gcls_SN_034b

Page Two

THE SLATER NEWS

April 25, 1946

[Column 1]

The Slater News
Published Every Two Weeks
By
Slater Manufactoring Co., Inc.
Established 1790
In The Interst of Its Employees

STAFF

Robert H. Atkinson - Editor
Cecil S. Ross - Asst. Editor

REPORTERS

Weave Room: Ernestine McCall,
Nellie Barnette, Walker Reid,
Gladys Cox, Rosalee Cox, Sara C.
Chitwood, Dovie Faust, Louise
Bagwell, Margaret Johnson, and
Mrs. Perrry Rampey.

Preparation Dept.: Jessie Vassey,
Dorothy Hawkins, Julia Brown,
Mildred Mull, Mary Wallace,
Lucille Tate, Ruby Drury, Nellie
Ruth Payne, Stanley Hawkins,
Irene Cox.

Cloth Room: Opal W. Smith

Community: Mrs. Raymond Johnson,
W. Earle Reid, Ruby P. Reid,
Doris F. Atkinson.

EDITORIALS

ARMY PRESERVES FOOD

"The War Department feels
that every effort should be ex-
pended towards relief of suffer-
ing and starvation, not only for
the sake of humanity, but also
to enable us to decrease our
Army of Occupation responsi-
ble for peace and order. If
fodo riots and disturbances oc-
cur in the occupied terirtories
we may have to call for addi-
tional troops," declared Secre-
tary of War Robert P. Patter-
son in a statement accepting
the Honorary Chairmanship of
the Famine Emergency Com-
mission.

In order to carry out the
plan of supporting President
Truman's nation-wide conser-
vation program, the War De-
partment announce the fol-
lowing actions have been
taken:

1. Directives have been dis-
patched to impress all Army
personnel with the gravity of
the situation and enjoining the
strictest economy and elimina-
tion of waste.

2. The European, Mediter-
ranean and Pacific Theaters
have been directed to conserve
to the fullest indigenous re-
sources and stockpiles.

3. A total of 1,216,568 cubic
feet of freeze space and 902,120
cubic feet of chill space in re-
frigerator ships has been re-
leased by the Army during the
months of January and Feb-
ruary. In additoin, 1,115,400
cubic feet of freeze and 179,858
cubic feet of chill will be re-
leased next month.

4. To conserve critical wheat
supplies, experiments are being
made to determine the practi-
cability of using 80 per cent ex-
traction flour by the Army in-
stead of the present commer-
cial standard 68-72 per cent
flour.

5. Efforts are being made to
adjust the nutritional value of
the Army ration to save maxi-
[con't in Column 2]

[Column 2]

SLATER
DAY BY DAY

In a few short weeks, another
graduating class from our local
school will don their caps and
gowns and march sedately
down the aisle.

They will sit just so upon
the stage and gaze out over the
audience of parents, relatives
and friends as they listen to the
advice, admonitions and warn-
ings of some gifted speaker.

They will murmur a polite
"thank you" as they receive
their hard-earned diplomas.

They will accept hand shakes
and congratulations from their
classmates and acquaintances.

Some of them will go out to
face life armed only with their
high school diploma and a
heart full of confidence.

Others of them will go to
college to sit for four years
more at the feet of learning.
Here they will realize that all
of their previous knowledge
was mere foundation work and
they are only now beginning to
unlock education's door.

But Seniors - whether your
classroom days end with this
commencement or whether
there are yet more years of
classroom work for you - may
your lives be full and rich and
may happiness and success be
your lot.

And may you never cease to
seek after knowledge, for life
itself is one vast school of ex-
perience, and the world is a
classroom whose doors are
never closed.

-

[con't from Column 1]

mum food without adversely
affecting the health and morale
of the troops.

6. Emphasis is being places
on the conversation of sugar.
The elimination of sugar in the
prepartion of stewed prunes
has saved 56,000 pounds per
months inthe United States
alone.

7. Effective on February mas-
ter menu the issue of bread was
reduced from 15 pounds to 12
pounds per 100 men per meal,
a reduction of 720,000 pounds
monthly.

8. Stocks of subsistence at all
prisoner of war camps have
been ordered reduced to a min-
imum.

"Tighten-the-Belt Gardens"
will be springing up in Army
camps all over the world where
soil conditions are favorable as
a result of a directive issued to
all commanders by the Army,
which states:

"The War Departement recog-
nizes the need and value of
truck gardens at posts, camps
and stations at this time when
world-wide food conservation
is required, and desires to co-
operate to the fullest extent
with the President's food con-
servation program. In addition
to voluntary off-time recrea-
tion activity, Commanding Of-
ficers will utilize prison labor
for gardening as a primary mis-
sion of rehabilitation.

"Equipment and tools or ad-
ditional farm implements will
be requistioned at those posts,
camps and stations where the
soil is suitable for gardening
purposes and plots are of such
size to provide for the growing
of vegetables common to mili-
tary requirements, such as po-
tatoes, corn, green beans, toma-
toes, beets, carrots and cucum
[con't in Column 3]

[Column 3]

CLOTH ROOM CHATTER

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hester and
family visited Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Waddell and family, of
Cherokee Falls, Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Troy Galloway
and family visited Mr. Gallo-
way's father, Mr. E. P. Gallo-
way, of Brevard, N.C., recent-
ly.

Mr. and Mrs. George Garland
had their weekend guest
their nephew, Bud Garland, of
Cleveland.

Mr. and Mrs. John Reaves
and son attended a birthday
dinner Sunday given in honor
of Mrs. Reaves' grandmother,
Mrs. Rachel Duncan, of Bran-
don.

We are sorry to learn that
Mrs. Estelle Dixon has been out
sick several days. She has been
greatly missed, and we hope
she will soon be back with us.

