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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
May Eat Cake!

Although most of us have all the food
we want to eat-there still seems some
thing frightening about the fact that a
major bread shortage is looming up.
When there was shortage OF beef, we
found it easy to shift to other kinds of
meat When the sugar shortage came we
got along all right by paying less atten-
ton to our sweet tooth. When the butter
shortage came it wasn't too much of
sacrifice to use butter substitutes. And,
if we can't get Bread there will still be
plenty of other foods in the stores which
will satisfy our appetites.
But bread shortage seems more i'm
portant than the others because bread has
played such an important role in history
as the ''staff of life"
But it may be, if the world food short
age continues very long, that we will ac-
tually be forced to carry out the order of
the famous French queen who, when told
that her people had no bread to eat, dis
missed the problem by exclaiming, LET
them eat caken'
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
Youth Helps Again

Club girls participating in the National
4-H Food Preparation Activity are on the
job to help relieve famine abroad. Spe-
officially, they are conserving wheat, fats
and oils in preparing and serving family
meals.
Among their conservation measures
are: Substituting oatmeal, potato or soy
flour for wheat in bread. =. Replacing
bread with potatoes in stuffings and in
making fluffy topping for meat pies. :.
Using stale bread in escalloped dishes, and
for French toast. :. Serving raw vege-
tables from their Victory gardens in salads
oils. Baking or broiling, instead of
frying fish, to conserve fats. F.. Using meat
drippings for cooking and seasoning foods,
to save cooking oils. Serving fruits
instead of cakes and pastries for DESERTS
The youthful cooks are also showing
community groups through demonstra-
tons and talks how to stop waste and con-
serve food.
Merit awards will be given by Servel
for outstanding records. County winners
will receive medals. The state winner will
will be guest-delegate at the National
4-H Club Congress in Chicago National
winners will receive $500 College scholar
ships.
Last years state winner in North Caro-
lima was Jean McLamb Of Clinton County
winners were named in fifty-three coun-
ties.
This activity is a part of the National
Al Food and Famine Program, and is
conducted under the direction Of the Elk
tension Service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
"Deficit Spending

The thing that has surprised us in all
this strike crisis is the fact that no big
manufacturer has threatened to strike. The
idea of a lockout seems to have disappeared
entirely from the nations thinking.
Yet it would seem common sense. If
labor costs and price ceilings make it i'm
possible for a manufacturer to make a
profit, logical development would be to
close his plant until the government per-
mitted price increases or labor agreed to
work at a reasonable wage until the COM
pany got out of the red.
Deficit spending seems to have become
the fashion in government circles, and is
gradually being forced upon manufacture
ers. The big companies are being asked
to take a loss now, assuming that the
losses will, be paid off when production
reaches it's peak.
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or Man Weather

Tt was Mark Twain who Ventured the
opinion that there was no such thing as oao
weather only different kinds OF good
weather.
OF course, Mark Twain saw things with
a bit of a twinkle in his eye, and IN all
probability he could write his amusing
stories in rainy weather as well as when
the sun shone. His book sales didn't de-
pend on whether the soil was moist OF
marched or whether the elements kept
people inside their houses when they
should be working at their jobs outdoors
It's different with farmers. For ex-
ample no one could ever convince farm
er that the weather is good while ne IS
sitting at his window looking out at teem-
ing rain, watching Jupiter PluVlus max
ing lakes in his planted fields when all
the time he knows that he should be OUT
doors cultivating his crops and can l.
Not all the authors in this universe
could gang up to convince farmer tflat
rainy weather is giving him good chahce
to rest and relax when he doesn't want TO
rest and relax, when in fact the only thing
he wants to do is work at his endless Joo
of making living.
Still it's a lucky thing that present.
day farmers don't have to completely waste
those precious days when bad weather
keeps them off their fields. Modern farm
ers bave learned how to profitably use
those hours of enforced idleness.
They know that pulpwood prices are
high, that they can always turn out their
woodlots, getting in a mighty useful day
with an axe or saw when all else fails
In fact, they know that they can turn the
most dismal kind of day into nice cash
profit by cutting their seasonal crops of
top quality pulpwood in so-called bad
weather.
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TOWN ALDERMEN
HOLD MEETING, TUES.
(Continued from Page II

