1 Keep Up With the Tim FUT VOL. II, NO. 11 Negro Wort Work At I Negro women have gone -to'" work as laborers at the Greensboro army air forces basic train- ' ing camp, and local employment | officials stated that it was the , first time in the history of the local office that women have been put on construction jobs - . as laborers. The women, who started to work last week, were {called in to help relieve the serious shortage of men laborers at the camp. About 100 are working now and more will be sent out as fast as they can be secured, Waldo Porter,manager of the local employment office, stated. A. D. Roach, manager for Jones Construction company, which has contract for the BTC, said that he had never seen women placed as laborers on construction jobs before. "We're going to try it and see how it works," he said. "I don't see why it shouldn't work." The women are not doing the heavy tasks of common laborers but are working inside the barracks, cleaning up and carrying materials. The fact that these women will receive the same pay as men laborers promises to bring about a possible additional threat to the scarcity of domes- i tic help, it was pointed out here today. I "The women are being put 1 on because we can't get enough i men," Porter said. "There are i enough common laborers in this section to fill all of the camp : construction needs, but we can't t get them to go to work. I don't i now why." , "The local office has referred < tffearly 4,0(f0 ' laborers to the s camp job but the highest nutn- 4 ber working on any one day is j 1,0)00 Porter said. The camp now has more carpenters than lahororo of w/trt " Roach corroborated the em- t ployment manager's statement, ~ saying that the camp now has at work roughly 900 laborers and 1,200 carpenters. s JOE LOUIS IS < ORDERED FOR j DUTY ON STAGE < Sgt. Joe Louis is going on the stage. John Roxborough, co-manag- i er, informed Mike Jacobs office j that the heavyweight champion ^ had telephoned him that he had , been ordered to report to the cast of "This Is the Army" on j the West coast February 22. Louis consequently will be unable to appear at the New York Boxing Writers' dinner g ; February 17 as he wants to c spend a little time with his wife c j and new baby daughter in Chi- f [( oago before going West.'He is a 2 ' now stationed at Fort Riley, r Kan. a 168/ ?????? URK GREENSBOr i en Start Lrmy Camp Jordan Sellars School Given Secondary Rating by Association Prof. C. J. Johnson, principal of the Jordan Sellars High School, Burlington, N. C., . has through his dynamic leadership as principal elevated the Jordan Sellars High School to the extent that it has received "A" HHH f jffv v.;:;' ;i .V;::" ': " V.:; yy: , , yV :v.'Vy PROP. C. J. JOHNSON' ating by the state of North Carolina. Prof. Johnson is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith Jniversity, Charlotte, N. C. and eceived his master's degree 'rom Pennsylvania State. The Jordan Sellars high ichool for the colored of Burlingon is the 25th Negro high school n the state to be approved a nember of the Southern Assoiation of Colleges and Secondtry Schools, it was disclosed to lay when announcement of the ipproval was made. Congratulations have heen revived by the school from Dr. f. Henry Highsmlth, director of he division of instructional serrice of the state department of iducatlon. .The English V class is sponloring a broadcast over station WBBB, tomorrow morning at 1:05 o'clock in celebration of Yegro History Week. The broad:ast will be a salute to three 'lgures in the realm of fine irts among the negroes, Paul '^aurence Dunbar, poet, James Weldon Johnson, poet and novelst, and the Rev. Glenn T. Settle, lirector and narrator of "Wings )ver Jordan". 10.W TO SAVE RUBBER ARTICLES J Guard those rubbers, the ;arden hose, rubber-coated rainoats. foundation garments and ther household rubber articles rom heat, sunlight, oil, grease, nd tar, the Office of Price Ad- I ninlsetratlon today advised Mr. nd Mrs. Homemakgr. ?THE? :? 10, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUA List of Negro Youths Leaving For Camp INDUCTEES WILL LEAVE ON FEBRUARY 22. Names of a group of negroes who will report for army induction on February 22 were announced today by officials of local draft board No. 2. The men will report to the board at 7:15 a, in. and will depart by bus for Ft. Bragg. The selectees are: Greene Armstrong. Frank Jones Oldham, Johnnie Prince Briggs. John D. Clinkscales, Samuel Arthur Penn. Avery Ceaser Bethel. Thomas Edward Morrisey. Henrv Hamlin. Arthur Troxler, Arthur Hector Gilchrist. James Leonard Hutcherson, Jerry Wilkins. Otis McDowell Bigelow, Clarence' Odis Griffin. Walter Means. James Johnson. Joseph Edward Byrd, John Green. Lemonchee Willard Hairston, Paschal Wesley Holmes. Capers Bookert. PerkIn Watson. Arburn Jenkins, James Ivory Williams. William Burke Artis. Otis McNeal Bailey, Capps Holt, Williams Edward Blakely. Oscar Harold Fisher, Ahram Dearborn Taylor. John Wesley McRae. Matthew Elijah Fuller. William Allen Hall. Lacy Monroe, Herman Angus Matherson. Thomas Rogers Sellars, Ira Marshall Powell, Major Rastus Moore. Charles Wesley Avant, Percell Kelly, Bernard George C. Smith, Oran Kay Dorsett, Jr., Thurston Stephens, Blake Cobb, Curtis Reieves, Jr., Charles Herman Nobles, James C. Fox, Harrison Webster, Jr., Ramious Crawford, Charles Gilliard, Josephus Smith, Alexander White, David Cleveland Byrd and George Tom Turner. 