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KA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1?M NUMBER SIX
Taft Amendment Would
Add Increased Costs to
Prewtir Price Levels
Washington, Job* 12.?Senators o/l
both parties, bant upon curbing: OPA'e |
requiring tee ipncy to
i to fNw prices
in fixing tailing?.
By the overwhelming vote of to to
29, '?he proposal wee written tote
the measure to extend OPA'e life
until July 1, 1947, despite Demo
cratic Tender Berkley's plea against
the formula for ceilings
Offered by Senator Taft (It-Ohio ),|
the amendment would take the price j
levels of October 1-15, 1M1, as
beee period and then add the in-1
creased average seat of the prat
to reach a figure below which OPA |
could not set a ceiling.
George Supports Plan.
Senator George (D-Ga.) Joined
Taft hi support of the new formula.
He said he felt sorry for OPA Ad
ministrator Paul Porter, declaring
that Porter "hihniiud the OPA, in
herited its program, inherited its
theories -and - inherited Stabilization
"I "would like to say this for Mr.
Bowles," declared George. "He is
the most inflated product and com
modity that I know."
Barkley later obtained an ag _
mernt by unanimous consent limit
ing fmtiiei debate to a half hour
per Senator on each amendment and
on the bill itesif and expressed
confidence a final vote will be
reached tomorrow. The Senate then
adjourned -until 11 a m., out of re
? spect to Senator Bankhead (D-Ala)
who had just died.
Advertising Costs.
Before adoption of the Taft amend
ment, it was changed at the sugges
tion of Senator Hoey (D-N.C:) ^to
stipulate that advertising expendi
tures were part of costs. Producers
would be allowed to count as legiti
mate costs advertising up to the
amount they did in 1941.
Both Taft and Senator Wherry of
Nebraska, the Republican whip, took
the same line?the argument that
low prices mean low production,
that low production means shortages
and black markets; that scarcities
and Ik* danger dt inflation can only
. be remedied by high-geared produc
tion at, a profit.
Wherry aaw an alternate plan he
offered go down to defeat by stand
ing vote ? one which would have
forced OPA to permit manufactur
ers, wholesalers, distributors and re
tailers their normal prewar dis
counts and mark-ups.
But, before its defeat, in a desk
pounding attack on OPA, Wherry
cited the agency's hopes for in
creased supplies soon, and cried out
to his colleagues: "The proof of the
pudding is in the eating."
"Whdke's tha batter?" he shouted.
"Where are the shirts? Where are
the automobiles? Where ars the tex
tiles? You cant eat'statistics. And
you cant gat a good pot roast out of
Donald Henderson,
tea Pood, Tobacco,
Agricultural and Allied Workers
Union, CIO.
calling the OPA extension bill, as
drafted by the banking commit)
an "apen invitation to inflation."
He" seid that it the
it, the "President 1
veto It and call Gsagress into joint
for the purpose of roew
art for, one year without
of
the : I
? ? team ?h defeated by a
aeon of 86-1S. Qntydon Ules Waa low
| scorer far 1Le day. wfth a 72.
. Tlx jmnaal Ch* Hemii-cap
n anient starts Saturday, June 22, aad
nma through Jaly 13. ~
an #1.00 per paraon, and prfaea will
f be awarded for three difSarant flights
the winner and the numer-ap in seel
MISS LWT SfSSLE
Here
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Free Tuberculosis
Clinic, Jane 21st
The local health officer wishes to
call attention to t?o fact that a Dree
Tuberculosis Oiaic will be hold In
the Pitt County Health. Department
Offices, Greenville, on Friday, Jane
21, ftam ibM to 4:00 e'cteek.
The Oinic will be conducted ?br
Dr. F. P. Brooks. Patients, both
white 'and colered, from way part of
Pitt County are eligible to l
Clinic. ? -
This is dm of the- regular monthly
clinics held in1 Pitt County and is
made possible through the Tuber
culosis Christmas Seal Sate.
At The Rotary Club
Frank Williams presided at the
Rotary 01 ub, Tuesday evening, a
extended a cordial welcome to the
guests: George Reaves, of Golds
ton, Alton Bobbitt and the Rev. Z.iB.
