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iday. August 27, 1942 arrived safely in England Gee, we can hardly believe these boys whom we have always known and gone to school with be those faraway can in countries . . . Carter is enjoying a 14 day fur . I before being inducted into 1 le Arrn y We remember 1 ® wizard Carter • • • what use to be on those | ln verbs and how Rosie would ! r u ‘ at red hair of his trying 10 work thos e Algebra problems, how Bache would almost I ^ down lh e >oof m our Senior ^ _ foot he w «uiId How come Elbert to school - • • ■ 1 « us a P lec e of candy to help ; him ln Clvil Gov,t and how Hollen ^, <mld ar S ue With Miss Hooper in j 5,1 ^ literature How Duna . . . ' was a classm ate for the whole I 11 J ears - We started to school to | gether that very first day down in the Primer and finished together I that night we received our dip ! lomas from high school . . . Now | these boys have all grown up and j always are on land, sea, and air, but it's j these little things they did | that keep comes and to our mind. May God I you help you, friends and classmates ’ T,n Pan AJJ en, l „ Er e rVf? , D e T e Laverne Cowan i and w Clifford n’* Oates expect i to be | in the Army soon . . Harold . j I Rollins is working on a defense project in Baltimore. In a letter he says “Grady Barnes, J. B. Pat terson and William Jeffaries and j his from wife me.” live right “Miss up the street | . . . Annie” stop j Home ped by and presented us with our Nursing certificate from the ! Red Cross t'other day and it js very pretty, printed in red and white . . . “Tot” Goodman has been visiting in town for a couple of weeks . . . Obie Moore’s gilest orterdale rattle Bv MART ‘ ANE folks. The fleet’s in~and those sailors look swell in pretty white uniforms! Pete. Ray, Gene. Is Virgil—all our pals. ereenv, 1 like she's lale feels just the Navy and she is well g Word from Lut mtfa Lyberry . he will be says * tell the cops s ooa and to ', orne and stay there cause he’s going to be | •,,'upn lie gets home to see he isn't going to know * ! j t Bache Walden was 8 we ek on a furlough from my .. Latest word from ■ ■ » Adams reveals he is - tor Dick Russell will n WSB on Satorday t, Aug- 29, 7:30 to 8 I Hear his message. rWomenf^ Here is a name to remember I ARDUI A 62 year record of 2-Way help* ‘See Directions on Label NSURANCE! j | ESTER – SMITH ■ I ione 2585 COVINGTON ■ I 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE | | j I I I i j * | m l X ! ■ Wmm j ; V ■ ’ ; ! I 4 r i! j k ■■'■A-; % r h f ■ of c ; ... N this dark hour our national existence, when ! -■.f. ' V our tradition, our freedom and our very lives and homes are being assaulted by a vicious and j deadly enemy, it is time for the people of our State and our Na- | tion to return to the simple faith ! of our childhood. At our mother's knee and in the little country churches we were taught that there is a God who watches over the destinies of mankind. Though our faith may be sorely tried and our hearts troubled, we were taught to cling j ! to that elemental truth. We know that the Democratic form of Government is the finest devised. ! the mind of man has ever We know that right will triumph, ; evil will be uprooted and the the truth j i truth prevail, and that will set us free. » tAvucdV GEORGIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR savins stamps and bonds (Largest Local C of Any Weekly u lh e \ WEEK OE THE WAR' Summarizing Information On The Important Develop ments Of The War, Made Available By Official Sources Through —five O’Clock P. M., Monday, August 24, 1942.— War Production Chairman Nel | son tj announced Board is the War Produc on rerating every pro i ec t in the war program to se cure the “maximum impact on the enemy now.” Combat planes, par Ocularly bombers, are at the top of this new list, Mr. Nelson said. Chairman Nelson reported the u - s - J ’s now producing munitions three and a half times the rate in November 1941, the month before Pear] Harbor. July production, he said, was 16 percent above June production, but 7 percent short of production forecasts made at the beginning of July. “The big job ahead of us right now is to bring our program into balance and make sure that we use our materials and facilities as wisely as possible,” he said. '‘This means that we must redouble our efforts, particularly on the low spots, if we are t0 ma ke our goals by the year’s end.’