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Americans fighting the axis on for
eign fronts means that thousands of
nurses who have been caring for the ci
vilian sick and disabled have answered
the country’s call to care for our fight
ing men. This means a shortage of nurses
C l the home front. The Red Cross has
ught to find a solution by the
training of women volunteers as nurse
: aides, who can very well relieve grad
uate nurses of much of the detail work
on the home front. The above picture
shows the nurse aide class which grad
uated at North Wilkesboro last fs.ll at
the end of an 80-hour course, halt of
which was doing actual work at the
Wilkes hospital. Left to right are: front
row—Mrs. Watt Cooper, Miss Toby Tur
ner (superintendent of Wilkes hospital
and who rendered valuable assistance to
the class), Mrs. Louise Vjme Tait, Mrs.
P. E. Forester (instructor of the class),
Miss Janie McDiarmid, Mrs. C. H. Wells,'
Mrs. E. G. Finley, Mrs. Robert W. Ed
wards; second row—Mrs. Paul S. Cra-
gan, Mrs. J. C. Reins, Mrs. W. K. Sturdi
vant, Mrs. R. T. McNiel, Mrs. D. R.
Wright, Mrs. J. Palmer Horton (chair
man Red Cross volunteer nurse’s aide
committee), and Miss Della Bumgarner.
'(BT«ctn«al Wor'd, January 9. 1943)
las electric power lost its oomph?
Has it become so much a part of our dai
ly existence that we are conscious of it
only when we lose it?
This startling thought arose as we
read last Sunday’s Times 80-page war
industry section. Pages were devoted to
airplanes and other pages to machine
tools, and so on through. To the one
raw material present in the manufac
ture of everj’ one of these tools of war.
without which it would be impossible to
achieve the glorious production records,
a meager 35 colurhn inches is devoted.
The publishers of the New York
TVies know how important electric
pWwer is to the war effort. Their own
advertisement in that same i.ssue ad
dressed to the electric utilities says:
“Development through the courage and
initiative of the industry’s leaders, it
(electric power) has provided Ameria
with the basic energy without which our
convension to war production would
have been impo.ssihle.*’ Still, in an 80-
page .section devoted to industry’s
achievements, power gets 35 column in
ches. or one-fifth of a page.
There haven’t been enough airplanes,
or machine tools or ships. Copper and
steel and the other metals have been
short. Expansion in production facili
ties took precedence over everything
else in priorities. The achievement
-)|Ance Pearl Harbor by American indus-
l^is one of the most glorious pages in
oar'history as a free people—but it is
the story of heroic efforts made bv un
prepared industry.
Electric power, on the other hand,
was ready—never any waiting. It even
had some of its expansion program cur
tailed. Yet its achievement was almost
among the more glamorous stories of
war indu.stries that had expanded pro
duction several times.
Yes, these other industries have done
a more exciting job. The electric pow
er indu.stry has done nothing more spec
tacular than to have been ready ahead
of time, to have never denied service, to
have caused no inconveniences, to have
held up no war production, to have
served civilians as well as the military,
to have maintained its quality.
If that ksn’t .spectacular in wartime
it’s only becau.se tho.se living within the
power-producing industry have also
come to accept electric power as com
monplace. When they don’t feel the ro
mance, the glamour of the power
achievement, how can we expect the
public to sense it?
In peacetime the glamour of electric
power is in what it produce.s—in this
war the glamour of electric power is of
itself.
There’s virtue now in being ready;
there’s virtue now in having enough.
Oil, gasoline, butter, coffee, all kinds of
food are teaching the public new les
sons. Soon the things unrationed will
be new.s—glamorous news.
But do we have to wait until then to
feel the romance of being a part of the
industry the preparedness of which will
bring victory to our nation and freedom
to the world?
