January 25, 1945 (4 pages)

a = ye — THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945. nad . Page Thee erasers %~ = ‘ea ; = — ; ? . =e . desleestestestean ~ Sa Se a te te te a % . : a KS ~<O = CHAPTER XVIII, Pin = .So Johnny glided to the field with . # <& Sy his missing engine, and then we} heard him say that he.couldn’t make . the field and was going to sit down in the river. The moon-made it : : E Gj 3 %S ey . fairly bright, but even at that I knew S cm . that Johnny had to ‘be mighty good : ‘a and very lucky. "Then I wondered ! whether or not he was wounded. a Silhouetted against the light from) Col. Robert L.Scott Sesferfergerterts He > te stestestestesteste ste sectetest he oe age spe ne nents se ole fe nf ofe a] anes etetotel Pere a *% the three bombers he had shot dawn, his fighter looked awfully Jow. He skimmed over the Chinese junks on the river, and I saw the splash as. *, ates! W:N.U. RELEASE she atest Serta fetes AHH esteste te o, a) FAMILY REUNION . through recognized automotive and re ee arch a hse priate oer * + Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bennallack. equipment dealers of the ranchers oe cede dive one more * .) were ‘hosts Sunday to a family re-. choice, at prices within the ceilings dying gasp, as with a surge of power z = ; Union at the home on Empire Street: . established by the OPA. —probably from full gun and a prop ; * v . Children and grandchildren gather . The AAA serves in’ a liaison capacin low pitch—it lifted him over the * ed for a family reunion. lity and Bonnett emphasized to the last of the masts of the junks vite : Those attending the reunion were. farmers present, the necessity or} let es wie cat to skid across . 3 : AOR eobele Bennallack and Mrs. following regularly shana maeet: ahs We care (aed bined now, for $ : ' t Bennallack, Seaman Brett Bennal-! cedures. Recommendations of the. the ground crew had gotten the ‘Enjoymen lack of the U. S. Coast Guard, Mr. AAA are given preferred considera. tion ‘by the office of surplus prop. erty in making distribution of avail. able units’to authorized dealers for . account of agriculture having AAA. smudge-pot boundary lights set out 4 to mark.the runway as well as the bomb craters.\We gathered together fast with the boys who had stayed on the ground, and talked about the great battle. I remember Tex Hill and Mrs. Francis F. Bennallack and son of Stockton, and Mr. and Mrs. Arlié Hansen and two children of Richmond. : Eat x Drawing a bead on polio, Two-year-old Michael Sullivan of St. Louis, Missouri, recently recovered from a crippling attpr’: «° con annem aren emma EIN A i SaeaemeEn ng infantile paralysis, aided in his tussle year’s appeal, January knows what THAT fight is like. Mich--i * with the Crippler by the March of Diw-<. ' i E 14-31, will help thousands of YOUN sco onck win out against infantile paralysis. UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENT DROP SAICRAMENTO, Jan. -22.—During 1944 unemployment insurance operations in California were .on the sthallest scale for any year: except 1943. Only about 60,000 persons, ineluding those in noninsured industries, were out of work at any ‘one time. Most of these workers were out of work for brief periods. beween jobs and relatively few filed elaims for unemployment insurance. This’ was a far cry from 1935 when unemployment in the state was estimated at over 700,000 These are the highlights of a review of opérations released today by J. G. Bryant, chairman of the California Employment Stabilizaion Commission. He pointed out that his figures are preliminary estimates which will be subject to minor re« vision. During the past year 95,694 pereons filed few claims for unemployment insurance in California and only 57,266 actually collected benefits. These payments amounted to $9,980,000 for 578,000 weeks of eompensable unemployment. On the average, each person received $104 ‘pr $17.30 a week, in benefits for Bix weeks. workers. : The greatest amount of unemployment occurred in Los Angeles County, where 38 per cent. of all benefits were paid, made the greatest amount of unemployment occurring in the METHODIST CHURCH Sunday school at 10 a: m. Preaching service at 11 a. m. Organ prelude, Mrs. Vance. Special musical number by choir; Sérmon, pastor. :Closing hymne, prayer, benediction. The public is: cordially invited. The Youth Fellowship Group at 6 p. m.4 latter part of the year. The tverage number of weeks compeneated per), beneficiary was five in that county. Fresh Fruit: Referendum Onen. Until February’ 1 