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' AIR FILM TO PLAY SUNDAY AT IMPERIAL ‘Thunder Birds” will play a re peat performance at the Imperial Sunday for one-day only, with John Sutton and Gene Tierney in the leading roles. ******** Monday-Tuesday ‘‘Andy Hardy’s Double Life” starring Mickey Rooney will move to the Imperial from the Peoples for a two day showing. The little man’s fight against I tremendous odds, a favorite Amer ican topic since Washington cross ed the Delaware, packs ‘Trunk Busters”, which will be shown Wednesday at the Imperial, with Richard Travis in the leading role and Ruth Ford supporting. A quartet of comparative new comers, Richard Travis, Virginia Christine, Charles Lang and Ruth Ford play their roles with sys tematic feeling, while Don Cos tello and Rex Williams are villians par excellence. Casey Dorgan. played by Travis, and his brother are among a group of independent truckers whom a great truck magnate is trying to force out of the business. Casey’s brother is murdered when he is about to become a father and Casey sets out for revenge. Justice is finally administered all the ’way round. A fairly diverting, light musical with a zippy cliiiiax is which will come to the Imperial Thursday Friday of next week, “How’s About It”, with The Andrews Sisters, Robert Paige and Grace MacDon ald in the leading roles. Specifically, it is a modern ver sion of swing music, warbled for the most by the Andrews Sisters. They are in their best manner; for this film, it is said. Some torrid swift-stepping is offered by young Bobby Scheerer. Hot ar rangements and trap drumming by Buddy Rich and his orchestra is featured. The story deals with the vic isitudes of Robert Paige, cast as a music publisher, who finds him self eventually with no vacation on his hands. Instead he is faced with a suit instituted by the easy to-look-at Grace MacDonald, who wins his heart instead of the court prize of $100,000 which she originally sought. Miss MacDonald has charged that Mr. Paige used her calender poem for a song’s lyric represented as his own. The situations arising provide novel entertainment which we ven ture will be enjoyed by the Im perials patrons. ITS THE LITTLE THINGS... I By — A. Littleman Seaman L. W. Sadler Aboard the U. S. S. South Dakota Somewhere At Sea Dear Mr. Sadler: Thanks for reading my humble words and taking up where I left off. There have been those who call ed the service man in general a sot, but those are shutting up. Deeds like you boys have pulled off on Wake, Bataan, Guadalcanal, New Guinea and are now perform ing on the road to Murmansk and in the wastes of Africa are enough to make the straightest-laced fun damentalist sit up and take notice. They are being hit right in their long faces with this fact: No youth of today, yesterday or tomorrow could do the things you are doing if you were a drunken, godless lot of ruffians and piraters. I believe every man — coal miner who complains of a non-livable wage to the so-called essential war worker in a fat job — in Amer ica pondered earnestly over your deeds last Sunday. There you were, not taking time out or draw ing overtime, but pushing-pushing the nips, pushing convoys to Rus sia, pushing Rommel up the east coast of Tunisia. You pushed while we went to church on a fine spring morning, returned home to eat a fine meal (in spite of the red stamps), and to relax in peace and comfort for the afternoon. Yes, we have the goldbrickers here at home. We have plenty of men and women who never worry over anything that they can not see, hear, or feel with their own sense organs. If it is on the other side of town or in another coun ty, it means nothing to them. But let a tree blow down on their house! And Oh Brother, the world is coming to an end. And soon! I see one lady ride by my house almost daily. She is going to her mother’s. And for no good reason, I’ll bet. Yet what could you ex pect of a girl married before she lost her baby teeth and with chil dren of her own before she shed her last pigtail? I know plenty of growed-up men who reveil in the liberties that are theirs, remanding and expecting good roads, schools, business regu lations, protection from chiselers, robbers and Hitler; yet they will themselves chisel their protector, Uncle Sam, out of every penny possible when filing their income tax. But then I know a man who left his wife and small daughter cn the morning of December 8, 1941, to join the Navy. I know men and women who are living under the worst of conditions in order to serve. I know many who have realized no profits from the pre sent prosperity, but are managing to buy war bonds regularly. I know children who are giving up ice cream cones to buy war stamps. You boys need not worry. Amer County Agent Has Suggestions For Planting Cotton “Due to the late Spring which has already delayed the planting of cotton, it is very important that farmers do everything pos sible to get a full stand of cotton from the first planting.” W. O. Davis, county agent said this week. He further advised farmers to use plenty of seed. “This is very important due to the poor quality of seed from the 1942 crop,” he said, adding that “many folks think that seed harvested before the October rains started