Given Time For
Remitting Stamps
W It was announced this week
by officials of the locial ration
ing board that shoe retailers
may give their ration coupons to
their suppliers just before the
suppliers ship orders of shoes,
according to a recent OPA ruling
which is expected to stop the
practice of requiring retailers to
supply the wholesaler with the
proper number of ration tickets
at the time an order for shoes is
placed.
The latter practice is said to
have threatened the supply of
fall shoes to consumers in some
localities. Orders for shoes are
placed in' advance of the season
during which they will go on sale,
and the retailer often do not have
ration cupons on hand to giVe the
supplier when the order is placed.
Under this new arrangement,
a retailer may place his order,
and then pay the supplier the
ration cupons when the order is
ready to be shipped, it was ex
plained.
Scientists in the Agricultural
Research Administration report
that it is possible to produce ind
ustrial alcohol from wheat with
out the addition of malt.
There are about 164,000 acres
qt snap beans for processing this
War as compared with about 59,
TOO acres average for the previous
ten-year period.
There will be about 421,000
tons of green peas for canning,
freezing, and other processing
this year as compared with about
229,000 tons in the previous ten
year period.
Belk’s Dept. Store
“We SeU It For Less”
Sparta, N. C.
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^Canada Develops Training Table For Her Air Men
I
rriHB ROYAL CANADIAN AIR
J. FORCE has raised cooking to' a
new plane and what was once con
sidered an art reserved tor mothers
and chefs has become a highly de
veloped science.
The revolution In mass-feeding
was achieved recently when the
Royal Canadian Air Force adapted
the modern science of nutrition to
the development of a fighting and
flying force, and recognized the
Importance of diet and eating hab
its to its'efficiency To accomplish
this, the Royal Canadian Air Force
has made marked changes in mili
tary feeding methods. Medical men
were Invited to recommend 3 basic
ration, then dietitians were put In
charge of airforce kitchens across
Canada as messing officers.
This was the first time in the
annals of modern warfare that wo
men had looked after the cooking
arrangements for a fighting force:
The job of preparing varied diets
within the basic ration was handed
over to them, and a test kitchen
was created to assist them in
evolving the tastiest and most
nutritious recipes. Nutrition labora
tories were set up to test the meals
served at the different stations.
Dietitians were drawn from res
taurants. hotels and hospitals to
supervise the feeding problems of
the Royal Canadian Air Force. They
plan the menus and instruct the
cooks in the best methods of pre
paring and conserving food.
A survey of the food habits at
representative Air Force statioils
showed 33 percent of the personnel
didn’t drink all the grapefruit juice
in their ration. Others didn’t drink
enough milk or eat cheese, yet
these were the very foods that were
needed as a source of calcium, and
many of the vitamins essential for
.sound teeth and bone structure.
A color movie, called “Training
Table” was created by the Royal
Canadian Air Force medical branch
to educate personnel .in proper
eating habits. The film explains
how proteins repair the body as
mechanics repair damaged aircraft,
and how pilots who finish a flight
in bright weather with tired and
watery eyes often suffer from a
lack of riboflavin, j
The new test kitchen has three
Jobk to do. It must develop suitable
and accurate recipes for cooking
large quantities, from the basic
ration. It experiments with meth
ods of food preparation. Thirdly,
it Tests food products from the
standpoint of suitability to service
conditions, particularly new types
That'* no dessert spoon being wielded by
the young lady—and it’s no quart size pot
she’s cooking in. This young lady has
learned how to prepare food in large quan
tities for Canada’s air force, working with
equipment like this. Quantity recipes are
carefully developed and tested in the
kitchens at the R.C.A.F. School of Cookery.
m
To prepare and serve the beat and
most nutritious food possible is the
aim of R.C.A.F. dietitians, and to
assist them in their work, labora
torlef are established thrnijnhout
Canada. Here (above left) a member of the R.C.A.F. Women’* Division
is working in one of the nutrition laboratories.
Selenee has come to the aid of cooks in R.C.A.F. kitchens and through
laboratory tests, proper cooking methods are determined. (Above right)
A member of the Women’s Division is seen working in the laboratory
testing raw vegetables to determine the vitamin count. Analyses like
these have determined, for instance, that cabbage can lose as much as
90% of Its Vitamin C if cooked too long and In too much water.
such as dehydrated foods, special
rations and ration containers.
Once these test kitchen methods
are determined they are taught to
cooks in training and Messing Of
ficers, who will in turn put them
into effect in stations across the
country. ^ ■
The aim of the Royal Canadian
Air Force is to provide the beat in
food, "that men may fly.” and
through scientific methods and in
tensive training they have rapidly
reached their objective. Today the
Air Force can rightfully claim to
be one of the best fed sen-Ws.
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SPECTACLES
Mrs. Constance Garvey
Well, the Glorious Fourth has
“came and went” and it was one
of the quietest of our whole life.
Like many others, we celebrated
the holiday just by being at
home — a rare privilege to the
poor woikin’ goil. And to most
anybody, for that matter.
