Local All-Stars Are
Too Much For The
Army's Court Unit
Pap Dirai Scores Ten Points
To Lead Local Com
bination To Win
The Williamston Mi-Stars, a cam
bination team of the local Eagles and
Martins, scored a 40-34 victory over
the basketball team of Company A,
30th Engineers Battalion, of Ahos
kie, in a game here last Friday
night. The game was witnessed by
a very small crowd.
As usual, the slow starting locals
were off to a poor start and at the
end of the first quarter were trail
ing 7-4, but the second period saw
the locals hitting their stride and
by the half they were in the van,
19-14
During the third period, with
mostly Eagles in the line-up the lo
cals outseored the visitors and built
up a 32-21 lead, which was partly
whittled away by the Engineers dur
ing the last period, as the local de
fense slightly crumbled,
f or the visitors, Manager Ek, a
^^vutenant, was their best all-round
performer and he led his mates at
scoring with 13 points. This total
gave him high scoring honors for the
evening. Miller, center, with ten
points, was next for the losers.
TTie locals were led in sroring by
Pap Diem with 10 points, and Jack
Manning with nine, each playing
less than half the game. Corey, with
eight, was third, and Fitzgerald had
five, to round out the "big four."
Dawse Cook played a good game for
the locals m his "Swan Song" per
formance on the hardwood, as he
leaves Thursday to perform for
Uncle Sam.
The box
All-Stars (1 F T
Mean, f 10 2
Manning, f-c 4 19
Cobb, f 10 2
Wallace, f 0 0 0
Corey, c 2 4 8
Fitzgerald, g 2 5
Rose, g I 0 0
Cook, g 2 0 4
Diem, g 5 0 10
Totals 17 6 40
Engineers G F T
Smith, f 2 15
Woodruff, f 0 0 0
Cooke, f 0 0 0
Sekura. f 0 0 0
?Jenkins, c? 1 0? 2
Miller, c 5 0 10
Higgins, g 0 0 0
Bratsczh. g 10 2
Ek, g 5 3 13
Ambrose, g 10 2
Gukich. g 0 0 0
Totals 15 4 34
Urge More Safety
To Spare Workers
?To Hasten Victory
32,(XKI Are killed and 4,
700,(KM) Injured
IjisI Year
Tin- need fur everyone to practice
freater safety us a mean's of
strengthening America's vital indus
trial front is clearly demonstrated
by the latest statistics showing that
the worker stands a greater chance
of being killed or injured away from
his job than while he is actually at
work in the midst of humming ma
chinery, according to the National
Conservation Bureau, accident pre
vention division of the Association
of Casualty and Surety Executives
In other words, the machine shop
comes mighty close to being the
worker's safest spot, not even ex
cepting his home.
The statistics for 1940, the last full
year for which figures are available,
show that out of approximately 44,
000 workers killed by accidents, only
17,000 died as a result of accidents on
the Job, while 27,000 were killed
away from the job?in the streets,
at home, and in public places other
than the streets. This means that
three out of five fatal accidents to
workers occurred off the job.
While complete statistics for 1941
will not be available for some weeks,
preliminary estimates which hereto
fore have proved quite accurate, in
dicate that the situation improved
little, if any, last year. Apparently
there was a welcome improvement
in fatal accidents in public places
other than the streets and highways
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For Your Cough
GroomoLrion relieves promptly be
i It roe* right to the seat of the
jle to help looeen and expel
?KB laden phlegm, and aid nature
to eoethe and heal raw, tender, In
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a bottle of Creosnulslan with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
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IN FINALE TONIGHT
The local Eagles will play the
Farm Life Independents tonight
in the new Farm Life 17m at ?
o'clock. This is the final game
of the season between these two
teams, and should serve as the
"rubber" game, as each team
has won three games apiece.
In view of this record, both
teams will give an "all-out" ef
fort to take this, the seventh
game, in order to gain the vic
tory edge in their friendly ser
ies.
This game will also mark the
final appearance, for the dura
tion at least, of one of the
Eagles, J. Dawse Cooke, versa
tile performer.
Burning Of Woods
Is Expensive Way
To Control Weevils
Pests Hardly Ever Hibernate
From Field Edges
The burning of woods to kill boll
weevils is one of the most expensive
and least effective methods that a
farmer can use. Boll weevils hiber
nate in many places where they can
not be killed by burning. Large
numbers of weevils pass the winter
in Spanish moss hanging high in
trees surrounding cotton fields. More
than 2,000 boll weevils per ton of
moss have often been found. Clumps
of grass and weeds along ditch
banks, field roads, and at the end of
rows afford ideal hibernating quar
ters Many boll weevils hibernate in
hay stacks and around barns, gins,
outhouses, etc. Weevils also hiber
nate in surface woods trash, but the
records show that more than three
fourths do so within the first 50 feet
of the edges of woods bordering cot
ton fields Practically none are found
at distances greater than 150 feet
from the edges of the woods. These
facts point to the absurdity of burn
ing large areas of woods and destroy
ing valuable timber in thev belief
that a large number of weevils will
be killed. In this case the remedy is
worse than the disease.
