Floyd Spikes Rumor Of "Food-Grabbing" ? Currently making its rounds in certain communities is a story that "the Government is going to take a part of all the foods people have canned or stored for winter use." E. Y. Floyd, State AAA executive assistant, has labeled this rumor as "preposterous", saying that evident ly "some people are attempting to misconstrue the aims of the farm de fense program". In one Virginia County, it was re ported that an individual has actual ly appeared at farm homes with a truck and represented himself as a collector of food for the Govern ment even taking food from some unsuspecting farm families. "It would appear," Floyd said, "that a few individuals are trying to take advantage of the farm de fense program for their own gain by misrepresenting the facts to people who have not been informed. "Actually," he continued, "one bas ic objective of the program is to en courage people to produce and pre serve food for home use as well as certain commodities for countries re sisting aggression." The AAA executive emphasized: "No one is authorized to collect food and anyone attempting to do so should be reported to local law en forcement atuhorities at once." North Carolina farm families have given their wholehearted support to the Government's request for more food in 1942 and are now making plans to produce the extra food prod ucts needed in the food-for-freedom campaign, Floyd said Cows Help Increase Total Farm Income ??? The farmer who keeps five to ten cows and pays strict attention to their feeding, breeding, and man agement knows the meaning of bal anced farming and permanent se curity, according to Fred M. Haig, professor of ariimal husbandry and dairying at N. C. State College. Within less than 50 years, the production and utilization of milk have so increased that today the United States is the greatest of the dairy nations. Around 25,000,000 cows are milked daily on three-quar ters of the country's 6.000,000 farms. Although dairying has made steady progress in North Carolina, especial ly during the past 15 years, there are still far too many farms not owning a single dairy cow. This is especially true of cotton and tobacco farms, Haig said. The State College professor said rHEADACHE-i I When your head ache* and nerYeel I are Jittery, get relief quickly, pleaa-1 I antly. with Capudlna. Acta fast be- I I cauae It's liquid. Follow direction* on I I label. All drugglato. 10c. 30c. flOc. Liquid CAPUDINE End of a Canadian Corvette Canadian authorities have just released these pictures, showing the sinking of H.M.S. Levi*, the first Canadian corvette lost by the Dominion navy as a result, of enemy action. The ship was hist with 18 men in the north Atlantic. At top is the damage to her prow. She is being towed by another Canadian man o' war. Towing was abandoned when t}ie Levis began to sink. Lower pictures show the ship going down, and the last lifeboat to leuve the doomed corvette. Things To Watch For In The Future Fortified oleomargarine, reinforc ed with Vitamin A and D . . . Re volving doors equipped with "elec tric-eye" mechanism . . . For beau ty shops, a new combination radio receiver and hair drier?60 the pa tron can get h*?r own private pro gram over the air-waves and also over the hair-waves, for the music comes out right in her hair, along with the warm air . . The tiniest thing yet in midget transformers, for use in electric hearing aids, is one j that measures 7-16 by 7-16 by 3-4 inches. he doesn't advocate getting rid of tobacco and cotton on most farms but that he does advise srongly the addition of a few cows as a sideline to the cash crop income. On thousands of these farms, he pointed out, sufficient feed for five to ten cows could be raised without interferring with the production of the regular cash crops. He also explained that the dairy industry is closely related to the maintenance of soil fertility, and the ifarmer must consider this an indi rect profit. In other words, the live ' stock farmer gives back much of what he takes from the land. Then too, he anchors the soil. Valuable top sottdoes not wash or blow off In dust from hill-sides where grass is green and cattle graze. FREE! 12 STUNNING CHRISTMAS CARDS! Printed in bright, gay colors I On paper of rich vellum and antiquo 4 weavol 12 handsome, white, double-fold envelopes to match I - ' 1/ouM FOR ONLY I '15 OCTAGON COUPONSljL^ BRING YOUR COUPONS TO WIS STORE AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF 1000 f S-c.C GIF fSI Woolard Hardware Co. WILLIAMSTON, N. C. TRICYCLES WAGONS SCOOTERS SKATES AUTOMOBILES And many other wheel toys Santa will need for Christ mas. Bicycles and other toys are extremely scarce. Better buy now before our stocks are sold out. LARGE STOCK GOODRICH TIRES l/ae Our Lay-Away Plan . . Only Small Deposit Neces tary To Make Purchase. Economy AntoSupply Nazi Torpedo Plane In Action According to the German caption with this photo, a torpedo plana of the latest design is shown in action. Caption did not state Where or what