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r THE NEWBERRY SUN Friday, January 14, ! 944 PAGE EIGHT Latest Official Information On Soldiers Allowance Pay What is a family allowance? A Government check sent to the soldier’s dependents regularly every month so long as he and they remain eligible. The family allowance is made up of money deducted from his pay and money contributed by the Government. It is granted only upon application. The family allowance is payable onlv to dependents eligible under the law. Class A dependents include wife, children, and divorced wife to whom alimony is payable; also hus band and children of a service-wom an who are dependent upon her for chief support. Class B-l dependents include parents, brothers, and sisters who rely on the soldier for their chief support. Class B dependents include parents, brothers, and sis ters who rely on the soldier f^r a substantial portion of their support. The terms “crildren,” “brothers, and “sisters” are limited to unmarri ed persons under 18 years of age, or of any age, if incapable of self-sup port by reason of mental or physical defect. The term “child" includes any child to whom the soldier has stood in place of parent for a period of 12 months prior to application. How much is set aside from the sol dier’s pay? 522 a month, if the family allow ance is for class A, class B-l, or class B dependents only. 527 a month, if it is for both class A and class B-l, or class A and class B, dependents. How much will the soldier’s depen dents get? Class A dependents: wife wife and 1 child $80 divorced wife up to $42 divorced wife and 1 child up to $72 child but no wife $42 for each additional child, an ad ditional $21 Class B-l dependents: 1 parent $6^ 2 parents • $88 1 parent and 1 brother or sis ter $88 2 parents and 1 brother or sis ter $79 1 borther or sister but no par ent $42 for each additional brother or sister, a n additional $11 Class B dependent or dependents $37 (payable only if there is no al lowance payable to any class B-l dependent) When is the family allowance paya ble? An initial payment, contributed en tirely by the Government, is made to class A and class B-l dependents for the month in which the soldier enters upon active duty in a pay status, if he makes application with in 15 days af;er entry. Thereafter, a regular family allowance is payable after the end of each month. For example, if a soldier who enters upon active duty on November 10 applies at that time, the initial payment is made for that month, and the family allowance for December is payable after Deceber 31. Who may apply? All soldiers may apply as soon as they enter upon active duty in a pay status. Soldiers in the first, second, and third grades who are now re ceiving monetary allowances in lieu of quarters for dependents may elec, either to continue the monetary al lowances or to discontinue them in favor of family allowances. They may not have both for their depen dents. How is application made? Application is made only on the official form WD AGO 625. These forms are available at Army recep tion centers, Army recruiting sta tions, local chapters of the American Red Cross, Service Command Head quarters, and the Office of Depen dency Benefits. Is documentary proof of relationship and dependency required? Yes. Documentary evidence should accompany all applications filed. Sol diers or dependents shoulcb gather that proof before submitting appli cation, and attach it thereto. Docu mentary evidence consists of such documents as certified copies of the public or church record of marrittge and of the birth of the soldier’s children, and certificates of depen dency for class B-l or class B de pendents (WD AGO form No. 620). All army men and women may au thorize voluntary class E allot- ments-of-pay for their depen dents. For payment of civilian lif^-in surance premiums. To a bank, for a savings or a checking account in the soldier’s name or in the name of a dependent. What is a voluntary Class E allot ment-of-pay? The voluntary Class E allotment- of-pay is a voluntary allotment au thorized by a man in the Army, by WACs, by Army nurses, and by cer tain civilian emploees of the War Department on duty outside the United States. The allotment-of-pay is deduced from the allotter’s pay each month, wherever he is paid. The OD'B sends an equivalent amount to his dependents in the form of a Gov ernment check. It may be in any amount the allotter wishes to author ize, provided if he is an enlis ed man) he leaves himself not less than 510 a month. An officer may allot his en tire pay and allowances, except fly ing pay and parachute pay. Who mails the checks? The Office of Dependency Benefits, Newark, N. J., administers Class E allotments-of-pay as well as other soldiers’ benefits and issues the checks in payment thereof. How soon will an allotment be paid? A voluntary allotment-of-pay is payable at the end of the month for which it is made. Check may be mailed during the following month. An allotment-of-pay authorized to begin January first is .payable after January thirty-first. Can a soldier authorize a Class E allotment-of-pay and also apply for a family allowance? Yes. And many enlisted men do provide additional security for their dependents in this way. Can he increase, decrease, or discon tinue a Class E allotment-of- pay? Yes. An allotmentof-pay may be increased, decreased, or