The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-08-02
TOWN and FARM
In WARTIME
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Civilians At Wen
The Government needs and asks
its citizens in this lsoth week of the
war against Japan to:
l.. Return to duty il you are one
Of the $4,000 inactive graduate regis
tered nurses or a trained nurses
aide. Your local hospitals needs you
to help care for a record number of
patients.
2. Buy only what you need and
at ceiling prices. Supporting price,
wage and rationing controls will
save your money and help prevent
the ruinous initiation which, in World
War I, came after fighting had ceas-
ed.
3. Help care for the wounded or
fill another important Navy job by
joining the WAVES. Twenty thous-
and new recruits are needed, and
food and housing allowances have
been substantially increased. See
your nearest Navy recruiting office.
Moximum Sugar For Coming
Il Is Pounds
Fifteen pounds Of sugar is the
maximum to be allowed to any one
person for home canning, OPA en-
phasized, correcting q misunder-
standing by housewives concerning
home canning sugar allotment. Only
housewives planning to can enough
foods to require this amount of sug-
ar are eligible to receive this much
and they will receive it only where
local sugar quotas permit such al
location, OPA said. In order to Sc
cure this amount, the housewife
must establish to the satisfaction OF
her local ration board, that she
actually is going to do this much
canning.
In other words, local ration boards
i are empowered to allot only the a.
mount of sugar to each individual
Cup to is pounds) required for her
actual canning needs.
New Shoe Stamps
Valid In August
The new shoe ration stamp that
.IOPA announced would become
valid August /, l945, will be Air
plane Stamp No. 4 in War Ration
, book No. 3, the agency said. Air
} plane stamps Nos. l, 2 and 3 are
t good indefinitely, OPA added. The
last stamp was validated November
l., 1914. OPA pointed out that the
intervals between valuation OF
stamps depend on the available sup
lply of shoes.
That the supply Of shoes for civil
lians will be increased is indicated
in the downward trend in the pro-
lduction of Army footwear. The War
department announced that produc-
ton of Army combat boots will be
t reduced in September from 2,l00,O DOC
S to 1,5OO,0 900 pairs and that of Army
! service shoes will be lowered from
TOO. 900 to $50, 900 pairs during the
I same period. This decreased schedule
: will be continued throughout the
i fourth quarter of l945. Announce
ment at this time of the reduction
e in Army footwear needs will provide
r a 6O-day span during which time
the shoe industry will be able to
e prepare for increased civilian pro-
: duction.
:. President Truman
Urges Form SofetY
A BY Presidential Proclamation, the
. week beginning July % will be OBJ
e served as National Farm Safety
Week. In issuing this proclamation
e President Truman noted that the
e skill and labor of the Nations farm
a ers is a vital factor in winning the
' war and the production Of food one
a of the most essential means OF win
!, ming the peace, that the inevitable
! decrease in available farm labor this
a year creates an especially urgent
need for conserving farm man and
womanpower to meet production
goals in l945. The President accord
: ingly urged that farm people every
e where observe National Farm Safety
/ Week by making a check in their
: homes and on their farms to elimi-
nate accident hazards.
: The necessity for accident proven.
ton is clearly seen in figures COM
piled by the National Safety Coun-
= Gil, showing that nearly $1,000 farm
people were killed and 100000
were crippled for life. More farm
: people were killed by accidents in
Americas first two years participa-
ton in the war than the number
h of United States fighting men killed
n in the war itself. Enough time was
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