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o AGE TWO THE FRANtfLlN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1M1 X V THIS WEEK INDEFENSE Office For Production Management States Objectives Created .to. provide authoritative leadershiu to sliced production o 1 nrar materials for defense, the Of- fice for Production Management suited last week that its aim was "firnfliiriLon to the maximum of American resources in every field which can contribute to victory. "Wc call upon the people of the United States to recognize to the full the gravity, of the crisis which called this organization into being 'and' figuratively' 'to pull off , their coats and roll up their sleeves William rriudsen; chairman; of the of the new agency, said, The office, the President had said, -will, have three 'main sub divisions in charge of (I) actual production of war material : (2) de . fense purchasing; (3) .defense prior ities. The President added the of fice would be vested with . very broad powers and : able to make decisions which would not require his approval. ',,'.'' Racord Naval Progress ' Progress of naval ; construction was reflected in an announcement by Secretary Knox that the 16,050 ton destroyer Edison would be de: ltvertsd 'for commissioning in .1 mouth, setting a record of only 10 months construction time as compared with normal construction time of 18 to 31 months. ; 1 New . Training Course To train the new personnel in the Army, the War Department 'announced' establishment of facili- . ties, designed to train . non-flying Air Corps men as engineering, armarrtcnt, communication, and photographic officers. Two new ( schools were icing established at Lowry, Colorado, and Scott Field, 111., to provide training in arma ment, communications, and pliotog raphy, the War Department .said Engineering officers would be trained at universities first and later at the Air Corps technical scliool at Chanute Field, 111., it was announced. ...-.- Requirements for admission to the regular service schools for this training would be a college degree and some additional training or experience in any of the four fields. Engineering trainees would be se lected from the ranks of former flying cadets and qualified civi lians at the rate of a 100 every three months starting in January. As the manpower of the Regular . Army passed the 400,000 mark , for the first time since the World War, the War Department also awarded contracts to two engineer ing firms to survey 38 new Army camps in 28 states and recommend steps to insure adequate sewage so that the growing Army would not be menaced by faulty sanita tion. With 124,000 National Guardsmen and 20,000 selectee, already in the Army in addition to the 400,000 regulars, the President this week ordered to activ duLy, between January 6 and January 17, thirty five more National Guard units. Conscientious objectors to mili tary training, Selective Service Di rector; Dykstra- announced in a statement, will provide manpower lor soil conservation and reforest ation under a program developed, with the approval of the Presi dent, by the Departments erf Agri culture and Interior, the Federal Security Agency, and the National Council for Conscientious Objectors'. Objectors would be taken from their communities and put in camps 'at the same time meeting the vietter and the spirit of the Selec tive Service Act," Dr. Dykstra said. - Issuing two more of his periodic statements on the status of prices of commodities vital to the defense program, NDAC Commissioner Henderson, responsible for defense price stabilization, pointed out this week he felt lumber prices should be lowered and that steel prices might increase unless steps are taken to prevent rises in the cost of materials used in steel, manu facture. South Leads Nation In Lumber Production Preliminary figures recently re leased by the Bureau of the Cen sus indicate that the 1939 JJnitcd States lumber production increased over 15 per cent above the 1938 production, to nearly '40 billion board feet. The Southern states accounted for 38.5 per cent of this total, with southern . pine lumber making up ,31 per cent of the total national lumber production, follow ed by Douas fir from the Pacific Northwest with 26 pef cent. Alabama leads the south' in lum ber production with 1,400,000,(100 hoard fee1.: followed by Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina and Louisiana, each of which pro duced ver a billion board feet in 1939. According to Census B.ureau data, "firsts" which mav be claimed bv southern states include: Alabama1 leads the nation in production ot yellow pine and sycamore lumber, Arkansas in oak lumber', Florida in cypress lumber, Louisiana ' in total hardwood lumber production and in volume of red gum and tupelo, South Carolina in the pro duction of ash lumber, and North Carolina- in the total number of sawmills reporting, 1,897. N. C. FCA Members Re paid $6,617,698 In Loans North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida fanners, who are members of production credit associations, in 1940 repaid to the 94 associations in the third Farm Credit district $21,958,702, accord ing to reports received by the Pro duction Credit Corporation of Columbia. ; in North Carolina there are 28 associations and in 1940 the' mem bers of these associations repaid loans totaling $6,617,f98. These, associations, which are farmer - controlled, supply their members with short-term credit for agricultural purposes and all of them report that they had a successful year in 1940. They are now making preparations for their their annual meetings which will be held in lantiarv. The date of the annual meeting for the Ashevillc association is Jan uary 23. Carrying on With 1940 Style London Bridge I : Pi I t 1 4 iAW ..