1'
WEATHER FORECAST
Much colder tonight, preceded by
scattered showers.
Sunset today, 6:52 p. m.; sunrise
Tuesday, 8:21 a. m.
MONROE MARKET
Cotton, short, lb 21c to 21 o
Cotton, long, It) 30c to 31c
Cotton Seed, bushel 70V40
Eggs, dozen 30c to 33c
Hens, pound 18c to 23c
Corn, bushel $1.10
PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
,' neai, misnei iu
SEVENTIETH YEAR
MONROE, N. C, UNION COUNTY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1943
A
SEMDLY, $2.00 A YEAR
Weekly Report
Of Legislature
Bills Of General bterest And
Of Major Importance
To Public
WINE, BEER BILL UP
Wine and beer measures held the
spotlight of public Interest during the
past week. In which 130 new bills were
introduced In the House and Senate.
After a number of local bills autho
rizing various boards of county com
missioners to regulate sales of beer
and wine on Sunday and to impose
a "curfew" during the week had been
Introduced, Representatives Poole and
Cass came in with a State-wide beer
and wine bill which would prohibit
.sales of beer and wine between 11:30
p. m. and 7 a. m., every day, make It
unlawful to allow consumption on the
premises between midnight and 7 a. m.
every day, and authorize any, county
or municipality to prohibit sales on
Sunday. A new set-up for dealing
with the wine situation would be
created by two bills introduced by
.Representative Caveness, HB 143, "To
encourage the growing or grapes,
fruits, and berries in North Carolina;
to increase wine taxes; and to pro
vide ways and means of administer
ing "The Wine Control Act of 1943'."
would place a tax on "table wines"
(not over 14 percent alcoholic con
tent) of 15c per gallon, and a tax of
35c per gallon on "dessert wines" (14
.percent to 20 percent.) 2 He per gallon
of the taxes 'would be appropriated to
use of the "Wine Control Division"
for the administration of the Act, and
-another 2ttc per gallon of the taxes
wpukl be set aside for the promotion
of grape culture, HB 143 would create
A "Wine Control Division" In the De
partment of Revenue under a Director
who would have power to adopt, with
the approval of the Governor, rules
And regulations with respect to produc
tion and transportation of wine.
An even dosen bills dealing with
matters connected with Superior Court
clerks were introduced In a single day
by Representative Shreve, and three
days later he brought in three more.
Those bills would: reduce the time
tor filing claims against estates from
12 to 6 months after publication or
first notice and reduce time for pub
lishing notice to creditors to 4 weeks;
authorise payment of dower Interest
in cash when real estate is sold to
make assets to pay debts, unless the
widow elects to receive the Income;
reduce the time for bringing actions
upon claims rejected by a fiduciary
tram 6. .months to SO days; -discharge
the representative of a dependent from
liability for assets paid out if the
claim was not presented within six
months after first publication; reduce
the time for filing claims against
estates from 6 months to 90 days after
personal service; require guaiiians,
executors, administrators, collectors
and trustees under wills to file annual
accounts within 10 days after an order
to do so entered by the clerk, instead
of allowing 20 days thereafter as at
present, and likewise reduce the time
lor obeying orders to executors, admin
istrators and collectors to file inven
tories and accounts of sales; authorize
the appointment of a trustee Instead
of a guardian for insane persons.
lunatics or idiots over 21 years of age,
and strike out the authority of the
clerk to name a trustee rather than a
guardian for persons Incapable of
managing their own affairs by reason
of infirmities of old age or disease
correct a defect in the law with re
spect to the reduction of a guardian's
bond upon deposit with the clerk of
registered securities, so that the bona
would be reduced proportionately; pro
vide for the probate of wills of mem
bers of the armed forces and merchant
marine, executed while in active ser
vice, upon the oath of three credible
witnesses as to the genuineness of the
signature; allow a voluntary filing of
a final account by am executor or ad
ministrator at any time after 12
months from the first publication of
notice to creditors; require a mini
mum Increase bid and deposit of $20
In foreclosure sales and sales by vari
ous fiduciaries, and provide that In
crease bid must be 10 percent of the
first $500 of the sale price, and S per
cent of the excess over $500; and
amend the law with respect to Invest
ments by the clerk.
