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THEY FINISHED THEIR JOB LET'S FINISH OQRS—BUY BONDS The Hhelhy Baily thr Y0W TOltm m BOND SMEHWB YOWKST mm CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER Si S 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII— 259 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, OCT. 29, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—So §§ This “Widow’s Mite” Became A National War Bond Record TO THE TUNE OF $20,967.75.—Mr*. Mary Jane Clark, Babson Park, Florida, rural mail carrier, sold that amount in the 7th loan. Here she la selling a War Bond to Mrs. W. A. Copthorne, wife of Colonel W. A. Copthorne who served in the South Pacific, {she was" widowed years ago, raised an only son, who died at the heighth of his glory. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Nation’s Capital and the Nation Is aglow with the remarkable War Bond sales record of Mrs. Mary Jane Clark, rural mall carrier of Babson Park, Florida. Her story Is full of human warmth and understanding. Mrs. Clark sold $20,967.75 in War Bonds in the Mighty Seventh War Loan Drive, In a sparsely settled community. Now she Is working for the Victory Loan. She wrote to War Finance Division officials. Her own words best •xpress what she has to say. "My native state is North Carolina. I spent most of my life in Gas tonia, N. C., my father, A. B. Elliott, being a merchant in this city for thirty years. At the age of seven I was taught to smile at the public, and the importance of being always courteous to the customers. "My husband, F. A. Clark, died November 15, 1932, We had one son, Flowers A., Jr„ thirteen years of age when his father died. ‘In those hard years we fought the battle of son getting an educa tion. We had for our motto, ‘If you want to bad enough you can.’ We won our battle, or the first step of it, on May 3, 1940, when son graduated from Appalachian State teachers College, Boone, N. C. Son, being sick when this battle was over, entered Duke Hospital, Durham, N. C. Here we faced with the news that he. had the fatal disease, le nia. "In September, 1940, he accepted a position as teacher v .story and mathematics at Cliffside High School, Cliffside, N. C. With the same motto, we tried hard to win this battle, but lost our fight in February, 1941, when son died in Duke Hospital at the beautiful age of twenty three. • “At the time son died, I was working in Jacksonville, Florida. Life seemed to stop dead still. I collapsed with a heart condition, and was ordered to rest for six months. On April 1, 1941, I came to Babson Park to my brother’s home which is located on the beautiful shores of Caloosa Lake. As the days of an empty world went by, I could hear these words, “Mother, I never knew you were a quitter.” I was forced to try hard enough again—this being the hardest battle I had faced as there was seemingly nothing to fight for. "In September, 1941, our Postmaster, Mr. S. S. Welling, asked me to help out in the postoffice as substitute clerk. In December, 1941, I was offered the position of clerk. This work I did until November of the following year when the war needed our Rural Carrier. So, November 1. 1942, I was appointed Rural Carrier. “I am able to sell War Bonds to this fine group because I love each one of my patrons. I know the Victory Loan War Bonds they buy will In the future be a blessing to them. Then I know each bond I sell will shorten the road to victory for our wounded because of hospitalization and thus save the lives of many mother’s boys. And last, by helping others I find a certain amount of comfort to my own empty world. “Now, may I say to the mothers who will have to face the empty chair, “Don’t be a quitter, your son was a brave soldier to the finish. Turn, look straight ahead, meet your world with a good-morning smile and a cheerful wave of the hand. You will find a world full of boys who deed your support in the Victory Loan—and need it badly.” WORKERS HAVE FORMULA FOR SAVINGS QUOTA FROM PAYROLL Victory Loon Support Plans Receive Wide spread Approval FIGURES LISTED WASHINGTON — (Spec ial to The Shelby Daily Star) —Workers of the country have an important responsi bility in the Victory Loan drive as they have had in all previous bopcjr'daveor*-*^ v A large percentage of success of the E Bond program has beer; tv the enthusiastic participat organised labor through tb roll Savings Plan. Meanwhile, the War F Division of tbe U. S. announced It had wor the following quota labor - management Bond committees ing their quotas fa a