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NOVEMBER 25, 1943 lt.shoe?aker is honored at banner elk Banner Elk?In a special assembly program last week. Lees-McRac College paid tribute to and listened tc a talk from one of its alumni just returned from the battle front. Hi is First Lieutenant William Ernest Shoemaker, son of J. M. Shoemaker, of Balm, who is just back from the North African theatre of war. Lieut Shoemaker graduated from Lees-MrRae in 1940. He went tc Langley Field, Va., where he studied airplane mechanics, and was sent from Langley Field to the CaseyJones School of Aeronautics in Newark, N. J., where he remained until May. 1941. He came back to Langley Field where he became crew chief of a B-26 plane. In April, 1942. he received his appointment as an aviation cadet and was sent to Santa Ana. Calif., for pre-flight training. He went to Visalia. Calif l"or his primary training; to Merced. Calif., for his basic training, and his advanced training was completed at I_uke Field. Arizona, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the army air corps on December 3. 1942. His commission as first lieutenant came on Sept. 6. 1943. Lieut. Shoemaker received the Distinguished Flying Cross in September. 1943. for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flying in the North African theatre of operations. His citation states that his "squadron escorted a flight over Villacidro airdrome. When 20 enemy fighters attacked, he- shot down a Mcsserschmitt and was conspicuous throughout the action in which three enemy fighters were destroyed and four others severely damaged. Under this protection all bombers returned safely to their base. His leadership, courage and constant devotion to duty has reflected great credit on himself and on the armed forces of the United States." He has also received nine oak leaf clusters for SO successful missions over enemy targets, and two oak leaf clusters for confirmed vie Watch Repairing Time is important now. If your watch hasn't been keeping correct time?we'll fix it! WALKER'S Jewelry Store Boone, N. C. | Next Year Wi NEXT year will be different. T and the needs of the count! Because next year we're going to hope better! We, whose job is producing got resolutions like this for years. An our kind of business, you either k things, or?you go backward! A thing we call progress bogs dow That's why farmers keep on tr machines, and strains of stock, on research?another name for a and better ways to do things. B< this for years, America has had tl world. And it's the reason, too, 1 so much today to bring victory. After the war. America is goir?| the courage and enterprise to inv the search for better things. And each other, and each other's prol important jobs better. Central ? Heir the General Electric rsdio propat p.m. EVT. NBC?"The World Todsy" IUY WA * GENERAL (J HH' I ladybird Test Pilot Elisabeth Hooker dons her headgear ?t the Gromm*jj aircraft plant xu New York as she prepares to test a new Hellcat for the vary. lories over enemy aircraft. Lieut. Shoemaker has left for Miami Beach, Fla., from which point he will be assigned to duty within the United States, probably as a test pilot or as an instructor in the air forces. He went to Africa by Convoy and returned to the United States on a hospital ship. He stated that he had i an opportunity to remain there and i attend fighter school with an ad- i vancement in rating, but he chose to come back to the United States. < The two confirmed victories which ; were credited to Lieut. Shoemaker i were the shooting down of a Mes- i serchmitt during the bombing of the i Villacidro airdrome, and a Focke- j Wulfe 190, which he shot down dur- ( ing the bombing of Naples. 1 Asked of what a "confirmed vie- < tory" consisted. Lieut. Shoemaker i explained that two persons must see : a wing fall of a plane, the plane < blow up in midair, or plunge to the \ ground. i His plane was twice shot up, he reported. One time was following i the completion of a dive-bombing i mission in Sardinia, when one en- j gine was shot out. He came back to the home base and started to put i down his landing gear, when he dis- < covered that the hydraulic system : was out. He circled again and came j back in for a landing, which he ] finally accomplished with his emer- ] gency landing gear. He had to i choose between a landing or a crash, i | he said, because his gas had given i OUl. I Lieut. Shoemaker's squadron was j the first bunch of replacements to land in North Africa Most of his ] work at the front, he said, consisted of low-altitude work ? skip i bombing, strafing, dive-bombing. He took part in the Tunesian cam- i paign, in the bombing of Sardinia, : Pantelleria, Sicily. Rome, Naples and "the bloody beach at Salerno." A strange coincidence took place the night before the bombing of Naples, . he said. His lent, mate happened to be reading a book entitled "See i ! Naples and Die." After the raid on j Naples, this young man was reported missing in action. In the action at Salerno. Lieut. 