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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1948-07-30

Among the former Navy and
Coast Guard men who are es-
pecially desired are those skill
ed as radarmen, electricians
mates, gunners mates, and fire
controlmen. Several other allied
skills in the Navy, Coast Guard,
and Marines will be accepted as
qualifying for non-commisslon-
ed officers grades in the Army.
The lieutenant further stated
that men enlisting under this
directive will be enlisted for
three, four, five or six years in
the Regular Army unassigned.
After the completion OF recep-
ton processing and the required
training, they will be initlally
assigned to an antiaircraft ar
tillery unit with duties conSis-
tent with or related to the mil
itary occupational skill under
which they were enlisted.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1948-07-30
NEW DRAFT
SICN.UP TO
START SOON


WASHINGTON Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, wartime
draft head, has announced that
first registrations under the new
peacetime draft law probably
will begin August Is.
The general said the revived
selective service system is ready
to start the ball rolling in the
l9 through IS draft.
But, Hershey said, in all prob
ability no one will be indicted
before mid-October. The law
bars any inductions before Sept.
%, 90 days after President Tru-
man signed the legislation.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1948-07-30

Egg consumption decreases
during the summer more because
of improper egg handling than
because of rising prices, says T.
T. Brown. Extension poultry
specialist at State College.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1948-07-30

Reports from growers of green
peppers in North Carolina in
dictate that total of $500 acres
of this crop will be harvested
this year. This is an increase of
800 acres over the l947 crop.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1948-07-30

While turkey prices averaged
approximately the same in l947
as in 1916, feed prices were up
about 20 per cent.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
SELF RATIONINC:
Second Best

Manifestly stymied in it's efforts
to get congress to pass rationing
and price control legislation, the adj
ninistration tried a new approach
in the form of an appeal for nation
wide self-rationing.
Greater public support of an in
tensified drive for voluntary food
conservation would have to be de-
veloped if living costs are to be
curbed, the administration decided.
AS an initial step representatives
OF IL consumer, producer and dis
tributor groups met with Clinton
Anderson, secretary of agriculture,
to map details of the nationwide
program.
Charles F. Brannan, assistant
secretary of agriculture, heads the
new food saving setup. Originally
started by the citizens food COM
mittee last fall, it has been carried
on until now under the direct lead
ership of the cabinet food COM
mittee.
MAJOR emphasis, 1t was under.
stood. would be placed on meat as
the pivotal item in the cost of
living merry-go-round; however.
other foods also would be covered
in the voluntary program. Based on
specific recommendations of the
food industry and public representa-
tives, it is theoretically designed to
meet the twin problem of scarce
food supplies and high prices.
Biggest talking point the admin
istration had in its attempts to
solicit public support was the de-
partment of agriculture's somber
prediction that the nation is heading
for serious meat shortage in the
spring. And by way Of emphasis
Brannan added that meat rationing
''by price" already is in effect be-
cause many people cannot afford to
buy.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
SEA POWER:
Extract Electricity

Extraction Of electric energy from
the contrasting temperatures at the
top and bottom of the sea is the aim
of a project to be built soon in
French West Africa.
The sea-powered development is
expected to aid in industrializing a
territory rich in natural resources.
Idea for the project is based on
the principle of thermal energy of
the ocean discovered before the war
by a French scientist.
Site chosen for the novel power
plant is near Abidjan on the Ivory
Coast in the Gulf of Guinea. 1t will
have a capacity of 1000 kilowatts
and will yield about SO million kilo-
watt hours yearly, according to
present plans. The power will be
used in the Ivory Coast territory.
where two million. persons live on
$4,000 acres of fertile land, en-
abling the area to manufacture it's
natural resources on the spot.
Various experiments along this
line were carried out off the coast
of Cuba before the war but no prac-
ticed application was made.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
FREEZES:
Honor System

