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Our N. C. Boyst)n The Battle Front Number 230,000 This Should Be Sufficient Incentive To Keep Home Front Burning Brightly and Rightly. There are approximately 230,000 North Carolinians now serving in the armed forc:s, Adj. Gen. J. Van B. Metts, director of State Selec- i tire Service, announced recently. General Metts said that the fig ure includes the 4,200 troops ' in ducted with the National Guard and the youths under draft age who have volunteered for the navy, tat does not include members of the women's services. The Selective Service director said that approximately 65 per cent ?f the total number of Tar Heels in service entered through Selec tive Service. Navy 'Gals' Follow Sailors Tattoo Lead Washington ? Some gal sailors are becoming so briny that they are following in their brother gobs' footsteps ? right into the tattoo, parlors, it was learned. All this is in spite of the offi cial blujackets' manual, which they share with their seagoing Navy brothers, and .which admonishes against tattooing. The manual warns: "Do not get tattooed. Ask any mail^you see who has been tattooed and he will tell you that he would1 give anything to have the tatooing removed. It is dangerous, costly, and an awful lot of trouble the rest your life." Although the vogue among fem ine salors is far from widespread, | *an Kilpatrick, who operate a tat- 1 too booth in one of Washington's penny arcades, revealed today that he had tattooed four women Naval Reservists. He said: "In each case I tattooed the wo nan's serial number just above the right knee. It apparently isn't so < ? ,? ???< w? Chmlmas t a vol :tA wi .& W V gf, Charles I Dickens 'Hi. J 'f i a i-4 1 1?* iti Wail i i W.CROOGE awoke before the hour bell sounded, which it W now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy One. Light Hashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of ti is bed were drawn by a small, elflsh creature. "I am the Ghost of Christmas Past," it said. As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road. "Good Heaven!" said Scrooge, "I was a boy here!" They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, to a melancholy room, made barer stril by lines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble Are: Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be, and glanced anxiously towards the door. It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and kissing him, addressed him as her "Dear, dear brother/' "I have come to bring you home, dear brother!" said the child. "Home, for good and all. Home, for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should; and sent me in a coach to bring you." "She was a dear girl," said Scrooge. "She died a woman," said the Ghost, "and had, I think, children." "One child," Scrooge returned. They proceeded and the Ghost stopped at a certain ware house door, and asked Scrooge he knew it. "Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart: it's Fezziwig alive again!" In came a fiddler to the warehouse and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and %. v / *MsM: ^UH *??< mj! n a a Mir 11 loveablc. In came the six young followers whose beart* they broke. In came all the young men and women em ployed in the business. They danced and ale. then danced some more, and all were gay with ihe Christmas season. "My time grows short." observed the Spirit. "Quick!" Scrooge now found himsilf by the side of a fair young girl in whose eyes there were tears. "It matters little," she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and com fort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve." "What Idol hras displaced you?" he rejoined. "a golden one." "Spirit!" said Scrooge, "show me no more! Conduct me home. Why" do you delight to torture me?" ? . I Rationing , OP A News PROCESSED FOODS? Green A, B, C (Book 4) expire Dec. 20. Green D, E, F (Book 4) expire Jan. 20. MEATS AND FATS? Brown L, M and N (Book 3) expire Jan. 1. SUGAR ? Sugar Stamp No. 29 (Book 4) good for 5 lbs. until Jan. 15/ SHOES ? Stamp No. 18 (Book 1) valid indefinitely. Airplane Stamp No. 1 (Book 3) now valid. GASOLINE ? A-8 coupons expire popular here among the WAVES, but I hear that the women are go ing strong for it in the Middle West, especially St. Louis and Chi cago. "The girls there like small an chors tattooed on the leg or per haps a heart on one shoulder. Those are usually two or three color jobs and run from $1.50 to $2. The elaborate job costs $75." The Solution to the Gift Problem TONY SARG'S SURPRISE BOOK fr ? it's new, different, and above all educational. Chil dren of all ages will like this marvelous .new type hook. Now In Stock - - Tony Sarg's MAGIC MOVIE BOOK See your favorite tales and cherished poems in real moving pictures with the magic lens. This Is the Newest of the Famous Tony Sarg's Line On Sale At . . . The SYLVA HERALD PHONE 110 SYLVA, N. C. Dodge, Plymouth, Dodge Trucks Feb. 8. FUEL OIL ? Period 1 coupons \ (10 gals.) expire Jan. 3. Period, 2 coupons (10 gals.) now valid. BEEF POINT VALUES SLASHED Due to a sharp cut in meat point values, which became effective Dec. 5, civilian meat rationing is now \ at the highest level since ration ing began in March, it? has been an nounced. Although butter and margarine remain at *heir present point val ues, the entire list of rationed beef items, from porterhouse steak to . hamburger have been cut from two ! to three points in the new table of point values now in effect. Many | pork cuts remain at the reduced value set by OPA in mid-November, but point values of lamb, mutton and nearly all veal items remain unchanged. To effect the reduction in beef items, point values have been in creased for all types of cheese and major canned fish items. Canned oysters were decreased one point to four points a pound. Lard has been reduced from one to two points per pound, but short ening and salad and cooking oils remain unchanged at Ave points per pound. The sharp reduction in beef point values, an OPA statement said, re flects the fact that civilian supplies are expected to be larger in De cember, but the agency warned that it may be necessary to raise meat points again in January or February, and that by spring meat supplies may be less than they are today. "Butter production is beginning to show the seasonal increase which normally .occurs at this time of year," an OPA statement said, "al- | though output is still running at | an abnormally low level." CANNED GOODS POINTS DROP, TOO The new point value list for pro- j cessed foods (green stamp items) shows reductions in 15 items and the temporary