The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1943 Page: 9 of 12
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Levelland, Hockley County, Texas, Thursday, October 21, 1943
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Number 12
fRubber Conservation Program Curtails Deliveries
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weeping Regulations Of Deliveries
Issued From Dallas Office Of Defense
SAVE SOME FOR TOMORROW
j| Transportation Effective Last Monday
A sharp curtailment of all retail
and wholesale truck deliveries in
Dallas and throughout the nation
became effective at 12:01 o'clock
Monday morning, October 11, un-
der the order of Joseph B. East-
man, director of. the Office of
Defense Transportation.
Retail delivery of any package
weighing less than five pounds or
measuring sixty inches or less In
length anti girth combined is
banned. Exeept for Ice, milk or
cream, retail deliveries on Sun-
day, also are prohibited.
A maximum of three deliveries
a week is permitted for fresh or
frozen meat, poultry, eggs, fruits,
vegetables, fish and shell-fish, but
five whole sale deliveries of these
products may be made.
Retail deliveries of alcoholic beve-
rages, tobacco, confectioneries, soft
drinks and other non-alcoholic
beverages are cut to once a week.
The same limitation is placed on
ice cream, sherberts or ices, maga-
zines and cut flowers.
Three deliveries are the retail
maximum for bread and perishable
bakery products, but six wholesale
deliveries are permitted. Two de-
liveries a week may be made by
laundries, dry cleaners and tailors,
while the wholesale limit on such
service is five deliveries.
Mr. Eastman’s order requires all
delivery truck operators to estab-
lish and map delivery areas or
delivery routes that are neither |
S duplicating nor overlapping. How-
B ever, this does not mean that one
operator may not duplicate the
routes of another, it requires merely
that no carrier operate over a deliv-
ery route which overlaps his own
_ routes.
One exception to the regulations
is in connection with telephone
orders. The size and weight pro-
visions do not apply to anything
ordered through the switch board,
but the frequency of deliveries will
apply. This is, primarily, for the
convenience of persons who are
HI, handicapped and otherwise
unable to do their shopping.
While the order permits delivery
of medicines and medical supplies,
a person ordering a prescription
from a drug store cannot have the
druggist include a carton of cig-
arettes, a box of candy or a bot-
tle of perfume with the order un-
less, in aggregate, the order would
be in excess of the minimum weight
and size limitations and the weekly
quota of deliveries in the area has
not been exhausted. The reason
it was explained by ODT Is that
It would result in unfair practice
to stores handling those extra
items but not handling medicines.
It was pointed out that, despite
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all efforts to replenish the na-
tion’s rubber supply by the manu-
facture of synthetic rubber, the
rubber situation is still acute.
Paramount among the reasons for
this is the fact that synthetic
rubber tires as are being turned
out are, to a largt extent, going
for military purposes. In addition
tq the rubber shortage, there is the
increasing problem of replacement
parts for motor trucks and other
vehicles, as well as the vehicles
themselves. With the manufacture
of commercial vehicles at a stand-
still, those now operating must be
made to last two, three or maybe
four years. The big problem is
to keep the nation’s equipment in
running order for the duration.
The Lubbock District Office of
the Office of Defense Transporta-
tion will be very glad to have
representatives meet with groups
of operators for the purpose of
clarifying any matter relative to
these regulations; therefore, it is
cream to a customer after the cus-
of carriers who desire this assis-
!(/ice und information should
contact the Lubbock District Of-
fice as soon as possible,
tance and information should
Common Carriers Are Restricted
Common carriers may not be
used to make retail or wholesale
deliveries to circumvent the new
motor delivery restrictions, which
went into effect October 11, the
Office of Defense Transportation
announced today. Although motor
common carriers are not specific-
ally included in ODT’s delivery re-
striction order, persons requiring
deliveries to be made are prohibi-
ted from hiring a common carrier
to make deliveries in excess of the
number by the order. For example,
the ODT said a retail merchant
who had already received his maxi-
mum of four wholesale deliveries
of ice cream in a week could not
hire a package delivery concern tc
make additional motor deliveries
to him in the same week. Like-
wise, the merchant could not hire
a “dime-delivery” carrier to make
additional retail deliveries of ice
cream to a customer ofter the cus-
tomers one weekly delivery had been
made. In addition to limiting the
wholesale and retail weekly delivery
frequency of commodities, the
ODT’s order also imposes a 5-
pound or 60 inch weight and size
limitation on retail deliveries of
packages. Shippers are similarly
forbidden from employing motor
common carriers to make delivery
of under size weight packages The
ODT has prepared a series of
questions and answers on this sub-
ject which are available at the
ODT information office.
Pvt. A. G. Timmons
In Air Training School
At, Sioux Falls, S. D.
