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VOLUME THIRTY-ONE FABMVnA& PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE SI, 1940 ? NUMBER FIVE
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FARMVILLE IVELCOMES R? E? A* MEMBERS
French May Put
Down Arms Today
Abo Asserted in Italy
That French Plenipo
tentiaries On Way to
Bordeaux; Reported
Terms Too Harsh'
Hostilities between France and the
axis armies are expected to cease
Friday?or Saturday at the latest?
the official Italian news agency re
ported today, asserting that French
plenipotentiaries have started back
to Bordeaux with the terms dictat
ed by Hitler and Mussolini.
The place of meeting between the
French envoys who arrived in a
snow white airplane "somewhere" in
German occupied northern France
was not given.
Berlin blaming "the difficulties of
news" transmission via Spain, said a
French government communication
naming France's four peace plenipo
tentiaries did not reach the German
government until 1 a. m., today (6 p.
m., EST, Wednesday).
It could be transmitted to the
fuehrer only at 4 a. m., the broadcast
said.
The high command thereupon
gave the necessary instruction imme
diately and made preparations for re
ceiving the French armistice delega
tion.
Hitler's high command meanwhile
announced the fall of Lyon, third
largest city in France, 200 miles
north of Marseille, and the capture
of more than 200,000 allied prisoners,
including General Altmeyer, com
mander of the tenth French army.
Fifty thousand French soldiers
from the Maginot line surrendered
their arms this morning to Swiss sol
diers and poured across the French
border.
The German radio declared that
"numbers of the French government
are not at all agreed on the question
of laying down arms"?lending cre
dence to unconfirmed reports that
France has learned the gist of the
axis terms, found them too harsh
for the nation's honor and resolved
to fizht on.
These reports said President Le
brun and members of his government
were ready to flee to Algiers, North
Africa, to carry on the war from
there ,even if German troops capture
all France.
The French admitted Nazi troops
have occupied Lyon, but dispatches
from Geenva simultaneously gave
the first hint that the German me
chanized machine has begun to wear
out and falter.
Refugee* reaching Geneva from
the battle zone told of seeing quanti
ties of abandoned German tanks, ar
mored cars and motorcycles along
the main highways.
Nevertheless under dwindling
French resistance, Hitler's armies
swept further down into France, the
high command announced, .
Navy Defense Bill
Passed In Senate
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Washington, June 30.?A $1,777,
489,788 emergency defense appropri
ation measure?last major money
bill in President Roosevelt's defense
program to date?was passed by the
Senate today on a voice vote.
The bill now goes back to the
House for action on Senate amend
ments, which added to the bill a net
*71,435,908, of which *43,500,000
would go for- airplane engines order
ed from the Ford Motor company.
As approved by the -Senate, the
measure provided *1,488,353,027 in
cash and *289,136,761 in contract au
thority.
Funds were included bo add 95,000
men to the regular army, bringing
its total enlisted strength to 375,000
Money and contract authority wore
written in for 3,000 new army air
planes and an unspecified number of
tanks and other weapons.
Funds were voted for the navy to
start work on 68 combat ships.
Expansion of .the Federal Bureau
combat spies and saboteurs would be
fmsnred with a *3,858,000 appropri
ation and the dvil aeronautics au
thority was granted $32,000,000 to
train 87,000 ebrSfan air pilots.
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The economic effect of the Euro
pean war and the doeing of vital
marketa to the agricultural aurplu*
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ainaHor than the zelativoy larger
Mexico to Quadruple
Defense Forces
With Aid of U. S.
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Will Prepare for Invas
ion; Nation to Make
_ Credits and Technical
Experts Available To
Southern Neighbor
Mexico City, June 20.?A high
source declared today President Car
denas had approved a program which
would more than quadruple Mexico's
armed forces with the aid of the
United States.
This source asserted that within a
few weeks a credit of more than
$10,900,000 from- the United States
would be made available to the Mead
can government to carry out this ex
pansion under 60 technical experts
from the United States army and
navy.
Additional millions would be allo
cated later by the Mexican Finance
Ministry, it was reported.
