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Published Every Thursday in the interest of Cherryville
and surrounding Community.__
Entered aa Second Class Mail matter August 16th, 1906,
tm the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of
Congress March 3rd, 1879. ___
FRED K. HOUSER_Editor and Publisher
MRS. CREOLA HOUSER
(Local and Society Editor)
Telephones Office, 2101 — Resilence, 2601
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THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944
NO SECRET TO U S.
“Robot planes” have been known in the United States since
the last war, and are neither new, nor secret weapons, accord
ing to the National Inventors Council. At least two Americans
invented self-propelled aerial torpedoes similar to the German
robot planes. In fact, the specifications for one of the planes
invented by Americans indicate that it has some qualities which
make it superior to the German weapon.
Lawrence Burt Sperry of the Sperry Gyroscope company
filed application for a torpedo of the airplane type on April 18,
1918. Mr. Sperry’s flying torpedo utilized the principle of
gyroscope stabilization.
The other inventor, now chairman of the National Inven
tors Council, was Dr. Charles F. Kettering, of the General
Motors Research corporation. Dr. Kettering filed an applica
tion on August 26, 1919, for the patent of “an aerial torpedo,
that is, a self-propelled airplane carrying a large charge of ex
plosives and having control mechanism adapted' so to direct its
movement that it may be caused to travel over a desired path
and land upon a predetermined objective.” The plans called for
a biplane type fuselage, driven by a two-cycle gasoline motor
operating a propellor.
THE NEW WONDER DRUG
The wonder drug, penicillin, has become a reality for the
public, after months of erperimentation. The cures effected by
penicillin have seemed so sensational to the people reading about
them, and the mystery surrounding the drug has grown to such
proportions because of the extremely small supply available to
the public, that it is good news indeed to hear that a process
has been found for producing penicillin in large quantities.
Immaculately clean factories now house great vats in which
the penicillin mold is grown. In a few short months produc
tion has been taken out of the bottle stage and expanded to the
point where three-story tanks are used to hold the mold plants.
The medicinal mold is very delicate and perishable. The big
gest problem was to concentrate great quantities of the drug
so that it could be kept in little vials to be shipped all over the
world. This was done by freezing the drug, and drying off the
ice.
CARELESSNESS WORSE THAN FIRE
Ships, men and planes who live to fight another day can
often thank the behind-the-scenes work of civilian fire preven
tion engineers for their second chance. These engineers, loan
ed by the fire insurance industry to the government, have
given effective help in teaching methods of fighting airplane
crash fires. They have also cooperated with the Navy and the
Coast Guard in fighting fire on shipboard. However, these are
but highlights of the far flung activities of the fire prevention
engineers.
Since September, 1940, when the first -1-a-year contract
for fire prevention engineering service was signed with the
War Department, advisory fire protection engineers have been
assigned to 665 War Department projects and have rendered
2,260 reports. For more than a year engineers have been mak
ing complete fire protection surveys on the more important
War Department establishments, posts, stations, hospitals and
depots.
When the war is over, the fire prevention engineers now
lending their talents to the government will be back in offices,
laboratories, and in the field, carrying on the ceaseless battle
against fire.’ They will undoubtedly bring with them new de
vices, learned from the war, that will make homes and factor
ies, places of amusement, and every other man-made structure
a little safer from fire.
With modern scientific methods of preventing fires the
annual fire loss for the nation should be drastically reduced.
Nine fires out of ten are brought about by carelessness. Care
lessness is almost worse than fire itself from the standpoint of
the'engineer. He has learned how to combat fire, but public
carelessness baffles him.
HANDOUTS OR FREEDOM
The farmers of this country rank among the most abun
dant food producers in the world, and they are noted for their
independence. They have developed cooperative marketing or
ganizations that “taik” for them in matters of distribution,
while they concentrate on production. These farmer-owned
business organizations reflect the view of farmers.
Recently, Ernest C. Strobeck, Secretary of the Dairymen's
League Cooperative Association, said of subsidies: “An under
standing of food subsidies requires at the outset a determina
tion of the kind of government that we want. Do we want a
government supported by its citizens—a government of, for
and by the people? Or, do we want a government to which
everyone looks for handouts and detailed regulations of their
everyday lives?"