discontinued by the allotter at any time on the official forms provided for such pur poses. What is the difference between a Class E allotment-of-pay and a family allowance? An allotment-of-pay is a sum de ducted entirely from the soldier’s own pay. A family allowance consists of a sum deducted from his pay, plus a sum contributed by the Govern ment, and is payable only to certain relatives or dependents. JtATION GUIDE During the weeks between Jan uary 17 to 29 shoe dealers are al lowed to sell 15 per cent of their stocks which they had on hand as of inventory September 30, ration free, provided the price is not over $3.00 per pair. The shoes must be women’s novelty shoes. If any are sold for over 53-00 the dealer must collect ration stamps for them. Ceiling Price On Corn Products The ceiling prices for sales of white corn products by the farmers of Newberry county are as follows. Price at farm where grown 1.32 l-2c per bushel, delivered to purchaser 1.34c per bushel. Ceiling On Chickens Ceiling .prices on chickens which farmers are allowed to charge are: retail stores, hospitals and restaur ants—fryers live 30.4c, dressed 37.9: and drawn 48.4c. To the consumer, live 37c, dressed 46c, and drawn 5Sc Hens to retail stores, hospitals and restaurants: live 26.9c, dressed 33.9c, drawn 41.9c. To consumers, live: 33c, dressed 41c and drawn 51c. Prices On Pork The ceiling prices on pork cuts and sausage sold to consumers by fann ers are: regular smoked ham(whole) 34c per lb; fresh ham (whole) 33c. Smoked picnics (whole) 32c; fresh picnics (whole) 31c. RITZ THEATRE THURSDAY and FRIDAY Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell, Victor .Moore —In— “TRUE TO LIFE” COMEDY FOX NEWS SATURDAY Dick Foran, Patricia Walthall —IN— “EMPTY HOLSTERS” COMEDY—“Ration Bored" Universal News MONDAY and TUESDAY Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Tom my Dorsey and His Orchestra ■—In— “GIRL CRAZY” M. G. M. NEWS WEDNESDAY Sonja Henie, John Payne Jack Oakic —In— “I C E L A N D” Comedy “SCRAP HAPPY” Pecans! Pecans! Pecans! We are stilt buying Pecans and will be for some time to come. Shake your trees and bring any kind, any size. We buy every day in the week. Highest Cash Prices Paid R. Derrill Smith Wholesale Grocers NEWBERRY, S. C. **++&?*<**&*<><&><><**++** Do you feel "left out of it?" ARE YOU missing the chance to share in this war missing an experience you’d value all your life? Right now, in the WAC, you could be doing a vital Army job. You could be get ting valuable training, meet ing new people, seeing new places, while serving your country. .More Wacs are needed at once. Get full details about eligibility, training, pay, the jobs Wacs do, how they live. Go to the nearest U. S. Army Recruiting Station. (Your local postoffice will give you the address.). Or write: The Adjutant General Room 4415, Munitions Build ing, Washington, D. C. Do it today. "The CAT’S Meow" A NEW CAT Since this column might venture into a little corn-field philosophy now and again we have changed cats. The other one was too mean to be a compaion of a philosopher for as you know .philosophers are the most kind ly of men. Take a good look at our new cat; see his friendly, inquiring face? He wants to learn and he will learn for much wisdom reposes in this pillai for all who would better their under standing. We convinced ourselves long ago (without too much persuasion) that we were smart. Our ambition now if to impart some of our brilliance to you. Have some? Rooster Situation Tom Harmon promised to try to get me a rooster but he hasn’t com: through yet. In the meantime I air trying to get along with a Bantam I picked up, but the little fellow if making a poor out. When he size: up a hen he thinks ought to be pro ducing and takes out after her she just ignores him—in fact I caught him sitting on a nest the other day I think he just decided the only waj to get any eggs around my house was to lay them himself. Fabied Land Stirs Memories In Breast of Jim Hickson Dr. Richard Lominick received a novel V-mail greeting card picturing the interior of his store drawn and sent by Staff Sergeant Jim Hick son in far away Persia. No doubt nostgalia crept upon Jim in that historic land of Cyrus, and Darius, and Xerxes as he looked back on his drug store days in Newberry with Bob Lominack, Dave Kays, Jim Johnston and the others coming in for their dopes and razor blades. Persia, lying in a great plateau with hundreds of miles of unbroken landscape is a country calculated to make men’s minds turn to the deeper side. It is the land of Zoroaster, of the Medes and the Persians, and of course of old Khayyam who, con templating and cogitating the his tory of man and the why of him and his ultimate destination wrote there in ancient Persia Where Jim barks his military commands— I sent my soul into the invisible, Some letter of the after-life to spell. By and by my soul returned to me And said I myself am heaven a nd hell Hell but the shadow of a soul on fire. Heaven but the vision of unfulfilled desire. Yes, Persia is a land of great traditions and of great men and events; a clime and a setting con ducive of stirring memories. The drawing shows Dr. Lominick standing behind the cigar counter, hands in pocket and above him on the wall, cards of pipes and other merchandise showing gaps where some had been sold. Next to this counter is pictured the ice cream cabinet