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; 1 V'""1 It '4 it 'i ) m:1 1 i 1! if, t rjPAGE FOUR (First Sfdloa? THE WATNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER $J4 Bethel FRIDAY Future Farmers Close Successful Year Mat 'Contributed! 1945-194G At the beginning of tliis year, the Bethel Chapter of Future Farmers . ot America set out for a busy year, preparing themselves to put the work ahead, behind. At first the chanter met and elected its ollicers and set up their goals for the year. Our class room study has chang ed quite a hit this jear. Since the school lias purchased a motion picture machine, the advisor of our chapter orders films of infor mation to farincis. We also have magazine study and some book work. Outside the class room (.'ieat ac complishments have been made. The chapter bouuht a patch of beans and took the 1 esponsibility of renting an orchard The beans cleared the chapter one hundred dollars. We donated this to the cannery. For I lie lood relief fund the chapter canned, gathered and donaled, alone uith the help of some other chapters, over fifteen hundred cans of fruits and vege tables. We canned 4.(100 quarts of food for the school lunchroom We also helped the oilier farmers of the commti'iily harvest beans that otherwise would have gone to waste. We also set up our una I to enter all I' F A. contest-, in which vvc have thus far met. l n-,1 was the Ritual and I'ai liainenlai y Proce dure held at Cullow lit We won first place there and look forward to going to Ashewlio lor the dis trict sometime in May. Next was the crops contest held here at Bethel. Km hard Stamey. Davis Whilesides and Frederick Murray represented the chapter They, taking first place, not to no to Kaleigh in which I hey on fifth place out of 47 chooK Our 12th annual l ather and Son Banquet uas held in tin- ;'innas ium, April 1L!. The main lealure this y ear was a moving met ore. Winner Of Public Speaking Contest Russians Employ German Tutors Penalty Rate Of II , ? ' sf U. WILLIAM WIHTFSIDFS son of Mr. and Mrs. W. 1'. Whilesides of Bethel, won second place in the state-wide public speaking contest recently held. The (ireen Hand " There were approximately I "ill present. The second year Home F.coiiomics girls served. Our chapter inniliated H4 hoys this year and la boys have the Future Fanner Degree. Milliard Stamey has qualified for the State Farmer degree. Some of the qualifications are: 1. Ha or above on all high school subjects. 2. Held ollice ill chapter. 3. Filtered contests outside chap ter. 4. Earned and invested for pro ject. In the Field Day contest. Clyde won over us with 74 points to our 69. There were 1(1 schools that entered. The Livestock Judging Contest will be held here May 17. The Home Economics girls will serve refreshments. Thirteen boys have Certified Hy brid seed coin lor a project this year. This ends our work this v ear and is the years come we hope to ad ance. iETIIEL ADVISER SEIiVES OX AMP POI.H'V COMMITTEE The Bethel Chapter of F FA is roud to have its adviser. Mr. I. V McLain. chosen as represent a ive on the Camp Policy Committee or the Western District. I poll his "eturn from the committee meet ing in Haleigh he has announced he following additions and im provements to the White Lake Jamp: 1. 200 double-decker all metal eds. 2. 200 mattresses. 3. 20 metal dressers. 4. 50 chairs, i 5. 50 tables. 0. An outdoor concrele basketball ourt. 7. A tournament for all spoils. 8. A heller stoc ked store. 9. New piers, : 10. Guest fees to be raised. . 11. New concrete walks. 12. New food program and tit ion and cooks. These and oilier minor improve ments are to he made by nest summer. Last year the Bethel hoys attend ed the While Lake Camp with 1H boys making the trip. The hoys found the (amp to be very pleas ant and would like to return next summer. TKEASI'KEK Ol CHAPTER JOINS THE NAVY .lack Oiiccn. tieasuier of the Bethel Chapter of F.F.A. . has re cently left to serve his country in the navy. We are sorry to lose him. hut wish him success in his naval career, lie is now stationed at the .Norlolk Navy Yards in Vir ginia. Louis Keece lias been elected to soccccu aacK 111 me treasurers capacity of our chapler. Wo be lieve that he is capable of filling .lack's job. MEMBERS OF CHAPTER INVEST OVER 817,000 The members of the Bethel Chap ter of FFA now have a total of S4. 