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VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 40
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 18, 1943.
ESTABLISHED 1RQQ
Allied Airmen Carry
^ ar -to Germany tVg
Sixth Night hi Row
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Major Actinty in Europe and
Orient Asnured Stalin 4
and Chian# KaiShek
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Picking up where the land armies
finished, the Allied airmen are car
rying the war home to Hitler on a
greater scale than ever before, the
RAF making its sixth raid in a row
over Germany last right. During the
meantime, the Allies and the enemy
are vying positmkr Ration
of major action both in Europe and
the Orient. Invasion plans are still
a dark secret, but the lid on the
powder keg H being lifted slowly
and destruction on an unprecedent
ed scale is now believed in the off
ing.
The observers’5 have about ex
hausted every cr aceivable plan for
invasion, and while the military still
guards its 'ecrets, President Roose
velt assured Josef Stalin and Chiang
Kai-Shek that major Aihea^SWRs
are in the making against Germany
and Japan. The messages to Russia
and China are believed to support
speculation that the Allies are pre
paring to activate previou-Iy drawn
plans for a European invasion and
plotting major offensives against Ja
pan.
During the meantime, Germany
is said to be amassing a great army
and much equipment for an expect
ed drive against the Russians on the
Central Front. But while the Ger
mans are preparing to attack, the
Russians are busy with their own
attacks, late reports stating that in
the first major action since winter
on the Ukraine front, the Soviets
had smashed their way across the
Donets River and captured an im
portant bridgehead near Lisichansk.
It was said the newly-captured
bridgehead “nyght form an excel
lent starting point for an offensive
against the Donbas industrial re
gion.”
Communiques said the Germans
were using large forces of infantry,
tanks and planes to keep the Red
Army from extending its bridge
head.
Meanwhile, Soviet planes blasted
three rail centers: Bryansk, Krem
enchuk and Dniepropetrovsk.
Thirty fires were reported after
the raid et Bryansk, 72 miles west
of Orel, and key junction astride four
main rail routes.
Ammunition dumps and railroad
(Continued on page six)
—Are»y-4ecepts SmaUL
Number County Men
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Calling approximately seventy
five colored men for service from
this county the sixth of this month,
the Army and Navy accepted only
twenty-one out of the group, the
Army keeping fourteen and the Na
vy seven.
The names of those accepted by
the Army follow: Alexander Hill,
Herbert Burnett, Dallas Lee Lyons.
Andrew Jackson Mariner, Whittier
Crockett Witherspoon, Robert John
Henry Rodgers, Jr., William Clay
ton Jenkins, Billie Burke Wilson,
William Brown, Herbert Davis, Wes
ter Smith, William Thomas Morgan,
Jr., Malvin Harris Johnson and Jas.
Lee Anderson.
The Navy accepted the following
men: Charlie Ben Wilson, King Da
vid Latham, David Henderson, Ed
die Lee Salsbury, Henderson Jones,
Jr., Anthony Lanier and Ervin
Thomas Brooks.
According to an official audit just
received by the draft board in this
county, two men, Jeff Whitehurst
and W. C. Williams, failed to report
and were reported delinquent.
Three men, Nathaniel Steward
Bullock, John Arthur Wynne and
John Xevie A'islin, scheduled to're
port in early May, were transferred
to other boards for induction.
According to an unofficial report
gained from some of the draftees,
about thirty-seven were ruled out
on account of physical disabilities
and approximately fourteen others
were below literacy standards.
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Died Last Friday
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Funeral services were held at the
home near here last Sunday after
noon at 4 o’clock for Mrs. Virginia
Liilley who died there last Friday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. She had
been in feeble health for some time.
Rev. D. W. Davis, pastor of the Ma
cedonia Christian Church of which
Mrs. Lilley was a member for a
number of years, conducted the last
rites. Interment was in the family
cemetery, near the home.
The daughter of the late Ameleck
Lilley and wife, she was boro in
this county 63 years ago. When a
young woman she was married to
Joe S. Lilley who died a number
of years ago.
