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Stephenville Daiet Empire
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22. 1950
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NUTU'K TO THK FUDUC:
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rcrtrU upon calling the attention
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Member Texas Press Association and National Editorial Association
Interesting Economic Facts
“After full allowance for increased taxes and increased con>-
sunver price*, the people of the U. S. in 1950 will have at least
$107,000,000,000 for ‘discretionary* spending or saving. XhU
means that oyer and above maintaininjf a 1940 standard of liv-
ing for food, clothing and shelter the people will have $107,»-
(MK),000,000 extra to save or to spend on more or better good*
and services. This is six per cent more than in 1949!’’
The above quotation is taken from a booklet entitled. “Man-
keting Opportunities 1950,” written by Arnold Johnson, director
of research for the J. Walter Thompson Compnnv, which gives
some facts that lead to the author's conclusion that 1950 might
be the best year yet.
The booklet calls attention to the fact that by mid-Julv, 1950,
the total population will he up fifteen per cent over 1940 and
says that this means twenty million people added to the poten-
tial market for goods and services. It points out that the total
disposable personal income' after taxes for the first half of
1919 was at an annual rate of 194.6 bQJjon dollars and that thi*
was two and. one-half time* the 1940 level of 75r7 billion dollars.
It expresses the belief that disposable personal income after
taxes in 1950 c<|uld reach $200,000,000,000, without including ac-
cumulated personal saving.
According to the author, if we subtract the cost at today**
prices of the basic 1940 living standard on food, clothing and
shelter for out! eftormouslv increased population, we will still
have $100.0G billion “discretionary” personal income available
to-s|>end in 1950. This is four times.the amount,available In
1940—In—addition, the author aaya that the paopjg begin thia
year with accumulated individual savings of abouW$220,000,-
000,000 and that even at today's prices, this amount of money
will buy twice ns much as the 1940 savings.
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These figures are interesting but whether they mean a good
business year in 1950 depends upon the mental attitudeytof in-
dividuals. If there is the will to buy, there is the money to
make 1950 an excellent business year. If, unfortunately, a pnn-
ickv wave of fear affects tne mental attitude of our consuming
population, there will undoubtedly be a contraction of spending
with serious economic results. No one can tell what will happen
because figures give no indication of any widespread state of
mind. Consequently, we writ have to “wait and see how the year
1950 develops from an economic and business standpoint.
The less you work the less you want to work.
Almost anybody can give advice that is not worth taking.
Suspicious people are those who judge mankind by themselves.
Take care of your health and your health may take care of you
With Nichols In Nation's Capital
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By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Staff Corres/mndent
A mandate from the people is usually
public support.
Those who love monev greatly are never much In love with
anything else. ------------------—.————>-—T—-
There is much information in books but you can’t get it yyith-
out lettrning how to read.__...________________ /
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (UP)
—When Uncle Sam goes out to
count noses, he doesn’t want to
miss a nose.
Starting April I, the cen|ps
taker will start counting. Hell
knock—maybe more than once—
on every door in the land to find
out how* many people we have
in the U. S., what each person does
for a living and how many mother
hens in the back yard.
It’s a thorough-going ' Job.
your uncle has just admitted'
a red face that in the last census,
in 1940, he missed maybe half a
million noses. Those folks happen-
ed to be in hotels when the count
was made.
Your uncle corrects his mis-
takes.
The Department of Commerce
| has announced that on April 11,
I we’ll have what will be known as
a phrase used to Tt-in T-night, or transient night.
1 he government and the Ameri-
can Hotel Association had quite
a fuss about it at first. Should
the census people go around ham-
mering on doors at all hours to
route out hotel guests for a count
of noses? Should the government
tag folks as they went through
revolving doors?.
for the sake of saving a few dollars,
the sake of saving a few dollars.
Religion may save the human rare but it won’t be through
raablution#passed at mass meetings.---------------------------------- _
Two Injured In
Airplane Crash
The hotel men said “no,” al-
though they had no right to be-
cause the uncle is the ruler and
could do just that if he felt like it.
So the hotels and the census
people got together and devised a
plan -_1_----
Hotels that have 50 rooms or
more come under the program—if
at least 20 per cent of the guests
are transients. A person who regis-
ters on the night of April 11 will
get a census form along with his
key. It will be an individual form
-—not ti»e family job which calla
.4L iM *11 <w the information back to
with! the third generation.