Ballots have beén ‘mailed to grow-. ers in the referendum on marketing . agreement for bartlett pears, plums: and elberta peaches marketed in. . fresh form. In the marketing agresment between the secretary of agriculture and the growers and shippers of these fruits, the secretary agreed to conduct a referendum . among growers every other year. . This-referendum is to be the means of determining whether or not the growers favor continuance of the program. . The referendum will be conducted between January 17 and February 1 inclusive, and growers who do not receive balléts by mail will have an opportunity to vote January 29 and 30 between the hours of 1 and 5 p. m. Office of the county agricultural conservation committee have -been designated as polling places. ‘Those growers who do not receive ballots All.young people are invited. Preaching service at 7 p. m. Ten minutes of song service. Sermon by pastor. Week events: Choir practice Wednesday -at 6:30 p. m. All members are asked to be present. FARM NEWS FLAX PAYMENTS $5 AN ACRE Designed to increase the output of flaxseed and incorporated as part of the 1945 agricultural “conservation program adntinistered by AAA committeemen payments of $5 will be made to farmers for each acre planted to flaxseed up to the acreaage sét as a 1945 goal. L. E. Sleeman chariman of the Nevada County agricultural conservation association said ,today. Payments will not be made on any flaxseed acreage which AAA county committees determine is not adapted to the crop or which is not tended in a workmanlike manner. : Critical requirtments for huge volumes of linseed oil obtained from flax are for use in paint and varnish by mail should contact the. Jocal county agricultural conservation committee office, -or communicate’! with the fruit and vegetable branch, . WA. P. O. Box 230, Sacramento 1, . California, requesting a_ ballot. BIRTH LeDUC—In Nevada City, Nevada qcounty, California, January 21, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. William. LeDuc of Grasg Valley, a son. One out of every eight enlisted men plans to operate either a small business or farm ‘after discharge from the army, according to a recent survey at Ninth Service Command headquarters. .THAT MAN’S A HERO If he’s wearing a watered silk} service ribbon with bands of red,! white, blue, white and red, in se-!. } quence. : ; : This ribbon. signifies the wearer has distinguished himself by extra. . ordinary -heroism in connection with military operations against an arm-! ed enemy and has been awarded the . Distinguished Service Cross—second . hgihest War Department. decoration. . WE ARE LICENSED TO HANDLE CORONPR’S CASES HOLMES FUNERAL HOME . 24-HOUR maine SERVICE . 1 246. Sacramento Street Sympathetic Understanding . We offer calm, sympathetic and tactful service—inviting your trust and confidence. Neyada City Hotel Clunie UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best SHOP AND COCKTAIL Food -8TH AND K STREET, TOY AND JACOBS. JACK B uENTO, CALIFORNIA , Manager SACR. NEVADA COUNTY 244 Bonlder Street “THE PIONEER LUMBER YARD” Telephone 500 LUMBER: COMPANY Nevada City, Calif. . +known to for coated fabrics, for leather “and textile processing and in the construction of ships and weapons of wat, Sleeman explained. The total requirtments are 36,800,000 bushels from domestic production plus 6,300,000 bushels from importation. Under the-flax seed program the ‘state goal is 180,000 acres will be broken down into county goals on the basis of adaptability of soil, availability of crop land, equipment and labor. The acreage and production of flaxseed in the county during recent years and other related factors will also be taken into account, Sleeman said he had been advised by the state AAA committee. When the county goal ig determined it will be broken-down into farm goals on a similar basis, however, to encourage maximum production at .the same time afford desirable flexibility ‘n operation, the program provides that the sum of the farm flaxseed goals in the county will be 100 and 120 per cent of the county goal. Ag the major part of California 1945 flax crop already planted; to provide equitable allocations of the state and county goals, goals will be established for, farnié On» which flax seeding operations are already completed. Flax rowers who have already computed their flax plantin'g operations to the maximum possible will therefore participate in the flax payment. Much additional acreage is still ex‘pected however, and also increased (Production is anticipated on acreage ‘alfeady planted in proven areas by increased fertilization.