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VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 64 , Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 14, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899
More Tires Allotted
By Rationing Board
In County Thursday
Advance Reports Point To u
Big Reduction in Allot
ments (or Next Month
Meeting in regular session here
yesterday, members of hte Martin
County Rationing Board, Messrs. C.
C. Martin. H. L Roebuck and J. A.
Everett, allotted more tires, and
rxpiiased the opinion that the out
look for tire replacements is not at
all encouraging. An unofficial re
port states that the September tire
allotment for the county will be ma
terially decreased, possibly by one
just as Martin County farmers start
moving their crops to market in a
sizable scale.
No new automobile tires were is
sued by the board here yesterday,
but quite a few new truck tires were
allotted and the rationers were in
deed liberal with certificates for re
capping service. However, it has been
pointed out that it is about as hard
to buy a recapped tire as it is to buy
a brand new one, but those vehicle
operators having tires suitable for
recapping can get the service once
certificates are issued them.
New truck tires were issued to the
following:
J. W Bedwell, Jamesville, two
tires and two tubes for logging op
erations
J. S. Whitman, Robcrsonville, one I
tire and one tube for hauling hands
and feed, tools and fuel to and from
job.
Day lite Bakery. Rocky Mount, one
tire for delivery of bakery products
Harrison Oil Company, Williams
ton, one tire for oilfancl fuel deliver
ies.
H. L. Davis, Jamesville, one tire
and tube for hauling ice and fuel.
W. C. Hopkins, RFD, Williamston
two tires and tubes for hauling logs
Fred D. Ayers, RFD 2, Williams
ton. two tires and two tubes for haul
ing defense workers
Recapped tires for trucks and
trailers were issued 16 the follow
ing:
Jag T. Spencer, Jamesville, four
tires for hauling lumber.
D. C. Peel, Everetts, two tires and
tubes for general farm work
Tbos. B Slade, Hamilton, two
tires and one tube for farm.
Harry Jones, Williamston, four
tires for general hauling
John W Gurkin, Williamston
three tires for hauling farm prod
ucts.
J. T. Allen, Williamston, two tires
for trailer.
Eugene Roberson, Robersonville,
two trailer tires.
Recapped tires for cars were is
sued to the following:
J. J. Bennett, Everetts, one tire
for selling patent medicines.
Alvin Lowe Thompson, Williams
ton, two tires for conveying machin
ist.
John Stalls, Oak City, four tires
and three tubes for farm
L. J. Hardison, RFD 1. Williams
ton, two tubes for farm.
John Weldon Hardy, Oak City,
two tires for farm.
Obsolete tires were allotted to the
following:
Noah T Tice, RFD 1, Williamston,
two trailer tires and tubes for farm.
J. F Matthews, Robersonville, one
trailer tire tube for farm.
C. A. Alcox, RFD 1, Bethel, two
car tires and two tubes, for farm.
W. H. Ourganus, Williamston, one
trailer tire and one tube, for farm.
Leslie S. Ayers, Williamston, one
car tire and tube for farm.
Hubert Clark, Everetts, two truck
tires and tubes for farm.
Mrs. Alonza Allen, RFD 3, Wil
liamston, one trailer tire and tube
(Continued on page six)
?
County Loses Nine
Teachers To Army
???
In addition to losing a large num
ber of teachers to tempting defense
joba, the county school system has
been dealt a hard blow by the armed
services. Nine young men, either vol
unteering or answering draft calls,
will not refurn to their places in the
county schools this fall, the office
of the superintendent announced
yesterday
Williamston lost five of the nine.
TTtey are Professors Jack Butler, Sam
Edwards, Harvey Yates, Ronald J.
Slade and James Hamilton Mason
Oak City will miss two, Wood row B
Suggs who is now soldiering in Ire
land, and Elmer Pur low. Professor
rurlow volunteered for service in
the Army Air Corps and is await
ing his call. It is possible that he will
be able to teach a short time before
receiving the call to report for duty.
Farm Life is losing Professor D T.
Ward who was deferred for a few
months while he was engaged in
farm work during the summer per
iod.
Only one colored teacher, Profes
sor John Paul Dennis, has been call
ed into the service. A member of the
local colored school faculty, Dennis
entered the service near the close of
the last session snd was In Wyo
ming according to the last report re
ceived here.