the target was. The two-motored craft has dropped one torpedo and has another ready in its rack. Shoes from U. S. The expression of Doreen Ma now in this photo from bomb-blitzed London telle ite own etory. She le trying on one of teven pairs of chil dren'! thoee contributed by Mrs. WlUa Abernethy of Seattle, Waeh. Another pair filled the bill. Mre. Abernathy'e kindness was rewarded with this picture of little Doreen, which waa sent to hep. More Incentive For Cotton Quotas With North Carolina farmers pre paring to go to the polls again on December 13th to cast their ballots in the cotton marketing quota refer- I endum, qualified observers see litle reason to doubt that Tar Heel pro ducers would reject the orderly mar keting system under which they have I operated for the past four years. Basis for this, according to E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive assistant of State College, is the fact that 1942 provides even more incentive foT cotton quotas than 1941 when an ov erwhelming majority of 92.8 per cent of the 60,246 cotton fanners casting ballots favored allotments and quotas. The added incentive has been ere-, ated by the opportunities offered by the Farm Defense Program for us ing acreage taken out of cotton for i price-supported food crops i "The Food-for-Freedom program," said Floyd? "is tied up directly with quotas?if acreage is held within the circle of demand, there will be ex-1 tra acres on which to grow commodi-! ties that are needed in America and by Britain, and which are being pur chased under the Lend-Lease pro- j gram at good prices. "Quotas keep the entire farming Mosl Satisfactory Vessels For C.urinfi I'ork Meat Kills Vestal, extension swine spec lalist, says oak barrels or large stone jars aro the most satisfactory vessels for curing pork. A dean container is absolutely essential for successful men! eunng. Tim should always b?" washed out and thoroughly scalded J befoiv using "Killing and Curing Meat on tin Farm," a folder con- ? taining valuable information, may be | seeum-4- without charge by writing to tbe Agricultural Editor, State Col lege, Ibileigb. industiy of North Carolina and oth ef Vlates i mm plunging headlong ih 4-u t-he pnHluction of commodities which are not needed. Our farmers nave learned that over-production undermines prices mid have voiced their convictions through the refer endum Certainly now is the time to grow the. e food commodities for the farm defense program, and certain ly this should prove a banner year to n:ili/r 1 lie benefits of the orderly marketing provided by the use of quotas." Cotton Prices Due To Quotas and Loan Cotton growers of this county will make an important decision affect ing their income from the next crop when they vote in the referendum, December 13, to decide whether mar keting quotas shall apply to the 1942 crop,, says G. T. Scott, Johnston County farmer and chairman of the State AAA committee. "Marketing quotas and cotton loans I wen- largely responsible for the high | level of 1941 cotton prices," Mr. Scott declares, adding that "the ef fectiveness of this price protection in the future depends upon whether growers vote to hold total plantings within the goal set for 1942. Loans under the law," he explains, "will not be available unless quotas are approved." The chairman believes that good prices' for the 1942 cotton crop will not be brought about by wartime conditions alone, and points to the supply-and-demand situation to sup port his point. According to U. S. Department of Agriculture esti mates, there is now a carry-over of 12,300,000 bales of cotton on hand. The estimated 1941 production of 10, 710,000 bales will run the total on hand to approximately 23 million bales. The United States will con sume about 11 million bales the cur rent consumption year and will ex port one million more, leaving a car ry-over of about 11 million bales this time next year. "In view of these supply-demand figures, it is evident that marketing quotas ami loans cacounted for the favorable 1941 price, and it is as nec essary in 1942 as in 1941 to comply with acreage allotments," the chair man says Save Soybean Seed Now For Next Year Farmers of North Carolina/are asked to increase their production of soybeans by 56,000 acres 1942 as one of the goals of the Food-for Freedom campaign. J A Rigney, agronomist of the N. C Experiment Station with head quarters at State College, says the soybean goal cannot be met unless seed for the* 1942 crop are saved right now. "With soybeans selling at more than twicv what they brought at this time last year," Rigney said, "and with very limited storage facil ities on the farm, most of. our beans will go to processors' warehouses within the next month. Any at tempt to establish a seed source for the prospective planting next year must be done right now. Once seed is bulked, retrieving pure seed is im possible." The agronomist said that a mixture of varieties of soybeans will do as much to reduce the yield as any one factor. Differences in the time