-nvyc-er - arnr m 1 r-viZ nv"" ' i. IT"? J B)',-;:-:,;;v.-'" ar . ! Parents Protect Your Children Against Diphtheria " RALEIGH, Jan. 8. North Caro lina , has scored : another "first", this one termed a "disgraceful fir,st" by Dr. ' Carl V. Reynolds, state, health officer, who announced that this state continues to lead the nation in the number of diphtheria cases reported. In the statement for vthe week ending December 21, furnished health officers by the United States Public Health Service, Dr. Reynolds pointed out, North Caro lina was accredited with 28 cases of diphtheria, "that communicable, dangerous, preventable and inex cusable disease, an escape from which was made available bv the Legislature tf 1939, when it passed a law requiring immunization of all children during the first year of life, and as a requisite for en trance into any school, public, private or parochial. . North Carolina leads, regard less of population, among the 44 states reporting," he went on. "New York, with its 13,379,142, ac cording to the final figures of the 1940 census, reported only 20 cases, to give us 'another first'! However, there is a brighter side to the picture, when we con sider that, during the correspond ing week of 1939, we reported 48 cases. Parents: We are beuinninir an other year. In the name of justice to your children, who cannot helo themselves but are dependent on you, give them that protection to which thev are entitle hv hoth moral and statutory law. Let 1941 be marked by relentless war on diphtheria! A few weeks ago this London street had no chasm, no bridge. A heavy Nazi bomb made a crater 60 feet wide, 25 feet deep. British Royal Engineers put up a temporary bridge overnight, and London carries on, Sign on store at left declares, "Hitler can't put Out the sun! Trade counter at rear." . Roosevelt Pledges U. S. Aid To Def enders of Democracy Message To Congress Urges Nation Speed War Production Nantahala -National Forest m Did You Know That Twenty-one years ago this month the Nantahala. National Forest was create by proclamation of Presi dent Wilson. Purchases under the Weeks Law commenced in the fall of 1911 for the purpose of acquir ing lands for the protection of navigable .streams, 'lhe first 01 these purchases was made in the vicinity of Highlands, the Forest Service having its head office in that town at that time. At a later date the Supervisor's headquarters were established at Clayton, Ga.. and only a Kamvi was kept at Highlands until finally the Ranger station was estaousiu-i at Wilson Lick. About 1920 the Supervisor's headquarters were changed to Franklin, where (hey have remained ever since. The Nantahala National Forest at one tiime included all National Forest lands in South Carolina, the eastern part of Georgia, and all the lands in Macon, Clay, and Graham counties, N. C In 1935, National Forest boundar ies were readjusted to the state lines. At the present time, all Na tional Forest lands in the six Western North Carolina counties- Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Cherokee, and Clay are adminis tered from the Nantahala Forest Supervisor's office at Franklin. A packed house and galleries greeted President Roosevelt's mes sage on the state of the nation to the joint session of the new Congress last Monday.' The mo mentous message which was re ceived with repeated applause was broadcast over short wave in Spanish, French. German, Greek and Italian. Gravely and earnestly, President Roosevelt informed congress that "a swift and driving increase in our armament production was the immediate need of a critical period and appealed for widespread per sonal sacrifices in a natonali effort to defeat the axis powers lest they win abroad and then attack the Americas. . -: "Let us say to the democracies," he said, "we Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of free dom. VVe are. putting' forth our energies, our resources and our organizing powers . to give you strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, taiiks,' guns. This is our purpose and our pledge." Basic. Policy Outlined The main theme of the message was that the aggressors were still oh the march, that 16 mOnths had blotted out democracy in "an ap palling number of independent na tions, great and small," and that "the future and safety of our country and our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders." 1 he l resident warned that no generosity could be expected of a "dictator's peace" ' and that attack on the Americas was to be ex pected 11 ttic dictators won. "As long as aggressor nation, maintain the offensive," he said, "they not we will choose the tiihe and place and method of their attack " Basic points of national policy outlined were : "An impressive expression of the public will without regard to par tisanship" on three oints : first, to all inclusive national defease; second, to full support to all peo ples who are resisting aggression and ' thereby keeping , war away from our hemisphere; and third, to principles of morality and e curity that will never permit a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeaser.s. "We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other -people's freedom." , The president said the nation was behind schedule on airplane production, and the effort was to catch up; ahead of schedule on warship production, and working) to get even farther ahead. "To change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implements of peace to ,a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task," Mr. Roosefc-elt said. Lease -Loan Plan Asserting that when the time comei when Great Britain and her