Sales Pass Two
Million Pounds
On Market Here
(Continued from Page One)
21 cents above that of the firs*
"^SP*^Jo!urnI*Tncreased around
13.5 million pounds. Season sales
reached 36.533.908 pounds for an
average of $53 05 During the dr-;..
~ ten Hay ™'”' l^T^'ear’*' '35,9 i 2,592
pounds had averaged $53.85.
Around half of the grade aver
ages were lower. Losses generally
amounted to $1,00 and $2.00 per
hundred pounds. Several scatter
eel grades showed sjmilai gains.
Most offerings were bringing
from S5.00 to $10.00 -above their
Government loan rates. However,
several better quality grades
were even with or only slightly
above their support
, The percentage of leaf offerings
showed a sharp increase. Prim
mgs and lugs decreased in pro-,
portion. The ratio of nondescript
offerings was smaller. Bulk of
marketings consisted of low and
fair leaf, low to good primings
ami fair and good lugs.
Receipts going under Govern
ment loan ts> the Stabilization
Corporation for the week amount
ed to around 8 per cent of gross
-joSeason deiiveiies also ap
proximate 0 percent.
Stocks of flue-cured tobacco
owned by dealers and manufac
turer- or .Tulv 1, 1054 totaled"i,
»83*ZW) jjWtfhds < ftinu-saibs'
weight). This was an increase ov
er the 1,851,927,000 podnds held
a year earlier.
Pupils To Report
For First Session
At 1:30 Thursday
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(Continued FTom Pape One)
the first session of the term
Thursday afternoon, September
2. a* 1:30 o’clock. They are to
report, as follows:
Grade 1, grammar school cafe
teria. grade 2, Mrs. Mangum’s
room; grade 3, Miss Ruth Man
ning's room: grade 4, Mrs Velnyi
Coburn’s room; grades 5 through
H. high school auditorium;
At 2:00 p. m., grades 9 through i
12, high school auditorium.
The principal announnced that
student fees will remain unchang
ed from last year, as follows:
grades 1 through 8, $2.75; high
school, books, $9.til), library ami
science, $ 1..0; Home Economics,
$2; agriculture, $2; typewriter,
$9; and insurance $1.25.
S11 r t1 n c h es
vii 1 be served at 25 certs "uch,
same as last year.
Parents who did not take their
children to the pre-school cbnics
. Spring are .asked to, either.
take them now to the health cen
ter for a check-up or present cer
tificates from their family physi
cians, giving a record of immuni
zations received by the children.
Those parents who aid not present'
their children's birth certificates i
at the pre-school clinics are ask- I
ed to display the certificates when
school opens Thursday
During'the first month of the
term, Principal Stewart said that
first grade town children are to
be dismissed at 2:00 o’clock each
afternoon. Other first grade pup
ils riding the busses may be ex
cused at the same hour if the
parents call for them. If not call
ed for, the first graders tiding
the busses will be entertained un
til the busses start the homeward
run.
Built in record time by Tobu
Bowen and Company, two new
rooms for the primary depart
ment will just about be ready for
use mi Thursday. The additional!
room space will make it neces
sary tu shift some of the grades,
It was explained. First grade sec
tions will occupy the new rooms,
making space available in the pri
mary building for two sections of
the second grade The old gram- 1
mar grade blinding will house the ]
third, fourth and one section of 1
the fifth grade. The old high I
school building will house two !
sections of the fifth, the sixth, |
seventh and eighth grades. The |
newest high school unit will be,
occupied by the ninth, tenth,
eleventh and twelfth grades.
In Tarboro Friday
Miss Bernice Ward visited in
Tarboro last Friday.
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I ROIJNDUP
Seven persons, five of them
white, were detained in the
I county jail during the past
week-end. Five of the seven
were charged with ptrblie
| drunkenness, the charges ag
i graveled in several instances
by disorderly (t Ome
! each was charged with being
j absent from the armed forr.
| es without leave and drunken
1 driving.
r Thr ages oi theTrorViWfS^—
j ed from 21 to 57 years.
Still Struggling
To Save Defense
Plans In Europe
No Simhstihett' Seen For,
I'lie Fiiropean Defence
Community Concept
Washington. — The United |
States has not lost hope that EDC 1
can be saved.
It knows tha1 this treaty to cre
ate a European Defense Com-"
munity has suffered a devastat
ing blow by failure of the Bros
sels conference. But is not sure
that the French and their dyna
mic Premier, Pierre Mendes
France, fully realize the catas
trophe that defeat of EDC would
mean.
Officially. State Department1
officials were describing EDC de-1
valopments as creating a "situa- 1
lion of great gravity.” Privately, I
they were saying this was the!
worst thing that had happened to
the West since World War II. The
United States is therefore using
every device, bending every ef
fort, to convince t he doughty
French Premier that on his shoul
ders rests one of the great decis
ions of this dedude.
No Substitute Seen
Washington is not persuaded'
that the French or their Premier
fully realize what is at stake in
this EDC issue. EDC is not just
a way to get West Germany re
armed. It is not just a way to get
Bonn associated with the West |
This is a revolutionary program j
for bringing about the eventual
integration of free Europe notj
| just militarily, but economically j
and even politically.
