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'tgr / MeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 4, 1944 IcCORMICK MESSENGER ' Pvbllshed Every Ttanraday Established June 8, IMS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, s. Cm as mail matter of Ike second class. TION RATES: ; X - $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months 50 Get Binders, Com bines “In Tune” For Harvest All binder and combine owners who have not already checked ov er their machinery for needed re pairs should do so at once, says County Agent G. W. Bonnette calling attention to the possible delays and losses that may occur if the machinery is not in good working condition. The scarcity of new machinery is creating an unusual demand tor repair parts for old or used ma chinery. The farmer who waits until the last minute to buy re pair parts may have difficulty in getting repairs made on time, the agent warns. Having the binder or combin in proper adjustment after repairs are made is one of the major points in connection with the suc cessful operation of harvesting machinery. It is, therefore, im portant that all binder and com bine operators understand how to make adjustments necessary for different crops and conditions of harvesting. A careful study of the instruction manual that comes with the machine is one of the best suggestions that can be given. As a further aid to binder and combine operators and owners in getting better service out of their machines, C. V. Phagan, extension agricultural engineer, calls atten tion to the Extension Agricultural Engineering Leaflet No. 39, “Bind ers and Combines, Care and Ope ration”. This leaflet, available at the county agent’s office, contains numerous illustrations and sug gestions on repairs, lubrication, care, and operation. X Prevent Acci dents With Farm Machinery > v’ > . .. Accidents don’t “just happen”; they ^re always caused, says bounty Agent G. W. Bonnette in pointing out some of the danger spots around the farm, especially around tractors and other types of power machinery. Hundreds of South Carolina farmers will be using tractors for the first time this year. On hun dreds of other farms tractors will be driven and operated by persons who have had little or no experi ence around power machinery. A word of caution should be given to all tractor operators a- bout the dangers that result from neglect or carelessness. The fol lowing 10 points are listed by C. V. Phagan, extension agricultural engineer, as being somfe of the most important safeguards in working with tractors and related machinery. • * 1. Be sure tractor is out of gear when cranking. 2. Engage clutch gently, start slowly rather than in jerks. 3. Bring machines to full stop before cleaning, oiling, or adjust ing. 4. Keep gloves and loose cloth ing away from belts and other moving parts. 5. Use low gear for brakes when going down steep hills. 6. Don’t mount or dismount a tractor that is in motion. 7. Reduce tractor speed when turning or applying brakes. 8. On hillsides and rough ground, watch carefully for holes or ditches that may cause an up set. 9. Do not refuel tractor when motor is running or when engine is very hot. 10. Keep power take-off shields, in place, and keep out of space between tractor and drawn imple ment. X “Conservation measures on the land may some day be regarded as the most effective insurance yet devised by man against prolonged and damaging periods of scant rainfall.” — From Soil Conserva tion, March 1944. Ration Calendar For Week Of May 1 PROCESSED FOODS: Blue A8 through Q8 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. ' MEATS AND FATS: Red A8 through 08 (Book 4) valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens. Good indefinitely. SUGAR: Sugar stamps No. 30 and No. 31 (Book 4) good for five pounds indefinitely. CANNING SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 40 goad for five pounds of canning sugar until February 28, 1945. Apply to local boards for supplemental rations. SHOES: Airplane stamps No. 1 and No. 2 (Book 3) valid indefi nitely. GASOLINE: A-9 coupons now valid in Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and Virginia. Expir May 8. Rationing rules now requir that every car owner write his li cense number and state in ad vance on all gasoline coupons in his possession. / Reduction of point values < creamery butter from 16 to \ points per pound and the placing of eight rationed vegetables on the point-free list is the big news for food shoppers this week, E. H Talbert, District Director of OPA at Columbia, has announced. Reduction of point values on butter reflects improvement in the supply situation, Mr. Talbert said, pointing out that sales ran below increased production during the past month. Point values of margarine was reduced from 6 to 2 points per pound. Tomatoes, corn, asparagus, beets, leafy greens, spinach, canned black-eye peas and gar- banze beans, join the list of point-less processed foods. Points were reduced on spaghetti sauce, sc ups, grape and tomato jams and preserves, apple, grape, mint and plum jellies, bakers’ jellies and fruit butters. Point values increased on cran berries and cranberry sauce, large container!; of tomato juice, canned or bottled dry varieties of beans (except soy, blackeye and garbanzos), tomato catsup and chile sauce and raspberry and strawberry jams and preserves. On the lower-point side of the red stamp food ledger are lamb and mutton, which are reduced approximately 50 per cent. Slight increases in many choice beef cuts appear on the new charts, as a result of popular de mand for them exceeds current supplies. Veal points remain un changed, and pork ration values are about the same as those for April. A reduction in the ceiling price of heavy weight hogs (over 240 pounds live-weight) has been an nounced by the Office of Price Administration, as a corn saving measure, E. H. Talbert, OPA Dis trict Director at Columbia, ex plained. Under the new regulation, hogs weighing more than 240 pounds, will carry a Chicago ceiling price of $14.00 per hundred-weight — a eduction of 75 cents. Ceiling price of smaller hogs will remain he same. Mr. Talbert pointed out that corn supplies have