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Title: The star
Uniform Title: Star (Port Saint Joe, Fla.)
Physical Description: Newspaper
Language: English
Publisher: W.S. Smith
Place of Publication: Port St. Joe Fla
Creation Date: May 21, 1943
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General Note: Editor: Wesley R. Ramsey, <1970>.
General Note: Publisher: The Star Pub. Co., <1970>.
General Note: Description based on: Vol. 2, no. 7 (Dec. 2, 1938).
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THE


STAR


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The Home Newspaper of Northwest Florida's Future Industrial Center ur Quolta V


VOLUME VI PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY., FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943 NUMBER-33


Closing Exercises o


High School Are T(


Be Held Next Weel


Baccalaureate Services At th
School Auditorium Sunda
Night; Commencement Pro
gram Will Be Held Tuesdai

Principal W. A. Biggart state
that closing exercises for the Por
St. Joe high school will be helh
next week, beginning with the
baccalaureate services Sunday eve
ning at 8:30 at the high school
Commencement exercises will b
held at 8:30 Tuesday -evening ci
the high school auditorium, an

CLASS OF 1943
Dorothy Costin-
Betty Culmore
Mary Earl Helms
David Beaty
Thomas Chatham
James Traweek
Julpine Hinson
Lenora Johnson
Mary Johnson
Charles Stevens Jack Shivers
Joyce Morris Thomas Smith
Imogene Manasco
Pauline Owens
Willo Dean Young
'Betty Roberts
Madeline Soderberg
Cordelia Truette
Billy Waller
Ruby Whitfield
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school will close for the summer
vacation next Friday.
Program for the baccalaureate
service follows:
Academic Procession: "March of
the Priests" (from Athalin)
................Mendelssohn
Carolyn Baggett, Pianist
Doxology .......... Congregation
Invocation ... Rev. F. P. Deering
Hymn ....... "All Hail the Power"
Scripture ..... Rev. W. A. Daniel
Anthem, "The Hymns of the Old
Church Choir" ........ Flor-
ence Hall, Dorothy- Earnest,
-Carlton Philyaw, Tommy Kelley
Sermon, "When a Man Meets
. 'God" ...... Re,v. W. A. Daniel
Hymn .... "0 Worship the King"
Benedliction .. Rev. R. F. Hallford
Recessional ..... "Grand March"
Carolyn Baggett, Pianist
The program for commencement
is as follows:
Academic Procession, "Pomp and
Circumstances" .......... Elgar
Carolyn Baggett, Pianist
Invocation ... Rev. R. F. Hallford
Salutatory ......... Joyce Morris
Commencement Address .......
.......... Hon. R. Don McLeod
Presentation of Diplomas ..... .
......... Principal W. A. Biggart
Valedictory ....... Thomas Smith
Song, "Farewell to Thee" .....
.................. Senior Class
Benediction .. Rev. 0. D. Langstoil
Recessional, "March Romaine"...
.............. Charles Gounod
Carolyn Baggett, Pianist

Flat Ceilings Are Set
For Soaps and Cleaners

The prices of all soaps, washing
powders and cleansers were stan-
dairdizedi last Friday by the OPA.
fThe order listed hundreds of soap
items and the maximum price of
each, according to the type of
store.


Sitting In With

the Lawmakers
By RUSSELL KAY
(Florida Press Association)

Forsaking every election prom-
ise that had to do with "economy"
lawmakers staged a complete and
unconditional surrender to the
tax-spenders last week. All hope
'the humble taxpayers might have


had that governmental operating
costs would be curtailed were
L blasted when the senate upped
a appropriations several millions
e above the figure called for in the
. budget committee's report.
The three weeks' effort of the
appropriations committee, to re-
move from the body politic the
d growing cancer of bureaucratic
expenditures, or at least retard its
l process, went for naught. Its rec-
ommendations, which would have i
trimmed a million or so from oper-
ating expense of the state's in-
numerable boards, bureaus, com-
missions and departments, brought
a storm of protest as tax-spending
officials and bureau chiefs ap-
peared at the hearing with tears
running down their cheeks and
cries of anguish that would have
touched the heart of a wooden In-
dian.
The committee might have saved
a lot of time and effort if it had
simply added 5 or 10 per cent to
the budget recommendations and
offered that as a substitute for
the senate appropriations bill.
However, their empty gesture of
suggested cuts gave the boys on
the floor a chance to do their
stuff and, later on they can remind
this or that bureau chief how they.
saved, his skin and ask a little fa-
vor like a job for Uncle Willie or
a contract for Cousin John. All
of which is necessary, regular and
according to Hoyle.

