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4 INSURANCE
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1 Fire Insurance And All
Other Kinds of Insurance In*
eluding Life Insurance^
HUGH G. BROWN*
McCORMICK, S. G
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VISION OF a
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JCold.Preparations.asjJirected
Counties Share
In National
Forest Receipts
Forest Ranger G. W. Biskey of
Greenwood announces that coun
ties within the Long Cane ranger
district of the Sumter National
Forest have received, through the
State Treasurer, checks amounting
to $7,443.46. The Long Cane is one
of three districts making up the
Sumter National Forest.
Total receipts, of which the
counties receive 25 per cent, from
he Sumter during fiscal year 1944
amounted to $85,308. Apportion
ment to counties is on the basis of
the area cf National Forest land in
fPjFSt. Michael Triptychs for Army
Artist Atlyn Cox is putting finishing touches on this version of St.
Michael triptychs, destined for a far-off battlefield, where a unit has
specified its desire for this figure. These religious triptychs are usee
for auditorium, field, tent or battleship.
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Basketball Will Get Rough %
Just plain basketball was considered too soft for these navy trainees
at U.C.L.A., so they thought up a new game similar to basketball,
equipped with boxing gloves, and everything goes as the players “sing
ft out” under the basket. They are shown demonstrating the game
at Los Angeles.
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each county.. The area of forest
and the amount of payment to
each county in the district is as
follows: Abbeville, 20,976 acres,
$1401.14; Edgefield, 28,366 acres,
$1894.78; Greenwood, 10,387 acre,,
$693.83; McCormick, 47,460 acres,
$3170.21; Saluda, 4^44 acres, $283.-
50. Last year McCormick county
received $1669.37 from this source.
•Ranger Biskey states that Na
tional Forest receipts are obtained
principally from the sale of tim
ber stumpage to private operators
and from rentals on farm land and
improvements. During the past
year 846,000 board feet of sawlogs,
pulpwood and railroad ties were
cut from lands of the Long Cane
district. Practically the entire cut
was pine timber infected with Lit
tle Leaf disease. Sales of govern
ment timber were confined to Lit
tle Leaf infected stands thereby
reserving the thrifty stands for
later cutting. The Little Leaf dis
ease is most prevalent in pine
stands in Abbeville county. Lob
lolly pine is not immune but the
disease is not commoh in pure lob
lolly stands.
Ranger Biskey states that the
principal operators of government
timber last year were E. C. Shuford
of McCormick, G. H. Byrd of
Greenwood and White & Sons of
Troy. -
mere are about 175 farmers who
rent agricultural land from the
Forest Service. Some of these rent
entire farm units, others only a
few acres to supplement their own
farm acreage. Recently the Forest
Service employed Samuel C. Jones,
a well known agriculturist in the
Piedmont section, to administer
the farm program.
Biskey points out that close to
70 per cent of all land, government
and private, within the district is
woodland and also that gully e-
rosion is prevalent throughout the
district. The importance of prop
er land use and a continuous cover
on woodlands should be apparent
to everyone. Cutting forest prod
ucts will not induce erosion if
cutting is conservative and if the
woodland has complete protection
from forest fires. Conservative
cutting and fire protection will not
only afford erosion control but will
also result in the maximum sus
tained income from the woodlands.
There are usually two classes cf
trees in a forest stand. In the
one class are trees which have
completed their maximum growth
rate; these are old trees, defective
trees and over-crowded trees
which should be removed from the
stand. In the other class are trees
which are young, thrifty, well
formed and putting on maximum
growth; they should be saved for
later cuttings.
About 600,000 board feet of tim
ber have been cut on the Long
Cane during the first 6 months of
the current fiscal year and Ranger
Biskey predicts that 2,000,000 feet
will be cut by the end of the year.
Forest products continue on the
“essential list” of war needs and
the National Forests are expected
to contribute to the limit within
the bounds of good cutting prac
tices.
Serve America NOW
STAY ON YOUR WAR JOB
—as our fighting men do!
The men who are fighting (and dying)
for us on far battlefields can’t quit now
and start looking for post-war positions!
The very least we can do is to keep at
our essential war jobs, hammer-and-
tongs, until Hitler’s cruel machine is
smashed, and the Rising Sun is sunk
for keeps. Don't te* our fighters down!
See America Later
\
YOU’LL ENJOY IT MORE
—if you help win Victory!
This America of ours is a vast treasure
land of beauty, whose riches are best
and most intimately explored by high
way. With fine new Super-Coaches,
new comfort features, new carefree
tours, Greyhound will re-introduce
Americans to the land they love —^
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when Victory comes. ——
STROM’S CUT-RATE DRUG STORE
Phone 95 McCormick, S. C.
GREYHOUN
local rationing board.
Ration Calendar For
Week Of Feb. 19,1945
PROCESSED FOODS: BLUE
STAMPS . . . X5, Y5, Z5, A2, B2,
. . . now valid . . . expire March
31,
C2, D2, E2. F2. 02 . . . now valid
. . . expire April 28,
H2, J2, K2, L2, M2 . . . now valid
. . . expire June 2.
MEATS AND FATS: RED STAMPS
. . . Q5. R5, S5 . . . now valid . . .
expire March 31,
T5, U5, V5, W5, X5 . . . now valid
. . . expire April 28,
Y5, Z5, A2, B2, C2, D2 . . . now
valid . . . expire June 2.
