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AND FEATURES Statcsville Daily Record National AdverUiinf RepreienUlift DcUSSER, 11 East 44th Street NEW ORK CITT Every Afternoon Except Sunday CX E. MIDDLESWORTH, Publisher 11? North Center Ml Entered at Second Claat Mailer at the Poatoflce at StatosriUe, N. Mder the Act of March 1, Subscription Rate (By Carrier) Weekly lie (By Mall) Iredell, Wllkei, Rowan, Davie, Alex aider ami Catawha per year Elaewhere im the Statet M.M per year FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS WIRE SERVICE, NBA SERVICE AND UNITED FEATURE SERVICE MEMBER OF North Carolina Prrtt AaaoclatioM Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association Carol lias' Advertising Executives' Association MONDAY. MAY 15, 1944 Thought For Today Re that hath knowledge sparclh his words. 17:27.

What Kind Of Television? Postwar planning in the television industry has stirred up a bitter fight which has raged, without much publicity, for several weeks. The basic question is whether the present type of television will continue, or of considerable improvement will be made available. The fight began when the Columbia Broadcast- ting System proposed that the task of eliminating technical bugs be divided among various laboratories now. In this way. CBS contends, high-frequency transmission of larger, clearer, more detailed images in color as well as black and white might be ready soon after the war ends.

When television improvement comes, as it seems bound to, it must come "upstairs" in the radio spectrum. And this improvement will make present television equipment not gradually obsolescent, as was the case with radio development, but suddenly and completely worthless. So CBS opposes manufacture and marketing of prewar-type television instruments while leisurely improvements are made. The Federal Communications Commission, which divides and assigns the radio spectrum, is in general agreement with CBS. L.

Fly, FCC chairman, has stated his opposition to any freezing of television standards at their present level for the sake of selling present-model sets. Opponents of the CBS proposal include officials of the Television Broadcasters Association and the National Broadcasting Co. Their arguments include the contention that present television standards satisfy legitimate demands; that manufacturers, now engaged in war work, cannot be expected to work on high-frequency improvements as well; that such work would deny employment to returning veterans. It seems to us that the CBS stand has logic on its Improved television is destined for a great future in entertainment and education. In its commercial application, advertisers will have to compete with the movies in entertainment and with color photography in attractiveness.

They are going to want the best. So is the public. And those who buy receivers would be rightfully indignant if they discovered after a few years that their expensive prewar-type equipment had become so much junk. Pioneer manufacturers and broadcasters have invested some $20,000.000 in television; the public investment is around 52,000,000. The longer present television standards remain, the bigger that investment will become and the more reluctant manufacturers and broadcasters will be to inaugurate improvement.

It would seem sensible to scrap that now rather than wait a decade until it has grown into billions, as it undoubtedly will. Rough Idea Official estimate of the destruction caused by the regrettable American bombing of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, places the damage at $8,500,000. That is the dollar loss resulting from an accidental bombing by a relatively small force. Now, as an exercise in astronomical arithmetic, think of the thousands upon thousands of tons of bombs dropped on Berlin and other Nazi industrial and transportation centers by repeated thousand-plane raids. Try to translate that damage into dollars.

Then ask yourself if you still question the effectiveness of aerial warfare. The Vanishing Frontier A good many Kentuckians must have choked on their juleps when they read that their able and aCDiable Sen. Alben W. Barkley, having broken his glasses, read his Jefferson Day dinner menu through a monocle. Not only that, but he held it firmly in place with what seemed to be a practiced Probably it's just as well for Senator Berkley's ll, future that Dan'l Boone and the rest of.

rough-living, tobacco-chawm' Waiting For The Curtain We read the headlines day after day after the hour after air raids on Europe. We comprehend that new chapters in history are being written. We are observing a time, an effort, an ordeal exceeding anything we can find in books of the past. We know that in a sense the invasion has begun. The arithmetic is too big for ready comprehension, 66.000 sorties flown by American planes in a single month, the dropping of more bombs in one month than in the whole previous year.

