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TOWN and FARM »•» ||\j WARTIME »»» RATIONING BEGINS MAR. 1 Rationing of canned, dried and frozen fruits and vegetables will begin March 1, and retail sales of more than 200 items to be ru- , tioned will 'be “frozen” on Feb ruary 20. Beginning Monday, February 22. housewives will reg ister for War Ration Book No. 2, which will allow a total of 48 “points” for each member of the family for the month of March. Stamps will have values of 8, 6, 2, and 1. If a family has more than 5 cans per person on hand,1 stamps will be removed from the book in proportion to their ex ! cess holdings. Official point val- ] ues will be made public as soon as stocks are “frozen.” Regis tration probably will be held in local school houses and one mem ber may register for the whole family. Some foods need not be counted. They include canned olives, canned meat and fish, pick les, relish, jellies, jams, preserves, spaghetti, macaroni, noodles and home-canned foods. “Non-deferable Occupations” -- Twenty-nine occupations were announced as “non-deferable” for any reason by the Bureau of Se lective Service of the WMC on February 2. .All occupations in an additional 19 manufacturing, 8 wholesale and retail, and 9 serv ice activities were also called non-deferable. Any man in these occupations is advised to get in to a war job immediately. After April 1 he will not be deferred if he stays in his present job. Even if he has dependents, he will still be drafted unless his work contributes to the war effort. Among tfie non-deferable oc cupations are everything front bootblacks to gamblers. Bartend ers, bar boys, beauty operators, bell boys, bus boys, butlers, char men and cleaners, cosmeticians, custom tailors and furriers, danc ing teachers, dishwashers, door men, elevator operators and starters, errand boys, fortune tel lers, garueners, green keepers, housemen, hairdressers, news boys,, night club managers and employees, porters, private chauf feurs, soda dispensers, ushers, valets, and waiters, with few ex ceptions, are non-deferable re gardless of where the activity is found. Credit cards may now be used at gasoline stations by vehicles carrying a “Certificate of War Necessity” or “T” ration stickers. Most other vehicles cannot use such credit cards. Formerly, sta tions operating 24 hours a day could sell gasoline to all vehicles only during 12 hours a day after that only to those with “T” stick ers. Anyone who has applied for a “Certificate of War Necessity” may get gasoline pending the ar rival of the certificate by notify ing his local war price rationing board. Coupons sufficient for his needs wiH be issued for the first and second three-month pe riod at the same time. Lumber for Farm* Almost six billion board feet of lumber a year will be required on American farms after the war, according to the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture’s Forest Service. More than 5,000 million board feet will be needed for repair and replacement of ibuildings, 700 million feet for buildings on new farms, and 159 million for other MORE FUEL FOR FARM MACHINERY Farm and mining machinery and equipment producers will hereafter be given more fuel oil for their production. Petroleum Distribution Order No. 3, which originally imposed a 40 per cent cut on fuel oils for uses other than space heating and hot water heating, has been amended to leave out farm and mining ma chinery. NEED FOR COTTON FABRIC Every major cotton mill in the country has been urged to pro duce more cotton fabrics and yarns in 1943. Military require ments come first, but there must also be enough cotton fabrics to supply all essential civilian needs. Produces of wool have also been urged to increase production by every means at their command. PRICE SUPPORT FOR DRY PEAS To encourage the planting of 725,000 acres of peas, the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture will support the prices of dry peas at $6.50 for U. S. Grade No. 1, and $5.25 for U. S. Grade no. 2, per hun dred pounds, in bags, F. O. B. country shipping points. Desig nated varieties are Scotch Green, Alaska, First and Best, Marrow fat, and White Canada. Effective immediately, the Food Distribu tion Administration will buy peas of those varieties at the prices announced. COAL IF YOU NEED IT Coal producers and dealers have been told by the Solid Fuels Coordinator to avoid any discrim ination in meeting the essential needs of civilians for coal wher ever the supply is low. Respon sibility for seeing that no one suffers for lack of coal for fuel is