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The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

against you instead Of for you.
In addition, these same deposits have another
power-wasting effect: They foul spark plugs,
causing your engine to miss.
Engineers will tell you there's nothing more
wasteful of power and gasoline than pre.6ring
and spark plug miss"
But there is an answer-there's one high
octane gasoline that gives you all the advan-
tagcs of high octane without the power Grip
pling effects of these deposits-Shell Premium
Gasoline with TCP*.
TCP, the Shell-developed additiNe, hreproofs
the deposits so that they no longer cause pre-
firing. No longer can they glow red hot and
ignite the gasoline mixture. And TCP stops
spark plug "miss," too. Your spark plugs do
the job they are supposed to do.
Start getting the full power built into your
engine Get Shell Premium with TCP. It's the
most powerful gasoline your Car can use!
.Shelrs Trademark for this unique gasoline addi6vs
developed by Shell Research. Patent applied for
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

| have many women's groups or
ganized in our country" And we
hear a German woman say, 81
cannot speak-a-de English, but it
so good we get together"
It makes us rejoice that we
can see and talk with women
from other countries for to bet
ter understand them is to love
and respect them.
Home demonstration work Of
fers endless opportunities for ser
vice:
To give and give, and give a.
gain.
What God hath given thee;
To spend thyself nor count the
cost,
To serve right gloriuoSly
To God who gave all worlds
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

There are $4,000 awards offered
for those who do outstanding work.
Incentives, valued at $66 900, in
clude 20 college scholarships of
$500 each. all-expense trips to the
National All Club Congress, 49,
jewel wrist watches, and gold-fill-
ed medals.
In the Home Improvement pro-
gram, Alters learn to make the
home more attractive and conven-
lent at a minimum cost. In re-
cent year, members made ATS, 900
articles and decorated 100000
rooms. Awards, provided by the
Sears Roebuck Foundation, include
four medals for winners in each
county, a trip for the state winner
to the All Club Congress in Chi
cago, Nov. 27-Dec. /, and eight
$500 scholarships for national
winners.
Improving the appearance OF the
outside of the home is popular
with All members too. About 150,-
900 Alters take part in the Beau
tification of Home Grounds pro-
gram each year. Paint-up, fix-ur
and landScaping are all a part OF
their activities. In addition to max
ing the home more attractive,
property value is increased as re-
suit of the Alters accomplish
ments. Medals for four county
winners, a 19-jeWel wrist watch
for the state winner, and trips to
the National All Club Congress
for eight national winners are
made available by Mrs. Charles R.
Walgreen of Chicago.
The Electric program gives 4
Hers an opportunity to add to the
convenience around the farm and
home. More than 100000 members
participated last year, learning to
take care of, use. repair and build
electrical equipment, perform dem
onstrationS, and plan new or i'm
proved uses of electricity. Four
medals are offered to county WIN
ners by the Westinghouse Educa-
tional Foundation, donor of
awards. State winners will receive
a trip to the Club Congress, where
six national winners will be pre-
sented $500 scholarships.
Insects, age-old friends and foes
of man, provide the subject for the
All Entomology program. BY par
ticipating, members learn about
insect life and it's relation to man,
learn to recognize major pests and
beneficial insects, and learn about
the use of chemicals and other
control measures. Alters also col
lect insects, conduct life history
studies, and make surveys.
Losses in agriculture due to in
sects, estimated by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture at over
1000, 100000 annually, make en-
tomology potentially one of the
most financially important All
programs. Awards for outstanding
accomplishment are provided by
the Hercules Powder Co. Medals
are offered to four county winners,
and the state winner receives a
19-jewel wrist watch. Twelve sec
tional winners receive trips to the
Club Congress, and six of the sec
tional winners will be presented
$500 scholarships as national win
ners.
All of the programs are conduct
ed by the Cooperative Extension
Service. and the National Com
mittee ON Boys and Girls Club
Work arranges the award pro-
grams. Full information is avail
able at county Extension offices.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
1854
1854
ACCIDENT
FACTS

