TOWN and FARM
in WARTIME <
*?por?d by OFFICI OP WAS tNFOtMATfON
MEATS, FATS ? Red Stamps A8
through T8, good indefinitely. U8,
V8 and W8 become valid June 4
and remain good indefinitely.
PROCESSED FOODS ? Blue
Stamps A8 through V8, good in
definitely.
MOST PLENTIFUL FOODS?
Onions and eggs over most o f the
country.
SUGAR ? Sugar Stamps 30 and
31, each good for five pounds in
definitely. Sugar Stamp 40, good
for five pounds of canning sugar
through February, next year.
GASOLINE? A-10 coupons good
through August 8.
SHOES ? Airplane Stamps 1 and
2, good indefinitely.
OWI REPORTS ON FOOD
SITUATION
Although farm population of the
United States is four million less
than during the last war, Ameri
can farmers produced 47 per cent
more food in 1943 than in 1918, the
Office of War Information said in
reporting need for four million vol
unteer farm workers untfr" after
harvest this year. With the aid
of the War Food Administration
and the Office of Price Adminis
tration, OWI reported on the cur
rent food situation. Comparing
this year with last: apples, peaches,
pears and cherries Nwill be more
plentiful; slightly less fluid milk
and cream will be consumed; less
chicken will be available; eggs will
continue plentiful. Other high
lights: wartime increases of income
and food have enabled millions of
Americans to increase their diets;
rationing will be needed until the
war is won; current point-free
meats will remain reasonably plen
tiful, with some cut of better grad
es less plentiful; the present point
holiday on canned vegetables is
only temporary and on some meats
may be temporary; the 1943-44
citrus fruit production will be 10
per cent higher than last year; the
last half of 1944 will show less but
ter and lard, but more margarine,
shortening and vegetable oils than
during the first half; sugar supply
is adequate but no increase in
household allotments is in sight
this yeaf. For nutritional reasons,
the report recommends home pro
duction of Vitamin C-rich foods,
such as tomatoes, and consumption
of milk, meat and enriched cereals
as sources of riboflavin and niacin.
VOLUNTEERS CHECK FOOD
PRICES
About 90,000 more volunteers are
needed to continue the price con
trol program, OPA says. More
than 40,000 price panel volunteers
recently visited 386,289 food stores
in this nation wide drive to tell
community grocers about price con
trol and help them comply with
OPA regulations. Some volunteers
in rural areas worked under con
siderable hardship, OPA points out.
On an island in Lake Michigan,
reached only by mail plane, ar
rangements were made with the
NEW SPRING
MERCHANDISE
Is Arriving Steadily
Melvin Dingier, An Experienced
Repairman, Will Check Your
Watch Any . . ?
Wednesday or Friday
Davis Jewelers
Ritz Theatre Building
Phone 198
mail plane pilot to check the lour
stores located there. In Plaque
mines Parish, Louisiana, boats
were used to survey stores in
swamp areas. And, in some rural
mountain communities, price panel
volunteers walked 10 to 12 miles
to carry out the compliance pro
gram. The survey showed 166,785
price violations on the 10 food
items checked and 448,041 price
posting violations.
GAS FOR FARM VOLUNTEERS
Persons who volunteer for spare
time labor on farms and in food
processing plants this summer may
apply for special gasoline rations
to get to and from this work, OPA
announces. The applicant must
arrange to carry at least four per
sons, including the driver (or as
many as the car will hold), and
must show there is no other ade
quate transportation.
REEMPLOYMENT FOR VET
ERANS
To be entitled to reemployment
rights under the Selective Train
ing and Service Act of 1940, the
veteran must be honorably dis
charged and must apply for re
employment "within 40 days after
he i? relieved from training and
service, according to National
Headquarters of Selective Service.
and transferred to the Enlisted Re
serve Corps at his own request to
engage in essential industry, loses
his reemployment rights if he does
not apply to his former employer
for reinstatement within 40 days
after his transfer. A veteran has
recourse to the courts to collect
back pay if his reinstatement is
improperly delayed by the employ
er.