* Craft production increased 11 percent in July over June out-put, Mr. Nelson said. Although com bat plane production rose 6 per cent, it was not up to expectations. He also reported: overall ordnance production in July increased 26 percent over June output, and was very close to schedules; pro duction of medium tanks was 35 percent greater than in the pre vious month and considerably ahead of schedules; light tanks up 15 percent also were ahead of schedules; antiaircraft guns ex ceeded by “A wide margin”; mer chant ships were up 6 percent and “nearly on schedule for the month’; deliveries of major naval combat vessels were ahead of those in June and “considerably ahead of forecasts.” Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia reported allied fight er pilots using new battle tactics shot down at least 13 Japanese planes, and probably 15 or more, out of an enemy fleet of 47 which attacked Darwin. No allied planes were iost. The Navy reported the Marines’ hold on at least three of the Solomon Islands is now well established. When 700 Japanese counter-attacked on one of the Islands 670 were killed and the other 30 taken prisoners, Pacific from Atlanta has been attracting ouite a bit of attention . . . Those beautiful masculine voices heard at Fellowship meeting on Sunday nights belong to Moore, Vining, Payne and Statham . . . Our sym pathy goes out to the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edwards in the loss of Mrs. Edward’s mother, Mrs. Farrow . . « Ca«rter Moody was honored with a farewell party up at the Burch’s Friday night . . . J. B. Burch will be ordained a minister at the Sunday revival services at the Baptist church. Folks will be missing Miss Bar bara Davis who is leaving us Sun day . . . Opal K. was too tired to move her chair in the drugstore t’other night, but when Buck sug gested going dancing her fatigue vanished! . . . Did Pop Gates give out of gas? . . . How does Neal Wheeler get to work with his eyes shut? . . . Did Ralph Capes buy out the telephone company Wed nesday night ? . . . What hap pned to those notes Tom Bailey was going to send us ? . . . Thanx to George Pittman for the swell guest column last week . . . Fred Daniel looks handsome in his Junior Guardsman uniform . . . (Or is that what you call it? The uniform we mean) . . . Christine Rye has been ill . . . W r hy was Allen Harper late for work Thurs day ? . . . Why did Freddie Tan ner have egg yolk all over his shirt front Sat. ? Junior Bow den has percxided his hair a mean 1 ed! . . . Whom did Mary Adams hypnotize and who took her home from work one night when she had to rest and stayed until 2;30? . . Pat Patterson was home over . the week end. Pat is working in Rockmart . . . Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wheeler are visiting in Detroit . . . Mildred Yancey leaves the first of September to enter Emory Hos pital for training . . . George Pitt man will l^egin his Junior year at Piedmont, Sept. 12 , . Bill Stat ham and Blackie Jefferies staged a. fine bowling exhibition at the Covington bowling alley Friday night. (What was the score, boys?) Mr. J. T. Mills, from Bir mingham, Ala., visited his mother, Mrs. Lizzie Mills and sister, Mrs. John Day, last week * . . Pop Gates Sr., will probably look twice next time before he thinks we are Melba . • • EVESDIiOPPING EVILS Henry Lee Vining at . . • the drugstore counter (to Kirk): “What kind of ice-cream do you have ?” Kirk, “Chocolate, Vanilla, strawberry, Peach, Butter Pecan, cheery, etc.” Henry Lee, “I’ll take a Pepsi I cola!'” ’ We'll say so long on that one, folks. See you next week. Flash Lane, Fleet Commander Nimitz report ed. The Marine losses were 28 killed and 72 wounded. Admiral NWiitz also announced a force of Marines made a successful land- , ing on Makin Island, killed 80 Japanese, wrecked various in- | stallations and then withdrew. U ,S. Army Headquarters, Eu ropean Theater, announced ar-; rival in Britain of the largest 14 S. j convoy of the war, with more men ; and material for the American j Air Forces which had already be gun precision bombing by daylight of Nazi-occupied Europe. U. S. flying fortresses bombed the Nazi transportation system at Amiens j and Abbeville. In a battle over the North Sea, four flying fortress es shot down three German fight- I