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DEVOTED. TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER COUNTY.*
Volume 30'
PLANNING HING
TOUR OFJISSEGTION
WAAC Recruiters, with Lt Mary
Joe Eppes in command, are staying
in Savannah this week planning a
recruiting tour for this section of
Georgia. The recruiting unit is
composed entirely of WAAC person
nel. Auxiliaries now on duty at
this station are: Mildred Bobo,
Arab, Alabama; Selma Chapmond,
Winters, Texas; Era Helmke, Hous
ton, Texas; Mary Ruth Hewitt, Dal
las, Texas; Catha Louderback, Ta
coma, Washington, Fem Stallings,
San Diego, California.
With Savannah as the headquar
ters, the unit will be in Brunswick
on June 7,8, 9, 10; Eastman, June
11, 12, 13, 14; Vidalia, 15, 16;
Swainsboro, June 17, 18, 19, 20;
Wrightsville, June 21, 22; Sanders
ville, June 23, 24; Louisville, June
25, 26; Waynesboro, June 27, 28,
29; Augusta, June 30.
“WAAC officers may now be se
lected before entering the Corps,”
says Lt. Mary Joe Eppes, assistant
recruiting officer, “Any woman se
lected for this type of training must
be between the ages of 21 and 49
inclusive. Her grade on the Mental
Alertness test must be not lower
than 110. She must have had at
least four years of experience be
yond the high school level in work,
social study or civic Balds entailing
responsibility, initiative, resource
fulness and other qualifications of
leadership. The ideal candidate will
have the ability to work easily and
effectively with others. She will be
able to adapt herself quickly and
easily to changing conditions.”
“Officer candidates who are not
commissioned may be honorably dis
charged from the corps or upon
written application may be retained
in the WAAC as an enrolled mem
ber.”
“The Corps has held a high mental
alertness test Wore with an average
grade of 105. The WAAC now
numbers 60,000. 23,227 women
r.re now in the field in over one
hundred army camps and posts.”
“As a compliment to the splendid
work the Corps is doing, the Presi
dent requested an increase to 150,-
000 women by the end of June.
There are on file requests from
commanding officers for 600,000
*WAACS<”
RICHARD B. TUTEN
WRITES ON SLACKERS
Camp Cooke, California
June S, 1943
Dear Editor:
I a a going to write a letter
that I hope you will publish.
Marc i the 19 I was inducted
into the Army.
I was shipped to California
with the best group of men that
have ever left our State.
I am not sorroy that I was
drafted, but what burned me t p
is to think of all the Slackers that
are left in and around Alamo.
And the reawn that they are
there is the fact that we have
such a sorry group of men on the
draft board that are looking eut
fjrthem selves and lettiog the
world get into the shape it is in
to lay.
If these men would like to
know what the average soldier
thinks of them they should trade
places with me.
Thanks for the space.
I receive the Eagle every week,
keep sending it.
PVT. RICHARD B. TUTEN
472nd Ord, Evac, Co.
Cimp Cooke, California.
SELECTEES HURT
Anniston, Ala., June B.—A bus,
Carrying 29 selectees from Clay
county, Alabama, ’o Fort McClel
lan induction station, plunged over
a 30-foot embankment 12 miles
urathesst of here today, injuring
thrbe of the occupants.
MRS. MATTIE HART
ENNIS DIES AFTER
1 FIVE DAYS ILLNESS
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; Vidalia, Ga., June 7.—Funeral
rites for Mrs. Hattie Hart Ennis
were conducted Sunday morning in
i the Glenwood Baptist church at
• Glenwood with burial in the Stuckey
; cemetery. Rev. W. M. Vines, Bap
. tist minister of Dublin officiated
and Murchison of Vidalia was in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were B. Hart, Her
schel Hart, Newt Hart, Howard
Ennis, Harper Ennis and Oscar En
nis, all nephews of Mrs. Ennis.
Mrs. Ennis was 52 years old and
had been ill for about five days.
She was the daughter of the late C.
T. Hart and Mrs. Pennie Jordan
Hart, both of Washington county.
Mrs. Ennis had been a resident of
the Glenwood community for the
past 30 years.
She is survived by two sons, both
in the armed service, Bill stationed
at Fort McPherson, and Hampton
stationed in Delaware.
Berrian Hart of Uvalda, and
Meral Hart of Florida are brothers
and Mrs. Emmie Roberts of Juliette,
Ga., and Mrs. Dela Joynes of Macon
are sisters.
