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The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 2

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TTT'S i THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. GAFFNEY. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, December 11, 1950 Page Two Clash With Guerrilla. Manila Philippine troops and Communist Hukbalahaps fought today inside the U. S.

Naval reservation at Subic Bay. Six Huks were reported killed on the reservation and 28 wore listed dead in fighting elsewhere in central Luzon. An Army spokesman said one-rations were conducted with pel mission of American Naval authorities. she was 12 a ho intended being a nurse. "Thai was 'lecause dad, (Krnest Jones, of Snlley,) is a idiarniacist." liv uie lii.ii! attended high i in.

r.he became an angel in her play. i'o. lay that South Carolina angel has just finished playing a Molly-wood tramp. The angel also haa 'lidergone various metamorphoses during the past year as Lois portrayed for television: A cub reporter, a gangster's moll, assistant to poatcd protests that the bill as drawn by the House would fall short of those goals. Witness after witness protested it would hurt small business and risk killing the goose that lays dollar egtr.

Others, led by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of irdustrial Organizations, conler.d u- not tough enough to place on corporations a share of the tax burden proportionate to the load borne by wage earners. A Lois Collier Is Becoming Star For Television lolly wood, Dec. 12 A Carolina lass with tawny hair and aquamarine eyos is the most televised actress in Hollywood. She's 20-year-old Lois Collier, from Salloy and she's a dish of Dixie pulchritude to make South Cuiolinians of their contribution to the onto' laininent capitol. When Loif was eight she wanted to be a Baptist missionary.

When Screen Writers Vote To Strike Against Studios Hollywood, Dec. 13 Members of the Screen Writers; Guild voted overwhelmingly last night to authorize a strike against the major movie studios. The guild announced the vote was to Following the strike vote, the guild pledged a $100,000 strike fund for use by the scenario writers if a walkout becomes necessary. The imion has lit) days to notify the 'producers that the present contract is being Senators Start Writing Excess Profits Tax Bill Washington, Dec. 12 The Senate Finance Committee today began writing an excess profits tax bill which may take a smaller bite than the one already approved by the House.

Sen. George heads the committee, contends the House bill is too harsh. It is designed to raise for defense spending an additional in its first year perhaps mere in following years. George has declared his intention to fight for a lower "ceiling" the point at which corporation profits would become exempt from further federal tax than the 07 per cent earnings propose by the House. George said he hopes to devise a new tax formula to give young and growing businesses a better break, and still not cut too much, from revenues the bill would pro Use of hybrids has added moist air blown from the whale's enough corn to our total supply lungs condenses into drops of to provide 115 pounds more pork moisture in the colder atmos-per year for each person in the 1 phere, giving the appearance of United States.

a fountain of wated. 0 A A I KC A FANCIFUL CHRISTMAS EVE as spent in a fairy tale forest by Hansel and Grelel is arranged by happily cooperative nine-year-old Robert Viscusi. Thousands of New York City children are expected to visit this pioneering display at the American Museum of Natural History, (ntentatfonal) DRAMA THAT DARES STRIP PEOPLE DOWN TO THEIR RAW TO THEIR RAW JSD EMOTIONS! Four Cherokee if starring LARAINE Whales, contrary to popular lief, do not spout water. The THURSDAY and FRIDAY DAY MONDAY I CHARLES HF.STON 1 ui; Til SCOTT VIVKCA LIND.FORS -in- also "WHERE'S THE FIRE" 'March of ajBaQ MmMm ROBERT RYAN JOHN AGAR with THOMAS GOMEZ JAMS CARTER t-TI Negotiations for nw contract with the prodi'cira' companies nave stalled over four points: 1. Minimum wage.

The guild wants $250 weekly on eight-week guarantee of employment; producers offer $200 for 10 weeks. Present scale is $187.50 for two week guarantee. 2. Television lights. The guild wants payment to writers for possible future use.

on films on TV. Both parties agreed to postpone this point, but the guild wants the right to reopen the issue at any future time. Producers want to let it go for the life of the contract. Separation rights. Writers want to be paid for original stories if they are used for sequels, remakes, television or radio.

