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TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Third Year **tabli«hed June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THUR SDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944 Number j % 1 WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NWNS). —Postwar Jobs is the No. 2 govern ment concern today, the first con cern, of course, being the winning of the war. After months of dis cussion and delay over what to do about this major approaching prob lem, the War Production board has taken an I important step toward its solution by setting up the ma chinery for shifts to civilian produc tion as soon as the war permits—in many cases as soon as the war ■with Germany has ended. This pro gram was outlined by J. A. Krug, 36-year-old WPB acting chairman, who has taken over Donald Nel son's job while he is in China. (It is expected that, following the election, Mr. Krug may be given Mr. Nelson’s job permanently.) The plan announced by Mr. Krug, which has the backing of the army and navy as well as of the War Production board, calls for a virtual elimination of all controls over industry, giving it a free rein to produce whatever it wants after materials for necessary military needs have been supplied. Since war orders are expected to be re duced by at least 40 per cent as soon as Germany is eliminated, ;this means that civilian production can be increased by 40 per cent if manufacturers can get necessary materials. Mr. Krug said this should mean new automobiles will probably be available within three months after the end of the Euro pean war, as will many other prod ucts which have not been available since Peart Harbor. Mr. Krug pre dicted that^ following the cutback in war production which will * come after Germany’s defeat, our civilian economy will return to the level of 1939. Outlining the WPB attitude to ward conversion to peacetime pro duction, Mr. Krug said: “It isn’t the responsibility of the War Pro duction board to make work, but it s our responsibility to remove ev ery obstacle that might prevent American business from going bold- y ahead when that day comes when their plants and facilities and mate rials can be released from the war jobs. Our policy here in WPB is to do everything in our power to un leash the war-restrained energy of the American economy.” In conjunction with the various reconversion plans, official Wash ington is giving close attention to the plan fbr* preventing unemploy ment offered by the committee on economic development. This plan, which results from months of study by industrial leaders and. well- known economists, is base'd pri marily on drastic revision of taxa tion to give business the relief from taxes necessary to encourage ex pansion and new enterprise. The plan calls for the elimination of the corporate excess profits tax as well as reduction of the present heavy taxes on individual incomes. The object of the plan is to help create an annual national income of 140 billion dollars which, when taxed at less burdensome rates, would still be high enough to produce the necessary income for' operation of the government and reduction of the federal debt. The third important step which has been taken toward planning for postwar 1 jobs is the release of the army’s plan for sending soldiers back to civilian life. The army is expected to release more-than a million men when the European war ends, with fathers being re leased first and the others released in order according to credits based on the time of service, amount of overseas service, and combat rec ord. The navy, it is understood, won’t release any men "until after the completion of the Japanese war. Pvt. B. G. Robertson Killed In Action Private Bennie Griffin Rob ertson, 29, was killed in action overseas on June 12, according to notice received from the war de partment by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Robertson, of Plum Branch. He had been in service since March, 1942. Besides his parents, he is sur vived by two brothers, Thomas, Robertson, Plum Branch, Charles Robertson, Augusta, Ga., two sis ters, Miss Mary Robertson, Plum Branch, and Miss Sara Robertson, Charleston. He was a member of St. Paul Methodist Church, and had spent his entire life in the Plum Branch community. T-SgtR. A. Clem Killed In Action BUY MORE WAR BONDS Hie golf between deficient diets and food liabits can’t be bridged with food production statistics. *■*****•*•«**» KEEP FAITH liirMus—i \b? buying \ .WAR BONDS I -xx- The man is the most important thing in farm management. t HdLfflOD TUTSI McCORMICK, S. G FRIDAY ana SATURDAY September 22nd and 23rd, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. LORNE GRAY PETER COOKSON in “THE GIRL WHO DARED” Also CHAPTER 8 “TIGER WOMAN” / and ' SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 24c - ' MONDAY and TUESDAY September 25th and 26th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. JOEL McCREA_JVIAUREEN O HARA - in “BUFFALO BILL” J r (Technicolor) ^ 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. ao.agac Tech. Sgt. Robert Austin Clem was killed in action overseas on August 3rd, according to notice re ceived from the war deparment by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem, of Modoc. He enlisted in March, 1934. Besides his parents, he is survived by three brothers, First Sergeant William Talmadge Clem, Camp Croft, J. T. Clem, Panama City, Fla., Calvin Cool- idge Clem, S 2-c, U. S. Navy; and two sisters, Miss Pamelia Clem, Augusta, Ga., and Miss Etoile Clem, Modoc. X Radio Program September 23rd "What the County Councils of Farm Women did to get irt the Blue Ribbon Group last year”, will be broadcast over WIS on Satur day, September 23rd, at 9:45 A. M. on the Palmetto Farm* & Home Hour. Mrs. Joe Griffith, Central Distrcit Director, and the Presi dents of the 3 Blue Ribbon Coun cil winners, Orangeburg, Aiken and Lexington, and Miss Bessie Harper District Agent, will present this program. Home Demonstration and 4-H Club Members should be sure to listen to this program. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. X Petit Jurors Drawn For First Week Of October Term Court Final Inscription Of Names Of McCormick County Servicemen Begun Work on the final inscription of the names of McCormick County servicemen has begun and will be completed within, a few days. These names are being placed on the white-painted boards lining the walk in front of the court house. All white servicemen will be inscribed on one side, and all colored servicemen on the other. The committee in charge, head ed by Frank Mattison and Hugh Brown, have at hand the official list of all white and colored reg istrants who left from McCormick County’s draft board. But they do not have a complete list of all volunteers or other McCormick County men who were drafted from other selective service boards. If your boy, husband, or kinsman was a volunteer or otherwise en tered the service without going through the McCormick draft board, you are asked to give his name to either Mr. Mattison or Mr. Brown or any member of the McCormick Lions Club. Otherwise, many names might inadvertently be left off. Please do this at once. McCormick County Lions Club. X * It would be j&V LYTLE HULL BIG NAVY—BIG AIR FORCES Mowing Kudzu For Hay Demonstration At Meriwether On Friday, Sept. 22nd There is doubt in the mind of most people as to the mowing of kudzu. If you would like to see a demonstration in the cutting and handling of kudzu for hay, come „««« be so comforting to pres- force and the American navy had ent day young mothers and fathers been as powerful in 1939 as they if they could feel absolutely as- are today, this war would not have aured that this war was to be the occurred. The probability of inter- last great conflict, and that their cession by our military forces . children and grandchildren would might very well have deterred not be called upon to shed their Hitler from his Polish invasion, ( blood in senseless and savage com- and almost positively me Japanese bat with the other youth of the would not have dared risk prac- wor j ( j tically certain defeat if we had been : But’ unfortunately we have not possessed in 1941 of such a striking - yet reached that stage, in the long force. . on hard struggle toward civilization, in The airplane of 20 or 30 years . which such absurd behavior as the hence will make this country vul- ^ 'periodical mass murder of our nerable to attack from across the v youth will have become inconceiv- seas. A force of a million glider ► able to the human mind. We still borne troops landed suddenly at the > have to “claw it out” just as did nerve center of a nation could para- > the hairy apes from whom Mr. Dar- lyze it temporarily. But while an [ win claims we are descended; and enemy might be able to land a uiiL > there is no manifest reason to be- lion men upon our shores, it wouldi ^ ‘lieve that the sincere attempts now require enemy control of the seas > being made to discover a formula along these shores to supply their . for the prevention of war will be troops with materiel and reinforce- k much more successful than they ments, or they would be quickly : have heretofore been during the overwhelmed. A defending navy . course of human history. close to its home bases, engaging * 11 iS ..Ub- wiSoJ. the’devasfatinjf coop- f !=i -TfrcSJ This was true in the cases of Ger- opponent. many Italy and Japan: But their Human nature and human reason military forces were constructed don’t change overnight: They : for the avowed purpose of taking haven’t changed much in the last other people’s property by force, five thousand years. So just as sure v This passion for territorial ag- as “taxes” we will face the cus- t grandizement is not consistent with tomary agitation to radically re- ! the American character of today— duce our armed forces after the ' and probably never will be. The war is over> to a certain extent • American people would not tolerate suc h reduction is logical, but when “ a government whose intent was to carr i ed to the extreme of the last * impose our rule arbitrarily upon war » s aftermath, it becomes child- w others. If we were the only nation Beginning with the naval dis- [ on earth which possessed an army, armamen t conference in 1922 we a navy and an air for ^ e 7" the managed—before the Japs finished ance of the world would be secure | the balance of 0 ur navy 3 3 3 3 Petit jurors drawn for the first week of the October term of court for McCormick County, scheduled to begin at 10 o’clock a. m. Mon day, October 2nd, are given as fol lows: E. N. Creswell, P. G. Fooshe, W. E. Chamberlain, J. C. Dowtin, C. L. Bridges, L. W. Pettigrew, Elmer McKinney, W. McDaniel, Y. E. Seigler, F. M. Pinson, J. J. Collier, R. H. Talbert, R. H. Wilkes, Robert McNeil, f Monroe Simpson, ’ W. P. Cosey, M. B. Goff, J. C. Beach, L. W. Bowick, J. T. Link, W. E. Britt, G. C. Patterson, William R. McDonald, H. E. Freeland, W. C. Strom, W. T. Strom, J. P. Robinson, Jr., Horace D. Brown, E. F. Bussey, J. D. Richey, G. C. Sanders, Gary Young, W. F. White, A. B. Wood, W. N. Smith, T. C. Faulkner. Thomas J. Lyon, Jr. to the farm of W. C. Strom, located A vnp*rinan T PP’ion ■ proximately one mile west of Meriwether, at Ool -rxllici& i have been ai 2:30 p. m., Friday, September 22, 1944. We must awaken to the fact that due to the dry summers here in , . . McCormick County, that annual °f The American Legion met^at lespedeza and cowpeas have limit ed possibilities as to producing hay. Kudzu is a deep rooted plant that will survive and do well dur- ab- Ap- nurse training plan will be sorbed in the new program. 