North Carolina Newspapers

I Home Sphere Edited by ■ ,iISS FLORENCE COX I Home Demonstration Agent 1 Migs Estelle M. Edwards Listant Home Dem. Agent fcrce - L, have just been informed the Sate Extension Office ,he bad crop year has er ]v affected the supply of ceg kbl'es for use in commercial ean X'ies especially tomatoes. This 111 affect materially the amount I ‘ i .„K on the grocery canned goons on the grocery Selves next winter. It therefore ■conies necessary for all home Lrdeners to make a special effort still produce suffieent toma and other vegetables for use home canning us well a- for kble use wliile fresh. Tl.elii 1 ie-ll fry This - Vegetables and most fruits keep ltev if stored at 40 to 50 de lee3 F. Bananas and some other ropical fruits are exceptions, ■afv vegetables, snap beans, eorn .Id butter beans keep better in a overed compartment in the refri gerator. Tomatoes and oth^r thngs acre subject to mold should not ,e tightly covered. Freshen veg tables by soaking in cool water ather than in ice water. Handle ,11 products with care, they al tars keep better. When apples, peaches, pears, >te, are being peeled for canning •he fruit often discolors before it is put into the jars. To avoid this ivop th« peeled fruit into a solu tion of one gallon of water, 2 tablespoons of salt, 2 tablespoons vinegar Remove and drain well before canning Peaches are more delicious if canned with a sirup made of sugar and peach juice in stead of water, liet the juice from soft or broken peaches. Pn You Need ~ Do you need help with canning problems. Miss Marguerite Ricks. Emergency War Food Assistant, is here to do what she can in the time available. Write, or call her at the Home Demonstration Office in Halifax. Joseph T. Potter The fun.':11 of Joseph T. Pot ter .who die.I at liis home in Portland. Maine, July 10u was held m Mahmoud, Virginia Fri day, July 14th. The sendees were conducted by Dr. Edwin 1.. Sikes of Bainbridgo Baptist ( husch. The hymn “Lead Kindly Light’’ was sung by Mrs. Bertha Smith and interment was in Maun i emetery. Serving a- pallbearers were the following; .4. C. Sledge and W. J. Edward., of Weldon, \. ('.; A. P. Lambert, K A Lambert, .Jr., Walter Ely and Ahleii Kitchen of Richmond. Joseph Thomas Potter, son of Lrginia Evans Sledge, was born in Weldon, N. ('. June 1>5, 1877- He spent a number of years in Rich mond where he was engaged in the newspaper business, later fol lowing the same profession in Newark, X. J. for several years he had lived tu his home in Maine. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Purcell Potter and one daughter. Mrs. John Leavitt of Raymond, Maine; three sisters, Mrs. Eva L. Bishop of Weldon, Mrs. C. T. Underwood of Rich inorni and Mrs. E. G. Utley of Norfolk and one broiler, A. C. Sledge of Weldon. No More Fuel Oil Than Last Year Halifax County fuel oil users 'v‘ not Re able to get any more ule oil during the coming winter 1 an they did last year in view ? exI’ected scarcity of fuel oil "> 'he year, E. B. Manning l 'he Roanoke Hfapids Board said here today. Te plan for rationing of fuel ML representatives of the War 1K'e and Rationing Board recent ly met with district OPA officials ■md completed plans for tile new heating year. Uppermost in importance right Mf. Manning said, “is the fuel oil tanks by users | soou as possible. Application unks fu‘- the 1944-45 heating (ai should be returned to the lo a \\ a,- Price an(j Rationing °U!d as soon as possible so that fuel oil coupons may be is 1 y and the fuel oil purchased !"* >tored in the tanks during the nimmer.” ‘vJ131?01131'011 facilities are .peeted t0 |Je SQ }jeavjiy taxed 1B a'Hhat fuel oil may become J.3' scarce in this section. The lnS of fuel oil tanks to capa W this summer will help the sit -,f10n 1,1 the fall and winter,” Mr. Manning said. THE ROANOKE H8 ife ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — SERVING HA UFA 1 Y i\rn n. lu ru a. n 8ac£ Me rf/foc/t/ BUY MORE THAN BEFORE V Seventy-Eighth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldcn. North Carolina THURSDAY, JULY *)th., 19lt Weldon Youth Tells Of Experience During I "•'* ’ r *1 p ■;« £ j < ■ • d ■ «-» W A a J INTRODUCTION It is only through the Grace or tioil that 1 am able to sit in my foxhole and write this. What I am about to write i. only what I saw and what I felt a' 1 1 ' ’■ I in France. I was too myself alive ' - ..u.. my . mdies were mak mg out, farther down the beach, many of them had much more dangerous situations and "4o e calls” than myself. The majority of the boys feel as I do. It was only a miracle that any of us in the assault wove are alive today and if the enemy had had two more weeks of prep aration we would not have had this beach head today. (John P. Thomas, SM 2 e) 1 This is German paper and ink below here! D-Day We were awakened at 0130 June 5. It didn’t take long for us to get chow, which was at 0230, because