Producers refuse. 4. Credit Writers want jqua! billing with producers and directors in studio publicity and advertising. Producers refuse. Husband Says Wife Threatens; Asks Divorce Chicago, Die.

1" Ernest Ham-mermeister of Chicago asked for a divorce today because, he said, 2 years can seem a lifetime when a man is married to a woman who threatens his life. Hammermeister Circuit Court suit charged that his in a wife, Patricia, hail: 1 Threatened to 2 Menaced him letter cpener. Told him she his food. shoot with him. a steel had poisoned 4 Sent him to the hospital after beating him with her shoe ind a stick of wood from the fireplace.

The Hammermeisters were married May 12, 1948. Chain stores with goods on open counters children to steal, says E. L. Jones, juvenile court I chairman at Merthyr Tvdfil, Wales. (Now i'hiying) I) 1) A Ilargain Day 2 Features Admission 12c and 20c HOWARD DUFF and MART A TOREN i 'i' and TEX WILLIAMS "FARGO PHANTOM" also "RRICK HRADFORD," Nuinher 7 Gaffney Drive In A FAMILY THEATRE DIAL 4115 Wednesday Thursday (N'uW Playing) Din i CASHES BUI Jiggs wears the pants at lastl 7 stMir aims Mooucnott JOE YULE HENCE RIAN0 McMANUS A A 2 Features Open TIM HOLT in 'DYNAMITE I SS" anil sterling ARMED CAR ROMBKRY' also idy of Pony No.

12 added .1 STOOGES COMEDY COLOR CARTOON -a- duce. The bill, he added, should 1 be ready for Senate consideration by next Monday. The senator declined to predict how much his partly-formed pjan might reduce the anticipated revenues, already scaled down bv the House from the $4,000,000,000 1 President Truman requested. Mr. Truman asked for a tax big enough to 1 make a real start toward placing multi-billion dollar defense spending on a pay- as-y u-go basis: (2) prevent; corporations from profiting from a national emergency, and as a brake on inflation.

The Finance Committee, in a week of hearings, received re- STILL TI.MK TO (JKT CHRISTMAS IP OUT A ITS (' SiliiiiK Is Made: Monday, Dec. IS We (Ian Finish Your Pictures For Christmas. I II STUDIO I 110 East Robinson Street Call 4747 FOR AN APPOINTMENT 9 SURE TO ,4 THE County Drivers Loses Licenses Driving 'irivileges of 50!) South Carolinians, four of the from Cherokee county, were withdrawn luring November, the state highway depart merit announced today. This is a decrease of 115 compared with October withdrawals. i out-of-state violators arrested and fined, a de-reuse of 15 from the October One hundred and eighteen inn gislei il Smith Carolina driv-'is were arrested, however an ncrease of seven over October statistics.

November records also evenled that fa-lit licenses were uspi-nded and 2(1 cancelled. Three lUlidred and fifty-eight of the violators were white men, lit'.) ne-'io men, II white women, and me a negro woman. Five hundred and twenty-seven I rivers were under the influence jf alcohol, 22 drove recklessly, inil 20 were arrested for other violations. Of those arrested, vhree belonged to the 14 to Hi age jroiip, 22:1 were 17 to years ilds, 205 were aged to and I it fell in the 40 au up category. The number of drinking drivers for November was less Jian the October total.

