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THE POST, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940
Business Dead?
Not According
To These Figures
Record-Breaking Sales
Filed At Court House
Herald Strong Upswing
By JOHN V. HEFFERNAN
More than any other month
in a period of nine years,
March of 1940 gave testimony
of investments that prove
Luzerne County definitely on
the road back to stable busi-
ness and industry. Conditional
sales filed in the office of Pro-
thonotary Peter M. Margie
ran the highest total cash
value recorded since 1931, the
year at the close of the vast
development of the motorcar
industry.
Between March 1 and March
25 Luzerne County firms and
individuals engaged in a vari-
ety of business and industries
lodged with various manufac-
turers a record-shattering list
of orders calling for expendi-
ture of exactly $441,141. That
in itself is more than a 50 percent
gain over the average new-equip-
ment expenditure for the months
of last year, when total purchases
were slightly in excess of three
million dolars, or at the rate
of $250,000 a month.
With six days of business added
to March 31 the indications looked
to certainty of exceeding in March
the total of a half million dollars
of investment in various machinery
and equipment or at the rate of six
million dollars a year. Conditional
sales are a sure index of business
and industrial trends. But, of
course, they take no account of
contracts where manufacturer and
consumer enter a cash deal. How-
ever, most new buying is on the
conditional plan if there is omitted
the minimum of corporations with
cash on hand for capital invest-
ments.
Truck Sales Top List
Trucks ran away with the high
total of investment by March buy-
ers. For the first 25 days of March
the mew truck equipment cost
$106,166. Next highest investment
was made by independent anthra-
cite operators who purchased new
equipment whose value is $91,879.
Shop operators were third with in-
in a wide
range of devices. Automobiles were
the farthest down on the list of
new buying that they have been in
recent history. New car contracts
had a face value of only $9,251 in 25
_ days.
Renovizing and modernization
campaigns among househoulders
had their effect in $16,575 of new
installations for family comfort and
convenience and for interior pro-
perty improvement. To the more
than $90,000 spent by independent
mine operators for general equip-
ment, the nearly $50,000 spent for
stripping shovels, there may be
added $4,706 expended on labor-
saving shaker-chutes.
With Spring here and Summer
not far away the purchase of trail-
ers hit a new high record of $37,620.
Store owners invested in new ap-
pliances a total of $33,650 while
farmers spent for added equipment
a total of $2,388. Dupont’s Lincoln
“Theatre added a marquee for $2,555.
To home comfort can be added
the expenditure of $4,650 in install-
ation of stokers suited to the burn-
ing of anthracite. Air-conditioning
installations were many, one at a
price of $1,150 but many others at-
tached to furnaces.
The coming of warmer weather
and more general thirsts was re-
flected by a sudden spurt in sales
of automatic beer-cooling devices
to a total value of $4,191. Popular-
ity of non-alcohoic drinks is indi-
cated by Keystone Bottling Com-
pany’s installation of $16,300 worth
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Fertilizer Brings Pennsylvania Farmers
More Than Twenty-Two Million Dollars
Sa
Extra dollar returns on Wheat, Vegetables, and Corn, which farmers
received Nationally for each dollar spent on fertilizer.
The gigantic sum—three billion
doliars—which farmers have re-
ceived from the Government under
the AAA since 1933 is equaled by
the extra dollar value of increased
vields produced by fertilizer in the
same period, according to estimates
made from personal interviews witw
32.000 farmers in 35 States. 5
Pennsylvania farmers gave the
interviewers grass-root facts which
show that for every dollar they
spent for fertilizer they received an
average return in increased yields
of $2.41. In other words, Penn-
sylvania farmers spent $9,137,000
for fertilizer. The extra return
which they received from its use
amounted to $22,061,000, leaving
an increased income above the cost
of the fertilizer of $12,924,000.
The returns from each dollar
Pennsylvania invested in fertilizer,
as «>. wn by The National Ferti-
lizer © Association survey, varied
from crop to crop. Tomatoes led the
list with an increased value return
of $11.88. Tobacco ranked well up
with a return of $5.22. Other crops
reported were potatoes, which
brought $3.78 for each dollar in-
vested; corn, $2.87; and apples,
$2.60.
Pennsylvania farmers also had
tilizer on quality of crops. Over
58 per cent said they got better
market quality in all cash crops,
while 68 per cent said they got bet-
ter feeding quality in grain and
hay, and 20 per cent declared they
fruits and vegetables.
Average return in Increased
yields for all crops in all States
shown by the survey was $3.60 for
each dollar spent on fertilizer. Na-
tionwide, the crops showing highest
rate of return were: tobacco, cot-
ton, fruits, and vegetables.
of bcttling machinery, with Arrow
Bottlers adding equipment at a
price of $3,900, Marshman Wyoming
Laundry installed $3,000 worth of
latest devices.
