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Mr and Mrs. Stanley Ainsley and
children, of Norfolk spent the
week-end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Ainsley.
H. O. Chesson and Mark Wool
ard were in Goldsboro Monday on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woodley
and children, of Norfolk, were the
week-end guests of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. S. Woodley.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Reynolds and
son, of Norfolk, are spending a
few days at their cottage on Lake
Phelps.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Shavender, of
Ransomville, visited their daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Woolard Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Asby, of
Norfolk, were the week-end guests
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S.
Woodley.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Alexander
and Mrs. Bell Alexander were in
Washington Tuesday on business.
Paul Belanga, jr., of Norfolk, Va.,
spent the week-end with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Belanga.
Miss Matilda Alexander and Mrs.
Clyde Smithson attended the fune
ral of Mrs. Irene Nobles in Rich
mond Monday.
W. A. Spruill was a business
visitor in Washington Monday.
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E. O. Arnold, H. 0. Chesson and
H. W. Pritchett attended an execu
tive meeting of the Southern Albe
marle Association in Mann’s Har
bor Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Fisher, of
Lake Landing, and Mrs. William
E. Hidyette and daughter, Judy,
of Hartselle, Ala., were the Thurs
day night guests of Mr. and Mrs.
H. A. Norman.
Miss Cecelia Willoughby left on
Thursday for Florida, where she
will be on vacation for ten days.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clause were
the week-end guest of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Davenport.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Worrell of
Norfolk, and Mrs. W. R. Noll, of
Williamsburg spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Norman.
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A Soft Market
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Now that the nation’s steel mills
have closed down, there can be
little doubt that neither manage
ment nor the union looked with
any great alarm at the prospect
of a prolonged steel strike.
In fact, the steel companies are
well aware of the soft market in
automobiles and other hard goods
and also aware of the fact that
large inventories of steel have
been built up by some of the ma
jor producers in these fields.
On the other hand, the union no
doubt sensed this attitude on the
part of management, and rather
than agree to a long-term contract
which fell short of their goals, un
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Power Station at
Yorktown Is Said
At Halfway Point
Erection of the structural steel
for the first unit at the Virginia
Electric and Power Company’s $45,
000,000 power station near York
town is now 50 per cent completed.
Vepco announced plans for the
station fifteen months ago and
ground was broken at the site last
October. The original authorization
was for a single 150,00 kilowatt
generating unit. Addition of a sec
ond unit of like size was approved
for the station by Vepco’s board of
directors in May. Work is proceed
ing on schedule, according to W.
W. Waldrop, Vepco Peninsula dis
trict manager.
There are 425 men employed on
the job and by the end of 1956, em
ployment will have reached a peak
of 900 persons. About 70 people
will be employed at the station
when it goes into operation.
First steel at the site was set
in place in April. The steel frame
work of the station is being bolted
together with high strength bolts
rather than riveted or welded.
Concrete for the lower turbine sup
ports and large screen wells has
been poured. Workmen have pour
ed 5,000 yards of the 13,000 for the
first unit.
Work has been started on a 212
foot steel and reinforced concrete
bridge which will span the water
intake channel running from the
York river to the station screen
wells. I
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the bridge is being built on land,
then the channel will be cut be
neath it.
The intake channel is designed
to meet the water requirements of
the ultimate capacity of the station.
Condenser cooling water being
discharged from the station will
enter the river several hundred
yards downstream from the intake
channel.
Workmen have installed six side
ion leaders preferred to have a
strike in a neffort to improve their
bargaining position with manage
ment.
The steel companies want a
five-year, no-strike contract, and
are willing to guarantee the union
annual raise. The companies are
also willing to grant other bene
fits to the union.
The union, on the other hand,
is opposed to a five-year contract,
desiring a review more frequent
ly, which would allow union mem
bers to take advantage of condi
tions which might be favorable to
labor.
From all indications, as this is
writtten, the steel strike could be
a prolonged one. One of the big
gest users of steel—the automo
bile industry—is not in dire need
of steel, and, in fact, has a big in
ventory of 1956 automobile! ea
hand.
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Washington Report
By BILL WHITLEY
Secretary To United States Senator W. Kerr Scott
Trade — Some encouraging news
for tobacco growers has just come
out of the State Department.
Last week the State Department
made public a long list of trade
agreements that were made several
months ago with some 35 friendly
foreign nations. Many of the agree
ments should have long-range fav
orable effects on tobacco growers.
Among other things, the United
States agreed to reduce tariffs on
Oriental leaf tobacco by 15 per
cent.
This along with other tariff con
cessions should, in the opinion of
Sen. W. Kerr Scott, help gain more
markets for U. S. grown tobacco in
the Middle East and certain parts
of Europe.
by-side culverts each with an eight
foot inside diameter to carry the
discharge water under a roadway
between the station and the river.
The 96 sections of concrete pipe
used weigh nine tons each.
The outer shell of the stack for
the power station has been erected
and towers 325 feet above its base.
A new type of construction with a
concrete shell and brick liner is
being used.
Double circuit 110,000 volt lines
which will tie the station in with
the rest of the transmission sys
tem have been extended from the
station site to Vepco’s existing
transmission lines running between
Richmond and Newport News.
The power station will be built
entirely above grade and the init
ial installation rests on 1,700 con
crete piles 35 feet long.
The Yorktown power station is
being built adjacent to the Ameri
can Oil Company refinery now un
der construction and will use re
finery by-products, petroleum coke
and refinery gas, for part of its
fuel requirements.
The first unit is scheduled for
completior in May of 1957 and the
second will go into operation the
following year.
The items on which tariffs were
reduced, he said, are not competi
tive with American made tobacco
products. In many cases, foreign
countries have felt that quite a few
U. S. duties were unfair.
By reducing some of them, Scott
said, it should mean more markets
for American tobacco where they
are sorely needed.
Pigeon — Here’s one for Sher
lock Holmes, and if he can solve
it, Sen. Scott will be grateful.
Monday morning the Tar Heel
Senator walked into his office in
the Senate Office Building and
found a bright-eyed and bushy
tailed pigeon perched on his desk.
Apparently, the pigean had taken
the freedom of making himself (or
herself) completely at home dur
ing the week-end.
There were very strong indica
tions that the pigeon had used the
chandelier as a roost.
It was obvious that the visitor
had come through an open window.
But what the Senator wants to
find out about is the motive behind
the visit. Until Sherlock or some
body comes up with a better an
swer, the Senator is convinced that
it must have been a Republican
bird.
People — Now that Winter is
over and Summer is here—with
Spring lost somewhere along the
way—more and more North Caro
linians are seen in Washington.
They come up for visits, to sight
see, or on business.
Last week, there was an out
standing statesman from the East,
a preacher from the West and a
converted Republican from the
Piedmont.
Among those calling at Sen.
Scott’s office were Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Alvah
Early of Ahoskie, Herman Clark of
Fayetteville, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Hester and family of Bladenboro,
the Reverend W. Q. Higgins of
Sparta and P. C. Burkholder of
Charlotte.
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This year’s Air Force appropria
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000, and this represents approxi
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There are various indications
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funds if it is to keep pace with
progress being made by the Russ
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it was not suspected that the Air
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dollars more next year than it I
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