In Great Britain the Labor gov
eminent was trying to put voluntary
self-sacrifice by the people on a
paying basis.
Appearing before parliament,
Prime Minister Clement Attlee pro-
claimed his governments opposi-
ton to any general increase of per-
Sonal incomes wages, salaries,
profits or rents. He proposed, in
effect, that the British people put
themselves on the honor system in
sacrificing possible increased earn
ings.
Purpose of this refined and patri-
otto rnasochism would be to combat
imitation and rebuild the British
economy. The people, Attlee said,
must master the crisis instead Of
waiting to be overwhelmed by it.
Actually, the government was not
freezing wages, although newspa-
pers decried Attlee's words as inn
plying such action. But the prime
minister only used the word per-
suasion, not compulsion.
It has been estimated that wages
in Britain have risen about Is per
cent higher than prices since 1889,
and what Attlee said in effect was
that if workers want to keep the
gains they have won since before
the war they must work harder and
not seek beyond their power to
achieve.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
HEADLINERS

IN WASHINGTON Miss Nora
Martins (above), daughter Of Bra
lillian ambassador Carlos Martins,
was declared Miss United Nations
Of 1948, proving that all diplomats
are not necessarily old fuddie-
duddieS.
IN NEW YORK Sam Yachter,
landlord, got tired Of complaints
about inadequate heat and hot
water from his tenants, offered to
give them his building, got no
takers.
IN KOKOMO Death, as it must
to all cats, came to Tabby, we'll
behaved house kitty who crawled
into a coal bucket for nap and
was tossed inadvertently into the
stove with the rest of the contents
Of the bucket.
IN COLLINGSWOOD, N. j. ..
Douglas Smith Walter celebrated
his first birthday anniversary while
at the same time in Santa Barbara,
Calf, his great-grandmother, Mrs.
Julia Reed Smith, was observing
her 101st.
IN TOKYO +. The four-power
Allied Council for Japan met for A
seconds, just long enough to ap-
prove the minutes Of the last meet
ing, which had lasted only 38 Sec
onds.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
1913 OUTLOOK:
Farm, Market Strong

Market for farm products viii
stay strong for another year, and
farmers prices and gross incomes
in 1948 probably will average near
those Of 1947, the bureau Of agri-
cultural economics has predicted in
it's annual outlook report.
Net incomes, however, may de-
cline this year because Of rising
costs of production.
Domestic demand for farm prod
ucts will continue strong. Also our
exports probably will remain large,
the report predicted further.
Despite strong demand, however,
farmers will market smaller to-
tai volume of products than in 1947.
Much of the decline will be in live
stock and livestock products. Prices
received by farmers seem likely to
stay near current levels, at least for
few months.
Released by WNU Features.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
Everybody Worries

Even the nations library cards
reflected the nations real or mag
ined woes in 1947, according to re-
suits of a survey disclosed at the
American Library association
conference in Chicago.
Personal problems not hous-
ing, business or international af-
fairs were the average reader
main concern. Books on atomic en-
ergy went begging while eager
readers besieged librarians for
psychology volumes. ,4+a
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
GLOOMY:
World Report

In a massive survey OF global
economy at the end of 1947 the
United Nations has blocked out a
dismal picture of a world that is
critically short of food, plagued by
industrial shortages and imitation
and lacks the dollars it needs to
finance the imports so vital to re.
covery.
Only the people Of the U. S. could
take heart from what the U. N. sur
vey had to say. For this nation, with
it's unchanged wealth Of resources
and production, holds nearly all the
economic chips in world that is
producing less than 1t did 10 years
ago for q population that has In
creased by 200 million.
More distressing is the fact that
the world outside the u. S. has
begged down following the rela-
lively rapid strides in reconstruction
made during the Is months after the
end Of the war.
BY clear implication the u. N. re-
port warned that the United States,
as the worlds major producer and
banker, is in such position that it
must carry great responsibility
toward the rest of the world econ
omy. On this nation is resting the
fate Of the globe.
This, in the dry, impartial LAM
guage of a United Nations survey,
was the basic reason behind Secre-
tary of State George Marshall's
plan for European recovery. Mar
shall himself couldn't have put up a
more forceful argument in favor
of it.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
PENSIONS:
And O. Strike

