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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
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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.
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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
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completing 31 missions over ene
my territory in the European the
atre of war. 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.
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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.
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