II is the only blueprint Wash
ington believes can work that will
end the costly recurring French
German feuding
Finally, it can he added, Wash
ington is inclined to believe that
it the French were made to un
derstand what was at stake, if!
the French Premier would chain
pioll EDC with the energy, force,
and determination with which he
went after a truce in Indochina, if
Pails would stop playing politics!
with this momentous issue and
recognize its security and unifli
cation implications, the French
Assembly would not dare to fail!
to ratify the treaty.
It is because Washington sees
I no satisfactory substitute for EDC
I that it is pressing so hard for its
j approval. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles has warned of the
I ' agonizing
Ied States
would have
| EDC.
Mr. Dulles
reappraisals" of Unit
foreign policy that
■ to follow defeat of
diplo-j
Hrus
used every
j mati" device tie could at
jseis in an effort to s v
I ference. He dispatened special
j emissaries to the Belgian capital
■ to make sure the United States
I position was fully known. He <ent
’ TTrWWW'tfWcS * i rarr ttjTpda rw
delegates, particularly the
to save EDC. In
Premier stuck i
an
the
French Premier,
the end the French
to his proposals, and the other
EDC ministers refused to buy
them.
What the "agonizing reapprai
sal" of American fo-oign policy
would mean should France refuse
EDC is anyone’s guess at the mo
ment. But it could be devastating
to French prestige amt even mili
tary strength. It could mean that
the United States would hence
forth build its defense plans
around Germany rather than
France; that il would bring Bonn
into NATO, recognize its sover
eignty, and permit it to rearm;
or it could mean that the United
States, rebuffed by the French on
this EDC issue, would decide to
disengage itself from the conti- j
nent, build its defense plans on
liases in Britain, Africa and Spain,
j and give up thought ol' trying to
■ keep the continent from being
| overrun by a Soviet push.
High Stakes
; By refusing to ratify
France
would be inviting
I to American military aid
, Congress provided in this
appropriation that no aid
go to countries that fail to
EDC.
There is no plan now for Sec
retary Dulles to make one of liis
emergency flying visits ibis tinu
EDC, |
m end |
since
year’s i
should
ratify ,
to Paris to persuade M Mendes
Franee of the transcendent im
portance of getting French appro
val of EDC.
But with stakes in this crisis
so high, it can be taken for grant
ed that both President Eisenhow -
er and Secretary Dulles will
throw the full weight of Ameri
can power and prestige to get
what they consider a cornerstone
to their policy and a basic con
tribution to Europe’s peace and
security.
It has been unfortunate, il is
recognized here now, that so much
old the discussion of FIX' has
been centered on the creation of]
a European army. For while that !
is important and has been basic
lo the concept from the start, the
larger purpose of EDC, as ori
ginally conceived, was to make I
it possible to mtegrah free Eu
rope politically and economical
ly, and to make it impossible for
France and Germany to be again
at each other's throats.
Women Offering 1
Business Guide
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President Don Ft Grimes, of (Fie|
Independent Grocers' Alliance,
savs women shoppers sometimes
have what he calls a “sixth sense"
^d.’out convey business condition -
He attributes it to something like
women's intuition, and says there
is definitely something to it
Grimes maintains that those
-eonomir conditions, and
probabU future trends, would do
well to watch the habits of house
wives m the nation’s stores. The
food purchases of housewives in
particular, he says, reflect what
is happening in the average i
American family, and that atti
tude of tightening up or enjoying
good times.
One way this can be detected,
according to Grimes, is by watch
mg what types of food women j
buy. If they begin to switch to|
starchy foods, and less expensive1
i cuts of meat, then hard times arei
j being experienced, or expected, j
| When the trend is in the otherj
direction, times seem to be good j
I or the outlook optimistic
I Speaking of the last depression
■ as in “era of bread and potatoes."
Grimes says at that time house
wives bought av little of the,
choice cuts of meat and more ex
pensive item- In -ent years
! Americans have been eafin - bet
[fleets the relative prosperity en
joyed by most Americans
In answer to the $ti4 ques'ion,
whether the buying habits of
housewives are now indicating a
bend for the future. Qrim< s re
plied that the housewife'.- habits
today indicate a period of pros
perity. The current outlook is op
timistie, according to Grimes, who
bases his opinion on the current
attitude of food purchasers m the
nation's independent grocery!
si ores.
MAKING INSPECTIONS
Mr. Allen Hadfield, represent
ing the Virginia Electric and
Power Company, is inspecting
storm damage along the coast.
Visiting Ocean View
Mr and Mi s. Walter Jones and
children aie -pending a few days
at Ocean View.
Return Home
Scheduled to spend a w.*k at
Topsail Beach. Mr. and Mrs. A.
i. Jameson end family moved
tht fc« .eh hwt ahead of the
' .:. yesterday arid returned
home.
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will in<reuse approximately 8% to 10%. It you own a
Stiell pattern now — or plan purchasing your sterling
silver soon you can still huv at the olil prices, save as
much us 10% Hut hurry! Out supply is limited.
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