T. Cox, new pastor of the local Christ
ian Church.
John Mewborn and John Moan
epoke briefly copceaaing work on ti
high school pampas, which is procefed
ing rapidly. Much interest is being
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manrrestea m tnis wortaiwiuie projcci,
and ritisw of the esouwaRy ?m to
be commended in offering their se
vices and equipment towards this
needed improvement.
George Creekmnr was in charge of
the program.and in his own inimita
ble marqwr spoke on the value of
of good literature, and the benedlt to
be derived from association with good
books. As a conclusion, he reviewed
"The Robe", by Lloyd C. Douglas.
Tax Increase
Washington, June 12.?The House
Ways and Means Committee to ted
today to increase the Social Security
tax against employees' pay and em
ployers' payrolls from 1 per cent to
1.5. per cent, effective January 1,
It the House and Senate follow the
committee's recommendation the an
nual collection for Social Security
insurance will be increased from the
present one billion, 800 million dol
lars to two billion dollars.
The committee stipulated that the
tax shall be 1.6 against employees'
pay and employers' payroll for a five
year period beginning- next January.
State CoUegre Hints For)
Farm Homemakers
*y Both
N. C. State College.
According to the food research spe
cialists, carrots in the storee sure pret
tier with tope on, but leas fresh.
When the oanrot la pulled out at the
pound the nouridunent goes ' the
jther way, and leaves draw moisture
ind food from the root Some truck
em eut off carrot tope- but some 4
sot -
To-keep the carrots fresh, cut off
the tops before you store them. The
same rule holds good for other root
vegetables beets, turnips, parsnips,
radishes. Hake off tops to keep them
fresh.
Grow Victory Gardens again this
year. Gardens am Mveeome things,
according to the poets. And those we
call Victory Gesdms, -or home gard
ens, are very valuable in these days j
of workhwidefood shortages.
In a caH to titer Nation's home gar*
enem, the ltoSHa.it points out that
the threat of starvation fat many parts
of the world sssd the urgent need, for
food from this country emphasize the
?r continued efforts
to produce and conserve food which
will help to ? pphtt- that Apectally
? fit ?2^ &r,'
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, June i2.-*Thr prl^e
of that etasK'e loaf of bread mtrxnc-,
dtotety, tfcmg -with * price boost at
one cent* dcaen-lyr teead-iMI*.
The higher pricee apply to all
kinds of breed except rye, which
-treat up two cento aloaf April 80. <
Prices sre being raised, OPA said.
basis
M a result of s 26 per cent
cut in the amount of flour, they may
use. Thereduotion wse ordered to
help HM0t lamineraier -reqiUnemflBiB.
On bread, producers am permitted
to put today's one-cent incraaae into
effect *y smiting .the price, reduciag
the weight further, or by a combina
tion of. both. On rolls, only a price
' crease, is authorised.
Excluded from the one-cent iiv
eeae are faalum who. base iacieaa
ed the wai#t of their loares ami
increased prices
ut.If arch 16.
Chemical Warfare f|
. Service
The men of the Chemfeal Warfare I.|
Sendee will, play a^ great role is the(|
new ? Regular Army. TVs
turn, which has achieved 'tr
both in war and
is eoastantty keeping its virgil.
Tkeee mew are trained experts to
the many phases-of war's most dread
ed weapons?gas, flam
the possibility of bacteriological <
fare. It was they who perfected the I
(hit so aided oar {
fighters to. achieve, their Victories.
It is the task of the Chemical War
fare Sendee to keep ahead of the
yand to analyse the possibilities
of hostile gae attacks. They develop
ed the fhnst gae mask in the world
and found methods of
of oar lighters to keep]
them* safe. They invented
and protections < against 11
blisters. If our enemies had everl
gas they would have found our |
troops prepared to meet the attack.
Few of Hie courageous landings
ids by our men in Europe and fee
Pacific would have been possible
without the smoke screens laid down
by the men of die Chemical Warfare
Service. At Ansio, file battle hung
in the balance and only the expert
use of smoke by these men saved ear
troops fran what easily might hove
en disastrous.
