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1 TBqa TO OUSSKLTia, OUB NEIGHBOM, OUB COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Second Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1943 Number 11 This Week in SHINSTON Washington, D. C., Aug. 16.— (NWNS) — Tax experts here, realizing that the people will do a lot of protesting when they have to begin making the series of complicated tax reports re quired under the new pay-as-you- go law, are now working on sug gestions which they can make to congress for simplifying the pro cedure. In addition to expecting publip protest, it is also evident that the treasury would have to employ thousands of additional ac countant^, during this period of manpower shortage, to check reports. Although no new plan has yet been agreed upon, it is believed that a recommendation will be made to congress to make the present deduction of 20 per cent an actual tax instead of being that income is greater than the amount which has been deducted so far plus the amounts paid in 1942 income in March and June, a payment of half of the differ ence between what we owe and what has been deducted must be paid. The other half must be paid in December. There is considerable action be ing taken to get congress to re convene before September, but it doesn’t seem likely that this will happen. The tax tangle has not been offered as a reason for get ting congress back, the chief ac tivity for reconvening being taken by a congressional group headed by Senator Wheeler, who wants congress to pass legislation to prohibit the drafting of fathers into the armed services. At present, it has been ordered merelv a method of forced sav-' that fathers can be drafted after ings for taxes. If this change were made,, those who were not subject to a surtax above the 20 per cent would no longer be required to make any reports at all unless they wanted to claim deductions not provided for under the pay- as-you-go plan, or unless they had an income of more than $100 from some source other than wages or salary. Adoption of this plan, it is estimated, would excuse 30 million people from making tax reports and would e- normously reduce the work of the internal revenue department. However, since congress proba bly won’t be in sesson until after Labor day, and since the first tax estimate must be filled in by everyone by September 15, it is hardly possible that' any change can be made in the law before that report is due. On September 15 we are all required to esti mate what our income will be for the entire year of 1943 and, if October 1 provided all single men and married men without chil dren are taken first. Although there is little doubt that some fathers will be drafted before the end of the year, it is believed here that one of the chief reasons for announcing this plan well in advance is to influence fathers, now in non-essential activities, to get^into essential war work. The manpower shortage and in creased absenteeism from war jobs are now considered the ma jor problems of our war effort Glood news from all fightin fronts is believed to have result ed in a let-dowm in war work on the home front. Men who hav heen in lucrative war jobs, who now think the war won’t last very much longer, are shifting to jobs which have better prospects for after the war. Women who took war jobs are returning to their homes. This optimism about the war being “in the bag” has MOOD TBHH1E McCORMICK, S. C FRIDAY and SATURDAY AUGUST 20th and 21st, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. MARY MARTIN DICK POWELL RUDY VALLEE i m 4&1 HAPPY GO LUCKY” J (In Technicolor) Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Malinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax The Messenger En lists In U. S. Victory Pulpwood Campaign The McCormick Messenger to day has joined other weekly and daily newspapers of the nation in a campaign to aid the Govern ment to help solve the serious pulpwood shortage situation. It is the second time since Pearl Harbor that the nation’s newspapers have been called upon to overcome a serious war materi al shortage. Last Fall it was the Newspapers United Scrap Metal Campaign. At that time scores of steel mills faced shutdowns for lack of vital materials. What the newspapers accomplished in that drive is his tory. The situation was saved with more than 6,000,000 tons of precious metal collected. Now it is the pulpwood cam paign and it is equally serious because hundreds of thousands of cords of the nation’s pulpwood are required for war purposes. The Victory Pulpwood Campaign was initiated by the War Produc tion Board, with the cooperation of other Federal Departments, war agencies and industry. It is de signed to relieve increasingly serious shortages in pulpwood, the raw material which makes smoke less powder, rayon for parachutes, plastics for airplane parts, shell and bomb casings and shipping containers for ammunition, foods, Mt. Carmel News The name of Miss Virginia Wat son was unintentionally omitted from the guest list of a recent dinner party given by Mrs. W. B. Sharp. Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Norris and Mr. Gene Norris were visitors of Mrs. J. W. Boyd Sunday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Black of Walterboro spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott. Mr. John Black, who has been spending the summer here, ac companied them home. Mrs. Roy Edmunds of Laurens, Mrs. Alice Frazier and Mrs. Dora Bryson were spend the day guests of Mrs. Ida M. Black Sunday. Miss Jeane Smith spent Friday and night with Miss Louise Clinkscales near Calhoun Falls. Mrs. Lucy Branyon spent a pleasant week end with her sis ter, Mrs. A. B. Lyon, in Green wood. Mrs. W. B Sharp spent a hap py week end at Camp McLellan with her husband, Col. W. B. Sharp, and son, Pvt. W. B. Sharp: Jr. Col. Sharp has just recently been awarded a well deserved pro motion to Colonel and Mrs. Sharp went over to attend the reception, etc. Mrs. Hunter McKinney, Mar tha Jeane McKinney and Mrs. Cecil Gilliam accompanied her as far as Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hayes, Mrs. Adams and friend were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. County Thanked As State Makes Fine Bond Mark supplies, blood plasma and other, necessities for our armed forces Hor ^ on Sunday morning en route and our allies. to Decatur » Ala ’ to visit Mrs> Last Fall the weekly and daily A( ^ ams husband, who is an officer press, responding to the call of in tlle arm y Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of Miss Glad > ,s Scott, of Davidson, the War Production Board, or- N - c - iS ' enjoying a pleasant va- ganized and conducted the mem- cation with her P arents here - orable Newspaper Scrap Metal Lennie Covin spent Tues- Drive. Mr. Nelson described this day in Ander30n with her sis effort as one “without precedent ter ’ ^• rs - Geor & e Peel, and Mrs in this country” and declared | c ! ara Ma j ette of Pensacola, Fla., surpassed my who is visiting Dr. and Mrs. “that the results fondest hopes.” . , Of the current pulpwood cam-1 Mlss Lura Jean Watson * as re - George Peel. paign, Mr. Nelson said, “Once a- turned home The citizens of this county have been thanked for their part in South Carolina’s outstanding rec ord in the purchasing of war bonds since the inception of the program in May, 1941. From that time, through June 30 of this year, South Carolinians purchased $105,412,000 in war bonds, it is announced by W. P. Bowers, who served during that period as State bond administra tor and who now has been reliev ed of that function in order that he may give his entire time to his regular position as Collector of Internal Revenue. The text of the statement of Mr. Bowers follows: “At this time, when under a change of processes the Collectors of Internal Revenue are being re lieved of what had been their added duties as War Bond Ad ministrators, I desire to pay trib ute to the people of South Caro lina who have made such a com mendable record in the buying of bonds. “South Carolina is not one of the richer states, but it has mads one of the finest records of any state in its proportionate purchas ing of war bonds. “In the actual work of encour aging the purchase of bonds, the chairmen and members of the State, County and City War Sav ings Committees have done a splendid job and thus have made a fine contribution to the financ ing of the war effort. I extend my sincere thanks and apprecia tion to them, and to the members of many, many organizations and groups which from time to time have given themselves to the task of selling bonds and stamps. And my thanks go also to thousands of school children who have con tributed heavily to the efforts in this State.” The first year of bond sales from Bowling gain in an emergency situation I s P rin g s * Ken., where she was without snecific oblec- involvine nroduction for the war takin & a secretarial course there. ^ ent on without specific objec involving production tor me war q T T W p st . r wa<; a visitor lives in the states and counties, effort, American newspapers have 5en - L ‘' Hester was a visitor in m»v 1Q42 each offered their assistance to the in Columbia but starting in May, 1942 each oiierea meir assistance to me M„ n tpr MrKinnev state and county was assigned War Production Board. This vol- Mr * and Mrs - Hunter McKmney month i v ouotas bv thp united untary and unsolicited action spent Tuesday and night * by 4116 Unlted renresents the highest evnressinn of Greenwood with Martha Jeane, oia “ e!