Inventor of Dehydrated Food Fights
To Put His Ideas Across Successfully
Wilkes Laundry
Backs War Effort
AU the bitter pills of hardship d“ct the dehydrated process de-
- . „ _ ,, ... veloped into an Important solu-
Jobn C. Donnelly had to swallow ,
... tlon of the problem of shlpplnp
in a 12-year fight for recognition fighting al-
of his Ideas on food dehydration jjpg abroad. American foods, con-
had their reward In Washington densed nnd concentrated under
a few weeks ago when internation- the Donnelly process, take up 90
dignlUrles sat down to a de-;P«'' space than the same
hydrated meol. celebrating the , food In natural form, comparisor.s
•acond anniversary of the lend- ®“Ow.
lease program, and ate food pre-' Now Mr. Donnelly Is supervls-
„jj||ander a process developed mg the progress, working night
*ni^»tented by Mr. Donnelly. land day. and he hasn’t had e Sun-
]J^wr ago the former Holly-1 day off in six months. It’s not
wood extra, delivery boy, and Jack hard for him to recall, however,
of eir tiwdM had nothing but the that he came East In 1930 with
a patent an It—and fresh the germ of dehydration Idea in
Sieiuories of bitter failures In his mind but not a cent to develop It
Effort to get financial support for the way he desired.
M*-dPOC«88. I years he did manual la-
"t knew I had something, so 1 hor by day and spent the night
lik to It." he said. “1 worked working out his ideas on food
pooths on a farm In Gosh- concentration.
...'T.. to earn 150 to register "On one Job," he said. “I went
patent sad pay attorney’s' fees home end worked all night on this
Ast BeOMnST-** theory, dropped off to sleep on
JInt, instead of • poat-war pro- the Job. and was fired next day.**,
The Wilkes Laundry, owned
and operated by J. A. Jones, is ac
tively promoting the war effort
on the home front.
j In addition to providing an ex-
! cellent laundry service under try
ing conditions, the firm partlcl-
I pates In various activities on the
home front and supports all
movements calculated to bring
early victory over the enemies of
freedom.
Wilkes Laundry urges the pur
chase of war bonds and stamps
and maximum efforts In produc
tion of food and materials for our
fighting forces and those of our
allied nations.
SEED POTATOES
MUST BE PLANTED
In a step to crush black market
operations, the sale of white seed
potatoes has been prohibited, an
ises sellers show that ih^ are
to be used for planting patpaeee.
ir-kir-kitirir ■k'k it A
itain Walter O. Moss
in Cecil F. AdamstHi,
arles E. Crutchfield,
date P. Smithey,
Edwin J. Canter,
hur Grant Rhodes,
Gordon Ofilvie,
|laude W. Kilhy,
Pvt.?Leonard E, Kerley,
Geoi^e Robert McNeil,
Pvf Harold E. Poff,
(|porge E. Eller,
Pvt. Wl^illiam A. Miller,
Pvt. P^drick C. McLean,
Pvt. Spancer McGrady, Jr.,
Pvt. pithem L. Eller,
Pvt. Jltfk D. Brookshire,
Pvt. Soyd W. Palmer,
Jo^ph V. Byrd,
T. elate Snyder,
Pvt. John S. Harrold,
Pvt. HeAe M. Alexander
Pvt. Robert O. Burchette,
Pvt. J^n L. Eller,
Pvt. Waiam C. Kilby,
Pvt. Luthei C. Willard, Jr.
Pvt. Ralm B. Parsons,
Staff Sgt. Taylor
Cpl. wWj. Hudson
Pvt, Jam^ W. Church,
Pvt. Preavy E. Kilby,
Pvt. Ver^ McNeil,
Pvt. Chalmrs Foster,
Pfc. Paige R. Mavener (col. )
All of us on
any on
bod for our ai
that our Libe:
country of ou
at home is v:
surpass our
We Con^atulate
— oi
Farmers
oultrvmen
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for theilkefforts-in
needecMood for
fords and oui*'
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ists
^RAISERS
pviding the
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Q P. W. ESHELMAN, Pre«i
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Hid8. G. McLiiigldin, Sec’y-Treftt.
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