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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Among all the breath-taking events which ! followed the President's plea for ] strong, anti-strike legislation, per haps the most amazing was the t unexpected opposition which rose ' out of the Republican ranks. First ’ reaction of newsmen here was: ■ when Senator Taft suddenly be- S comes allied with the CIO lead ers, anything can happen. \ Of course Senator Taft did < not actively go to bat for the v CIO, but it was his opposition •( to the President’s anti-strike measure which prevented the ] bill from being rushed ) through the senate as it was * through the house. The real \ reason behind Senator Taft’s opposition is considered by many here to be primarily > political: he thought he saw / an opportunity for the Re- ] ■ publicans to get a big chunk t of the labor vote. Labor was ' angry at the President for 1. asking for this legislation and the Republican leaders felt that the moment had ar rived for them to win back labor’s support. But political strategists here say that the idea will never work. They say that labor leaders would organize a third party rather than turn Republican, that it is too obvious that the cloak of “la bor’s friend” doesn’t fit the Re publican leaders, and that the rank and file of labor is not near ly as disturbed over the Presi dent’s proposals as are their leaders. By his twelfth-hour action on labor, when the country had become paralyzed by the railroad strike. President Truman was merely giving in to the demands of the public. The pressure brocgta vp*m him by public opinion had .. become terrifie. It was nec- essary for him to do some thing which would make it impossible for labor unions to defy the government. His recommended legislation was no stronger than the people had demanded. Whether the President’s rec ommendation that those who strike against the goverpment be drafted into the army was the best “penalty” for defiance is of course open to question. Some object to this provision on the grounds that it gives the army the status of a prison. Others object on the grounds that it has too much of a flavor of totali tarianism. Rut so far no one has offered any other suggestion for a substitute penalty considered nearly as effective. • * * It is interesting to note that the President’s suggested leg islation was an emergency measure based on the fact that the war isn’t over yet. He was actually asking for new wartime powers, even ' though to most of us the war k ended when the fighting stopped. But officially, the war is not over until the President says so—and that is not apt to be for many months to come. • • • Checkups in the house of rep resentatives indicate that the house is willing to let selective service die—to put an. end to the draft by July. Under the tem porary legislation now in force the army is getting only a small percentage of the quota of man power it considers necessary. College Students Return Home Among the college students who have returned to their homes in and near McCormick for the sum mer are: , Columbia College, Columbia— Miss Carolyn Rice. Lander College, Greenwood— Miss Gladys Winn, Miss Barbara Owings, Miss Jo Smith. Winthrop College, Rock Hill— Miss tforothy Smith, Miss Hildreth Gettys, Miss Nellie Gettys. Coker College, Hartsville— Miss Bertha Mae Harris. Clemson College, Clemson— Cadet Robert Hanvey, TJadet Joe Luke White, Cadet Johnny LeRoy, Cadet William Hanvey. Wofford College, Spartanburg— Mr. Robert Strother. Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga.— Mrs. Alex Hanvey. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.— Mr. Bruce Jaynes. Miss Dolly Bussey Entertains Circle In Memoriam In memory of my devoted hus band, W. P. Parks, who departed this life 3 years ago today. May 26, 1943. From this world of grief and sor row To a land of peace and rest God has taken you, my dear one Where there is everlasting rest. The blow was hard, The shock severe, We little thought your death so near; Only those who have lost can tell The pain of parting without fare well. You are gone, but not forgotten, Never shall your memory fade; Sweetest thoughts shall ever linger around the grave Where you are laid. Someday I hope to meet you. Someday, I know not when, I shall meet you in a better land. Wife. Miss Dolly Bussey entertained members of the Neal Young circle of the Baptist W. M. S. on Wed nesday aftemon of last week at her home on §outh Main street. Mrs. W. M. Strom, leader, con ducted the business session and Mrs. T. R. McAbee taught the mis sion study class “Prayer as Work.” The missionary message was brought by Mrs. C. H. Huguley. Miss Busey, assisted by Miss Vir ginia Wilkins, served broiled chick en with