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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
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BY HOWARD H. REDIGER


TTHERE is NOW before Congress national health in
bill The bill is good 1t will create tremend
of controversy Politics will boil be-
fore Names will be called and the bills opponents will at
tempt to put nice tag it such socalized medicine
The bill is sponsored by five senators and repre-
sentative The CIO has felt for many everyone should
be able get adequate medical treatment and Many
Rnnot get this because they not able to af
1ord it. Health is not the private of few ndi
vduals few institutions it is everybodyS business.
It is particularly the business of the - the
patients the people who must demand the best for them
selves and for those dependent upon them.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
QUITE A SWITCH

Robert Welch, who served as
producer for the Bob Hope-Jane
Russell Technicolor Starrer, "The
Paleface," discovered and put on
the air the popular "Aldrich
Family" radio program.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
WHITNEY STORY FILMED

HOLLYWOOD-"Eli Whitney
Had a Notion" first of M-G-Ms
John Nesbitt Passing Parade
series for 1949, produced by
Herbert Moulton, has been fin
ished with Gerald Mayer direct
ing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
Radio Time For
Your Pleasure

convincing demonstration radios potential power as
force for social reform when fusng
with top quality entertainment
the Suspense" airshow result its drama
Escape" which directed reckless driving
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
GABLE Remains Undisbuted
Champ Of Popularity Polls

When popularity polls Clark Gable who heads
the sllstar cast of MGMs Command Decision" at
Valentine Theatre, remains the undisputed champ.
Take the nations theatre exhibitors Gable on
champions fourteen of the seventeen
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
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Cast As RoSina In Opera

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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03

Glass distinctions, private cartels,
or government controls have al
ways prevented competition In
business in most nations, and
suppressed individual initiative,
and limited production to class
markets instead of mass markets.
Hope of profits, plus the neces-
sity to compete for profits, the
booklet declares, is what caused
early U. S. Car Makers to aban-
don the European method OF
building cars by hand, and caused
them to risk their money in ma
chinery to produce more and bet
ter cars at lower prices.
Most People Cont Buy Houses
After all the ss-and-feathers
about low rent public housing
there are no low-rent public hou-
SEES. The real estate business has
doomed. Thousands of adven-
turers have gone into the social
ed private housing industry. Men
and women who are in the lower
grades of employment, even with
increased wages and salaries, find
it almost impossible to rent even
a small house, or buy one to be
paid for on time.
New York State is trying to
do something about it and they
are receiving a lot of support
from the building trade and con-
tractors. One of the first develop
ments in the Empire State was to
discover that there are perhaps
10000 building mechanics out OF
work in the state.
Of course everybody would like
to see lots of new homes for young
and old people. But our economic
system is out of joint in many
places, including ways and means
for poor people to live in rented
quarters or in mortgaged quarters
of their own.
Getting Down Off The High Horse
The luxury trade" has been
given a punch in the face and all
of a sudden reports from differ
ent parts of the country show that
demands for everything from furs
iawelrv and costly "doo-dads" is
losing its charm. The Christmas
season was disappointment to
merchants, but in the, days and
weeks ahead of that time the
slump in Iuxuries continued to
subside. Still, employment and
wages are good, and the family
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
Many Changes Awoit-
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of industrial production, trans
portation, utilities, and agricul
ture."
Suppose you write to your Con-
gresham or to Congressman
Gwinn and ask him for a copy of
the full address by DR.. Benson.
There is no more able presenta-
ton of this vital question in ex-
istence, up to date.
A Hundred Million Motor Vehicles
Automobiles were born in Eur
ope, nearly 100 years before any
appeared in U. S. Yet today U. S.
has nearly four of every five pas
senger cars on earth and over
half the worlds trucks and bus
es.
Why?
To answer that question, the
Automotive Manufacturers asso-
citation has published a special
booklet, concentrating the pro-
duction in 1948 of the 100 mil
lionth motor vehicle in the United
States.
The booklet reviews the indus
try's birth and growth. How early
mass production began here as car
makers fought for customers. How
$500 companies entered the field,
each with some new ideas to i'm
prove vehicles. How the fierce
competition gradually cut down
the number until today Sc firms
survive, producing 81 makes of
passenger cars, 80 makes of
trucks and 20 makes of motor
buses.
But out of that competition
came mass production machinery
to give us better motor vehicles
at lower cost - mass production
machinery that created mass
markets, higher wages, steady
rise In automotive plant employ
ment, and new purchasing power
for millions of people as cars and
trucks were produced in abun-
dance at prices that came steadily
in reach Of more people.
And so by 1949, just SIS years
after the Duryea brothers of
Springfield, Massachusetts,, built
the first successful U. S. gasoline
engine automobile, 100 million
motor vehicles ahd rolled off the
assembly lines of U. S. plants -
while a total of "a million vehi-
cles were being built in all the
rest of the world combined.
1t couldn't have happened any,
where but in u. S., the booklet
points out. For it required the
type of economic freedom that
most nations have never known.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03