placed in dealers and distribu tors of the coal industry. Supply is considered sufficient to prevent any hardships if it is properly distributed To Discharge Men Over 38. Procedure to discharge men of 88 years and over from the arm-1 ed forces will hereafter be simpli-1 fled. No longer will be it ne cessary to have a trained replace ment before a man of 38 can get a discharge. Application for dis charge must be in writing and show that the man will be em ployed in essential industry. HELP FOR SMALLER WAR PLANTS Owners of small, distressed plants that can be used to pro duce war-essential materials have been urged to send the answers to 10 questions to their nearest WPB office by Lou Holland, dep uty chairman of WPB on Smalle: War Plants. The questions are— 1. Firm name and full address. 2. Kind of business and products normally produced 8. Kind of work equipped to handle. 4. Av erage number of employees a year ago and now. 5. Dollar valui of factory sales in 1941 6. I)o! lar value of factory sales In months, for past six months. 7. Dollar value of business of all kinds on hand now. 8. General description of equipment. 9. Kind of work on hand, and how much. 10. If labor force is de pleted, to what extent can it hr ret lenished. 56 BILLION FOR CIVILIAN NEEDS It will take about 56 billion dollars worth of goods and serv ices to maintain the civilian needs of this country on a minimum or bedrock basis, according to J. L. Weiner. Office of Civilian Sup ply of WPB. That 56 billion tig ure-is 32 per cent less than the value of goods and services in 1941. No Price Rise Prices of tomatoes, peas, snap beans, and sweet corn are not likely to be higher this year than last, because of the U S. Dept, of Agriculture’s program of price support. Growers' of those fourh major canning crops will get prices substantially above those of last year, through Gov ernment price support, but these prices will not be passed on to the consumer. This is part of the program to stabilize the cost ol Although minimum prices are specified by states, lor the coun try as a whole minimum prices to paid to growers, contrasted to the actual prices paid in 1942. are tomatoes, $24.00 per ton com pared with $19.37, green peas $81.50 per ton compared with $63.93, sWeet corn, $18 a ton compared with $13.50, snap beans, $91 a ton compared with $75.38. LIVING COSTS RISE 1 2 PER CENT Living costs on December 15, 1942, were 1-2 per cent higher than on Novembei 15, the Dept, of Labor reported. Total rise for America’s first war year was 0 per cent, and the total increase since the outbreak of war in Europe is 22.1 per cent, as com pared with almost 35 per cent in the same period of the last war. Prices under OPA control rose 1.3 per cent during the month, prices under control of other Gov 1 ernment agencies did not rise at all, and prices not under any con trol rose 2 per cent. SILK STOCKINGS FOR WAR Silk and nylon stockings— 232,158 pounds of them—were donated by American women during the month of December 16 to Jariuary 15, for two months, the total was 372,150 pounds, representing 7,500 pairs of stock ings. Powder bags for big guns, parachutes, and other vital war products are made from silk and nylon reclaimed from old stock ings. rLULnnL tmrLU I ivic-IN l The smallest net monthly change in civilian employment in the Federal Government was re corded during November, when 2.3 per cent more employees were added, and Civil Service Com mission. At the end of November total civilian employment in Fed eral service totalled 2,750,101 as compared with 2,687,093 a month before and 1,546,131 a year be fore. WAR EXPENDITURES Expenditures for munitions and war consCruction—piianes, tanks, ships, guns, ammunition, etc.—will total about $157,000, 000,000 from June 1940 through the end of 1943, if prices are held at present levels. That will be about $78 billion less than these goods would cost if prices were not controled and were al lowed to follow the inflationery pattern of World War 1 in 1914. MORE MUNITIONS Planes, tanks, guns, and other military equipment and supplies that rolled off American .assem bly lines in December 1942, was 14 percent greater than in No vember, said Donaldi Nelson, chairman of WPB. It was the greatest volume ever produced by U. S. factories in one month. During 1943 it is planned to pro duce about twice as much muni tions as in 1942. SUPPORT MILLFEEDS PRICE Prices of millfeeds will be sup ported by the Commodity Credit Corporation to flour millers at $1.50 per ton below the OPA ceilings. This is part of the USDA’S effort to prevent a rise in flour and break prices to the consumer, and to encourage in creased production of livestock by keeping a supply of millfeeds -------■ BOY SCOUTS MEAN BUSINESS & Seating’* ^ in ?43 BtlWttBW* Corryant>jVictery ^ “Toughen up, Buckle down, and Carry on to Victory”, is the Boy Scout major task this year. Their 1,570,000 members are in the conflict to the hilt on the home front, doing everything boys of Scout age can do to help win the war speedily and a just peace permanently. 