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% / / TKUS 'sO OOB COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Secoo4 Year Establiaiied June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. t THUR SdAy, OCTOBER 14, 1943 Number 19 Tim We ek in Washington, D. C., Oct. 11.— (NWNS)—“Expect little and you’ll not be disappointed,” Rep. Earl Wilson of Indiana wrote his con stituents in regard to the new session of congress. Representa tive Wilson declared that congress has no program and that most members of both parties are pri marily concerned with getting re elected next year. The black picture painted by Representative Wilson may be ov er-pessimistic. But there is in creasing evidence that politics, which congress finally did side track on a few occasions during the past year, will from now on play a stronger and stronger part in the consideration of all legisla tion. The big demonstration of this will come when congress begins analyzing the gigantic new tax program proposed by the Presi dent. A general principle of good ’’politics” always has been to vote for all appropriations and against all taxes. Every congressman knows that the easiest way to lose votes is to levy increased taxes on those he wants to vote for him. But since congressmen know that some new tax legislation must be passed, there will be a grand scramble, on the part of most members, to see that the new taxes are levied on anybody other than those they represent. Congressmen from farm areas will oppose all levies that would take tax money from farmers, < con gressmen from industrial areas will try to protect labor from further taxation, and eongressjnen ftxuh weathly areas wflT fight a- gainst higher taxation on high in comes and on corporations. The President’s program, which will be the starting point for working out tax plans, calls for increased: taxes on medium and high • incomes, part of which would be rebated after the war. It also asks for high excise taxes on luxuries, including a big boost in the tax on alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, cigars, theater ad missions, transportation and toilet preparations. Under this plan theater admission taxes would be raised from 10 to 30 per cent, liquor taxes from $6 to $10 a gallon, transportation taxes from $3.50 to $5 a thousand and there would be new taxes on soft drinks, candy, gum, greeting cards and other non-essentials. It is likely that these excise taxes, with some revisions, may go through. They don’t hit any consumer group too hard and their passage wouldn’t influence votes as would direct income taxes. But it seems very doubt ful if the whole amount asked by the President—a total of $10,650,- 000,000 in extra taxes—will ever be provided. There is expected to be a great deal of debate over the proposed high increase in taxes on alcoho lic beverages which may take on the complexion of a debate on the • enaction of national prohibition For it is feared that additiona taxes on liquor would make the cost of it so high that it woulc act as an open invitation to boot leggers to go back in business on almost as wide a scale as during prohibition days. The most optimistic predictions of congressmen are that congress might epact from five to six bil lion in additional taxes but'there are few that expect any new legislation to be passed before next year. And the working out of a program will be slowed up by First United War Fund Drive Starts Today The quota for McCormrk County in the First United War Fund Drive is $3,200.00, according to W. N. Smith, County Chairman. While this amount seems la^ge, other counties also have quotas propor tionately as great. The drive was officially opened by President Roosevelt on October 6th in a na tion-wide radio speech in which he declared that the nation needs to raise $125,000,000 for this cause. McCormick’s drive will begin to day with a meeting of workers who were personally; appointed by Gov ernor Olin D. Johnston. Unlike other years, this year’s drive is a single united effort for all war relief needs with the ex ception of the Red Cross which comes in the Fall. Seventeen war relief agencies come qualified for this drive. The following are typical: the U. S. O., Chinese Re lief, War Prisoners’ Aid, Belgian Relief, French Relief Fund, Nor wegian Relief, Russian Relief, Care of Starving European Chil dren, Polish War Relief, Greek Want To Make Civilian Population Navy Conscious The Navy League Of the United States/ The Civilian Arm of The U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C., through the Public Relations Of ficers in each Naval District is desirious of programs be given by all schools and all civic organiza tions of this and all other coun ties to commemorate the wonder ful work and accomplishments of our navy and to make all of our civilian population navy con scious. These navy programs will con sist in the securing of speakers and the arrangements of pro grams suitable for press and radio publicity. ' These programs should show, this year, special recognition to those local industries and the em ployees who have contributed to the production of naval ships and equipment and the industries that have had especial recognition by the award of the Navy “E”. - I, as county chairman, ask that all of our county and civic or ganizations co-operate to put this MimiOD HATKE McCORMICK, S. G FRIDAY and SATURDAY OCTOBER 15th and 16th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. > ROBT. PRESTON_ELLEN DREW m 66 Night Plane From Chungking Also