Burning woods damages the tim
ber ir.d kills the undergrowth and
seedlings^-It-is also bad for the W'ilcL
life and may lead to soil erosion.
Woods fires often get out of control
and larger areas are burned than in
tended; and then too, burning the
woods does not get rid of the wee
vils. There are always enough left
that cannot be killed by burning to
start an infestation next spring, and
if weather conditions during June
and July are favorable for weevil
development these will always in
crease so that it will be necessary to
dust with calcium arsenate anyway.
It is wiser to encourage the growth
of young timber and to systematical
ly CUl Ana sen tnia in order to pur
chase dusting machines and calcium
arsenate than to destroy the timber
by burning. The most important
thing a farmer can do in the fall is
to cut his cotton stalks as early as
possible before frost so as to reduce
the number of boll weevils that go
into hibernation and survive the
winter. The early fall destruction of
the cotton stalks is more effective
as a boll weevil control measure than
the dangerous practice of burning
woods.
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Interesting Hits Of
Business In the U.S.
General shopping scorns to bo Bot
tling down, but there's quite a rush
on for refrigerators, radios, wash
ing machines and ranges Customers
are loss choosey about trade names,
stylos and sizes in those articles; one
Detroit store ordered many factory
rebuilt refrigerators, some models
as early as 1930, and did a very brisk
business . . . General industrial pro
duction. bolstered by war goods out
put, hit all-time high of 170 for Jan
uary (percentage of 1935-39 aver
age!, two points higher than Decem
ber . Michigan unemployment
seems not as severe as was feared
with stoppage of auto production?
and CIO says it expects "total ab
sorption" of auto industry workers
into war jobs by mid-September.
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Moderate bqt definite improve
ments were apparent in the food sit
uation of the United Kingdom from
the spring of 1941 to the outbreak of
war in the Pacific.
and also in the number of fatalities
in the home.
Probably offsetting these improve
ments, however, there was a drastic
increase in the number of motor ve
hicle deathse, and, it seems, even a
substantial increase in the number
of fatal accidents to workers on the
job. This increase in occupational fa
talities, however, is not expected to
maternity upset the balance be
tween accidents on the job and off
the job.
Safety specialists explained that
accident prevention measures were
instituted in industrial manufactur
ing plants, machine shops and mines
long before any serious effort was
made to curb the motor car and cor
rect general carelessness about safe
ty matter*. As a result, the man on
the job is closely protected by safe
ty devices, educational programs, and
hygenic working conditions in well
managed plants.
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Hunting the Axis Undersea Raider
Patroling Atlantic coastal waters, a Navy blimp discovers an oil slick, usual sign of a damaged submarine.
Top, left, the blimp drops a bomb at the head of the trail. Top, right, the blimp returns and hits the same
spot with a second bomb. Bottom, the blimp circles the huge oil slick trying to determine results.
(Central Press)
Double Trouble for the Axis
The destroyers Lan*dou*ne (left) and Duncan (right) slide down the
ways at Kearny, N. J., in a double launching, to become the latest addi
tions to Uncle Sam's growing fleet. The same day, there was also a twin
launching of destroyers in Boston.
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Spanger bent's Eighteenth Century
Diary Tells of a C arolina Differ- I
ent From Today . . .
Today. Tar Heels are proud of the '
State's industrial activities Towels
and various textile products manu
factured in North Carolina are famil
iar products sold in far distant
places. Furniture made in this State
is a standard product throughout the
nation Tobacco products manufac
tured in the "Old North State" an
as widely , known among the civiliz
ed people of the world us the tobac
co habit itself.
There was a different picture in
1752 when Bishop Spangenberg vis
ited North Carolina. He was a Mora
vian Bishop who visited the State
seeking new land for his people. His
observation was the work of the
careful scrutinizing eye of a visitor
seeking vacant lands to be purchased
for a large religious group planning
to build homes.
settied part uf the
now conk?
How eomr the House of David
basketball team didn't come here
last Sunday afternoon remains a
mystery to the management of
the Martins.
A large crowd gathered at the
local gym in anticipation of the
exhibition between the Martins
and the bearded boys, but for
some reason or other the touring
quint never did reach Williams
ton.
"We regret this fact," said one
of the Martins, "but there was
nothing we feould do about it as
the gat^f'and date had been set
tied for over a week."
