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THURSDAY THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Easy Credit Terms Return On Homes And Automobiles WASHINGTON. Easy credit terms on home-building, has come back to Ihe nation. The home- building will follow shortly. Not only homes but also wash ing machines, autos. tires, and paper figured in the news for Americans rapidly reconverting from the nightmare of war. But along with the bright tidings came rumblings of trouble over prices. The government wants to hold prices down. Some manufac turers spoke up and said the gov ernment goes too far. Here's the way things looked: 1. The Federal Housing Ad ministration announced it is re turning to its prewar program of insuring mortgages on homes. Ten thousand private institutions banks and others stand ready to lend the money with FHA back ing. Maybe you can't start build ing just yet, but you can start ar ranging a loan. 2. Washing machines started trickling off production lines but the industry isn't satisfied with prices. Washing machine makers are seeking 15 per cent more than they got in May. 1942. The Office of Price Administration wants prices to be only 5 2 per cent higher. General Electric said it will put us own wasning machines m warehousi's until higher prices arc granted, and has already started producing them at Bridgeport. Conn. in a room where Army bazookas were cleared away just two days before. 3. And here's the dope on other things-to-come: Autos The Automotive Council for War Production, happy over order removing all limits on auto output, said 50(1.000 cars between now and Christinas are more than posible. Unless the rules arc changed, these cars won't have spare tires. Tires The Army put 255.000 of its truck tires on the market foi civilians. Ihe Commerce Depart ment will sell them to dealers. The WPB said it expects "real im provement" in the truck tire situa tion within one month, in pas senger tires in three months. Grant Dealer Ruild-l'p The OPA gave tire dealers per mission to build up their inven tories. Here's the importance of that: It's necessary before ration ing can be lifted. Paper Books and magazines will grow bigger. The WPB ended all restrictions on the use of paper for thise purposes also for com mercial printing, greeting cards, picture post cards, and wall paper. Newspapers will continue to be limited in the use of newsprint, which is still scarce. The WPB also promised more toilet paper, facial tissue, paper towels and napkins, paper straws, wax paper, and window shades. Manufacturers were told to go the limit on those items. Penicillin the last controls on the "wonder d-ug" will be lifted Tuesday. Plenty for civilians soon. Ammunion This one isn't so encouraging. The WPB is consid ering the lifting of bans on the sale of civilian ammunition, hut fears such a step might deprive farmers, ranchers, and policemen of the shells they need to light off the crows, wolves and burglars.' ORB r Qm Watch This Newspaper For Date Of Showing Davis-Liner Motor Sales Co. SALES SERVICE Phone 52 Waynesville 11 Pairs Of Nylons Yearly Are Promised Women Soon WILMINGTON, Wei. E. I. Uu Pont de Nemours Company, swing ing into large scale peacetime pro duction, promises nylon-starved American women 11 pairs a year. It won't be long, the company said, until we have what amounts to a nylon world. Through years of experience in putting the strong yarn to military uses, the textile industry has learned many new ways of handling the yarn. Sheer nettings, which proved an invaluable aid against mosquitos in the tropics soon. will appear in window curtains. Curtains, dresses, veilings and even underwear made of nylon will hold their shape and smooth ness through countless launder ings, the company added. In announcing that plants at Seaford, Del., and Martinsville, Va., have ope capacity produc tion of nylon yarn for civilian use, the company said it can produce enough yarn to make 360.000,000 pairs of hosiery a year. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Walker Have 7 Members Of Family In Service Mr. and Mrs. Bert Walker, of Cantonsville, Md., formerly of Fines Creek, Haywood county, have seven members of their fam ily in the armed forces. They are four sons, Edward Haywood Walk er, paratrooper, in Germanp; Wil liam Vestal Walker, serving with merchant marines; Boyce MeClure Walker, U. S. Navy, now in the South Pacific. Mrs. Walker has two sons in the service, Jesse Webb Duncan, serving on the USS Jeffries, now in South Pacific, and Leo Paul Duncan, stationed at a post in Texas. They have one son-in-law in ser vice. Billie Ted Hector, U. S. Navy, now in South Pacific. Pfc. Mark I. Messcr Receives Promotion Private First Class Mark L. Messer. Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Messer. of Cove Creek, has recently been promoted to his present rank, according to infor mation received" from Camp Bland ing, Fla., where he is now station ed. Pfc. Messer has been assigned to Dispensary number four, army service forces regional hospital. Camp Blanding, Fla. A decision is expected next week. Cloth The Army snipped in half its requirements for cotton, rayon, and nylon for the rest of the year. That puts millions of square yards of those fabrics on the backs and legs of civilians eventually. Washing machines weren't the only things that stirred up argu ments over prices. Makers of lightweight under wear said some mills would have to shut down unless they recoived more for their product. Mrs. Wayne Battle and three children, James Wayne. Betsv and Mary Jo, have returned to their home in Andrews after spending a week with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Plott. THE NEW tthe Way Present capacity, company offi viU pYcilaineH is substantiallv aDove me prewar level. Nylon bristles for toothbrushes, paint brushes and industrial brushes were used before the war and military necessity has en abled the industry to show marked improvement. During the war, nylon was put to work as parachutes, glider tow and rescue pickup ropes, tire fab ric, flak and fragment protection armor, plasma filters and anti blackout suits, uses which could not be disclosed until actual fight ing halted. Conversion of the two plants to production of lighter peacetime yarn from heavy military material was made possible by cancellation of large Army and Navy contracts for bomber tires, parachutes and body armor, the company said adding that the switch was made within a few hours after contracts were cancelled. Uncle Sam Declares Two N". C. Plants Surplus Property WASHINGTON. Two North Carolina government-owned plants have been declared surplus by the army and will be made available for disposal by the HFC in the near future. The firms arc the Firestone Tire and Rubber company, of Burling ton; and the National Carbon com pany, Inc., of Charlotte. Cpl. Troy Stevenson Awaiting To Return After more than a year of duty overseas, Corporal Troy J. Stev enson, of Waynesville, R.F.D. No 2. is home-bound with the 137(th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company, which supplied tanks and planes of the American armies in Europe with 2,000,000 gallons of gasoline daily, according to in formation from the assembly area command in France. His group arrived overseas in July, 1944, and shortly afterwards wont to France for pipeline con struction along the famous supply route, the Red Bell Highway. With completion of the line, the company was placed in charge of its operation. Besides pumping 2. 000.000 gallons of 80 and 100 oc tane gas through the triple-piped line, the company also ran "tank farms" large reserve gas depots. Its outstanding work earned it the prized meritorious service unit plaque. The company is now at Camp Atlanta, near Chalons, France, awaiting redeployment to the United States. Shifting Of Jobs Still Banned By Selective Service WASHINGTON. Selective ser vice headquarters says that the rule against wartime work shift ing is still in effect. Physically fit registrants between the ages of 18 and 25 who leave draft defer red jobs are eligible for induction. Are Money, Supplies Defeated Nips, Says Jap Paper SAN FRANCISCO. Japan's leading newspaper. Asahi, says Ja pan was licked before the atomic bomb and before Russia got into the fight. I Prmit im mil the vast suddIv of materials and money behind Unit ed States forces, the Jap newspa per admits Japan really was beaten as soon as the United States got over the shock of Pearl Harbor. Cpl. Claude II. Sexton Honorably Discharged Corporal Claude H. Sexton, son of Mrs. Harriet Price and the late Solomon Sexton, of the Fines Creek section of the county, has been honorably discharged from the army on the point system, hav ing to his credit 113 points. Cpl. Sexton served 33 months overseas and was first in combat in North Africa, the n England, and later Sicily, France, Luxembourg, Belgium. Paris, and Germany. He arrived in the States on July 26. At the time he entered the ser vice Cpl. Sexton was engaged in farming in this county. Miss Helen Decker, of Connally Springs, has returned to her home after a two week's visit with her sister. Mrs. C. L. White, on Way nesville. R.F.I). No. 2. A. C Lawrence Leather Co. Junaluska OPA Executive To Address Lions Club Tonight D. C. Goff, district executivg from the Office of Price Adminis tration of Charlotte, will address the Waynesville Lions CUib at their regular meeting tonight at 7:30. Mr. Goff is considered one of the top-ranking executives spe cializing in the work of the OPA. The meeting will be under the sponsorship of the publicity and bulletin committee of the club, composed of L. G. Elliott, Ralph Fore and Everette Camp. Every member of the club and visiting Lion is requested to be present at the meeting tonight. Next week the Lions Internation al one hundred per cent attendance contest will begin, it was learned from L. G. Elliott, chairman of publicity. Jack Felmet, president, is urging all local Lions to strive to be present on September C, when further announcements and plans will be made. Haywood Plott has returned to Newport News, Va., after spending his vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Plott. He holds a position with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. If he has a jutting chin, it may prove (1) that he has a strong char acter, or (2) that he has no teeth. abor Greetings From Wear Leather for Health "Junaluska Cut Soles Make Walking Easy" Tannery Increase Farm Profits By - - . PRODUCING MORE TV7T Tiftvr rif-Mrs " R " D 1 rriany iuuac We Are Pet Dairy Products Co, Phone 10 Day Hazelwood's Oldest Industry England-Walton Division wau jlx iuaucjj Needed Paying Top Milk Prices 1945 Waynesville, N. C Hazelwood
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