Ignoring every other proposed'
revenue measure, a joint house
and senate finance and taxation
committee set wheels in motion
last week to force through the gov- v
ernIor's three-cent tax on cigarets. v
With 36 signers on the bill t- s
start with, whipping bosses storm-
ed through legislative halls like k'
Roman gladiators. Horse trading in
reached its height by the end of s
the week. A courtesy hearing was c
staged 'Thursday afternoon to give p
those opposing the measure a ii
chance to be heard, tbut Chairman s
Leedy .of the house committee an- c
nounced at the start of the hear-
ing that no matter what anybody c:
might say or dlo the bill would be c;
recommended favorably and, yhat s
is more, passed over as many dead d
bodies as might be necessary. A
packed senate chamber listened B
for an hour and 15 minutes while
former Senator Pat Whitaker of
Tampa gave a masterful prese.ita-
tion of why the bill should not V
pass. The measure reached the ti
floor of the house Monday, where ni
.a battle royal was staged but in ha
vain, for the measure passed by h
a vote of 65 to 27 and was sent it
on to, the senate. I fa


For instance, the top price on
--'Lux soap is set at 8 cents for the; According to Editor Carl. Han-
small independents, and 7 cents ton of the Ft. Myers News-Press,
for the chains and large stores, the Shands committee might well
Large bars, of P & G soap were change its' name to "Jim Lee's
priced at 6 cents for the smallest campaign, committee" since they
class of ,independents and 5, cents have been instrumental in pictur-
for all other classes. ing Jim as the state's No. 1 reason
OPA said the prices were, on why "Millionaires Leave Home."'
the average, the same as existing It's awfully hard to get the av.er-
prices. Formerly,, each store could age citizen to view w ith any de-
charge whatever it got in March, gree of alarm the sad plight of
1942. (Continued on Page 3)


GOOD WORK


SOUTH PACIFIC-Mechanics are
laboring to repair battle damage to
one of the U.S. Army Air Force
bombers at an advanced base in the
South Pacific.. Note that she has
been in ten bombing missions
(count the little bombs) and has
accounted for four Jap planes
(flags) a Jap warship (ship paint
ing) and was at the battle of Mid
way (star).



Test Blackout

Here Next Week

Word has been received from
the Third Fighter Command that
a test blackout will be held at
9 o'clock, or thereabouts, dn the
evening of Wednesday, May 26,
in all counties west of the Ap-
alachicola river.
All members of the Gulf
County Defense Corps will re-
port to their regularly assigned
posts at the sound of the siren
and remain on duty until the
"All Clear" is sounded.
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WAVE Ensign Is Visitor
In Port St. Joe Saturday

Mrs. Lovie Co0burn, the navy's
volunteer recruiter in Port St. Joe,
was visited last Saturday by En-
ign Lucy Harris of the, U. S. Navy
WAVES, and Specialist J. A. Wil-
ins of the navy recruiting office
n Marianna. During her briet
tay, Miss Harris discussed the
college training and types of duty
performed by girls entering this
increasingly popular branch of the
service. Plans, were laid for future
ontacts with interested women.
Ensign Harris has made a spe-
ial study of navy radio commuliV-
ations andl code work and is now
stationed in the office of the port
director at Panama City.

IROTI-,ER OF MRS. COBURN
AND FRANK ROWAN DIES

S. R. Rowan, brother of Mrs. R.
V. Coburn and Frank Rowan of
his city, passed away Saturday
ight at his home in Sneadis. He
ad been ill for three weeks and
is death had been expected, yet
came as a great shock to the
family.
Besides Mr. Rowan and Mrs. Co-
urn, he is survived by his wife.
Irs. Lula Rowan and ten children
f Sneadis; his mother, Mrs. Ellen
iowan .of Greensboro; a sister,
:rs. Allie Dean of Quincy, and
three brothers, J. J. Rowan of
uincy, D. S. and 0. W. Rowan of
reensboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Coburn and Mr.
id Mrs. Rowan attended the fu-
eral services, which were held
unday at Sneads.


A01 4 House Approval Is


V Given On Fund For


ou8 I Gulf County Canal

WITH THE
-" War Department Will Main-
llllllllllllllllllllllllllllilmilllll llllllillillill|]illi[illl i tain W aterw ay, B ut T ax-
Lieut. Tapper Flies Across payers Will Continue to Pay
Mirs. Robert Tapper has received Off $200,000 Bond Issue.


word from her son, Lieut. George
G. Tapper, in the Army Air Force,
that he has arrived safely "some-
where." George flew his shin to


