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^ .i - ‘ v.3 - MfcCORMICK' MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOOTH CAROLINA Thursday, April 19, 194S •elDKAUCK iMUhe* Ji a. wm, *• f ■ '-,v m. x * ''i ■DMOND J. MeCRACKKN. Editor Mid Owner M nuill rnstter mt Ration 16th nmscBirrioN rates: din Tsar ti.«» •-Ms 'Uomfy- -. ,T8 Three Months.su nch mmmm-Jrmrni ; t REV. «ttbERT K HARPER t The Founding of the Nation. Lesson for April 22: Exodus 18:19- 34: 19:3-8. Memory Verse: Exodus 19:8. Four huntired years after the iays of Joseph, there arose a new king over Egypt that “knew not) Joseph.” It was during those cen turies, perhaps, that the Shepherd Kings were expelled and a native dynasty restored to the throne. ? The new king, claiming the He-1 brews were a menace to the state, j began the oppression that led to* the Exodus. Moses, trying alone to adminis-| ter to the people, under the i wise advice of his father-in-law,! began the organisation of the na-{ tion, giving laws and regulations,' appointing rulers, and establishing; a judiciary. j* On Sinai Moses communed with God, entered into the covenant,; pTiri received the Ten Command ments, honored through all time since. i The tabernacle was set up in the* wilderness, with its priesthood and elaborate ritual — to become the center of the people’s life. When the ark set forward, the host took up, 'the march; -when the ark rested. Its tabernacle was set up, and the people pitched their tents, round, about, according to the tribes. In this period we see the hand of God, under Moses, forming the He brews into an organized nation which, after 40 years, reached the borders of Palestine, ready for the conquest of a homeland. Let us realize the need of God in the af fairs of nations and in the lives of individuals. * V \HOME iiliiilil oAom I F YOU happen to find shrimp at the fish market some morning when you’d planned an entirely dif ferent sort of menu, just thank your lucky stars for the shrimp and re- jigger your menu. ' Live shrimp look like miniature lobsters. Afjter being caught the heads are removed and the bodies , packed in ice* for shipping. When purchased, they should be firm- fleshed and covered with a thin parchment-like 1 Shell that is easily removed. -After cooking, they turn to their lovely pink shrimp color. Wash raw shrimp in cold water. Then drop into boiling salted water to cover and simmer, covered, for 15 or 20 minutes until the shells turn pink and the flesh is tender. Allow one tablespoonful of salt for each two quarts of water. When shrimp are pink and i tender drain and rinse in cold | water. Then remove the shells ) and legs. Remove the black ! vein running down the back of i the shrimp, using the point of { a sharp knife. Now the shrimp are ready to use any way you want them. Shrimp mixtures combine well with hot boiled rice. Serve the rice in a ring with the shrimp in toe center or pack rice in a but- fcred square pan and cut it in squares to use as base for shrimp mixture. Shrimps With Rice. One medium sized onion. Vs cup diced celery. 2 tablespoons salad oil. 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons chili powder. *6 cup water. 2 cups canned tomatoes, 1 cup canned peas, 1V4 cups cooked .shrimp. Peel and cut onion in thin slices. Cook onion and celery in salad oil over medium heat until tender. It will take about 10 minutes. Stir in flour, salt and chili powder. Be sure the flour and chili powder are perfectly blended with the fat. Add water and tomatoes and simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes. Add peas snd shrimps. Boil. Serve with rice. Shrimp Newburg can be served in patty shells or on hot triangles of toast. It can also be turned into buttered shells, sprinkled with but tered bread crumbs and browned under the broiler. Shrimp Newburg. Two cups cooked shrimps, 3 ta blespoons butter or margarine, % teaspoon salt, J. teaspoon lemon . juice, 1 teaspoon flour, % cup cream, 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons sherry (optional). Cook shrimps three minutes in , two tablespoons margarine. Add lemon juice and cook 2 minutes • longer. Remove shrimps, add re- ; xnaining butter. Add flour and salt, ! blending until smooth. Stir in | cream and cook and stir until thick. Add egg yolks slightly beaten, •.shrimp and sherry. Heat but do ^not boil, and serve at once. v • << IwllSSiL ill Guess I've just naturally been counting on a new car as soon as victory rolls around.” "But they say it may be 2 to 3 years postwar before I can get one! Makes a man stop and'think about saving his old car!” im "Luck.ly, I saw my Gulf man. He said if I let him treat my . car regularly with Gulfpride* and Gulflex,** I could be pretty certain that mine will last!” V >*1^ Hi: "Well, sir. I'm riding along with the finest lubrication money can buy and I expect to go on riding for a long time yet. So I’m not worrying!” ’GULFPRIDE FOR YOUR MOTOR An oil that’s TOUGH in capital letters ... protects against carbon and sludge! ** GULFLEX FOR YOUR CHASSIS Knocks out friction at up to 39 vital chassis points! Protection plus! f Blue , T - - ips— C2, D2, E2, F2, 02, TaMd, expire 4pyll 28 t . ■ H2, 72, V K2/ L2, ‘ M2, HOW 't&lid, expire June 2, M2, P2, Q2, R2, '32, now valid, expire JuneV&, T2, U2, V2; *W2, x£, how valid, expire July-M. I ,TS Wm TApS: Bed Stamps— TJS, '&S, V5, W£, X5, now valid, expire ‘April'23, Y5' Z5/A2, B2, G2, ©2, nOvf vhlid, expire June 2, E2, F2, G2, H2,-J2, now valid, expire June 30, K2, L2, M2, N2, P2, now valid, expire July 31. SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 35, good for five pounds, expires June 2. SHOES: Airplane Stamps No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 now good. FUEL