The United States government was
said to be determined that Mexico
should not be used as an avenue of
invasion by any aggressor power and
it was understood the American
credits would be made available on
generous terms. The American de
termination was said to have been
communicated to President Cardenas
before yesterday's cabinet session,
at which universally military train
ing and "other defense measures"
were endorsed for submission next
month to an extraordinary session of
Congress.
This defense program was report
ed on high authority to include:
Increase on the standing army to
more than 300,000. The Mexican
array now counts 112,000 men, includ
ing those on reserve lists.
Leaf Producers
WiUHear Hoey
Governor Will Be Prin
cipal Speaker at An
nual Tobacco Test
Farm Field Day At
Oxford July 2nd
Raleigh, June 20.?Governor Hoey
will be the principal speaker at the
annual Tobacco Test Farm field day
at Oxford July 2, Commissioner of
Agriculture W. Kerr Scott announced
today.
Approximately 8,000 farmers and
their friends are expected for the
event which will be held as a part of
the Granville County Centennial Cele
bration. With the addition of labor
atories, the Oxford Tobacco Test
Farm is now regarded as the largest
tobacco research station in the Na
tion.
Dr. T. B. Hutcheson, Chief of the
Agronomy Department at the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacks
burg, Va., and J. B. Hutson of Wash
ington, D. C., Chief of the South
eastern division, marketing section of
the; AAA will also be among the
speakers.
Frank W. Hancock, former mem
ber of Congress and now member of
the Federal Housing Administration
Board, will be chairman for the day.
He will*be introduced by Fred E.
Miller, director of the test farms di
vision of the State Department of
Agriculture.
Governor Hoey will be presented
by Commissioner Scott.
A 4-H Club pageant?"King and
Queen of Health^?will be given by
dub members of Granville, Caswell,
Durham, Franklin, Person and Wake
counties.
Miss Virginia Wilson, Granville
County Home Demonstration Agent,
will be in charge of the women's
program in the afternoon, with Miss
Anamerle Arant, Northwestern Dis
trict Agent of the State College Ex
tension Service as guest speaker.
E. G. Moss, assistant director in
charge of the Test Firm, will su
pervise the tours over the farm and
visits to the Igperimentsl Plata. He
will be assisted by Dr. T. E. Smith,
U. S. IV A. plant pathologist; f. J.
Shaw, McCullers Tobacco Disease
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Of 1940 Nathiig
Nw, ftjtor Says
Jonathan Daniels Ad
dresses Meeting of
Building and Loan
League
v Blowing Bock, June 18.?The out
look today, even with the "hot breath
of war on the hacks of our necks,"
is neither more gloomy nor more un
certain thVn that other men have
faced in other days, Jonathan Dan
iels, editor of The News and Obser
ser, told members of the North Caro
lina Building and Loan League here
tonight. , .
The Raleigh editor and author re
minded his audience that the world
has emerged from beneath the heel
of conquerors?in fact, in the very
year (1870) that the North Carolina
Legislature made possible the begin
ning of the building and loan sav
ing and building, Bismarck's German
legions * were overwhelming Fiance,
and North Carolinians were being
imprisoned under a Reconstruction
Government without trial until the
Chief Justice cried in despair, "The
judiciary is exhausted."
From beginning in times like those,
through other times of uncertainty
and gloom, building and loan asso
ciations of the State have gone
steadily forward until today they
count their assets in terms of a hun
dred million dollars and thousands
of homes constructed through their
wise administration of many small
savings, the editor recounted, "but,"
he asserted, "your job is not merely
guarding money and helping families
build homes. In a real sense you are
the keepers of the faith in your com
munities that there is a safety ahead
for the dollar put into savings to-*
day."
That fulfillment of this trust in a
day when* "the wisest men every
where are bewildered; the most
courageous men are afraid," and
when "we have reason to fear that
even if we escape war we shall not
escape a vastly altered future in
which old certainties are certain no
longer ..." would not be easy, be
admitted, but be pointed to the his
tory of building and loan associations
through years of change as basis for
hope. " V
"There never have been any cer
tain years in which all capitalism
had to do was to watch the auto
matic accumulation of interest com
pounding on savings. We would not
need men in such a time; computing
machines are cheaper than character
and courage And .intelligence.
