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TOBEB 151948 ' PAGE THREE (TWrd $cctio) THE WATNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER jwBaby i Lnctt arrives at fllvwood, carry newest addition jjiree-monUis-old fc of motion pic- Jjcr Wander, iin . (jr.i'.TiKitionai; Fined Eolations , ! 1 1 i i and fish ij (j Si'ptem- Jl,., ; -iiort-iurn a iiidnu to Clyde jc iiiu-i iiir of tlu-ks.niiu- t iiii mis- J 1 i mi.ii urn was ijjm,!! V llll fisllillH ii,ci.-fs run l i , pi c-scason s4.;J ,V hi lines ici miii.s paid a jd.ii.iininiitf lish. ( C1,K Is i rsnlls. 5-Year-Old Girl Draws More Fan Mail Than Actors HOLLYWOOD IL'Pi A five-year old girl in Hollywood draws more fan mail than many famous actors, though she's never made a movie and nevej plans to make one. The cute little mail magnet is Alana Ladd. whose pappy, Alan, is currently emoting at Paramount in "One Woman". "Alana has averaged 500 letters a week since she was born," Ladd ngurea. it s me most amazing show of interest I've ever seen. I didn't think people cared that much." When her birthday rills around on April 21, Alana gets upwards of 4,000 letters and cards. She has kept them all and maintains, with a great deal of help, a running correspondence with several dozen fans around the world. All Alana's letters are answered. But it takes one of Ladd's several secretaries to do the job. Gets Gifts "I kind of hope the letters keep up as Alana grows older." Ladd said. "It'll be a swell thing for her to correspond with kids in other lands and get to know about their problems and manner of life." Some fans send gifts to Alana. but her parents discourage it. Most j people need the money, these days, to spend on themselves. ! " She's gotten things from India, J China and other countries." Ladd j said. "A grandmother in the mid- j die west made her a riding habit ! for a doll- skirts, boots, sweater j and all." i Alana enters kindergarten this fall at the neighborhood public j school. The Ladds want her to lime the most normal life possible, j She's a lot like him. her dad says, and inherits his love of : sports. j "nut I hated to write letters when I was a kid," Ladd said. "If Alana knew what lies ahead, an swering those 500 letters a week, she'd probably refuse to learn to spell." WANTED DRY HULLED 13 L Ji C IC WALHUTS Pay Highest Cash Prices VEERS EXCHANGE 1. 1). SHORTY" KETNER, Owner H Asheville Road rniwi m. i.ui.i.i i. i. WAYNESVILLE, N, C. I l S SHOWS Thru Friday (Vint. Shuwinir 11:00 a. m. 'til toil p. m. I u SUNDAY SHOWS 2:00 - 4:00 - 9:00 What's Your Guess? kr Nwffrw Hrt' how the ttatet hove voted in tho electoral college tine World LLJow ' you con com to predicting 1948. JBWL 'A m m m ni iif-an Ala mi D l D I) D I) l K R R D I) U I) Ark. ... DDDDDDD -al'f. ; RRRDDDD ' RRRDDRR o. R R H R D D D IM. L R R R- R I) I) D Ha. , I) O R I) I) I) I) Ca. ; D D I) l 1 I) l Maho R R R L I) I) I) IH. ; , R R R D U D I) In.l. 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"No slivers, no poisonous paints, no sharp edges" is Dave Willoek's slogan for his patented playthings. le began as a hobby, Willock ex plained at Paramount as he whit tled out a toy horse for Alana Ladd. whose daddy. Alan Ladd, stars in Willoek's picture "One Woman." "I've done everything around the house from decorating birthday cakes to making the furniture," he said. ".lust like to tinker. And it does save money." His last creation was a lazy Susan table. It includes the front wheel hearing of a Chevrolet. Willock s been turning out gad- yets for children from the work shop in his North Hollywood gar age. Stores Take It I'p "I first made a toy Taylor tot for my daughter," he said. "The j iicinfibors liked it and I made some for their kids. Then one of the bin ! downtown stores said they'd take j 75 a week. "Now I'm making a play pen for dolls. It's just like a baby's pen only smaller. And it's handy. My wife throws all the toys in the pen and they don't mess up the floor." Next in Willoek's line will be miniature furniture for dolls. He's making them all of pine, so ex pertly