Government Asks
Less Meat-Eating
/CI families in the nation are be
ing, asked to contribute alike in the
"share-the-meafc" program by hold
ing" down weekly consumption to 2
l-2.pounds per person over 12 years
of age.
In clarifying the roquest. Or. L O.
Schaub, director of the Extension
Service of N. C. State College, said
all "meat slaughtered on farms for
home use and that which families
purchase in quantity for storage in
freezer lockers should be counted in
the 2 1-2 pound weekly sharing al
lowance. S
This applies to the meat from
home-slaughtered cattle, calves, hogs
and sheep, since the "share-the
meat" program affects all beef, pork,
veal, lankb, and mutton. All meat,
whether slaughtered on the farm or
commercially, makes up the total
supply to be available to consum
ers.
Explaining the situation, Dr.
Schaub said that huge amounts of
meat must be supplied to the Army,
the Nary, and our Allies. Civilian
consumption must be held to the
amount available after all of these
needs are met.
If civilians were allowed to buy all
the maat they wanted, their pur
chases alone would take 21 billion
pounds of the total available sup
ply of slightly more than 24 billion
pounds. Since. Army, Navy, and
Lease-Lend requirements amount to
6 1-2 billion pounds, civilian con
sumption must be cut to 17 1-2 bil
lion pounds.
- Dr. Schaub said a meat-rationing
system cannot be worked out until
riarlj^in^ 1943, so citizens have been
Woman's Place Is
In The Home?
The old saying that woman's place
la in the home may well have been
tree in grandmother's day, but times
have changed. Today, with the man
power problem daily becoming more
acute, women are leaving the kitch
en and office for the assembly line
to aid in turning out the huge quan
tities of war material needed to fight
a global war effectively. A Bureau
of Census survey disc loses that the
feminine army in the factory and on
the farm is growing by leaps and
bounds. Some 14.300,000 women
were at work in August, a gain of
2,100,000 over August, 1M1, com
prising IS per cent of agricultural
employment, nearly 30 per cent of
non-agricultural employment.
Nowadays women can get a job in
a shipyard or in the lumbering in
dustry. They are replacing men in
railroad yards and as drivers of
trucks, buses and trolley cars. The
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company recently let down the bars
to eight of their number for work in
the yards. At the Pennsylvania Rail
road's Sunnyside yards on Long Is
land there are several feminine
crews. A drive-away concern em
ploys some to drive big trucks which
haul Army trucks, jeeps and ambu
lances from Detroit to eastern cities.
At the huge Ravenna ordnance
plant, operated by Atlas Powder
Company, more than a third of the
workers are women.
asked to cooperate in the voluntary
"share-the-meat" program so as to
assure adequate rations for the
Army, Navy and American Allies.
FINEST MULES
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A SOLID CARLOAD OF
Fresh Western Mules
If you are interested in a good Mule,
now is the time to buy. We have the
very finest Western Mules to be had.
Take our advice and buy one of these
fine Mules. You'll pay more later.
HOLT EVANS
WTLLIAMSTON, N. C.
Reds Advance Through Field Near Stalingrad
With rifles and sub-machine guns ready, these Red Army soldiers advance through a corn field against a
Nazi position in the Stalingrad area. In the furious fighting going on within the city itself, the Soviet
defenders threw back an attack of 1,000 Nazis and killed more than 100 of this number. This photo was
radioed from Moscow to New York. (Central Pre**)
Know The AMERICAS
HOW RUBBER STRAYED FROM
THE NEW WORLD . . .
Hernan Cortes and his gallant
band of conquistadorcs relaxed one
day from the rigors of conquest to
watch Aztec athletes play their na
tive game of tlachtli in a courtyard
at Tenochtitlan, site of present-day
Mexico City. It was not the game so
much as the bouncing object the Az
tecs used which excited the interest
of the soldiers This day in 1519
marked the first time any European
witnessed the Indian use of rubber.
Throughout the colonial period
and into the 19th century rubber de
velopment in the Americas proceed
ed on a small scale, enough to sup
ply the limited demand for rubber
erasers, shoes, coats, and similar ar
ticles. Wild rubber trees of the Bra
zilian Amazon produced the bulk,
the remainder coming from Colom-1
bia, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela. I
Charles Goodyear's invention of vul-1
canization in 1939, and the extended
use of rubber after that date for
pneumatic tires, aroused world-wide
interest, ultimately resulting in the
transfer of rubber to tbe Far East.
It was Clements Markham, al
ready acquainted with the natural
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wealth of the New World through
his activity in the field of quinine,
who supplied the impetus for the
transfer of rubber. Beginning in
1872, Markham encouraged several
attempts to grow Brazilian rubber
seeds in the Kew Botanical Gardens
of London. None of the saplings sur
vived when transplanted to the Far
East tropics.
However, in the late 1870's, Hen
ry A. Wickham, a young opportun
ist. appeared on the scene and to
him the British owe the success of
their endeavors. He had roamed the
American tropics since 1866 and had
become interested in rubber. He set
to work in 1874 to gather seeds to
send to England. Wickham's first few
shipments failed but he did not run
up the white flag. In 1876 he manag
ed a wholesale snatch of seeds, which
together with a stroke of luck in the
form of a new ocean vessel lying in
the Amazon River, comprised the
first step in the decline of New
World hegemony.
One day in 1876 the first British
ship of a new Liverpool-to-Upper
Amazon service sailed up the Ama
zon to Santarem. Wickham, in need
of diversion, had dinner on board.
Later, as a result of contacts estab
lished at this time, he managed to
charter the ^mazonas, as the ship
was called, on behalf of the Govern
ment of India. Wickham himself had
no funds.