It is not very likely that many of
the group will be replaced by male
MOVE IN ON SOLOMON ISLANDS
Trained in special warfare, groups like the one pictured
above recently moved against the Solomon Islands in the Pa
cific where late reports maintain that one of the greatest sea
battles in all history is going into its ninth day.
RAINFALL
More rain has fallen in this
immediate section during the
past eight or nine days than had
been reported for any entire
month since last March. The 4.74
inches reported in the past few
days were about half the amount
recorded for the four months
of April, May, June and July.
It Is unusually wet in some
parts of the county. Farmer Ben
nett in the Oak City community,
stating that ft was so wet and
the ground so soft hr could not
harvest his tobacco. In other
sections it is not near so wet.
Fed by rains along the upper
reaches of its watershed, the Ro
anoke is breaking out of its
banks here, and is expected to
reach a crest of about 10 feet or
about eight to ten inches over
the banks next Monday.
Japanese Bleeding
Conquered People
To Carry On War
? > ???
Former Missionary To Lhinu
Tells How Jups Solve Their
Financial Problems
By DR. CHAS. A. l.iONAKI), SR
Returned China Missionary
"Where does Japan secure money
for carrying on this war?" we are
sometimes asked. An American
banker in the city of Harbin, Man
churia (Manchukuo), said to me as
far back as four years ago: "Japan's
gold reserves will soon be exhausted.
Her war with China is going to
bankrupt her. She would never be
so foolish as to attempt a war with
the United States because her re
sources are at so low an ebb."
This man, as many others, lost
sight of two things:
1. While Japan forbade her peo
ple and those living in occupied areas
from sending money abroad for pur
chases, other nations, including Am
erica in particular, continued to buy
from Japan anything she wanted to
sell. As far back as three years be
fore the break with Japan, the writ
er tried for four months to obtain
permission to send from Manchuria
money to a missionary in America
for the purchase of a rebuilt type
writer to be brought.by him to Man
churia for use in our North Man
churia Mission. A dozen trips wen
made to the Manchukuo (Japanese)
bank for the permit. I was finally
told that residents of Manchuria
could purchase goods only from Ja
pan.
The Japanese government closed
the "Open Door" as soon as she took
Manchuria by refusing permission
for money to be sent anywhere ex
cept to Japan. Goods cannot be
bought without money, so it was not
long until all foreign goods .except
Japanese, disappeared from Korea,
from Manchuria and other occupied
parts of China
It was then that our Government
should have taken action against Ja
pan, for she violated her treaties in
not only taking Manchuria, but also
(Continued on page six)
STATEMENTS
Closing out t,SM accounts in
the last ten months, Martin
County Tax Collector M. Lu
ther Peel is making ready to
place in the mails about the lat
ter part of next week, JJH state
ments of account. Carried in
sealed envelopes the statements
list the unpaid taxes plus penal
ty and warns that the sale of
real property and confiscation
of personal effects will follow in
the due course of time in the
event settlement is not made.
WMie the number of accounts
seems to be of large sixe, the un
paid accounts hardly total |W,
MO. At the end of the last fiscal
tax period there were about I,
7M unpaid tax acoo
Judge R. L. Cobuin
Hears Number Cases
In Session Monday
<!???'? in K?H>orili'r*H Court \re
(irailually lni'n>a?iii|{
Year by Year
The number of cases with some
few exceptions, of course, is grad
ually increasing in the Martin Coun
ty Recorder's Court Three years ago
and just before Hitler started his
bloody conquest of the world, there
were only five cases on the court
docket for the session convening the
second week in August. A year la
ter in 1940 as the war began to
spread, there were nine cases on the
court docket f?r the corresponding
week in August. Last year the num
ber jumped to twelve, and now, a
time when crime could well step off
the stage and release that much
more energy to the war effort, there
are sixteen cases to claim the atten
tion of the court. Possibly the num
ber of cases is independent of the
war, but there is a definite trend
toward crime as the war comes near
er and nearer to us.
A few years ago there were no
cases ^charging defendants with as
saulting members of the fair sex.
Now, those cases take up much space
on the docket with the drunks crowd
ing in all the while for a greatei
space on the docket.
Last Monday, Judge R L. Coburn
called sixteen cases for trial Work
ing rapidly Judge Coburn and So
licitor Paul D. Roberson cleared the
docket in a little over two hours. The
attendance upon the session was
larger than usual.
The proceedings:
The case charging Moses Gilliam
with violating the liquor laws was
nol pressed.