This organisation, under its in
signia of crossed retorts, not only
develops the chemieal agents but also
is responsible for the use of than.
[.One of the weapons developed is the
4.2 mortar. This mortar fires uprto
20 rounds of high explosive or i
shells a mhints with deadly accuracy.
It was much in demand during the I
war and was successfully used from]
the Po Valley to the Philippines.
Men of the Chemieal Warfare Ser-1
viae are highly trained specialists.!
Thair experience and training is
Asiljng their skills could
be Mated the control sad isolation of
raging chemical fine of tremendous] |
heat and intensity, the use of
|and spraying equipment, .the handling ]
of all types of pyrotechnics, fumiga- ]
tion and decontamination.
As the scientific advancement -of I
this modem age brings forth new and 1
far% the Chemical Warfare Service]
will, march forward in their
of always beigg-inflflSned of the aja-'
emiee weapons and having the cotnl
advance.
SETS i
ATTENDANCE RECORD]
Walstonburg, June 12.?Jennings |
hmdh JBhaektsford, 17,-son of Mr.t
nd Mrs. ftsul P. Shackleford of]
/alstonburg, Route X, recently
raduated from Saratoga
? record of nd||
( day in the 12
ol. Be made the
month while in
a unlnlkl inteu LU
, valedictorian his
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Within the past few days ?Mn hap
- " * the "Wtt County
rant several ease*' ejf]
d to be mad and far"
Laboratory of Hygiene and
f<fMr'Md)3w. In ane instance,!
JtoirsWta>"Sta? by a vetori-1
to
Idary line to the Maury-Ayden High-1
? way 102, then tato Ayden andHbarkl
I up Highway 11 (the Ayden-Greemville
Highway) Into Greenville, including!
the City of Greenville." "This area to (
be extended aa may become necessary. I
The Health Officer, believing that
thla eitoation demands toll coopera
tion from the citizens in the infected
areae, quotes from the State Law as
follows:
County Health Officer may
declaar quarantine against rabies in
toy designated district when in his
ent this diteese exists to the
that the lives of persons are'
jered end all dogs in said dis
Itrict-shaH- be confined on the prem
ises of the owner or in a -veterinary
hospital: Provided a dog may be per- .
I mitted to leave toe premises of toe
owner if on leash."
The HeeKh Officer suggests that
the owner of a dug, which dog ap-'
? pears to bomaB, should, where prac
I tical, consult a veterinarian at once.
The Health Officer and the veteri
narians-recommend that a dog, sus
pected'of having rabies,?'be reported
Ittt once to the Health Department
? for advice. ".**
(In no case, should a dog be mi?d
in such manner as to damage toe
?head in any way.)
? * In- cages where toe dog's head is to
be sent to the Laboratory, toe owner
of the dog is responsible, for packing
to a. head and getting it to the State
Laboratory in Raleigh when it will
be examined without cost to the
'If the owner desires advice or as
sistance as to packing the head, toe
County Sanitaria^ whose office is in
?ffe Health Department, Phone 822-5,
is avaBable tor such assistance.
'Fee fear some dog owner .may be
lax about carrying out the quarantine
and lose a valuable dog, the Hwrtto
Officer stated that he feels that he
should give them this warning. The
L?w says, "When quarantine has
been established and dogs continue to
run at large, any police officer or
deputy sheriff shall have toe right,
after reasonable effort has been made
to apprehend the dogs running at
targe, to kill said dogs, and properly
dispose of their bodies."
? In Pitt County
' Southeaster* Jinfe, American
to ww* with the Pitt
tor Officials in the
wens rcm.itsnml
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1 With the nation's traffic fatality
hack to its
aoi-spil
taA
mon
are faced with a
That this is a
signified by the National
way. Safety Conference willed Sbyf
President Truman and the
currently being sponsored by The
Advertising Council (the cooperative
group of advertising leaden who pro
duced moat of the War Bo
other war-time advertising
paigns) hi cooperation with the Na
tional Safety Council. ; |
That it is a local pPobtem is eai
dent in this wad every community >bj
the increasing number of deaths and
injuries which an reported almbst
Some idea of the trend to the
barandeeverity of awtomobile
cidents can he gathered from stetfs
tica just reteaaed in the interest of
safety br thtf Stat* Farm Mutual Au
tomobile Insurance' Company, which
writes mere automobile protection
than* the nest two
combined, so has a
tion of facta than probably any simi
AH through 1946, and at a highly
accelerated rate after V-J Day and
the termination of gasoline rationing,
the number wad severity of automo
bile accidents hwedssed, the State
Farm Mutual report points out
litis trend in the number of and
?severity of automobile Occidents has
continued to increase in the first
quarter of IMS and with the 'iwnmp
tion of vacation travel this summer is
not likely to sleeken. ?