While John L. Lewis was champ
ing at the bit and looking like he
might call strike Of his soft coal
miners this spring, coal producers
were busy thinking up possible rea-
sons for him to do so.
One theory advanced was that
rivalry between Lewis and Philip
Murray, president of United Steel
workers (CIO), to win pensions for
their members is partly to blame
for Lewis yelled strike threat.
+ Murray has been negotiating for
an insurance and pension plan with
U. S. Steel since last April and ap-
pears to be making progress. Lewis,
so the story goes, may be vying
with Murray in the fight to secure
pensions for workers i'm the big
mass industries. He has demanded
$100-a-month pensions for miners
aged go, with the pensions to be
paid from the bitumimous welfare
and retirement fund.
Operators, however, have rejected
this demand, making it clear that
they will not consent to any dis
bursements from the fund until
Lewis agrees to set up the fund in
accordance with the Taft Hartley law.
But despite this thec,rizing and
RESPONSIVENESS on the part Of the
coal producers, there appeared to
be a more fundamental reason be-
hind Lewis intimation of a strike.
His unions contract with the
operators expires on April 1, and
Lewis, working go days ahead of
that date, may have been laying the
groundwork for a soft coal walkout.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
INFLATION:
Italian, Style

Efforts by the Italian government
to put new coins into circulation to
replace some Of the nations paper
money have been abandoned be-
cause Of the imitation.
Realistically soaring costs of
even the most minor articles, such
as newspapers and matches, made
the coins virtually valueless even
before they were minted. Devalua-
ton set in while tools to make the
coins were being prepared.
The government had decided
some time ago to issue new one,
two, FIVE and 10 lire pieces to re-
place bills of the same denomina-
tons, but the plan was abandoned
when initiation reached the point
where it was hardly possible to buy
anything for less than 10 Ira.
Therefore, the treasury is plan
ming to issue, within the next three
months, new 10, so and 100 lire
coins, in keeping with the devalua-
ton Of the currency, which has re-
duced the value Of the lire to one
thirtieth Of its prewar standard with
relation to the U. S. dollar.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
FOR SALE:
Some Eggs

U. S. government has hung out a
''for sale" sign on 1873 million dozen
eggs that it bought last spring to
support domestic prices.
There is one stipulation, however.
Only foreign users will be allowed
to buy them.
For the comfort of U. S. house
wives the agriculture department
was swift to point out that these
eggs are not the kind that can be
used readily for home consumption.
They were shelled, dumped into
huge containers and frozen before
the government bought them in the
first place.
Agriculture department decided
to sell the eggs to foreign buyers
when 1t was unable to sell them to
bakers and confectioners in this
country because egg production has
been going up and egg prices down.
Hence, the eggs are being offered
on a bid basis to foreign govern
ments, relief feeding organizations
and to brokers or exporting con-
Germs to explore possible foreign
outlets" and ito help relieve the
foreign shortage of food"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
BUDCETINC:
HesitQnt

Budget busters in the house and
senate were going around and
around the issues of budget cutting
and tax reduction, making oblique
motions in the direction of the CEN
trail problem-what to cut and how
much.
In terms Of actual accomplish
ment they managed to agree tenta-
lively on cut of 2.5 billion dollars
in President Trunan's 1949 budget.
That would leave a potential sur
plus of 10.1 billion dollars for tax
reductions and payments on the ma
tional debt. But, because Of the adj
mittedly tentative nature Of their
estimates, the congressional spokes-
men evaded any conclusion that
their budget would leave room for
the full 6.5 billion dollars in tax re-
duction recently voted by the house.
Meanwhile, the slight jubilation
that had arisen over house passage
Of the Knutson tax reduction bill al
ready had died down in view Of the
senate's attitude toward the meas
ure.
The senate intends to keep the
bill in drydock, possibly until early
summer when it expects to have
better idea Of whether or not the
budget slash will stick.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19

Ex-state department official
Carl Aldo Marzani says he will
continue to fight his conviction ON
charges of concealing Communist
party membership from federal
loyalty investigators. Conviction
Of Marzani for a one to three
year prison sentence, has been
upheld unanimously by u. s.
court of appeals.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19