State Guard
The North Carolina State Guard re.
ceived attention in five separate bills,
.which would appropriate $5300 for
each of the next two fiscal years- for
the administration of nine additional
units, $118,901.95 for equipment for
the next biennlum, and $103,349.12 for
each of the next two fiscal years to
defray the costs of a ten-day encamp
ment; authorize . the use of school
busses for the transportation of the
State Guard or National Guard to
and from places of encampment when
ordered by the Governor; and fix
the age limits for membership In the
State Ouard at not less than It nor
: more than 60. ' - . . -
For the duration of the war, the
speed limit -would be set at 35 mph,
subject to increase or decrease by the
Governor and Council of State to eon
form to the national war policy, by
HB 198, while HB 189 would make the
speed laws applicable to public and
private ambulances.
Other bills of general . interest In
troduced during the week would: re
move defendants in actions to fore
close county and . municipal tax liens
from' the class permitted to enter a
defense after judgment has been ren
dered on substituted service; extend
full benefits of the Teachers' and
: State Employees' Retirement System
' to county extension- agents; estthnsh
a training school tor delinquent Negro
girls; require that appointments of
county superintendents of public wel
fare, county health officers and gams
protectors be approved by the county
commissioners of the county In which
they are to, serve; provide for the pur
chase and dltsribution of sets of the
new General Statutes to Superior
"virt turin and clerks: make it man
datory tV proceed against personal .
property before f institution of fore-
Believes In and Practices Buying Bonds
ftj Spuds'- IrHplfjK
HE MEANS BUSINESS and not business as usual. Harry J. Howard
(left) of Monroe, a distributor In the Camp Sutton Area Engineer's depart
ment and a man who realizes there's a war on, Is shown here turning over
$3,000, Including all his salary checks, uncashed, to Lieutenant Fred C. Hens
ley, executive and War Bond officer of the department, to purchase bonds.
This brought his total bond investment, since the war began, to $13,000
a record hard to beat!
NAME COMMITTEE FOR
COLLECTION OF SALVAGE
Many Waste Items Now Considered
Essential.
The organization which will super-
vise the collection of salvage mate
rials in Union county Industrial plants
was announced this week by Joel W.
Griffin of Monroe, county chairman.
Members of the Union county group,
he said, are cooperating in a "perma
nent, continuing effort by Industry
to keep the steel mills going."
W. M. Parsley of Charlotte, state
industrial salvage manager for the
War Production Board, pointed out
that materials frequently considered
waste in one- industry may be err ort--)
ginal source of raw materials in an
other. "In this case," Mr. Parsely said,
"the industry benefiting by this sal
vage collection is the steel business,
the backbone of the munitions indus
try." B. B. Gosset of Charlotte is state
chairman of the salvage committee
set up for the Industrial division of
the WPA. J. Lee Wilson of Lexing
ton, N. C, is Chairman for the Eighth
District of which Union county Is a
part.
With this setup in Union county,"
Mr. Parsley said, "it appears that the
salvage organization in this area is
in competent hands."
Rresldent plant salvage managers
are as follows: Monroe Manetta Mills,
John M. Carroll; Monroe Mills, D. H.
Anderson; Union Mills, D. H. Ander
son; Southern Cotton Oil Company,
R. E. Connell. Waxhaw Waxhaw
Cotton Mills, Lloyd Haywood.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Admissions: Mrs. Archie Pittman
and baby girl R3, Monroe; Mrs. Arthur
Bylberg and baby girl, Monroe; Mrs.
Henry Bass, Marsh ville; Kirs. Charles
Pegley and baby boy, Monroe; Mrs.
L. S. Mullls, R2, Monroe; Flora Rich
ardson, R4, Monroe; Mrs. Frances Mc
Ginn is Tate, Monroe; Ben Griffith, R4,
Monroe; Edison Williams, Monroe;
Mrs. Robt. Presley, Monroe; Chas. Wal
ter Helms, Charlotte; Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth Deese, Rl, Monroe; Mary For-
sythe, Wlngate; Mrs. Flnley Baker and
baby boy, Monroe; Mrs. D. C. Plyler,
R2, Matthews; Jessie Jo Jackson, Rl,
Mt. Croghan, S. C: Mrs. Homer Mor
gan, R3, Monroe; Mrs. Creighton Webb,
Monroe; Mrs. J. C. Mangum, R2,
China Grove.
