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Sugar Price Hike Announced
Butter and Meat May Be Next
Washington, Jan. 30—The price of
sugar is going up slightly next
month.
But the increase of about seven
tenths of a cent a pound—coupled
with a possible minor rise in meat
prices and perhaps a 6-cent boost
for butter—may end the upward
swing in food costs for many months
to come.
The sugar hike, to become effec
tive about Feb. 2, w ll permit the
government to keen its promise of
higher prices for this year’s cron.
Acting Secretary of Agriculture J.
H. Hutson disclosed plans for th°
price rise in a letter to Congress
asking for authority to continue
some sugar subsidy payments be
gun during the war.
Food officials already have indi
cated that it may be necessary to
grant packing concerns slight in
creases to enable them to meet
workers’ demands for higher wages.
And Secretary of Agriculture An
derson is urging a 6-cent pound in
crease in butter to ecourage greater
production.
President Truman, however, is ex
pected to ask Congress to continue
for another year the federal food
subsidies inaugurated early in the
war.
If Congress goes along, this
should fit”bi1ixe food costs and pre
vent further rises.
The subsidy program has been
costing the government about $1,
798,000,000 a year.
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AAA NEWS
FOR
NOBLE COUNTY
■u
The community committeemen of
the different townships are being
called into the local office this week
and receiving their instructions pre
paratory to calling on the farmers.
The committeemen will assist the
farmers in making out the farm
plan for 1946. This should be com
pleted before March 1.
Those wishing a new tobacco al
lotment should call at the AAA of
fice and fill out application blanks.
Only persons that have raised or
helped to raise tobacco in the past
five years are eligible. There is
nothing to prevent the farmer from
raising any amount he desires, but
they will have to pay a penalty of 10
cents per pound. The government is
asking a decrease by the growers of
77 percent for the current year.
William H. Archer is chairman of
the county AAA and his office force
is busy this week with instructions
to the township committeemen.
Pfc. Ora Thomas
Receiving Discharge
Naha, Okinawa—Pfc Ora Thomas,
hu'band of Mrs. Dolly Thomas,
South Olive, and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Thomas, Caldwell R. D. 1,
recently left the 550th Quartermas
ter company and is leaving Okinawa
for the United States soon to get
his discharge from the army. He was
redeployed to the Pacific direct from
Europe.
He entered the army at Ft. Ben
jamin Harrison, Ind., in June, 1942,
and has served with this company
for over three years. After leaving
the States late in 1944, Thomas
made an extended world tour with
his company. He sailed for Europe
on the world’s largest ship, Queen
Elizabeth, and arrived in Scotland.
Afterwards, in rapid succession, he
served in England, France, Belgium.
Holland, and Germany. While in
Holland and Germany he was at
tached to the Ninth U. S. army and
contributed to the success of the
company in being awarded the meri
torious service unit plaque, “for su
perior execution of duty in the per
formance of exceptionally difficult
tasks.’’
On the 13th of July, Pfc Thomas
left Marseille, France, aboard an
army transport, for the Pacific. He
sailed through the Panama Canal
and made stops at Eniwetok and the
Ulithi atoll enroute and at last, on
the 14th of September, landed on
Okinawa.
Pfc Thomas will never forget the
typhoon that washed him out of his
pup tent the day after arrival at
Okinawa, or the one which resulted
in such havoc on Oct. 9.
He is eligible to wear the ETC
ribbon with two campaign stars, the
Good Conduct medal, the American
Theater ribbon, the meritorious ser
vice award, the Asiatic-Pacific Thea
ter ribbon, and World War II Vic
tory medal.
HOME
DEMONSTRATION
NEWS
Mrs. Leota Robinson, Brookfield
township, was elected chairman of
the Noble County Home Demonstra
tion council at a party held in the
basement of the Methodist church on
Saturday ^afternoon, Jan. 26. Other
officers elected were Mrs. Helen
Douglass, Batesville, vice chairman,
and Mrs. Mildred Day, Willscreek,
secretary.
