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LEADERS ARE NAMED FOR THREE PATROLS OF SCOUT TROOP HERE FOLLOWING ITS REORGANIZATION All Boys Over 12 Invited To Join; Two New Scouts Accepted Monday -e The Plymouth troop of Boy Scouts was reorganized into three patrols at the regular meeting Monday night, when two new Scouts were accepted into the organization. Fred J. Humbert and the Rev. B. E. Taylor, acting scoutmasters, were in charge of the meeting, which was attended by 14 members. The scouts are anxious to see the troop grow and urge all boys in town 12 years of age and over to attend the next meeting. Regular meetings are held every Monday night at 7:30 in the scout room in the basement of the courthouse here. At the meeting this week, three “skeleton" patrols were organized and patrol leaders elected by the boys. Eight is the maximum number for each patrol, and two of those set up this week have five members, while the other has only four, so there is plenty of room for growth before it becomes necessary to add any patrols. Marvin Biggs and Johnny Bratte were the new mem bers added Monday night. The patrols are named “Flaming Arrow.” "Flying Eagle,” and “Silver Fox,” and they are composed of the following boys: Flaming Arrow: Harry McLean, patrol leader: Jim Winesett, Billy Carlisle. Bobby Dunning and Cecil Hooker. Flying Eagle: Eddit Thomas, pa trol leader; Jack Thomas, Marvin Scherr. and Frank Landing. Silver Fox: Junior Rath, patrol leader: Marvin Biggs, Richard Carr. Joe Reid, and Johnny Bratten. I -$ Saving of Lespedeza Seed Is Duty Urged Lespedeza is the favorite soil-build ing crop, and one of the principal grazing and hay crops, of Tar Heel farmers. Enos C. Blair, Extension agronomist of N. C. State College, reminds North Carolina farmers that the season for saving lespedeza seed is at hand. "During the War, when nitrogen A SEA SCOUT Sea Scouting, a program 01 seaman ship and other educational and recre ational activities, full of variety, in terest and adventure, is for young men 15 artd older. * fertilizers are extremely scarce and likely to become even harder to ob tain, it is the patriotic duty of every farmer to grow legumes,” said the Extension Service specialist. “We also need more feeed and pasture to meet our livestock production goals in the Food-for-Freedom program.” The Common, Tennessee 76 and Kobe varieties of lespedeza ripen seed about November 1 in the Coast al Plain, and a little earlier in the upper Piedmont and mountains. The time depends on the first killing frost. The seed should be harvest ed as soon as possible after maturity to prevent losses from shattering, Blair advised. This is especially true of Common and Tennessee 76. Seed of the Korean variety of les Soy Beans Wanted Prices Delivered ai Shipping Point:. Tokios and Yellows.$1.50 Tokios and Yellows.$1.60 Receiving Point: Norfolk Southern Station in Plymouth SEE or CALL ME at ANY TIME! R. W. Johnston Phone 334-6 Plymouth, N. C. Cotton Growers Vote Vote On Marketing Quotas December 12 Two-Thirds Majority Vote Needed to Put Marketing Quotas Into Effect -* Landlords or tenants having a share in more than 127.000 allotments with a total of about 973.000 acres are eligible to vote in the national referendum to determine if cotton marketing quotas will be in effect on the 1943 crop on Saturday. Decem ber 12. according to Tom M. Com wel, Cleveland County farmer and a member of the State AAA Commit tee. with headquarters at State Col lege. This will be the sixth consecu tive year in which cotton producers have voted on cotton marketing quo tas, North Carolina growers approv ing quotas last year by a majority of 95.2 percent. Quotas were announc ed on the 1943 crop recently by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard when the supply of cotton reached more than 7 per cent above normal, as provided by law. The quotas will not be in effect, however, unless approved by at least two-thirds of the eligible growers voting in the referendum. “Any person engaged in the pro duction of cotton in 1942 including landlords, tenants, and share-crop pers is eligible to vote in this referen dum," Cornwell said. "Polls will be open in every community in the state in which there are eligible vot ers, and it is planned to have many more polling places than usual this year in order to save transportation and reduce time away from the farm. The AAA official declared the na tion had a carryover of American cot ton on August 1, 1942, of 10,500,000 bales. While consumption reached a new high of 11,000,000 bales last year, he said, exports remained low because of war conditions. Disap pearance is expected to be less this year than the indicated production of 13.100,000 bales, and. as a result, there is expected to be more cotton on hand August 1, 1943, than there was at the same time last year. He emphasized that quotas do not apply to cotton stapling one and one half inches or more, and that farm ers again would be encouraged to shift their production to the longer staple varieties, wherever practical. pedeza wil remain on the stalk un til five or six weeks after they ma ture. In fact, they do not loosen enough to permit the use of a seed