"In the first quarter of IMS, the
mpany had an increase of SLS per
cent ef claims received over the1 first
quarter of IMS," the report shows.
There were -21 per eent snore claims
reported in Janaary and February of
this year than in November and De
cember of IMS. in liazch the nam
up by 5.5 per cent over Jan
uary and Februaryand 7.6 par cent
claims were paid than to any
|previous month to the company's his
tory.
At the same time, the average cost
of claims for automobile acasdents
has continued to grow. For example,
the average 80 per cent collision claim
cost 98 par-cent more in IMS than iti
did in 1942. While in IMS the coetf
of the average claim- was the highest
in the history of the company; in the
first quarter of 1946 the average cost
up 18 peg cent over 1945.
With the average ear over 8 yean
old?with bad brakes on 1 car in 7?
with thoughtless driven "hitting' it
up" on ween tires?accidents involv
ing defective equipment have more
than doubled today?and so to many
cases, baa the cost of repairing the
damage to the automobile?where it
is possible to make repairs. All of
thin to addition to an avenge of 950,-.
coo people injured or killed each year
in truffle accidents.
These old can are, generally, more
extensively damaged to an accident
than newer models, simply because
parts Pre worn and .often, rusted. For
example, a rear fender on a certain
make of 1M1 automobile listed at $8,
but because a new one was unavaila
ble it cost more than five times the
price, of a new fender to repair it.
The average increase in repair costs
is up from 25 to 45 per cent.
All of this means that even auto
mobile owners who are protected by
insurance will have to pay more?
because to the-ftoal essence, the cost
of insurance is determined by the
amount the insurance company must
pay for claims." As every safety
agency has pointed out, the only rem
edy for lose of fife. loes of the use of
your automobile and the penalty of
Ugher taaumnce rates is CAREFUL
DRIVING. The remedy rests with
toe average motorist. Unless auto
_ jlwlifwias rleviwrA, W. Ma I ?,
niODiie oriTvrv unve inorw" co-rerun y
the report concludes. America will
reap the greatest toB of human HMf
to history this year,
loss WH1 hit toe pookdtooeik of
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"Washington, June 11?OPA
terday suspended price ceilings over
wdscco I rues no towcco pftrn-?apsp?
ing equipment,
'The agency said that to co
m these items would
that would more than offset all pos
sible benefits."
AtTheJflwanis Clob
Bob Fiser, program chairman of
the evening for the Kiwanis Club,
hadis his guest speaker, the Rever
end E. R. CI egg, local Methodist
The Rev. Mr. Clegg gave an inter
esting and impressive talk. Hia sub
ject was: "The End Better than {he
Beginning." His message was really
"food for thought" and was enjoyed
by everyone.
Alex Allen, in charge of the meet
ing, made some timely remarks as
suggested that those who had trucks
help with the grading and improve
ment of the scool grounds this week,
along with other organizations.
Alton Bobbitt, acting program
chairman during the absence of chair
man "Frank Allen, made some timely
remarks; stating that we must ever
be ready to take hold and carry on.
Attendance chairman, Jim Joyner,
mad a (attar from the White House,
in answer to a message sent to Presi
dent Truman, urging him to end the
Railroad Strike. The President com
mended the stand taken by the Mayor
and Ctvic Chlbs of Farmville.
Furlough Fay
Washington, June 11.?The House I
membership clambered en nnspri to
day on the GI bandwagon, voting 879
to 0 to pay enlisted service personnel |
cash lor unused furlough time.
