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I ' - ;y; ;|, - ; . I The attractive red, white and blue window (ticker, pfclmod above, ia Am new yardstick of patriotism fa the War Bond drive throughout the Oatkn. With th* slogan. "Everybody every pay day, ten percent," sweeping tin country, patriotic Americans on the home front are rallying to their Govarnmenfa-appeel tor funds with which to help finance the war. The home which displays the "ten percent" sticker is doing Its share toward Victory for America and the United Matiogs. The stickers are being distributed through local War Savings Chairmen. v. S. Trwwry Dt+artmtrn WALOTONBURG NEWS Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Beard of Raleigh visited Mr. find Mrs. Ray West, Thursday. Miss Dorothy Gardner of Snow Hill spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gardner. Pvt. Allen Tracker of Fort Bragg spent the week end with friencta here. ~ Mrs. E. F. Brooks left Thursday for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she will spend some time with her husband who is in radio school there. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gardner, Mrs. G. W. Bailey and Mrs. B. L. Davis and little sw, Bobby, were Rocky Mount visitors Wednesday. Mrs. A. D. McLawhorn and Mrs. Julian Worthington of Winterville spent Thursday with Mrs. G. W. Corbett. Miss Hazel McKeel left Thursday for Enfield to resume her dutie* on the high school faculty there. Mrs. Melvin Perry has returned to her home in Colerain after spending several days with her mother, Mrs. H. C. Burch. Mrs. W. D. Owens has returned to her home in Fountain after spending a few days with" relatives in and near town. > . Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Smith visited in Fountain, Sunday. Miss Alice Goin spent a few days last week in Plymouth with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Goin. Friends will regret to learn that Mr. George Bailey is ill at his home here. Mrs. W. I. Shackleford snd little granddaughter, Neta Marie Sutton, returned J^uesday after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sutton in Portwaouth, Va. Miss Janie Marlowe left WedMflday to resume unr studies in the University of South Carolina at Columbia. ' Mr. and Ml*. B. R. Fields and family moved to Farmville this week. Their many friends in this community regret very much to hare them learn ,< Rev. Clifton Bice of Kinston is conducting a series of revival services in the Spring Branch Church this week. The public is cordially invited. ■ Friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. Fan) Craft is recovering nicely from a recent operation. She has returned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Craft here for a few days. •Mrs. W. E. Lang is spending some time with relatives in Fountain. She is modi improved from a recent injury sod we hope to h*Ve bar soon return to her home here. „ Miss Aim Bailey left Saturday to enter a business school in B*lMre. Charles H. Floyd of Roper returned to her home Sunday after spending last week here with bar mother, Mn. H. C. Bureh. m. sH DOGWOOD STATE COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS QUESTION: What to • good balanced ration for a dairy cow? ANSWER; For a tow weighing 1,000 pounds and giving between 4 and 5 gallons of milk daily doling the winter, a good balanced ration would be as follows: 12 pounds of coybean or any good legume hay; 40 pounds of corn silage or silage made from small gnrfns; 9 pounds of com and cob meal; 4 pounds of wheat bran; and 2 pounds of cottonseed maaL It should be observed that practkaHy all of this ration can be grown on the avenge North Carolina farm. QUESTION: How should the sow be bandied before farrowing? ANSWER: A few days before she farrows, the sow should be scrubbed thoroughly witH a brush, using soap and warm water to remove dirt and wojrm eggs. IVn put the animal in a clean farrowing' pen. To control lice and mange, oil should be applied after she has dried off. A clena, portable farrowing house should be provided, this to be located on a clean cultivated field containing a suitable forage crop on which there have been no hogs since the field was cultivated. Complete instructions on swine raising are contained in Extension Circular No. 238. litis may be obtained free from the Agricultural Editor, State College, Raleigh. QUESTION: When should beef 'animals be colled from the herd? ANSWER: L. L Case, in charge of Extension animal husbandry work, say* this is a* excellent time to call the herd of old and poor-producing: animals. One of the first to be culled shoud be the scrnb bull, as he is an expensive luxury on any farm. Not only will culling help the far-j mer by getting rid of poor animals hot it wHlf' also furnish more beef; to a now strained market. A doctor confides that the average amneria victim gcnemlly needs a lawyer more titan he needs a doctor. The preaeift generation of. children may be very smart, but they dittat show it when they selected the parents they have. A speaker is sometimes applauded when he sits .down because he sits down and not because at what be ,*ay».. ; v weeks, the Navy announced. Them were few casualties. The Navy also announced the sinking of nine more United Nations merchant vessels by eneny submarines in the Atlantic. 13 War Aim and ftNtaa £jj President Roosevelt, in an address Broadcast to an International student assembly in Washington and short-waved to other parts of the world, stated the war is "going to be long and hard and bitter (but) this time we shall know how to make Ml I use of Victory" to build a better woria. %',$■ ./•*: •: • ,x .