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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
Small Electric Appliances
Show Gains From 1855

Because of a lag in building
unit sales of larger electric ap-
planes associated with new
homes are running behind year
ago, but smaller appliances are
showing substantial gains, re-
port from the Electric Institute
Of Washington showed today.
Television sales in two months
of this year increased to 14.l65
units from 1850 in the same
1855 period, while radio sales
rose to 1853 from 9,523.
Room air conditioners in the
two months totaled 4.963 VS..
1850 and vacuum cleaners
climbed to 5,614 from 3,768.
Dehumidiflers jumped to 1856
from only 1874 a year ago and
freezers totaled l,491 VS., 985.
Conventional washers tptaled
972 VS.. 1913, while automatic
washers increased to 6.207 from
5,218.
Water heaters declined to 262
from 270. electric ranges de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
tention to broad policy plans
opd Y,roorafnS

tention to broad policy plans
and programs
A native of Utah, Mr.. Barlow
is a graduate of George Wash
Iington University and the Har-
ward School of Business Admin
istration. He joined Hot Shoppes
as secretary-treasurer in 194l
after being with the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. here and with
! the Cleveland Trust Co.
Emerson & Orme, Inc, pioneer
Buick automobile dealers. an
nounced the appointment of
Robert c. Orme as vice president
in charge of service.
| J. Woodrow Thomas of Airing
ton has been elected assistant
vice president of Trans World
Air Lines, Chairman Warren Lee
IPierson reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
BY DONALD B. HADLEY

The Southern Railway will de-
post q check for $3l ,589,52l with
the Guaranty Trust Co. in New
York Friday to pay off, in full
from treasury cash, all of the
railways outstanding 50-year-
old development and general
mortgage bonds due April /.
1t will be the most momentous
day in the Southern's history
declared President Harry A. De
Butts today. I'm told that it's
a rare thing for a railroad to
pay of that much debt from
treasury cash and without re-
sorting to ref1nancing."
Largest check ever written in
the Southern's history. Fridays
payment will mark the end of a
multi-million dollar mortgage
placed on the property on April
10, 1905. At the start of 1912
the outstanding total of the
bonds was Sill ,333,0
Calls 1856 Prospects
Exceedingly Bright
The Southern's prospects fol-
1856 appear exceedingly bright,
said Mr.. DeButts, 1.-THE tempo
of the South's industrialization il
picking up all the time.
Right now we have more in
quiries and there are more
plants under way and in sight
than at any .one time since 1945
With carloadings increasing anc
with continued firm control Of
expenses, the future looks very
bright"
The roads net income in Feb.
ruary was $2,536,467 or 88 cent?
a share, compared with $2,084,'
ass or SO cents in February las
year, he reported.
For two months of this year
net income was $5,365,758 o.
$1.87 a share VS.. $4.532.919 o.
$l.55 a year earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27

Hot Shoppes Elects
Barlow to New Post
Milton A. Barlow, vice presi-
dent-treasurer of Hot Shoppes
Inc. has been promoted to ex-
Iecutive vice president, President
u. Willard Marriott announced
yesterday.
Mr.. Barlow will be responsible
to the president for overall op.
Ierations. Mr.. Marriott said the
new position will broaden the
executive responsibility and re.
duce the operating load which
the president has been carrying
Mr.. Marriott will devote his at.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK. Mar ~ R.-Foreign
exchange rates follow, Great Britain in
dollars, others III cents unchanged IN
less otherwise noted.
Canadian dollar in New York open
market Ia per cent premium or iQ0,12la
U, s. cents, up l 30.
Europe - Great Britain tpoundN
50 500; 30-day futures, 2,19s,- of
l. 32; 60-day futures, 30 5/32, of u;
20-day futures, us 1873, off 1872;
CfrancI .2SSs Of a cent; Germany WEST
ernl tdeutsche mark, $3.50: Holland
tguilderl, 26.l2, of 00la: Italy tliral.
.l614 of cent. Portugal tescudo), $50;
Sweden tKronal, 1884; Switzerland
franc freel. 23.23: Denmark tkronel,
II 50.
Latin Misunderstanding tfreel, ESQ.
UP OF; Brazil tfree), ] Al; Mexico, S.O2;
Venezuela boliverl, 3O03.
Far East-Hons Kong dollar, 1890
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
New Hi-LeveI FL capitan

