OPA Price and Rationing News Surplus Invaolories Cul Another step to put America's food rationing program on a current basis was taken this week by OPA, with the recall of surplus inventor ies of restaurants, hotels and other institutional users of rationed foods, it has been announced by Director Richard Olsen, of the local War Price and Rationing board. Similar in its effect to the cancel lation of consumer's unused stamps last December, the new move seeks as nearly as possible to put on the same basis the people who eat at home and those who eat out During the past year, Mr. Olsen said, some institutional users did the same as some families and individu als. Finding they dd not need to spend all their points, because many more foods were ration-free last fall and winter, they accumulated ex cess reserves, either in actual foods or in points on deposit at theii banks. The latest action provides that in stitutional users with surplus re serves must use a part of them be fore they are eligible to receive full issuance of points for each new al lotment period, Mr. Olsen explain ed. Local War Price and Rationing bo.ird, studying the user's inventory reports, will figure the amount of adjustments needed and will make them by deducting from current or future allotments the number of points or pounds to be recalled. Pianos Ticketed By Makar As new pianos again return to the stores, they will carry ceiling prices on tickets affixed by the manufac turers themselves, Mr. Olsen said yesterday. Prices will be at the March. 1942, levels. No Casing on Gasoline Those who hoped for easing of gasoline restrictions in time for va cation are doomed to definite disap pointment, Director Olsen said this week. With military demands stepping D* It Mmm CAuuhHmI j PEXMANOfT WAVE DT W ConpUU-itkowWi, AtmnooudwiTtMt 9*MMt n ? Ml to do ud atk lor mry tm ot mMrnM JMr, fot waMiaraaulU?b. aura to Mk ?v (%ara-EaLOnr ? milka aotd. KREST STORES Hillside Dairy Grade A Raw Milk Parmit Ho. I. Telephone 44 ?AHHARD DOUGHERTY, Owm> R. W HORRIS, Manager. Tour patronage will be appreciated. In India CpL James C. Andrews. ton of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Andrews, and husband of Louis* Foster An drews. of Blowing Rock, is now with the army air forces in India. He nltrtd service February. 1943. Ha was trained at St. Petersburg, Fla., Camp Crow der. Mo. Fresno, Calif., and went o?ernes in July, 1944. up as allied forces hammer home repeated blows at the enemy, there can be no lessening of gasoline regu lations, he emphasized. Supplemen tal gas rations are being issued with the utmost care, he added, and ev ery applicant for additional gasoline must present his mileage rationing record at the time his application is made. Gasoline coupons now valid, he explained, are A-14, B5, B7, C5, C6, C7, E2, E3. Rl, R2 and R3. OPA Okays Cereal Increase Housewives can look for a slight rise in the cost of the family's morn ing cereal, as a result of recent OPA action authorizing a new method of figuring costs for processors and re packers. The action was necessi tated by rising production excesses, OPA said. Tire Patches Come Down New dollar-and-cent ceiling prices have been established on tire boots, patches and reliners made from scrap materials, and should re sult in savings at retail of 10 to 33 1-3 percent, OPa office here an nounced this week. The regulations, effective March 27, set retail ceilings of $2.50 each on all uncemented tire reliners for passenger cars, and $2.75 for ce mented reliners. Maximum charges for inserting reliners are 50c with out cementing, $1 for cementing a cemented reliner, and $1.25 for ce menting an uncemented tire reliner. Reliners for truck tires will range from $3 to $12.90, depending on size and ply, with charges for inserting ranging from 50c to $2.60. New re tail ceilings for boots and patches ranges from 7 cents to $3.75, depend ing on size and ply, with service charges for cementing them set at A CALL TO AMERICA'S HEART Keep Your Red Cross At His Side! The need is greater, give more than before! Special For the next few weeks we are offering a special built 60-pound mattress, with heavy striped ticking, built by the state institution for the blind . . . for only $10.00 We also have . . . Base Rockers as low as $19.50 Bed Room Suites...: $79.50 Marble Top Tables $27.50 Walnut Gold Leaf Frames.$3.00 Coffee Tables, exceptional values; both wood and glass tops at a very low price. See them today. HOME LOVERS . . . We have practically everything you need for refurnishing your home for spring, with new or used furni ture. ? We Believe We Can Save You Money if You See Us Before You Buy! BURGESS ANTIQUE SHOP *. c. 15c for smaller sizes and 35c foi larger sizes. Th? Facts About Sugar Our working inventory is abnor mally low right now . .. sugar stocks have fallen from 2,613,000 tons on Jan 1. 