There were 40,449 reported mo-
tor vehicle accidents in North Car
olina last year, more than half of
them auto collisions. Other type
accidents were striking fived OBJ
pect" 1874: overturned in road
way" 1927; and run off road
way" 1861. Collisions of motor
vehicles accounted for the most
fatalities 304. OF all the acci-
dents $50 were fatal, 10,267 were
non-fatal. and 29,3O2 involved on
ly property damage according to
Motor Vehicle Department records.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

capable of bearing whatever re-
sponsibilities are theirs. We who
have been fortunate enough to
participate in the national and
international meetings really do
appreciate the broad horizons of
home demonstration. We hear a
woman from Lebanon say, 1--WE
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
SNOW DRIFT HALTS PLOW

Pocatello. Idaho - John Gibbs
and Floyd Allen trudged 2 miles
to Henry. Idaho. recently in order
to thumb a ride into Pocatello af-
ter they got stuck in heavy drifts
near Grays Lake. They knew it
wouldn't do any good to call for
the snowplow because they had
been driving it.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
Don't Get
Captured
G|s Advised

WASHINGTON - Don't get
captured. That's the Army's prime
advice to it's soldiers on how to
avoid brainwashing by the Com
munists in any future wars.
But if you are taken prisoner,
the Army tells its men:
/. Try to escape.
2. If questioned by the Reds,
give them only four elementary
facts and remember that as a
POW you are still obligated to
risk your life for your country.
3. Keep in mind the virtues of
the American way of life as
against the Communist system.
This was the Army's outline to
House Appropriations subcom-
mittee last month of its program
to prevent American POWs from
succumbing to Communist BRAIN
washing techniques - as the Army
says many did during the Korean
War.
AIRMEN DIFFERENT
The Army told the House group
in testimony made public today
there was the following difference
in the combat situation of soldiers
and airmen:
"Air Force creWmen, when shot
down or forced to parachute over
enemy territory. have no option
but to land in such regions. In
ground combat the circumstances
are different -. In the confusion
of combat on the ground, much
responsibility rests with the indi-
vidual soldier who in actuality may
decide whether to fight on to
death or raise his hands in sur
render under crucial circum-
stances"
SPECIAL TRAINING
The testimony disclosed that
GI's are getting special evasion
and escape training overseas as it
applies to that locality, and two
new training films on the subject
are planned.
Also, the Army said, it expects
to issue soon a new regulation lay
ing down the duties of all soldiers
from combat to prison camp.
Among other things, the new Or
der will require a captured GI to
"give no more than his name
rank, serial number and date OF
birth" as customary under inter-
national law.
Another Army step against
Etainwashing is a Forthcoming
pamphlet telling soldiers what tc
expect if captured.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
ART OR UTILITY?

A CWA artist was commission
ed to paint murals in the reptile
house at the National ZOO.
He returned to admire his work
and discovered an energetic lizard
climbing UP a tree trunk neatly
painted on the side of his cage,
"Come-look!" shouted the ar
tist to DR.. William M. Mann. the
zoo director. "How's that for art?''
Even fools the lizards"
Mann looked a minute and then
said laconically. well, maybe he
was going in that direction any
way"
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
BY MRS. E. p. GIBSON,
President N. C. Federation of
Home Demonstration Clubs

A successful home is dependent
upon a well-infoImed homemaker.
Home Demonstration affords op-
portunities in this field = and
more, too.
North Cardinals more than ST.
900 club wimen are joining with
million club sisters across the
country in observing their tenth
annual National Home Demonstra-
ton Club Week. May : 7.
"The hand that rocked the
cradle is now swinging national
elections" and certainly the ru-
raj women in home demonstra-
ton are alert, progressive, and
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
NO TAX ON VA BENEFITS

The Veterans Administration is
reminding veterans that VA bene-
fits payments they have received
need not be counted in figuring
their Federal income taxes. Death
benefits to families of deceased
veterans also are exempt from
Federal taxation.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28
KNEW THEM ALL

Two acquaintances met outside
polling place during a recent
election in the west and both
started to talk about the list of
candidates for the various offices
up for election. Finally they came
to several men who were listed as
candidates for the office of mayor
Ben" remarked one voter, Il
don't want to vote for any of
these men. Why 1 don't know a
one of them?"
I'm in the same position. Bill, "
replied the other sadly. II know
them all"
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

