Pulp Company Roll of
Workers Abbreviated
Duty With Nation's
Armed Force Takes
218 Men From Staff
--
Nearly 22 Per Cent of Em
ployees Volunteer or
Are Drafted
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Volunteering for duty in the armed
forces of the United States or draft
ed into tlie service, 218 men have
gone from the plant of the North
Carolina Pulp Company here in Plym
outh; 21:5 per cent of the 1,013
workers normally on the company’s
payroll have put on uniforms and
have gone across the seas to fight for
their country or are at training
camps learning the ways of warfare
so they can fight efficiently, it was
learned in a recent survey. In the
several employment classes, the de
partures are as follows:
Departmental assistants: One, rep
resenting 2.8 per cent of that em
ployment class.
Technical experts, 12, 85.7 per cent
loss of that class.
Skilled men in semi-charge, 14, or
38.9 per cent loss.
Skilled key men, 23, being 28.4 per
cent loss.
Skilled workers, usual trades, 12,
13.5 per cent loss.
Semi-skilled workmen, 88. being
25.1 per cent loss.
Unskilled workmen, 68, being 18
per cent loss.
Another half dozen or so have gone
for physical and mental examina
tions since these figures were com
piled, through voluntary enlistments
and the recent colored draft, and
others are expected to go soon.
At the plant every effort is being
made to carry on and keep up pro
duction to meet demands. At the
present time essential industry, in
the War Production Board's defini
tion of that term, calls for 85 per cent
of the pulp paper to be delivered to
the Navy or the Quartermaster’s De
partment for government service or
to sub-contractors to enable them to
make deliveries of their products to
principal contractors haying war
contracts.
Workers Being Trained
The supply of unskilled workmen,
while diminishing, continues to pro
vide the mill with men who can be
trained to do what is required of
them. For semi-skilled and skilled
workmen, those who have shown ap
titude for the work they were doing
have been advanced to more respon
sible jobs. Tire most serious loss is
that of the technical experts, only
14.3 per cent of that staff remaining
and technical experts being very dif
ficult to obtain. But those yet here
are very loyal and determined to
give their best efforts to keep up
production.
Working 'through the War Pro
duction Board in their Training
Within-Industry Division, a training
course has been set up at the plant
with a capable instructor in charge.
This training starts with the super
visors and foremen and works down
to the key men. Many of these have
been advanced from the jobs they
JUST 2 MORE DAYS!
To Realize on the Special
Values Offered During Our
Red Tag Sole!
Ends SATURDAY NIGHT, Sept 5
WESTERN
AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE
JOE CROWDER, Owner Plymouth, N. C.
3-DAY SPECIALS
THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY ONLY
Don’t Fail To Take Advantage of
Them—It's Not Like This Always
FLOUR SPECIALS
Plain or Self Rising
Light While, I2-Ib. bag.55c
Light While, 6-lb. bag.31c
Klassy Sell-Rising, 12-lb.... 47c
White
Polai's, 10 lb. 24c
2 No. 2 Cans Chowanoke
Tomatoes... 22c
Special—
Bologna, lb.. 23c
Y
Old American
Cheese, lb.. 291c
1 lb. 13 oz. cans Great Value
Peaches.... 17c
12-oz. cans Old South ORANGE
Juice, 2 for .. 21c
iy»-Piiit Cans GIBBS
Tomato Juice .... 13c 2 for... 25c
All Sizes GIBBS’
Pork and Beans. . . 7c - 8c - 10c - 15c
Vanilla Wafers,! lb.. lie lib. .19c
15 1-4 oz. can FRANCO-AMERICAN
Macaroni and Cheese, 2 for.... 27c
Don’t Forget VIRGINIA SWEET p*Jg
Buckwheat & Pancake Flour .. 10c
A FEW SPECIALS IN OUR MARKET:
Bound
Steak, lb.... 37c
T-Bone
Steak, lb.... 39c
Smoked
Sausage, lb.. 24c
Link or Bulk—Fresh
Sausage, lb.. 32c
(SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Notebook Covers, Notebook Fillers, Tablets,
Pencils, Pen and Ink, Lunch Boxes
KELLY'S
GROCERY AND MARKET
At Intersection of Highway 64 and Road To Plymouth Box Plant
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Navy Recruiter Is
To Be Here Two
Days This Week
At Post Office Friday and
Saturday; Inquiries Are
Solicited
Chief J. C. Bartel, of the U. S.
Navy Recruiting Station. New Bern,
will be at the post office in Plymouth
tomorrow and Saturday, September
4 and 5.
Applications for enlistment in the
regular Navy and for the Naval Re
serve will be accepted. Men between
the ages of 17 and 49, white and col
ored, married and single, are eligible.
For men with ability and initiative,
the opportunity is given to learn any
one of 49 sklled occupations, thus be
trained for a job after the war is
over.
Those men who are interested in
the “Sea-Bees." the Naval Reserve
Construction Corps, should come to
the recruiting station in the post of
fice building at New Bern on Sep
tember 11. At that time Lieut, fjg)
Wray will interview men and give
ratings that will pay up to $185.70 a
month, including also complete main
tenance. Men with trades are es
pecially desired, and there are now
ratings open for practically any ci
vilian tradesman. Men who come to
see Lieut. Wray should bring three
letters stating their qualifications in
their particular fields.
