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fHE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN, SELMA, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1942.
Farmers Are Asked To Give
Scrap And Help Win The War
(By H. H. LOWRY)
The nation has called on the farm
er to help win the war. You have
heard again and again that food will
win the war. It will. But the full
effort of every man, woman and child
in America is needed to win the war,
So, your nation is calling on you the
farmer of America for yet another
important contribution to the war ef
fort The nation is calling on the far
mer to produce one of the vital weap
ons of war. It is a weapon that you
may not have thought about but it
will help win the war just as surely
as America's 80,000 bombers will soar
over the enemy and blast him to bits.
What is this vital weapon? It's
JUNK. Scrap of all kinds. It's old
harrows and rakes and discs and
plows. It's old chains and old tires,
old rags and burlap baks and manila
rope. It's in 1942 one of the most
precious weapons in the arsenal of
democracy. And in forging that weap
on, the farmer of America must play
a very special part.
Let me tell you how you can play
your part. If you've taken a look be
hind those headlines, or behind those
communiques you know that Ameri
ca, the richest nation in the world, the
land of plenty doesn't have enough
of what it takes to win this war of
materials. In the hands of the Japs,
for example, are the principal sources
of tin and rubber. In their hands, too,
are a large part of the vital sources
of vegetable fats and manila rope.
That's one reason why your junk is
vital. . ....
There are a few more. Let me tell
them briefly. In peacetime fifty per
cent of all the new steel manufactured
by this country came from scrap.
Nearly seven hundred thousand ton3
of it a week or about thirty-five mil
lion tons of it in a peak year.
Our steel plants are now producing
record-breaking amounts of steel
over seven million tons a month
about two or three tons every tick of
the clock twenty-four hours each day,
We are making as much steel as the
entire rest of the world.
To keep up that rate of production.
we need more scrap metal than ever
before. For scrap goes into the fur
naces and helps to make new steel
If each of us turns in what scrap
metal we have, we will aid our steel
mills to beat their present production
record, and we will be helping to pro
vide vital steel parts for airplane en
fines and for. anti-aircraft and anti
tank guns. We will be providing the
' ; armour that will protect our boys in
planes, tanks and ships.
, A few pounds of steel scrap in your
barn may help to decide a naval bat
tle in the Pacific, help our tanks beat
the enemy in some vital battle on
land, or drive enemy bombing planes
from the skies. And that means sav
ing the lives of American boys fight
ing far from home.
Of course with the pinch of war
drawing closer to everyone, you're
going to ask: What about the steel
that used to go into automobiles, and
that radio I cant get?
The answer is: We're using it. We
are using every last ounce of steel
stat we can produce. We're U3ing ev
ery last ounce of iron and other met
als the mines can push out. : But it
: isn't enough. ;
Things are different today. Today
we're building the biggest and best
military machine that ever marched
to victory planes, tanks, ships, sub
marines, trucks, jeeps, scout cars, ri
fles, bullets and hand grenades. They
all take scrap. For, roughly, half of
all of these items are built from scrap
maienai or nave scrap as a major
constituent. They take every last
ounce of scrap that can be found in
this country.
That ever-tightening transportation
problem is yet another reason why
junk is vital. Many things that form
erly came from overseas no longer
have cargo space, no longer can tra
verse the ocean in the safety and
numbers we need.
These are some of the reasons why
We need junk. Where are we going to
get it? We're going to get it from the
same place in which this country has
ever obtained anything it really need
ed we're going to get it. from the
people of the United States of Ameri
ca, From you and your neighbor
from the big people and the little
people from the farms and homes
the plants and industries in every
county, city and village in the land.
We're going to get it because we've
got to win and to win it, we've got
fiVt.
to get in the scrap.
All over the country this salvage
campaign is going on. Each state has
a Salvage Chairman and an Executive
Secretary to aid communities to set
up their own program. Each county
of each rural district is being aided in
this program through its county,
agent. This salvage organization has
already done a wonderful job on the
problem, notably in collecting of
waste paper and rubber.
