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* 7 V 4 TBUS TO OUBSXLVttI '» i V NX1GHBOBS, OUB COUNTRY AND OUR OOD< Forty-First Year This Week Established June 5,1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1942 Number 3 WASHINGTON 1111 ffliiHiiffl III Washington, D, June 15.— (NWNS)—Although there have been many new “alphabetical” brandies of government estab lished during the past two years —the OPA, the WPB, the OFF, etc.—some of the old favorites which became famous under the New Deal are now vanishing. The house of representatives has voted against the continuation of the CCC (Civilian Conservation corps), the President himself has asked for a major reduction in the size of the WPA (Works Progress administration) and the NYA (National Youth administra tion), a favorite of Mrs. Roose velt’s, may be \curtailed. All of these groups were estab lished originally because of the unemployment situation. V The reason for their existence has now pretty well disappeared in view of the labor shortage in many in dustries and on farms. The NYA may be continued to the extent that it trains young men for dcilled war production jobs, but it looks as though the CCC, which at one time had 300,000 men in its camps, will be closed vp entirely. Investigation shows that many of the CCC camps are In areas where men are urgently needed for farm work, so the men who will be dismissed from these camps will be urged to go to work on the farms. During, the past year the de partment of agriculture has been urging fanners to increase their production of food in order * to have enough supplies to feed the United Nations as well as our own nation. • The farmers have responded admirably—but to the extent that with many farm boys having joined the armed forces the problem of harvesting and caring for crops has become a major one. Young women and school boys and girls have been urged to volunteer their services to prevent any food from going to waste. Recently a new committee call ed the Wartime Food committee was named by Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production board, to handle the gigantic problem of determining the food needs of / the United Nations and seeing to it that those needs are met to the full extent of our facilities. The committee has asked for reports from other countries on their needs and is also surveying the situation here. Secretary of Agriculture Wick- ard, who is head of the new com mittee, is not yet ready to say whether or not we will be re stricted on the purchase of some domestic food items, but he made it clear that the armed forces of all United Nations will be given precedence over civilians. In spite of the greatly increas ed need for food from the farms of this nation, one of the major problems appears to be storage and processing, rather than pro duction. All indications are that this year’s crops will be the greatest in history. But the committee faces prob lems like these: This year’s crop of wheat, coupled with present surpluses, is expected to give us a two-year’s supply. Storage facilities cannot be readied to hold all of the wheat and much of it may con sequently have to be piled on the ground. Should the committee ask farmers to reduce their acre age when they do their fall sow ing or should we attempt to store up still greater supplies for the future? Another problem is the record Mt. Carmel News HOLLYWOOD THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C FRIDAY and SATURDAY June 19th and 20th. 7:30 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. JANE WITHERS WILLIAM TRACY in “YOUNG AMERICA” Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS ill Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax Listen in on WGAC, Augusta, Ga., every day at 12:20 o’clock for program announcements. " ■ » MONDAY and TUESDAY June 22nd and 23rd, 7:30 P. M. and 9:30 P. M. GINGER ROGERS_GE0. MONTGOMERY In “ROXIE HART” Also A Walt Disney Cartoon “The Art of Self Defense’’ and LATEST NEWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15, 17 cents, including defense tax. § fi s 5 Miss Sara Curtis of Warm Springs Foundation returned to her duties there Sunday! after en joying a 10 days’ vacation at her home here. Miss Gladys Scott of Davidson, N. C., was a weekend visitor at her home here. Mrs. Clara Majette, . Miss Vir ginia Majette, Mrs. George Peel and Mrs. Jack Weir of Anderson were visitors here one day last week. Mrs. Otis Black and son, Jimmie, returned to Anderson with them for medical attention for Jimmie, who was ill. Messrs. Harold and Billie Gil liam of Greenwood were visitors here during the week end. Rev. Chisholm Halliday, mis sionary to Mexico, arrived in Mt. Carmel last week to visit his cousins, Misses Florence and Su sie Patterson, and later visiting Miss Nell Patterson at Mecklen burg Co. Sanatorium, Hunters ville, N. C. We are happy to say he found her getting along nice ly. Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, Misses Jua nita and Sara Curtis were visitors fn Anderson and Greenville last Friday. Mrs. Dode Philips and son, Dav id, of Due West spent Sunday af ternoon with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Boyd. We are glad to say that Mrs. Carrie Tarrant is improving nice ly from a recent fall. Sergeant Lawrence Hardaway of Fort Jackson is spending some time with his mother, Mrs. Leo nora Hardaway. Many friends are always glad to welcome him home. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott of Greenwood spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott. Mrs. J. J. White of Charleston spent Monday night and Tuesday with relatives here. Sullivan News hog crop to be marketed next winter. Meat packing facilities do not seem to be great enough to handle the expected crop. Should new packing facilities be rushed through, should the mar keting period be lengthened or what other plan can be worked out to see that there is no waste? Then there is the problem of the greatly increased production of soy beans and peanuts, re quested so that oil could be ob tained from them to take the place of oils which we formerly imported and can’t get at pres ent. There is a definite short age of processing equipment to get oil from these crops. New facilities probably can’t be pro- /ided in time. Can present pro cessing equipment be speeded up to carry the whole load? Similar adjustment problems continue to face all branches of mdustry as well as agriculture. Although our national income is it a record high and millions of people have better jobs than they ever had before, there are also a record number losing their jobs ind their businesses as a result of war time restrictions. In many cas^s the men who ’ose employment in one indus try can soon find a new job in war work, but there is a major adjustment problem which is on ly partly solved. Many hardships have resulted from necessary but drastic rul ings by the Office of Price Ad ministration. The new price ceilings have, for example, slowed up the women’s clothes industry to the extent that 150,000 people may be made temporary idle; the gasoline restrictions have meant loss of jobs not only to gas station attendants but to thousands of people working in road stands and pleasure resorts who depend on the automobile to bring their customers to them. Hard as it may seem, there is ! no solution which will not inter- ! fere with our war program to save the job of many in these groups. But a large percentage of them can shift to war work or farm work for the duration. Visitors in the home of Mrs. Janelle Winn the past week were Misses Mary Louise and Betty Seigler, Francis Mae, Pauline and Maggie Winn, Mr. Willie Morgan Winn, Mrs. Minnie Winn, Mrs. Sal- lie Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Corley, Mr. Span Mayson, Mrs. R. D. Seigler and Cecil, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Winn and children. Mr. Mayes Mayson and Mr. Lew is McNeill of Ninety Six were din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Mayson Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kendrick called to see Mrs. Bob Carpenter Sunday p. m. Visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Mayson and Mr. W. W. Mayson, Sr., Sunday were Mrs. Jalney Reynolds, Bobby and Joan of Greenville, Misses Ellen and Lena Reynolds of Norfolk, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mayson and Mrs. Fannie Reynolds and Thelma. Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Corley were supper guests at a Cheatham reunion barbecue at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Cheatham Sat urday night. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Timmerman and family of Trenton, Mr. and and Mr. H. A. Cheatham and fam ily. Mr. W. A. Cheatham and fam ily of Edgefield, Mr. and Mrs. Her man Sandifer of Troy, Miss Sa brina Timmerman of Aiken. Miss Sarah Jane Gilchrist of Colu/nbia spent her vacation a- mong homefolks. Miss Maggie Winn is spending a few days with homefolks in this community. Miss Juanita Reames of Green wood is spending her vacation at her home. Miss Virginia Winn spent the past week end with Miss Willie Mae Jordan of Kirksey. Mrs. Jim Reames spent the past week in Anniston, Alabama, vis iting her son, Claude, and his family. Miss Grace Gilchrist of Green ville and Miss Thelma Gilchrist of Greenwood spent the past week end with their father, Mr. T. B. Gilchrist. Miss Trula Winn and Mrs. Har- orld Corley were spend the day guests of Mrs. Irvin Reames of Greenwood recently. Mrs. Edward Gilchrist, Mrs. J. E. Winn, Mrs. Virginia Bailey and 12 sunbeams from Rehoboth at tended the sunbeam rally at Edge- field Friday. X White Breads And Flour To Be Enrich-, ed After July 31st Plum Branch News Commissioner of Agriculture. T. Roy Jones announced from Col umbia today that millers, bakers, wholesale and retail dealers will be required to see that all their Thite breads and white flour are enriched after July 31, 1942. The Bread and Flour Enrich- “nent Law. sponsored by the State Nutritional Committee, was pass 'd at the last legislature and re- •juires that after August 1st all white flour and bread in South Carolina must be enriched with Vitamin B-l, nicotinic acid and ron. In discussing the enforcement of the law before a recent con ference of millers and bakers, Mr. Jones stated that the district in spectors would begin August o draw samples of bread anr 1 flour from wholesale and retail dealers and these samples will be tested in Columbia for compli ance with the law. “Copies of the law,” said the Commissioner, “have already been sent to all manufacturers and we hope that everyone under stands the requirements. Bakers and millers are highly in favor of the Act, and have assured me of their cooperation in enforcing the law for the protection of health and well being of the con suming public. I do not antici pate any trouble in the enforce ment if retailers will acquain' themselves with the provision and see that packages of flou and bread are properly marked.” The Vacation Bible School of St. Paul Church closed a success ful session last Saturday with a picnic which was thoroughly en joyed by the children. Atjout forty pupils and teachers attferitfed. Miss Emma Bell King is teaching a First Aid Course in a recreation al camp in Georgia. She will give a similar course here later in this season. Mr. J. L. Caudle, with two of his children, Johnel and Janet, spent some time recently with his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Bracknell. Simple, but pretty, Children’s Day exercises were conducted at the Methodist Church June 14th. A very liberal offering was made. Miss Essie Collier, a bookkeeper in a bank at Wadesboro, N. C., is spending her annual vacation with her mother, Mrs. Hattie