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TBUS TO OUBSELVKS, OUB NE16HB0BI. OUB COUNT&T AND OUK GOD* Forty-First Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942 Number (* « * • » WASHINGTON L Hllffiim'lLffllll Washington, D. C., July 6.— (NWNS)—The movie-like saboteur story, of Germans, with quantities of TNT and a list of the places they were scheduled to blow up from submarines on the Florida and Long Island coasts, is con sidered by many here to be “cheerful’ rather than alarming news. For it indicates, many analysts feel, that the Germans do not have the elaborate organi zation for sabotage within our country which many have sus pected. It seems logical to assume, spokesmen here point out, that the Nazis would not try to put over such a complicated sabotage plan if they had the men, the equipment and the contacts within this country to carry on sabotage on an extensive ' scale. Although it is alarming to have such efforts made to spread de struction and terror in our country, the quick roundup of the men in volved and the fact that the Axis bothered to plot such a corh- plicated plan indicates that the FBI has done a notable job of controlling activities of enemies within our gates. It is by such methods of de duction that much of the news has to be arrived at here these days, since news of enemy actions within our country, as well as news of battles, of ship losses and of production are released only tohen the authorities consider the news to be of no value to the enemy. Under the new Depart ment of War Information, head ed by Elmer Davis, however, it is believed the public will be kept a little better informed as to what is going on although much news must necessarily continue to be withheld. Figures on our production of war supplies—very encouraging figures—were given to newsmen recently, the most outstanding one being released by the Presi dent himself when he said that during May the United States produced 4,000 airplanes for war purposes. This was followed by a statement by Oliver Lyttleton— the Donald Nelson of England— who, upon his return to London from the United States, said that the United States is now 45 days ahead of schedule in production and that combined British and United States production is now considerably ahead of all Axis production, including that of Ja pan. Mr. Lyttleton also predicted that the ships being turned out in the United States shipyards will soon outnumber the sinkings by Axis submarines. It is agreed here that the most serious handicap to production is scarcities of raw materials so that official Washington is giving great attention to the problem of col lecting all possible scrap from the people. A new campaign to collect iron and steel from every home and factory is now under way and government officials are making new plans for the col lection of additional scrap rubber The hastily conceived plan to try to get in the nation’s supply of scrap rubber between June 15 anc 30 was not nearly as successfu as it had been hoped and a new drive to collect rubber is now be ing worked out. “The record time, the record vote and the record appropriation for the army’s new appropriation bill Indicates the willingness of con gress to okay expenditures of any amount of money for war pur poses. In five hours, with a vote of 352 to 0, the house passed a bill to provide $42,820,003,067 for Gas Registration Days Are July 9, 10 And 11 Mr. Herbert N. Coleman, Chair man of the McCormick County Rationing Board, states that gas oline registration dates and places Sn this county have been set as July 9th, 10th and 11th, at the school houses and the hours will be from 9 o’clock a. m. to 6 o’clock p. m., except on the 11th, when the hours will be from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. 1 XT Campaign Meeting Here Next Wednesday TO HAVE ONLY ONE COUNTY CAMPAIGN MEETING County Chairman J. Fred Buz- hardt announces that the State campaign meeting will be held in the court house here next Wednes day, July 15th, beginning at .11 o’clock a. m., at which time can didates for State offices, U. S. Senate and Congress in this dis trict will address the voters. At a meeting of the McCormick County Democratic Executive Committee at the court house Monday, it was unanimously de cided to have only one official county campaign meeting, to be held at McCormick on Friday, Au gust 21st, beginning at 11 o’clock a. m. Evangelistic Services At Methodist Church A THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C ii FRIDAY and SATURDAY July 10th and 11th, 7:30 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. JOHN GARFIELD RAYMOND MASSEY in “DANGEROUSLY THEY LIVE” Also A SUPERMAN CARTOON and ’ OUR GANG COMEDY “WEDDING WORRIES” Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax A series of evangelistic services will begin at the Methodist Church in McCormick on next Monday ev ening, July 13th. Rev. F. C. Ow ens, an honored member of the Upner South Carolina Conference, is to assist the pastor. Rev. W. M. Owings, in these revival services. Preaching each day throughout the following Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:45 p. m. The public is cordially invited to attend each and all of these services. X Buffalo Grange Meeting Postponed Due to the meeting at the Mc Cormick Methodist Church next week, the regular meeting of the Buffalo Grange has been post poned from July 13th to July 20th. Frank W. Corley In The Armv Mr. Frank W. Corley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Corley, was inducted in the army June 27th and is now stationed at Camp Croft. Since his graduation at McCor mick High School and Clemson College, he has taught Vocational Agriculture at Washington High School and Johnston High School, and has served with the Exten sion Service and Agriculture Ad justment Administration at Aiken several years. Mr. Corley is highly re garded by all his fellow workers because of his untiring efforts and gentle manner. He is 1st Lieu tenant in the Infantry as a result of the O. R. C. work that he has done since graduating from Clemson. xx Modoc News Listen in on WGAC, Augusta, Ga., every clay at 12:20 o’clock for program announcements. MONDAY and TUESDAY July 13th and 14th, 7:30 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. BETTY GRABLE VICTOR MATURE 66 in SONG OF THE ISLANDS (Technicolor) Also A WALT DISNEY CARTOON “PLUTO JR.” and LATEST NEWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15. 