we were ,%1 filled with a nervous anxiety that can’t he ex plained in words. We weren’t due to disembark into small boats until 0-14.3 so I went up to the weather deck to see if anything was happening a shore. We hadn’t had any oppo sition whatsoever in crossing the channel so naturally we were ex pecting anything at any moment now. We weren’t in sight of land but we could see exploding bombs and shells from our bombers and Navy ships, also plenty of flack thrown up by enemy anti-aircraft batteries. Later I was to find out that tile bombers bad been plast ering' inland objectives rather snail tne oeacn. We were joined l>y Lt. Fox a few minutes before disembarking and went over the maps and de tails that we had seen and stud ied for so many days previous to this. We slung on our packs, weap on and equipment in a manneii such that we could easily slip out of them if our boat was capsiaed All boats were loaded and were about to start for our beach when our boat struck another one and started leaking. A few minutes la ter the boat was rapidly sinking from beneath me, it just didn’i seem possible that the darned thing would actually go down and leave us floating around in those rough, choppy waves but there 1 was, all my equipment gone in cluding my helmet and carbine and me yelling for help at the top of my voice. I had on heavy underwear, coveralls, gas impreg nated overalls and hood, combat jacket anti my shoes, so swimm ing was out of the question, 1 just floated around in my life belt and prayed that it wouldn t spring a leak. A hospital corpsman and a soldier came floating by on a round life preserver so 1 took hold with one arm and three of us were together, it made me feel much better that way. A boat al ready overloaded came fairly close to us and Carhuff, the hos pital corpsman noticed that they had picked up Lt. Fox so he holl ered to him, the cox-swain was immediately instructed to come to us. I didn’t realize how cold the water was until they started to take me in, my limbs were abso lutely useless from numbness. My stomach and esophagus were hav ing a revolution that would make any history book hide its face in shame but that was all over as s#on as 1 had vomited up all the salt water that lvi(l forced its way down my throat. It was a cloudy day and we still had about ten miles to ride, 1 have never be fore and hope I never do again have the shakes as bad as 1 had them all that day. Finally the shore line became visible and roads, houses and ob stacles, that we had studied on wax models back in England, be gan to make themselves stand out in defiance. The boat was only about seven ty Jive feet from where it lowerei the ramp and still nothing had challenged us, then suddenly a rille bullet whizzed over our heads. The boat was so crowded that everyone didn’t have room to duck down low and the next bul let got a soldier. Sand scraped the bottom as our craft jolted to a halt, the ramp lowered and the wild dash for the beach was on. We had to wade two or three hundred feet to shore and the tide was out so there was a good 150 yards of sand to be cov ered before reaching apparent safety. The water was rough and since I had no helmet or weapon 1 de cided to hesitate behind an ob struction and catch my breath lie fore making my run for the racks at the bottom of a cliff. At the same moment our ramp went down Jerry had cut loose with machine guns, 88 no*, am! snipers tire and mortar. Their fire had every foot of the beach down to a zero, it was only thru a miracle ol find that any of a survived. Machine gun bullets were mak ing little geysers of sail 1 all a round those ahead of me and they were falling and groaning foi help. From the corner of my eye 1 saw Carhuff fall down with bul lets through hij chest and neck he slumped over with a ghastly face that was full of pain bul looked like a smile from the way his lips parted and lie gritted his teeth, the waves took that friend of mine with the red cross on his arm and as I began to see more and more dead, wounded and I bloody men, it hardly seemed that [ this was all actually happening | I didn’t have time to think about all this at that time because 1 was so busy trying to get rnyseli to those rocks. 