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LINCOLN COUNTY'S FAVORITE FAMILY NEWSPAPER
Holiday Accident Toll
In Nation Reaches 460
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Louis Johnson of West Virginia,
past national commander, shown
presenting the American Legion’s
Distinguished Service medal to
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., in be
half of his father, the late presi
dent.
Russian Newspapers
Lauds Results Os
“Big Three” Meet
Moscow, Dec. 31—Soviet Russia’s
two most influential newspapers, Iz
vestia and Pravda, praised the results
of the “Big Three” foreign minis
ters’ conference which recently ended
here. Izvestia stated “decisions of
the Moscow conference witness that
a new step has been male toward the j
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ANOTHER DAY...
ANOTHER YEAR!
For the day, all the joy and gla..-
i:;33 that the New Year holiday
can possibly bring. For the year,
all the blessings that can b«
treasured up for you in 365
golden days.
Come in and see us so we can
• wish you a HAPPY NEW
YEAR with a friendly shake of
the hand.
CONNER FURNITURE COMPANY
G. W. CONNER, Prop.
W. Court Square Phone 550
HOUDfIY 1
GR££TinGs!
P^aclximatiOH
We hereby proclaim that we are resolved
to give our friends and patrons the supe
rior kind of service that will keep them
wearing a path to our door.'
We furthermore proclaim that our
friends are the finest in all the world, and
we wish them loads of good luck, good
cheer and good health for the year 1946.
City Barber
Shop
' Claude Sherrill J. A. Blackwell
Elmer Burke
} Black crepe replaced the green
. holly in scores of the nation’s homes
as mourning for victims of violent
deaths over the Christmas holiday.
A survey disclosed approximately
460 persons were killed violently,
with more than one-half of them
victims of automobile accidents.
The traffic fatalities numbered
245 while at least sixty-one persons
died in fires. Violent deaths by mis
cellaneous causes accounted for 111
victims. These included deaths by
shootings, freezing, a tornado, train
and airplane crashes and accidents
in the home.
The heaviest single toll over the
holiday was take n in a hospital fire
in Hartford, Conn., with seventeen
persons fatally burned. Six other
persons in Meriden, Conn., died in a
fire at a home.
Texas and California reported the
most deaths by violence, forty-seven
and forty-six, respectively. The fa
talities in Texas were twenty-nine
I victims of traffic accidents and eight
een by miscellaneous causes, includ
ing fifteen slayings. California top
ped the country in motor deaths with
thirty-five.
In New York State, twenty-one
violent deaths were reported, includ
ing six in traffic accidents, while'
Illinois motor mishaps, all in Chi
cago, totaled three.
Heavy snowfalls, rain and sleet in 1
many parts of the country kept high- !
way travel at a minimum over the;
holiday.
development of collaboration of the
Allied states.”
The atomic agreement, Izvestia
said, “does not present any doubts.” i
Pravda, official organ of the Com
munist party, stated that the forma
tion of a commission for the Far
East was “of great significance.”
THE LINCOLN TIMES, LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1945
My Daily Prayer
Author Unknown
“This coming year I’d like to be a
friend to everyone;
I’d like to feel each day well spent
at setting of the sun;
I’d like to know that I have done
at least one kindly deed,
Before I lay me down to sleep that
I have given heed—
To some one’s cry for sympathy,
or friendship or that I
Have made the day seem brighter
to some chance passer-by,
And that the world is better still In
just some little way,
Because I’ve tried to live the very
best I could each day.
“I’d like to be a ray of light when
• skies are overcast,
I’d like to help some one who failed
to blot out all the past,
To start again despite the storms,
and find the skies are blue,
To know that in this good old world
there’s lots that’s fine and true,
I’d like to be the kind of person
everyone will love,
And make the world seem just a
little more like heaven above;
I’d like in all my dealings to be true
and just and fair,
That God will help me do these
things shall be my daily prayer.’’
Superstitions Told
About New Year's
In Many Lands
Good Luck Offered in Many
Ways to ‘Believers.' >
New Year’s Day affords everyone
the opportunity to bring himself good
luck throughout the year. At least
that is supposed to be true accord
ing to several old superstitions con
cerning the beginning of a new year.
The “First Foot”—the first person
to enter the house on New Year’s
morning plays a
significant role in the
family’s future for
tunes. He must be a
dark man to bring
good luck, but if he
also brings a gift and
“carries In” more
than he “takes out,”
then the house is as-
sured peace and plenty for a whole
year. The most auspicious gifts as
luck-bringers are a lump of coal
and a red herring.
Unmarried persons are advised to
look out of the window on New
Year’s morning. If
you see a man, it is
a sign that you will
be wed before the
year is out. Should
you see a horse, you
can have a wish, and
it will be realized
within the year. To
see a dog is lucky.
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but a cat foretells worry.
A little care will make it possible
to bring oneself good luck for the
entire year. Wear
something new, if
possible, on New
Year’s Day, but the
garment must be
put on when you
first dress in the
morning. Receipt of
a gift is certain to
carry luck. Wish everyone you
meet “A Happy New Year,” but re
member when the greeting is given
to cross your fingers for luck. Be
sure to say “rabbits” as the first
word when you wake before anyone
has had a chance to speak to you.
