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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-31
Miss Weaver Is
Rotary Speaker

Miss Pearl Weaver, state health
nurse, was the guest speaker at
the Jeffersons Rotary club last
week, when she discussed the
treatment of polio cases at the
hospital at Hickory and the work
that the nurses carry out at the
homes after the patients have been
released from the hospital.
She also discussed the different
foods children should have and
the balanced meal. Miss Weaver
was introduced by Roy Grouse.
The union times., 1944-11-04
Nominations To Be Held By Local 91

All members of Local 91, Connec- tlcut Elevator Constructors, are urged to attend the meeting of the Local to be held at the New Haven Labor Temple on Friday, Nov 24, at 8 PM.
 The important feature of this meet ing will be the nomination of officers for the ensuing year.
The union times., 1944-11-04
Record Vote Is
 Urged By State Labor Leaders
Collins, Lavery, Donoghue Urge Support For Presi-
 dent Roosevelt
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Continued from Page One) lation in the entire history of our nation, legislation long needed and of direct benefit to millions of workers and their families.
 'sThere will be crucial times ahead of us, after the Nazis and Japs have been conquered. We will need all the prO-labOr legislation now on the statute books, and probably more. We can not afford to take a chance on Thomas E. Dewey, whose campaign speeches show that he is going in several diff ferent directions-all at the same time.
 "Most important of all is the need to win the war as quickly as possible, and the securing of lasting peace. It is clear that President Roosevelt is the man who is best qualified for the job. Not only will we re-elect him Tuesday, but we must do everything possible to elect a Congress that will be representative of the people. We cannot do less" t
 President Lavery of the Con- necticut CIO said there was a danger of Over-cOn6dence, condi-
The union times., 1944-11-04
Connecticut Vets
 To Be Helped By State And Cities
Federal Agencies Also To Play Role In Their
 Unemployment

The practical side of the Con- necticut program. for adjustment and unemployment of veterans in- wolves the thoroughly co-ordinated use of existing federal, state and local agencies wherever they may be found and to such extent as they may be able to contribute to the overall solution of the problem, ac- cording to Chairman Carl A. Gray of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission.
 These facilities include first of all, he says, the three major federal agencies-V eter ans Administration, United States Unemployment Service of War Manpower Commission and Selective Service System. Each of these agencies have distinct services which are available to veterans and the USES also provides employment service for civilians. The programs ot these agencies are coordinated at state and local levels by the Retrain- ing and Unemployment Administra- ton.
 oupplementlng the services offered by these agencies in varying degrees Tn different communities, says MT. Gray, are the American Red Cross. The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and other veteran or ganizations, Apprentice Training, Ser vice, Farm Security Administration. Veterans Home Commission. Bureau ot Rehabilitation of the State Board of Education, Agricultural Extension Service, State Vocational and Techni- cal Schools, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund, Navy Relief Society Army Personal Affairs Division. De- partment of Unemployment Compen- satlon, the State societies for mental hygiene, crippled, and tubercular, state and local boards of education. the state University, colleges and junior colleges of the state.
 Also in most communities are various social agencies, such as the Visiting Nurses, Diocesan Bureaus. etc. All of these says MT. Cray. are doing fine work by themselves. Together they are doing a grand overall job.
The union times., 1944-11-04
A ZIPPERLEss NATIONP

Because heavy military require ments for brass, cotton yarns and tape are continuing, there is little prospect for any increase in the production for civilian use of slide fasteners prior to VIE Day, WIPE announces.
The union times., 1944-11-04
Fein1nark Tells
 About Compton
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with the cost of living having gone up 30 per cent above the point at which they were frozen. But it's not alright with MT. Compton that war salaries be restricted to $67,- 900 a year.
 "Why did MT. Compton favor the freezing of wages, and then voted to override President Roosevelt's veto of the last income tax bill, which the President described as not a tax bill, but tax relief bill, providing relief not for the needy, but for the greedy
 These questions explain what the common people of the Third District mean when they say that MT. Comp ton belongs at the Madison Country Club, not in Washington. We have no objections to country clubs-but we do object to that type of thinking which affects us so closely.
 Docs MT. Compton represent all of the people of this District? Not by a long shot. He voted for the notori- ous Hobbs Bill, and favored the vicious Smith Connally Bill. No won- der that when delegation of labor representatives conferred with him a year ago, my friend Bill Donoghue, Connecticut chairman of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen, was forced to tell MT. Compton to his face that he was a fascist. Nothing that has happened since has changed our mind.
 Senator Jim Ceelan of New Haven was unanimously nominated to represent the people of the Third District in Congress, and now it is up to us to elect him. We are making no mistake in backing the Senator. His record in the Legisla- ture speaks for itself, just as Compton'ss record in Congres speaks for itself-but in a differ ent way. Jimmy Ceelan knows the problems of Connecticut workers and the problems of manage ment. He believes in our Ameri- can system of which means democracy and equality of for all-NOT for a privileged handful. After Nov. z, we will not have to apologize for our Representative in Washington, if
 ''It's up to you--if you want, an administration and Congress which will put human rights first be sure you vote on Nov. 7. Be sure that every member of your family who is 2l or over, also votes. Be sure that every member of your organization and neigh bOrs vote.
 ''Help yourself, your family, and your country by voting for Roose- welt, McMahon, Hurley and Geelan on Nov. 7. They are our people, and they represent us! Let's have a New Deal for the Third District,- for Connecticut, and for the United States"
The union times., 1944-11-04