SUGAR STAMP 37 INVALID
Sifear Stamp 37 in War Ration
Book 4 will never be used, OPA
announced. Because many house
wives mistakenly sent this stamp
to their local boards when applying
for home canning sugar, instead
of the correct stamp ? Spare Stamp
37 ? OPA has announced that
Sugar Stamp 37 will not be used
at all, so that no one will suffer
for this mistake.
PLENTIFUL FOODS
Eggs, white potatoes, canned
peas and canned green and wax
beans will be in plentiful supply
throughout most of the country
during June, the War Food Admin
istration reports. Other plentiful
foods now include: oranges, frozen
vegetables; frozen baked beans;
peanut butter; citrus marmalade;
raisins; dried prunes; dry-mix and
dehydrated soups; soya flour, grits
and flakes; wheat four and bread;
macaroni; spaghetti; noodles; oat
meal; and rye breakfast foods.
SUGAR FOR HOME CANNING
Sugar consumers may apply for
their 1944 home canning allotment
in two periods, the Office of Price
Administration reports. In each
period, users may obtain up to 10
pounds of sugar per person in ad
dition to five pounds available with
Sugar Stamp 40 in War Ration
Book 4. Persons not applying in
the first period but who need sugar
in the second period, may obtain
up t& their full 20-pounds-per-per
son allowanc eif the application
justifies that total.
MORE TELEPHONES COMING
Resumption of manufacture of
civilian-type telephones to the ex
tent of 200,000 sets per quarter has
been authorized by the War Pro
duction Board. First deliveries are
expected by fall. Approximately
100,000 new orders for telephones
that cannot be filled because of
lack of equipment are accumulat
ing each month.
WHEAT LOANS TO AVERAGE
$1.28
Wheat loans that will average
$1.28 a bushel at the farm will be
made on the 1944 crop by the Com
modity Credit Corporation of WFA.
The average last year was $1.23.
Loans will vary from the basic
national rate of $1.28 to take into
account location, grade and qual
r ni c 1- I
I q??d >'
COFFEE
me Best Pari" of thcTDcai
Beta Club Of High School
Beta Club members of the Sylva Central High School.
First row, Joy Stillwell, Freda Haskett, Jeanne Barrett. Second
row, Mary Cecil Bryson, Jean Monteith, Barbara Dillard. Third row,
Terry Howell, Kate Kitchens, Elizabeth Clayton. Fourth row, Bobby
Terrell, Walter Brown Cape and Mrs. W. K. Chapman, sponsor.
To be a member of the Beta Club students must make an average
of B plus for the first two years in high school.
The Beta Club was a very active organization in the Sylva high
school. They gave ten volumes to the library, all modern books of
a-*.: ?
Warning Given Against Sudden Rise
In Prices Of Farmlands In The State
The much talked of boom in farm
real estate has struck North Caro
lina, with rapidly rising values al
most at the 1920 level, says Dean
I. 0. Schaub of State College.
"Farmers should be on their
guard in purchasing more land at
this time because, if they do not
have the cash money to pay the
entire purchase price, they are al
most sure to lose the money that
they have put into the land, when
farm commodity prices are lower,"
the Extension Director warns.
"As I look at farm land values
over the United States, I am con
vinced that high prices for tobacco
are the cause of inflated farm land
values in this State," he adds. "The
greatest boom is in North<~?a^o
lin, Kentucky and Tennessee. Out^
in Iowa, farm real estate is less
than, half of what it was during
the 1920 boom."
He also points out that farm
land values are relatively high in
California and Florida, and sug
gests that this may be due to prices
received for citrus crops and truck.
During the past year land val
ues have been rising throughout
the country but the most rapid ad
vancement has been made in North
Carolina and California.
