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Will Register Here From 2 To 9 P. M. On July 9,10 and 11 (Continued from page one) cards. Business men, as it is under stood at the present time, and pos sibly farmers, too, will be limited to the basic "A" card plus a "B" sup plementary card unless their work is directly connected with the war effort. This arrangement will allow a farmer or business man to drive between 560 and 600 miles a month Some are already saying that they can't get along with that limited amount, but the government has warned that there is a possibility that the business economy of tbis nation will have to get along with less before this war is ended. While the "A" plus the "B" supplemental card will allow a maximum of from 560 to 600 miles a month, it should be remembered that the allowance will be tailored to ipeet driving ?nwilt up 10 llikt amount. In other words if a motorist drives only 400 miles a month, he will be issued cards only for that amount. There are four major types of gas oline rations; namely, basic which is | the "A1' and "D" cards; supplement al or "B" and "C" cards; the service ratton as represented by the "S-l" and "S-2" cards; and the non-high way or "E" and "R" cards which will be used in purchasing gas for boats, tractors, farm machines and similar uses > Any automobile or motorcycle owner is entitled to a basic card ? "A" for cars and "D" for motorcy cles. The "A" card carries six pages I with eight stamps to the page Each | stamp is good for four gallons of gas One page is to last for two months, allowing about four gallons per week for the pleasure car driver or he may use the entire two months' ration in less time than that if he so desires, but no new issuance will be made available to him. The card is issued on a 12-months' basis. The "D" or motorcycle card is similar to "A" card for automobiles, only the al lowance or ration is just half as | large. All cars and motorcycles are en titled to the basic card except the following: car owned or leased by a federal, state, local government or agency; ambulance or hearse, taxi, vehicles used in a fleet of four or more, and a vehicle held by a deal er for sale or resale A service card will be issued in these few cases, and while they will get no basic card the owners or operators may report to their respective registra tion centers the latter part of next week and make formal application for their cards, or they may get an application form at the mam ration ing board office Supplemental or the "B" and "C" cards are classified into two groups The first is known as "Limited occu pational ration," and the other is known as "Essential occupational ra tion." The first group includes those persons whose business calls for more gas than is allowed by the bas ic "A" card. They may get a supple mental "B" card which will allow a maximum of about 570 miles per month. The second group, or "essen tial occupational ration" includes those persons whose driving is con sidered most essential to the war effort or possibly the domestic econ omy. This group is classified brief ly as follows: Mail carriers, school officials, doc tors, nurses, ministers, farmers who I do not own or possess a truck for | hauling farm products and supplies. to this countyh It i*h understood that | supplemental "C" cards will be is sued to these, but they must also get their basic "A" cards first. Limitations are fairly definite for the issuance of supplemental cards For instance the minister cannot claim mileage for social, organiza tional or even administrative activi Specials For The FOURTH ? SLACKS ? TIES ? SUITS ? SHIRTS ? SOCKS ? Swim Trunks ? Handkerchiefs For the men and many other items you will need to spend a pleasant Fourth. We are complete outfit ters for men and young mem. Pittman's United Nations Commander Confers With Staff 1 From March of Tim?'? "India at Wai* I Gen. Sii Archibald Wave!!, commander In chief of United Nations forces in India, is shown as he discuaaed plans for tin defense of India with members of his staff in a commander conference, at New Delhi. Wavell 1 preparing I Julia's forces to meet the danger of an air attack. Large convoys of troops, tanks and planes lur e arrived to bolster the defense of India United Nation? war vessels are using bases in India for repairs and maintenance since the fall of Singapore and Dutch naval bases there. A Scrap Rubber Commando Unit This is the headquarters of a commando unit, composed of u group of youngsters, in Los Angeles, who are doing their bit in the drive for scrap rubber by collecting old tires. All through Southern California these Commando groups are gathering scrap rubber in answer to President Roosevelt's recent plea. (Central Pre**) IVw Supplemental (ias (lards Issued I Changing their meeting day from Monday to Thursday, the rationing board found very few applications for supplemental gas ration cards on hand yesterday. A si/.ablo collection is expected by the time the board considers the next applications, Chairman Martin of the board stat ing that the new gas rationing reg istration would likely take up all available time next Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. Cards were issued yesterday to the following: A C. Harrison, KFD 