COTTON GROWERS, GET
YOUR equities
OLUME XVII.
This, That, £r
5 the Other
• By MRS. THEO. B- DAVIS
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Fireplace cooking was going off
4# 800116 not long after I came
on it. Still, 1 know something of
how it went —trivets, ovens, long
legged spiders, cranes, tongs,
shovels, hot coals, embers and
wla;e. Boiling was fairly simple,
jfcut how they ever baked such per
fect cakes in ovens heated by
coals put over and under is a
mystery to me.
When I cook on a wood or
jyQal stove there is little you can
me about the thing after I
have become used to its ways. I
know about drafts and ashes and
soot in pipes; and even how to
’ mix a paste of salt and ash to
I stop a crack that would spoil the
I baking if left to itself. 1 know
6 how to fill the oven with green
I or wet w(X)d and season it before
putting in for fuel.
. 1 know pretty much all about
several makes of oil stoves; how
• they get clogged or leaky; how
® they will smoke if not kept clean
and level; how to make minor re
pairs—such as keeping an oven
door closed by propping it with
a broom—for five years; how to
ifcut wicks to fit and to put them
•n. I know about cooking with
gas and how careful you must be
about it—and how perfectly ter
-rible it smells on mornings you
TBon t feel well. How it boils water
' out so fast you'd never believe
‘tthc pot was dry until you smelled
. the food burning.
A I know a little about using gas
k oline as fuel; but it was a risky
I process when 1 had a little stove
*1 that kind thirty-four years ago
"id I’ve been skittish about gaso
line ever since.
And when it comes to electric
current I am as ignorant as the
woman who told her husband
there was nothing to it except to
turn a little switch. If turning the
swtich doesn't do the work I'm
ff. /pored, if not shocked.
When our old electric iron got
wrong and let the current run all
over it, my arm tingled, but I had
no idea what should be done he
ft sides shutting off the current. The
boys tried to tell me about posi
tive and negative wires—or some
thing—and I listened carefully,
• but knew no more afterwards
than before. They made the re
pairs and I went on two or three
more years with that iron before
it went bad again.
f The electric sweeper refused to
zoom and I called for help over
six months before one of the sons
• * would take time to fix it When
they did and remarked on how
simple it was I got >' r oss and told
them they ought 1 >e ashamed
to make me wait eo *long for so
little.
But 1 still didn’t feel as if I
should learn to make the connec
tion they said had worked loose.
When a bulb burns out I can
_ screw in another one; but if it
should not light up I'd feel as
helpless as if 1 were trying to
turn on the moon at the wrong
lime of the month.
Therefore when our colored
helper reported solemnly that the
biscuits just wouldn't bake on top
I tried shifting the racks in the
oven. That did little good. Caro
• lina Power .and Light Co. called
upon, very pleasantly said they'd
1 send a man up to find the trouble
and remedy it. He came late that
afternoon.
And he wa> a Pearce hoy I
used to know, all grown-up now
and nice looking as you please.
He was most apologetic about
coming while we were cooking
supper, and when I offered to
start a fire in the wood-stove he
, told me they are trained to inter
fere with cooking as little as pos
sible, adding with a grin, “That's
where we make money, you see." I
saw.
Well, that young man slipped
the broiler unit out of that range,
took it outside and poked at
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the Zebulon IRecorii
They Just Won’t
Break Their
Perfect Record
Zebulon Rotanans held their
74th consecutive hundred per cent
meting on June 27. Albert Medlin
was absent, but will most prob
ably make up attendance, even if
out of the state.
William Cheeves had the pro
gram with N. Carl Barefoot as
speaker from the highway safety
division Mr. Barefoot gave start
ling figures with regard to high
way fatalities, stating that 999 per
sons were killed in this way last
year in this state alone. About
10,000 more were injured. For
the first five months of this year
449 persons have been killed by
cars in North Carolina, 131, of
them men between the ages of 2?
and 40 years. The majority of
these left families, some of whom
must be cared for by charity.
About one-fifth of those killed
were farmers.
The highway safety division
strives to educate people to be
careful whether walking or driv
ing on a highway. Mr. Barefoot
thinks safety courses should be
taught in our schools. He was
heard with deep interest.
The club welcomed a new mem
ber, John Summer, head of Car
olina Power and Light Co. here.
There will be no Rotary meet
ing on July 4, as that is a holiday.
