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TOWN and FARM f in WARTIME « Prepared by OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Tomatoes, corn, asparagus, beets, leafy greens, spinach, blackeye peas, and garbanzo beans have been added to the point-free list of processed foods through June 30. the Office of Price Administration has announc ed. -Points have been reduced on spaghetti sauce: soups, grape and tomato jams and preserves: apple, grape, mint and plum jellies; bakers’ jellies and fruit butters. .Points have been increased on cranberries and cranberry sauce: tomato juice in large containers; canned or bottled dry varieties of beans 'excluding soy, blackeye and garbanzos); tomato catsup and chili sauce; raspberry and strawberry jams and preserves. Re ductions were made to move out last year's stocks before new supplies are available in great volume. Butter Point Value Reduced The ration point value of cream ery butter has been reduced from 16 to 12 red points a pound, the OPA has announced. Margarine has been lowered from six to 2 points per pound. The new values are effective through June 3. 1944. This reduc tion was made possible by seasonal ly increased production. Lumber Industry Needs Men More than 60.000 men are needed for lumbering and pulpwood jobs be fore next fall if 1944 requirements are to be met, according to a statement from the War Manpower Commis sion. Efforts will be made to switch farm labor to the woods as the har vest season closes and to recruit other seasonal workers. Lumber stocks are at an all-time low and the estimated 1944 minimum requirements of 35. 500.000,000 board feet must be met almost entirely from the 1944 out put. Barn-Barnyard Equipment Quotas Through the Barn and Barnyard Equipment Industry Advisory Com mittee, WPB has been advised that despite some shortages in the avail able supply, 1944 production quotas of barn and barnyard equipment will be realized. Seasonal Increases in Poultry Prices Consumers will pay an average of two-thirds of a cent more a pound for poultry over a period of one year under an OPA ruling providing for seasonal increases in prices of chick ens and other fowl. The new prices will continue through June of this year, and from January through June of next year. From July through December of this year the ceiling prices will revert to the unadjusted base prices as listed in Table A of the Poultry Regulation. Premiums to the producers, which will be passed on at all levels of distribution, range from a low of half-cent a pound in January to a high of 2.2 cents a pound in May. To Reduce Hog Prices Ceiling prices on hogs weighing more than 240 pounds live weight will be reduced 75 cents per hundred weight on and after May 15. 1944 the OPA said. The action is de signed to discourage the use of corn and other essential grains in bring ing hogs up to heavy, uneconomical weights. Round-Up Civilians have been allocated 120. 000,000 pounds of Cheddar cheese for the quarter ending in June. WFA says. . . . OPA announces that 10,000 new passenger autobobiles and 12, 000 new adults' bicycles will be avail able for eligible applicants in May. . . . More than 41.000 wives and in fants were given medical and hospital care in March under the Emergency Maternity and Infant-Care program, according to the Department of La bor. . . . Dairy owners will find it easier to purchase water heaters as a result of a WPB action removing restrictions from sales of direct hand fired 'solid fuel) hot water heaters of the following types: bucket-a day stoves, dome-type W'ater heaters, and service water and tank heaters. . . mere was no net, cnange in tne average cost of living essentials be tween February 15 and March 15 be cause lower food prices balanced higher costs of spring clothing, house hold equipment, and services, the La bor Department reports. . . . Pot type oil burners may now be purchased by consumers without a preference rat ing. WPB says. but. in the case of new installations, authorization for delivery of fuel oil must be obtained from PAW before purchases can be made. . . . According to WFA, of an estimated 4.000.000 extra farm work ers needed this year, it is expected that about 1,200,000 will be boys and girls under 18 years of age and about 800.000 will be women. Agricultural Research Development Impressive research results that have come out of the laboratories, field plots, and experimental kitch ens of the Department of Agriculture include the release in a single year of 35 new varities of strains of crop plants, stepping up production of penicillin, developing method by which sheep can dose themselves for intestinal worms by taking worm medicine in their salt, curing Ched dar cheese in half the time previous ly required, revolutionizing ways of fighting insect scourges, and de veloping recipes so that new soybean products may be used to supplement scarcer foods. Record Egg Crop Expected Three out of every four eggs to be i*?» I ;■■ »; ,?','■ fcTTM. FA8SI(, T l m ro* wz-RM i Cot Ton Cloth if Ufffr FOR fAftem TO HflP TRAIN OUR. TROOPf TO eiCOMt lifPtflfU IH MftWIHANJBlP. 