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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Personals

Donnelly spent Thanksgiving
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs
J. w. Gambill.
Mrs. Ruth Roland and Mrs
Rebecca Johnson and Mr.. Johr
Donnelly spent Thanksgiving
with their parents, at Trade.
Frank Barr and Wade Vannoy
Jr., students at Oak Ridge, spent
Thanksgiving at their homes
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Davidson
and Mrs. Ed Barr and daughter
Betsy, spent the week end ir
Hickory.
Mr.. Sam Davis, of Oliver
Springs, Tenn, spent the week
end at his home here.
Sgt. Shirlie Ham, Mr.. and Mrs
F. M. Ham and Mrs. James Van
noy and daughter, Alene, were
Thanksgiving guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. Ham, at Husk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Edmond
son have moved from Husk tc
Lansing, where they are now
making their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Little and
daughter, Linda, of Radford, Va.
were the week end guests of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Lit
tie, at Husk.
Miss Martha Lou johnson
spent the past week end with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. John
son, of Silas Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buren, Ruester
and daughters, Linda Lee and
Mary Lou, and Mrs. Earl Mar
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

ME, of tAtwater, Ohio, were
Thanksgiving dinner guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Mellott, OF
Suffield, Ohio.
Mrs. c. D. Neal has been indls-
posed at her home in Jefferson,
this week.
Mrs. Bower Duncan, of Trade,
Tenn, was visitor here, on
Tuesday.
Misses Georgia Miller and Fay
Howell, of Arlington, Va, spent
Thanksgiving at their homes
here.
Mr.. Radford and Dean Bald
win, who are employed at Baltl-
more, Md, spent several days
last week with their parents.
Mr.. Radford underwent a tonsil
operation at the Ashe hospital
while here.
Miss Mildred Stewart, of Trade,
Tenn, was the guest of Mrs. Bid
die Martin, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orvil Woodruff
and daughter, Carol Ann, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, have returned
home, after visiting their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. K. Woodruff, at
Nathan's Creek.
Mr.. Allen Mcneil, of Creston,
was in town on business, Tues
day.
Mr.. Charles st Clair, who is
employed in defense work in
Maryland, is spending some time
in Ashe.
Mrs. Eula Massengill, of Bris-
toll, Va, and Mrs. Bert McFar-
rim, of Johnson City, Tenn, were
among the out-of-town guests
who attended the funeral of Mrs.
Lula Lemly.
Mr.. j. C. Speers remains crit
ically i'll at his nome at Beaver
Creek.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

Miss Barbara Shatley, of Alb
erdeen, Md, is visiting her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Shat
ley and other relatives this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Dixon had
as their dinner guests, Sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Shatley and
daughter, Linda.
Little Linda Ray Shatley,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Grover
B Shatley, who has been ill for
some time, is much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Woodruff and
daughter, Sue, of New York, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. R. K. Woodruff
last week.
Mrs. B. w. Tugman and Miss
Ruth Tugman spent Thanksgiv-
ing day with Miss Mildred Sed-
berry, at Boone.
Misses Polly and Roberta Aus
tin, students at WCUNC, at
Greensboro, spent Thanksgiving
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. B. Austin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Barr and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Gambill spent
Thanksgiving with Mrs. Bars
parents, in Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs Dean Mcmillan
and family spent the week end
with Mrs. McMillan's parents at
North Wilkesboro.
Mrs. J. C. Gambill visited
friends and relatives here this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilkins, of
Shelby; Mr.. and Mrs. B. C.
Reeves, of Sparta, and Mrs. John
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
ALLIES ADVANCING
ON ITALIAN FRONT
CONTINUED from page onel

(Con tinued from page one)
continued past Bonga, with the
Australian Infantry supported by
Matilda tanks moving to the Ka-
lueng River mouth( just north of
the village controlling an impor-
tant supply trail to the Japanese
outpost at Wareo, Gen. Douglas
communique said.
The Russian army has fallen
back from the strategic rail juno
ton of Korosten, its second i'm
portant retreat before the furious
German counterattack at the Kiev
bulge, but has pressed forward in
White Russia and at the Dnieper
bend, where almost 1000 Ger
mans fell in heavy fighting Tues
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Miss Odessa Baker And 1t.
Leonard Shepherd Are Wed