continue to a surprising degree. Last year $18,620,369 in restitution of ille- gally withheld wages was agreed to or ordered paid by the Wage and Hour Division, U. s. Department of Labor to 534,422 workers in 2O,622 establishments. Failure to pay the minimum wage of 30 to 40 cents an hour was involved in 28 per cent of these cases and restitution of such minimum wages was found due more than 100000 workers, about one-ffth of all illegally underpaid.
 'sAnother 5000, 900 workers not in agriculture or domestic service make between 40 and 50 cents an hour, $l6-$2O a week, and a further 3,5OO,OOO get from 50 to 60 cents an hour, from $2O to SPA for a 4-hOur week.
 Except for the Fair Labor Stand ards Act of 1888 and its minimum wage provisions protecting 21,0O0,000 workers, the number would have been immensely greater"
The union times., 1944-11-04
LABOR LEClONNAIREs

Deputy Pres. c. D. Houser of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has joined the National Conference of Union Labor Legionnaires.
The union times., 1944-11-04
Postpone Hearing
 On Minimum Wage


 Public hearings on legislation to raise pay minimums from 40 cents to 65 cents an hour have been postponed until after the election, the U. s. Sen ate committee on education and labor announced this week, giving voters chance to make the issue test for campaigning congressman.
 At the hearings, AFL Pres. Will liam Green and CIO Pres. Philip Murray were scheduled to speak on behalf of the nations substandard workers. Both the Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce, prior to the postponement, declined to appear before the subcom- mittee saying they "were too busy at this time to appear"
The union times., 1944-11-04

POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
The union times., 1944-11-04
Tobi11 On WEAF. WTIC Friday Night

President Daniel TObin of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will speak on a Ma tiOn-wide hoOk-up over the Ma tiOnal BrOadcasting Company network (WEAF-WTIC), Friday night, November Srd, from 9 to 9:3O P.M., Eastern War Time. This broadcast will deal with the election campaign, and will be of especial interest to all workers.
The union times., 1944-11-04
One-Third Make
 4O-5Oc Per Hour

We'll over $2,OOO,OOO was paid American workers last year in overtime premium pay due under the Federal Wage and Hour Act (Fair Labor Standards Act of l938), l.. Metcalf Walling, Administra- tor, announced today on the occasion of the Acts sixth an- niversary.
 "In addition to the increase of billions in basic wages over the years, direct and indirect along the line, as the universal 40 cent an hour minimum under the Act was reached, overtime premium pay last year alone put well over $2,OO0,OOO.O00 into the pay en- velopes of American workers, " MT. Walling said.
 UNIONS ALSO HELP
 'tSome part of this would have been paid anyway in the absence of the Act under union contracts or by enlightened employers, but by making time and One-haf nearly universal after 40 hours in interstate industry, the Act made it mandatory for both the organ ized and the unOrganized plants and remove the pressure of cut throat competition from non-cOm- plying plants. At the same time it served the nation by attracting ad- ditional labor to war industries where labor was vitally needed, where overtime was being worked and long hours were rewarded at a higher rate. 1t also served as a brake on absenteeism, since ab- sences at any time in the week caused a loss of time and One-haH rather than straight time pay.
 Even in this last year when the total of wages paid out was the great est in our history, workers under the Act made an average of less than $4O a week, even including overtime pre- mium pay"
 New England Regional Director Leo A. Gleason of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions, U. s. Department of Labor, today announced that the amount of resti- tuition representing wages illegally withheld from employees totaled $o35,78o.85 to 2, 7,183 workers for the past twelve-month period. While most of the restitution represented overtime compensation, Regional Di- rector Gleason emphasized that con- siderable amount of it was paid by employers who have not paid their employees the correct minimum wage required under the provisions of the Wage and Hour Act.
 The amount of restitution collected in Connecticut was $o7,733.15 to 2,- 647 employees.
 Considerably over 4,OOO, ,OOO workers still are paid less than 40 cents an hour, less than SIG for a 4O-hour week. Considerably more than 100000 of these are in agriculture ad domestic service 1; 3,OOO,OOO are industry and retail and service trades outside the pro- tection of the Act,'' declared Ad- ministrator Walling.
 Violations of the 40 cent legal minimum wage under the Act also
The union times., 1944-11-04
Over4 4OOO WorkersStl Earn Less