of maturity make harvesting difficult, and subsequent storage of seed haz ardous. For instance, Rigney pointed out that Herman variety beans ma ture in 135 days, Tokio in 140 days, and Wood's Yellow in 160 days. "A mixture of these, or most of the oth er varieties, will cause complica tions," he stated. The Experiment Station has found in its texts that the Wood's Yellow, Toklo and Herman beans do best in the Coastal Plain, with the Wood's Yellow yielding good as beans, be ing shatter-proof, and producing a fair amount of oil. TTie Herman bean yields the most oil, but shatters badly and is only a fair yielder of beans. The Tokio also tends to shat ter. is a fair yielder of beans, and is better than the Wood's Yellow in percentage of oil. Rules of the Road . . . AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS Sec. 104, Motor Vehicle Laws" of North Carolina: "Whenever any per son driving a vehicle approaches a highway and interurban or steam railway grade crossing and a clearly visible and positive signal gives warning of the immediate approach of a railway train or car, it shall be unlawful for the driver of the ve hicle to fail to bring the vehicle to a complete stop before traversing such grade crossing." .This means that you are required by law to come to a full stop at all railroad crossings where--a.. light- or . bell device warns of the approach of a train. You also are required to stop at crossings marked by an official eight-sided, black and yellow Stop sign, whether any automatic signal device is present or not Of course, all school trucks and passenger buses are required to come to a complete stop at all railroad crossings. Til ( Ililts Make !'/# liig Fruit Tree Order This Full Edgecombe County's cooperative fruit tree order for 4-H Club mem bers this fall consisted of 258 peach trees. 17 apple trees. 02 pear, plum, and apricot trees, 69 grape vines, and 67 pecan- trees: NOTICE OF SAFE North Carolina Martin County. | Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Martin County made in the special proceed ings entitled "James E Griffin, ex center of the Estate of Su^an A. Thomas, vs. Mabel Peed, et a Is." the undersigned commissioner will, on the 31st day of December, 1941, at 12:00 o'clock M.. at the Court House door, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, a certain tract of land in the Town of Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as fol lows: A house and lot in the Town of Williamston, N. C., on the South side of Warren Street adjoining the lands nf B. B. Rogerson, Herman Bowen, R T and W. O. Griffin, and being Lot No 21. Block B of the J W. Watts Land Division, said Division being of record in the Public Registry of Martin County, in Land Division Book 1. at page 322. Dated this 29th day of Nov., 1941. WHEELER MARTIN. d2 4t ' Commisioner. NOTI C E North Carolina. Martin County. In The Superior Court. Before the cit rk Mary S. Gray, Administratrix of the Estate of Warren A. Gray, vs. J. I>. Gray, William Warren Gray, ?and others. 1 The defendant above named. Wil liam Warren Gray and all the other heirs at law of Warren A. Gray, will take police that an action en titled a ab.we.has been commenced* in the Superior Court of Martin County, N. C . to sell a piece of land for the purpose of making assets, in which said defendants own an in ter. ... and said defendants will fur ther take notice that they are re quired to appear before L. p. Wynt Clerk of the Sup. rior Court of Martin County, at his office in Williamston. N. C. within ten days after completion of this service by publication, and to answer or demur ,l > the complaint of the plaintiff in tins actioM oi' the plaintiff will ap ply to tia court for the relief de :*itf;Tn.U .1 in said complaint. ~Tt mho 27th"day of Nov . 1941 L B WYNNE, dl! 4t ci. rk Superior Court.? ~ COLDS Misery of CtCtCt "'quld QOD N? d?Tablets Now Drop* Cough Drops Try "RHB MY-T1SM" ? A Wonderful l.inimrnt - bib O.K.from U.5.A. only byPppti AMERICA S BIGGEST NICKEL'S WORTH Antkoitnd lotthr: (Nam* of Locii Bottw to Im uuvtad h?t)v 7 G&W FIVE STAR fl.10p,NT : *2.15 FULL QUART OOfrOtKMAM A WONT*. LTD.. PKOftlA. ILLINOIS r *1 ' '? THIS in a year to he practical, ho give a gift that combines usefulness with all losing sen timent folk- associate with "home." This in the year to aihl beauty and comfort to some one's home this Christmas ? with your gifts of furniture. Make your seleetious from our large stork of eomplele suites and occasional pieces. Wr"\c -<> many items to se lect from within everyone's shopping budget. Coffee Tables ? (Cellar Chests ? Hassocks ? Mirrors ? Smokiii" Stands ? P Living Boom Suites ? Glass Top Tables ? Goeklail Tables ? Phone Sets ? Boudoir Lamps ? Lounge Chairs ? Lovely Pictures ? Dining Boom Suites ? Hugs ? Druggets ? Sofas ? Barrel and, Club Chairs ? Book Stands and Cast's ami Thousands of Other Practical Gifts. Woolard Furniture Co. WILLI AMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA

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