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The Phoenix index., 1940-07-06

Word has been received that Mr..
Joseph w Lott, of Fort Huachuca,
who has now been in the hospital
for nearly a month, suffering
with burned foot, is much improv-
ed. although he is yet in the hos
pital
The Phoenix index., 1940-07-06

Mrs. Robbie MCKAY, daughter
in-law of Mrs. Mamie Roam, left
last week for Texas, where she
will spend some time visiting rela-
tives and friends
The Phoenix index., 1940-07-06

Word was received from Miss
Lillian White in Los Angeles, that
she is very comfortable and cool
and regrets very much TO leave
friends but glad to rid herself OF
this heat.
The Phoenix index., 1940-07-06

COMMITTEE HEADS
Bennie Robinson, fellowship;
Mattox Bailey, program; Samuel
Lindsey, recreation; o. D. Bradley
entertainment; Fred Bell, attend
The Valley settler., 1940-05-24
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sw3ro6 qnvstio4s.
 Th3 Cenn-rv, Crocm1rv, Laun6ry, N:-tchorT, cn6 "oGt TitcA@n w1ro t. len in turn. Savory odors cAd mouth ". t-rtnr 4G tshl1s nd dr ink cb13s wor~ in 0vtdonco in thu It Kitchen md Cr.c.a3ry but cll hints IS to scaplos so3m3G to fcll on doGf 5crs until 25r. Stock sliced up : bir hunk of luncheon mott and 0@a5od it out. Eec's cott9 60 choose looked good indood.
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 Tn 'ar2houso cnd storr go units wc~o rlso visited. hnotaar tn- vcntory hoc 2ccho. 3D1cc woul dnit p1rmit trvin~ to t5ll ell thy dtfforon5 it3~es atonod th-r3. Tho wind u1 WIS t tho G~cding Pos tho onu unit most f 3lt:r to Ill, cn1 tra@ts by TT. Stoc!-. Tho visitors expressed th4ir cpp- r1ci2 t1on of tho offorts of 2r. Stock to ~cou5 int tho poopl~ Of tho Vcll1v, vi tn the vor1- of tho Coop in this way. It is to be bogro tod th~t more pooplo couldn't tcl1o cdvcntcro of such n ins truct. i've tour. Until wo ~ctuo1ly SOC th0m VIC hcv9 no td3s of tho pro- b14us our oc1pl oy5ss hcvo to fec, md TOW they gro trying to so1v9 thoso probl -Gas in such wcys 1s will bo most nrofttc bl2 to our .- Co-op sot-up.
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
Facts
kepssbic Moved
Restoring Psissinss
Greedy Abaeross

q When Panama seeded from
Colombia In 1908 and became an
Independent republic, il moved"
nom one continent to another.
Subsequent maps showed the
boundary between North and
South America at the eastern end
OF Panama instead Of the western,
which put Panama in Central
America. or the extreme south
ern part Of the North American
continent.
q Expert restorers Of oil paint
ings sometimes transfer a famous
picture from its rotting canvas or
boards to q new canvas. In this
delicate operation, a strong paper
or muslin adhesive, pasted over
the front, holds the paint while the
old backing is removed and the
new one put in place.
q The albatross, largest of the
sea birds, sometimes attains
Widespread of II feet and is 50
powerfully built that it often flies
for days without alighting. At
other times, the bird so gorges
itself with food and becomes 50
overloaded" that it cannot lift it,
weight into the air.-Collier's.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

this mark on three
consecutive occasions.
But Teller Ii headed for the same
fertile country ut the ase Of 81.
There Il NO telling what heights he
might reach II the draft or war
doesn't interfere. The Cleveland
star II without any question the
greatest young pitcher In baseball.
Matty was just getting under
Roadway at 81 and Alexander was
"A when he came to Philadelphia
and hung up % wins. But at 81
Teller is all ready to join the pick Of
the flock.
II the world ever settles down to
something like its old normally
there Is no telling how many ball
games Blasting Bobby might put
away before he checks out.
Right From the Start
Teller was an amazing kid from
the start. He came to Cleveland in
1885 at the age of Ia big, raw
boned kid with great pair of hands
and a great pair Of wrists.
You can imagine the feelings al
most any 17-year-old player would
carry into action, facing his first
start under the Big Tent. Not Eel
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
GETTING TOGETHER