Scrap materials are collected by the
local organization, funneled through
the junk dealer or collector to the
war industries who are beating it into
guns and planes and tanks and ships
so last it would make a dictator s
head swim.
Your local salvage chairman. M. L.
Standi; and his committee need all
the help they can get with this ter
rific task. The victory will be that of
all the nation. The job of winning it
must be the job of all of us.
If you have some spare time, your
local Salvage Committee will welcome
your aid. If you have a large stake
truck, it can be most useful in aiding
your local Committee to pick up sal
vage. This need not, of course, be a
full-time operation. Offer your servi
ces and those of your truck for an
hour a week on a route close to home.
If you are driving about the county
and see any large accumulations of
junk drop a call to your local com
mittee. Or better yet, stop in and help
your neighbor get in the scrap and
help win the war.
Mr. Yearby Becomes
Pastor At Princeton
The Rev. N. C. Yearby, retired
Methodist minister, who has been liv
ing near Smithfield since hi3 retire
ment, has accepted the pastorate of
the Princeton Methodist church which
was left vacant when the appoint
ments were made at the recent meet
ing of the N. C. Conference in Wil
son. A shortage of ministers due to
the war work, left several churches
in the conference without a -pastor
temporarily.
There are three churches on the
Princeton charge Princeton, Micro
and Fellowship.
Mr. Yearby preached at Micro on
Sunday, November 15, and at Prince
ton last Sunday.
e will not move to the parsonage
'rinceton. but hie and Mrs. Yearbv
I continue to livfc at theiihome be
en Smithfield a)id Selmay
E. Debnam To
Address Farmers Club
W. E. Debnam, well known radio
news commentator, is scheduled to be
guest speaker at a meeting of the
Farmers Club in Smithfield Fridav
night, when the club gives a supper
at the Legion Hut. It will be a Dutch
barbecue supper and there will be a
charge of 60 cents per plate. All
farmers of the county are invited.
CEILINGS
The OPA has taken action to limit
top prices which beef slauehterers
and wholesalers with unduly high in
dividual ceilings may charge for the
dressed product. ,
Firs important art organization
was the Pennsylvania Academv of
Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1805.
HENRY & N0RDAN
Invites You to Make Their Store
YOUR HEADQUARTERS
See Them For ',
Hflog and Poultry
Feed
EUairdware, Etc.
These Gentlemen Will Also Pay
You the Highest Market Price
For your
C T IT U) M
Counties Urged To
Make Tests of Soybeans
Several North Carolina counties
probaoiy win De aDie to quality lor a
10 cents per bushel premium on soy
beans of one or more varieties on the
basis of oil content' tests, according
to G. T. Scott, chairman of the State
AAA Committee, with headquarters
at N. C. State College.
Under the soybean-purchase pro
gram now being conducted by Com
modity Credit Corporation, a prem
ium of 10 cents per bushel is paid on
all soybeans of any class having 17
1-2 per cent oil or more. All soybeans
produced in North Carolina are con
sidered as having low oil content un
less chemical analyses prove other
wise.
The program provides, Scott de
clared, that tests may be made either
on a county-wide basis or by individ
ual producers. If the county-wide
tests show high oil content, all soy
beans of the class tested will be eli
gible for purchase at 10 cents per
bushel above support prices for the
County-wide tests must be made of
three samples taken from a composite
sample of beans from at least 20
farms, unless there are fewer than
20 farms producing soybeans of that
particular variety. Samples must be
taken by .the County AAA Committee,
and a supporting statement certifying
that the samples are representative
must be submitted to the Corporation
before approval for the increased
price.
Individual growers having oil tests
made of their soybeans must take
samples under supervision of the
County AAA Committee and must
pay for the tests. In order to obtain
the premium price, producers must
present a certification of the tests at
the time of sale.