tail group, apparently more CAPT.
tai is required to get a start in
the building material, hardware
and farm implement businesses
than any other. Average for new
firms in this group was slightly
more than SOS, 900 in original cap
ital. Lowest were the filling sta
tions. You can set yourself up in
the filling station business with
$500, according 10 the Cont
merce department figures.
KITCHEN FIXTURE - There
was day when any wit could
get a. laugh by ironically refer
ring to a can-opener as a cooking
utensil and few housewives
would even admit owning one.
But today, apparently, it is wea-
pom Of distinctive or at least
of complete social acceptability on
the American scene. A survey
made for the American Can Com
pany shows that only four house.
wives in 1000 don't have some
sort Of can-opener today. In the
east, only one kitchen in thous-
and is can-openerless; in the mid
west it's two. In the far west,
five, and in the south, Ia per
thousand. Another thing the sur
vey showed is that the gadgets
are not only more numerous now,
but fancier and easier to operate.
The old-style pump-action type is |
in the minority now -
outnumbered by the type which
,uts can tops off neatly by the
of a handle. And of the
after considerable portion are
If the type which occupy a perm
lnent spot on the kitchen wall,
'eady and able to help the busy
housewife put together
meals in hurry even
when she gets home late from
ridge or PTA meeting.
THINGS TO COME Lights on
will turn on automa-
ically at dusk, 60 off with the
'reak of dawn, thanks to a new
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
Death Claims Former
County Resident
Has Large Number
County Relatives

Funeral services for Mrs
Mable Ingold Roper, Sc, wife of
Thomas j. Roper of Greenville
and former resident of Lexington
who died at Union Church, Miss
January 10 at 2 pm, were held
January 20 by the Rev. c. R
Franklin assisted bv the Rev. W.
c. Nelson and w R. Hedgepeth.
Mrs. Roper was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Ingold.
longtime residents 'of Lexington.
and the cousin of Virgil Ingold
and Miss Ethel Ingold of Licking
ton. She also had a number of
other relatives. She had been in
ill health for one year.
A member of the First Baptist
church, Greenville, Mrs. Roper at
tended Providence school, having
been born and reared here. Be-
sides her husband, she leaves one
son, Thomas, Jr., Roper; her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ingold Of
Union Church; a brother. McBee
Ingold of Indianola, and five sis
tiers: Mrs. T. M. Simmons, Bel
zoni; Mrs. Louise Forest, Yazoo
City; Mrs. Juanita Clark, Jack
son; Mrs. James Hardin, Meri-
gold, and Mrs. Stroud.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
Behind The Scenes In
American Business


NEW YORK, Feb. 8 - How
much money do you need to 60
into business for yourself? Many
= man has asked himself that
question. Many a merchant has
wondered. when he saw a new
retail store starting. what kind of
capital was behind the newcomer.
Now the Department of Com
merce has totted up a complete
set of statistics on the capital
needs OF new trade firms. In the
three wears 1945, 1916 and 1947,
the astounding number of 1,40O,-
900 new business enterprises were
started, surely impressive proof
that Americans can still start new
companies despite all the holler-
ING about "monopolies." The aver
age new wholesaler started with
. capital of $22,500. The average
new retail store started with an
average Of $4,000. Among the re-
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03

