■ for the friends
|l| I I P of LABOR
■ W I Bb Nov. 7, Election Day
AMERICAN CRANKSHAFT CO.
"Best Equipped Shop in the South"
A Complete Crankshaft Service
510 W. Morehead St. Tel. 2-1334
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
DURHAM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
•HE PROTECT THE FAMILY"
Home Office
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
GREENSBORO, N. C. HIGH POINT, N. C.
BURTNER FURNITURE COMPANY
Dealers In
Furniture, Stoves, Household Furnishings
313 South Elm Street Greensboro, N. C.
YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED
Ask For
BUTTERCUP
ICE CREAM
HAMLET, N. C.
Henderson-Martin, Inc.
CONTRACTORS
General Repair Work
Painting and Papering
1220 Battleground Ave. Phone 2-2183
Greensboro, N. C.
"Where Your Business Is Appreciated"
Vnnual Statement Of
The Mecklenburg
County Unit American
Cancer Society
Charlotte Woman’s Club, Sponsor
Mrs. R. J. Lubbe,
County Commander and
Executive Officer
Dr. W. M. Summerville.
Chairman of the Executive Board
During the fiscal year from Sep
tember 1, 1949 to September 1,
1950: ,
278 interviews were given by
our Information Center.
11,032 letters mailed.
13,533 circulars were mailed or
given out.
10 blackboard type exhibits were
placed for year-round use.
11 public exhibits were made at
Fairs, Conventions, Food Shows,
etc.
937 posters were placet!.
164,335 pieces of educational
literature were distributed by mail,
by hand and through our 29 hold*
ers.
6,800 cancer matches were dis
tributed.
Our Secretary of Education and
Service attended a week’s Refresh
er Cource on Cancer at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chap
el Hill.
2 Tumor clinics are conducted
for white anti colored at Memorial
and Mercy Hospitals. A volunteer
worker was supplied during Clinic
hours.
$1,500 was given to the Char
lotte Memorial Hospital Tumor
Clinic.
Service rendered at clinics was
as follows:
409 new patients examined; 354
white and 55 colored.
47 cancers detected; 36 white
hand 11 catered.
90 referred for other treatment;
70 white and 11 colored.
247 return patients served; 182
white and 65 colored.
315 patients served without
charge; 275 white and 40 colored.
20 memorial gifts were received.
(These may be sent in any time
throughout the year. Address:
CANCER, Charlotte, North Caro
lina).
1,049 volunteers, white and col
ored, worked on the various phas
es of Cancer work the past year,
$25,635.20 was raised during the
Annual April Fund Raising Drive
in Mecklenburg County. This in
sures our continued service for
next year.
The American Cancer maintains
a 3-point program.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH
SERVICE
Locally we stress EDUCATION.
Our aim is to teach every citisen
the 7 DANGER SIGNALS and
to urge everyone TO SEE THEIR
DOCTOR ONCE A YEAR —
TWICE IF OVER 35.
Declare your Independence by
buying Independence Bonds.
Service Distributing Co.
Incorporated
J. R. Helderman, President _;_
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Distributors of
Gasoline, Kerosene, Fuel Oil
and Motor Oil
MAIN OFFICE
Phone 1180
Albtmorlo, North Carolina
AsKtboro, N. C.
Concord, N. C.
Lexington, N. C.
Mooresville, N. C.
High Point, N. C
Chino Grove, N. C.
Hickory, N. C.
Greensboro, N. C.
Statesville, N. C.
Salisbury, N. C.
Randleman, N. C.
Troy, N. C.
Wades boro, N. C.
Charlotte, N. C.
Thomasville, N. C.
Fayetteville, N. C.
Forest City, N. C.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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By GEORGE L/LLBY
NEW YORK, N. Y. — Betty
Brewer is a pert young lady
from Hot Springs, Ark. Last year
you heard your first of her — a
flaintive recording, "Don’t Cry,
oe." You are going to hear—and
Betty Brewer
,. “Jot" tent her
«ce — more, one
it currently fea
tured on the new
Thurtday night
ABC television
show, “Holiday
Hotel," starring
Edward Everett
Horton. Betty is
an actress as
well as singer.
She quit her
first two big jobe
(vocalist with
Ray Heatherton
ana lornmy uorsey) to play the
road company lead in Cole Porter’*
‘‘Let's Face It.” She toured Europe,
in straight dramatic roles with
Katherine Cornell. Gordon Jenkins,
who composes musical vignettes for
the weekly TV show, introduced
Betty to “Don’t Cry, Joe.” Her other
big love-: baseball.. She quit a job
once to see her favorite Yanks play.
PORTIA'S 10th
“Portia Faces Life” is one of the
most successful of the radio serials.
It recently concluded it* 10th year
of broadcasting. Almost from the
beginning, the program <after
noons, NBC) has been among the
top 10 in the
daytime ratings,
usually 1, 2 or
3. For the sec
ond consecutive
year, readers of
the largest radio
magasine have
named it their
favorite daytime
show. "Portia,”
a brilliant law
yer who would
Lucille Wall
• • vr I'oruar
w C d .
happy house
wife, has faced widowhood and sup
r>«rt of a youtlg *6n; the adjust
ments of a now marriage; the tem
porary loss of her second husband
(amnesia); the necessity of defend
ing him in a murder trial, among
other- domestic and legal comple
tions. Smart dressing, veteran ac
tress Lucille Wall is "Portia” — a
role she has played since the show’s
inception.