finished that not even the toughest six-year-old can splinter it. All the edges are smoothly rounded to avoid cuts and bruises. Willock has so many orders for his lovs now he has bought extra tools, put the neighborhood boys to v-i:k and is considering giving up acting to mike toys full-time "I bought steel for 4.000 kiddie Taylor tots last week." he said. "It's piled so high in my garage I can't net the ear in." At Strand i JJ Romance in the golden age of chivalry. Louis Hayward and Janet Blair have the starring roles in Columbia's "The Black Arrow" which will he seen three days. Sunday, Monday anil Tues day at The Strand. 3 11KIM.S I t ( K ALBANY, Tex. ilil'i Oil men figure the number 3 was good luck in Hoeser A Pendleton, Inc.. No. 31t, which gave up 300 barrels on a flow test in 24 hours. The flow was from sand at 1.333 feel, located on a 330-foot well spacing pattern It is 330 feet from tile cast and south lines of northeast quarter of Sec tion No. 90 (a multiple of 31. I)Y ONE DAY ONLY OCT. 16TH PUBLE FEATURE IV 3 DON'T Action Parked PLUS HIT No. 2 VIS 3 PLUS COMED1 AND SEKIAIj JL'N. - MON. . TUES., OCT 17 - 18 - 19 I HIS SrVCtfD UUGHfD AT MNGClT r k -- nit rvrc niurrn WITH I0WI V S UM AIM " ' " Vv - - v S' I Louis HAYWARU -Janet BLAIR Jg " Plus " V - ' COMEDY AND NEWS WED. - THUR., OCT. 20 - 21 DOUBLE FEATURE (VISIBLE MAN AND INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS History Of Burley In This Area By W. V. BERNARD Cireeneville. Tenn. An informative history on the cultivation and sale of tobacco in this territory from 1886 to the present time, written by W. W. Ber nard. President of Bernard Ware houses, Nos. 1, 2 & 3, of which this is the third series. There were only two small ware houses oneratinc in Greencville prior to 1909 when Bernard's No. 1 was built. Its floor sale space was double that of the original two houses, the Adams and the Ban ner, and for a number ot years thereafter it sold 70 per cent of the tobacco grown. Regardless of this larger sales space, the operations of the sales season were for years not profitable. An average price of 10c and less per pound which the growers received carried a selling commission of only 40c to 50c per 100 pounds, and at t lie close of the sale season there was only a lot of broken tierce:-, uneollectable ad vances, uncolleetable pinhooker debts and the remnant of an un paid bank note representing the operations of the sales season. The" delivery of the crop to mar ket was by freight and wagon. In those days the sale season extended to May; March being the largest sale month. The grades of tobacco were weighed and dumped on the bar floor, and. after being sold, packed on baskets by the buyer's force of hands. It was not until af ter the 1912 crop that the different grades were first put on baskets before being sold. One experience in particular is even now quite vivid. The consump tion of tobacco was considerably li'ss than now. Women had not ac quired the habit of smoking and the sale of tobacco was strictly a buyer's market, especially I hat of its resale. Buyers for an accumu lated stock of tobacco were hard to lind. Nevertheless, due to the ex treme low price at which the 1912 crop was selling lit being less than Kiel we tried to boost prices and got 'on hand a total of 200,000 pounds Since we were unable to sell it, we stemmed 77 hogsheads. After the loss of the stem weight, along with shrinkage, we had left 100 hogsheads of leaf i bundles!. As there were no re-drying plants at this time, the tobacco was hung in racks and re-dried by natural sea son. After tliis re-drying process we exported the 77 hogsheads of strips and the 100 hogsheads of leaf i.i Edwards. Cioodwin & Co., of Liv erpool. England. Upon the outbreak f the first World War our commis sion merchants. Edwards, Goodwin & Co., advised they were offered a fnr the 177 hogsheads which would net a profit of approximately $3500. We regarded tnai oner as being too little, but instead of send ing a cablegram at a cost of $5.00 to reject the offer, we did so by let inn In thp meanwhile the