Source: U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
proportion was down to 1873 per
cent year ago, the lowest ratio on
record.
AS a matter of fact, even a sub
stantial proportion of those classl-
fled as living on farms now earn
their livelihood in outside pursuits.
The 1854 figures show that nearly
3 million farm residents, or a fifth
of the entire farm population of
working age, were employed IN non
AGRICULTURAL occupations.
EFFECT ON INCOME LEVELS
One of the significant results of
the decline in the farm population
shows up in the income figures
translated to a per capita basis.
Though the number of active far
mers is down to the lowest level in
decades. production in general is
at near-record levels. Much OF the
growth of farm income between
the Twenties and now may reflect
the big rise in prices over the last
decade apd a half, but a god deal
also represents increased efficien-
cy and more production of live
stock, with an assist from Govern
ment support operations.
For the three decades from 1924
to 1854, total cash receipts from
farming (excluding Government
payments and off-thefarm in
Gomez rose from $10.2 billions to
$50 billions, an increase of prac-
tically 200 per cent. Adjusted for
the change in the farm population
figures in the period, however, the
per capita cash income from farm
ing was more than four times as
high last year as it was in 1924,
rising from only 1928 in 1924 to
$l.368 last year.
The difference between the rise
in total and per capita income is
even more marked in the South.
where aggregate cash receipts from
farming we're up 1863 per cent be-
tween 1924 and 1854 but on per
capita basis we're up 3l3 per cent.
The margin is least in the West,
where overall cash receipts from
farming were up 276 per cent in
the l924-54 period and on a per
capita basis were 315 per cent
higher.-Mcney-Matters Bulletin.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

riculture Department. Combined
with the higher earnings provided
by jobs in business and industry,
and diversification and mechanic
alton of farm output, this popu-
lation shift figures Importantly in
the strides made by average in
come levels in the South in recent
years.
Big population shifts have also
occurred in other parts of the
country. The number of persons
living on farms in the nations
bread-basket comprised by the
North Central States declined by
more than million between 1920
and 1854. The proportion of farm
to total population of that region
showed an even greater rate of de-
cline. from 29.7 per cent in 1920
to 1872 per cent in 1854.
TREND IN OTHER REGIONS
The number of persons living
on farms in the West declined by
only around 225,000 between 1920
and 1854. However, due to the
great expansion of the overall
population in the West in the per-
iod, particularly on the Pacific
Coast, the farm population last
year represented only 81 per cent
of the Vests total population as
against 24.7 per cent in 1920. The
farm population in the Northeast,
which has been in a downtrend
since the last century, declined by
100000 between 1920 and 1854
and it's proportion of the total
population fell from SO per cent to
Al per cent between those years
Over all. the total farm popu-
lation in the United States de-
clined by more than 10 million in
the 1920-54 period. Whereas the
number of persons living on farms
represented 30.1 per cent of the to-
tai U. S. population in 1920. the
FARM POPULATION STORY
| The following table shows the trend
of the farm population in relation to
the total population of the United
Statog Tin thousands), for principal re-
gions and for the country as whole
over the last three and one-half de-
Cades:
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

Today IS per cent of all skin
cancers are cured. but 95 per cent
could be cured. Regular physical
examinations can prevent cancer
deaths, the American Cancer So
ciety saws.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

that are,
And all that are to be.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-28