Following the short business ses
sion, games were enjoyed by each
person present. Refreshments were
served by the home demonstration
agent, Margaret Donohoo, assisted
by Miss Vina Hedge.
Mrs. Chloe Pierce, the retiring
chairman, w*as presented with a
bouquet of jonquils as a token of ap
preciation for her faithful service
during the past year. Each councillor
was then presented with a jonquil
as a token of the horns demonstra
tion agent’s appreciation for their
fa thful assistance and service in
planning and helping to carry out
the extension program.
Those present were Mrs. Mabie
Wilson and Mrs. Rhea McNabb of
Sharon Mrs. Floy Parrish, Forest
Grove Mrs. Ixla Mitchell, Keith
Mrs. Mildred Smith, Jackson Mrs.
Verna Guiler, Whigville Mrs. Louise
Daniels and Mrs. Mary Young, Cald
we.l Mrs. Mabel Starr, Beaver
Mrs. Mildred Day, Willscreek Mrs.
Helen Douglass, Batesville Mrs.
Inez Davidson, Sarahsville Mrs.
Floy Tilden, Renrock Mrs. Leota
Robinson and Mrs. Grace Hedge,
Brookfield Mrs. Mildred Law, Mt.
Ephraim Mrs. Chloe Pierce, Cald
weL Mrs. Esther Garvin, and Mrs.
Sara King, Three Forks Mrs. Marie
Miller, Fulda, and Mrs. Leia Stiers,
Ava.
Brookfield Meeting
The process of refinishing furni
ture was begun on two tables
brought to the meeting held in
Brookfield township at the home of
Mrs. I/eota Robinson on Tuesday,
Jan. 22. The old finish was removed,
the dents were raised and crevices
were filled.
At noon a delicious covered dish
dinner was served and was enjoyed
by all. Those attending were: Mrs.
Grace Hedge, Mrs. Edith Hedge,
Mrs. Mary Young, Mrs. Cora Hamil
ton, Mrs. Kathryn Leonard, Mrs.
Losia Davis, and Mrs. Leota Robin
son. Mrs. Margaret Donohoo, home
demonstration agent, conducted the
meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled for
Friday, Feb. 15, at the home of Mrs.
Grace Hedge.
Whigville Meeting
The homemakers from the Whig
ville community met at Mrs. Mat
Gulick’s store for their first meeting
on refinishing furniture. A drop leaf
table, a walnut stand and a rocker
were the items of furniture worked
on. Plans were made to continue the
refinishing process at a second meet
ing which will be held on Feb. 19.
At this meeting a coat of stain will
be applied to the table and several
coats of wax will be applied to the
stand.
At noon a covered dish dinner was
served and enjoyed by all. Those
present were: Mrs. Gladys Wickham,
Mrs. Verna Guiler, Mrs. Martin,
Miss Helen Spence, Mrs. Dell Thom
as, Mrs. Florence Carter, Mrs. Vir
ginia Ward, Mrs. Freda Guiler, Mrs.
Mat Gulick, Mrs. Rose Gulick, Mrs.
Helen Watson, and Mrs. Glen Bates.
The home demonstration agent,
Margaret T. Donohoo, conducted the
meeting.
Forest Grove Meeting
The old finish was removed from
a dining room table and drawers
Night
Coughs
due to colds
are eased, sticky phlegm loosened up,
irritated upper breathing passages are
soothed and relieved, by rubbing Vicks
VapoRub on throat, chest and back
at bedtime. Blessed relief as VapoRub
PENETRATES to upper bronchial
tubes with its special medicinal vapors,
STIMULATES chest and back sur
faces like a warming poultice.
Often by morning most of the mis
ery of the cold is gone! Remember—
ONLY VAPORUB Gives You this spe
cial double action. It’s time-tested,
home-proved ... the best-known home
remedy for reliev- A /a
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children’s colds. VAPORUB
Golden Opportunity
To buy
Bowling Alley Fixtures
(complete)
We have FOUR Bowling Alleys, complete, for
sale and believe that Laid well is an ideal spot to
open up this form of recreation. Priced so cheaply
that the first buyer will take them.
