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PAGE FOUR (Second Section) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAYJAMt Welcome Home The Following Haywood Men Have Received Honorable Discharges From Military Service, According To Records Received Here. Badge of Honor Discharged Among those discharged from the service during the past week were: Sl. Henry S. Foy, from army at Fort Bragg. Clenn Ernest Giles, from navy at Charleston Naval Station. Pic. Manson E. Clark, from the army at Fort Bragg. Pvt. Fred V. Green, from army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Fred B. Moody, from army at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Bill G. Hill, from army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Hoy C. Parton, from army at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Jack Hay, from army at Fort Bragg. SSgt. Weldon H. Sutton, from army at Fort Bragg. T5 Bobby C. Best, from army at Fort Bragg. T.r John C. Rider, from army at Fort Bragg. Corporal Robert L. Downs, from army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Stewart V. Plcmmons, from army at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Toliver I,. Bramletl, from army at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Thomas L. Howell, from army at Fort Bragg. Jesse J. Moody, Seaman first class, from navy at Nashville, Trim. T4 George II. Thompson, from army at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Carl A. Seter, from army at Fort Bragg. Pic. John B. ncWeese, from army at Fort Bragg. Master Sergeant Milas H. Fer guson, from army at Fort Bragg. i Pfc. Ransom V. Ford, Jr., from ' How women and girls may get wanted relief from functional periodic pain Cardui Is a liquid medicine which uuy wuuicu eay Has Drougnc reuci 1rom the cramp-like agony and ner vous strain of functional perlodio distress. Here's how it may help: 1 Taken like a tonic, it should stimulate appetite, aid diges tion thus hpirt hnilrf re sistance lor the "time" to come. 2 Started 3 days be fore "your time", it should help relieve pain due to purely func tional periodic causes. Try Cardui. If it helps, you'll be glad you did. CARDUI Took f , INTO this 2-wau VjMe J army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Johnny II. Robinson, army at Fort Bragg. T5 Lewis L. Williamson, army at Fort Bragg. T4 George II. Sisk, from at Fort Bragg. T4 Charles Ray Pressley, army at Fort Bragg. Samuel Ruben Jordan. army at Greensboro. Pfc. Hubert Wyatt, from at Fort Bragg. Wilson Rathbone, Seaman second class, from navy at Charleston. Pic. Nathan Hill, from army at Fort Bragg. Jason Woodrow Smiley, Seaman first class, from navy at Charles ton. S. C. llershell Bradley, Seaman first class, from navy at Charleston, S. C. Cpl. Wilfred R. MchafTey, from army at Fort Bragg. Ptc. Hiram E. Wyatt, from army at Fort Bragg. Sgl. James It. Adams, from army at Fort Bragg. SSgt. Foch Rogers, from army at Fort Bragg. Allen Dee Clark, Seaman second class, from navy at Camp Shelton, a. Pfc. Grady C. Shook, Sr., from army at Fort Bragg. CjCcil Cooper. Seaman first class, from navy at Camp Shelton, Va. T4 Benjamin T. Price, from army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Howell W. Freeman, Sr., from army at Fort Bragg. Bethel Heed Hundley, CM, third class, from navy at Camp Shelton, Va. Pic. Charles W. Balentine, from army at Fort Mac-Arthur, Calif. T4 Fred Y. Campbell, from army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Kui'us M. Green, from army at Fort Bragg. James Franklin Albright, Sig third class, from navy at Charles ton. S. C. Dewey Ray Arlington, Seaman first class, from navy at Camp Shelton, Va. Pfc. Priestly E. Osborne, from army at Fort Bragg. Pfc. William Jo Nichols, from army at Fort Bragg. Howard Eugene Sutton, Seaman second class, from navy at Charles ton. S. C. SSgt. Lloyd Putnam, from army at Fort Rragg. Clarence Jackson Moody, from navy at Charleston, S. C. . a from '3 " from I . - Everyday Counselor (Continued from Page 2) should rest with only earthly treas ure. Let these few words their full est import bear: "This, too, shall pass away." When earnest labor brings you fame and elnrv. And all earth's noblest ones upon you smile, Kemember that life's long est, grandest storv. Fills but a mo ment in earth's little while: "This, too, shall pass away." PFC. RUFUS HARRIS, son of Mrs. Rufus Harris and the late Mr. Harris of Waynesville, has been honorably discharged for 21 the army after serving for 21 months overseas. He entered the service in August, 1943, and at the time was employed by the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Pfc. Harris served in the Euro pean theater of operations and was on duty in Italy, France and Ger many. He is entitled to wear the European theater ribbon with four battle stars, the Bronze Arrowhead, the Infantryman Combat badge, and the Good Conduct medal. Fifty men received their dis charges from the armed forces in the Canton area of the county as follows: William Troy Gaddy. Robert Lewin Clark, Charles Otis Lay man, Roy Roosevelt Mathes, How ard Samuel Medford, Russell Gar field Buckner, William Ralph Blaylock, Thelmore Wesl pv T.pH. ford, James Lenoir Blalock, Ger