Pvt. Thurman Pace, a former
employee of the Cloth Room,
is now stationed at Camp Rob-
inson, Ark.

-

TRAINING COURSES
(Con't. from page 1, col. 3)

Since facilities for On-the-
Job training are limited, all
who apply may not be admitted
on the first enrollment, and
persons not admitted the first
time may find it necessary to
wait for an enrollment in a
second or third class.

For the informaton of those
veterans who plan to enroll in
On-the-Job training, the fol-
lowing quotation from the Ser-
vice Men's Readjustment Act
will be of interest:

"Section 1505 of the act con-
templates that there will be de-
ducted from any benefit in the
nature of adjusted compensa-
tion (bonus) hereafter author-
ized by Congress any payments
made to you or for you in con-
nection with a course of educa-
tion or training or a refresher
or a retraining course received
by you under Public Law 346."

-

LOCAL TEACHERS
(Con't. from page 1, col. 4)

place in any suburb.

Act I. Was he a Burglar?
Late afernoon in June.

Act II. A Human Butterfly.
Nearly night.

Act III. Thieves and Bride-
grooms. That night (as they
say in the movies).

-

GIRL SCOUTS
(Con't. from page 1, col. 3)

lunch was enjoyed. Pictures
were made for scrapbooks, and
afterwards games were played.

Those taking part in this
hike were: Patricia Summey,
Marion Brown, Mary Dodson,
with Misses Loftis and Ferree
as leaders.

-

[con't from Column 2]

bers.

"Food so produced will be
for the consumption of military
personnel only, and not for sale
to civilians. Commanding Offi-
cers will consult the local coun-
ty agricultural agent for in-
formation relative to the types
of crops, time of planting and
other information to aid in the
cultivation of crops.

"Crops realized from this
source will result in a corre-
sponding decrease in quantities
of foodstuffs procured through
requisitions."

[Column 4]

PREPARATION
DEPARTMENT
NEWS

[spans columns 4 and 5]

Mrs. Harris Drury has re-
turned to Belmont, N.C. after
spending a week with her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. O. R. Drury.

Mrs. Curtis Sims and son,
Randy, are spending a week
with Mr. and Mrs. George
Bowers. Mrs. Sims is from
Laurens, S.C.

Mr. Gene Blanton and O. R.
Drury motored to Belmont last
Sunday. They came back by
Spindale and Chimney Rock,
visiting friends.

Mrs. Mattie Lou Gilstrap and
Mrs. Norma Bowles attended
the Piedmont Regional P. T.
A. Convention at the First Bap-
tist Church in Pickens last
Saturday.

Mrs. Norma Bowles was hap-
py to have her daughter, Lor-
raine, home from college for
the spring holidays.

Alvin T. Burgess is now home
on a seven day furlough from
the Navy. He is to report back
(Con't. on page 2, col. 5)
-

SALT NECESSARY
FOR MODERN USES

The more civilization has
progressed, the more demand
there has been for salt, and to-
day over 4,000,000 tons of
evaporated salt are required
annually for the home and for
a vast number of farm and in-
dustrial uses. Just in the cur-
ing of hides and skins for
leather, 300,000 tons of salt are
used yearly. In discovering
rayon, a blow was struck at the
Japanese silk industry. Rayon
is manufactured by means of
caustic soda, which is obtained
from salt.

According to Dr. Morris
Fishbein, Editor of the Journal
of the American Medical Asso-
ciation and Hygeia: "Sodium
Chloride or common salt prob-
ably ranks first among all the
salts in the human body, both
in quantity and in its value in
the body's nutrition."

Nutritionists estimate that
adults require about one-half
ounce of salt per day, or 12
pounds per year, to enable the
various glands to hold the
amount of water they need for
proper functioning. Salt is also
the source of an important com-
ponent of gastric juice, both in
the human and animal body.
Upon receiving salt, the
stomach changes its chloride
component into hydro-chloric
acid in order to digest food.
The body divides the salt into
its chemical consitutents with
the greatest of ease, but it
takes elaborate equipment to
do the same thing industrially.

Electricity is the key to the
decomposition of the salt cry-
stal. When a strong current is
passed through molten salt, the
hot mass is separated into a
silvery white metal, sodium,
and the greenish yellow gas,
chlorine.

Both elements are widely
used by industry. Sodium has
been employed for many years
in the manufacture of dyes, in-
secticides, and photographic
materials, and more recently in
making the tetraethyl lead
used in aviation gasoline. Op-
eration of airplanes at the ter-
rific speeds necessary in this
war is also facilitated by the
(Con't. on page 2, col. 5)

[Column 5]

to Norfolk, Va.

Gertrude Lyda visited Mr.
and Mrs. Oda and Nellie Breed-
love of Pickens recently.

T/Sgt. and Mrs. C. A. Brown,
from Fort McClellan, Ala.,
were weekend guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Drury.

We are glad to hear that
John W. Freeman's big boy is
doing just fine. He is now five
weeks old.

Second shift employees wish
for Mr. Harry Tinsley's wife a
very speedy recovery. She has
been ill for sometime now.

John Laws is opening a fill-
ing station near his new home.
We hope John the best of luck.

Mrs. Smith, from Ontario,
Canada, visited Mrs. Norma
Bowles recently.

Wallace Sutton, O. R. Drury,
and Gene Blanton spent last
Saturday trout fishing, or we
should say climbing mountains.
From what we hear, they had
rather sit on a bank and dish.

-

use of sodium in the valve
systems. By this means, heat
from the engine is conducted
rapidly to the radiating system
and danger of overheating is
minimized.
(Con't. on page 3, col. 1)

[cartoon]