The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-31


 Office of Price Administration, watch for an alternative proposal that the government subsidize the refineries so they could still refine more fuel oil to sell for around ' cents a gallon and less gasoline to sell at 16 cents gallon (without taxeS) and still make the same amount of money.
 NARROWER
 Detroit will probably get the sec- ond of the War Manpower Commis- sion's war production area joint la bor- encouragement committees to handle labor supply problems First of these local committees was set up in Baltimore Aug 1, as a trial balloon.
 Experience gained in Baltimore will be passed along to the Detroit office, which should get going be- fore Sept. l. After that, watch for a number of other WING area offices to be organized, all charged with the responsibility and almost impossible job of trying to solve manpower supply and demand problems by voluntary agreements among employers and labor unions.
  TIRES
 Next campaign idea being work ed on is the proposal that all car owners sell to the government all their automobile tires over five. Average car carrying only the one spare would not be touched, but all the fancay jobs carrying two spares would have to surrender one, plus all spare or worn castings held in the garage for emergency.
 HEALTH
 A number of states have peti- | toned the Civilian Observation Corps, now being liquidated, for transfer of one or more camps to use as hospitals for women infected with venereal disease. This idea has received little publicity except in localities where such segregation centers have been established. But so successful have the first camps been that other states want to fol- low the pattern.
 LUMBER
 Possible shortage of plywood has been staring the Army in the face so hard that campaigns are now being planned-including movie shorts and posters to tack on trees in an effort to persuade lumber men to stay on the jobs in the log ging camps and sawmills, instead of quitting to take jobe in shipyards. The problem is particularly acute in the northwest, which produces 45 per cent of the nations lumber in big, spectacular operations.
 Patriotic lumbermen have felt they would be doing their country more good in the shipyards and the unpatriotic ones feel that they stand a better chance of dodging the draft if they work on ships.
 Local selective service boards have added somewhat to this con- fusion by refusing to grant occu- pational deferment to lumber jacks. Educating the lumbermen dIQ LIle WIdIL DOdIuS lS LLlc JOU which Army and War Production Board face now. Fact they wish to emphasize is that. without lum- Der, there won't be any ships. WAVES
 Navy insists there is no significace to be attached to the fact that one of the companies being considered for a contract to make uniforms for the lady sailor WAVES is lead- ing manufacturer of bathing suits. MOVIE
 Office of War Information has taken over and is still plugging the character of Junius B. Chucklehead, conceived back in the Office of En- ergenc~ Management public rela- tions days as the mythical embodi- ment of the unpatriotic boneheaded American who won't save rubber won't collect scrapt, does spread false rumors. Latest effort is to get w. c. Fields to play the character in a series of movie shorts.