Paraguay is expected to decree i Christmas bonus of one month's Kiy to all types of private and labor, aiu. employers say it will roost inflation. ii ii rj Cf i ii li stem mm LADIES' KLOUSES In Lono; and Short Sleeves rats 1 iUHl MtSIISOH 1IM lt Ml OOlom ia psychiatrist, a waif, a farmer's I wife, and a git 1 who shoots her I hoy friend because he won't Rive I her a diamond bracelet. With a toss of her curls and a smile on her heartshaped face, the diminutive actress (she's 'only five feet, one, and hits the locales at an even 100 pounds) tells about the greatest business on earth television." "Television technique is different from movies," she says, "For instance, a motion picture star never looks straight into the camera, but a viedo actress focuses right at the lens to project herself to the audience. Make-up is different too.

For TV you use a dark pan-rake base, no eye-shadow; and mascara slightly darker than street wear." 1 Some of the television shows on which Lois has appeared are: "You Be The Jury," "Pantonine Quiz," 1 "Mystery Is My Hobby," "Fire side Theatre," and "City Desk." She was named "Miss Emmy of 1950" (The Emmy award in video IN A HAPPY MOOD, Margaret Truman poses after her Washington concert, which received a not-too-happy review from music critic Paul Hume. In turn, Hume received from Margaret's outraged father, a scathing letter, written on White House paper, (uternational) SATURDAY ONLY Kttl I. also ALLEN "ko.ky" LANK in 'LOW DKR RIVER Rl'SI'LERS' sky vui: DRIVE IN DIAL 4380 Wednesday Thursday (Now flaying) 2 Features ALLAN LANK In "DEATH VALLEY dUNFIGHTER" And "PELLE OF OLD MEXICO" In Color ALL-STAR CAST Also Color Cartoon NOTICK A in the nst dining the winter months, the SKY VL'K will be closed on the first, four days of the week, beginning this Monday, Dec. 1 H. We will remain open on Friday and Saturday as usual.

Theatre Opens Show Krgins P. M. ...7:00 P. M. it ill illi GIFT STORE BELK Based on the onginal newspaper feature by GEORGE McWANUS Also CARTOON and SERIAL And GIFT NIGHT Theatre Opens 6 1 P.

M. Show Begins 7:00 P. M. is similar to the Oscar in movies.) "That had startling results," she recalled. "When Ed Wynn was given a statue at the same time, he grabbed me instead of the tsatue and went running off the stage with me." Lois came to Hollywood when she was just 15 "chaperoned by Grandmother Glennie Weinberg from Sal-ley." Her name then was Made-lyn Jones, changed later for professional purposes.

"I was and dying to look sophisticated," she reminisced. "I shaved my eyebrows and wore tight dresses and slicked backmy hair." Lunching in the patio of the Iicv-cily Hills hotel, the Lois of looked much more like friendly, aristoci atii1 Southern girl than a Hollywood siren. She wore all-white: linen suit, jockey cap, ankle-strap shoes, chamois bag and eloves. A chartreuse scarf, caught at the throat vith a massive gold safety-pin, was the only touch of color. "I still dress in Southern white pastels," she explains.

"And I'd love to yo to Myrtle lieaeh or the Isle of l'alms, like we used to frveiy summer. I could trip around the state and sec; Miss Maude anil Mr. Jimmy (liyrnes) in Spartanburg Here in Los Angeles Lois lives a Spanish home with producer-husband Bob Oakley. In addition to video, she does an occasional broadcast or movie. The South Carolina actress will ihe seen next in "Humphrey Takes A Chance," in which she plays Anne Howe, wife of Joe Palooka.

Mistake Causes Two Soldiers To Hit Korea Front 1 Seattle, Dec. 12 The Army revealed today that two soldiers trying to get back to their Alat kan post after a leave wound uf fighting in. Korea because a desk bound sergeant tossed their pa pers into the wrong file. Some months ago Pfc. Jacl Wilson, Eielsoii, Alaska, Ail Force Case, flew to his home at Kenton, Ohio, on 45 days re-en-hstmcnt leave.

Wilson stopped off at Foil Lawton, Seattle, on his way back to Eielson to arrange for hit transportation north. At the same time, Pvt. Arlic Evans of Bergley Springs, W. Va. also frcm Wilson's outfit, arrived.