OIL: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, valid for 10 gallons each. GASOLINE: A-15 coupons valid through June 21. Ra tioning 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 local rationing board. Your mile age rationing record must be pre sented to the board when apply ing for supplemental B and C gas oline rations. ft) If Wwm /"' f J • /,/ * -Ilf i I hiiwriiw y - z P0'f> ■ ^ 1 jjl J I fri Unwrapped Bakery Products. George W. Tomlin, OPA District Price Executive in Columbia, to day called attention to the re vision of regulations covering cer tain bakery products, which pro vides that all retailers of bkkery products must post their selling prices for all unwrapped or pack aged items offered for sale, by May 1. This is in addition to the. previous requirement that all packaged goods be labeled with ceiling price, Tomlin said. IN ATi»< NS coy A-= =r= cr v: -</ AUTO TRAfFIC T0I1 EXCEEDS HAD CASUALTIES Last Call—MPR-580-Reports. OPA has again reminded all merchants selling wearing apparel and home furnishings that pric ing charts under MPR-580 must be filed with the OPA District Of fice by April 20th, and that after May 4th, any such merchant who has not received letter or post card acknowledgment of the re ceipt of the chart in proper form may not sell or offer for sale or deliver goods covered by the reg ulation. War Price and Ration ing Boards will advise merchants who need assistance in filing their reports. Letters To IOA Should Show Re turn Address. (Follow MPR Caution) All merchants cr others writing to OPA National, Regional or Dis trict Offices —iG, l oo careful to have their address plainly written on the letter. Failure to do this may result in some hardship on the writer when OPA, for lack of an address is unable to reply or to refer the communication to the appropriate office for action. firfhe/rfe Community Ceiling Price Posters. Revised community ceiling price posters for processed goods which have just been distributed to re tail food dealer are printed in brown ink so that they may be readily distinguished from pre viously issued posters. One of the new posters must be displayed for every fifteen hundred square feet of floor space in a store, and they must be placed where they may be read at a distance of not more ..han uwo feet. The new posters contain some 500 odd items, and the prices in dicate that food prices in general have decreased 4.5 per cent since Lhe first community ceiling prices were published in May, 1943. Brake Check Program ^ Aimed to Cut Big Loss The casualty list from automobile accidents reached the appalling total figure of 873,000 last year, a far greater number than was included in casualty lists of army, navy and marine corps during the same period of the present war. More than half of the automobile accident fatalities and injuries in the United States occurred in rural areas. More than 56,000 farm workers were injured and kept from their essential jobs, 4,500 were killed. There is another serious loss be-^ cause of automobile accidents. The cars themselves. While it is true that no number of automobiles can equal the value of a human life, the wrecked automobile today is an irreplaceable item. Too many of the cars that are being scrapped are the property of farmers. About 1,500,000 passenger cars passed out of existence last year. Some were worn out, some im mobilized for the want of irreplace able parts, some of them — too many — were wrecked in traffic accidents. Start Brake Check Program. To rectify this situation, to con serve cars and to save lives, the International Association of Chiefs of Police will con'duct a continent wide automobile brake check pro gram from April 15 to June 1. While the program is in operation, police officers ip the United States and Canada will check the brakes of all passenger cars involved in traf fic accidents, and of cars that are being operated in a manner to indi cate faulty brakes. The check is a simple one that can be quickly executed. The police officer merely slips a block of wood one inch thick under the brake pedal and then depresses the pedal, thus determining whether there is at least one inch of clearance be tween pedal and floorboard when the brakes begin to grip. Since officers will not function as official brake testers, the check is in no way to be considered as a “test.” •It is a device to focus public atten tion on safe driving and on the ne cessity for putting cars in top me chanical condition, and keeping them that way. War Production board has made available sufficient brake parts and brake fluids to meet anticipated needs during the program. Conse quently, except for the inevitable delays due to manpower shortages, brakes can be repaired in most shops. Farmers, along with the general public, are urged by the police to give their full cooperation to the brake-check program, and to have the brakes of their cars checked, and repaired if necessary. Cooperation will mean safer cars, and the conservation of auto mobiles that cannot be replaced un til after the war is won. Passing toe Test. Cars with more than an inch of clearance will be considered to have passed the check, while those on which the pedal has less than an inch of clearance will be deemed to have inadequate brakes. The check is not in any sense of the word an official “test,” nor is it designed to supplant any existing traffic requirements. It is a de vice to focus public attention on the necessity for maintaining the high est possible level of operating effi ciency in all passenger cars. Cars that go to the scrap heap to day cannot be replaced. No new passenger automobiles will be manufactured in 1945, according to statements issued by the War Production board. Therefore, it is probable