Wartime Farm and Ration Updates and Nurse Corps Funds
Farmers face a wartime bond quota with a campaign targeting 3.6 million farm homes. Ration Book III begins September 12 with new brown stamps. red stamps from Book II expire. OPA price controls extend to hay loaders and spreaders with basis up to 85 percent of new price. Overseas Christmas mail expected for 10 million parcels, with strict address, inspection, and timing. Ration value adjustments: lamb, bacon cuts and butter changes increase or decrease points. Cadet Nurse Corps approves funds for tuition, stipends, and uniforms for about 10,175 student nurses, with 67 state programs approved so far.
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OPA
Army Postal Service
U. S. Post Office Department
Nurse Corps
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Nursng
U. S. Public Health Service
Wartime Lumber Drive Expands From Farm Woodlands
War Food Administration announced a plan to boost forest product output from farm owned woodlands to meet military and essential needs. About half a million farms possess woodlands capable of yielding marketable products, aiding the vast 36 billion board feet lumber target for 1915. Deed and dried prune and raisin rationing ended September 3 with four cents per pound values, government allocations expected large, and civilian prune and raisin supply projected to exceed 90 percent of the five year average.
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War Food Administration
Farmers Slaughter Permits Continue Under New Meat Order
Farmers who slaughter meat for sale will keep farm slaughterer permits under Food Distribution Order 27 despite FAO 75. August 14 1943 permit holders retain status with no reapplication. The new order restricts non quota holders to 400 pounds dressed meat or traditional animal limits, while home use slaughter remains allowed. Apply to County War Board or FDA supervisor to obtain or change status.
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John W. Wessells
FDA
Wessells
County War Board
Social Security in War and in Peace
The Social Security Act administers old age and survivors insurance unemployment compensation and public assistance. Over 691000 receive retirement or survivor benefits totaling more than 12.5 million dollars monthly. Unemployment payments have reached over two billion dollars nationwide. About three million needy persons receive about 66 million dollars monthly in public assistance. The board faces a bigger task after the war as veterans return to civilian life and more people may require aid.
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Social Security Board
United States
Dreaming to keep faith through troubled times
A wartime pep talk urges perseverance and hope amid hardship, stressing courage and faith to pursue better days. The piece, signed by M. J. M. from Bethlehem Maryland, dated September 1, 1943, closes with a call to continue striving toward dreams despite weariness.
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Bethlehem, Md
Crusts On Or Off For Sliced Sandwiches
Guidance on removing crusts before slicing sandwiches for uniform slices and butter use. For dainty sandwiches crusts are removed while for picnic or school use crusts stay on. Crusts can be reused in various ways.
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