are good. Germination tests on seed pick ed before the October ^ rains are showing very low germination. If your seed has not been tested for germination, plant at least twice the amount you usually plant.” Mr. Davis pointed out that it is also important that the fertil izer should be thoroughly mixed in the row before the land is bedded. This can be done by run ning a cotton plow behind the the fertilizer distributor. On some types of fertilizer distributors an extra foot can be attached to the distributor in order to mix the fertilizer in the soil. Ths may seem Ike extra work when labor is so short, he continued, but it is very important because seed planted too close to the fertilizer will not give a very good stand and the cotton will not grow off after it comes up. Davis urged cotton growers to have cotton seed cleaned on a good cleaning machine. This will remove many small and light seed that would not give strong plants, he said, and further urged grow ers to have planting seed treated with “Ceresan”. “This will im prove your stand and cause cotton to grow off faster. Don’t chop too early. Leave a stick stand from 3 to 5 plants in hills 8 to 12 inches apart.” All of the above practices will aid in getting a full stand of cot ton from the first planting, the county agent advised. “We are already late in planting cotton, and if we fail to get a good stand from the first planting or have to plow up and plant the crop over, we will almost surely make a cot ton failure in 1943,” Mr. Davis said in conclusion. "THEY GIVE THEIR LIVES—YOU LEND YOUR MONEY" Buy an Additional Bond Now ica will not let you down. It’S just that democracy is filled with so many people who have ideas all their own. And that they may always have a right to these ideas is what you are riding the high seas for tonight. Yours, A. Littleman For Quick Service ★ Careful Drivers ★ Minimum Rates DIAL R-534-1 $140. A Ton Price Is Possible For Peanuts In Area Franklin, Va., April 19.—New support prices will average $140. a ton for Virginia and Spanish type peanuts as the result of a move by War Food Administrator Chester C. Davis to obtain inc reased production of five urgently needed war crops. E. M. Johnson, acting manager of the Growers Peanut Cooperative, Inc., agency which handles the government peanut program in the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee, said the price is $8 a ton above the price announced February 10 by Secre tary of Agriculture Wickard. The sharply higher loan and purchase rates will bring $130 a ton to growers of runner type peanuts instead if the $122 announ ced by' Wickard. The support price for yellow soybeans will be $1.80 a bushel. Premiums and dis counts will be made as previouslv announced so as to give an advance of ten cents a bushel for other classes and qualities of soybeans. Farmers who store their soybeans on the farm under CCC loans will receive, in addition, a storage pay ment of seven cents a bushel. The higher prices— in some cases above present Office of Price Administration ceilings — will re place a $100,000,000 incentive pay ment announced by Whickard. Mr. Johnson said he understands prices to farmers for peanuts of like type and grade will be uni form in all areas. The three other “war crops” for which higher rates have been an nounced by Davis are dry beans, dry peas and flaxseed. W. T. Parker, manager of the cooperative in whose absence John son is acting, reported for duty in Washington April 1 with the Commodity Credit Corporation to help conduct the 1943 peanut pro gram. Association Will Hold Spring Meet Announcement has been made that the North Carolina State Mer chants Association will hold its spring meeting in Raleigh on May 24th and 25th. An effort will be made by the local merchants asso ciation to have as many mejnberil from this city attend the state meeting as possible. Curtis C. Shell, city retailer and past-president of the Roanoke Ra pids Merchants Association, served as president of the North Carolina State Merchants Association at this tiime. Headquarters for the spring meeting of the state association will be at the Sir Walter Hotel. General discussions are sheduled for the morning sessions,while the afternoon meetings will be given over to departmental meetings. c THE 1 » < > ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. DIAL R-394 PROGRAM WEEK OF May 2, 1943 SUN. Irene Hervey - William Gargen Destination Unknown Added: Musical Featurette _ MONDAY - TUESDAY < > Joseph Cotten - Teresa Wrighl Shadow Of A Doubt Added: Latest News WED.-THURS. . Constance Bennett and * Broderick Crawford Sin Town Added: Selected Short Subjects FRI.-SAT. | | Dave O’Brien - Jim Newill Bad Men Of Thurder Gap Added: Daredevils of the West | | "Efim j ttUllZB* iJJfTw ft 'Tavop/fes of RADIO _ SCREEN 8f RECORDS UNIQUE RAD/O H/QfflfQHT'SPONSORED BYyoi/P PP.PEPPEP gP7rLER ae/OSPp' WITH SINGING STARS M #2 0 OF THE MOV/ESM _ DICK OAN>MARTHAME <$&**<* Hollywood! bat baritone; Martha Mean; Velvet-voiced song-bird of the air ims ,ad th^ S“.SrC'?*°f R*pUblicPiaure**,nt P-«t of Am rialMusTc«“a«rvt^ Get the habit and you'll never miss, but will always make it a "nuw." ^ LISTEWHTSTA. WCBT t:45 ** t ^
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