Bushy-browed John L. Lewis and
shrill-voiced William Green still are
glowering at each other, but the
A. F. Of L. and c. 1. o. members
Of the Labor Advisory commit
tee, appointed by Defense Commits
sioner Sidney Hillman are co-operat-
ing with real harmony.
Their weekly Friday afternoon
meetings with Hillman are like q
happy family. The labor chiefs ad-
dress one another by first names
and lean over backward to iron out
differences between their organ
izations. Illustrative of the good feel
ing Is their sly testing about A. F.
of Lie. /. o. peace.
At last Fridays conference, r. ].
Thomas, head of the c. /. o. United
Auto Workers, happened to take a
seat on the A. F.. of L. side of the
table. Wisecracked Dan Tracy. en-
ergetic A. F. of L. electrical work
ers' chief, AHA, pulling a little
peace stuff on US, chi"
All the laborites joined in the
laughter
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

women who see to it that the chill
dren and the new husband are
brought to know and understand
and like each other.
Beatrice, for example, is q case
In point. Nine years ago she di-
vorced her husband, end gave q
small girl of eight a new father.
For while there was nothing they
could do with little Alice. She hated
everything about the change, and
wept continuously for her own Dad
dy, and her own house, and the old
school and the old friends.
Even a baby brother didn't COM
fort Alice, and for while Jack, the
stepfather, detested the child, and
was glad when she went off to visit
her own father and her grand
mother.
But today the situation is differ
ent. Beatrice, the mother, has two
small boys to keep her busy. She
has no maid, and for some seven
years, she writes, she has never
slept through a night undisturbed,
or been in bed later than six o'clock
in the morning.
Stepfather's Attitude Changes.
Alice, the once unmanageable
little daughter, is now lovely sew
enteen; her stepfather adores her,
and she idolizes him. The mother
writes anxiously that she is idle, out
OF school, and mad for dances and
evening parties, and that Jack in
dulges her ridiculously. Beatrice
uses the rickety family car, when
Jack doesn't need it, but Alice has
been promised a new car on her
eighteenth birthday. Jack loves to
take her places, to his golf club, to
movies, to lunch downtown, and she
aatters him by referring everything
to Daddy" He says no man is
good enough for his girl, and Alice
says she never will find a man as
perfect as Daddy.
Il ought to be glad, / suppose,
writes Beatrice. "But feel neglect
ed and lonely much of the time.
sweet as my little boys company
is. The actual situation is that nv
husband is taking q younger and
prettier woman about, and although
both Alice and Jack are conscien-
tious people, far above any suspi-
cion, it makes me feel as if my life
somehow were unbalanced. II
suggest that Alice stay with the boys
and Jack take me to a movie, he
will do it amiably, but always with
an effort, always with an air of
marking time. And often, when we
are alone together, he is thinking of
Alice, know, for he will break out
with some reference to her, or some
quotation from her, as il she were
the most amusing and lovable crea-
ture in the world.
StepmOther Neglected Now.
well, she is amusing and beau
tiful and lovable, too, there is not
a mean bone in her body. But after
all, it wasn't Alice with whom Jack
fell so desperately in love, 10 years
ago; it wasn't for Alice's sake that
/ divorced her father and was per-
suaded into second marriage. No
body could have been more pas
sionately in love than Jack was
then"
Well, in answer to Beatrice, l can
only say that this seems to me one
of those problems that time inev-
itably solves. With a girl as at
tractive and sweet as Alice, mar
riage will come along in a year or
two, and Jack, who has made such
a conspicuous success as a stepfa-
Their, can try being step-grandfa-
Their.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

the Wgane marx
on the winning side,
but with any luck at
the age Of 81 he win
sit in the 80 win
ning-game division
this next fall with
such an-time per-
formers as Christy
Mathewson, Grover
Alexander, Walter
Johnson, Smoky Joe
Wood and Lefty
Grove. Matty and
Alexander reached
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Friends of Henry Wallace think he
may come back into the job as sec
rotary Of agriculture between cleo
ton day, November 5, and inaugu-
ration day, January 20. This means
Claude Wickard would step down
again.
In the senate CONSUMPTION debate
Sen. Alex Wiley, Wisconsin, isola-
zionist, gave this thought: I'VE
don't have to take any ideas from
the Nazis. They may have their
blitzkrieg, but we have our intui-
ton"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
STEPPARENTS