Farmer’s Trade In Horses
Signs of the times were seen
in a transaction by which a Still-
water: farmer, Walter Danilowicz,
traded in a horse and equipment
for gasoline-powered machinery, the
animal bringing only a value of $75
and its belongings having a worth
of $200. Charles Van Tuyle of R.
F. D. Pittston also traded in live-
stock at $40.20 on machinery.
Among outstanding purchases in the
first 25 days of March were the
following: »
Smith-Bennett Co., Kingston,
printing press, $10,000; Mondlak
Bros., Port Griffith, printing press,
$1,200; Capparell
Hazleton, dragline, $34,500; Fried-
man’s Express, 14 Pullman trailers,
$36,332; William Dushay, Peck-
Stripping Co., |-
ville, 11 Diesel trucks for use on
northern Susquehanna flood control
project, $85,000; Charles Namur,
Duryea, power shovel $4,500; Cen-
tral Excavating Co., Avoca, power
shovel, $7,900; James W. Noyle,
Freeland, power shovel, $36,800,
Power equipment in strippings
and independent coal operations
reached vast new development in
the anthracite fields in the past
three years and is continuing to get
farther and deeper into the in-
dustry, accounting for the ability
to step up coal production without
new hiring of labor.
Lake Rises Three Feet
Harvey's Lake, which was about
three* feet below its normal water
level a few weeks ago, has risen to
nearly normal as a result of the
thaw last week.
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It is estimated an infant in the
United States will eat $88.76 worth | ford, near Norristown, where the |
of food in its first year.
their say about the effects of fer- |!
Naturalization Chief Philip Forte
and his assistant, Andrew Novak,
looked quizzically at the name
signed by the somewhat exotic-ap-
pearing gentleman filing his in-
tentions at Luzerne County Court
House to become a citizen of the
United States, full-fledged and with
the right to vote and everything.
The name had forty-three letters,
and here is the form in which the
bland caller wrote it out: “Blas
Domingo Francisco de la Caridad
Garat y Santaya.” Count for your-
self, but see a student or professor
in Castilian Spanish if you would
have the entire interpretation of
that monicker.
“Is that your name?” Phil Forte
wanted to know. “Or is it the de-
scription of the province in the
country from which you came?”
“It's my name,” said the caller,
with something in his voice that
wasn’t so much accent as it was
the echo of a brook washing itself
over a bed of pebbles.
“There's a lot to
Andy Novak.
So, the forty-three-lettered San-
taya let it be known for the first
¢ime since he fled Cuba back in
it,” put in
|Meet Blas Domingo Francisco (Take
A Breath) Caridad Garat y Santaya
1916 that he is one among many
of the nobility of the island re-
public, all forced to flee under the
terroristic reign of General and
President and Dictator Gerardo
Machado, the same gentleman who
finally had to take to his own heels
in advance of the machetes of men
faithful to Batista.
Santaya is descended from the
purest of the Castilians who came
out of Spain to Cuba to open the
island’s vast natural resources and
to win American sympathy back in
1898 because of sugar plantation re-
lationships with American capital.
Even Winston Churchill’s help ex-
tended to the “Butcher” Weyler
army of Spain failed to halt the
march of freedom and Cuba Libre.
The halt awaited the coming of
the dictators and with the first of
them, Machada, Wyoming Valley’s
Santaya found it healthful to get
away.
The noble gentleman has be-
come a practical miner—of all
things.
He resides at 112 South Welles
Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Young Man Killed
When Car Skids
| First Motor Fatality
01 1940 In Dallas Area
The first highway fatality in the
Dallas area this year occurred last
Friday night when Roland Grater,
28, 341 Pierce Street, Kingston, was
killed when his car skidded on the
icy road near Castle Inn, on the
Harvey's Lake road.
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Grater and two companions, John
Brolley, 28, and Walter Kalacinski,
both of Wilkes-Barre, were bound
for the Lake, where they intended
to skate. The coupe, which Grater
was driving, struck an icy stretch,
Iskidded, and left the highway,
cracking two telephone poles, which
fell across the road.
Brolley was taken to his home in
a semi-conscious condition, but his
condition was improved consider-
sidered out of danger. Kalacinski
was uninjured, although he suffer-
ed from shock.
Grater, £ clerk at the offices of
the American Stores Co., lived with
his brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
three sisters, who live at Graters-
‘funeral was held on Tuesday.
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about by such characters as Uncle
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Snorkins, the cockney butler.
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rRobert Payne, Ruth Rogers,
Florence Melusky, Ruth Stevenson,
Richard Williams, Charles Kern,
Ilga Brin, Josephine Hummuel, Leo
Johnson, Elizabeth Sorber, Otis
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Alexander Trescott, 83, a life-long
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Monday night of general debility.
these children: Mrs, Pearl Brink of
Benton; Mrs. Susie Hontz, James,
Arthur, Joseph and Mary Trescott,
all of Sweet Valley. Funeral ser-
vices were held yesterday afternoon
in Sweet Valley Christian Church,
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