Continued from Page u
-Ieill, Jr. applied for permission
to open a pool room. Mr.. Nc
NELL was advised by the board
to make a written application
concerning location, size and
type of business before action
5 to be taken.
Application was also made by
Gale Mcmillan for building per-
1t for a concrete building for the
". J. Parts company, estimated
to cost approximately $4,000. A
second application was made for
d steel and brick building also
for the w. j. Parts company, es-
cinated to cost approximately
10000.
E. F. Sheets, representing Bur-
CESS Furniture company, made
application to build a concrete
and cement block building to be
Used as warehouse, estimated
to cost approximately $4,000.
Don z. Blackburn also made
application for a 10000 brick
building.
Dwelling permits were applied
for by c. P. Mcmillan and Rus
sell Barr.
Application was made by Joe
Williams for operating taxi in
West Jefferson, and the board
voted to notify owners of the
cab company here that their
franchise would not be renewed
on same terms at expiration of
franchise which they are now op-
Grating under.
Necessary steps are to be taken
by the town clerk to find out
what should be done before
bonds can be sold to repair streets
and to make other town improve
ments.
The alderman also voted to
retain two policemen, c. P. Nc
MILAN and C. E. Blevins at the
same price the old board was
paying them.
The board also discussed street
water and sewer projects and 6
committee, composed of Russell
Barr, Glenn B. GRAPHICAL anc
John Hardin, was appointed by
the mayor to obtain bids on such
projects.
D. E. Blackburn, Carl F. Col
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

and Claude Powers have gone tt
Atlanta, Ca, this week.
Mrs. w. P. Shoaf visited Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Race, Sunday
Mrs. c. R. Latham and daugh.
Ter, visited relatives at Grassy
Creek, last week.
Miss Irene Jones was ill las
week.
Mrs Martin Ashley returned
rom Winston-Salem, Thursday
where she has been a patient ir
he Baptist Hospital.
Mrs. Claudia Johnson visited
friends in Bluefield, w. Va, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyte Blevins and
Mrs. leila Ashby attended the
ent meeting at Grassy Creek
Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. Hall are
visiting Mrs. Claudia Johnson
this week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
Incentive OF Peace

Employees of General Motors again are
getting a genuine "look at the books
not to be confused with the UAW-CIO's
misleading catch phrase of last Winters
retarding strike-as they receive the cor
poration's 1915 report addressed to 'the
men and women of General Motors"
It is an 18-page booklet, approximating
news-magazine dimensions, outlining the
GIN postwar planning some Of the high
lights of the closing phases Of war pro-
duction, and several pages on the financial
side of GIN operation in 1945, including
it's commendable wartime record of a prof
it per sales dollar that was less than half
of peacetime average for the five prewar
years.
Sensible and inspirational is the intro
ductory message of c. E. Wilson, president
of General Motors. 1t is one that can we'll
be considered by workers of the entire
Nation in these difficult times
"Now the Nations need is for produc-
ton - greater and greater production"
said Mr. Wilson, "That calls for the full
use of scientific knowledge and modern
machinery In our highly competitive
business we must constantly improve pro-
fluction methods, must find new and bet
ter ways of doing things. While our eff
forts were concentrated on war work it
was impossible to make many advances
In peacetime methods. Now we have to
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DENOMINATION CLINICS
BEING HELD IN COUNTY
CONTINUED from Page !

Continued from Page y
Office, ESQ p. m.
Tuesday, June Is, July 2, g.
Tuckerdale Depot, $50 a. m;
Whitetop-Farmer's Store, 1880
a. M; Nella Post Office, 2:30 p. m.
Wednesday, June 27, July 3, 10
-MeadoWVieW School House, $50
a. M; Fairview School House,
HOO a. M; Osborne School
House, 100 p. m; Warrensville
ost Office, 800 p. m.
Monday, July %, 20, Aug. s.
Clifton Post Office, $50 a. M;
Ashland Store, HOO a. M; Suth-
erland School House, loo p. M;
>Green Valley School House, 2:30
p. m.
tuesday. July %, 80, August s
-IdleWild Post Office, $50 a. M;
Fleetwood Post Office, HOO a.
III; BroWnWood Post Office, 1870
p. M; Todd Post Office, 800 p. m.
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make up for lost time and we have plans

