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The Paducah post
SI SAYS:
Jig-saw puzzle, fans will prob-
ably clamor for a chance when
it comes time to re-lay Eu-
rope’s borders.
Thirty-seventh Year, No. 32
8 Pages
Paducah, Texas, Friday, November 19, 1943
GRADUATES
Private First Class Alton K.
Roark, U. S. Marine of Route 2,
Paducah, Texas, has graduated
from the famed Marine Corps
Sea School at San Diego, Calif.
Pfc. Roark is now ready for
assignment to duty aboard a
U. S. Navy ship. In Sea School,
he learned naval gunnery and
other duties of the seagoing Ma-
rine.
CAPT PARKER TO INSTRUCT
Capt. Vernon A. Parker, re-
cently returned from the Euro-
pean war theatre, where he dis-
tinguished himself by his uncanny
flying feats, has been assigned to
the task of instructing fledglings
on B-17 Bombers at a new school
at Dyersburg, Tenn.
Mrs. Parker and their daugh-
ter, Sandra, hope to join him as
soon as a residence can be estab-
lished near his post.
Capt. Parker is the son of Mr.
M. M. Parker of Paducah.
Price Five Cents Per Copy
German Prisoner
DAULTON LONG AT
CAMP WOLTERS *
We have received word from
headquarters at Camp Wolters,
Texas, of the assignment of Pvt.
Daulton Joe Long, 19, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Long of Padu-
cah to a battalion stressing rifle
training, as a member of the in-
fantry.
HOME ON FURLOUGH
Sgt. Hayden H. Cunningham,
son of Homer Cunningham of
O’Donnell, Texas, was home last
week on furlough, visiting his
wife, Edith Cunningham and
daughter Lorene, of Grow.
Sgt. Cunningham is a radio in-
structor in the Army Air Corps,
stationed at Scott Field, 111.
SGT. W. HARPER HOME
Staff Sgt. Wallace J. Harper
and his wife have been home
visiting his mother, Mrs. C. S.
Gilliland of Ogden.
Sgt. Harper is an instructor
at the Flexible Gunnery School
at Las Vegas, Nevada.
MILDRED LONG AIR WAC
Air WAC Mildred Long, form-
erly of Paducah, is serving with
the Army Air Forces as a mem-
ber of the ground school supply
at the basic flying school, Majors
Field, near Greenville, Texas.
Sgt. Long, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Long, Hamilton, Tex-
as, was a secretary for the T. L.
Wilkins Insurance Agency, Padu-
cah, before enlisting in August,
1942 in the WAC.
STATIONED AT LUBBOCK
John R. Meacham is one of 39
former ROTC students at Texas
Technological College to be sta-
tioned on the campus with the
Army Specialized Training Unit
of Engineers. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Meacham of
Paducah. While a civilian stu-
dent at Tech, he was enrolled in
the division of arts and sciences.
BROTHER VISITING
Pfc. Carl Black, a member of
the infantry in the U. S. Army,
who has been stationed at Camp
McCoy, Wisconsin, is here visit-
ing his brother, Irvie Black and
family. Pfc. Black is on a 30-day
leave from the Schick General
Hospital, at Clinton, Iowa, where
he has been confined after being
accidently wounded by shrapnel
while on manuevers in June. He
came here from Graham, where
he has been visiting his mother,
Mrs. J. A. Leach.
FURLOUGH ENDS
Cpl. C. E. Hutchison, who has
been here since the first of the
month visiting his wife and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Hutchison of the Sneedville com-
munity, left this week for Kees-
ler Field, Mississippi, where he
will be assigned to a new station.
Cpl. Hutchison is in the air
corps and has been in the Ha-
waiian Islands for the past 14
months.
LT. SWINT DUE HOME
Elwin Swint, Lt. Jr. Grade and
bis wife, of San Diego, Cal., are
expected home on Thanksgiving
Day. He is the son of Mr. and
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PVT. JESSE N. SPENCE
Unofficial word was received
Wednesday that Pvt. Jesse N.
Spence, son of Mrs. Norma
Johnston, who had been reported
missing in action in the Salerno
campaign, had been taken prison-
er by the Germans.
