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The Executive Committee of Pitt
County Farm Bureau has set a
membership quota for Pitt county
of 3,000 regular members and 2,000
associate member*.- The drive for
membership began Saturdey. ^
- The county "Hcrtm
consists of the following men:. W.
H. Woolard, B. B. Sugg, and J. Ray
x mon Turnage, publicity; and Dr. M.
T. Frixzelie, chairman, M. O. Speight,
F. A. Elka, L. C. Venters, W. J.
Smith, G. V. Smith, W. A. Allen,
and W. I. Bissette, county steering
committee.
W. H. Woolard and B. B. Sugg
are co-chairmen . of the associate
membership committee. r
The executive committee appointed
the following men as chairmen of
the membership committee in the re
spective townships of the county:
Ayden, J. R. Turn age; Beaver Dam,
Mack G. Smith; Belvoir, W. R. Tyson;
Bethel, John W. Rook; Carolina, J.
L. Barnhfll; Chi cod, W. A. Hudson;
Falkland, G. H. Pittman; FarmviBe.
C. A. Tyson; Fountain, R. A. Foun
tain; Greenville, L. T. Hardee, Sr.;
Pactolus, J. P. Davenport;, Swift
Creek, Jesse vuineriy; WrntervDle, R.
H. Mc Law horn.
Legion Post Officers
To Meet in Qoldsboro
Goldsboro, Oct. 1?The 1942 post
officers of the North Carolina de
partment of the American Legion
and its affiliated organizations will
be held in Goldsboro, T. L. Blow,
commander of the Wayne Post has
just announced.
National Commander Lynn Stam
baugh of North Dakota and several
other officers are expected to attend
the conference which will be held in
January. The Legion and the Aux
iliary will hold their sessions Sunday
and Monday and the Forty and Eight
will hold its promenade. Saturday
night and Sunday. The exact date
of the meeting is to be fixed later.
Farmers Get Busy
With Small Grains
Within the next month, North
Carolina farmers will seed their
small grain, for the 1942 harvest.
Whether individual yields will be
better than the far-too-low average
will depend to a large extent on the
practices which the farmer himself
uses, says W. H. Rankin, agronomist
of the N. C. State College Experi
ment Station.
The average wheat yield in North
Carolina is 12 bushels and the aver
age income 112 per acre; average oat
yield is 22 bushels and income 111
per acre; and average rye yield is
eight bushels and income $8 per acre.
Barley stands in a better position
since it is grown on a smaller acreage
and receives better treatment
The State College agronomist
pointed out that the average farmer
seeds less than 14 acres of small
grain, yet there are about 150,000
individual farmers growing these
crops each year.
When the grower attempts to in
crease his grain yields, he should
remember that his harvest Tyill be no
better than the conditions he pro
vides. Small grains can be grown
on almost any of the well-drained
soils of the State if proper prepar
ation and treatment are given.
The beet yields of small grains,
Rankin explained, are produced
when they follow sods of red
clover and lespedeza turned or Si ced
into the soil during the summer and
disced again a week to two weeks
before seeding time.
Oats and barley respond best to
early seedings, that is, around the
first of October, while wheat should
be planted about three weeks later.
Complete fertilizers, such as 4*10-6
on the average soil following row
cultivated crops, and 2-10-6 or 2-12*6
. for soils where a good legume sod
has been returned, are* an important
; part of small grain production, V
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AIR WAR
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London, Oct 1.?A squadron i
| Britain's saw four-cannon Hurri
canes blasted opart an attack fortoa
tion of eight German motor torpedo 1
boats off the French coast tonight,
the. Air Ministry announced. ; ?; ?'
The sudden 'swoop of Hurricanes
on the darting speed craft which the
Germans use to attack channel con
voys left one of the boats in flames
and another smoking, the pilots re
ported. Part of the crew of a third
German boat was said to have been
I shot off deck and into the sea by the
rapid-fire 20-mm. cannon.
