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Horse And Mule
Clinic Observed
In This County
" There will be horse and mule
clinics held in the county from
January 28 through February 1st,
according to an announcement this
week by E. M. Stallings, assistant
county farm agent.
Due to the continued shortage
of equipment it is of utmost im- j
portance that the workstock'be kept j
in good condition, it was pointed j
out by Mr. Stallings.' One of the j
most common causes of poor work-
ing condition of workstoek. is evi- j
dence by loss of sight, unthrifti- j
ness and digestive troubles, is
internal parasites, according to the
assistant county farm agent.
The examinations of all animals
will be made free of charge but
there will be a nominal charge
made for the treatment of various
conditions found. Charges for
treatments will be as follows: Bots.
75c per head; Roundworms, $1.00
per head; floating U-ath. SI 00; and
additional dental or other work
will be settled agreeably between
the veterinarian and the owner ol
the stock.
Places of clinics to be conducted
on Monday, 28th, include: N. C.
James Store, Fines Creek, from
S to 10:30, Silas Smarts barn
Crabtree, from 11 to 12 .'M: J. H.
Caldwell's barn, Iron Du:T, from
2 to 5 p. m.
Places for clinics on Tue-;da
are: T. T. Poland's barn, Crab
tree, 9 to 1:30; Wallace Wards
barn. Lake Junaluska. from 11 to
12:30 p. m; Noble Garrett's barn.
Jonathan Creek, from 2 to 5 p. in
Clinics on Wednesday, 30th. will
be held at J. B. Hipps- bam. Thtck
etty, from 9 to 10:30 o'clock; W. E.
Hyde store, Morning Star, from
11 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. Stock Yards.
Clyde, from 2 to 5 p. m.
Clinics to be conducted on Thurs
day, the 31st, include: tho'-e at Joe
Phillips' store, Cecil, from 9 to
10:30 a. m.; County Home farm.
Pigeon, from 11 a. m. to 12 3U p.
m.; Olus Massie's Store, East Fork,
from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m.
On Friday clinics will be held
at Sam Ledford's barn. White Oak.
9:30 to 11:30 a. m ; C. A. Camp
bell's barn, Dellwood, from 1.30
to 2:30 p. m.; Johnny Morrow s
barn, Ratcliff Cove, from 3 to 5
p. m.
Dr. H. V. Clarvoe. local veteri
narian, will attend each clinic with
the county farm agents and will
furnish all medicine and equipment
necessary for the treatment. II. M.
Stamey, of the department of ar.i-
e Preservers,
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A Difhl glajB stopper can nearly al
ways be remo'.eii from a bolUe by heal
ing the outside of the bottle nk, pre
ferably by wrapping around it a cloth
wrung out of hot uater Soaking in vine
gar is also very good to loosen the stop
per In every case, worlc the Hopper
gently
Lt. Comdr. Duckett
Discharged From Navy
Here On Leave
Lt C'o.ndr. and Mrs. E. J. Duck
ett and family were the recent
guet- of Mrs. E. T. Duckett on
Aeinbh Street Comdr. Duckett,
?on of Mrs. Duckett here, has been
-lationed in Richmond. Calif, for
the past two years. He and Mrs.
Duckett will go to Goldsboro to
M.-it the Salter's parents before re
! tunny to their home in Tulke.
Calif . where they expect to reside
in the future.
Con. dr. Duckett volunteered in
the service in 1941 and was cum
njv.nnvd Lt. jg in the U. S.
Navy. He was sent to Newport,
K 1 . for his training and later to
Norfolk, and from there to his post
in California, where he served so
Ion.;. He is now on terminal leave
All Veterans
Entitled To
Testimonials
A testimonial of appreciation
from President Truman is being
given to all honorably discharged
veterans, according to an an
nouncement by Miss Edna McKay,
clerk of the local draft board.
The testimonial is being present
ed to the separatees with their sep
aration papers. Personnel previous
ly discharged may apply .to the
nearest installation of the army,
navy, marine corps, or coast guard
for this recognition that the vet
erans will no doubt wish to keep
along with their discharge papers
and other articles relative to their
service in the armed forces.
LAFF-A-DAY
I $h doing that right. Dear?"
