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A Duplin County Institution XXI—NUMBER WALLACE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1942 RMHKM The Year 1943 Will See a N e w System Started, Known as the “Point Sys tem,” Which is a Program for Rationing Scarce Prod ucts in Order to Prevent r Shortages. EACH CONSUMER MAY f-. USE OWN JUDGMENT A Low Point Will Be Given a Plentiful Commodity and a High Point Value to a Scarce One . Ration Book One must be ^-presented to local rationing § hoards around the first of the year in order to receive War i' Ration Book Two. Rationing !l plays a greater and greater part S m the life of .the home front as war time shortages increase. I Ration Book Two will be used to secure goods under a new f system known as the “point system” which is a program for rationing a group of related or similar commodities that can be substituted for one another . in actual use. Point rationing ‘i will not replace straight ration SUgar. gasolinl aodarf usual, Each indi spend his points to the items in the pont group in any way he : when he has “spent” or consumed, the products rep resented by his points for the month he cannot buy any of -these items until the next month, or ration period, begins, v; In this way a scarce product will be kept from vanishing • jrom the market and at the same time the consumer may Exercise a variety of choice in purchases. « We’ll ger no more whipping > cream or other heavy cream for the duration, and men’s and boy’s shirts are going to lose ; two or three inches m length. Cattle hides, goat, kid, and «alLakins used in garment leath er’have been reserved for mill ; tary and lend-lease use. . The yeaf 1943 will see far reaching changes in our buying and budgeting habits. It is pre dicted that before spring, the “"obit” method of rationing products will be in full and then families must Whether to use m> more of Ration Book Two by sing scarcer articles, or sss points by buying more ones. tiling Board Tp pen Office H£re . Morrison, Chairman of County Rationing Board pea that he has, secured pace in the Wallace Post Building, and that the r Board wfll open an Monday, December 28. ;e is to serve the peo s immediate section of rnnty. After it opens irs pertaiflttfg to ttt program can he lere and it wjll not be for anyone to go to e Woman’s b To Meet December 3lst Meeting of the Wai n's Club will be held. SSL December 31, jA Former Resident Died At Hopewell Binford Sloan, former resi dent of Wallace, died at his home in Hopewell, Vir ginia, on last Wednesday, with burial following in the cemetery there. Binford Sloan, 68, a former resident of Wallace for many years, died at his home in Hope well,- Va., on last Wednesday. He had been in ill health for many years. Funeral services were held in Hopewell on Thursday, De cember 17, and interment fol lowed in the cemetery there. Mr. Sloan moved from Wal lace to Hopewell about ten years ago, and he had many friends here who regret his untimely death. Surviving are three children, Binford Sloan. Jr., of Dallas, Texas; Francis W. Sloan of Hope well; and Virginia Westbrook Carlon, also of Hopewell; one sister, Mrs. C. E. Hussey, of Wilmington, one brother, A. B: Slow of Wallace, two grand children and several nieces and nephews. * ' ■ fie Was a lift-long member of the Baptist church and was a member of Wallace Baptist church while a resident of the ;town. Lanefield Clob Awarded Cooker The Presentation Was Made on Monday, December 21, to the Lanefield Club, Which Was Judged the Best All-Round Home Demonstration Club Duplin County. in THe usual presentation of the presseure cooker which is made at the Fall Federation -of Home Demonstration Clubs was not made last month due to-the fact that club scores had pot been submitted. Since that date, scores have been made and the cooker is being awarded to the Lanefield Home Demonstration Club as it was judged the best all-round club for 1942. Pres entation will be made at the next-meeting of the Lanefield club which will be held Decem ber 21 at 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. H. M. Middleton. Harrell's Store Man Joins U. S., Army J. L. Jones of Miami, Florida, is now serving in the armed Forces, according to word re ceived by'his mother, Mrs. Flor, ence Jones of Harrell’s Store North Carolina. Before entering the service, Jones was a master electrician in Miami for the past nine years. Due to his experi ence In electrical work, he was placed In the Signal Corp. - At the present time Pvt. Jonas is a technician installing and re pairing electrical eauipment for the 328th Signal Company Wing, stattoned at Sioux City, Army Air'Base. Sioux City, Iowa. Pvt, Jones imports that the experi ence gained from his civilian trade greatly aids him in the work he is now doing, Pvt. Jones would enjoy hearing Jrom his many friends in. this vicinjty. v “Yes, indeed! “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by skepticism of a skeptical age— They do not believe except what they see—they think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their minds. “All minds, Virginia, whether they.be men’s or children’s, are little. “In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as mt&sured UjnrthB'irr* telligence capable of