ton which might nullify months of hard work by many thousands of Connecticut workers.
 'The registration figures show us that victory is possible,'' Lavery said. "We can make it certain by rolling up a tremendous vote on Nov. 7."
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Hilmar Wage plan
to leave Saturday for Helena where
they will attend the annual state
convention of the American Legion
and Auxiliary and spend about two
weeks with relatives. While there
they will be guests of Mrs. Wages
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Nell
son, and Mrs. Wages sister, Mrs.
Paul Knapp. In Townsend they will
visit Mrs. Billy Daniels, the former
Miss Pauline Knapp. Helen Wage,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wage,
has been in Helena for several
weeks and is spending her school
vacation there.
Mrs. A. H. Brickman reports that
her father, F. E. Rutter, one time
resident of this section, has return
ed to his home from the hospital in
Lacrosse, Wis, where he was a
patient for some time. A daughter,
Mrs. E. J.. Kircheis of Billings, also
former resident of Laurel, visited
her parents in June.
Mrs. Henry Bait and daughter
of Denver are guests this
week of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Y. Frank.
Mrs. Lawrence Smith and infant
daughter, Lawrene Ann, have re-
from the st. Vincent hos
pital to the home of Mrs. Smiths
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Reece Price
of Billings. Mrs. Smith has receiv-
ed word that her husband has enter
ed training in the navy at San
Calf.
Mr.. and Mrs. jake Frank of Park
City were guests Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Bait and attended
The Farmers Union convention at
at Riverside park.
A marriage ceremony was per-
'ormed in Billings Tuesday by Rev.
NJ. J. Wilcox, who read the service
Miss Ruth Susan Ackerly
and Captain Robert Malcolm Ken
iall, both of Billings. The cere-
nony took place at 7 p. m. at the
home of the brides parents, Mr..
md Mrs. r. H. Ackerly. Following
he ceremony there was a dinner
It the Northern hotel for the bride
md bridegroom, Nh. and Mrs. Ack-
rly and Rev. and Mrs. Wilcox.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
Day by Day in Laurel

Jacob Strecker is moving this
week to the property on Seventh
avenue which he purchased from
Mrs. Katherine Writ.
Nh. and Mrs. Anton Koch and
family had as guests, Mrs. Martin
Hecker and children, Jack, Gerald
and Angela, who were en- route
from their home in Dickinson, N.
D., to Tacoma, Wash, for a visit.
Mrs. Robert Fry was the winner
of the high score prize when Mrs.
George Prouty entertained a group
at dinner and bridge last Wednes-
day at her home.
Mrs. Josephine Beighley and
daughter Mary of Detroit, Mich,
formerly of Laurel, arrived to spend
their vacation with Mrs. John Price
and other friends in Laurel.
Mrs. Harry E. Smith left recently
for Berlin, N. j., to visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. C.. K. Batten. Mrs. Smiths
sister, Mrs. Ellen Hall a former
resident of Laurel, has left the hos
pital in Billings where she was a
patient for two and a half months,
and is in a convalescent home.
Leonard Bisbee left this week to
enter training in the navy at Far
ragut, Ida.
First Lieutenant Willis Horning
is here from Camp Livingston, La,
for a furlough with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. E. A. Horning.
Mrs. Katherine Reichert and chill
dren, Betty, Katherine, Johnny and
George Reichert and Mrs. Will LEM
came from their home in Forsyth
to spend a vacation with relatives.
Members of the Brotherhood of
Railway Maintenance and the ladies'
auxiliary held a dance and meeting
Saturday evening at the l.. L. club.
Guests yer present from towns in
the district and from Hebron, N. D.
The Schaff brothers played for the
dancing and lunch was served by
members of the auxiliary.
Stuart Boyd, who is serving with
the navy at Lakehurst, N. j., is
home on leave for a visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Boyd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Rutter were
dinner guests Friday of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. w. Bates.
Sgt. Harold Frank, who has spent
a furlough with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. Y. Frank, will return
Thursday to his base at Camp Bark
ey, Tex.
Fred Brickman is spending the
week with his uncle, James Burnett
# Luther, and is helping with the
lay harvest.
Mrs. Frank Parker, who has been
patient for two weeks at the st.
Vincent hospital in Billings, is re-
ported able to sit up a part of the
ime. t
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
Auxiliary
.Activities.