According
Congressman


to a telegram from
Bob Sikes at Wash-


1 South America 'and hopped oft ington, the house Monday ap-
from there across the Atlantic per- proved the bill recommended May
haps to England, Dakar, Tunisia, 5 by the house rivers and harbors
China, Australia or most any place. committee to authorize the war de,
9 He instructed his mother to be apartment to deepen the Gulf county
e sure that The Star got his change canal to nine feet and widen to
* of address, since he didn't want to 100 feet at a cost of $112,000 to
e miss an issue of the paper, prevent any curtailment in barge
s traffic supplying the Southeastern
S Jesse Stone Gets Promotion pipeline corporation's terminal
s Jesse Stone Gets Promotion here which supplies Georgia, Ata-
s The editor is in receipt of a let- bama and Tennessee with petro-
: ter from Jess,e, V. Stone in which leumn products.
he states, "I have completed an, Present shoaled condition of the
advanced course of- sound material 5%-mile waterway, which connects
and technical radio and have been this city with the inland -water-
II given my fourth promotion in nine way, has been impeding full ca-
months of service,. tris time, to pacity ,of use of the pipeline.
second class petty orricer. I have An effort was made by Glenn
been transferred back to my ship Taylor, director of inland water-
and prefer that you send my paper ways division, Office of Defense
there." Jesse now gets his Star Transportation, to convince the
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco. budget bureau and other govern-
In writing to his mother and ment agencies, that the deepening
father, Mr. and Mars. T. H. Stone, of the canal-to nine feet, from its
Jesse said that he lost about 25 present seven, and, widening It to
pounds in the 10-weeks' training 100 feet from its present practicat-
course, but that hee made a good bottom width of 40 feet,.should (.e
grade and i,. -sure '.,I ,that the dore -as an emer-7ency measure
course ended when it did or he without legislative "-,. His. ef-
would have been a complete wrick. fortss failed, and the matter is now
He says that "electronics" will the in the hands of congress and un-
the thing after the war, that he is 'doubedly will be given approval.
in on the ground floor and that h Taylor sed that expenditure
intends to absorb all the knowl-jof federal funds on the canal was
edge possible along this line while justified, as a war measure "even
in the navy. if the government didn't get a
Nickel back."
Creech Somewhere In Pacific An effort was made by our con-
SIC Kenneth Creech, with the gressional delegation to have the
Seabees, probably is "so.m,ewhcre government assume the $200,000
in the Pacific" at the present time bond issue voted for construction
since The Star has been instructed of the waterway, but the bill failed
to mail his paper "c/o Fleet Post- to pass. Army engineers had as-
office, San Francisco, Calif." sured Gulf county, when it 'bonded
itself to build the canal in 1939
Star Goes To Two More that the government would take it
This week Mrs. J. D. Lane came over in due time. but a subsequent
in and asked that The Star be change in war department policy
sent to her son. A/.S John Lane, against the taking over of private
in training with the Amny Air projects left us holding the bag-
Forces at Knoxville, Ten. y Air or the canal, if you prefer. To date
T. M. Schneider is having The the taxpayers, have paid off $20,-
Star mailed to his son, Pvt. A!T000 of the $200,000 bond issue.
Schneider, now stationed at Fort Col. George R. Goethals, of the
Sill, Okla. Army ,Engineer Corps, agrees that
Both papers go. at the special ser- improvement of the canal is ad-
vicemen's rate of $1.00 per year. visible at this time and that nd-
will be done with the understand-
ing that the county will deed the
Sgt. George Cooper Is Visitor canal to the government upon
Sgt. George L. Cooper, stationed liquidation of the $180,000 still
at Fort Rtley, Kan., is the guest outstanding. Big-hearted George.
of Mr. and Mrs. Gerge Cooper ----
andi Mr. and. Mrs. Clyde Gentry. "Gone With the Wind" To
He has a 12-day furlough and ex- Play Return Engaged et
-pects to return to camp Sunday. Play Return Engagement
Manager Ben Rivers of the Port
theatre announces that "Gone
OPEN ON JUNE 14 With the Wind" will play a one-
day reTurn engagement here some
Prof. W. A. Biggart announces time next month. The picture will
that if a sufficient number of stu- be full length and will offer al-
dents sign up, summer school will most four hours of grand enter-
be held again this year. Students tainment.
can make up two subjects or take Watch for the date.
up 'one new subject in the high -.
school; lower grades can only do N O T I C E
make-up work. The course will Turn right now to the Port the-
last eight weeks and classes will after advertisement and see if
be held in the morning, your name is in it. If so, you can
Anyone interested may contact call at The Star office and get a
Mr. Biggart. free pass to the Port.


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THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


THE STAR
Published Every Friday at Port St. Joe, Fla.,
by The Star Publishing Campany
W. 8. SMITH, Editor

t7tered as Second-class matter, December 10,
1937, at the Postoffice, Port St. Joe, Florida,
under Act of March 3, 1879.

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The spoken word is given scant attention;
the prin~d woril is thoughtfully weighibd.
The spoken word barely asserts; the printed
word roughly coniices. The spoken word
is rost; the printed word remains.

Our Country Right or Wrong


FANTASTIC!

The better brains of the country have been
drawn into the war- administration. Politics
has to be forgotten when a burglar has a guit
at your head. Domestic problems have been
largely sidetracked in the public nind, as
they have seemed superficial compared with
the war.
Bureaucracy has runi wild-in Washington.
The simplest acts in family life have been
made complicated issues. One has but to read
the requirements for cutting up a beef in or-
der to comply with price ceilings, to see how
confused a local butcher must be. A farcical
article on this angle from the Springfield
(Mo.) Leader-Press is given below:
"I am Mr. Brown, the agricultural expert
for this division. Here are my credentials."
"Ah, yes, Mr. Brown. Harvard man, I see.
Splendid. Now which department do you-"
"I think I would prefer the publicity angle.
I have some new ideas I should like to g've
the farmers. Take, for example, our most de-
licious berries, the potato and the onion. I
think, we should plant the trees closer and
prune the branches in the spring just after
the molting season. That would give us more
branches to produce more burrs. This same
plan would help the peanut tree.
"However, my chief interest is bovines ot
cows. It has been our practice to produce
numbers of useless male cows, and this must
be discouraged. Such as are produced should
be butchered and made into sausage and hanm
to relieve the pork and mutton shortage.
"We have also followed the wasteful prac-
tice of feedin-' our young female cows a year
or more before breaking them to give milk.
I think these fillies should be trained to pro-
duce milk within six or eight weeks after
hatching.
"The whole dairy business needs efficient
reorganization. We must teach our dairymen
to specialize. The cows in one region should
give nothing but milk, those in another noth-
ing but cream, those in a third nothing but
butter, and those in a fourth section nothing
but cheese. Iti will not be necessary to special-
ize in buttermilk, for we can use ordinary
milk and add the butter at a processing plant.
"We have been very wasteful. No doubt
you have read about the breakage of milk
bottles. This can be corrected by using larger
containers with rubber cushions around the
top. We should not blame the cows, for it
must be very difficult to sit on these bottles.
"Cows are nervous animals, easily dis-
turbed by noise. I think we should disconnect
or plug up the horns they use in making that
mooing sound, and- "
"Yes, yes, Mr. Brown. That is splendid.
But excuse me a moment. I need a little air."
And from some of the stuff that comes to
the editor's desk that isn't as fantastic as it
sounds. With a lot of people in government
bureaus sending out rules on this and that
about which they know apparently nothing,
running a dairy, a grocery or merchandise
store has become a problem so complicated
that many stores are going ou" of business.
Instead of receiving a helping hand from