If the guest c~n’t figure out how
the form should be made out there
will be a government man in the
lobby to help him.
The Census Bureau figures that
the permanent residents ^already j
will have been tagged.
There will be complications, as
there are in all big operations.
Say the man comes in around
check-but time and dills the trans-
portation desk to find when he
can get a plane to Maha. A half
hour later, the desk calls—this is
on April 11, of course—-and says
that the weather has lifted and
he am get right out. /
'"Right there" may be an un-
counted nose.
And how about a nose being
counted twice
Under the system, that’s hardly
possible.
Take * hypothetical case:
A man comes into Washington
on business from Urich, Mo. He
registered at the Willard Hotel on
April 11. He gets the slip in his
mail box as he goes to his room.
He fills out the census information
and leaves it at the desk.
The desk sends is along to the
government. The government sends
it to Clinten, Mo., in Henry county
(Urich’s county seat) where a rec-
ord is kept of all that sort of thing.
The government man in Clinton,
if he is alert, reports that our
man’s wife (also alert) already has
given the desired information.
Our government doesn’t make
many mistakes—not in the cen-
sus.
WICHITA FALLS, Jan. 21 (UP)
—A light plane cracked up during
a heavy fog today teven miles
southwest of Temple, 'Okla., and
two men were injured, the control
tower at the Wichita Falls Munici-
pal Airport reported.
The highway patrol identified
the soldiers as Pfc. Francis A.
Smith, 22, the pilot, and Pfc. Ron-
ald W. Chidgey, 18, both of the
.'1760th Training Squadron at Shep-
pard.
Smith suffered a back injury and
bruises. Chidgey was believed only
shaken up, but both were taken
to the Sheppard Field Hospital.
Smith said his compass went out
of commisaion and he cracked up
while trying to land in a field.
The patrol said the plane was a
Fairchild PT-19, privately owned
by five soldiers at Sheppard. Chid-
gey and Smith are two of the
ownera.
SCHOOL NEWS
Private Price Now
With 8th Army
Unit In Japan
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BELGRADE STREET SCENE—A group of Vugoslarian peasants stand In ‘front of a store
in downtown Belgrade to taka In tb« big city sights. Almost all of them wear typical
peasant boots—even the lagy on the axtreme right, looking at the shop window, sports a
pair ot tha heavy footwear
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FIGURED OUT the mystery of
the lights on front of Brother
Rip’s church . , . quick, Watson,
the needle . . . last Tuesday the
TP4L lines were out for two hours
and 20 minutes , . . the Washington
Street church haa an electric start-
er and shutter-offer on its front
entrance light . . . supposed to
start shining at 7 p.m. and turn
off at If p.m. . . and I know be-
cause ' the light shines in our
apartment and I use to could tell
when it was after 11 ’cause the
light would he out . , , Wednesday
night I discovered at 9:05, while
walking home, that the front porch
light was out but by 10 thar site
was a shinin’ in . . . so . . . here's
the angle on tlje angelic light mys-
tery . . . the time clock, electric,
was stopped two hours and 20
minutes, thus instead of starting
at 7 when it is set for . . . the
electric gadget i* that much be-
hind time and throws the light on
Unemployment Compensation Payments
In connection with the employment situation in the- United
States, it might be well to point out that 58,700,090 Americans
were employed last year and, with the exception of 1948, aver-
age employment was higher than any other’year in the nation's
history. _ .. _____ ^
Nevertheless, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer «aid
that there was an average of 3,400,000 unemployed last year.
This, he reports, was a big jump from the average 2,100,000 in
1947 and 1948.
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Yaar NEWSPAPER is
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Organize Naval
Reserve Unit
Plans for sending a box of notes
to Jo Ann Teague from the stu-
dent* was discussed at the FHA
meeting held Jan. 16 in the high
school auditorium.
Beth Garrett, president of the
Stophenvilie chapter, read a letter
that was sent to the dub from a
lady in Germany whose family re-
ceived the Christmas boxes sent
by the club.
The program wca presented by
six girls hi a panel discussion on
several problems that might be
troubling some of the members.
WITH EIGHTH U. S. ARMY
AT SAPPORO, Japan.—A recent
arrivnl in Japan to start another
foreign tour of duty Is Private
First Class Richard S. Pfica, 20,
son- of MF. and Ufa. Richard X.
Price of Box 228, Route 2, Stephen-
ville. He has been assigned to the
625th Engineer Service Company,
an Eighth Army unit attached to
the Seventh Infantry Division for
post engineer duties.
