MATERHIS, MOKE MATERIALS f&
IS THE DESPERATE NEED NOW
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The Home Front Called
On To "Make A Clean
Sweep" of Store Room,
Attic and Shop
We are now on the offensive. For
the first time in this war American
forces have moved against the enemy
with the objective of expelling him.
The theater of action is the Solomons.
The Solomons are a chain of
islands, the islands are steaming jungle
and abrupt peak and the home of
head hunting savages who doubtless
have leaned new lessons in savagery,
lately, from the Japanese. For Japan's
line of communication runs
through the Solomons, and in the
Solomons Japan flanks Australia.
From its very start this first
American offensive indicated to the
Home Front the need for redoubling
our production effort. Admiral King,
Commander in Chief of the U. S.
Fleet, said it appears we have lost at
least one cruiser and that other warships
had been dan aged and he said,
"considerable losses, such as are inherent
in any offensive operation,
must be expected."
Must Prepare For Losses
We must go on from offensive to
offensive if we are to win this war,
we can win this war only by driving
the Japs out from the territory they
have seized, by driving the Nazis
from Europe and the Near East. To
do this we must accept losses on a
great scale, and we must prepare for
these losses.
We cannot sit smugly back on past
performance.
Last Sunday Elmer Davis, Director
of the Office of War Information,
spoke of the front line of production
and said of it that "Generally speaking
this line is holding firm." But Mr.,
Davis went an to say that this front
line could break: unless new lines
swiftly are established behind it.
"We certainly shall fail," he said,
"unless we' increase the production
of raw materials." He said we must
develop new processes, end waste,
and—something in which everyone
can help—"Press for full salvage by
every citizen in the land."
• Materials and more materials—
that is the desperate need. This is a
war in which tanks are destroyed by
hundreds in a'single action on a single
action on a single sector of one
front. And yet into a tank of the
General Grant type go about 26 tons
of steel, some six hundred pounds of
copper, more than five hundred
pounds of chromium and more than
six hunared pounds cf manganese,
aluminum, lead and zknc.
Salvage Is Paramount
More than ever today the emphasis
must be an salvage and on such
farther restrictions of an already restricted
civilian industry as may be
possible. It is possible to tighten
up on the civilian economy here and
there, and wherever it is possible it
must be done. One of our most critical
shortages is the shortage of steel
and l^sfc week the War Production
Board ordered the makers of wooden
upholstered furniture to atop using
iron or steel in springs. WPB has
launched a drive for metal salvage
embracing 37 thousand dairy plants
throughout the country and appealed
to wholesale and retail merchants to
"make a clean sweep" of all store
rooms and shops for critically needed
material. There are almost two million
retail merchants fa the U. S. A|
and more than 100,000 wholesalers.
And the combined Production and
Resources Board, the agency through
which Great Britain and the United
States attack their joint production
problems, says ar American Steel
Mission is going to England to work
out plans for a more efficient method
at using steel, and to study British
methods of collecting scrap.
We most forget that we are the
richest country in the world, until
the war Is won wa must live at
though the U. S. A. were a poor
country, without resources. Last
week WPB ordered that men's worts
clothes must have fewer pockets,
fewer buttons and buckles and must
consume leas-cloth. Another order
cut use of rubber in manufacture of
products intended not for civilian use,
but for the armed forces. The ardor
prohibited use of rubber In a long
list of military products, including
cartridge clip boxes and gun grips.
WPB called on the wood
Weed Curing Must
Be Done Properly
Properly harvesting and caring are
essential if growers are to get good
prices for their tobacco, says E. Y.
Floyd, Extension tobacco specialist
at State College.
Harvesting should start as soon as
the lower leaves begin to ripen. Under
normal conditions, Floyd said, it
is advisable to prime the plants at
least once a week.
- Do not crowd the tobacco on the
sticks or in the ban* as plenty of
air is needed to carry off the moisture
during the coring process.
As soon as the leaf is hung in the
barn, start a fire and raise the temperature
to five or ten degrees above
the outside temperature, and maintain
that heat until the leaves are
fairly yellow. This period lasts 24
to 36 hours.
Then raise the temperature four
or five degrees each hoar until it
reaches 120 to 126 degrees Fahrenheit.
Hold this heat until the leaves
begin to dry; then raise it four to six
degrees an hour until it reaches 180
to 190 degrees. Maintain this temperature
until the stems are dry.
Usually 84 to 96 hours are needed
to cure a; barn of tobacco. Weather
conditions, the amount of sap in the
weed, and ether factors may make it
necessary to prolong or shorten one
or more of the curing periods.