government bureaus, everyone is threatened
with a $10,000 fine or ten years in jail, or
both, as the penalty for every failure to com-
ply.
The people of Port St. Joe and Gulf county
are heart and soul for winning the war on
the battlefront. Boys from almost every fam-
ily in the county are there. We are proud 61
the results they are accomplishing. Our peo-
ple are also heart and soul for winning the
production and distribution problems on the
home front to back up our whole war effort.
But we should get our eyes opened to the
waste and confusion and politics-as-usual on
the home front.
The situation has become fantastic, and it
is high time that thousands of bureaucrats
who never raised a chicken, a hog, or a cow,
and who never produced an article by manual
labor, and who never maintained a payroll
or sold a yard of goods or a pound of sugar,
be replaced by men who know something of
the actual problems of production and distri-
bution.
Let brains.come to the top in domestic ar-
fairs as they have in military affairs.


THE BRIDE'S COOKERY
The season for June bride's is almost here
again, which reminds us of the newlywed
husband who asked his bride, "Who spilled
horseradish on the waffle'?." She asked how
he got that idea, as the thing she was serv-
ing was lemon pie.
This is-, of course, a most unjust caricature
on the effort of the charming newlyweds to
make a happy home and provide good eats,
and we hasten to state that it didn't occur
in Port St. Joe, for we know all the local las-
sies are studying the cookbook hard, trying
to become scientific providers of nutrition.
But perhaps in spite of all, the pie some day
may have a soggy undercrust, or the beet-
steak be burned (if they can get one to burn).
Even if so, the boy friend probably never
inquired about her domestic science training,
in their former times of romantic dates and
soulful looks.
One reason for disaster following some
marriages is that the sweet young thing
never had learned to cook. One of the most
useful sports for a young lady contemplating
marriage is playing with the cookstove.


From here and there, we gather that the
Grand Old Party is perking up its ears and
sniffing a few snuffs preparatory to a rousing
snort in 1944.


Military men are looking over Schickel-
gruber's war record to find out where he
made his worst mistake. It was when he quit
the house-painting business.-Times-Union.
ye^--s -
There's quite a difference between the city
and the country. In the country the houses
are farther apart, but the people are closer
together.


The boys who were keeping their home
towns all stirred up by their antics a few
years ago are now making life uncomfortable
for the Nazis and Japs.


Overheard at the Quality grocery: "Let's
get a can of peas AND a can of corn-we
aren't going to live forever."


The reason most men never reach the top
is because they are too comfortable at thi,
bottom.


When businessmen get together there are
about as many views as there are business-
men.

Our sympathy goes out to the woman who
invested her life insurance in another hub-
band.


Keep smiling-and buy War Bonds!


"I used to be afraid the Government would
requisition my car. Now I'm afraid they
won't."


trate fite point perfectly. The young
n J man is earning $200 a month now at
a job he learned in four days. His
A Fs JA daily output was above average
fA SIA when he had worked there a month.
Starting green, as he started factory
BY GEORGE S. BENSON work, it would take nearer four;
Preside&t/,Vm a'dii Coll years than four days to learn farm-
Searcy, akaSrnsas ing
hmg.


Agricola
Hurrying along "K" street in
Washington a few weeks ago, the
cab in which I was riding narrowly
escaped an accident. Somebody, ab-
sorbed in thought, carelessly stepped
off the curb in front of the taxi and
the driver veered sharply to the left
to avoid striking him. I saw the
man. He was tall, dreamy-looking,
carried a big package and needed a
haircut rather noticeably.
Of course, I wondered who he
was: maybe a hopeful inventor go-
ing to the Patent Office with some
contrivance he believed would win
the war, or perhaps some learned
bureaucrat pondering weighty fig-
ures such as fill the pages of the
federal budget. Imagine my emo-
tion at hearing the driver remon-
strate, "Wake up, you dumb farm-
er! Dis ain't no corn field."
Did He Mean It?
The driver meant "lout" but he
said "farmer", and set me to won-
dering how many people in America
think these words mean the same
thing. Not all of them, certainly.
But all too many are not aware that
farming is a real art at which louts
do not succeed. Not enough people
realize that the farm problem ought
to be receiving far more intelligent
attention than it is getting. One of
America's gravest dangers in the
present crisis is a low appraisal of
the skill required on American
farms.
Tha average farmer in the United
States is an alert, thinking individ-
ual. Even a good farm hand is
amazingly versatile. He is obliged
to be, in order to do his work. Farm-
ing is a calling of many skills. A
farmer does not have to be a vet-
erinary surgeon but he must know
how to breed and feed and care for
livestock. A farmer need not be a
graduate meteorologist but he has
to know something about forecasting
the weather if he hopes to succeed.
It's a Broad Field
There are many kinds of farms
and many kinds of farmers but they
have a great variety 'of fundamen-
tal, scientific knowledge in common,
most of it unknown to men of other
callings. In, fact, one real farmer
can do more on a farm than five
equally strong, intelligent men who
are not farmers. For this reason I
honestly believe that a large per-
centage of the farmers now working
in factories ought to be sent back
home to protect America's armed
forces and the civilians, too, against
a food shortage of growing serious-
ness.
The agricultural manpower prob-
lem of 1943 cannot be solved by rele-
gating miscellaneous industrial mis-
fits to the country. If they can't
learn factory work there is no place
for them on the farm. A neighbor's
son, now holding a position of some
responsibility in an eastern war-pro-
duction plant, visited home recently
and told me some things that illus-