17 cents, including defense tax. the war department’s need during the coming fiscal year. This one bill is more than our entire cost of World War 1 and brings the total appropriations for this war to over 200 billion dollars. The problem of paying for this gigantic expenditure remains un answered and, although the new *axes will be very high, they will only make a slight dent in our fast mounting debt. The ways and means committee of the ’"iouse after months of delibera tion, has finally written its pro posed new tax bill, which al though it calls for taxes much higher than have ever been paid ?n this country before, is over 2 1-2 billion short of Secretary Morgenthau’s request. The new bill would increase present taxes by enough to bring in about 6 billion dollars in addi tional revenue. It is probable that income taxes next year will be collected in part by payroll deductions, but this subject still is being debated. There will probably be many changes made in the measure before it goes through the house and senate, but it is not expected that the amount will be increased to the figure requested by the secretary of treasury. Meanwhile, efforts to stop ex cessive profits from being made out of war production are getting results and are reducing produc tion costs considerably. Donald Nelson reported that 750 million dollars of excessive profits had been returned to the government by renegotiating contracts and successful efforts to limit profits on new contracts have been carried out. Well, we-had plenty of rain last week—too much—you can hear the farmers now talking about having plenty of boll weevils in their cotton already. Sgt. Talmage Clem and Mrs. Clem of Spartanburg were week end visitors to the former’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Pvt. William E. Bussey from Co lumbia spent Sunday here with his father, Mr. E. F. Bussey. Mr. Chas. Stone spent a few days in Augusta last week visit ing relatives. Messrs. G. E. Canteleau and E. D. Dukes, who are working in Durham, N. C., were week end visitors here to homefolks. Mr. W. S. Clem visited his broth er, Mr. Jim Clem, Monday night in Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bussey from Columbia were week end visitors here to their mothers, Mrs. Rose- lind Reese and Mrs. Minnie Bus sey. Sgt. Austin Clem and Pvt. Bur ton Ward from Camp Gordon were dinner guests here Sunday to the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Mr. F. M. Bussey was a business visitor to Augusta on Wednesday of this week. Misses Eunice and Cehoy Mc Daniel were the spend the night guests of Miss Lucy Bussey Sat urday night. Messrs. E. F. Bussey and W. S. Clem were the guests Sunday ev ening to Mr. T. J. Stone. 1X2 Mt. Carmel News Share Your Car” Clubs Are To Be Organized Mrs. A. B. Lyon visited friends and relatives in Greenville and Columbia last week. Mrs. Etta Lindley and children, Lena, Henry, Bobbie and Elnita, spent last week in Columbia and Anderson visiting relatives. Mr. Neil Merritt of Washington, Ga., was a business visitor here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Black of An derson and Mrs. D. L. Bryson were guests of Mrs. Ida Black Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peeler and sister of Greenwood were visitors here Monday. Mr. Horace McAllister and others were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. McAllister Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Black and sons, Floyd, Jr., and Jeff, of Charleston spent Friday night. Saturday and night with Mrs. Ida Black. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Curtis will regret to hear of the illness of Mr. Curtis. We hope for him a speedy recovery. Rev. Chisholm Halliday was a visitor here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Inman Griffin and daughter, Louise, spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Huntei McKinney. Misses Lennie and Eliza Covin spent last Friday in Anderson with their sister, Mrs. George Peel and Miss Virginia Majette. Mrs Majette was very ill Thursday night and had to be carried t the hospital, but was nuch bettc Friday, we are glad to say. Miss Lillie Miller of De la How is spending her vacation at he Motorists of McCormick County were advised today by Mr. J. F. Buzhardt, Chairman of McCor mick County Civilian Defense Council, to confer with their neighbors with a view to partici pation in the “Share-Your-Car” clubs being organized in the At lantic Seaboard States in con nection with the inauguration of the permanent gasoline rationing plan, July 22, 1942. Mr. Buzhardt, in calling upon the residents of this county tc make plans to conserve their tires and automobiles, said that it was essential to the nation’s war effort that these “Share- Your-Car” clubs be formed. “There is a critical shortage of gasoline in the East, due to lack of transportation facilities, peces- sitating strictest rationing of gas oline in this area,” Mr. Buzhardt said, adding “While rationing of gasoline has not become nation wide, I am sure that the residents