The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1943 Page: 3 of 8
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THE LLANO NEWS, LLANO, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 2v. 1943.
Town And Farm In Wartime
Oastroy Expired Ration Stamps
Housewives are urged to destroy
all expired red or blue stamps to
help guard against black markets In
food. Reports to OPA Indicate that
many storekeepers have asked their
customers for expired stamps, and in
turn have used them to buy more
food from wholesalers. Because foods
bought at wholesale with these
stamps can be sold at retail without
points, every expired stamp given to
a storekeeper is a potential contri-
bution to an illegal market.
New Way to Get Canning Sugar
Sugar for home canning can be ob-
tained by using stamps 15 and 16 in
War ration book one, instead of "su-
gar allowance coupons" as previously
announced. Each stamp is worth
five pounds Consumers who require
more than ten pounds per person for
canning will apply to their local ra-
tion board for an additional allow-
ance.
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OCR to Supply Farmers’
Requirements ,
The newly-created office of Civili-
an Requirements, WPU, hits worked
ut an emergency farmers suuply
rogram which will quickly make
vailable to farmers some 50 items
Used Inner.Tubes Are Ration-Free
Used inner tubes for passenger car
or truck tires can now be purchased
without a ration certificate. It is
estimated that here are about 765.-
000 used passenger car tubes and
225,000 used truck tubes now idle ini
dealers stocks. All rationing regula-
tions have been removed on used
tubes to help conserve the supply of
new ones.
order No. 4 which allows bulk ds- mile an hour. Speeds approximated prices for farm equipment), which
liveries of gasoline in quantities of the 35-mile limit only In Maine. Min- came effective May 20, 1943. Hi
50 gallons or more to be made Et nesota, North Carolina and Okla-(ever, any ladJuatmfmt of
any time. This will he particularity ' homa, except that In Minnesota the turers’ prices will result In a
line rations (“A” and "D” coupon
books) by mail. Motorists and mo-
torcycle owners outside the Eastern
gasoline shortage area will pick up
a simple application form about June helpful to farmers who drive to town average speed of buses was 45 miles
22 at a place designated by local ra- after work and buy gasoline in steel ! per hour.
Earlier this year, speed
drums of 60 gallons or more capaei- counts showed national averages of
ty.
Egc* Cannot Go Into Storage
After June 15 egj dealers, whole-
salers, and o-ther distributors may
not keep shell eggs in storage and af-
37 miles an hour for passenger cars,
j 35 for trucks, and 37 for buses. The
present national average cannot be
cccurately determined until addi’lon-
al reports are received.
Longer Furloughs Granted
The War department lias authoriz-
ed extension of the furlough period
between the day of induction and
the date men must report for duty
from seven days to fourteen days.
This change will be made in all com-
mands not later than July 1. After
July 1. but before September 1. the
period will t>e increased from four-
teen days to 21 days.
Small Plants Get Money
More than 25 small plants in the
Southwest have received financial
help through the Smaller War Plants
corporation during April. C.uy L.
Woolley, regional loan agent, an-
nounced. Ixians were made to ship-
building companies, machine shops,
mattress manufacturers, lumber com-
panies and dehydrating plants. In
the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and
.ssential in the production of food,
he procedure will enable a farmer Louisiana, loans made to date range
to buy reasonable amounts of need-
ed items directly t\rom his dealer
without complicated forms Materi-
als to be made available under the
program include adjustable wrenches
agricultural forks, auger bits, barb-
ed wire, clevises, dehorning saws,
fence pliers, garden hoes, batteries,
motors, grain scoops, grease guns,
harness hardware, horse collar, nails
neck yokes, poultry netting, cold
chisels, hog rings, knives and many
other products
Heavy Load for Postmen
Letter carriers' hacks will lie Mill-
ing under heavy loads this week as
distribution of some to,000 applica-
tion cards for war ration book tin re
gets under way. This book will pro-
vide new stamps to replace those
running out in existing books Con-
sumers will till out and return appli-
cation cards, preaddressej ti OPA
mail centers, between Junt 1 ; nil
June ic Residents of Texas Okla-
homa and Louisiana will receive
their new books from Dallas, where
volunteer workers will till out the
names on more than 10.725.oof) ratl in
books
Can Buy Ice Cream Alone
Retailers can not force their cu-
tomers to buy an equal amount of
slierbert or any other frozen confec-
tion to obtain any given quantity of
bulk or packaged i e cream, OPA
und \VHA have 4-mphnslzeil This
requirement is a violation of tin* pro-
hibition against tie-in sales under
the general maximum price regula-
tion.