company quota on the average the plant and the company’s fa quota set for the it operates. FIGURES LISTED Average cash sub the drive period upon the average follows: For an wage of $140 to $199, i rage suhsription is and under, $37.50 The quota for, tb arrived at by multif age subscription by average number o| November and payroll buying, as wd roll supe*criptk>ns purchases during paign accounting ber 29 to Decer credited to the quo guides as outlined company (not Individ ita) objectives. In promoting plant be necessary for those brackets to off-set, erage subscriptions, pected from those than the lowest ave ure. mo avd pel Farmers Less Worried Now WASHINGTON, D. C. — 1-1 prices stand at 206 per cent of. 1909-1914 average—higher tfldft the prices of 1918—and will drop again but not as sharply as In 1921 be cause the Government Is required by law to maintain support prices of at least 90 per cent o( parity for two full calendar yea^s following the year In which the Iter ends. The Department of Agriculture has announced. * The announcement indicateSTthe farmer will not be a victim of a drop In prices similar ttfViat which followed the last war lnR021 when prices hit the low of 115 per cent of the May, 1920, level which was 235 per cent of the 1909-1914 lev el. Thus the farmer Will have more money than after the tyst war. War Finance Committee officials said that in addition to the main tenance of the price feyel for two years, that non-farm families al ready have, and are accumulating, weekly savings through the Payroll Savings Plan of the War Finance Division of the Treasury. This, they Claim is proof the non-farm front will be much better able to sup port itself than after the last war during the normal lull of reconver sion. Buyers of farm products will have the money to buy t, READY TO CROSS THE TAPE irst seven War Loan drives held to date, Cleve oversubscribed the quota each time. There re (e drive, the eighth, or Victory Loan drive, that n us and a gloriously finished task, an act of patriotism to help finance the war must be financed. When fighting ceased, not, as is the way with wars. Surely a job r while it is going on deserves the making lment. That final installment, we are ask ith our subscriptions in the Victory Loan ;s Monday. s for buying bonds, because they are the in the world, because they help stem the 'e just as important now as they were dur goods, automobiles, household appliances and emselves are still mighty scarce and if we go st each other for them in the open market, it rolled prices and that worst bugaboo of all—in dollar salted away in government securities that much less competition in our short market. It leans that much more saved for a time when our dollars will buy nearer 100 cents worth of value. For all these reasons, for the name of Cleveland county and for the reason that we do not want to lag just when we are about to cross the tape, BUY BONDS. dome tacts About This Victory Loan WASHINGTON, D. C. —Victory Loan facts, honoring the men and Dates: October 29 through De cember 8. Quotas: *11,000 0,000 ; 4 billion in individual sales, 2 billion in Series E sales, 7 billion from ether non bank investors. Reason: Trees’ balance will be drained by December. Money is vi tally needed for hospitalization, re habilitation retraining, feeding and clothil ; menu overseas, trans portation home, paymebt of muni —V Bond? Earn Extra Cash— women follows^ who won the war, are as Bond i o Honor Late President WASHINGTON. D. C. (Special) The Treasury has called attention to a special Victory Bond to be sold during the Victory Loan cam paign, starting today for $11,000, 000. The bond is in memory of the lafp President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It will be on ale at all agencies authorized to issue Unit c States Savings Bonds of Series E. The bond will be in the denom ination of $200, to be issued at $150. It will constiute an . '.iition de nomination -* Series E Bonds, and will have ,iv same term and at tri’ ,tc - as other denominations. It will carry a likeness of Mr. Roose velt. WAR RESULTS CARRY GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY STATESVINSON Treasury Head Reminds Nation Individuals Must Buy Victory Bonds ROOSEVELT BOND WASHINGTON — (Spec ial to The Shelby Daily Star) —’‘Enormous obligations in curred in the achievement of victory will draif^the Treas ury tofolanc'p'titifSkty and ad ditional funds will be needed early in December, Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vin son warned here on the eve of the Victory