and then the fountain with a girl standing behind it dispensing drinks. On the mirror Jim placed the familiar Coca Cola sign. Also on the mirror he placed the daily spec ials; the magazine rack, the penny peanut vender and a carton of gum on the counter—Jim remembered all of them. He even remembered the store mouse and shows him nibbling contentedly at a piece of eheese. The old -scenes haven’t changed much Jim; we’re just rocking along —waiting. Waiting for you boys to come back so that we can take up where we left off and go on living normal lives. Strange Case of Grampy And The Little Dog As I sit here by the linotype com posing this stuff as I go, the lard bucket on my pot-bellied stove sings merrily and the heating element which melts the metal to form these lines whines like the far-off, lone some whistle of a locomotive;. Out side is gray and lifeless,'white blobs of snow cling to wet trees. The world waits and hopes. Damn such sentimentalism. Why don’t you be a realist? 1 can’t be a realist, neighbor, for I was long ago mellowed and made soft in the school of hard knocks. I didn’t have much of a chance when I was growing up. My great grandfather died when I was eight, leaving only my grand-father and my father to bring me up. All that I suffered from my neglected educa tion you can see when I split infini tives just to hear them howl. I was getting along pretty well with my cussing and tobacco chewing when the old man passed on to biv ouac with his dead comrades and I was also a good liar, thanks to grand pa. I used to try to get grandpa to help me with my education but all 1 could get out of him was some ex ploit in which he said he figured with “Bobby Lee.” I learned in later life that he was never in five hundred miles of General Lee but he was a good liar and as such I enjoyed his company immensely. And although many sides of rny education were neglected I became at a very tender age one of the most expert Ijhrs for miles around. I got so good that I was soon telling the old man of my own experiences witth Lee and Jack- son. He couldn’t stand this so one morning we found him in his bed asleep—his last sleep. Yes, the old man passed into the shadows and left me almost alone and I pondered what to do with my life. By a happy circumstance I got hold of a newspaper one day which came to our house in a package from Sears and Roebuck. I had never seen a newspaper but the little let ters intrigued me and I poured over them until midnight, night after night and the world began to open up to me. Now that I had resolved to have a hand in the malting of these marvelous papers I write to Horace Greely after some conversa tion with the mail man who told me the paper I cherished so much was made by Mr. Greely. The great news paper man answered me promptly and told me to go west—“Go West, young man, Go West” wrote Mr. Greely. I thought that was nice of Mr. Greely but did not understand wihat the west had to do with the newspaper business. But who was 1 not to take his advice. After filling up the wood box for ma as a sort of farewell gesture to that good soul I took my little black dog and a few belongings tied up in an old sheet a n d started off one cool spring morning for a long treek to the great west. Before I quit the neighborhood I went to the grave of my great grand-father and stood for a moment in silence trying to frame my farewell to the grand old fellow. Finally, I said: “Grampy, I’m going west and I want to thank you for making me so proficient a liar. Since I a m going into the newspaper game there is nothing you could have done to better fit me for my career. Fare well!—and my best to the general.” So saying I stumbled off into the woods wiping my watering eyes and leaking nose on my coat sleeve. Af ter I had gone a few miles I sat down beside the road and pulled my little dog close beside me and slept. The rumbling of wagon wheels brought me u-p with a start and the driver peered out from under his covered wagon and asked me if I cared to ride. He was going to Texas he said and I might go if I wished. “I am going west my friend, and nothing therefrom shall deter me” I answered, burning with indignation, indigestion, and a blistef on my journalistic -posterior. He then assured me that Texas was indeed the west and I climbed in the back of his wagon with my dog. We rode and rode; miles and miles passed under the bumping wheels of the covered wagon and yet we rode. I don’t know how many days we were on the road, maybe it was months when we pulled into a small town out in the open country with not a tree in sight. A few cowboys lolled about in front of the stores, seeking shelter from the blazing sun. The wagoneer stopped here to pro vision for a further trip into the interior but I decided since this was the west to stop here. I sauntered about town and came upon a sign which read “The Aba- leen Gusher” and concluded this must be a newspaper. An old man looked up from his reading as I en tered and then looked down again. “Damn that Mrs. Goosome” he said. “Damn her, why can’t she serve any thing but pink mints! Always it’s pink mints—pink mints. Don’t they make red mints or green mints? Every society p*>-son in this town has a belly so fun vf pink mints ’til his eyes are bulging out! Confound that woman! Pink mints—bah!” “Yes, I’ll hire you” he said before I had spoken. “Yes, I’ll hire you and make you