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TSUI TO OUBSELWS, OUB NBOHBOBf, OUB COUNTRY AND OUB OOD« Thirty-Ninth Year Established June 5,1902 McCORMICK, S. C. f THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941 IN WMHUMTON '" • , f KEEPING PRICES DOWN Washington, April 22.—(NWNS) —Leon Henderson, newly appoint ed protector of the public’s pocket- book, is expected to have his hands full in preventing inflation ary price rises, but the powers conferred upon him are con sidered sufficient to stave off any immediate price boom. The bffice of price administra tion and civilian supply, which is the name of the office Mr. Hen derson heads, is authorized to fix prices if necessary and to prevent products from being withheld from the market for speculative purposes. The chief duty of the new office is to see that we do not have a repetition of the inflation and supply problems which dis rupted our economy during the last war. The President believes that slight increases in prices are ex pected and not undesirable, but he wants to prevent any spieling of prices which are out of propor tion to increased purchasing power. A 10 per cent increase in L prices during the next year will probably be permitted, but greater increases will be fought. Mr. Henderson will probably use persuasion, rather than give orders at first in an effort to keep price control on a voluntary basis, but his office will be prepared to take quick action if voluntary control gets out of hand. During the last six months our national purchasing ppwer has in creased rapidly and will continue increasing each month throughout the summer. Wage increases in farm regions seem to be keeping step with wage increases in pro duction industries. The depart ment of agriculture states that farm wages now are higher than at any time since 1931, that they are 38 per cent above the 1910- 1914 average and that the major part of the increase has come dur ing the past year when they have increased 24 per cent. In many states the demand for farm workers at standard wages exceeds the supply, although the department insists that there is no dangerous shortage of farm labor. But it does mean further increases in wages. Well aware of the trouble caused by rapidly rising prices during the last war, the government intends to see to it that those difficulties are not repeated. Not only will prices be controlled, but efforts will be made to control the spend ing of money by the public. This will probably be done in three ways: (1) wide advertising and promotion to get people to invest a large proportion of their in creased incomes in government defense bonds (2) heavy taxes on the middle-income group so that part of their increased income, resulting from government orders, will be returned to the govern ment; (3) educational appeals to our patriotism to refrain from purchasing things the production of which might hamper defense production. It is possible that we may get our first taste of a sales campaign conducted for the pur pose of persuading us not to buy things. * * * The delicacy of our short-of- war moves has been greatly in creased by two actions of our gov ernment which Axis authorities argue are breaches of interna tional law, namely, the refusal of our government to recognize a Nazi-dictated statement from Den mark voiding the agreement plac ing Greenland under U. S. protec tion, and our sefcPttre of Danish, German and Italian ships. Secre tary Hull has sound arguments to show that he is acting within this country’s rights in both of these moves and he has made it clear that he doesn’t intend to do any Rural Mail Box Improvement Week Starts May 5th To the patrons on the rural ’•outes from McCormick post of fice: Tfye Post Office Department has designated the week beginning May 5th, 1941, as rural mail box improvement week. In prior years the aid extended by persons and organizations out side the Postal Service who were interested in furthering progress in civic improvements has resulted in the replacement of mail boxes which were not in proper condi tion or which were otherwise un suitable as mail receptacles, and in painting of boxes and their supports, this has been deeply gratifying to the Department. It is trusted that still further improvements will be effected during this year’s improvement campaign. This is to kindly request the patrons on the routes from Mc Cormick office to cooperate in this rural mail box improvement campaign. If your box is not a suitable receptacle, replace same. If your box is inconvenient for the carrier to serve, place same in a more convenient location. Paint ing boxes and their supports will add greatly to their general ap pearance. Thanking you for your coopera tion in this improvement cam paign, I am, Respectfully, J. E. Bell, P. M. McCormick Girl Heads La'nder Association BOlimOD TIME McCORMICK, S. C. . • FRIDAY and SATURDAY April 25th and 26th, 7:15 P. M. and 8:55 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. ROY ROGERS GEO. “GABBY” HAYES in “SAGA OF DEATH VALLEY” Also Selected Short Subjects MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30 P. M. Adults 20 cents From The Index-Journal, Green wood, April 20. Frances Cheatham of McCor mick was elected president of the Lander College Christian Associa tion for the college years 1941- 1942 at a meeting of the organiza tion Thursday, April 17. Other officers of the cabinet elected, were vice-presidents, Ruby Thomas and Betty Watkins, and secretary- treasurer, Polly