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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-24

One of the traditional causes of nay fever, ragweed. provides food for quail and pheasanu.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-24

American tourists annually spend more than $3.000, 100000 on their vacations, in normal times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-24

The regular weekly rehearsal Of the WomenS Alliance Choir of St, JoSeph's church will take place to- night at 8 o'clock at the choir ~0Osa in the old St. JoNephs school.
, 1943-06-24
Cafeteria
Employees
Organizing

Employees of the Frigidaire
cafeteria have suffered due to
their lack of organization. Inc
qualities in wages do exist and
these inequalities can only be rec
titled by the employees joining a
bonafide labor union and assist
ing that organization to negotiate
in their behalf. The cafeteria en-
ployees of Frigidaire by allowing
workers to be placed in the cafe
terra at higher wages than they
(the cafeteria workers) are max
ing a contribution to a situation
that should not exist. Employees
of the cafeteria in many instances
who have requested transfers to
other and higher paying jobs, may
have obtained them if the union
were allowed to bargain for them.
A large group of the Frigidaire
cafeteria workers have signed ap-
plication cards requesting mem
bership in the local union, and it
is up to the rest of the employees
as to whether they unite and pull
together or whether they remain
divided and take the consequences.
It does not take courage for an
u~norganized group to get together,
it is merely a matter of determi-
nation and making up your mind
that today is the day when you
sign ar application and help bet
ter your own situation. Contact
the nearest steward, and ask him
for an application today. Don't
wait; or call Fulton 6142 and ask
for information concerning cafe
terra workers meetings. HE who
hesitates is lost" sign up now, or
call, and assist those who have
already signed up to help you, get
the full benefits from a real union
organization.
$50 Be American - Register -
, 1943-06-24
Local 8O4 Gets
Vocation Poy

In congratulating the negotiat-
ing committee of Leland Local
8O4, we would like to point out
to the membership of all CLIO To-
Gals in Dayton that this local is
leading the way for a real vaca-
ton clause for all contracts. It
was agreed to by both union and
management-June Is, 1943-that
the following provisions will be
made for vacations at Leland
Electric.
"The company will cooperate
with employees who desire to
have their full vacation time off;
however, the company reserves
the right to grant vacation pay in
lieu of time off, if conditions make
it impractical to grant vacation
time off.
Call employees included in this
agreement who have been on the
employers payroll continuously
for two (2) years prior to July
1, 1913, shall be granted one 49,
hour week vacation, (52 hours
pay). Two (2) weeks at So hours,
GOA hours pay), shall be granted
to each employee with four ~
years continuous service"
This is a vacation clause to be
proud of, and the shop committee,
Chairman c. Clyde Mathews, John
Bogner, John Frank, Venice Desch,
Marietta Walbron, are receiving
the thanks of the entire member
ship at Leland. Progress such as
this deserves the praise of all
locals, and in leading the way to
the CLIO in Dayton, UE Local 8O4
and their splendid negotiating
committee have done a remark
able job.
, 1943-06-24
Cincinnati Area Workers
Receive $1,000 In
Back Pay In May

CINCINNATI, June 10. - Back
wages amounting to $33,857. As
were paid to 1856 Ohio workers by
46 employers during May as a
result of the enforcement of the
Fair Labor Standards Act, Fl.
Glenn Ealyer, Cincinnati branch
manager, u. S. Wage-Hour and
Public Contracts Divisions, re-
ported today. The restitution rep
resents the difference between
what the workers were actually
paid and what was found due
them under the act.
Of the total, Ia Cincinnati area
employers paid $11,os2.32 to 141
southern Ohio workers. Cincin-
natl, Springfield, Dayton, Piqua,
Norwood, and Portsmouth firms
were involved.
Inspections under the Walsh
Healey Public Contracts Act re-
suited in three Dayton and one
Hamilton firm paying $1,706.79 to
467 workers.
Ohio Michigan Region Director
Grace G. Glascott's May report
showed that SAT, 66O!O3 was paid to
681 employees by So employers in
the two state following wage
hour inspections and $4,677.55 was
paid to 1,01O employees by q en-
p1oyers following Walsh -Healey
Public Contracts inspections.
, 1943-06-24
Over There

