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THE ' WATNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
Lack Of Freight Cars
Will Bring Rail Crisis
Fall Crops And
Factory Production
Expected To He
Tied Up
W Sill 'GTO The notion "is
faciei! i lie urcaliM transportation
ii-.is in 20 U'.n's," explains ODT
Dircitur .!. Monroe .lohnson.
The real pinch will bein about
October 1 " ami continue until May,
he anl. Willi sued results as:
1. Seme factories will bo com
pelled In clo-e 'low ii or reduce op
erations during periods of the fall
and winter.
2. The movement of crops will
lie struim out over a loner-than-lisual
period. The railroads still
will be moving this year's wheat
crop w hen I he next crop ripens.
Johnson said in an interview
that "the railroads simply cannot
handle all the traffic which will be
offered them duriiiR the coming
months. So when the storage facil
ities of industrial plants are filled,
they'll jut have to close down or
curtail operations until they can
move their Hoods."
No I.et-l'p
Normally. Johnson said, the peak
demand for railroad freight cars
begins about October 1 " and con
tinues several weeks. Hut this year,
be said, the hitih demand will con
tinue well into next rar.
' We shall be in a terrible fix in
transportation until May," the ODT
director said
"Highf now the railroads are
hauling more freight than at any
time during the war. For the week
ended July 'MK the carlonding fig
ure was over !)'.M.0fl0, the highest
weekly loading since the week
ended Oct. 12. 1941."
Hut demand will reach 1,000,000
cars a week hv fall, Johnson said,
with the resull that 75.000 cars of
freight will hack up each week for
an indefinite period.
Moiintimr Production
Johnson attributes the high traf
fic demand to mounting industrial
production, the movement of bum
per food i rops and the stockpiling
of winter supplies such as coal and
ore. by homes and factories.
Another big factor is an acute
shortage of railroad freight ears.
Six hundred thousand fewer cars
are now rolling than during the
first World War. Johnson said, and
the total supply of serviceable box
cars has decreased 25,000 since
Aug. 1, 104:?.
The ODT head said freight cars
are bcimi cun-t rurlcd a little over
half as fast as in 1944. And over
3.'t per cent of all freight cars are
now o or 2(i years old.
Johnson said Ihe ODT's goal of
B0.000 new' freight cars this year
will not he achieved. He attributed
the lag to strikes, the terrific
demand for critical materials and
to "the reluctance of freight car
manufacturers to rush output until
they have a big backlog of orders."
Could Build Cars
Johnson asserted 00,000 new
freight cars could he constructed
by March if the government would
finance construction of 50,000. He
said he suggested this July 30, but
that the proposal is tied up in inter-agency
discussions.
As another measure to ease the
situation. Johnson said freight ears
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the old Cruso Mutual Fleet ric com
pany, and 3) To authorize an in
crease in the borrowing power of
the cooperative from $1,500,000 to
$4,000,000 from the Federal gov
ernment. In the drawing for free prizes
that concluded the mee'.iig, the
following were winners of many
attractive gifts: Jim Singleton. Mrs
William Messer, Marie McOaha. W.
C Worley, Frank Davis, Scotty
Ferguson, Bid Harris, Mrs Jessie
Caldwell, Nan Pressley. Tom Ter
rell. Will Hradshaw , Ta lor Mod
ford, Mr. Ferguson, Carl Francis.
W. B. I.edford, Mrs. Marie Allison,
Ira Cogburn, H. W. Davis. Furman
Davis, Emerson McCrackcn, Mrs.
T. A. Cathev, and Mrs. Will Henny.
Greeks Vote King
To Rule Rather
Than Red Puppet
WASHINGTON Return by
plebiscite of King George II to his
Greek throne did not surprise
Washington, but noil her did it par
ticularly please Washington.
American officials would prefer
to have had Greece become a mod
erate democratic republic than to
put back on the throne a discred
ited King who in pre-war davs
helped saddle Greece wilh the
Metaxas dictatorship.
But this was not a choice, as
the Greek people apparently well
recognized, between an ideal and
possible react ion. Perhaps to over
simplify it. it was a choice between
an unpopular king and an unwant
ed commissar.
Communist-Made King
For, it has been all too clear
in the pressures and propaganda
that in Ihe past fortnight have
been concentrating on Greece from
all directions, that the Greek con
test was really over whether or
not Greece would continue a friend
of the Western Allies or be swal
lowed up by the encircling Soviet
Bloc.
It is very doubtful, it is believed
here, that the Greek people would
have wanted the King back in a
plebiscite conducted free from
these outside overwhelming forces
In that sense King George II can.
with some justice, be considered
Europe's first communist - made
King. The fear of Soviet domina
tion is understood to have driven
thousands of Greek republicans
into the royalist camp.
The choice, however, appeared
to be between the lesser of two
evils, between two militant minori
ties, with the Greeks preferring
tneir mediocre monarch to a i
Soviet-supported puppet.
must be moved faster and unload
ed quicker. He said he is prepar
ing an order "to compel the rail
roads to handle freight cars with
more efficiency."
He declined to specify its na
ture but said the effect of the order
will be to make available' an addi
tional 25,000 freight ears a week.
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FAWN AND ITS 'ADOPTED PARENTS'
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THESE TWO WISCONSIN YOUNGSTERS, Joyce Mayo and David Waggoner,
feed a young fawn they adopted which they found near death in north
ern Wisconsin's Vilas County. The animal was accidentally separated
from its mother. "Bambi" follows the children around. (International)
World Food Supply
To Increase But Not
WASHINGTON The Agricul
ture department reported that
world food supplies for the con
sumption year ending next July are
expected to be slightly larger than
those of the past year, but consid
erably below pre-war average.
