PUSH PARKWAY
ROAD PROJECTS
I
Bulla Commit)** Urges Full Speed
Ahead on Completion oi Blue
Ridg* Parkway
Washington, June 9. ? Full speed
ahead on construction of four
national parkways was urged today
by the Senate appropriations com
mittee.
Recommending a reversal of
House action which cut to $7,500,
000 the amount to be expended by
the Interior department in the fis
__ cal year begining July 1 on the
~ four road projects, the Senate com
mittee suggested the full $15 mil
, lion asked by the budget bureau be
provided.
The additional money would en
able he National Park Service to
"accelerate at a more rapid pace,"
an official said, the development of
the following parkways:
Blue Ridge, in Virginia and North
Carolina; Natchez Trace, in Ten
nessee, Alabama and Mississippi;
George Washington memorial, in
Virginia, and the Foothills park
way in Tennessee.
Construction work on the proj
ects was deferred during the war.
In opposing the House cuts in
funds for the work, which were
based on prewar appropriations,
Interior officials said construction
costs have risen 40 per cent since
the work was halted.
The committee was told that more
than 330 miles of the 480-mile Blue
Ridge parkway "have been brought
to various stages of completion"
with Virginia and North Carolina
being "required" to proceed im
mediately to acquire rights of way
so that gaps in the road can be
filled in.
These gaps drew criticism re
cently from House appropriations
committee members.
? Arthur E. Demaray, associate di
rector of the National Park serv
ice, said $23,548,000 has been spent
or obligated on the Blue Ridge
parkway so far and another $17
million will be needed to complete
it.
Ho gave the committee the fol
lowing cost figures on the other
three projects:
Natchez Trace ? $5,789,00 spent so
far in completing 25 of the 450 miles
and partially constructing 93 ad
ditional miles: another $30 million
needed to complete.
George Washington Memorial ?
?19 million needed to complete,
with one section, from Mount Ver
non to Key Bridge at Washington,
already finished.
Foothills ? $9 million needed to
build the 85-miles of road.
Cook vegetables in little water
and do not throw that water down
the sink, put it in the soup pot,
national farm nutritionists say.
BOONE DRUG CO.
The REXALL Store
G. K. MOOSE, Owner
STORE HOURS:
8 a. m. to 9 p. rr>. on week days.
Sundays, 2 to 6 o'clock p. m.
SUCCEEDS GLASS . . . Kep
resemtative Thomas Granville
Burch, Martinsville, Va., has
been named by Gov. William
M. Tack to aaceeed the late
Sen. Carter Glasa in the U. S.
senate. Burch, who h^s served
? eight consecutive terms In con
gress, says he will not run (or
re-election.
State College Hints
For Homemakers
By RUTH CURRANT
(N. C. State College)
According to the food research
specialists, carrots in the stores are
prettier with tops on, but less fresh.
When the carrot is in the ground
nourishment goes from the leaf to
the root. When the carrot is pulled
out of the ground the nourishment
goes the other way. and the leaves
draw moisture and food from the
root. Some truckers cut off carrot
tops but some do not.
To keep the carrots fresh, cut off
the tops before you store them. The
same rule holds good for other root
vegetables ? beets, turnips, par
snips. radishes. Take off tops to
keep them fresh.
Grow Victory Gardens again this
year. Gardens are lovesome things,
according to the poets. And those
we call Victory Gardens, or home
gardens, are very valuable in these
days of world-wide food shortages.
In a call to the Nation's home
gardeners, the President points out
I that the threat of starvation in many
'parts of the world and the urgent
I need for food from this country
emphasize the importance of our
| continued efforts to produce and
: conserve food which will help to
replace that especially needed for
shipment aboard.
Americans who have acquired the
habit of raising their own, won't
need much urging to dig out their
catalogs and dig up the earth. They
agree with the President when he
says: "In addition to the contribu
! lion gardens make to better nutri
tion, their value in providing out
door physical exercise, recreation,
and relaxation from the strain of
' modern life is widely recognized."
Hot weather crops such as toma
toes, peppers, egg plant and all the
vine crops can still be planted to
advantage in North Carolina for
production this year, according to
the Extension Service.
New political activity by labor
unions embraces yet-unorganized
sections of farm labor.
cm over an area of hundreds of
thousand* of square miles in nine slates, you've
fsot <i REAL JOB!
No onAnoHf. this heller than your telephone
company, nor is I here anyone more eager to sec
farmer* have telephones.
We're hard al the jol>. using the beat equip
ment and "know-how" that years of Bell System
experience and research have l?een able to devise.
Southern Bell trucks and men are becoming a
more and more frequent sight on the rural roads
of the Southeast.
o
Southern Bql Telephone and Telegraph Company
Lespedeza Climbs
High in Crop Scale
Lespedeza has climbed like a
meteor in the North Carolina crop
scale and now ranks second only to
coin in total acreage, it was report
ed by Edgecombe County's Assis
tant Farm Agent C. H. Lockhart
of the State College Extension Ser
vice. ?
Reminding that 25 years ago this
crop was unknown in the state v ex
cept as a wild growth. Lockhart
said that its popularity with far
mers has been gained through its
merit as a "hay, soil-improving and
erosion-preventing crop."