Graham. Play At Washington School Friday Night The Senior Class of Washington Consolidated High School will present the play, “Faith, Hope and Flarity” Friday at 8:00 P. M., April 25th. Admission, children, 10 cents; adults, 15 cents. The public is cordially invited. We will promise you two hours and a half of fun and laughter. -xx- Divisional Meeting At Gallic Self Church The Womans Missionary Unions of the Troy, Bradley, Horeb, Buf falo, Willington and McCormick churches are urged to send dele gates to the Divisional Meeting at Callie Self Memorial Church, Greenwood, Tuesday, April 29. The meeting begins at 10 o’clock. State workers will be present to bring messages of inspiration. Bring lunches with you. - - ■ » —■ Plan To Paint Lower Long Cane A. R. P. Church U. S. Defense Savings Bonds And Postal Savings Stamps WILL GO ON SALE AT LOCAL POST OFFICE MAY 1ST. It is the plan of the Lower Long Cane A. R. P. Congregation to paint the church building in the near future, completing the work by August. We believe many who read this paper will be interested in beautifying and preserving this old building. Those who wish to contribute to this fund will please send their contribution to Miss Willie Young, Troy, S. C. -ixt- MONDAY find TUESDAY April 28th and 29th, 7:15 P. M. and 9:00 P. M. HENRY FONDA LINDA DARNELL in . h t 7 /“IB ' ( . T r 66 95 *—5 CHAD HANNA Also A Sports Review “Rodeo Goes To Town” < f | { and LATEST NEWS EVENTS n ADMISSION: Adults. 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents; Children 12 to 15, 15 cents back-watering. In the Greenland episode he has the backing of the Danish minister at Washington who sign ed the agreement and refused to be recalled by his government on orders “emanating directly or in directly from Germany.’’ He stated that so far as this country is con cerned the arrangement is clearly within the scope of our Monroe Doctrine. * * * The success of the Axis powers in the Balkans has made congress and the President more deter mined than ever to increase efforts of greater aid to Great Britain. Although we are still avoiding supplying convoys, the President authorized the transfer of 10 of our coast guard cutters to Great Britain to be used for convoy pur poses and he has asked congress for the right to purchase idle foreign ships deemed necessary for defense purposes. This ship-buy ing plan is expected to be rushed through congress to give the President the right to purchase the foreign ships already seized. It is the present attitude of con gress that defense production must be more rapidly speeded up to the maximum capacity. Con gressmen consider the problems of getting material to England to be of a minor nature—that the all- important thing right now is to produce as much and as fast as possible. Some congressmen feel that the lull in the strike situation after Easter might represent a lull be fore a storm, as strikes are threat ened in some of the largest plants in the country, including U. S. Steel and General Motors. But there does seem to be a feeling that labor and employers are j ready to come to quick settlements in the face of growing public sen timent against all interference with defense. { Clean Up Week In McCormick Starts April 28 April 28th through May 2nd has been designated Clean Up Week in the town of McCormick. All prop erty owners are urgently requested to clean up their premises and place the rubbish where it can be reached with the truck. Now is the time to begin mos quito and fly control and we shall expect everybody to cooperate with us in cleaning up the town. T. J. Sibert, • Mayor. 1X1 Miss Jane Bracknell Graduating Class Historian At Coker Hartsville, April 22.—Miss Jane Bracknell of Plum Branch, a se nior at Coker Cohege, has been elected historian of the graduating class. She will write the class history and read it at the class day exercises during the com mencement season the latter part of next month. The history will also be a feature of the 1941 Mile stone, the Coker yearbook. x Notice Beginning May 1st and contin uing until September 1st, we will close our places of business at 6 P. M., Saturdays excepted. We open at 6:30 A. M. J. L. Bracknell, Jas. J. Collier. Plum Branch, S. C. -xx- Commissioners Rural Housing Authority In M ( cCormiek County Columbia, April 21.—It was an nounced today by J. Roy Jones, Commissioner of Agriculture, that the following men have been ap pointed commissioners to act as the Rural Housing Authority for McCormick County: J.. S. Strom, Chairman. McCormick; J. H. Per- cival, Parksville; James J. Collier, Plum Branch; G. H. McCain, Mc Cormick; and R. M. Pettigrew, Mt. Carmel. Under the South Carolina lav/, appointments are made by the The United States Defense Sav ings Bonds and Postal Savings Stamps will be placed on sale in the main Post Office at the open ing of business on Thursday, May 1, as part of the national effort to make America impregnable. Postmaster J. E. Bell of McCor mick announced today that plans are nearly completed for this com munity, along with thousands of others from coast to coast, to do its full part at the opening of the savings program. It is expected that civic leaders will be among the first purchasers of savings bonds and stamps here. Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, in a letter to Postmasters throughout the country, said that the help of local postmasters would be “a real service to the country”. He transmitted the thanks of Secretary of the Treas ury Morgenthau for the help that local postmasters had already given in the sale of United States securities, and also Mr. Morgen- thau’s thanks in advance “for. the co-operation which he knows you will give to this new effort”. The new Defense Savings Bond is similar to the familiar “Baby Bond”, of which more than five billion dollars worth have been bought by more than two and a half million Americans since 1935. A Defense Bond may be pur chased May 1, or thereafter, for $18.75. In ten years, this bond will be worth $25.00. This is an increase of 33 1-3 per cent, equal to an annual interest return of 2.9 per cent, compounded semi-an nually. Any time after sixty days from the date of purchase, the bond may be redeemed for cash, in accordance with. a # table of re demption values printed on the face of the bond. To spread investments widely a- mong all the people in America, a limit of $5,000 has been set on the amount of these bonds to be bought by any one person in one year. The bonds are in denomi nations of $25, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000, all of which are sold for 75 per cent of their maturity value and all of which mature in ten years. For larger investors who can af ford to purchase up to $50,000 worth of bonds a year, the Treas ury Department has issued two additional kinds of Defense Sav ings Bonds, but these will be sold only through banks and by direct mail from Washington, D. C. They are intended for associations, trustees and corporations, as well as individual purchasers. For the smaller investor who wants to buy a Government Bond on an easy payment plan, the post J office will have a new series of Postal Savings Stamps, at 10c, 25c, 5Gc, $1, and $5. Each purchaser of any Savings Stamp higher than 10c will be given, free of charge, an attractive pocket album in which to paste his stamps until he has enough to buy a $25 bond or one of higher denomination. Thirty million of these albums are now being prepared. The cover design of the albums is in color, featufing a United States battleship and an eagle bearing the American flag. On the back cover is a painting of the Minute Man statue by Daniel Chester French, which symbolizes the American citizen ever alert in defense of his country. The in scription is “America on Guard”. Secretary Morgenthau said that even a boy or girl who saved 10c | *) buy a Savings Stamp would iclp the country. He added that you can safeguard your own money and your own future, while helping the national defense, by buying United States Savings Bonds now”. Number U/ % Chestnut Ridge H. D. Club Meets ' Friday Afternoon The Chestnut Ridge H. D. dub will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. A. J. Hendrix Friday afternoon, April 25th, at 2:30. -XXX- Spring Meeting Of Council Of Farm Women The Spring Meeting of the County Council of Farm Women will be held on Saturday, May 3rd, at 10 o’clock, at Long Cane Church. Everyone is invited to attend this meeting. MatUda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. X „ i * Notice There will be a meeting of the Old Age Pension Association Sat urday, April the 26, 1941, at 2 o’clock at the McCormick court house. All members come and bring one with you. Maggie Young, Secretary. -xx- George W. Dukes, Of , Greeleyville, Dies Funeral services for George W. Dukes, 66, farmer of the Greeley ville section of Williamsburg County, were conducted Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock at' Piney Grove Baptist church, with the Rev. E. W. Cantwell, officiating. Mr. Dukes died N last Sunday evening at his home, after an ex tended illness. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Dukes of Rowesville, and is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Armanda R. Smokes of Bamberg; one son, and three daughters as follows: D. F. Dukes, Miss Mary Dukes, Mrs. Louise Schroeder, all of that coun ty; Mrs. W. E. Eddings, Camden and two brothers, J. O. Dukes, Savannah, Ga., and J. S. Dukes, McCormick. Mrs. T. A. Epting, Of Newberry, Dies Mrs. Ann Kibler Epting, 71, widow of the late Thomas A. Ep ting, died suddenly Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. C. Jumper, Black Mountain, N. C. She was a life long resident of the St. Paul section of New berry county, and a loyal and con sistent member of St. Paul Luth eran church for over 60 years, al ways taking an active interest in church and community activities. Mrs. Epting was a daughter of the late William H. Kibler and Josephine Buzhardt Kibler. She is survived by the following chil dren: Mrs. L. C. Jumper, Black Mountain, N. C.; Miss Gladys Mae Epting, Newberry; Dr. C. K. Ep ting, McCormick; Hugh Epting, Columbia, Carl H. Epting, Pros perity. Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, the Rev. J. Emmett Roof, at 4 o’clock Wednesday from St. Paul Lutheran church. Inter- hient followed in the church cemetery. One White Man To Enter Training, 28tK Dan A. Bell, president of the local board of Selective Service, announces that one white man will report at Fort Jackson on Monday, April 28th, for a year’s military training. The man is Edgar Bonds. The alternate is Clarence Weeks. County Senator and a copy is filed with the State Housing Board of which Commissioner Jones is a member. TAX BOOKS CLtiSE MAY 1ST As provided by a joint resolution passed by the Legislature at the present session, the 1940 tax books close May 1st. After this time all unpaid taxes will go in execution. Ruth P. Duncan, County Treasurer.