Peanut Program Is
Subject To Change
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Franklin, Va., Dec. 10?As the pea
nut threshing season draws to a close
in the Carolinas-Virginia-Tennessee
area, the United States Department
of Agriculture announces national
marketing quotas for edible peanuts
in 1943 at 1,253,800,000 pounds. This
figure is equivalent to an allotment
of 1,810,000 acres, the same as in
1942.
In addition to this acreage, howev
er, which is sufficient to supply the
normal needs of the edible trade,
the Secretary of Agriculture has set
a Food-for-Freedom goal of pea
nuts for crushing into oil at 3,890,
000 acres, making a total of 5 1-2
million acres in the two classifica
tions, a million acres more than it
is estimated will be harvested in
1942 and half-a-million acres above
the *942 goal.
Farmers in this area responded
magnificiently to the Department of
Agriculture's plea for excess pea
nuts in 1942 for crushing into oil,
according to W. T. Parker, manager
of the Growers Peanut Co-Operative,
Inc., the agency which channels Car
Olinas-Vitginia-Tennessec peanuts
and soybeans into the oil trade for
the Agricultural Marketing Admin
istration, and added that while pro
ducers are being asked to greatly in
crease their peanut production in
1943 USDA officials point out that
peanut marketing quotas divide the
crop between edible and oil pur
poses, thus assuring the edible trade
a reasonable amount with which to
operate, and diverting the remain
der into peanut oil.
While the 1943 quota will not be
subjected to a referendum since pea
nut producers in 1941 approved mar
keting quotas for each of the three
years?1941, 1942 and 1943?the De
partment of Agriculture has recom
mended a single price system for
peanuts in 1943, whether for edible
use or for oil. Such a program would
assure growers of an average return
of between 80 and 85 per cent of par
ity, meaning an average price of
about 6 1-4 cents a pound in the old
producing
Highest Award for Marine Hero
President Roosevelt presents to Mrs. Michael Fleming, of St. Paul,
Minn., the highest award of the nation, the Congressional Medal of
Honor posthumously awarded to her son. Capt Richard E. Fleming,
Marine Corps aviator. Lieut Gen. Thomas Holcomb. Marine Corps
commandant looks on. The twenty-four-year-old flier crashed while
trying to attack a Jap battleship from a height of only five hundred
feet, although his plane was already damaged. This is a phonephoto.
(Central Frets)
A program of this type requires
legislation which has already been
introduced by Congressman Pace of
Georgia in a bill that would suspend
marketing quotas in 1943 and 1944.
With the referendum to be held for
194S. If a single price plan or its
equivalent is not possible, price sup
port programs for peanuts for both
edible and oil purposes, similar to
those now in force will be continued
in 1943
Mayor Hassell and Bob Manning
were in Washington yesterday.
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Heads the SPARS
Seated at her desk in her Washing
ton, D. C., office ia Lieut Com
mander, Dorothy C. Stratton, com
mander of the SPARS, new Women's
Auxiliary Reserve of the U S ('oast
Guard Note the two and a half
stripes of a lieutenant commander
on her uniform's coat sleeve and the
U. S. Coast Guard insignia on her
hat This is a phonephoto
(Central Preti)
The 52nd Week
Of The War
(Continued from page one)
ships?two large destroyers or cruis
ers, four destroyers, two troop trans
ports and one cago ship?at a loss of
only one U. S. cruiser. The enemy
will try again Mr. Knox said, but the
November 30 attempt indicates
clearly that the condition of the
Japanese on the island is becoming
acute. Navy communiques through
out the week reported 170 Japanese
killed on the island, three planes
downed and one cargo ship hit.
The Navy reported five U. S. nav
al transports were sunk by axis sub
marines during the occupation of
North Africa in the early part of No
vember, and during the operation
three other U. S. transports, one de
stroyer, and one tanker were dam
aged. Reports showed that 218 axis
planes and 10 tanks were destroyed
and a number of prisoners were cap
tured, with the allies reporting 14
planes missing and five lost.
In a daylight raid on Naples on
December 4 allied heavy bombers
successfully attacked docks and oth
er targets, scoring hits on one Ital
ian battleship and two cruisers.
The nation's intelligence service
has estimated Japanese casualties
from the day of Pearl Harbor to No
vember 25, 1942, at 250,000 men kill
ed or permanently injured, with
naval losses representing about 10
per cent of the Japanese navy's total
personnel. U. S. army and navy
losses in the same period numbtf
about 50,000 men killed or missing,
with naval losses representing about
one per cent of the total U. S. naval
personnel.
Agriculture
The 1943 food-for-freedom goals
are expected to cause some regional
changes in agricultural production,
as changes from the food production
pattern throw sharp emphasis on
?Vops and livestock most essential to
f ar effort. All possible assistance,
the Department of Agriculture an
nounced, will be given farmers in
meeting the record goals?to ease
the shortage of farm labor, to sup
port prices, to provide loans and
technical assistance?but crop pay
ments will be conditional on the de
gree to which each cooperating farm
family carries out its individual
farm plan, with deductions for over
planting of non-essential products
and for under-planting of essential
eroj) allotments and goals.