1940, and 1,761,000 tons on Jan. 1, 1944, to 1,250,000 tons on Jan. 1, 1945. Here is why: 1. Civilians used 700,000 tons more sugar than we could afford in 1944. Industrial use took part of the overdraft; the black market ac counted for some. Home canning took a lot, too. Because of the large fruit crop, the demand for canning sugar was very low. In addition, some people applied far more sugar than tney actually ne?-ded for can ning. 2. 1944 beet sugar production was | 500,000 tons below normal. 3. Due to the shortage of grain, it was necessary to use 900,000 tons of sugar for production of industrial alcohol for synthetic rubber and munitions. We must get along with less sugar in 1945. In 1944 we used 6, 100,000 tons or 88 pounds per per son. In 1945 we must live within the quota of 5,400,000 tons?78 pounds per capita. This includes ci vilian industrial users. Government requirements will be larger in 1945. During 1944 the armed forces and lend-lease took 1, 300,000 tons. In 1945 their require ments will total 1,600,000 tons. Why can't sugar production be in creased in 1945? Three quarters of our 1945 sugar supply must come chiefly from Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba, and their production has already been sharply increased. Cuba's production of 2,000,000 tons above prewar, and further increases in planting could not affect the suggar supply until 1946 or 1947. SIX-INCH SERMON REV. ROBERT H. HARPER. THE LAW OF LIFE Lesson for March 18: Matthew 22:34-40; 23:11-12; 25:31 -46; Memory Verses,' Matthew 22: 37-39 The last lesson showed how ut terly the rich young man had failed to keep the law of love?today we consider that law as the law of life. After the silencing of-the Saducees, the Pharisees tried to entangle Jesus and when a lawyer among them asked Jesus what is the great com mandment in the law, He answered: 'Thou shalt love." Later Jesus spoke of true great ness?found in great service. Self ishness leads to ruin, forgetfulness of self to exaltation. Truly, some men "forget themselves into immor tality." Note the difference between the Supreme court of the Universe in its last session and an earthly court ?in the former the infallible judge presides, no attorneys plead, no witnesses testify, no iury brings in a verdict. But the great difference is in the charge made. The earthly court condemns a man for the wrong he has done, the Supreme court for the good he has left un done. And here is a vast difference. It is not enough just to abstain from wrong?men must do the good. This is doubtless realized by everybody in a general way?think seriously of all its implications and of the utter ruin that comes at last to those who fail to'do good. Also remember the blessed privi lege offered those who do good. It is reward enough in' itself for' every good deed that in ministering to the lowliest, a man is serving Jesus Himself. Canning girls in the 4-H Clubs will attempt to beat last year's rec ord for the nation of 17 million quarts. Butter for hospitals is being made available irom the supplies which manufacturers are required to set aside each month for war programs. 1/ Equalization Board Meeting The Board of County Commissioners will meet as a Board of Equalization at the courthouse in Boone on Monday, March 19, 1945. W. M. WINKLER, Chairman. "SSteSr D.& P. PIPE WORKS ^TrSS,SZ. Boom. K. C. . 1 I* U n UtlllU Sooth. Sptri*. If. C. a o o UJ as m D o 73 O D o 73 O in m 73 Pi a n 73 O m D. & P. PIPE WORKS, Boone, N. C. Tel. 194 WHAT WILL NORTH CAROLINA DO ABOUT THIS PULPWOOD SHORTAGE? Latest reports show North Carolina has fallen behind in its response to the government's appeal for more pulpwood. The situation is so acute that some North Carolina pulp mills might shut down. There are implications in this that should give serious concern to every North Carolina farmer and business man. Is North Carolina going to lose its standing in this important industry? Manpower is a Problem demands will absorb every available cord * as fast ax military requirements release it. The only problem is to get men to cut it. But this problem has been solved in other TUa Affc I rirun r f ImJacfrv sections by getting farmers to cut pulp- IIIC ** LOf^CJl IflOUSlI Jr wood in slack seasons and by recruiting Here is an industry that- ran mean a great men released by other war industries. It source of revenue for North Carolina can be solved here. A large area of North farmers; new factories for the towns; Carolina is in forest-much at it suitable thousands at jobs for returning for pulpwood. men; increased ptuspeiUy for alL m mi. ?.? m . Here is an industry that is already Sfatffc An Industry with a Future Pulpwood is playing a vital part in the war. great expansion. Does North Carolina But many of the new war-time develop- intend to hold its place in rtw? great ments in pulpwood products have equally industry ? brilliant peace-time potentialities. There Will North Carolina do its share now to is every indication that expanding civilian meet this war emergency ? NEEDED IN NORTH CAROLIN A 450,000 CORDS BY JUNE 30 Sponsored by Nawspopar Pulpwood Committee ?