The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 5

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1954 BLYTHEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS The Nation's Business Weather Is Always an Important Factor in Agricultural Midwest By SAM DAWSON KANSAS CITY (AP) In this area where the economy is neatly balanced between agriculture and industry the big questions today are: How good will the spring rains be? And will the nation's industrial activity (to which Kansas City is tied more closely now by its postwar industrialization boom) level off soon and start back up again, maybe' after Labor Day, to give this region another chance at setting new recordsr PAGE FIVI Both sides of the economy are oif a little around here now. Farmers aren't buying as much from the stores. Layoffs are spotted here and there among the factories, with a cutback in defense spending getting- much of the blame. More people out of work than last year and new jobs are harder to come by. Building is off a little.

But folk here show no signs of alarm. Some feel (as many stock market traders seem to) that the country is having a short business lull and see signs that inflation may start up again afterwards. "The present generation around here has been through so many crises," says Jarnes M. Kernper. chairman of the Commerce Trust "that it tends to take them in stride.

People don't panic easily any more. Kemper sees Kansas City as unhurt yet down a little from the peak, as everyone expected it would be some but the economy still is healthy. He hopes for a more noticeable pickup after Labor Day. A leading builder. Carl B.

Rechner, says construction continues at a fair clip, although there is some folk particularly go on i employment in the building trades, Box Office Opens 6:45 Show Starts 7:00 p. m. Admission 15c 35c At All Times THURS. Double Feature THE SCREEN'S MIGHTIEST SPECTACLE! PARAMOUNT PRESENTS i Cecil RDeMillesi Cleopatra Claudette Colbert Warren William Henry Wilcoxon Ian Keith Joseph Schildkraut C. Aubrey Smith Gertrude Michael Paramount Re-Release Cartoon "Johnny Jet" spending, because the advent of old age and other social security benefits has changed buying attitudes.

Young couples feel more like spending in the present and letting Uncle Sam take care of their old age. Their grandparents weren't like that and a business dip could start a scare." So the banker feels that spending won't be down too much, although the loss of overtime pay and shorter work weeks may lead manv to be more cautious. mostly among the unskilled. While the housing 1 shortage is a thing of the past, and there has been a softening in the price of older homes, demand for new ones continues good, he says. Houses selling under $12.000 and over $18,000 are moving best.

Merchants here fret because retail sales so far have been off about 7 per cent from last year. But now they count heavily on the belated Easter trade, warmer weather, and excise tax cuts. BRAIDED BEAUTY-A golden cage with birds was the eye-catcher at a recent swimming-suit show in Paris, France. The three bottom rows and the bars running down from the neck band are braided in golden threads. White birds give the suit a three- dimensional look.

ON OUR METALLIC CURVED SCREEN Listen to KLCN at 10:10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for Ritz Roxy Program Announcements LAST TIMES TONIGHT Box Office Opens 6 p.m. G-M'S FIRST GREAT MUSICAL IN Plus Cinemascope Short "Poet Peasant THURSDAY and FRIDAY NOW! THEY'RE IN THE MOVIES! Big-as-life and twice-as- natural in M-G-M's hilarious comedy of honeymoon-on- on the real, life-size Motion Picture in COLOR LUCILLE DESl BALL ARNAZ THE LONG. LONG MARJORIE MAIN KEENAN WYNN Paramount and Cartoon "Do or Jict" Gene Tiemey Returns With Aly HOLLYWOOD iTP) An archery lesson brought Gene Tierney home from her Mexican tryst with Aly Khan, and the Moslem prince came along- Miss Tierney's studio told her to come back and practice with a bow and aiTOw for her role in "The Egyptian." Aly came into the United States yesterday under a gentleman's agreement with lawyers for his former wife, Rita Hayworth.

The pact provides that Aly will not be annoyed by process servers during his stay. He and Rita still haven't settled financial details attendant upon their divorce. Aly, Miss Tierney and the mother, Mrs. Belle Tierney, were spending a holiday at Rosarito Beach, below Tijuana. FALL IN AND COUNT Albert.

2 of Minneapolis. pleads with mother dachshund to keep her brood in order, numerically, that is. Forming a sausnrte string, the pups are named Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier, and Scchs, which happen to be one through six in German. Even though the pups art- numbered, Terry hus trouble distinguishing them. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the State of Arkansas for a permit to sell and dispense beer at retail on the premises described as: 441 South 21st Street, Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas.

The undersigned states that he is a citizen of Arkansas, of good moral character, that he has never been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude; that no license to sell beer by the undersigned has been revoked within five years last past: and that the undersigned has never been convicted of violating the laws of this state, or any other state, relative to the sale of alcoholic liquors. Application is for permit to be issued for operation beginning on MOX -Theatre- On West Main St. In Blytheville Show Starts Weekdays 7:00 Sun. 1:00 On Our Wide-Vision Metallic Screen Suicide Leap Nets Nothing But Stomach Ache SAN FRANCISCO 32-year- old unemployed man leaped from the top of a three-story hotel here last night but his suicide dive resulted in nothing worse than a stomach ache. Officers said Daniel Rodriguez, after screaming "Don't try to stop me." took off from the roof and landed with a perfect "belly flop" on top of a parked car.

He was taken to emergency hospital for minor cuts on his nose and elbow and a very sore midriff and then was booked for drunk- the 6th day of April, 1954, and to expire on the 3tOh day of June, 1954. RUTH BANKS. Applicant. Subscribed and sworn to before ethis 6th day of April, 1954. SEAL ELIZABETH MASON, Notary My Commission expires: I IN THE PROBATE COURT OP MiooltfSIPP! COUNTY.

ARKANSAS IN THE; MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Fred CV.Ilihan. deceased. No. 2232 Lust address of decedent: E. Kentucky, Arkansas.

Dale of death: April 3. 1954. The undersigned was appointed achnmistratrix of the estate of the decedent on the Cth day of April, 1954. All persons having: claims against U'c estate must exhibit them, duly verified, to the undersigned within six months from the date the first publication of this notice, or they shall be forever burred and precluded from any benefit in the estate. This notice first, published the 1th day of April.

1054. DOROTHY CALLIHAN, Administratrix. 316 E. Kentucky Blytheville. Arkansas.

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