The case charging S. L. Woolard
with an assault with a deadly wea
pon was continued under prayer for
judgment for the duration of the
war as the defendant is a member
of the amed forces
Pleading not guilty in the case
charging him with bastardy, Joe
Frank Mayborn (Mabrey) was ad
judged guilty. He was directed to
pay $2 a week for the benefit of the
child during the next two years, pay
the court costs and reappear at the
end of that time for further judg
ment.
The case charging David Bowen
with assaulting a female was contin
ued for ttredefendant until next
Monday. The case was called and it
is understood that the defense coun
sel was planning to plead him guil
ty. The prosecuting witness, Lucy
Whitehurst, was called to the wit
ness stand and refused to testify. She
was ordered jailed in contempt of
court, but it was later learned that
she was afraid to prosecute the case
and she was released the following
day from jail.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of the costs in the case
charging Jesse Warren with an as
sault with a deadly weapon.
The case charging J T. Briley with
assaulting a female was continued
until next Monday.
Judgment was suspended upon
(Continued on page *ix)
t
Lightning Shocks
Family Slightly
Veril Leggett, young daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Redden Leggett. was
slightly burned and several other
members of the family were shock
ed but not severely burned during
the electrical storm in Bear Grass
Township late last Wednesday af
ternoon. None of the family was
hurt badly enough for medical atten
tion, but all of them were badly
frightened. -*
Striking an oak in the yard, the
lightning b?R ripped modi berk
from the tree and slightly shocked
members of the family standing in
the back porch.
Some hail fell in the Bear Grass
area during the storm, but accord
ing to reports, it did no great dam
age
S UNCLE
SAM
BATTLING TO UPHOLD
America's
Freedom
THE 35TH WEEK OF THE WAR
Admiral William D. Leahy, the
President's Chief of Staff, in a radio
broadcast August 9th marking the
fust?ainuvei'sjiy uf?Htt?Atlant
charter, said "this war will probably
be long. It will* be the toughest,
hardest, most merciless war we have
ever fought. It calls for the united
power of every American. in uni
form and out of uniform, on the fil
ing line and on the production line
. . I have no doubt of America's de
cision."
President Roosevelt, in a message
read on the broadcast, said "great
progress" has been made in the bat
tle of production, but "in terms of
what will be required to defeat our
enemies we have only just begun to
get into our stride." Elmer Davis.
Director of the Office of War In
formation, said America's conver
sion job has largely been completed;
the emphasis h^w must be transfer
red from finished goods to the raw
materials from which they are made.
"We will get them?by full use of
existing facilities, and by tapping
new, or marginal, or abandoned
sources of supply We will develop
new processes, eliminate waste, and
work for full salvage by every citi
zen," Mr. Davis said.
Vice Chairman Batt of the War
program, said the public must see to
it that all waste and scrap metal is
collected and "sent to the mills ?
quickly. There is plenty of iron and
steel scrap . . That must get back
to the furnaces it the steel needed
for the war is to be produced. You
and I can help by keeping our eyes
open "
In a general review of the war sit
uation, the Office of War Informa
tion said June production of military
planes fill slightly behind schedule,
despite the fact that the U. S. made
more planes than any other country
hi the world The same was true of
tanks, of most types of artillery, and
of naval vessels, the OWI said. Be
cause of enemy submarine activity,
the office said, it probably will-be
well into 1943 before we equal mer
chant shipping as of December 7,
1941.
The WPB announced inauguration
of a nationwide inventory of used
construction machinery to be made
through WPB field offices in an ef
fort to place an estimated 500,000
(Continued on page six)
?
Thirteen Colored
Schools in County
Opened Yesterday
t
No Shortage of TeacherH Re
polled Anions (iolor
ed faeu 11 ii'H
No attendance reports could be
had immediately, but it was learned
that there was no teacher shortage
baffling the authorities when thir
teen of the colored schools opened the
new 1942-43 term in the county yes
terday Realizing that many of the
pupils would be needed in harvest
ing the cotton crop several weeks
from now and at the request of pa
trons, the school authorities decided
to start thr term for thr thirtrrn
schools three weeks ahead of the
schedule adopted for the other
schools in the county If the attend
ance does not measure up to expec
tations during the next few days, a
holiday will be declared .school of
ficials stating that no advanced
schedule could be announced in case
it is found necessary to suspend op
erations soon after the early open
ing
The schools at Cross Roads, Pop
lar Point, Robersonvilie, Parmele,
Gold Point, Everetts, White Oak
Sorings, Hamilton, Bowers, Jones,
Whichard-James, Oak City and Sals
bury opened the term yesterday.
