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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.