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( MONDAY, dCt. 5* li Pabiot INPOUnCS , Mo&daya and Thuradays at iortli Wilkaabcwo, North Carolina D. J. CARTE» and JULTOS C. HUBBARD PnUiahera SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ^1.50 Six Months .75 Pour Months - .60 Out of the State |2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkes- boro, North Carolina, as second class matter under Act of March 4,1879. MONDAY, OCT. 5, 1942 Fir© Prevention Week • Fire Prevention Week begin* today. This year fire prevention has added sig nificance. ' In former years it has been the policy to be careless about fire, thinking that which has been destroyed can be replaced by insurance money. You can’t do that now. If fire bums your home or place of bus iness, along with the contents thereof, you will find that many things you had cannot be replaced. With the coming of cool weather and the need of fires in stoves and furnaces, the danger of fire is grea'tly increased. During fire prevention week make an in spection of your home and remove any fire hazards. The North Wilkesboro fire department will make its annual inspection of business property here, but the inspection should be carried by owners and occupants into every home. A bsttrathes By DWIGBT NICBeLS, et «L Dehydration Coming Thing This war will change many things for people, will make changes w'hich will af fect our lives, our living habits and busit ness methods for generations to follow. Foods are being dehydrated for ship ment to all parts of the world to feed our fighting men and those of allied nations. One transport plane can carry as much food in dnied form as a freighter ship can carrj" in natural form. A plane can make the trip in a fraction of the time required for a ship and with less risk. Speed is essential in this war. To give the matter a more concrete ex ample, let us say that a plane can carry powdered milk processed in Coble’s plant in Wilkesboro with food value equal to what a ship could carry if the milk were only condensed. But dehydrated foods will be used for the domestic markett as w^ell as for foods for the armed forces. With the shortage of tin becoming more acute, food manufacturers are going to of fer people at home foods in dehydrated form. Within a year shelves of grocery stores are going to have paper packages of dried foods, and there will be a great variety. Dehydration is the coming thing in the food business. That is w^hy the proposal to establish a dehydrating plant here has added signifi cance. The business is going to continue after the war. Foods in more concentrated form will be offered the American public for years and years. War Subjects In keeping with our policy of putting first things first, we are devoting much space to subjects pertaining to the war, and more especially to the various activi ties which give people at home an oppor tunity to help in the war program. In other words war subjects get highest priority, and will continue to be placed first until victory is won. * Other subjects may make more inter esting reading, but cannot be cbmpared in importance. Borrowed Comment Who Will Be Drafted When? (Watauga Democrat) It is pretty hard, based on the almost daily conflicting reports from Washington, Lo determine just when each classification of men will be subject to selective service. But all the stories you read on this sub ject are what might be termed “guesses based on fact.” The facts included figures on the speed with which the army is able to handle new men at present, the plans for .speeding up induction in the future, and the size of the army we will finally need to win the w'ar. The best guesser, however, should be General Hershey, in charge of selective service—and he admits predictions he makes are merely good guessing. His guess is this: The 18 and 19 year group will be taken as‘soon as it i.s legally possible. The mar ried men with children will not be taken until the la.st quarter of 1943. The draft of married men without children will be gin by Christmas. Mass Production Cuts War Cost The ingenuity that once enabled the au tomobile industry to make millions of pa.s- senger cars at prices that millions .could afford to pay will save American tax pay ers huge sums in the manufacture ef arms. According to an official of the War Pro duction Board, improved methods, intro duced by industry, are cutting 20 per cent from the original e.stimated price of most items and economies in some cases run as high as 40 per cent. For the first time in history giant bomb ers started rolling off the a.s.sembly line last spring. The assembly line technique had long been used'to speed the produc tion of small trainer and fighther planes, but never before had it been applied to giant bombers. Military requirements for bid the slightest hint as to the volume of production, but it has been stated that pro duction figures would provide the most re assuring kind of reading for the American public. Then