A message was sent by Major-
Joe Pate who is with the medical
corps of the infantry, and in the
same company as Pvt. Spence,
that another member of his com-
pany had been taken prisoner by
the Germans but had managed to
escape and make his way back to
his own lines. The soldier said
that Pvt. Spence was among the
other men who had been taken
prisoner.
The War Department had noti-
fied Pvt. Spence’s mother on Oct.
11th, that he was missing in
action.
PORK REDUCED
TWO POINTS
The Office of Price Adminis-
tration yesterday announced a
temporary two-point reduction in
the ration value of all cuts of
pork after the War Food Admin-
istration had announced a new
program intended to stabilize the
price of live hogs.
The cut, which also applies to
100 per cent pork sausage, is
effective at 12:01 q.m. CWT,
Friday, Nov. 19th, and will be
continued “for a limited period
only,” OPA Administrator Ches-
ter Bowles said.
The move is intended to pre-
vent a jam of storage facilities
resulting from the heavy run of
hogs to market in recent weeks
which is expected to continue
next month.
WFA Administrator Marvin
Jones said the price stabilization
.program, effective Nov. 29, will
apply at all major markets, as-
suring producers a price $1 per
hundredweight below OPA ceil-
ings. Every power of the gov-'
eminent will be used to prevent
a threatened price collapse and
glutting of markets, he said.
The support price of good to
choice hogs weighing 200 to 270
pounds will be $13.75 per 100
pounds at Chicago, $1 below the
current $14.75 OPA ceiling. The
price at other markets will be
somewhat lower but are intended
to reflect the customary differ-
ential between those markets and
Chicago.
RENEW YOUR,
PADUCAH POST
NOW
While the majority of sub-
scribers are coming in and re-
newing their subscriptions to The
Paducah Post, we want to again
caution • those of you who have
not sent in your renewal that
upon the expiration of your sub-
scription we will be forced to
remove you from our list, as cur-
tailment of newsprint necessi-
tates our saving paper and send-
ing The Post to only those who
have paid up.
While we are still offering our
low rate of $1.50 per year, we
can not promise how long it will
be before the cost of production
and materials will force us to
raise the subscription rate, as the
majority of newspapers have
already done.
Why not get in on the low
rate of $1.50, and insure your
getting The Paducah Post for
another year, by coming by the
office today, or merely mailing
in your renewal?
RECEIVES JAP
POSTCARD
FROM SON
M. M. Sursa last week received
a letter from his son, Pvt. James
M. Sursa, who is a member of a
medical battalion with the army,
on active duty in the South Pa-
cific, in which was enclosed a
Japanese post card.
The card was taken from a
Jap soldier who had been killed,
and is filled with Japanese writ-
ing. Mr. Sursa will welcome any-
one having- a knowledge of the
Japanese language, getting • in
touch with him and translating
the contents of the card into
English.
Pvt. Sursa expressed the wish
of returning home soon so he
can ride, his horse, but said it
looked like it would be some
time before that would be pos-
sible. The Sursas live on the Cee
Vee route.
MAJOR CROP
GOALS FOR
1944
The major crop goals for 1944
as recommended by the State
Conference of Agricultural Work-
ers and Farmers in a meeting at
College Station last month, and
as approved by the War Food
Administration, applying to the
state of Texas, were released
this week by the chairman of the
Texas USDA War Board.
These goals will be broken
down to county goals in the near
future by the State AAA office.
The 1944 goal for the cotton
crop remained the same as 1943
expected production at 8,050,000
acres. One grain, wheat, w-as in-
creased considerably more than
any other product, having a 5,-
000,000 acre goal for 1944 as
compared to 3,491,000 acres in
1943.
Other products listed include:
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AWARDED DFC
Another Telegram From
The North Pole
A LAST MINUTE
WAR CHEST REPORT
I
A last minute report on the
War Chest Fund drive from
Chairman Shaw shows that a
number of the communities of
the county have gone over the
top on quotas. Others have
not made a final report, which
makes it impossible at this
time to know the number that
will report in full.
Chalk led the county in its
fast drive by turning in an
over-subscribed amount the
first week. Other communities
reporting in full and over are
Tennessee Valley, Salt Creek,
Cee Vee, Delwin, Dunlap,
Swearingen and Paducah:
Inflation doesn’t help anybody
—not even a person who is a
flat tire.
