Policyholders Set A
Health Record In 43
The health record among life in
surance policyholders on. !he home
front was exceedingly good i-yeai.
the death-rate among civilian owners
of policies being lower than both
1341 and pre-war days, it was report
ed todav by the Institute of Life In
surance.
“Preliminary reports indicate that
the over-ail policyholder death-rate
may prove to be the lowest on record
except for 1942,” the Institute said.
“This is a remarkable tribute to the
calf id' American people have tak Ti*
in the tacr ot wartime work pressure
and the acute doctor shortage.
Heart disease continued in the lead
as toe major cause of death, account
ing for 30% of civilian policyholder
deaths, although the rate was not
much changed from that of 1044. Tin
current deathrato from diseases of
the heart and arteries is 631 above
that for pre-war 1041. Cancer, sec
ond in importance, accounted for
15% of civilian deaths and showed
an increase over both 1044 and 1041.
Offsetting the increase in deaths
from heart disease and cancer, there
have been improvements in other di
rections, with sharp reductions in
some cases. Deaths from the major
children's diseases have dropped ma
terially from last year and are about
one-third below pre-war. The tuber
culosis death rate is 7% under 1944
and 12% under 1941, contrary to
past wartime trends. The death
rate for influenza and pneumonia
this year is nearly one-third below
last year and 1940, although an epi
demic of respiratory cases, not yet
serious, was reported at year-end.
One especially disconcerting
change of the year is that involv
ing automobile accidents, the death
rate from which has sharply increas
ed since lifting of gasoline rationing
and the resumption of unlimited
driving.
With an average driver at the
wheel and traveling over a dry road,
it takes a car going 45 miles an hour
four times as long to stop as one go
ing only 20 miles an hour, according
to the National Safety Council.
Horse Riders Now
Licensed In Chicago
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Chicago.—This city has gone auto- ,
n:.ob;’- ppt.raUn / licenses one better, j
5lsy ;
the city's woodland trails, according
to a new ordinance, one must now
have a license not onlv for himself
but for his mount.
The ruling, which goes into effect
on June 30, is designed to prevent
capricious capers a la equestrienne.
According to the language, it w il*
protect “defenseless hikers and pe
destrians’’ by charging each rider 50
cents a year tor a license and hold -
mg revocation over his head unless
both her and dobbin stav within the
tenets of considerate horsemanship.
Dobbin himself carries a $5 license,
which is good only for one year,
whereas the rider's license is good
for three vears. The ordnance furth
er stipulates that a man with a li
cense must be on a horse with a li
cense.
■
Crime ^ eek Gains
Support Of States
First steps towards a national ob
servance of Crime Prevention week
topped developments among the
states tins week as Connecticut took
the lead in this direction and legis
latures generally tackled problems
of the postwar era.
With other states already indicat
ing interest, Connecticut had outlin
! ed tentative plans for the first Crime
Prever.'ion Week ever observed in
the United States. Dates had not yet
been announced, but the objective
was to enlist churches, schools, local
governments, medical authorities,
courts, and police departments in as
j wide an observance as possible,
j A related objective was to make
the plan a model for what William
D Barnes, of Bloomfield,, executive
secretary of the Connecticut Prison
association, and other leaders hope
ultimately will be a national Crime
I Prevention week._ __
Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N. y.
Franchised Bottler: PepsiCola Bottling Company of Greenville
1
Equipment
for the Farm
DYNAMITE
DYNAMITE CAPS and FUSES
MULE COLLARS & COLLAR PADS
PLOW LINES
PLOW HANDLES
MULE BRIDLES
DIRT SCOOPS
FIELD FENCE
BACK BANDS
HOES ami BAKES
SHOVELS ami AXES
GRUBBING HOES
BUSH AXES
SIMON CROSS CUT SAWS
LARD STANDS
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT
WALL PAPER
WOOLARD
ware vo.
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FILM STAR ON BELATED HONEYMOON ]
wiMiLt ENJOYING their belated honeymoon In the East, Mr and Mrs.
£ Dehn^ posed (or this picture at a New York night cluh The bnde
Nbetter known to radio and screen audiences as Grnny Simms The
groom Is a sodaUy-prominent advertising executive. ( n er
Tragedy Victim?
MISSING nearly a week from her
mother’s home in Saratoga Springs,
N. Y„ Louise de Chants (above),
20 was believed by authorities to
hove met death With a yellow
bobby-sock their only clue, police
were inclined to identify as hers the
nude and headless torso of a young
woman, which—minus both arms
1 and one leg -was found seven miles
from that city. (International)
Load Limits To Be
Returned to Roadi
That load limits allowed for Nort
Carolina Motor Vehicles will ire low,
red to their pre-war levels begir
ning February 1st was indicated t(
■^av in an announcement of the Care
ina Motor Club, which stated nc
license requirements.