"Incentive" Wages
He is an energetic young fellow
but he can't earn $200 a month on
his father's farm; couldn't do it if
he owned it. That's why he left
home when his country could not
rightly spare, him from the farm.
The food administration would have
to pay him quite an "incentive" to
put him between plow-handles
again, I fear, although'he says the
country boys in factory towns are
all homesick.
The food problem at a glance is
this: Farmers can't net anything at
today's fixed prices but they can
learn. in a week to earn good wages
in a factory, so they leave the farms
to old men and small boys who
will unavoidably produce less this
year than they did last, although
more is needed. Farmers- in .the
armed forces under 38 can't be
brought back but those in factories
can and ought to be. Somebody else
can do their work in the mill but
not at home.
Worse Than Nothing
Farmers have had advice enough.
Texas cotton men provide an ex-
ample. Lacking gin capacity they
needed new machinery and more
repair parts than they could get, so
they inquired of bureaucracy. Don't
miss this: They were told to move
their gins south-to-north across the
state as the cotton matured, serving
more cotton with fewer gins. The
expert didn't know a cotton gin was
permanent as an ice plant. He was
smart as his contemporary who sug-
gested rotating shoes on horses to
make them wear longer.
This country's farm problem has
bepn badly muddled, and in part by
"experts" who couldn't make a liv-
ing on 1,000 acres with two county
agents to tell them how. The real
need is more farmers on farms. The
notion that anybody can farm or do
a farmer's thinking is-silly and dan-
gerous. In two years it can start
our city-bred farm experts walking
to the country hunting a real farmer
and a square meal.


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FRDA, A 2, 93 HESTR PRTS. OE GL CUNY FORDARGETHE


Mrs. Staff Weatherington and
daughter of Montgomery, Ala.,
were visitors In Port St. Joe sev-
eral days this week.



DR. J. C. COE
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Office Hours: 9 to 12 1 to 5
Sunday By Appointment
Costin Building Phone 88







SDR. C. L. REICHERTER
REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST
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According to the best
authorities, the mini-
imum daily A, D and B
Complex Vitamin re-
"^ quirements of theaver-
^- L age person are:
A 4,000 USP Units, D
400 USP Units, BI 333
USP Units, B2 2,000
Micrograms, and ap-
piroximately 10,000 Micrograms Nico-
tinamide. The required amounts for
other B Complex Vitamins have not
yet been established.
Many people do not get enough of
these essential Vitamins. DO YOU?
Why not play safe by taking
S A Y BRAND
ON E-A-DAYVITAMIN TABLETS
Each ONE-A-DAY Vitamin A and
D Tablet contains 25% more of the
cod liver oil vitamins than the mini-
mum daily recommended quantity.
I Each ONE-A-DAY Vitamin. B
Complex Tablet contains full mini-
mum daily requirements of Vitamins
BI and B2 and 10,000 Micrograms of
Nicotinamide together with a sub-
stantial amount of other B Vitamins.
t ',When you buy Vitamins, compare
potencies and prices. Note how ONE-
,A-DAY Tablets conform to the
average human requirements. See
how reasonable the cost.
Get them at your, drug store.
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I Although continually in
danger of infection and
contagion, you perhaps
rarely give it a thought.
Your physician, however, is
ever mindfulof the situation and
keeps pace with the advance-
ment.of medical science by con-
-stant study. We are glad tc
cooperate by filling his prescrip-
tions with the finest prescrip-
tion chemicals, pharmaceuti
cals and biologicals obtainable
prepared by a graduate pharmacist

LeHardy Pharmacy
We Fill Any Doctor's Prescription
Phone 5 Port St. Joe


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CHURCHES -:- PERSONALS
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LAST MEETING OF P.-T. A.
WILL BE HELD TODAY
The last regular meeting of the
Parent-Teachers association will
be held this afternoon at 3:30 at
the high school auditorium. Mrs.
Edwin Ramsey will preside and
the following program lias 'been
arranged:
The band will play several num-
beis under the direction of Frank
Lodwick. The devotional, will be
given by Rev. R. F. Hallford, fol-
lowing which several girls from
Mrs. B. A. Pridgeon's home eco-
nomics class will model dresses
they have made. Speaker for the
afternoon will be Mrs,. R. V. Co-
burn.
All members are urged to be
present and friends of the school
are invited.
Refreshments will be served by
Mrs. W. S. Quarles and Mrs. H.
R. Maige, assisted 'by the home
economics class..
Fo-lowing is thu report to Tbe
submitted, to the organization by
Mrs. B. E. Kenney Jr., treasurer
of the P.T-. A.:
Assets
Balance, Sept. 1942 .......$ 53.69
Membership dues ......... 53.50
Net profit on Carnival ..... 183.14
Donation, Fire. Aux. ...... 10.00
Total ................. $300.33
Expenditures
County, State, Nat. dues...$ 16.75
Lunch Room .............. 68.40
Library . . . .. 50.00
Bicycle racks ......... .... 55.59
Band' ..................... 50.00
Room prizes ............... 9.00
Miscellaneous ............. 7.65
Total ........... .... .$257.39
Balance, May 1943 ......$ 42.91