1 ran from the water in a half crouch fur a few feet and hit the dirt. 1 had to crawl over about thirty l'ect of rock because it was loo slippery to walk or run on. 1 picked up a garand rifle from a dead man that hadn’t been so fortunate as myself and finally I was at tin big rocks hat gave some protec tion. I laid down beside a mar that had got it in the back of hisj head by a sniper after lie reached the rocks, he was in pain and asked me to give him a shot of morphine out of his first aid pouch. I was shaking so bad from cold and excitement that 1 was u fraid to try to give it to him but no one else was available so I nan no cnoice. i manageu i 1 . i the needle in and out without breaking it. We had landed further Up the beach than we were supposed to so there weren’t many of us and the machine guns and snipers had | us pinned in and picking olf any | one that showed his head. A Cor ’ poral wanted someone to go with i him to try to get some Jerries, , I told him to wait till I get a hel met but he wasn't in a waiting mood and he took my garand and started out to what was certain death. lie had no more than stepp ed out when he came crawling back with a bullet through his thigh. There were no other Navy men in the vicnity of me so I decided to slip around a few rocks and find them, 1 had seen Lt. Fox and some corpsmen come ashore with bullets and shrapnel hitting all a round them. I found them only a few yards away, the corpsmen were rushed to death practically, there were so many wounded to be fixed and more to be dragged to salety, which was no fun be cause Jerry shot at red crosses as though they were meant for a bullseye. This was not true in all cases but all too true in some cases. Things got so hot that even the 1 corpsmen had to lay flat. I’liere I was one pillbox on top of the cliff behind us and the Navy gun ners were shelling it, they had knocked it out but had no way of knowing it because their “shore fire control party” had been wiped out. If I only ha I n't lost my sign al light when the boat sank 1 could have stopped that shebiug but they were too lar out for semaphore. A Navy shell or an 8, 1 still don’t know which, hit right on the edge of the top of the cliff, it sounded like the whole earth was coming to pieces, dirt and small rocks began hitting me on the back of my head and with each one consciousness took one more step from me. Just when I thought it was all over 1 started to look up but at the same instant I was hit with such im pact that it felt like the rocks be neath me actually sank deeper in to the ground, then all was quiet. I tried to get up but I couldn’t move any part of my !)ody or limbs. I realized that I was buried alive and that what little air that was available would last only a few moments. 1 think that is the nearest I ever came to getting hysterical -- and death! 1 yelled for help a couple of times but then decided that I had better save what little breath I had left. Then the air was gone. I tried to breathe but it was only gasps that !, (Continued on back page) She Interrogates Eoiiifcbr C, MS DESPITE a fascinating career in New York City, Pauline Mol ing, C01 — 12th Ave., West Van couver, was determined to get into the fight from the outset. When war broke out, she was working for a movie company in New York, har monizing sound'into him. She first attempted to join the American Red Cross but was rejected because she wasn’t a 1 S. citizen. Early in '40 Pauline applied to Ottawa for a travel oermit. took nassae-p to Rrit ain anil enlisted in the Worn Auxiliary Air l’orce. liecause of : extensive musical education at 1 cretis,. Milan, and her experienc with sound movies, the W.A.A.! trained her as'a wireless opera !«• In wireless operation a sense' o rhythm is essentia! and Pattiint. was highly developed. Recent!. commissioned. Pauline lms si " been engaged in one of the nm . important jobs entrusted to tv •: —interrogating bomiier crews upon their VO' evil from t o Looking Over Our District s no § its BY I)H. W. i\ MoDOWKLL, Health Officer In order to aid in pro'-cn' in!!' the spread o' puliomseii . ,, requested that any children com ing’ into the county from those areas in Which poliomyelitis is prevalent he once reported to the health department, for it may he necessary to place the child in quarantine throughout the incu bation period of the disease, a per iod of two weeks. This docs not necessarily mean that every diiid who has been in n county in which there has been a ease of poliomy elitis will lie guarantined. but it is well that the health authorities know the facts in order that it can lie determined whether or not quarantine is necessary. Youi co operation in this matter will tie a tremendous assistance in our ef fort to control the spread of the infection. Many can still remember the dreadful toll of life taken each year by typhoid fever. Not so many years ago, doctors spent the entile summer months ireatiwg typhoid fever. We have come a long way in the control of typhoid fever. However, each year aland 16,001) persons in the United tates and Canada contract typhoid fever, amt 1,000 die oi it. Last year in this Hea'th Dis trict ten ca.