1 Shoemaker said, the ground forces , of the air corps had the most diffii; :. < 11 Be Different 4ot only the weather, and markets, v. Our jobs will be different, too. do those jobs differently - and we >ds and services, have been making d we've been keeping them! For in eep on finding better ways of doing md if enough people do that, the n. ying new seed, and fertilizers, and That's the reason industry carries constant search for new knowledge rcause most of us have been doing he highest standard of living in the 'hat American production is doing I to need more than ever men with est time, money, and hard work in if America's producers understand olems, we'll be able to do these allf#?ctrie Co., Schenectady, Ar. Y. ns;"TheG-E Orchestra" Sunday 10 news, every weekday 6:45 p.m. F.WT. CBS. kR BONDS jl ELECTRIC WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE1 CONGRESSlmTES PRICE ROLL BACK Attack Use of Funds to Cut Consumers' Retail Food Costs On November 1. President Roosevelt sent congress the .longest message of his career. All 12,00 words or the communication contained his arguments for continuation of the administration's food subsidy program, under which the government pays producers and processors to cut the charges to retail consumers. Although the President said abandonment of the subsidy program "would increase the cost of living, bring about demands for increased wages . . . and might well start a serious and dangerous cycle of inflation." Rep. Jesse Wolcott, of Michigan, sounded the opposition's sentiments by replying: "The question is whether we should use taxes to pay part of the grocery bill of people who are financially able to pay their own bills now ... or let them pay them themselves." Spearheading the attack against subsidies have been the powerful farm blocs in both, house and senate. Sure of their ground, they have strongly resisted any compromises. As the senate's agricultural committee chairman, Ellison D. "Cotton Etl" Smith, said: "You can't compromise with evil . . . ycu are either for subsidies or you are sgainst them." As hearings on the subsidy bills jpened in congressional committees, ibout 2,000 representatives of producers and marketing associations nassed in Washington. D. C.. t.o testify against the subsidy program. Previously, representatives of 85 per :ent of the processed food industry tug met in New York and condemned the same program. On the Killer hand, organized labor stands strongly behind the administration m the issue, demanding the reduction of retail food costs to the level if the fall of 1942. In his address, the President made fio request for a specific sum of noney for financing the subsidy program. only alluding to costs so far. During 1943, the President said, iperations of the Commodity Ctedit Corporation in financing production subsidies and other subsidy programs had cost 350 million dollars. Expenditures at a rate of 450 million dollars a year also are being made to reduce meat and butter prices at wholesale and retail levels. "The expenditure of 8000 million dollars a year is a moderate sum to pay in order to accomplish the objectives we have in mind . . . "Mr. Roosevelt said. "Every nation now in the war has used some sort of government equalization payments in order to hold down the cost of living and at the same time to allow a fair return to the farmers," Mr. Roosevelt continued. "A good part of the great success pf the stabilization program in both Canada and Britain is due to the effective use of government funds in this way." Launching into the principal body of his argument, Mr. Roosevelt said: "When properly used they (subsidies) have three important advantages" first, they stimulate production of certain necessary and select crops. Second, by preventing price increases, they eliminate inflationary tendencies. Third, they encourage the distribution of food through normal legitimate channels instead of black market operators, who are willing to pay higher prices to farmers ... 