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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
2
The OPA warns motorists to use gasoline sparingly and urges rationing boards to vet changes. It lists wartime needs including 100 octane fuel for training and combat planes, overall military fuel consumption, and large daily demands from ships and transports.
The report notes a drastic jump in motorization from the last war to World War III. An infantry division had about 3 200 horsepower in the prior motorized units versus 400 000 horsepower in World War II. Overseas shipments of all supplies rose 600 percent in the war's first year and petroleum products shipments surged more than 8 000 percent.
Washington reports that most fathers may defer induction until October 1, 1943, with physically fit fathers to receive occupational deferments after that date. Beginning July 1, married men aged 18 to 25 will have six month deferment limits unless essential to the war effort.
The will of Edsel Ford filed in Detroit leaves the bulk of Ford Motor stock to the Ford Foundation. Attorneys estimate the inheritance tax at about 12 million dollars, far below earlier guesses. Edsel Ford, Henry Ford’s son and former Ford president, died at 49. the foundation, formed in 1936, supports education and related work.
A brief comic exchange features a puzzled observer asking why someone quit and the reply that the reason was the monkey died. The line captures a quirky, punchy joke format typical of a light newspaper column.
Mount Airy Public Library adds numerous new titles in May including The Human Comedy by Saroyan The Borrowed Husband by Corliss 2nd Vol. Lees Lieutenants by Freeman World By The Tail by Holmes and Listen Hans by Thompson.
The War Food Administration ordered federal inspectors to reserve 45 percent of beef slaughtered from June 14 for government agencies. Army Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard and contract schools will receive the beef while civilian supply tightens. Slaughterers may still distribute civilian quantities equal to 65 percent of the 1941 level, but no current set aside exists. WFA could not quantify civilian shortages.
By order of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Surry County North Carolina an execution dated May 17 1943 in J E White vs Bob Nixon and T J Nixon directs sale of lands in Dobson township to satisfy 600 75 plus costs and interest The sale will be at the Court House Door Dobson NC on Monday July 5 1943 at 1 PM The property is described by bounded parcels along the old Burrus road and adjacent lands and will be sold to the highest bidder for cash to pay the judgment costs and interest The date June 1 1943 marks the notice inclusion
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