Government To Seize
Meat Packing Plants
On Saturday Morning
James Albright, S 2c,
Discharged From Navy
At Charleston, S. C.
Sale Of Surplus
Cattle, Hogs In
State Is Urged
Pigeon River
Scout Leaders
To Meet On 28th
A meeting of the leaders of the
Pigeon River District of Boy Scouts
has been called here at the Presby
terian church at 7:30 on Monday,
January 28. by Rev. M. R. William
son, chairman of organization ex
tension. All members of Cubbing and
Senior Scouting, and the members
of the interracial committees of
the district are asked to attend the
meeting.
mal husbandry of the State Exten
sion Sen. lie. will also attend most
of the clinics in an advisory ca
pacity. All workstock owners in the
county arc urged to bring their
animal
farm.
James F. Albright. Seaman sec
ond class, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Albright, and grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bridges, of
Waynesville, has been discharged
from the U. S. Navy after serving
more than three years.
Seaman Albright entered the
service on March 11. 1943, and took
his boot training at
Md., after which he received fur
ther training at Newport, R. I.,
and Norton, Conn. He served
aboard the L'SS Bidwell and the
U S S. David Wilmont.
He is entitled to wear the
Atlantic, American and Asiatic
Pacific theater ribbons and the
Victory medal.
He plans to enter college next
fall.
ON 36-DAY LEAVE
Lawrence Medford, KM 2c, is
spending a thirty-six day leave
with his parents,- Mr. and Mrs, C.
G. Medford, of Lake Junaluska
He has recently returned to the
States after having served several
months in the Pacific.
RALEIGH The North Carolina
livestock producers are being urged
to offer for sale on local markets
all their surplus hogs and cattle
ready for slaughter.
State department of agriculture
spokesmen point out that the meat
packing industry is now virtually
at a stand-still because of the strike
Bainbridge, i among the employees of five lead
ing packers, and they point out:
' Unless an immediate settle
ment is reached and production re
sumed, it seems inevitable that the
country is facing the most acute
meat shortage in the history of
the United States."
The department, emphasising
the fact that local slaughterers
and butchers are not affected by
the strike, add that Tar Heel far
mers can help relieve the impend
ing meat shortage by marketing
their livestock now. Nor do the
representatives overlook the ad
ded inducement of the good price
meat is bringing producers who
have it to sell.
Guy A. Duckett. of Newport
News, Va.. spent last week with his
mother, Mrs. E. T. Ducket. He
has been employed by the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company for the past 24 years.
Mrs. Chas. E. Quin.lan left Tues
day for Raleigh, where she will
visit her son-in-law and daughter,
to the clinic nearest their i Dr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Crit
I tenden.
echnc
Verlon Wiley Poindexter
Discharged From Navy
At Charleston, S. C.
Verlon Wiley Poindexter, Sea
man second class, of Boundary
Street. Waynesville, lias received
his discharge from the Navy at the
Separation center in Charleston,
S. C.
Seaman Poindexter was one of
189 men who were released to in
active duty on Monday, Jan. 21 at
the South Carolina center. He had
served for the past 20 months and
his last duty was aboard the USS
Atlanta.
At the time he entered the ser
vice he was engaged in farming.
James Ray Messer, S 2c
Discharged From Navy
James Ray Messer, Seaman sec
ond class, of Waynesville, has been
discharged from thp it 5 avai
Separation center Charleston after I ehief executive s report is not high
serving tor me past twenty months
CHICAGO A major union of
ficial said Wednesday members of
the CIO United Packinghouse
Workers union probably would in-
l sist upon a wage increase before
returning to work in the meat
packing plants under government
operation.
Lyle Cooper, research director
of the Packinghouse Workers
union, said "we don't want to be
j in a position of seeming to flaunt
the government, but the workers
want more money."
The White House announced
Wednesday that the government
will seize closed meat packing
plants on Saturdays.
It remained uncertain, however,
whether federal seizure of the
meat packing plants would restore
the normal flow of beef, lamb and
pork products to the nation's
tables.
The labor department had assur
ances that the 70,000 striking AFL
meat workers would return to work
for the government, but there was
no such commitment, at once from
200,000 CIO members who also are
out.