COTTON BLOOMS
PLENTYFUL IN COUNTY
Mr. J. F. Hatta way whs dis*
playing cotton blooms Wednes*
day from a 50 acre farm of Dock
3urneit, colored, farming with
4rs H. J. Purser, in the Shiloh
community. Mr. Hattaway stated
that Burnett had the best cotton
ne had seen this year. It will be
remembered that this man was
the drat in the county last scar
to gin a bale. He ginned the
first balein Telia r county.
Mrs. Freeman Gilder was tht
second to bring in a bloom yes
terday morning from her farm
a few miles from town.
AAA’s DEDUCTION
ON GOAL FAILURE
ORDERER DROPPED
I
The War Food Administration
has relaxed provisions of the agri- ।
cultural conservation program which
prescribe AAA payment deductions ।
for a farmer’s failure to plant at
least 90 per cent of his war crop
goals, S. Ernest Statham, Chairman
of the state AAA. committee, an
nounced this week.
Regulations approved earlier in
she year provided for deductions at
the rate of sls for each acre by
which a producer fell short of plant
ing 90 per cent of his war crop
goals.
Chairman Statham said the action
was taken to encourage maximum
food production in the face of
the weather handicaps of a late and
wet spring.
He pointed out, however that the
production goals set up early in the
spring still represent needed crops
He urged that every Georgia farmer
make all possible effort to meet or
exceed the goals set for him.
Wherever practicable, hfe said,
acreages in excess of present goals
should be planted to peanuts, soy
beans or other war-vital crops.
Farmers, be pointed out, are now
free to make such adjustments as
are necessary to plant thq needed
crops and still qualify for such pay
ments as are available.
Tenant Fanner Has
12 Sons Drafted
Clarksdale, Misa.. June 2—The
draft called Sherman Jenkins’
sons one at a time until it took
all twelve. Jenkins, 65-year-old
tenant farmmer. told of bis con
tribution to tbs armed service?
while paying his taxes at the
Leflore county sheriff’s office
. His boys range in age from 19 to
39 years.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JUNE 11, 1943
A Soldier Writes
I'm writing you thia short letter and every word
is true;
Don’t look away draft dodgers for it’s address to
you.
You feel at ease and no danger back in the old
home town.
You cooked up some good story, So the draft
board would turn you down ■
You never think of the real men, that leave there
Day by day
You just think of the girl frienda that you get
While they are away.
You sit at home and read your paper, jump and
Yell "we'll win”
Just where in hell do you get that “we stuff.”
This war will be won by men.
Just what do you think draft dodgers, what this
Free nation would do, if ail the men were dodgers
And afraid to fight like you?
Well I guess that's all Mr. Blacker
For I s’pose your face is red;
America’s is no place for your kind,
And I mean every word I said.
So in closing this letter, Draft Dodgers
Just remember what I say
Keep away from my girl, you Bum
For I'm coming back some Hay.
Your friend,
BILLY KEMI’, JR
NEW METHOD SPEEDING
UP NMJIIMS
The new method of speeding up
mail deliveries, through addition of |
a branch post office number to the
address on mail for delivery in large
cities, is being placed in operation
rapidly. Reports from many cities
indicatj that it has been received
enthusiastically by the press, post
masters, business concerns and the
public.
Within a few days alter initiation
>f the plan, under instructions of
Postmaster General Frank C. Wal
ker, nearly all the postmasters in
the large cities affected had assign
ed postal unit numbers to their
branch offices, millions of residents
had been advised of the number to
be added to their addresses, and a
considerable volume of mail already
was carrying the numbers assigned.
By June 1, it is expected that prac
tically all whose addresses are af
fected will have been notified of
their postal unit numbers.
The new system speeds up the
separation of mail for distribution
U branch offices and permits much
.nore rapid handling of mail by in
experienced postal clerks, thousands
of wham have been employed to re
place personnel who have gone into
the armed forces and into war in
dustries.
Rapid increase in volume of mail
and the loss of some thirty thous
•md postal employees to the armed
forces made it necessary to adopt
the plan, in the interest of accurate,
.Ticient mail service :nd for the
relief of postal persoimel who are
carrying on extremely heavy burden
of work. The average work week
in the service now is about 62 hours,
and in many post offices, employees
are wrking 10 and 12 hours a day,
seven days a week, because of local
•shortages of personnel.
An example of the new type of
address is:
John C. Smith
222 Mattapan Ave.
Boston 8
Massachusetts.
