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-You S ve cfcHhecks, By a'Peep-in'on this Alphabetically # wm vw ▼ and Lots of Time Uassihed Business Ui rectory. You May Find Just What You are Looking for “Right at Your Door, or at Your Neighborhood Store”. You Can also SAVE that Car Check and Lots, and Lots of Time! This North 24th Street Classified Business Directory Page is Your “Best Money-Back Guarantee”. ..—--- -- - • Radio Programs SUNDAY RADIO PROGRAMS Dec. 15, 1946 WOW (590 kc 508 2m) (CST) 6 30 Sunday Serenade 6 55 News 7 00 Revival Hour 8 00 Chapel in the Sky 8 15 Midwest Report 8 15 Chapel Service, Rev. R. R. Brown 9 30 STORY TO ORDER Labor 9 45 Cheer Up Time 10 00 WOW News Tower 10 15 Gems and Jottings 10 30 Furs on Parade 10 45 Solitaire Time. NBC 11 00 World Front. NBC 11 30 House of Beauty 11 45 Canary Pet Show 12 00 WOW News Tower 12 1ft Farm Magazine of the Air 12 30 Your University Speaks Democratic Committee 12 45 Life Time Favorites 1 00 RCA Victor Hour, NBC 1 30 Harvest of Stars, NBC 2 00 Carmen Cavellero, NBC 2 30 One Man’s Family, NBC 3 00 The Symphonette 3 20 Nebraska Iowa Quiz 4 00 Quiz Kids 4 30 Circle Arrow Show ft 00 Catholic Hour, NBC 5 30 Bob Burns 6 00 Jack Benny, NBC 6 30 Bandwagon, NBC 7 00 Edgar Bergen & Charley McCarthy, NBC 7 30 I'red Allen Show, NBC 8 00 Manhattan Merry Go Round, NBC 8 30 American Album of Fami liar Music, NBC * Don Ameche Show, NBC 9 30 Meet Me at Parkey’s, NBC 10 00 WOW News Tower 10 15 Show Time 10 30 Pacific Story, NBC Foundation 10 45 To Be Announced 11 00 WOW News Tower 11 15 Music by Shredinik, NBC 11 30 America United 12 00 Midnight Melodies 12 15 Mary Ann Mercer, NBC 12 30 Symphony of Melody 12 55 News, NBC CLEO's Nite & Day BARBQ 2042 North 21st St. ALL KINDS OF DELICIOUS SANDWICHES • OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY” Deliveries Made—Small Fee Charge for the sam®. ('all 4 Tlmntie 9541 KOI l_ (1290 kc) 7 00 Paul Harvey, News, ABC 7 15 Tom Glazer’s Ballad Box, 7 30 Coffee Concerts. ABC 7 45 The Chosen People—Dr. Joseph Hoffman Cohn ! 8 00 Sunday Morning Melodies 8 15 Christian Science Pgm, ET 8 30 The Christians Hour, ET 9 00 Old Fashioned Revival ET 10 00 Church of the Air 10 30 News 10 45 A1 Williams Health Club 11 00 This Week Around the World, ABC 11 30 Melodies of the Southland 12 00 News 12 15 Your Sports Question Box With Leo Durocher 12 30 Your University Speaks 12 45 Vagabond Dreams* 1 00 For Your Comfort, ET 1 30 Friendship Hour. ETS 1 45 Portraits of Music, ETS 2 00 Sammy Kaye’s Serenade 2 25 News 2 30 Geislers Canaries 2 45 Sam Pettengill, News ABC 3 00 Are These Our Crildren? 3 30 Green Hornet 4 00 Darts for Dough, ABC 4 30 Counterspy, ABC 5 00 Sunday Eveniny Party 5 30 Easy Aces, ET 5 45 Flight with Music, ET 6 00 Drew Pearson, ABC 6 15 News 6 30 Thanks for Thanksgiving 7 00 The Paul Whiteman Hour 7 30 The Clock, ABC 8 00 Waller Winchell, ABC 8 15 Louella Parsons, ABC 8 30 Jimmy Fidler, ABC 8 45 The Policewoman, ABC 9 00 Theatre Guild of the Air 10 00 News 10 15 Vera Massey, ABC 10 30 Music You Want R 11 00 News, ABC 11 05 Ted Weem’s Orch., ABC 11 30 Jack Fina’s Orch. ABC 11 55 News, ABC 12 00 Sign Off. —-——I——. Used Fats Pay More For More meat dealers throughout the country have raised the pri ces they pay for used cooking fat according to further reports reach ing the American Fat Salvage Committee. Newspaper surveys show that with the decontrol of prices, there is a considerable In crease in the rice paid women for (their household kitchen grease. Som top prices are: Albany, N. Y., ten cents per lb.' Charleston W. Va., ten cents lb. Danville, 111. thirteen cents lb. Davenport, la. twelve cents lb, - Kansas City Mo. ten cents lb. Hartford, Conn, seven cents lb. Grand Forks, ND eight cents lb Kenosha Wis. twelve cents lb. Quincy 111., ten cents lb. Richmond, Va., twelve cents lb. Rochester, NY ten cents lb. San Diego Cal, twelve cents lb JAda.Mii 4411 1833-35 North 24th St. Chicago rurniture Co. • I ARCE SELECTIONS .f STOVES and LAMPS Our Fall Special LOW PRICED CHILDREN’S DESKS b - _ BUD’S 1 exaco Service • GAS and OIL “ITe Appreciate Your Trade” 30th & Wirt Sts. AT-9760 ------, --------- a TRIANGLE SHOE REPAIR a • QUALITY MATERIALS, • GUARANTEED WORKMANSHIP, • CLEANING & PRESSING, • HATS CLEANED & BLOCKED. 1608 NORTH 24th ST. JA. 0858 .# THRIFTY LIQUOR STORE .• WINES, BEER, LIQUORS “We Appreciate Your Trade” 24th & LAKE AT. 4248 *■ .