Quoting from instructions sent oi
iy the North Carolina Department <
otor Vehicles, W. H. Carstarphe
manager of the club's Williamsti
office, said that beginning Februai
1st gross allowable weights woir
be restored from 42,000 to 40,01
sounds for tractor and semi-trail'
combinations, and from 52.000 to 51
000 pounds for "four axle,” or “ta:
dem on trailer" combinations of hau
ing vehicles. Branch offices of tl
club handling license sales have bei
instructed to license vehicles on
ithin the new weight limits aft
the first of next month. This n
will apply regardless of the weie
shown on the 1946 registration ca
cut to vehicle owners by the Str
Department of Motor Vehicles, e
plained Mr. Carstarphen.
The lowering of allowable lo
limits actually constitutes a rctu
to statute provisions, which wc
overruled some time ago by a pi
clamation of the Governor. Usi
his wartime powers, the Goverr
revised the allowed weights upwj
to facilitate emergency transpor
tion. The proclamation is repea
as of February 1st.
“In effect, the return to stati
weight limits lessens tire weight
load that a vehicle may legally c
ry by one ton”, said Carstarphen.
The motor club explained that
hides licensed in 1945 may contir
until February 1st with the loads
GoodNewst
FOR FOLKS WITH SNIFFLV
Head Colds
Quick relief from dis
tress of head colds Is
at you want. So use
Uy each
Lucii iiOollii O'JtJtliC
Irritation, relieve con
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time. Just try It! follow
directions In folder.
VICKS VA1RONO
You Don't Hear Yourself
4s You Sound To Others
When you talk you don't hear
yourself as others hear you.
The reason for this is that your
own voice reaches your ears not only
by air, but also through sound con
duction by the bones of the head. If
you want to hear your voice as others
hear it, make a recording of your
speech and play it. This method is
used in many colleges in voice train
ing and in teaching diction.
Speech of deafened persons with
poor bone conduction is usually
hrill and high, for they must shout
to hear themselves. On the other
hand, deafened persons with good
bone conduction sometimes speak so
low that they are hard to understand.
They hear themselves well, although
speaking almost in a whisper.
lowed by the Governor’s proclama
tion.
Nation Books ISot
To Be Replaced
i
Raleigh.—Recent announcements ■
hat sugar ration books veil] lie nee- j
.. if i LI < kf N ': <
■lina by the OP A’ district office in,
tail igh ciocs not mean that present
lolders ot books will get a new one,
rhoodore S. Johnson, Director of the
Office of Price Administration said
oday.
Jr,hr • ■' th° announcements
imply indicated that returning ser
■ice people, who have never had ra
ion books, or families having new
rabies, mav applv for sugar ration
:>ooks by obtaining an application
dank at the local board and sending
t to the Raleigh Office properly
i out. The same pro edure
sb mid be followed to replace lost or
mutilated books, Johnson said.
A lot of oeople, he added, .’nought
Rat new books were being issued to
jli persons. This is not true.
Life Insurance Up
40 Billion In War
Life insurance ownership in the
United Steles increased to a new
record total of $154,600,000,000 dur
ing 1945, up $40,000,000,000 or 35%
since the outbreak of World War II,
Holgar J. Johnson, nresident of the
Institute of Life Insurance, declared
in reviewing the year’s activities of
the life insurance business. This rep
resents an increase of almost $1,000
of life insurance protection per fam
ily during the war years, bringing
the family average in the U.S.A. tc
$4,500. There are now 71.000,00C
policyholders in the country, an av
erage of two to every family.
"Once again life insurance has de
nionstrated its strength and stability
in the face of national upheavals, jus
; as it did in the tragic depression o:
I the ’30s and during every war, de
pression or other crisis over the pas
century,” Mr. Johnson said. "Durinj
1945, as during the entire war, lifi
insurance has increased its social
economic services to the people an<
today stands stronger and give
greater protection than ever before.
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Cull pullets can probably be soli
at better prices now than later, say
C. F. Parrish, in charge of Kxtensioi
Poultry at State College.
WdiLfl Dl^rui v^uaia, tii wvj
from Johnston County, has been
awarded a $200 scholarship as one of
four national winners in the Field
Crops Contest. _
North Carolina was 254 pounds in
1930 and 454 pounds in 1944. More
cot* on on fewer acres at a cheaper
cost per pound:_ --
AVOID TAX
PENALTY
JANUARY
IS THE
Last Month
THAT TOWN TAXES MAY BE I’\ID AT PAR.
Beginning Feb. 1
A PENALTY WILL BE ADDED TO ALL
TAX ACCOUNTS DUE THE TOWN.
Pay Your Taxes Now
and Save the Penalty
The Town Of
WILLI AMSTON
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lit oline gave to war planes,
te The same 100-Octane gasoline components
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3d the new Sinclair Gasoline. That’s why we be
lieve you’ll call this new and mighty gasoline
o- the most power-packed fuel your motor has
ng
ior i
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ever had a chance to use. Stop in today at the
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find that the higher-octane, quicker-starting,
power-packed Sinclair Gasoline makes your
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WILLIAMS! ON, N. C.