programs
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12

ers reading: at Pays To Be
Courteous" who yell at you:
law shuddup,"
My wife who thinks I'm some
guy named Fort Knox.
Movie producers who make
stinkeroos but who should made
startling pictures like MGM,s
Bad Day at Black Rock" star
ring Spencer Tracy.
Government officials who
make us vote on perplexing is
sues.
Dogs and pedestrians who take
their sweet time crossing the
road
Auto companies who concen-
trate on speed instead of safety.
Patent-medicine and tooth
paste companies who make silly
claims about curing colds and
cavities.
Young boys who try to grow
mustache when the mustache
won't cooperate.
Housc-to-houSe solicitors who
flunked high school but are now
working their way through COL
lege.
The fellow who parks his car
against your bumper so you can't
get out.
Scheming male fashion design
ers who want us men TO wear
atrocities like the Bermuda
walking shorts.
Dogs who bark at us and
neighbors who should bark at
their dogs.
Neighbors who let their dogs
run loose.
Laundries who put starch in
my shorts and none in my shirts.
Car-owners who belch chok-
ing clouds of exhaust smoke.
Neighbors who smoke their
incinerator rubbish instead of
burning il.
Door-to-door solicitors who
ring my doorbell 6 times.
The rebellious teen-agc daug-
hter who is shortening her
MONS life 20 years.
The belligerent young son who
is adding 20 years (of illness) to
his dads life.
People who phone after
p. m.
All these and more
Happy New Year Resolutions
TO you all!
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12
Callahan's Column
So This Is New York
By NORTH CALLAHAN

One is completely at the mer-
cy Of this man and cannot re-
fuse anything. The man gives
certain orders, and with a single
stroke Of his shaving brush, COW
ers ones eyes and ears with
coating Of lather. We note that
some one is working on our
hands and guess that tits the
manicurist. Some one must be
shining our shoes. Meanwhile.
the barber submits us to some
scientific proceedings Of torture.
An enormous hand messages us.
Then ne lovers our face with a
hot towel which burns us. I'm
mediately after, he removes the
hot lowell and replaces it with
one soaked in freezing water.
We cannot see. speak nor
breathe. Finally free Of the last
lowell we can see the manicur-
ist, the barber and bootblack.
All our extremities are in alien
hands. Numerous persons work
at our expense, and we have a
certain satisfaction in knowing
that we are supporting so many
people. Really, we have not yet
enumerated all those who serve
us. There is still another man
in a corner Of the barber shop,
dedicated to cleaning, pressing
and brushing our hat. The hat
receives it's own massage. It is
our sixth extremity.
And our torture containes.
Now we are submitted to a
strong electric current. The bar
Der passes over our face a vi
brating apparatus which effects
us like steam roller. Now our
shoes are shined. The manicurist
leaves our right hand and takes
possession Of our left, while the
barber begins to cut our hair.
Finally, the torture ends. That is
to say, one still has to pay the
bill. We take out a roll of bills
and distribute them among the
multitude. And all this, includ-
ing the payment, which seems
to us the longest, has not lasted
more than a quarter of an hour
Everything has been done rapid
ly and with much machinery.
There is no doubt. that an A
mcrican barber shop is the most
American thing in the world"
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12
The Curb Reporter

cent letter from my father. still
in Michigan. He says that Just
last week, II took him more than
two hours to shovel the snow
out of the driveway.
Please don't expect any sort
of big-city writing from me. Il
just amt in me. I'm small town
in my thoughts and In my birth
;. and my writing and report
ing will show it.
have always believed that in
all Of mans doings. he ought to
take enough time to know the
people around him.
I will know you, and you will
know me, and that's the way IL
should be, / think. There win
be times that you will not und-
erstand me and my point Of
view.
But when this happens, I hope
you will come to me and togeth-
er we will 90 over the problem
in question. That way. by golly,
we'll find an answer truer to
the right one.
Newspaper people all take .
mental oath when they begin
the first day, to report the facts,
impartially and with mallace to-
wards none. think have done
this always, and I hereby re-
pledge myself to that ideal.
And on that note, I'll close
this, the first Of my columns.
.... by gaut
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12

This will have to serve as a
sort Of introduction to all you
good people. In the recent trans
fer of men and material, about
the Atlantic Publishing Com
pany, I find I have been relo-
Gated from the Field in Conway
to here.
Let me brief you in just a bit
on who I am. Names Dell Gaut.
Married and have a boy and
girl. Have been in South Caro-
lima just about six months.
I came to Conway and The
Field from the Wilmington
Morning Star in Wilmington,
where I first learned the differ
ence between a line slug and
dropped metaphore.
I graduated from journalism
school at Wilmington Junior
College, and before that I was
a Marine radio operator, station
ed at Camp Lejeune mostly.
Originally, come from Kala-
mazoo. Mich. But, and I'm proud
to admit, I am a thoroughly
transplanted misplaced person.
You might say that I discovered
the South by virtue Of being
shipped here in the Marine
Corps.
But now that l am here, I am
finding out more and more that
this is the place for me. I was
more sure than ever after a re-
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12

