your part.
is undoubtedly the *~~
in fatal highway
It is possible that the
this state is too high,
is that even the speed limit we have
is violated almost with impunity in
every section of the state. ***■"
end if we are to have a
of-safety. I have asked the
way Commission to fix —
speed zones for all military areas,
congested traffic zones, hazardous
curves, dangerous intersections, and
other places which in the opinion of
the Commission require special zoning
and marking. They will do this
promptly and will place markers on
the highways indicating the permissible
speed limit at such places. Any
person who drives beyond such indicated
speed limits or who in other
places exceeds the statutory speed
limit should be arrested for violating
the law. The primary duty for the
enforcement of this law is on the
Highway Patrol, and I expect to beck
the Highway Patrol to the limit in
the performance of this duty. This
law applies to private citizens, officials,
the rich and the poor, the high
and the low. We do not want any
foolish or vexatious administration
of the lawB, but we do want the public
to know that the speed laws and
other traffic regulations in North
Carolina must be obeyed.
"The officials of the Department
of Motor Vehicles, with whom I have
conferred, are in hearty accord with
this policy. We shall confer from
time to time to see how the enforcement
program is proceeding. I have
the fulleet confidence that the Highway
Patrol will do its doty."
Sincerely yours,
J. M. BROUGHTON,
Governor.
STATE COLLEGE
ANSWERS TMELY
FARM QUESTIONS
QUESTION: Can electricity be
used to brood baby chicns economically?
ANSWER: C. F. Parrish, Extension
Service poutaryman, ny> the
matter of economy depends an the
price the farmer pays for his electricity.
Where current can be obtained
for as little ss 2 cents a kilowatt
hoar, the electric brooder is not
oat of line in coet when compared
with other standard methods of keeping
chirks warm. An infra-red balb
in the brooder is. being triad now in
North Carolina and often much
promise. , ;
QUESTION; Would you advice
digging np a flower garden to plant
vegetables this year?
ticuhurist, says if you must secrifice
JQow*r tor
dont While the family on the fsrm
industry it wptcM by September 1.
The Board said its industry branch
heads are determining amounts of
each product needed for the war effort,
preparatory to the converting
of each industry to war production.
Rattening.
Price Administrator Henderson
stated National Registration for
sugar rattering books will be held
over a four-day period, probably during
the last week in March. Approximately
1,400,000 school teachers will
serve as registrars, and 245,000
.schools will be used. One adult may
register for each "family unit."
The WPB annoonmi a rationing
program beginning March 9 for 1M,(100
sew track and truck trailers
which will be available for rationing
during the next 22 months. The
rationing will be administered jointly
by the WPB and* the Office of Defense
Transportation. Mr. Henderson
said state quotas provide 120,000
new 1942 passengar automobiles for
eligible buyers during March, April
and May. Total number of can earmarked
for- civilian purchas during
the next twelve months is 340,000.
No passenger car retreaded tires will
be available in March, he said.
The War Front.
The Navy reported U. S. Naval
forces sank S3 enemy ships between
December 10, 1942, and February 24,
1942, probably sank seven more and
damaged five additional. The Army
announced from December 7 to February
27, it probably sank at least
19 Japanese ships, seriously damaged
81 others, and shot down 246 enemy
planes—not including 166 Japanese
planes shot down by the American
Volunteer Group- serving in the
Chinese Army. The Navy said in
the first two months of this year 116
ships of United Nations registry
were attacked in the Wesstern half
of the Atlantic, and 66 attacks were
made by the Navy on enemy submarines.
Three U-boats axe believed
sunk and four are deliever damaged.
General MacArthur's troops attacked
enemy lines in the Philippines
and advanced one to five miles all
along the front. Two more U. S.
tankers were torpedoed off the Atlantic
coast
Commissions For Men With
DspmWfnts.
The Army announced a new policy
by which men with dependents may
enlist for the sole purpose of qualifying
as oofficers, and if they fail
to make the grade may be transferred
to the enlisted reserves. They
would not be called for active service
until their previous classifications in
the draft were called. Age limits
are 18 to 46. All candidates must
serve four months in Replacement
Centers or Field Units before being
eligible for officer candidates'
schools. The New policy is designed
to meet Army needs this year of 75,000
new officers selected from 95,000
candidates.
Selective Service.
Selective Service Director Hershey
reported the third national lottery to
determine order numbers for February
16 registrants will be held in
Washington March 17, but neW registrants
probably will not be called before
May.
Last year's shoe production figures
smashed all past records, and came
within 7,000,000 pain of the 500,000,000-mark,
with an even greater
output scheduled for IMS.
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING
(UN FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT
BONDS OF THE TOWN
J OF FAKMYHXE
While the farm machinery repair
drive is moving rapicjly in maay sections
of the state, reports indicate
that fanners in some areas still are
in Kitting- their equipment
ready for a record production of vital
foods this year, according to G. Tom
, Scott of State College, chairman of
the State USDA War Board. It is
imperative, the War Board chairman
said, that every available piece of
farm machinery in the state be made
usable for the coming production
season to meet the moid goals of
food crops asked by the Secretary
of Agriculture. This machinery can
be assured, he pointed out, by ordering
repair parts immediately and
getting the equipment in shape for
use.