REV. J. H. CROW
RETURNED TO
LOCAL CHURCH
Rev. John II. Crow was re-
turned as pastor of the local
First Methodist . Church at the
annual Northwest Texas Confer-
ence which closed Thursday, Nov.
11th, at Lubbock. Rev. Crow has
just closed three years of service
at the local pastorate, and his
congregation as well as the whole
populace of Paducah are glad to
have him returned to Paducah.
Former pastors who have serv-
ed the local Methodist Church,
and their appointments are:
H. H. Hanks, Clarendon, First
Church.
W. E. Fisher, Canadian, First
Church.
Joe E.‘ Boyd, Panhandle First
Church.
N R. N. Huckabee, 10th Avenue,
Amarillo.
The complete list of pastoral
appointments in the Northwest
Texas Conference of the Metho-
dist Church for the coming year
in the Vernon District is:
District Supt. W. M. Pearce.
Acme circuit. To be supplied.
Childress: First Church, Orion
W. Carter; King MeYnorial, Don
Culbertson.
Childress circuit, to be supplied.
Chillicothe: J. H. Crawford.
Crowell: R. S. Watkins.
Dumont-Delwin: L. B. Taylor.
Estelline: J. W. Hawkins.
Kirkland-Goodlett: U. S. Bird.
Margaret-Thalia: R. I. Hart.
Newlin-Hulver: J. R. Flinn.
Odell-Fargo: A. D. Moore.
Paducah: First Church, J. H.
Crow.
Paducah circuit. To be sup-
plied.
Quanah: W. A. Flinn.
Tell: Albert Cooper.
Tolbert circuit, C. D. Damron.
Truscott-Foard City: D. A. Ross
Vernon: First Church, E. A.
Read; Texas Street, to be sup-
plied.
Vernon circuit, W. V. O Kelley
Professor in Southern Metho-
dist University, J. H. Hicks.
Chaplain, Army, A. D. Jame-
son.
District director of evangelism,
J. H. Crawford.
District director of Golden
Cross, R. I. Hart.
District missionary secretary,;
J. H. Crow.
Hey Kiddies! Those of you who
have already brought in your let-
ters to Santa Claus, as well as
you who haven’t, will be anxious
to read the following telegram
we received Thursday from Santa
Claus at the North Pole:
KJH L 103 35 NORTH POLE
NOV 18 629A
PADUCAH POST
PLEASE ADVISE ALL KID-
DIES IN YOUR AREA TO
HURRY UP AND SEND YOU
THEIR LETTERS THEY ARE
GOING TO WRITE ME , WE
DONT WANT TO MISS A SIN-
GLE ONE THIS CHRISTMAS
SO DUE TO SHORTAGE OF
HELP AND MATERIALS MUST
HEAR FROM EVERYONE EAR-
LIER THAN USUAL THIS
YEAR WE ARE ALL WORK-
ING NIGHT AND DAY SO WE
WILL BE READY TO VISIT
ALL ON CHRISTMAS EVE
SANTA CLAUS
While a lot of the children
have already brought in their
letters, we know there are a good
many who want to write Santa
but haven’t taken the time to
write their letter, so since Santa
is so busy, you will help him a
lot if you write your letter with-
in the next few days and bring
or mail it to The Paducah Post.
S-SGT. WARREN TOWNLEY
Among the 105 Texans award-
ed high honors by the U. S. Army
for their part in the recent raid
of the Ploesti oil refineries in
Rumania, was Staff Sergeant
Warren T. Townley, who has
been reported killed in action.
He has been given the Distin-
guished Flying Cross.
According to a press dispatch
from Washington, there were
more men in this raid from Texas
than from any other state.
AAA MONEY
GIVEN TO
FARMERS
According to D. R. Green, AAA
Administrator, Cottle County
farmers last week received $81,-
407.40 for co-operating in the
1943 AAA Program. These pay-
ments were earned by farmers
for carrying out approved soil
building practices and planting
within their 1943 allotments, Mr.
Green stated.
“Farmers who have not signed
their 1943 Application for Pay-
ment and have carried out late
soil building practices should re-
port them to the County AAA
office before Dec. 1, 1943, in
order that they may be checked
and approved for payment before
this date,” Mr. Green said.
“Practices carried out after Dec.
1, 1943, should be reported for
payment under the 1944 pro-
gram.”
