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Show What People Should Know Now is the only time during the year that Franklin County Tu hm-culosis hm-culosis association raises money, through the Christmas Seal Sale, for it's year round activities m bringing the disease under control. A severe penalty in a food stamp violation case was meted out re-cently re-cently to a Mississippi grocer found trafficking in food stamps. Pleading guilty to charges of violating vio-lating the Food Stamp Plan eeu- lations, James Newton Weir, own er of a grocery business at West Enterprise, Mississippi, was sentenced sen-tenced in Federal court to three years imprisonment and $l,0Up fine. Three runners employed by Weir were each given sentences jbf six months. Weir was providing relief clients with funds to purchase food stamps, receiving as his share half of the free blue stamps which the government contributes. Criminal action was instituted against Weir under Section 90, Title 18 of the U. S. Criminal Code, which provides pro-vides stringent penalties for the presentation of false claims to the government. SMA announces it will seek similar sim-ilar aiction through Federal courts whenever investigations disclose fraud orf. -ie part of participants In the Food Stamp program. Teachers in Preston are studying the problems o education in this community. The following professional profes-sional study committees have been organized for this year: language arts, mathematics, reading, voca-, tional education, health and phy- sical education and civic educa v tion. 1 A new home -is being construct- eu ft,r Mr. and Mrs. Dond Hurd at First North and First East. Sales of Defense Savings stamps for October reached a total of $5,935,934.50, establishing the highest high-est monthly total since the stamps were placed on sale last May 1, the Treasury Department announced November 14. "THE HOME STRETCH IS MEMBERSHIP." "Members, old members, flew, one) hundred thousand thou-sand '42," is the slogan of the Relief Re-lief Society throughout the church in enlisting members for it's cen- tennial year 1942. Sixty per cent of the Latter-day Saint women of each ward is expected to join in orderi to reach this goal. |