CHAPTER 7 SERIAL KING OF THE MOUNTIES” *41 “INA RAY HUTTON & ORCHESTRA” and CLARK GABLE in “WINGS UP” Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax War Relief, and seven other a-1 over in a suitable manner to do gencies. Thus, in place of seven- credit to this county teen separate drives, we have one The date set aside for this ob- urited drive. servance is October 27th. Workers for McC«rmick County Garnett Tuten, M. D. appointed by Governor Johnston | X- are as follows: J. L. Bracknell, Plum Branch, J. H. Pervical, Parksville, Carroll Bussey, Modoc, Jeff Sharpton, Clarks Hill, Mrs. Marie Minarik, Meriwether, Mrs. H. M. Freeland, White Town, Mrs. Avis Britt, Buffalo-Belle- day night ’ October 6th ’ at 11:30 1 o clock, following an illness G. C. Rosenswike Claimed By Death George C. Rosenswike died at the Greenwood Hospital Wednes- view. Mrs. H. McNair, Willington, Mrs. Hunter McKinney, Mt. Car mel, ^ v - Mr* Jane Cade. Bordeaux, R. H. Quarles, Sr., Bethany. Mrs. P. J. Dowtin, Dowtin Sec tion, J. C. McComb, Bethia Section, E. F. Gettys, De la Howe, Mrs. Jack Gable, Young’s Sec tion, McCormick City Chairman, J. M. Dorn, Schools. W. H. Weldon, Mrs. Luther Bowick, Mrs. A. J. Hendrix, Mrs. James Dorn, Mrs. W. M. Talbert, Mrs. R. L. Faulkner, Mrs. E. L. Rogers, Mrs. J. B. Harmon, Jr., Mrs. W. P. Parks, Jr., Mrs. J. E. Bell, Publicity Chairman, Mrs. C. H. Huguley. an illness or several days. Mr. Rosenswike was 46 years old. Funeral services were conducted at the graveside in the Troy cem etery Friday morning at 11 o’clock, by his pastor, the Rev. W. S. Cromer, of Horeb Baptist Church, who was assisted by the Rev. J. Claude Evans and the Rev. W. T. Grier. Mr. Rosenswike was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Rosenswike, of Troy. His wife, Mrs. Kathleen Abercrombie Rosen swike, died last June 18. Surviving are three sisters Miss Carrie Mae Rosenswike and Mrs 4 Eldred Price, of Troy, and Mrs. Nancy Harrison of Green wood. Also one brother, Jim Rosenswike, of Troy. Mr. Rosenswike was a traveling salesman and well known in the county. Pallbearers were James M. Cox, Detailed Instructions On Book 4 Sent To All Ration Boards McCormick School News W. H. Mims will be chairman Ja f er p - B “ sh - E - J - Bowden of the work among the colored Coleman Steifle, J. F. White and people J - Frank Mattison. Chairman for the Drive is W. N. J - s - strom ’ funeral doctor, in Smith, with Paul Brown and Rev. char g e - Claude Evans, as co-chairmen. X 2,438 Bales Cotton Ginned In County To October 1st Increased Feed Crops Feature State Fair Extension Exhibit MONDAY ami TUESDAY October 18th and 19th, 7:15 P. M. and 9:10 P. M. MARLENE DIETRICH JOHN WAYNE RANDOLPH SCOTT DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, WASHINGTON. COTTON GINNING REPORT Clemson, Oct. 9.—Feed crop 1 - and the need for their increased production will be featured in the ’orge annual exhibit of the Clem- ^on College Extension Service at the State Fair this year. The dis- "lav is now being prepared and ’nstalled by a special committer Census report shows that 2,438 extension specialists. bales of cotton were ginned in A hand-nainted panoramic farm McCormick County from the crop background will form the back in “PITTSBURGH A! so SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS and LATEST NEWS EVENTS I t 'A ; e)V * n A ©x* ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, 11 cents; Children 12 to 15, 17 cents, including defense tax. of 1943 prior to Oct. 1, as com pared with 2,440 bales for the crop of 1942. Very respectively, J. W. Britt, Special Agent, Date, 10, 11, 43. drop for a central design which will stress the increased produc tion of grain, hay, grazing, and silage crops needed for livestock production, members of the com mittee announce. Credits will be given promi nently in the exhibit design to the 17.4 per cent increase in feed Detailed instructions for issuing War Ration Book No. 4 were being sent today to all local rationing boards in South Carolina, stress ing the necessity for all applicants for the new book to show their copies of Book No. 3 at the time they apply for new books. Under present plans, a state ment from E. H. Talbert, District Director of the Office of Price Administration said, registration and issuance of books will be held at various schools in South Caro lina on October 25, 26 and 27, to conform to the Proclamation of the Governor of South Carolina. A statement from OPA district headquarters * gave this general picture of the registration pro ceeding: 1. Applicants will first shpw at the registration sites copies of Book No. 3 already issued to them or to members of their families and will receive an application form with space enough to list eight members of a family. If there are more than eight mem bers, it will be necessary to use two forms. 2. A volunteer worker in regis tration headquarters will accept the application and will check the various copies of Book No. 3 pre sented as evidence and will then fill out corresponding names on the new books. 3. The application and the'new books, containing the names of various members of the family will be passed to an accountabili ty clerk who will record the serial numbers of the new books and the names of the persons to whom they are issued and hand the books to the applicant. This assures a permanent record of the names and serial numbers in the local rationing boards. 