OPA Price and
Rationing News
Ot?-Um Threatens Gu Rations
Part of the recent - gas increases
given A and motorists may have
to be recalled because of a daily
over -consumption of 3,318,000 gal
lons of gasoline, L. W. Driscoll, OPA
district director, said today. v
"This over-consumption,- amount
ing to 100,000,000 gallons a month ?
enough for one and a half billion
miles of driving ? is a serious drain
on our still-tight gasoline supplies.
Our reserves can't stand such tre
mendous pressure much longer, and
if the over-use isn't stopped by the
motorist themselves, 'we undoubted
ly face a reduction in rations," Mr.
Driscoll predicted.
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Slaughter Increases
Permission to slaughter 10 per
cent more cattle, sheep and lambs
during accounting periods beginning
on or after July 1 was granted non
f ederally inspected commercial
slaughterers to attain a better bal
ance in meat distribution, OPA Di
rector Driscoll announces.
This increase brings Class 2
slaughterers' maximum percentage
up from 75 percent to 85 percent for
cattle with sheep and lambs raised
from the former 100 percent to 110
percent. Slaughter percentages for
calves and hogs are unchanged, re
maining at 75 percent and 50 percent
respectively.
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Maternity Care for Servicemen's
Wives
Eight hundred and fifty thousand
wives and infants of servicemen
have received care or are receiving
care under the emergency maternity
and infant-care program, the chil
dren's bureau of the U. S. depart
, ment of labor announces. In May
alone, 44,000 new cases were auth
orized for care. Through this pro
Corn Is Cultivated
Shallow This Year
More North Carolina farmers are
practicing shallow cultivation of
corn this year than ever before and
more farmers are laying by tne crop
earlier than is usually the case be
cause of recommendations Of the
agricultural experiment station at
State College.
"Any farmer1 who will ' examine
the roots of com plants can con
vince himself that shallow cultiva
tion and laying the crop by early
are two good methods for increasing
yields," says Dr. Emerson Collins, in
charge of extension agronomy at
State College.
He points out that relatively heavy
fertilization of com at planting, ^vith
the fertilizer well mixed in the row,
gives the crop an extra quick
growth and enables the farmer to
lay the crop by at a much earlier
period than is usually the case. "Of
course, weather conditions largely
determine just when is the proper
time to complete cultivations," Col
lins explains.
gram, which is administered by |
State health department, under
plans approved by the children's bu
reau, complete maternity care, in
cluding medical and hospital service,
is provided for wives of servicemen,
and medical and hospital care is
available for their infants until they
are one year of age.
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Tire dealers in the Charlotte dis
trict were cautioned this week about
acceptance of new tire certificates
presumably issued by War Price and
Rationing boards in other states, in
a statement by A. M. Hollingsworth,
OPA rationing officer in Charlotte.
Many tire dealers have been vic
timized b; crooks who have tender
ed stolen or counterfeit tire certifi
cates, drawn on distant boards, he
said.
Examination Announced
For Rural Mail Carrier
The United States Civil Service
commission has announced an ex
amination to fill the position of rur&L
carrier at Zionvilie. The examina*
tion will be held in Boone.
Receipt of applications will close
July 26, 1945. The date of exami
nation will be stated on admission
cards mailed to applicants after the
close of receipt of applications, and
will be abo^it 13? days after that
date.
The salary of a rural carrier on a
standard route of 30 miles served
daily except Sunday is $1,800 p^r
annum, with an additional $20 per
mile per annum for each mile or
major fraction thereof in excess of
30 miles. Certain allowances are
also made for* the maintenance of
equipment. All regular, full-time
rural carriers receive additional com
pensation at the rate of $300 per an
num. Temporary, substitute and
auxiliary rural carriers and rural
carriers serving tri-weekly routes re
ceive an increase of 15?percent of
their earned basic compeAation, but
such increase in compensation will
I not in any case exceed an average
of $25 per month for the fiscal year
or fractional part thereof.
Local U.S.E.S. Aids
Returning Veterans
Ail discharged service men are
urged to contact their local USES
office in regard to the G.I. Bill of
Rights, as pertaining to jobs, loans,
both business and home. Civil serv
ice performance, unemployed com
pensation (readjustment allowance,
self-employed readjustment allow
ances, education, various refresher
and training courses.
The USES works in direct con
nection with the veterans adminis
tration, civil service and other gov
ernment agencies.
A New "House of Magic
v for Postwar America
"...onl of the strongest guarantees of progress and
world peace is continuous scientific preparedness
through industrial research/'
"General Electric has approved
plana for a new $8,000,000
Research Laboratory. This ex
penditure has tremendous significance.