If interested, contact THE JOURNAL OF
FICE, for complete details.
which belong to larger pieces of
furniture at a meeting conducted by
the home demonstration agent, Mrs.
Margaret T. Donohoo, in the Forest
Grove community. It was held at
the home of Mrs. Goldie Foster on
Thursday, Jan. 24. This was an all
day meeting and at noon a covered
dish dinner was enjoyed by all.
Plans were made to complete the re
finishing process and their second
meeting which is scheduled for
Thursday, Feb. 28, at the same
place.
Those attending were: Mrs. Etta
Burrier, Mrs. Roxie Haines, Miss
Josie Smith, Miss Laura Ramsey,
Mrs. Juanita Ramsey, Mrs. Edgar
Long, Mrs. Effie Ramsey, Mrs. Pearl
Elliott, Mrs. Gladys Barnhouse, Miss
Belle Ramsey, Mrs. Clarice Menden
hall, Mrs. Roberta Bigley, Mrs. Mina
Foraker, Virginia Lou Bigley and
Mrs. Goldie Foster.
Scheduled Meetings
Refinishing furniture (second) at
Renrock on Friday, Feb. 1, at 10:30
a. m. This will be held at the grange
hall and the pieces of furniture from
which the old finish had been re
moved will be refinished. Everyone
interested is welcome to attend.
All homemakers in Caldwell who
are interested in attending a dem
onstration meeting on sugar saving
desserts are invited to come to the
home of Mrs. Louise Daniels, North
street, on Monday afternoon, Feb. 4,
at 1:30 p. m. A demonstration on
the making of two desserts will be
given by Margaret T. Donohoo, home
demonstration agent.
Anyone in Caldwell who would be
interested in refinishing furniture
are invited to attend an all day
meeting to be held in the basement
of the Methodist church on Friday,
Feb. 8, at 10:30 a. m. Each home
maker may bring a piece or a part
of a larger piece on which she may
work.
LYCEUM COURSE OPENS
The first number of the Jeffreys
lyceum course at the Belle Valley
high school will open with Courtney,
the great magician, on Thursday
evening of this week. Supt. J. H.
Colley is in charge of the course.
Hon. Harry S. Truman
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
THE JOURNAL, CALDWELL. OHIO
Athens, Ohio, Jan. 16 Evan R.
Collins, former assistant dean of the
Graduate School of Education at
Harvard University, today was ap
pointed dean of the College of Edu
cation at Ohio University.
Only 34 years old, Mr. Collins is
one of the youngest university
deans.
He succeeds Dr. Thomas C. Mc
Cracken, and will assume his duties
Feb. 1, President John C. Baker
said. Dr. McCracken is retiring af
ter serving as dean for 24 years,
and has been named dean emeritus.
Dean-elect and Mrs. Collins and
their two children have established
a residence here at 162 East State
Street.
January 18, 1946
Your proposal to me in Washington last
evening that the wage demand of the United
Steelworkers of America-CIO be settled on
the basis of a wage increase of 18% cents
an hour, retroactive to January 1, 1946 can
not, I regret to say, be accepted by the
United States Steel Corporation for the rea
sons set forth below.
As you must be aware, your proposal is
almost equivalent to granting in full the
Union’s revised demand of a wage increase
of 19% cents an hour, which was advanced
by Philip Murray, the President of the
Union, at our collective bargaining confer
ence with the Union in New York a week
ago today. In our opinion, there is no just
basis from any point of view for a wage in
crease to our steel workers of the large size
you have proposed, which, if put into effect,
is certain to result in great financial harm
not only to this Corporation but also to
users of steel in general.
As I have tried to make clear to you and
other Government officials during our con
ferences in Washington over the past few
days, there is a limit in the extent to which
the Union wage demands can be met by us.