He then began the laborious task of
gathering Hevea seeds, using great
originality to assure the success of
this venture, lie recruited as many
Indians as ho could find to collect
them, while Tapuyo Indian maids
fashioned baskets. Banana leaves
were placed between each layer of
seeds in the baskets. Wickham knew
that if the seeds became rancid or
too dry they would not grow. Load
ed on canoes, the seeds were paddled
up the river and put aboard the Am
azonas.
Before reaching open sea, howev
er, Wickham had to pass the customs
at Paid -he had visions of seeing his
precious cargo seized by the author
ities. But again Dame Fortune smil
ed. Wickham had a friend, a Consul
Green, who backed up his story that
he had on board the ship "exceed
ingly delicate botanical specimens,
specially designed for delivery to
Her Majesty's own Royal Gardens of
Kew." That proved impressive en
ough to get by ? Wickham had al
ready given orders to keep the ves
sel's steam up.
Some weeks after the arrival in
London, as Wickham put it, "I saw
a pretty sight-some 7000 young rub
ber plants growing in Kew Gar
dens." Soon the offspring of these
seeds were planted in Britain's far
flung empire, in India and the East
Indies, to prosper and eventually
deal a death blow to New World pro
duction.
Today the Far East supply, 90 per
cent of world consumption, is cut
off by the Japanese. Experiments -
tion and increased production point
Rope
4>
Several hundred acres a week in
Panama and Costa Rica are being cut
from the jungle and seeded to ma
nila fiber plants as a step toward
filling the United Nation's need for
rope.
to a return of rubber development in
Brazil, Columbia. Peru and else
where in the Americas?and rubber
will be welcome home.
NOTE OF THANKS
1 wish to express my great appre
ciation and sincere thanks to every
one who was so kind and thoughtful
during my long illness in Duke and j
Brown Community hospitals. I es
pecially wish to thank Dr V E
Brown and the nurses in the local
hospital for being so kind and atten
tive while in their hospital.
Thermon Griffin.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
Deed of Trust executed to the under
signed Trustee by Rebecca Hyman,
dated 23rd day of September, 1923,
of record in Book C-3, page 84, to
secure certain note of even date
therewith, and the stipulations in
said Deed of Trust not having been
complied with, and at the request
of the holder of said bond, the un
dersigned Trustee will, on the 12th
day of December, 1942, at 12 o'clock,
Noon, m front of the Courthouse ?
loor Martin County, offer for sale,
to the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described landt
FIRST TRACT: A house and lot
in the Town of Williamston, N. C? I
bounded on the South and West by
Ed Ormond, on the North by Hyman
Street, on East by Martin Street and
being same house and lot formerly
occupied by said Sarah Hyman. Con
taining 1 1-2 acres, more or less.
SECOND TRACT: Adjoining
George Hyman. a street, the White
land and Margaret Johnson.
This 10th day of Nov., 1942.
B A CRITCHER.
al3-4t Trustee.
NOTICE OF RE SALE
Under and by virtue of an order
if re-sale of the Superior Court,
ugned by the Clerk, of the Super
ior Court in an action entitled "In i
Ihe Matter of: Edward L. Wilson et
sis, Ex Partee," the undersigned j
Commissioners will on Monday, the
16th day of November, 1942, at 12
a'clock. Noon, in front of the Court
house door Martin County, offer for
re-sale to the highest bidder for
rash, the following described tract
if land:
Located in Williamston Township,
partly in the Town of Williamston,
N. C., bounded on one side by Roan
ike River and Standard Fertilizer
Company, on the other side by what
is known as the Watts Farm, now
irjongi"^ tuGllffm Brother:-, on 11 it'
back by Conoho Creek, on the front
by Hatton Street, Harrell property
and Williamaton Package Company.
This description includes the farm
formerly known as the Salsbury
Farm except certain parcels hereto
fore sold by the late M. D. Wilson, 29
acres of the Watts Farm, deeded to
M. D Wilson and Perry, of record in
the Register of Deeds office in Book
39. page 293. and what is known as
the Piney Island land deeded to M.
D. Wilson by R. L. Cobum, of record
in Book V-2. page 991. and also what
is known as the Hodges land on the
North side of Hatton Street upon
which the said M. D. Wilson built
tenant houses mainly for the use of
said farm excepting from the Hodges
land the house and lot in the corner
of Hatton and Biggs Street which the
said M. D Wilson devised to Mat
thew Wilson a lite estate and ex
cepting from the ahove description
life estate of Mrs Wilson in and to
the house and garden where the late
M. D. Wilson lived, which was allot
ted recently to the widow of the late
M D Wilson as a part of her dower.
Containing around 800 acres, more
or less.
The highest bidder for said tract
of land will be required to make de
posit of 10 per cent of the bid at the
sale
This 5th day of November, 1942.
B A. CRITCHER.
Z. V BUNTING.
nti 2t Commissioners.
Hay Wire for Sale
Buy /Voir Before Slock li Exhausted, (let
I'rices Before You Buy.
WILLIAMSTON SUPPLY CO.
U. s. CENSUS SHOWS THAT
liO('.k\ MOUNT is the ')th large*! city in the
State ami the large*! in thi* section
of the State.
Shop in
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FINE CARLOAD MULES
I have returned attain with an unusually fine load of Fresh West
ern Milieu. These Milieu were bought by me personally and I'll
guarantee tliein to be just an represented. DON'T WAIT ? Mules
will get higher eaeh week. liny now anil SAVK MONEY!
DAVIS MULE COMPANY
WASHINGTON KOAI) WILI.IAMSTON, N. C.
Farmers Sell US Your PEANUTS
We Pay Highest Market Prices
OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE AT THE
NEW CAROLINA WAREHOUSE Williamston, N. C
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get additional space if needed. Call us when your peanuts arc ready to sell or for storage.
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MANNING AND GURKIN
WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA.