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TIIIS COSINESS 7 1 BY SUSAN THAYER Pi I A Atito Qtife No. 9 WHAT "MAKING THINGS" MEANS Where the hills divided and the 2,500 mille trip wherever we found an valley widened we came upon an- active factory we found contentment ttiiu uruayeriLy. 1110 uuuaco 111 j.veiji other town. It was typical of New England, with square, white houses set in shady lawns along wide, quiet streets. But this town was more beautiful than the last ones we had driven through and there was a dif ferent air about it; something that told us that here people were not living upon past glories but were an active, useful part of Today although living in homes which spoke elo quently of a different age. The busy store along Main Street showed plainly that business was good. "They must make something here,", we told each other and turned to drive along the river looking for the factory or plant that was inevitable when we came upon towns like this. We found it, spreading its old brick walls along the river for at least a couple of blocks a paper mill thatj had been turning out news print for: more than a hundred years. This explained everything. The size of the beautiful homes, which meant prosperity a century ago, as! well as their present up-keep which means prosperity today. For on that coats of paint with green shutters, the lawn smooth and green, the flower beds ablaze with color. And why not? According to a study made recently by the National Association of Manufacturers, a ty- pical factory means an investment of i $975,000 and an annual payroll of ! $180,000 which is largely spent in the community itself. ! Such a payroll supports 33 retail I stores with sales of over half a mil-1 lion dollars a year. It makes possi-'. Me the sale and servicing of 320 au- j tomobiles. It accounts for 393 occu-' pied houses and a school house of 22 rooms. I It means a livelihood, not only for ! the factory workers themselves and : the storekeepers from whom thev' buy, but supports approximately 24 professional men and their families: doctors, dentists, lawyers and minis ters. It also means the support of the farmers ofv 6,600 acres. A com munity and a factory are interrelated and as the factory prospers, so do t'.e various individuals who make up tnat community. " 21 and- 22 at RalfoVJi; Southwestern Schaub explained .', that ithe, district, October 29 and 80 at States- i lgs will be held to coordinate vilef 'and Western district, October. LAS f SUED OF PUBLICITY STRAINED FROM DUNN'S FIVE AND TEN SHOOTING Mack Hobson Cheerfully Goes to Jail For Four Months; Alease Tart Goes Back to the Ribbon Counter; What Happened to the Only People Inconvenienced? Travelem Safety Service 1. Truly, the traffic accident situation is worse than war, for dur ing the last sixteen years almost twice as many Americans have lost their lives in automobile accidents as were killed in action or died of wounds in (a) The World War. (b) The Civil War. (c) the above wars combined, (d) The World War, Civil War and Revolu tionary War combined, (e) all the wars in which our country has been engaged. 2. We hope you won't ever be involved in an accident but if you should be, no matter how slight it is we hope you will . (a) drive home, telephone the police, await developments, (b) stop, give as sistance if necessary, and identify yourself, (c) drive quickly to the nearest police station end report (d) drive to the nearest telephone and call the hospital. - 3. Few fatal accidents occur at speeds of 25 miles per hour or less. True () or False ( ). (Answers on Page Two) i t. m V 111 JWlHVUMIi , ,Dr. meetings county farm' tod home , educational 31 and November 1 at .Asheville. programs witBi me work at state ' Th conference will be in -charge . vuucire. Kiuujccfc uiMier specialists f district farm aoantn onrf rfUtrirt . of the Extension : Service will consult home demonstration agents. " kk with each of the agents and make .. Farm and home agents will consult V arrangements for visits to the conn-' wk ties to give, method demonstrations, county AAA committees, and home , The, type and number of result, demonstration county councils about demonstrations to be placed with; plans for their counties before at- $J farmert and farm women also will be-tending the' conference. ' N, discussed with each agenfc ; ' , "Through these meetings we hopt "' lows: Northeastern district, October made during the past year in a bettei ,' 16 and 17 at Raleigh; 1 Southeastern balanced more economical North , district, October 18 and 19 at Ra- Carolina agriculture," Dr. Schaub '' leigh; Northwestern district, October said. ' . s, ' of