We reached that limit when we raised our
offer to the Union last Friday from a wage
increase of 12% cents an hour to one of 15
cents an hour. This would constitute the
highest single wage increase ever made by
our steel-making subsidiaries. Our offer of
15 cents was equivalent to meeting 60% of
the Union’s original excessive demand of a
$2 a day general wage increase. Our offer
met 75% of the Union’s final proposal of a
wage increase of 19% cents an hour. A wage
increase of 15 cents an hour, such as we
offered, would increase the direct labor
costs of our manufacturing subsidiaries by
approximately $60,000,000 a year. That is a
most substantial sum, and does not take
into account the higher costs we shall have
to pay for purchased goods and services,
when large wage increases generally become
effective throughout American industry, as
is inevitable after a substantial increase in
steel wages.
Courthouse News
Probate Court
Monday—Waiver of notice and
consent to probate filed in the will
of Elizabeth Crum, deceased. Testi
mony of L. C. Young and Opal Gould
taken and filed. Will admitted to
probate and record.
Order to deliver a transfer of pro
perty issued in the estate of Faye
Charlton.
Letters of guardianship issued to
A. L. Scafer in the guardianship of
Nicholas Bycura.
Letters testamentary issued to
Frank J. Crum, in the estate of
Elizabeth Crum.
Will of Jesse B. Hutcheson ad
mitted to probate and record.
Certificate to transfer real estate
issued in the estate of Harold R.
Thompson.
Tuesday—Bond approved and lett
ers of administration issued to John
S. Church in the estate of Jackie
Karl Church.
Wednesday—Petition to sell pers
onal property filed in the estate of
Elizabeth Crum.
Choice of guardian filed in the
guarian’hip of Floyd Walters. For
hearing January 26.
Exception to first and final ac
counts in the estate of Anna Winders
filed for hearing February 28.
Friday— Application for appoint
ment of guardian filed in the guard
ianship of J. E. Clark for hearing
February 1.
WANTED!
WE ARE NOW, AT ALL TIMES, PREPARED
TO REMOVE YOUR DEAD STOCK PROMPTLY.
PHONE 57—Reverse the Charges.
Buclcey’s Feed Store
CALDWELL, OHIO
Saturday—Hearing and letters of
A Letter to the President
of the United States
As you know, collective bargaining nego
tiations with the Union broke down at the
White House yesterday afternoon, because
Mr. Murray then refused to budge from his
position that a country-wide steel strike
must take place, unless steel workers are
granted a general wage increase of 19%
cents an hour. Our offer of a wage increase
of 15 cents an hour was again rejected by
the Union.
The Union threatened to go ahead with
its program for a national steel strike at
midnight next Sunday, although such a
strike will be a clear violation of the no
strike provision contained in our labor con
tracts with the Union, which continue by
their terms until October 15, 1946.
From the outset, we have recognized how
injurious a steel strike will be to reconver
sion and to the economy of this whole coun
try. Most industries are dependent upon a
supply of steel for their continued opera
tions. We have done everything reasonably
within our power to avert such a strike. If
a strike occurs, the responsibility rests with
the Union.
When the Government at the eleventh
hour informed us about a week ago of its
willingness to sanction an increase in steel
ceiling prices, we at once resumed collect
ive bargaining negotiations with the Union.
Such price action by the Government was a
recognition by it of the right of the steel in
dustry to receive price relief because of past
heavy increases in costs, something which
the steel industry for many months has un
successfully sought to establish with OPA.
I should like again to point out some per
tinent facts relative to the wages of our
steel workers.
Since January, 1941, the average straight
time hourly pay, without overtime, of our
steel workers has increased more than the
33% increase in the cost of living during
that period, recently computed by Govern
ment authorities. Steel workers’ wages have
kept pace with increased living costs. Such
average straight-time pay in our steel-pro
ducing subsidiaries was $1.14 an hour in
each of the months of September, October
and November 1945, excluding any overtime
premium and any amount for correction of
possible wage inequities. An increase of 15
cents, in accordance with our offer, would
United States Steel Corporation
guardianship issued to F. M. McKee
in the guardianship of Floyd E.