The number after the name of the
city indicates the branch post office
(or “postal unit") through which
delivery is made. Each resident of
the large cities is asked by his post
master to add the postal unit num
ber of his return address, and to
notify all to whom he writes that
his address is not complete without
the number.
Residents of small cities, towns
and rural regions should inquire
1 of their correspondents in the large
cities concerning the number as
; signed to the city residents’ branch
post office so that the mail may be
expedited. The degree to which
mail will ba speeded depends upon
3 the extent to which the numbers
are used by mailers.
Magr to Parts
UafcMwn at Present
■ ■ •
Edsel Joiner, .who was induct
ed in tbe Army February 7cb,
aid rm shipped out of Fort Mc-
Puereon, with Vernon Hartley
and Clerk Gillie, February 12tb,
for Camp MuQoaide, California,
where they received their basic
training, i**twe»k he was sent
to parte unknown. His address
is as follows:
Pvt. Edsel A. Joiner, U. S, Army
Serial No. 84687417, C, A.
A. P. O. 8927
C I Postmaster
San Francisco, California.
Vernon Hartley’s address is
as follows:
Pvt. Vernon W. Hanley '
H. Q. Btry 188 F. A. Bn 1
A. P. O. 411
C f Postmaster (
L;i Angeles, California. (
t
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Under the new plan, mail that is t
sent to targe cities, carrying the i
postal unit number, will be dis- (
tributed more quickly than is possf- }
ble now and with much less strain
on postal clerks. While mail which 1
does not bear the number will be
delivered about as rapidly as at I
present, it will not receive the ben- ,
efit of the speedier distribution and
may not avoid possible delays caus
ed by inability of the depleted
farce of experienced employees to 1
handle all the mail.
Postmasters, the preas and the ra
dio in the cities affected are co-ope
rating to bring the plan to the at
tention of the public. Hundreds of
articles on the subject have appear
ed in newspapers, some postmasters
have made radio talks advising the
public of the advantages of the
plan, maps showing the districts in
cities, with their numbers, have
been published, and chambers of
commerce have assisted in bringing
the plan to the attention of busi
nessmen. In one large city, the
Mayor, who is unfamiliar with pos
, tai- work, personally demonstrated
, the efficiency of the new system by
> making a separation of numbered
. mail rapidly and without a single
. piistakte. At the request of post
, masters, scores of large companies
t are submitting their, mailing lists
f fW addition of the numbers, and
millions of addresses have been so
corrected.
1 .
s Postmasters throughout the coun
, try are publicising, a plan, since its
, success depends onthe degree to
h which the public realizes the fact
e that the mails will be apeede by ad
h dition of the proper number to mail
n for the large cities.
s Response to the announcement of
the plan has been gratifying.
K MH W
nil SHILOH
Mrs. Mary C. Sears, 75, widow
of the late Jack Sears, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Willis Warnock, in the Shiloh
community on Monday, of last
week, from a stroke of appopiexy
from which she suffered six
weeks. She was the daughter of
the late Wesley T. and Caroline
Browning Clements, pioneer
citizens of Wheeler county,
Funeral services were held at
the Shiloh Methodist church on
Tuesday afternoon, June 1, at
four o’clock, Rev. E. M. Overby,
ptstorefthe Mcßae Methodist
church, officiating, and inter
meat was in the Shiloh cemetery.
She was a member ot the Shiloh
Methodist church. Harris and
Smith Funeral Home, of Mcßae
was in charge of arrangement.
The pall bearers were: Truett
Sears, Preston Sears, Harold
S?ars, James Sears, W. J. War
nock and Elbridge Warnock.
Honorary pall bearers were :
B Z Swain, 8 J. Purvis, N. T.
Selph, W. C. Pittman, Obry Pitt*
man and J. N. O'Quinn.
Survivors are: Children, E. T.
Sears, U. F. Sears, A. D. Sears,
Miss Lola Sears, Mrs. W. H.
Warnock; four sisters, Mrs. C. L.
Galbraith, Mrs C. C. White, Mrs.
S.D. Pittman, all of this county;
Mrs. I. A. Willis, of Cochran,
and Mrs. W. H. Padgett, of
Atlanta.
TWO GLENWOOD
SOLDIER’S OPINION
U. S. Army
Mississippi Ordnance
Plant
Jackson, Miss.
Monday, May 31, 1943
Wheeler County Eagle,
Alamo, Georgia.