Santa Fe will put six Ell Captain trains consisting of
entirely newype passenger into service this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
Life Insurance Sales Up
I Per Cent Over "a Here

Sales of ordinary life 'insur-
ance in the District of Columbia
rose to $12.684.000 in February,
a gain of 7 per cent from Febru-
airy sales last year, the Life In
surance Agency Management
Association reported today.
Sales in two months of this
year also expanded to $25,205, :
900. an increase of per cent
from a year earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
ABA Opposes Expansion
OF FNMA Operations

The Anglican Bankers AS
ISOLATION does not favor various
proposals, now before Congress
to expand operations and func-
tions of the Federal National
Mortgage Association, President
John A. Reilly of the Second
National Bank, told a House
subcommittee today.
Mr.. Reilly, who is chairman OF
the ABA Committee on Mortgage
Financing and Urban Housing
said the association has long
taken the position that FNMA
should be maintained only as ar
emergency standby organization
to supplement and not supplant
the private secondary or pri-
mary mortgage market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
SeabOard Air Line Net
Ahead of Year Ago

Net income of Seaboard Air
Line Railroad in February was
$l,881,997 or 70 cents a share,
compared with $1,815,7l5 or II
cents in February last year, the
road reported.
Net for two months this year
was $3,769.890 or $158 share
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
'3 n BUSINESS
Southern to Retire Bonds
With S31, 589, 527 Check

creased to 1887 from l,746 and
electric refrigerators dropped to
SCOT from lib. Food waste
disposers declined to 1,240 from
1,292. but dishwashers increased
to 1892 from 817.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-27
MUTUAL FUNDS

NEW YORK. Mar 81 Up. - National
Securities Dealers, Incl:
moon Quotations)
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-10-15

s$2o7 MILLION cumulative loss
(19S1-S4l to Montono farmers.
source: MSu School Of Business Ad-
niinistFotion.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-10-15

COMPARISON OF PRICES OBJ
TANNED AND OPERATING COST
IN A TYPICAL MONTANA COUNT
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05

Report of the Register Of Deeds
for the month of November,
IQ56.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Baptist Circles
Slate Meetings

Six Of the eight circles of the
Tabor City Baptist Church, w.
NJ. S. are meeting Thursday, De-
cember 6.
Circles meeting at the church
at 3 p. m. include the Sarah Cox,
Dula McGougan and Leila Nc
MILAN.
the Charity Rogers Circle will
meet with Mrs. L. S. Green al
her home on Jones Street.
The Rosa Carroll Circle will
meet at the home Of Mrs. w. ].
Strickland on the Green Sea
Road at 7:30 p. m. with Mrs
Hazel Martin and Mrs. Lucille
Buftkin as hoSteSSeS.
The Nell Fowler Circle, form
Srly Business Woman's Circle
Number =, will meet with Mrs.
Colcne Barnhill at her home at
7:30 p. m.
Meeting were held Tuesday
evening by the Business Circle.
Number l, and the Mantha Har-
relSOn Circle.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
.Cerro Cordo News

Barnville visited their aunt. Mrs
Henrietta Boswell Sunday after
noon.
MIR. and Mrs. P. c. Brooks OF
Lumberton, Mrs. Gay Mercer
and. Mrs. Thurston Barefoo,
were visitors of Mr.. and Mrs
cravo Benton and Mrs. Katie
Kellihan Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Floyd OF
Charlotte spent Friday here Wis
ting Mr.. and Mrs. Joel McLel-
land and Mrs. Minta Floyd. Mrs
Minton Floyd returned to Char
lotte with the Joe Floyd'S foi
several weeks visit.
Visiting Mrs. Edward w. Will
Hanson in Lumberton hospital
rccentlp where she is a patien.
were Mr.. AMI Mrs. A. J. Will
Hanson, ST., Mrs. Cora Lee Me
IchCm. Mrs. Hugh Nance. Mrs
Grave Baton and Edward Will
hanson also Mr.. and Mrs. c. II.
Church OF Lakeview. Mrs. Will
Hanson expects TO return home
during the week.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Annual Meeiinu
For Pea Will Be
Held December Is