Four daughters, Mrs. Milton Goff,
Mrs. J. B. Whitaker, Mrs. Sylvester
• Wynne, all of this county, and Mrs.
J. R. Sherrod, of Sharpsburg, sur
vive. She also leaves eighteen grand
children.
Canning Program To Release
■ "Much SugaaTo the Consumer
n.vtfc«bi«te9ttMManMr. •na-^vwUiwK
received by the rationing board in
fc>\st - » ri»(. r r\ r
maintain that a large amount of su
gar will be released sn the nation to
take care of the canning program.
An over-all rationing plan in addi
tion to the regular program is being
advanced whereby the home canner
may buy ten pounds of sugar with
coupon:; from his No. location books.
It is understood that Ihe purchaser
will be placed on his noncr, that he
will buy and use the sugar for can
ning purposes only, if the ten pounds
is not sufficient then the canner may
appear before the rationing board
arvd apply for an additional fifteen
pounds. It is also understood ih Ai
the program for releasing sugar f!r
canning purposes will allow the f Ur
| under certain conditions.
L Since *he rationing program was
j inaugurated, “bonuses” have been
I deciaied, and it is expected that the
| special Jg pound allotment to be re
J leased for canning purposes will can
cel bonus allotments in the future.
The coupons for buying the ten
pounds of sugar have not been des
ignated as yet, and plans for the reg
j istration for additional sugar have
not oeen of finally announced.
The new was adopted, it was
understood,JFbecause most ration
boards grar*c up to 10 pounds of can
ning sugay for the mere asking. The
coupon system is expected to simpli
fy the handling of applications with
out, officials estimated, any appre
ciable difference in the amount of
sugar obtained
Pushing Drive Against
Violators of Speed Law
MISSING
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Technical Sergeant Eli C.
Rogers was reported missing in
the European War theatre a few
days ago. The son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eli Rogers, of near Wil
iiamsion, he was 4 gunner in the
Army Air Force.
■BayScouts Enjoyed
Week-end Camporee
On School Grounds
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Windsor Patrol Leads in Con
tests; All Make Very
Creditable Showing
•
Representing four towns, fifty
four youthful Boy Scouts greatly en
joyed a distr.e* camporee on the
high school grounds here last week
end. The number was not up to ex
pectation, but the quality was there,
the youths clubbing together to have
a jolly good time from Friday after
noon until Sunday morning when
they broke camp and set out for
home.
With Jim Uzzle, of the East Car
olina Scout Council in charge, tlie
camporee employed no rigid sched
ule, but the time was spent orderly
with the youths joining in a worth
while program.
A high spot in the program was the
court of honor held under lights in
the ball park Saturday evening.
Hugh G. Horton, Jr., Richaid Levin
and Gilbert Woolard, of the Wil
liamsto.1 troop, were promoted from
first class scouts to star scouts, and
Oliver Hamilton, of Jamesville, was
promoted to first class scout.
Much interest was shown in the
several contests, the camporee score
sheets reflecting some keen compe
tition and much creditable work,
rhe Lion Patrol, of Windsor, head
ed by Carter Grant, took top place
/Continued on ptt£e six)
IMPORTANT
r
There will be important meet
ings held in the Bear Grass
school next Monday night and
in the Hamilton school house on
Tuesday night, May ?5th, 1943,
at 8:30 by Sgt. Lehner and oth
ers of the Norfolk Air Defense
Wing Ground Observer Office of
Norfolk, at which time arm
bands will be awarded to those
entitled to them, and instruc
tions and information given for
better handling the post.
All ground observers of the
vicinity are urged to attend and
the public is invited.
This is a chance to help your
country. Come out to the meet
ings and find out how you can
help. It will not cost you any
money. Just a little of your time
will help a lot.