Scientific research has contributed much
to our progress as a nation.
"Many things have been discovered
during this war, and we can and must
develop them into better things for
peacetime. ,
"Today we have 550 research people
on our staff. These new facilities will
not only give increased outlet for their
abilities, but will provide opportunities
for new research minds with new talents.
"From this new laboratory we think
new achievements will come. In the past,
G-E research has contributed much to
better living in America ? not only
through new developments in x-ray,
electricity, metallurgy, electronics and
chemistry, but also through reduced cost
and increased efficiency, as in the
modern incandescent lamp.
"Even more than in the past the la
boratory will emphasize research in pure
science ? continuing and expanding the
work begun by Dr. Whitney and the late
Dr. Steinmetz forty-five years ago.
"To find new facts of the physical
world, to extend the limits of knowledge,
is a forward step in creating More
Goods for More People at Less Cost."
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the Mohawk River. The geographic location offer*
special advantage* for television, high voltage x-ray,
and radar research. Buildings with 300,000 square
feet of floor space will accommodate an expanded post
war research staff of about 800. Reesnrch rooms will
be a scientist's paradise of equipment for experi
ments in chemistry, physics, mechsnics. electronics.
It is hoped that construction can start in six m jntha.
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Winebarger Named
Vice - President of
N. C. Rural Carriers
The North Carolina Rural Letter
Carriers association" met in Raleigh
July 4 (or a one-day business con
ference. .Officers elected were:
President, W. J. Cotton, Fuquay
Springs; vice-president, R. Clyde
Winebarger, Boone; secretary-treas
urer, Kenneth Taylor of Magnolia;
chaplain, Cfrry P. Lowrance, Moores
ville; executive committee, John
Parker of Aulander, Roy Moore of
Belmont, and M. F joins of Vale.
The secretary announced that the
state membership had reached 927,
which is a 10ft percent membership.
North Carolina is perhaps the first
state in the nation to accomplish that
objective by July .4.
The main address was delivered
by George Ellis of Westtteld, Mass.,
treasurer of the National Rural Let
ter Carriers association, who point
ed out that a national convention
this year was unlikely due to ODT
restrictions but that a business con
ference might be held at Des Moines,
Iowa, Aug. 21 and 22. The presi
dent of ' the national association, T.
G. Walters, of Tocoa, Ga., is in
charge of the Washington, D. C., of
fice and is also editor of the Na
tional Rural Letter Carrier, a week
ly ^nagazine published by The na
tional assiciation for the benefit of
the 32,000 rural carriers.
TESTER RESIGNS AS HEAD
#OF BETHEL JIIGH SCHOOL
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Grady E. Tester, for the past two
years principal of Bethel high school,
has resiggned to accept a position
with State Farm Insurance Com
pany of Bloomington, 111., as district
manager with headquarters in Ashe
ville.
Mr. Tester's district will comprise
22 counties in the western part of
the state. His dutfes will consist
largely of recruiting and supervis
ing local agents who will sell princi
pally automobile insurance.
Mr. W. K. Wilson, of Zionville, is
now representing State Farm Mu
tual Insurance Company in the coun
ty on a part-time basis as a local
agent. He replaces Mr. Tester who
started with the company about a
year ago.
Despite wartime handicaps, the
average American farmer produced
two and a half times as much in
1944 than his grandfather did 40
years ago.
The first Baptist church in Amer
ica was founder by Rogers Williams
in the Providence settlement of
Narragansett Bay.
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How To Get Larger
Fall Egg Production
Putting pullets in summer range
shelters on soybeans or lespedeza
and vaccinations for chicken pox are
two o f the best practices that can
be carried out at this time for in
creasing egg production in the fall
when eg^prices are usually relative
ly high.
T. T. Brown, extension poultry
man at State College, suggests plen
ty xti feeders and vuaterers, and also
?dequate shade for the pullets while
on range.
Plans for building an outdoor,
covered type of feeder may be ob
t Aed from the county agent or by
writing the Agricultural Editor,
State College, Raleigh, ' for a free
copy of War Series Bulletin No. 5,
entitled "Equipment for Poultry."
Tly county agent can also provide
plans for a range shelter that is
easy to build and economical as to
cost.
"As the chicks get larger, be cure
to increase the feeder space," Brown
says. "Entirely too many growers
are providing too little feeder space
as the pullets develop. Green feed
and plenty of mash at all times keep
the pullets developing rapidly,
which is just what is needed for
early production of eggs.
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We have had wonderful sales since July 1 in our
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BOONE, N. C.