40 •• Miu< That on'.i wove CARPCTf have convetteo THEIR UO0M$ 14 PRODUCE Cor/bM et ov/ n.x c.'h AVO ACM/ SCAH;t. - LtGVt COVCCiS lilMf Do Your Shore TO HELP Win This War! Save Tires 'and Gasoline By Trading af Home!1 ★ ★ ★ And Help "KEEP 'EM FLYING" By Buying War Savings Bonds and Stamps! PLYMOUTH MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION Bureau of Public Relations (J S War Department LIGHTNING REPAIRS OF BOMB DAMAGE—Sometime? it is merely a matter of minutes after enemy aircraft bomb an airfield until U. S. Army Aviation Engineers are on the job repairing the damage. The portable steel landing mat is repl»-cd and the runways are available for Ameri: n planes in the shortest possible time. This scene at Guadacanal is typical of the efficient work in restoring a shattered airfield. The Seabees, naval counterpart of the Aviation Engineers, have made splendid records in this theater of operations. produced in 1944 have been allocat ed to civilians, the War Food Ad ministration announced. An antici pated supply of eggs this year, pos sibly exceeding 61 billion, is based on the potential production of the great est number of laying hens on record in the United States. More Raisins and Less Cheese An additional 54 million pounds or raisins from the 1943 pack is be ing released for U. S. civilian use, by WFA, Tliis action makes 336 mil lion pounds of raisins released to civilians from the 1943 pack. Cheese supplies in 1944 will be divided so as to make available for civilians about four pounds per capita, or one pound less than they received during 1943. About five million more pounds of cheese have been allocated to U. S. servicemen than they used last year, an increase necessary mainly to pro- j vide milk nutrients for the larger number of soldiers overseas. Labor Needs of Agriculture The largest sing.e increase in to tal labor requirements is the sea- . sonal demand in agriculture, accord ing to a recent War Manpower Com mission survey of the nation's man power needs for the first half of 1944. Between January and July about 3.4 million persons will be needed for farm employment. The bulk of this labor will be supplied by women and young persons. Farm Machinery Production Farm machinery production for the year beginning July 1, will be about the same as for the current year, but the War Production Board warns that the recent schedules is sued may be altered any time should circumstances demand such action. More than one million tons of car bon steel production is now tenta tively earmarked for the American farmer. Consider Cse of War Prisoners Possibly of using prisoners of war in farming and industry in U S. areas where free labor is not avail able have been studied by represen tatives of WMC and the War De partment Limited use of prisoners on farms was begun last summer. The employer is required to pay the wage prevailing in his community, and the prisoner gets credit of 80 il NOTICE TO Cattle Owners EFFECTIVE AT ONCE AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ROBERSON'S SLAUGHTER HOUSE WILLIAMSON. N. C.. WILL DISCONTINUE ALL Cattle Buying MAJOR GREGG CHERRY WAR ^ POLITICS Never in the history of our State or Nation have our people faced such a critical period as that which we are now passing through, or such uncertainty as to what the future will bring. These are days that truly try the souls of men. Since the founding of this country more than 150 years ago, there has never been a period in our histsory when the task at hand and the job ahead was more important. America today has its primary duty, the successful prosecution of this war until complete victory has been attained, and to this task we have dedicated our all! One frequently hears the expression that war and politics do not nrilY, that they do not go hand in hand. But they do mix. One of the foundation stones of the American way of life and of our demo cratic processes of government is the right to vote. It is the sacred right of every American to cast his ballot at the polls. That is one of the rights for which our boys are fighting on the far-flung battlefronts today—the freedom of the ballot. Uke the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press and the freedom of assembly, it is a privilege which has been lost in the dictator-ridden countries. Can you imagine what America would be like, what North Carolina would be like, if the men and women who are sovereign citizens could not go periodically to the polls to express their wishes as to what men shall lead them and what policies shall affect their destiny? North Carolina voters will go to the polls on May 27 in a primary election which will determine who is to be North Carolina’s next Governor. This will be perhaps the most important voting day in our State in half a century or longer. Why? Because the man who occupies the office of Governor of North Carolina in the next four year period will probably be faced with more problems seriously affect ing the future welfare of our State than have been faced by any Government in many a decade. The man who can best serve North Carolina in this critical period, ahead is Gregg Cherry. There are numerous reasons why he is the man and why yon should east your vote for him. Important Reasons Why Vou Should Support Gregg Cherry 1. Gregg Cherry is a self-made man. He came up the hard way. Orphaned early in life, he had to work for what he achieved. He had to work for his education, and therefore knows the true value and importance of eduoation. 2. Gregg Cherry served overseas in World War One as a machine gun company captain. He and his men were under fire many times. He knows first hand many of the problems North Carolina’s returning veterans must face, because he faced them himself 25 years ago when he was a returning veteran. No man could be more truly capable of sympathetic ally working to help North Carolina’s service men in meet ing their problems in the transition period than is Gregg Cherry. 3. He is an experienced legislator, having served with dis tinction in every session of the North Carolina General As sembly since 1931, having held numerous important com mittee assignments and chairmanships and being a former Speaker of the House of the General Assembly (1937). 4. Gregg Cherry is a friend of the common man ... he understands his problems. As a man and a statesman he has dealt with the problems of our people in all walks of life. His ability to understand all groups of people, and his record is evidence of his deep-seated interest in the welfare of our State as a whole. Gregg Cherry has the courage of his con victions . . . demagoguery and irresponsible promises are completely foreign to his nature. He has in ample measure the qualifications North Carolina expects and deserves in her Governor. In The Interest Of Continued Good Government Vote For Gregg Cherry
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