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Ten Cases Charging
Violations Are Now
In Court For Trial
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Defense Workers and Out-of
State Drivers Are Rated
Worst Offenders
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Speedsters, using North Carolina
highways these past few months for
a race track and to make up for time
“lost” on Virginia’s well-policed
thoroughfares, are gradually learn
ing that governmental speed regu
lations are now in effect in this part
of the country. During the latter
part of last week, Patrolmen W. S.
Hunt and Whit Saunders picked up ,
nine or ten alleged violators of the 1
new 35-mile speed law, and Judge ,
J C. Smith placed the finishing ;
touches on the proof that there is a
law in North Carolina too when he ,
called for fines and ordered the li- j
censes of the operators revoked for i
definite periods.
Six of the alleged speedsters were I
in the courts Monday, and were sad- *
died with fines ranging from $i0 to
620. Their licenses were revoked for
from ninety days to six months, do
After their rounds in the criminal
t courts, the alleged violators are
scheduled to defend themselves be
fore their respective rationing
| boards. E ween ten and a dozen
cases are already on the docket for
review by the rationing board next
, Monday night. It is possible that
some rations will be cancelled for
the duration at that time.
Commenting on the alleged viola
tions aired in the courts so far, Mr.
Hunt, of the patrol, stated that with
the exception of one or two joy rid
ers, out-of-stale drivers and defense
workers Jed the list. Detained by a
patrolman, one alleged violator was
quoted as saying, “I work for Un
cle Sam. They can’t do anything with
me.” Learning indirectly that the
remark had been made, Judge Smith
of the county court, countered, "You
may tell ’em that Uncle Sam sits in
judgment in the Martin County
courthouse every Monday morning.”
Another alleged violator, said to be
(Continued on page six)
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One Person Injured
In Sunday Accident
J. C. Ruffin, Jr., of Tarboro, suf
fered a broken hand' lasfSunday eve
ning at 9:30 o’clock when his car
crashed into one driven by Gordon
Manning near the Everetts school
building on Highway 64. Manning
and his companion, Miss Elizabeth
Manning, were not hurt. Ruffin was
driving alone.
Said to have been under the in
car and about $iou aarinrge
other machine. After receiving med
ical attention, Ruffin was placed in
jail and booked for drunken driving.
The accident was the only one re
ported in this section during the past
several days.
Draft Board Looking
For iiMia»ing" Charge
The Martin County Draft Board
is looking for one of its registrants,
and is asking anyone who knows his
address or his whereabouts to con
tact the draft board clerk as soon
as possible. Joseph William Hardi
son, formerly ot Hr Li j, wniiams
ton, has not been contacted by the
board in two months or more, and
his case is about ready for the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, it was
explained.
The young white man was report
ed to have worked for the pulp
company, but mail addressed to him
there was returned.
TOWN - FARM
Pi- WARTIME
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(A weekly news digest from
— tiw OWI news bureau)
Ration Reminder
Gasciii e—“A" book coupons No
5, good for three gallons each an<
must last through July 21 in Nortl
Carolina.
Sugar—Coupon No. 12 good for !
pounds, must last through May 31
Coupons for sugar for home canninj
to be made available soon.
Coffee-—Stamp No. 23 (1 pound!
good through May 3(1.
Fuel Oil—Period 5 coupons valic
in all zones until September 30.
Shoes—No. 17 stamp in War Ra
lion Book One good for one pail
through June 15th.
Meats- -Red stamps E, F, G, H, re
main valid through May. Red stamf
J becomes valid May 23.
Processed Foods—Blue stamps G
H. J. remain valid through May.
What Is "Home-Canned”
11 '<.1 s are » OPr)
if—(1) They have been canned in £
kitchen primarily used for the prep
aration of meals, or to demonstrate
the preparation of meals, (2) they
have been canned in a separate hui)77
ing or shed, which a farm home has
equipped for canning purposes, pro
vided that the owner has first ob
tained permission from his local ra
tion board to use such facilities.
