Plans Go Forward
For Scrap Harvest
In Martin County
Special Appeal Made by Head
of War Production Board
For More Iron
The United States government is
asking all farmers to dedicate the re
mainder of this year to an intensi
fied search for scrap metal.
In a telegram received last week
by The Herald from Donald M. Nel
son, it was stated that: "Steel mills
need more heavy scrap and the farms
are one of the best sources of this |
type of metal. All salvage commit
tees are being instructed to continue
to make available to the farmers all
their transportation facilities and
manpower, and to cooperate in ev
ery possible way. The nation is look
ing to the American farmer. I am
sure he will come through."
Special plans are just about com
plete for an extensive county-wide
scrap harvest in this county. The
committee, headed by V. J. Spivey,
chairman, plans to contact every far
mer in the county and make a minute
survey of past deliveries and esti
, mate how much more scrap iron
there is to be had. Key men in each
of the townships will be contacted,
and they, in turn, will contact eth
er key men who will make the can
vass. Hie cooperation of everyone is
earnestly solicited. Possibly the sur
vey will get underway next week.
According to all available informa
tion, although the recent drive re
sulted in millions of pounds of scrap,
the steel mills need the heavier
types of metal, much of which is of
ten found on farms. It has also been
pointed out that while much metal
can be collected in the drives, the
public should not stop but continue
to salvage all metal possible, for the
war continues to go on and as long
as it continues, more and more scrap
metal will be needed.
Soybean crushers are being urged
by the Government to make every
effort to speed up the early process
ing of soybeans which have been
damaged by frost.
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CLARK'S PHARMACY
Coffee Rationing Is
Now In Effect On
Nation-wide Basis
Rationing in Many Cases Is
Traceable To Shortage
Of Merchantmen
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This week, the United States, the
world's greatest coffee drinking
country, started rationing its cof
fee so that no one will receive more
than a pound of the beverage once
every five weeks.
The reason for our going on a ra
tion basis can be put in a word ?
ships.
The bottoms that ply between
here and Brazil, Colombia and oth
er South American countries are
now freighting bauxite ores from
the Guianas to make aluminum for
our planes. Nitrates for gun powder
and explosives pack the hulls of
boats putting out of Chile. Guate
malan and other Central American
coffee boats are now jammed with
guns, cannons and shells bound for
the shores of England. Russia, Afri
ca and wherever our troops and
those of our Allies are fighting. In
addition, much of what coffee is be
ing transported is going to our arm
ed forces.
As a result of the shipping situa
tion, for every four pounds of cof
fee the country was importing a
year ago, before Pearl Harbor, we
are now only getting three pounds.
In 1941 imports of green (unroast
ed) coffee from South and Central
American coffee imports amounted
to 2.2 billion pounds. In 1942 that fig
ure will be cut to 1.7 billion pounds.
During the five year period, 1937
through 1941, U. S. coffee drinkers
?about 80 per cent of the adult pop
ulation?consumed 21 pounds an
ually. The current ration would al
low 10.4 pounds annually or just
about half the former consumption
rate.
Even under rationing, however,
Americans will drink much more
coffee than the people of European
countries. German has practically no
real coffee. Its population imbibes
an ersatz concoction of acorns and
grains of various sorts. The Italians
are even worse off. As for the other
countries under Axis domination,
they receive whatever the coffee
starved Reich sees fit to spare.
The plain fact of the situation is
that the American population is
lucky to get what coffee is being
brought up. There are crews risk
ing their necks to sail it up here.
There are Marines in the Solomons
who haven't had a cup of coffee in
a long time and among them some
who never will again. Besides, the
shipping space now occupied by cof
fee might well be turned over to ev
en more bauxite, copper, balsa wood,
mica and other strategic materials.
The problem now is to spread what
ever coffee supply we do receive
among the greatest number of pco
SCORES OF FARMERS
ARE PRAISING RETONGA
He Did Not Dare Eat Enough
To Keep Up His Strength,
And Felt Weak and Dis
couraged, States Mr. Beck.