mushroom sauce on toast, cranberry Jelly, stuffed tomato sandwiches, iced tea, and for de sert, pineapple short cake. Other than circle members, the guests included Mrs. C. H. Work man, Jr., a recent bride, Mrs. C. H. Workman, Sr., Mrs. J. M. Brown and Mrs. J. F. Dillashaw. -X- W. Herbert Parks From The Hickory, N. C., Record, May 23. Hickory lost one of its best, citi zens in the passing of W. H. Parks, Sr. Herbert, as he was known to his friends, had been a resident only nine years, but he had made a far greater contribution to the community than many persons who were born and reared here. A quiet, conservative man, he went about his own business— but was never too preoccupied in personal affairs to attend to civic duties. He was a veteran of the First World War, and he saw his two young sons respond to the call of their country for service in World War Two—one of them suffering serious wounds. In addition, he responded willingly when request ed to become chairman of one of the panels for the Hickory Ration Board, although the assignment meant long hours of tedious, thankless toil after his heavy, daily routine of business was fin ished. Herbert Parks was truly one of God’s noblemen.' W. Herbert Parks, Sr., of Hickory, N. C., Dies William Herbert Parks, Sr., manager of the Smith-Courtney Company branch in Hickory, N. C., for the past nine years, passed a- way at one-thirty-five o’clock Wednesday afternoon. May 22nd, at a Hickory hospital, following an illness of several months. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, May 23rd, from the First Baptist Church of Hickory, and burial followed in Oakwood cemetery. Mr. Parks was forty-eight years of age and a native of South Car olina. He was ther son of the late W. P. Parks, of Parksville, S. C., and Mrs. Parks. He was born Sep tember 6, 1897. Following his graduation from Clemson College in 1918, where he received a Bachelor of Science de gree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mr. Parks was wed to Miss Mae Griffin, of Pickens, S. C., Tulv 12, 1920. In addition to the mother and widow, two sons survive. They are W. H. Parks, Jr., and Robert Parks, both veterans of World War Two. Two brothers and four sisters also survive: W. P. Parks, Jr., of McCormick, S. C.; Watson C. Parks of Augusta, Ga.; Mrs. J. H. Tompkins and Mrs. J. H. Percival, of Parksville; Mrs. Sim Bledsoe, of Eustis, Fla.; Mrs. K. B. Brigman, of Chester, S. C. Mr. Parks had been active in civic affairs.ever since going to Hickory in February, 1937. He was a member of the American Legion Post there, having been a veteran of the First World War. He was a past president of the Hickory Rotary club and a mem ber of the Catawba County Rod and Gun Club. During the war period Mr. Parks served as an OPA panel chairman for the Hickory Rationing Board. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, of Hickory. Miss Mary Kennedy To Speak At Long Cane Church Sabbath On Trip To Washington Supt. W. H. Weldon wired from Washington, D. C., Tuesday that the trip up by him in the school bus with 27 of the high school students and two faculty chap erones was made with no trouble of any kind and that they were enjoying the tour of the nation’s capitol. They left at 6 a. m. Monday and expect to return to McCormick Saturday, June 15th. Those going with Mr. Weldon were: Claude Huguley, Bobby Dukes, Edwin Rice, Lonny Shrine, Tommy Gable, Richard Culbreath, • . Gary Brown, Hazel Kelly, Katie Bell Willis, Lois Edwards, Eunice Wall, Albert Campbell, Louise Rice, 7 0 Jacquelyn Bonnette, Johnel Caudle, Georgia R. McCracken, Christine Flemming, Willie Frances Smith, Bobby Huguley, Virginia Smith, BeVcy Lou Wedincamp, Rebecca Simpson, Mary Henderson, Sarah Gable, Frances Bodie, Marian Freeland, Dewey Jennings, Miss Martha Rucker, Miss Vivian Jaynes. X “The real purpose behind our efforts to grow food, to process it, to ship and market it, is the use of that food in the home. The homemaker, therefore, becomes the most important link in the long chain of food handlers from the j farm to the dinner table.”