"There is a great task to be done,
a great task in community building
to, be contemplated at a time when
communities are being destroyed, and
the fear of disaster runs faster and
wider than the destruction. . . . You
will do it."
Fewer Traffic
Accidents Are
Reported In N. C.
Raleigh, June 17.?North Carolina
last month continued its downward
trend in traffic accidents on the bas
is of provisional figures released to
day by Ronald Hocuft, Director of
the Highway Safety Division.
With a few accidents reports as
yet unverified, records shew a total
of 59 traffic deaths in the 'state dur
ing the month of .May, against 62
for May of last year. If the figure
rfhould hold at 59, it will be the low
est May fatality record since 19S2.
Six counties in the state had the
first mask made against their 1949
safety" record last month. They were;
Craven, Haywood, Henderson, Mar
tin, Pasquotank and Warren.
Twenty-one of the 59 May traffic
deaths were pedestrians, bringing
the total for the year to 101. Four
of tiiie pedestrians killed in Majr
were under five years of age. Oth
er traffic deaths last month included:
17 in collision* between two vehicles,
IS in non-collision accidents, 4 in
collision with fixed object, 3 bicycl
ists and one collision with a horse
drawn vehicle.
^IMPROVEMENT
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Neighbor* of S. E. L. Plummer of
the Crumpler community in Ashe
County, an amazed at the way lea
pedexa has improved the Plummer
turn, reports C. J. Rich, farm agent
of the State College Extension Ser
Vic' " .?*-r .:??;<
ere an vaccinating their hogs as a
farm agent
Stores To Close
For Holiday 4th
The Farmville dumber of Com
merce and Merchant*' Association
announces the closing of the stores
here in observance iff the national
holiday, July 4,
Attention is called to the fact
that the storm will clow ah usual
on Wednesday afternoon, prior to
the 4th, which faUr on Thursday.
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By HUGO & SIMS
(Washington Coitespondent)
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REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS.
PARTY IN TIGHT SPOT.
U. S. IS NON-BELLIGERENT.
RUSHING AID TO THE ALLIES.
NEED TRAINED WORKERS.
EDUCATIONAL DEFECTS.
WAR DEMANDS DELAYED.
NAZIS IN SOUTlfAMERICA.
ITALIANS ARE ACTIVE.
URUGUAY A KEY POINT. >
U. S. FACES THE THREAT.
The Republican National Conven
tion meets in Philadelphia next week
to face one of the most difficult
tasks which has confronted a politi
cal party in many yean. Without
knowing: whether the President will
run for a third term and beset with
the difficulty of framing suitable
planks on foreign affairs, the Repub
licans take the stage ahead of their
rivals.
With the European War occupying
the spotlight of public attention in
this country, domestic issues are not
as important as they were. Never
theless, the Republicans must outline
a program and do it in a manner that
will avoid the appearance of creating
a division in this country in the face
of possible peril in international rela
tions.
While the situation in Europe may
change considerably between the pres
ent time and election day in Novem
ber, there is no way to guess what
will happen and the platform-makers
will have to tread a cautious way to
escape the possibility of a dilemma if<
events abroad take an ji expected
turn.
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Discussion as to the candidate to
be named by the Republicans con
tinues, with observers giying the edge
to Dewey and Taft. The Willkie cam
paign is securing considerable favor
able publicity and the ex-Democrat
is being "dark horse" prospect Sen
ator-Vandenberg's prospectf have not
been improved by his recent state
ment in regard to aiding the Allies, t
shrort of war, which practically -
amounts to a retreat from the isola
tionist stand.
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As the situation looks to this ob
server, there is a prospect that none
of the candidates mentioned will re
ceive the nomination and that in view
of existing conditions, the party will
turn to another man. Friends of
former President JJoover are suggest- \
ing that he be considered and while
Governor Landon has taken himself
out of the running, there is no way :
to keep the delegates from think- ,
ing about his availability.