The farm agent said that les
pedeza produces from one to three
tons of cured hay per acre under
average conditions. The hay is fine
stemmed, palatable to cattle, leafy
and easily cured to a bright, green
color. It ranks "almost as high as
alfalfa for feeding stock." Lock
hart said. He added:
"Like other legumes, lespedeza
stores nitrogen from the air in its
stems and leaves. A heavy growth
adds large quantities of nitrogen
and organic matter to the soil when
the crop is plowed under. Records
show that corn yield have been in
creased from eight to 60 bushels per
acre by consistently turning under
lespedeza. Test show an increase of
20 bushels per acre of corn by plow
ing in a single crop of the legume.
Similar results have been obtained
with cotton, small grains and other
crops. A few years ago we thought
that lespdeza stubble would provide
enough nitrogen and prganic mat
ter to build up our soils, but con
Meat, Bread Almost
Gone From Stores
The basic American staples ? meat J
and bread ? either were gone or i
rapidly going from dealers' shelves
over a great part of the nation Mon- j
day and new supplies to fill the gap j
were apparently weeks away in !
most areas. ?
The expectation in several of the
cities covered by an Associated
Press spot survey was that the
shortage would grow worse before
it grew better.
Soap, butter and cooking fats
were reported not far behind meat
and brr.id in the scarcity list.
In the case of bread, officials
placed their principal reliance for
relief on the new crop, now being
harvested in the Southwest. Agri
culture department experts said that
I the situation was already fairiy
well cleaned up in Texas, and added
that they expected the effects to ap
pear generally in 30 days or so.
However, an official agriculture
department report indicated it
would be at least 12 months before
everybody would have all the
bread and flour he wanted. It esti
mated that the 1946 wheat crop
would be 1,025,509,000 bushels,
about 225,000,000 short of American
demand and foreign commitments.
tinued removal of the hay crop has
proved less beneficial than had
originally been expected. The plow
ing under of an occasional crop will
i help out immensly with fertiliza
tion," the agent concluded.
MRS. ELIZABETH BROWN IS
CANDIDATE FOR REGISTER
OF DEEDS IN JOHNSON CO.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, well known
Johnson county woman and p^nin
ont Republican fi^ire, has announc
ed her entry in Ve race for regis
ter of deeds, subject to the August
election.
Mrs. Brown comes from a family
which for long has been prominent
in Johnson county political and
I civic affairs and has taught in the
county schools for some time. She
is the daughter of Dr. Rov Butler,
| deceased, an-j "Aunt Becky" Butler,
who is now living in Mountain City.
Dr. Roy Butler practiced in Butler
for many years. ^
The entry of Mrs. Brown in the
race for register will inject a great
deal of ii^erest in the contest for
this key post. ? Johnson County
News.
JUNE 30^
If you have been discharged
from the Army? if you held a
grade and wish to retain it? if
you have dependents ? then act
now. . . . June 30, 1946, is
the last day 011 which you can
enlist ill the Regular Army and
still take advantage of two im
]x>rtant Ix'iiefits . . . retention
of your old grade and family
allowances.
ENLIST NOW AT YOU* NEAREST
D. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION
Post Office Building
Lenoir, N. C.
A BIG DATE
R ARMY MEN!
Family allowances foi your
dependents will be contained
throughout your enlistment
only if you enter the Regular
Army before July 1, 1946.
If you have been discharged
from the Army and wish to re
enlist at your old grade, you
must enlist within 90 days after
your discharge. And before July
1, 1946. Think it over. Act now.
A GOOD JOB FOR YOU
U. S. Army
CHOOSE THIS
F INC PROFESSION NOW!
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omewhere, halfway across the world, two little children cry
bitterly from hunger. Children cannot understand the why of
hunger? they know only the gnawing pain, the piteous weak
ness. A heartbroken mother listens helplessly.
Their only hope ? and the hope of millions like them? is that
Americans will not be complacent in a starving world . . . that
you will share the abundance that is yours.
You are pledged to "Share a Meal Every Day," to help supply
starving people with fat and wheat products. But the need for all
fbods is so desperate that you're asked to do more ... to give
money to buy food, or give food in tin cans, and to give gener
ously!
Where the food yoM give will go. Contributions of canned
foods will b?; distributed free in war-devastated countries on>
the basis af greatest need.
Why *ood must be in tin cans. Food in tin cans can be
handled safely for distant shipments and travel over difficult
roads.
Why the need is so desperate. The battles that brought
us vicrorv scourged most of tiie countries that fought as our
allies. The worst drought in fifty years followed the war. Crops
failed throughout Europe and Asia. 500,000,000 men, women,
and r bild'er. art hungry and starving.
WILL YOU GIVE
THAT THEY MAY LIVE?
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAH DO!
1. GIVE MONEY.
More food can be obtained for a given
amount of money when it is bought cen
trally and in large quantities. Send cash,
money order, or check to your local Emer
gency Food Collection Committee or to
Lee Marshall, Executive Director, 100
Maiden Lane, New York 7, N. Y.
2. GIVE FOOD IN TIN CANS.
Leave at any Emergency Food Collection
depot.
Urj* your church, club, or organization
to participatal
EMERGENCY FOOD COLLECTION
on behalf of UNRRA
HENRY A. WAUACE, National Chairman
TWi advtrflitmfnt was prepared by the Advertising Council for rf?t Emergency Food Collection and is sponsored by
TOWNSEND'S GROCERY