grasping the whole truth* ai “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. S' j “He exists as certainly as love and generosity J*nd/ devotion exist, and you know that they abqvnd and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there wereno Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Vir ginias, There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. “Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! i “You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus— the most real things in the world are those neither children nor men can see. “Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there—nobody can conceive or imagine all the won 'ders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. “You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside the curtain and vie\v and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. , “Is it all real—ah, Virgirfia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. “No Santa Claus? Thank God!—he lives, and he lives forever—a thousand years from now Virginia, nay, fen thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”—Selected. knowledge. Open Letter To Saint Nickolas Dear Saint Nickolas: I do not want to burden you, with so many things, as I know that Vou are going to be busy bringing gifts to children, but I am p. particularly interested in a few of my friends in Wallace. I want you to remember them this Christmas. , . ' ’ Santa, you know, I have lots of friends but I know some of my friends’ needs, and I want to make a special request for them. For instance, there’s W. B. Knowles, he does not'need any thing. All he wished for, for many years,! wad a son, and he’s one now, so you can mark off—™' Free Theatre Show On Christmas Day Carey Caudell, Manager of the, Wanoca Theatre,. announces that a free showing of Dickens' Christmas Carol, with Ronald No More Surprise Blackouts Until After Christmas New Signals Have Been Pre pared for Future Alarms and All Blackouts Have Been Delayed to Exepnpt Industries Engaged i n War Production. Surprise blackouts have been delayed because more time was required than anticipated in han dling applications for exemption from industries engaged in war production. Forms for this purpose were supplied to County Defense Chairmen this week, but since each application must be ap proved by State and Regional OCD and the Fourth Service Command in Atlanta before it can be returned to the industry certifying exemption, it is ob vious that no surprise practice is to be expected until after Christmas. New instructions relative to blackout procedure were for. warded last week. It should be noted that color signals will be used and that commercial radio stations will not participate. A full explanation of all sig nals to be used in future alarms, practice or actual, is now being prepared by Army and Region al OCD at the request of the North Carolina Office which sub mitted a list of 11 signals now possible, in its interpretation, and urged clarifiaction and simplification. Boards To Push Food Drive Again During ’43 The State’s Goal for Soy beans Next Year Has Been Set at 360,000 Acres, Which Is More Than 282, 000 Acres- Asked for This Year. STATE’S 1943 PEANUT GOAL IS 405,000 ACRES Other Food Goals Are In creased on Eggs, Milk, Hogs and Cattle County USD A War Boards, operating as a team composed of each of the U. S. Department of Agriculture agencies in the county, will have the responsi bility of directing the 1943 war time food production program in North Carolina counties, ac cording to G. T. Scott, chairman of the State USDA War Board. Food goals for the state were announced recently at a confer ence of members of 14 State USDA War Boards held at Memphis, Tennessee. Special emphasis in the 1943 program, Scott Said, will be placed on production of foods having a high energy value and which may be highly concentrated for shipment abroad. Again in 1943, one of North Carolina’s principal contribu tions to the Food for Freedom program will be production of peanuts and soybeans for vege table oils which are urgently needed to replace supplies for merly imported. The state’s goal for soybeans next year has been set at 360,000 acres for beans, which is more than the 282,000 acres asked this year, but is approximately the same Acreage grown. The pea nut goal for 1943 is 405,000 acres, including the allotment for ed ible trade nuts. Other goals for the. state include 14 per cent more eggs than were produced in 1942; six per cent more milk; 10 per cent more pigs; and 22 r cent more cattle for slaugh Individual county. goals now are being1 broken down by the (Continued on page 8, column 3) Gets Discharge From U. S. Army Pvt. Leonard V* Watkins, son of Mr. and. Mrs. O. A. W*U ’ has-been discharged from ability. at Gasoline Coupons Ordered Reduced To Three Gallons All .B and C Gasoline Cou pons Ordered Reduced From Four Gallons To Three Gallons Each Fol lowing The Past Week-End Restrictions. . ALL “A” COUPONS ON THREE GALLON BASIS Nelson Warns of Future Restrictions Much More Drastic Than The Present The Office of Price Adminis tration cut the value of B and C gasoline coupons from four to three gallons each following the week-end ban against non commercial sales in 17 Eastern Seaboard states. The ban on gasoline sales went into effect on last Friday and was lifted on Monday morning. All A coupons continue on a three gallon basis it was an nounced by the OPA Monday. Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the War Production Board stated that travel by automobile is due for restriction much more drastic than that obtaining to day. He also warned that in the future the mobility of con sumers will be greatly restrict ed. both of necessity and by con sumer choice. Nelson said it was conceivable that military necessity might re quire the restriction of travel and freight movement in some areas. It was further pointed out that travel by common car rier will be increasingly incon venient and in some instances not permissable. Duplin Farmers Vote For Control In the Cotton Control Refer endum which was held on December 12, Eighty per cent of those voting were in favor of the Control Program. About eighty per cent of the farmers of Duplin county voted for cotton control in the cotton referendum which was held on Saturday, December 12. There were 1169 votes cast with 1041 voting in favor of cotton control and 128 votes being cast against the control. The largest number of votes op posing the control program were cast in the Summerlin’s Cross Roads section where 44 voted for control and 18 voted against * control. The vote in Wallace was 42 for control and only one against. Freeze Hits Wallace Early Sunday Night The temperature took a slide in Wallace on Sunday afternoon and by Monday morning it was standing at eight degrees,, This is the coldest weather, so far this season, recorded in Wallace. Homes all over the city were without water. Water pipes were frozen and in some instanc they bursted. Those that did withstand the exposure of the cold had to be thawed out with torches and hot water before anyone could cook or get enough water for their home uses. WARNING NOTICES ISSUED TO STORES Fourteen North Carolina re tail tyres were given final warn ing by OPA this week in re spect to price ceiling and post ing violations. The warnings were sent to retailers who have been found in violation of the OPA regulations and if further violations art foiind their IV censes to do business might be Welfare Program Will Be Launched For Colored Race Mrs. W. T. Host, State Wei fare Commissioner, An* nounced Today that a ,..f Tentative Program of Welfare Work Among the Colored Race Will Soon Be Launched. TO ELEVATE SOCIAL NEEDS OF NEGROES The Program Will Endeavor to Bring About Better Work Under standings A tentative program of wel fare work among negroes in North Carolina has been set up for 1943 following a study and survey of the^State’s negro pop ulation by John R. Larkins, con sultant on negro work for the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, Mrs. W. T. Bost. State welfare commissioner, an nounced yesterday. , “The State Board, through its unit of work among negroes, is attempting to ascertain the so cial and economic needs of this portion of our population in or der to develop an effective, con structive and far-reaching pro gram of social welfare,” Lar kins stated, in presenting some of the pressing needs of negroes. The 1943 program will endeav or to bring about better under antUpg of the work among ge etlifies for delinquent negro girls, greater consideration of ‘ the problems of unmarried moth ers, extension of facilities for ne gro feeble-minded, additional day nurseries for children and em ployment of more negro work ers in county welfare depart ments to devote their time ex clusively to problems affecting members of their race. Larkins said here yesterday that he expected to interpret his work by utilizing for the next year every opportunity to explain it through religious, fra ternal and civic organizations and negro PTA meetings in ad dition to institutes at schools and colleges. “Facilities for the care of ne gro delinquents are very inade quate,” the consultant said. “There is grave need for a school for delinquent negro girls, a problem accentuated by the war emergency, which has already been recognized and steps taken to begin progress in this re spect.” “We need extension of means of caring for delinquent negro boys because there are a number who are committed to A^orrison Training School but not always accepted because of lack of space. The period of time of | confinement for effective treat- gg ment has had to be shortened ,«| in order to admit others.” *' Maternity homes privately fi nanced and operated are needed. Larkins stressed, to protect and train during pregnancy negro ■ I (Continued on page 8, column 3) Walter J. Bryant Now At Camp Lee Corporal W. Joe Bryant 1 son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Bry- . ant of Brookneal, Virginia has been promoted from Private to Corporal in Camp Lee’s Quarter master Replacement Training Center. Corporal Bryant is a. basic’ military instructor for Co. “K" of the 10th Quartermaster Train ing Regiment and is attached to Company “K”, 10th master Training Regir was formerly a coll< auto salesman, Cavenai rolet Company, Inc. Corporal Bryant was July 17, 1942 at Fort C., and: arrived at C August 6, 1942. He i and his wife resides
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