The Annual Meeting of Stock
holders of VAUDEVILLE Production
Credit Association will be held
in the Columbus County Court
Room, Whiteville, N. c., on
Thursday December Is, 1856 ut
.7:30 p. NJ, according to an an
nouncement by c. r. Yoder, sec
retary-trcaSurer of the aSSocia-
ton.
The association which makes
short and intermediate term
loans to farmers in Columbus
Countp is owned by over l40G
County farmers, Yod-
.er stated.
Complete and detailed reports
on the previous years business
of the association will be given.
one director will be elected and
other important business of the
association will be transacted.
Mr.. Henry S. Johnson. Direct
or of Information of the Third
Farm Credit District, Columbia.
s. C.. will deliver an address on
the PROBLEMS of Agriculture
and How the Farm Credit Ad-
miniStration Can Help Solve
Them"
Farmcr-directorS OF the White
vile Production Credit ASSocia-
ton are II. II. Collins and w. B.
Buffkin of Whitcvillc, NJ. S.
Turner of Fair Bluff. W. c. Cox
of Tabor City and Walter Shaw
of Evcrrrepn
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Lennon Attends
Leaf Hearings

Alton Lennon. Congressman
elect, of the Seventh Congress
lonal District, was in Washing
ton, Monday and Tuesday to at
tend the Hearings held by the
Tobacco subcommittee of The
U. S. House Agriculture Com
mittee-on the current problems
confronting our tobacco grow
erS.
Lennon stated he understood
leaders from all segments of the
tobacco industry, including farm
leaders and growers had been
asked to attend and present their
views.
He said It is most important
and neCessary-that from now
on-A program be developed.
our tobacco farmers can live
with.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
BY MRS. C. J. BENTON


Mrs. c. O. Martin Of RALEIGH
spent Tuesday afternoon with
her daughter and son-in-law
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. William
son.
Master Eddie Williamson spent
last week with his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Church In
Lake view.
A/1c and Mrs. Gene Hill of
Sumter spent the weekend here
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bascom Hill and Mrs. Wade
Green.
Jim Memory of Clarkton was
a visitor in the home of Mrs. A.
l.. Griffin last week.
Col. and Mrs. Horace johnson
OF Smithfield and Fort Bragg
also Bobby Maxwell were Sun
day guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joel
McLelland.
Mrs. Joel McLelland, Mrs. Joe
Floyd and Mrs. E. A. Johnson
spent Friday in Florence.
Theodore Stone and son of
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Postal Stamps
Should Be
Bought Early

Patrons of the Tabor City Post
Office are urged to buy stamps
for mailing Christmas greetings
at their earliest convenience
said Richard Gordon. postmast-
er.
Gordon pointed out that mail
ing early was Il great help TO
postal officials and emphasized
that the buying of stamps before
the rush days would relieve
muca congestion in the post Of
flee even if cards and packages
were not mailed early.
1t was also noted by Gordon
that first class mail requires
three cent StImpS-it is in the
preferred handling category,
may be sealed, may contain
writing, will be forwarded or
returned 10 the return address
II not delivered.
The third class mail bearing
two cent stamps, may not be
scaled. may not contain writing,
may not be forwarded and will
not be returned to the addrcSSce
il not delivered.
The post office windows are
open daily from $3.50 a. m. to
6:3O p. m. except Saturday when
tncy are closed at noon.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05