A wedding of much interest
took place when Miss Odessa
Baker became the bride of 1t.
Leonard Shepherd, of Fort Mon
roe, Va, and New York, on Mo-
vember 10.
The. ceremony was performed
at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
John H. CARRIER, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Hampton,
Va. The only attendants were
It. and Mrs. Merle E. Cox, of
Fort Monroe, Va, and Annapo-
lis, Md. The ring ceremony was
used. The bride wore powder
blue with brown accessories.
Mrs. Shepherd is the daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Baker, of
Jefferson. She received her edu-
cation at Appalachian State
Teachers College, Boone, and for
the past five years has been a
popular member of the Healing
Springs High School faculty.
1t. Shepherd is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. B. H. Shepherd, of
Crumpler. He attended Brevard
College, and has been in service
for three years, spending seven
teen months overseas.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Shepherd
have many friends here and else
where who will be interested to
learn of their marriage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Paul Walter Badger.

Paul Walter Badger, formerly
of Jefferson, was included in a
group of 1877 men who recently
graduated from the Naval Train
ing School (E1ectricaD on the
Purdue University campus in
Lafayette, Ind. The Bluejacket,
now striving for the petty officer
rate of electricians mate third
class, is awaiting active duty Or
ders which will take him to a
ship or shore station as a fireman
second class.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Baker -- Holt

A wedding of much interest to
their friends is that of Miss Mary
Jane Baker to Mr.. Roy H. Holt,
both of Crumpler, on Wednesday,
November "a, at West Jefferson,
with Judge A. H. Rose, officiat-
Mrs. Holt is the daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. Cord Baker, of
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day, Moscow announced yester-
day.
The loss of Korosten, IS miles
northwest of Kiev, came II days
after the loss of Zhitomir. Both
of them were railway functions
won back by the Russians in their
westward surge from Kiev.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

The honor roll for the past
month is as follows: First grade:
Conrad Spaulding, Carolyn Will
liams, Elaine Howell, Clayton
Greene, Buster Hughes, Lucy Lee
Laurence.
Second grade: Joan Greer, La
Won Trivette, Doris Trivette, Bill
ly Church, Gail Edwards, Paul
Norris, Billy Norris, Inez How
ell.
Third grade: Clayton Lemly
Mary J. Laurence, Hugh Ireson
Mable Baldwin, Joy T. Brown,
Reba L. Phillips, Charlie J. Will
liams, Jacky Blackburn, Joan
Bledsoe, Jean Blackburn.
Sixth grade: Bette 10 Greene,
Vera Lee Coffey.
Seventh grade: Christine Van
noy.
Eighth grade: Murielene Hart
zog, Exene Phillips, Eldreth
Hartzog, Beulah Cole, Ruth Bare
Lenna Phillips, Fay Vannoy, Lu-
cy Church, Thelma Holman, Min.
ME Wood, Sylvia Wood and Will
ma Galloway.
Twelfth grade: Leonard Van.
noy and Gertrude Baldwin.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

Crumpler, and attended school at
Healing Springs high school.
The couple plan to make their
home at Norfolk, Virginia.
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PAGE FIVE

Mr.. and Mrs. Buren, RueSters
Of Atwater, Ohio, announce the
birth of a daughter, Judith Dean.
on November %, at City Hospital.
Ohio. Both mother and
daughter are getting along fine
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Fleetwood News

The seniors and juniors have
elected their class officers for the
school year, 1943-'44. They are
as follows: Seniors: Rogers John
ston, president; Leonard Vannoy,
vice-president; Bernice Johnston,
secretary; Ronda Hardin, treas
urer; Violet Mae Green, editor;
Gertrude Baldwin, class repre-
sentative. Juniors: Pansy Hart
zog, president; James Norris,
vice-president; Violet Vannoy,
secretary; Paul Lemly, treasurer;
Billie Sue Greer, editor; and
Barbara Lee Watson, class rep
resentative.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-12