Green and yellow soybeans grading
No. 2 or better are being purchased
at $1.50 per bushel, and brown, black,
and mixed soybeans grading No. 2 or
better are being supported at $1.40
per bushel, delivered to designated
buying points or oil mills.
BUTTER FROZEN
Washington, Nov. 20. Forty per
cent of the nation's total butter in
storage was frozen for government
purchase tonight as a "temporary
measure, to insure sufficient suppli
ito meet the needs of the arm
forces ptnd lenoVlease. - - :
r Agriculture f department officials
said the freeze order would result in
a sharp reduction of civilian supplies
inasmuch as the current production
of butter is insufficient to meet civil
ian and war needs.
The action by the War Production
Board took the form of an order re
serving for the government 50 per
cent of the butter in cold storage in
the 35 principal marketing centers of
the United States.
Because of the butter shortage,
WPB explained that the Army and
Navy have been meeting difficulty in
getting sufficient supplies, and ships
having space for butter have been
departing with other cargo.
Ihis situation requires prompt
and drastic action," WPB said. It was
estimated that 30,000,000 to 35,000,
000 pounds were frozen by the action,
which is effective tonight and will re
main in force until March 6, 1943.
Some people are so painfully good
that they would rather be right than
pleasant.
DEATHS and
FUNERALS
W. J. TALTON
W. J. (Buck) Talton, 80, retired
farmer of Smithfield,. died at his
home Friday after a long illness. 1
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at. the Under
wood Funeral Home. Interment was
in the Baptist Center church ceme
tery. The Rev. B. H. Houston, pastor
of the Smithfield Methodist church,
officiated. J
Active pallbearers were N. A.
Branch, Howard Gurley. Paul Young
blood, F. H. Brooks, Duke Duncan and
Howard Mitchiner.
Honorary pallbearers were David
Duncan, R. S. Fleming, H. H. John
son, J. P.' Rogers, M. B. Strickland,
Hubert Barbour, R. R. Talton, and W.
J. Huntley.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Minnie
Talton; three sons, Herman and
Eugene of Smithfield, and Leon Tal
ton of Southern Pines, and two daugh
ters, Mrs. E. J. Mitchiner of Clayton,
and Mrs. Charles H. Allsbrook of
Portsmouth, Va.
Mr. Talton was a brother of our
(townsman, Mr. John H. Talton.
MISS MINNIE LUNCEFORD
Miss Minnie Lunceford, 66, died
at her home in Smithfield Fnday
night at 8:45 following a heart at
tack.
Funeral services were held at the
home Sunday afternoon at 4:30 con
ducted by the Rev. B. H. Houston,
pastor of Centenary Methodist church
of Smithfield, and interment followed
in Riverside cemetery.
A quartet, composed of Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Wallace, Mrs. W. J.
Massey and Theron Johnson, sang
favorite songs of the deceased. At the
grave, Mr. Houston read the hymn,
"When The Laborer's Task Is O'er."
The pallbearers were W. T. Wood-
ard, Sr., of Selma; W. T. Wilson of
Wilson's Mills; Ludolph Powell of
Raleigh; Dr. W. G. Wilson, H. L.
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Not Satisfied with the 82,000 pounds of scrap rubber
and metal collected in our last drive, we are again giving
you FREE another
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Big Scrap Show
SELMA THEATRE
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ESD AY, DECEMBER
Weaver
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"ARKANSAS JUDGE"
ADMISSION: 5-Ibs. or more Scrap Rubber or Metal
SHOWS: 3:30 5:00 6:30-8:00 9:30
(Patrons Admitted Only At The Beginning of A Show)
1 BRING YOURSCRAPTO THE THEATRE ANY
. TIME BETWEEN SATURDAY AND SHOW
TIME TUESDAY AND GET YOUR TICKETS.
Stephenson, J. W. Setzer, F. H.
Brooks and S. T. Honeycutt.