Billy Joe Hammond OF Green's
,oro spent the weekend with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. M.
Hammond, Sr.
Visiting Mrs. ]. v. Rowell, Sr.
n Marion Sunday were Mr.. and
Mrs. A. ]. Williamson, ST., Don
ell Williamson and Mrs. F. M.
Bullock, Sr.
Mrs. Louise HinSon of Thorn
lSville visited friends here Sun
lay.
Visiting Mrs. Ida LittleS Sun
day in Columbus County hoSpi.-
Il were Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Lit
lies, Mr.. and Mrs. George Lit
ties, Peggy Hardee also Mr.. and
IRIS. Ellis LittleS Of Lexington.
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
FCrgil White were Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Greyton and children Of
Elizabethtown, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Long of Chadbourn, Mr..
nd Mrs. Stanley White and
Miss Linda Griffin of Whitcvillc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover Strick-
land of Baltimore. Md. are visit
ing relatives here.
Mrs. Charles SlnglCtary OF
Bolton visited friends here Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Dudney and
family of LumbCrton visited Mr..
and Mrs. Troy Dudley Sunday
afternoon.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Presbyterian
Women Meet

The circle of the Women OF
the Presbyterian Church met
with respective hoStesscs last
night (TueSday) for The Bible
study entitled Home At MAJ
arCth."
Circle Number l met with
Mrs. J. c. Bell Jr. at her home
on the Pireway Road with Mrs
J. P. Brown giving the Bible
Study. Mrs. A. o. King. Jr,
chairman, presided. Others at
tending were Mrs. Bryant Ora
lam. Mrs. w. A. Cox, Mrs. Ro-
land Baldwin, Mrs. Robert L.
Sweeley, Mrs. Forest Fowler,
Mrs. Roberta Bowyer and Mrs.
S. Smythe.
Mrs. Carl Brubaker entertain
ed Circle Number 2 at her home
on Britt Street. Mrs. Hector Lee
ave the Bible Study and Mrs.
w. o. Jackson, Jr., chairman.
Also attending were
Mrs. L. R. Watson, Mrs. D. F.
Dellinger, Mrs. J. A. Huffman
Jr, Mrs. o. d. Carroll. Mrs.
Claude Boyd and Miss Caroline
Social hours followed the ses-
Sions.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
.P.T.A. Patrons
To Visit Rooms

A special invitation is being
extended to those who attend
the Parent Teachers Association
meeting Thursday night to visit
the rooms of the grammar am
primary grades in the school
said Mrs. James c. Cox. presi-
den. of the P.T.A.
MANY rooms have been deco
rated by students and teacher,
in the Christmas motif and pa
irons of the school will enjoy
the scenes" said Mrs. Cox.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Civilians Will
Stage Xmas Party

Civilians and their wives will
attend the annual Christmas
party December II at the Pee
Dee Lodge.
The date for the event was
announced Monday night at the
regular meeting of the club.
Lloyd Hips. president. also
announced plans for a house
canvass fruit cake sale.
Civilians will make the house
sales Monday night.
The Rev. William Smythe,
pastor of the Tabor City PreSby-
terrain Church. was a guest of
the club.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05

And. to meet the immediate
need. every effort should be
made to convince the admins
tration and the Congress that
our tobacco farmers are entitled,
as a matter of justice and right,
to put a substantial part of the
new 20 percent tobacco acreage
cut into the soil bank.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Mrs. Graham johnson
Entertaius Club

Mrs. Graham Johnson enter.
tanned the Tuesday Afternoon
Bridge Club at her home yes
terday. Mrs. c. G.. Westmorelani
rereived the high score award
Playing with Mrs. Westmore-
land were Mrs. J. NJ. McGougan
Mrs. c. f. Walden, Mrs. J. B
Hardwick. Mrs. c. II. Primer
Mrs. D. ]. Hughes, Mrs. Jimmy
Dicus and Mrs. J. F. Boswell.
A frozen fruit salad course
was served by Mrs. Johnson dur
ing the afternoon.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05