The action, if sustained by the I
Senate, will put all service men and]
women on the acme basis with re
spect to furlough pay. Officers al
ready receive it under an old law.
Estimated variously to cost from
$2,006;000,<*K) to $5,000,000,000 Said
to Uffect approximately 15,000,000
men-and women who have served in
the Army, Navy, Marine Corpe, and
Coast Guard since September 8, 1939,
the legislation-' grew out of Congns-1
sional clamor against what member
called discrimination against GIs.
It entities enlisted personnel to
two and one-half days of furlough
monthly while in service and requires
that they be paid in cash if they
don't get the time off. A limit orf
120 days?the' same that appHes to
set on time that may be]
accrued and paid for.
ftaymentTatse are fixed according
to rank at the time of discharge plus
subsistence allowances at a minimum
of 70 cents a stay*
House Military Committee
bers who rewrote the bill originally J
introduced by Rep. Dwight I* *
(D-Fla) estimated that each
eligible for payments will re
an average of $250 if the legis-1
tation benomos law.
CATHOLIC CHUDCH HERE |
. HAS SUMMER SCHOO^I
For the past ten days, the
Summer School group of
beth's has enjoyed a _
beneficial session, the children en
joying their religion
by projects. The religion
by attendance at
of Holy <
m union.,,; ,
On last< Sunday
service was held in honor of the|
AMmnteW b, K?|
STSoly8 the fire7 of
Christianity enkindled in the 1
ofmadda*w5j
ith
Axis If
_ Talks
Are Bogged Down By
Big Four; Refuses To
Apply Eeonemic Sanc
tiotts To Spain
Eng., June 12.?
Foreign Secretary ?n?est Bavin de
clared in an eddreea today thai he
would reject the immediate immigra
tion of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, and
would sign separate peace treaties
with defeated European nations if
peftdirf? pcA?? ns^otifttiotui ccotinued
bogged Jown among the f<*r prind
pal powers.
?He declared, moreover, that he
would refuse to apply economic
sanctions to Spain.
Bavin's stand wee taken in an
appearance before the dominant la
bor party's annual conference. He
won an overwhelming confttesice en
dorsement of hie policies. _
In s fighting mood and speak
ing extemporaneously, the rotund
foreign secretary won adoption of
a party conference resolution en
dorsing hie administration of for
eign affairs. Five other resolutions
all critical, were withdrawn or de
feated.
The issue of the council of for
eign minieJnrs in fturis next week,
he said, will'be whether Europe is
to be split into eaatefn and western
blocs.
"Next week that is the issue that
is to be settled, if it ever ie," Berin
"I am not going to be a party to
any design in strategy
"Neither will we give sne mo
ment's consideration to wtpsnskm.
But this division of Europe, this
awful business of drawing a line
from Stettin (Germany) to Alhan
ia and behind that this solidified
position ? if that happens, which
God forbid, you will have two camps
m Europe and that wfll be the rued
to another struggle."
He caHed fer oeudusioti of a
peace treaty with Austria and urged
the clearance of occupation troops
from the Danube basin.
Declaring he hed been aeked as
to whether he would sign a separate
peace treaty, Bevin said:
"I dont know what steps we may
take to get these treaties, but I
say no one nation ss going to keep
me in a state of wear forever with
other countries."
On Palestine he said: ..
"If we put 100,000 Jews in Pal
estine tomorrow, I would have to
put another division of British sol
dims there. I?am not prepared to
do it.
"I must say to the J?ws and
Arabs: Please put your guns away.
Dont blow up the British Tommy
who is quite innocent in thistanu
"phase of the anti-Semitic feeling in
the British army.
"I believe that if both rides did
disarm, peaco and development
would be much ? " "
1 BARBER- BOYETTE
A wedding, characterised by dig
nity Sbd simplicity, wns solemnized
at the Famville Methodist Church,
Saturday afternoon, Jane 8, at four
o'clock, when Miss Elisabeth Boyette,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L.
Boyette, of Kenly, became the bride
of Clifton Parker Barber, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Barber, of Smithfiald.
The Rev. C. R. Clegg, pastor of the
Church, officiated in the ring cere
mony, which was witnessed by only
a .few relatives and intimate friends
of the couple.