The President's speech at Char
lottesville, Virginia, last- Week, fol- .
lowing close on the heels of Italy's i
declaration of war on the Allies,
stressed with greater firmness than ;
ever before the determination of this -
Government to extend all possible
material assistance to the Allied na- <
tions. ]
Nothing like neutrality Is to be
found in the President's remarks.
Ha emphasised the clash between jj
Democratic principles and the reign
of the dictators. Public eomment 3
upon the President's utterances were :
overwhelmingly affirmative. In fact,
many observers believe that public '
sentiment in the United States has 1
advanced faster and further than, the
official utterances of the President
himself.
I: Today, it is believed, the sentiment
of the people of the United States is
far more that of non-belligerericy
than neutrality.
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Meanwhile, every effort is being
strained to rush planes, guns, ma
terials and supplies to the Allies.
Stores, equipment and weapons from
the leservo stocks of the Army and
Navy were made availaible in inoeas
inb numbers for delivery to the hard
messed Allied Armies.
Lacal Red Gross
GaesMo Action
Adopts Slogan "$400 by
The Fourth"; Chair
man Eli Joyner, Jr.,
Reports Donations of
| $104.35 in Three Days
Members of the executive commit
tee of the Fannville branch of the
American Red Crosa, of which Eli
Joyner, Jr., is chairman, and heads
of civic, patriotic and literary organ
izations here met Friday evening in
the Town Hall to map out plana for
promotion of the local campaign to
raise funds for relief of the suffer
ers in Europe.
After adoption of the slogan, "$400
by July 4th", Chairman Joyner ap
pointed Miss Mae Joyner to head the
publicity committee and Mrs. G. A.
Jones was put in charge of solicita
tion headquarters at Wheless' Drug
Store. The workers there report a
ready response to this special appeal
for -funds, which are to be used only
in alleviating suffering in the War
torn area, and Chairman Joyner sta
ted today that he had found people
ready and waiting to give their time
and money to the cause,
One of the Davis stores on Wil
son street has been secured for the
production of war garments and
three sewing machines have been put
at the disposal of Mrs. R. S, Scott,
who is in charge of this branch.
The executive committee of the
Farmvilie Red Cross organization is
composed of Eli Joyner, Jr., chair
man, Mrs. R. S. Scott, vice chairman,
Ed Nash Warren, John B. Lewis and
Stanley Garris.
The sum of $104.35 was contribu
ted the first three days of the cam
paign without any canvassing, except
by workers at the headquarters. A
list of those contributing as much as
$1 and over follows: .
Frank Davis, Jr., $25; A. C. Monk
& Co., $25; B. L. Lang, $5; Farm
vifle Furniture Co., $5; American
Legion Auxiliary $5; Turnage Co.,
$5; T. E. Joyner, Sr., $4; George EL
Creekmuf, $2; George Allen, $2; $1
each?D. R. Morgan, Nassif Gannon, (
J. W. Joyner, W. J. Rasberry, T. W.
Lang, R. A. Joyner, Hubert Joyner,
Mrs. Wesley R. Willis, Jack Lewis,
Mrs. T. E. Joyner, N. Cannon, Mrs.
L. E. Turnage, Mrs. J. I. Morgan,
Mrs. Sallie K. Horton, Bob Wheless,
Mrs. J/ Leroy Parker, C. F. Baucom,
Hal Windere, Belk-Tyler Co., R. 0.
Lang, Sr., R. N. Freeman.
A large thermometer has been .
placed at soliciting headquarters, and
its gradual rise as the fund is boost
ed is being noted with interest by
passerby. , " ; ,
Ask Increase In U. S.
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Warplanes For Fleet
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Washington, June 20.?After hear
ing testimony that 10,000 planes
would not be adequate for a proposed
two-ocean fleet, the House Naval
committee recommended today a fca
vy air force of 16,000 planes.
The testimony was given by Rear
Admiral John H. Towers, chief of
the naval air corps, who recalled that
a lately enacted law put a 10,000
plane ceiling , on the navy. But that,
he reminded the committee, was be
fore a new $4,000,000,000 expansion
of the fleet designed to give. the
size of a two-ocean navy whs pro
jected.