Papers Are Completed
However, assistant Secretary of
Labor John W. Gibson said he un
derstood seizure would be ordered
in any case.
Preparation of seizure papers
was virtually completed last night,
it was leraned.
Although the government
marked time in efforts to settle
the steel strike, which has 70.000
workers idle in 30 states, there
were a few rays of hope plus con
tinued activity various other labor
management disputes.
Other Developments
Among the developments were
these:
Steel Seizure of strike-bound
steel plants was reported by those
close to the White House to be
"hardly in the stage of serious dis
cussion" at this time.
Electrical manufacturing Medi
ation was to be resumed tomorrow
in New York between leaders of
200.000 striking CIO United Elec
trical workers and executives of
General Electric and Westinghouse
corporations.
Shipbuilding The working com
mittee of the shipbuilding stabili
zation conference scheduled new
meetings today to act on a govern- j
Courthouse
Offices Feel
Coal Shortage
"If we don't get some coal for
use here at the courthouse, we are
going to have to close the offices,"
said George A. Brown, Jr., chair
man of the county board of com
missioners and county manager
yesterday.
"We have a carload on order,
but we can't get it delivered and
the situation is serious unless we
can get some coal from some other
source," further commented Mr.
Brown.
RADAR IMPORTANCE
LIKENED TO COMPASS
NEW HAVEN, Conn Within 10
years all commercial navigation
will be using radar as an aid as
necessary as the compass says
Ernest Pollard, Asssociate Profes
sor of Physics at Yale University.
In a radio address he explained
how radar works and commented
that the cost of radar to this na
tion "was actually double that of
the cost of the atomic bomb. All i
in all, I consider this sum a cheap j
investment, for one can say that !
radar shortened the war by a year
or, that it saved something like
half a million lives."
G. I. CAN STILL GET
PEARLS IN' JAPAN
TOKYO Transactions in pearls
have been made subject to Allied
Headquarters approval, but occu
pation troops may still buy them
as souvenirs. The Japanese Gov
ernment was directed to submit
inventories of all pearl stocks by
Feb. 5.
ment sponsored proposal to in
crease shipyard wages 15 per cent.
The proposal was advanced yester
day. The shipyard increase, if adopt
ed, would affect 650,000 AFL and
CIO shipbuilding and shipyard
workers. It might have some bear
ing on the steel dispute. Steel com
panies are heavily represented in
the ownership of shipbuilding
plants.
Congress Critical Of
President's Message
WASHINGTON Congress is
back at work after a breather pro
vided by the reading of President
Truman's combined budget and
state of the union message. But
for the most part, it is not with a
happy heart, for with many Demo
crats and Republicans alike, the
HIGHIH
WAGES
Here's how General Electric's
increased production and ef
ficiency have affected G-E
workers. Average hourly
earnings for men, not includ
ing overtime pay, have gone
up as follows:
rices
1936-
1937 .
1938.
1939
1940..
1941-
1942
1943
1944
1945 (Sept)
$.73
, .81
. .87
. .86
. .85
. .89
. .98
. 1.05
- 1.09
. 1D9
Overtime pay gave G-E work
ere more on top of this. G.E.
has made jobs for nearly three
times as many. 61,781 worked
for G.E. nine years ago.
In 1945 an average of 145,
000 had jobs at G.E. and at
much higher pay.
G.E. has an obligation to a
second group of people the
public. The public wants im
proved products at fair prices.
"More goods for more peo
ple at less cost" G.E.'s goal
is not a part-time assign
ment. It is a job for manage
ment and worker alike if G.E.
is to keep growing, keep rais
ing wages, keep making more
jobs for more workers.
A few figures show typical
price decreases:
Refrigerator
1935
1941
Lamp
1935
1945.
Transformer
1935
1941
Motor
1935
1941..
Radio
1935...
1941-
..$199.00
.. 129.95
- .15
.. .10
(ftUJ TAX)
.. 76.32
.. 69.30
.. 12.80
,t 8.50
47.50
27.95
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FAIR
PROFITS
G. E. during the war earned
4.7 on each dollar of sales.
Of this, 4.K was paid to its
more than 200,000 stock
holders and the remaining six
tenths of a cent on each dol
lar was retained in the busi
ness to assist in carrying on
and expanding its operations.