Most of the schools are located in
the main cotton-producing areas in
the county, and officials were of the
belief that attendance figures would
be higher in the early season than
during cotton-picking time. It is
the first time in years that any
schools in the county were opened
(Continued on page six)
1
FORWARD
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It has been up until recently,
at least, a forward season for cot
ton and grapes. As far back as
the fifteenth of July a few far
mers were reporting open bolls
of cotton in their fields. A fesr
days ago, Farmer Robert John
son picked liberal samples of
brought them to town with a
fair-sized quantity of scupper
no ng grapes.
Possibly the hot, dry weather
of a short time ago matured the
cotton and grapes ahead of
time.
Farmers Off To Late Start In
Pre pa ri ng To bacco for Ma rket
Their harvesting season delayed |
by unfavorable weather conditions. |
muny Martin County farmers have
not yet completed their harvesting,
meaning that tobacco grading opera
tions will get off to a fairly late start
as a whole. Up until a day or two
ago. very little of the leaf had been
graded in the county except on a
very few farms. One report stated
that one farmer had graded and de
livered to the border markets twelve '
narns troni the.current crop. Quite I.
a few farmers are starting then
grading today, but possibly a ma
jority will not start until they have
completed or about completed the
eek.
Indicated demands for North Car
nlin.i fhip.mrpH tobacco for lend
lease shipments are "substantially
greater than last year." and it is im
perative that farmers exercise the
greatest care in housing, curing, sort
ing and grading their 1942 crop. W
P. Hedrick. tobacco marketing spec
ialist of the State Department of j
Agriculture, said recently
"The Commodity Credit Corpora-1
tion ITas indicated a desire to pur
chase more than 300 million pounds
of leaf, while the normal consump
tion in the United States is around
400 million pounds," Hedrick said.
"With prospects for a crop of around
700 million pounds and with grat
er demand for cigarettes and other
tobacco products m prospect, the
reasons why farmers should handle
their 1942 crop with extreme care
are obvious."
Hedrick commented that "strong
demands lor leaf by the federal gov
ernment and domestic buyers fore
Last keen competition for the 1942
"The advantages of properly sort
mg and giailing tobacco ";:dTrrntct tye ~
well known to farmers by now." he
added. "Probably the?greatest?em
a has is in the history of tobacco will
be placed on sorting and grading this
rear in view of the fact that the To
bacco Association of the United
States has ruled that the speed of
%ales on the warehouse floors will be
limited, strictly to 360 piles of leaf
xt hour during a five-hour sales
lay.
Universal Plan For
Rationing Consumer
(?oods Is Considered
IN'??1 ^ ?-l Certain That I'ropos
<?<1 I'liin W ill He l.xli'iiili il
Or Kvrn Nmlcil
Humors that CPA is going to ra
tion certain specific commodities
have arisen from that agency's plans
to meet future emergencies with
adequate ration machinery, Paul M.
O'Leary, deputy administrator in
charge of rationing, said recently.
"Rumors thus started, are not true.
requires that we be ready to meet
any emergency as it arises We
launch new rationing programs when
the War Production Board finds
shortages existing in the supply of
the commodity or article affected,
and orders us to start rationing. We
are the technicians We're trying to
be ready with the right machinery
the minute it is needed.
"We are planning the rationing
machinery for many commodities in
which there is no present need for
rationing," Mr. O'Leary said. "In this
respect, we're like the fire depart
ment. It gets its fire-fighting equip
ment ahead of time so when the
alarm sounds, they don't have to go
shopping for a fire engine in order
to go to the fire."
The present advance planning goes
in two principal directions, MY
O'Leary said.
"One is the working out of a uni
versal rationing book, which, placed
in the hands of every citizen of the
country, could be used for the ra
tioning of any commodity or article
in which a shortage occurred.
"Such a book is being designed
experimentally for the OPA now,
and proof copies are being prepared
at the Government Printing Office.
If it can be made workable, we
would have in our hands an instru
ment that would enable us to start
a rationing program almost over
night, instead of having to take six
to 10 weeks as in the past when we
have had to let the emergencies wait
while we got scores of millions of
coupon books printed.
"In our present planning, this uni
versal rationing book would contain
pages of coupons of various num
bers and various colors, so that any
commodity or article could be put
on a direct coupon ration basis, or
so that a whole group of commodi
ties or articles could be lumped into
a point-rationing system ,so that, for
instance, three points would buy a
handkerchief, and five points, a pair
of socks. I use these particular items
to illustrate because there is abso
lutely no thought of rationing them.
"The other important direction of
our ration-planning is in organiza
tion and personnel.
"We have worked out a tentative
organization structure so that new
rationing programs can be under
taken with comparative ease and
(Continued on page six)
1
Sugar Beer Found
At County Still
It is apparent now that all the su
gar allotted for canning is not be
ing mixed with fruits and other foods
for common table use Raiding in the
Free Union section of Jamesville
Township last Wednesday morning
Officers J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel
captured a copper still of about 50
gallons rapacity and poured out 50
gallons of sugar beer. It was the
first sugar beer the officers had
found in their raids during the bet
ter part of two months It is also ap
parent that the sugar supply is not
large in the illicit business because
-the quantity of beer wot limited to
a small gallonage.
Robert Boston and Leonard Bos
ton, Baid to live within a short dis
tance of the still site, were recogniz
ed to appear in the county court next
Monday in connection with the op
eration of the still.
I.l< KNSKS
Iteginning next week, State
Highway Patrol Examiner Mc
leod will receive applications
for drivers' licenses only on
Thursday afternoons in the Mar
tin County courthouse. The ex
aminer explained that he had
been given more territory, and
that it would be impossible to
continue the service on two at
ternoons each week in the fu
ture.
Despite the rationing of gas
and tires and the shortages of
both, the number of persons ap
plying for drivers' licenses is un
usually large in this county.
Men Are Expected
Hack iroin Induction
Host I n Short Time
???
LuhI Croup of OraflfoH Lcuvt's
This < utility hi Two
S|M'ciul ItllhMO
Must of tin- last grmm of (irufti'i's
out tin- otic volunteer leaving this
?otinfy for an Army induction cen
ot arc exported to return home very
>hoitly to spend their fourteen-day
urlouKhx. Some of the group, at
nost certain to no into lower elassi
nations following physical exami
lations hy Army doctors, will re
urn home for indefinite periods
'lie croup started Catherine here the
venule before, several of the hoys
xphiiniiig that they had no direct
neatis of transportation anil could
lardly cet here in time to board one
ir the two special busses One or two
ilmost missed the early morninc
chedule .
There were two brothers in the
[roup which also included several
lien in their forties One is a grand
ather A serious atmosphere sur
ounded the croup as they made
eady to hoard the busses for the in
luetion center
At least five of the men schcdul
?d to make the ti ip to the Army in
luetion center had already enlisted
or service in other branches of the
iimed forces. John Ilatton (juvenil
is, Grady Davenport, E 1) Harris,
Ir .and Clyde Huic Bailey enlisted
n the Navy, and Carlyle Lanneau
-1 'x w ? lit into -tkc Ma rims Corps
Sugcne Mayo Hardison did not re
Mirt, but it is understood he re-en
isted in the Navy However, the
Iraft board has not been officially
lot if led of any such action One vol
inteer, Lyman Lueiun Britt accom
mnied the croup to the induction
enter.
The names of the others in the
[roup are:
Jesse Wed Curtis, Garland Ham
uli, Harvey H. Yates, Eugene Ange.
tenjaiilin Harber, Donnie Kolsoiri,
fohn Hen Hardison, Henry reel, lie
>er Coltrain. Lester F. Bailey, Wil
iam A Harrison, Geo. W Cowan,
(Continued on page six)
i'knihm; 1|
Seventeen positions continue
vacant in the county school fac
ulties, but contracts with appli
cants are pending in most pf
those cases. No acceptances have
been reported, however.
While it is almost certain that
most of the positions will be fill
ed, It is quite likely that several
will not be filled at all and that
some of the schools will start the
term wiUyiut complete person
nel. t'neertainty is staring the
local band program, commercial
and manual arts departments
squarely in the face, and school
officials frankly admit that all
of the departments will not be
able to get teachers.
Following the deadline the
early part of last week for ten
dering resignations, one or two
teachers in the county asked to
be released, but their requests
were rejected, it was learned.
