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. Mr. and Mrs.
Burch own a 260-acre farm in the
Mountain Park section of Surry, and
they have two children: Phillip, 19.
and Nell, 13. Mr and Mrs. Bill Hooks
have four children: Harris. 18; Eu
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W all Street Censors
School Text Books
New York?Replying to the charge
in a National Association of Manu
facturers study that high school text
books are overly critical of the prof
it system. 12,000 educators at the
American Association of School Ad
ministrators denounced the attack as
an attempt to control educational
materials.
A committee was appointed to in-1
vestigate the charges made by Pro
fessor Ralph W Robey, of Colum
bia University, whose study of high
school text books was financed by
the N A M
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A. M. replied that it was not respon
sible for any opinion expressed by
Professor Robey as to the "un-Am
erican" character of text books. 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
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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.
Tract No 2" Bounded on the north
by the lands of .1 W. Eubanks. on
tlu* east by lot No. 8 of the Hugh
F* 111 > I.O,l 1 j. IM' ?! 1. the MJUth b>
lot No 8 of the Hugh Pitt* land di
vision, and <?n the West by lot No. 1
of the Hugh Pitts land division, con
taining 9 1-2 acres, more or leas. For
a further and more complete descrip
tion see Land Division Book No B.
at page 142. yi the clerk's office in
Martin County
Tins the 27th day of Feb., 1941.
S B KITTRELL.
Trustee.
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