For treatment: Mrs. Robert Todd
and baby boy. R2, Waxhaw; Mrs.
Reece Williams, R3, Monroe; Charles
L Helms, R5, Monroe; Mrs. V. B.
Whitley and baby girl, R3, Monroe;
Fate Secrest, Monroe; Mrs. W. V.
Shaw, RS, Monroe; Mrs. S. J. Robin
son, Rl, Monroe; Mrs. Beamon Craig,
R5, Monroe; Mrs. L. T. Bragg ana
baby girl. Monroe; Mrs. Elbert Simp
son and baby boy, Monroe; Jim O.
Williams, R2, Monroe; Mrs. u. o.
Laney. R4. Monroe; Mrs. J. H. Mills,
Monroe:' Pesrsrv Morie. Rl. Marsh ville;
Mrs. Archie Pittman and baby girl,
R3, Monroe.
closure actions for ad valorem taxes;
require payment of poll and property
taxes before deeds can be probated
or registered; make the provisions
of the' Veterans Employment Prefer
ence Act apply to veterans of the
present war; and require the judge in
a divorce action, where the pleadings
contain na allegations regarding- the
care, custody or maintenance or minor
children of the marriage, to order the
superintendent of public welfare to
Investigate and report' to the court
whether there are minor children in
volved and to make rsoommendations
concerning them, -
The only bills of general Interest
ratified during-, the week were: SB 3,
creating a State post-war reserve fund.
and HB 36 wnicn exempt memners
of the armed forces from payment of
poll taxes for the duration of the war
and for the first. listing period there
after. Reported unfavorably, by the
committee was SB 42, which would
have made it unlawful for anyone but
an election official or a voter In pro
eess of voting to possess an official
primary or election ballot prior to' an
election, : . jj. - -f .,
Reds Crush
Nazi Hordes
Stalingrad's Siege Forces Of
330,000 Men Nearly
Wiped Oat
100,000 SLAUGHTERED
Virtually ' complete destruction of
Hitler's proud Stalingrad-siege forces
of 330,000 men, with smashing of two
cracK nozi armies. Killing oi luu.uuu in
the last 20 days alone, and capture of
a field marshal and 16 generals was
announced by the Soviets late Sunday
nignt in a triumphant special commu
nique. Russian 'troops, who first turned
Stalingrad Into a valient fortress and
then made it a death trap for the
Nazi invaders and scene of the worst
German defeat of the war, have wiped
out one of the last two remaining Ger
man suicide garrisons at the Volga
city, crushing the enemy pocket west
of the central part of Stalingrad, it
was stated in the communique broad
cast by Moscow and recorded here by
the Soviet radio monitor.
Taken prisoner was Field Marshal
Gen. Frledrich Paulus, commander of
the crushed German Sixth army and
Fourth tank army, and 16 of his
generals. Paulus, whose promotion
from colonel general was announced
only today by the Germans, is the
first Nazi field marshal to be taken
prisoner in the war.
All that remained of the huge
armies that Hitler sacrificed at Stalin
grad was a pocket in the northern
factory area of the city, and this too
was being hemmed in ever closer by
the Soviet vise.
Thus was the fate of the German
forces which rejected a Soviet ultima
tum earlier this month to surrender
or die.
The Russians declared that informa
tion from the captured generals show
ed the army trapped by the offensive
begun in November numbered 330,000
troops, and not 220,000 at first esti
mated. In the general offensive launched
January 10 after the ultimatum was
rejected, "Soviet troops according to
Incomplete data have destroyed over
100,000 German officers and men," the
communique asserted.
In the last four days alone, it said,
18,000 Germans were taken prisoner,
making a total of 46,000 laying down
their arms since the last Soviet drive
was begun 20 days ago.
Stupendous quantities of tanks,
planes, guns, and other war material
were captured, the Russians said.