Many Housing Units Planned
A total of S. 164 public war housing
units of all types will become avail-
aide during the next thirty days in
the states of Texas. Oklahoma I.ouisi
ana. Arkansas ami New Mexico .Mar-
shall W. Amis, regional director of
the Federal Public Housing authori-
ty. has announced. Of this total,
6,165 are family units; 950, dormi-
tory units; and 1,353, trailers Al-
ready completed for occupancy by
war workers are 13725 units
fr6m $7,500 to more than $750,000.
Stoves To Be Rationed
Ratiouing of six types of stoves
tincluding laundry stoves but ex-
cluding water heiaters) will begin
late in June. They include coal or
wood, oil and gas heating stoves;
coal or wood, oil and gas cooking
stoves. After the plan becomes ef-
fective, you must have a purchase
certificate f n ^rn >Jotir ration hoard
to buy a stove. Certificates will be
Issued on the basis of need.
Meat Processed Without Points
Farmers and consumers are per-
mitted to have meats and fats smok-
ed cured, rendered, frozen, packaged
or otherwise processed, by a recent
OPA amendment to rationing regula-
tions No points need to be trans-
ferred. but the processor must keep
adequate records.
No Special Gas for Vacations
Vacations aiv fine, but there will
l>e no extra gasoline for vacation
travel this year, says Price Admini-
strator Prentiss M Brown Both rub-
ber and gasoline supplies are too
critical to allow motorists any ‘ lux-
ury'' gasoline Nations Mr. Brown
pointed out that gasoline coupons in
an "A" book could lie saved, and that
gasoline could he carried over in tin-
tank of an auto from one period to
the next In this way. a motorist
may save fuel for 180 miles for a
vacation trip by car.
Scouting for Scrap
More than a million Boy Scouts
and Cub Scouts will tramp the woods
and valleys of America tins summer
on a new kind of scouting expedi-
tion. Thil- wi!J lie exploding for
heavy scrap Iron that can later be
brought in to collection points Over-
night camps will permit the hoys to
cover a wider territory and to carry
some light scrap hack to collection
trucks.
To Renew Gas Rations by Mail
The country's 25.000.000 car own-
ers and 160.000 motorcycle owners
may renew their present basic gaso-
tion boards. The form must tie fill-
ed out nd mailed to the war price
and rationing board with (a) the i
signed back cover of the present
"A" book, and (b) the current tire
inspection record showing that pro-
per inspections have been made. All
new "A” books should reach the mo- Jter M‘l>r 2o- no eggs may move into, Poultry Price Violation!
storage, L. J. Cnppleman, regional
Food Distribution administrator, sta-
ted. Tim only .exception is when
eggs tire held in storage to
increase to the Individual farmer.
torists by mail before July 21.
More poultry price violators are
facing OPA enforcement proceedings.
Between April 15 and May 15 court
cover actions were started against another
More Radio Batteries
To bring relief to farmers in non
electrified areas of the nation, pro- existing contracts with government 1L3; 84 asked for injunctions to res-
train sellers from charging too much
and 29 wt;re criminal Injunctions.
duetion of radio batteries has been • agencies. All shell eggs in cold stor-
boosted to 425,000 a month. If the age on May 20 are to be reserved
present rate of production Is con-j for sale to government agencies at
tinued over a twelve-month period, j no more than the ceiling prices ap-
normal requirements for the 3,200.000 plicable to grades for government
radios estimated to be on farms will I O'trch ise in effect when the offer is
be met.