Meetings to be
Held in July
Pastor A D. Parrish makes the
following announcements:
Hopkins Chapel—The meeting
at this church will begin on Mon
day night of next week, July 7.
Rev. F. H. Schofield, Jr., of
Youngsville will assist the pastor.
The hours of service have not been
definitely set, but will probably
be 3:00 and 8:00 p. m. each day.
White Oak —Revival services
are in progress at this church this
week with Rev. Carl Lewis of
Wakefield assisting. Services are
at 3:00 and 8:00 p. m. The public
is invited to all services at both
churches.
Smithfield WPA
Office Closed
Johnson county felt the knife
of governmental economy last
week when WPA officials an-
June 30 of the district WPA of
fice in Smithfield. Two other dis
trict offices —at North Wilkes
boro and Albemarle—were abol
nounccd the permanent closing on
ished at the same time.
This action was necessary, of
ficials stated, in view of a sharp
reduction in administrative and
other funds for WPA in North
Carolina.
Fire Alarm
On Monday
The sound of the fire alarm
early Monday afternoon started
numerous citizens of Zebulon on
a run for the seed house back ot
the Home Ginning Co., where
smoke was rising foggily. Scat
tered sodium nitrate had smolder
ed in the heat and started a blaze
which spread to the steps of the
house. When water used to ex
tinguish the fire came in contact
with the chemical —belonging to
the Home Fertilizer Co. —there
was a loud explosion. An on
looker reported that while before
the explosion there was a crowd
present, when -the sound had died
away there were left only Melvin
Massey with the hose and his
helper, though the others were not
injured, leaving under their own
power. Damage was small.
It should be noted that Zebu-
Pictured is Clare de Luce, a
singer with Glenn Miller's or
chestra which will make a state
tour this fall.
Registration Is
Light Here
Wake County enrolled 792
young men on Tuesday of this
week. Among these were nine who
should have registered last Octo
ber.
The local board, Number 3,
registered 136, Number 4 at Fu
quay Springs enrolling 120. The
rest were listed in Raleigh.
It was expected that about
27,000 would register from the
state as a whole, but figures are
not yet available as to results.
The work moved better yester
day than last fall when procedure
was new to all concerned. At
present employees of the boards
are much better able to give in
formation which will expedite the
process of registration.
Married Men
Are Deferred
Selective Service headquarters
instructed local boards Saturday
to exempt from the draft men
with dependents to whose support
they make “any substantial con
tribution.’’
The order applies to me al
ready in Class 1-A as well as
those not yet classified.
Men who married after regis
tering will be required to show
that they were married “in the
ordinary course of human affairs”
and not to evade army traniing.
Cooley to Speak
to Cotton Men
Representative Harold D.
Cooley, member of congress from
the Fourth District, will be the
principal speaker at the 19th an
nual farmers' field day to be held
at the Tobacco Test Farm near
Oxford on July 10.
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Drive carefully on the Fourth
We'd like to see you back here
after the holidays.
Volunteers Asked for U. S. Army
Sergeant J. M. Pate, in charge
of the Army Recruiting Station,
Raleigh, announced today that his
station has several vacancies left
for negro applicants, who are j
qualified for enlistment in the
regular army. These men now j
have a choice of being sent to Fort
Bragg, N. C , Camp Davis, N C ,
Fort Jackson, S. C, or Camp
Croft, S. C.
Sgt. Pate announced also, that
after this immediate quota was
filled, men enlisting for service
would not have the choice of as
signment. Only men enlisting for
the Air Corps are assigned to any
particular branch of service at the
time of acceptance.
The following specialist vacan
cies are now available: painters,
carpenters, mechanics, chauffeurs,
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ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA. JULY 1 ,19-11
Two Millich
Dollars For
Cotton Growers
This week the first oi $2,000,-
000 in cotton stamps were dis
tributed to cotton- farmers in more
♦hail 70 North Cirobir* - unties
It is the AAA's way of paying
: farmers for cooperation in the
program to reduce 1941 cotton
i acreage so as to redo t’tre
mendous surplus of the crop in
\ his country.
Cotton stamps are going out f<
farmers who may ex.h.in ••• the
symbols for all American cotton
g- xids
A farmer can us- th m m any
cooperating retail store or mail
order house in exchange for new
products mail • entirely in the
I Inited Stat es and otVii 'v of l h
S cotton. Bindings. 1 iltons and
similar products should not be
considered in determinin'; cotton
products.
How will the farmer know
whether a store is cooperating?
By asking within the store.