The 16 captured general Included
Lieut Gen. Schmidt, Paulus' chief of
staff, and the quartermaster general
of the German Sixth army Of the
other 14, ten were German lieutenant
generals,- two were German major
generate, and .. two . were Rumanian
generals.
-Seven colonels also were gathered up
in the final liquidation drive.
"In the course of the fighting and
also according to evidence given by
German generals who were taken pris
oners, it bas been established that by
November 23, 1942, at least 330,000 of
the enemy were encircled, including
construction and police detachments,
and not 220,000 as reported before,"
the communique said.
, DEAR RECLASSIFICATIONS
Local Draft Boards announce the
following reclassifications:
-Harold H, Blount, I-B; . William
Pink Btevens,' 1-A; William Calvin
McOulrt, l-B; Thomas Durwood Win
chester, J-A; Reece B. Mackey, 4-A;
John Vivian Kindley.. Jr, 1-A; Henry
Junior Brace, 1-A; craven DeWltt
Funderburk,, S-A; Jack Plyler Baker,
3-C; -Charles Herbert Pierce, P;' Fred
La than, 1-A; Bin Dudley Milton, 1-A;
Herman worth JTirette, i-a.
Alcan Road booms outposts, suggests
post-war possibilities. . -- v-
THE WAR IN BRIEF
The last Germans In central
Stalingrad have been liquidated
and the Sixth army commander of
a 330,000-man force, Field Marshal
Frledrich Paulas, and 16 generals
have surrendered, a triumphant
special Russian communique an
nounced last night.
Coupled with the Stalingrad vic
tory were continued triumphs in
the North Caucasus beyond re
captured Maikop and Tikhoretsk
and In the Voronezh sector where
the remnants of nine other trap
ped German divisions were being
cut up.
British bombers set great fires in
the battered port of Hamburg and
unloaded explosive Cargoes on oth
er targets in western Germany In
quick follownp of their two morale-shattering
attacks on Berlin
Saturday while Hitler's henchmen
were exhorting thefhome front to
more sacrifices and) a fight to the
death.
In Tunisia the Germans cracked
the lightly equipped French lines
60 miles west ef Sfax near Sldi
Bouzid. Allied ' air, power was
thrown Into the breach, blasting
the German tank, artillery and in
fantry columns' four times, de
stroying at least 12 of the attack
ing tanks.' The battle continued.
THE HOWARDS BELIEVE
IN LETTING 'EM HAVE IT
Turn Large Sums Into War Bonds
With Pleasure.
(Public Relations Office, Camp Sutton)
"Give 'em the works!" may not be
the family motto of the Harry J.
Howards, who used to run a salvage
yard on the Waxhaw road near Mon
roe, but it would do very nicely if
they needed one. They are a clan
who take their part In the war effort
very much to heart. Lieutenant Fred
C. Hansly, War Bond Officer in the
office of the Camp Sutton Area En
gineer, discovered this recently when
Harry J., now a distributor in the
same department, brought him $4,000
including all the salary checks he had
received since he started work there
In October, and turned it in as pay
ment on eight $500 War Bonds.
This action, striking as it is, is by
no means the Howards major effort
toward promoting Axis defeat. When
the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor,
Howard and his two sons, Austin and
Frank, were operating a successful
salvage business and running a small
farm on the outskirts of Monroe.
Howard, a field artilleryman In the
last war, foresaw that this one would
be. "no Joke" and. after a family coun
cil of war it was decided to liquidate
the business.
At that time they had over 1,400
automobiles in varying stages of repair
in the Junkyard. Some of these could
have been put in commission and re
sold, but the nationwide salvage cam
paign was under way now. Howard
had been picked as Union County
chairman and knew which way duty
pointed. The three Howards took
their tools and torches and went to
work on the field of disabled vehicles.
cutting up good and bad alike.