Feels Fine and Strong Now
Hundreds of well known farmers
and their wives are among the thous
ands of happy and grateful men and
women praising Retonga. For in
e, Mr ~ - - - -
stance, Mr. David E. Beck, promi
nent farm owner of R. F. D. 1, Box
311, Winston-Salem, N. C., declares:
"I was often in so much distress
from acid indigestion and gas in my
stomach that I felt like I could hard
ly breathe. I did not dare eat enough
solid food, and I felt undernourish
ed and weak. I had to take laxatives
for constipation, and at times every
muscle in my body seemed to ache.
My head often ached like it was be
ing pounded with a hammer. I took
many medicines without obtaining
relief, and I felt badly discouraged.
"The first bottle of Retonga be
gan to relieve me. Now my appetite
is good, and I am relieved of that
gassy bloating, aching muscles, and
constijj>atior^^ion^tjTavi_^hosi^rns^
MR. DAVID E. BECK
erable headaches like I did, either. I
feel fine, and I cannot say enough
for Retonga."
Retonga is a purely herbal stom
achic medicine combined with liber
al quantities of Vitamin B-l, and is
intended to relieve such symptoms
when due to loss of appetite, insuffi
cient flow of gastric juices in the
stomach, constipation ,and Vitamin J
B-l deficiency Retonga may be ob
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Sausage Mills
Lard Presses
Lard Stands
Mill Repairs
Wooden Tubs
Meat Saws
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WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Checking Invasion Barge Motors
U. S. Army mechanics are shown carefully checking the powerful
motor of one of the landing barges, built for invading hostile shores,
in the machine shop of a Navy operating base in the United Kingdom.
These barges may have been used for amphibious operations in North
Africa by the Allied forces. (Central Press)
pie, which is where the rationing sys
tem enters.
Here are its mechanics?the coffee
to be rationed included roasted cof
fee?whether ground, in the bean,
or decaffeinated?and commercially
sold mixtures of coffee with chicory,
cereal, or other substitutes. Consum
ers are not permitted to buy green
(unroasted) coffee for home roast
ing. "Instant" coffee, soluble coffee,
liquid coffee concentrates, coffee ex
tracts and other beverages used in
stead of coffee are not rationed.
War Ration Book No. l-^The "Su
gar Book"?will then boused for
buying coffee. The stamps in the
book numbered 28 and down to 20
are the coffee stamps. The first ra
tion stamp is numbered 27; then, in
order, follow 28, 25, 26. 23. 24, 21, 22,
20. This apparently disconnected se
quence is used because of the physi
cal arrangement of stamps in the
ration book.
Only those whose rution books
show their age to be over fifteen
years old may purchase a pound of
coffee for each coffee stamp. The rea
son for this age limitation is to al
low larger rations for the adult pop
ulation.
The first ration period runs for
five weeks from November 29th
through January 3, 1943. Other ra
tion periods will be announced later
by the OPA.
Those who have no ration books
or have lost them should apply im
mediately at their local War Price
and Ration Board. If lack of trans
portation facilities makes buying
coffee in the specified quantities a
hardship, the consumer may apply
at his rationing board {or a certifi
cate to buy up to five pounds at a
time. In that case, a sufficient num
ber of stamps will be removed by the
board to cover the "advance" ra
tion.
Shortage or no, coffee is price
controlled and no one should pay
more than the ceiling price.
Government experts have drawn
up a set of tip's for getting the most
out of our coffee rations. They are?
Consumers should buy their cof
fee as they need it ? a pound at a
time. In this way, the family will
have fresher coffee and the grocer
will be able to supply neighbors with
the coffee they require for current
needs. Stale coffee does not have the
strength and flavor of fresh coffee.
Don't use "heaping" spoonsul but
level ones. Eliminate "one for the
pot."