StepmOthers and stepfaihers always
find themselves in a difficult situation.
This usually arises from the inability
q the child and steppuent to adaps
themselves to one another. An anxious
mother OF l7-year-old girl here
confronfs Kathleen Norris ,Uith prob
lem that is just the opposite: her sec
ond husband is too afecfionafe to his
pretty stepdaughter. Miss Norris says
that time offers the best cure for this
problem.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
- ~ q
|5oi!4!i111

over 80 years ago Jack CHESHIRE
~ stepped out and blew himsef to
20 Yankee victories. A few years
later Ed Walsh moved into the 40
game set, q record which doesn't in
clude 10 or II other games he hap
pened to save. Walsh that year
worked in Sc ball games.
Under changed conditions II may
be that Bob Teller win never reach
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

Ter. He lacked control, but from the
cucumber on ice.
After whiting IL of the enemy in
one Of his first games, the Van Meter
phenom was trifle too keen on the
strikeout path for some time. This
wrecked his control. He was also
bit lopsided at holding runners on
base. But he has long since cured
both faults. He has added a good
curve ball to his speed.
Teller has the poise and balance
of a much older man. He has
shown no sign so far of an enlarged
head, no sign of kid freshness with
older men.
A fellow like Teller will mean a
healthy package to Cleveland when
the stretch running begins a few
weeks later on. And fellow like
Feller can turn a world series up-
side down, if he gets the chance.
The Reds Sad Story
When I sat on the bench a short
while back with Bill McKechnie his
Reds had nine-game lead and thew
looked to be breezing. It was the
first time had ever seen Uncle Will
breathing normally with his pulses
in order. You could see that with
this lead, plus Derringer, Walters
and Thompson, his worries were
just about over.
But they are not over now.
1t has been suggested that Willard
Hershberger's death had a depress-
ing effect. But the sliding had start
ed before the young Red catcher
ended his life.
The shock began when the Giants
beat Bucky Walters in the game that
Walters had tied up in a true lovers
knot in the ninth inning with two
out. The Reds have never quite re-
covered from that shock. Later on
the suicide episode didn't help.
They were due for a slump. but
no one looked for any such August
dip. They still have the call with
the pitching they have, but the old
easy-going gallop is over. AS some
philosopher has said, There is also
gameness in front running" In
fact, there is plenty.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

FLOWERS in simplest stitchery
I'LL these easily crocheted bas-
ket edgings. Take your pick Of
pillow cases, towels or scarfs.
Pattern 6681 contains q transfer
pattern of IL motifs ranging from
8 by Is to 2 by 4 inches; chart
and directions for crochet; illus
trations Of stitches; materials
needed. Send order to-:
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
What about Fo11?

The Mel OFT day was a knockout
No ball player had more wild laurel
blossoms coming his way. Except
possibly one James Emory Foxx of
the Red Sox. Here is a great ball
player and great guy.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

All the Traffic
Would Bear"

y Therewas a time In America
when there were no set prices.
Each merchant charged what
ne thought "the traffic would
bear" Advertising came to
the rescue Of the consumer.
1t led the way to the estab-
hshed prices you pay when
you buy anything today.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
JOIN THE ARMY


