The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 09, 1944, Image 2
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Let's Face Facts
Teamwork Solving
Farm Truck Problem,
Toughest Bottleneck
By BARROW LYONS
WNU Staff Corraspondaat
WASHINGTON, D. C.
How would you like to be respon
sible for moving, with too few trucks,
more than half of which are over
seven years old, and many driven
by green drivers, one of the biggest
crops the United States has ever
produced?
That is the job assigned to Robert
A. Hicks, chief of the farm vehicle
section, ODT di
vision of motor
transport. He has
to organize and
bring into line the
finest bunch of
rugged individu
alists ever lined
up in one group—
the farmers and
truckers of Amer
ica.
There is just
Barrow Lyons one tiling that
makes the job
possible—the farmers and truckers
know that if they don’t use their
trucks to best advantage, a large
part of one of the greatest crops
ever harvested won’t get moved to
market.
Here are some figures that pretty
much speak for themselves:
In 1941 there were 1,583,000 trucks
owned by farmers available for
moving crops to market. Today the
number is about 25 per ceht less—
about 1,200,000—and hundreds are
going off the road every day due to
old age and smash-ups. There are
some 500,000 for-hire trucks also
available, many of them running on
worn-out tires.
Of the trucks now owned by farm
ers, 55 per cent—about 660,000—are
more than seven years old, and
about half of these are more than
ten years old.
To organize the operation of these
trucks, most of which are owned by
individual farmers, 142 district of
fices were set up and 20,931 trans
portation advisory committees
formed, involving 88,913 persons.
Working Better This Year
This organization worked pretty
well in most areas last year, al
though there was a good deal of
grumbling, which was (jnly natural.
It is working better this year, and
there is less grumbling because the
necessity for cooperation is consid
erably greater and is generally rec
ognized.
Everyone realizes this year why
there is so great a shortage of
trucks. Our army has prepared for
the greatest invasion operation of
all times. It knew that virtually
any advance made on any front
would have to be accompanied by
heavy truck movements, for the en
emy will tear up every bit of rail
line he can as he retreats, and it
takes time to repair railway beds,
bridges, culverts and lay new track.
Bo the army has taken virtually
the entire output of new trucks for
military purposes.
In 1941 there were 750,000 trucks
produced for civilian use, of which
number 456,000 replaced worn-out or
obsolete equipment. When the Unit
ed States entered the war, about
160,000 trucks in the hands of manu
facturers or dealers were “frozen.”
These have been placed where there
was greatest need, and now are all
working. During 1942 and 1943, only
1,000 new trucks were turned out for
civilian use. The program for 1944
calls for 88,000 trucks for civilian al
location, but most of these will be
produced in the second half of the
year.
If we get all that have been pro
grammed this year, the total avail
able for three years will be only 241,-
000 to replace a normal disappear
ance of 1,368,000 trucks.
That gives only the statistical pic
ture. The more difficult operation
has been to get a great many peo
ple, strong on managing their own
affairs in their own way, to work
together toward the common goal
of winning the war.
Schedule on All Crops
The first move in this direction
was to program crop-moving opera
tions. Schedules have been set up
in every area for important crops.
For instance, through cooperative
use of trucks, dairy farmers and
creameries plan to save 58,000,000
truck miles in moving milk and
cream. Duplication of routes has
been almost eliminated. Fruit and
vegetable crops for canning have re
quired special planning.
Where perishable crops must be
moved to canning factories, round-
the - clock programs have been
worked out, wherever canning facil-
ites are large enough to take care
of this traffic. In some instances,
hours of waiting at both ends of
the haul have been eliminated by
careful planning.
When there are not enough trucks
ia one area to take care of the
traffic, the committees study the
problem to see how many can be
diverted temporarily from other oc
cupations. Trucks used for hauling
lumber or cement, for instance, can
be diverted for a time to move to
matoes or fruit crops in season.
When sufficient trucks cannot be
found in the area, assistance is giv
en in finding more from adjacent
areas.
Requisitioning of equipment is
possible, but persuasion is generally
effective.
Exhausted Yanks Bunk Like This on Italian Line
* Exhausted Yanks catch brief naps, as opportunity offers, only about 400 yards behind the battle line in
Italy. Even big guns don’t wake ’em. Lying amid brush and wild flowers, they grab a few winks before the
next advance. Four views showing how our doughboys sleep while their buddies burl the Germans back.
West Point Cadets in Final Phase of Training
These pictures show final phases of the first class training at West Point before graduation when the
cadets become second lieutenants and enter active service. In picture at upper left two cadets clean the
muzzle of a 105-mm. howitzer following the use of service ammunition in the rough terrain of West Point’s
newly developed training area. Lower left: Three cadets who rode the General Sherman tank up and
down a target course point to where the 30-caliber ammunition found its mark on the tank. Right: Cadets
operate jjte three 105-mm. howitzers. The future lieutenants used live ammunition as they fired the guns.
RAF With Tito’s Partisans
A British Royal Air Force officer, who is operating with the Parti
san forces of Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, offers a cigarette to a Parti
san woman guerilla. It was revealed recently that units of the Royal
Air Force are working with the Partisans.