ald Waldo Mooney. James Alden Sizemore, William Carl Snelson, Boyd Franklin Gib son ,Col.), Clarence Medford r,m. gan, Laddie Wayne King, James Edward Lester, George Van Mc Ghee, Marsell Mann, Walter Her man Black, Preston Carlton Pey ton, James Thomas Cooper. Hall Baker Whitworth, J. B. Hill, Jr., Willard Poston, Arthur Eugene Wilson, William Edgar Lambert, Earl Max Tatham, Dois Craig Rog ers, George Hubert Thompson, Joseph Lee Medford, James Boyd Robertson, Van C. Haynes. Charles Fulton Clark, Ervin Odell Clark, Floyd Earl Brown, James Floyd Devlin, Hayden Frank Hyatt, Paul Eugene Bumgardner, Lush Chambers, William Boyd Burch, Grover Davis Rice, James Marlin Hall, Rufus Allen Fowler, William Lester Kell, Jr., Poley Lance, William Oeden Hensnti Eugene Thomas Parks, James Er skine Bass, Carroll Wayne Queen, Andrew Jackson Sumner, Jr. PAY YOUR 1945 TAXES NOW! Penalty Begins February 1, 1946 A Penalty will be imposed on all unpaid taxes February 1st. Pay up today, while the matter is still fresh on your mind, and save this penalty. ii J. E. FERGUSON Tax Collector, Haywood County Letters To Editor (Continued from Page 2) ment can't either. What do we do here? Well, the Quartermaster boys furnish food and clothing for the other fellows. The Medics take care of sick-call for the Quartermaster and other boys, and the Engineers keep up the roads for the trucks. Ordnance furnishes the trucks, and the In fantry pulls MP duty to keep the traffic going. The Signal Corps keeps up their eommiinir-atir.nc inais the way it goes we take care of our own needs and that's about all. It seems to us that it's a pretty exepnsive affair 5) uacta of manpower and the money of American taxpayers. The Philippines are a friendly al lied country and should not require any occupation forces. There's only one way to put an end to this vicious circle. That's for Congress to do something and DO IT NOW. We ask the War Department, we ask Congress, we ask you WHY ARE A QUARTER MILLION TROOPS BEING KEPT IN THE PHILIPPINES? Respectfully Vnnrc A HAYWOOD SOLDIER. Pre-Induction Group Report To Fort Bragg Charles Andy Ferguson was named leader of the pre-induction group from the Waynesville area wnien left here on Monday morn ing for physical examinations at Fort Braee. Thp prnun made on the January quota called from this section. Others in the group were: Nor man Willard Caele. Jack Lowe. Clyde Arlen Sorrells, Luther Con ard, Clarence Conard. Willis Frisby. Lawrence Hueh Carver Walter Revis, Rayford Kirkpatrick Messer and Charles Linberg Ar-rington, Twelve Men Are Reclassified During Week Twelve men were reclassified during the past week under the selective service with the following placed in class 1-A: Richard Hall Taylor, James Dean Kirkpatrick, T. h. Moore, David V.'ilford Green, George D. Long and Ernest Dee Chambers. Placed in class 1-C were: Ray mond W. Messer, Joseph Blalock Compton, Carol Douglas Smith, Walter G. Leming, Charles Dowe West and James Frank Berry. Incendiary Bombs Incendiary bombs in current use comprise magnesium, thermate, phosphorus and oil varieties. In size they range from four-pound "fire sticks," usually drooped in clusters, to "blockburners" or jettisonabla tanks. The effect of some of these bombs against Japanese construc tion has been adequately dem onstrated in the all-incendiary raids on Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya and Yokohama. DR. W. KERMIT fHAB. DENTIST OFFICE IN BOYD BUILDING PHONE 363 WAYNESVILLE. N. c. , i WAITED AT ONCE EMI vvneeiea Hoe The rotary weeder or wheeled hoe Is rapidly increasing in popularity for use in cultivated crops. It is an Ideal tool for breaking the crust and providing a surface mulch. Another tool equally popular is the tonthpd weeder, wheel mounted, or in one instance, attached to the hydraulic un or tne tractor. Highest Prices In History Being Our Milk Trucks Are Picking Up Milk Prom Producers Daily. -S EE- Pet Dairy Products ( Phone 10 Waynesvi minim mm. imMinm nm n Ji i i n ' J ggL A Letter to the Presiden of the United States January 1, 1946 Hon. Harry S. Truman President of the United States The White House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: Your proposal to me in Washington last evening that the wage demand of the United Steelworkers of America-CIO be settled on the basis of a wage increase of 18V2 cents an hour, retroactive to January 1, 1946, can not, I regret to say, be accepted by the United States Steel Corporation for the rea son set forth below. As you must be aware, your poposal is almost equivalent to granting in full the Union's revised demand of a wage increase of 19V2 cents an hour, which was advanced by Philip Murray, the President of the Union, at our collective bargaining conference with the Union in New York a week ago today. In our opinion, there is no just basis from any point of view for a wage increase to our steel workers of the large size you have pro posed, which, if put into effect, is certain to result in great financial harm not only to this Corporation but also to users of steel in general. As I have tried to make clear to you and other Government .officials during our con ferences in Washington over the past few