THURSDAY. AUGUST 26, 1943
PAGE TWO
THE NEWS JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C.
Wartime
Rationing Guide
BLUE STAMPS
(For canned, frozen and certain
dehydrated foods)
Blue Stamps R, S, T, are good
through September 20.
GASOLINE
"A" book coupons No. 6 good
for three gallons each and must
last till Nov. 21.
RED STAMPS
(For meat products, canned fish
most edible oils and cheeses).
Red Stamps "T, U. V. W now
good and expire August 31st.
Shoes
Stamp No. 18 now good for one
pair of shoes and expires October
3t.
SUGAR
Stamp No. 14, good for 5 pounds
godd through October 31st.
Stamps Nos. 15 and 16 m War
Ration Book One now are valid for
5 pounds of sugar each, for use
in home canning. They are good
through October 31. Housewives
may apply at local boards for sup
plementary sugar rations for home
canning, is essential.
POOLE'S MEDLEY
By D. SCOTT POOLE
The first World War started in July.
1914. and business in the United
States stagnated. There was no mar
ket for cotton, nor anything else and
President Wilson urged everybody to
buy a bale, and you might see in any
town a bale of cotton standing on the
sidewalk in front of nearly every
store.
'Wayback in slavery time, the
.slaves sang wherever there were a
few of them together, and at corn
shucklngs in particular. And they
made wonderfully pretty music. I
Vive never heard better harmony
than a crowd of Negroes could make
ihen they sang.
One June afternoon, up at Ellerbe
Springs, down the road below the
school house and church, sat a Negro
boy about 18 years old, picking a ban
jo, singing and patting his long black
bare feet, the dust bying up between
tis long toes. It was sorry banjo
picking he did, and good singing.
Ten years later, that same boy, with.
two companions, sang while he pick
ed a banjo on the streets of Troy, and
I have never heard prettier music
anywhere, anytime than they made.
They had toured nearly all the United
States, paying their way by picking
that banjo and singing.
One year father and we boys haul
ed in our wheat crop and put it in the
barn when some of it was not alto
gether dry, and it began to mold and
some of it to sprout. We carried all
of it out and set it up against the lot
fence all around the bamlot.
Father left home, and told brother
John and I if it looked like rain to put
it back m the barn. We were chopp
ing cotton in the field back of the
barn, and there came a little spot of
cloud about the size of a common gar
den, and rain began to drop. We
hurried to the barn and put in wheat
sa two boys rarely did, but 90 per
cent of it got wet as it could be.
Only a few times in my life have I
seen a wetting rain, enough to run
off the eaves of houses, but that was
one. One July day in 1894 in Red
Springs, a considerable hailstorm
came from a cloud not quite as big as
the town, for while it rained and hail
ed in most of the town, the sun was
shinning all around the borders.
The Civil War left workstock
scarce all through the South. People
used mostly horses in those days
mules were scarce and one fall in
fie early 1370's horses died at a fear
ful rate all over the ocuntry with
"epizooty" and the loss was alarming.
We had cne to die with the disease.
Folks .n our neighborhood each
I'hmted small patches of cotton and
t"bucc'- for house use they carded
siun and wove the cotton, twisted the
obacco. They made clothing of the
cotton and chewed the tobacco. They
bought but very little. They sold all
the cotton they could spare, with
chickens, egg,s butter, pork, mutton,
beef and f; skins.
It may have been poor business, but
it used to be customary to sell 56
pounds of corn for a bushel, and 48
pounds unbolted meal or 44 pounds
of bolted meal for a bushel, and corn
and corn meal sold for the same price
per bushel.
Cider sold for 15 cents per gallon
by the barrel, and retailed at 10 cents
a quart at speakings and, even on
election days. It may have been the
cause of fights, but they would have
fought some anyway.
On Monday evening, August 31st,
1886, an earthquake frightened the
people of this section nearly "too
death". When people think they face
death, they pray. They cried aloud
on the above date.
On the 29th of August, 1893 was a
very rainy and stormy day, an east
storm, and it brought thousands of
gallinippers from the sea-coast, and
they could bite through your clothes.
Most everybody is big enough to
remember the storm of Sept. 6th, 19
29. That, too was an east storm.
Lots of rain fell that day, and the
ground was sobbed before this day
came, so hundreds of trees were
turned out of root.