2. Williams ton, a replacement. T B Slade, Hamilton, A minus two units. Nan Council, Oak City, A minus four units Carlyle Langlcy, Witliamston, one B 3 and an A-l William Watson Waiters, James ville, A minus two units. Zack Ore, Robersonville, A minus | two units. William James Cordon, Jamesville. A minus lour units Mack Highsmith, Robersonville, A minus five units. M M. Mills, Oak City, A. F. B Briley, RFD 1, Roberson ville, A minus five units John Nicholson. RFD 3, Williams ton, A minus five units. Jack Baker Saunders, Williams ton, A. Willie Purvis, RFD 1, Oak City, A minus five units. Collins Smith, Oak Ctiy, A minus four units. Mrs Gladys Bailey James, Rober sonville, A minus four units. ties. Farmers will be limited to a "tailored" mileage, meaning that nun-essential driving is out unless it can be squeezed in on the basic "A" card". The fleet ration is applicable only in a few cases in this county and is | not mentioned here. Tlie service ration is for operators | of trucks, busses, taxis, ambulances, government-owned vehicles and pos sibly a few others. ?Hie value of the "A" and "D" cards has been stated. The value of the "B" supplemental card is 64 gal lons and must be used in three months. The value of the "C" card has not been officially announced, but the book contains 96 coupons and | must be used during a three months j poriod. The service ration card, "S-l", con tains 96 coupons and has a coupon value of five gallons. The "S-2" card has 384 coupons each of which is good for five gallons But these books must last four months. The "E" and "R" rations are for non-highway users. The man who uses small amounts of gas in clean ing clothes, or for irons and other similar purposes is eligible for an "E" book, the coupons having a value of one gallon. The "R" ration card is for large non-highway users and the coupon has a value of five gallons. Issuances are to last six months. Deliveries to filling stations and | small individually-owned tanks will | be based on the rationing cards. Af ter July 21 the filling station opera tor will have to produce a coupon | for every so many gallons he gets. It has been definitely' announced that the 18 federal excise or use of windshield (tamp must be purchas ed before rationing cards may be oosnpleted. County Young Man Tells Of Ireland In Recent Letters (Continued from page one) I am not permitted to now. There are only eleven of us in the hut I live in. The hut looks more like a large gasoline drum than it does a place to live in. "I am writing on a tablet that 1 purchased in a nearby town. It cost me nine pence which is 15 cents in American money. There is very lit tle that we can buy in town since almost everything is rationed. Ice cream is a little less than four cents per cone. It tastes fair, but there is very little sugar in it. Beer is plen tiful, but since I don't drink, this doesn't affect me. "I was in Belfast this week, but I didn't have time to see much of the city. After we get paid, which is supposed to be next week. I want to go there and spend some time. We are to get paid in English money. I have just about learned the differ ent denominations of this money and its corresponding value in American money." Concluding his second letter, the young soldier urged his parents not to worry about him for he's getting along all right. * Writing a few days later and af ter he had learned about the dry season here, the young man said, "I wish that you could have some of the rain that we have been hav ing. It is plenty moist here. It rains here one minute and the next min ute the sun is shining." Continuing, Private Qi iff ill said, "There is quite a difference in the way the people live here and the way they live in the United States The homes are real nice, both in thi towns and in the country, and al of them have beautiful lawns, but the people themselves show tha' they are having a pretty hard time However, they all seem to be hap py. There are a few cars, the princi pal means of travel being by bus train or bicycle. It is not uncommor to see both.men and women of fifty and sixty years of age pass on bi cycles. The girls don't use make-ui or have their hair curled, therefore they don't appear as attractive at those at home. "I expected to see a lot of pota toes in the fields here, but I hav< seen very few. All the farms around here are grain farms and pastures There are quite a few cattle and sheep, but I haven't seen any hogi yet. There is no com raised here s< I guess that is the reason for the scarcity of hogs. There aren't many chickens here either and fresh eggs bring a fancy price. I was told thai eggs sell for $1.20 a dozen and that the government buys all of their and rations them out." Civilian Defense Meet Postponed ff ednesdc A special meeting for the instrui Hon of air raid wardens and othei in certain phases of the civilian di fense meeting was postponed her last Wednesday evening when th instructor, Tom McMillan, was tat en ill suddenly and underwent an o[ eration late that afternoon. No dat for holding the meeting was at nounced. . The 29th Week Of The War (Continued from page one) that effect, if their supplies are in sufficient to meet all demands, OPA rules. The Office suspended deliv- s eries to 64 