From 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of
moisture or sap must be removed
from each caring of green tobacco
and the barns should therefore be
well ventilated in order to allow the
moisture to escape as fast as it is
given off; otherwise the leaves will
be damaged.
After the tobacco is dry, however,
the ventilators may be closed when
the temperature is being increased
for the final hot heat. After the
fire has been allowed to die out, the
ventilators should be opened again
to give the leaf a chance to absorb
moisture and become more pliable.
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Forrest Quits Post
On Rationing Board
Ri H. Forrest has resigned as executive
secretary of the Pitt County
rationing board.
He was appointed principal of the
Winterville High School, Succeeding
Claude Ward.
Report from the farm front: Pests,
peddlers and politicans delaying work.
"SLAP THE JAPS WITH SCRAP"
your Boat..." I
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Cotton Interliner
Aid To Worn Tires
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Atlanta, Ga.—A one-hundred per
cent cotton interliner for automobile
tires has just been introduced here
as a new war-time invention designed
to add extra life to worn tires.
This important tire saving device
is made to increase the life of tires
that are worn thin, cracked, or broken.
The liner protects the inner
tube from sharp rocks, glass, nails
and tacks.
Made of a strip of strong, thick
cotton padding which has been manufactured
to the correct shape to fit
between the inner tube and the casing
of a tire, ^he liner is hailed as
a real contribution to the conservation
of the nation's rubber and is of
great pride throughout the South as
a new and practical use for cotton.
The new product is already in mass
production, according to a report received
through the National Cotton
Council. •
When large quantities of corn are
crib-stored, the side walls must be
designed to withstand considerable
outward pressure and also a decided
downward* thrust, says D. S. Weaver,
agricultural engineer at State College.
Now is the time Cm- all good men
to come to the aid of their country.
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Potash Is Deficient In
Most Soils Of State
Farmers are already thinking of
their next year's fertilizer needs, and
J. R. Piland, associate soil chemist
of N. C. State College, reminds growers
that the majority of North Carolina
soils are deficient in potash.
This is especially true, he says, in
soils where cotton, corn, tobacco, aqd
vegetable crops of the Coastal Plain
are grown.
"In the fertilisation of cotton where
cotton rust is prevalent, the use of
fertilisers containing 5 to 8 percent
potash has materially increased
yields," Mr. Piland- reports. "Sometimes,
under severe conditions of rust,
side dressing with potash has proved
beneficial."
The chemist says that, in general,
the soils of the Coastal Plain are
relatively low in their potash reserves,
especially under conditions of
inadequate fertilization. Tobacco
has a high requirement for potash,
and usually there is a noted response
of the crop to this element with regard
to the quality of the leaf produced.
The tobacco fertilizer grades
recommended seem to furnish sufficient
potash for the production of the
crop in most foils.
Explaining the symptoms of potash
deficiency, Mr. Inland says, "Potash
deficiency is usually accompanied by
yellowing of this leaves of the plant,
with development of brown spots and
death along the margins of the leaves.
Cotton] tobaccb, corn, soybeans, srrfjkTl
grain, vegetables, and fruits are all
subject to potash deficiency which
can easily be identified by its characteristic
leaf pattern." ' 1
The State College man suggests
that where Such condition were noted
in past crops, farmers should plan
their fertilization program so as to
eliminate this trouble again. He
urges tobacco farmers, especially, to
consider the effect- that potash might
have on the quality of their crop.
NOTICE OF SALE TT
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF PITT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
- County of Pitt. Plaintiff,
— v» —
Jerry Saunders and wife, of Jerry
Saunders, and Town- of Farmville,
Defendants. ' • :
Under and by virtue of the judgment
made and entered in the aboveentitled
cause in the Superior Court
of Pitt County. dat$d July 27, 1942,
the undersigned commissioner will, on
the 31st day of August, 1942, at
12 o'clock noon, at the door of the
Court House of Pitt County, in
Greenville, North Carolina, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash, subject to the confirmation
of the oourt, the property hereinafter
described, located in the County of
Pitt, State of North Carolina, and
more particularly described as-follows:
Being one Lot, No. 12, in Lincoln
Park in the Town of Farmville, described
in that map recorded in
Map Book 1 at page 26 and in that
deed recorded in Book 6 10 at page
144 of the Pitt County Public Regtsthe
30th day of July, 1948.
ROBERT BOOTH,
f Commissioner.
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NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF .NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF PITT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
County of Pitt, Plaintiff,
— vs —
Lyman Woo ten and wife, Lena Woolen,
and Town of Farmville, Defendants.
12 o'clock noon, at the door of the