To provide labor for 1943 farm
production, WMC Chairman McNutt
announced a comprehensive program
which will be worked out in detail
during.the Winter and launched as
soon as spring planting begins. The
plant provides for the transportation
of Mobile groups of experienced
farm workers, the transfer of ex
perienced operators and workers
from sub-standard lands to product
ive areas, the adjustment of farm
wages in relation to industrial wages
and a farm labor training and man
agement program. Because of the
"wide disparity" between salaries
and wages paid agricultural labor
and those paid industrial labor, OES
Director Byrnes gave control over
agricultural wages to Secretary
Wickard. The house passed and sent
to the Senate Legislation directing
that farm wages be included in cal
culations of parity prices for farm
products, defining wages as those not
only of hired hands, but of operators
and owners as well.
Rationing
A new system of rationing known
as the "point system," will be used
with war ration book No. 2 to ration
certain commodities not yet an
nounced. The system will not re
place straight coupon rationing of
sugar, gasoline and coffee, as it will
be used only for groups of related or
Birth Announcement
Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Pate an
nounce the birth of a daughter, Jud
ith Brown, December 7th, at the
Brown Community Hospital.
Returns from Chicago
Mrs. Joseph A. Peele has return
ed from Chicago where she has been
visiting her husband. Pvt. Joseph
A. Peele, for the past two weeks.
Meat
Meat slaughtered on the farm for
home use and that which families
purchase in quantities for storage
in freezer lockers should be counted
in the 2 1-2 pound weekly sharing
allowance.
similar commodities which can be
interchangeably used. Each com
modity is plentiful, a high point
value if it is scarce?and the govern
ment, to protect the supply of scarce
commodities, can lower or raise the
piont-value of any commodity at
any time.
Gasoline Rationing
In Other Sections
Gasoline rationing brought home J
recently to some 20,000,000 addition- i
al owners of passenger cars and
trucks the need to conserve rubber.
The restrictions weren't new to 7,
000,000 easterners?they've been un
der curbs since last spring which are
more drastic now than they were 1
then. In a preview of what would I
happen if the nation's tires are used
up, Perior. 111., staged a "car-less;
Tuesday" before rationing went into !
effect. Half of that city's 40,000 mo- I
torists?those whose license plates,
ended in odd numbers?left their1
cars in garages and used other means !
of transportation. To OPA, "car-less j
Tuesday" was4 a success. But what-1
ever it proved about autos, it was a
great day for horses. All kinds of
them ? from Shetland ponies to
Things To Watch
For In The Future
Zinc-coated steel pennies to re
place the copper coins . . . Synthetic
plant smells to lure insects to traps
. . . Quick-frozen mixed fruits ? a
blend of raspberries, apricots and
seedless grapes?marketep by Birds
eye Frosted Foods Division of Gen
eral Foods Corporation . . . Jewel Tea
Company's coffee "extender,"
"Troxa", a chicory blend. By adding
half as much "Troxa" as coffee, the
blend will make twice as much cof
fee . . . Decorative kitchen cabinets
of cardboard? strong enough to
withstand the weight of the family
groceries.
mules?made their appearance on
Peoria's streets with their car-less
riders.
PAINT SALE!
WE ARE OFFERING OUR ENTIRE PAINT
STOCK AT SPECIAL LOW PRICES. EVERY
ITEM MADE BY BENJAMIN MOORE.
25 Per Cent Reduction
We Are Offering Thin Large Stoek of Paint
At A 2.'> Per (lent lte<luetioii From
The Usual List Priee.
Sale Runs Through
Thursday, Dec. 24
For your information we list just a few of the
many Faint items we are offering at special
low prices tluring this sale . . .
MOOR WHITE PRIMER
Ready Mixed fur All Exterior IVork
Was $3.90 Now $2.95
SEMI-PASTE PAINT
Fir?t Quality
Was $4.05 Now $3.05
METALLIC BARN & ROOF PAINT
A Genuine Linseed Oil I'aint
Was $2.00 Now $1.59
DULAMEL
Interior Gloss Finish
Was $3.65 Now $2.95
MOORE'S HOUSE PAINT
hirst (Jutility
Was $4.05 Now $3.05
Egyptian mixed paint
Fine Quality
Was $3.00 Now $2.42
INSIDE WALE PAINT
Fine Quality
Was $2.80 Now $2.10
PA^IJA WATER PASTE PAINT
Waslialilc Wall Finish
Was $2.75 Now $2.39
HUai GLOSS ENAMEL
Was $5.00 Now $3.95
Sales Tax To lie Athled To All Paint Prices
Big Stock Turpentine and Linseed Oil
WILLIAMSTON
Hardware Company