Did you know that somewhere little
boy or little girl is walking around that
might very we'll be dead had it not been
for the fact that you dug down in your
pocket and gave to the March of Dimes last
year?
Or did you? Last year, did you hear
the pleading little voice of the child lying
in hospital bed asking for little of your
money so that the child might walk?
Of course you gave :. and you can be
rightly proud of your self for doing so.
Hundreds of people in Tabor City and in
Columbus County dug down in worn peck
cts for change.
But did you give all you could? Or
did you say, well, you know, there are
so many charities that one doesn't know
where to put ones money anymore"
1t has always been, and probably al
( ways will be the duty of the people to take
care of the poor and the sick. Those with
their health and comfortable jobs must,
under moral law, take care of their poor
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12

that things happen or laws are passed that
are only wanted by a certain few.
Perhaps it would be just the other way
around. Perhaps, unless the majority
voted for something :. bond issue for
example . the smaller portion of the
people might very well kill the issue just
because people stayed home, instead of
voting.
This is a danger faced in any election.
Right now, we are facing just such an
issue. The county is proposing $74O,00O
bond issue. Included in the bond monies
will be funds for improving the school
system.
Hardly a person will deny that no
matter how good our school system is, it
can always bear improving. =. Nothing
is so important as educating the children
that will, in the future, direct this town,
county, country.
Now, again, we have . chance to vote
for additional funds for our schools. I'm
less every person registers and goes to the
polls, the decision on the bond issue may
well be decided by the few instead of the
most.
And this can not be right. This can
never be right in country that is based on
the direct opposite principle.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12
They Need Your Help

and sickly charges. This can not be denied
But of all the worthy charities, name
one that rips at your heart as does the
drive for polio-fighting funds. If you only
could walk into polio hospital and see,
talk with the patients there.
If you could look down into a roomful
of these steel lungs. each imprisoning some
small child then you would gladly give
your life to get them out and into the air
again like normal children.
But giving your life will do no good No
one is asking you your life. But those chile
ren-twiSted and bent-bodied children
they are asking for help.
And you you who are reading this
page right now :. may have the key to
their future in your hand. You with your
weekly paycheck and your good health
you could kill them off like flies by doing
nothing.
Think about that every time you pass
the coin collectors on the merchants show
cases.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-01-12
Barney Clazer's
Column

PEOPLE WHO SHOULD
MAKE NEW YEARS RESOLU-
TONS:
Statesmen with signs on their
homes reading: No Statesmen"
Autoists with windshield stick
ers reading: Speed Kills" who
pass you at 80 miles per hour
Members of my family who
scatter my newspaper around
the house.
Phone subscribers who dial
wrong numbers because they'e
too lazy to look up the right
ones.
Auto manufacturers who de-
preciate our new car and then
outmode it with new model.
Movie houses with loudspeak-
ers that are too loud.
Neighbors who shout noisy
goodbycs in the wee hours of
the morning.
AutOists who love animals, re-
spect their wives, attend church,
help the needy, but won't let
you make a left turn.
Women who claw like maniacs
during REIMBURSEMENT sale.
Radio announcers to stop
screaming.
Television announcers to get
out of town.
AutoistS who toot their horn
instead Of ringing your doorbell.
Neighbors who don't cut their
lawns.
Hotroddcrs who screech their
tires.
Russia who wants TO make this
bitter world TO live in or a
better world TO die in.
Nom who shops six days a
week and rests on the Sabbath.
Children who make their par
ents baby-sit for their children
who will grow UP and make
their parents baby-sit for their
children who will etc. etc.
Hotrodders who drive too fast
Cadillac owners who drive toe
slow.
Smart-alec drivers who ride
my tail.
Marion Brando who has mush
In his mouth.
Folks who kick about tire
some movie double-features and
then sit in front Of TV set for
6 hours straight.
Autoists with windshield stick