sion in deedsso with millions of Americans today reading
M handspring of living.
To than 100000 American homes The american eek
is bringing this dynamic influence of reading
Theodore Roosevelt said that he read primarily for enjoy
and that his book that be interest
ng 'hbe by9ftH q bybyodHet"
the way the countless millions who read The Aecan
eek read primarily interest and pleasure them
ethow nSenSbe influence their ambitions,
standards of conduct and ife
thrilling stories of adventure and struggle of crime and
mystery love and entha the imagination of millions
they deal with eternay interesting human themes
Its vivid articles popular science his
tory, travel biography, medicine, religion bring TO the
minds mudes the lift of and enthusiasts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-12
to Theodore Roosevelt

lie bad fyier9s among
coz bA1cbeys. scholars.
boi0 PLAYERS, SocIaiuOyfcyS
fuaHcieyG He traS as
democratic m bis reading
as ~ bis friendships
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-12

A SMALL patient suffering little Child"-toQ deli
cate 10 go to school-he read hungry about travel and
adventure rough life in the wilds, Indians, cowboys
and determined to be like his heroes-strong, vrile
active, brave
That early reading only formed the core of his
character-it actually started him the physical re-
gme by which he built himself, from a weakling into
a of exceptional vigor and endurance.
All his life reading was for him sPringboard to
action. He had TO be and do what he read
AS Police Commissioned of New York City, he once
read Jacob Ris' famous book How the Other Half
Lives" The day Riis found card on his desk,
SAYING g" bare read your book and hare come TO be'
mo one ever helped he did," declared Riis.
Born rich mans son-he learned that great democ
racy of the mind that reading gives. Perhaps other
American, except Lincoln, ever came SO close TO SO
many of his counuymen as Theodore Roosevelt
IL THOUSAND WAYS reading spur action and achieve
ment lust as with Theodore Roosevelt reading all his lite
awakened ympahes and that had find vital express
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06
That's Diplomacy

What is the difference between
a woman and a diplomat? When
a diplomat says "Yes," he means
Perhaps" When he says per
haps," he means mo" A diplo-
mat never says mo" When a
woman says NO." she means
"Perhaps." When she says per
haps," she means Eyes" A worn-
an never says eyes" odd French
Riddle.
Definition of a diplomat: A gen.
tleman who can tell a lie in such
a manner to another gentleman
that the second gentleman is COM
PEELED to pretend that he believes
the first gentleman, although he
knows that the first gentleman is
a liar, who knows that the Sec
ond gentleman does not believe
him.-The World News, Sydney.
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Social Security Would Assist All People

The social security board recon-
mends expansion of the present So
cial security program to provide:
l. Social insurance protection for
everybody who depends on wages or
salary dor the self-employed also,
SO far as possible). Regular insur-
ance benefits would take the place,
partly, Of the pay the worker and
his family lose
(a) When he loses his job and is
temporarily unemployed.
(b) When he Is unable to work be-
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3. Assistance to all needy people
who have no means of support.
"This is one case" said Presi-
dent Roosevelt, sin which social and
fiscal detectives, war and postwar
aims are in full accord. Expanded
social security, together with other
fiscal measures, would set up a bull
wark of economic security for the
people now and after the war and at
the same time would provide anti
inflationary sources for financing the
war"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06

cause sick or disabled, tempo
rarily or permanently-(the in
surance should cover also costs
of hospital care for the work.
er and his family.
(c) When he is old and no longer
at work.
(dD When he dies.
2. The cost Of this insurance to
be met through contributions from
workers and their employers into
one national insurance fund in the
U. s. treasury.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06
Current Social Security Board Report
Visua|izes Coverdge Of Added Millions
Benefits Outlined
For Farm Help.
Do1nestics