Farmers have been forced to accept subsidies, although
they continue to oppose them in principle as a threat to the in
dependence of everyone. They are frank in their belief that
higher prices for farm products when necessary are prefera
ble to living at the whim of government authorities. The coun
tUf to fortunate to have that kind of farmers.
But He Rolls Right Along
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Prepared by OFFICI OF WAR INFORMATION
REMINDERS
MEATS, FATS—Red stamps
A8 through Z8, good indefinitely.
PROCESSED FOODS — Blue
stamps A2 through Z8 and A5, j
good indefinitely, !
SUGAR—Sugar stamps 30, 31 ;
and 32, each good for tiive pounds
indefinitely. Sugar stamp 40, good
for five pounds of canning sugar
through February, next year.
GASOLINE—In 17 East Coast
States, A-10 coupons, good thru
August. In States outside the
East Coast area, A-12 coupons,
good through September 21 .
FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 cou
pons, good through September 30.
New Period 1 coupons, now good.
SHOES—Airplane stamps 1 and
2, good indefinitely.
Black Marketeers Sent to Jail
In the first five months of
1944, the Office of Price Adminis
tration enforcement program a
gainst the gasoline black market
sent 28 car owners to jail, con
victed 159 car owners of buying
gasoline with counterfeit or stub
en coupons or without coupons,
took away rations from 775 car
owners, suspended gasoline selling
rights of.1,538 filling stations, put
156 filling stations out of business
and gave jail sentences to 236
counterfeiters, peddlers and gas
oline dealers.
Former Farmer Saves The Day
A former Illinois farmer, a
sergeant, solved a transportation
problem for his Marine buddies
on 'Saipan, the Navy Department
reports. It was impossible to haul
much-needed ammunition up the
rugged, steep lulls by truck and
carry the wounded back. As the
sergeant suggested, a detail of
Maiines, who as civi'ians had nan
dlea live stock, we>-o sent out „n
catch stray oxen. Within two
hoars they had a regular service
into the huts using hand made na
live two wheel carts drawn by the
oxen. “The only trouble so far na.,
been the oxen don’t understand
out language,” the seigeant said.
*111 bet they only understand
those pesky Nips.”
P 'em Maternity and infant Care
Service men’s wives eligible for
emergency maternity care are
urged to apply at the beginning of
pregnancy so that their health and
that of the child can be better
safeguarded, Katherine F. Len
root, chief of the Children's Bu
reau, Department of Labor, says.
Medical, nursing and hospital
care for the service man’s wife
are provided during pregnancy,
childbirth, and for six months af
ter childbirth, and for the infant
throughout its first year, all with
out cost to the service man or his
family. Application blanks for
this care may be obtained from a
physician, the local Red Cross or
local health department.
Soma Prices Up, Some Down
Cabbage, dry onions and sweet
cherries for table use will be up
slightly in retail price, while pick
les and all melons except water
meons will be somewhat lower at
retai as a result of recent Office
of Price Administration actions.
Save Travel By Cancelling Meet*
To release transportation fac
ilities for essential war needs, 70
organizations—business, labor, re
ligious, social, etc.—have cancell
ed their respective conventions,
and 30 organiaztions have drasti
cally cut down attendance at their
conventions, the Office of De
fense Transportation announces.
Fertiliser Restriction* Eased
Farmers may fertilize their gen
eral crops with as many pounds
of fertilizer sb recommended by
the "appropriate State experi
ment station” or at the rate custo
narily used in the area, whichever
is greater, the War Food Admin
istration says. WFA has eliminat
ed restrictions on acquisition and
use of organic nitrogenous fertili
zer materials such as tankage,
nsn scrap, Donemeai, pi uccmcu
manure, peat and humus. Restric
tions remain on edible oil-seed
For" Vet*—16,000 Ho»pital Beds
Sixteen thousand additional
veterans' hospital beds in build
ing’s to be constructed in twenty
states have been recommended
by the Administrator of Veterans’
Affairs. Under this largest build
ing program ever requested by
tlie Veterans' Alministration, the
new beds would be located in hos
pitals in New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Delaware, Virginia, Floii
da, Michigan, Kentucky, Louisia
na, Mississippi or Alabama, Kan
sas or Missouri, Montana or North
Dakota, Colorado, California, Tex
as, Washington, New York, Geor
gia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illi
nois. Addition of these beds
would bring tile total of 121,000
available to veterans.