elimination of grape- . fruit juice from the rationed list. , In addition, canned souerkrout and ready-to-serve soups will be point free. - Other items reduced from one to 10 points include green and wax | beans, soy beans, all varieties of canned dry beans, including pork and beans; carrots, spinach, dry frozen bsans and certain other! frozen fruits and vegetables. Re ductions were made possible be- j cause of expected increas:s in civil ian supplies of some canned foods. Three items were raised in point value. They arc; Tomato soup and two types of tomato sauces? those sold individually and those sold with cheese in combination pack ages. Point values set in November for jams, jellies, fruit butters and non citrus marmalades remain unchang ed. These were put on the rationed foods list last month. BADGES FOR VOLUNTEERS Volunteer workers on local war price and rationing boards who , have taken a Federal oath of office, and all price panel assistants will soon receive an identification badge from their local board chairman, OPA has announced. The new badges, now being dis tributed from regional headquart- i ers at Atlanta, are in the shape 6f a shield, slightly larger than a ? postage stamp and carry red and ] blue lettering on a white back- p ground which says: "OPA War; Price and Rationing Board Volun-i teer." The badges are made of ? inexpensive plastic. | ; NEW B AND C COUPONS Motorists were reminded this 1 week by District OPA director L.I W. Driscoll that their present B ' and C gasoline coupons will con- j tinue to have a value of two gallons, i but all new gasoline ration books ! issued after Dec. 1 will have a value of five gallons each. These coupons are identified as "B-2" and i'C-2". The total amount of gasoline ra tions to be allowed under the new | type coupons will not be increased, j however. TRUCK RE CAPPING NO LONGER RATIONED Recapping of tires for commer cial vehicles with truck-type camel back rubber stock has been remov ed from rationing by OPA to en courage more recapping which helps tire conservation by reduc ing the demand on war price and rationing boards for replacement tires. Increased stocks of synthetic rubber are now bing released for camelback production, OPA ex plained. TIRE QUOTAS REMAIN THE SAMK Tire and tube rationing quotas for December are not greatly ; changed from those established for 1 November, the Office of Price Ad- i ministration has announced. The continuing shortage of both ' new passenger tires and new truck j tires is reflected in the quotas for the final month of this year. As 1 was true in November, the number of tires available for rationing dur ing December is considerably smaller than in October and earlier months. Because of these reduced quotas, more extensive use must i be made of remapping service, OPA said. I POINT FREE MARMALADES Citrus marmalades which may be 1 bought point free include all mar- ! malades made entirely of citrus ! fruits (principally oranges and lemons), the Office of Price Admin- i istration has explained. Marmalades made of combined citrus and non-citrus fruits are ra- j tionid at the same point value as marmalades made wholly of non citrus fruits, currently at six points a pound. In some reported instances, OPA said, points have been collected for a spread labeled "orange marma lade," apparently because of a mis- \ taken impression that since the label did not include the word "cit rus" it could not be sold point free, j ? Wife : ? "I had tn marry ynn to , find out how stupid you were." Husband: "You ought to have known that when I asked you." | SPECIAL COFFEE SftRirtof tHcTDeal Kite-Flying Trick Helps Major Out Fort Worth, Tex. ? There are more ways than one to skin a cat. This evidently was the adage in Maj. Jeff S. Henderson's mind when he went "fishing" in the air to get what he wanted. A mixup in the flagpole ropes at the Fort Worth Quartermaster De pot, where Major Henderson is di rector of civilian personnel, had caused the flag to be stuck at the top of the pole. ? Guards couldn't climb the pole and the fire department refused to try a ladder because a high wind made the attempt too hazardous. So Major Henderson recalled a trick from his kite-flying days. He attached a cardboard and fishhooks to the flag line. The wind blew the hooks up to the flag and after several attempts the flag was pulled down, securely fastened to the hooks. FINE QUALITIES Father: "I hope you appreciate, young man, that in marrying my daughter you are getting a big hearted, generous girl." Suitor: "I do, sir, and I trust she ? has acquired those fine qualities i from her father." Buy War Bonds and Stamps Outside Trees And Decorations Not Patriotic The town authorities have asked that the people of the community confine Christmas lighting decora tions to Christmas trees inside pri vate homes, according to instruc tions received by them from J. A. Krug, director of the office of War Utilities. Mr. Kurg is also asking that street decorations, community Christmas trees, exterior home decorations and interiors and ex teriors of commercial establish ments dispense with decorations this year insofar as lighting is con cerned. Every effort is being made to direct the saving of fuel, manpower, transportation and materials, it was pointed out. Because of the shortness of daylight over most of the country at Christmas time, necessary consumption of electric ity is at its peak. There has been no mandatory order given by the Office of War Utilities, because they point out, "the American people realize the necessity of this conservation and will do it." QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID FroeBookTells of Ho me Treatment that Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing Over two million bottles of the WILLARD TRE ATM ENT have been sold for relief of symptoms of (list ress arising from Stomacla and Duodenal Ulcers due to Iicni Acid Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomach* Gasslness, Heartburn. Sleeplessness, etc.* duo to Excess Add. Sold on 1 5 days' trial ? Ask for "Wlllard's Missage" which hilly explain* t hi? t roa' rr> ? SYLVA PHARMACY FOR EVERYONE ' This Christmas ? ? GIVE HI SUIT FROM B ELK'S We have good looking, all-wool Suits, in American Twist, Shetlands, in all sizes ? the famous ROCKINGHAM SUITS. Our Quality Suits Are . . . $22.50 , *29.50 First Floor Loads Of Lovely Gifts^-J for WOMEN AND CHILDREN On Our Second Floor Select Yours Now A Large Stock At Belk's Wheelbarrows $2.48 Don't Forget The Place Belk's Department Store "Home Of Better Values " MAIN STREET SYLVA, N. C.
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