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McCORMIGK MESSENGER; McCOKMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 24, 1943 Cotton Blooms Cotton blooms of this season have been received at this office us follows: A white bloom from Bill Walker, colored, of near town, on June 17th. ] A white bloom from Mr. Guy Jennings, of the White Town sec tion on June 18th. A white bloom from Mr. J. E. Winn of Route 2 on June 19th. A white bloom from Mr. C. T. LeRoy of Willington on June 20th. A white bloom from George Gearies, colored, of the Fork sec tion, on June 22nd. Town And Farm In Wartime Don't Travel Unnecessarily To relieve crowded trains and buses, residents of South Carolina are asked not to make unneces- -eary trips. DDT has defined trips by train or bus, for the follow ing purposes as non-essential: (1) To other cities to visit friends, <2) Home for the week end; (3) Sightseeing;* (4) To the theatre," races, or other places of amuse ment; (5) Any social travel or travel for pleasure; (6) Travel merely for the sake of going somewhere. Victory Tax Collections The Victory Tax, which to date has been withheld from wages and salaries, above exemptions, at the rate of 5 per cent, will be in cluded in the 20 per cent with holding plan provided for in the current Tax Payment Act, on oi after July 1. Total Victory Tax collections as of June 5 were $682,382,523.20. Sticker for Ration-Free Shoes South Carolina shoe dealer.' must put an official OPA sticker on shoes that are to be sold ra tion-free because of damage by fire, water, steam, or other ac cidental cause, the OPA has an nounced. The purpose of the sticker is to protect the customer against black markets in shoes. Used Car Gas Ration Any South Carolinian purchas ing a used car may qualify for a gasoline ration to operate it, even though he is unable to get a tire inspection record from the previous owner, if he can satisfy the local board that (1) No tire inspection record ever was issued for the vehicle, or (2) The buyer had been unable to get the rec ord from the previous owner af- BELK BARGAINS TODAY AS ALWAYS The secret of oar success, and that Belk’s is the fastest growing store in Augusta, is due to the fact that, you get better values here, in and out of sea son. A $400,600 stock makes selection easy. J DISHES And novelty pottery We have at' all times gt least 40,000 pieces of dishes and pottery to select from, VALUES UP TO $1.50 5c and 10c " / With purchase of other merchandise. — Bf LK WHITE LUKE CO 845 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. ! 4 Woodland Owners! Unde Sam Needs Your Ti-es Now For Pulpwood You Have a Vital Fart To Play in Supplying Uncle Sam With Pulpwood Serve Your Country With Saw, Ax, Team and Truck Over 2,000,000 cords of pulpwood are need ed in 1943 to package food, supplies and munitions for overseas shipment Greater quantities of pulpwood are necessary for making rayon for parachutes; medical dressings for treating sick and wounded sol diers and sailors; blueprint paper for the planning of submarines, ships and planes; paper for shell cases; and a thousand other new and old wartime uses. Your average pulpwood tree yields enough ni- tro-cellulose to provide smokeless powder for thirty-five 105 MM. shells or 7,500 rounds of ammunition for ,a Garand rifle. Your cord of pulpwood will make enough smokeless powder to fire two rounds in a 16-inch naval gun. Parts for army and navy planes are shipped in paper containers made from trees. Resin-treated wood pulp is molded under pressure into airplane parts. The above sponsored by the Pulpwood, Paper wid Publishing Industries. Approved by the War Production Board* IF YOU HAVE PULPWOOD TO OFFER, PLEASE CONTACT R. M. WINN, PLUM BRANCH, S. C Dealer for the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., Charleston, S. C. WE PAY TOP PINE PULPWOOD CEILING PRICES TIRES RECAPPED Factory Methods SAVE 50% ON TIRE COSTS — Passenger and truck tire re capping. — Passenger, truck and tractor tire vulcanizing. — KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRES. COWART RECAPPING CO. 5# L“ g» s ‘ m FOR REAL BARGAINS IN MEMORIAL WORK write ELBERT0N CITY GRANITE CO. P. O. Box 521 Elberton, Georgia WE SPECIALIZE IN MARKERS, MONU MENTS AND COPING Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. S YTT ' ■ .'MEM . . ■ — 'KMSM BARBECUE AT PARKSVILLE, S. C. SUNDAY, JULY 4. DINNER FROM 10 A M. TO 3 P. M. ME AT AND HASH FOR SALE. T. B. WOOD, J. H. PERCIVAL. were two or three applicants for every icebox, and supply has long since disappeared. There are plenty of ice boxes available, WPB says, and no purchase certificate is needed for them. X “Old Fashioned Irons Nudging Their Way Back Into Fashion” ter diligent attempt. Stabilizing Price Of