Christmas Club pledge aims to curb inflation nationwide
A wartime thrift plan projects 420 million dollars to about 7.5 million Christmas Club members through 48 hundred banks and other groups during Post-War Prosperity Week starting November 20. The program consolidates weekly payments into larger accounts to speed savings and support war effort goals while boosting per-member payments and War Savings Bond participation.
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Herbert F. Ranh
Christmas Club
Public Assistance Disparities Across States
An aged man in a southern town lives on ten monthly dollars from county welfare while neighbors help with food and medicine. In contrast, a Western state offers 349 per month. The article notes state appropriations create wide differences in federal aid support for the needy elderly.
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Social Security Board
Mr. X
Pulp Wood Demand Highlighted by Farmers Foresters Meeting
Farmers foresters and pulp-wood users discussed the urgent need for pulp wood in a recent meeting. The discussion identified a wide range of usable soft wood varieties including Poplar Willow Gum Ash Beech Birch Oak and pines. Wood must be straight sound free from metal and not burned. Ceiling prices offered by mills were twelve dollars per
Forestry Wood Prices Offer Winter Farm Work
Cord cut in 5 ft length with 160 cu ft per cord and a 3 inch plus small end. Prices FOB loaded in box cars at nearest railroad, 12 to 13 cords per car. Unpeeled wood prices listed. pealed wood at 16.00 per cord. Promotes forestry work, winter employment for local farm labor, and extra income. For more details contact Geo W Clendaniel, County Agent.
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F.O.B
Geo. W. Clendaniel
Town and Farm in Wartime Asks Farm Workers to Help
War Manpower Commission asks workers in agriculture to devote all available time to war-useful labor such as pulpwood cutting and lumbering. Transfers to these jobs need no certificate of availability, but military-age workers require local Selective Service approval.
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War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
OPA Ration Rules Upheld and Labor Shifts Noted
Local boards may approve transfers for up to four months and registrants stay in deferred classifications. Workers to return to farming after the off season or as needed. Logging and saw mill shortages demand immediate recruitment. Farmers lacking access to logging operations should contact the local US Employment Service. In Georgia, Judge Archibald Lovett upheld the OPA authority to suspend dealers for ration violations under the Second War Powers Act, ruling a 90 day suspension stands.
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United States Employment Service Office
OPA
Archibald Lovett
Georgia
Lovett
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