become in creasingly short as hog producers fed it to swine to increase their weight. The reduction in price of the heavyweight hogs is ex pected to bring about a better distribution of corn. In order to give farmers who have overweight hogs an oppor tunity to market them at current ceiling prices, the reduction does not go into effect until May 15. r - From the South comes most of the pulpwood for 'making fl the tough, strong paper and paperboard used in ship*!' ments to our armed forces overseas. Supplies fof Invasion With millions of men fighting all over the world, need for these southern packing ma terials grows ever more urgent. Our south ern men everywhere are living up to their fighting traditions. The supplies they need [ . must be transported to them over long and difficult supply lines—often landed in pounding surf or dropped from planes. Our job, here in the South, is to see that those ^naterials are properly packaged^; ■We Need Pulpwood This mill is making every effort to do its part; but we are handicapped by the shortage of pulpwood. We need every cord we can get and we need it now. Only be sure it is sound wood. ; Pulpwood production is our number one war job here in the South. Let it never be said that the South failed in its duty to back up our boys on the fighting fronts. ( BSD I » ! ; r International Paper Company, Southern Kraft Division; mills at Georgetown, Soulh Carolina; Panama City, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; Moss Point, Mississippi; Bastrop, Louisiana; Springhill, Louisiana, and Camden, Arkansas. WE BUY PULPWOOD FROM J. DEWEY WILLIAMS, 1730 Holly Hill Road, Augusta, Ga. CANAL WOOD CORP., Chester, S. C. J. N. SHOPTAW, Aiken, S. C. aimuiijni ■ m iS i : i V PULPWOOfc ******* OPA at Columbia, has announced. Ceiling price for the fuzzy gadgets is five cents for two dozen. Re ports reaching OPA are that many dealers have been selling pipe cleaners as high as 10 cents a dozen. An increease in the ceiling price of poultry at all trade levels has been announced by the Office of Price Administration, E. H. Tal bert, District Director of the Of fice of Price Administration has announced. May prices will be 2.2 cents per pound over former ceilings. In June, the price will be 1 cent per pound over the old ceil ing, and for the rest of this year, prices will return to their old ceilings, Mr. Talbert said. Bonuses will again go into ef fect in January of 1945 and will continue through June of next year. A new black market—in pipe cleaners—has reared its head, E. H. Talbert, District Director of Exams Announced For State And Federal Posts / house'Jn HAZA Mac ARTHUR • ••• i / cr-'t$ ///< w/p? m e TC- £T£... AVDI K f*£ OM ? £4.CA / .*»’ //UP rn/r&/a.p/ yoc'do.. s rc -p T- AVI r Z/JT/ A t Z AfOr/T- Merit examinations to be held in the near future for eighteen attractive classes of positions in the South Carolina Unemploy ment Compensation Commission s>nd the United States Employ ment Service were announced to day by E. H. Bradley of Due West, Merit Supervisor for these agen cies. From the lists of eli^ibles obtained from the examinations several important positions will be filled immediately and others in connection with future expan sion of the two organizations. Positions in the Employment Service for which examinations will be given and the salary ranges are as follows: Junior In terviewer, $140-160, Senior Inter viewer. $160-190, Employment Of fice Manager, $190-250, State Ru ral Industries Supervisor, $250- ^ 290, and Analysis Supervisor, $250-, a pp ointme nts when made will b 290. For positions with both the Lh e minimum salary. Employment Service and the Un- i employment Compensation Com mission the following examina tions are announced: Junior Clerk, $105-120, $120-140, Principal Clerk, $145-165, Junior Stenographer, /ACJOlZJ PAVP A GREAT STUNT FOR AVOIDING ARGUMENTS j MTH W WiFB W./EN I FPPl A //AST/ R/EMARK C0M/N6 op, I etT£ My TONG(/£ AND DON'T SAY IT ' THAT HC.VE JOE r $H£LLQ f DEAR o . EAY. YOD’RE J'JST 1 THE ONE I K'ANT TO .-j i GEE... yoou //AYE TO 'j /jy ALLOWANCE. $ j: P A-iyMV, TNAT’E A BAD l A CERA T/ON OP TEE TONOt/Ej MR HAZARD. NOW /N THE Li/OR ID P/D /TEYE NAPPE A/? At the present time the Em- i ployment Service has attractive 1 openings in several classes of po- Senior Clerk i sitions including, among others, Informational Representative and $110-125,; Training Supervisor. The Unem- Senior Stenographer, Principal Stenographer, $125-145, ployment Compensation Commis- $150-170,! sion has no vacancies to be filled immediately but both agencies ex pect to make appointments in Statistical Clerk, $155-180, Junior Statistician, $180-210, Accountant, $190-220, Training Supervisor, 1 connection with a broad expan- $250-290, and Informational Rep- sion program in the future, resentative, $220-250. The position Applications for examinations of Field Deputy paying $190 to are being received at the office of $220 is maintained only by the he Merit Supervisor, it is stated. Unemployment Compensation Complete information and official Commission. For all positions, - "vicaticn forms may be obtain ed by writing E. H. Bradley, Merh Bupervisor, Due West, S. C„ or by inquiry at any office of the U- nited States Employment Service in South Carolina. Applications filed on this form must be mailed to the supervisor on or before May 22. Examinations will be adminis tered soon after the closing date, the Supervisor stated, in a num ber of centers throughout the state, making it possible for ex aminees to take the tests with a minimum of travel. It is planned that the written tests for all po sitions and the performance tests in typing and stenography will be administered on the same Satur day. Applicants meeting the mini mum qualifications for the vari ous positions will be informed of the time and place where they will take the tests. “In 1942, we, the people of this country wasted more food than was needed by our armed forces and our lend-lease requirements. We wasted 20 to 30 per cent of what we produced. This was wasted from the time the food crop matured until it reached the table.” — Lee Marshal, director Food Distribution, USDA. An honest conservation is for the soil. gOOH