-cs were reported, and this year already we have three cases reported. Typhoid fever clin ics have been held at more than one hundred points throughout the district, with appr iximutely eight thousand vaccinations having been given. Clinics are still being held at convenient points. If you were not vaccinated during the past two years, you should take three dos es- now, However, if you were va • ciliated last summer, you need on ly a ‘‘booster” dose now. The germs of typhoid fever are present in the intestines and urinary tract of a person infected with the disease, or of a carrier and are spread to other people chiefly in drinking water pollut ed with infected body wastes. Our second quarterly bulletin “Looking Over our District’s Health”, lias just been completed. This three page bulletin covers the work of the quarter and is de signed to help you learn of the work o. the department and avail yourself of the services offered. Stop by the Health Department, or call up and get your copy. WINTER CORN Many North Carolina farmers believe that the barley and other small grain acreage should be in creased - more feed produced in winter. WHEAT The War Food Administration has announced higher loans on wheat for the present crop, ar i increase of 7 cents a bushel. People Have To L earn To Use Their ; ?. . k y 'K.- Jl_. A jlv C Any Other Too! People have to loam lm\v to us1, their eyes just ms they must lean how to run an automobile, a li& press, or any other in.- i r.ur.ent says the Better Vision i intitule Seeing is a complex activity i , which nerves ami mils -h piay ar 1 important part. The pietui e on tin 1 retina tells us much about in on 1 jeet, but our i stimatcs if dis 1 lance, size, directum : ml posilioi involve the interpretation of in j tricato movements of tin- extern 'al ami internal eye muscles, a j well as related nerve impulses To walk, to run, to operate a ma chine effectively, we must let ri to coordinate the pattern of le-h on t'.e retina with the mus.de am ] nerve reactions, and interpret os 1 visual impressions so that there i ! proper direction of body move ments. No Rationing Of Used Cars is Being Planned Price ceilings mi used cars, ef fective July 10 do not in any way involve rationing of used ears, Theodore S. Johnson, Pal - gli dis trict 01’A director, declared to day. 1 Johnson said that Dm nationa o.fice of OPA in \V. m hnc informed the region.d a office that it. has not re.a directive from tPie \tur Productioi Board to ration used cars, am that the Office of Defense Trans portation and WPB havu no’ reached a decision on the ipiestior of whether used cars will he rat ioned. Johnson’s statement was made to answer erroneous and wide spread reports that used ears would be rationed by July 10. .- 0 CANNING There will he no holiday fwi home canning this summer, ii w» are to eat as well next white* a: i we did last year. jFARM SAFETY One fourth of all occupations accidfutol deaths happen or farms. Be especially careful r handling farm machinery and an imals. _ | FOOD STORAGE I Keep stored foods in a dr ' place and prepare a place wher canned foods will not free/.e. VICTORY GARDEN Prepare now for tfie fail Vic tory Garden. Play safe by pre , ducing your own vegetables, be [ cause war needs amst be met. ■v w IALIFAX MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Viclory Depends On 1 lie Home Front A blunt v. ,u iiiu>v that the war is j 1 1 ."'i wan i ami; recently from Miii i' top military leaders of j -' a 1 mied States following- a fly S 111 ; ■ i• to the Normandy battle - !: •";! I'he chief- of staff tated | ,l1"1' ' 1 1 Mint the speed with j '■ ihh o n lio;,: march to Berlin '■ di depend in large measure on i1 - ~u11]iiirt they get on the Home Front, "He buttles now in progress ‘ e , I heavy losses in material :-eh American industry must re r!:,<'e. they said in a joint state ii m. "and any slaekening in the lie- dci 1 production will only delay ultimate victory.” i’nlpv.ootl is one of the most im portant of these material- of war up n which our fighting forces are depending. Production has In i. n pretty good this year, hut it I i Pi i n’t enough to keep pace with war requirements. I We cannot fail at this crucial I"■ rna.I without nullifying the sac titices of the hundreds of Amer ican hoys who died on the Nor mandy I caches. We can speed the ■lay of victory by cutting all the pulp-wood needed to keep military supplies and equipment flowing | in unbri hen convoys to the bat tlefields o! France. Summer Term Al .Presbyterian School * Maxton, N. C„ July 8-13-14 - I'lii- second term of summer school will Inwin at Presbyterian Junior College on M noday, July 17. One unit in high school work may be uned in the- preparatory depart ment. Six semester hours college credit may be earned in the col legia! e department. Most of the studeuis attending the first term arc expected to return ''or the second term, and new students will register on Monday, July 17 The regular fall session of col lege and preparatory work will] begin on September 7. George Badger Read, 41, who resided wear Halifax, was instant ly killed Saturday morning- in an automobile accident which occurr ed on highway 301 between En iield and Halifax. lie was found dead alter the car which he was driving overturned. He