They filled two freight cars a day
with scrap metal for a period of
months. Austin and Frank were called
before the draft board, deferred as
qualified machinists and took them
selves to the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Howard hired help to take their places,
outpaced' the influx of junk and
cleared his yard by October. He then
took the entire proceeds, some $10
000 and put it in War Bonds. Fol
lowing this he presented himself to
the Sutton Area Engineers omce
looking for a job. Hired as a distribu
tor, he went wholeheartedly about
making himself useful, but it was not
until the bond-episode recently that
his employers realized that he was
doing it for nothing. Further inquiries
elicited from Howard, who is the re
verse of a braggart, the information
that his sons were duplicating his ef
forts up north, retaining only enough
money for their board and lodging,
sending the rest back monthly to buy
bonds.
Questioned as to what he was living
on, minus his salary, Howard claimed
that the farm saw to his and Mrs.
Howard's immediate needs. "We have
enough home-canned goods for some
time" he said, "if they ration it, we
wont have to crowd anybody."
Sparked by this performance of Mr.
Howard's and cajoled by Lieutenant
Hensley and James H Glenn, admin
istrative assistant in the office and
former Proctor and Gamble salesman
ager in West Virginia, the balance of
the .Civil Service personnel in the
Area Engineer's department have
turned in an enviable record of bond
purchases on the allotment plan.
An estimated 43 percent of em
ployees had subscribed to the ten-
percent-of -salary plan prior to De
cember. A graphic "thermometer
chart," showing the office temperature
In subscription percentages, plus a
"pep" speech given by Lieutenant
Hensley and the institution of preference-scape,
regarding time-off and
other features oh a bond-subscription
basis, pushed the percentage to the
100-mark by the second week in Janu
ary. Many employees and officials
have also made extensive bond pur
chases beyond and apart from their
subscriptions, hundred dollar trans
actions being not uncommon.
RELIC BACK ON RAILS
Street Car Called Into Service
By
Transit Emergency
An ancient renc of the gay nineties.
an 18M street car, is back on the rails
again In Vancouver, British Columbia.
It was once a summer car with re
movable sides and. cross seats.
OaUed Into service by the transit
emergency, the vehicle has been en
tirely rebuilt to measure four feet
longer cnan tna usual car ana w m
43 passengers. .
i The national ' situation . relative to
the suddIv and demand for farm labor
.as eased slightly on January 1, com-
oered with that which prevailed on
October 1.
Secretary Knox
In Bomb Raid
Visits Pacific Ocean Area
And Goes Through Two
Japanese Bombings
TOKYO TcTbE BOMBED
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox,
Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz, command
er in chief of the Pacific ocean area,
and Admiral William F. Halsey, com
mander of the South Pacific force,
were under Japanese air attack twice
within the past two weeks.
The first attack was a short one at
Espirltu Santo, In the New Hebrides,
and the second one, much heavier, of
seven hours duration, was on Guadal
canal. No casualties were reported In
either attack.
Secretary Knox described them as
like bombing attacks in 1918 and that
the Japanese high level bombardment
was "very Inaccurate."
About the attack on Espirtu Santo,
where Admiral Halsey met him, the
Secretary said:
"It was the first attack there. How
the Japs got the Information we
don't know, but they didn't do us
any harm, except to keep us awake."
"I think there are darn good pros
pects of an air attack on Tokyo," he
said in answer to a question, but when
or how It will hit, I will not say, but
they better get ready.
"I think the Japs will fight a tough
hard and persistent war. I will not
discuss strategy but will say we have
just begun to fight and haven't hit
our hardest blows yet.
"Every hase has an abundance of
supplies and men are living well and
the spirit of our men everywhere Is
magnificent.
"Our submarines are doing a magni
flcent job and operations against the
Japanese line of communications are
going at a good rate. I think destruc
tion of shipping is a matter of great
concern to the Japanese. Knowing
their shipping resources and their
capabilities of building, we can readily
understand their concern.
"In the Atlantic the submarine war
situation is still a tough problem to us
and lots of losses are ahead there for
us.
In the Pacific I cannot speak too
well of the High Command. The
nearer to the front the less the dis
tinction of the various services. You
can't tell the army, navy and marines
apart. All are animated by the same
determination to come to grips with
the enemy and end the war as soon as
possible and have abounding confi
dence, in their ability to do it."