[ Other British planes struck at the
occupied French coast through a
bank of channel mist tonight in con
tinuing raids on the Boulogne and
Calais areas.
b The British reported two British
fighters lost and two German fight
ers shot down during day sweeps
across the channel which continued
as night fell. (The Germans said four
British and no German planes were
j shot- down.) From tire British shore
pinpoints of anti-aircraft fire could
be seen bursting above the loW-lying
mist.
The day sweeps came after British
bombers blasted for the second,night
in succession at the North German
ports of Hamburg and Stettin.
Another Orthopedic
Clinic This Friday
The State Orthopedic clink will
be held today in Greenville from
12:30 to 4 P. M.
The clinic takes all types of crip
ples, both white and colored, free
of charge who are unable to afford
private treatments. It is desired
though not required, that patients ?
be referred by a physician or the
welfare officer, and that the patient
bring such note to the clink. , - <
The clinic is conducted by Dr.
Hugh A. Thompson, orthopedist, of
Raleigh, at the Pitt County Health
Department office located at the cor
ner of Third and Greene Streets.
SWEETS
National defense priorities offici
als have urged candy packaging
qompanies to cut down production as
a means to saving essential paper
materials.
INVENTORY
All the nation's motor vehicles
registration agencies are conducting
an inventory of trucks and buses for
possible emergency use. ]
K DOUBLE YOLKS
Gestosis, N. C.?Buying a dozen'
eggs from bis grocer, a Gastonia
man was surprised to find that every
one of them contained double yolks.
He burned back and bought another
dozen and all of them except one,
had double yolks. The gjpcsff by
that time, had caught on and charged
more for the eggs he bought from
the "double-yolk" farmer, who did
not know he had such good hens.
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WASTES HUE IN JAIL C :?;?
Cincinnati, 0.?After spending 17
days in jail to avoid the dra&?Jereme I
Hoersting, 22, decided to give in to
the Selective Service. He flunked
kis physical eraminstkm and was re
jected. l> i
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Mr. and Mrs. R L. Wilson, spent
a few days this week with relatives
in Broadwtoy.
Dr. and Mrs. E. R Beaaley visited
Mr. and Mrs. I. E.\Beasley in Ahos
kie Sunday.
Mrs. Lloyd Gay is a patient in Pitt
General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Smith visited
relatives in Watetonburg Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Eagles, Harold
and Gey Eagles, and Mr. and Mrs.
M. D. Yelverton visited Dr. and Mrs.
R L. Eagles in Louisbnrg Sunday.
Mr. snd lbs. C. M. Smith visited
relatives in Wilson Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Trevatban and
son, Turnage, spent Sunday in Chapel
Hill with Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Turn
age.
B. A. Pope visited relatives in
Newsomee, Va., during the week end.
Scott Peele, a student of Maxton
College, was at home during the
week end. >1
John W. Rouse, 73,
Claimed By Death
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John W. Rouse, 73, died at his
home near Farmville Monday morn
ing at 6:30 o'clock. Funeral services
were conducted at the home Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock followed by
burial in the Briley cemetery near
Ballard's crossroads.
Elder j. B. Roberts, local Primi
tive minister,, had charge of the ser
vices. -
Mr. Rouse, a well-known farmer,
is survived by .his wife,-Mrs. Sarah
Rouse; four daughters, Mrs. Claude
Turner of Greenville, Mrs. Edgar Da
vis of Falkland, Mrs. W. F. Peaden
of Falkland and Mrs. Q. H. Trotman
of Fountain; five sons, Johnnie, Char
lie, Lomiie, George and Bobbie Lee*
all of near Fountain; two sisters, Mrs.
Lonnie Joyher of Dover, and Mrs. 7;
Y. Nelson >f Greenville; two brothers,
Gus and Roy Rouse of Ayden; 14
grandchildren and a number of great
grandchildren.
Poor Housing: Tied
To Soil Depletion
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Depletion of soil fertility and poor
housing go hand-in-hand* according
to Dr. Horace Hamilton* rural sociol
ogist of the N. C. State College Ex
periment Station.