377 STUDENTS REGISTER AT SHAW UNIVERSITY Raleigh, N. C? Feb. 16 ? Three hundred and seventyseven students have registered for second semester courses at Shaw University according to announcement of the Shaw University registrar on February 6 at the close of the second semester registration period. In spite of the induction of many Shaw men into the armed forces of the United States the three per cent decrease in the Shaw enrollment between the first and scond semester represents the small percentage loss of students between semesters in the past six years. Although several students did withdraw to enter the armed forces and other pursuits the approximately twenty-seven new second semester students, nineteen of whom had not attended Shaw before, compensated for many of those who dropped out. Indications are, however, that the ratio of men to women at Shaw is almost one to 5. ????Reai JTU RY 20, 1943 Rick?jiback< Dwarfs Hon By MARION World famous I (Written for the Treasury Ilej Retailers' "SAY YES" campaign t 000 partially filled War Stamp al There must be very few Amer Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's a valiant efforts of American forces there must be who were not rnov more than anyone else Captain 3 how insignificant are the sacrifice "If only our people back hornet > could know what those boys are doing for us and for fulurc gen-I j erations I think we would take ; this war much more seriously," j Captain Rickenbacker said. And i as he said it. his voice quavered. Now does it not seem to you, as it does to me, a shameful thing that we must be exhorted "to take the war much more seriously." Does it not make you wonder that, among us there are still the people who cannot see why we at home should deviate from business as usual and living as usual? "If only we could get the American people to realize that by even a small amount of additional effort to increase production of' planes and equipment, ships to get them their supplies, ammunition, guns, gasoline ? we will have served a great purpose," Captain Rickenbacker continued. "A small additional effort" is surely the way to make a start, I thought ? effort at home, in the factory, on the farm. Then I looked for a practical point of departure. I found that the Treasury Department at this very moment is encouraging a plan whereby your small additional effort can mount up to billions in the aggregate, billions to eo into nlanes. shins, ammu nition for the boys who need them. The Treasury asks only | Deaths anc Mr. Charlie Chavls, age 71 passed at his home 1612 Nelson street, Wednesday, February 10, after an illness of several years. Funeral services were conducted at the home, Friday, February 12. Rev. Ellis, pastor of New Light Baptist church, officated. Burial was in Maplewood cemetery. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Lena Chavis and three sons, two daughters, one sister and a stepmother. Mrs. Susie Watkins Logan, 44 7 Cole street, age 70, passed at L. Richardson Memorial hospital after a few days illness on Friday, February 12. Funeral services were conducted at Bethel A. M. E, church, Rev. R. C. Sharpe, officiating in the absence 'of the pastor, Rev. W. | C. Celand. \ I The Future Outlook! | )0K PRICE: 5c er's Story le Sacrifice ANDERSON Jegro contralto pai-tmcnt in connection witli the o complete the nation's 100,000,bums.) leans who did not read or hear ccount ol' his rescue and the in the Pacific. And few, indeed, ed by the heroic story. Perhaps Rickenbaeker has made me feel s we civilians are making. MARIAN ANDERSON Urges Additional Effort that we people ? and it seems there are one hundred million of us ? should buy the War Stamps to fill up our partly filled albums. It figures that if we fill up those books it would mean close to two billion dollars for Uncle Sam. Just that little additional effort on our part j can bring so vast a sum into Uncle Sam's till that "small amount of additional effort" a the part of every one of us can mount up to a mighty avalanche of effort that w'.ll in the end, win the war. MARIAN ANDERSON Urges Additional Effort i Funerals | Monday, February 15, at 3 o'clock, burial was in Sim Street cemetary in the family plot. Survivors: one step-son. Dean Logan, and one step-daughter, Mrs. Irene Logan Lee of Neptune, N. J. . Little Doloris Bradshaw, 3 months old daughter of Fancy Bradshaw, 1100 W. McCulloch street died Tuesday, February 9, and was buried Thursday, February 11. HARGET ON WBIG Hargett Funeral Directors presented The Moreheadv Quartette at 5 p. m. Sunday, February 14, over WGBG. Next Sunday the Mt. Tabor Choir will be presented. The Hargett Funeral Directors Invite you to listen each Sunday at 5 p. m. to their pro- ^ gram over WGBG. ** .' '< > \

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