The Secretary's trip was a most
complete Inspection, involving more
than 20,000 miles in air travel from
Washington and return. He said its
purpose was to get first hand informa
tion on how to spend funds and speed
the movement of supplies.
BIG RAID DISTURBS
NAZIS 10TH' BIRTHDAY
Bombers Time Attack As Goering
Prepares To Talk.
British planes making their first
daylight raid in history on Berlin Sat
urday twice crashed Hitlers gloomy
tenth anniversary party, and their
bombs upset the broadcast explana
tions of Reichs-marshal Goering and
Propaganda Minister Goebbels as to
why the German armies are meeting
reverses in Russia.
Hitler was reported off somewhere
with his soldiers" when the RAF's
fast Mosquito bombers struck pre
cisely at 11 a. m., Berlin time, as the
be-medalled Goering was ready to
talk at the Air ministry In the heart
of Beerlln.
Explosions could be heard over the
Berlin radio here in London. There
were shouts, too, indicating turmoil
within the ministry as the plump
Goering and his audience scrambled
for shelter.
The Berlin radio remained on the
air to advise listeners from time to
time that "there will be a few more
minutes' delay in Marshal Goerlng's
speech."
Then at 4 p. m. the Mosqultos struck
again, this time as Goebbels was be
ginning to talk in the Sportspalast.
The propaganda minister had been
delegated by Hitler to read a procla
mation on one of the rare occasions
when Hitler has not personally spoken
to his people on the anniversary of
his rise to power in 1933.
No British planes were lost in the
first raid, and only one was missing
after the second attack.
The RAF pilots roared over Berlin
at a high level instead of usual roof
top height employed by these swift
bombers that can carry four 500-pound
bombs and attain speeds up to 400
miles an hour.
The British, raids apparently were
heavy only in a phychological way.
Berliners were kept busy running to
shelter and keeping an eye on the sky
while listening to then- leaders' simul
taneously spur them to a total effort
and threaten death to shirkers.
TAX COLLECTIONS
County taxpayers settled taxes at
the courthouse during the month of
January to the extent of $47,367.31.
Of this amount $43,052.15 was applied
on 1942 or current taxes, $3,530.48 on
delinquent real estate tax, $764.68 on
delinquent poll and personal property
tax and $20.00 Schedule "B" License
tax. Of the 1943 tax levy, which was
$278,000.00 there has now been paid
a total of $223,01341, leaving an un
collected balance of only $55,987.19
for a collected percentage of 30 percent
and 30 percent uncollected.' According
to J. Hamp Price, tax collector, col
lections are IS percent above the
same, date last year, and all uncollect
ed taxes, both current and delenquent
due the county, are tar less than they
have been in many a year.
Roosevelt backs ' Da vies plan tor
single war relief fund drive.
NATION'S CHIEF BACK
HOME FROM AFRICA
Covers 14,000 Miles And Holds Number
Of Conferences.
President Roosevelt returned to the
White House Sunday night to put
into "active and concerted execution"
plans for 1943 offensive campaigns
which he and Prime Minister Church
Ill, drafted at their historic uncondi
tional surrender conference at Casa
blanca.
But problems other than avtice pros
ecution of the war confronted the
Chief Executive on his safe return
from some 14.000 danger-fraught miles
of travel much of It by air.
Most pressing, perhaps, was the con
troversial diplomatic nomination of
Edward J. Flynn, scheduled to come
before a sharply divided Senate to
morrow. Others included proposals to
repeal Mr. Roosevelt's limit of $25,000
(after taxes) on salaries and to restrict
the size of the nation's armed forces.
Reports were prevalent that the Flynn
nomination to be minister to Austra
lia might be withdrawn beefore the
Senate convenes at noon.
There was no word from the White
House on any of these matters, how
ever. A terse announcement signed by
Presidential Secretary Stephen Early
and read to press associations shortly
before 8 p. m., eastern war time, said
only that the President had returned,
adding that the last stage of the trip
had been made by special train from
Miami after a flight from Brazil.
Mr. Roosevelt during his 23-day trip
covered a distance approximately equal
to some of the highly publicized
'round-the-world flights of a few
years ago.