there is the encouraging report that one gun which originally cost $150 is now being made for less than $50 by mass production methods. One plant, now entirely converted to war manufacturing, accepted a contract far beyond its estimated capacity and half a year later was producing twice as many guns as the contract--stipulated. Now, a little more than a year from the start of the work, the output of this single plant is seven times as great per month as the orig inal optimistic figure. This, as figures ■ show, is one of many tributes to mass pro duction which American industry has mas tered so well. LIFE’S BETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR, Hiddenite, N. C. DOWN THE OLD ROAD HOME A picture in my mind today Reveals a road so dear. Where as a child I used to play Without a sigh or fear, .And make.s me long to take a walk Down to the old home place, And with departed loved ones talk, .And with my playmates race. I’ve traveled down the old road home So many, many times. And often think I’d like to roam Back to those sunny climes. And see the dogwood and the pine. The flowers gay and bright. And walk beside the friends of mine That time has hid from sight. Along this dear old country road The farmers came and went. And underneath a heavy load Their backs were often bent; But still they whistled some gay tune,, Or sang an old-time song, While resting ’neath the shade at noon. Or as they walked along. ing the last war we built a total of ht tanks, weighing 7 1-2 tons each. ; tanks” today weigh almost twice ch, heavy ones around 56 tons, and low cost $1 a pound to build. England is the only region in, the ing more fuel oil than gasoline. And lovers, too, went side by side Along this pleasant road, Where they no longer had to hide The love they then bestowed; And here perhaps, it was they chose Each for a mate in life, Which brought their courtship to a close And they were man and wife. But many changes have been made As years have come and gone; The places where we children played In road or field or lawn Don’t look today as they did then. The old road isn’t there; The bovs are gone, likewise the men, Whose joys I used to share. BASEBAIiL INDIVroUAli** OAMB Since the Tvorld series has been going, on the attention of the sports world has been ’turned to the diamond Intensively for one last splurge before forgetting the game until next spring. Maybe popularity of baseball has waied some, but It 1^ still the world’s greatest game. The reason it stands at the pinnacle Is because it Is an Indi vidual’s game. To stay In the game a player must be good of his dwn right. He can’t hang to the coat- tail of someone who can play and stay in. He must do his own Job. Whan a hatter gets up at the pldte it is up to him to produce a hit or fail. He can’t let some one else get on base for him. His job is cut out for him to do. When the pitcher sends that ball “down the alley’’ over the plate the batter cannot get on base because he “voted right” in the last election, or because he Is akin to somebody who runs things. He cannot got on base because he has influential friends, or because he has money. His father’s political influence cannot get him the job of running the bases and making a run. His wife’s social standing has no bearing on whether he will tour the bases or retire to the bench. The same is true for every sin gle phase of the game. The pitcher can’t strike the man out ■because he has a friend who has a pull with the district congress man. The stortstop cannot field the grounder and have the batter called out except by doing the job quickly and correctly. Every tub in the game must stand on Us own bottom. And coupled with the indivi dual efforts must be a minimum of team work of all timed for ef ficiency. You cannot say as much for any other game played in this age. NEWSPAPER YARN Considerable comment has been received relative to the new, bold headlines on the front page of this newspaper. Which reminds us of the yarn about the old editor in a little, jerkwater town who left on a rare vacation and put his nephew in charge until he returned. During his absence there was a disastrous fire which dang near destroyed the town. When the old editor come back he found the paper has been issued and big, boxcar letters were used on he fire story headline. The editor took one look and explained: ‘My gosh, son, I was saving that type for the second coming . m'm VOS' You even fet paid for It! ‘ Don’t your *on, your broth- re or yonr neighbor's eon die hS- cauee YOU failed to take in'^'yoW scrap metal. How can I be responsible for his death?, you ask. If enormous quantities of scrap are not collected before winter, steel mills which, make the guns, ships and tanks for the men to use in fighting will have to slow down production. Your son might fail to get the weapon he needs to save hla own life and win the victory. SOCKETS SCARCE The local colored girl Sent a birthday present to her boy friend way off in the army. She sent an elec’ric razor. He wrote back that he appre ciated the present, but he wanted her to know that when he meet? a Jap he doesn’t want to waste time going around hunting for an electric socket. PITS OUR CASE J unior—Mother, I know why a wr.ter calls himself ‘we.’ Mother—Why, dear? Junior—so if the reader does not like the article he will think there are too many for him to whip. THE SODC'nON A distresried mother ... or wos it a father'. . . phoned us and wanted to know: “How can I of Christ.” We got some headline type which we haven’t used yet. We are saving that for the end of the war. However, way it looks now we j won’t he here to use it, accord ing to w'hat General Hershey I says. j BRING IN YOIHR .SCRAP j We like the American way of i ON TOP OF THE WORLD THE STETSON “Straloliner” Come in and try on one of these Hats, give us your . . . Name .Address Hat Size At the end of the month some lucky person will receive one Free. PAYNE Clothing Co. North Wilkesboro, N. C. the'Jaorth; Shjad sfeverai stitfth of her with' ro and take he|, pufore. ^an. have the film devkoi^ . . . show her the picture. ■> -. The colored soldier had been peeling potatoes until bis hands ached. Soldier (turning to a fellow k p.)—^What dges dat sergeant mean when he calls us k p.? Other Soldier—An huono, but from de look Iq htej 6ice, A think he means ‘Keep Peellag.' braaM. abotOeot Kidl ■1WI CREOMULSION for CoimIis, Cheist CoMe MJUl SOLDDSS’ XHRS GffTS BEFOBE NOVEHBEB L BEAD THE BOLES~The fallowing rulea iMued by «he Postoiiice Deportment in cooperation with the Army Poitol Service ol the Wax Department apply to the mailiag oi Chrietmae porceb lor members oj our Armed Forcee ienring outside the continental UmiU ol the Unitod Stotof. time of mailing—Christmas parcels and giesting cards should be mailed during the period beginning October 1 and ending November 1, 1941 the earUer the batter. Each package should be endoreed "Chnetmae Parcel. Special eUort will be made lor delivory in time lor Christmas. SIZE AND WEIGHT—Christmas parcels shall net exceed 11 pounds in weight or 18 inches in length or 42 inches in length and girth combined. However, the public has been urged to cooperate by voluntarily restricting parcels lo the size oi an ordinary shoe box and th# weight to six pounds. USE CABE IN PBEPABATION—Bemembsring lbs great distance II.;. mail will be transported and the ncceseaiy storage and irequeni handling, it is abeolutely necessary that orticies be packed in eubetanlial boxee or contoinere and be covered with wrappers oi sullicient etrength to reeist preesuie ol other mail Each parcel is subjsct to censorship and delay may be minimized by securing covering to permil ready^inspec- tion oi contents. [© PBOHIBITED MATTER-Intoxicants, inDommable materia^ or composittons likely to damage moils ore unmoil- oble. No perishable matter should be inriuded in parcel^ HOW TO ADDBESS PAHCELS—Addressee must be legible. Parcels addressed to overseas Army personnel should show in addition to the lull name and address oi the ssnder, the nome rank. Army seriol number, branch oi eervice. organiia- tion, AJ*.0. number oi the addressee arid the poetoifice through which parcels are to be routed. Units locoted ^thin the eontinsntal United States may bo addressed direct using nams, rank, organization and location. POSTAGE MUST BE FULLY PREPAID—The rate on parcels ol iouith-clasz matter (exceeding eight otmeet) being the zone rate applicable irom the postoiiice where moiled to the post- oifice in the core of which parcels ors addresssd. GREETING MESSAGES PERMISSIBLE—Inscriptions such as "Merry Chrisimot". "Don't open until Cnbiietmoa" and the like moy be (doced on the covering oi the parcel ii it does not interiere with the address. Cards may be enclosed ond books may bear a simple dedicatory inscription. INSURANCE AND REGISTRY—Gifts of valus should bs insured. Articles oi smodl size and considerable value should be ' sealed and sent as fint-class registered mail MONEY ORDERS—The Anpy Postal Ssrvics recommends use oi postol money orders lo aansmit gifts oi money to members oi Armed Forcee outside the United States. Thesa are cashed at AJ*.0. in local ioreign currency at rate oi exchimge on dole oi presentation. SELECT YOUR GIFTS AT STEELE’S “YOUR CREDIT JEWELERS” i • All Kinds Clock, Watch and Jewelry Repairing • ft' u QppfpuoAMA. to. 4sM mo mid 9 coH fU Hous OHOi *» afjUo tbojlumHOodoMtcJmcafiool,'' VaarBltcncsiSenrsat L.\ L FFICIENCY and safety ore watch words of a Nation at war. They are as urgent in Home Economy os in Busi ness Economy—■ •' I ®l94i. RtOW K(l.0vyATT That’s why Reddy urges you to check up on extension cords, loose connections, and appliances in need of ^ Frayed cords may Increose your electric service bill Without benefit to you. • Unused appliances represent lo9t conveniences. Clieck yp re|ul«rly en tiie efficiency and safety of yourliouieholds DUKE POWER CMIPANY f
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