All money earned over this
4. It was turned back to the
U. S. Government. G-E cost
saving methods had made
war goods for less money than
the Government expected.
These dividends have been
declared per share of common
stock since 1936:
1936.
1939..
1940.
1
1943..
1944..
1945..
$1.50
2.20
JO
1.40
.1.84
. 1.75
. J.40
-J.40
.U0
1.60
GENERAL ELECTRIC'S OBJECTIVE has been to keep prices moving
downward, keep wages going up, and to earn a fair profit. This calls for
volume production, more efficient work and methods. With the help of
every single employee, General Electric believes it can show our country,
as it did in wartime, an example of American enterprise at its best.
GENERAL
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ELECTRIC
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in the Navv.
Seaman Messer's duties took him
in many theaters of the war, and
he touched a number of ports.
Two Attend Short
Course In Dairying
E. W. Green, production mana
ger, and E. H. Eenstemacher, field
man, of Pet Dairy Products Com
pany, returned yesterday after at
tending a 3-day special dairying
course at the University of Georgia.
Miss Patsy Gwyn, student at
Handolph-Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, Va., is spending several
days this week with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. Lenoir Gwyn.
LOST On Jan. 22 on Main Street
or at High School. Diamond
platinum bar pin. Reward of
fered. Call Mrs. W. F. Swift,
phone 267-R. Jan. 24
on their best-seller list.
They didn't like a lot of things
their boss had to say about some
of his favorite pieces of proposed
legislation. Take, for instance, the
President's plan to keep the U. S.
Employment Service under fed
eral wing until June, 1947. The
house labor committee endorsed
the bill by a 13 to 3 vote, but once
the bill gets to the house floor, it
seems very likely to be torn to
shreds by opposition from both
parties.
The bill is scheduled for its de
bate on Friday, and one congress
man, Representative Everett Dirk
sen, has already announced his in
tention to offer a substitute meas
ure which would return the em
ployment service to the states with
in 30 days.
Then, there's the chief execu
tive's proposed boost in the mini
mum wages law. President Tru
man would like to see the mini
mum raised from its present 40
cents an hour to 65 cents this
year, 70 cents the next and finally
75 cents an hour in 1948. But, the
bill is not even out of committee
yet, and Senator Allen Ellcnder
has announced he would like to
see the bill re-written to change
the minimum to only 55 cents.
Then there's the matter of taxes.
To put it simply, the President's
remarks about not wanting to cut
either excise or individual taxes
just didn't make a hit.
Probably the part of the meas
ure that caught most interest was
the section devoted to the budget.
Democrats thought it was terrific;
Republicans thought it pick your
own adjective. Although the bud
get was cut more than in half,
the solons see no reason why it
couldn't be cut in half again, and
they don't like the idea of making
up the deficit by taking money
from the treasury surplus to get
this year's books out of the red.
The farm bloc has something to
acid to the steadily rising criticism
of the chief executive's message.
They bluntly claim he has double
crossed them. First, they say, they
had been promised food subsidies
would be ended by June 30. But
now President Truman wants to
continue them for another year,
and the farm bloc has already
gone ahead figuring that the ad
ministration would keep its prom
ise and drop the subsidies.
We Can Solve Your Problems For
CONSTRUCTION. INDUSTRIAL AND
LOGGING EQUIPMENT
State Distributors
O International Crawler Tractors
O Industrial Wheel Type Tractors and
Diesel Engines.
O Cargo Logging Winches
O American Preformed Cable ,
O Bucyrus-Erie Scrapers Bulldozers
O Disston Chain Saws
Corley Sawmills, Edgers, Etc
O Elgin Pick-Up Sweepers
As Well As Many Other Lines of Popular Equipment,
North Carolina Equipment Company
Cedar Rapids Asphalt Plants and
Crushers
Rogers Trailers
Euclid Trac-Truks
Northwest Shovels
Galion Graders and Rollers
Jaeger Mixers, Pumps, Hoists, Pav
ing Equipment, and Air Compressors.
RALEIGH, N. C.
8101 HUIsboro St.
Phone 8838
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
2 Miles South Rt, 21
Phone 44661
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Sweeten Creek Road
Phone 789
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effective January 1. 1946 but what does i
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