buy Gompers stamps! PIEDMONT MILLS, Inc. North Marietta Street Telephone 6331 GASTONIA, N. C. GREETINGS Watson's 30-Minute Laundry 45 Washing Machines 5 Large Dryers Dry Cleaning 100 W. Park Ave. Tel. 4-3921 CHARLOTTE, N. C. THEY'LL KNOW PLAN Washington. — American tour ists going to western Europe are now receiving a passport-size blue booklet titled “Information on the Marshall Plan for Americana Going Abroad,” prepared by the Economic Co-operation Admini stration. ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS MATTHEWSBELK COMPANY GASTONIA'S LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE W**» Main Av«. Tal. 7241 GASTONIA, N. C. ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS MASSEYCLARK CO. DEALERS IN HARDWARE Tol. 168 MT. HOLLY, N. C. ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS Mill and Marine Electric, Inc. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Wiring — Lighting — Repairing 137 So. Marietta Telephone 5-1311 GASTONIA, N. C. ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS RANKIN & ARMSTRONG QUALITY FURNITURE -On* of the Oldest—Established Orer 40 Yenrn** 124 S. Marietta St. Phone 5-0611 GASTONIA, N. C. Petroleum Transportation, Incorporated . * 7 ’ ' ^ Insured Petroleum Transporters Home Office: GASTONIA, NORTH CAROUNA Phone 5-4051 SPARTANBURG TERMINAL THRIFT TERMINAL CAMP CROFT, S. C. ~ THRIFT, N. C.
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