Make only the exact amount to be
served. If there is coffee left over,
store it in the refrigerator for use
as flavoring or for a cup of warmed
over coffee.
Coffee should be served as soon
as it is made. The longer it cooks,'
once it has been made, the more fla
voring it loses.
I Don't boil coffee. It drives off the
flavor and aroma.
Keep the coffee in a tightly cover
ed container and store it in the re
frigerator or some other cool place
where it will retain its flavor long
er.
The coffee pot should be kept im
maculately clean. It should be scrub
bed with soap and water and entire
ly rinsed. The reason for this is that
rancid oils from old coffee in the cof
fee pot may spoil the new brew.
The closer these rules are follow
ed the more cups to the pound will
be realized and the better the coffee
will be. Coffee experts figure care
ful brewing and measuring should
get 40 cups out of the pound.
Thus, the day of two cups of cof
fee at breakfast or between-meal
coffee drinking is over for the im
mediate future. It ought to be tak
en in stride by a war-time public.
The recent burst of panicky pre-ra
ti?n buying and coffee hoarding ?
and a great deal of that coffee will
grow stale long before it is drunk
was not especially heartening. Ra
tioning, of course, will solve that
particular situation. But there is al
ways the chance that the chiselers,
the bootleggers and the runners of
the black markets will emerge to
plague this campaign as they have
other Government drives. Public au
thorities ought to be told about them
immediately. If the public cooper
ates, these racketeer. wi]i be expos
War Taking Toll
At Dinner Table
Nowhere on the home front is the
impact of war more evident than at
the dinner table and it's going to be
even more so as the conflict con
tinues. With the invasion of North
Africa, more food will be needed, not
only to supply our own forces and
our allies now, but eventually the
peoples of the starved, Axis-invaded
countries. Food will be used as a
weapon, just as guns and bullets, so
the slogan, "Food will win the war
and write the peace," takes on re
newed meaning. As lend-lease ship
ments expand, the list of hard-to
get commodities will inevitably grow
longer. For example, dairy products,
once plentiful, now are running low.
Half of the country's butter supply
in cold storage has been earmarked
for military and lend-lease and the
freezing action of the government
last week caused more than one per
son to double purchases of butter.
OPA had planned to start the point
system of food rationing sometime
after the first of the year,
ed. And the Government, busy wag
ing war, is expecting that coopera
tion.
Keeping warm these
horse-and-buggy days
You haven't nctually traded in
your auto for a buggy. But you
are out in the air more. And you'll
lie more comfortable if you change
from Summer underwear to mid
dleweight IIanes Winter Sets.
These garments arc warm enough
outdoors without being too hot in
doors. You'll like them especially
if you're conserving fuel with a
cooler house this Winter.
You also have the gentle athletic
support of the Hanesknit Crotch
Guard. Conveniently placed open
ing. Flexible waistband.
CHOOSE FROM THESE HANES
WINTER SETS Wear a short-sleeve
or sleevelet* shirt with mid thigh Ehorts
(shown above) or with ankle-length Drawers
(Figure A). Ask for Hanks wintka httib
for boys, too.
HANES UNION-SUITS (S., n.urt
B.) For men who need even warmer under
wear. Fleecy and comfortable. Tailored to
exact chest width and trunk length ? they
won't pinch or pull. Aukle-kngih hgs.
Long or short sleeves.
The HANIS Lob*l onur*t y*? quality oar
imaati at moderate price? W* or* moklna
? very ?#*rt #o fc**p yoo toppllod. Bat
It yam comma* obtain your favorite tfylo
of HANIS Uodorwaor. remembor thai
moth of oar production It going to oar
Armed force*. B. H. Hornet Knitting
Company, Wlmtoa-tolem, M. C.
BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMM
We sell HANES Underwear
DARDEN'S DEPT. STORE
MARTIN SUPPLY CO.
FARMERS SUPPLY CO.
MARGOLIS BROTHERS
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