Our social security program
as a nationwide undertaking
began eight years ago this
August. In its seventh annual
report the Social Security board
points out that while great prog
ress has been maGe toward Sc
curity for the American people,
there are serious gaps in the pro-
gram as it stands.
While many millions of people are
covered by the insurance features
of the social security act, other mil
lions are not. More than half a mil
lion are regularly drawing monthly
insurance benefits amounting in all
to about liz million dollars a
month. These are benefits paid un-
der the old-age and survivors insur-
ance system which covers wage and
salaried workers on business or in
dustrial jobs. The benefits 60 to
these workers and their families if
the worker qualities at age IS or
over and is no longer at work, or to
the family in case of the workers
death, whatever his age. There are,
however, some 20 millions of work.
ers who are now excluded from old
age and survivors insurance.
The same is true of unemploy-
ment insurance. Millions of people
are covered by the state unemploy-
ment insurance laws, operated by
the states but with administrative
costs paid by the federal govern
ment. During one year when jobs
were hard to get nearly 5k million
people who were out of work re-
ceived benefits for weeks at a time.
Now during the war boom when
jobs are so plentiful, fewer than 120,-
600 people are getting unemploy-
ment benefits in any one week. The
number may 60 down even further
as the war continues.
But when the war is over, millions
of former soldiers, sailors and war
workers will be looking for jobs.
Many will be entitled to unemploy-
ment insurance while they are look
ing. There will also be many who
will need the insurance payments
but will not be eligible as the laws
now stand.
Under the public assistance pro-
grams of the social security act,
three million needy people are re-
ceiving monthly cash payments
which last year amounted to more
than $770, 100000. These payments
60 to persons who do not have
enough to live on and cannot pro-
vide for themselves because they
are old and cannot work, because
they are blind, or because they are
too young to work and have lost a
parents support or care. There are
about two million old people and one
million children on the lists. The
blind number around $4,000. But
many other people who lack the
bare essentials of life cannot be
helped under the present public as
sistance programs because they are
neither over IS, nor very young, nor
blind.
Gaps in Insurance.
Most serious, however, according
to the social security board, are the
gaps and shortcomings in the insur-
ance features. The purpose of these
programs is to furnish some income
for families to live on when the
breadwinner cannot earn wages or
salary. But wages or salary may
stop for reasons other than unem-
ployment, old age, or death. If a
person cannot work because he is
sick or disabled, not only does his
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sured workers who lose their jobs
through no fault of their own and
cannot get other jobs within short
time; and old-age and survivors in
surance which pays monthly benefits
to insured workers and their fami-
lies when the worker is old and re-
tires, or to his family when he
dies, whatever his age. The social
security board believes the next
step is insurance against disability,
temporary or permanent, with pro-
vision to cover also the costs of
hospital care.
The need for such a program is
pointed up by the fact that of more
than 3 million disabled workers be-
tween l6 and "a years of age, nearly
one million have been disabled for
more than a year. Around mil
lion people are i'll on any one day
in the year-many of them for pro-
tracted periods Of months and
years; many with no prospect of
recovery.
Six Cents on the Dollar.
No new governmental agency
would be necessary to administer
disability insurance, and no addi-
tional reports would be required of
employers. The cost of the entire
social insurance program, including
disability protection, could probably
be met through total contribution
rate of or 6 cents on each dollar
of pay roll from employers and or
cents on each dollar of wages from
employees. The total of 10 or IL
cents on the dollar (the rate would
depend on the exact benefits pro-
vided) instead of cents which will
be the figure in 1949 under the pres
ent law would provide insurance
protection against all the most i'm
portant economic risks faced by all
workers. American families would
be assured of an income when
wages of the breadwinner stop be-
cause of unemployment, old age,
illness, disability, or death and
would also have insurance protec-
ton against the costs of hospital
care.
Twenty-eight nations now provide
insurance protection to their work.
ers against temporary disability.
With only one exception (Spain), the
United States is the only country
which provides insurance against
old age without also providing
against the risks of chronic or per-
manent disability.
'When can we best afford the ad-
ditional cost of an expanded social
insurance SYSTEM" asks Arthur J.
Altmeyer, chairman of the social Sc
curity board. 'Now, when earnings
are high and all the wheels of in
dustry are turning, workers and en-
ployers can set aside the contribu-
tons needed to ensure future rights
to benefits" he replies. "There is
no way in which increased earnings
could be better invested, from the
standpoint of either the family or
the nation. For the family which
actually meets with disaster-sick-
ness, unemployment, chronic dis
ability, or death-insurance benefits
give far greater protection than
could have been obtained if the
workers insurance contributions
had been kept as his individual saw
ings. In any period of recession,
the money now saved would be paid
at time when it is most needed
and to those who most need it,
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pay check stop but he has the extra
expense of his illness. The social
security board thinks we should
have insurance against disability and
the costs of hospital care, along with
our present unemployment insur-
ance and old-age and survivors in
Surance.
About 20 million workers, includ-
ing some of the lowest income
groups in the country, are not COW
cred by the old-age and survivors
insurance provisions of the social
security act. Most of these do not
have the protection of any social in
surance system. Farm workers. do
nestle servants, employees of non
profit educational, religious and
charitable organizations constitute
the largest groups of wage and sal
airy workers left out in the cold.
The self-employed, such as farmers
and storekeepers, are also excluded.
More than 100000 persons already
are drawing monthly payments I'M
der old-age and survivors insurance.
Thousands more have earned rights
to benefits and will be able to claim
them whenever they stop regular
work. The benefits go to insured
workers and their families when the
worker is 65 or older and is no long
er employed, and to the families of
insured workers who die either be-
fore or after they are IS.
AS the law stands today, the old
age and survivors insurance system
covers wage and salary workers on
business and industrial jobs-that is,
all kinds of jobs in factories, shops,
mines, mills, stores, offices, banks,
hotels, restaurants, laundries, tele-
phone and telegraph offices, and 9TH
er places of business or industry
carried on by private firms, corpora
tons, or individuals. This leaves,
however, a good many who are not
covered, merely because of the ma
ture of their employment. For ex-
ample, the $4,000 executive en-
ployed by a corporation comes I'M
der the federal insurance system;
the man working for himself whose
lilSoiiiC may 1ell bSlO" 2l,ooo q yedl
is not insured, because the present
law excludes the self-employed.
When a Worker Is Disabled.
Every time the clock ticks off
second, five people in this country
get hurt or get sick, to such an ex-
tent that they are unable to carry
on their ordinary activities for one
day or longer. If the disability is
slight, the worker may not lose
much, but to a man dependent upon
his earnings, every dollar counts.
The loss is especially serious if the
injury lays him up for life.
Yet the big majority of workers
disabled off the job have no insur-
ance protection-nothing to make
up, even in part, for the pay they
lose and the extra expense they
have to meet. Congress has directed
the Social Security board to make
recommendations for such changes
in the present regulations as will pro-
vide for insurance payments to ease
the blow of these calamities.
Disability insurance is one of the
missing Orders in the social insur-
ance structure we have been build
ing in this country since 1885. Al
ready in place are two of the main
supports-unemployment insurance,
which pays weekly benefits to in
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06