Love’s progress will be aided on
New Year’s Day if you are careful
to put on the left stocking before the
right. The potency of this charm
is supposed to be increased if you
do all things as far as possible left
handedly during the day.
To open a bank account on New
Year’s Day was considered lucky
in Old England, the custom growing
probably from the belief of many
centuries that whatever you do on
the first day of the year will be an
indication of what will happen dur
ing the months that will follow.
In some parts of England and Scot
land it is supposed to be unlucky to
leave a house until some outsider
has first entered it.
New Year’s Blessings an
Ancient Swiss Legend
According to Swiss legend, the
Holy Family Is abroad during the
hour of midnight mass on Christ
mas Eve.
Therefore, a howl of fresh milk
is placed upon the dining table
and each member of the house
hold carefully lays his spoon upon
the table cloth.
The person who, returning from
church, finds his spoon has been
moved may anticipate special
blessings during the coming year:
for surely Mary and Joseph have
rested within the abode during
their Flight into Egypt and the
Virgin used that spoon to feed the
Infant Jesus.
Miracle Plays Still Held
Among more tradition - observing
communities of the Wbrld, old-time
miracle plays are still performed,
often in the form of elaborate
dances, in solemn, but lavish, set
tings against the colorful back
ground of tropical foliage.
Horse and mule clinics will be
held in 67 counties by the State Col
lege Extension Service during Jan
uary and February so that farmers
may have their workstock examined
and put in good condition.
H. L. Nelwell of Maury in Greene
County has 6 large Stuart pecan
trees around his home that have paid
all taxes on the farm for the last
wenty years. He will get about 600
pounds this year.
This Week in
WASHINGTON
Washington, D. C. —The President’s
plan for relieving the housing short
age is considered here to be a "par
tially satisfactory answer” to a prob
lem for which there is no hope of an
immediate remedy.
At the present moment, according
to figures supplied by John Snyder,
diieetor of the Office of War Mobi
lization and Reconversion, “more
than a million families are living
doubled-up with other families” and
the number is expected to increase
by hundreds of thousands next year
as more men return to civilian life.
The President’s answer to the sit
uation includes: immediate release of
government surpluses of building
materials, priorities to those building
homes in the under-SIO.OOO class and
price ceilings On both new and old
dwellings. The first two parts of
the program already are being put
into operation. The ceiling provision,
however, will require legislation,
and it appears rather doubtful
whether Congress will agree to enact
“ceiling price” legislation when there
is s 0 much public clamor to get rid
of price control.
The ceiling for old houses proposed
by the President would be last price
at which a house sold, while the ceil
ing on new houses would be based on
the cost of building plus a fair profit.
Most optimistic estimates are that
500,000 dwellings might be built dur
ing 1946. At this rate the present
severe housing shortage couldn’t be
very much relieved before 1949.
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Indications are that the labor dif
ficulties which are impeding recon
version will continue well into 1946.
When finally solved it is expected
that our country will have a more
definite labor policy than it has ever
had before —a set of rules and reg
ulations under which labor, manage
ment and government can work to
gether without constant bickering
and serious interruptions in produc
tion.
Present indications are that labor
will have to agree to accept more
responsibility, to abolish “wild-cat”
strikes, to use the regular strike
weapon with less frequency, and to
let wages be more directly related
to the prosperity of business.
Management, on the other hand,
may be forced to open its hooks dur
ing wage discussions in order to
work out wage agreements related
to profits, to abolish layoffs or pro
vide some compensation to workers
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In Caring For Your Health . . .
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Efficient because the Pharmacist has in his prescription de
partment, or within quick accessibility, the multitude of
drugs which might be needed. /
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during layoffs, and to give greater
acceptance to collective bargaining.
The President’s recommendation
for legislation empowering him to
appoint fact-finding boards to con
sider strike threats for 30 days be
fore a strike takes place is looked
upon fairly favorably by many con
gressmen. But because of the op
position of labor and the lack of
enthusiasm for the plan on the pat t
of management, there is no chance
of it being rushed through Congress, j
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Automobile production, because of
strikes, is way behind the schedules
set when war ended. It was expect
ed that 500,000 cars would be built
during 1945, but present figures in- j
dicate that the total will probably'
Leonard’s Taxi Service
Starts January Ist.
HOURS: From 3 P. M. to 3 A. M., Daily and Sunday
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Phone 9112
CORDIAL GOOD WISHES TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
Time waits for no man, and 1946 is no exception. That
is why we hasten to send our New Year’s wishes to you
good folks in town and all around town.
IT’S GOING TO BE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
j not reach 100,000. This means months
[of delay in supplying the new cars
i which people already have ordered j
and the major automobile companies |
have given up even guessing when
deliveries migth be made.
The automobile concerns are still
putting pressure on OPA to allow
them to increase prices—particularly
if they will have to give wage in
creases. The Ford Motor Company
has estimated that it will lose money
to n every car it makes in 1946, under!
the present price schedule, and ex-1
pects losses to total S 5 million dol- j
lars. ‘
| It is estimated that 3.6 per cent
\ more winter wheat was seeded this
I fall than last.
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