50 students already have been accepted for the Novem- Elects Officers; ber term. t Object of the program, Mrs. 7“T t Childs said, is to prepare young The Thomas J. Lyon, Jr., Post, Carolina women for poten- ing the driest summers. After you have seen this demonstration we are sure you will find a place for this crop on your farm. Come to the county agent’s of fice at 1:30 and ride along with the group, or come straight to W. C. Strom’s farm if more conven ient. G. W. Bonnette, County Agent, B. W. Crouch, Conservationist. X Modoc News 1st, M. C. 2nd, w. L. s. o tial leadership in nursing, and the the community house on Septem- f , elds of teaching, adminis- ber 14th and elected the following officers to serve for the year 1944- 1945, installation to be on October 3, 1944: Commander, Dr. C. K. Epting, Vice Commander, White, Vice Commander, Wall, Vice Commander, 3rd, Joseph T. Dorn, Adjutant, G. E. Campbell, Finance Officer, R. L. Dendy, Chaplain, Rev. E. F. Gettys, tration, and public health. ' Miss Ruth Sieeper, president of the National League of Nursing Service and nurse education, U. EL public health service, has spent, nearly two months in South Car olina helping to plan and organ ize the new program, surveying hospital schools of nursing, and performing other services. Mrs. Childs said that the" first students enrolled under the pro gram will receive their nursing training at the Columbia Hospi— porary). Sergeant At Arms, G. L. Price, Child Welfare Chairman, Dr. C. R. Strom. (Too late for last week) I T r Well, we had a nice rain herej State-Wide Nurse one day last week which was bad ly needed. The young gardens the people started for fall a month ago were suffering. Mr. and Mrs. William Reese of Greer were week end visitors here to the former’s mother, Mrs. Rose- lind Reese. Miss Rosalie Bussey of Green wood spent the week end here with her father, Mr. E. F. Bussey. Mrs. G. E. Canteleau was a week end visitor with her sister, Mrs. Donald Hancock, of Augusta. Miss Permelia Clem of Augusta was a dinner guest here Sunday to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Mr. E. F. Bussey was a business visitor at McCormick on Monday of this week. Pfc. J. M. Reese from Memphis, Tenn., spent last week here with his mother, Mrs. Roselind Reese. Mr. W. S. Clem was a visitor to McCormick on Tuesday of this week. Training Program mstonan C H. Huguley, tal> but that plans are being made Service Officer, Dr. Ept g j to ^cju^ other hospital schools of nursing throughout the state as rapidly as facilities can be pro- | vided. Miss McCown, the new director of the department of nursing, re ceived her nursing training at the Pennsylvania Hospital school of nursing, and earned the degrees At IT ^ p | of B. S. and M. A. in Nurse Edu-' 2YL U. O. ^‘.cation a t Columbia University. Be- i f 0re coming to Columbia in 1041,. Columbia, Sept. 13. — The newi s h3 N held positions with the Cook state-wide collegiate nurse train- J county Hospital school of nursing, irg Dropram of the University of'Chicago, and the University of South Carolina, authorized by the! Cincinnati school of nursing. p-^neral assembly this spring, will. 1 ^ get under way in the fall term be- i einning Nov. 1, Mrs. Amey R. 1 “With our natural advantages of Childs, dean of women, has an- s °h and climate to go with what, nounced. ! is now known about the effects of Miss Viana McCown, director of soil treatment, we can establisti nursing education at the Colum- certain lines of livestock produc— bia Hospital, has been given an! tion successfully up to the point indefinite leave of absence to of supplying our own Southeastern serve as director of the depart- consumers’ demands.” — Clemsont ment of nursing at the Univer- j Extension Director D. W. Watkins, sity, Which has bene organized as! a division of the college of arts and science. “Advances in knowledge in the last generation have shown that Under the new nurse traming food 0 f t be right kind cam program, students may earn a nQt only wipe out dieseases due diploma in nursing and a B. S. m d j rect iy to d i e tary deficiencies but Nursing degree fron J Univer_ can greatly reduce sickness and Mr. W. M. Nash of Augusta was sity within four calendar years, death rates from other primary a week end visitor here to home- spending a year and four months causes „ _ Hazel K stiebelins. fQiks. at the University and the remain- Bureau Nutr ition, USDA. X der of the time in affiliated hos- Even good solid farm land pitals and health agencies. • ' x *“' bought at inflation prices may be- Dean Childs emphasized the fact Better home equipment gives come “sinking sand” in normal that students previously enrolled the whole family more time for times. —■ i under the University’s five-year leisure and pleasure.