--SURPLUS PROPERTY Twenty five ranchers: from scattered points in central and southern California met with S. E. Bonnett, ijregional deputy director of U. S. treasurys office of surpiits property to discuss’ ways and means of sectiring farm, construction and autoniétive equipment. 5 Surplus: war property administration regulation 1 designated treasury procurement as the disposal agency to handle machinery, impléments, industrial trucks, tractors, ete. Blocks of available trucks arid tractors are allocated to the state chairman of the agriculaural adjustMent agency who deteermines throuhg the local county AAA conimittee distribution to the farmers throughout the state. : Ranchers, farmers, orchardists, etc. should make their requirements their respective local county AAA committees. Awards of available,equipment are made by Ahe office of surplus property upon AAA is approval. LAND BOOM COULD HAPPEN With farm real estate valueg still rising, although volume of-sales declined somewhat .in the. past year, USDA economists warn that danger of a disastrous land boom is by no means passed. In most area, land values increased from 12 to 16 per cent during the 12 months ending November 1, °44. The largest increases were in the Pacifie Catst and mountain states, where buying a farm land by war workers and other city people has influenced the-rige invalues. Buyers have been influenced by high crop prices during the war, and in the mountain sttes favorable cattle yrices have been an influence. There has been considerable’ speculative buying and 20. per cent of recent sales in the far west have been sales of properties acquired within the Dast two years.» For the United States as a whole farm land values on November 1, were 44 per cent higher than the 1935-39 acreage. The greatest in. creases more than 70 per cent— . were in Colorado, Kentucky, and S. Carolina, with increases between 60 and 70 per cent in Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, Wyoming and Montana. More than half the farm purchases now being made are for cash and the farm mortagage debt is still declining as farmers: use increased income to pay off old debts. spring pig crop, which now is estimated at 11 per cent below the goal of 57 1-2 million, there won’t be winter. 2 L. E. Sleeman, chairman for Nevada -County.called on farmers who ordinarily would have already decided on the number of sows they will keep for spring farrowings to look them over again and see if vou can keep any additional ‘ ones to boost the spring pig crop up to the goal. He emphasized the continued high demand for meat. for war need. There enough feed erain to feed more pigs than are’ now planned for next spring and there will be price protection when those pigs are ready for market. : Sleeman pointed out that the hog price support was .recently extended until March 31, 1946 instead of ‘the previous termination date of June 30, 1945. The support’ pirice is $12.50 per hundredweight. Chicago basis, Kfor good to choice butcher hogs and weighing 200 to 270 pounds. Bits and Pieces—Men and women in uniform would be getting a better grade of beef since January 7. Effective on that date, packers operating under federal inspection were required to hold their total procial grades of steerg and heifers until military buyers selected the sixty per cent provided for them. Civilians get their 40 per cent after the fighting men are taken care’of. To meet urgent military requirements 20 per cent of the creamery butter producéd in Fébruary atid 25 per cent in March will be set aside for provide supplies urgently needed for shipment to our armed forces. BIRTHDAY HONOR Neighbors of Mrs. W. H. Landrigan, residing on Alexander Street, gave her sugprise party Monday evening upon her birthday. Gifts were presented and an evening of cards enjoyed following the birthday dinner. : Attending were Mrs. Mary pbell, Mrs. Agnes ~Worthley, Amy Worthley, Mrs. J. Harker, Elsie Osborne, Gladys Young and Hazel Morrecommendation. Sales are handled rison. : ‘ INCREASING SPRING PIG & PRODUCTION If the nations farmers don’t do something about bringing up the . enough hogs for market next fall and! duction of choice, good and commersale overnment agencies, the WE nnounced. ‘This action was. nécessaky, officials stated, to. shaking his head and saying, ‘‘I’m afraid Johnny didn’t make it. Doggone, he was a good boy.’’ We all felt a sinking in our hearts. We. waited and we kind of prayed too. I sent Captain Wang, our salvage . man, out to see if he could get any, news of.Major Alison. We made-our reports out and kept waiting on the alert. Just when we had really given up. hope; we heard the sound of sharp explosions. All of us ran out. of the alert’ shack, to see the strangest sight that we ever saw, even in China. A-procession had entered the field. The Chinese sentry had passed the crowd of people and was himself holding his thumb in the air calling “‘Ding-hao—ding-hao.”’ In the midst of the procession and surrounded by children-shooting Chinese firecrackers in celeb: :tion, was a sedan chair -Carried‘on the backs of the villagers of Hengyang. And Johnny Alison . was in the sedan chair—smiling. While we cheered too and some of . us even got some firecrackers from. . the kids and shot them off, we helped Johtiny out and Heard his story. He’d hit’ the river like a feather-bed, he said, and had’ swum . ashore, having to, kick off his good . American shoes to. make. it. As he . crawled up the bank of the river the Chinese had rushed upon him, thinking he was a Jap out of one of the . bombers. Johnny sdid it lookéd as if they were goifig to cut him up, until he remembered the one word . of Chinese that he’d picked up. He yelled this—one that sounded like can. ' the back of his fiying suit, which asks China fight, they realized who he , Was. Just the man who had _ shot ' down the three enemy ships. town. Johnny Alison had a couple of. burns on his hands and legs where . some bits of the Japs’ explosive bul. lets had hit him. He'd been slightly . cut on the forehead when, on landing in the river, his head had ‘hit . the heavy mietal of the gun-sight. . But the scar that would leave would . bé a common one after the war, for . , every fighter pilot flies along with his head just inches behind that . hunk of steel that contains the lights and prisms of the modern gum sights. Just the slightest accident and it is out there to split your head. I asked Johnny why in héll he went so close to the bomber formation, and he grinned and said, ‘I was scared I’d miss one of them.’’ Our salvage crew worked and worked at the job of raising the P-40 . from the bottom of the Siang-Kiang. But with the fourteen-foot depth and the swift current, they had more . ithan modern engineering with she limitations of our floating equipment could accomplish. . Under Captain Wang—Chinese-American and in our Army—they floated barges out to the spot and tried to tow it ashore with lines. Then they lowered steel drums, tied them to the ship, tried mp the water from the suberged drums and thus float the -4 everything: failedRe During all the work 6 the Amerwith windlass and block-andtackle, the .Chinese villagers, who had offered their services long before, smiled and stood by. We asked ourselves: What in hell could the Chinese coolies and rivermeén do if we, with our general knowledge and advanced civilization, couldn’t raise the ship? We went on and failed for three days, and then to the persistent Chinese we sail, ‘‘Okay, go ahead.”’. tked the spot where Johnny’s fight’r had sunk. Mentally we set down the raising of the ship as impessible and got ready to mark it off the list. But the Chinese went on cheerfully with their work. I saw them pull themselves down into the river with ropes tied to the fighter, taking with them an eighteen-foot length of bamboo. They would slide this under the wing of the ship and lash it into place with grass rope. Hundreds of times they did this, until a perfect mat of hamboo was under the entire wing cf the little P-40. Then they lashed the mat to the fuselage and started another row under the wing. . Through it all we smiled at the wasted effort, and I heard men say, “Oh well, there are lots of Chinese anyway. Let them work.” . “Merugay,’’ which means ‘‘Ameri. ; ” And when they read<the Chi. nese sign that each of us carried on . aid and protection. for the ; American who has come to help es And , = from then on he was the hero of the = % + 4 i e Our patrons find that despite rationing and wartime conditions the quality of our meats measures up to the same high stadmards we have always maintained. Our meats come, from the best cattle, lambs and swine that money can’ buy. Our service to our patrons is built on a foundation of high quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us, They will tell you. ; MARKET. DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. 243 Commercial Street ‘ Phone 67 Chamber of Commerce OFFICE IN CFEY HALL PHONE 575 _ Nevada City. : [FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE FOOD PALACE Groceries, Fruit and’ Vegetables Beer and Wine COR, YORK AND COMMERCIAL NEVADA CTFY, PHONE sbs

