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* • ' V Page Two ? THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S C. Thursday, November 9, 1944 Labor‘Turnover Shows Decrease There has been a sharp decline during recent weeks in the number of workers applying to the local U. S. Employment Service office for a statement of availability in order to change jobs. This indicates a de cline in labor turnover rates in this j area. Manager p. R. Shands, states. The employment stabilization plan, while designed to prevent»unneces-. sary job-cha-B-g-mfr—’.provides that workers may change jobs when it is absolutely necessary because of com pelling reasons. Also,-the employment office will release workers when workers are not utilizing their high-| est skill for which there is a need in; the war effort. Workers desiring to change jobs should request a state-; ment of availability from their em ployer before quitting. If the re quest is denied by the employer, 1 they may apply at the employment office. Veterans of World War II may change jobs without a statement of availability. I Farm Workers Placed During the past week a number of farm workers have been referred to jobs in industry on a temporary basis by the local employment service of fice. It is not the purpose of the local office to take needed workers from the farms, but during- the season that they are not needed for farm work, they can jbe placed' on other jobs. Before being referred, of-' ficials state, it is necessary that a' farm worker present a temporary re lease from his farm employer and referral will be made on a temporary 1 basis until he is again needed on the' farm. Temporary release forms are; available at the USES office. M. T. FICKLIN, 12, DIES NEAR HERE Mortimer T. Ficklin, 72. farmer, died at his home near Clinton on the Mountville highway Friday morning. He had been in declining health for several years and critically ill one week— A native of Athens, Ga., Mr. Fick lin was a son of the late Mortimer Ficklin and Amanda Bailey Ficklin. He was twite married, first fo the late Mrs. Lydia Motes Ficklin and from this union the following chil dren survive: Miss Frances Fick lin, Clinton; Mrs. A. E. McCoy, and J. H. Ficklin, Greehville; J. T. Fick lin. Greenwood. His second wife, the former Mrs. Cassie Caraway, survives with the following children: L. C. Ficklin. Greenwood; J. M. Ficklin, Mount ville; H. A. Ficklin, Gastonia, N. C.; J. Lamar and Durell D. Ficklin of the United States army, now serv ing in Italy. Other survivors are two step children, Mrs. Placedia Culbertson, Greenville; L. B. English. Arlington, Va.; a half-brother, J. H. Culbert son, Clinton, and 19 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Calvary Baptist church, Clinton, with the Rev. R. H. Cause, the Rev. W. B. Thorn and the Rev. W. F. Gault, officiating. Burial followed in Eaastview ceme tery at Honea Path. ARjOUND THE TOWN Incidents, Unusual an^d Ordinary, Gathered On Our Rounds. MISS CAROLYN E. HOBSON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pat H. Hobson of this city, was recently named to membership in Alpha Kappa Gamma, regional honorary leadership fraternity -at Queens col lege, Charlotte, where she is, a stu dent. Miss Hobson is also secretary of the Boarding Student council at Queens. AT FIRST SIGH OF A c OV- D w 666 1 CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our deepest appreciation for- the kindness and sympathy shown by our friends when our home and its contents were de stroyed by fire recently. We are sure God will bless each and every one of you. MR. AND MRS. JACK HUNNICUTT and FAMILY. MISS FAY PITTS, member of the | senior class, was crowned “Miss Clin ton High” Friday afternoon at the Clmton-Union football game by Bud Carr, president of the student body. Miss Pitts, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, W. Roy Pitts, won the honor in a contest conducted at the high school. Runner-up was Miss Virginia Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Russell Gray, and winner of third place was Miss Nell Buchanan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Buchanan. RICHARD EDWARD WILLING HAM. son of IjUr. and Mrs. E. J. , Willingham of’^Goldville, is the only student from Laurens county enroll- ' ed < at Brevard Junior college, Bre vard, N. C. Willingham, a frsehman, has been elected to membership in the Delphian literary society. use & Cold Preparations as.directedi ENGRAVED Calling Cards for army and navy officers. An ideal, useful gift for father, husband, brother or friend. Ask to see samples. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. MISS JEAN LAYTON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Laytor^, was recently appointed to the publicity committee of the Y.W.C.A. at Win- throp college, Rock Hill, where she is a member of the junior class. Calls continue to come for Clinton boys and girls from the military ser vices. Particularly insistent are de mands for nurses and boys to take up the study of radar. Recruiting of ficers of the Spartanburg station will be glad to interview applicants for threse two branches of the service. TAKE YOUR FERTILIZER NOW ***** v . 