filling stations in New s York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, p bringing to 78 the total suspensions a for alleged violations of rationing c regulations. The OCD asked 3,000 defense councils in the East to estab- 1 lish machinery for bringing auto- 1 mobile owners together in car-shar ing clubs. Tire and tube quotas for July were increased over June to \ take care of greater wear during the d hot summer months. - p Army and Selective Service The House passed and sent to the 1 Senate the $42 billion army supply * bill for the fiscal year beginning on July 1st?the largest single appro priation in the U. S. history. Serv ices of Supply Commander Somer- f veil said the army will reach 4,500,- t 000 men by the middle of 1943. The ,j army food bill in 1943 will be $1,300 million, he said. Beginning July 1, (J the CAA will train 13,000 pilots for j' the Army Air Forces enlisted re- d serve as glider pilots, airline co- . pilots, service pilots and pilot in structors. Men between 18 and 37 V are eligible. The War Department n said the air ferrylng and the air f" transport operations of the army will be coordinated into a new air trans port command, effective July 1. Selective Service Headquarters said local boards should segregate registrants into four categories and l |call them to service in the following order: 1. Those without financial t dependents; 2. Those with financial dependents other than wives or chil- 1 dren; 3. Registrants who married prior to December 8, 1941, and who are maintaining bona fide family re lationships; and 4. Registrants who have wives and children or chil dren only with whom they maintain bona fide family relationships. SS headquarters said local boards will decide on disposition of men who were in process of being inducted at the time the categories were set up. Navy Expansion The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill authorizing the Navy to increase the size of the U. S. fleet by 1.900.000 tons at an estimat ed cost of $8,500 million. The pro gram will give the Navy a total of 5.650,000 tons of combat ships, far in cxecoo of uny other Navy in the world. The President signed legis lation authorizing a 25 per cent in crease in pay for naval officers as signed to submarine duty and pro viding a $5-an-hour bonus for navy divers engaged in hazardous under takings. The War Front A European theater of operations for U. S. forces was established with Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, formerly Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of the Operations Division, as Commanding General. Headquar ters will be in London. Brig. Gen. Hugh Casey of the Army Engineer Corps reported the Allied Works Council and the 11 S Army Fngin eers in Australia have built 100 mil itary airdromes, built or improved thousands of miles of strategic roads and are working on 12,000 separate projects in Australia. U. S airmen damaged a Japanese cruiser and sank a transport in Kiska harbor in the Aleutians. "Hie sinking of IT more allied merchant vessels by en emy submarines was announced. Transportation and Rubber Salvage The Office of Defense Transporta tion established a U. S. Truck Con servation Corps to mobilize the coun try's 5,000,000 trucks for more effi cient war service. Hie Office said conversion of the trucking industry to a wartime basis is effecting a big saving of rubber and equipment, de spite a sharp increase in the volume of business. Railroads in 1941 set an all-time record of ton-miles of freight carried and increased circulation of freight cars by 33 per cent over 1929. Passenger service of both rail roads and buses is about 50 per cent greater this year than last, Mr. East man said. He requested discontinu ance for the duration of all county and state fairs in order to conserve transport facilities. President Roosevelt extended un til midnight July 10th the scrap rub ber collection campaign because the response was disappointing and yielded only 219,000 tons as of June 17. ... ... Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Wickard said the U. S. will have to rely more and more on the contribution small farmers can make toward meeting wartime goals for food production. He said the Agriculture Department is doing everything it can to help such farmers purchase new equip ment and stork for expanding crops. \rmy To Call Men According To Age Groups In Future (Continued from page one) vith children. At the present time, 2,059 order lumbers in the first two registra ion groups have been exhausted. It s estimated that the July draft calls will reach up to around 2,600, leav ng about 600 order numbers from vhich the draft board may pick se ectees before reaching into the third egistration group. Several of those men in the reg stration group who had already >een ordered to report for physical ixamination will not likely be call id any time right away. Just when hey will be called is hard to deter nine as there are so many factors hat may speed up or delay their in luction orders. Recorder's Court In First Afternoon Session In Months (Continued from page one) entenced to the roads for a term of ix months. The sentence was sus lended upon payment of a $100 fine nd costs by Peaks and a $50 fine and osts by Swain, and with the under tanding that they were to remain aw abiding citizens for two years, "hey appealed and bond was requir d in the sum of $200. Charged with non-support. Rufus Vhitehead pleaded guilty of aban [oning his child and was directed to iay into the court $12 a month for ne year for the support of the child, "he payments, the court ordered, are o be made on or before the 15th of ach month, and the defendant was equired to enter into bond in the um of $150 to guarantee the faith ul performance of the assigned ask. 