"War Bonds are a much safer
investment than farm real estate
and it is my opinion that growers
should pay off all their debts, m^e
no long-time purchases, and sava
a nest-egg for the^ays after the'
war when it will surely be needed
for making adjustments," SchautT
concluded.
ity. Loans on farm-stored and
warehouse-stored wheat will ma
ture on demand, but not later than
April 30, 1945. Any loan may be
liquidated by payment in full, plus
three per cent interest from date of
note. Loans will be administered
in counties by county Agricultural
Adjustment Agency committees
under the supervision of the State
committees.
PROPER METHODS FOR HOME
CANNING
The "open kettle" method and the
"oven" method of home canning
cannot be depended on to kill harm
ful bacteria in food, say canning
specialists in the Department of
Agriculture, and in addition oven
canning has caused serious acci
dents when jars explode. The spec
ialists recommend that fruits, to
matoes, and pickled vegetables be
precooked and packed boiling hot
in hot jars, with lids adjusted cor
rectly, then processed in a boiling
water bath canner with sufficient
water to cover the jars. Peas, beans
and other non-acid vegetables
should be packed in the same way,
but processed in a steam pressure
canner. Some of the 400,000 new
steam pressure canners authorized'
by WPB for the canning season are
now available in certain areas in
the South and others should be
available throughout the country
before long. Many community food
preservation centers provide local
home canners with equipment and
supervised instructions on proper
canning.
MEN WANTBD?MERCH ANIL
? MARINE
Youths between the ages of 16
and 17% years may enlist, with
their parents' consent, for training
for service in the U. S. Merchant
Marine, the War Shipping Admin
istration announces. Thirteen
weeks of training is required for
service in the deck and engine de
partments and six weeks for ser
vice as messmen and utility men
in the stewards' department. Vol
unteers will be assigned to mer
chant vessels within a few weeks
after completion of training. Men
i
18 to 26 years old may apply only
if they have F or L draft classi
fications, or are in 1-C. Qualified
men 26 and less than 35V6 are be
ing accepted for deck and engine
training and men less than 50% for
duty in the stewards' department.
For information, applicants may
write to the Commandant of the
U. S- Maritime Service, Training
Organization, War Shipping Ad
ministration, National Theatre
Building, Washington 25, D. C.
FUEL WILL BE SCARCE THIS
WINTER
All fuel ? coal, oil, gas and wood
? will be scarce this coming winter,
the Solid Fuels Administration for
War says. There will be a deficit
^ about 38 million tons of coal.
Consumers should order their coal
now, during the ' summer season,
and store whatever kind the dealer
recommends. Householders using
fuel oil should order their supply
as soon as their new ration coupons
become valid ? probably, within the
next month. By filling consumers'
fuel orders early, dealers will be
able to re-fill their own oil tanks or
coal Stockpiles and thus add to the
total storage capacity of the ra
tioned area for use later in the
winter. The Solid Fuels Adminis
trator urges all fuel users to help
conserve fuel next winter by wea
therstripping, insulating and get
ting heating equipment in good
shape now during the summer.
ROUND-UP
After the recent lowering of the
age limits for Merchant Marine
trainees, more than 7,000 young
men between 16 and 17 vi years old,
applied at U. S. Maritime Service
enrollment offices, and about 600
have already been ordered to re
port to training stations. All War
Food Administration restrictions of
farm slaughter of livestock and
delivery of meat have been remov
ed.
WPB reports: A proposal for
limited resumption of the manufac
ture of shotguns, rifles, pistols and
revolvers have been submitted to
WPB. There is no prospect of
authorizing the production of any
new radio receiving sets for ci
vilians this year. A tentative pro
duction goal of 9,464,000 tons of
normal superphosphate for the
agricultural year, *>1944-45, has been
approved by the Chemicals Bureau.
OPA says: Watermelon prices to
be established soon will mean a
sharp reduction at retail from last
season's inflated prices. Lard has
been removed from all rationing
restrictions, since the present sup
ply is considered adequate for all
civilian needs. The old-type B and
C gasoline ration coupons ? B-2 and
C-2 without serial numbers ? may
not be used by consumers on and
after June 1.