Walters.
Inventory and appraisement filed
in the estate of A. R. Jennings.
Real Estate Transfers
Ira and Alice Pryor to Elvin and
Ethel L. Sutherland, Maple Heights,
Lot 15.
Albert F. and Nellie L. Dettinger
to Glen and Helen Wilson. Harriets
ville, Lots 37-38.
Irl and Adah Kegerreis to Richard
and Twila Ball, Dexter City.
Harold R. Thompson, deceased, to
Louetta Thompson, Stock township,
Carlisle, 25 square rods.
Ida M. Miller to Andy Yarenko,
S.M.
To Republican Voters
of Noble County
is
Thursday, January 31, 1946
Laura, lots, 134-135. 136 acres.
Susan May and George A. Ennis
to Kenneth Tripplett, Noble town
ship. 30.88 acres.
Louetta Thompson to Earl C.
and Harold H. Schell, Stock town
ship, Carlisle, 25 square rods.
Euphrasia L. Mallett to Herman
and Evelyn Gressel, Stock township,
56.68 acres.
Jane Williamson to Urten McCar
thy. Jackson township, 79 acres.
William and Anna Hayes to Ron
ald and Marjorie Hayes, Olive town
shin. Caldwell,lot 312, 2 acres.
John Jr. and Betty J. Beckett to
the Dundee Coal Co., Brookfield
township, 115 acres.
1 am a candidate for K’ir«sen
tative to the General Assembly,
and if nominated and elected I
will support all Constructive Leg
islation and Honest Government.
I will introduce resolutions re-,
questing Congress to enact all
bills introduced that will benefit
all Veterans, their widows and
orphans and dependents. I will do
all I can to restore the rights
that are delegated to us by the I
Constitution of Ohio and the i
Constitution of the I nited States
of which we have been deprived
for the last several years. I will
oppose all bills introduced intend
ed to centralize power in the
hands of a few. Yours very truly,
FRAKES
raise such average straight-time pay to $1.29
an hour, placing such pay among the high
est today in all of American industry.
Under our offer of a 15 cent increase, the
average weekly take-home pay of our steel
workers for a forty-hour week would
amount to $51.60, assuming that no overtime
is involved. This figure is only $4.54 less
than the actual average weekly earnings of
these employees, including overtime, in the
last full war year of 1944, when the average
work week was 46.1 hours. The difference
is really less, because we will undoubtedly
continue to have overtime in the future, just
as we have at the present time. In Novem
ber, 1945, overtime premiums to our steel
workers aggregated more than $1,300,000.
Such reduction of $4.54 in the weekly take
home pay is the natural consequence of a
shorter work week of forty hours, and there
fore one of lower production.
Much as we desire to avoid a steel strike,
we cannot overlook the effect both on this
Corporation and on our customers and
American business in general, of the 18%
cent an hour wage increase, which you have
proposed. Such a wage increase must result
in higher prices for steel than have pre
viously been proposed to us by the Govern
ment. Great financial harm would soon fol
low for all users of steel who would be
obliged to pay higher prices for their steel,
higher wages to their employees, and still
have the prices for their own products sub
ject to OPA control. Such a high and un
justified wage scale might well spell finan
cial disaster for many of the smaller steel
companies and for a large number of steel
fabricators and processors. The nation needs
the output of these companies. Increased
wages and increased prices which force
companies out of business can only result
in irreparable damage to the American
people.
In our judgment, it is distinctly in the
public interest to take into account the in
jurious effect upon American industry of an
unjustified wage increase in the steel
industry.
After a full and careful consideration of
your proposal, we have reached the conclu
sion above stated.
Respectfully yours,
Benjamin F. Fairless,
President, United States Steel Corporation