Four Master Farm Families Selected Four "Master Farm Families" in North Carolina have been selected by the Progressive Farmer and the N. C. State College Extension Serv ice. Two others, one in the moun tain section and another in the southwestern section of the State, will be chosen shortly. From literally hundreds of nomi nees, the judges selected, after much study and deliberation, the families of W. H. Blalock, of Wilson County; P. E. Burch, of Surry County; Bill Hooka, of Columbus County, and George Sockwell, ot Guilford Coun ty. . To be named as a "Master Farm Family." is one of the greatest hon ors that can come to rural people The Progressive Farmer enlists the i oope ration of the Extension Serv ices in the states where the magazine is circulated to select Master Farm Families periodically ? about ev ery three years. Mr and Mrs. Blalock and their three children?Dons, 19; Carlton, 15. and Sara Ann, 6?own a 212-acre farm in the Black Creek commun ity of Wilson County. 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The association admitted, however, that it has been distributing copies of ab stracts made from 563 school texts and iias been urging interested par ties to use its abstracts. Authors of the text books vigor ously objected to what they termed unfair methods of criticism; they claim that sentences and phrases are ripped out of their context. They state that N.A.M. ignores accuracy and scholarship and is interested only in the extent to which text books are critical of private enter prise and of politics. gene. 16; Mazelle. 14; and Billie, 12. Their address is Whiteville, Route 1. and they own a 264-acre farm The Sockwells have a 409-acre farm on Klon College. Route 1. Their two children are Marion. 13. and Ruth, 12. x Outstanding on every farm is a diversified agriculture, including livestock and poultry to supplement cash crops. Stress is also placed on adequate food for the family. Each family has a year-round garden. Crop yields on these four farms are well above the county averages, and livestock and poultry are man aged to insure high production on an economical basis. This Week In Defense | The War Deaprtment announced "exceptional progress" in reducing delays in its billion dollar emer gency construction program and re ported 64 per cent of its projects are now on or ahead of schedule and 8 per cent already completed On January 3 only 34 per cent were up to schedule. The department also announced that by June 7 twenty Air Corps flying schools for aviation cadets above the elementary train ing stage will be in operation. Defense Strikes The OPM Labor Division an nounced settlements had been reach ed during the past week in defense | industry strikes and theatened strikes in seven cities and settle ments were still pending in the cases of thirteen other defense strikes. Subcontracting The OPM Defense Contract Serv ice stated approximately $10,000. 000.000 of defense contracts award ed between June and December. , 1940. "were spread among approx imately 13.000 prime contractors" | | of a total of 200.000 potential prime j I contractors. 1 "We were under terrific pressure," j jOPM said. "There was only one thing to do: Award contracts ... to ; those companies that had the per sonnel that could accept orders (for products never built before and some not even designed)." To assist contractors "to spread the defense load geographically" and handle "housing and other social problems that arise from excessive centralization of defense work." the service named district coordinators in the following areas: Atlanta. San Francisco, Boston, Cleveland. Min neapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia. Kan sas City and Richmond. Va. Materials and Priorities President Roosevelt made public an OPM study of steel production showing "on the basis of its present capacity and the expansion already underway, the steel industry will be j able to provide sufficient steel for America's defense program . . ci vilian needs, and materials ... to be , shipped abroad." lie said, however, there is not enough nickel in the country for both defense and civilian ' needs,?but that tin supplies m the I United States are adequate. OPM Director of Priorities Stet tinius placed producers of magne j j slum under -a "mandatory priority ' j status." subjecting magnesium to the same controls imposed February I 24 on aluminum and machnlD tools, and urged steel manufacturers to I give every consideration to the use1 of substitutes to ease the "difficult situation in tungsten." Mr Stettinius also announced an agreement with /inc producers to set aside a quan tity of zinc for priority allocation for defense purposes beginning in April. OPM Chief of Machine Tools Mas on Britten appealed to manufactur ers to sell immediately the "large numbers of idle machine tools known to exist in factories and shops of the nation." The Defense Contract Serv ice estimated that 50 per cent of United States ^machine tools 'are either idle or working less than H hours a day." Labor Supply Ol'M Associate Director (jenerai liillman estimated that during 1941 nearly 4,000,000 additional persons ?young, old and middle-aged?will be absorbed from the ranks of the unemployed either to participate di rectly in defense endeavors or "in industries whose business volume will grow." Deputy Selective Service Director Hersey asked the system's local board in selecting men for military service, to guard against a grow ing shortage of skilled workers for expanding defense industries Shipbuilding and Shipping The I). S. Maritime Commission announced the creation of a Division of Emergency Shipping to supervise sales, charters, transfers and recon ditioning of American flag tonnage and reported "excellent progress" in the construction of 200 emergency cargo vessels. Companies establish ing seven new shipyards to under take this construction, the Commis sion said, have already purchased $8,000,000 worth of equipment and in some cases broken ground for new ways. Commerce Secretary Jones an nounced that although the Neutral ity Act heavily reduced revenue from American shipping to Europe and the Mediterranean, traffic on African and Far Eastern routes had tripled and traffic to South Amer ica increased by 50 per cent for an over-all increase of approximately 15 per cent over pre-war shipping revenues a The University of Arizona has pat ented a process which removes the lint from around a cotton seed with a solution of sulphuric acid and then washes .the seed, leaving it smooth and clean NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin Sounty Under and by virtue of the power ! of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersign ed trustee by William Brown and wife. Irene Brown, on the 28th day of February, 1939. and of record in the public registry of Martin Coun-1 ty in BtK>k X-3. page 174, said deed of trust having been given for the purpose of securing a certain note of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the. payment of said note, and the stipu lations in said deed of trust not hav ing been complied with, and at the request of the holders of said note,] the undersigned trustee will on Monday the 31st day of March, 1941, at twelve o'clock noon in front of the court house door in the town of Wil liamston. N. C . offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the follow ing described real estate, to wit Tract No. 1: Bounded on the north by the lands of J W Eubanks. on the east by lot No. 2 of the Hugh Pitts land division, on the South by lot No. 6 of the Hugh Pitts land division. ; and on the West by lot No. 8 of the Hugh Pitts land division, containing 5 3-4 acres more or less. 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