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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941 A-P EMPLOYEES START 5-DAY WEEK Get Same Weekly Wage For 48 Hoars: Stores Stay Open 6 Days As Usual. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Retail employees of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in North and South Carolina today went on a five-day, 48-hour week, M. A. Hogewood, southern division vice-president of the A & P Com pany artd head of the Charlotte unit announced. The shorter work week in augurated ' for the first time in the history *of the grocery busi ness this spring in eastern out lets of the A & P—today became effective in the company’s entire southern division from Florida to North Carolina and from the eastern seaboard to the Missis sippi river and Texas. “Store® will continue to serve customers six days a week as usual, though approximately 6,000 employees of the southern division will work but five days a week and receive the same pay for 48 hours as they received under the old schedule,” Mr. Hogewood said. In Jacksonville, Fla., R. M. Smith, southern division presi dent, pointed out that the exten- jgk Drive T 0... I Jlßoxboro | WmM? Your Home § IT Tobacco Market | Bring A Load Tuesday, September 16th | fr YU Hi M1 Shell Gas Saves on Stop £r Go Signals | Change to Shell for more Power and I more Mileage • | Humphries Oil Company j ♦> ♦> Visit Roxboro on the Opening Day | of the Market. A Good Market and % a Good Tavern ♦J* *i* ♦2* ■■"■ ♦!♦ ♦> * ! The Roxboro Diner Welcomes You Always % A Good Place To Get The Best Food at a Most I ♦i» ♦> ♦> # «j» J Reasonable Price. | ! SPECIAL PLATES EVERY DAY ! ♦> «8* | Special Orders Brunswick Stew - Bar-B-Q | + ❖ * American Owned and Operated. * * T * f + + * If You dine with us one time—we know you will come back often. + | ROXBORO DINER j 4* - - - - ! WIGGLEY PIG I | Bar-B Que Alawys Fresh Cooked in Our Own | *.. . | | Pit. Special Orders and Delicious % | Sandwiches, r I | I J All Kinds Sandwiches and Beer | % (Special Arrangement For Bar-B-Que Parties) | 9 Come to See Us Lawrence C. Hall % sion of the new policy placed the entire A & P organization on a five-day basis except where state and local regulations, agree ments and customs prevent it. “In the last 25 years,” Mr. Smith said, “the A & P has re ducced the work week of its em ployees a total of 25 hours or 32.6 per cent. We broke with the traditional dawn -to - dusk hours of the grocery business in 1916, reducing the work week from 72 to 65 hours. As the ef ficiency of our method of dis tribution increased from year to year, other reductions have been made with the result that A & P employees have consistently en joyed the best average wages and the shortest general hours in the food industry.” Mr. Smith emphasized that the employee advantages were gain ed through increased company effciiency and not at the expense of higher prices to consumers or reduced returns to growers. “In 1940 we were able to give our employees pay increases and added compensation amounting to more than $4,000,000. At the same time, the farmers supplying A & P with fresh fruits and vegetables got 53 cents of the consumer’s dollar spent at retail compared to 46.8 per cent they received four years ago. “Because of the continued in crease of our efficiency and consequent lowering of our op erating costs, A & P customers are now enjoying the lowest re tail price in relation to our costs in thq history of the industry,” he continued. “Our customers this year will save more than $50,000,000 on food compared to the lowest prices we could have charged on the basis of op erating costs five years ago.” He pointed out that in the last 10 years the company, besides re ducing materially the working hours of its employees, has in augurated vacations with pay, free insurance, half days off, sick benefits, hospitalization, compensation to employees en tering military service, and fre quent increases in the wage scale. “The heads of our company have always been keenly con scious of their responsibility to their customers, suppliers and employees as well. Today they realize more than ever the im portance of economical food dis tribution in the present defense emergency, and are striving for fuurther increases in their effici*- ency in order to achieve greater savings to consumers, increased returns to growers and additional improvements in working condi tions and benefits to employees.” o - IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES PERSON COUNTY TIMES KOXBORO. N c! ACT ASSURES CONTINUATION OF BUILDING New Authorisations Be come Law; Debt Limit Is Raised Continuation of all phases of the present Federal Housing Ad ministration program under Ti tles I and II of the National Housing Act is assured by Presi dent Roosevelt’s signature of a mendments to those titles, Ad minister Abner H. Ferguson an nounced recently. Under the amendments, the authority of the FHA to insure property improvement loans and certain new constructoin loans under Title I is extended for two years to July 1, 1943. The maxi mum outstanding insurance lia blity under Title I is increased from $100,000,000 to $165,000,000. The maximum amount of a Ti tle I loan for modernization of a residential structure for two or more families is raised from $2,- 500 to $5,000, with the maximum term for loans above $2,500 ex tended from the former three years to five years. The maximum amount of a Title I Class 3 loan for construction of a new dwell ing is raised from $2,500 to $3,- otfo. The President is authorized to increase the maximum principal amount of all mortgages insured under Title II which may be out standing at any one time from the present $4,000,000,000 to $5,- 000,000,000. The authority of the Admini ' v __ „, ' I : CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY strator under Title II to insure mortgages on existing homes is extended for three years to July 1, 1944, with a limitation of 35 per cent, against the former 25 per cent, on the maximum a mount of insurance which may involve existing homes. There is no time limit on Title II insur ance of new-home mortgages. The extension of modernization loan insurance is important to na tional defense, Mr. Fergusdh said. It enables property owners to meet urgent housing demands in many cities through conversion of old dwellings into apartments and through other modernization projects. Continuation of mort gage insurance on existing homes under Title II makes it possible for the FHA to maintain a fully pounded mortgage loan insurance system. Most of the insurance opera tions of the FHA now involve homes located in the vicinity of important defense industrial a reas, Mr. Ferguson said. This is true not only of Title VI loan ] insurance, which is operative on ;ly in designated defense areas, | but also of the regular FHA pro gram. MISSiONARET LEAVE JAPAN None From 11. S. Left In Country Boston, September 11. —The American Board of Commission ers for Foreign Missions announc ed today that all its missionaries now have been withdrawn from Japan, leaving the bond with out American representation in that country for the first time in 72 years. “While their Japanese colleag ues advised the missionaries to leave in view of the present tense situation,” Dr. Wynn C. Fairfield, American Board (Congregational) Far Eastern secretary, announc ed, “they also made it unmistak ably clear that their return in ROXBORO Is The Place TO SELL YOUR TOBACCO _ Bring a Load Tues. day, September 16th Opening Day. S. & J. Goodfriends Men’s Dress and ** Work Clothing Shoes For Men Women and Children LADIES DRESSES AND COATS We Save you Money on all Merchandise S. & J. Goodfriend Simon Goodfriend Jake Goodfriend happier times would be expected and welcomed.” The board normally maintains at least 36 of a staff of 40 mis sionaries on duty in Japan. The announcement today said that a cable had been received report ing the arrival of the last nine missionaries from Japan at Shanghai.
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