allies are no longer able to pay cash for war supplies, the U. S. "cannot ' tell them they 'must sur render," the president then out lined his lease-loan plan whereby payment can be made in like, ma terials later, or other goods as agreed .upon. i . "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves." The president emphatically stat ed that our promises ,of .support in the democracies in sending ever-increasing supplies of ship, planes, tanks and guns would not be intimidated by threats from dictator nations. . Fcur Human Freedoms The president said the nation'. must look forward to a world founded on f.our essential human f reedoms. They Were : "The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the vvorld "The second is freedom of every person to worship God' in 'his own way everywhere .in the World. "The third is freedom from want which translated into vviorhl terms, means economic understand ings which will secure to every na tion a healthy peace time life for its ( inhabitants everywhere in 'the world. "The fourth is freedom from fear which, translated into world terms, means a' world-wide reduc tion of armaments to such a point and in such a . thorough fulii,vn that no nation will be in a posir tion to commit an act of pliyic;il aggression against any neighbor anywhere in the world.". In. closing the president spoke of "our peaceful revolution" that adjusts itself to changing condi tions "without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch." Over against the "new order in. Europe" he placed a world order of greater conception the moral order. "The world order that we seek is the coopera tion of free countries, working to gether in a' friendly, civ ilized so ciety." .'''.. "This nation has placed its des tiny in the hands and heaiU and hearts of free men and., women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. . . . To that high concept there can be no end save victory." 12 noon EST, WAVE, Louisville, KWKH, Shreveport; 1:30 p. m. EST, WCSC, Charleston; 3:30 p. m. EST, WCOC Meridian, WIS, Colombia ;' and . 5 p. m. .EST, WHIG. Greensboro. Dr. George W. Truett will be tik- -speaker .'next . Sunday, January 12, on "Christ and Muman Suffering'-"- '.'.,' We'll know national unity is: an established fact when we hear a Californjan praise Florida weather or vice versa. West's Mil! Mr. and Mrs. Cero Martin and two children, Jack and, Jimmy, .spent the week-end with Mrs. Mar-; tin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Morgan. ' ' After spending the Christmas hol idays with their parents here, Dr. and Mrs.-J. L. West, and at Frank-, lin, Mr. and Mrs. McCollum, Mr. and Mrs. John McCVdlmu returned to their home in Red Jacket, Va.. Sunday. : . Miss Vonnie West, who is a teacher, inthe Bryson City .school, spent the ChristniaS holidays with her mother, Mrs. J. I.. . West, Sr. , Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sorrels and daughter, Carlene froin Bryson City, visited' here last Saturday.'. J. L. West, Jr., and Charles Owens - who are attending Brevard spent the Christmas holidays with their parents,- Dr. and Mrs." J. L, West and Mrs. Grady Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Chase Tatham and small daughter. Patricia, spent the weyk-end with Mrs. Tat ham's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McGaha. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McLean from Raleigh visited Mr. McLean's parents Monday,-Mr.' and Mrs. A.' L. McLean. Messrs J. M. Morgan and C. N. West and daughter Ada Ruth went to Bryson City ; 011 business Friday. Loyal Order of Moose Franklin Lodge, No. 452 Meets (n American Legion Hall Every Thursday Night 7:30 O'CLOCK P. M. J. J. Mann, Secretary AT all times, regardless of season, you can get the pick of the nation's crop of foods here in cur store. Our selection of frozen foods includes both meats and fancy quality fruits and vegetables. Stop in today and try some of these delicious foods. SLOAN'S MARKET Phone 85 Franklin, N. C. pHmmTntnrfnitir?; Baptists Sponsor Series Of Sunday Broadcasts The first in a series of broad casts entitled "The Baptist Hour", sponsored by the radio committee of the Southern Baptist convention, went on the air over IS southern stations last Sunday afternoon. Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of the Fust Baptist church of Shreveport, La., was the principal speaker. The remaining 12 broadcasts will be heard each Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock EST over the follow ing stations: W'RXL, Richmond; WPTF, Raleigh; WSAP, Spartan burg; WSB, Atlanta; WFBC. Greenville; WBRC, Birmingham; WSLI. Jackson; WM PS, Memphis, and WSM, Nashville.' In addition, the following sta tions will carry the BaptUt Hour by transcription at the time named: I P?l I 1 1"-1 B y.'-.'l I-1 ,1 I I JJ" II MPILIETIE AlUT EXPERT PAINTING MOTOR REPAIRS BpDY REPAIRS Entire body, fenders or doors re painted by factory methods. Old paint removed completely so that the finished jb' looks (and is!) just like NEW! Expert staff of skilled mechanics familiar with every make of car . . the most .up-to-date equipment guarantees satisfactory work! We also stock replacement parts. Our mechanics are skilled at re moving all signs of accident dam age. We can restore dented dodrs, fenders and bent axles. We guarantee your satisfaction ! Work Done on Convenient Budget Payment Plan! BURRELL MOTOR CO. Phone 123 Franklin, N. C , 1 MUGGS AND SKEETER 6yWALLY BISHOP j fpSSEa t T &BAVA Fw&tTLA SglS'J-xFci SA'DfWAT? wax FmovTsv JJ IT'JL no, I just pbtvqned I V fJsA sleism tw!s -nvTs: 7 ShL8 SCrtI? f -rSi i rrs NOT true An" -sivin' he?1 -2 L bou.eb-sates ShB "N II i.
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