<• .. >•. "-•4, ; He said the Government will see to it that men returning from the fronts can resume their interrupted careers and education and that work is provided for those willing and able to work. Reciprocal Lend-Lease aid to the U. & already covers a range as wide as the requirements and geography of a Global War, and is being provided to this Country on the same basis us we are providing Lend-Lease help to other Countries, the Office of War Information reported. Such aid is being provided without dollar payment under the terms ... of master agreements with Countries receiving U. S. Lend-Lease helpT Reciprocal Lend-Lease aid "for American forces abroad . . . ranges from squadrons of spitfires to new fan belts for army tracks—from building airdromes and Naval bases to "D" ration chocolate bars and bananas at the soldiers, mess—from convoy protection for U. S. troopships arriving in British waters to filling the gas tanks of U.' S. ferry planes at . airports newly laid out in jungles or deserts," the OWI said. The President announced a Special U. S. technical mission will leave for Brazil soon to assist the Brazilian Government in expansion of its war machine. Army and Selective Service. Assistant Secretary of War McCloy said that between February 1 and August 30 U. S. Army planes destroyed 234 Japanese planes in the air, compared with American losses of 109. This record, together With the "flying tigers," record of 213 Japanese planes destroyed as against losses of 84, is due mainly to the performance of the P-40 fighters, he said. The Anny said it has developed a system of technical inspection and maintenance supervision of aircraft that is undoubtedly the finest in the world. The . War Department sent 36,000 dependents, allowance checks totaling *4,500,000 to relatives and dependents of enlisted men is the four lower grades of the Service. Selective Service Headqua2$ers-4i«trneted State SS boards' to place their calls so that most men right now will come from local boards with the most single men or men with dependents other than wives and children. -A Navy and Shipbuilding. Navy Secretary Knox said the submarine Menace "is not by any means solved," but there has been a "steady demintrtiom of ships sunk off our own shores." A shipbuilding compilation for Labor Day showed 174 launching and 49 Keel layings during the day for many kinds mad sizes of combat and cargo shipa. The Maritime Commissireported 68 vessels were three catnpteted shipe a day will be Peanut Oil Becomes U. S. Weapon One small bridge hat a weight capacity of 23 tons, using about 1,000 individual metal pontons. The smallest Is used only to take troop* over «m«iUr streams. But wlwtbv eur amy uses the smaller or largest ponton, our engineers need plenty of them. If you and svery American invests at least 10 per ca£? at income in War Bonds every pay day we can sqpply our fighting forces with these s—mHali to a victorious war. reached in September. Rattening. The War Production Board released 60,000 of the refrigerators which have been froxen in the haods of dealers and distributors since February 14 for sale to the general public after finding: that they were not needed for "essential" purposes. Another 60,000 will be released by authorisation of WPB food requirements committee reeommeded to the Board the following meat conservation program—(1) Limitation of the amounts of meat packers may sell to the Cfvitysn trade so that each civilian win be able to buy 2% pounds a week; (2) direct consumer rationing to be started as aoan as possible—in about four months; (S) an interim voluntary conservation program. - • ^ Purchase of War Bonds. The Treasury ' Department announced sales of War Bonds in August totaled *697,256,000 in bonds through the ten percent payroll savings plan, compared with 18,000#00 persons and $200,000,000 in July. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced State War Bond quotas for September, totaling $776,000,000 for the Country. Taxation and Profits. The Treasury Department recommended to Congress a reduction in individual income tax exemptions to $600 for each dependent. The Treasury also proposed a ten percent tax on consumer spending and high penalty rates for luxury spending. At the request of Congress, the Treasury outlined a sales tax levied against the retailor who would pass it on to the consumer. War expenditures in August were $4,900 million, more than three times greater than the amount spent for National Defense a year ago. Income payments to individuals in July were 21 percent more than July 1941 and were at the record annual rate of $114 billion a year, the Commerce Department; said. Uncle Mose: "When church members quite payln', preacher starts talkin' to 'em boat heU-fli«,.8nd dey comes across." ■ ■■ -- Hie only safe course for the pedestrian is to assume that every approaching motorist is either drunk or a fool, and govern himself accordingly. A man la asking for a divorce because his -wife hunt spoken a wont In six months. It's always that way. Some people never know when they are well oiff. J. R. Lewis and wife, of J. R. Lewis, 8. T. Lewis and wife, Bfffc Lewis, J. T. Lewii and wife of J. T. Lewis, B. M. Lewis and wife, Com Lewis. Under and by virtue at the J®dg» raent made and entered in the aboveentitled cause in the Superior Court at Pitt County, dated August 8,1942, r: J the Andergigned commissioner will, on the 14th day of September, 1M2, at 12 o'clock Noon, at the door of the Court House of Pitt County, k> Greenville, North Carolina, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, subject to the confirmation of-the court, the property hereinafter described, located in the County of 'PStt, State of North Carolina, aad more particularly described as fallows: Beng on? Conttntnea Lot in Faamtvflle Township, mere particularly described In Book J-18 at page 166 of the Pitt County Public Registry. Dated this the 6th day of August, 1*42. ROBERT BOOTH, Commissioner. trade YOUR TOBACCO Carefully aid Keep H Dry. Bring it to The FarmvitleMarket as fast as you can get it ready and remember there is ... "*■ All Bay FIRST SALE in Two Howes Ewfy »ty" Price Averages have shown some improvement the past few days. r Sell Your ftoBACCO In "The Steadiest Market In The State" Reaeaber—There Arc No Block Sales -111
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