With the biggest ballyhoo in Is
years, the war department is en-
treating young men to join the army.
BY billboards, radio, movies, every
conceivable publicity device, even
including paper matches, the depart
ment is spending $28 head to get
recruits for the fighting forces.
And this will continue, regardless
OF the new CONSUMPTION measure.
This recruiting is for the regular
army, to bring it up to strength of
$4,000. Consumption, on the other
hand, aims to get roughly a million
men for a one-year training period,
to form trained reserve.
The publicity drive is getting re-
suits. 1t yielded 23,444 in June, q
new record for peacetime. The July
figure surpassed the June figure, and
August, in turn, surpassed July.
The cost Of $28 a head for enlist
ments is low compared with other
years. In 1880, the department paid
$50 for each recruit; in 1881, the
figure was $66. Today recruiting is
on a mass production" basis, also
a lot Of the publicity is obtained
free of cost.
For instance, express trucks, rail-
roads and chain stores are carrying
posters free of charge, while $50
trade associations are making a
gratis display Of preparedness slo-
gans. Radio stations are donating
free time for transcribed "join the
army" programs, and $4,000 bill
boards are pasted with recruiting
posters at half price.
Most novel device is the mobile
recruiting station, a truck and trail
er specially designed to carry a re-
cruiting sergeant and staff about the
countryside, park in the town
square, and sign up youngsters for
the army. Twenty-seven mobile
stations" are built or building, two
or three for each corps area.
Result is that voluntary enlist
ments are proceeding at the rate of
about 5000 a week, which should
mean that the regular army will fill
its quota Of BIS, 900 men before snow
| flies.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
rM!9la!aQha,

WASHINGTON.-It In interesting
to note the manner in which certain
congressman have consistently
squelched attempts to investigate
the state departments cooperation
with the British tin trust and certain
U. S. business firms to prevent the
United States from acquiring suf-
ficient supplies Of tin.
With Japan now able to seize the
Dutch East Indies and the Malays.
the United States may have her
tin supply cut of in q few weeks
time. Yet up until recently, the
state department played In with the
British tin monopoly, did nothing
about the situation.
Now Sol Bloom. energetic chair
man Of the house foreign affairs
committee, has introduced a resolu-
ton to investigate the tin situation.
But he faces the vigorous opposi-
ton Of Representatives, Cochran of
Missouri and Faddis Of Pennsyl-
vania, both Democrats.
Interesting fact Ii that Congress
man Faddis comes from Pennsyl-
vania's twenty-fifth district, in
which is located the Standard Tin
Plate company, which is tied I'D
with Continental Can and long has
done business with the British
monopoly.
Also Representative Cochran
comes from st. Louis, where the
National Lead company operates the
st. Louis Smelling and Refining COM
pany. National Lead owns part of
Patino Mines, which is the keystone
OF the British tin monopoly. Until
recently National Lead has lobbied
against all efforts to establish tin
smelters in the United States, thus
making this country independent of
the British tin trust.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

Test Of Friendship
We only need to face the test
when we realize the priceless
worth of can unchanging friend"
-Royston.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
There Are Exceptions.

These things simply don't mix,
and the woman who tries to recon
Gle them merely wrecks her own
nerves and those Of everyone around
her.
Ot course there are exceptions.
There Orc Wise eiu1rIa eelf-eHacipo
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

a PLUMP, pleasant middle-aged
\ lady, who likes pink dresses
and an old-fashioned hair-do, has the
job Of seeing that we don't turn too
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

CONSOLIDATED Features-WNU ServicsJ
NEW YORK. 20 years they
~ still tell, in Moscow, how bold
Semyon Konstantovich Timoshenko,
then a cavalry chief, led Red
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06
Ask for NESCo
kerosene Romeo

II suggested porcelain
and white finishes ..
burner trays. smooth
edges, rounded corners
no bolts and
hinges to accumulate
dirt"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03

