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1 # VOLUME 6—NUMBER 24 H .with flag Sergeant Enjoys Sun “Dear Mr. Armfield: I receive “The Sun” regularly each week and enjoy it very much, and have been able to contact several of my good friends by mail through your paper’s printing their addresses, was very sorry that it had to be dis continued, but as you know all good things, must come to an end; I also noticed that someone had reported to you that I had received another pro motion of which I am very proud of and may I say, that I worked hard for. Oh! Yes Mr. Armfield I’m very proud to say that my squadron are all members of the Red Cross (100 per cent) and so are the many other of my station. Some of the fellows back home seem to be afraid of the army, tell them for me it’s O.'K. and to come on in, the water is fine. Even though I’m in the Air Corps and too old to fly; I feel I’m doing a good bit by keeping five hundred aviation cadets happy by giving them their mail twice a day, and there’s nothing else in the world to keep up the morale of a service man like news from home; after all that’s what we are here for; just one word. HOME. Wishing you much success in tfie future, and once again I must tell you how I look forward to pulling my own “Sun” paper out of the mail bag every week. Prom—Just a boy from home, Sgt. W. E. Summer. Receives Promotion Headquarters, Panama Canal Dept., —Fred James Harmon, stationed with the armed forces here, was pro moted to the rank of technician fourth grade from technician fifth grade, it was announced by Army officials. Technician Harmon entered the Army in April, 1942 and after a five month tour of service at Fort Eustis, Va., arrived on the Isthmus. He is the son of Mrs. J. B. Hannon of 1816 Nance St., Newberry. Hugh Wessinger Enlists Hugh Elliott Wessinger, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Olin Wessinger, 800 Glenn street, Newberry, has en listed under the Navy’s new program for procurement of 17-year-old-high school seniors and students to train for Naval aviation. Wessinger, a native of Newberry, graduated from Newberry High school where he played football, and is now a student at Newberry col lege where he is a member of the Kappa Phi club. Aviation Cadet, James Olin Wessinger, Jr., of the Army Air Corps is a brother of the Naval enlistee. Upon reaching the age of 18, or shortly thereafter, Wessinger will be called into active duty for training. After completing all required courses he will qualify fo rthe Navy’s “Wings of Gold” and be commissioned a Fly ing Officer with the Fleet. Expected Home For Visit Lieut, and Mrs. J. L. Tolbert, sta tioned at San Francisco, Cal., are ex pected to arrive in the city the first of the week for a visit with Mrs. Tolbert’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom S. Harmon. Returns To Fort Eustis Captain J. L. Welling, Jr., and friend Captain Matthew Alexandra returned to Fort Eustis, Virginia, Tuesday night, where they are sta tioned after spending a few days leave with Captain Welling’s rela tives in the city. Visits Parents Pvt. J. C. Brown, stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sim Brown over the week end. Visiting Relatives George Halfacre Sp. 3-c stationed in Washington, is spending this week with relatives ip the city and county. TIMOTHY WALLACE TEDFORD Mr. and Mrs. William Tedford, of Paw Creek, N. C., announce the birth of a son, Timothy Wallace, at the Presbyterian hospital in Charlotte on Tuesday, February 9. Mrs. Walter Lovett, of Lovett, Ga., returned to her home Wednesday af ter spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs D. J. Williams O. H. Dickinson joined his wife and daughter in Charleston for the weekend. Mrs. Dickinson is return ing after a five weeks stay in Miami, Florida. Published Weekly NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY APRIL 2, 1943 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 $1.00 PER YEAR Items on Rationing Surplus Eggs Moving Married Men Without The following tires have been re leased from the local Rationing Board since March 24. Passenger grade 1—J. W. Dickert, 1 tire; C. T. Summer, 2 tires; Wil lie M! Wicker, 1 tire; G. H. Caldwell, 2 tires; Elizabeth Wallace, 1 tire; L. B. Dowd, 4 tires; T. W. Wicker, 1 tire; Florence Holland, 1 tire; H. W. Hentz, 1 tire and E. W. Glenn, 2 tires. Passenger grade 3—James Glas- glow, 1 tire; L. K. Cousins, 1 tire; Mrs. David Stone, 1 tire; Mrs. Oralee White, 1 tire; Mrs. J. T. Swindler. 