*
North Carolina Leads
In AAA Cooperation
North Carolina led all the other
•tales in the East Central Region in
number and percentage of eligible
farms placed under provisions of the
1942 Agricultural Conservation Program,
according to a report of farm
practice plans received by E. Y. Floyd
of State College, AAA executive officer.
Mr. Floyd said that of the 287,494
eligible farms in the state, operators
of 226,364, or 95.3 percent, indicated
their intention to participate in the
program this year. The number of
cooperating operators in 96.8 percent
of the 233,336 farm operators
contacted by county and community
AAA committeemen.
Placing second to North Carolina
in percentage obtained was Delaware
where 8(848 farms out of a total of
9,388 eligible units were placed under
the program. This is a record
of 94.2 percent.
Second largest state, in the region
in number of farms is Kentucky
where there are 211,779 eligible units.
Of this number operators of 191,877,
or 90.6 percent, plan to cooperate this
year, the report showed.
In the entire region there were
938,822 farms listed as eligible and
827,834 operators placed their farms
under the program. This is 88.2
percent of the total. The East Central
Region includes: North Carolina,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Delaware, Virginia,
W««t Virginia and Maryland.
Mr. Floyd said signifying an intention
to participate in the farm program
means an operator plans to
plant within his acreage allotments
and to carry out soil building practices,
such as seeding legumes and
grasses, using' limestone and phosphate,
restoring old pastures and
creating new ones, and plowing- under
green manure crops.
Horses And Mules
•Claim More Attention
On Farms
Much has bean said and written
about "Old Dobbin" resuming his
place in the "agricultural sun"—
about a return. to the horse and
buggy days, now- that war-time
shortages of tires and metals threaten
to restrict the use of modem
labor-saving tractors and machines.
Sam L. Williams, assistant Extension
animal husbandman of N. C.
State College, gays the horses and
mules have never lost their importance,
en'the farm. "The value of
wnricstock on North Carolina farms
is twice as great as that of all cattle
Kid calves, §nd five times as
great as the value of all hogs and
sheep," hie declared.
"Horses and mules furnish a large
percentage of the bask power essential
in the production of all agricultural
commodities," he continued.
"This has always been true, despite
the increase in tractors and other
machinery in use.on the farm.
"Raising horses and muies is a
profitable business when they are
used as a source at farm power, and
as- a means <4 supplementing the
farm income through the sale of surplus
animals produced. Four good
animals can plow four, disc IS or
harrow 30 acres a day in the spring
season; do other kinds of farm work
at a proportionate rate; and raise
guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Eagles,
Saturday evening.
Dir. and Mr*. E. B. Beasley. Mrs.
Bruce Beasley, Jr., and Ferebee Beasley
spent Tuesday in Richmond, Va.
Mr. and Mn. F. L. Eagles and
sons, Larry, Harold and G*y, spent
Sunday in Louisburg.
Mrs. G. W. Lane is visiting rel»-';
tives in Garner. .
Mr*. B. C. Eason and daughter,
Miss Ethel Eason, of Maccleafield.
were week end guests of Mrs. J. W.
jp ''I
Mrs. C. M. Smith is at Roanoke
Rapids with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Smith, who is quite HI with influenza.
Mrs. Carter Smith spent the week
end in Newport News, Va., with relative*.
,.■ i
Mr. and Mm. Bruce Beasley, Jr.,
and Mrs. E. B. Beasley, Sr., visited
relatives in William ston during the
week end. Mrs.
R. A. Fountain, Jr., audi
daughter, Miss Betsey, spent the
week end in Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Fountain and.!
sons, John, Jr., and James Barker,
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Trevathan and
son, Turnage, attended the State
basketball tournament in Raleigh,
Thursday.
Birth Announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gay announce
the birth of a aim, Lester Douglass,
in Pitt General Hospital an Thursday,
Febuary 28th.
Woman's Club Meets.
The Fountain Woman's Club met
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. F. L. Eagles.
Following a short business session
the program chairman, Mis. Eagles,
presented Mrs. C. S. Eagles of Saratoga,
who gave the devotional, using
as her subject, Religion in the Home.
Mr. E. F. Johnson then gave a
very interesting talk on Early Literature
and its relation to the Bible
and history.
At the close of the program the
hostess served a dessert course.
enough colts to famish replacements,
if wisely managed. '
"In this way, the work animals
reaching an age of 6 or 7 years can
be sold each year and younger animals
bred to replace them. A good
team of well-broken horses or mules
will demand a much higher price than
matched pairs of yearlings or twoyear-olds."
Williams says that pasture is the
first consideration in property feeding
woricstock. * He also called at
Sweetheart Seep % J
D. P. Soap Powder 4
Safe Noom Matches 5
COLONIAL SPAGHETTI, NOODLES OB
TqHUIO Soup
MOTHER'S RELISH OR
TRIANGLE PLAIN
TRIANGLE
tention to the need for controlling
parasites and diseases of work animals:
Argentine farmers picked up $57,005,312
in sales of dairy products,
wool, batter and eggB, to the United
States during the first eight months
of 1941.
M:. t.
MEATS ,jg ?■**': '
A survey conducted by a national
meat magazine showed that Amarir
can housewtvea an swinging sharply
toward cheaper cuts as the lint step
in introducing more meat in the fanimenu.
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