The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 29, 1953, Page 8

Page 3 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, June 29, 1953 —by Carl Ryman. Textile Slump Seems To Be Finished Now By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—Textile men are feeling much better these days. Their private slump seems behind TO KISS, OR KILL AP Newsfeotures ha - wore ten-thousand-dollar mink] money. Money that built every chaptee aa ae seventy-five dollars a week| year, piling income on top of jl ea rode, cracking his| was cocktail money. Gale would | interest. Ss knuc The rats. That's | he contrite. Gale would cry. Man-! André parked in front of the Il_of them. With | gei] didn't want her to cry. The] stone porte-cochere and got out Rosemary and| jy oney was a minor matter. There| and opened the door of the car. them. Ahead: Stiff competition be-| * sale and Mr. Ebbling. , [Would be plenty of time to iron|It had snowed here, some. Man- tween the competing fibers—wool, % id ox zi oy the ote Be out. eae ee dell helped Gale from the car. @otton, rayon, nyion and the other , worried. Aren't you,| Gale continued to stroke his/Then he reluctantly reached for synthetics. Never before were so varied Sources of fiber and fabric avail- able. But all hands are issuing optimistic forecasts. A bright outlook for the future of wool is trurfpeted by the direc- tors of the Wool Bureau, Inc. They tome: from Austraiia, New Zea- land and South Africa to join U. S. owers in the fight tu protect wool m the onslaughts of the new man-made fibers. “Unusually favorable prospects | for good business in 1953,” is the | view of the Assn. of Cutton Textile Merchants of New York. “Cotton mills’ backlog of orders | old ahead for the next 2% months, and inventories averaging less | than three weeks of production,” @heers the American Cotton Man- ufacturers Institute. Production in | the first quarter of this year topped | @ year ago by 10 per cent. ayon and acetate shipment: wunning well ahead of last yea Says the Rayon Information Cen. ter. Last year, however, was a bad | One. As for more recent man-made fibers—dacron, orion, dynel, vi- cara, acrilan, saran and the like— their makers are crowing that de- mand generally exceeds supplies. The wool bureau thinks the sheep’s fiber will stay on top of the heap but sees plenty of room | for the new synthetics as world population continues to grow. It says: “The production of man- made fibers will serve merely to} fill the gap between production of | wool and man’s needs.” The rayon boys, set back on/| their heels last year as cotton} surged to the front again, admit that in the textile business ‘it’s dell nodded. “Yeah.” soothing a frightened! ything is going to be| ant to stop and see a "t be necessary.” her coat. “You're! J rms around me, Put your head on my rinned at her and d her. be back in her fingers caressing | his cheek. Mandell hadn't slept for hours. Not since his last night sylum. He hadn't slept} that nt, waiting for morning to come, He’d been drunk and in jail. He'd been through an emotional wrin He'd been ac- cused of murde: been slugged. T! thing he should should ask her w pened to the money, the thirty-| seven thousand dollars that he| had given her to dole out to his mothe He opened his mouth to speak | ged his mind, reluctant rb the balance of the mo- was no hurry. Gale} ve a good excuse, She’d} probably forgotten. To girls in her income bracket, girls who cheek. “Love me, honey?” she whispered. “So much,” Mandell said. Most of his jumpiness had left him. It was nice to be loved. Loved like he loved Gale. Loved like Gale loved_him. Mandell |closed his eyes. For just a mo- ment. Then he slept soundly. wes he awakened, the car was speeding through High- land Park on Green Bay Road. | Great naked oak and maple trees, and occasionally a green uni- formed spruce or pine, stood guard along the winding highway. Highwood would be next. Then Fort Sheridan. Then Lake Forest. The parrot was awking: “Forget him. You're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.” Mandell sat up and gave the bird a sour look. Gale was contrite. “I tried to keep him quiet, Barney. Honestly.” Mandell lighted a cigarette and gave it to Gale, then lighted one for himself. “Am I blaming you?” “No.” Gale snuggled her fingers into his hand. “Feel better?” “A Jot. I must have slept almost an_ hour.” Mandell took the cigarette from Gale’s lips and _ kissed her. “Thanks.” He put the cigarette back where'd he taken it from. Gale laughed. The cigarette bobbled, flaking ashes on the taut bod f her dress. “Just like ” the parrot squawked. give your right name, The Ebbling house was of gray stone, set back from the highway in the middle of a landscaped acre. It must be nice, Mandell thought, to have money. The kind of money Mr. Ebbling had. Solid! the bird cage. The parrot cocked its head at |him and awked. “Awk right back at you,” Man- dell said. Leaving André to get Gale’s luggage, he followed her up the stone steps and waited while she unlocked the door. The house was warm, but had an unlived-in feeling to it. Gale ran her hand across a silver sal- ver on a table near the door, then showed her smudged fingers to Mandell. “That’s what paces when I go away. Father’s been dividin; his time between Eagle River an the club. No system. No staff. We'll