1 tire; Eufertee Renwick, 1 tire; Alva S. Harris, 1 tire; Sam Davenport, 1 tire; H. A. Kibler, 2 tires; John S. Glymph, 1 tire; Mrs. B. L. Johnson, 1 tire; McKenney Williams, 1 tire, S. P. Shirrey, 4 tires and Jennings Summer, 3 tires. Truck recaps—J. M. Ownsey, 2 tires; Sam Wilson,, 1 tire; Newberry county, 4 tires; W. P. Derrick, 6 tires; Duke Power company, 4 tires; Mrs. H. L. Crumpton, I tire; Roy Bowers, 1 tire; City of Newberry, 1 tire, and Newberry Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaning company, 2 tires. Farm Empliment tires—N. A. Shrouse, 2 tires, and J. C. Dowd, 1 tire. Notice Farmers Farmers wishing to sell butter will have to register with the local Ra tioning Board, then collect stamps from persons they sell to, 8 points per pound, then turn the stamps over to the Rationing Board within a month’s period until further notice. Notice To The Public The local Rationing Board wishes to remind the public that the office is open between the hours of 9 o’clock a. m. until 3:30 p. m., except Satur days which are 9 o’clock until 1 o’clock. The hours must be observed in or der that the office force may have time to keep up with the many other duties of the office. Shoes The Rationing Board wishes to bring attention to the colleges and boarding houses the fact that they are without authority to detach stamp No. 17 from ration books sur rendered by students or boarders, but instead must loan students or board ers their ration books when they wish to purchase shoes. Shoe merchants ar e not authorized to accept detached stamps No. 17 ex cept when sent through the mail with an order or when accompanied by a credit memorandum or refund slip in dicating that the consumer returned a pair of shoes after his stamp was surrendered. Stamp No. 17 in War Ration Book One can be used to purchase a pair of shoes through June 15. Coffee Stamp No. 26 in War Rationing Book One good for one pound of cof fee from March 22 until midnight April 25. Sugar Stamp No. 12 will be good for five pounds of sugar through May 31. Gasoline Coupon No. 5 in “A” book good for three gallons but must last through July 21, four months, instead of two as heretofore. Home Producers Home producers may consume what they produce and may lend limited amounts; points need not be given up. Any person who produces any “food covered by this order” wholly from foods not covered by this or der (whether or not they are later pirocessed) primarily for consump tion in his own household, may con sume what he produces and may let members of his family unit and those who eat at his table consume it with out giving up points. He may lend the food so produced to any consumer without the sur render of points. However, he may not lend a total of more than four hundred pounds of beef and veal to gether, one hundred and fifty pounds of any other meat, or twenty-five pcunds of any other foods covered by this order, which he so produced in any one calendar year. Foods so loaned may not be sold by the person who receives them or by anyone else. ! Slaughtering Farmers who slaughter livestock for sale, or who produce lard and butter, or other foods covered by the order for sale, are required to comply with the same regulations that govern other commercial pri mary distributors. They cannot make sales except for points, and they are required to register. How ever, they are generally entitled to use the simplified report forms for the months they operate. In order to permit farm slaughterer primary distributors to operate economically, the order allows them to sell to Local eggs are going to war, ac cording to county agent P. B. Ezell, They are being assembled at the Farmer’s Hatchery, Newberry, and picked up weekly by the truck sche dule arranged by the Clemson exten sion marketing service, with W. A. Tuten in charge. Last week 85 cases of 30 dozen each were moved from this point and a total of 1,225 cases from the nine teen points over the state where the scheduled stops are made.This makes a total of 5,297 cases, or 13 carloads, of South Carolina eggs that have gone to war, as it were, since theqp cooperative shipments were started in early February. Most of them go to a drying plant where they are pre pared for army and lend-lease use. The truck price on case farm-run eggs is 33c per dozen. The assembly .points has to receive, pack, and pay for them, and in most cases the farm er receives about 30c to 31c per dozen net for his eggs. These shipments have stabilized prices rather general ly over the state ,and the usual spring fall in local markets has not been ex perienced. At present the trucks are making stops at the following points on Thursdays: Hartsville, Darlington, Florence, Timmonsville, Sumter, Manning, St. Matthews, Bamberg and Columbia. And on Fridays they proceed on to Newberry, Greenwood, Laurens, Fountain Inn, Greenville, Spartan burg, Gaffney, Anderson, Walhalla, and Pickens. If egg surpluses exist at points not reached, farmers are asked to get in touch with their local county agents and see if arrangements can’t be per fected. What is needed is for some responsible local agency to get crates, assemble, pack, and pay for the eggs and then deliver them to the truck and receive pay on the spot. In most counties the country merchants buy them up or take them in on trade and then sell them to the assembling agency in the county. “Production must be properly plan ned and carried out as the initial steps to marketing, and that is what this state has done with eggs’, says Tom Cole, Clemson extension marketing agent of Columbia. “The War Goals called for more eggs. Farms stepped their production up and the volume thus created enabled us to work out a system of marketing that is the best thing of the sort we have ever had. We hope to work out a perman ent system of poultry and egg mar keting from this start”, he concludes. MOTHER’S CLUB TO SPONSOR DRIVE FOR UNIFORMS The Mother’s club of the city de cided at their March meeting to spon sor a drive to raise money for much needed band uniforms for the New berry high school band. The high school band having been organized now for the past three years, has served efficiently and faithfully in all parades and civic functions whenever called upon by the public. They have established for themselves a place with other leading high school bands in the state by winning a first rating in the National Music Festivals Com- petitives Contests, the South Caroli na division being held at Winthrop last spring. Professor Cuthbertson, director of the band, spoke at the Mother’s club meeting, discussing plans for the drive to begin the second week in April. It was learned that the driv e had already been in progress at the high school for the past year, wher'S over half of the amount needed has already been raised through canteen profits, magazine contests and bene fit concert given in chapel. The high school student body has responded commendably in contribut ing toward these uniforms, and by the attitude of gome business men of the city, who have already inquired as t» how they may contribute, it is certain that the balance of the funds can be raised. CIRCLES WILL MEET The Circles of the Woman’s So ciety of Christian Service of Cen tral Methodist church will meet Mon day, April 5, as follows; No. 1—-Mrs. G. G. Sale, 8:00 p. m. No. 2—Mrs. L. B. Fridy, 4:00 p. m. No. 4—Miss Mary Wheeler, 8:00 p. m. Louise Best—Mrs. G. K. Dominick, 4:00 p. m. consumers for stamps which have not yet become valid. In this way, they can follow the practice of dis posing of their primal cuts to sin gle consumers dr families before spoilage sets in. Children Are Called For Army, Effective With The May Call Newberry draft boards have just received the following telegram from the state office of Selective Service: “Our May call will be larger than those heretofore. It is nec essary that you reopen and class ify anew and place in 1-A as many men who have wives but do not have children as soon as possible, taking into considera tion the fact that some of these men may be deferred on occupa tional grounds. Holmes B. Springs, State Director” RECENT MOVINGS Prof, and Mrs. J. V. Knecce and family have moved from 1325 Hunt street to 2122 Brown street. Miss Sadye Jones is now making her home at 1325 Hunt street in the house formerly occupied by the Kneeces, which she purchased rec ently. She lived formerly in the D. J, Taylor apartment. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mitchell moved from 938 1-2 Main street to 2012 Adelaid street. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Reames are now making their home at 808 James street. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Coates have moved to 938 1-2 Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbe Chappell and family have moved to No. 515 Boundary street, in the old Leavell home. They liver formerly on Friend street. ’ATIENTS IN THE COUNTY HOSPITAL Born to Mr. and Mrs. James C. Childers, of Whitmire, H daughter, on Tuesday, March 30. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sproules, of Newberry, a son, on Sunday, March 28. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Morris Johnson of Kinards, a daughter, on Saturday, March 27. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hunter, of Prosperity, a daughter, on Sun day, March 21. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wil liamson, of Whitmire, a daughicr, on Friday, March 19. Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Trammell, of Whitmire, a' daughter, on Friday, March 19. Other patients at the hospital in clude: Preston Livingston of New berry Route 4, who recently under went a tonsil operation. Barbara Wedaman, three months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Le- Roy Wedaman, Jr., of Pomaria. Mrs. H. E. Counts, Prosperity. Mrs. Cole L. Miller, Newberry. Mrs. Julian B. Cromley, Saluda. Mrs. J. Alvin Brown, Newberry. Mrs. Luther Wright, Goldville. Mrs. Lewis Hill, Whitmire. Mrs. Mollie Hudson, Newberry. Mrs. C. M. Free, Pomaria. Mrs. Stevie K. Wright, Newberry. Miss Elizabeth Mitchell has re turned to her home following ton sil operation Monday. D. R. CHAPTER WILL MEET The Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. D. C., will meet Tuesday, April 6, at 4 o’clock with Mrs. S. E. Whit ten and Mrs. Rosa Davis. Please note change in place of meeting. THEY ARE IN THE SERVICE NOW Reservists returning to Induction Station from Board 59: Junius Carroll Longshore, Army, 1806 Nance street, Newberry. Paul Banks Long, Navy, R.F.D. 3. Newberry. William Preston Crawford, Army, R.F.D. 4, Newberry. Harold Thomas Bedenbaugh, Army, Prosperity. * • James Earle Bozard, Army, Silver- street. Samuel Conrad Wiggers, Army, R.F.D. 2, Pomaria. Joseph Moody Bedenbaugh, Army, Prosperity. Joseph Ulysses Sandel, Army, R.F.D. 1, Little Mountain. William Oliver Hedgepath, Jr., Marines, Prosperity. Ralph Lamar Epting, Army, Pros perity. William Jerald Kibler Boland, Army, R.F.D. 2, Pomaria. Julian McNeur, Army, R.F.D. 1, Chappells. Canning Necessities Are Being Provided Because it expects a record-break ing home-canning season, the War Producion board has taken steps to insure a plentiful supply of glass jars, rubber rings and covers to seal the jars, and a double supply of pressure cookers for canning such non-acid vegetables as beans and corn. Here is the situation in each of the fields of equipment needed tt carry out the program: Closures (lids, jar rings, etc.)—A recent WPB order released enough metal to permit the manufacture of almost all types of closures and it is expected that more than three billion new ones will be manufactur ed. It is also estimated by WPB that more than two billion old, re usable covers are already being saved for use this season and need only new jar rings. Glass jars.—The WPB says there will be plenty. Thrifty housewives have saved last season’s jars for re use and in addition five hundred million jars will be manufactured— twice as many as were made last year. Jars filled last year, most of which were saved for use this season, totalled about three billion. Pressure cookers.—Initial action has h^en taken to permit the manu facture of 150,000 pressure cookers, twice as many as manufactured last year, although hardly enough to meet the increased demand this sea son. 189,980,400 QUARTS IS SOUTH CAROLINA’S HOME CAN NING QUOTA Estimate Is <Based On Recommenda tion For Housewives To Put Up 100 Quarts Per Person South Carolina’s essential war time home-canning goal for 1943 totals 189,9811,400 quarts’,* a leading food distributor has estimated. This huge job facing the state’s 431,774 housewives represents an average of 100 quarts of home-pack ed food per person, the amount the United States Department of Agri culture has recommended for rural families and which it considers de sirable also for urban families. Any housewife who meets this goal will assure each member of her family two cups of home-canned food daily for about seven months. “The need for housewives to meet the goal was emphasized when Price Administrator Brown reported that only 13,000,000 cases of commercial ly canrcdd fruits and vegetables would be available to civilians each month this year as compared to 30,- 000,000 cases a month last year.” “This means a reduction of 57 per cent, but civilians will get along on it so our armed forces and allies can get the food they need to whip the Axis.” BASEBALL SEASON OPENS AT NEWBERRY COLLEGE The baseball season will open at Newberry college Thursday and Fri day Of this week. The first two games are to be played against the Marines of Paris Island. The col lege boys who are taking part in these games are expected to be call ed into the armed forces in less than three months. So it is up to the base ball fans of the city to really turn out and show these boys that they are backing them now, just like they will be backing them when they are on Uncle Sam’s payroll. The games will begin at 4:00 p. m. and the admission will be 40^eents. Come out and enjoy watching the boys play, and I know they will be glad to see you. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN PARISH Rev. J. B. Harman, pastor. Bethany—10:30 a. m., preaching services. 11^50 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. E. B. Hite, supt. Thursday, 7 p. m., meditation of on e of the words of Jesus on the cross. Summer Memorial—10:30 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. M. E. Shealy, supt. 11:30 a. m., the service and Holy Communion. 12:30 p. m., Senior Luther League. 6 p. m., Intermediate Luther Lea gue. 7 p. m.. church workers conference followed by Luther League pageant. Wednesday, 7 p. m., meditation on one of the words of Jesus on the cross. Visitors are invited to attend all services. DOWN MEMORY LANE Mrs. E. H. Aull and little sons, Luther and Marion, are spending the week in Columbia with Mr. and Mrs. Jno. .K Aull. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Summer spent Wednesday in Columbia. Miss Sara Gary came from Green ville city schools to spend the spring holidays with her mother, Mrs. Alice Gary at Kinards. Chandler-Cromer Mrs. Ethel Chandler of Beth Eden community and Mr. Fred J. Cromer of Newberry were married Sunday morning at 9:30 at the Beth Eden’ parsonage by Rev. L. P. Boland. Mrs. Cromer is a popular matron of the Beth Eden community and | takes quite an active interest in the progressive affairs of her communi ty. Mr. Cromer is one of the efficient clerks with J. R. Boozer Grocery store in Newberry. Mrs. M. L. Kibler and children, of LeesviHe, wer e weekend guests of Mrs. B. M. D. Livingston.—Prosperi ty News. Ingenious Japanese Advertisements There is something of a potic touch about the following Japanese adver tisements: “My products are for warded with the speed of a bullet.” “My marvelous paper is as solid as the skin of the elephant.’ “My vine gar is sourer than the spleen of the worst mother-in-law.” JAPANESE PILLAGE CHINESE VILLAGES Returned Army Pilot Says Systema tic Looting and Destruction Practiced With the United States Air Force in China, March 25—.Systematic looting and destruction of Chinese villages in Western Yunnan prov ince by Japanese troops was de scribed today by Captain Jesse Car ney, of Norman, Okla., who has re turned to his fighter squadron after three hair-raising weeks behind the Japanese lines. “The daV I was shot down I could see Japanese setting fire to villages in a mountain valley,’’ he said. “The laps take everything the Chinese have and then burn their homes. In the wide area l travelled west of the Salween river whole villages had been burned to the ground and few houses were left standing in the countryside. “Chinese refugees hiding in the hills are undergoing great suffer ing. Most of them live in grass shacks, some of which are just lean- to’s exposed to the cold, rain and snow. In some places the snow is forty feet deep. “On one mountain path I found the body of a Chinese who had froz en to death overnight. “The Chinese hate the Japs in tensely. The people who helped me escape from enemy territory always made excuses that they could offer me no more. The Japanese had taken nearly everything. My diet was mostly hard-boiled eggs and rice. I must have eaten 200 eggs. The Chinese brought them miles down the mountains to feed me. “Some of the hill people have strange ideas about airmen. One thought an angel had arrived. One old man said: ‘You must be very strong to lift that flying machine.’ ” Carney, a part Cherokee Indian and former sudent at the University of Oklahoma, lost thirty pounds in the course of his thrillnpacked wan derings through enemy territory af ter he was shot down by ground.fire on February 28. It was estimated he walked about 300 miles through the mountains while dodging Japa nese formations. “When I came to (after the crash),” Carney related, “I climbed to about 10,000 feet and found a path around the mountains. I rest ed until after dark. The Japanese came searching wih flashlights and got within about forty feet of me. My teeth chattered from the cold and I had a hard time choking down a cough. They left about fifteen minutes later.” On the second morning Carney met a Chinese boy and man who gave him a fish, which he roasted. From then on a succession of Chi nese fed him and guided him to a house in the mountains, where he remained hidden for ten days. From there he walked four more .days and rode a horse two days to reach a frontier town in Free China.