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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.
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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