Cathy, eleven month old dau-
ghter OF the Rev. and Mrs. Will
liam S. Smythc is convelascing
at home following treatment in
Community hospital. Loris.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Sl934.90

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Housand
were the Sunday afternoon
quests of his sister, Mrs. Bessie
Garrett of Loris.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Gore and
familp attended worship serv-
ices Sunday in the Mill Branch
section.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
WINS. Observing :,
Prayer Week

The woman's Missionary Tn.
ion Of the Tabor City R,n.;s.
Church is observing the ahns.s
Foreign Mission Week Of Pray..
this week.
Services are being held in N.
church at 10 a. m. daily thro,,h
Friday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-25
Ii Runs Through
My Mind
By POLLY J. HANST
We're Rich

were ken
Vince, we're richi | never thought
I'd live to see the day, but two
publications, one national and one
local, have the proof.
The us. News and World Report
this week shows us that Americans
are rich beyond anything the world
had seen since Adam and Eve were
told to go to work True, we're
deeper in debt than we've ever been
but with interest and high taxes
we still have more money to spend
than ever before.
Well do | remember the buZZing
that was caused on a campus when
the student editor brazenly stated
in an editorial that he expected to
earn $4,000 ten years after gradua-
ton. A high figure to be shooting
at, most students thought, but half
the people of America earn that
today, according to us. News.
The dollar isn't worth as much
but still we're practically wallow-
ing in luxuries. We've got the goods
cars, radios, sweepers, electricity,
washing machines and TV. Three
families out of four have at least
one TV set
So much for goods and the ma
tional scene
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-25

QSA Night of Harmony held at
UniOntown, Pa, last Thursday eve
ming.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shank and
son Bobby, Pleasant Valley, spent
last Wednesday evening with Mr..
and Mrs Floyd Carskadon.
Mrs. Lester YutZy returned home
after spending a week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph DeBerry and son in
Warrington, W. Va.
Mrs. Marguerite Ashby was adj
mitted to the Garrett County Me-
mortal hospital in Oakland last
week and remains a patient there.
Mrs. Grant Friend, of Deer Park,
and Mrs. Chester Friend and chill
dren, of SwantOn, spent Friday at
the home of Mrs. Erwin Fike.
Mrs. Don Jackson. Mrs. Burlin
Holler, Mrs Harold Hinebaugh and
son, Edward, were in Morgantown,
w. Va, last Thursday. The latter
remained there in the Mononga-
hela General hospital for few
days where he had a pin removed
from his arm. He was injured in
an automobile accident last June
near Morgantown.
Pvt. James Martin and Pvt.
James Pike returned to Paris Is
land, S. c., after spending ten days
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Will
lard Pike. They will then report to
Camp Lejeune, N. c. where they
will be stationed for four weeks.
Miss Ann Campbell, of Martins
burg, w. Va, spent the weekend
with her sister, Mrs. Dwight Ash
by and family
James Ashby, USN, of Newport
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-25