Pvt. Avery G. Timmons, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Timmons of
Levelland, has been assigned to
the Technical School, Army Air
Forces Training Comand, Sioux
Falls, S D., for training as a radio
operator-mechanic. Upon comple-
tion of 20-weeks course, he will be
filially trained to take his place
as a member of a highly skilled
bomber crew, of the Army Air
Forces. Before entering the service
Private Timmons was a ministerial
student in Baylor University. He
was a graduate of the Levelland
High School, attended Wayland
College.
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—Ledger Fillers At The Herald—
MRS. CANNON ADMITTED
TO HOSPITAL MONDAY
Mrs. W. A. Cannon was admitted
to a hospital in Lubbock last Mon-
day where she will receive medical
treatment, and possibly will under-
go an operation at an early date,
according to reports from the fam-
ily.
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SAFE IS BLOWN IN
GROCERY AT LAMESA
A safe was blown Tuesday night
! or Wednesday morning in the Fred
I Sanders Grocery E^t Lamesa, the
S sheriff's department announced.
Entrance to the store was
I through a window that had been
pried open.
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Mrs. Sam Potts returned home
| this week from a visit with friends
1 and relatives in East Texas and
I Oklahoma.
Selective Service Board Issues Warning
Of New Regulation Regarding Induction
Of Registrants Between 18 and 44 Years
Lt. William Clark Is
Presented Meritious
Medal In England
Information has been received
by the Herald from an Eighth
Bomber Command Station some-
where in England, that 2nd Lt.
William Clark of Levelland, has
just recently been commissioned
to first lieutenant. Accompanying
the information was a photograph
of Lt Clark receiving a medal
for “meritious service” In numerous
bombing attacks on Hitler’s Eu-
rope. Lt. Clark was formerly a
flight officer. The 22-year old air-
man is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M
H Clark who reside on Route One.
Moving to close In on “draft
dodgers,” Selective Service regula-
tions have been amended to provide
for the immediate induction or pro-
secution of men 18 through 44 who
become or remain delinquent on
or after November 1st, lt was an-
nounced today by the Director,
General J. Watt Page.
“The continuing manpower de-
mands of the armed forces and
the manpower needs of war pro-
duction and agriculture, plus fair-
ness to men already serving in
the armed forces and to men, in-
cluding fathers, who will soon be
inducted, make it imperative that
every man acceptable to the armed
forces, who knowingly becomes de-
linquent, should be promptly made
available for service in the armed
forces or prosecuted under the
terms of the new law,” General
Page said.
Tiie new regulations provide (1)
for the. prompt classification into
Class 1-A, Class 1-A-O, or Class
IV-E, without reference to sequence
or order number or dependency
groups, of all relinquent registrants
18 through 44; (2) that all delin-
quent registrants 18 through 37
so , classified shall be immediately
ordered to report for Induction
or for work of national importance,
as the case may be. by ANY local
board to which he reports or be-
fore which he is brought after ap-
prehension; (3) for the registra-
tion of a non-registrant delinquent
and his classification and induction
by ANY local board before which
he is brought or to which he vol-
untarily reports; and (4) for the
correlation of actions concerning
delinquents among add Selective
Service agencies and United States
Attorneys.
General Page pointed out that
no man is relieved from comply*
ing with the Selective Service laif
during the time he Is in custody,
confinement or imprisonment, and
that immediately upon his releSSO
from such confinement he must ad-
vise his local board of the fact
and perform the duties and be ao-
corded the rights of all registrant*.
This obligation, he said, appUs*
equally to a man confined tot
a violation of the Selective Ser-
vice law and to a man confined
for any cause.
In a great many instances. Gene-
ral Page said, cases of delinquency
investigated by the Department of
Justice have been due to careless-
ness of registrants concerning the if
duty to keep their local board*
advised of changes of address. If
a registrant has failed in this Ob-
ligation, then he is suspected of
delinquency and has been or Will
be classified as a delinquent. HS
warned that any registrant .who it
not absolutely certain that hi*
current address Is on record with
his local board, or that his where-
abouts are known to the “person
who will always know,” as showli
on his registration card, should
mmediately communicate with hi*
own local board and keep that
board advised of all future change*
of address.
General Page also cautioned every
person required to register under
the Selective Service Act to have
in his personal possession at all
times both his Registration Card
and hts current Notice of Classi-
fication. If a registrant has lost
his Classification Notice, he should
immediately make application to
his local board for the issuance of
a duplicate.
Texas Turkey Raisers May Supply
Plenty Drumsticks For The Army As
Well As For Civilian Use Says Report
Mrs. Judson Burnett and daugh-
ters were Lubbock visitors last
Saturday.
Chief Tells How
Japs Were Fooled
By U. S. Forces
•Duck - hunting tactics — with
‘blinds" and decoys—proved ef-
fective in countering the Japs on
Guadalcanal, according to J. J.
Polk, Aviation Chief Ordnanccman.
Squadron 18-B
The Japs, though experts at
deception themselves, were com-
pletely “taken In" by the American
- early Gaudalcanal air fighting, re-
lates.