A survey of the situation indi
cates, the department said in a re
port, that inereases in production
this year apparently will offset re
ductions in stocks.
The department said that since
deficit areas abroad account for a
major part of the expected increase
in output, international shipments
required to maintain emergency
levels of consumption will be small
er than during the past consump
tion year.
"But if the present difficult food
situation in many areas is to show
some improvement in 1946-47 as a
whole, there will be continued
need,'' the department' said, "for
large imports even though war
time economies in the utilization
of domestically-produced crops are
still practiced."
The increase in food production
results, the report said, mainly
from larger crops of wheat, sugar
and potatoes and a larger fish
catch. It said some increase also
is likely in supplies of rice and
vegetable oils.
Animal Fats Shorter
Supplies of meats and dairy
products are not likely to be any
larger than they were in the past
year and animal fats will be some
what shorter, especially in the
Cnited States, the department
said.
Gondii ions for growing and har
vesting this year's wheat crop were
Flou
of Frozen Foods
O Grade "A" Meats
In Coming Year
Reach Normal
said to have, been satisfactory in
the principal producing counlries
of the northern hemisphere and,
except for droiigiil in parts of Aus
tralia, an expanded acreage was
reported to have been planted un
der gonerar.y favorable conditions
in the souUicrn hemisphere.
The deivartmenl said that should
favorable growing conditions con
tinue in Hie latter area during t In
coming months, the world output
of wheal may nearly equal the pre
war average of 5.!0().000,000 bush
els, or 700,000,000 more than was
produced last year.
However, total supplies of wheat
will be little, if any, larger, the de
li lrlmont said, because stocks re
maining from previous crops are
much smaller this year than last.
Greatest Increases
The survey indicated that the
areas of greatest increases in food
production this year apparently
are in southern and western
Europe and French North Africa.
Substantial increases were said to
be in prospect in the Philippines
and Japan.
The report said thai as a result
of favorable crop prospects in Hie
United States al1(j Canada, produc
tion in North America may equal
the record of 1044.
"The outlook for production in
continental Europe as a whole re
mains much better than a year
ago." the ronort said. 'Total food
output in terms of food energy, for
the 1040-47 consumption year may
still be forecast at nearly 00 per
cent of the 1 0:?r5-37 average, as
compared with fit) per cent or less
for l!)4."")-40."
The department said mass death
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Cecil News
By MRS. J. EDGAR BURNETTE
Mrs. Ella Singleton is confined
to her home on the Little East Fork
with a broken ankle.
! Harry Good has been taken to
! he County Home for care.
1 Mr. and Mrs. J Earl Recce have
' moved to Clyde whore Mrs. Reeco
has been elected to the position of
Educational Director of the Clyde
Baptist church.
! A community library, with the
books brought in Iran the Haywood
j County Public Library at Waynes
ville, is located for the Cecil Town
ship at the home of Mrs. Edgar
Ikiruetle.
Any news of interest to the Cecil
community or Haywood county,
may be sent in to Mrs. Edgar Bur
nett. Route 3, Canton, N. C, for
publication in this paper.
Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Francis
and children of Wayne.svillo, were
visitors of the former's parents, Mr.
and Airs. Jerry Francis, over Labor
Day. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Grooms and
children of Asheville, spent the
Labor Day week-end at the borne
of the former's parents. Mr, and
.Mrs. ,1. Harrison Grooms.
I At the monthly business meeting
on last Saturday night at Riverside
church, Ihe members voted to make
plans to have an aluminum furnace
installed as soon as available.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd llurnette
have been appointed assistant choir
leaders for Wednesday night prac
tice. Mr. Burnette was also elected
as assistant B. T. U. director.
Mrs. Lillian Himes is confined I
to her home wilh the flu and Mrs. j
Floyd Burnette is teaohiiiR in her j
place at Cecil school,
Mrs. Mildred Hudson was hostess
to her Ladies Circle of the Canton
M .K. church at the camp of her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. VV. C. CTont
A pot-luck lunch was served at
noon.
from starvation in India has been
successfully forestalled to date, but
the most critical, final quarter of
the crop year is yet to be faced
that is, September-November. The
department said there can be no
general relief from the food short
age until the main rice harvest is
gathered in December.
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TheFirst National Banl
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
By WILLIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
THE FIRST ROCKET to be
sent to the moon will contain
mice, predicts a jet-propulsion
engineer. We wouldn't know
why unless it's to prove or dis
prove that old legend that the
satellite is made of green cheese.
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Brazil has a new super-luxurious
hotel atop a 2,700-foot
mountain. This must be what
they mean by high living.
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Residents of Flat Rock, Ind , re
port seeing a 20-foot python.
Zadok Dumkopf winders if it
isn't that Loch Ness serpent on a
round-the-world tour.
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Junior is spending his vaca
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IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN to an umpire, let alone their pal, agree Jackie, 5,
and Jimmy Sewell, 8, who watch sympathetically as Dr. Charles Jorgen
sen, Pirate trainer, glVes first aid to Frankie Gustine. The lads are sons
of Pitcher Rip Sewell. The scene is the Pittsburgh dugout. Gustine was
spiked after he collided with eenterfielder Jim Russell. (International)
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Has our sincere good wishes and
assurances of our earnest coopera
tion in every worthwhile endeavor.
'The Friendly Bank'1
(ORGANIZED 1902)
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broadcast programs dally in
fact he's almost as full of radio
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It's easy to get your picture
in the papers these days. Just
attend a party given by the
Carssons.
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When a South American lad
develops ambitions to become
president he first joins the armv
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A silent vacuum sweeper has
been invented, we read. This Is
going to be tough on nosey
neighbors who'll have a hard
time finding out if the lady
next door is working or loafing.
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