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UNITED STATES WAR
BONUS-STAMPS
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXVI.
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This new 24-sheet poster, drawn for the Defense Savings Staff by Paul Paulson, of Harrington, I ark,
N. J., is the first of 35,000 erected by the outdoor advertising industry to aid m the sale of Defense . avi. gs
Bonds throughout the country. Paulson is a native of South Dakota and has been associated with Outdoor
Advertising Incorporated for several years. In 1940 he won an award m a poatei vuntest sponsored by the
Committee to Defend America by aiding the Allies.
Make Application
For Canning
Sugar Now
The Local Rationing Board urges
the public to make applications for
sugar for the purpose of canning the
June and July fruit crop by the 27th
of June.
Applications for such will not be
accepted during the days set aside
for the Gasoline Registration.
The following information is re
quested :
1. Number quarts of fruit canned in
1941.
2. Number quarts of fruit on hand.
3. Number quarts of fruit to be can
ned in June and July. •
The applicant must be an adult
member of the family unit, and must
bring all the War Ration Books.
SAFETY |
DEPOSIT
BOXES
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For Rent I
Fire Proof Burglar Proof
$1.20 Per Year
Including Federal Tax
' Rent one of our safety deposit
boxes for safe keeping of valuable
papers, Jewelry, Insurance Policies,
Wilis, Deeds, etc.
Let L r s Show Them To You.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
Motor Vehicle
Stamps Are
Now On Sale
The federal motor vehicle stamps
went on sale at the local postoffice
last week, according to an announce
ment by the Postmaster.
All automobile owners are required
to purchase this stamp before June
30. It is absolutely essential that this
stamp be purchased, as they will have
to be shown when motorists register
for gasoline after July 1. The stamp
costs $5.00 each and are good for one
i year.
Farm Bureau
To Meet Friday
The Seminole County Farm Bureau
hold their regular monthly meeting
Friday night, June 19 at 10 o’clock
Wartime. All farmers and business
men are urged to be present.
Regular business and plans for a
-rummer membership drive are to be
di-cussed. Also a good picture on farm
; activities will be shown,
The meeting will be held at the
courthouse.
Seminole County
Singing Convention
To Meet June 28
The Seminole County singing con
, vention will convene at the Calvery
I church near the power dam on the
fourth Sunday in June, which is June
■ which is June 28.
Leading singers over all of south
' west Georgia and the bordering states
l have been invited and a big day is
1 expected.
All singers and lovers of good
singing are invited to attend and
bring lunch.
Scrap Rubber
Drive Is On
In Earnest
i The drive for old scrap rubber
throughout the nation is on in ear
nest. Through the press, radio, the
personnels of the Civilian Defense, Oil
Companies, USDA War Boards, and
other governmental agencies, the pub
lic is being urged to turn in their scrap
rubber now to filling stations.
Every salvage committeeman should
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1942.
June 30 Deadline
On Drivers
License Renewals
Have you renewed your auto
driver’s license?
Only 12 more days to renew before
June 30. Maj. John E. Goodwin, Com
missioner of the Department of Pub
' lie Safety, advises that Georgia car
| owners and drivers may still be able
i to get some gasoline and their tires
will last for some time with careful I
driving, and to do any driving at all:
they must have a driver’s license.
Even if you have placed your car in |
the garage for the duration there will;
come a time when it will be absolutely
necessary to use that car. so renew
your license and avoid the embarras
! ment of being stopped and not be able
! to present to the officer your driving
I license.
Major Gocdwin points out that
i there are some people who still be
; lieve that all members of a family can :
|be licensed cn one driver’s license.
■ This is erroneous for:
Each driver must make separate ap-'
I plication for a driver’s license.
i To renew a license the applicant!
must fill out completely the neccs-1
’ Sfiry application stub for license, at-'
j tach renewal stub from hjs o)d license. • j
and a postoffice or express money or-
I der, or cashiers or certified check and
I mail to:
Drivers’ License Division, Denart
; ment of Public Safety, P. O. Box 1741,
i Atlanta, Georgia, before midnight of
| June 30, 1942.
METHODIST CHURCH
Owing to the sickness and death of
|my mother I have been away from
:my Work here, I regret this very
I much.
; Next Sunday is “Fathers’ Day”.
I “Mothors Day” was a great day with i
us. Let’s pray and work to,
make Fathers Day equally great. All !
fathers are invited and urged to 1
worship with us next Sunday. Preach- ■
ing morning and evening.