Losses In his squadron has been
heavy, and several wrecked planes
were lying around. Prompted by
a double motive—to clear the field
and set up some decoys — the
ground crew lined up the damaged
craft In plain view of prowling
airmen.
^^^■The planes looked like they
ready to take off.” Chief
Polk recalls.
Damaged parts were camouflaged
--broke* wings propped up with
tree limbs, landing gear braced
with stobs, and propellers fastened
on precariously.
Anti-aircraft crews took their
positions In the blinds.
Soon two Zeros, lured by the de-
coys came in low for a strafing
attack. The ack-ack roared, and
the Jape fell like—you guessed lt
doe (I ducks.
Chief Polk who has been In the
Mary for 16 years, was attached
to the famous “Plghting Five”
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LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
Three Levelland Boys
Receiving Training At
San Antonio School
Among the group of cadets now
stationed at the Army Air Forces
j Pre-flight School for pilots at
the San Antonio Aviation Cadet
Center, 452 in number from Texas,
are three Levelland men, Garvin W
Cooper, Thell B Fowler, Jr., and
J A Horn, Jr.
When they have completed their
pre-flight school,,, the cadets will
be sent to a primary flying Held,
after which they will receive train-
ing at advanced schools for com-
bat pilot duties.
Subscribe For The Herald
on Guadalcanal.
The "Fighting Five" in less than
three months, piled up a record
of 96—and probably 13 more Jap
planes.
“The pilots had a sense of hu-
mor," Chief Polk reminisces, “and
they didn’t hesitate to use it in
their flight reports."
One airman, shot down in the
jungle, was rescued by a group of
native children and taken to a
nearby village
When he returned to his base, he
wrote In his report that he had
been given exceptionally fine Ireat-
ment by the natives—all except
one wiry, sinister-looking old man,
who made him feel uneasy
The old man constantly glinted
at him out of the comer of his
eye. and, the pilot said, kept mut-
tering something that sounded to
him like; “Stew.”
noarUnt to victory than the strength of the armed forces abroad is the laht on
Jmmi Among the anonymons angels of mercy who are waging this battle are
Their Job is chicly one of prevention. Chocking on children la the neighbor!
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(rout agsinst
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report every com of contagion to the health authorities.
the home
are the visit-
neighborhood. thev
News from the turkey front is
good. Plans for Thanksgiving and
Christmas dinners may include the
normal quota of drum sticks and
white meat because Texas growers
are expected to produce 3,750.000
| birds this year. This, says George
| P. McCarthy who made the fore-
cast, "means plenty of turkey
meat for our soldiers and plenty
for civilians."
All turkeys being marketed now
are taken by the army, but ap-
proximately 65 per cent of this
demand has been met and the
remainder will be liquidated by
November 1 Meanwhile, many pro-
ducers believe that current mar-
ket quotations on top grade justify
putting “a real finish on their
turkeys.” The present market for
grade A young turkeys is 30 to 32
j cents, and 24 to 25 cents for grade
C
I It is a good investment, says
McCarthy who is poultryman for
the A. and M. College Extension
Service, to feed to produce grade
: A turkeys and take advantage of
both the higher price per pound
1 and the additional weight gained,
j There is no field of livestock pro-
duction, he adds, which will pay
a greater return at present than
feeding turkeys for market, A tur-
key-developing mash plus grain
will do a good job of fattening, or
a commercial fattening ration may
be used.
Best results will be obtained if
the turkeys are confined to a
small area to prevent walking off
extra gain. A trap of one to five
acres depending upon the size of
the flock, would be suitable. Mc-
Carthy recommends giving a
flock wormer In the mash for
several days to reduce parasite
infestation and get better gains.
But once the feeding program
starts feed should remain before
the birds for free choice feeding
until they are marketed. Five
pounds of feed should produce one
pound of gain.
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2 Funeral services were held in
Lubbock Wednesday afternoon for
S A. Allsup, 60, who died at
hts home in the New Home com-
munity in Lubbock county, Mon-
day. Services were held In the
Church of Christ.
Pvt. Geo. Zickerfoos*
Transferred To School
At Kessler Field, Mill.
According to information from
Kessler Field. Biloxi, Mississippi,
Pvt. George D. Zickefoose, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. ZickerfooSS
of Levelland, was transferred from
Sheppard Field, Texas to Kesslef
Field on Ociober 11, where he wa*
enrolled in the Kessler Air Field
B-24 Liberator bomber mechanic*
school.
Pvt. Zickerfoose will begin the
intensive Army Air Forces Train-
ing Command 17-week course in
airplane mechanics, successful com-
pletion of which will lead to his
assignment either to active duty
on the line, servicing and main-
taining the huge bombers which
are carrying the war to the enemy,
or to a factory or gunnery school.
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Weimhold, Ruth. The Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1943, newspaper, October 21, 1943; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1159306/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.