0 * T here’s a crisis in the making! If stocks pile up in fertilizer plants and agents’ ware houses, the stream of supply will choke up. They must move fust or the lack of man-power will cause a para lyzing shortage. • Take the Chilean Nitrate situation for example. To supply the quantity needed for 1945 crops, many car goes must be unloaded each month at each port, then moved out by train and truck for immediate allocation. It must move out of agents’ hands as fast as it moves in. If not, the choke-up starts and works back to the ports, even back to the ships. Already there’s a threatened shortage of nitrogen, due to sharply increased war needs. Unless you help smash the bottle-neck by taking your nitrate as soon as it is offered, the shortage will become acute. Thous ands of tons will pile up at U.S. ports or on the docks in Chile. The only place Chil ean Nitrate does you any good is on your crops. Get yours now...while you can. Storage Tips Pile all materials on dry boards in barn or shed. Pilematerialsseparately. Keep piles close together. Destroy the bags when you use the contents. MISS BETTY TAYLOR, daughter (of Mrs. George W. Taylor, and MISS ! NORMA ANDERSON, daughter of 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Anderson, were recently pledged by sororities at Queens college, Charlotte, where they are freshmen. Miss Taylor was pledg ed by Alpha Eta Sigma and Miss An derson by Alpha Gamma Delta. LOUISE JONES DuBOSE. of Co lumbia, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. Dudley Jones of this city, is getting ready for publication late this fall her first collected book of poems, “Wind Star," to be published by Bostick and Thornley of Columbia. Mrs. DuBose, who writes under the pen name of Nancy Telfair, is a poet of some distinction, her work having appeared in many anthologies and j several of her poems have been set to music. The majority of the poems to be included in the forthcoming volume already have been printed in newspapers and magazines all over the country. In addition to poems, Mrs. DuBose has published histories, book reviews and one-act plays. At present she is teaching sociology and English at the University of South Carolina. Incidentally, one of the members of the publishing firm, Fant H. Thornley, is also a former Clintonian. Included in an exhibition of more than sixty air force portraits of aces, combat heroes and commanding gen erals recently placed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., was a painting of LT. COL. DILL B. ELLIS, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ellis of this city. The painting, the work of Major Charles Basker- ville, is a striking likeness of the Clinton flyer. It is an informal por trait. showing him in his combat uni form and life preserver. Lt. Col. Ellis is a graduate of Clin ton high school and attended Presby terian college before entering West Point, where he graduated in 1^40. Going into the air corps, Lt. Col Ellis was in the first groups sent to the Southwest Pacific area, where as leader of a bomber squadron he scored a notable record flying B-26s over Rabaul in 1943. He earned, the Distinguished Flying Cross and other decorations. He is presently stationed at Tampa, Fla. As Washington Sees It THE NATIONAL SCENE t . , Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Nov. 7.—On Novem-j ber 14, when congress again convenes after its “vacation,” it will be faced with some of the most diffitult prob-' lems which any congress in the his- ! tory of our country has* had to solve, j As a result o the election campaign,; members of both parties are now: well aware of the people’s desire for' strong decisive action on internation al affairs. Former so-called “isola tionist” members are believed to have accepted the need for. entering into alliances with other nations, Thei election has done a lot of good in es- j tablishing points of common agree-] ment between the two parties. The “strictly party 11 voting, which has been so apparent during the past two years, will undoubtedly be curbed— at least on matters of foreign rela tions. As for domestic affairs, there is no reason to believe that the elec tion will have altered the wide dif ferences in philosophy which exist between members of the two parties. I Congressional battles over security | measures, labor control, taxes and I unemployment relief will probably 1 continue with full force. But, because of what the election has done to clarify thinking on measures which must be taken to insure future peace, it is expected that such measures con now be en acted with greater speed and with more unanimous approval tha’n would have been possible before the election. Most all congressmen seem to fa vor a world organization which will have the authority, backed by men and arms, to- enforce international law and nip in the bud any warlike moves on the part of any nation in the world. There will be consider able diference of opinion over the question of whether our representa tive in such a body