Liver pool merchants closed the sale, having assumed the offer was ac ceptable to us because of our slow ness in replying, in less man inir lv ftavs a blockade was declared be. cause of the outbreak of war and iho nrire of tobacco skyrocketed. U.il urn fifint a cablegram rejection of tlie offer instead of a letter, the IDLKWIl.lVS A BIG PLACE NEW YORK (UP) Tony Pern lias decided that the New York International Airport tldlewildi may be a trifle loo big. Station manager for Peruvian Interna tional Airways at the giant field, Perry can almost yell across to maintenance crews in the hangar opposite the terminal building, but to get to the shops without cross ing busy runways he must travel the perimeter of the field, a dis tance of seven and one-half miles. Letters To Editor Green-wing teals, smallest of all ducks, are famous for their beauty and are second only to the wood duck in brilliance of plumage. 177 hogsheads could have later been sold ut a price three times that of cost. That is one instance when prac ticing economy did not pay. Following the outbreak of World War I H914). prices in Greeneville also advanced and were followed by increased acreage of cultivation, (To be continued) (Continued Prom Page Two) showing the major apple orchards of this county, it will be found that the average orchard is just as the article recently published in this paper slated. It is true that the of fice and storage house of Barber's Orchard is below Balsam Gap. but the major part of the orchard is ABOVE the gap, with the upper portion reaching 4.000 elevation, according to government figures. The orchards of Boiling Hall, Sw anger. Hawkins and olliers in the Saunook urea are also well above 3,000 feet, with many parts of the orchard reaching 4.000 feet. The orchards in the Pigeon Gap area are well above Waynesville, which would put them above the 3. 000 foot mark. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FORT WORTH, Tex. (U P.) Ca milla Ritchey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ritchey. reversed the trend in celebrating her third birthday She gave all the guests presents They were 3-year-olds from the Lena Pnpe home for children. PARK THEATRE PROGRAM II SUNDAY NIGHT SHOWS 8:30 SATURDAY, October 16 DOUBLE FEATURE "Silent Conflict" Starring WILLIAM BOYD also King Of The Bandits Starring THE CISCO KID ii ii LATE SHOW Meet Me At Dawn Starring STANLEY HOLLOWAY II II SUNDAY, October 17 Are You With It? Starring DONALD O'CONNEIt AND OLGA SAN JUAN MONDAY - TUESDAY, October 18 - 19 I ITT T " jR.ey .Largo Starring HUMPHREY BOGART AND LAUREEN BACALL Want Ads bring quick results. Barber's For COOKING - CANNING Including Grimes Golden Starks Delicious Golden Delicious Stayman Winesap No. 1 Fancy Apples now available for shipment in bushels and 2 bushel quantities Rock Apple Service Station AT BARBER'S ORCHARD Highway 19A-23 0en Oncle Sam CaS... SUrt Your Office Tralnliif Now! WHICH would you rather do? THIS or THISH THE ARMED FORCES NED TRAINED OFFICE PERSONNEL CECIL'S BUSINESS COLLEGE 8,.,d.., am, n. a It's for you, Mary . . . take it up in your room Extension telephone m easy-to get-to places pave time ri step, atTnrd privacy on the telephone. ANoiv Enjoy r Extension Telephone Convenience in any room in your home fossa IN AN EMERGENCY An extension telephone at your bedside affords comfort and protection. An extension telephone saves time, steps and trouble. It improves your service and makes your telephone more valuable by increasing its usefulness. Extension telephones can now be installed in homes at small cost. You don't need to write us or come to the office. Just call our Busi ness Office, Orders for main telephone serviec arc sometime! delayed because of shortages of central office and other equipment, ichich are not involved in the installation of extension telephones. That's why you. can now get extension telephones, though there may still be delays in furnishing main tele phone eenn'e. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCOR?ORATED
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