days, there is a limit in the extent to which the Union wage demands can be met by us. We reached that limit when we raised our offer to the Union last Friday from a wage increase of 12 cents an hour to one of 15 cents an hour. This would constitute the highest single wage increase ever made by our steel-making subsidiaries. Our offer of 15 cents was equivalent to meeting 60 of the Union's original excessive demand of a $2 a day general wage increase. Our offer met 75 of the Union's final proopsal of a wage increase of 19 cents an hour. A wage increase of 15 cents an hour, such as we of fered, would increase the direct labor costs of our manufacturing subsidiaries by ap proximately $60,000,000 a year. That is a most substantial sum, and does not take into account the higher costs we shall have to pay for purchased goods and services, when large wage increases generally become effective throughout American industry, as is inevit able after a substantial increase in steel wages. As you know, collective bargaining nego tiations with the Union broke down at the White House yesterday afternoon, because Mr. Murray then refused to budge from his position that a country-wide steel strike must take place, unless steel workers are granted a general wage increase of 19Va cents an hour. Our olt'er of a wage increase of 15 cents an hour was again rejected by the Union. The Union threatened to go ahead with its program for a national steel strike at midnight next Sunday, although such a strike will be a clear violation of the no-strike provision contained in our labor contracts with the Union, which continue by their terms until October 15, 1946. From the outset, we have recognized how injurious a steel strike will be to reconver sion and to the economy of this whole coun try. Most industries are dependent upon a supply of steel for their continued opera tions . We have done everything reasonably within our power to avert such a strike. If a strike occurs, the responsibility rests with the Union. When the Government at the eleventh hour informed us about a week ago of its willingness to sanction an increase in steel ceiling prices, we at once resumed collective bargaining negotiations with the Union. Such price action by the Government was a recog nition by it of the right of the steel industry to receive price relief because of past heavy increases in costs, something which the steel industry for many months has unsuccess fully sought to establish with OPA. I should like again to point out some per tinent facts relative to the wages of our steel workers. Since January, 1941, the average straight time hourly pay, without overtime, of our steel workers has increased more than the ' 33 increase in the cost of living during that period, recenlty computed by Govern ment authorities. Steel workers' wages have kept pace with increased living costs. Such average straight-time pay in our steel-producing subsidiaries was $1.1 1 an hour in each of the. months of September, October and November, 1945, excluding any overtime premium and any amount for correction of possible wage inequities. An increase of 15 cents, in accordance with our offer, would raise such average straight-time pay to! an hour, placing such pay among thehig today in all of American industry, Under our offer of a 15 cent increase, average weekly take-home pay of our ss workers for a forty-hour week would to $51.60, assuming that no overtime is volved. This figure is only $4.54 less ii the actual average weekly earnings of employees, including overtime, in the full war year of 1944, when the aver; work week was 46.1 hours. The 1 is really less, because we will unci continue to have overtime in the future,;; as we have at the present time. In Nov ber, 1945, overtime premiums to ours workers aggregated more than SD Such reduction of $4.54 in weekly take1 pay is the natural conseauence of a s work week of forty hours, and therefore ol lower production. Much as we desire to avoid a steel m we cannot overlook the effect both on Corporation and on our customers American business in general, of the cent an hour wage increase, which you proposed. Such a wage increase must re? in higher prices for steel than have viously been proposed to us bv the Gov ment. Great financial harm would s low for all - -uviu v a riiu noui" to pay higher prices for their steel, h$ wages to their employees, and still haw prices for their own products subject toO! control. Such a hie-h and un justified scale mitrht. wpII annii fin.jnni.il disaster many of the smaller steel companies and a large number of steel fabricators processors. The nation needs the outpu these companies. Increased wages and creased prices which force companies' business can only result in irreparable age to the American people. !n our judgment, it is distinctly in Public interest to take into account the jurious effect upon American industry d unjustified wage increase in the steel i try. After a full and careful consideration your proposal, we have reached (he ' sion above stated. Respectfully yours, BENJAMIN F. FAIKLKSS. President, United States Steel Corp United States Steel C rpo ration
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