Studies conducted in various sec
tions of North Carolina appear to
confirm this assertion. In one badly
eroded area, 114 farm families were
studied with respect to housing,
household equipment, and grounds.
Although a majority of the houses
were weather-tight,' there was con
siderable variation among the tenure
groups. A much smaller proportion
of Negroes lived in" weather-tight
houses than did the white families.
In addition, the researches found
that only a few of the families lived
in houses which had paint in good
condition ff However, about aawrhalf
of the houses occupied by owners
had been paintd, bat the paint was
old or cracked, giving little protec
tion from the elemedtsLv '^.vv
About one in three of {he tenant
houses, one in six of the cropper
houses, arid' one out of each 10 farm
laborer houses had been painted, but
the paint wad protecting the exterior
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roofs on houses occupied by owners
were classified as good. For the
other tenure groups, the proportion
with roofs in good condition were:
tenants, one-fifth; croppers, one
sixth; and laborers, one-fifth. Here,
again, the proportion of houses with
roofs in good condition occupied l)F
Negres was much smaller than that'
for white families.
SAWMILLS
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New, lightweight portable sawmill b
now are in use on farms in Wiscon
sin and Ohio. These mills ctcb be set
up in 80 minutes.
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The world includes a lot of silly
people?we know folks who read these :
paragraphs.
Genius may be 90 per bent perspi
ration but, just the dame, try to put t
more than 10 per cent brains in your !|
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SALMON MYSTERY SOLVED
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St. Helens, Ore.?One solution to
the mystery of the huge salmon run
this year is that four years ago?
when the parents of this huge run
were en-route to the spawning
grounds?there. was a fishermen's
strjke which allowed more fish to es
cape to the breeding grounds. More
titan 8,500 pounds of salmon, an al
most unheard of record, were taken
from the Columbia river the fiM
five days of autumn fishing.
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INFLAMMABLE MIXTURE
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O'Neill, Neb.?In the hip-pocket ol
the pants of Robert Mitchell, 6,
were one firecracker, two matches,
and a celuloid comb. Squirming in
his seat at school, he caused the
matches to *fbegf^pfcisignited
the comb set ofjf ^Bfe-^recracker.
Result: Robert was badly frightened
and^aUghtiy "burned.
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4-CENTS CONSCIENCE MONET
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Omaha, Neb.?Four' pennies, ac
companied . by an explanatory note,
were left on Mrs. J. J. McMahon's
porch recently. The pennies "pays
my half of the money on milk bottles
me and someone else took from your
porch one night a long time ago. I
hope you can forgive me. I don't
when the other person will pay his
part of the money." The penitent
Sthief wag forgiven.
MISS DUCK WEDS MR. DRAKE
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Taylorville, 111.?Miss Florence
Duck was recently married to Mr.
Paul DrjkV
COW GOES FISHING
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K Juneau, Alaska.?Investigating the ;?
cause.when the milk from her oow
begaa'tasting fishy, Mary Joyce saw
Bossy. wade into the Taku river, snap
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up a salmon, wade out and eat it.
Like most fishermen, they can't break
Bossy of her fishing habit.
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HOOVER RESCUES ROOSEVELT
Red Wing, Minn.?When Franklin
D. Roosevelt went on the rocks, Her
bert Hoover wtas the resouer. The
Roosevelt apd the Hoover are Missis
sippi river tow-boats?the Roosevelt
went aground and the Hoover palled
it free. ?
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COW FOUND UPSTAIRS
Bergen, N. Y.?After reporting
reporting one of her cows lost, prob
ably stolen during a rainstorm, Mrs.
Irene Merrill found the cow upstairs
in the hay mow of the barn. .She
believes the cow, frightened by the
storm, had climbed the barn stairs.
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Taxes are unpleasant bat they are
not as burdensome as many assert
and they are not as high til they
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than the old. _ ?' .
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