probably have to get along with just a cook and a maid un’ I get things organized.” “Tough,” Mandell sympathized. He turned at a sound behind him. André was standing in the door, one of Gale’s bags in each hand and another under each arm. “If you'll pardon me, sir,” “itandell stepped side to permit ‘andell stepped aside to permit him to pass. “Sure. Go right ahead.” André kicked the door shut be- hind him and walked up the broad stairs to the second floor. Mandell set the bird cage on the table and watched Gale finger through a thick stack of unopened envelopes. Most of them appeared td be bills. He could read the names on some of the envelopes. Marshall Field, Peck and Peck, Sally Greenebaum, Lenore’s, Pea- cock’s, I. Miller, Estelle’s. Man- dell felt a flush of pride. Gale was really big-time. A girl who.) dressed as Gale dressed must spend a lot of money on clothes in a month. (To be continued, more liberal credit for farmers Government Will Act To Save | seeding financial help. Benson’s prepared talk did not mention proposals advanced by some Southwestern cattlemen at congressional hearings in Washing- THEY'RE HAVIN: GILLSILLY HOMECOMIN’ DOWN. IN MARYVILLE, —by John Cullen Murphy BEN'S GONG TOBE A NB GREAT CHAM? -ONE WE CAN BE PROUD OF. AND IF EVER STEPS OUT OF UNE, I'LL PERSONALLY KNOCK HIS BLOCK OFF! LIKE 1 WUZ SAYIN’ THAR'LL BE LOTS OF PURTY GALS AN’ CLINCH DANCIN’ AN’ GALS T JES TARRY HILLBILLY # AUNT LOWEEZY _ SHOT MIZ SACKER !! back to prewar patterns of fierce 9 competition, Shipments of broad- att e in S roug t reas woven rayon and acdtate fabrics : ton that the government buy cattle in the first four months of 1953] LUBBOCK, Texas “P—Secretary | Benson’s personal survey will help! in the stricken area in a move to topped the same ‘period last year | of Agriculture Benson told drought-|determine any allocation of funds | re-establish more favorable prices. by 69 million linear yards. | harassed farmers of the Southwest | to cattlemen who have suffered as} Benson said recurring droughts Fashion and promotion will be|that the government will act to|a result of the prolonged dry spell.|in some areas and tioods in others the weapons of the rayon and cot-| save cattle needed to maintain| ‘There was no indication whether | underline “‘the basic need for much ton men as they battle it out. | foundation herds for future beef |the “disaster area” designation | more effective water conservation ua of ccuion sa ae Sas | Stating a shortage of feed was | areas of Kansas, Colorado and New | have. iedling Taly $1 yhocld top tue re, | forcing many livestockmen to sell | Mexico. The secretary, turning to the 5 : Pine Bre: |herds, the secretary declared it} Benson, who bas asked Eisen-| Cotton situation, said this erop is vious year by 287,000 bales and | would be ‘“‘a calamity for the whole | hower for emergency powers to |Tuaning into trouble because of a teach a total of about 9,422,400 | country if foundation herds were | take whatever steps ure Sasa jloss of export markets. He attri- bales. : forced into liquidaticn.” |said before leaving Washington buted this situation to action of the But rayon and nylon tire cords “You need feed, and we want to} | government in restricting exports have ripped into cotton’s once |help you get it,” said the Cabinet fone Nee eepecte fo, atnanrce face: | of cotton after the Korean War be- prosperous automobile market. | atriecy in or jwhat specific action he has in ; = | speech prepared for | mind. gan in mid-1950, THE PROT BaRED Our \, Paper bags have supplanted many ja meeting of the American Cotton ‘ This led, he said, to a world SiR /-'A SMA PRIVATE cotton bags in industry, and low-| Congress. In his prepared speech, the sec-| scarcity and a consequent big ex- eet |i ISER JUST PICCED priced burlap is another competi-| Benson came here last week to|Tetary did not outiine a drought) pansion in production outside this 2D ON ? . ee tor. dd 4 ‘aid program, but ke said these | - . : address thé cotton group and to des “disaster” country. Competition between fivers, how- | check on a drought that has been | ther measures, hesides “disaster” | “qmproved world trade relations ever, has been going on for gen-| described as the worst in the his-|@eclarations, are urder consider-| otter, he said, a solution to farm erations. In 1800 wool was king, | tory of the Southwest. “iene surpluses. topping cotton by 20 to 1. Now cot-| President Eisenhower Friday| 1. Establishment of emergency| He said “we must give our ton beats wool by 10 to 1. ‘declared drought-stricken areas of | freight rates to encourage move- | sober attention to the task of devel- Both are challenged by the syn- | Texas and Oklahoma to be “major | Ment of livestock to feed and pas: | oping further improvements” to ics. jdisaster areas.” Tais made them | ture areas. | existing farm-aid programs so that OLN RR eligible for federal relief grants. | 2. Offer of government-owned | farmers can achieve” stability, Great Britain’s has a quarter of| ‘The White House gave no otttline | feed at’ prices as “low as we are| prosperity and parity of living in & million people over the age of | of just what areas are within the | Permitted” by law |the present circumstances of the 85, 155,000 of them women. e e. A spokesman said 3. 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