—John, Boyd Orr, director-general, Food and Agriculture Organization. Announcement is made that Miss Mary Kennedy, missionary from India, will be at the regular services at the Long Cane A. R. P. Church Sabbath afternoon. Sab bath School will be at 3:30 and Miss Kennedy will speak at 4:30. X Weekly Roundup SUGAR: Spare Stamp No. 49, good for 5 lbs., expires August 31, Spare Stamp No. 9, good for 5 lbs. of sugar for CANNING, ex pires October 31, 1946. Price Survey Now On— A survey of current retail prices on home furnishings made by the local Price Control Board is now underway in South Carolina, OPA District Director E. H. Tal bert said today. '“Furniture is one of the major fields in which war scarcities are still felt by the consumer,” Mr. Talbert explained. “This is par ticularly true in the low and med ium price lines, although the situ ation is improving somewhat.” Mr. Talbert pointed out that even though a buyer checks the price tag and pays no more than the ceiling price, he still may not know whether the ceiling has been computed properly. For this rea son, Mr. Talbert added, a price survey by trained representatives is the best way of finding out whether controls in this field are working out. Shrimp Prices Jump— Southeastern housewives are paying nearly double the price for shrimp that they paid on May 2, when shrimp was decontrolled, E. H. Talbert, OPA District Director, said today. Here in South Caro lina, prices for jumbo shrimp have risen nearly 50 per cent. In Jack- son, Mississippi, the price nearly doubled. “These increases show that e- ven though shrimp and fish fillet are not particularly scarce, when price controls are removed price rises are often staggering,” he asserted. Beans Upped— Snap beans have been increased ten cents per bushel by the Office of Price Administration, District Director E. H. Talbert announced today. This increase was allowed to reflect present parity to grow ers, he said, and may result in a penny-per-pound increase in re tail stores. Under the increase, June beans will sell for $2.80 per bushel f.o.b. the basing point, Pompano, Flori da, Mr. Talbert explained. Meat— OPA’s recent reduction of cattl: arid calf slaughtering in non- federally inspected plants during any accounting period, beginning May 26, should improve the dis- cribution of available livestock OPA District Director E. H. Tal bert said today. Blankets Up Slightly— Consumers will pay slightly more for some cotton blankets as a re sult of a 7 1-2 per cent increase in producers’ ceilings, OPA District Director E. H. Talbert said today Producer increases were given tc bring blankets in line with the general level of prices for cotton fabrics established by the repric ing of cottons in March, he added. The exact increases to be passed on to consumers depends upon how much can be absorbed by wholesalers and retailers, Mr. Tal bert explained. This price adjustment, he point ed out, applies to low-priced bed blankets made in plain and jac quard weaves from American and Asiatic cotton or from a mixture of cotton and five percent wool. Building Materials Pricing— To curb inflationary trends in prices of home construction, OPA has issued 67 dollar-and-cent area orders on building materials and 10 area pricing orders on con struction services in the South mm.' Ed. Note: This neivxfmpcr ha* nr-1 ranged with the Washington Bureau of j National Weekly News/taper Service,. 1616 Eye St. N. W.. Washington 6. It C.. to answer questions pertaining to -«• icemen and veterans. These question* will be answered in this column if ad- ; dressed as above. No replies ran be ! made Ly mail, but this paper w ; ll print answers to all questions received. Q. My husband was drafted into the army in August, 1945. He went overseas in January of this year. We have two chil dren, ages 5 and 4. Could you give me some idea when he will be home? He is in Ver sailles, France, now. Also could you give me an idea as to whom I could get in touch with for a dependency discharge?—D. B., Berlin, N. H. A. Your husband has little or no point score since he was in ducted in August and point scores were figured up to Sep tember 2, 1945. Unless he is dis charged for other reasons, it may be a year or more before he is discharged, although army has not fixed regulations beyond June 30, 1946. Applications for dependency discharge must be filed by the soldier with his com manding officer. Q. Can you give me any in dication as to what would be the monthly income of an enlist ed man in the army if food, clothing, medical care and ev erything else he gets was includ ed?—W. A. R., Yakima, Wash. A. That is a hard question to answer, but the war department estimates that at present pay rates, the average for enlisted men of all grades, including al lowances, cost of food, clothing, medical care, etc., is approxi mately $158 per month. Q. I have a son who went into the navy in May, 1944. The navy approved an allotment to me in January of 1946, said I would only get it from that date. Can you tell me why I should not get it from the time he went into the navy?—Mrs. G. L. M., Klamath Falls, Ore. A. In all probability, your son did not ask for an allotment un til shortly before that date, and January of 1946 was the date which the navy started deduct ing your allotment from your son’s pay. Allotments to par ents are not compulsory and are only made upon application of the serviceman, purely volun tary on his part. Q. I am anxious to learn the whereabouts of my brother. We are concerned about him as we haven’t heard from him in quite a long time. His last address was Serv. Battery, 309 FA Bn. Can you help me?