make up for lost time and we have plans
for doing that.
"But improved methods alone cannot
do the job. Greater production also will
require the best efforts of every one OF us.
1t is sometimes said that we Americans
can't continue to produce in peace as we
did in war because we lack the incentive
that made us work together in fighting
foreign enemy. l don't believe it. We
have even greater incentive now = the
chance to build things for our own con-
structive use instead of for destroying the
enemy, the chance to enjoy the peace and
freedom we fought and worked SO hard
to win"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

ward and the town clerk were
also appointed to obtain irfor-
nation concerning borrowing
money for town Improvements.
H. R. Vannoy, Mrs. j. B. Hens
ley, T. E. Parker and Mrs. Edgar
Jones were appointed to super
wise the upkeep of the cemetery.
Funds will be provided by the
town clerk for the upkeep.
Due to numerous matters to be
taken up by the board, the bust
ness was continued until later
this week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
CPL. GEORGE MAY
RE-ENLISTS IN ARMY

Caserta, Italy, June 4.-Cor-
poral George L. May, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William May, residing
at West Jefferson, Route l,
Box 3, recently enlisted in the
Regular Army for a period of one
year. He will serve his enlist
ment in the Mediterranean Thea
ire of Operators. Prior to en-
listing in the Regular Army, he
was assigned to the 351st Inf.
Regt. of the 18th Division, in
Italy.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

FOR SALE-just received a
nice line of ladies and children's
dresses, bathing suits, aprons, etc;
also a beautiful lot of mems and
boys suits and odd coats; over
alls, rain coats, coveralls, slips,
curtains. West Jefferson Bar
gain House. 6-13-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
COMMUNION TO BE
HELD AT RIVERVIEW

The annual communion service
will be held at Riverview Prim-
tive Baptist church on Saturday
and Sunday, June Is and Is, it
was announced this week. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend these services.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
TRIED IN MAYORS COURT

Joseph Brown, who was tried
in Mayors court last week by
Mayor c. 0. Parsons and found
guilty of public drunkenness, is
not a resident of Creston, but
resides in Crumpler. The address
of Mr. Brown was not known at
time of publication.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
NOTICE


Notice is hereby given that 1
have sold the Ideal Laundry, West
jefferson, North Carolina, to r.
J. Randolph, Glen Younce and
Ronda Yo Ince, and that / will
not be responsible for the pay
ment of any accounts or other
indebtedness incurred in the
name of the Ideal Laundry af-
ter this date.
This June :, 1916.
r. c. MILLER,
West Jefferson,
North Carolina.
6-13-2tp.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

We have on hand several thou
sand silo bricks. Get your bricks
now if you expect to build your
silo this year. Parker Tie Com
pany. 6-13-1tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

SPENCER CORSETS-Individ-
ually designed. Foundation med
zeal supports. Guaranteed fit
tings. Mrs. E. R. Sturdivant,
West Jefferson. 6-13-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

WANTED AT ONCE-Pony or
small saddle horse, good size, gen.
tie, suitable for 10-year old boy.
See or write Herman Hare, City
Barber Shop, West Jefferson.
6-13-2tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13
Classified Ads

HAVE 10000 locust posts FOR
SALE and will deliver them in
quantities to buyers. See HerberL
Francis, First National Bank.
6-13-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-06-13

FOR SALE-One Cole corn
and bean planter, practically
new; One Stuart sheep shearing
machine. See Frank Pierce,
Creston, N. c. 6-13-1tp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
Wake Forest Accepts Fund
And Will Move COLLEGE
BY The Associated Press

GREENSBORO. N. c.. July 81
The North Carolina State Baptist
Convention yesterday voted over
Whelmingly to accept an offer from
the g. Smith Reynolds Foundation
of the income from its s10,750.000
funds and move Wake Forest Col
lege to Winston-Salem.
The 112-year-old college is now
located at Wake Forest. II miles
north of Raleigh. The income from
the foundation-establ ished in mem
DRY of the Camel tobacco heir shot
to death in 1932-was 1926, 1886 last
year and may eventually total $780,
900 annually
The college will not be moved for
several years. until buildings can be
erected at Winston Salem.
In 1924 another North Carolina
college benefited from gifts from a
tobacco fortune. James B. Duke of
the American Tobacco Co. gave
Trinity College a trust fund which
has increased its endowment to
SAT 100000 on condition that its
name be changed to Duke University
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
BY the hssoeiotsd Press