At the capitol the Senate Naval
Affairs committee had before it a
suggestion by Chairman Walsh (D
Haas) that it might be advisable to ,
give the president authority to halt
work on all private and foreign air
plane contracts in order to bring pro
duction for defense up to require- (
menta \ I
Establishment of Latin-American ^
hases for the navy, a usually well }
informed source said, may be one of (
the subjects raised at the projected ,
Fan-American conference on hernia- (
phere problems of military and eco
nomic defense. . .
Both aircraft and fleet bases j
would be involved in any such dis- ,
cussion, this official said.
NICE WORK
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Denven?Wanting to do noqteflrihy
nice for the widow of a member of
their union, eighteen members of the
Painters Union Local No, 79 drove
out to the home of Hn. Art Seattone .
and painted, her four-room frame |
home from foundation to rain-pipe in ,
eignteen minutes*
RUBBER
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Because the armed daifti in Europe !
Republicans Named
By FDR Te Cabinet
CoL Frank Knox Pro
posed For Secretary of
Navy and Henry L.
Stimson For Secretary
of War
Washington, June 20.?President
Roosevelt took steps to form a coali
tion cabinet today by submitting to
the Senate the nominations of Col.
Frank Knox to be Secretary of the
Navy, and Henry L. Stimson to be
Secretary of War.
Knox, publisher of the Chicago
Daily News, was Republican vice
presidential candidate in 1936. Stim
son was Secretary 6f State in the
Hoover administration and Secretary
of War under President Taft
The submission of the nominations
was accompanied by a White House
announcement, without amplication,
that Secretary Woodring had re
signed his cabinet portfolio, effective
on Senate confirmation on the nomi
nation of his successor.
White House officials did say that
Woodring's letter of resignation was
"so personal" that the usual custom
would not be followed and it would
not be made public.
Know will succeed Charles Edison,
whose resignation as Navy Secretary,
becomes effective June 24. Edison
quit the cabinet job to run for gov
ernor of New Jersey on the Demo
cratic. slate.
Today's nominations, coming only
four days before the opening of the
Republican national convention in
Philadelphia, caught Washington
unaware and set congressional and
political circles abuzz with talk over
its tearing on presidential politics.
Both Knox and Stimson on occa
sions have endorsed the administra
tion's foreign policy. Knox has been,
for a Republican, a relatively fre
quent consultant of Mr. Roosevelt
It was he who recently organized
civilian committees to promote the Q
program for training 60,000 plane .
pilots. a
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Weef Men Back ;
3-Year Control:
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Five-State Session
Hints At Five - Cent *
Crop; Oppose Tobacco I
Tax Boost
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Raleigh, June 19.?Over 200 key ?
men of five flue-cured tobacco states C
unanimously endorsed a three-year
control program here yesterday' as *?
a possible way to prevent 10-cent ^
tobacco prices threatened by war- *
time collapse of European trade and e
glutted domestic markets. ?
Warned of prices as low as five t<
cents for unrestricted yield, farm
leaders appealed to the grower to a
embrace the AAA for 1941, 1942 and S
1948 as the only means of gaining ti
fair prices, insuring government sup- &
port, establishing normal credit and P
stabilizing farm operations. - 1
The appeal came from bankers, P
merchants, warehousemen, farmers P
and farm leaders of Virginia, the
Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and even ti
Tennessee in the burley belt, .all E
pledging their oWn support to the h
AAA election July 20. ? ?
The session also voted a resolu- &
tion to southeastern representatives P
in Congress to urge elimination of
the defense tax increase on tobacco tl
u "disaaterous to all tobacco grow- w
srs who already are suffering from
suspension of export trade on ac
count of the war in Europe." *
J. B. Hutson of Washington,^ as
sistant AAA administrator, said to
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aacco laced its naraest prospects ana -
an "absolutely dead" European mar- t]
lost. He said no European porchaaea
:culd be expected this, year, regard- A
lass of a swift contusion of war.