King in Pre-Invasion Visit to Home Fleet
Attending a eoncert in the wardroom of the flagship of the British
home fleet during recent pre-invasion visit. King George, center,
laughs heartily with Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, right, commander-in
chief of the home fleet. Officer at left is not identified. Admiral Fraser
played an important role in sinking the German battleship Scharnhors£
in the North sea.
Must Wear Beard
This bearded leather-pusher is
Ernest Hemingway, famed war cor
respondent, conditioning himself for
reporting the second front. He must
wear beard for duration as it is dis
tinguishing mark on his passport.
Der Fuehrer’s Face
This German prisoner seemed
proud of his resemblance to Hitler,
which he has carefully cultivated.
The captive poses here with William
Spalding, a U. S. military police
man from Dresden, N. Y.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Unicn.
W ILLIAM BENDIX, star
of the Blue network’s
Sunday airshow, “The Life of
Riley,” and the movies’ “The
Hairy Ape,” showed that he
had lost none of his sales abil
ity when he operated a booth
recently at the bazaar for the new
Birmingham hospital in San Feman-
io Valley. Bendix’s booth, which
sold unrationed groceries, did more
business than any other. “Nothin’s
strange about that,” remarked Wil
liam. ’“I sold groceries for a livin’
long before I thought of becomin'
an actor.”
—*—
The jig-saw puzzle photos which
Ann Miller sent to servicemen fans
had an unexpected aftermath. “I
ANN MILLER
got your photo,” one corporal wrote
the star of Columbia’s "Battle
ship Blues,” “but one of your parts
Is missing.” ,
*—
The formation of Bing Crosby
Productions, Inc., just had to hap
pen; it was one of the few fields
left. Bing had made his name in
pictures, radio, sports, phonograph
records. He organized, at his own
expense, entertainment units to tour
army camps. He’s chosen “The
Great John L.,” the story of John
L. Sullivan, as his first story, Frank
Tuttl * as his director, United Art
ists as releasing agent.
*
Like many another star, Gary
Cooper has been bitten by the pro
ducer bug. He made known his
yearning to produce movies while
Aiming “Casanova Brown”; Inter
national promptly signed him up on
a dual producer-actor contract.
—*—
The new issue of the March of
Time brings to the screen an exclu
sive story, "Underground Report,”
which shows how the people of Ger
many and their conquered victims
are living. It is compiled from Nazi
films recently captured in Europe,
as well as from film footage smug
gled out by the Underground.
*
Some . serviceman overseas will
see his baby for the first time when
“Three’s a Family” is released.
Producer Sol Lesser intends giving
a featured role in the comedy to a
six-months-old child, preferably one
who was born after his or her fa
ther sailed. It is Lesser’s custom to
send a 12-millimeter film abroad for
the men to see before the picture
is released here.
The most exclusive theater circuit
in the world is that founded in Holly
wood by Laraine Day; other mem
bers are Cary Grant, Deanna Dur
bin, Lou Costello, Alice Faye and
Tyrone Power, who’s non-active
while in the service, of course. Each
member has a theater and exhibits
16-mm. prints of movies in which
he or she has appeared. Miss Day
will soon be showing “That Hunter
Girl.”
*
The tour Lily Pons and Andrew
Kostelanetz are making through the
Persia-Iran-Iraq area is expected to
last from six to eight weeks. Miss
Pons will sing the arias that we’ve
all heard her do so often on the air,
her husband will direct the soldier
orchestras and will play piano duets
with Carolyn Gary. Frank Versaci,
the fourth member of the USO
troupe, accompanies Miss Pons on
the flute and also plays solos.
—*—
Anne Seymour, who stars as
“Prudence Dane” in NBC’s “A
Woman of America,” has just re
ceived her Stage Door Canteen pin
for two years’ service. She works
in- the kitchen, making coffee—and
maintains a production schedule of
about 400 cups an hour.
*
Maurice Costello, father of those
two beauties, Dolores and Helen, is
appearing in “Heavenly Days,” the
Fibber McGee and Molly picture.
All other movie stars owe him a
lot; screen players were anonymous
till he made Vitagraph star him.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Anne Shirley cele
brated the completion of her HOth screen
role and the start of her 22nd year in pic
tures by giving a big party at the RKO stu
dio, where she started as a baby actress.
. . . If the voice of “Dickie Kimble” in
“When a Girl Marries” sounds familiar,
it’s because you’ve been hearing him as
“Homer” in “The Aldrich Family.” . . .
Wallace Ford, who’s been off the screen
too long, gets his big break from Pat
O’Brien in “Secret Command,” Pat’s first
producing venture.... The first eight rows
at every Allan Jones broadcast (CBS,
Wednesdays) are reserved for girls in th<
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Sponges Reach Immense
Size—Gathering Difficult
In their natural state some
sponges grow to gigantic sizes.
One recently fished from a great
sponge bed off the Bahamas
measured ten feet in girth and
weighed 100 pounds when dried.'
Capturing such a monster is hard
work. The fisherman has to de
tach its root with his harpoon, a
hooked bamboo rod from 20 to
30 feet long, and then calls in
numerous helpers to assist in the
catch. When the gelatinous mass
reaches the surface, a diver stripb
it of its trimmings.
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