Private Price, who has served
30 months in Japan before this
tour, has been assigned to the Post
Engineers at Camp Schimmelpfen-
nig, near Sendai on the island of
Honshu, with the engineer supply
section.
Before entering the nrmy, Price
attended school in Stephenville.
The Cabinet member suggests that new people are entering
the nation’s labor force, looking for jobs and that the number
of jobs is not increasing as fast as the labor force. This seems
to be axiomatic but just how anybody is going to create jobs
for all who seek employment constitutes an economic problem
of the first magnitude.
The rise in unemployment last year brought abopt a record-
breaking payment out of unemployment insurance funds. Robert
C. Goodwin, director of Employment Security, say# that pay-
ments reached a total of $1,700,000,000 in 1949, which is slightly
more than a fifty per cent increase over the previous record
iit 9:20’ and this "will-inform Rip I y*ar of 1946. The number of persons receiving unemployment
that the light shines through the compensation was 7,500,000, which beat the old record, 5 200.000
night until 1:90 a.m. You’re wel- «„ 1940.
tonie! • Thoae who keep up with statistic# of governmental expenses
PAID MY p#U tax and that'M they hook back far enough, that the bonuses paid
makes me a citixen and the top ]the unemployed in 1949 represent a sum far larger than the
toots get deeper in Erath ,v . notltot*l expenditures 0/ the Federal Government not so man$- years
to mention the fact that we can < »8°- While the. jobless payments may have helped tide the
talk about the political aspirants j nhtion over a business recession this is not a satisfactory just-
and vote in tha democratic way . . . .ification for the payment.
by the way, HAVE YOU PAID j The principle of unemployment compensation has been ap-
YOURS? 1 proved by the people of the nation, but it would be well for
(those who administer such funds and allot such pavments to
PITIFUL . . and disgraceful be on their guard to prevent loafers, drones and the don’t-want-
• • • the amount of $56.17 had beea. to-work crowd from taking advantage of this beneficient legis-
deposited in the hank last Friday j lation.
noon for tna current March of ! --■■■ -----——— --
Dimes campaign.
rls on the panel were: Dar-
iane Brook*, Shirley Cunyusi Bet-
ty# Betti*. Semmie North,
bars JoncB and Jo Jackson.
TM*drivi«K education classes of
StopiwnviUe High, taught by Coach
Arnold Johnson, was assigned to
draw a map nf Stephen Villa and
show oil dangerous intersections
would ewi
The maps
cover any part nf
C, F. “Dutch" Flory, athletic
director at T8C, ha* been request-
ed by the 8th Naval District to
form a volunteer composite unit
of Naval Reserve enlistees.
The purpose of the program
i* for present members of the Na-
val Reaerve to train toerards pro-
motion and retirement poiate.
Coach Flqyy stated that at the
present time the proposed unit
weuld work on a non-drill pay
baais.
Thorn joining the unit at this
time will have a better opport-
unity to became eligible tor the
14-day training eruiae during the
summer month*, and with pay,
Flory said.
All classifications in the Naval
Reserve are elibiMe for tha new
unit and later on there will be
opportunity for non-Naval Reaerve
to join the unit,
ing to present information Flory
bos available.
Those interested in the new onit
may contyt FloQM»t his homo by
at Tarleton
information.
writii
Station for
High school students can now
relax; exams arc over. Teachers
are required to turn in all grades
by Monday. Jan. 23. Students will
receive their report cards Wadnes-
day, Jan. $6. - >.,
Unique Apparel Wins
Prizes, Texas Citrus
Fiesta Style Show
MISSION, Jan. 21 (UP)—A Chi-
nese costume of eggplant peel and
aa evening drag* at dehydrated
pulp were high fashi
run rampant about the community
re: the above fund-raising drive
. . .'these funds are used not only
for prngresBiue research to seek
out cures and causes of dneeded
polio . . . but half of the contribu-
tions remain in Erath county far
use of patients unable to pay the
staggering costs of hospitalization
for polio patients . . . SO . . .
losen up and give to a humanitar-
ian cause that helps Democracy
work.
“SHINER” on that btoy on
ster for Alka-Seltter
P08
Rexall store ... is too Jifelike for
soon afford a resole job on my
pavement pounding news beat.
A GOOD suggestion reaches this
department . ’. . “clean up”’ the
city before the big meeting of the
— MeOawn knows of-one unnecessary
Federated Women’s CIubTui ^.^ HmU ‘fio" ndfe* 'an
phene ilia, apme next March.