> treasury. represents me nig nest expression or hnsnital for a tonsil From May, 1942, through June, practical patriotism-the kind oi hospital loi a to s 1 ^ or ^ & period o( 13 months patriotism which, if emulated by °P«-aiion. South Carolina failed to meet its farmers and woodsmen in, pulp- Dr. and Mrs- Joe Reeves and L uota In only one month , and n0 wood producing areas of the u- children Clifford and Susan, other state ln the Union equaled nited States, will solve the prob- BishopvUle, spent a pleasant an<1 1 lhat mark The State as a whole lem of current and threatening happy week with Misses Florence exceeded lts aggregate quota for pulpwood shortages and, by Its and Susie Patterson, last week. that 13-month period by approxi- broader example, help to hasten Mrs. T. H. Seabrook entertained matp]v tin non non nurchases for the winning of the war. Person- with an informal get together ^rf^’^^tlng to ^,52” ally, and as Chairman of the War I party at the home of Mr. and I qqq against an aggregate quota of Production Board, I am happy tc Mrs. W. H. Horton on Thursday $59,574,200. welcome tha assistance of the evening, Aug. 12th. The time wa? McCormick County’s combined newspapers in this important pro- spent very pleasantly in conversa- q UO t a for the thirteen-month auction campaign.” tion and playing games. Mary period was $124,079.00, and total The campaign to increase the Paschal and Dorothy Seabrook sales in this CO unty for that peri production of pulpwood for the entertained the crowd a while by ori rparhpd 4208 767 on The chair manufacture of products vitally inging several selections. Punch, | man of the committee in thi.‘ necessary for military needs over- sandwiches, and cookies were coun ty was Mr. J. Fred Buzhardt seas and for home front wai jerved by the hostess and daugh uses, is addressed to farmers, wood- ter, Miss Harriet Seabrook. Those John R. Crawford Claimed By Death John R. Crawford, 60, died at the Veterans Hospital in Colum bia last night at 10:30 o’clock, after a prolonged illness. He was the son of the late Robt. Wesley and Elizabeth Winn Crawford of Abbeville. Mr. Craw ford was a loyal member of the Pressly Memorial A. R. P. Church, and had been a resident of Mc Cormick since 1908. Prior to com ing to McCormick he served in the U. S. Army and was stationed in the Philippine Islands for some time. He had been rural mail carrier here since July, 1919. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mamie Christian Crawford, one son, Robt. Wesley Crawford, of Loris, two daughters, Mrs. War ren R. Wyley, of Montgomery, Ala., and Mrs. Effie Lee Per- queron, of McCormick, two grand daughters, Mary Lee Ferqueron, and Patricia Elaine Wyley; four brothers and four sisters, Deputy Sheriff C. H. Crawford, McCor mick, C. W. Crawford, Abbeville, W. T. Crawford, Abbeville, W. M. Crawford, Due West; Mrs. W. D. Ferguson, Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Robert Mcllwaine, Due West, Mrs. L. E. Nickles, Due West* and Miss Rebecca Crawford, Washington, D. C. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Pressly Memorial A. R. P. Church tomorrov/ after noon at 4 o'clock by his pastor. Dr. S. W. Reid, assisted by Rev. L. K. Simpson of the McCor mick Baptist Church, and Rev. J. Claude Evans of the McCormick Methodist Church. Interment will be in McCormick City Cemetery. J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. X Plum Branch News The war department has noti fied Mrs. ■ Sallie Gilchrist that Pvt. Robert Gilchrist, her son, is missing in action. - Mr. Gilchrist, about 30 years of age, was a young man of many sterling qualities. This is the first casual ty to be reported from this sec tion. Lieutenant Archie Langley is at a Charlotte hospital, recuperat ing from an illness contracted in the Tunisian campaign. Mrs. Evelyn Bachman of Colum bia is a visitor in the home of her mother, Mrs. Ralph Winn. Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Collier and their three children, and Mrs. G. W. Collier and her daughter have been visiting Mrs. Hattie Collier this week. Lieutenant Lawrence Sturkey, with his bride, visited relatives here last week end. Rev. J. C. Evans is conducting the meeting in St. Paul Methodist Church this week. Mr. Richard Collier, now in | Hawaii, has recently sent some 1 necklaces to friends here. They MONDAY and TUESDAY AUGUST 23rd and 24th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. LUM ’N’ ABNER and owners, forest laborers anr present were Mrs. J. L. Jones, Mrs. r vest their pulpwood ‘right now |weie made by himself of beautiful other available workers in the Joe Reeves, Mrs. Otis Black, Mrs I w * ien country needs it most, j seashelis gathered from the beach hree major pulpwood producing Hunter McKinney, Mrs. Cecii ' I * ie _ War Manpower Commissior areas of the South, Northeast anc J Gilliam, Miss Juanita Curtis. J clas ^ ified Pulpwood production Lake States, where manpowei Miss Julia Cade, Miss Monnie cutting and transporting to the shortages have developed because Harling, Mrs. W. B. Sharp and th e manufacture of pulp of the withdrawal of woodsmen others ' ' paper and paperboard products for service in the armed forces 01 other war work. The growing seriousness ci for packing vital supplies as es sential activities. Notice of this m TWO WEEKS TO LIVE Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS and LATEST NEWS EVENTS 99 ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15, 17 cents, including defense tax. tative to find out whether he car ruling was sent to Selective Ser- 1 *jT»i' 3eof service in the production of vice Boards and U. S. Employment rJ, P r° d ^ | pulwood. I. of course realize ttu Service Offices, to establish the increased war load which our eligibility of these essential work- farmers are bearing today, but e rs for draft deferment. If every one of the more than pulpwood situation is serious The critical nature of pulpwood 2,800,000 farmers in the 27 pulp- en0 ugh to justify this call for an shortages was indicated during wood producing states were to de- extra effort.” May in War Production Board re- vote th.ee extra days in 1943 to j n anticipation of the present ports which showed receipts at all cutting pulpwood we could over- I critical shortage in pulpwood sup- mills for the first five months of come the threatened 2,500,000- piles, the War Production Board cord shortage with wood to called upon the U. S. Department spare, Mr. Nelson declared. “11 0 f Agriculture for assistance. The urge every American farmer to Forest Service, Regional Extension get in touch with his nearest De-1 Directors, Extension Foresters and partment of Agriculture represen- j county Agents were requested to assist in stimulating pulpwood definitely interefered with war pro- cutting by advising farmers on duction. The government will un- sound cutting practices, mill doubtedly start a campaign short- prices and specifications. ly to arouse renewed interest in war work and explain the necessity of working harder than ever at home if we want to be assured of a quick victory abroad. This effort was supplemented by the publication of posters and pamphlets emphasizing the im- the year were 22 per cent below receipts for the corresponding period in 1942. This report was followed by a statement that Gov ernment requirements for military and civilian uses in 1943 would be 13,000,000 cords. Less than 5,000,- while he was stationed on an un inhabited island in the Southwest Pacific last winter. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Rice re cently spent several days with relatives in Spartanburg. Miss Emma Bell King will teach : .n the Baron de Kalb High School,, near Camden next year. Mrs. Martha Marjenhoff recent ly visited her aunt, Mrs. Moore, at, Ridgeway. As a result of the recent meet ing in the Baptist Church here, there were twenty-one additions to the membership. Also the meet ing at Parksville added about a dozen there. The Plum Branch School this year will be taught by Mrs. Louise Banks, principal, assisted by Mrs. W. M. Freeland and Miss Lucy Brown. Miss Carolyn Rice recently visit ed Miss Rebecca Morrah of Mc- 000 cords had been produced at the end of May. Therefore, more Cormick. than 8,000,000 cords must be pro- Mr. Wm. Thomas Wells, son of duced in the remaining seven Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wells, has been months of 1943. recently promoted. He is now a The Government-Industry-Press first lieutenant in the aviation mediate need of pulpwood for' campaign to increase pulpwood branch of the army, war purposes. They urged farm- production in this locality offici- Mrs. G. E. Langley is visiting; ers and woodland owners to har- ally opens today. her husband in Atlanta. y-.iM 1. •. <