One of the biggest men to come
before a congressional investigat-
ing committee was IsadOre Gins
berg, New York lumber dealer,
who refused to tell Rep. Joseph
r. Mccarthy (Rep., Wis., of a
joint congressional housing COM
mittee the names of SO retailers
from whom he purchased gypsum
lath. Mccarthy angrily called
him a "gray marketeer" and
cited him for contempt of con-
gress.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
CIVIL RIGHTS:
10 Points

President Truman, who seems to
run to 10-point programs, tossed an
other one to ongress-concerning
the preservation and protection Of
civil rights-and then stood aside to
await the explosion.
1t came quickly. Southern Demo
Gratis, hopping mad over at least
four Of the 10 controversial points,
began to talk seriously of calling
!. Dixie convention to split away from
Mr.. Truman on the civil rights
issue.
Focus Of the current disunity was
bill, up for approval by the senate
labor committee, to create a ma
tional commission against job dis
elimination on grounds Of race,
creed or color.
Sen. Allen j. Ellender (Dem.,
Lao predicted that if the bill were
approved in it's present form the
party would erupt into open war
fare. Both foes and hackers Of the
measure agreed that it would be a
close thing.
The four proposals that most in
famed the southerners were the
ones calling for Cd a federal anti
lynching law, ca a permanent fair
employment practice commission,
CD an end to Jim Crow rules in
transportation and (N outlawing Of
state poll taxes.
Remainder of the points advo-
Gated by the President were: A
permanent commission on civil
rights, joint congressional COM
r1ittee~ on civil rights, civil rights
division in the justice department:
Tightening Of civil rights statutes;
home rule for the District Of Colun-
. bia; statehood for Alaska and Ha-
wall; equalization of naturalization
opportunities, and settlement of
evacuation claims of Japanese
Americans.
Because 1913 is an election year,
and presidential election year at
that, the program, which otherwise
1nlguC De ignored, was certain 10
get hot partisan debate.
In answer to Mr.. Truman's firm
statement that something must be
done" about the civil rights issue,
southern Democrats replied that
they were thinking of calling an all
southern convention to pick its own
presidential candidate
Some thought that too drastic a
step, but at Jackson, Miss, Walter
Sillers, speaker of the Mississippi
house of representatives, said he
fatty favored such course in order
to withhold at least part of the
South's electoral votes from Mr..
Truman.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
THERE'S A LIMIT:
To Atomic Bomb

There's a limit to everything,
even the atomic bomb-at least in
it's present form.
DR.. George A. Gamow, professor
Of theoretical physics at George
Washington university, Washington.
D. c., says that the atomic bomb
as it is known today definitely is not
here to stay. In fact, he said there
is just enough uraniurn-235 to make
A-bombs for only few billion more
years.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-19
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Solid South Threatens Party Split Government Eyes
Self Ration Plan; Congress Sets Tentative Budget Cut
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

EDITORS NOTE - When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts, and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
Evening star., 1948-08-02

of totalitarianism. You do not have
to be located In the west to have
democratic values. Our bonds with
the west, in fact, have been forged
more by common ideals and aspira-
tions than by geographic considera-
tions. Perhaps we ought to refer
to the western block by another
name so that more people will real
ize that Turkey is in it."
Stability Is Stressed.
The minister said the Turkish
straits are not Turkeys sole
strategic contribution to the world
Far more important than any other
country in this region, Turkey Is
the steady rock on which Middle
Eastern stability rests" he asserted
"If we should founder, the entire
Middle East would totter. The prog
ress and headway we are making
has steadying influence on this
unsettled area. 1t is in the interest
of the civilized world that Turkeys S
march toward democracy and mod
ernization should continue without
interruption"
Mr.. Kulek emphasized that Tur-
key is counting heavily on American
advice in its plans to develop its
resources.
This does not mean that we are
looking for charity on the one hand,
nor that we intend to grant conceS-
sions on our national resources on
the other. Instead, we are banking
on professional counsel and busi-
nesslike assistance from our Ameri-
can friends who have established
themselves as history's greatest
technicians."
Resources Are Cited.
The youthful cabinet member,
who is an economist, declared that
If Turkeys untapped resources were
fully developed as planned, there
was every reason to conclude that
she would one day become one of
the worlds important bread baskets
and coal bins. 1t is generally esti-
mated that less than one-fourth OF
the country's arabic land is today
under cultivation.
Only AZ years old, Mr.. Gulek is
one of the acknowledged leaders of
the post-Ataturk generation OF
young liberals who are urging the
rapid modernization of Turkey. Be-
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Turkish Official Sees
Nation as StabiIizer
For Middle East Area
By Leo D. Hochstetter
North American Newspaper AIIiones