near Cannons Ferry, ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Jordan and son, Jimmy, have returned home af ter .visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wilkins, at Boykins, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ellis and Miss Thelma Ellis, of Norfolk, Va., Mr. E. Monday af-, children visited Mr. and Mrs. W Byrum Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner and children, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Byrum and children visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Byrum, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dail and their and Mrs. Ot.s Ellis and Miss Garnet daughter, Miss Ila Mae DaiJ, of Nor- Jernigan were dinner guests oi Mrs. fnik. Va.. visited Mr. and Mrs. W. r, Mack Hobson was convicted last Thursday in Harnett County of as sault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to serve four months in jail. Alease Tart, the 18-year-old ten cent store clerk who "jilted" him and thereby brought about all the trouble, has gone back to the ribbon counter, Mack, if you read the daily papers and remember him, is the lovelorn Ida Ellis Sunday. Mrs. G. E. Hollowed and daugh ter, Miss Annie Mae Hollowell, were guests of Mrs. W. E. Byrum and Miss Mamie Byrum Thursday after noon. Mrs. Tom Asbel and two daugh ters, Anna Lee and Sarah Margaret, AffentS To Attend . i nave return eo irom wuision-aaieni, . , n lonely ceM and dissolves into. wWa tl visits M. AsMl's DlStriCt UOnierenCeS tears. (We'll bet Alease finds that brother, William Hunter. She really loves him after all. It n; 0.,k;i liru:-. lr 0J,. TknfrVi o corioo nf nrnornm nlan. woulld be interesting to follow it and EngHeside, Va., where she will teach ning meetings, a schedule of expand-j Byrum and Miss Mamie Byrum on Monday afternoon. Miss Garnett Jernigan is spending this week in Newport News, Va. Farm And Home his filSk In! mmimi?' 1 mmsssm 4, mmm f rmtjrr - - -rsag- I I fill .i-j , fp . JJjjJ J;.JL; .. 1 ' This new Philco 280X brings you spectacular Phiko ifiveations! Only Philco hir them! New kind of Overseas Wcve-Band gets Europe 'direct 3 tunes easier, stronger, dearer. Built-in American and Over seas Aerial Svstem eives riorioiu nor tnn and sensitivity. Brand new Radio Circuit More tubes for the money. BuOt to receive K f find out after the flare of trumpets signal Mack's release four months from now.) Alease is bound to visit Mack sooner or later and that is the last shred of publicity to be gained from this shooting business. vownenow, we ieei iiKe Mack is young college editor who didn't read having a laugh on the whole com- Ltorotljy DiX an4 so didjXT know a betteiway to clear up a wad situa tion than to empty a pistol at the object of his affections. The shooting took place in a Dunn Five and Ten Cent Store a month ago and everything connected with the occurrence was given due public ity. (That is, everything was dealt with except that the only people! who were really inconvenienced, the munity. If he reaflly wanted "to kill the girl, we believe he could have hit her with at least one of those bullets ... or he could have thrown the gun at her. Of if he was ser ious, ten cent stores carry any num ber of butcher knives and similiar weapons. No, we don't believe Mack intended to harm her, and he didn't know the two colored women were in the store. By the wav. we stifll wnn. again this year. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goodwin, of Green Hall, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Furry Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Gresham and Miss Ila Mae Dail, of Norfolk, Va., were week-end guests of their par entst Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dail. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Byrum and daughter, Doris Jean, visited Mr. and Mrs. WIlie Byrum Sunday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Cotter B. White and ed service to the farm people of North Carolina will be mapped out for county and home agents of the i State College Extension Service, Dr I. O. Schaub, Extension director, har announced. The first of these two-day distric j meetings will begin October 16 and the last. will be held October 31 and; November 1. There are five exten- j sion districts in the State. Three of j the conferences wild be held in Ra-j leigh, one in Satesville, and the last' Television Sound and FM ... the Wire less Way. See it now I EASY TERMS LIBERAL TRADE-INS W.M. "THE FURNITURE MAN" HERTFORD, N. G Who Knows? only people who have any interest ' der how the colored women are get in uie nappenings at an, tne two 1 wig aiong.) colored women customers in