Mr. Green also announced that
Cottle County milk producers
who wish to receive payments
under the Dairy Feed Payment
Program should save evidence of
milk and buttei'fat sales for pre-
sentation in applying for such
payments, and that applications
for payment on October milk and
butterfat deliveries should be
made to the County AAA Com-
mittee in November, and on No-
vember and December deliveries
in January.
The rate of payment, for Cottle
County dairy producers will be
40c per hundred-weight for whole
milk deliveries and 5c per pound
of butterfat sold in cream and
butter, according to Mr. Green.
Payments are being made at the
County AAA office.
CHANGE GAS
RATIONING
COUPONS
The Office of Price Adminis-
tration has announced a simplifi-
cation rationing program, effec-
tive Dec. 1, under which all B
and C books issued by local war
price and rationing boards will
contain fewer coupons than in
the past, but each coupon will be
good for more gallons than here-
tofore. No increase in the
amount of gasoline allowed is
involved, however.
All B and C coupons issued
i throughout the country on and
' after Dec. 1 will be worth five
gallons each, as compared with
the present value of two gallons
for coupons of those types in the
east and midwest and three gal-
lons in the far west.
The new supplemental gasoline
ration coupons of five gallons
value will be issued with the
designation, “B-2” and “C-2” on
their face. As present “B” and
“C” and “B-l” and “C-l” cou-
pons run out, they will be re-
placed by the new higher-unit-
value coupons. Meanwhile, out-
standing coupons issued before
Dec. 1 will continue to be worth
only two gallons in the east and
midwest and three^gallons in th^
far west.
OPA explained that B-l cou-
pons are a reprint of the earlier
B coupons, they are used in the
same way and have the same
value. The same thing is true of
C and C-l coupons.
While the change does not
mean more gasoline for holders
of supplemental ration books, it
does mean that they will receive
their rations in more convenient
form. It is expected that many
car owners, for example, will
now buy five-gallon units as they
customarily did before rationing
began. Consumers will have few-
er coupons to endorse.
For bandits it’s often too short
a stretch from the payroll to the
parole. ]
HOLIDAYS FOR
THE PADUCAH
SCHOOLS
The Paducah Board of Educa-
tion has announced the follow-
ing holidays for the Paducah
schools:
Thanksgiving: Nov. 25-26.
Christmas: Begin on Thursday,
Dec. 23rd and start back to school
on Thursday, Dec. 30th.
The federal government has
requested that people not travel
or make their plans to use the
transportation facilities during
week ends. Therefore, the local
school board has decided to dis-
miss school Wednesday at 4:45
p.m., Dec. 22nd, and to resume
school on Thursday, Dec. 30th,
which will give one week for the
Christmas holidays.
Asks Travel Curtailment
From Dec. 17 To Jan. 10
Cotton Crop Drops
Off 50 Per Cent
The latest tabulation of cotton
ginned in the county shows a
total of 7,705 bales ginned in
Cottle County from the 1943
crop prior to Nov. 1, 1943, as
compared with 15,984 bales gin-
ned to Nov. 1, 1942, according
to the Department of Commerce.
King County totals are 1,303
for 1943 against 3,012 for 1942.
PLANS MADE
FOR SCOUT
DINNER
Plans have been completed for
the big Boy Scout dinner and
program to be held Tuesday
night, Nov. 23rd, in the base-
ment of the educational building
of the First Methodist Church,
beginning at 8 p.m.
All Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and
their parents, as well as any per-
sons interested in scout work,
are invited to attend, and each
family is to bring a covered dish
for the dinner which will be
served promptly at 8 o’clock.
Following the dinner a 45-
minute program will 'be given by
the scouts and a motion picture
shown pertaining to scouting.
C. E. Baker, Boy Scout field
executive of this district, is ex-
pected to be here for^the festivi-
ties, and members of the execu-
tive council are urging all scouts
and cubs to attend and bring
their parents.
Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Mitchell,
who have been making their
home in Bomerton, have moved
to Westover, Texas. Mrs. Mitchell
will be remembered as the form-
er Annie B. Reedy of Paducah.
MAY APPLY
LOCALLY FOR
RATION POINTS
To make it possible for service
men on leave to get temporary
food rations without the forms
usually furnished by the armed
services, J. Doyle Settle, ration-
ing officer for the Lubbock dis-
trict Office of Price Administra-
tion, today announced that ap-
plication for ration points may,
in an emergency, be made on
forms available at local ration
boards.