The United States Employment
Service placed more than 74,000
veterans of the current war in ci
vilian jobs during February and |
March. Use of mineral oil in salad |
dressings and in foods has harm- '
ful effects such causing loss of I
vitamins, which, the Department of
Agriculture says, far outweigh its
advantages and may lead to de
ficiency ills, Onions, now back in
phmtrfut supply; according to WFA
are, if eaten raw, a source of vita
min C and thiamine. U. S. ship
yard employment increased from
63,000 in JanuaryT 1S38, to 1,722,
000 in December, 1943, and the
1943 merchant ship tonnage deliv
ered was 16 times the amount de
livered in 1941, according to the*
Secretary of Labor. WPB reports
that housewives will have to get
along with short supplies of oil
cloth for some time to come be
cause of the war need for critical
materials used in its manufacture.
* ?
Fontana Workers
Send $370 To
Red Cross Chapter
The Rev. Malcolm R. Williamson,
chairman of the local Chapter of
the American Red Cross, received
a few days ago a letter from F.
C. Schlemmer of Fontana Dam en
closing a check drawn to the Hay
wood Chapter American Red Cross
in the amount of $370.00.
Mr. Schlemmer served as chair
man of the War Fund Campaign
at Fontana Dam this year and with
a quota of $10,000 actually raised
from the men, women t.nd children
now living there $20,964.74.
Many of the workers there de
sired that their contributions be
sent to their home chapters and the
check referred to above represents
the contributions made by Hay
wood County people who are now
working at Fontana.
"We would like in this public
way to express our thanks for the
support of our Haywood county
citizens in this War Fund Cam
paign," commented Mr. William
son. "I am sure that the public
would like to know that with a
quota of $6,400 for our chapter, we
have received to date $7,816.18," he
continued. While the greater por
tion of this money is being sent to
National headquarters, enough is
being retained by the chapter her?
to carry on its many activities in
cluding the many services render
ed the soldiers, sailors and marines
who have gone from our country as
well as rendering aid to numbers
of their families. "We would like
"also tor the public to know that in
the event of a local disaster the
local Red Cross Chapter together
with the assistance of our Regional
headquarters, will' come to the res
cue cost what it may," said Mr.
Williamson.
Eyes Examined,
Glasses Fitted
DR. ALDEN C. DOWNS
will examine eyes and fit
glasses in Sylva at the Jack
son Furniture Store Friday,
June 2, from 9 o'clock to 5
o'clock.
If you have eye trouble or
don't see well you should con
sult Dr. Downs on above date.
TELEPHONE TELEPHONE
Residence Office
485-R 93
DR. JOE F. BAXTER
Veterinarian
Large and Small Animal Practice
Waynesville, N. C.
*ritz theatre
SYLVA, N. C.
NIGHT SHOWS 7:00 and 9:00 P. M.? MATINEE Saturday
?LATE SHOW Saturday 10:30? ADMISSIONS, Children
Under 12 Years, 12c; Adults, All Seats, 35c ? TAX, Oa
Children's Pass 2c; Adults Pass 6e.
Wednesday ? May 31
"The Great Gildersleeve"
Thursday-Friday ? June 1-2
"Tarzan's Desert Mystery" , ?
Starring J. Weissmuller and N. Kelly.
Saturday? June 3
"Overland Mail Robbery"
With Bill Eliott and A. Jeffreys.
LATE SHOW ? 10:30 P. M.
"Moon Over Las Vegas"
With Anne Gwynne and David Stone.
Monday-Tuesday ? June 5-6
"Lassie Come Home"
In Color ? Starring R. McDowall and E. Gwynne.
Wednesday ? June 7
"The Lodger"
With Laird Cregar and M. Oberon.
BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Letters
Build Morale
Write often to your men and
women in the Armed Services
. . . keep them posted, keep them
cheered.
Have the pleasure of in
specting our varied lines of sta
tionery, in several colors. Just
the kind you'll like for your own
correspondence and to use as
gifts.
THE HERALD