pan in harvesting until three or four weeks after ripening. Combines are rapidly displacing other methods of harvesting lespe deza seed, the Extension worker said. The seed pan, long the principal means of harvest, is a metal pan at tached to the cutter bar of a mower. A number of different lespedeza har vesters are manufactured or distri buted in North Carolina. Most of them are essentially seed pans with some kind of attachment to rake the stalks over the pan and beat out the seed. Korean and Kike lespedeza are sometimes mown, stacked and later threshed, but this has the serious fault of removing all roughage from the land. -« At Yakima Indian Agency, Wash., automobile driving has been cut more than one-third by Indians and Agency employees, who are riding horses again to save rubber and gas. Worst headaches for engineers lay ing war-oil pipelines are river cross ings. The two-foot pipe from East Texas fields to Illinois has already tunnelled beneath six rivers on its way to the main crossing at the Mississippi. The 21-2 pounds of meat per week for each of us—our present volun tary rations—is six ounces less than the combined weekly allowances per person of the United Kingdom, Ger many, Belgium, and Italy. By Bureau of Public Relations. D. S. War Dept.. Wash.. D. C. ON The. UKEAT ROAD TO ALASKA—A scenic view of a portion of the Alcan Highway where it winds through the wilderness of Yukon Territory. It will be open to traffic early in the winter Lespedeza Practice Approved for State In AAA Program Farmers Allowed $1.50 Per Acre Under Certain Conditions Farmers of Washington county will be allowed one unit or $1.50 per acre toward miximum production practice payments under the 1943 AAA pro gram for establishing good stands and good growths of lespedeza, pro vided they are left on the land or turned under, according to W. D. Phelps, chairman of the County AAA Committee. Credits for this practice will be al lowed only if the entire growth, other than seed, is left on the land or turned under as a green manure crop. It must not be pastured or mowed for hay. Credit also will be allowed only for the acreage of lespedeza seeded artificially during the 1943 program year on land on which les pedeza w’as not grown in 1942, the chairman said. The seeding rate should be at least 25 to 30 pounds per acre, and a good stand similar to that which normally would be se cured from such seeding and a good growth must be obtained. He de fined a good growth as one reaching an average height of five or six inches. Chairman Phelps also said that credit on one unit or $1.50 per acre has been approved under the 1943 program for turning under crotalaria as a green manure crop. To qualify for credit, he said, a good stand and good growth which was seeded ar tificially in the 1943 program year must be plowed or disked under. “Approval of these practices should be extremely valuable to farmers in the coming agricultural year,” he said. “With the nation at war, we must keep our farm plants in shape CHERRY -(0 W. C. Ledford, a student in the Creswell school, spent the holidays with his parents at Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Spruill, and Bill Herring, of Newport News, Va., spent the week-end with Mrs. E. P. Spruill. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Spruill, of Roper, spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Spruill. Will Davenport, of Baltimore, Md., is spending sometime with his mo ther, Mrs. G. A, Overton. Mrs. D. F. Davenport and Mrs. Steve Davenport were shopping in Edenton the past Saturday. Edsel Barnes is in Norfolk this week. Mrs. Bill Herring, who has been spending sometime with her mother, Mrs. Bessie Spruill, returned home Sunday. Miss Lucille Davenport spent Saturday night with Miss Mildred Woodley. to produce to the limit as long as necessary. And if we do this, we must protect our land during the winter months and also store in the soil as much nitrogen as possible by growing legume crops. Application of phosphate, photash, and liming ma terials are recommended with the lespedeza practice.” Credits earned for carrying out approved practices under the AAA program are counted toward maxi mum payments which may be made on a farm cooperating in the pro gram. Mr Farmer and Logger. l l Por year. past, .any of you ^-^UriwVuveaf 8UPP \Ve realize that due ^ “ VOU not plan to harvest your t QUESTION ! ! “ss:™*®**1 Msrn uia Need and Mast Have More Logs Logs to manufacture boxes mto Nothing, and ials, such as truck P"‘*’effep Pthe u’,e of the Army and Navy. -T Y n. Yen Will Be Lentisg a Heipisj HasltoWlnf to PreMag t“«s lot Bs J' .^Powers! J?J" ™ ME BOtS OVER THEBE OTO HAIH OBJECT * Y W PlymouthBox&Pa»el Company PLYMOUTH, N. C Farmers—Sell US Your Peanuts We Pay Highest Market Prices OFFICE AHD WAREHOUSE AT THE NEW CAROLINA WAREHOUSE - WILLIAMSTON, N. C. \ GOVERNMENT STORAGE WAREHOUSE—We have unlimited storage facilities in the HEW CAROLINA Warehouse and we I can get additional space it needed. Call us when your peanuts are ready to sell or lor storage. JOHN A. NANNING Telephone 230-W. Williamston, N. C. JOHNNY GURKIN MANNING AND GURKIN
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