CAVALCADE ROUS ON
"CtwktA of A meric*,” the Da
Pont radio program, has rolled on
and on into virtually an American in.
stitution. The show (Tuesday nights,
NB€>, which dramatises the lives
of notable Americans and American
Walter Pidgeon
• . . guest man
developments, is
in its 15th year.
Its scripts, based
on little known
human interest
incidents in the
lives of those
who have made
America, always
have been at*
tractive to stars.
Think of your
Broadway or
Hollywood fav.
orite: it is a
good guess he has appeared on
“Cavalcade.” Charles Laughton,
Robert Young, Paul Muni, Loretta
Young, Helen Hayes, Walter Pidg
eon—the latter in a coming May
drama—are among those heard fre
quently. “Cavalcade” has won most
of the authoritative awards, includ
ing the coveted “Peabody,” “Oscar”
of the radio industry.
BORN BATTLER
Battling Nelson: All-time fight
great. The “Durable Dane” fought
over 300 fights, some 40-rounders,
earned in excess of $300,000. But
today, at 67, he told the Friday
night NBC “We. the People” radio
TV audiences,
he is broke and
without a job,
through no fault
of his own. Nel
son sent most'of
his ring money
to his mother in
Hegwisch, 111. It
was invested in
homes. When the
town went broke
in the depres
sion, the Battler
sacrificed his
Battling Nelson I
.... t pale needed
earnings, rather than close out ten
ants. Unless he gets two buddies
(from Co. G, 1st Regiment. South
Dakota volunteers) to vouch for
him, Nelson, who recently lost his
job with the Chicago post office, can
not get a pension as a Spanish
American War veteran. His name
realjy is Oscar Battling Nelson.
Christened Battling because he was
born kicking.
LABOR SECRETARY SETS UP
NEW DEFENSE MANPOWER
OFFICE IN HIS DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secre
tary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin
has set up a new Office of De
fense Manpower within his agen
cy to co-ordinate Department of
Labor functions in meeting labor
needs of defense industry and
essential civilian employment.
At the same time, Tobin estab
lished an advisory inter-depart
mental committee on defense
manpower composed of the heads
of governmental departments and
agencies having an interest, in
the field of defense manpower
and labor supply, a management
labor advisory committee to be
selected by the Secretary from
industrial and agricultural man
agement and labor, and a wo
men’s advisory committee which
the Secretary will name to ad
vise him concerning the most ef
fective use of women in meeting
defense manpower requirements.
In an address before the Co
lumbia, Ohio, Interstate Confer
ence of Employment Security
Agencies a few days after he is
sued his order setting up the
new office, Tobin said: “By vir
tue of the President’s Executive
Order of September 9, 1980, is
sued uqder the Defense Produc
tion Act of I960, the Department
of Labor has become the over
all civilian manpower mobilisa
tion agency of the Federal Gov
ernment.
“The Department of Labor is,
accordingly, responsible for the
development and administration
of plans, policies, and programs
calculated to meet most effective
ly the labor needs of defense in
dustry and essential civilian em
ployment. This Executive order
provides for full utilization of
the employment service system
and for enlisting the aid of man
agement and labor in attaining
our objectives.’’
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BOGGETT
211 B. Park Ava. Pkaaa 81T9
LUMBER CO.
It Pays To Trade WHk
WILBERT
And
MONARCH
burial vaults
Sold by oil
Leading Funeral
Directors
A Product of
Arnold Vault Co.
Greensboro, N. C.
ROY DAVIS USED CARS
The Right Place To Bay Or Sell Year Used Can
710 S. College St. * Telephone 4-4300
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
ELMORE INSURANCE b REALTY CORP.
INSURANCE Cr REAL ESTATE
OF ALL KINDS
Phone 371 N. Moin Street
BELMONT, N. C
THE FOUR BIG JOBS
Cooking, Water Heating, Refrigeration, Heating
Can Be^Done Best By
MITCHUM & TUCKER CANDY CO.
Manufacturers of
M & T PEANUT PRODUCTS AND CANDIES
"The kind that nMkes you want more"
1218 Gordon Street Telephone 7210
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
• ICOUSTI ENGINEERING COMPANY
2501 South Boulevard
Phone 6-3518
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
—... i i ,
Greetings
BELVEDERE HOSIERY CO.
2701 ROZZELL FERRY ROAD
PHONE 6-1551
F
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Carolina Erection
• ~s.
and Industrial
Painting Co.
605 EAST FOURTH STREET
GASTONIA, N. C.
PHONE 5-2665 BOX 626
W. J. BARLOW, Mgr.
Iff you hove • water tank, smoke stack, radio tow*
ers, boilers, or flag poles that need repairing or
painting, we would be glad to give yea an estimate
ffoaaaff charge.
We are covered by compensation, liability and
property damage insurance by Coal Operators'
Casualty Co.