'he department estimated the 1942 ig crop at a record total of 105 mil ion head, compared with 85 mil ion head in 1941. Total milk pro duction as of June 1st was more han 3 per cent greater than last ear. The department reported al nost 12 million persons were em iloyed on farms June 1?more than million above the May 1st total nd 99 per cent of the 1910-14 aver ge. Farm wage rates on June 1st fere 183 per cent of the 1910-14 av rage. TIRES FOR SAI-E ?FOUR 6*6-16 tires, two 5:50-17 tires, two 6:00-16 ubes. All in good condition. Harvey Vinberry, Robersonville, N. C. fllXTY SIG? -Ke wants ter know. Ef you kaint beat licker, thout jo in to ther poles? I was into one these noo-fangle grocry stores, tuther day, whar you havs to play clerk with your fingers and custermer with your pocket book, and a-wantin sum coffee. Af ter wandrin-round fer quite a spell, trying to find which shelf thay was a-keepin it on that day, I finly found it, and after pickin me out a pound pack, I wandered round summo" twell I found whar ther grin din-mill was, and I ast a feller standin close by to grind it fer me. ?And lie says?Huw? And I says?With ther mill And he says?How you wants ther mill to grind it? And I says?Dast ef I knows, les sen you hep it by tumin ther crank. And he says?No, what I means is, do you want it ground sos to use in a per-ker-later, or do you want it ground sos to use in a drip-er-la ter? And I says?Gosh-don, No. I got two-three things to-home now, and ther papers says thars a feller name Fred Snite thats even got a res-per ater, but whilst Fred mout be a-usin hisn, I sho aints a-usin mine. I got em hid wussen you had that coffee hid. 1 wants it ground sos to bile in a old black crook-spout t-kettle pot, and when I gits to bilin it, dast ef you cant smell it frum home to here, and when you gits to drinkin it, be dad-dast ef you kaint feel it all ther way down to your toes and back. And to tell ther truth, I aint had to take no nip outn a bottle sense I thowd them fan-dangles erway. And he says?Then I recon most eny way'll do. And I says?Yes, jes sos I kin bile it. Ther old crook-spout, hit will do ther rest. FOR RENT: COTTAGE AT PAMLI CO Beach. *15.00 per week. Boat furnished. See Joel Muse. jn30-2t RAWLEIGH ROUTE NOW OPEN. Real opportunity for man who wants permanent, profitable work. Start promptly. Write Rawleigh's, Pet NCG-251-K, Richmond, Va. UUTISH FEVERISHLY RUSH AID TO ARMIES IN EOY#T (Continued from pace one) December 7th. Treasury Secretary Morfenthau innounced yesterday that the public lebt in this county last Tuesday mid ught was just short of 77 billion iollars. WANTED! IF ANYONE IS GOING to Washington for a short while, le can perform an errand of mer ry by taking the invalid child of Mrs. Lewis Wabbleton. The child is taking treatments there which re quire but a few minutes. And as her Family has no means of getting her there other than the bus (this is painful to the child), anyone who is going could help by just carrying the child over there. If anyone is in terested, call Mrs. Elbert S. Peel, and she will be glad to contact Mrs. Wabbleton. jl3-6t FOR RENT: ONE I-ROOM APART ment second floor, and one 3-room apartment first floor. West Main Street, near business section. J. W. Green, Williamston. jn30-2t FOR QUICK, QUALITY DRY cleaning service, bring your clothas to Pittman's. One day service on any garment. Suits, coats and dresses, M rents, cash and carry. 89c delivered. Pittman's Cleaners. fS-tf DR. C. L. HUTCHISON DENTIST Next To Marco Theatre WUliamaton, N. C. TeL 114-J RATION CARDS Every man determines the size of his widow's ration card. If he does not live through this era of increased prices, his widow and children will be provided for?or not provided for?in the measure which he himself dictates. J. Paul Simpson Security Life & Trust Co WAITRESSES WANTED Don't apply unlen you have had experience CENTRAL CAFE TAKE OUR ADVICE ? ATTEND OUR OF MEN'S ANP WOMEN'S^ Quality Wearing Apparel CAROLE KING NELLY DON MARTHA MANNING DRESSES $14.95 VALUES ... $8.95 $12.95 VALUES ... $7.95 $10.95 VALUES ... $6.95 $7.95 VALUES ... $4.95 $6.5fr VALUES REDUCED TO $3.95 MEN'S STRAW HATS $1.50 Values .. .... 95c $1.75 Values . . . $1.19 $2.00 Values . . $1.29 $2.25 Values . . $1.49 $2.50 Values . . $1.49 PARIS FASHION And PETERS SHOES $6.00 Values $4.25 $5.00 Values $3.95 $4.50 Values $2.95 $3.50 Values $2.29 LATEST CREATIONS IN ALL SIZES This is no junk or salvage sale. Every item listed is seasonable and we have an unusually large selection of DRESSES in all sixes. In addition lb the above items we have thousands of other good values. A. O. Roberson & Co, ROBERSONVILLE, N. C. Watch Our Store Front Sat.
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