Vegetable*; A progi am nas uev.ii oom that will maintain fair and eq uitable returns for the canning industry, at the same time pre venting increases in consumer prices of green peas, snap beans, sweet corn, canned tomatoes and other primary tomato products. It includes: (1) No increase in he ceiling prices of canners: <2) The Commodity Credit Cory a- tion will absorb part of the • o- cessing cost, caused by app - ’cd increased wages, to permit ' o- 'ersors to obtain net returns m 1943 operations in line with ie iverage net return during r e- sentative pre-war years. Yor minor vegetables, increase vv 1 '' be reflected in higher ceiling p:lc?s. Wood Is Critical Because otherwise there will not be enough containers to ack all of the next year’s fruit, vege table, egg and poultry production, the State Food Distribution Ad- I ministration is asking all South Carolina retailers, food processors and housewives to save every wooden box, crate, basket, hamper and barrel. The wood shortage makes this necessary, FDA says. Housewives may turn in the con tainers to their nearest retailer. FDA subcommittees have been set up throughout the State to conduct educational campaigns explaining the necessity of saving and turning in the containers. Training For Farm Work More than half of the men and women taking the Rural War Production courses offered by the War Manpower Commission are interested principally in the op eration of farm machinery, food processing, and egg production, the State WMC says. These three courses account for 62.4 per cent of the total number of persons in training. The courses run any where from two to ten weeks, two to three hours per week. No More Electric Refrigerators The South Carolina WPB of fice says that they have b?en swamped with requests for pur chase orders for mechanical re frigerators. However, WPB says that South Carolinians might as well relax, because there are no mechanical refrigerators available to civilians. A few thousand were released from the stockpile hold for military purposes, but lire. It takes a lot of laundry equip ment to wash the socks and other garments bf the fight ing men of the armed services. That’s where most of the 46 million dollars worth of commer cial laundrv machinery to be pro duced in 1943 will go — to Army cantonments, to Army and Navy hospitals, and to the mobile laun dry units that accompany Ameri can soldiers and sailors to all parts of the globe. Neither will housewives see any new washing machines or mangles this year, according to War Pro duction Board, Office of War In- formaton. All the thousands of tons of critical steel, copper, alum inum, rubber, and zinc that used to go into domestic laundry equip ment each ye-ir have been set free for war production. Only repair parts for old ma chines can still be made. The housewife without a washing ma chine may have to use her neigh bors, buy a used one, or bend ever a washboard—which won’t be of metal. Just enough °tal to held wr '- boards toget'><' is obtain: 'e. Boards \v • crabbing " - face, in a w>- i Oame, are r mg int' • is out. The all-" tore the: marker : the .vi . splint' r • i ’o;/ mat r. washboard, <. fit! , . ' 3 painted metal pails, buckets, and tubs fo^ civilians, limited during the first few months of 1943 is now being increased slightly. Bleaches are not so rapidly ob tainable. Housewives may have to fall back' on sunlight to restore whiteness to fabrics. Shirts and sheets may be a lit tle yellower. Production of pig ments of the type commonly em- nloyed for bluing has been cut to 60 per cent of the normal amount. Clothes lines are still to be had, despite large-scale production of ropes for Army tents by clothes line manufacturers. Clothes line pulleys have to be made of wood or other non-critical materials. Metal can no longer be spared for theYn. Housewives who need new elec tric hand irons may not be able to buy them. Production of irons and ether electrical appliances was stopped May 31, 1942, and the number left on the market is growing smaller and smaller. Manufacturers have turned to making fuses, shot and shells, gas tanks, gun. mounts, aircraft parts, and other war equipment. Old-fashioned irons, to be heat ed on stove tops, are nudging tneir way back into fashion after being almost completely displaced by electric irons. WPB is allowing half the normal amount of pig and scrap iron for production of sad, or flat iron. \ Fod the benefit of those too young to know, sad and flat irons are the same, and “sad”, from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “heavy”, refers to the weight of the iron rather than to anything having to do with washday blues. Matilda Bell. Co. Home Dem. Agent. nf Lard .1, *.e sl'. 'u :1 .rot ,vAi. v and ADS For SALE IN i : -OUR NEXT ISSUE