a = ye — THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945. nad . Page Thee erasers %~ = ‘ea ; = — ; ? . =e . desleestestestean ~ Sa Se a te te te a % . : a KS ~<O = CHAPTER XVIII, Pin = .So Johnny glided to the field with . # <& Sy his missing engine, and then we} heard him say that he.couldn’t make . the field and was going to sit down in the river. The moon-made it : : E Gj 3 %S ey . fairly bright, but even at that I knew S cm . that Johnny had to ‘be mighty good : ‘a and very lucky. "Then I wondered ! whether or not he was wounded. a Silhouetted against the light from) Col. Robert L.Scott Sesferfergerterts He > te stestestestesteste ste sectetest he oe age spe ne nents se ole fe nf ofe a] anes etetotel Pere a *% the three bombers he had shot dawn, his fighter looked awfully Jow. He skimmed over the Chinese junks on the river, and I saw the splash as. *, ates! W:N.U. RELEASE she atest Serta fetes AHH esteste te o, a) FAMILY REUNION . through recognized automotive and re ee arch a hse priate oer * + Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bennallack. equipment dealers of the ranchers oe cede dive one more * .) were ‘hosts Sunday to a family re-. choice, at prices within the ceilings dying gasp, as with a surge of power z = ; Union at the home on Empire Street: . established by the OPA. —probably from full gun and a prop ; * v . Children and grandchildren gather . The AAA serves in’ a liaison capacin low pitch—it lifted him over the * ed for a family reunion. lity and Bonnett emphasized to the last of the masts of the junks vite : Those attending the reunion were. farmers present, the necessity or} let es wie cat to skid across . 3 : AOR eobele Bennallack and Mrs. following regularly shana maeet: ahs We care (aed bined now, for $ : ' t Bennallack, Seaman Brett Bennal-! cedures. Recommendations of the. the ground crew had gotten the ‘Enjoymen lack of the U. S. Coast Guard, Mr. AAA are given preferred considera. tion ‘by the office of surplus prop. erty in making distribution of avail. able units’to authorized dealers for . account of agriculture having AAA. smudge-pot boundary lights set out 4 to mark.the runway as well as the bomb craters.\We gathered together fast with the boys who had stayed on the ground, and talked about the great battle. I remember Tex Hill and Mrs. Francis F. Bennallack and son of Stockton, and Mr. and Mrs. Arlié Hansen and two children of Richmond. : Eat x Drawing a bead on polio, Two-year-old Michael Sullivan of St. Louis, Missouri, recently recovered from a crippling attpr’: «° con annem aren emma EIN A i SaeaemeEn ng infantile paralysis, aided in his tussle year’s appeal, January knows what THAT fight is like. Mich--i * with the Crippler by the March of Diw-<. ' i E 14-31, will help thousands of YOUN sco onck win out against infantile paralysis. UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENT DROP SAICRAMENTO, Jan. -22.—During 1944 unemployment insurance operations in California were .on the sthallest scale for any year: except 1943. Only about 60,000 persons, ineluding those in noninsured industries, were out of work at any ‘one time. Most of these workers were out of work for brief periods. beween jobs and relatively few filed elaims for unemployment insurance. This’ was a far cry from 1935 when unemployment in the state was estimated at over 700,000 These are the highlights of a review of opérations released today by J. G. Bryant, chairman of the California Employment Stabilizaion Commission. He pointed out that his figures are preliminary estimates which will be subject to minor re« vision. During the past year 95,694 pereons filed few claims for unemployment insurance in California and only 57,266 actually collected benefits. These payments amounted to $9,980,000 for 578,000 weeks of eompensable unemployment. On the average, each person received $104 ‘pr $17.30 a week, in benefits for Bix weeks. workers. : The greatest amount of unemployment occurred in Los Angeles County, where 38 per cent. of all benefits were paid, made the greatest amount of unemployment occurring in the METHODIST CHURCH Sunday school at 10 a: m. Preaching service at 11 a. m. Organ prelude, Mrs. Vance. Special musical number by choir; Sérmon, pastor. :Closing hymne, prayer, benediction. The public is: cordially invited. The Youth Fellowship Group at 6 p. m.4 latter part of the year. The tverage