Greatest Naval And
Air Battle of War
Having In Pacific
Maile in Solomon I*,
lands Bui Situation in
Russia Is Critical
S" few details have been made
public that the event has hardly been
mentioned, but it is understood that
one of the greatest naval-air battles
m history ,s still raging off the Sol
!*?'" " [ 1 "" Paufn.. Tin Uat
,s '''"' ling, according to some
ad Tr||"S ?""" ,la> w,th both
in O r" l,U! "''"forcements
an effort to turn the tide. Great
musutance is attaeh-d |,s thp ?||t
join, ot the battle, some observers
^ ""l" Will turn the tide
r tFTT war In addition to the Paci
" Si rap, there lias been much naval
on in the Mediterranean where
Axis claims have been discredited
Reh "* a"" ,hl" Mediterranean
"hht. American airmen severely
'"maged three Italian cruisers ,n
?he ? ? reek harbor of Pvlos Tlie Ger
mans clam, that the American air
i rait carrier. Wasp. ' had been dam
j * " and trying to reach Mai
Allied forces have made progress
in their land fighting to dislodge the
f""" -strategic islands the Sol
emn group, hut reports say that the
gains were not made without sub
? am,a losses At least one import
ant airfield has been captured on the
island of Guadalcanal, and hand-to
hand fighting has figured in the at
lek Leading the drive in the is
lands, the Marines were reported to
hay, broken Janan resistance at
k,'.y l"""ts
?adulating their newly won positions
Ibere under fierce attack by Japan
ese heavy bombers and fighters now
? epriyed of one of their most valu
? landing Krounds
Japanese forces were being driven
ba.k to heavy jungle lands where
be natural ei.ver will greatly m
"? ase the till I leulties of Allied mop
plug op parties, it was reported
""" the jungles they are expect
rd to carry guerilla warfare, as
, . ""' Allies the Netherlands East
Indies, hut Allied control of sea and
?III bases will cut them off from sup
pin s and communication centers
Dispatches from the New Zealand
headquarters of Rear Admiral Rob
ert 1. Glioriiiley, who.gonimand.1 the
Solomon assault force, said it was be
"?v J in unofficial circles that bat
tleships, carriers, cruisers, destroy
"'s suhniai ines and auxiliary ships
Wete locked III the greatest battle of
the I acifie War, and that, intention
?illy, or otherwise, the Allies appeal
I'I '",.|"'Ve opened a majoi second
I'?"it Iti the Solomons
New Zealand observers said it still
might he a localized action, hut if
I he man, Japanese fleet intervened.
II could lie the turning point of the
war
The first wounded from the battle
lie arriving at advanced American
""i1 fi'*W hospitals, where they
lie receiving the finest surgical
treat men! imaginable in those lone
ly outposts of civilization, New Zea
land dispatches said Such world
institutions as Johns Hopkins
Hospital and the Universities of
Maryland and Pennsylvania are rep
:?'sented at these buses.
Action III the Pacific by Allied
knees is said to have heartened the
Russians m that the danger of a po
cntiuJ attack by Japan on Siberia
las been materially reduced
Die situation in Russia continues
Mtical, however, with the invaders
rushing ever onward into vital
ucas.
German troops, in a swift, 50-mile
idvance into the Caucasus, have
cached Mineialnye Vody, only 140
"I line miles from the rich Russian^
ill wells of Gronzq. the Soviets ac
knowledged officially early today as
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lormant front northwest of Mos
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Indications Point To
Large Peanut Crop
Threatened by dry weather during
rooent weeks, the peanut crop was
?xpected to fall short of expectations
>y a wide margin Recent rains have
been almost ideal for the goobers in
ihis county, and a heavy production
is now indicated.
The 1942 crop of peanuts in North
Carolina will be 39 per cent larger
than last year, and farmers now ex
pect to harvest 368,900,000 pounds,
Frank Parker, federal statistician of
the state department of agriculture,
uiid this week.
Parker said the crop will be grown
an 310,000 acres, a 35 per cent in
crease over the 229,000 acres planted
last summer. All of the increased
acreage will be used to produce pea
nuts for oil needed in the victory
program
Prospects are for a yield of 1,190
pounds per acre, an increase of 30
per cent over last year, Parker said.
General rains this month may Im
prove the yield materially, howev
er.
Soybeans .anoifier "wkr crop** 3
reported at 78 per cent of normal,
compared with 87 per cent on the
same date last year.
"Since general rains have fallen
lately, the outlook should
more encouraging," Parker said.