Purchases can be made by mail
Stores which qualify under special
Surplus Marketing Administration
mail order regulations will be
allowed iq accept cotton stamps
for mail orders.
Persons using cotton stamps get
the same quality goods as persons
using cash.
Wake PCA Has
Annua! Meet
Another year of progress was
reported by directors of twelve
production credit . iations *vb
gathered at Myrtle Beach, S. C.
for a group conference, according
to C. S. Chamblee, director of the
Raleigh Production Credit Asso
ciation, which serves Wake coun
ty-
Plans for L ther improving
the service which these farmers
cooperative short-term credit or
ganizations offer to their members
were discussed. The round-table
discussions were participated in by
all of the directors.
Attending from the Raleigh
Association in addition to Mr
Chamble were Geo. D. Richardson,
[. H Akins, J T Shearon and
Obe Tingen, directors, and E I
Warner, secretary-treasurer.
The Raleigh association has to
date made 738 loans this year to
taling $394,000.
DEFENSE BONDS
At the request of the treasury
department we announce a new
feature of interest and service to
many readers who arc buying or
will buy Defense Savings Bonds
and Stamps. This will bo called
the Defense Bond Quiz, and will
start in next week's issue.
The questions will be chosen
from among those asked by most
Bond and Stamp buyers. The an
swers will tell what the new
Defense Savings Program mean
to the individual and to the nation.
1 cal technicians, draftsmen, fire
men, typist, clerks, radio operat
ors, telephone operators, c<x>ks,
mess sergeants, first sergeants, sup
jily sergeants, warehouse clerk;
and several others not mentioned.
To be eligible for enlistment,
j the applicant must be between the
! ages of 18 and 33, single with
no dependents, good moral char-
J acter, good physical condition and
must have the equivalent of at
, least a sixth grade education. Ap
plicants 18 and not 21, must have
the written consent of their par
ents or guardian. Ajiplicants 21,
that have registered, must present
their registration card at time of
acceptance. No applicant can be
accepted who has been ordered to
report for induction by his local
selective board.
For further information, write.
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The farm family wants to help
a lighter Mary in every way pos
ble when she goes oft to college
ext fall. The AAA cotton stamp
l.m will enable the family to sup- j
ly Mary with plenty of college
use free. North Carolina cotton I
CHURCH NOTES
Baptist Church
Services to be held Sunday,
July 6, are as follows;
9;45 Sunday schixii.
11;00 Morning worship. Ser
mon, topic, “God Is Like The Sea.
7.3() Young people meet.
8:00 Mission night. All mission
organizations meet at this time
except the Sunbeams. They have
their meeting at die eleven o'clock
hour.
G. J. Griffin, Pastor
JUNIOR G A MEETING
The Junior G. A's held .their
regular monthly meeting on Sat
urday evening, June 28, 1941, at
the home of Fannie Mae Gay
with Rose Yancey, assistant hos
Economic Highlights
SUMMER LULL The three
main trends current in the busi
ness picture arc: (1) Department
store volume of goods moved is
well on the way to setting an
all-time high for the first half of
tthe year, while profits ar6 holding
up well and dollar volume will
be highest since 1929, and with
prospects bright for maintaining
the pace in latter half of year;
(2) Increasing sentiment in var
ious quarters for putting some
curbs on extenion of credit in con
sumer lines- which means a
tightening up on installment buy
ing; and (3) Voluntary, as well
as 'negotiated'' wage increases
arc being made in many lines,
not all of them defense-goods in
dustries, either.
Other items indicating there'll
be no mid summer lull this year
include the federal reserve board s
findings that genera! industrial
activity increased sharply during
May, sending its seasonally-ad
justed index to 149 (per cent of
the 1933-39 average), compared
with 140 in April and 143 in
M arc h; the continuing terrific
pace of construction awards, which
.last week hit the third highest to
tal ever reported; and reports of
big gains for railroads in both
passenger and freight revenue^.
VEGETABLE EXCURSION
Excursion rates” for vegeta
bles as well as people would help
bring Americans more vitamin
rich food by encouraging farmers
to market more truck crops, says
farmers will earn about $2,000,-
000 in cotton stamps for purchases
of American cotton goods this
year by curtailing 1941 cotton
acreage. Distribution of the first
stamps in the state is scheduled to
! begin next week.
tess. Cakes, crackers, punch and
candy were served to 10 members
and two visitors.
, Stella I Phillips
Methodist Church
Services for Sunday, July 6:
Church school —10:00.
Young people—7:oo.
Worship service—B:oo.
CLASS MEETING .
The Junior Fidelis Class of the
Baptist Sunday school met on
Monday night in the home of Mrs.
Charlie Rhodes with Lelia Carroll
hostess. The program was directed
by Christine Conn. During the
social hour the hostess served re
freshments.
reports that, in 1940, enough truck
crops went unmarketed because of
low farm prices to supply 13,000,-
000 people for a month. And on
this same subject, it is pointed out
by William Fellowes Morgan, jr.,
New York City Commissioner of
Markets, that people will eat more
vegetables when they are made
available. Morgan cited the A
and P. Tea company’s 25 per
cent increase in sales of vege
tables and fruits during the first
week of its summer “Nutrition for
Defense” campaign, in urging
other distributors to similarly pro
mote vitamin-bearing produce. He
referred to Department of Agri
culture estimates that men, women
mid children generally should
double their consumption of many
vegetables to maintain health.
BITS O’ BUSINESS lt’s
estimated that, with somewhat
more than 1 per cent of the coun
try's total population in the army,
I the service is using one and three
quarters per cent of our total
food production . . . The chemi
; cal industry, which held the rec
ord for “explosive” expansion up
; to the time the war situation lifted
aviation into that position, is still
I going strong its sales arc nearly
I double those of ts record year of
1939, but profits aren’t showing
anywhere near such a rise, what
with taxes and higher wages . . .
1 Westinghouse is adjusting wages
and salaries upward 11 per cent
; tthis month, in accordance with
> its plan under which the compen-
COTTON GROWERS, GET
YOUR EQUITIES
Boil Weevil
Menace Is Now
Grave Reality
Cotton enemy No. 1, the boll
weevil, has begun its invasion of
North Carolina farms, and the
time has arrived for farmers to
counter attack. County farm
agents are mobilizing forces to
fight the insect pest.
The first maneuver is the ap
plication of 111 poison treat
ments when weevils are found in
fields the pre-square period at the
rate of 30 or more per acre. That
means, about one weevil to 300
plants.
Pre-square treatments should be
started just as squares begin to
form. This is usually when the
plants are 3 to 6 inches high, and
before the squares are large
enough for weevils to puncture.
But don't stop with this attack,
because a war isn’t won with a
single batle. Pre-square poisoning
alone will not satisfactorily con
trol boll weevils, as many weevils
reach the fields -after the pre
square poisoning period has
passed.
Post-square treatments, in the
form of calcium arsenate dusting
are recommended. This type of
poisoning should be started when
10 percent of the developing
squares show boll weevil egg punc
tures.
Complete information on boll
weevil control methods is con
tained in extension folder No. 43,
which is available free upon re
quest to the Agricultural Editor,
N. C. State College; Raleigh. The
11 1 treatment is made with a
mixture of one pound of calcium
arsenate, one gallon of cheap mo
lasses, and .one gallon of water.
It is applied with a hand mop or
with a machine.
Many Traffic
Deaths in Wake
Wake county reported 21 traf
fic fatalities during the first five
months of this year, according to
a five months summary released
this week by the highway safety
division.
This number represented an in
crease in comparison with the
number killed in Wake county
during the same period last year,
when 24 person were killed.
Traffic fatalities for the state
as a whole totaled 448 persons for
the five-months period, this grim
toll running nearly 49 per cent
ahead of the 301 persons killed in
North Carolina the first five
months of last year.
Seen and Heard
Last week byway of amuse
ment we gave our readers the
tank problem to solve. This week
we have a new one, yet it is
rather old. Query: How long -“Will
that hole in the street or highway
near the Baptist church reman un
filled? It has been open now—we
do not remember how long.
Neither do we remember the
times we have cut around it or
jolted across that hole.
Cotton Equity
Farmers who stored cotton un
der government loan in 1938,
1939 or 1940 still hold an equity
on cotton which has been kept in
storage and they may stand to re
ceive more than the original loan
for the cotton, it is-announced by
G. Tom Scott of Johnston county,
chairman of the state AAA com
mittee.
Prevailing market prices now
are several cents a pound higher
than the loan rates for any of
the past three years, and if the
Commodity Credit Corporation,
holder of the loan cotton, should
find it necessary to market some
of the stored lint to keep domes
tic prices from rising too high,
farmers who stored the cotton on
loan would share in the proceeds
of the sale on the basis of the
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