of McCormick County will be proud of the fact that they are taking the lead in a gasoline and tire conservation movement that will soon spread over the nation.” Mr. Buzhardt said that indus trial plants and other places en gaged in defense and other es sential war work would handle the formation of “Share-Your- Car” clubs within their own plants. He said, however, that the farmers in the rural areas and the folks in the small towns would have to get-together and form their own clubs. The county OCD chairman said that the local OCD office was prepared to help the residents of this county in getting together and forming their cl^is. He advised persons interestecnln the formation of such clubs, who have not al ready made their plans in their own neighborhood, to contact the local OCD office and leave the information that would enable OCD officials to place them in a “Share-Your-Car” plan. Mr. Buzhardt pointed out that while participation in “Share- Your-Car” clubs was the patriotic thing to do, it was also essential under the permanent plan for all persons, who wish more than ap proximately 3.8 gallons of gasoline a week, to be a member of a “Share-Your-Car” club. If a motorist finds that 3.8 gallons of g&s a week is all that is necessary for all of his driving, then he will have no need for larger than “A” card rations. However, if this amount of gasoline will not take him to work and back and take care of his other essen tial driving, it is imperative that he participate in the “Share- Your-Car” plan. “The public has not fully real ized, as yet, the serious transpor tation problem that now faces the workers, while private cars han- other common carriers transport ed only 18 per cent of the nation’^ workers, while private cars han dled the other 82 per cent. With the public transportation system; now overloaded and gasoline anc rubber becoming more and more difficult to obtain, it is essential that every resident of this county travel with at least four personf in his car as often as possible. Share-Your-Car” and help keep “America on wheels” Mr. Buzhardt concluded, adding “Save Gasoline, Save Tires, Save Amer- ON THE NEWS FRONT Stiffer And More Inclusive Tax Bill Up Before Congress ca/ “From our farms and gardens as well as from our mines anc 'actories come the munitions of victory.”—Paul V. McNutt, Direc tor of Defense Health and Wel fare Services. For every three dollars collected in taxes this year, a pending tqjr bill will increase that amount ta four dollars. The nation’s income of 10 bil lion dollars is going to be taxed almost 23 billion dollars. Tax exemptions have been low ered: Single persons will start paying taxes at $500, instead of at $750. Formerly, married per sons began paying taxes at $1,500. This has been dropped to $1,200. Allowances of $400 for each de pendent would remain the same. One of the many outstanding features of the tax bill is that the present normal tax rate which you now pay, 4 per cent, is to be raised to 6 per cent—a 50 per cent increase. Such are just a few, a very few, of the many changes in the tax bill facing both houses of con gress. The treasury department re quested eight billion dollars to ^arry on the business of the na tion—the wartime business. The new tax bill has fallen short of this request by close to three billions of dollars. The ways and means com- mittemen who are responsible for the present tax-bill have been under fire from all groups as a result of either taxing certain, groups too much, or not taxing; those groups enough. Many have said that a general jales tax would have taken care of much of the present tax-bill’s deficit. Fighting against this general sales tax, though, was the treasury department, which did not want it, fought it bitterly, and won. Another upset in the tax-bill was that the mandatory joint re turns of husband and wife was defeated at- the last minute. It was this same joint return con troversy that popped up in the last tax bill hearing. Such joint returns this year, if placed in the bill, would swell the nation’s revenue by 400 million, dollars. In the tax-bill, new excise taxes —another name for sales tax—will add 800 milllion dollars to the treasury’s coffer. Some of the new excise taxes are placed on cigarettes which will increase in cost one-half cent a. pack. Taxes on telephone bills, now 6 per cent, will be raised to 12 per cent. Tax on liquor will go qp 50 cents on the quart. Travel tax (on bus, plane, and rail fares) will be increased to 15 per cent rom present 10 per cent. Even parcel post rates, and postage rates on newspapers, magazines, and periodicals will be increased. The nation’s juke boxes are going to be taxed. Race tracking pari-mutuel betting is also going to feel the touch of the treasury department. The war is expensive now. But Mr. and Mrs. America know that what they pay now to achieve necessary victory is much ?s than that which would b? ti « from them in case the war sh dd be lost by Uncle Sam and his Al lies. 2X7 j Boll Weevil Checks From actual count in fields here and there over McCormick: County, I find that the per cent of infestation is relatively small right now but we have weevils and we are going to have more weevils. I have never seen cotton that was better fruited for the. time of year; or, as one farmer said, “I have never seen cotton ‘trying to make’ as fast as this borne here. year.” Sen. L. L. Hester was a visitor A few farmers, where the 5n Columbia one day last week. cotton is large and heavily fruit- Mr. Pat Hester of Columbia ed, are going to dust if the weevil came home Friday afternoon for increases at all. Some are doing; the week end. a little dusting already. Mr. Edwin Covin of Lyman spent j G. W. Bonnette, the week end here. [ County Agents