Vet the drama is partly obscured by the feeling that all this is but preliminary to even morn staggering events. There is the feeling that observing this air attack is like hearing the furious hammerings and shifting about backstage that one catches just, before the curtain goes up. We know that a prodigious stage is being set, but we cannot see the results until the curtain rises and the lights go on. Many questions await answer: How effective has the bombing been, has it really crippled rail transportation, curtailed production, and how much? Has the pre-invasion blasting been insufficient, as at Tarawa: or has it almost done the job by itself, as at Kwajalein? We are waiting for the curtain and are sitting on the edge of our Science Monitor. Power And Peace Leaving half-way house, the conference of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers has come upon one of those broad and bright prospects which leartens all pilgrims toward peace.

We mean the ikelihood that the United States, Britain and Russia will soon find themselves once more mapping campaigns not only for war but for peace. There las been agreement enough among the conferees permit them to move on from Dominion and Empire questions to the more formidable problems nvolved in building a powerful peace community vith non-British peoples. Not that the Prime Ministers or the Dominions share identical attitudes toward all the technical or the philosophical questions of peacemaking. In act, within the British family of nations one can see some of the same basic divergencies of viewpoint as elsewhere. For example there are leaders who hope for a closer union among Commonwealth members and there are leaders who fear that this union may prove a menace to the sovereignty of the ndividual Dominion.

STATESVILLE DAILY RECORD "Iredell's Leading Newspaper" jp Cheer Up, Nothing Lasts Forever MONDAY, MAY 15,1944 I OU6HTA 66T SOMETHING ELSE Or4 JKf longer numbered among But it is encouraging to see that this and other points of disagreement need not prevent progress toward the goal of organized peace. The broad objectives on which nations can agree may be compelling enough to carry them forward to a new level of international organization which will provide means for resolving many otherwise un- surmountable issues. It is reported that the conference members are thinking of postwar organization in terms which recall the League of Nations. But this can hardly mean that an organization with no more ability to take the initiative in curbing aggression, and no more power back of it than the League had, can recommend itself to statesmen today. One of the great problems of the future will be how to pool adequate power in an international agency and yet satisfy some sections of public opinion in all countries that national sovereignty is not endangered but more fully guaranteed by so doing.

There is not enough education on this point emerging from official statements or conferences. But it is possible that when the statesmen of the three nations on whose power the policing of peace must be predicated come face to face with the question of fulfilling their responsibility, they will be forced to the conclusion that new concepts of sovereignty must be developed. The more they can talk about the job the better. The "Empire Conference" has been preparing the way for that necessary Science Monitor. Opening For Leaders Booth Tarkington's appeal to Republican congressional candidates to disavow isolationism may be ignored by cowards or equivocators, but it offers an opportunity for members of a potential majority in Congress to evince qualities of leadership which they would be foolish to decline.

The Hoosier novelist has asked each one for a clear and frank public statement "upon the question of a permanent peace." By making it known that they are ready to support active measures to prevent future world wars, Mr. Tarkington believes the congressional candidates can "deprive the opposition (the Democratic Party) of its most dangerous weapon," that is, the charge that the Republican Party is isolationist. This newspaper does not believe for a moment that the people of the United States are isolationist to the extent that they will oppose or abandon postwar efforts by their government to co-operate with other nations to preserve the peace. Moreover, despite the fact that most of the Republicans in Congress have in the past opposed international cooperation, we cannot believe that the majority of Republican voters are isolationist. Doubtless they elected these Congressmen for other reasons than their isolationism.

Today a definite ground swell of public opinion seems to be rising in favor of co-operation to end wars, if we are to credit the polls. Those Republicans who follow Mr. Tarkington's advice will be serviug not merely themselves and their party but their nation and the world if they help to drive isolationism underground forever. Christian Science Monitor. TODAY'S AMERICAN HEROES Today'! American Hero.

Another American whoee courage and heroic deeds are bringing closer the day of peace. The story of Today's American Hero, by Peggy Rhodes of the V'nlted Press radio feature staff. Suppose an average GI Joe accidentally stumbled upon a fortified German position. There are two things he probably would do: First, he'd want to make sure he wasn't imagining things. And then he'd want to see just how much space he could put between himself and the Jerries.

That's human nature. But that's not the way a certain quartet of doughboys reacted. These four Yanks had their own way of dealing with the uncomfortable situation just described. When these doughty lads stumbled on an occupied Nazi they sat on it. The soldiers are Privates George Zelinsky of Curtisville, Pennsylvania: Frank Demmers of West Sayville, New York, Sergeant Harley Strickland of Mackey, Indiana, and Lieutenant Henry Kil of Chicago.