ANKARA, Aug. 2-Calling Tur-
key a steady rock on which middle
stability rests" Minister of Com
munications Kasim Gulek, con-
sidered his country's official trouble
shooter, has warned the western
world not to underestimate the i'm
portanec of Turkish friendship.
An ardent advocate of Turkish
American cooperation, Mr.. Gulek is
the first American-ed educated Turk
to achieve cabinet rank. He is an
alumnus of Columbia University in
New York.
Loose and casual reference to a
Western bloc" Mr.. Gulek declared
in an interview, "has led many peo-
Pile unwittingly to overlook the fact
that Turkey is an active and i'm
portant member of the group Of
nations which has taken a firm
stand against todays special brand
Evening star., 1948-08-02

ford, Norway has new electrical
generators with capacity Of 10000
kilowattS.
From without, two small holes In
the mountainside are the only signs
of the power plant. Within, verti-
cal tunnels blasted from rock guide
water under tremendous pressure
into whirling turbine blades-water
which has dropped 5000 feet in the
highest utilized waterfall In North
ern Europe. Already this power is
firing the $50 electric furnaces Of
new aluminium plant.
Evening star., 1948-08-02

fore taking over the communica-
tions ministry, he was Minister Of
Public Works In which capacity he
is credited with having streamlined
irrigation, public roads and national
construction activities. It is gen.
orally believed he will retain his
present post only long enough to
reorganize and speed up Turkeys
communications program before
passing on to another important
assignment, probably that of Minis
ter of Commerce or Finance.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Norwegian Power Plant
Built Deep in Mountain

In an "atom- -bomb-proof" cham
Der 800 feet within granite noun
tain at Aardal, deep in the Sogne-
Evening star., 1948-08-02

A. Dresden, smart
sling back open toe
shoe with q small plot
form sole. Black, brown
and continental green
suede. Also black calf.
Sizes s to 9.
WsL-Norfh Building . q.
Evening star., 1948-08-02

B. FIattery the new
"cIosed look" in black
suede. Two graceful
strops give q slender
look to your foot. Sizes
s to 9.
SHOES, SECOND FLOOR
Evening star., 1948-07-26
Special Session

The campaign conscious members of
the Both Congress are assembling today for
the special session in q state of mind
which gives little promise of constructive
results.
They feel, and they no doubt are right
about it, that the President is trying to
make political capital at their expense.
The manner of his calling the session, the
absurdly long list of measures which he
proposes to put before Congress- his ap-
parent intent to campaign, not against
the Republican candidates. but against the
Republican Congress-all Of these tend to
support the view that Mr. Truman is play
ing politics.
But that is not going to take Congress
off the spot. Congress is going to be judged
in this matter by its own performance, not
by the Presidents So one would think that
intelligent COP leadership would have
nothing to do with the reported plan to
call up civil rights measure in the Sen
ate and then let the southerners filibuster
against it, For if that should prove to be
the strategy, Congress is going to emerge
more discredited than the President.
There would seem to be but two feasi-
BILE courses open to the legislators. One is
to make an honest effort to act on a few
important measures-say the cost of liv-
ing and housing. The other is to take the
position that if the country goes Republi-
can it will return in January and enact its
own program, but that it will not act under
the gun of partisan politics Either of these
courses seems preferable to petty polit-
ical fight with the President, which could
produce nothing more than spectacle re-
flecting discredit on both the Chief Exec
utive and the Congress-