No word of his departure was per
mitted to be made public until 10
p. m. last Tuesday night, two days
after he and Mr. Churchill concluded
their 10-day conference.
Mr. Roosevelt was away from the
White House on this trip a full week
longer than last fall, when he made
a coast-to-coast tour of the country
to see shipyards and other war plants
In production. After that trip he ad
dressed the nation by radio, and there'
was conjecture tonight whether he
would again go before the microphones
to tell the people In person about his
epochal conference with the British
Prime Minister and the things he ob
served going to Africa and coming
home.
The communique the American and
British leaders issued at Casablanca
said they had agreed upon a master
plan for 1943 aimed at forcing the Axis
nations' unconditional surrender.
Wearing a turtle-neck sweater and
riding in a jeep, Mr. Roosevelt also
reviewed American troops in North
Africa and visited some of the beach
heads where the AEF had landed.
BETHLEHEM CHURCH IN
LORD'S ACRE MOVEMENT
Pastor Key Reports $816 Realized
From Project
Rev. A. H. Kev. Dastnr of tho Ttofh-
lehem Presbyterian Church in Union
couniv. nas contMrmtwi in nrtipio
about the Lord's Acre Movement in
his Church to the enlnrfnl nhnmn
edition of the Farmers Federation
News, celebrating the thirteenth an
niversary of the Lord's Acre Mnve-
ment.
Mr. Keys writes: "The Bethlehem
Presbyterian Church has had an out
standingly good year in its Lord's
Acre work. Eight hundred and six
teen dollars has been secured from all
projects. The projects carried out.
worked by the youngest to the oldest,
consisted of cotton, chickens, wheat,
tomatoes, one hour wage each week.
garden projects and a small amount
of cash. The results of the work were
so successful, not only financially but
in stimulating interest of the mem
bers, that the effort will be made to
have a more complete participation
of the congregation this coming year."
One of the laymen of the Bethle
hem Church and Mr. Key are to dis
cuss this at a meeting to be held in
that church on February 16th.
rne Home Mission Committee of
Mecklenburg Presbytery is encourag
ing the adoption of this plan in all
of their rural churches. Last year
they brought Rev. Dumant Clarke.
of Asheville, pioneer Lord's Acre
Movement promoter, to a number of
their churches. Bethlehem is one of
the places on his visit. Another fruit
of his visit is the successful Lord's
Acre project In the Mt. Carmel Pres
byterian church in Richmond coun
ty. Of this congregation Dr. Cary
R. Blain is the pastor.
The Presbytery's Home Mission
Committee feels that this is a solu
tion to the problem of financing many
of the rural congregations. Last year
the Bethlehem congregation gave
$1,081. to all causes: benevolent, pas
tors salary, current and building ex
pense. In the first year with the
Lord's Acre Movement they gave as
an over-and-above gift $816, which
at the same rate of giving represents
an increase of 75J percent
Wherever a pastor and a few con
secrated laymen take the Initiative
tne neipiui movement can be pro
jected into any rural congregation.
MONROE CAGER3 PLAT HARDING
HIGH HERE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
(By Louise Plgg)
Wednesday evening, February 3. at
eight o'clock the Monroe cagers play
Harding high school of Charlotte
here in the local gymnasium Ad
mission will be fifteen and twenty-five
cents.
So far the Monroe cagers have Dlav-
ed the all-stars of Monroe and the
Wadesboro high school teams. They
out-scored the all-stars in a very close
game, out tost to wadesboro.
The gymnasium will be heated. Come
on out folks, the boys will put up a
good game. Watch Bob Laney give
mat oassetoau that special twist oi
his to ring up another goat Keep
an eye on Trull and English. In fact.
you'd better watch Vm all. They're
good. - vv. ... . . . r
OPA says restaurants to be rationed
when "points" begin, ,
The War Effort
Affects Offices
A Check-Up Shows Various
County Offices Have
Work Increased
EVERYBODY VERY BUSY
A visit to the various county offices
in Monroe reveals the fact that the
war has greatly affected at least most
of them so far as work is concerned.
At the sheriffs office it was stated
that crime has greatly fallen off,
doubtless due to the fact that most
people who are not in the army are
busy at work and have little time for
getting into trouble..