The sergeant took their papers, riffled through them and sho! them into the Alaska file he thought. Instead they landed in a file of soldiers being processed for Korea. A couple days later, on October 10, Evans and Wilson were en route to the war zone via Japan with a number of other soldiers. They saiil they protested but Col. Milon W.

Witt at Fort Lawton says every efficer connected with the case swears the pair never opened their mouths except to eat. Wilson soon was assigned to an anti-aircraft battalion at Pyongyang and even got a battlefield promotion to corporal. Then the local officials discover! I the error in processing or-ilcis and notified the commanding officer at Eielson. Thirty days later Wilson was on his way back to Eielson, which he reached alter one narrow escape at Anchorage. Military authorities there tried to send him to Seattle.

Evans. At last reports he was in Yokohama, Japan. From Korea he was sent to Yokohama, where a de-parment sergeant got hold of his papers and, he was back in Korea. They got him out of there again this week and he is in Yokohama now. To Evacuate Civilians Tohyo Earl A.

Croe, station manager for Northwest Air Lines in Tokyo, said three commercial planes have heen diverted to i evacuate important civilians! from Seoul, the Korean republic's capital. The civilians were not identified and no reason was i given for their removal. Groe said the last of the three planes left Tokyo this afternoon. Blood Vessel Bank rr i i an rrancisco niooci ves- sols will lie nut in the hank at the University of California School of Medicine here. Surgeons in this area can draw on the hank and it is expected to save many lives.

It is explained that the blood vessels are used grafts in operations. I Ok 7 SHE'S in White and Colors INDIES' CRKI'E AND NYLON i 198 248 Tailored and Dressy Styles r.i rj ri ri sy ri ei r.i ri ri z'i Yi Yi ri. 'ri Ki Yy ri ri ri ri r.i "ri i ri r.i ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri 29c 39c 48c ADORE LADIES' NYLON i'ANTIES illi Plain and Laee Trihi LADIES' KA YON In While, Pink. I and Maize PANTIES LADIES' TCN SLIPS With I. ace Trim and Bottom LADIES' Ol in Plain or Fancy ITINfi (iOWNSand 198 LADIES' CHENILLE ROBES In A(ua, Dose, Blue, Maize Sizes up to -M2 LADiES IIOI'SE PRINTED COATS A I LADIES' KEI'E (iOWNS With Lace Trim in Pink, Blue, OQO OQQ A QQ White and Maize 0V0 JO 4tui LAST TIMLS TODAY AV A JAMES VIRGINIA DrWlS'V CAGNEY MAYO i UUNUUM wrnr liflrnilC H3CIP.Hl til KttC licwui' wiih AIH wm jl nr-nn i ROY DTI RUTH FRIDAY the 4 Richird WIDMARK Paul D0UGU3 Bjrb.lil BEL GiODE D.reiiu ELI KAZAN Pud.t.a SOL C.

SIEGEL Extra Added ROIt WILLS AND HIS TEXAS I'LOKMIDOVS THE I SCREEN Ji EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR! iffli LADIES CREPE PAJAMAS In Tailored Styles BLOUSES 498 598 695 398 298 398 498 298398498 595 595 695 795 59c 79c 98c 193 PAJAMAS 248 298 398 398 498 595 298 398 g95 1 IT ri. CREPE BED JACKETS With Lace Trim in LADIES' CREPE SLIPS With Laco Trim Top and Bottom in White Pink LA LIES' NYLON SLIPS With Lace Trim in White Only ri LADIES' RAYON PANTIES i it LADIES' SATIN STRIPE ROUES In Blue, Copper and Wine LADIES Ql'lLTEE ROBES In Shot or Full Length 995 1Q95 1295 1695 In Brief or Flair Styles en ELK'S EPARTMENT ST0 GAFFNEY'S LARGEST and I) EST DEPARTMENT STORE i mm an ii.

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