Farm Meat Regulations
New meat-rationing regulations
provide that a farmer and his fam
ily may consume meat raised on any
farm he owns or operates, and may
transfer meat from one of his farms
to another to provide food for mem
bers of the household, without giving
up ration points, even if the meat is
not slaughtered on his farm, howev
er, if the farm owner does not live
jn a farm, he must give up ration
joints for any meat he consumes else
where. Under the original regulations
i farmer who brought his own cattle
;o a custom slaughtering plant had
.() surrender red point stamps for
neat, while if he killed and dress
'd the animal himself the meat was
'ration-free.” A farm or ranch em
iloyer who feeds his employees in
i bunkhousc or dining hall may now
lse meat and other rationed food
•aised on his farm on the same bas
s as if the employees were fed in
he household.
Start Annua! Drive
Against Typhoid in
—County on Monday
Series of Onr>Duy Clinics Be
ing Held in Nearly Every
Section of County
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The annual campaign against ty
phoid fever got underway in tins
county Monday morning when the
first of a series of clinics was held at
Jamesville. The round-up will con
tinue for a little over two weeks,
according to a schedule announced
by the health department. Regular
appointments will be handled at
Jamesville each Monday morning, at
Robersonville each Wednesday
morning, Oak City Friday morning
and Williamston on Saturday morn
ings.
Special clinics will be held in var
ious community centers on the speci
fied dates and during certain hours,
as follows:
Parmele, May 19, 2 to 4 p. m.
Everetts, May 20, 9:30 a. m. to 12
noon.
Cross Roads, May 20, 2 to 4 p. m.
Hassell School House, May 21, 2
to 4 p. m.
Gold Point School House, May 25,
9:30 a. m. to 12 noon.
Bear Grass School House, May 26,
2 to 4 p. m.
Farm Life School House, May 27,
9:30 a. nr: to 12 noon. -
Eason Lilley’s Store, May 27, 2
to 4 p. m.
Smith Brothers’ Store (above Ham
ilton), May 28, 2 to 4 p. m.
Jordan's Store, Dardens, for
whites, June 1, 9:30 a. m. to 12 noon.
Luther Cordon’s Store, June 2,
8:30 a. m. tf 12 noon.
V.
SURPRISED
Members of the Martin Coun
ty War Price and Rationing
Board were pleasantly surpris
ed a few days ago when a farm
er reported for his gasoline al
lotment. The application, its re
quests already met, was buried
deep in the list, the board learn
ing that the application had been
filed way back in January, the
applicant further explaining that
he had been so busy with his
farming that he had not had
time to get to town for his ration
book. ,
The little incident supports the
theory advanced by Farmer J.
D. Wynne, of Bear Grass, here
last Saturday evening. It was
Mr. Wynne’s belief that about
as much farming or possibly
more could be carried on with
out gasoline as there is being
carried on with it now.
REVOLT POWDER KEG SPUTTERS
svsxXiNuS OF REVOIT against the Nazis are reported from abroad with
Increasing frequency. At widely separated points on the powder keg of
the continent resistance against the Germans is breaking out At Toul
ouse. France, a bomb exploded during a public meeting. Machine guns
were used to quell anti-Nazi violence in Holland. In Norway. German
occupation troops suppressed anti-Nazi demonstrations. Jews in Poland
barricaded their homes in Warsaw’s ghetto and fought with smupyh'd
•nna in a pitched battle that has raged for more than two weeks ’ In
Bofla, Bulgaria, the situation was reported acute. Yugoslav guerrillas
continued to fight the Nazi*. German planej dropped leaflets over
ffreece *t>I>e*ling to underground fighters to surrender. (International)
Dedicate Hamilton
Baptist Church at
Service On Sunday
.. $
lliwtory of (llmri’li Founded
in 1878 Read l»y New I’an
tor, Rev. E. C. Wilkie
Dedication services, marking an
other history-making event in the
organization, were held in the Ham
ilton Baptist Church last Sunday
when the membership with special
visitors from Everetts, Roberson
ville. Rocky _Mount, Scotland Neck,
Raleigh, GunnSfiru and LiTJffMWiTf.i'i o -
ered there lo celebrate a “glorious
victory” over debt, “and to give
thanks t<> an infinitely Good God for
his manifold blessings."