shall have au thority to act without approval of congress, but a law will undoubtedly be passed which will define just what authority our representative or representatives will have. And it is generally agreed by congress that the frame-work of an tnternataional organization to prevent future wars 1 should be built right now, before the j war has ended. In addition to the complicated | problems of foreign relations, which will-take precedence over all other : matter, congress wil be asked to act I out clear and practical plans for, as quickly as possible in working the postwar employment of return- i ing veterans, for the reconversion of | industry to peacetime pursuits, for i coping with the unemployment which | may follow the end of the war, for' revising our tax program to give in- | dustry more funds for speeding ci-' vilian production, for reducing the cost of government, and for the gradual relaxation of government controls over busmess and individ-: uals. It is quite probable that the legis lation passed by congress during the f next few months will determine the permanency of peace and whether we will have depression or prosperity following the war. The congress faces tremendous responsibilities. But; it is generally believed, here, that,! with the battle over the presidency fortunately out of the way, politics will take* a back seat and congress j wil meet its responsibilities in a manner which would have been im possible during the earlier sessions of 1944. Affected seedlings show a rolling, ably in size and shape, curling, or wrinkling of the leaves, and stunted in growth. Planting grain which contains the galls is the most important means of spreading this pest. A combine or thresher may also carry galls from one farm to another. Infested screenings if fed to animals may con taminate the soil through uneaten galls in manure. Recommended prevention and con trol as to plant seed not infested and on land that has not been seeded to wheat or rye in a year or more. Flour mill operators are looking close at all wheat brought to the mills as the disease is serious in flour production. Farmers who think their wheat seed is infected should con tact this office with a sample of seed. So far the disease has not been found in Laurens county to the knowledge of the county agent, and we certainly do not want it to get started among our wheat and rye seeds. rWOMEirW Do You Hate HOT FLASHES? • If you suffer from hot flashes, feel weak, nervous, a bit blue at times *11 due to the functional “middle- age’' period pecullaHto women—try Lydia K. Plnkham’s Vegetable Com pound to relieve such symptoms. Slade especially for women—-It helps nature! Follow label directions. 1YDU L PINKHAM’S SESKS Buy Tour Fertilizer NOW...Take it N0W...Stcre it Till It’s Needed Tins message it published to assist the War Food Administration and the fertiliser industry . . . to help you get the fertiliser you nee<£. CHILEAN NITRATE mtv. -.i ■Stiff SODA PENCILS—Ticonderoga and Micado —the best 5c pencils available. Alsc colored pencils. Buy them by the dozen or gross. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. Simple Test Aids Thousands W^ho Are Hard of Hearing * Thanks to an easy no-risk bearing test, many thousands who have been temporarily deafened now say they bear well again. If yon arc bothered by ringing, btuzing head noise* doe to hardened or coagulated wax (cerumen), try the Ourine Home Method test You must hear better after making this simple test or you get your mowy back at snssb Ask about Ourine Ear Drop* today at SMITH'S PHARMACY “The Rexall Store*’ Notes From The County Agent's Office By C. B. CANNON. County Agent NEMATODE DISEASE OF WHAT AND RYE Wheat seeding time is at hand and farmers are warned to look for nem atode disease in seed wheat. Hard dark galls in threshed grain is the best means of detecting this pest. Confusion with such weed seeds as cockle and vetch or covered smut kernels may arise to the casual ob server. Nematode galls are dark in color with light brown tips and are usually grooved somewhat like a wheat kernel. Galls are smaller than the wheat grains and vary consider- BICYCLES FOR SALE NEW TIRES AND TUBES— Sizes 26x2.125, 26x1.375, 24x2.125, 20x2.125- * 1 Accessories of All Kinds. Have Your Bike Repaired for Spring Use. L.L. COOPER 49 N. Adair St. Phone 210-M NEED CASH MONEY? AUTO LOANS AND FINANCING Contact: SERVICE LOAN AND FINANCE CO. ‘ CLINTON, S. C. LYNN COOPER __ TOIVI ADDISON Phone 7-J phone 99 Here’s PIUSBURYS BISCUIT BAKE *... ond your baking is GUAR **T^Qj # I I ■I BISCUIT BAKE Try thi* or ssry good recipe, uiing Pillstunr’j Best. If you don’t agree thst you get oetter baking thin with anyother aU- U you don t agree that you get better halting tnan wun anyotnet au- purpose flour, just write Pillsbury’s Home Service Department, Min neapolis, and they'll promptly pay you back the added-up cost of ALL ' igredients. That's guaxantbhd BAKING! your recipe mgre PILLSBURY’S BISCUIT BAKE With the baked-in nourishment of Pillsbury’s Best Tbmpbratum: 425* F. 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