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WHEAT
The domestic wheat supply for the
1943-44 marketing year is now indi
cated at about 1,400 million bushels,
which is 213 million bushels below the
record supply in 1942-43.
State Giving Aid
To Farmers Cutting
Extra Pulpwood
Extension foresters are furnishing
county agents and farmers with a
wide variety of services in connection
with the marketing of pulpwood and
other forest products, says R. W. Gra
eber, Extension Forester at State Col
lege. In cooperation with the pulp and
paper mills, the foresters supply in
formation on pulpwood prices, kinds
of woods, and specifications for cut
ting the wood, according to Graeber.
They also furnish lists of pulpwood
buyers, areas from iwhich, and the
railrods on which wood can be shipp
ed to the various pulp mills.
Graeber reports an excellent de
mand for pulpwood and suggests that
every farmer, who possibly can, cut
a few cords of pulpwood or a few
logs of lumber this summer during
his spare time. War industries are
calling for tremendous amounts of
wood products.
Graeber gives a report from For
ester H. E. Blanchard in Brunswich
and Columbus counties: "The pulp
iwood business is beginning to pick up
as farmers are getting their crops
harvested. I visited seven farmers
during the week, and one agreed to
cut saw logs for sale at the roadside.
One agreed to work up the tops, fol
lowing a sawtirr.'ber cut of 26i,000
board feet on his place.
"Three agreed to thin young stands
and sell the thinnings as pulpwood.
Two of these men are going to do
their own trucking to the railroad
and the other will sell his pulpwood
on the roadside. These owners will
use a total of 20 men, not cutting
themselves."
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He "Women oan never keep a se
cret." She "Yes, they can. I have kept
my age a secret ever since I was 25."
He"But one day you will let it out."
"She "No if I can keep a secret
for eight years, I can go on keeping
it."
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Canneries at Gastonia, Cherryville,
and Shelby have been averaging about
1,500 cans of vegetables per day with
less than one per cent spoilage.
Fort Bragg Troops
Invest $10,000.00
In War Stamps
Fort Bragg, N. C, Aug. 23. Fort
Bragg troops invested more than $10,
000 in War Stamps during the"Shan
gri La" drive recently conducted on
the post, 1st Lt. H. A. L. Harvey, Post
War Bond Officer announced today.
This figure represents over and above
regular War Bond purchases.
Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, WAC,
and daughters of officers of the post
sold the stamps during the campaign.
a "Taxi Dance- stagea oy me nixa
of Detachment No. 1 netted more
than SSOO. a 10-cent war savings
stamp was the price of each dance.
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You can Count on the People
in This Community 100
BOYS . . . yours is a tough job. Fighting
this war is no fun. W Icnow that . . .
and this letter is to tell you that the people
in this community are back of you lo tne
limit . . . with everything they've goK
Here at home there is a serious pulp
wood shortage. More pulpwood is needed
and needed urgently for blood plasmq'
' containers, rayon for parachutes, smoke :fiY moc,e of- They have f'99
'less powder, food cases and a thousand 3 J War " ,he home fronf everJr day
pnd one other things you boys need. ty&9 War ndt, working in war fac-
. fones, on farms, ana cuning puipwooa.
able-bodied man to do the job that's
needed. This is little enough to ask of any
of us.
Well, if 3 extra work days will bring you
boys home sooner ... or even save one
boy's life ... we will put in the 3 extra
days . . . and gladly.
We know our people and know the stuff
Well, we're starting a drive right new in
.this community to cut more pulpwood.?
' If we can't shoulder a gun the least we
can do is shoulder an axe or a saw.
Our government says that it would take
But, if more pulpwood is needed, you
will get it. Hoke County and its peo
ple when called on always come
through . . . and they won't fail you
now.
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only 3 extra dayt of work this year for each , '-y witll lUoA, Sweai (tad TntS?
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CITIZENS: ,.
Thi pulpwood shortage) a acute- Th situation h .
serious. We must act quickly. Uncle Sam is asking ;
for only 3 extra days of work at regular pay. Enlist ,
today.. .it's your patriotic duty. Get your button that
shows you or t. in mis victory
Pulpwood Drive. Don't let
anyone say, "some boy died
because you failed.
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This ad has been contributed to
Hoke VicUrv Pulpwood Committte
r cf Tne Ne-A-s-Journal, Raeford, N. C
the Victory PulpvvooitCampaign
by
The 168 Members of The
Hoke County Farm Bureau
In Cooperation With
The News-Journal