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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 27, 1944 DR. HENRY J. GODIN Bight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Olaaaes Professionally Fitted. t&A Broad Street Aueusta. Qs POLITICAL CARDS FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce my candi dacy for re-election as County Commissioner for McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the , Dempcratic party. I want to thank you for the splendid support given me in the past, and solicit a continua tion of same. J. L. JENNINGS. jHiMcnald The Boy Scouts will collect pa per Friday, July 28th, and ask that all who have any forj the collection to please have it where they can get it. Mrs. C. A. Gilbert was a busi ness visitor in Greenville Wed nesday of this week. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce my candi dacy for re-election as County Commissioner of McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. The continuation of your support and influence shall be hignty appreciated. D. M. BLACK • AV- v .v^ *'*'■ WANT ADV. LOST—My “A” gasoline ration book. Joe Gilchrist, R. 2, Mc- Cprmick, S. C. LOST—My No. 4 ration book. Ophelia Drake, R. 1, Box 39, Piiim Branch, S. C. Cpl. Thomas S. Morrah has re turned to Monroe, La., after spending a furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morrah, of the Bellvue community. cently returned from the South Pacific; Mrs. W. R. Cantrell and small daughter of Beauford, Ga.. Mrs. L. L. Croxton and small son of Charleston; Mrs. James Rey nolds and two children of Norfolk, Va., and Sergeant H. R. Deason, Jr., who has an honorable dis charge from the army after near ly three years service in Panama Canal zone. * Miss Emma Wardlaw is spend ing some time in Columbia with Miss Katrina Morrah and sisters. Miss Minnie Beth Brown of Augusta spent several days here this week with her parents. Sher iff and Mrs. W. L. Brown. Duncan. Private Gooding has been stationed at Camp Lee, Va., for the past five months. Mr. Jack T. Deason, S 1-c, U. S. Navy, Jacksonville, Fla., spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Deason. Mrs. David Wardlaw and chil dren, David, Betty and Florence, are visiting in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Buie. Spartan burg. Mrs. Buie is Mrs. Ward- law’s sister. ■s> Tech. Sgt. James Arrington of Fort Jackson, Columbia, spent the week end here with his mother, Mrs. W. S. Arrington. Sgt. Luther J. Andrews, Jackson Army Air Base, Jackson, Missis- Miss Virginia Wilkins, who is a student nurse at the University Hospital in Augusta, spent week here with her father, Mr. 17th. J. W. Wilkins. Washington, D. C., July 24.— (NWNS)—The success of some programs for converting part of the automobile factories to civili an production as soon as the German phase of the war ends will probably have much to do with whether we have a major depression after the war or whether we will be able to turn Mrs. John Palmer of Greenwood from war prosperity to peacetime is on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. prosperity. T. L. Britt, and Mr. Britt, of De x At a meeting of the leading au la Howe i t omot>lle manufacturers with the i War Production board, blueprints were suggested by the WPB for the industry leaders indicates that the industry will not listen, to such a plan at present. If the government-industry conference plan does eventuallv produce a workable program fo’- the conversion of automobile plants, it is probable that the WPB will get together with one industry after another to figur^ out how each can shift to civilian nroduction with a minimum of headaches and with as little un employment as possible. One of the great problems conferences of this kind is the ef- Mr. and Mrs. Claud Brown of the nroduction of 2,000,000 auto- feet they have on morale amon ~ Troy Route 1, announce the birth mobiles within 12 months after the people. It is feared that if ■ X-Day (the dr™ Germany ends) last! of a son, Laury ~ Thomas^ TuTy Ge?mLv xin^r ThP ^ is too much talk now abou uermany ends). Under the plan civilian production many peop r the automobile manufacturers are ant to feel that the w nr war ; would begin immediately to plan pretty well over. The attempt of Sgt. and Mrs. Charles Brown production and place orders for lame numbers of war workers to Miss Rebecca Morrah is spend- announce the birth of a son. ^ er .ui s ... un ^ rs f andi . ng shift to peacetime jobs, which sippi, spent the past week end i n S the week in Spartanburg. Charles Eugene, on with his mother, Mrs. Annie J. Andrews. of a son ls Wl ‘ ;n .t" 6 understanding shift to peacetime jobs, which t i i i, v 16 materials would be de- necessitated the freezing of me" July 1 at hvered as soon as possible after j jn war jobs beginning July 1, is 1 Greenwood Hpspital. Mrs. Brown X-Dav. These orders for materi- : the best example of this attitude Jr., spent is the former Miss Grace Wilson ai \ e “blue orders,” prob ably derived from the blue air- LOST—My No. 3 ration book. Mrs. Edna E. Young, Troy, S. C., R. 1. LOST—Our No. 3 ration books. Patricia, * Joe Martin and Philip Jackson, Plum Branch, S. C., Box IPS. ~ / LOST—My “A” gasoline ration Jook. V. D. Murchison, R. 2, Mc- lick, S. C. LOST—My No. 4 ration book. 5. Mildred M. Bledsoe, McCor- ick, S. C. Miss Gladys Brock of Fernan- dina, Fla., visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Brock, of Troy Route 1. She returned to Fer- nandina Monday, accompanied by her sister, Evelyn. After a week’s stay she will return to her work in Augusta, Ga. Mrs. C. C. Morgan, last wek with friends at Breneau of Ninety Six. College, Gainsville, Ga., and in Atlanta. Mrs. John Harris of Augusta spent last Week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Cosey. Mr. Ray Jennings, Y 3-c, Tam pa, Florida, has returned after spending a furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Jennings, of near town. Mr. Edwin Bradley, A S, New berry College, Newberry, spent the week end her with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Deason re cently enjoyed a reunion of their entire family with the exception of one daughter. Those here were Everett Deason, U. S. Navy, re- Mrs. J. L. Bradely and Mrs. Catherine Padgett spent last w p ek with relatives and friends in Sa vannah, Ga. Union Service At Methodist Church Jacqulihe and Sonny have returned from a Ridge Spring. Actually the demands for wa~ rhiH cicrnsi production in some vital indus- nf deSlgnatmS the start itries is greater than ever right i es. n0w and wil j continue indefinite- The automobile industry lead-; lv. The War Manpower commis- ers, however, rejected the WPB; sion has made several public an- plan as impractical and intimated neals recently for men who ar^ that they could not do much a- needed in war factories, includir bout conversion while they were! an appeal for large numbers cf Siinrliiv Fvfmrncr t ' otally engaged in war production, j workers to help produce a new ouiiuaj J - jVC: ' 1AA11 g Since the automobile industry: secret weapon about which it wilt | is the largest production group in reveal no information. But th? Bonnette The regular Fifth Sunday U- visit to nion Service of the McCormick Baptist, A. R. P. and Methodist Churches will be held this Sunday our country, its ability to turn wartime jobs into peacetime jobs fact that the manufacture of thi; new device is just beginning without an unemployment gap j makes it clear that the planning will determine how most other I in Washington is based on the industries can handle this com- ^ war continuing for some time Miss Vivian Jaynes friends and relatives Six and Westminster. visiting McCormick* MethodSf ' plicated converslon - « is believed! come. Ninety- Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Coleman spent the week end with their duaghtets, Mrs. Laye and Mrs. Tiller, in Greenville. The Reverend LKSimpson ot, ^ ^eT^MfenoSgS'^ roifl brine 0 the C mes?alp 1St The h ven 111 may be P 085 * 1516 for these giant era! public * “ vitel to Attend “vlfian production. graduaIly int0 this service. J. Claude Evans. —X Mr. E. R. Holloway of Plum Branch was among the visitors here Friday. Pvt. Thomas Gooding is Lt. Henry E. Hester Comes Home After 31 Missions Conversion must be planned while the war is going on so in dustry will be ready for it the dav war production lets up, but the The plan was greatest difficulty is to convidfc'j to make cars similar to the 1942 the people that peacetime plan- models, with the first cars costing ning does not have anything to the consumer at least 25 per cent do with the expectation of an more than the same car cost in early peace and that any letup in 1942. But the present attitude of war work now will delay peace. First Lieutenant Henry E. Hes- spending a two-week furlough .. . . T .. , , . here with his wife and baby. Mrs. ter . P“°‘ ° f a Liberator bomber. arrived home last week after Gooding is the former Miss Edna Remember — You Always Save At... GALLANT-BELK COMPANY Annual Lay-Away Sale BLANKETS Come see our super selection of blankets! 