Large crowds overflowed the
church, the event itself reflecting
an increasing interest in things re
ligious despite war, its trials and
tribulations. A picnic dinmi was
served, members of all congregations
joining the Baptists >n celebrating
the memorable event.
Rev. E. C. Wilkie, recently called
to the pastorate there, prepared the
following brief history of the church
"R. D. Salsbmy and Gus Whitley,
men with stalwart and far-reaching
faith, were the spiritually germinat
ed seeds from which the church
sprang. These two went through the
Civil War together, and in the un
settled and uncertain years that fol
lowed this terrible war saw the need
for a Baptist Church in Hamilton to
forfify the people spiritually to cope
(Continued on page six)
Bible School Opens
Term Here Monday
Opening its annual classes here
yesterday, the Union Daily Vacation
BibTc~SchooT reported a "feciifTr'ffl
rollment for the opening day, or an
increase of about 25 over the en
rollment figures recorded a year
ago. The school opened yesterday
with 160 pupils enrolled, 22 in the
beginners’ department, 54 primary,
63 juniors and 21 in the intermed
iates. Twenty-four workers report
ed, Principal B. T. Hurley announc
to a splendid sTr. -
workers were needed in the inter
mediate gnjujf. .
The girls, under the direction of
Miss Ruth Britt, started a schedule
in the Red Cross bandage rooms, and
the boys are receiving training in
the manual arts at the direction of
Rev John L. Goff in the school
workshop.
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out inCi
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County Young Man Getn
T. F. Davenport, Jr., of Hamilton,
and a resident of Williamston for sev
eral years before volunteering for
service in the Army, was promoted
recently to the rank ui staff sei
geant, friends here learned this week.
Assigned to the communications
division of the Army Air Force, the
young man has been stationed in
Hawaii for about sixteen months.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Dav
enport, Sr., of Rocky Mount, he was
reported to be getting along all
right.
ROUND-UP
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For the second straight time
there was little activity on the
crime front in this immediate
section last week-end. One lone
drunk was jailed by local offi
cers, and a drunken driver was
detained behind the bars by pa
trolmen.
Both of the men were 28
years of age; one was white and
the other was colored.
Sobriety and excellent con
j duct were apparent on the streets
of the town Saturday and Sun
day. but the crowds were hard
ly as large as some of those gath
ering here in recent weeks.
Number of Pressure
Cookers For Use In
County Is Reduced
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Limited Number Will He Ha
tioued According to Cer
lain Herniations
A shortage in the number of pres
sure cauners to be made available
this coming season is almost certain
to upset the plans of many victory
gardeners, but the unavoidable sit
uation need not hamper the food
preservation program, according to
Miss Mildred Pigg, the county’s new
home agent.
It is quite possible that enough
fanners will be made available that
the food conservation program can
be carried forward in every com
munity in the county. No allotment
has been made, and it could not be
learned when and where the canners
would be distributed.
Commenting on the pressure can
ner shortage and other plans for car
rying on the food conservation pro
gram, Miss Pigg said:
The number cf steam prsssure
canners allotted to North Carolina
has been greatly reduced. Therefore,
the number of canners to be made
available in Martin County is cur
tailed. The ration committee is still
receiving applications for these fan
ners. They will be rationed on the
basis of number in family, number
of families who will use the canner,
and estimated canning tor 1943. It is
(Continued on aix)
A HKCOIU)
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What is believed to be an all
time price record with the possi
ble exception of conditions ex
isting during the War Between
the States, is being established
by the sweet potato on the north
ern markets. When the tubers
commanded S5 and $6 a bushel
on the wholesale markets In
the coal mining regions and on
most of the other markets, pro
ducing farmers were puzzled to
UUMtiaMuii lion 4 piilllUii that
had grossed him hardly $1 a
bushel could jump to such fig
ures.