number of weeks compeneated per), beneficiary was five in that county. Fresh Fruit: Referendum Onen. Until February’ 1 Ballots have beén ‘mailed to grow-. ers in the referendum on marketing . agreement for bartlett pears, plums: and elberta peaches marketed in. . fresh form. In the marketing agresment between the secretary of agriculture and the growers and shippers of these fruits, the secretary agreed to conduct a referendum . among growers every other year. . This-referendum is to be the means of determining whether or not the growers favor continuance of the program. . The referendum will be conducted between January 17 and February 1 inclusive, and growers who do not receive balléts by mail will have an opportunity to vote January 29 and 30 between the hours of 1 and 5 p. m. Office of the county agricultural conservation committee have -been designated as polling places. ‘Those growers who do not receive ballots All.young people are invited. Preaching service at 7 p. m. Ten minutes of song service. Sermon by pastor. Week events: Choir practice Wednesday -at 6:30 p. m. All members are asked to be present. FARM NEWS FLAX PAYMENTS $5 AN ACRE Designed to increase the output of flaxseed and incorporated as part of the 1945 agricultural “conservation program adntinistered by AAA committeemen payments of $5 will be made to farmers for each acre planted to flaxseed up to the acreaage sét as a 1945 goal. L. E. Sleeman chariman of the Nevada County agricultural conservation association said ,today. Payments will not be made on any flaxseed acreage which AAA county committees determine is not adapted to the crop or which is not tended in a workmanlike manner. : Critical requirtments for huge volumes of linseed oil obtained from flax are for use in paint and varnish by mail should contact the. Jocal county agricultural conservation committee office, -or communicate’! with the fruit and vegetable branch, . WA. P. O. Box 230, Sacramento 1, . California, requesting a_ ballot. BIRTH LeDUC—In Nevada City, Nevada qcounty, California, January 21, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. William. LeDuc of Grasg Valley, a son. One out of every eight enlisted men plans to operate either a small business or farm ‘after discharge from the army, according to a recent survey at Ninth Service Command headquarters. .THAT MAN’S A HERO If he’s wearing a watered silk} service ribbon with bands of red,! white, blue, white and red, in se-!. } quence. : ; : This ribbon. signifies the wearer has distinguished himself by extra. . ordinary -heroism in connection with military operations against an arm-! ed enemy and has been awarded the . Distinguished Service Cross—second . hgihest War Department. decoration. . WE ARE LICENSED TO HANDLE CORONPR’S CASES HOLMES FUNERAL HOME . 24-HOUR maine SERVICE . 1 246. Sacramento Street Sympathetic Understanding . We offer calm, sympathetic and tactful service—inviting your trust and confidence. Neyada City Hotel Clunie UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best SHOP AND COCKTAIL Food -8TH AND K STREET, TOY AND JACOBS. JACK B uENTO, CALIFORNIA , Manager SACR. NEVADA COUNTY 244 Bonlder Street “THE PIONEER LUMBER YARD” Telephone 500 LUMBER: COMPANY Nevada City, Calif. . +known to for coated fabrics, for leather “and textile processing and in the construction of ships and weapons of wat, Sleeman explained. The total requirtments are 36,800,000 bushels from domestic production plus 6,300,000 bushels from importation. Under the-flax seed program the ‘state goal is 180,000 acres will be broken down into county goals on the basis of adaptability of soil, availability of crop land, equipment and labor. The acreage and production of flaxseed in the county during recent years and other related factors will also be taken into account, Sleeman said he had been advised by the state AAA committee. When the county goal ig determined it will be broken-down into farm goals on a similar basis, however, to encourage maximum production at .the same time afford desirable flexibility ‘n operation, the program provides that the sum of the farm flaxseed goals in the county will be 100 and 120 per cent of the county goal. Ag the major part of California 1945 flax crop already planted; to provide equitable allocations of the state and county goals, goals will be established for, farnié On» which flax seeding operations are already completed. Flax rowers who have already computed their flax plantin'g operations to the maximum possible will therefore participate in the flax payment. Much additional acreage is still ex‘pected however, and also increased