The other day Mrs. J. K. An
| drews surprised us in our office
as we whistled at our work. She
said upon entering the door,
“Well, somebody doesn’t have,
false teeth, anyhow.” Which is
true enough, thank goodness, but
we had never thought about a set
of false teeth preventing one
from whistling. But upon re
flection, we can readily see why
a plate would sort of botch up a
rendition of th^ favorites in our
repertoire. Yes, we do too have
a repertoire—we can’t sing a lick,
but we CAN whistle! Imagine
“My Mammy Done Tole Me” or
“Fisher’s Hornpipe” to the ac
companiment of the clacking of
a set of falsers! No, Annabelle—
it just isn’t being done.
And ARE we flattered! This
week two of our readers ’way off
in Africa and Texas, actually
wanted us to publish our photo
graph in the paper! Wouldn’t it
be a joke if we did? At the risk
of “killing off’ our sub list we
might just do that, thing some of
these days. Anyhow, we only
have one photograph—-and it’s
much better looking than we are.
(We told the photographer if it
wasn’t we wouldn’t have it)—and
people tell us it doesn’t even look
like us, because it has its mouth
shut! •>■
BT W. O. HOOPER
A few miles north of Sparta
three men on adjoining lands
have established a splendid sys
tem of conservation farming.
From' the nearby mountain tops
it is a beautiful sight to look
down on the alternating strips of
corn and grass on the farms of
Cabell Wilson, Robert Edwards
and Commodore Edwards. These
men are justly proud of their
farms and eager to do everything
possible to improve them. They
have found that strip cropping is
the common sense method of
farming and it has been so easy
to follow that they are actually
surprised. Strip cropping puts
the rows on the level, saves fer
tilizer, topsoil and moisture 'and
protects the field from severe
winds.
"I tried ditches and other
things because I wanted to save
my top soil”, said one farmer,
“but from now on I’U take strip
cropping.”
county line, and said it was the
only mistletoe he had heard of
growing in this section, and won
dered if anybody else could re
port a similar plant in their
yard. Ask the boys and girls—
we bet they know!
Sometimes we wish we could
print anonymous letters. We get
some gems once in a while, but
naturally) we would not print
anything a writer had not the
courage to sign and have printed
over his name. Those things just
aren’t done In newspaper busi
ness, so please don’t expect it
At the request of a friend, we
publish this:
MY PRAYER
Most merciful God, cast me not
out In the time of old age; for
sake me not if my strength fail
eth. May my hoary head be
found in righteousness, preserve
my mind drom dotage and imbe
cility and my body from protract
ed disease and excruciating pain.
Deliver hie bom despondency in
my declining years and enable me
to bear with patience whatever
mtOf i^Thy holy will. I humbly
UMMM^jtt^llahtaJHhat I may
Conservation
Farming News
N. C Dairymen Are Asked
To Follow 8-Point Plan
The Dairy Industry Committee
has recommended an 8-point pro
gram to North Carolina produc
ers for maintaining milk produc
tion in the coming months so as
to achieve their part of the 122
billion-pound milk goal this year,
says John A. Arey, in charge of
Dairy Extension at N. C. State
College.
With so many soldiers and their
families in this area, it is parti
cularly important for North Car
olina dairymen not only to main
tain production but also to in
crease it wherever possible.
Arey emphasized the following
practices: provide abundant pas
tures, both temporary and per
manent; grow plenty of good
hay and be sure to cut' it early
for good quality; and provide
jabundant silage. Also, he rec
ommends that cows be condition
ed for freshening, that good
roughage be fed liberally, and
that balanced rations be main
tained at all times.
When pastures begin to get
short, additional feed should be
given to avoid the customary
summer slump in milk produc
tion. Dairymen should anticipate
this period for putting their cows
on food because, if the animals
show a drop in production, they
will probably not be able to re
gain their normal flow of milk
before freshening.
With Uncle Sam daily calling
for more and more milk, the
calves probably should be raised
with less milk because it is too
valuable for human consumption
to allow it to be diverted to calf
raising.
Arey further suggests that
dairymen begin to think of put
ting in some alfalfa, oats and
other crops for grazing and hay.
vetch for hay, crimson clover, and
Hens laid 6,506,000,000 eggs in
May in the' U. S., which is 13 'pat—
cent more than for the MUb
month last year.
Because Nazi authorities tar
Holland are stripping the country
of sugar to supply their troops oifc,
the Russian front, Hollanders will
be without sugar for one month
this fall.
Notice To
Delinquent
Taxpayers
After August 1, 1943, land on which 1942 taxes re
mains unpaid, will be advertised and sold. The law of
the state will not permit carrying beyond this date.
Jess Moxley,
Sheriff, Treasurer and Tax Collector
SPARTA, N. CAROLINA
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SACRIFICE t
US7EN BROTHER, THAT /O 9b
GUARDS YOUtUFE, YOUR FAMILY,
YOUR HOME, AND THE OTHER
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BACH, LATER,.. .WITH INTEREST/
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Save 10%... to Save 100%
All over the nation, patriotic
Americans are spending less and saving
more—putting at least 10% of their in
comes into War Bonds and Stamps. So our
boys can have the planes and tanks end
guns they need to fight end attack end
WIN for us!
So the Naxis end Japs will wish they
hadn't tried to enslave America, too—and*
won’t ever try it again!
And it's going to take 10% In War Bond* ;
to do it!
So, if you’ve been postponing budding
down, remember, it’s "Everybody 10%” or
"Nobody (except our Axis masters) hav«
ing a cent.** •. i