It happened the other day when the lads were on daylight patrol duty in Italy. Lieutenant Kil tells the story. "We'd been running into a lot of barbed wire," the shavetail recalls. "Seems like we'd crawled through miles of it." Actually, the boys had passed through a few hundred yards of barbed wire. It had been tough going all the way, and they had come out within enemy ter- ritory.

The sergeant mopped his brow He groaned: "What's the big hurry! We're not goin' anyplace. And it's pasl tea-time. Let's light someplace, just for a coupla minutes." Lieutenant Kil nodded, "Soon as we get to the top of this They scrambled up to the crest and then paused to see if they had attracted the enemy. But the area seemed deserted. "OK" men," the lieutenant salfH The four dropped to the ground.

"Ah, solid comfort," breathed Sergeant Strickland, removing a sharp-edged rock from under his head. Private Zelinsky squatted down tailor-fashion and reached into his hip-pocket for a cigarette. He inhaled deeply, then sighed with pleasure as he watched the blue smoke curl upward. "Solid comfort!" he echoed. He was just about to flick the" ashes with an exaggerated, elegant flourish, when suddenly something stopped him.

"Hey," he hissed tensely, "did you hear what I heard?" The others stared at him. "I just heard a can rattle!" he insisted. His companions were not im pressed. "You're just a bundle of nerves, myj boy, just a bundle of Private Demmers kidded him in the tone of a society-doctor, "what you need is quiet and complete rest!" But Zelinsky wasn't hearing things. A moment later there was a louder rattle.

And this time everyone heard it. The noise seemed to he coming from the ground directly underneath them They waited, silently, to see whether it would come again Side Glances aro .9 PAT. on "They say everybody will have helicopters after the war, but whal'll be wonderful about that? The same old work or school will be at the end of the trip! 1 Durham Man Heads Brewing Industry Foundation In N. C. RALEIGH, May E.

Griffin, Durham business man, is the newly elected chairman of the Brewing Industry Foundation's North Carolina Committee. Chairman Griffin and the following members of the Executive Board were elected at the Committee's annual meeting in Raleigh: C. P. Nanney of Gastonia, C. F.

Smithson of Fayetteville; N. S. Forester of North Wilkesboro; D. W. McPherson of Little- thon, and H.

G. Wright of Greensboro, representing the distributors. S. I. Lewis of Raleigh; Walter Bartlctt of Norfolk; Douglas Gordon and C.

L. May of Newark; R. K. Kennedy of Greensboro and W. J.

Hunter of Cincinnati, representing the brewers. W. S. Burruss of Raleigh, is treasurer of the committee. Weekly Roundup of OPA Price and Rationing Ration Calendar for Week of May 15 PROCESSED Blue A8 through Q8 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens.

Good indefinitely. MEATS AND Red A8 through T8 (Book) 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. Sugar stamps 30 and 31 (Book 4) good for five pounds indefinitely. CANNING Sugar stamp 40 good for five pounds of canning sugar until February 28, 1945.

Apply to local boards lor supplemental rations. Airplane stamps 1 and 2 (Book 3) valid indefinitely. A-10 coupons valid in Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and Virginia. Expire August 8. Rationing rules how require that every ca rowner write his license number and state in advance on all gasoline coupons in his possession.

THE have no telephone of your own, but a neighbor is nice about letting you use hers when it is necessary. WRONG WAY: Since the neighbor is gracious about letting you use her telephone, give her number to your friends and tell them they can always reach you by calling that number. RIGHT WAY: Don't abuse your neighbor's kindness by giving her number to friends. (It is an imposition to ask a neighbor to call you to the telephone for anything but an emergency.) CANNING SUGAR Registration for canning sugar will be Monday at Celeste Henkel from 1 until 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Sure enough it did.

There was no mistaking what had happened, now. Apparently the tired Yanks had selected the top of an occupied enemy dug-out to rest. In a low, strained voice, Lieutenant Kil gave his orders. First, they would try to determine the layout of the enemy quarters below. And then they would order the Germans to surrender.

The soldiers nodded, understanding. Cautiously they crept around the hill. On the far side, they discovered a small opening leading to the Nazi installation. Lieutenant Kil crept up to the entrance and listened intently. He waited until he heard the harsh sound of German voices.

Then he yelled an order to surrender. There was a moment of perfect silence. Then, one by one, out marched the Germans. They were as startled as the Americans. The Yanks marched their prisoners back to camp, and sheepishly related their story.