He said that a normal 1940 crop *
of 600,000,000 might place 400,000,000
with domestic trade and 150,000,000
in countries other than Europe but
that 60,000,000 to 100,000,000 would *
remain as a surplus to be dealt with
by government loans, which tan be e
Becured only through control. 8
? Hutson predicted 10;icent; prices
without 1941 control but added that- 8
control next year might hold prices *
to 14 cents and that a three-year pro
gram might keep them between 16
?nH 16 cents. ^
Dean L O. Schaub of State College y
Pitt & Greene Electrification Members
To Hoi# Annual Mooting Here July 1
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Arrangements Being
Completed By Town
and Business Men For
Fine Program and En
tertainment of Large
Crdwd Expected
Members of the Pitt and Greene
Electric Membership Corporation will
hold their second annual meeting in
the High School gymnasium at Farm
rille, North Carolina on Monday the
first day of July, at 10 A. M.
Notice of this meeting has been
3ent to approximately 500 members
living throughout Greece County and
the western part of Pitt County. In
addition to being the regular an
nual Membership Meeting, it i will
constitute something of a celebra
tion for the recent completion of
several new extensions appregating
about 75 miles of new line in bring
ing electric current to approximately
100 farm families for the first time.
The officials of the Corporation
and the Town of Farmville are work
in? together to make -the meeting
aoth beneficial and enjoyable.
The FarmVille Chamber of Com
nerce and Merchants Association and
lome of it's members have arranged
? serve ice water and lemonade to
hose present at the meeting and also
ire going to place on exhibit all kinds
md types of electrical appliances
iround the flpor of the meeting in
>rdeij that those present may in
:pect them.
This meeting will no doubt have
is a part of its program a brief his
ory of the Cooperative tellirig of
he struggle necessary to bring elec
ricity to the families, approximate
y 1^000 in number along the Pitt
md Greene lines. The high lights in
his history will be the first allot
nent of $60,000 by the Rural Elec- ; >
ric Administration to the Pitt and
Jreena Electric Membership Cor
poration in April, 1937 with which
ome 75 lines were constructed. The
irst 50 miles of this was. energized
larch 8, 1938. It was thought at
hat time that the Board had finish
d its work, but it turned out to be
>nly the beginning. As additional
applications poured in, an allotment
>f $25(200 was secured March 15,
938, an allotment of $15,000 was
ecured August 10, 19?& an allot
nent of $56,000 was secured October
0,1938, while the last allotment was
a the sum of $69,000 on October 25,
939, making a total of" $225,200
rith which approximately 250 lines
f rural electric lines were built,
ringing electric current to approxi
mately 1,000 farm families. ?
The original Board of Directors
rho rendered inestimable service to
ural dwellers to get the project
tarted were; J. Lee Tugwell, Presi
!ent, J. C. Parker, ""Vice-President,
!eth Barrow, Secretary and Treasur
r> T. H, Rouse, W. C. Hinson and
L. Erwin, Directors.
The Board is now constituted of
he following: J. Lee Tugwell, Presi
ent, J. C. Parker, Vice-President,
I A. Joyner, Secretary and Treaeur
r, W. C. Hinson, O., L. Erwin, Seth
(arrow and J. E. Mewborn, Direc
ors.
The allotments as outlined above
re really loans made by the United
tates Government to the Coopera
ive. While the loan constitutes the
Jtal cost of the project, it will be
aid in full. However, Hie interest
ate is about two and three-quarter
ercent and is ainotized with the
rincipal over a period of 25 years.
In conjunction with the Coopera
te and the Town of Farmviile the
Jlectric Home & Farm Authority
as made available loan funds to all
armers for the purchase of electric
ppliances, which are repaid over a
eriod of years with the.light bills.
A program is being arranged by
he Town and Cooperative officials
'orking together.
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WHO KNOWS ?
1. What is the population of the
reas conquered by Germany since
tie war began?
2. In what year did the Pruaian
army capture Paris?
3. How did the famous French 76's
et their name?
4. What is the population of
tely? .
5. When did President Monroe is
ue his famous Monroe declaration?
7.' 'What prominent union rejoin
d the A. F. of L. after being asaoci
ted with the C. I. 0.?
8. What is the difference between
, congressional recess and an ad
jurament? ' /
9. What are "machine took" ?
10. Is New York closer to France
ban to Brazil? ?.
(See The Answer* or Pa*e ?.)
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