PEANUT GOAL FOR
HALIFAX COUNTY
HIGHER THIS YEAR
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Soybean Goal
Also Boosted
For 1942 Crop
To increase the production 0
fats and oils, a number of step;
have been announced by the Sec
retary of Agriculture through
County A.A.A. Committees, C. H
Banks, Jr., Secretary of the AAi*
committee in Halifax, said today.
The goal for soybeans and pea
nuts has been increased consider
ably above that previously an
nounced. Each farm operator ir
Hajifax County will be asked
within the near future by the
AAA Committeemen, to increase
soybean and peanut production ir
1942. To encourage this produc
tion, prices and loan support will
be employed, purchases of soy
beans at $1.60 per bushel, farm ba
sis for Arksoy, Biloxi, Clemson
Herman, Mamredo, Mammoth Yel
low, Tokio, and Wood’s Yellow ol
U. S. Number Two Yellow, with
location and grade differentials
and Government purchases of pea
nuts at $82.00 a ton for 17. S
number one, White Spanish type
for oil, delivered at the approved
local receiving agency, with loca
tion and grade differentials. The
purchase price for number one
Runners will be $78.00 a ton and
$70.00 a ton for Class A Virginias,
Fats and oils are very essential
at this time and each farm op
erator is urged to do his part in
this emergency.
Weldon Folk
Mystified By
Earth Fire
Smol'e has been pouring from
holes in the community center
grounds in Weldon for the past
two weeks from what hundreds
of visitors have termed an
“underground fire”. Approxi
mately 400 square feet of earth
appears to be heated from be
low, according to information
reaching here.
The ground in certain places
has sunk two feet, and two large
trees, their roots burned into,
have toppled over. A barbecue
pit near the center of the plot
has fallen apart due to the heat
and unstable foundation.
The most plausible explana
tion offered for the “under
ground fire” is that years ago
cinders and partly burned coal
from an oil mill located on the
spot were dumped into a huge
pile, which has since been level
ed and landscaped.
Military guards stationed on
the bridge across Roanoke Riv
er at Weldon have recently
used the' community house for
headquarters and have kept
fire constantly on the barbecue
pit. Its constant heat is be
lieved to have ignited the cin
ders and coal left beneath the
ground.
Club Meets
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The Thursday Night Bridge
Club met with Mrs. Jay Thomp
son with three tables of bridge in
play.
Mrs. Butler Brown won high
guest prize, Mrs. W. H. Tickle high
club and Mrs. Rudolph Northing
ton, honor prize.
The hostess served refreshments
at the conclusion of the game.
Guests and club members en
joying Mrs. Thompson’s hospitality
were Mesdames Murrell Hudson,
Butler Brown, Sam Lewis, J. D.
Edwards, Lloyd Allen, H. E. Cam
eron, Rudolph Northington, J. P.
Little, W. H. Tickle, H. E. Gibson,
Misses Bernice Hitchens and Ruth
Glover.
Brdge Club Meets
Members of the Wednesday
Night Bridge Club met with Mrs.
A. L. Gilliam. Mrs. H. E. Gib
son was presented the high score
prize and Mrs. F. L. Starke se
cond high.
Mrs. Gilliam served a salad
course with coffee at refreshment
hour.
Those enjoying the hospitality
of Mrs. Gilliam were Mesdames F.
L. Starke, Calvin Kennemur, M.
F. White, R. M. Pope, J. A. Wood,
T. M. Bullock, Charles Fitts and
H. E. Gibson. j
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5 TIRE
PERMITS
ISSUED
Five tire and four tube pur
chasing permits were issued at
the regular meeting of the Roa
noke Rapids tire rationing board
at their regular meeting on Thurs
day night. Permits were issued
to the following:
A. C. Hawkins of Roanoke Rap
ids, obsolete tire; James A. Pierce
of Weldon, pulpwood hauler, two
tires and tubes; William Manning
of Roanoke Rapids, farmer, two
tractor tires and tubes.
Former Weldon
Pilot Killed
News reached Weldon this week
of the death of Lieut. Harry Mat
thews, a former teacher in the
Weldon schools, in a plane crash
n Connecticut Sunday.
Young Matthews was married
only a few weeks ago to Miss
May Mack Clark of Enfield. He
had received his commission as a
second lieutenant in the Army Air
Corps about two months ago.
Details of the accident could not
be learned.
Xmas Offering
Goes To Relief
The $15 Christmas offering taken
at All Saints Episcopal Church of
this city, has been turned over to
the Bishop’s World Relief Fund
according to Rev. Edmund Berke
ley, rector of the church.
The Bishop’s Relief Fund, said
Rev. Berkeley, combines China Re
lief and all other relief funds of
the Episcopal church.
ALL SAINTS
EPISCOPAL
Rev. Edmund Berkeley, Rector
Lenten services will be held
throughout Lent, which began on
February 15. The following Lenten
services will be held:
Sundays in Lent: Holy Com
munion at 8 a.m.
Mondays in Lent: Childrens
Lenten services, 3:46 p.m. Adults
invited.
Fridays in Lent: Devotional ser
vices and discussion of subject:
Christian Roots of Democracy In
America”.
Johnson Replaces
Liles At School
John E. Johnson, a student £>1
State College, Raleigh, has been
named to replace Jessie Stewart
Liles as instructor in vocational
agriculture at William R. Davre
School, V. C. Matthews, Superin
tendent of County Schools, has an
nounced.
Liles left William R. Davre
Wednesday to take up active duty
with the U. S. Army at Fort
Benning, having been ordered io
take up his commission as a.
First Lieutenant.
Johnson is a senior year student
at State and has been doing
practice teaching in the southern
part of the state for the past few
months.
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