Get 50 Gals, of Gas Any Time
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made.
Public Exceeding Speed Limit
May Adjust Machinery Prices
In exceptional cases where produc-
tion of farm equipment is threaten-
ed, manufacturers may get on ad-
justment in their ceiling prices
OPA said in issuing amendment No.
Guard Against Carbon Monox Ida
Because the hazards of carbma
monoxide poisoning have increased
greatly with the shortages of certala
fuels, the (J. S. bureau of Mines bee
published a circular describing home
' ‘protective measures to minimize dan-
gers from this gas and methods of
treating persons affected by it. A
colorless, odorless and tasteless gas.
car'wrn monoxide is deadly when in-
haled with an insufficient supply of
oxygen.
— •— IVurl Htirbor —
FOOR SAL A; Ideal residential lota
In Barlor Flat. See
25-tf-c ELI PARKHILL.
Farmers will benefit from a change, Recent checks in II states show-[5 to maximum price regulation No.
made in Petroleum Administrative ed avc ; j speeds as high as 47 246 (manufacturers and wholesalers
Llano Flower Shop
Flowers for all Occasions
Mrs. R. Flshback Phan* SSq
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Built
buL . .
Mighty
for Peace .
in
War!
rpHE great dams and electrical power
I system oi the Lower Colorado River
Authority were built with an eye to the
iuture of a growing, progressing Texas.
It so happened that they were to con-
tribute greatly, too, to our nation's Fight for
Freedom. With plentiful electricity that was
ready when the need came, with flood pro-
tection and with power at low-cost for the
fanner, the residential consumer, the small
business and the war plant, the LCRA has
become a mighty unit in our country's fight-
ing forces.
Your own river development program
helps now to see that in the days of Victory
and Peace to come, the purposes for which
you built it may flourish.
The Mansfield Dam, one of America's greatest, is the key
to the flood control, water conservation and low-cost power
program of the Lower Colorado River Authority.
Comparatively small, but none-the-less important, Inks Dam catches for use again, the waters which already have turned the gen-
erators of the great Buchanan Dam power plant above it.
LOWER COLORADO RIVER AUTHORITY
An Agency of tho St at9 of Texas
Austin Dam stands as a success where many attempts to control and harness the unruly Colorado
had failed—a tribute to the LCRA's conquering of a hundred-year-old problem.
Buchanan Dam, first of the LCRA’s chain of lakes. Important In Rood control and water conservation, as well as In power generation, -•
Buchanan is one of the world's longest dams and on outstanding engineering accomplishment. "r
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
The Perils of Pranking
By IRVIN S. COBB
’“TTIEIlE was a homicide trial £oing on at a remote county seat in
the mountains of West Virginia and a lanky native took the stand
to testify to the good character and peaceful disposition of the prisoner
MA. tri FoN-
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at the bar. When he had given the accused a glowing testimonial the
prosecuting atto, ney took him in hand for cross-examination.
"Look hire," he demanded: "isn’t that the mark of an olJ knife
cut you’ve got across the loin- of your left ear?”
"5 as, suh; it is. Bill there, he done it one time.”
“Ry ‘Pill’ do you mean the defendant here?"
“Yep,”
"i see you also have the sear of a bullet wound in your right cheek.
Wrho made that?”
“Bill”
“On still another occasion didn’t Bill, as you call him, gouge one
of youi eyes almost cut?”
“That’s a fact, too.”
“Now then, in view .if the injuries you yourself admit having sus-
tained at his hands, how do you reconcile your sworn statements of
a minute ngo that the «|i fondant is an individual of pourable and law-
abiding nature and a good ncighboi ?’’
“Well. fuh.“ - aid the wilm «, “Rill Is one of the nicest felle** ever
you eon in >'Mjt life; b.it I must ay thf- h. a powerful on’ik-l}
tun ji, to prank \vith’
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Collins, Will. The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1943, newspaper, May 27, 1943; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817022/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.