113.20 invested in Say ings Bonds and $13.1(19.90 in farm machinery, livestock, etc. This makes a total of S17.303.10 owned by the mem bers of our chapter. By the end of the school year we hope to have $20,000 invested. BERLIN Reliable American and German informants who de clined to be named report that I the Russians have been engaging " I to tain export army, navy and air 1 force men of the former German armed forces for service as in structors for the Red Army and Navv. Russian authorities here would not comment or. these reports, some of which came from deep in the Russian zone of occupation. An American officer who report ed this Russian use of German per sonnelall presumably disarmed and disbanded observed that "German stuff is not hard to sign up. "Why, I can show you lots of applications from Germans want ing to join the American Army," he added. This officer said and an in formed German editor of a Russian-controlled Berlin daily news paper concurred that the Russians were culling specialists from the ranks of captured German soldiers and were putting them to work teaching the Russian armed forces in branches where the Germans excelled. In aviation, for instance, these sources said, the Germans were leaching the Russians advanced aeronautics, especially wrinkles of instrument navigation. NEGOTIATIONS HALT CIVIL WAR DEATHS TURKEY Umtj -ji j MOSUL --- V" f IKMW t TIGRIS . ) f BAGHDAD VV W DISfUl EUPHRATES R THREAT OF civil war In Iran has been delayed by storms which kept Azerbaijan's Premier Jafaz Pishevari from leaving Teheran by air. The Premier then reopened negotiations with the Central Government on plans for returning the self-proclaimed independent province of Azer baijan to Iranian jurisdiction. Jagged line to which arrows on map point show where Central Government troops were stationed. (International) PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST TO BE HELD MARCH 20 The FFA Public Speaking Con test for the Smoky Mountains Fede ration Chapters is scheduled for March 20 at Ciillovvhee. This will be the third in a series of five Contests for chapters of this Fed eration. Bethel chapter won the 8rst two. Each chapter is allowed to send one speaker. Contestants are al lowed to choose any subject con cerning agriculture. die- EA KM TRAINING IS OPE X TO VETERANS A farm training program for elerans will he held at the Bethel vocational agriculture department under the direction of Mr. I. A. McLain This work will he in connection with the G.I. Bill of Highls. Any veteran who is interested should contact Mr. McLain as soon as possible. LAWRENCE WELCH TURNER Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Hazel wood Baptist church at 2 o'clock for Lawrence Delch Turner. 52. who died at his home in West Ashc- ville at 1:55 a. 111. Tuesday. Rev. J. M Woodward, pastor and Rev. Perry Sprinkles, pastor of the Craven's Creek Baptist church, of ficiated. Burial was in Bon-A-Ven-ture cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were: Clyde Jordan, Sam Knight, Millard Fortner, Whitener Prevost, Law son Mehaffey and Hubert Gaddy. Mr. Turner was a native of Hay wood county, the son of the late P. T. and Mary McCracken Turner. He had resided in West Asheville for the past few months, and was employed by the Unagusta Manu facturing Company of Hazelwood. Surviving are his wife, the form er Miss Martha Pruett; two daugh ters. Miss Pauline Turner, of West Asheville, and Mrs. Carroll War ren, of Canton; six brothers, David, Robert, Joe and Verlin Turner, ali of Asheville, John Turner of Can ton, and Paul Turner, of Seattle, Wash; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Byers of Canton, and Mrs. Paul Camp of Waynesville; two grand children. r , , vium-ii lunerai nome was charge of the arrangements. 229,239 Army Deaths During The Past War lists in CKOJ' EXHIBIT CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED Our chapter has held its annual crop exhibit contest. The exhibits were divided into two classes, the Project and Open class. The win ners were announced by Mr. I. A. McLain as follows: Project Corn. Frank While, Joe Wells, and Paul Metcalf. Project Irish Potatoes, Paul Metcalf, Bobby Wells, and Frede rick Murray. Project Tobacco, Phil Sherrill. Frank Long, E. B. Rickman, Jr. Open Class Onions. Davis Whilesides, Harold Pless, and Paul Metcalf. Open Class Apples. Gpnrtr Coghurn and Howard Pless. Popcorn, Foster Chason and Jer ry Gibson. Turnips. Noble Sharpe, Henson Long and Harold Pless. Sweet Potatoes, Davis White sides and Carroll Pressley. Stock beets, Foster Chason. BETHEL HAD LARGEST (LIB LAST YEAR The Bethel Chapter of Future Farmers of America had the larg est membership of any chapter in the state during the year of 1944-45 We had a total of 82 members and sent $41 00 to