The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-07-23

flap combination. Use Of a specially-design-
ed locking member which retains the air in
the casing is the secret of the device. The
company president said that already SUBJ
stantial test results obtained by the com
pany demonstrate the new tires usefulness
and ability to perform under all sorts of diff
ficul road conditions. Further tests under
other auspices are now being conducted.
BITS O. BUSINESS-The nations de-
oartment store sales are "just fair" For
10th the one-week and the four-week per-
DDS ending July 4th they were one per
vnt below the same periods of 1941
General Electric booked more business in
be three months ending June 80 than in
ny full year prior to 1910 -. Talk about
izzling wal production! One plant of In
land Steel turned out 3,515 net tons of ship
plate steel in one day recently, and the
plates were hustled aboard a train of 70
gondola cars for shipment while still at a
temperature of 600 to 700 degrees Fahren-
heit! ;. The farm labor shortage is credit
ed with boosting sales of milking machines
in Ohio /. The telegraph companies agree
hat girl messengers, on the average, are
more dependable than boys . So well-pub-
licized is Leon Henderson's hankering for
cigars he's getting a flood of them from
grateful persons whose rents OPA has
rolled back"
BULGE INTO BOOM-With the ma
tons granaries bullying with SURPRISES and
additional grain storage space badly need
ed, the conversion of grain into alcohol for
war by the beverage distillers seems to be
a logical means of getting two good an
swers to one problem: easing the farmers
storage cares while at the same time boost
ing the wal drive. And the American
l-a.lcool %oL1o - - - hai,,r 1anrvod of a
single crumb as a result. That's the way
John B. Smiley, chief of the beverage alco-
hol branch of the WPB, looks at it. He COM
plimented the distilleries for their coop
Grafton with the governments request to
convert facilities to production OF alcohol
for smokeless powder, synthetic rubber
and other war uses, and pointed out that
various plants are experimenting with stills
made of wood and other non-critlcal ma
telials.
GOOD RISKER-Uncle Sam is now the
biggest underwater of insurance in the
world. His clientele is the membership OF
the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard,
and in the 10 months since he set up shop
with passage of the National Service Life
Insurance Act in October, 1910, he has
written more than 1,3O0.00 policies-at
an average face value of S.. 900. Under the
Act, insurance of from $1,000 to SlO,oOo
face amount can be granted to any one mil.
itarv person, on a five-year term plan OF
slevel premiums similar to the term IN
surance sold by private companies. After II
has been carried for a year it may De con-
verted to ordinary, or 2O-pay or 5o-pay
life. with premium rates thar comparable
to commercial policies.
THINGS TO WATCH FORA pump
built for extinguishing incendiary fires, US
ing no rubber or other strategic materials
inst wood and fabric "Rubberless'
erasers for lead pencils-a compound OF
resin, oil and a South American gum
A device called a "Vacudex'' to attach to
exhaust pipe of your car, to save gasoline.