that lived in the olden days will
get by. An encouraging fact is
that sales of appliances and use
full and durable goods are going
on
Another "All.Time Peck"
The American steel industry is
always getting the raps in Wash
ington because it doesn't seem to
give a whoop whether or not it
plays ball with Uncle Sam. The
other day big steel flashed big
announcement announcing that
AMERICAS Steel Capacity Reaches
All-Time Peak and Still Ris-
ing" Question: Why should
the steel folks give notice through
an advertisement that everything
is milk and honey with them?
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03

control gadget that works through
built-in time switch . This next
is hard to believe, but at last
someone claims ne has an ink
blotter that really works. It's
made of a new absorbent compo-
sition, and no matter how stained
it gets it still blots clearly, so they
say Folks with many school
children in the family may be in
terested to know there's a new
electric pencil sharpener that
sharpens pencils seven to eight
times faster than the conven-
tional hand operated equipment.
And grandmothers who no
longer have a highchair in the
house can use the new AIDA
seat" to lift their grandchildren
to table level whenever their des-
cendants come a-visiting A
new translucent garment bag has
been designed particularly to
keep clothes dust-free when ira
yelling by car. Serves handily in
the home too d.. Home mechanics
can now get chrome plated rings
to fit on pistons when they give
their cars the annual overhaul
ing this spring . And you can
take that shine off your old blue
serge suit with new liquid pre-
paration that must be applied
with criss-cross motion.
SUMMER RESORT - Within
the past year, Is new hotels have
been completed at Miami Beach.
That's more new hotels than all
the rest Of the country can boast.
Most luxurious of the 1948-49 crop
is The Saxony, a $5,000,000 pro-
ject which sets new standards in
comfort giving appointments.
George D. Sax, president of Sax
Enterprises, Inc, which owns the
hotel, figures it cost 21,000 a
room, including price of site,
beach development and furnish
ings.
Like most other Miami Beach
hotel buildings, Sax plans to
operate the year round and is
on summer trade for
a substantial part of his revenue.
To guarantee comfort when the
sun begins to bear down next
June, he had Minneapolis Honey
well Regulator company engin-
GERS install the most modern air
control system in
any hotel in the country. The
people say that Is OF
the 10 new hotels have air condi-
tioning to some degree.
BITS O. BUSINESS - Gener-
ally speaking, the nations hotel
keepers are not as busy as they
have been Average occupancy
is down to So per cent from the
record year 1946, when SO per
cent of all the rooms in the coun-
try were filled with paying
guests. But the bonifaces do little
complaining, remembering their
half-filled hotels of 1887 and 1888.
Ski resort owners in New
England are having a bad sea-
son. Too mild, too little snow
Out west, of course, there's too
much snow. Plight of snow
bound livestock touches the ma
TONS heart, but livestock experts
say meat supplies will not be
affected. Lumber
retailers in the east, assembled in
predict IS per cent
drop in lumber sales during 1949,
while experts tell them housing
will be 10 per cent
less this year Oil burner
who were given a
bad time last year because OF the
sponsored "oil short
age" scare, are launching major
sales drive. Fuel oil prices are de-
Ginning all over the country as sur
,>v,,c all c<Oclyc covtrv,,,o fo cxr,o11
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03

may Aot De 1OuIlQ
in the New Tesla
ment. but the thing
Is there. II Jesus
did not believe that
religion could be
taught, then he was
guilty Of wasting
much Of his time,
for he worked at
teaching in season
and out Of season.
He Waa n prod,,ct
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
TedchingReligion
Lesson for February 8. 1919

COME PEOPLE. strange to say,
~ don't believe in Sunday schools.
Most North American Protestants
do, because Jesus did. The word
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03

Mrs. Charles Durham and son,
Charles II, are spending this week
with her mother In Clarksdale.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
How 10 Relieve
! Bronchitis

Observation-Disclosures promptly because
ae goes right to the seat of the trouble
, % hslp loosen and expel germ laden
'phlegfn and aid nature to soothe and
heal raw. Gender. in6amed bronchial
nascsus aembranss. Tell your druggist
- esfl you Z botsls q Cssomulsioa
with die understanding you must Ike
- way Il quickly allays the cough
- you are 70 have your money back.
GRE emulsion
for Coughs. Chest Colds. Broachitis
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-02-03
MiIestones Of
Progress In Mississippi
in 1948:

COMPLETION OF Sls.48O. 900 Of
construction to improve and expand
your telephone service.
MORE THAN As, 500 newtelephones
Installed in cities, towns and farms
h Mississippi.
LONG DISTANCE SERVICE ex.
banded by addition of more than
258 new circuits. (Now more than
3 out Of 10 long distance calls are
completed while you hold the line.)
y 125,O0O MORE LOCAL CALLS
handled each day-brinsing average
daily total to 1854. 900.
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12

stituted in their places but the
white boys played them and beat
them to the score of twenty-three
to nineteen. The batteries were
Daily and Price on the white nine,
Whartenbury and Watson on the
colored.
The expense of the Kent County
Courts just adjourned was $4,000.
His Dying Request.-'Iet my
pail bearers be young men who
never touched liquor, was the dy-
ing request of Daniel S. Gillespie of
Wilmington. A complication OF
diseases caused his death, but he
attributed the cause of the diseases
to his having Joined companions
who embided too freely of the
flowing bowl.
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12

Richard Welton, well remember
ed as an instructor in the Tonic
Sofia System at our Public Schools
last fall, now conducting a like
course in Milford, was in town the
past week.
George Deney, of Philadelphia.
having completed his first year at
the Medico Chirurgical College, is
spending a short vacation home,
before accepting a position at
Wells hat store for the summer
months.
Mrs. R. E. Hough has returned
from a visit to Denton and Grens-
boro, Md.
Miss Matilda Conwell, of Mag
nolia, is a guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Alexine Thompson.
William Taylor, of Holmesburg,
Pa, has been making his Smyrna
friends and relatives visit the
past week.
Miss Annie FoXwell, of Blacks,
Nd, is visiting Smyrna, guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lewis.
Miss Elsie Lank, of Philadelphia,
is visiting her aunt, Miss Sadie
Mitchell.
Mrs. r. A. Hance, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
w. o. Hoffecker.
Herman Pierce has been spend
ing several days with his parents.
Mrs. Fannie Hill, and Mrs. N. F.
Wilds and daughter are visiting
Mrs. Roland Cox, Plainfield, N. ].
Miss Annie Beckett, who has
been studying to be trained nurse
at Howard Hospital, Philadelphia,
has resigned with others and re-
turned home.
T. ]. Armitage, of Philadelphia,
visited his mother on Sunday.
Mrs. Christiana Cloak is visiting
in Philadelphia.
DIR. VIM. C. Mitchell, of Philadel-
phia, visited Smyrna friends last
week.
Henry Emmons, ESQ.,, one of the
leading attorneys of Wilmington,
was in Smyrna on Friday, and
made the Times office call.
Mrs. Amanda Spruance has re-
turned home from a visit to her
son Daniel c. Spruance in Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. L. w. Counselman is visit
ing her daughter in Baltimore.
Mrs. John Heitshu, of Dover, has
visited her sisters, the Misses Me
gear, the past week.
April showers were lacking this
year there being no rain from
about the 18th of the month unit
Monday. While not copious, the
rain which fell Monday did an i'm
mense amount of good. Strawber
ries, wheat and grass were suffer
ing from the continued dry wealth
er, but today are in fine growins
condition.
Last Saturday an interesting
game of ball was played betweel
the white and colored boys. Som,
of the colored nine failed to ap
pear and larger fellows were sub
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12
Hearth Fires

The neat housekeeper who has
her fireplace swept clean of all
ashes is an inefficient fire-builder.
Ashes should be kept level with
the andirons to provide a bed of
glowing charcoal which yields
steady heat and helps ignite new
logs as they are added.
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12
Cancer Research

Atomic energy. commission has
granted, through the office of naval
research, a fund to the University
of Delaware for continued research
by DIR. Mary A. Russell on a pro-
ject with potential significance in
cancer control. The project in
wolves a comparison of the effects
of x-rays, neutrons and mustard
compounds on the growth and de-
velopment of corn seedlings.
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12
SIZE or nIoIecuIes

One way of determining the size
Of molecules is to find the least
volume into which known number
Of them can be squeezed. Another
is by noting the average distance
one travels before it hits another.
The various methods agree very
accurately.
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12
Enough For All