'available PROTECTS AGAINST FORGERS The United States Secret Ser v*iee has tinned its big trims a . ..airtst the I'.'t >_»•«■ r of Government •■Hoebs in a dine to protect, par , ticularly, men in the armed the 1 ees. i (;e rSSS has siu-c ssfuli-y ei.eci ed i >t nterfciting reducing' losses from bad money by 5per cent in l.i|_\ Losses have been cut set percent in five years. Per sons receiving' Government checks from boys in the armed services, i >r other-;, are urged to take ev ery prei aiifion against pilt'efinji’ of their mail. ADD 3 PERCENT TAX I The 3 pi! cent freight tax im posed Nov. 1. I p ig, may be add: ed to delivered prices by proces sors of animal product fcedstUffs. according to OPA Prices of such feeds are held to a lipid maximum under Price Regulation No. 7 1. WANT TO SELL TIRES? I f you ,\va : to be a dealer in automobil tires and tubes, and have both ■>: m rieiice m this line and a suitable place of business, von can now get a limited stock of passenger car tires and tub es. OPA has found that there is an insuiricient number of lire dealers and other establishments to handle tin- lire inspections re quired bv law. and so i. ciicour ast'im.'- more dealer-. RENEW “R" AND ‘‘C ’ CARDS BY MAIL Holders of "IP and gas oline ration coupons may renew them by mail now instead of ap ipearing pers< naily before local war price and rationing boards. Same rules will apply to non highway uses of gasoline, such as that for farm machinery and industrial equipment. PRIORITIES ON UNDERWEAR A ‘‘priority list” of heavyweight undergarments, for which stand ard specifications and prices arc j being worked out, is being pre pared hy OPA The list will com prise kinds of underwear consid ered most essential for civilian MUST KEEP ‘WARTIME “Wartime" undoubtedly lias caused some difficulties and in conveniences, but we will have to keep it for the (juration, in the opinion of Donald M. Nelson, chairman of WPB. Mr. Nelson feels that wartime has resulted in savings which are highly im portant to the war effort; RELEASE 879 TRUCKS A total of 87!> trucks were re leased under the truck rationing program during the week ending January 30, the Automotive Di vision of WPB has announced. “ECONOMIES” PERMITTED RETAILERS Just how far can a retail store go in reducing their expenses without reducing their ceiling prices? OPA has decided that re gional administrators and dis trict managers of OPA offices can rule on that question Under the retailers’ Economy for Vic otry Plan, retailers have in some cases eliminated all deliveries and many store services. soLdiers family ALLOWANCE If a soldier’s family is not get ting their allowance under the .Servicemen’s Dependents Allow ance Act, it. may be because the soldier has failed to file a formal application for it. Manv soldiers declared their intention to file such an application last summer —before application blanks were available—hut have not filed the actual application. The official War Dept. A.G.O. Form No. 625 must be made out by the soldier and filed with his organization commander. “YOU AND THE WAR” A 32-page pamphlet to help civilians get into war service and protecting programs of their com munities, entitled “You and the War’’ is now available. Indexing more than too occupations and shills needed by Civilian Defense organizations, “You and the War" can be obtained from lo cal defense councils and region al offices of OCI). CONVICT GOUGING LANDLORDS One of the rich leaders among rent gouging landlords in the Vallejo, Calif., area has been convicted in a criminal action and fined $400. Sixty-nine land lords have been forced to refund illegally collected rents to 154 tenants, to a total of more than $5,000, and orders have been is sued by OPA which wall reduce the rents in the Vallejo area more than 10,000 a month. Tlie actions grew out of complaint? tn Navy men who were forced to pay as high as $05 for two small rooms in an auto court, and in one case $420 a month for one room and meals for an officer, his wife, and one child. ADVISE COMPLETING EDUCATION ‘‘It is advisable”, said a recent statement of the War Manpower