Loan for $11, 000,000,000. He said “government expendi tures are being drastically reduced and this will continue vigorously” but that “the aftermath of war, however, carries grave responsibil ities that must be met.” The secretary was referring to hospitalization of the wounded, their retraining so they can make their own way in life, the clothing and feeding of those yet to re main in enemy nations, the trans portation of men home, mustering out pay and payments for muni tions already used to win the vic tory. if? SALE CONTINUING IT. ..IJ _ __ and navy must b* maintained until order fs restored through out the world” and that “the Victory Loan, wlulp the last organized on a national basis will not see the discontinuance of the sales of Series E, F* and G securities.” These types of securities will continue to be sold because their sale is nec essary ot help defray continu ing expenses. Mr. Vinson reminded the Nation that the government looks to the individuals of $4,000,000,000 of the $11,000,000,000 quota. He said it is desired that $2,000,0t)0,000, or hall of the individual sales, be in the Series E “man in the street” bond that pays 33 nad one-third profit at maturity, ten years. The Secretary laid stress on s new type bond to be issued during the Victory Loan.. It ig in memory of “the late President Franklin D Roosevelt,” Mr. Vinson said, “and is for $200 at maturity in the Se les E group. “This Victory Bond,’ Mr. Vinson said, “honoring a great man and leader will sell for 150 It carries the likeness of Mr Roosevelt and was designed espec ially in his honor.” The bond, by special arrangements, will carry the authorizing signature of Mr Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who was Secretary of the Treasury prior tc Mr. Vinson and a Jjfe-long friend of the late President, ' —Victory Bonds Xtc Thrifty— Nation Poised For \. ■ . •~'W Humanitarian Drive Cleveland's Quota Is $1,510,000 Of Which $325,000 Is To Be E Bonds The Nation poised today in enthusiastic anticipation of the Victory Loan which opened this morning as more than six million volunteer workers, through their leaders, promised a smashing climax of the end of the war and pre dicted an oversubscription of the quota needed for disabled veterans rehabilitation, retarding of others, hospitalization and other costs attending the peace. The national quota is smaller than In the Mighty Seventh War Loan, which was $14,000,000,000. The overall sum asked by the Treasury for the vital peace time program is $11,000,000,000, while the quota for Cleveland county, the War Finance Committee has announced through its chairman, George Blanton, is $1,5^0,000. Individuals throughout the Nation are asked to subscribe $4,000, 000,000. $2,000,000,000 being in the series E ten-year maturity bond quota. The E Bond quota for this area, Mr. Blanton said, is $325,000. Locally, the War Finance Committee has organized along the same lines as in past loan drives, Jack Dover being campaign chairman aft in each of the successfully-staged previous campaigns, Mr. Blanton said. Mr, Dover said that he is in hearty accord with Secretary of the “We Have a Solemn Duty--” TO OUR WOUNDED.—The Victory Loan affords the people of at grateful nation an opportunity to show by action their thadrfulsMH toi our disabled soldiers. It is this Victory Loan which shall help to toalrh it possible to hospitalize and rehabilitate them, so that they naf tofceJ again their rightful places in society. We cannot fail—we must not torn thesejheroes of ours... . t Treasury Fred M. Vinson, who said: "enormous obligations incurred in the achievement of victory, including those for material and muni* tions already delivered and used, will drain the Treasury balance quickly and additional funds will be needed in December. The goal, Chairman Blanton said, as well as the securities to b« offered during the Victory Loan "were determined by the Treasury af ter discussions with various groups, including Chairmen of State War Finance Committees, officials of the Federal Reserve System, mambers of The American Bankers Association and others.” Secretary Vinson said that "the aftermath of war carries a grave responsibility that must, be met.” He said "a substantial army and navy must be maintained until order is restored throughout the world. The cost of contract settlements, bringing our forces home, their murterlng out pay, hospitalization, care and rehabilitation will be grcc.. d will require large sums for which we must plan now.
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