INTERMEDIATE G. A.
OBSERVES FOCUS WEEK
,Mrs. L. E. Voss, leader of the
Baptist Intermediate Girls' Auxill-
try, assisted the girls in holding
a party in honor of their mothers
Thursday evening of last week ai
the home of Mrs. Curtis Palmer.
Rev. R. F. Hallford, pastor of
the church, gave the devotional,
and Mrs. Palmer discussed the
need, for mothers to remain in the
home, to care for the family. A
Bible game. led! by Faye Morris,
q.nd other amus-ements planned' by
Betty Waller, were enjoyed.
Punch and. sandwiches were
served to 14 members and guests.

COAST GUARDSMEN ARE
ENTERTAINED AT DINNER
Mrs. R. V. Coburn andl Mrs. J.
R. Miller entertained several mem-
bers of the Coast Guard at dinner
i-i.t Friday evening at the home
of Mrs.. Colburn.
Present were Hewey Morrison,
Bruce Luthy, Manning Kaplin,
-larold Lambert, Bill Moorhead,
Dorothy Costin, Julaine Hinson,
Mary Helms and Jimmie Palmer.

Mr. and Mrs. George Cooper,
Mrs. Clyde Gentry and son and
Sgt. George Cooper visited rela-
tives in Ochlochnee, Ga., over the
week-end.

Advertising doesn't cost-it PAYS!


ROOM AND:

BOARD
BY THE $8 O0 9
WEEK []

Dining Room.

Open to the Public

Club Breakfast, 6 to 9....25c
Lunch, 12 to 2... ........ 40c
Dinner, 6 to 8 ............40c


MRS. M. O. FREEMAN
Corner Reid Ave. and 3rd St.
S.Griffin Grocery Building


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LOOK WHATS COMING
TO THE PORT!
$ 0 0 4 $ 0 *00
"It Ain't Hay."
"The Moon Is Down."
"Random Harvest."
"China Girl."
"Slightly Dangerous."
"Gone With the Wind."
Watch for the dates!

BAPTIST CIRCLE MEETS
WITH MRS. C. M. PALMER
Circle No. Two of the Baptist
church met Monday afternoon at
the home o'f M-rs. C. M. Palmer
with eleven members present.
Mrs. Daughtry gave the devo-
tional, followed with prayer by
Mrs. Kate Harrell. Mrs. Palmer
had charge of a snort program de-
veloped by Mrs. Nick Kelly, Mrs.
F. E. Voss, Mrs. J. 0. Baggett and
Mrs. W. Ramsey.
Mrs. Baggett presided over a
short business session, after which
the meeting was dismissed by
Mrs. Garden and. delicious refresh-
ments served by 'the hostess.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. W. Ramsey.

REBEKAH CIRCLE MEETS
The Rebekah Circle of the Bap-
tist church met Monday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. R. F. Hall-
ford with 13 members present.
Mrs. Hallford presented a most
interesting program which was
greatly enjoyed, following which
refreshments were served.
The next regular meeting of the
circle will be next Monday at the
church. The next home meeting
will be with Mrs. Tom Mitchell the
third Monday in June.

SITTING IN WITH THE
LAWMAKERS

(Continued from page 1)
the millionaire, and anybody who
successfully kicks them around is
more apt to be looked upon as z
hero than a tyrant. Tahe public haz,
beceLiO s5 a3cusJimd to in-vesti-
gations that even ifl the worst is
uncovered' they still won't believe
it.

The so-called "free' school book
have long cost the taxpayer plenty
and while this fact is usually
brought out at every legislative'
session, little or nothing is evei
done about it. It is a touchy sub-
ject. as full of TNIT as a liano
grenade, and to get to. the bottom
of it the senate approved a reso
lution authorizing the Shands com-
mittee to investigate the whot-
quesion. Aftermath of the senate's
action came when superintendent
of Public Instruction Colin English
and State Senator Raymond Sher-
d'.on engaged in the verbal ex-
change of such words as "damn,'
"liar" and "rackets" -which re-
sulted in fists replacing words. No
serious damage resulted other
than minor injury to senatorial
and cabinet dignity. Tom Watson
is thinking about getting out ai
injunction on the grounds the
other boys are trying to muscle In
on his prerogative.

A poll recently taken by the
Jui'-d Press among members of
the house and senate to determine
their opinion as to who at this
time looked most likely to win
gubernatorial honors in 1944, re-
sultedi in Lex Green being given
first place with a small margin
over Fuller Warren, while trailing
were Speaker of the House Rien-
ard Simpson, Dewey A. Dye of
Braden-ton. Colin English, Mark
Wilcox, Millard Caldwell and sev-
,ral others. The general consensus
seemed to be that Green would be
the man to beat, while several In
both house and senate expresseO

the. .belief that a dark horse would
be the winner.

