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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
6
The Office of War Information outlines wartime rationing items including poods, stamps, sugar, canning sugar, shoes, and gasoline. Local boards issue supplemen tal rations and new rules require car owners to write license numbers on gasoline coupons. Hog ceiling prices for live hogs over 240 pounds reduced by 75 cents per hundredweight.
The War Labor Board may require unprofitable furniture makers to grant wage increases and apply for price relief through the Office of Price Administration. The OPA will cover losses but not wage-adjustment costs. The canning sugar program now limits 10 pounds in period one, with 10 additional pounds in period two for actual canning use. Fuel oil rationing boards will mail next season’s forms to consumers. A Petroleum Advisory Committee in Western North Carolina, led by Laurens Wright, will cooperate with the OPA to curb the gasoline black market and educate the public. The committee includes major industry figures from Charlotte and Winston-Salem.
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of G. W. Tolbert of Surry County North Carolina this is to notify all persons with claims against the estate to present them verified to the undersigned administrator on or before May 20 1945 at his home Eldora Township Rt 4 Mount Airy North Carolina or this notice will be pleaded in bar of right of recovery All persons indebted to said estate will make prompt payment This the 20 day of May 1944 H L Tolbert Admr of G W Tolbert D L Hiatt Atty.
Minty veterans from the African and Italian campaigns have been moved to England to aid in invasion army training. Local soldiers listed include Pvt Woodrow Payne and Pfc McAddo White of Dobson, Pvt Whiiker R. Hicks of Mount Airy, and Pvt Ronald L. Matthews of Pilot Mountain.
Having qualified as administratrix of the estate of the late Wape sons the claimants must file their verified claims with Sue Collins at Welch Street Mount Airy North Carolina by May 20 1945. Prompt payment requested. This May 20 1944.
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