1 "... The expenditure of very small sums makes it possible to avoid pyramiding price increases all down the line?from the producer j through the processor, wholesalers, L-ult time. His squadron was the tirst to land in Italy, due to the fact that the planes were running out of gas. He said the ground forces, in the face of enemy aircraft action, I had to fill ud the planes of the Uni- j ted States fliers, most of which held around 400 gallons each, from cans holding five gallons each. It took over five hours to service the planes he said. "I consider myself lucky; to be a pilot," he said. "I think it's j the safest branch of the service." Lieut. Shoemaker said that on the trip to Africa, the convoy was attacked by submarines a number of times, but the trip back home was without mishap. He said that he was in hearty accord with the army's policy of sending the soldiers tc many points within the United States. There is nothing better for a man's morale, he said, when he is thousands of miles from home and sometimes starts wondering what he is fighting for, than to think back about home, and this wonderful land of ours. And he said that seeing as much of America as possible strengthens this feeling immeasurably. ; Lieut. Shoemaker met one of his Lees-McRae classmates, Lieut. Clyde Saunders, of Ruffin, at Casablanca. Lieut. Saunders has since been reported killed in action. Two other boys, formerly from Banner Elk, he also saw and visited with?Paul Jones, with the communications branch of the army, and Clifford Brown, bombardier. ftY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. j jobbers and retailers?the cost ot i which runs to extremely large j amounts." Speaking before tne meeting of processed-focd representatives. OPA Chief Chester Bowles declared that runaway prices can only be avoided by properly controlled subsidies, and even a 10 per cent rise in living costs would set the consumers back 18 billion dollars. 'if congress decider;. Co abandon the use of subsidies." Bowles said, "the prices of some commodities are bound to go up. With increases in he cost of living . . a broad increase in wages would be inevitable. This, in turn, would increase costs still further, and eventually retail prices. "A 10 per cent rise in living costs would mean 8 billion dollars added to ihe household bills of the American people . . . which we would all have to pay in higher rentals and in the store. And if our war bill next year runs 100 billion dollars. 10 per cent added to government expenditures through a 10 per cent rise in cost, means 10 billion dollars more wiiich would be added to our national debt." As Representative Wolcott declared on the other side of the fence, I opposition to the administration's food vlihiMv riT-.itit?a.?.. ?* 1 -- ? ?nvib trii- i ter around government payments to stimulate production, but rather around efforts to cut the consumers' rotai) prices. To back their stand, opponents point out that where the average weekly earning of industrial workers in 1936 was S22.46, it now is S43.45. Most workers are well able to pay their food bills, subsidy j opponents say. instead of having them paid by the government with money which will have to be repaid 1 through taxes later orv. perhaps by returning soldiers. Generally expressing the position of the subsidy foes, the Grocery Manufacturers of America said: "... In the first place, (consumers' subsidies! ake justified on the falaci- i eus theory that our people will thus be saved from the expense otherwise imposed by a higher price; whereas] | FOUGHT I JI Beautiful South Pacific Isli J jungles, European cities, hot "I and towns and plains of A % \ua?hAfl in tJ-io KlrtftH r\-f r>r\r\r* ! fending armies alike. Ha1 cans had to search through ing ruins of what was once American towns have neve Buy War Bonds and B The Nc Member Fe VWWJVYVVWWVVWVWVWVV' I the fact is that they must then pay the expense by taxation and that ! it will be materially increased from an administrative standpoint. "Any important plan of subsidy payments by the government invites a serious raid on the treasury . . . difficult to limit: and it inevita! bly introduces a bureaucratic con-| trol of private industry, which is re- j pugnant t<' free institutions . . " i To The Tobacco When you bring your t you are cordially invited to will find the most complete ing to be found in this seci lized. dry cleaned and press Men's and Boys' Wool S . . Men's Army Field Ja Mackinaws and Lumberjack coats . . . OD Wool Shirts ? Stetson Hats . . Men's Arm Oxfords . . . Women's Wool i and Children's Sweaters . Women's, Misses' and Chil( Misses' and Children's Shot UNUSUALLY ECONOM JUNE RUSsiS Earl Cook Bldg. BOONE. NORT ?& ^ iard and are tl mas, steaming to such barba sandy deserts, grateful, yes . sia have been gratitude cone uering and de- give thanks fo ,e we Ameri- We must back ? , , We must buy i the smolder- _ _ & er and further our home? way That is r been subject gratitude. 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