roll, four white and three colored.
They draw this year, as last, a
total of $3,890,11 in pensions. New
Hanover county is the only n in
the state which has a pension sys-
tenn for It's retired teachers.
The figures carried on the budget
sheet does not show an eXpendi-
ture having been made for h e
Community hospital last year, but
shows an appropriation of $12,711
for this year to cover a $11, 100
payment on a note, Sill interest
and 81, 500 for heating, plumbing
and furnishing the nurses home at
the hospital.
An increase of about $31, 900 is
shown in the budget for schools
for this year over the expenditures
of last year, with the appropriation
being $197, 1885 as against $780,
483.8 81 spent last year. The majority
of the increase, however, is in the
extended school term appropriation
money for which comes from the
special levy voted by the people
of the county some years ago.
No breakdown of the S C h o o
budget is shown in the county bud
get.
In addition to the regular budget
for the operation Of the schools.
there is shown as available for use
by the school board 500, Al, 02, rails
ed through a bond sale, for school
buildings. This money is now being
used on two projects to improve
schools in the county, notably the
New Hanover high school and the
Wrighsboro graded school.
In addition to these regularly
budgeted items, there are certain
items connected with the debt ser.
vice of the county attached to the
budget. AS these are merely rou-
tine payments of bonds and cou
pons on maturity dates and the
like, they will not be dealt with
here. :
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
COUNTY'S BUDGET
liked TO $829,459
Continued from Page Severn

sunerior court to the state supreme
court. Previously when a paupei
annealed. with court sanction, the
county had to pay the court stelo'
oranher for a transcript OF 1ne
estimony. Under a new con1rac'
with the stenographer, he now doe
a11 needed court work for the coun-
tv at no additional cost ano
receives a salary of $1,000.
The commissioners are hoping
this fiscal year will bring N
Hanover county no Smoak cases
and no other such murder cases
necessitating the disinterment OF a
cadaver from its grave, and con
sequently have included no funds
in it's budget for this item.
Clerks Office
An increase in the stationery
binding and printing needs OF tne
office of the clerk of superior court
is principally responsible for the
increase from the $027.27 spent
there last year and the $1,O54 ap'
p%ropriated for use there this year.
An unimportant reduction IS
made in the appropriation for re-
corder's court this year beneath
what was spent last year.
Tax Collectors Office
The county's appropriation &c r
the operation of the city-county tax
collectors office is slightly smaller
this year than last years expendl-
lures for the operation of this Of
flee. Most of the reduction
is brought about by the fact that
last year the tax office moved into
its new quarters in the city hall,
where furniture and fixtures were
needed, and having been bought
last year, no appropriation for that
is needed this year. One steno-
grapher as given a raise OF $3.50
a month in salary and W. I. Davis
was given an automobile allowance
of $50 a month, which is a new
item. He used the a in making
personal contacts on collection OF
back taxes and in the performance
of other duties.
The budget for the meter inspect
or's office is unchanged, containing
only an appropriation of $3.50 for
his salary.
Rural Police
The budget for the rural police
is slightly reduced this year under
last years expenditure of $4,027.71.
Identification Bureau
The bureau of Identification
budget is about the same thi S
year as the expenditures made last
year. An increase of SIS a month
was given the clerk and the ap-
preparation for equipment and sup
plies was increased somewhat but
in the aggregate the budget is only
5000 as compared with expendi-
lures last year of So, 32.44.
Food Stamp Plan
A new item in the budget this
year is for the operation Of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03

HAPPINESS, C. o. D.
CONTINUED from Page Eght)

lCOnGInueu lTOm L d6O ~o-F
and Bills background, what did
it cost?" was always a first con
sideration. She knew that Bill was
impressed by the way things were
done among wealthy folk. Jeremy
walked over and began playing the
instrument.
because of your interest in
trade and commerce, William.
she leased whispering, Il will In
form you. 1 saw the price that
Jeremy overlooked"
Good. How much?"
tTwenty-six fifty"
He stared.
st wasn't referring to individual
dollars" she went on, loftily. This
is the best machine of its kind to
be had anywhere. 1t also makes its
own records, as the operator de-
sires. It does practically every
thing around the home but battle
the baby"
LO1uy O1CdlllSo 1lCs
They enjoyed the magnificent
recorded music only a minute,
however, before Graham, the but
Ter, hurried in. He beckoned at
once to Bill and Gayle, drew them
aside.
ut is most distressing, Miss
Gayle, and MIR. Bailey, sir" Ora
ham showed alarm on his correct
old face. "But I must report an
other theft to you, of rather more
importance this time!" !
Ito Be Continued)