ers and damaged nine others, j while all the U. S. planes returned safely. A U. S. ranger battalion j j joined with Canadian and British forces in a nine-hour raid on | Dieppe, France. The Navy re- j ported U. S. submarines in the I Aleutians and in the far East sank I a cruiser or destroyer and dam . aged another cargo ship. The i torpedoing of seven more Uaitecl Nations Merchantmen by enemy submarines was announced. Foreign Relations President Roosevelt and Secre- { j tary of State Hull sent messages of solidarity to Brazil as that i Country became the first South American nation to declare war on Germany and Italy. The Presi dent said Wendell L. Willkie will tour Europe and the Near East as his special representative in order to correct the impression in those places that U. S. Production is not all it should be. Mr. Willkie will carry messages from the President to Foreign Leader:,, including Premier Stalin. The President j issued a statement that the per- j petrators of “Barbaric” acts in occupied stand in the Countries courts of “will law” have in the to j j same Countries in which Bar barism now rages, and answer in those courts for their crimes. Army and Navy The War Department said it I will inaugurate this Fall a volun tary pre-induction training pro gram utilizing existing facilities of schools and colleges to meet present and future needs for prop erly trained personnel in the arm ed forces. Out of every 100 men inducted into the army, about 63 are assigned to duties requiring specialized training, the^ Depart ment said. The Army said it is organizing and training port bat talions (composed mostly of form er Stevedores) for duty overseas to insure prompt handling of U. S. military equipment for forces stationed throughout th« world. The Department said checks in payment of allowances to depend ents of enlisted men of the army. | covering the first applications to be approved, will go out shortly j after September 1. The Navy announced recruit ing of enlisted personnel of the Women’s Naval Reserve will be gin September 11, and training will start October 9 at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, Indiana Uni i versity and Oklahoma A. and M j i college, Selective Service Selective Service Director Her- j 1 s hey said draft boards will begin | calling men with dependents be j f ore Christmas. He said single men with “secondary” dependents, suc h as aged or crippled relatives, will be called first; married men whose wives work, next; then men ; with dependent wives; and final ly men who have wives and chil dren. He said the reservoir of 1-A men throughout the Country is “practically exhausted.” Select j V e Service headquarters said Class 1-B (men fit for limited i military service only) will be eliminated, and beginning Sep tember 1, all registrants who are no t totally disqualified will be re | classified in 1-A, while those not suited for any military service will f, e placed n 4-F. In the case of m en reclassified in 1-A, the army will determine after induction j whether they will be assigned to 1 f u ]j or limited service, Stabilization of Farm Prices j Secretary of Agriculture Wick I arc j s aid he would approve a plan 1 0 f livestock ceiling prices which j “must not permit abnormal prof r s to anyone in the industry at ( the expense of the producers or j consumers.” Mr. Wickard also S aid he now favors repeal of the provision of the price control act “that prohibits ceilings on pro cessed farm products if the ceiling price reflects a farm price of less than 110 percent of parity.” He said farm prices “have reached parity on an average.” The WPB j food requirements committee Lend- ask ed the armed, forces, the Lease Administration, and the War Production Board to collab orate in working out a program for allocation of all,government meat purchases as equitably as possible among federally inspect- THE COVINGTON NEWS -I FRONT. om« or war inf OR „at,on SCORES of trucks and busses in the southeastern states are al ready idle—chocked up on wood en blocks without tires. That’s solemn news for the home front. News that our boys have begun to recapture tropic rubber shores from Japan is cheering, but rub ber for civilians is still out of the picture. Folks who travel are go i ng to get their toes stepped on and find many an elbow in their faces in transportation jams by September, says