Col lier. Mrs. Allen P. Willis has just re turned from a visit to her daugh ter, Mrs. J. W. Yassney, at Jack sonville, N. C. After, a three weeks’ drought a light rain fell here Tuesday of this week. Our crops are above the average. Mrs. Ella P. Lankford has re cently gone on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Boyd, at Mar ion, N. C. Our merchants report a real thriving trade, and the railroad seems to be doing the heaviest freight business in its history. Mr. Bonnette, the new farm a gent for this county, was the guest last Friday evening of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Sturkey. Mr. Gary Self is at home on fur lough. He has been stationed at Camp Wallace. Miss Willie May Humphries, a student at a Greenwood business school, is spending this week with her grandmother, Mrs. T. E. Fur- queron, of McCormick. Mr. S. J. King, the popular rail road agent here, is enoying a va cation in the mountains of North Carolina. JVIiss Cornelia Freeland has gone on a protracted visit to her sister, Mrs. Charles Culbreath, of Aiken. Mrs. Coy Wall, with her three small children, has left for Ala bama to be with her husband, who is ill. Plum Branch was visited on the afternoon of June 13th with a wind of almost cyclonic propor tions. Fortunately, little damage was done. Recent visitors to the home oi Mr. R. M. ' Winn included Mrs Godsey, of Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bachman, Columbia, and Miss Mabel Winn, Augusta. Mr. Charles Wells, who has en tered Uncle Sam’s Civil Service, left this week for Atlanta. His brother, Mr. William Thomas Wells, is still stationed at an ar tillery training camp in Maine. Mr. Henry M. Self is reportec sick, and confined to the bed par of the time. Jvliss Maggie Wells visited friends in Aiken and Augusta last week Visitors in the home of Mr. anc Mrs. E. C. Rice this week includf Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevens, of Mississippi, Rev. and Mrs. A. Q. Rice and Prof. Spencer Rice, Spar tanburg. Prof. Rice is the assist ant principal of the Frank Evan. 1 High School, of Spartanburg, ttv largest institution of its kind per haps in this State. It has about sevent-five teachers and 1,700 pu pils. Mrs. G. P. Lanier has returned home, after serving as a worker in a Vacation Bible School at De la Howe School. Mr. W. H. Gaylor and family of Woodruff spent the last week end with the family of Mr. E. L. Lang ley. Miss Gladys Winn is visiting her sister, Mrs. Evelyn Bochman, in Columbia. 1 Xt Gas Registration July 1st, 2nd, 3rd Gasoline registration dates have been set as July 1st, 2nd and 3rd, at places to be announced next week. ON THE NEWS FRONT Nation’s Grocery Basket Guarded By Food Require ments Committee The federal government, to in sure a steady stream of supplies for the nation's fighting forces, and also to its Allies, is assuming complete war-time control over the nation’s grocery basket. The War Production, board vest ed such gigantic control in a nine-member food requirements committee under the chairman ship of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. The Wickard committe stressed the idea, though, that it should not be assumed that there is a food shortage, or that consumer rationing of most foods is in prospect. The total food supply this year is expected to be the largest on record, and even larger than the requirements of not only this nation, but also Russia and Great Britain. Shortages in a Few Items. Despite the enormous amounts of foodstuffs in this year’s antic ipated supply, shortages in cer tain items are now showing. Such items are sugar, pork, animal fats, vegetable oils, canned vegetables, coffee, tea, cocoa, and some tropical fruits. But the prospect for a plentiful supply of wheat, fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk, cream, beef, lamb, mutton and eggs is encouraging. This food supply is dependent on sufficient farm labor supply, available food transportation and processing, and good weather. Because of the limit to lend- lease shipments due to a pres ent shipping shortage, food sup plies here will not be cut into as much as if the shipping con ditions were normal. This is an other factor which complements the nation’s food supply. But if a severe drought, or a farm-labor shortage takes place; or if the sub menace is elimi nated and thereby enabling more food-stuffs to be exported to Russia and Great Britain, then there is a good possibility that rationing of some items here might take place. Rationing Group's Authority The food rationing group has the authority to say what foods may or may, not be produced, what foods may or may not be imported, and to direct food sup plies among the armed forces, American Allies and U. S. civil ians. Within a short time a joint American-British food board will be arranged so as to link up both of the nations’ food supply. Officials of the Wickard com mittee stressed the fact that any food rationing that would take place would be carried out by the Office of Price Administration. The foremost duty of this fed eral food rationing group is to check on all food needs, and the prospects on production and im ports. It can adopt any measures necessary and practical to ob tain food supplies. Because the war has stopped jimportant foreign supplies of vegetable oils, the committee has been faced with its first problem. It must decide whether to cut down on the consumption of the fats and vegetable oils here, or to draw on the nation’s re serve supply. Plans County-Wide Patriotic Rally , Here In July ■ \ The Civilian Defense Council met Tuesday afternoon and dis cussed the matter of training for members of the various commit tees. Plans were also made for n county-wide patriotic rally to be held here in July, with out of town speakers, a brass band and barbecue dinner. Further de tails of this meeting will be an nounced later.