The Star is like a letter from
home to your man in the service.
Send it to him for only $1 a year.


THEATRE OPENS SA
CONTINUOUS PEI


SATURDAY, MAY 22


farring
r CHARLES
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Russell Hayden
il Leslie Brooks
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Chapter 4 of Serial

"Don Winslow of

the Coast Guard"
Also C A McClellas

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Kiwanis News

Twelve members of the newly-
organized International Associa-
tion of Key Clubs met with the
club last .week. Interesting dis-
ussions with the boys, were had,
dealing with ways and means for
high school youth and Key clubs
to aid their country.
Hats off to Harry McKnight,
our efficient secretary, for scor-
ing 100 per cent in activity re-
ports'. Port St. Joe was one of two
clubs in Division 1 to earn the full
1000 points possible.
According to an attendance tab-
ulation by the Florida Kiwanian,
the local, club is below the district
average of 85.4 for the first three
months of 1943, our average being
71.9.
Distribution of leaflets by the
wartime citizenship committee
urges all Gulf county households
to conserve waste fats accumulat-
ing in their kitchens. Folks in the
southern part of *the county are
requested to carry fats to McCoy's
grocery or to the Kenney Mercan-
tile company.

Mr. .and Mrs. P. 0. Croft were
called to Perray Monday due to the
serious illness of Mrs. Croft's
brother.

Send The Star to your man in
the service-only $1 or a year.


Buck Alexander

Insurance Agency

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ATURDAYS SUNDAY AT 1:00 P. M.
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TUESDAY, MAY 25


Also Serial
"Valley of

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26




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May 23 24

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THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943


PAGE THREE


BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES
R. F. Hallford, Pastor
9:45 a. m.-Sunday School.
11:00 a. m.-Morning worship.
Topic, "Guaranteed Forever!"
7:00 p. m.-B. T. U.
8:00 p. m. Evening worship.
,Sermon topic, "Sin Never Fails to
Kill."

METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. 0. D. Langston, Pastor
9:45 a. m.-Church school.
11:00 a. m.-Morning worship.
6:30-Youth Fellowship.
7:30-Evening worship.
The Woman's society meets
Monday at 3 p. m.
First Tuesday after first Sunday,
official board meeting.
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., prayer
and Bible study. Choir practice.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Services -every Sunday evening-
at 7:30 o'clock.
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cash. Also new 71/2 h.p. Champion
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TRANSFER AND STORAGE
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make your moves easy. Padded
vans; every load insured. VAN
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Government Cares

For Families of Men

'Missing In Action'

Thousands of Dollars Paid Out
Monthly To Dependents
Of These Men

That the United States govern-
ment takes care of the families .of
those men who are missing in ac-
tion is shown by the thousands of
dollars paid in allotments each
month to the dependents of these
men.
Under present law, allowance to
families of missing men can be
paid for only 12 mouths. At thea


AGENTS WANTED end of that time the head of the
WANTED An ambitious wide- department concerned is author-
awake man o.01' woman to loon ized to make a finding of his
after renewals and new subscrmp- death, which procedure will en-
tions for the ,popular, fast-selling able the payment, following the
magazine, The AMERICAN HOME.
It is easy, pleasant work, and it. finding, of the six months gratuity
pays big commissions. Spare time provided by law.
only required,. Write today to DI- In obtaining the allotment or
rector. Sales Division, The AmerI-
can Home Magazine Corporation, .ratuity there must be absolute
251 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. proof of the right to it, the wife
MISCELLANEOUS or widow being required to pro-
duce a certified copy of the mar-
ft t ] 71[ A ]llaT I'riage record and affidavit showing
$50.00 REWi ARD!' that she was the wife of the man
For information leading to the at the date of missing or dead. The
arr entormatuon leading to the f n wife or wi(Tws the natural bene.
arrest and conviction of any ficiary and the first to' receive
person or persons cutting .wire consideration. If there is no widow
r telling cattle on my ranch then the minor child or children
property located east of High- receive thie gratuity, and after that
way 6 and north of Intracoas- any other dependent relative who
tal Canal. may have been previously desig-
W. T. EDWARI5S. nated by the soldier or officer as
the beneficiary.
LOST--"A" gasoline ration book In order to prevent an attempt
bearing name of W. S. Smith. to obtain money by fraud, the
Finder please erturn to The Stao foregoing is, strictly adhered to,
office or War Ration Board office. with a fine of $2000 and several
years imprisonment.
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FISH BAIT Fresh, clean worms Brazil estimates it will ship
that are guaranteed to get the than 70.000 tons of rubber to
fish for you. See Eddie Beverlymores
in the Sheffield colored quarters. the United States this year.


RATION NOTES
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Cannedl Goods-Coupons G, H
and J (48 points) valid through
month of May.
Meats and Butter.-Red E and Ff
coupons valid through May; G
coupons valid May 9; N, May 16;
J, May 23.
Sugar-Stamp 12 good for five
pounds through May 31.
Coffee-Stamp 23 (in the sugar
book) good for one pound ,thru
May 30. \Stamp 26 expired April 25.
Gasoline-"A" coupon 5 expires
today; coupon 6 valid until July
21 for four gallons.
Shoes-Stamp /17 (in sugar book)
good for one pair until June 15.