ODT. Drivers are warned to save tires by re during speeds and making fewer stops. Europe’s Food Shortage While our government is buying millions of pounds of vegetables to ship our fighting men, short ages barrass the conquered peo ple of Europe. In Norway, onions, picked in a marsh, were sold at 49 ce nts a pound, Could you feed five people on two pounds of vegetables a week? In France, former land of good eat ing, that’s about all there is to keep the conquered citizens alive, Dairy products are so scarce that, in Germany, they’re using lubri eating oil for butter. Large Crops Here WPB figures show 350,000.000 quarts of food will be canned in the southeast this year, and farm ers are producing record amounts of wheat, corn, cheese, eggs, poul t ry and cereals. The government j s paying good prices in the South f or dehydrated potatoes, onions, cabbage, beets, carrots and tur nips. Millions of pounds are need ed for the army. OPA now believes there will be no decrease in the amount of our sugar rations for at least another year. Sugar stamp No. 8 is good for five pounds, but it must last over a longer period of time. Work Clothing Pegged During the last war the mail or der price of overalls jumped from g2c to $2.95. A new rise was threatened last week, but OPA took steps to see that work cloth } ng doesn’t skyrocket this time, Boy Scouts have volunteered to help control inflation by deliver ing leaflets which explain price control to every home in the country. Junior Salvage Corps School children will be organiz ed into a “Junior Salvage Corps” to conduct a house-to-house scrap canvass starting October 5 . . . Some war relics are being scrap ped to relieve the acute metal shortage, but things of true his toric value should not be sacri ficed until we clean out all the back-yard junk. The ornamental yucca plant is going to pinch-hit for hemp and jute fibers which we used to get from the Far East. It can be used to make rope, twine, burlap, and materials used in mattresses and in upholstery. Civil Service announces many job openings connected with the war effort. The post office can furnish details. AGRICULTURE YEARBOOK The new 1942 Year book of Agri- I culture, “Keeping Livestock Heal thy” places emphasis on prevent ing livestock diseases, including those caused by infectious organ isms, insects and other parasites. ; malnutrition, and other causes. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard. in a foreword *-° the book j ’ An y° ne wha kee P 3 livestock fldentl a J arge y expect or ® ma to 1 profit sca f by alay apply- c ° n ' | ’ ng m i >dera dlsease -control prac tices his daily farm °P eratlorls - The book 1S now bein ?' dl ® tnbu ^ e d by the Government Printing Of- . fice> ed packers. The Agricultural Marketing Administration bought $137,900,000 worth of foodstuffs during July for the United Nations and other requirements, including 80,000 pounds of dehydrated beef. Rationing Tire quotas will have to follow a downward trend the rest of this year to keep within the amount of rubber earmarked by the WPB for the purpose, the Office of Price Administration said. The Office asked local rationing boards for the “strictest possible interpre tation” of a recent amendment to tire rationing regulations restrict ing truck eligibilty to vehicles es sential to the war effort or public health and safety. Oil and Gasoline W r PB Chairman Nelson appoint ed under Secretary of War Pat terson, Petroleum Coordinator Ickes and Price Administrator Henderson as a committee to de termine whether fuel oil should be rationed in the East Coast Area this winter. Because of the short age of fuel oil in the area, Mr. Ickes prohibited the hauling of automotive gasoline by rail in 20 middle Western and Southwestern States in order to divert enough tank cars to carry 100,000 barrels of fuel oil daily to the rationed area. If the withdrawal of these 5,000 to 7,000 tank cars creates a shortage, rationing should be ex tended, Mr. Ickes said. i 4/ w . • 0 •L * > :v ' ri V;,: ■ ’. i ft '• ‘2, - "'S' :' r ‘ $ y/p ‘ >-Lx- ‘•'I* ‘Wl.. ( ...... >> # SHOPPING * ...._______ ^e™**-* BY - AT _ 'X Tire$totie WF, * Shock Proof 9 " POCKET SIZE % Screw Drivers ’ J|f A‘‘ TORPEDO LEVEL \ Slubby 1 i 3" !»’• Ceiling Price 33 c w il 6“ 55' 49c 1 i High blades. carbon Accurate. 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