Over there, over there,
Let's keep the Japs and Germans
over there,
Let's keep sending tanks and guns,
To fight the Japs and Huns,
To keep the sons of guns from
over here.
Over there, owe there,
When IL boys are through fight
ing over there,
There will be no Rising Sun
For Hitler and his Huns,
When our boys come marching
home
Bonds over here,
Let's keep buying Stamps and
Bonds over there,
Whether we fight by land or sea,
We must keep this, the land Of
the free,
For the children of our boys over
there.
We all want to win this war,
AS you can see,
IF you want this land of ours to
stay free,
Then, let's all get tobether,
Everybody and his brother,
And work and work for Victory.
By Mabel Bonow, UE Local 8O1,
Frigidaire, Plant 2.
- Don't Delay - Register! 49,
, 1943-06-24

c. Beare, member of JAW Local 6
the Montgomery County Industrial
Walter Beare is we'll known to
CIO members in Dayton. He was
a member of the Frigidaire local
a number of years ago, and helped
fight for organization at the Ma
tional Cash Register before going
to work at United Aircraft. Myron
Smith, the other CLIO member who
is very much in the race, is a
member of Delco Local 755 and
also a member of the shop COM
mittee at Delco.
We can elect these men strictly
from our membership if every
member will register and vote!
The CLIO has a membership of
more than thirty thousand in the
city of Dayton, and thirty thou
sand votes will win in any city
election without counting the
thousands of members who are
part of these workers families.
Therefore, the big problem that we
must face today is the registering
of those thousands of workers.
The officers of our local unions
are doing a tremendous amount Of
work in the breaking down of
the membership of their respective
locals into ward and precinct
groups, and in the urging of all
members to exercise their demo-
cratic rights in both registering
and voting in the coming election.
In the election this year there
will be a great opportunity for
labor to gain the representation
that we have always needed in the
government of our city. There is
no question that there will be a
light election with candidates being
elected who have the support of
organized labor and various fra
ternal organizations.
Myron Smith and Walter Beare
are two candidates who can do a
good job in the City Commission.
They are honest, Woodworking and
capable men who know what it
means to put in a real days work
in the shop. It is well time that
we place such men in the gov
eminent of our city, and it Ear be
done by our membership with a
little effort. It seems a shame
that we must urge members of
our organization to do the very
thing that we are fighting the
greatest war in history to preserve,
but our membership is no differ
ent than other groups. We have
shown little appreciation of the
multiple benefits of democracy,
but if the rights for which our
boys are fighting were to be
taken away it would be a sadder
and a wiser nation.
We do not intend that those
democratic rights shall be lost!
We intend to continue to urge each
and every member of the CLIO to
help us protect them and to strive
increasingly to add to the repre-
sentation of labor in all of the
places of government where that
representation is so vitality needed.
The first and most important
step is to register. Have YOU
done so? Have you signed the
petitions for Myron Smith and
Walter Beare. Petitions are in
every CLIO local union office.
, 1943-06-24
SMITH AND 4 ARE
Go MEMBERS III RACE
FOR CITY COMMISSION

Another CTO-endorsed candidate has been added to the list of
men who are seeking office in the Dayton City Commission. Walter
c. Beare, member of JAW Local 6s has received the endorsement of
the Montgomery County Industrial Union Council at a recent meeting.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
TransOuNews
(Acme Photo)

Miss Edith Hayworth, Mrs. J.
L. Davis and Mrs. L. H. Allison,
from Greensboro and Mrs. J. M.
Millikan, from High Point, visit
ed Mrs. w. M. Transou for sew
eral days last week.
Mrs. Ella Hamilton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hege Hamilton and two
children, of Winston-Salem, and
Mrs. Mamie Call and Mr.. and
Mrs. B. S. Call and son, from
Wilkesboro, spent last week end
at the Transou cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Miller and
family, of Hickory, visited rela-
tives here for few days last
week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
From where [ sit
Joe Marsh

of luxuries-nke air-conditione0
houses and television.
"But what really viii shape TO-
morr0w's world 10 what goes On
in mems own hearts like toll
erance and understanding"
And from where l sit, Docs
right Whether It's tolerance Of
another's politics or respect for
a neighbours right 10 enjoy q
glass Of beer occasionally, toler-
ance Is mighty good founda-
ton for Q peacetme world
@Is M"1<
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
Silas Creek News

Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Campbell,
with MIR. Campbell's father, IN
Gle Eli, and Mr.. and Mrs. We'll
born Lewis and little children, at
tended the Baptist Association at
Bald Mountain, last week.
Mr.. w. w. Dickson and his SON,
Kent, made a business trip to
Va, Friday.
The graves near Landmark
Church were decorated Sunday
evening.
Mr.. Bob Smith, Grassy Creek,
is constructing a silo for Mr.. w.
w. Dickson.
Rev. E. R. Mcclure preached to
a large congregation at Trinity
Church, Sunday night.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert L. Dick
son, after a weeks visit among
friends and relatives started for
their home in Philadelphia, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vester Hudler
and children, Of Lansing, visited
Mrs. Hudler's sisters, Mrs. w. w.
Dickson and Mrs. Wiley FaW,
Sunday.
Mrs. Lou FISHERMAN, who has
been visiting relatives in Virginia,
for a few weeks, returned home
last week.
Mr.. Tom Campbell, of West
Jefferson, is helping his brother,
Mr.. w. A. Campbell in the con-
struction of a dwelling house.
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Husk News

Misses Laska and Wanda Ed
mondson spent a few days last
week with their aunt, Mrs. Ed
Cox, of Scottville and their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D.
Stansberry, of Jefferson.
Mrs. Bruce Shepherd, of Laur-
ell Springs, is visiting her parents
at this place.
Miss Gladys Stike, of Tough
kenamon, Pa, spent the week end
with Miss Wanda Edmondson.
Mrs. Clyde Powers, of Oxford,
Pa, has returned home, after a
short visit with relatives here.
Mrs. Avery Miller, of Cloves,
N. Mex, is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. L L. Hart.
Sunday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
C. B. Edmondson were: Mr.. and
Mrs. J D. Stansberry, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Stansberry and
daughter, Retha and Mrs. Ed Cox.
Miss Pauline Eller, of Smeth-
port, visited her sister, Mrs. l..
Wilcox, over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Little and
daughter, Linda, spent a few
days last week with Mr.. Little's
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Little.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02

enty-three new freshmen at the
Academy. While Eli was doing
this with daily conferences with
the Principal, Timothy, with the
three Trustees and what teach
ers he could call back, was claw
ing together a hastily arranged
curriculum and budget, inter-
viewing extra teachers, supervis-
ing the cleaning and whitewash-
ing of the long empty third story
of the Academy building.
1t was in these Trustees meet
ings that he began with Mr.. Ran
dali that earnest effort which he
made with everyone who had
been on the other side, to get
himself, by humility and friend
illness, forgiven for the offense of
having been right and having
been successful.
"Say, do you know that Char
lie Randall's not the fool l took
him for-not quite" commented
Mr.. Dewey charitably to Timothy
one day.
"Ah?" commented Timothy.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
GLADIOLI AND SUNSET

Gladioli are touched
By the accents of sunset;
The glow of the dying fire
In the west.
The sunset is mirrored
Loathing to leave them
Those queens of the garden
By sunset caressed.
Crimson and gold and
Flame-tinted clusters
Oasis of color in a
Desert of green,
SWaying on stalks
Tall, fragile and slender,
Bowling and rising
On breezes they lean.
Gladioli and sunset
Ephemeral beauty
Fading so quickly
To drab commonplace
Tickle and short lived
Their moment of splendor
Can age-lasting things
Have beauty and grace?
-Lorrayne Yates
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02

At Jeb Crowell's the other day,
we were havin' a glass Of beer
or two and talkin' about the
kind Of world there'd be when
Peace came.
'Hear they have trans-Atlan-
dc airplanes dyin' regular as
taxi service" says Ed Carey.
Yep" says WIN Frost, land
tel0vision and plastic cars and
air-conditioned homes and
super duper highways"
Finally, Doc Mitchell chimes
In. you know" he says, were
talAn' about the future In terms
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
MEDLEY CHILD DIES

Funeral service was held on
Friday afternoon at the West
Jefferson Presbyterian church
for Richard Neal Medley, eight
months-old son of Virgie Med
ley, of West Jefferson, who died
at his home on Thursday, August
26. Rev. B. A. Meeks was in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
CHAPTER XII