Slate, Spangenberg rated trade and
business as "poor." Without modern
paved highways, water was the chief
THE LETTER-BOX
To The Editor:
A thought while musing During
these trying times some of us farm
ers and painters might become wor
ried and not satisfied with the way
the war is going these days, but al
ways we should remember that the
President has stupendous responsi
bilities upon his shoulders at this
time, conducting the most awful and
far-reaching war -o|- all times We
should have patience, and trust in
him, because we all must know that
no better man could be at the helm,
and aside, we should put this down
and remember it. make a mental
note of it. and keep it in the back of
our heads as long as we live. that,
just ten years ago when Hoover was
president our crops Were selling very
low. bringing far under the cost of
production, and that 150 bags of pea
puts are worth over $1,000 more to
day than they were in the fall of
1932. The vast differenc ^mo
thing to think about, and I believe
our President will, if we give him
our whole assistance bring about
just a remarkable 'change in the mil
itary affairs of our country as he
brought in the affairs of agriculture
ten years ago under the Hoover ad
ministration
Teddy Jackson and I tassel 1.
means of transportation. In refer
ence to this, his comment was "With
no navigable rivers1 there is little
shipping, with no export trade of
importance the towns are few and
lall " The?L1LLJ?highways are <>*?
tensive and permit the best of trans
portation facilities However, our
towns have riot grown into record
breaking centers of population. The
largest, Charlotte, has only recently
passed the 100,000 mark
Spangenberg observed that there
were towns in North Carolina men
tioned in law books that were short
on houses and population They
Were towns only by "Act of the As
sembly " Of handicrafts he said, "I
have seen practically nothing in the
150 miles we have traveled across
this Province" Even wagons and
plows were conspicuous by their
absence. "Almost nobody" knew
trade.
The Bishop's diary speaks of a
section m the fool hills near "Quak
er Meadows" as a "region that has
perhaps been seldom visited since
the creation of the world."
While in camp in the three forks
of Muddy Creak, he wrote:
"The land on which we are now
encamped seems to me to have been
reserved by the Iv?rd for the Breth
ren (Moravians)". There were
"countless spring, and numerous
fine creeks ' As many mills as de
sired could be built, and when the
Moravians came, they built them.
Home Accidents
Hit War Effort
rhree Out of Five Meet Death
Off Job; Auton And Falls
Are Leading Causes
Home may be a man's castle under
>ur democratic system, but especial
y in time of war it has a sizable acci
lent prevention job to do in addition
o its other patriotic responsibilities,
leclares Kenneth N. Beadle, educa
lon director of the National Conser
vation Bureau, accident prevention
iivision of the Association of Casual
ty and Surety Executives. In the
lame breath Mr. Beadle reminds us
hat February and March are par
icularly important months from the
itandpoint of home accidents.
Many of us." the well-known etiu
?ator continues." are busy as bees
DUilding air raid shelters in the base
nent, taping windows to reduce the
langer~of flying glass7~stocking the
it tic with rakes, hoes and buckets
if sand, all in anticipation of an air
?aid without once giving thought to
he fact that junior's ipnnr?nt foot
ball or sister's rag doll lying on the
iarkened steps may be the greatest
?ourcc of danger the family faces.
"I do not mean to say that we
should not take all of the precautions
nentioned to protect ourselves if air
aids should come. What I am trying
lo point out is that most of our in
juries are caused by the little, ob
vious hazards. Even in peacetime we
should be more careful about them.
But in time of war we must be care
ful, else the constant loss of manpow
er may bring disaster on the military
front."
In substantiation of his appeal for
increased vigilance around the home
hearth. Mr. Beadle makes the sur
prising statement that home acci
dents are second only to motor ve
hicle accidents in killing our citizens
and that in the number of persons in
jured they actually top the ill-re
puted automobiles more than two to
one. Mr. Beadle quotes the official
figures for 1940 as follows: Motor ve
hicles account for 36 per cent of the
accidental deaths in the United
States, while home hazards account
ed for 34 per cent. In terms of per
sons killed, 34,500 died in automobile
accidents, while 333,000 died from
falls, burns, asphyxiation and other
home hazards. As to non-fatal acci
dents, automobiles injured 1,800,000
persons, but home hazards built up
the staggering total of 4.850.000
"We do not have the official fig
ures for 1941, as yet." Mr. Beadle
continued "But unofficial estimates,
usually reasonably accurate, indicate
that last year home accidents killed
32.000 persons and injured approx
imately 4,700,000. True, these figures
show a slight improvement over 1940
but it must be obvious to the most
ingrained optimist that the loss of
so many skilled hands strikes a ser
ious blow at maximum production of
war needs.
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and in Service for the Duration
Ill these times, your car heroines some
tiling else than a personal possession.
It is, in a very real sense, an implement
of national defense.
As sneh, it is your duty and ours to
keep it at its liesl and to pel from it
the absolute maximum of effective
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