the store who were the innocent victims, of Mack's wild shooting.) That two colored women were wounded seems to us the only phase of the whole affair worth more than two paragraphs in anybody's paper. Yet we can't recall having seen their names in the daily papers. Surprisingly enough, the Tart girf wasn't hit, and even if Mack wasn't in jail, it's doubtful that he would be drafted after the exhibition of marksmanship he put on in the Five and Ten. There followed a movie-type hear ing with all the slush and tripe and trimmings that go hand in hand with such tabloid-patterned happenings. You know the routine; pictures of sweating lawyers, pictures of the pretty girt who "liked him as a friend," and more pictures of the handsome youngster who lost his head and. didn't know why he did it. To make an ideal set-up even more perfect there was a sanity hearing, and to the satisfaction of everybody 1. How does the population of j Germany, before Hitler, compare with acquisitions since 1933? 2. What is the area of London? 3. What was the basis of Bul garia's claim to southern Dobruja? 4. How many cantonments did the U. S. have in the WorJd War? 5. How many airplanes are pro vided for in the $5,000,000,000 de fense bill? 6. How large is the ranch-holdings 3l Vice-president Garner? 7. Vvhat is referred to as a "lloaiing elephant"? 8. W'aat determines the number of votes a state has in the Electoral College? y. In what year was the woman's 10. How far is Bermuda from concerned (and nearly everybody not ape Hatteras, nearest point in the concernea; juacK was found to be as ,jmw5U "si sane as the doc who examined him. I Now, everything is lovelvf ml-1 THE ANSWERS has moved his typewriter into the'. 1- J57'000'000 il 1933; acquisitions, iruit, nut and candy-bedecked cell incmain8 occupied jrrance, 93,300,000. and thinks "it was a fair sentence 2" About 693 square miles, and appreciates the consideration 3 lt was a part of BuUrria he given him.'' (We can't get those two fore Balkan War 1913 Negro women out nf nnr t,-I. 4. Sixteen. wonder what they think about It all. The papers haven't said.) With cheerful, bright, indomitable spirit ffMack is prepared to pJay the martyr for all suffering young- lovelorn mankind. j . U'g hard to see Mack in jail pay "i his debt to society. It's hard to see Mack doing anything other than heartily enjoying his position as the Pitiful yictjriTof ThatOle Debbil K course. And wh m i. L i Sr..e7wkfc ere will be no ' J0B USK on W Society wiU , welcome him back' with open arms" terastfn to his frfend, than he was Back at the ribbon 'eounterAUiaie i rather out of thing, fo, mo ment. r.tfa likely to stay , In the Jtackgro-nd. until she visits Hack. la Have you seen this Chart at Gulf Stations? IT SHOWS THE TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT IN GULF GASOLINES! 40,000 and 50,000 British bar- 5. 18,000. 6. Between acres. 7. A balloon in the rage. , 8. Each state has as many votes as it has senators and representatives combined, 9. 1920. 10. 630 miles. Will and Time If the will and the time:' always went together, how much we should be able to do I Robert Hugh Benson. CENTER HILL NEWS v Miss Elizabeth White has gone to Guilford, where she will again be a member pf the school faculty, - Mrs. J.S. Turner,, her daughter, r-gy, Irs. tloyd Bune and her ton, Pallas, visited ; Mrs, Edward Byrum, THIS CHART, we hope, will give you a better picture than could a thousand words of the re cent amazing improvement in Gulf gasolines. It is based on a scien tific test of gasoline quality today a test that is used by many of our competitors, as well as by our selves. The chart shows the fair comparative measure of step up in both GOOD GULF and GULF NO-NOX ... a step up which is no intangible "engmeering tri umph" but one which may be en joyed by you ... in your car! Good Gulf is now boosted to its all-time high...will make your motor perform better than 'ever before. Gulf No-Nox is now (as always) truly superior fuel . exceeds by far Norths Carolina specifications for premium gaso w line. It is, even more than former- Better try fees Diitcr Fnsb ? ' r nhk OMt m ... m mi . , . f-" II I I f " t --- S-W..MI i ,,,y t fll ; : ' I ' V, '.. 'tfi'V,.;.. ly, knockproof under all normal driving conditions. Try $ tankful today at the Good Gulf dealer's m your neighborhood.' . FCC-M21 Xisgt to txn UsaeT This iMlpful booklet byoun for the aaUnf at your local Good Gulf dUaW Ha. Ga youn, rigt away at the Slgaof theGulf OraftgaDiMl , 0 y vr s m,iitn csLF gzi crir f.rue-f r - - i r f- 'r'H ;C rvi It . j. X' 'f it- , - 1 L 'l t 'f i ? t I f A
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