was alone at the time <wid no other vehicles were involved in the accident. Funeral services were conducted limn the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary fwisdale Read, Monday af ternoon by the Rev. Frank Wal ters, pastor of the Halifax Me thodist Church, assisted by the R-yv. Robert E. Cox, lector of Grace Episcopal Church, Weldon. Survivors include his wife, Mrs Susie Hamill Read, Ills mother; five sisters, Miss Clem Read of Halifax, Mrs. W. P. Rodwell of Warrenton; Mis. Charles Du Rant of Salisbury, Fla.; Mrs. Char les Vincent of Murfreesboro and Mrs. L. H. Pearee of Williams burg, Va. and two brothers, Rob ert Read of Halifax and Pvt. Mil ton Read of Camp Robinson, Ark. PROMOTED Captain II. J. Badenhoon has burn promoted to the rank of Ma jor in the United States Army. Major Badenhoop is now stationed at Camp Hood, Texas. Uis wife, who is with him, was Miss Mar tha Carter, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. \V. A. Carter of Weldon. Every Doughboy Needs Pulpwood Every time a doughboy leaves for overseas it takes 300 feet of lumber to i>o« and crate his ini tial supplies. It takes fifty feet a month from than ok to keep him supplied. That is for just one sol dier’s personal equipment and does not include all the other armanents of war. Every 10,0^00 ton cars' • ship of the Liberty type leaving our ports requires ten «ar loads of lumber for dunnage to brace supplies in the ship’s hold. Farmers, help meet these lumber demands fbj cutting- more saw logs. County Gives $1000 ; To Polio Stricken Area -— i - —, .. ■ — — — A gift of $1,000 to the current j fight against infantile paralysis in the State was voted last Wed nesday by the Halifax County In fantile Paralysis Committee. Meeting’ in session at Halifax, the Committee received the re quest made by those in charge of tin1 present drive against the epidemic in the Piedmont section that at least fifty present of the County's funds lie donated to aid in tlie fight. This was with the stipulation that if the disease came to Halifax County this year the National and State groups would provide full financial back ing and assistance in combatting ! its spread, and caring for those tricken. It was ascertained from the v '■ urev of the Halifax Com. mittee that appro., i.i.iud Sl.'J * > was on hand, so the Committee immediately voted the $1,000 do nation and instructed its treasur er to send the check at once, j The committee organized for • the coming year with the election of the ollowing officials: Craham Lynch of Roanoke Rapids, chair man; V. C. Matthews of Halifax vice-chairman; Father Peter M llenges of Roanoke Rapids, treas urer; and Flic W. Rodgers ol , 1 Scotland Neck, secretary. The officers were named to the exe cutive committee also along with the following additional members: ,1. R. Wollett of Littleton, Mrs. Walter Clement, Jr., of Enfield, l Rev. C. E. Crawford of Holigood, U. Bixby Pierce of Weldon, Dr. 1 W. K. McDowell of Scotland Neak, county health o finer, Dr. Bahnson Weathers of Roanoke Rapids and Mrs. Eva C. Williams of Essex. The f flowing were also added t othe county wide committee; Mrs. Eva C. Williams of Essex, Clif ton Moss of Ringwood, Edwin Martin of Tillery and Mrs. John D. House of Thelma. George A. Hux, Jr., county " chairman, made an initial state - meat concerning the purpose ot . th« meeting, stated thits was the regular annual meeting of the Ceunty Committee and called for election of officers, lie declined to be considered for re-election as eh airman because of other duties and tint necessity lor the chair man on occasion being able to travel about the county. Since he does not own an automobile, he said be would be handicapped. Organization then was effected as abovo stated. It was likewise moved and car ried to authorize the Executive Committee to spend a sum not iH excess of $500 in any one year for the purpose of purchasing medi cal equipment fer treatment of infantile paralysis cases ie the county. Any sum spent in excess of that amount for such purposes would have to be on authority of a majority of the county commit Lt:t\ “The Roanoke News” Moves Into New Home Next Week < This week’s edition of “The Roanoke News” is being placed in : to the mails early so the printing machinery can be moved into a new building just completed on Maple Street near the Bey Scout Hut. i The building, built especially for the newspaper plant, is located one block from the present loca tion of the newspaper office. It is of medern concrete block con struction, 22 feet wide and 51 feet long, with a 10 foot square building at the rear. This small building at the rear of the main building will be used as a stero type room and will also contain the Linotype metal remeltieg fur nace. If no setiieus difficulties are j encountered in meving the print I ing machinery the “News” will be | moved at the usual time next week.