"Next time," Lieutenant Kil concludes, "we'd better look, before we sit!" Conservation Farming News Sam H. Ostwalt, Stalesville Route 3, cooperating with the Middle Yadkin Soil Conservation District program of land care and improvement, repaired and built up the terraces last week on this year's row crop land of his regular crop rotation practice. W. F. Edwards, Stalesville Route 5, had ten acres of land staked for terraces recently in preparation for establishing the conservation practice of contour tillage by careful arrangement of as many rows as possible with the terraces.

W. Darr, Troutman, was dragging up terraces last week to assure good protection on his corn and cotton land from the usual heavy summer rains. G. P. Miller, Statesville, Route 6, had a diversion channel staked last week at the base of a slope adjoining a field.

He stated heretofore during heavy rains gullies were formed, deep silt deposited, and a large amount of water ran onto the bottom-land without such a diversion channel. Eugene Mitchell, Statesville, Route 5, had some terrace lines surveyed the past week. Hugh A. Beaver had contour lines staked on his farm near Harmony recently. He pointed out that by contour tillage of row crops that more soil, fertilizer, and moisture are saved, resulting in better yields and less erosion.

"Store water by conservation farming." DEATH CLAIMS i MRS. SPARKS Death claimed Mrs. Henry i Sparks, 47, of Mocksville, Route 3, at 12:30 o'clock yesterday after noon at Lowery hospital, Sa', bury, following an illness of weeks. Prior to her marriage, 1920 she was Miss Maggie V. lard, and a lifelong member o'fj Bethel Methodist church.

She is survived by her husband i naddition to nine children, as follows: Gilbert and Billy in the U. S. Navy; Helen, Doris, Bobby, i Donald, T. and Emily. Also one brother and two sisters.

jj Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Bethel Methodist church. Rev. R. G. McClamrock will duct the services and interment will be in the family plot in the church cemetery.

a ENTERS HOSPITAL Suther W. Morrison of 2101 Water street, underwent an op- eralion this morning at Long's hospital. MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was iss(MI Saturday afternoon Eddie LCT Wyke of Alexander 'county and Laura Louise Holland of Unton. Grove. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs.

Aubrey Hall, formerly Miss Ruby Ellen Ferguson, un- derwent an operation at the hos-f pilal Her condition is re- ported very satisfactory. Brine 'our Hawkins Drug Co. Too Gel The Beat For Lew AUCTION SALE The Eugenia W.ugh Home Place" will be re-sold at the Court Houae Door in Statesville at 12 o'clock M. on Thuraday, May 18th, 1944. This place is aituated about 2 milea weat of Statesville, fronta 937 feet on Statetville-Tayloraville hard-sur faced road and 827 feet on laland Foard Road, con taina acrea more or leaa.

Bidding to begin at $2782.50. Thia aale will be final and no increaaed bida will be accepted after the aale. Terms: caah, balance due in aix montha from aale, deferred payment to draw intereat from date of aale. Thia May 13th, 1944. A.

L. LOWR'ANCE, Executor of MISS EUGENIA WAUGH Raymer Raymer, Attorneys. Mrs. L. P.

Henkel is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. G. Harper, of Hickory. NOTirE OF DISSOLUTION MYKRS-TIIAKPK TIBK A PARTNERSHIP STATKSVII.I.K.

N. C. Notice is hereby given to all concerned, that the partnership heretofore extsltlng between C. B. Myers and Otto D.

Tharpe, trading and doing business as Myers-Tharpe Tire Company, of Statesville, N. has been dissolved by the mutual consent of the partners, ac of the 29th day of April, 1944. C. B. Myers has sold his Interest In the partnership business to Otto D.

Tharpe, and retired from the partnership. Otto D. Tharpe will continue to operate the business at the same location, under the name and style of Tharpe Tire Company. C. B.

Mym-s will not be responsible for any obligations or debts Incurred after April 20, 1944. All debts, liabilities, and obllga- tions of the aforesaid partnership am to -be paid by Otto D. Tharpe, and any persons holding any debt or obligation of the partnership are hereby notified to present the same to Otto D. Tharpe for payment. All accounts owing to the aforesaid partnership are to be paid to Otto D.

Tharpe. This the 29th day of April, 1944. C. B. MYERS And OTTO D.

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