Men who are registered under se
lective service may enlist up until
and including the day before they are
sent to Fort Bragg.
Questions will be gladly answered
and information given to applicants
and parents with no obligation what
soever.
Church Services
At Saints Delight
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Rev. P. E. CAYTON. Pastor
Bible school at 11 a, m., war time.
W. A. Swain, superintendent. Church
services at 12 by Preston E. Cayton.
pastor. Subject: "Love.” For God
so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
Love is a great word, with much
meaning, in the Holy Writ and in
the life of every man and woman.
Without love we cannot see God. We
must love our home, our community,
our country, our church, and our
God.
There is very little left to the man
who has no love. That’s why our
boys are leaving the good old Ameri
can homestead, to go and fight for
our nation, because they love Amer
ica, and willing to give life that we
who are left may enjoy the American
way of life.
It was love that sent Jesus to a
world of sin; it was love that led
Jesus to the cross. Greater love hath
no man than this: that a man lay
down his life for his friends. Jesus
did just that.
Church sendee Sunday evening at
8:30. You are invited to attend all
these services. Come and bring the
family. You will enjoy being at
Saints Delight among friendly peo
were doing, and this training within
the plant by one previously trained
under War Production Board auspices
is certain to contribute to greater ef
ficiency. Courses were started last
Monday and are conducted daily be
tween 10 and 12 o'clock.
At the headquarters of the pulp
company it is believed that more of
the plant’s staff and a number of
the departmental assistants will be
taken into the nation’s armed forces
before the end of the year. Those
who have not yet gone and those who
do not expect to go are certain they
are doing their duty at the present
in the best maimer possible. It is
pointed out that according to War
Production Board statistics 14 to 16
men are required behind the lines
in industry to supply the fighting
men in the front line with clothing,
food, much of their equipment, am
munition and guns. So the men here
working in essential industry are in
dustrial soldiers, doing their part to
keep the front lines supplied with
what they must have to win victory.
Family responsibilities have kept
many of the men yet here from go
ing to the front.
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Farm Income This
Year Will Exceed
Fourteen Billion
Figure Compared with About
Five Billion Received in
The Year, 1932
The American farmer has been
doing right well by himself ever
since the Roosevelt administration
has been in office. No more is he
haunted by the many fears, such as
he experienced during the three Re
publican administrations, prior to
the advent of the New Deal.
Why is the farmer in better finan
cial condition than ever before?
Based on official figures and, ac
cording to the Pnited States News,
some of the reasons are these:
American farmers, like many oth
er groups, will be better off finan
cially this year than ever before.
They will receive an estimated in
come of $14,500,000,000, and their
purchasing power will be the high
est in history.
The farmer’s dollar will buy more
this year than in 1919, when the re
turn from farm marketings reached
the peak figure of $14,602,000,000.
And the number of dollars farmers
pie. We will try to make you wel
come.
will receive for their work in 1942
may even exceed the estimate of
$14,500,000,000. Government statisti
cians say this estimate may be con
servative.
Latest figures show farm living
costs to be about 150 per cent of the
1910-1914 period, whereas in 1919
the cost of living was 203 per cent
of 1910-1914, and, in 1920, 228 per
cent.
The farmer is able to buy in a
controlled market and sell in a vir
tually uncontrolled market. The ceil
ings that the Government has placed
on things the farmer buys apply only
in a limited way to the crops and
the livestock that he has to sell.
The farmer’s debts are lower.
Farm mortgages and short-term
bank loans totaled $12,300,000,000 in
1920, in January, 1942, they had de
clined to $9,000,000,000. Interest rates
have come down since the early
’20c. In some places, taxes are low
er. Thus, the farmer needs less mon
ey to pay interest, principal and
taxes, and has more for savings and
for buying things he needs.
Figures for other years show the
fluctuations in farm incomes between
wars. In 1929, income had fallen to
$11,296,000,000; in the depression
year of 1932, it reached a low of $4,
743,000,000; by 1939, it had climbed
to $8,684,000,000, of which $807,000,
000 came from Government pay
ments; and by 1941 it had reached
$11,830,000,000, of which $586,000,000
represented Government _subsidies._
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CHEVROLET COMPANY. INC.
First Sale Friday!
-At The
CENTRAL WAREHOUSE
_ KOBEKSONVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA _
First Sale Monday
-At The
Red Front WAREHOUSE
ROBERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Two Big Sales
And as usual two high sales for tobacco always sells higher
when Jim and Charley Cray and Andy Anderson are in there
pushing and pulling for each individual customer. We are sell
ing tobacco as high as 55e and with the Commodity Credit Cor
poration making unlimited purchases on our floors you may ex
pect a good sale and a high sale on one of our week-end sales.
Whether you sell with us Friday or Monday, please come early
so we can render you every convenience and courtesy.
JIM GRAY, ANDY ANDERSON
& CHARLIE GRAY, Proprietors