Symbol Of our times, too, l never
saw Liberty as we steamed upriver.
Liberty passed by as I was answer
ing an FBI quiz. Very charming,
very courteous those FBI men, but
the going-over they gave me wasn't
less thorough for being so friendly.
Is it too much to hope that after the
war the American and British peo-
pies may share common citizenship
in each others countries? That
would be a war aim. 1t might even
prevent World War 3.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06

ging springs; how to repair web
bling and lumpy padding; how to
make seat pads.
Instructions $40 give directions for re-
pairing and upholstering.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions. Slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06

When a worker loses his income
through sickness or injury, he gen.
orally is unable to support his fam
lily for long, after he is unemployed.
Frequently he must meet heavy
medical costs, SO his savings are
soon exhausted. His wife and chill
dren then often suffer privations.
The social security board recon-
mends that the laws be amended to
cover such cases.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06
The ANSWERS

l.. The Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes is in Alaska.
2. Oklahoma.
3. The chemical symbol for gold
is Au.
4. Sadist.
S. 1.-THE Masked Ball"
6. Dispersion of light.
7. Thirteen years.
8. Approximately $4,000.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06
, ASK Me q
) ANOTHER {
: A General Quiz
The Questions

l.. Where is the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes?
2. What states name means
'red people,?
3. What is the chemical symbol
for gold?
4. What name is given to per-
son who derives pleasure from in
flicting pain?
S. What opera was based on the
assassination of King Gustave III
of Sweden?
6. The separation of complex
light into different colored rays is
called what?
7. How long did federal prohibit
ton last in the United States?
8. What is the approximate
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06

Right old
than before But everybody
marginal workers will
ported by relatives private charities
hard deceny The
the benefits social millions
crippled a years.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-06
Ancient Refineries

Petroleum refineries built more
than 1000 years ago are still op-
Grated by natives in Irak.