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PAGE TWO Clearing Up The Streams “Cooperate with Nature and the Almighty by making your crops fit the land and the shape o£ the land, instead of trying to make the land fit your crops.” This is the advice to farmers from Dr. H. H. Bennett, Chief of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, who was recently named as 1944 “Man of the Year in Southern Agricul- ' tore" by a leading Southern farm publication (The Progressive Farm er). v in setting forth a 10-point “South ern-Soil Conservation Platform," Bennett emphasizes the importance of proper use of the land by ex plaining that primarily this means using the most level land on each farm for row crops, moderately ■ Steep slopes for grass and grain, and keeping all very steep slopes in • Wees and grass. As another point in the 10-point platform, Bennett suggests “A better Southern farming system, including Pon't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teeth drop, slip or wabble when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don’t be annoyed and embarrassed by «uch handicaps. FASTEETH, an alka. line (non-acid) powder to sprinkle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives confident feeling of se curity and added comfort. No gummy gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Get FAS JXJSETH today at any drug store. i Garden Seed ! I 1 ..t Time to replant after cold snap. We still * - | have plenty of seed and you can start « * again if yours was one that was killed g * Garden & Field Seed 2 I ,jr ; SEE US FOR YOUR g J FLOUR, SUGAR, LARD, ETC. | : MOORE’S CASH MARKET j Reams Avenue @ S * !■■■■■ ■LULSLJIL™ ■ ■ u a a m j GET YOUR CLOTHES READY l SUNDAY, APRIL 15 TN 1 T ♦ T ♦ 1 f z ♦ Y | ||n ♦ 'WT' lH I'flilA J Wl v |||| ‘ * “jgm MT fpgfeg ‘ } t iHHiH sr"t5 r "t i’ s.’ * I Strips of burlap fashion clumsy shoes fcr war-stricken people % overseas whose clothes are worn to shreds after nr;rc tlian five J years of constant wear. To help them, g r ” vour sp. - elefh- Zj ing, shoes and bedding to the United Nationa, ig f <ion ♦ "•GIVE WHAT YOU CAN™ \ < > Clothing For War Weary Countries Will Be Collected In ‘ \ ROXBORO SUNDAY AFTERNOON ~ People not in the city are requested to bring their clothing to < • one of the designated places of collection JI PALACE & DOLLY MADISON ii % THEATRES \ o’ ** ’‘Motion Pictures Os Distinction” ]; (.especially better planned rotations, ; less land in row crops, and a better {balance between crops and live listock. j Contour farming, listed as point i No. 3, is another form of coopera i tion necessary to save soils, Ben i-nett declares, adding that “straight (line plowing in a sloping country de | fies Nature and invites disaster,” “Grow soil-holding and soil-build ing crops with or after all soil robbing crops, with a constant ef fort to have two-thirds as much green land in winter as in summer," Bennett urges as point No. 4. The slogan. "The South will come into i its own when its fields are green in winter" deserves constant em ! pliasis, he says, j Other points listed are: I 5. Adequate high quality terrac ing. 6. Strip cropping to control ero sion on long, gentle slopes. 8. A vegetative mulch on the: soil ■ surface. 8. Ktidzu. crotalaria. sericea les pedeza. and annual lespadezir—The j "Big Four" among crops for saving land improving Southern Soils, j 9. Drainage of too-wet lands as a companion conservation measure to moisture-holding practices oh too l I dry land. ! 10. Cooperation with one's neigh bors in activities of the local soil ] conservation district to control ero- I sion—-the first necessity 'for . all ! Southern farm progress. | « Blankets and clothing fcr.children { women and men are urgently need ' ied in devastated war areas.-.:... ; What Can You Spare That They Can Wear? Four Os Person Fighters Deep In German Area 1,1. Darcv Bradsher And Oth j ers. Veterans From Italy. Now In Germany. Four Roxboro and Person County men, Lt. Darcy W. Bradsher, Cpl. i Herman H. Garrett, Jr„ Cpl. Jesse iW. Wagoner and Col. Willie O. Long, the last two from Hurdle , Mills and Woodsdale, are with the {Sixth Army in Germany in the jo97th Field Artillery battalion, formerly at Cassino, in Italy, over a ; ear ago. according to information i received here today. The 697th fires big 240-mm how -1 Users in cooperation with the U. S, | Seventh Army troops in Gen. Jacob ! L. Dover's 6th Army group. These 240's helped destroy the famous Sinserhoff fortresses, bastion of the Maginot Line before Bitche. France. The battalion's observer went forward with infantry troops | and was fired on by the fortress's VV. IRVIN O’BRIANT H. D. YOUNG Local' Representative Local’ Representative For 100 years New York Life Agents have Served American Families * • • •' • .■ •• • • / ■ .... 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NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY FI CTECTING THE FAMILY—SERVING THE NATION New York Life W. Irvin O’Briant and H. D. Young Phone 2958 Phone 3858 THE COUPJER-TTMES gunners while directing fire from a position 1,000 yards away. Twelve direct hits .reduced the 10-foot cofi crete walls and brought the surviv ing Germans running out to sur render. j “Since the effective range of these ! | big howitzers is 13,900 yards, and j the maximum, range much greater, j we find that ground and Cub plane observation is not always sufficient," explained Lt. Col. Floyd T. Christian of St, Petersburg, Fla., battalion commander. "For observing some long-range targets, we use fighter reconnaissance planes. We knocked out a bridge in Saarbrucken with a fourth round and destroyed six out of ten 170-mm. guns in Italy with this fighter observation.” The 697th is a descendant of Alex ander Hamilton's Battery of the Revolutionary War and was the firs: 240-mm. howitzer unit in action in World War 11. It has put 331 days in the line since the first shell fired, on Jan. 30, 1944, in Italy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill fired one of its guns on German position north of Pisa, Italy. o Used clothing can save lives over |seas. . . . What Can You Spare Tha> They Can Wear? . . . Take it K churches, schools, collection depots W. B. Hester Has High Promotion I i William W. Hester, now in the Pacific area, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'C. E. Hester, Hurdle Mills, has re ceived a direct appointment as a l second lieutenant in the Coast Ar ; tillery Corps. Prior to receiving his commission he was a sergeant in the I headquarters of a Coast Artillery ; unit at a South Pacific base. Lt. Hester, a graduate of E3on College, was an engineering aide of : he Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration in Raleigh, until October, Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you suffer from rheumatic, arthri* tis or neuritis pain, try this simple i ".expensive home recipe that thousands using. 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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1945 Hester’s commanding officer, in an • informal ceremony at the unit head- c quarters. 4 0 j< Naked, frozen children and adults in war-torn countries need clothing and blankets. . . . What Can You j Spare That They Can Wear? j I Think of it! Your used clothing; can save lives In war-tom countries! . . . What Can You Spare That They Can Wear? .1 . o Here’s a tip for the duration. Don’t be free with information.
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