(Production is anticipated on acreage ‘alfeady planted in proven areas by increased fertilization.--SURPLUS PROPERTY Twenty five ranchers: from scattered points in central and southern California met with S. E. Bonnett, ijregional deputy director of U. S. treasurys office of surpiits property to discuss’ ways and means of sectiring farm, construction and autoniétive equipment. 5 Surplus: war property administration regulation 1 designated treasury procurement as the disposal agency to handle machinery, impléments, industrial trucks, tractors, ete. Blocks of available trucks arid tractors are allocated to the state chairman of the agriculaural adjustMent agency who deteermines throuhg the local county AAA conimittee distribution to the farmers throughout the state. : Ranchers, farmers, orchardists, etc. should make their requirements their respective local county AAA committees. Awards of available,equipment are made by Ahe office of surplus property upon AAA is approval. LAND BOOM COULD HAPPEN With farm real estate valueg still rising, although volume of-sales declined somewhat .in the. past year, USDA economists warn that danger of a disastrous land boom is by no means passed. In most area, land values increased from 12 to 16 per cent during the 12 months ending November 1, °44. The largest increases were in the Pacifie Catst and mountain states, where buying a farm land by war workers and other city people has influenced the-rige invalues. Buyers have been influenced by high crop prices during the war, and in the mountain sttes favorable cattle yrices have been an influence. There has been considerable’ speculative buying and 20. per cent of recent sales in the far west have been sales of properties acquired within the Dast two years.» For the United States as a whole farm land values on November 1, were 44 per cent higher than the 1935-39 acreage. The greatest in. creases more than 70 per cent— . were in Colorado, Kentucky, and S. Carolina, with increases between 60 and 70 per cent in Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, Wyoming and Montana. More than half the farm purchases now being made are for cash and the farm mortagage debt is still declining as farmers: use increased income to pay off old debts. spring pig crop, which now is estimated at 11 per cent below the goal of 57 1-2 million, there won’t be winter. 2 L. E. Sleeman, chairman for Nevada -County.called on farmers who ordinarily would have already decided on the number of sows they will keep for spring farrowings to look them over again and see if vou can keep any additional ‘ ones to boost the spring pig crop up to the goal. He emphasized the continued high demand for meat. for war need. There enough feed erain to feed more pigs than are’ now planned for next spring and there will be price protection when those pigs are ready for market. : Sleeman pointed out that the hog price support was .recently extended until March 31, 1946 instead of ‘the previous termination date of June 30, 1945. The support’ pirice is $12.50 per hundredweight. Chicago basis, Kfor good to choice butcher hogs and weighing 200 to 270 pounds. Bits and Pieces—Men and women in uniform would be getting a better grade of beef since January 7. Effective on that date, packers operating under federal inspection were required to hold their total procial grades of steerg and heifers until military buyers selected the sixty per cent provided for them. Civilians get their 40 per cent after the fighting men are taken care’of. To meet urgent military requirements 20 per cent of the creamery butter producéd in Fébruary atid 25 per cent in March will be set aside for provide supplies urgently needed for shipment to our armed forces. BIRTHDAY HONOR Neighbors of Mrs. W. H. Landrigan, residing on Alexander Street, gave her sugprise party Monday evening upon her birthday. Gifts were presented and an evening of cards enjoyed following the birthday dinner. : Attending were Mrs. Mary pbell, Mrs. Agnes ~Worthley, Amy Worthley, Mrs. J. Harker, Elsie Osborne, Gladys Young and Hazel Morrecommendation. Sales are handled rison. : ‘ INCREASING SPRING PIG & PRODUCTION If the nations farmers don’t do something about bringing up the . enough hogs for market next fall and! duction of choice, good and commersale overnment agencies, the WE nnounced. ‘This action was. nécessaky, officials stated, to. shaking his head and saying, ‘‘I’m afraid Johnny didn’t make it. Doggone, he was a good boy.’’ We all felt a sinking in our hearts. We. waited and we kind of prayed too. I sent Captain Wang, our salvage . man, out to see if he could get any, news of.Major Alison. We made-our reports out and kept waiting on the alert. Just when we had really given up. hope; we heard the sound of sharp explosions. All of us ran out. of the alert’ shack, to see the strangest sight that we ever saw, even in China. A-procession had entered the field. The Chinese sentry had passed the crowd of people and was himself holding his thumb in the air calling “‘Ding-hao—ding-hao.”’ In the midst of the procession and surrounded by children-shooting Chinese firecrackers in celeb: :tion, was a sedan chair -Carried‘on the backs of the villagers of Hengyang. And Johnny Alison . was in the sedan chair—smiling. While we cheered too and some of . us even got some firecrackers from. . the kids and shot them off, we helped Johtiny out and Heard his story. He’d hit’ the river like a feather-bed, he said, and had’ swum . ashore, having to, kick off his good . American shoes to. make. it. As he . crawled up the bank of the river the Chinese had rushed upon him, thinking he was a Jap out of one of the . bombers. Johnny sdid it lookéd as if they were goifig to cut him up, until he remembered the one word . of Chinese that he’d picked up. He yelled this—one that sounded like can. ' the back of his fiying suit, which asks China fight, they realized who he , Was. Just the man who had _ shot ' down the three enemy ships. town. Johnny Alison had a couple of. burns on his hands and legs where . some bits of the Japs’ explosive bul. lets had hit him. He'd been slightly . cut on the forehead when, on landing in the river, his head had ‘hit . the heavy mietal of the gun-sight. . But the scar that would leave would . bé a common one after the war, for . , every fighter pilot flies along with his head just inches behind that . hunk of steel that contains the lights and prisms of the modern gum sights. Just the slightest accident and it is out there to split your head. I asked Johnny why in héll he went so close to the bomber formation, and he grinned and said, ‘I was scared I’d miss one of them.’’ Our salvage crew worked and worked at the job of raising the P-40 . from the bottom of the Siang-Kiang. But with the fourteen-foot depth and the swift current, they had more . ithan modern engineering with she limitations of our floating equipment could accomplish. . Under Captain Wang—Chinese-American and in our Army—they floated barges out to the spot and tried to tow it ashore with lines. Then they lowered steel drums, tied them to the ship, tried mp the water from the suberged drums and thus float the -4 everything: failedRe During all the work 6 the Amerwith windlass and block-andtackle, the .Chinese villagers, who had offered their services long before, smiled and stood by. We asked ourselves: What in hell could the Chinese coolies and rivermeén do if we, with our general knowledge and advanced civilization, couldn’t raise the ship? We went on and failed for three days, and then to the persistent Chinese we sail, ‘‘Okay, go ahead.”’. tked the spot where Johnny’s fight’r had sunk. Mentally we set down the raising of the ship as impessible and got ready to mark it off the list. But the Chinese went on cheerfully with their work. I saw them pull themselves down into the river with ropes tied to the fighter, taking with them an eighteen-foot length of bamboo. They would slide this under the wing of the ship and lash it into place with grass rope. Hundreds of times they did this, until a perfect mat of hamboo was under the entire wing cf the little P-40. Then they lashed the mat to the fuselage and started another row under the wing. . Through it all we smiled at the wasted effort, and I heard men say, “Oh well, there are lots of Chinese anyway. Let them work.” . “Merugay,’’ which means ‘‘Ameri. ; ” And when they read<the Chi. nese sign that each of us carried on . aid and protection. for the ; American who has come to help es And , = from then on he was the hero of the = % + 4 i e Our patrons find that despite rationing and wartime conditions the quality of our meats measures up to the same high stadmards we have always maintained. Our meats come, from the best cattle, lambs and swine that money can’ buy. Our service to our patrons is built on a foundation of high quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us, They will tell you. ; MARKET. 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