Our third Quarterly Conference will
be held Wednesday evening June 24th
at 8:30 o’clock. We hope that as <
many as can will be present.
p. L. Nease, Pastor of 1
Methodist Church. <
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: put forth every effort to see that in
terest is maintained at a high pitch
during these two weeks. This can only
be done by conducting an intensive j
publicity campaign without a let up.
To this end you are urged to have',
speakers appear before all civic orga
nizations requesting that the scrap
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Editor Receives
Newspaper From
Honolulu, Hawaii
Guy W. Warren, who is a Chief
Radio Electrician in Uncle Sam’s
Navy, stationed in Hawaii sent our
editor a copy of the Honolulu Star
Bulletin an afternoon paper published
in Hawaii.
Naturally the paper is an english
language publication, and all printing,
except for a few Hawaiian names was
English. It seems from the ads that
the people of Hawaii, from a stand
point of business, don’t know that we
are having a war. But the editorial
and news columns, as well as, the so
ciety functions prove that Hawaii is
for an “all out war effort”. It seems
there is a tremendous shortage of ci
vilian help over there, and from the
prices offered for help in the want
ads the wage scale is pretty high. The
help wanted ads cover more than half
page. A news item revealed that 900
new voters have registered this yeai
in the city of Honolulu alone. War or
no war, theyre going to have an elec
tion. Under the column “News From
Your Home State” the following arti
cle appeared about Georgia:
ATLANTA’, May 21.—Although
Georgia’s clay is a joking matter
with tourists who have been mired
by the substance, actually it is the
state’s richest mineral possession.
The first statewide exhibition of
clay products currently at Sears Mar
ket emphasizes Georgia’s place in the
ceramic industry—the nation’s fifth
largest.
Deposits of the white clay called
kaolin are the world’s greatest with
supplies estimated sufficient for the
world’s needs for 600 years.
It is used as paper filler and coat
ing and has a wartime importance for
manufacture of sparkplugs.
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The date line on the paper was May
21. It was received in Donalsonville
June 15. The size of the publication
was 12 pages.
This being the first Hawaiian paper
the editor ever had the pleasure of
seeing, it proved very interesting, and j
we want to go on record as saying !
“Thanks Guy and I hope you are well |
when you see this in print, and we’ll ;
meet you in Tokyo.”
Incidently Mr. Warren is one of the i
News’ most faithful subscribers, He j
hails from Seminole county and was;
a Western Union Operator here sever- ■
al years ago. His record since enlist-1
ing in the Navy is one of the finest. 1
A WEEK OF WAR
FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT REPORTS
The Office of Price Administration
fixed July 1, 2 and 3 as the dates for
motorists in the Eastern States and
the District of Columbia to register
for their new gasoline ratoin books
The permanent rationing system in
the East becomes efective July 15, and
the unit value of existing ration
was doubled to six gallons to parry
motorists to this date. The OPA said
motorists who hold A or B cards and
have used all the uidfs on them will
not be able to get any more gasoline
for the next 30 days unless they show
need to a local rationing board.
Only A books will be issued by
school registrars. Supplemental B. and
C permanent ration books, and bus
and truck’s books, will be issued by
local rationing boards any time be
tween July 1 and July 15. These books
will be “tailored” to fit needs of in
dividual motorists and companies, the
office said. B books containing 16 ad
ditional coupons will have a vavialble *
expiration date; C books containing
as many as 96 additional coupons will
be issued for three months, but cou
pons in excess of motorists actual <
needs w|l| be removed before the book
is issued. Bus and truck’s books will
be good for four months and will
cover just enough fuel for the mileage
allowed in forthcoming ODT regula- i
tions. Gasoline service station opera
tors will be required to turn over to
suppliers the exact number of stamps
Reports On Gas
Rationing Is Both
Good And Bad
Ten million Eastern motorists hav
i ing undergone their first month of
i gasoline rationing, the 17 fuel starved
' states involved took stock today of
the war-caused measure’s myraid
■ ramifications, and found them both
,good and bad.
On the credit side of the ledger as
' generally reported along the Atlantic
i seaboard, decreases in traffic fatali
| ties and in juvenile delinquency com
bined with the conservation of gaso
line to temper the pinch of rationing.
On the debit list, filling stations,
revenue - producing bridges and tun
nels, amusement centers, and some
sports events have been hit in vary
ing degrees as general compliance
with the gas cut was everywhere evi
dent.
Authorities from Maine to Florida
reported these majox - results of ra
tioning:
1. Traffic fatalities decreased, in
percentages ranging up to 40.
2. Accidents on the highways de
creased, by as much as 50 percent.
3. Hundreds of service stations were
forced to close.