And now comes a later report
from the Department of Agri
culture, stating that sweet pota
to prices on the northern whole
sale markets are ranging from
$7.75 to $$.50 per bushel
Registrations For
Rat ion Rook No. 3
Will bThHcI Soon
l\w Ter huge tli^ —
Application Form and Task''
Will Hr Haizdicijl !»v >fa.iL
Abandoning the school houses and
community ct nters as places for
holding registrations, authorities
have virtually completed plans for
registering consumers by mail for
the No. 3 ration book.
Beginning on Thursday ot this
week, the post offices throughout
the nation will start the distribution
oi application forms. The receiver
will carefully read the instructions,
fill in the application, place a three
eent stamp on it and mail to Char
lotte. Any head of i family or indi
vidual who does not receive one of
the a implication forms is directed to
repoi^ to his post office and call for
one. .The distribution of application
can.' will, in all probability, be
completed within two or three days*,
who does not get one
should apply to his post office on or
10. Only one application
before June
tor each family is needed.
General instructions for handling
the registration w’^ere^re leased by
Use Martin County War Price anil
Ration Hoard this week, as follows
Persons in the armed forces can
not register. Inmates of institutions
of involuntary confinement cannot
register.
Boarders living with families to
whom they are not related are to
make out a separate application.
Family heads in preparing the ap
plication do not list members of the
family living away from home.
Those members of a family who are
away from home for more than six
ty days will make a separate appli
cation.
Applications must be mailed be
tween June 1 and June 10. If mail
ings are delayed until after June 10,
the post office will not, according to
instructions, handle them.
The new ration books will be de
livered between June 20 and August
Travelers with no permanent ad
dress will fill out an application
blank, giving a general delivery ad
dress for some city within the State.
Books applied for in one state can
not be mailed to another.
Any one planning to move is di
rected to put his new address on the
application blank unless be is mov
ing outside the state. If the person
(Continued on page six)
Strict (Jl^TvaiHr of
Beer Law Reported
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In effect for the second Sunday,
the taw banning the sale of beer and
wine between 11:30 Saturday night
and 7 'unlock Monday morning is
l>eing strictly observed in this coun
ty, according to reports corning from
enforcement officers. Several “beer
joints” continued closed during a
greater part of the day, and the
crowds that once flocked to the beer
counters have been greatly thinned
cut.
The second day the ban was in
effect, several imbibers of the low
potentcy fluid volunteered that the
law was a good one. The number of
drunks, possibly as a result of the
ban, has been materially decreased
during the two week-ends the law
was in effect.
A substitute, carrying less than
one-half of one per cent alcoholic
content, was offered for sale. Even
though its sale is legal under the way
the law was written, the number of
purchasers was small. There is a pos
sibility that some retailers will offer
to use the beer of low alcoholic con
tent as a blind in ringing in sales
of the other brands. Law enforce
ment iic.'i.ti-fu alters- art warning —
against such a practice with the
‘promise that"Tic'erikes aTe subject to- -
be revoked.
Leaf Transplanting
Nearing Completion
Follow ng adverse conditions ex
isting sin.rtrtjf'-t April and up until
the rains last week, tobacco tarTners
have had an almost ideal period for
transplanting the crop during the
past several days. Immediately fol
lowing the “break" in the weather,
growers set upon the task with all
their power and resources. Today,
fairly complete reports state that 97
to 99 per cent of the crop will have
been transplanted by late this after
noon or early tomorrow.
Good stands are general, and the
young plants are said to have shown
signs of growth after being in the
fields no longer than three days. If
the cut worms hold off and no oth
er adverse factors present them
selves, the farmers will possibly re
port their beet transplanting and
early growing season in recent years.
It is understood that most of the
faimers are planting their full allot
ments plus the additional five per
cent increase allowed by special or
der. "We have it in the ground, but
we aon’t know whether we'ii be able
to harvest it,” one farmer was quot
ed as saying.