As a rule a service man on
leave is expected to apply for
his temporary food rations on a
form supplied by the armed serv-
ices, and signed by an authorized
officer. He should get this form
at the service post when he ap-
plies for his leave papers.
However, Avhere a service man
does not have this signed form
when he applies to his local ra-
tion board for points, and can-
not get it conveniently, the board
now will permit him to use an
OPA form instead.
Most service men on leave ap-
ply for their ration points at
boards situated distantly from
their posts, the rationing officer
said, and it is frequently impos-
sible for them to get the service
forms after they have left the
post. Today’s order will save both
time and trouble.
Rationing Officer Settle point-
ed out, however, that when the
alternative form is used, applica-
tion must be made by the service
man in person. If his host wishes
to apply for the ration points,
only the service form will be
accepted by the board.
“The order comes at a time
when service men will be looking
foiward to holiday furloughs and
is designed to help them and
their hosts enjoy holiday festivi-
ties,” said the rationing officer.
U. S. Engineers
Open Office Here
The U. S. Government Engi-
neers with headquarters in Deni-
son, Texas, have opened an office
here in the Cottle Hotel, with
Engineer Lee R. Crist in charge
and J. R. Stinnett assistant.
They have a crew of eight
workmen and are surveying to
determine the longitude and lati-
tude of the 16 bombing ranges
in this area, which are in the fol-
lowing counties: Cottle, King,
Dickens, Floyd, Motley, Childress
and Hall.
Joseph B. Eastman, Director of
the Office of Defense Transpor-
tation, has requested all govern-
ment agencies and all private
employers to refrain from grant-
ing vacation leave or time off to
employees where travel would be
involved from Dec. 17th through
Jan. 10 th, the ODT announced
today.
Mr. Eastman also asked gov-
ernment and business to make
special efforts to curtail business
travel during this period, where-
ever such travel could be defer-
red without impairment of the
war effort. He likewise urged
government agencies to refuse
all requests for government
speakers at conventions or simi-
lar group meetings held between
Dec. 17th and Jan. 10th.
In letters transmitting the
foregoing request, the ODT di-
rector recalled that earlier this
year he had asked government
agencies and private industry to
schedule employee vacations
throughout the year and in such
a way as to avoid holiday periods.
Maximum curtailment of all ci-
vilian travel that could be aban-
doned or deferred during the
coming holiday period was neces-
sary, he said, to prevent inter-
ference with the orderly move-
ment on' trains and intercity
buses of the present huge vol-
ume of military and essential ci-
vilian passenger traffic.
Letters similar to that sent to
all government agencies have
been addressed, by Mr. Eastman
to private employers through
their trade associations and other
industry groups. Text of the let-
ter for government agencies fol-
lows:
“At the Christmas holiday sea-
son last year employees of the
federal agencies helped ease the
heavy passenger load on railroads
and intercity bus lines by com-
plying with my request that they
refrain from taking annual leave
involving travel during that
period. - ,
“On Jan. 13, 1943 I requested
all government agencies to co-
operate further in travel conser-
vation program of the ODT by
spacing annual vacation leaves of
employees throughout the year,
with the exception of the period
from the middle of December to
the middle' of January. Subse-
quently, private employers also
were asked to schedule employee
vacations throughout the year
and in such a way as to avoid
holiday periods.
“Military and essential civilian
demands on intercity passenger
transportation facilities have not
abated' during the past year. The
burden, on the contrary, has be-
come heavier. It is therefore
again necessary to make every
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WPB ASKS CUT
IN NEWSPRINT
Reductions in newsprint usage
for the first quarter of 1944
ranging up to 28 per cent for
larger newspapers, and amount-
ing to a 23 per cent cut in total
use, were recommended today by
the newspaper industry advisory
committee of the War Produc-
tion Board.
Harry M. Bitner, director of
the WPB printing and publishing
division, said the recommenda-
tions probably would be followed
in the conservation order to be
issued by the division.
The advisory committee deci-
sion, announced after a two-day
session, recommended that the
basic 23 per cent cut be distri-
buted on a sliding scale adopted
by the committee at its Oct. 19
meeting.
The 23 per cent reduction will
be made on the basis of consump-
tion in the first quarter of 1940:.
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