Three Out of Four Will Can
Three out of four women ex
peel to can fruit and vegetables
at home this season, according to
a nation wide survey reported by
the Office of War Information.
Canned peas, tomatoes, and aspar
agus were restored to rationing
by- OPA after supplies on hand
had sold rapidly, making room for
the new pack. Civilian supplies
of peas, tomatoes and asparagus
are expected "to he 20 per cent
smaller during the current pack
year than during the pack year
ended July 1. To help pack the
current fruit and vegetable crop,
i 700,000 full-time or 1,400,000
part-time workers must be re
| cruited, the War Manpower Com
| mission says. Because of the de
i pendency of overseas service men
on canned fruits and vegetables it
is imperative that these foods be
made available to them.
Swap Help Across Border
Farmers are used to swapping
help, but this summer two coun
tries, the United States and Cana
da, will swap grain harvest help
back asd fourth across the bor
der, the U. S. Department of Agri
culture announces. With border
■ crossing formalities suspended,
| Canadian threshing outfits will
I help harvest the Western Great
Plaiss grain crops until Septem
I her 15, and Americas machines
asd crews later will reciprocate
in the Canalian prairie ptovincos
unlit December 15.
Round-up
Under new OPA instructions,
the amount and type of gasoline
ration- issued to individuals after
June ill) are now available to the
P'-dille or newspapers upon inqui
ry to local rationing boaiiis . . .
OPA lias removed new inner tub
's Com rationing, thus help.n^
consolve tires, inasmuch as good
.'ub<-s proper!., inflated prolong
tire life . . . I .oducers, c lrriers
and handlers ui farm pr. ducts
have been auL.arized and urged
to form committees to assise Of
fice of Defense Transpot tatior,
i isu-ict manageis in putting to
fn.-l use all motortrucks a/adable
‘or transporting faim products,
ODT says.
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ON STIMULATING OTHERS
Down in Durham, N. C., lived a doctor, A. G. Can.
would call him a country doctor, but he was far more man
a doctor, for he had the ability to stimulate people, to
make them want to be at their best, and to do things, o
accomplish something worth while. A joyous, positne
character.
Now, there also lived in the same town a man you have
heard of, a man who flamed across the American sky h e
a meteor. Washington Duke, the founder of the great to-*
bacco fortune. He came after the bitter days of the Cm
war when the people of the South were poor. So pool
that they boiled chestnuts and cotton seed to make a sub
stitute for coffee. And brewed a concoction of blackberry
leaves and sassafras roots to take the place of tea. Well,
out of this sad welter. Wash Duke started his career -
with fifty cents in silver, a pair of mules and two sets ot
chain harness. Hut he left a large fortune to his heirs—
with enough left over to found Duke university.
Well, the man who provided him with the most stimu
lation was l)r. Carr- Once he said, ‘‘1 can take money away
from other men. From Dr. Carr I take away ideas and
his ideas mean more to me than the others’ money.”
When Wash Duke got along in years he decided to hit it
up. See the world. He was in good health and so tar as
health was concerned needed no one to accompany him.
But he did want a traveling companion, a friend to share
his enjoyment and increase his pleasure. More than that
lie would pay all the expenses.
This word was passed around and just about everybody
in North Carolina wanted to go. Especially the big busi
ness men, for maybe they could learn something from the
tobacco master. Well, old Wash Duke passed up all the
outstretched hands and united Dr. Carr to go with him,
Dr. Carr who could stimulate him so. Dr. Carr didn't give
him a single pill while they were gone. Just talked to him
and put the old tobacco gentleman on his toes.
The very essence of teaching is inspiring others to wish
to accomplish things. A great leather is a great inspirer.
Charles W. Eliot was president of Harvard university
for 40 years. In his later days he said: “I have seen a great
many teachers come and go. The knowledge that some
of them had was profound. But I think that the greatest
teachers I have known were those who most stimulated
those around them.” .
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