When it came, it was as quick
ly over, Timothy thought, as be-
ing electrocuted. He was in his
office one evening and Mr.. Dewey
sat waiting till Timothy was free
for the campaigning calls at the
farms which they had planned for
the evening.
The door to the corridor was at
the extreme right of Timothy's
field of vision. He saw Candy
come swinging in, his head up,
not Notwithstanding. To Mr..
Dewey, to Timothy's profile, to
the room, to the universe, Candy
cried out, I'm engaged to be mar
ried."
Mr.. Dewey was saying, aston
ished, curious, ''You don't say!
Who to-"
The question sent Candy into
fits of laughter. Timothy was lost,
literally, materially lost. For a
moment he did not know where
he was, nor who the two people
were in the room with him. Yet
after a time he heard Mr.. Dewey
saying, We'll, now Candy, you've
certainly got yourself one of the
incest I'd like to've married her
myself, if l was the age to. Would
MT you, T. CT"
To Candy, coming up close to
him now, looking at him out of
shining eyes, Timothy held out his
hand. Candy laughed nervously
and said something to Mr.. Dewey.
Then he went to the door, lifted
his arm high over his head in an
elated gesture, waved a smiling,
already half absent good-by to
Timothy. opened the door, closed
it after him.
On the day in July when Candy
and Susan drove away to be mar
ried, leaving behind them those
hasty, doubly signed notes for
Della, for Aunt Lavinia, for ''Un-
Gle Tim" for Miss Peck, Timothy,
sitting at his desk in the study
where he had gone with a consci-
GUS directed effort of his intelli-
gence but where he could not
work, suddenly had a clear sight
of the DOGGY.
He had till then gone through
the day very creditably, reading
impassively the note for him he
had found at the breakfast table
with its, eve felt you were just
too busy to bother about anything
but this big fight on your hands"
Aunt Lavinia, not very much in
terested by one wedding more or
less in the world, had to say about
the good sense the young people
had shown in getting the thing
over With-at minimum of ex-
penSe and bother. Like a man in
the dentists chair sitting through
the killing and extraction of a
nerve, Timothy had set grimly
through his daily hour with Della
an hour filled not with history
and mathematics, but with a wild
outburst Of Mortified bewilder-
ment from the girl.
Timothy had gone to bed at
once after the mass meeting, but
not to sleep.
He leaned from the window,
measuring with his eye the dis
lance to the great stone doorsteps
two stories below. Someone was
sitting there. A man. A man
with his elbows on his knees in
the attitude of waiting.
AS Timothy strained his eyes
through the starlit darkness, in
credulous of what he seemed to
see, the hammer-stroke of total
establishment driving out for the
instant everything else from his
head, the man, as if feeling him
self observed, turned his head,
looked up, saw Timothy at the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02

WINDOW anu SOL cuAChAy W Ills
feet.
1t was not a man. 1t was a tall
boy. It was Eli Kemp. Eli was
motioning, was calling in low
voice, Can 1 come up, Professor
Hume? It's Eli. Are you awake?
Can I come up a minute?" With
out waiting for an answer, he
pushed open the never locked
front door and came into the
house.
II got an idea, Professor Hulme!
I couldn't wait to talk it over with
you, so l got dressed and came
to sit on the front door step and
wait till I heard somebody stirring
around in the morning"
Timothy got back into bed and
pulled up the sheet. Take a chair,
Eli, and let's hear" he said.
But Eli could not sit still. Pac-
ing fast up and down the room
he began to talk. After ten min
utes Timothy said, not skeptical-
ly at all, Hold on! Let's 60 into
my study and get out some road
maps and the Vermont register.
And some Windward county
town reports. BY the Lord AL
mighty, Eli, believe you've got
something there!"
It was black night when they
went into the study. The first
signal from the outer world that
reached them was, astonishingly,
the breakfast smell Of coffee.
Timothy took up a typewriter
page and said, Lets see how it
sounds, now we've got it all put
together" He read: Before au-
tomobiles were in general use
Vermont towns were literally iso-
lated, except in those places
where one of our railroads ran
two or three trains a day. Every
community was shut up to it's own
resources and its own people from
November to May. Within the last
few years these conditions have
been transformed.
"One such way to make use of
the new conditions has occurred
to MIR. Eli Kemp of Clifford, a re-
cent graduate of the Academy.
During his senior year at the
Academy, he organized, together
with Mr.. William Peck, and ran
an Academy bus service used by
the athletic teams for their out of
town games. He now proposes,
giving his full time, to employ
their two buses Capacity thirty
passengers each) for the daily
transportation of students from
the smaller hill towns. Hereto
fore, only such students from
those towns have been able to
attend the Academy as were able
to pay board in Clifford. Mr..
Kemp and Mr.. Hume of the AGA
DENY, after careful calculation
figure that if this plan is carried
out, from sixty-five to seventy
new students can be daily brought
to the Academy. This would in
crease the student body to about
two hundred"
He laid down the paper. eli,
do you realize that that number
of new students would bring in
clear, more than four thousand
dollars for the Academy every
year, and give you fair pay for
your timer"
Ellis face paled. He sprang up
with cry. But that amt any
thing compared to what it'll mean
for the kids in those back towns!
Professor Hume, we're a-goin tC
win that lection" he said.
Mr.. Dewey arrived early, cast
his vote and stood on the marble
walk at a decorous legal distance
from the Town Hall all that day
until the ballot boxes were turn
ed.
Timothy knew in his bones that
he was beaten. Looking at his
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charge of the service. Burial fol-
lowed at the Bristol cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his
mother and one sister, Shirley
Ann Medley.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02