4. Juvenile delinquency decreased
somewhat as parents saved their cars
for their own necessary uses.
5. Toll bridges sufered revenue loss
es up to 75 per cent.
6. Golf, minor league baseball, and
beaches were among the most serious
ly affected sports events and recrea
tional activities.
State officials generally were si
lent on the actual amount of gasoline
saved for the war effort, saying no
specific figures were available.
Some high spots of the situation:
GEORGIA: Traffic accidents re
ported cut by one-third. . . President
Jimmy Tlobinson of the eor Petroleum
Jimmy Robinson of the Georgia Petro
leum Retailers said: “Several hundred
stations have closed, and many more
are on he verge.” State Rationing Of
ficer Martin Johnson described the
present plan as on the whole
“thoroughly- successful.” Public golf
course reported week-day attendance
cut in half.
FLORIDA: Highway fatalities
dropped from 39 In April to 37 in May j
and total accidents from 326 in April!
to 237 in May. Gandy bridge over:
Tampa Bay, typical Florida t«oll
bridge, reported an income drop of:
about 2G per cent since rationing.
for the amount of gasoline delivered
to their stations.
President Roosevelt ordered an in
tensive drive this week and next to
collect from homes, offices, farms and
factories all rubber that
have beep or ca» be discarded. The
scrap rubber is being collected by the
nation’s gasoline filling stations,
transported to central collection points
by petroleum industry trucks and sold
to the Rubber Recovery Corporation.
Filling stations are paying a cent a
pound for the rubber. Under-Secretary
of War Patterson reported Army
and Navy crude rubber requirements
during the 2\ months after April 1,
1942, will be 800,000 tons, compared
with the present U. S. Reserve of
600,000 tons. He said he hoped the de
ference would be made up by syn
thetic production program
Commerce Secretary Jones said the
RFC will finance the construction of a
24 jnch pipeline from Longviaw. Tex,,
to Salem, IR., at an estimated cost of
$35 million. The pipeline will be com
pleted December 1 and will have a
capacity of 300.000 barrels a day. It
will require 125,000 tons of steel, the
WPB said, but will not interfere wi,Vh
steel deliveries for Army, and
Maritime Commission needs Mr. Jon
es said necessary personnel to con
struct and operate the line will be fur-.
(Turn To No. One On Ba,ok page).
tio% OF INCOME
IS OUR QUOTA
IN WAR BONDS
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
President Signs
Soldiers SSO 00
Pay Bill Wednesday
A measure boosting the minimum
: base pay of the nation’s fighting forc
| es to SSO a month was signed into law
today by President Roosevelt.
!- For more of the men, it means at
least S2O more each month for neces
sities and entertainment on time-off,
or to send back home to dependents.
The bill carried a clause making the
increase retroacive to June 1.
The measure covers ranks up to and
including that of second lieutenant in
the Army and the comparable grade
of ensign in the Navy, whose base pay
would be increased from $1,500 to
SI,BOO a year.
The bill also will boost rental al
lowances for officers. Under existing
law, enlisted men abroad or on sea
duty receive an extra 20 per cent and
officers 10 per cent of their monthly
pay.
The following tables show the old
and new monthly base pay and al
lowance schedules:
PAY
Grade Old New
Privates and apprentice
seamen ... $ 30 $ 50
First-class privates and sec-
ond class
Corporals and first-class
seamen 54“ 66
Sergeants and third-class
petty officers 60 78
Staff Sergeants and second-
class petty officers 72 96
First or technical sergeants
and first-class petty
officers 84 114
Master sergeant and chief
petty officer 126 138
Second lieutenants and
ensigns 125 150
(A private now receives s2l month
ly for his first ftmt Months, SBO there
after, and S4O after one year in ser
vice.)
POTLUCK SUPPER
AMERICAN LEGION
The American Legion, Post 62 will
have a Potluck Supper, next Tuesday
night, June 23rd, to be held at tho
community house in Bainbridge.
All members of the American Le
gion are urged to attend and bring
their wives, and bring lunch.
Officers will be elected at this
meeting.
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OLIVE
THEATRE
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Saturday Only
Roy Rogers, Ju
‘‘SOUTH OF SANTA FE”
Monday and Tuesday
Bob Hope, Jn
“LOUISIANA PURCHASE"
Wednesday Only
Jeffery Lynn - Jane Wyman, In
“THE BODY DISAPPEARS’’
Thursday and Friday
Jeol McCrea - Veronica Lake, In
“SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS"
Midget Theatre
Saturday Only
Charles Ruggles - Lynn Bari, In
“THE PERFECT SNOB"
NUMBER 21.