Miss Lunceford, who was the
daughter of the late Robert D. and
Cornelia Powell Lunceford, was born
and reared near Smithfield, and spent
the most of her life in this communi
ty. - . Y'i
- She was an alumna of Salem Acad
emy at Winston-Salem of the class of
1894. Later she attended Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Baltimore,
and then taught music for one year in
Clinton.;- ;..;'.,.;
Then she took a business course
after which she accepted a position
with the Thornton Music House,
which position she held for a number
of years. Later she was employed by
the Union Auction Company and
more recently was employed in the
office of the Johnston County Hospi
tal until two years ago when she re
tired. ' ': : ;
Miss Minnie was a member of St.
Paul's Episcopal church in Smithfield.
Surviving are the following nieces,
Mrs. Alma Bullock of Durham. Mrs.
O. E. Smith of near Fayetteville, Miss
Susie Lunceford of Wilmington, Mrs.
J. Rufus Creech, Mrs. H. C. Woodall,
Dan Jones, Miss Ruth Jones and Mrs.
C E. Bingham, of Smithfield.
JOHN G. JOHNSON
Funeral services for John G. John
son, o4, prominent ' farmer of r our
Oaks, Route 2, were held Sunday af
ternoon at Blackmon's Grove Mis
sionary Baptist church of which Mr.
Johnson had been a member for sev
eral years. The Rev. L. G. Harrill of
Four Oaks officiated. Burial followed
in the church cemetery.
Mr. Johnson died in Highsmith
Hospital, Fayetteville, on Friday af
ternoon at' 12:30 after a short illness.
A concourse of relatives and friends
estimated at between 800 and 1,000,
overflowed the church and hundreds
stood on the church grounds with
bared heads to pay their respects to
a good father and a friendly neigh
bor. A special choir sang several of
Mr. Johnson's favorite hymns.
The floral offering was both beau
tiful and profuse.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Min
Bros, and
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nie Johnson; four daughters, , Mrs.
Lacy Barefoot, Mrs. Jake Dunn, Min
nie Ruth and Myrtle Gray Johnson,
all of Four Oaks, Route 2; eight sons,
James Milton, now in Greenland, El
ton of Four Oaks, Route 2, Charley
of Tennessee, Harvey and Clifton of
Smithfield, Earl J., with the Army in
California; Junius, with U. S. Army
in Colorado and Frank of Four Oaks,
Route 2; eight grandchildren; five
sisters, Mrs. Martha Jackson of Ben
son, Mrs. Joseph Wood of Four Oaks,
Route 3, Mrs. Minnie Barefoot of
Benson, Route 2, Mrs. Emily Morgan
of Benson, Route 2, and Mrs. Dorothy
Lee of Dunn, Route 2.;,
Two sons, James Milton Johnson of
Greenland, and Junius Johnson, who
is with the United States Army on
maneuvers in the mountains of Colo
rado, were unable to come. Earl John
son, another son who is with the U.
S. armed forces in California, flew by
plane, but -was unable to arrive in
time for the funeral. He was due to
arrive in Raleigh Sunday at noon, but
did not arrive until Monday morning.
W. C. NORRIS, JR..
Smithfield. W. C. Norris, Jr., 18,
of Smithfield, Route 2, died at his
home on Monday morning after a
lingering illness. , ;
Funeral services were conducted at
Tees Chapel Free Will Baptist Church
Tuesday at 3 p. m. by the Rev. M. E.
Reynolds- of Smithfield, and inter
ment took place in the Barbour Chap
el Church cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Norris, Smithfield, Route
2; three brothers, Kennie of Selma,
Raymond of Smithfield, Route 2, and
Chester, who is with the armed forces
in the Pacific war zone; four sisters,
Mrs. Otis Baker, Durham, Mrs. Al
fred Gordon, Selma, Route 1, Mrs.
Eddie Paul, Wilmington, and Mrs. Ed
ward Johnson, Smithfield, Route 2.
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