In the register oi deeds office there
Is more work than before the war.
due largely to an Increase in land
deed registrations, issuing delayed
birth certificates and furnishing copies
of those already on record. However,
there are fewer chattel mortgages be
ing registered than formerly.
While the recorder's court is a little
busier than in former days, possibly
due to Increased population, the su
perior criminal court has little to do
and terms are short. But the clerk
of court has added work and respon
sibility due to issuing explosive license
and to the fact that naturalization
papers from soldiers at Camp Sutton
have been handled through the su
perior court. Many other duties that
are not obligatory are handled as ac
commodation by the clerk adding still
more wort to tne office.
The reporter didn't get to see the
welfare officer, but chances are that
there is not so much relief work to be
done. However, duties here are still
navy, due to certain things in con
nection with the war work.
Of course, the war ration boards are
the busiest places in town, great lines
stanading in waiting practically all
tne time requesting more gasoline,
tires, ration books and what not. The
large forces in these offices are more
than kept busy all the time.
The selective boards are about as
busy as the ration offices, people com
ing in for Information, to discuss their
problems, etc., blanks to fill out, in
structions to study and what have you.
With money more plentiful and peo
ple paying up back taxes and their
current ones, the tax office is swamped
with work, which also keeps the audi
tor's office in a hump.
In the office of the county super
intendent of schools, the work has In
creased tremendously. As if book
rentals didn't give a bad enough head
ache, to this office has been added
the responosibility and work of figur
ing victory tax on teachers' salaries,
teachers' retirement fund, etc. The
rapid changing of teachers and new
ones coming in requires looking up
records, figuring salary schedules, etc.,
and the change in bus routes creates
another problem and causes more
headaches.
Down at the agriculture building
they are swamped with such additional
work as making complete farm plans
in keeping with the program for great
er production of eggs, meats of all
kinds, etc., with a shortage of farm
labor. The program calls for one-third
increase in the production of eggs in
Union county and a greatly Increased
production of meats. Also farm boys
who are subject to draft must have
their units of production in necessary
farm products checked and rerjorted.
and various other matters caused by
tne war enort are to be handled. The
entire burden of farm Implement ra
tioning is on the farm demonstration
agent's office.
WAAC POSTER CONTEST
PLAN JUST ANNOUNCED
Mary J. Norton, 3rd Officer. WAAC.
Recruiting Office, Fort Bragg, an
nounces the opening of a State wide
poster contest to be held among the
various city administrative High
Schools of North Carolina. This con
test is being sponsored by the Red
Rock Bottlers, Inc., Atlanta', Ga. It
will run from the first of February
through the twenty-sixth of Febru
ary. Final judging will take place
on March second.
The purpose of the contest is to
find the picture that can be drawn
which win best portray the import
ance of the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps to the public throughout the
State of North Carolina. Suitable
prizes are to be awarded six semi-
winners and a final prize for the
best.
While the contest is being srxm-
sored by the Red Rock Bottlers, Inc,
it is oems worked out m conjunction
with the State Department of Public
Schools, Dr. Clyde A. Erwin: also un
der the guidance of J. H. Highsmith,
Ln vision oi instructional Service,
State Department of Public Instruc
tion, Raleigh,. North Carolina. A
committee appointed by the State
Department of Public Instructions
will be the final judges.
Rules for the contest are:
1. The contest betrins Februarv 1st
and will ' close midnight, February
26th, 1943.
3. The final judging of the con
test will be done by the committee
appointed by the Division of Instruc
tional Service, State Department of
Public . . Instruction, . Raleigh, . North
Carolina. All posters must be la
hands of committee of tudsea bv
March t, 1943. ' : f ' .-. ' ,
t. The name of the persons sub-
mltting the poster will not appear on
the front of the poster but must bo
onvthe back.
4, Only one poster may be sub
mitted by one person. '
V Any use of-uniform and insignia
portraying a WAAO must be authen-
C AH posters submitted1 become the
property of the Red. Rock Bottlers,
Ine Atlanta, Ga.
' Internal rerenue collections IncretM
11 per cent for fiscal Tear.
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