At the request of Mexico, the
u. S. Dept of Agriculture is aid
ing in the control of the pink boil
worm in Mexico.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02
SEASONED
l. TIMBER
VE
DOROTHY Garfield - FEATURES

check list, ne SAID, Old mis-. DdS-
set hasn't come yet. How about
driving over to get herr" He
thought, "By tomorrow Aunt La
vinia and I will be starting to
move up to the Crandall Pitch
house."
Down the street came Canby's
old Jalopy. He drew up to the
Town Hall, helped Susan out, and
when she vanished into the crowd
stood with one foot on the rum
ming board.
The clock in the tower of st.
Andrews doomed once. Half-past
four. Timothy crossed the road
to ask Mr.. Dewey to 60 back with
him to Dewey House and rest.
The old man was as pale as his
own ghost. mot till the last votes
in," he said firmly. And, Good
afternoon, Deacon Galusha. We'd
begun to wonder where you were.
Your votes needed to help the
town stand by the principles we
were brought up in
Timothy stood beside him till
the church clock struck five and
Ezra Warner stuck his head out
of second-story window to an
nounce to those below, Board of
Civil Authority is just a-turnin'
the boxes. No good letting any
body else up"
Mr.. Dewey nodded gravely to
Timothy and walked beside him
around the corner to Dewey
House. Presently to his surprise
Candy Hunter appeared, shamb-
ling along on the sidewalk to-
wards them, his hands buried in
his trousers pockets. Thought I'd
come along and wait here till the
count made" he explained. II
brought Susan over to vote. She's
gone to see Miss Peck"
Timothy said nothing.
'HoW about sitting down."
suggested Candy, letting himself
fall in heap on the porch, half
lying, resting one elbow on the
floor, his head on his hand.
I've been sitting down." said
Timothy, continuing to stand.
Candy was the one whose ear
first caught the sound Of someone
running. He was on his feet with
one bound. Eli Kemp came
around the corner, so utterly
Winded that when he came within
hearing distance he could only
croak, Sail right We won.
Foote's elected" He came on
more slowly, spent and painting,
and leaned against tree, clutch
ing at his side, able to gasp out
only four words, Hundred and
forty majority"
Timothy stood in a vacuum. He
reeled back from the attempt to
take in even one of it's crowded
implications for him.
Candy had breath enough. He
was going on volubly, "D'you
know, l bet my hat a whole lot
of it came from something nobody
ever said word about-your say
ing you'd resign. Money talks!
Everybody in town knew that if
you'd just kept still about taking
that bequest, you'd have had four
times the salary you've
He gave a conclusive start and
flung up one arm as, astounding
ly, incredibly, the crack of a pis-
toll went off behind them - a
bang! Bang-bang-bang-bang a
barrage of loud detonations as
from a machine gun at their heels,
went off in a nerve-shatter fusil-
lade.
Mr.. Dewey was holding his
walking stick up over his head at
arms length, his battered old hat
on it. On the hat a pack of large
fire crackers made a volcano of
noise and smoke and vicious dart
ing flashes of fire. In his left
hand was another pack. Catching
sight, over his shoulder, Of their
startled faces "Jes celebra-
ting" he explained.
Timothy was left to do what he
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-02

AS a safeguard to poultry health,
pullets should be separated from
the old stock and houses cleaned
and disinfected, say Extension
poultrymen at N. c. State Col
lege.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-04

Order War Stamps delivered
10 your home by your Detroit
Times carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-04
7 Brothers Hold
Reunion in Italy

Somewhere in Italy. on Oct. 10,
Pfc. Paul Yonkin of Dearborn was
a package from home.
Some one appeared in the door.
HI" he said
iii" replied Yonkin. Then he
looked up.
The new arrival was Yonkin' s
elder brother. Don whom he
hadn't seen since April, 1912, when
Paul was home at 1910 Coleman,
Dearborn. on his last furlough
before going overseas.
That is the story told 10 their
sister, Mrs. John LonSer of Dear
born, in letters from the two
brothers who were carpenters in
civilian life.