Watch That Speedometer
Local OPA boards have been
.given powers to revoke gas rations
when a motorist is charged with
driving over 35 miles an hour or
abuse o'f his tires. Formerly the
boards had to- refer such cases to
the district OPA office.

Advertising doesn't cost-It PAYS!


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Fast relief for Headache,
f Simple Neuralgia, "Morn-
Sing After", Cold Distress,
stl, Muscular Pains and
k-_rv Acid Indigestion.
3iC0 l C. Ask your Druggist-
B30 Cents and 60 Cents

Dr Miles Nervine for
Sleepless essi Ner Wh nYnou
vous Irritabiity
Excitability a 1 Are
SNervous fLead-
ache. Read direc- '
tons and use only
as directed.

Get your daily quota of
Vitamins A and D and B-
Complex by taking ONE-
A-DAY brandl Vitamin
E Tablets. Economi-
cal, convenient. At
your drug store-
l Look for the big 1 on box.
AD


HOW TO FIGHT REDBUGSS
BEFORE AND AFTER
If. you're having an "itching bad
time" right now with red-bugs,
here's how. to go about fighting
them before and after you acquire
'em:
Before going into the garden or
field where you know there are
redbugs, dust a little sulphur
around, your ankles.
After you get 'em, dab a bit of
4 per cent formalin solution (eight
teaspoons of formalin from your
drugg store in one quart of water,
or in proportion) on the affected
places.
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ADDRESS WANTED
Thos. R. L. Carter, home serv-
ice chairman of the Gulf County
Chapter, American Red Cross, is
anxious to secure, the correct ad-


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building or phone 101, or 105-2
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GET YOUR CHICKS
This is going to be a real
year to raise chicks. Prices
are good and there's a big
demand for eggs and poultry meat. Get off to a
good start this year by buying GOOD chicks,
and be sure to order them EARLY. We have a
supply of our Quality Chix on hand. They are
bred for high production, built to live and grow.
Come in and see them.

Three Things To Do in '43
1. BUY GOOD CHIX. Our Quality Chix are
hatched Right, from high-producing, blood-
tested flocks. They have what it takes to grow
big and quick.
2. FEED PURINA STARTENA. Good chicks
demand good feed. That's why we'urge you
to give your chicks the right start on Startena.
It's T@PS for livability and growth.
9M 3. PROTECT CHIKS FROM DISEASE. Take home
a bottle of CHEK-R-TABS with your Startena.
One tablet to a quart of water kills germs.
Also acts as a fungicide and bowel astringent:
You can get ALL THREE at..

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THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943


PAGE FOUR






From: WASTE FAT SAVING, CO..'ITTEES
11 West 42nd Street New York
Distributed by the Wortime Citizenshi.) Committee
KI1NA_,IS CLUB OF PORT ST. JOE, FLORIDA


GULF COUNTY HOUSEHOLDS ARE
URGED TO SAVE WVAST.E FATS


The importance of saving ,wate household fats in order to sal-
vag-e their glycerine content apparent to every housewife. Her
kitchen can sunnly at least a tablespoon of fat a day -- from meat
drip-oings, from rnded tri'-..ings or fat skimmed{ from the soup
kettle and no longer :rod for food. If that much wer- retroived
in every household and taken to the meet stores which collect the
fat for the r-ndererse, the amount st'ved -'oulFd exceed the national
1gol of 200,000,000 pounds for 1943.
Why mu-t ,',e qo to this trouble, in r. l-nd w.cvhere more than a
billion pounds of fat used to be wasted every verar down the kitchen
drain or into th., g r1 be can? Because glycerine is desperately
needed o') food the United '.auions war ?.a chine, and because many of-
^-merica' outside sources of fat, and oils have been cut off by the
war.
Glycerine is indespe'nsible in the manufacture of munitions, be-
cause it is the source of both nitroglycerine and dynamite, the
first of which provides the explosives for propellants, and the
second the means of military demolition. Tnkts, shins and planes.
last longer because of paints contp-iininL glycerine. It is used as.
en anti-icing fluid for the propellors of 'lanes, The shock absor-
bers of jeeps and half-tracks, the recoil mechanisms of big guns
and the firing mechani-ms of depth bombs all contain glycerine.
Glycerine has an important place on the medical front, too, in
both war and peace. It is one of the best known and widely used
medical materials. There is scarcely a branch of therapeutics in
which glycerine does not play a part. An average of more then
three pounds of glycerine per hospital bed. oer year is used in our
Ametican hospitals. And an analysis of 15,063 prescriptions made
nrior to the .'ar in single American city showed that, with the
sole exception of w' ter, glycerine utres the most-used liquid ingred-
ient. Even at the outset of tnhe v'sr British authorities rated
glycerine as eoual in importance to surgical instruments. Glycerine,
is widely used in sulfonamides, burn therapy and surgical treatment..
The War Production Board iq urine all Aiericans everywhere to
help save the fat fro-- which this precious liouid is made. The
meat dealer from whom you purchas-o food *''ill be glad to pay the
prevailing rate for the kitchen facts YOUR household conserves. The
pennies will buy War Stamps -- and every pound of waste cooking
fats turned in -.ill provide enough glycerine to make a half-pound
of dynamite or four 37-mm. anti-aircraft shells, or theirequivalents
in other badly-needed materials. Start YOUR household saving waste,
kitchen fat tooayl CARRY THEYi, TO McCOY3S GROCERY OR TO KENNEY
..-ERCATTILE C01.PANY.