—C. S., Denver, • Co : c. j b ; A. If he is still witli his old out- • fit he should be in this country, i, since the 309th FA Bn. arrived j; in New York aboard the Clay- ( mont Victory April 18, 1946. Q. I would like to know when E { may expect my son home. He is J with the 153rd Port company, j APO 503. We need him very r much to help in our store.—Mrs.! C. N. H., Thatcher, Ariz. j A. The war department says it J has no word on when this com- | pany is expected back in the : States. i Q. Will the Veterans of Foreign ; Wars accept a man for member- > ship who did not serve overseas? > —Veteran, Daiiville, 111. A. I believe the VFW is just what its name implies and a man is not eligible for membership unless he did serve overseas. Q. Is a man who served as a • temporary member of the coast • guard reserve eligible for bene- : fits of the G.l. bill?—T. R., Har- . din, Mont. A. No, not unless they received military pay for their duty. The ; navy says that the judge advo cate general has made this rul ing on the ground that benefits under the G.l. bill have been granted to assist a man back to his economic position he was forced to abandon by his call to military service. The great ma jority of temporary members cf t the coast guard reserve volun teered their services without pay : and their duty did not require their leaving their homes or p*» > sitions. The ruling is that th« members were in fact membem of the armed services, but do r«*: qualify for G.l. benefits unleapt they received pay for their duty. Q. My husband was killed »•» action in 1942. I have now *r 1 plied for a pension for my 5-yei old daughter. Will the pens! date back to the date of my to" band’s death?—Widow, Mob«*4 ley. Mo. A. The Veterans* administn tion says that the pension case would date from the day tk«y application was received, sinewy application was not made withr - one year after the man’ “ as required by law. east, E. H. Talbert, OPA District Director, said today. These orders cover materials es sential in the low-cost home con struction program, including hard materials, softwood plywood, and new and used lumber, Mr. Talbjrt pointed out. Five new -pricing orders for plumbing and heating service: were issued June 1 for Atlanta Ga., Nashville, Tenn., JacksonvilT Fla., Richmond and Norfolk, Va. ; Mr. Talbert added. He explainer that the orders, based on trad practices and prices charged by the majority of the trade in each area, were made after complete surveys and conferences with the trade. -X- Boll Weevil Danger Now More Serious Clemson, June 10.—Boll weevils are in general more abundant than usual during the first week of June, and every effort must be made to bring this insect pest under control if possible, M. B. Stevenson, assistant extension en tomologist, said here today. A glance at the different ages of cotton in any community will show a serious situation, Mr. Stev enson continued, declaring that if the weevils are allowed to damage the oldest cotton, then we may expect heavy damage to the late cotton. An examination of 27 fields of cotton in seven counties last week revealed a count of 0 weevils to 1200 weevils per acre on cotton that had not begun to square. In two of the seven , counties there , were several fieldferof cotton that [were beginning to square, and a count revealed an infestation of 16 to 38 per cent. That means thafc a few weevils per acre can do and are doing serious damage as soon as the cotton is old enough to put cn squares. \ The specialist urged farmers to examine their fields carefully, for here usually are lots of squares icing punctured before any begin o fall off. Every effort should bs ^ade to noisrn early and keep fter these early v/eevils. He calls attention to the fact hat cotton has already been seri- irly damaged by certain fungus diseases and insects other than the boll weevil. This damage in some sections has been caused by he root aphids; in other sections thrips, cotton flea hoppers, taxnish plant bugs, and rapid plant bugs. “A self-sustaining agriculture rust not only meet the needs of "arm people, but also the needs if the rest of the nation by sup plying supplies of foods and fibers and good markets for the products of industry.”—Secretary of Agri culture Clinton P. Anderson. -X- “The old concept of man against Nature seems false; if we fight Nature we are likely to lose, but if we can harness the forces of Nature to our use, as long ago we harnessed the horse and other beasts stronger than ourselves* those forces may help to win our ends.”—From Com Industries Re search Foundation.