r. l., spent several days last week
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Dwight Ashby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Collier, of
Hopwood, Pa, spent Wednesday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Shaffer.
Robert Shaffer, USN, of Wash
ington, D. c., was weekend Wis
itor of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
c. Shaffer. He was an overnight
guest of Robert Shank at Pleasant
Valley, Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. F. o. Leighton and
family. of Winchester, Va, spent
the weekend with Mrs. Lester
Yutzy. Other Sunday visitors were
Mr. and Mrs. John. Weimer and
son and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry KAN
merer, of Morgantown, W. Va.
Mrs. Effie Hollis, of Terra Alta,
visited relatives over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs Lee Ashby, daugh-
ter Linda. son Clinton, of Waynes-
burg, Ohio, visited relatives during
the weekend. Miss Lorraine Bit
finger returned home after two
weeks visit with her brother-in-laW
and family. She attended the we'd
ding of Miss Jean Louise Ashby
to Robert Stevens in the First
Christian church in Canton, Ohio,
on Saturday. Mrs. Stevens is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Ash
by, formerly of Crellin.
Lynn Adams, of Cumberland, was
a weekend guest of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellwood Adams.
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Mrs. Nordeck Shaffer and family
and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Colaw and
son Ronnie, of Oakland.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Adams Wis
tied the latter's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Edwards, Sr., at Loeb
Lynn, last Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs Charles KiSner an
nounce the birth of. a son last Fri
day in the Preston County Me-
mortal hosital in Kingwood
Methodist members of the Crel-
lin church met following services
on Sunday evening and voted
unanimously to install furnace in
the Methodist parsonage in Corinth.
w. Va. Crellin is one of the charges
of the Methodist pastor, Rev. Don
L. Jackson.
My. and Mrs. Iret Ashby spent
the weekend with the latter's
brother and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Grant Hutchinson, Morgantown.
Mr. and Mrs Floyd Carskadon
were Sunday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. George Carskadon at Hutton
Mr. and Mrs. John Sterling, of
Valley Head, W. Va, visited here
last Friday
Friday visitors of Mr. and Mrs
Arthur Friend were Mrs. Minnie
Friend, Mr., and Mrs. Joe Schroyer
and George Mccullough, Friends
vile. Sunday visitors were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Friend and son. Nor
gantOwn; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Weeks
and son, of Pleasant Valley.
Visitors over the weekend at the
home of Mrs. Myra Martin we're r
Sgt. and Mrs. Charles A. Martin,
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia;
Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Martin, Jr.,
and family, Penn Van. N. Y; Mr.
and Mrs d. Ray Walker, Charles
ton, w. Va; Mrs John Ball, Hag-
crstown; Edgar Smith, Charleston,
w. Va; Mrs. George Barker, Key
ser, w. Va; Capt. Merrill Dillon,
Charlotte Hall; Thomas Willett,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-25
New and Improved

| am beginning to be suspicious
of everything buy that has on the
carton in bold electrified letters
new and improved" 1t seems the
improvements are in reverse. Tooth
past thinner, soaps less sudsy, soft
ness less soft, instants les infant.
1t gives one a pleasant sense of Sc
curity to look at a box of Mothers
Oats and see the same mother that
was on the box years ago and note
a sense of pride in their "old fash
Toned" cereal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-25

shoes yearly. Nov | have more
sympathy when our daughter COM
plains that she has nothing to wear
and adds, You ought to see the
kids
A weekly average of $108 is
spent on pop, ice cream. etc, and
while THE Acorn" didn't list it
I'm sure that included chewing
gum. An average of S218 monthly
is spent on cosmetics and "fuzz re-
movers"
1t goes on and on. We knew the
baby business had an important
part to play in keeping business
booming but we never figured on
what the teen-age crowd is doing
to help it.
What will be the outcome of our
youth having so much of this
worlds goods? Will they be able
to take a leaner day?
Through it all they may be able
to take it better than any previous
generation. They may have had
their fling" with goods and their
inner urges may drive them toward
the feel of accomplishment, the
need for expressing ideas and de-
veloping talents and growing in
grace.
If such could be the case we'd
be so happy that all our "Chillun
got shoes" and money to jingle in
their pockets.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-25
Here in Garrett

| was just as surprised to find
that poor old Garrett County
notice it's in quotes which means
it isn't my phrase is rich too. This
information and shocking news
came to me through Southern
Highs The Acorn" Not so much
in goods" as the amount of money
high school students spend.
An article titled "All We Chillun
Got Shoes" was as clever piece
for selling advertising as I've ever
seen. That was the intent of the
survey taken in senior high school
among 500 students. All survey
sheets that appeared unreasonable
were discarded leaving 326 valid
ones.
This survey showed that PSI stu
dents spend $4,000 year on cloth
ing or almost S4O0 a year. The aver
age students buy four pairs of
ToWson; Deith Phillips. Snow Hill.
and Barry Lissee. Bethesda. These
were among the out of town guests
attending the wedding of Barbara
Biser and Thomas Martin on Sat
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