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Dinner in England Tuesday of last week, breakfast in Maine on Wednesday was his schedule, since he 'was lucky e- nough to gain passage on a large transport plane taking the north ern route-over the Atlantic. Completing his junior year at Clemson in 1942, he entered the Air Corps and following training at Maxwell Field, Albany Air Field, and Courtland, Ala., he re ceived his wings at George Field 111. Shortly afterwards he lef for Europe following the same air route his brother, Lieutenan John James Hester, Jr., plane navigator, had begun a- few months sooner when he was lost near Brazil on his way over seas Lieutenant Hester has had many close calls. On one mission when 25 bombers went out, his was one of the 12 returning. His crew was one of the three coming through the 31 missions un scratched, out of the 17 crews he flew across with. He has been awarded the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, five clusters and the bronze star for tactical cooperation dur ing the invasion of France. Each of the 31 missions was made with his original crew and not a man in the group was injured even though the plane was shot through with holes many times For the past four months he has been leader pilot of his group of planes. Lieutenant Hester comes into being a good soldier rather natur ally, being the son of Sergeant J. J. Hester, a veteran of the Span- ish-American War and a nephew of Colonel G. A. Hanvey of Abbe- Wille, honored veteran of World War 1. His only sister, Lieuten ant Sue Isabelle Hester, has been with the U. S. Nursing Corps in Australia for the past two years. Expressing his delight in getting home Lieutenant Hester said he felt like kissing the ground when he landed In Maine. x - THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY ami SATURDAY JULY 28th and 29th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. MARY MARTIN _ FRANCHOT TONE m u TRUE TO.LIFE” Also LAST CHAPTER ADVENTURES OF THE FLYING CADETS” and SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 24c MONDAY and TUESDAY July 31st and August 1st, 7:15 P.-M. and 9:15 P. M. PRESTON FOSTER _ LLOYD NOLAN / m GUADALCANAL DIARY Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS and LATEST NEWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults. 30 cents; Children up to 12, 12 cents; Children 12 to 15. 18 cents, including tax. GALLANT-BELK COMPANY Greenwood’s Largest, Leading And Best Department Store GREENWOOD, S. G Employment Of Women In U. S. At All-Time High Of 18,180,000 the Census, Washington, D. C., made public here today by Walter F. Buhl, local Supervisor of the Census Bureau’s Special Surveys Division. The influx of female students into th p civilian labor force be tween May and June 1944 raised the number of employed women 100 000 above the previous record peak of 18,080,000 established in July 1943. A substantial gain in male em- plovment was also noted in June with a total of 35.040.000 compar ed to the May figure of 34,490,000. The entire labor force, includ ing not only men and women em ployed. but also those unemployed. The employment of women in amounted to 54,220,000 persons in the United States reached an all- June, an increase of 1,380,000 over time high of 18,180,000 in June the number estimated for May 1944, according: to an announce- 1944. which was 52.840,000. ment by J. CulSfiPt, Director of About three-quarters of the gain in employment between Ma yy and June was attributable to the; increase in agricultural workers during that period. Farm laboi* totals jumped from 8,600,000 in May to 9.560,000, in June, or n. , gain of 960,000. Nonagricultura* employment gains from May to . June were 300,000. Unemployment for June is es-* timated at 1,000.000, an increase of 120.000 over the May total of ./ 880,000. This increase was chiefl’ r *, accounted for by the addition 'of 1 students looking for joba after thV; close of school. Census estimates on employ- /“ ment are obtained from Monthly Report on the Labor Force, a cross-section survey of Y the United States which is ducted in 68 selected eluding McCormick and wood counties. >n- *v V VJ