editor-in-chief of pink mints.” So saying he tossed some copy sheets at me and stalked out of the room, a bundle of exchanges un der his arm. I had no money to buy a bed so gathered my little dog to me and lay down on some old papers and slept soundly until a decrepit old printer pushed the door open and began to stir about the room. He spied me in my paper bed and stared long and wonderingly. “Eh ? So the old man’s got him a devil!” he said. “I am not a devil’’ I answered “but editor in charge of pink mints.” The old printer grinned knowingly and we immediately became friends. He took me to the Greasy Gulp res taurant where I ate and fed my do&. I continued to sleep on my papers and each morning my little dog sat -perched on his haunches at my head, waiting for my eye:- to open. On the morning of the third day of July I awoke to find that my dog was not there to greet me. I closed my -eyes again for I knew what had hap pened—he was dead. I buried my little black dog out behind the office in a cardboard box in the warm Texas sand and placed my cherished and now much worn newspaper in the box with him. I could not let him go without some part of myself going with him. So, again I was alone in the world. Grampy lay silently in the soil of Carolina and my little dog in the hospitable soil of my adopted state. I could stop here but this is a rather abrupt ending, so let’s go on. I boarded the Abaleen - Aberdeen & Chuck-a-luck narrow gage railroad the next day to get away from the scenes of my sorrow. As the train rolled over the level prarie' country I slept. I do not know how long I was asleep before the conductor came thru the coach hollering “All out for Buffalo Gulch”. I rubbed my eyes and sat up. Gathering up my belongings which were still housed in the sheet I brought from Carolina I descended from the car—and what do you think? There waiting for me was my little dog—and Grampy! I had not buried my little dog after all. It was that other cat up there, and Grampy had decided to come back and fight the civil war over again! MICHAEL GUY OUSLEY Sgt. and Mrs. Tommy Franklin Ousley announce the arrival of a son, Michael Guy, a t the Newberry hos pital on Tuesday, January 10. Mrs. Ousley is the former Miss Katheryn Whitener, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Vanderbilt Whitener. Miss Mable Summer returned to Breneau college, Gainsville, Ga., on Tuesday night, after spending a month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gumie R. Summer. Betty Ann and Charles Clary, children of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Hagood Clary have resumed their school work after being confined to their home with measles. WELLS Theatre THURSDAY “HERE COMES KELLY” Joan Woodbury & Eddie Quillan Added—^Selected Shorts Matinee 9c-25c Night 9c-30c FRIDAY and SATURDAY WILLIAM BOYD as Hopalong Cassidy in “BORDER PATROL Added: MASKED MARVEL and Disney’s CHUCKBN LITTLE Admission 9c~25c all day MONDAY and TUESDAY The SHOCKING TRUTH about the Japs!! I‘BEHIND THE RISING SUN” From the book of James R. Young with Tom Neal Added: Latest PATHE NEWS Matinee 9c-25c Night 9c-30c WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY “GOOD LUCK MY MATES” Claire Trevor and Edgar Buckhanan Added “Birds on The Wing” and Screen Snapshots Matinee 9c-25c Night 9c-30c OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY RAY (CRASH) CORRIGAN in COWBOY COMMANDOS Added: THE BATMAN and COMEDY Admission 9c-20c all day CONCRETE materials are widely available (or needed (arm improvements Concrete materials—Portland cement, sand and gravel or stone—are widely available to help farmers build for greater wartime food production. Set the stage now for producing more eggs, pork, beef and dairy product*** by building clean, sanitary, feeii-Savirg, concrete floors in your poultry house, feed lot and bam; by building a manure pit, storage cellar, water tank or other modem improvements of economical, long-lasting concrete. If you need help, get in touch with your concrete contractor or building material dealer. We will help with free plan sketches. Just check list below and mail today. -. □ Dairy barn fleer* O Poultry house fleer* □ Feeding fleer* □ Milk hou*ec l~l Foundations □ Manor* pits □ Grain storages □ Storage cellars □ Tanks, troughs □ Farm repairs PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION HwtSMg., AHaate3,Oe. a feat/ keg. s-oz. $1 SIZE nus TAX REG. $2 FULL-PINT SIZI-$1 pius tax • Helps keep skin romantically soft and smooth in spite ct chapping winds and harsh weather. Use as a luxurious body rub... a flattering powder base. Buy nonju — save half! Carpenters We Are Sorry to have to announce that for the present time we will have to curtail work in our repair department. For the present we cannot accept any more watch es for repairs other than those repairs that can be done while the customer waits, such as replacing new crystals or hands. We are now booked up fully until April 10th on extensive watch repairs and can accept no more bookings for the present. We will, howeuer, make every effort to take care of the armed forces, doctors, nurses, and war workers regardless of this condition. We also announce that for the duration we cannot accept any old jewelry to be repaird. We $hall coetinue to strive to serve you as best we can under the extreme difficulties which present them selves now. W. E. TURNER JEWELER