the state office WASHINGTON Casually for World War I! icleased this week by Hie War depai I inenl set the number of arinv balllr deaths at 22!l,L:ii: for all theaters, and the tolal number of battle casualties of all types, including wounded, injured, captiu , d and missing, at 94H.418. The figures cover I ho period from December 7, 1941, through February 211, l!4b The (liifereiue of 719,180 be tween fhe lotal casualties and the tolal deaths represents (191, 700 re turned to duly, l(i,27H currently carried as wounded, 3,083 former prisoners of war not yet accounted for, 7,814 missing in action still subject to search, and 310 who died while in captivity and were already counted in the total deaths figure. The f igures do not include such non-battle casualties as ill ness not the result of action, train ing accidents, domestic plane crashes, and traffic deaths and in juries traceable to civil life. The War Department cautioned against considering the total cas ualty figure of 948.418 as repre senting t hat many individuals. Many persons were injured or wounded twice, and other individ uals fell inlo two or more casualty categories; for example, a man wounded and I hen captured is counted as two casualties. Figures on the number of separate persons who became casualties wore not available. The European theater, with (he grealesl manpower, suffered the highest number of casualties in all brackets. Of the 592,074 total battle casualties recorded in the ETO, 10(i.2(il were killed in ac tion: 38(1,075 were wounded ill ac tion, of whom Hi, 240 later died: 7(i,(i71 were captured and 778 of this group died, and 2.3,0f!7 he came missing of whom 8,798 later died or were declared dead. The r-Mcdilcrrancan theater, with 178- (502 total casualties and 43,200 deal lis, was second in total casual ties followed in order by the Pa cific t healer commands, the China- We Can Solve Your Problems For CONSTRUCTION, INDUSTRIAL AND LOGGING EQUIPMENT International Crawler Tractors Industrial Wheel Type Tractors Disel Engines Bucyrus-Erie Bulldozers-Scrapers Carco Logging Wenches ' American Preformed Cable Disston Chain Saws Sawmills, Edgers, etc. Elgin Sweepers Refuse Getters Galion Dump Bodies State Distributors Cedar Rapids Asphalt Plants, Crushers Rogers Lo-Bed Trailers Euclid Hauling Equipment Northwest Shovels-Cranes Galion Graders and Rollers Jaeger Mixers, Pumps, Hoist Jaeger Mixers, Pumps, Hoist, Paving Equipment and Air .Compressors Etnyre Distributors Burma-India theater, Africa-Mid' mi' r.asi, united htates army strategic air forces (the B-29 com mand in the CHI and Pacific areas), Alaskan department and Hie Caribbean and South Atlantic areas. A total of 835 battle cas- u.iiiies, inciuoing nia aeallis, were listed as "enroute and not charge able to any command." 1 ne lotal number ot persons killed in action reached 173,441 lhe other 55,797 included in the battle deaths total of 229,238 were broken down as follows: 26,908 died of wounds or injuries suf fered in action; 9,617 died while captured as prisoners of war or as internees of neutral countries; and 19,272 on whom an administrative tinding of death was made under public law 490, 77th Congress, while in a missing status, or were reported dead. Personnel captured in all thea ters totaled 124,927, of whom 111,. 917 were later returned to military control. Deaths in captivity num bered 9,617, leaving 3,393 listed in the report as still "captured. Of these 3,393, a total of 3,083 were still missing on February 28, ana aiu aiea ot wounds but are already included as deaths in the 26,908 figure above. Missing persons totaled 61,115, but end of the war has solved many of these cases. A total of 24,029 persons missing in action were returned to duty, and 19,272 were determined to have died. The dwindling list of persons still car ried as missing now numbers 7,814, which, with the 3,083 unrecovered from captivity, totals 10,897. Of the total casualties of 948, 418, officers suffered 98,066 and enlisted personnel suffered 850, 352. These were in the same ap proximate ratio as officer and en listed strength on V-E day, when army strength was at its highest. New Source of Light Seen Carborundum, one of the hardest abrasives known, is the basis of a new source of artificial light. THE OLD HOME TOWN - By STANLEY 1 We Also Handle Many Other Lines of Popular Equipment. ! North Carolina Equipment Company KAXEIGH, N. p. 3101 Hillsboro St. rbone 8828 CHARLOTTE, N. C. 2 Mi. South Et. 21 Phone 44661 ASHEVILLE, N. C. Sweeten Creek Rd. 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