AND SPEAKING of civic proj-
ects ... we remind you again . . .
1954 is the centennial -year for
Stephenville . . . let’s make
some-
thi^g of it. . . and BIG . . . TSC
poor kid!
ion to-
citriis pulp were high
day in the Rio Grande Valley.
They won first prizes last night
the Texas Citrus Fiesta style
show featuring “garaaat of the
valley” products.
Mias Movelle Mason of San Juan,
modaled the Chinese jackal and
of a*
slacks combination
aggplant
trimmed with grapefruit, carna-
Ma, ti
tions and poinsettia, taking
priza in the costume division.
Mrs. Robert Bensen of Mission
town the student* Wished to draw, wore the steak evening gown of
90 per cent citrus and 10 per cent
show will Se repeated to-
a different tot of
The second half of 1949-50 school
yaar begins Monday, Jan. £3. High
school students will follow
regular schedule except for a ten-
minute period at tha beginning of .
the day in their homo roema where l
cotton seed, pulverised corn, gh
ter and flower* to win the highest
award in the evening draad division.
The show ”*
night with
judges. , ______
A 90-minute parade
in downtown Mission started fes-
Igh tivities yesterday. All Goats ear-
ths ! ried out a citrus motif.
J. M. Reagan Critically Hi
■__ _ ...... J. M. Reagan, who lives at 1038
class schedules will ha distributed. West Green Street, is critically ill
—■ —> J at Ms home. He is being attended
hoys of Rtophaaville1 constantly by his wife and daugh-
Tha senior
High will repraaaat some “girls”
from another town in a basketball
game naxt Wadaaaday, Jaa. 35, at
the Tarleton gym.
These “gins” will engage that
pose
Ut-
torback, Johnson and Murphy, Mr.
Haasler, Mr. Rnieff, Mr. Jonea, Mr.
Maser, Mr. Crabtree and Mr. Ang-
The feme will start at 7 .-SO and
admission piices are 34 abd 60
All psegeeds go to the 1
•ants
lor class.
sen-
nstantly by his wife and daugti
r, Mrs. Royce Year wood Frida
ter, Mra. Boyce Year wood. Friday
the family of his sea, Mr. and
Mrs. J. u. Reagan Jr,, and sons,
Mike, Jim and Tom, as well as his
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stators, Mrs. A. E. Shaffers and
Mis* Sally Reagan, all of Houston,
came to be with him in his iMness.
Marinee to Eastland
A U-io of Marines is scheduled
to make a three-day visit to East-
land beginning Thursday, Jan. 26,
to give eligible young man and
peacetime
formation on what du
3METS5
GOODY, (GOODY! ... nee where
the Cadillac prices have dropped
to just a fraction above the $4000
mark . . . which means if pisor
reductions like that continue I can
Will be in good shape and
we could even have a “Dairy Bowl”
football game on Jan. 1, 1954. to
start the oentepa>#l celebration . . .
why don’t somebody get busy and
appoint a general chairman for
'd* '•’Trthat 100-year shindig right now
i-. eh?
TPDAY’S BIBLE VERSE: “In-
asmuch as ye have done it unto the
mast of these my brethern
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M E M PhTs,11! UP Pm/, Eugene
sign. She recently crossed a cotton
field along two miles of rutted,
bumpy, dust country road. At a
hour.”
long Rnvd to learning
BOSTON (UP)—Mitchell Aboud
went « long way to get an educa-
tion—55,000 mile*. For the 18
months he has been enrolled at
Burdett College he ha* traveled
166 miles daily to and from his
Winchendon home.
The Pony Express was known as
the marvel of the sixties.
have done
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it unto me” (Matt.
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GO TO
where . . .
CHURCH
today!
MOCK JET FLIGHT—Thia new Jet Instrument trainer, accepted by the Air Force after
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tests by Air Material Command HeRdq*arters, will provide realistic ground training for
pilots. Comblnlrvi three trainers—flight, engine operations, and radio navigation—the
yuui*. .^morning wirve vriuoars—Rtgai, engine operations, and radio navigation—the
equipment makes It poesflkie to glvf lnatruptlon In the latest type of radio ^procedures and
navigation techniques, The instructor, sitting behind the cockpit, uses a series of emer-
T - geney controls t» nwduct a variety of conditions encountered In actual night.— —
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