More than 1000 Legionnaires ano
Auxiliary members are expected at
Helena July %, "a, and 25 for the
twenty-sixth annual convention OF
the Montana department of the
American Legion. From Laurel,
Mrs. Edith Packard, Auxiliary ores
ident of, the local unit, will repre-
sent her unit, and several other
members expect to attend.
Mrs. Smith At White House
Conference
Washington, D. C.-Mrs. Law
renee Smith, president, American
Legion Auxiliary, representing the
American Legion Auxiliary at a
recent White House conference at
tended by 200 women to further the
inclusion of qualified women on
national and international policy
making bodies.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Con-
gresham Margaret Chase Smith,
Frances Perkins, Mrs. Borden Harri-
man, Mrs. Chester Bolton, Mrs.
Ogden Reid, Dean Mildred Thomp-
son of Vassar College, Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Rohde, and G. Rowland
Shaw, Assistant Secretary of State,
were the speakers.
The group agreed to press for the
appointment of trained, equipped
on national and international
commissions so that the country
may have the benefit of women's
in policy making.
Pointing out the special skills of
in international affairs, |
health, child care, and rehabilitation
work, speakers urged that the var
Gus governmental commissions now
2eing set up to deal with interna-
,ional problems have competent
as members both on the
policy making and professional
Mrs. Ogden Reid said that sit is
major tragedy that women have
lot been drafted in America for
whatever war service they could
'erform," and urged the women to
ponsor the National Service Act
which the American Legion and
American Legion Auxiliary are both
Importing.
The women present were urged
o submit the names of qualified
in various areas of COM
'etency who will be included in a
oster to be distributed to various
apartments of government. ,
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
Flower Arrangement
Occupies Attention
Unity Garden Club

The Unity Garden club met July
13 at Mrs. Jennie Starkey's home
with Mrs. Leila Shay as companion
hostess. President Cora Olmstead
presided. Roll call answers were
current events.
1t was decided to paint cemetery
gates belonging to the club. The
flower show committee was instruct
ed to meet with the Laurel Garden
club to complete arrangements for
a flower show late in August.
The family picnic will be July 20;
members are to meet at the North
park at II a. m. Mrs. Julia Phil
lips reported on Red Cross activi-
ties.
Mrs. Inez Vaughn gave an in
teresting talk on "Flower Arrange
ments" and had several arrange
ments as illustrations and for cri-
ticism.
Bobby Dantic and Clayton Sheets
entertained with piano solos and
Danny Freund played two trumpet
selections. Mary Ellen and Heidi
Albertus and Mary Ann Vaughn, ac-
companied by Mrs. Albertus, sang
God Bless America"
Club guests were Mrs. Albertus,
Mrs. Freund and Miss Louise De-
At the close of the meet
ng a delicious lunch was served by
he hostesses.
The next meeting will be Aug. 10
1t Mrs. Hugh Dickson's home with
Mrs. Olive Cook as companion hos
ess.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
His Caisson a Go-Cart,
But It's Rolling Along

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY,
ITALY.-"A vehicle is a vehicle"
said Pfc. Felix Purzyck of Cam
den, N. j., as he pushed his baby
buggy loaded with a mortar and
ammunition into Fondi, Italy.
The Germans had been in rapid
retreat for several days, and Pri-
vate Purzyck was getting tired lug
ging heavy stuff. So when he found
in a little hillside town a four
wheeled carriage built for bambinos,
he loaded it up and advanced with
his company, keeping in route for
nation.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
WEEKLY PROGRAM

Members of the Methodist Young
Peoples Sunday school class held
a "galloping tea" Wednesday eve
ming at the home of Mrs. Kenneth
Shay. Outdoor games were played
and refreshments served.
Nh. and Mrs. Henry Bait of Bill
lings were overnight guests Tues
day of their son, Jacob Bait and
family.
Miss Clara Bait and Miss Bertha
Conner, who are engaged in war
industry in Billings, visited rela-
tives here this week.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
Rooster Pecks Hole in
Head of HELPLESS Child