that there will be no new car replacements available until manufacturers have effected their conversions to peacetime produc tion after the war is won. Replace ments of used cars are exceedingly difficult to obtain because the large majority of owners are loath to part with their cars. During the brake-check program the police are confident that, through directing public atten tion to proper car care, they can assist materially in the conserva tion of irreplaceable automobiles. The program is patterned after ’’! one that was conducted last year in i the=' state of Michigan. At the begin ning of the Michigan program j 1 out of every 7 cars failed to meet ‘ the brake-check, but at the close ’ ohly 1 Car^irx 23 was found to have j inadequate brakes. > During the first month of the Michigan program traffic fatalities ! were 33 per cent lower than in the corresponding period of the previ- i ous year. In the second month there : were 31 per cent fewer deaths, and * in the third month when the pro- • gram was no longer in force, there ! was a carry-over reduction of 16 ! per cent. '. It is significant that of the 23,800 ; traffic accident deaths and 850.000 injuries during 1944. more than half r occurred in rural areas. j These figures are of obvious inter est to the farmer, who. except in s * unusual instances, must be entirely ‘ dependent upon his passenger car . for transportation. Farm production is of inc , -easing i importance, and it appears certain ■ that unprecedented quantities of • farm products will be needed not • only for the duration of the war, but for the years immediately fol- lowing its close. The passenger automobile is vital to the efficient operation of the '? farmer’s trade. Therefore, it must £ be conserved, and it is essential > that it be maintained as a safe » means of conveyance. ; The police throughput the nation urge farmers to give'their full co- operation to the current brake- j * check program, to the end that ev- ’' ery farmer-owned automobile in the United States may be a dependa- ;! ble, efficient and safe vehicle. [i Unfortunately, accident records j are not kept in 4etail sufficient to ;! determine at all accurately how ? much of a factor poor brakes are > in causing accidents. Figures fromj! 12 states indicate that bad brakes^ account for up to 11 per cent ofH fatal accidents. A good clue is pre- > sented by compulsory car inspec- j tions. In New Jersey last year,*} about 15 per cent of all cars in-j^ spected were rejected because ofi’j bad brakes. In New Hampshire * brake rejections totalled 19.5 per ri cent. Those figures are regarded, > as indicative of the situation* £ throughout the country. While the program centei around brakes, the police will motorists To give their cars the most care with stress placed rv only on brakes, but on stee gear, tires, windshield wipers, ai other parts having to do. with dri: ing safety. Fuel Cil Strip Coupons To. Be Is sued. Strip coupons, similar to those 1 in use in the gasoline rationing : program, in an identification fold er and bearing serial numbers, will j be issued for certain classes of ; fuel oil rations the latter part of this month, J. E. Parker, OPA Dis- , trict Rationing Executive at Co lumbia, said today. Consumers who will use the new strip coupons are those whose ra tions are for domestic cooking and lighting purposess, for heat or hot water where the amount of the annual ration is 309 gallon s or less, and for miscellaneous fam and industrial uses where the amount —Buy War Savings Stamps— [is less than 20,909 gallons annual ly and the consumer does not have a ration bank account, Parker pointed out. He explained that the change to the new type of coupon does not affect the valid ity of class 3 coupon sheets, or have effect on the amount of the consumer’s ration. Householders whose total annual ration for heat and hot water is more than 300 gallons, will not be affected, he said. “The use of strip coupons will result in considerable saving in paper and clerical work,” Parker said, “because it / eliminates the waste that occurs when class 3 coupon sheets are ‘tailored’, which necessitates throwing away some coupons and consumer time of the workers who ‘tailored’ them.” problem of supplying meat to the armed forces, providing a fair dis tribution to non-meat areas and preventing diversion through black market operations is under dis cussion, E. H. Talbert, OPA Dis trict Director, disclosed today. Representatives of the meat and livestock industry, farm organiza tions, OPA and other government agencies met in Washington last week to discuss practical details of a plan to provide for more uni form distribution o£ the civilian meat supply. The government agencies met with producers, feeders, federally- inspected slaughterers and pro cessors, wholesalers and retailers and approached the problem of meat distribution from all its angles, he said. Meat Distribution Planning Meet ing. A national program to meet the Markup On Sales Of White Pota toes And Onions Delivered Eating Places. Country shippers of white pota toes and onions may obtain mark ups on sales of these commodities delivered by them to the premises of restaurants where meals are served, George W. Tomlin, OPA District Price Executive, said to day. The markups in these cases are the same that country ship pers receive for delivery at retail stores. For potatoes it is 60 cents a hundred pounds and for onions 40 cents for 50 pounds delivered to eating establishments. “This provision was made,” Tomlin said today, “to correct the original reg ulation which did not provide mark-ups on country shippers sales of these items, delivered to eating places.” How to double your profits on feed crops? Sell them to live- To stock.