Conimisson, “that young people have the fullest possible oppor tunity consistent with the war effort to complete their educa tion. Those with special aptitud es and capacity for further train ing should contniue their educa tion in order to develop their maximum abilities applicable to war and post-war needs.” Youths under 18 can best help the war effort by continuing in school the WMC said Many of them will have to replace persons who have gone into war work, hut youths should enter the la bor force only with adequate safeguards for their health and welfare, present and future. STOP RISE IN CLOTHING It is evident that the rise in clothing prices was effectively stopped by the General Maximum Price Regulation. Prices of ail kinds of clothing rose 25 8 per cent between spring of 1941 and May, 1942. Prices were then established as of March, which not only halted price rises, but actually lowered some prices. At the end of December, 1942, cloth ing prices averaged .2 percent lower than prices before the G. M. P. R. went into effect. TODAY and * TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON COLDS . . cure It is an amazing tiling', in this age of medical and scientific mi acles, that no one has been able to figure out how to cuie a coin mon cold. Our doctors cun take us a pint and put us together again. lm can use blood of one man to the life of another, they can shoot a liquid into our flood stream which will cure diphtlier.a or typhoid fever, they can make the blind see, the lame walk aim have often brought the dead Inn to life—but when it comes , << fighting a case of the snilFles tin medical profession is an almost total loss. MEDICINES .... expense Although it seems apparent, that there is no real cure for a coin, as a nation we probably sp» nd over a billion dollars a year to make sure. In addition to the fortune we pay to doctors to brat them tell us to “take it easy for a few days," we spend many lain dreds of millions for our pet cold remedies or those suggested by our friends. It is an interesting experiment, when you have a cold, to ask unci’ person you see what he or si.e suggests you to do for it There is hardly a person who won't have something to suggest, home will be enthusiastic about one medicine, some another—and if you interview enough people you will finally get a list of. every thing on the druggist's shelf. But the very fact that then i such wide disagreement what might help is pretty go..,; evidence that none of them me going to perform miracles fo you. FDA ... FTC The Food and Drug administiu tion and the Federal Trade can mission have, for years, can i d on campaigns to stop every maim ! faeturer of a product for role from making exaggerated claim. As a result of constant pro sure and a general tightening tip of the -laws, there isn't a singe, cold iproduct which is now pet mitted to use the words ''cun on its package or in its advei; i ing. The control has gone so in fact, during the past two yoa> . that the claims on most i tick ages now discourage the chaser. for years l nave nan a mi' ite remedy which I felt ready din Set rid of my colds tjuiei-iv.. When 1 first started using; ii the*:, was a statement on the botf that my money would be refunded unless it relieved my <■• > 1< 1 within 24 hours. Recently, however, the la be has been changed radically ai the present label is so nega \i ill its claims that I have a - most of my faith in that pi ' c I never did know wh.ethoj medicine really helped, but n ing those strong claims on label seemed to make me fee: though I was well on the roan recovery as soon as I opened bottle. LOSS . . offensive There are, of course, a lot ...; | medicines which do make biva' i ing easier and which make a coin less hard to bear. So, in spite there being no cures, there [ are reasons why most of us ai willing to spend money oh c. ,• | medicines. As for seeing the doctor, that I also seems strongly advisable j the case of a bad cold. Not that i the doctor can do much about : in j cold, but he can tell if we art I threatened with pneumonia ■ , have symptoms ol any other seri ous ailments which often aem-m pany or follow colds . Since the common cold iiseif results in the loss of more man SUIT SALE We are giving 10% reduction on all Suits for Cash. Get one now if you expect to buy one this year. Our selection include high-quality Worsteds, Twists and Gaberdines. They’re smart, well-ta‘lored Suits. All $19.50 Suits for $17.55; $22.50 for $20.25; and $25.00 Suits, $22.50. Harrelson Co. CHERRYVILLE, N. 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