*. .. « Fine Quality iPersonalized PRINTING -JUST CALL HArney 0800_ *-— F /---> Buyers’ Guide • Services, Foods, Accessories, House hold Needs, etc., which may be had at these 24th Street Places of Business. i EDITORIAL SY GEORGE H. McDAVIS, Advertising Manager uAyOTHER FIRST* IN keeping with nur policy of giving our READERS and ADVERTISERS the Best pos sible SERVICE. The OMAHA GLIDE is FIRST again with a new FEATURE which to our way of thinking, will be of IMMEASURABLE VALUE to all CONCERNED. WE are striving to keep a* breast of the times, with NEWS, ARTICLES & FEA TURES. KEEP your eve on this PAGE each week.— here you will find the answer to all your household NEEDS; and Saratoga Springs NY eight cents per lb. Utica NY seven cents lb. Wichita Kan., ten cents a pound Youngstown, Ohio, ten cents lb The OPA ceiling on used cook ing fat was four cents a pound. Increased prices paid women now .. . .. according to these newspaper checks, should encourage the sal vage of every drop of uted cook ing fat. Your used fat now brings much more money and helps to make sotp, electrictl appliances, fabrics, astomibiles, tires and other necessities. Meat Control By GEORGE S.BENSCN Tnmdm* mf Haidirvg College Becrcy, Arka nsos -n COLLAPSE and failure recently of government control over an important commodity, required in the daily lives of the people, points up an important moral for Americans. In lettering bold and poster-size, amounting to hand writing on the wall, this moral shows that we are not ready for this kind of regimentation in peacetime. We may re-enact the plot again with new characters at some future time, but the results will surely be the same. This we must know before more harm is done: A controlled econ omy is not compatible with American democracy. The real Reason for complete failure of meat control lies in the fact that Americans have been brought up on a free market. They have found the greatest sort of free dom in this kind of economy. They desire no substitute. Controls PRICES the govern Hindered ment allowed for hogs and cattle on foot were not high enough to induce farmers to sell their animals. Early in Octo ber the Arse York Timet sent a re porter into the heart of the Texas cattle country. Trailing buyers at Fort Worth for both major and independent packers, the Timet reporter saw them bid opa ceil ings and come away with only a “few old cows” out of 5,700 head of beeves listed that day. Choice animals were “grabbed off” by traders at prices in excess of ceilings, while 7,000,000 beef cat tle continued to roam the south west Texas range. Like any man who successfully invests capital and puts hard work into an enterprise, the cattle raiser is well taught about mar j kets. But a controlled economy puzzles him first, muzzles him later. The farmer, like the manu ^ — facturer, has learned to watch markets: to buy ana sell advan tageously in an honest, competi tive market. And in our land we have found that the consumer, who buys the food and manufac tured goods at lower prices, is best protected by this same free market. Dynamic WHY could a black Economy market exist? The public wanted meat badly enough to pay more for it than the ceiling price. I am not condoning black markets, but it needs to be said that this one was a general revolt against price controls on meat during peace time, when the public knew the country had more livestock than usual. The failure of controls was dismal, and the entire population recognized it. Some folks, prompted by Com munistic thinking and desiring to destroy freedom of opportunity, blamed the failure on the packing houses. People who know nothing of the facts may believe that ac cusation. The facts are that prices packers could legally pay did not bring livestock to market. Neither did a few men in Con gress cause the farmers to with hold hogs and cattle. It was not the “feebleness” of the law, but the law itself, that turned a free market into a black market. Dynamic is the word for our American economy. It cannot be trammeled down at one point and bludgeoned at another, at the whim of some far-away con troller. Neither can you expect it to by-pass the bottlenecks of gov ernment control, using the laws of honest economics with which it is familiar — without disastrous results tft .the American way of life. Bowl Your Cares Away. —AT THE— “LAKE STREET” BOWLING ALLEY 2410 Lake St. JA. 9303 OPEN FROM 5 to 1 Week Days * " S to 1 Sundays ROSCOE KNIGHT, Manager. 