NORFOLK. Va, July 3l.-In the
first full-scale training exercises to
be participated in by both AGA
denies, 315 West Point Cadets and
440 Annapolis Midshipmen will un-
dergo joint amphibious warfare
training in the Cape Henry area
August 10 through %.
Designated operation Camid (ab-
breviation of Cadet idshipman
the exercises will cover every phase
Of amphibious warfare except actual
contact with an enemy. Tactical
operations will start August II, when
the service school students leave
Norfolk, the rendezvous point, fol
an all out assault demonstration
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
By the Associated Press

DETROIT, July SLIT was
Henry Ford Day" in suburban
Dearborn yesterday, as thousands
of the community's citizens joined
in celebrating the 83d birthday an
niversary of the noted industrialist
who has been credited with major
share in putting the world on
wheels.
Despite intermittent showers, an
all-day program of athletic events
and other entertainment got under
way early and was climaXed in the
evening by a more formal birthday
party" at which a plaque from his
fellow citizens was presented to Mr.
Ford.
Besides the athletic events, free
ice cream and cake were provided
for Dearborn's youngsters at the
various Fairgrounds throughout the
area. Accompanied by Mrs. Ford,
the slender, white haired industrial
list visited some of the Fairgrounds
this afternoon and heard shout of
happy birthday, Mr.. Ford
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
West Point and Annapolis Plan
Joint Amphibious War ruininq

on the beaches OF Bloodsworth
Islands in Chesapeake Bay, in which
naval gunflre and air support will
be employed as we'll as rocket craft.
Cadet and Middies will return to
Little Creek, Va, in the smaller land
ing craft August u. following this
operation. Gaining first-hand
knowledge Of attack vessels by liv-
ing aboard the landing craft, the
students will spend several days in
and about the Little Creek area
observing and participating in DEM
onstrations of all types of amphi-
bious equipment and methods from
underwater demolition to landing
ship dock operations.
On August 81, Marines and West
Point Cadets will engage in landing
force operations at Camp Pendle-
ton, south of Virginia Beach. where
ships to shore transfer of person.
mel and material will be studied in
detail
Combat training will be broken
by weekend liberty for the
cadets and Midshipmen beginning
August II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
Dearborn Turns Out to Honor
Henry Ford on SD Birthday

The same greeting appeared on
streamers and bunting that deco
rated the recreation centers and
some of Dearborn's buildings.
Ever the optimist, Mr.. Ford, in a
birthday statement that has become
something of tradition, asserted
anew his conviction that the Nation
in on the threshold of an era of
peace and prosperity.
II am convinced" he said, that
after five years of war and its sub
sequent problems, this Nation is
ready, willing and able to prepare
itself for an unprecedented future
OF peace and prosperity"
Presentation of the plaque to Mr..
Ford was arranged to coincide with
a Nation wide radio broadcast of the
birthday party ceremonies.
The broadcast program also in
Guided an address by Malcolm w
Eingay, editorial director of the
Detroit Free Press and longtime
friend of Mr.. Ford, and the reading
of specially prepared poem by
Edgar A. GueSt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
Use Of Troops TO Enforce
Exclusion Ruled ILLEGAL
BY the A5scciotsd Press

LOS ANGELES. July 3l-Use of
troops in enforcing wartime military
exclusion orders was illegal, United
States District Judge Person M.
Hall has ruled. He awarded
Homer Glen Wilcox, San Diego
bureau manager of Mankind United,
token damages of 500 against 1t.
Gen. John l.. De Witt in his suit
against the former head of the
Western Defense Command.
United States Attorney James M
Carter said the decision would be
appealed to the Supreme Court.
A. L. Wirin, attorney for the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union, which
brought the suit in behalf Of Will
cox, declared it opened the e:oor
for similar suits by approximately
Is other Occidentals and more than
10000 Japanese who were excluded
from Pacific Coast States shortly
after Pearl Harbor
wilcox is at liberty on bail pend
ing Vhis appeal from his con-
viction on sedition charges growing
out of the operation of Mankind
United. He was arrested by soldiers
in his San Diego home in 1943 and
escorted to the eastern boundary of
the Western Defense Zone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
May Take
Alabama Senate Seat
Without a Runoff
BY the Associated Press