4. Book No. 4 will be distri buted to all persons except Armed Forces personnel eating in or ganized messes or who are mem bers of an Officers’ mess; persons confined to institutions; and per sons residing 60 days or less in the United States. The new war ration book is ex pected to last as least two years. It is / the same size as Books 2 and 3. It contains eight pages with a total of 384 stamps, each about half the size of the fa miliar red and blue stamps used in Book No. 2 and the brown stamps in Book No. 3. Colors of the stamps in Book No. 4 are blue, red and green. In addition, there are 96 unit stamps printed in black. Seventy two of them are marked “Spare’’ and can be used in case addition al ration stamps are needed for any future program. Twelve of the black stamps ar printed “Sugar” and 12 ar' Drinted "Coffee”, but OPA ex- The fourth er found Me _ plained that the plates for these Cormlck on touchdown Mr. Lawrence G. Nilson, who for the past few years has been director of public school music in the Parker District, has recently been named director of public school music in four counties in South Carolina. He is at present the director of the choir of the First Presbyterian Church in Greenville. We are proud to say that Mc Cormick has the honor of havi Mr. Nilson as the director of its high school glee club. He ex pects to work with all the stu dents in a thirty-minute chapel period once a week and to give one hour of his time to the glee club weekly. * * * * The Kindergarten opened Mon day morning at the grammar school with the enrollment of eleven pupils. Mrs. J. M. Dorn is in charge of this class, which hods its session from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. The little tots are having a good time and looking for ward to each day’s work. * * * * The High School Lunch Room started Monday with a large per cent of students ea,ting. These hot lunches are good, and we hope that soon more of the stu dents will enjoy these lunches with us. * * * * The following former McCor mick High School students who are in service visited our school re cently: Bill Willis, Raymond Hen derson, Ellis Walker. * * * * ■ The following boys will leave for the navy in the near future: Manning Freeland, William Cheat ham, Robert LeRoy. >4 * * * McCORMICK BEATS LIN- COLNTON The McCormick High Panthers defeated Lincolnton’s fast moving team 18-0 last Friday. The Panthers won the toss, and Lincolnton kicked off. Herman Jennings caught the ball and was downed on the 35 yard line. After making several first downs, McCormick fumbled, and Lincolnton recovered. On the first play after the recovery, Lin colnton fumbled and McCormick recovered. With fine team work, the Panthers marched for a touchdown. They failed to kick the extra point. In the second quarter no score was made. The Panthers kicked to Lincoln ton after the half. Herman Jenr- nings nailed the carrier on about the 30 yard line. After two downs, Lincolnton punted. The punt was blocked by Joe Luke White and taken on the 40 yard line. The Panthers marched for another touchdown, bringing the score to 12-0. pages were printed before coffee was off the list of rationed foods It does not mean, OPA said, that coffee is likely to be rationed a- gain. Mr. Talbert stated that all per sons who have previously applied for War Ration Book No. 3 mus wait until their application i approved before becoming eligible for Book No. 4. He requests tha no duplicate applications be mad' for Book No. 3. The original ap plication will be handled a? promptly as possible. X Joe Austin Willis Receives Promotion narch. The game ended with the j Panthers winning 18-0. Starting line-up for the Pan- ^hpr-s \ T, as: pressure groups. But until tax legislation finally I cr ops which South Carolina farm- goes through, there is no doubt ers have attained to support a 9 that congress will consider little per cent increase in all livestock other major legislation. Members and poultry; but strong empharis will continue to discuss the draft W iii be placed on the inability to I Willis, like all Tank destroyer of fathers until each member has j import into the state the normal soldiers, wears the distinctly had his say “for the record The Tank Destroyer Replace ment Training Center at North Camp Hood, Texas, announced to day the promotion of Joe Austin Willis, Route No. 1, Plum Branch, to the grade of corporal. Cpl M. White, R. E. L. Ferqueron, R. T. 1 B. Dukes, R. G. J. L. White, C. E. Rice, L. G. B. Bosdell, L. T. R. Hanvey, L. E. Jennings, Q. B. A. Ferqueron, L. H. B. M. Dillashaw, R. H. B. E. Willis. F. B. T. Forrester, Billy Bodie, and Billy McNeil also saw action. In the winter of 1941-42, 110,- 000 children in Athens and Pi raeus alone starved to death. Your gifts to the United War Fund Drive will help prevent this happening again this winter. X Thirty-eight million people have been rooted out of their homes in Russia to become refugees fleeing to the east. A gift to the and i amount of concentrate feeds due j Tank Destroyer shoulder insignia United War Fund wW t v r will probably then spend its time with such intangible considera te a national feed shortage. depicting a black panther devour- homeless people. The .i This significent extension ex- ing a tank, the mission of this up the security of their homes; tions as postwar planning and hibit will occupy the place usually force being the destruction of can you not in your own secure postwar relationships with other held hv Extension Service exhibits enemy tanks by accurate gunfire home here give of your means countries. . / in the Steel Building. from stealthily occupied positions, that they might live?