Dear Sirs:
We would like to have publish*
ed in the next issue of Wheeler
Cjunty Eagle, the facts that we ।
are in the army and enjoying it.
We would like all boys entering
the service to try the heavy
maintainance division of the
o> dnance. It is a swell place with
ratings open for 85 per cent of its
men.
But before you consider the
final plunge of entering the ser
vice, you should look up the
records of the various branches.
You will find that of all the
casualties on Guadacanal 90 per
cent were ordnance men.
But of course, there in a catch
to it. You have to have 13 weeks
of Technical training before you
get your rating.
And you do get K. P. and
Guard Duty here. Find me a
place where you don’t and we’ll
find you 350 men who want trans
fer^,
We know it tickles you folks
back home to know the army has
the two corner slinging boys
from Glenwood, but if you have
any thanks, please direct them
to "the Local Board at Alamo.
s who gave us our fatal
push.
s. Helpfully yours,
Pvt. Edward Towns
Pvt. Burman Purvis
’ . 565th Ord. Co. (HM)
OUTC, MOP
3 «* Jackson, Mississippi.
> •*t —
Full-Moonle«» February
’ February, 1866, did not have a
11 full moon. The same was true in
1915 and 1934, but there will not
f likely be another such eccurrense
until 1961.
Sample Copy 5c Number 2
FMM MMWIO
I 8fWSIIIONEI)
' Io make certain that every exist
■ ing piec.e of farm machinery ia put
to the fullest possible use, the State
। USDA War Board has been empow
ered to requisition idle marchinery
and make it available for purchase
bj farmers who need and can use it.
T. R. Breedlove, chairman of the
State \V ar Board, announced this
week that County War Boards have
been called on to “spot” idle ma
chinery and, on their own initiative,
request that it be requisitioned to
meet specified needs.
“Idle machinery,” he said, is de
lined as being that which is not now
in use and which will not be used
tor agricultural production in 1943
unless requisitioned.
In explaining the need for the
requisitioning of farm machinery,
the War Board chairman said the
War Food Administration had point
ed out that all possible measures are
being taken to aid farmers in their
food production job. This, he point
ed out, includes both the production
of new machinery and obtaining ths
widest possible use of existing ma
chinery.
“The War Food Administration,”
he declared, “has urged farmers to
share their machinery, equipment
as much as possible, and farmers are
doing this in many areas. This is
necessary in order to meet our food
production goals. The requisition
ing procedure is being provided to
take care of special cases where, for
various reasons, machinery is not
being put into the produetion pie
gram."
The requisitioning program, 1.1
announced, covers all idle agric> -
tural machinery, mechanical equip
ment, and implements (includii /
all attachments) used for the pro
duction or care of crops, livcstoi^
or livestock products, or other agri
cultural products, as well as equip
ment used for transporting there
products or other essential materia i
used in agricultural productio.i,
from farm to market.
County War Boards will dete.-
mine whether machinery is idle, an I
request its requisition by the State
Board. In doing so, they must cer
tify that the machinery is needed
to meet production goals, and that
responsible purchasers can be found
for the machinery. The County
Board will post public notice that
the machinery will bq requisitioned
and sold at a specified time and
place.
The disposal price on each piece
of requisitioned machinery will be
the ceiling price for that type, less
necessary costs to put it in working
order, or, if no ceiling has been es
tablished, a fair appraisal value
comparable to ceiling prices on othe
items will be set.
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Daniel C. Heath Taking
His Basic Training
Pecos, Texas, —Aviation Cadet
Daniel C. Heath, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Heath, of Alamo, has
arrived at the Pecos Army Air
Field to take his basic flying
training as a student pilot. Cadet
Heath is a graduate of the
Wheeler County High school, ot
Alamo in the class of 1939.
ADAMS MADE CAPTAIN <
I Vidalia, Ga., June 4.—Lieut Har
; well Adams, United States Army,
! son of H. Leon Adams of Vidalia
, and a graduate of West Point
Academy, has received promotion to
1 rank of captain, it was learned to
■ day. Captain Adams was graduated
1 from West Point in 1941 and assign-
ed to the Mountain Division prior
to Pearl Harbor. He was recently
transferred to the 86th Infantry
but will continue in ski work at
Camp Hale, Colo., where he has
been stationed for the past si*
months or more.
NEW COFFEE RULING f
Washington, June 7.—Starting
next Monday coffee users who order
by mail may enclose detached ra
tion stamps with their order rather
than the entire ratioa book OPA
said today. ,