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DOWN f 1 To hire 2 Injure Solution In Next Issue. , — - No. 24 3 Malt beverage 4 Upright pieces of timber 5 Letter T' 6 Sick 7 Makes good 8 Burn unsteadily 11 Corn 13 Distress signal 16 Open (poet.) 20 Girl’s name 21 Quote 23 Well-paid, no-duty office 24 Afternoon reception 27 Perch 29 Notify 30 Republic (Asia Minor) 32 Loiter 34 Mist 35 Angry 30 Earths 40 Dutch cheese 42 Roman house god 43 Watch closely 45 Born Answer tv Pustle Number EREIM Series G-46 [THEY’LL HEtfER DIE 3 | . this astounding athlete CTHE HOLDER OF 3 CHAMPION SHIPS WHO TDU6HT CAL MCCARTHY TO A SEVENTY ROUND DRAW IN BOSTON > WAS BORN 1870 I IN HALIFAX.NOVA SCOTIA* STARTING OUT AT 16 WITH »Z.50 FOR HIS FIRST MATCH, HE EARNEDAND SQUANDERED l A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS IN HIS 20 YEARS OF . FIGHTING, in SPITE OF VERY ' GAY LIVING HE LOST BUT 20 OF MORE THAN 150 ‘PRO" BOUTS- 1 WEIGHING BUT 120 LBS. GEORGE DIXON OFTEN BEAT TALLER AND HEAVIER FOES WITH A SPEED AND CLEVER NESS THAT AMAZED ALL WHO SAW HIM PERFORM/ Read The Greater Omaha Guide! v BILLY ORIGINALLY TOOK UP BOX/NS BECAUSE HE /r DIDN'T WANT TO / ■ work ft,-:.-" FORA J LIVING / : L__> yWHEN HE I BEAT 2 MIDDLE* | WEIGHT CHAMPS, THE EXPERTS WERE J SURE HE'D ] GROW TO BE ANOTHER CORBETT :?c i ^ W 4 'C-:l,.. MAY HAVE MADE ENO! SH MONEY' TO SATISFY HIS ORIGINAL WISH OF NEVER HAVING TO WORK. BUT HE‘U. NEVER ‘SATISFY THE 7^ ORIGINAL HOPES OF HIS FOLLOWERS. 'HE P LOUIS FIASCO PUT A DULL FINISH lo ABP'S^T CAREER . LOU SWARZ JOTTINGS NEW YORK CITY..This week we pause to send a "Cheer-o-gram to the family of a great actor comedian, internationally known and loved.. Daniel Crosby Mich aels, better known as Dan Mich aels who passed, Sunday, Decem ber 1 as a result of burns.. Sorry were we when daughter. Quin, pianist and orchestra leader who could not make it home in time for the funeral due to her being op USO overseas tour. .However we say to that lovable wife, Pearl charming daughter Quin, and the rest of the family; ‘‘ Cheer up my kind and loving friends, And know that God knows best For He has taken one from you Whose soul was cleansed and blessed . . . God left you here to carry on So neither fret nor mourn, For He will ever guide you And your life with jewels adorn. We extend to you our sympathy So please do not feel too depressed; For God is ever near you And helps you stand this test” — Lou and Friends And with the approach of Christ mas..the time most people really help others'.. the “La Cheerios” made a good showing last Sunday when they took over 100 cans of food and fruit to the Bapsist home up in the Bronx, .also a program which was timely. .Then too there was that show of shows last Fri day night at the Apollo when Dan Burley and his crew “came on" in a BIG way with top per formers and acts,, and orchestras appearing on the program for a good cause. .And from down the South way, Greensboro, N. C., one of the Fan clubs had a grand time at the hospital the other Sunday when its members and the spon sor Vashti Goodman took the shut ins fruit and cheer letters. .‘Tis grand to give..So to use a little expression from a copyrighted song: "Keep on Keeping On.." Two great acts round and about Harlem or NYC..the Ink Spots and those Red Caps. .The Red Caps are now at the Dubonnet Club in Newark. N. J. and do they stop the show?..and how..with such a group of versatile person alities as Art Davis, Gordon Mc Kay, Romaine Brown. Dave Par tillo, Billy Naples and the leader Steve Gibson. . ’tis no wonder that a show is stopped whenever the group swings out with ons of those original tunes . . . Cash was much in evidence at the affair given by the Vivacious Ladies’ club last Sunday evening. Prizes $10; $5 and $3 just for a 10c chance..Not bad.,.And every guest seemed to have had a glor ious time, even to waltzing. .The members and officers of the club were lovely to look at in their long dresses. .Wilma Taylor, president and Irene Williams, treasurer wel corned Club 64 associates who were among the many.. Soon Harlem will have another nite spot, .when the old Celebrity Club has it3 opening..and things seem to be blooming with Tiny Grimes and his orchestra signed so I heard, to open the Spot.... Denny Butts of the Brooks-Hoex office is really geting talent and top acts lined up for the Show case., while So! Moore and his orchestra are readying for the Fa shion Poll Dance which was an nounced by Yours Truly sometime ago. .The name "Butts” rings here in Harlem with ‘Jimmy the Face Butts’ Trio at the Baby Grand.. 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