SUGAR: SUGAR STAMP No. 34
. . . good for five pounds . . . ex
pires Feb. 28,
SUGAR STAMP No. 35 . . . ^d
for five pounds . . . expires ' me
2.
SHOES AIRPLANE STAMPS 'To.
t, No. 2 and No. 3 now good
FUEL OIL: North Car ’ma,
South Carolina, Georgia. Flo’- —
Period 4 and 5 (last season' . .
valid for 10 gallons each. P" ' ^ds
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (this season) . . 13 gal
lons each.
Virginia—Periods 4 and 5 last
season) . . . good for 10 g^'lons
2ach. Periods 1, 2, 3, 4 (this sea
son) ... 10 gallons each.
GASOLINE: A-14 coupons valid
through March 21. Rationing rules
now require that each car owner
write his license number and state
on each coupon in his possession
as soon as it is issued him by his
America’s stockpile of new cars
is dangerously low, OPA District
Director E. H. Talbert at Colum
bia, S. C., said today, adding that
quotas for March are now being
worked out.
The total number of new 1942
cars on hand is but 10,000, Mr. Tal
bert said, compared with the 67,000
new cars authorized for consumer
delivery in 1944, and 209,000 deliv
ered in 1943.
This 10,000-car reserve, Mr. Tal
bert pointed out, must be alloted
with extrehie care, for they must
be made to last until production is
resumed.
To emphasize the extreme need
for every motorist to get every ex
tra mile out of his present car, Mr.
Talbert added that our present re
serve of 10,000 new cars is ex
actly the same as one day’s new
car sales in pre-war America.
Shoe dealers this Monday, (Feb.
19,) began a three-week clearance
of men’s and women’s shoes in odd
lots and broken sizes, under a
three-week ration holiday de
clared by OPA.
All shoes v/ere not included, it
was announced by Mr. Talbert; but
only those hard-to-sell items
which had accumulated on the
dealers’ shelves during the past
several months. Children’s shoes
are not included in the OPA Odd-
Lot Release, Mr. Talbert added,
since they sell to rapidly there is
no need for a ration-free period to
nove them.
Shoes freed from the ration
stamp requirement during this
period are marked at specified re
ductions set by OPA, Mr. Talbert
said.
ed, OPA District Director E. H.
Talbert warned this week.
The result might be just the op
posite, he pointed out. With the
Allies intensifying their all-out of
fensives on the fighting fronts,
more and more equipment and
supplies will be needed, which can
be expected to drain larger a-
mounts from our civilian produc
tion and reserves.
The need for more tires — espe
cially heavy-duty truck tires — is
extremely critical, as is the de
mand for more gasoline and oil.
Shoes also form a surprisingly
:arge item in the G. I. needs, Mr.
Talbert said, since in come thea
ters of action a soldier’s shoes wear
completely out in as little as two
weeks.
Fountain pens and mechanical
pencils are covered by OPA regula
tions, District Director Talbert
reminded buyers this week, and
3vcry pen or pencil must have the
ceiling price printed either on the
1 item itself or on a price-tag at
tached to it.
There have been recent cases of
dealer overcharges on pens and
pencils, singly and in sets, Mr. Tal
bert added, and urged any pur
chaser who felt he had paid more
than the ceiling price for a pen or
j pencil to see the local Price and
| Pn Honing Board, as in any other
case of overcharge.
ing new businesses which use ra
tioned food products as raw ma
terials, such as bakeries, restau
rants, etc.
These Veterans Advisors, Mr.
Talbert said, will aid the returning
serviceman in making his applica
tion for quotas and will alSo be in
close touch with other Government
agencies concerned in the alloting
of necessary equipment. Mr. Tal
bert added that OPA, being the
Government’s largest civilian a-
gency, also expected to use many
veterans in its national, regional
and district offices, working close
ly with Cival Service Commission
in the recruitment of such employ
ees.
Decisions reached at the Big
Three meeting should not give rise
to false optimism that rationing
regulations might soon be lighten-
Roturning veterans will find in
creased assistance at OPA offices
throughout the country under new
plans being worked out by that
agency, District Director E. H. T *1-
bert recently announced.
CPA’s Washington office is cn-
plycing a Veterans Advisor to \. k
with former servicemen, and IT se
will be similar Veterans in all ' -
gional and District Offices of C ’ L
Food rationing regulations are
also being revised to provide vet
erans with as much assistance as
supply conditions permit in start-
Householders who still have fuel
oil in their homes should make
their present supply last a few
i days longer, rather than ask for
immediate deliveries of new sup-
i plies, it was announced by Mr. Tal
bert.
Big bottleneck in the present
shortage of fuel oil is the lack of
transportation, Mr. Talbert said,
pointing out the situation is es
pecially critical along the Eastern
seaboard.
Our civilian supply of fuel oil is
extremely low, Mr. Talbert stated,
and the present transportation
crisis makes it difficult to get that
small amount to the ultimate con-
sr r~»«>r.
Ways to stretch your fuel oil
supply, according to the OPA offi
cial, include closing off unused
rooms, keeping thermostat as low
as possible, keeping shades down
at night and half-way down in the
day time, and dressing more
warmly indoors so less heat will
be required.
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Dog Clinic
Dr. Barnett will be in Mt. Car
mel Tuesday, February 27th, at
3:30 p. m.