INDIANAPOLIS. - A belhgerent
gamecock attacked John Lewis
Ferguson, two, in the back yard of
his parents home, and the child
was rescued by his mother only
after the rooster had pecked a hole
in his head and had made eight
other decorations in his face and
head. The child was unconscious,
and physicians at the city hospital
said if the wound on the top of the
head had been a fraction of an inch
deeper it might have proved fatal.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
Air Thunderbolt Tells
Invader of Baby Born

A U. S. NINTH AIR FORCE
FIGHTER BASE IN ENGLAND
A U. S. Ninth air force Thunderbolt
flew a private courier service to
Sergt. Robert R. Hayes of Rome,
N. Y, a ground crewman on an ad-
vanced ~airstrip in France.
Sergeant Hayes wanted to know
when he became a father.
Pilot Col. Gilbert L. Meyers of
Milford, Iowa, gave him the news.
He flew over the field, and in broad
chalk letters on the undercarriage
of his T~hunderbolt was the message:
cts a girl"
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19

Miss Marian Boyd, a student
nurse of st. Vincent's hospital in
Billings, who is taking a part of
her training at the state hospital
at Warm Springs, was home for the
week end to visit her parents, Mr..
md Mrs. Hugh Boyd, and her broth
IF; Stuart Boyd, who is here from
The navy.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19
Bathroom Problems
Stump OPA Officials

ATLANTA. - A Mississippi
woman seeking OPA guidance in
renting her apartments, asked
these questions:
elbow many baths a week
should each person be allowed?
"How long is one person sup
posed to stay in the bathroom?"
The OPA is looking for the
answers.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-19

Must a man bob up and down
whenever his hostess enters the
room? Seems silly and yet the man
can't very well stand all the time.
The hostess herself must solve this
problem by asking male guests to
remain seated. A hostess (particu-
larly n without a maid) would
naturally be in and out of the living
room a good deal, and it would be
much more comfortable for her
gentlemen guests if she requested
them to remain seated.
A man, ordinarily, should rise
when a woman enters the room
and a younger woman rises when
an older woman enters. An older
man need not rise, but usually does.
when a much younger man is being
presented to him.
The Nome nugget., 1944-09-27
INVASION OF PALAUS GROUP PROVES COSTLY
By VEHN HAUGLAN

U. S. PTCIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS AT PEARL HAIR B0R, Sept. 27..-(AP)-Today's cornnuniques report 686 Ameri- cans killed, 406 missing and 4,4a0 wounded, in the invasion of the Palaus group, through Sep tember 25th, according to Ad- miral Nimitz.
 The First Division of U. s. marines, which opened the cam paign September 18th on the yet unconquered Peleliu, have lost 580 killed, 401 missing and B. 639 wounded.
 The 81st Division, which con quered Anguar, and have now joined in the Peleliu campaign, sustained 186 dead, five missing, and 769 wounded, mostly in the Anguar drive, the report contin- ued.
 Admiral Nimitz announced that the enemy dead amounted to more than 1000, in the two campaigns.
 The marines on Peleliu drove almost to the northern tip of the island and encircled the beseiged Japanese Umorgrogol hill en- trenchment.
 The 81st army troops took ad- ditional ground in the center Of the island.
The Nome nugget., 1944-09-27
686 TANKS KILLED
BRITISH AND BELGIANS MOVE TO EASTWARD

LONDON. Sept 27.--tAP)- British and Belgium divisions, moving to the eastward. built up the invasion of Holland to the Maas river, on points along a 40-n1ile front, it was reported to- day.
 They battled to within three miles of Germany.
 Eastward and westward the drives carried 10 miles or deeper on both sides of the corridor carved up to Nijemgen. From there on thinner line to Arm hem widened the push to split Holland.
 Silence still hides the fate of the British airborne division in the Arnhem area, across the Ne der Rhine, but it is indicated that the news blackout there might be lifted soon.
 The Berlin radio said that the crack sky troops were wiped out and that 1,500 Britons were kill ed and 6,45O were captured, TOO Of them wounded in this bitter battlefield wedging into Holland.
 The British Second Army struck to the eastward through mediocre resistance, to Boxmeer, 1s miles south of Nojmegen. On the upper end of the Seigfried Line heavy action still marked the long American front from Aachen to Zelfort
 The doughboys forged slowly ahead to the southeast at Nancy, and east of Epinal, where the Germans said that the new Amer ican offensive was underway in a battle with heavy guns around Metz, which is the strongest fort res in Wetern France