Representative Sparkman of
Alabama, Democratic whip of
the House, today had chance
of a primary election majority
which would guarantee him the
Senate seat Of. the late John H.
Bankhead.
Returns from 1886 of 1850 vot-
ing districts gave Representative
Sparkman 68,703 votes for the
Democratic nomination to 9,549 for
four others. Unless he could over
take their total in the counting
which remained, however, he faces
a runoff August u with State Sen
ator James A. Simpson.
Mr.. Simpson had 1892 votes,
Representative Boykin, 29,043; Ted
Allen, Union Springs, 765, and
Thomas H. Maxwell, Tuscaloosa,
419.
Representative Sparkman had the
support of the CIO-PAC and other
elements of organized labor. But
the 10-year veteran of Congress, the
son of a tenant farmer, obtained
his greatest majorities yesterday in
rural areas.
Negroes voted throughout the
State. Polls were opened to them in
some counties for the first time to
conform with Supreme Court rul-
ing that they could not be barred
because of their color. In other
districts, they had voted for years.
The Arkansas Democratic pri-
mary yesterday, involving State
offices only, resulted in an easy
second-term victory for Gov. Ben
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.""' As
81,

Lane, who nearly doubled the COM
bined vote of two opponents.
A World War II winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor was
nominated by similar margin for
lieutenant Governor He is Nathan
Gordon, 80, Morrilton lawyer and
wartime Naval aviator, Although it
was his first political start, he fin
ished far ahead of his nearest rival,
Roy Milum, dean of the State
Senate.
J. Oscar Humphrey rolled up a
3-to-l victory over the total for two
opponents to win denomination as
State auditor.
To test a new law which would
exclude Negroes from voting for
State officers, Arkansas held this
primary separately from one July
is, when Congressional nominees
were chosen. Nevertheless, some
Negroes voted yesterday without re-
ported incident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
Another Armed Clash
Between Marines and
Chinese Reported
BY the Associated Press

PEIPING, July 31.-Unofficial
reports of higher death toll
and a second clash persisted to-
day even as the Peiping Marine
garrison headquarters, in the
first official announcement, said
three Marines we're killed and II
wounded during Mondays fight
with 300 armed Chinese.
The unconfirmed report of the
dead varied from four to eight, the
wounded toll extended to a score
and reliable source said one
Marine still was missing.
A Communist spokesman still re-
fused either to confirm or deny that
the attackers were Communists, but
did say Communist troops were
active in the area, IS miles south
east Of Peiping. where truck con-
voy of 100 Marine requirements was
ambushed. The spokesman said the
scene Of the clash was Communist
controlled territory.
Identified Only as Chinese.
Reliable and informed sources
said, however, there was no doubt
the attackers were Communists.
These sources explained that in the
past when Marines clashed with
Communists the Marines never Of
ficially identified the Chinese as
Communists although they unof-
ficially did so.
When there was doubt as to
Identity of the Chinese the Marines
would say they were unidentified "
1t, therefore, was regarded as es-
pecially significant this time that
the Marines in an official announce
ment described the aSSailants as
armed, uniformed Chinese troops. -
Also in the past the Communists
spokesman has denied that Com
munists were involved.
The Marine Corps official an
nouncement followed attempts to
keep secret all information on the
assault. AS result several incon-
flrmed reports are circulating in
Peiping and TientSin. One is that
the 300 Marines sent from Tientsin
to the cornfleld battle scene to
search for missing men had run
ming fight" with Communists and
3 Patrols Sent to Scene.
At least three Marine patrols
have been seen leaving Pieping in
the direction of the clash scene.
Reports that Sino-American execu-
tive headquarters would send
cease-fire team into the area have
not been confirmed.
Immediately after the attack,
Chinese government forces prepared
to send troops into the area but
reliable sources said executive head
quarters influenced them to aban-
don tie mission. These sources
added that army officers feared the
Marine patrol, already resuming its
trip to Peiping from Tientsin, would
mistake the government troops in
the darkness for Communists and
engage them. Marine sources said
a patrol which was ready to leave
from Peiping had not been sent
out for similar reason
The Marines official announce
ment listed four seriously wounded
and eight slightly. Unofficial sources
said a fourth Marine died and an
other was in critical condition.