Two billion acres-less than one
half of the area now under culh-
vation-could produce enough food
to feed everyone on earth If proper
agricultural methods were used,
according to the English scientist.
]. d. Bernal.
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12

Taken from our Old files OF
corresponding week, as near
date Of this issue as possible
FIFTY Years Ago. This column.
now a regular feature Of the
Times. will cal to mind people
aau vents CT the older genera
ticn
Smyrna times., 1949-05-12
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages. Deaths
and Matters of interest
of Half Century Ago

so YEARS AGO Trr'S WEEK
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01
C. r. Larsen Installed As Postmaster
(Continued from Page D

(Continued from Page D at the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, Ark, MT. Larsen was married to the former Miss Louise Bledsoe of that city. They are the proud parents of two daughters, Christine Louise, age two and one-half years, and Flor ence Ellen, three months.
 Since his discharge from the service in July of 1947, MT. Lar sen has worked at his pre-War job on The Alaska Railroad.
 Mail via Dogteam
 In talking of the new star route to Homer, which goes into effect next summer with com pletion of the new highway, he relates how his uncle, Alfred Rosness, in 1917 had the con- tract to carry the mail to Kenai via dogteam and with good luck the round trip could be complet- ed in a month. Present day meth ods should reduce the trip to a matter of hours.
 MT. Larsen states that he will endeavor to the utmost to rem der the same faithful and eff cient service to the public as MT. Charles A. Sheldon has done for so many years.
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01
MRS. IRENE HOLDEN TO LEAVE FOR STATES

Mrs. Irene Holden, one of the we'll known and highly respect ed women of the Kenai Penin- sula recently sold her roadhouse at Moose Pass to MT. and Mrs. H. Martin Soper who were to take possession on Nov. 1.
 After spending few days wis iting with friends in Seward and Anchorage Mrs. Holden will drive Outside to spend Thanks giving with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Daniger of St. Anthony, Idaho. She will spend the Christ mas holidays with her mother and brothers near Bedding, Cal.
 MT. Mel Horner, who has been associated with Mrs. Holden at Moose Pass, will accompany her as far as Idaho and then fly from there to Indiana where he will
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01
LUTHERAN LADIES AID
 PLAN ANNUAL BAZAAR

Final plans are under way to make the Second Annual Bazaar sponsored by the Lutheran La dies Aid Society an outstanding affair of the Thanksgiving sea- son. It is to be held on Saturday, Nov. 5, in the church parlors, beginning at 100 pm.
 One of the various booths fea- lures needlecraft gifts for the Yuletide season. Food booths will feature many tempting ar rays of delicious home baked foods, jellies, jams and preserves of local fruits. There will also be a plant booth and white ele- phant booth.
 Attraction for the kiddies will be a fish pond.
 Free coffee and cookies will be served all during the bazaar. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01
WANT TO SEE "A LAPIDARY HOBBY SHOP?

Russell Norton of 336 Sixth Avenue has complete lapidary hobby shop which he brought to Seward from the Oregon coast two years ago.
 MT. Norton has the shop all set up and invites anyone inter- ested to come in any evening and see how gem stones are cut and polished, and jewelry made from them.
 Norton became interested in his fascinating hobby as result of his studies in geology and minerology.
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01
MacKENZIES TO GO OUTSIDE

Ray and Dot Mackenzie ex- pect to leave Seward Nov. 4, to make their home Outside. The MacKenzies are well known in town, Ray in the electrical repair business and Dot as own CT and operator of Dots Beauty Shop.
 The beauty shop was sold to MT. Jack Roddenberry last month in preparation for Mac Kenzies departure. The remain ing interval has been filled with farewell parties and entertain ment for this popular couple.
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01

Mrs. Augustine Boe left Sew ard this morning for Seattle, the first step in her journey to Europe. Mrs. Boe will spend some time with her parents in Alsace-Loraine, the first in se- verdi years.
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-01

Word received this week by Mrs. Walter Blue from Mir. and Mrs N. F. Blanchard says the Blanchards have taken up residence in Denver, Colo, and have purchased an up-and-com- ing locksmith business in that city.