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Are Included; "Land Army' to Harvest Crops Planned Washington, Jan. 26. — Secretary of Agriculture Wickard today outlined a broad program to increase production uf vital war crops by offering growers approximately $100,000,000 in "incentive payments" for meeting or exceeding greatly expanded production goals. lite new program, announced at a special press conference, will apply to soybeans, peanuts, grain sorghums, flax, sweet potatoes and dried peas, which Wickard said «8re needed greatly in the, war wffort to meet deficiencies in vegetable oils and protons for animal feeding as well as human consumption. Growers of these crops will receive extra payment for each acre they exceed 90 per cent of their farm goals up to 110 per cent of the goal. Wickard said the incentivp payments were part of the department's program to assist farmers in producing maximum amounts of essential war products. "To get this additional production will^ mean that farmers will need more labor and materials— which naturally means that their production costs will go up," Wickard said. Aim of Payments. "This additional assistance will be necessary alfio for farmers who have not had experience in growing some of these crops. The program for incentive payments is being offerfoj to compensate farmers for added costs in achieving- the increased goals." Wickard said that, to finance the program; Congress would be asked to appropriate $100,000,000 in addition to the $400,000,000 already asked in the 1942-43 Agriculture Department budget for the Stfil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. He also said the department was developing a comparable program involving incentive payments for increasing milk production. Incentive payments announced today included soybeans, $15 an acre in excess of 90 per cent of the farm goal; peanuts, $30 an acre; flax, $10 an acre; dried peas, $15 an acre; grain sorghum, $8 an acre; and sweet potatoes, 50 cents a bushel on the normal yieW of the acreage planted over 900 per cent of the farm goal. Wickard said an additional 1,500,000 acres of soybeans would be asked, increasing the goal to 12,000,000 acres this year. Also requested will be an increase in peanut acreage from the 8,690,000 acres harvested last year to 6,500,000; flax average from 5,000,000 to 5,500,000; dried peas from 665,000 acres to 726,000; sweet potatoes from 757,000 to lr 000,000, and grain sorghum from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000. Other Crops. The department recently announced a program of incentive payments for increased production of dried beans, white potatoes and fresh truck crops. ' Wickard said the expanded program probably would mean that some farm land previously planted to grain, of which there are surI pluses, and short staple cotton, or in pasture, would have to be used for other crops. "If it is a choice between corn and soybeans, I say soybeans," the secretary —artui * f T° Wickard saU the program would hav« the effect of "killing to birds with one stone." , ■ -He said that because of the ship1 ping situation, there is a shortage of fish meal for poultry and livestock and the planting of such protein crops as soybeans will alleviate the feed situation as well as increase vegetable oil supplies. "There might be a 2,000,000-ton shortage of protein feed next winter," Wickard continued. "The plans we make now may govern not what we have to eat six months from now, but will decide protein feeds for livstock 18 months from now." Land Army. * Striving for a badly-needed increase of seven or eight per cent in food production, the government also will ask some 3,500,000 oeraons to leave their work in towns and cities temporarily this spring and summer to help solve the farm labor shortage. This plan to mobilize a volntary "land army" for the planting and harvesting of record food crops for the war effort was announced jointly by Food Administrator Wickard and Manpower Commissioner " Paul V. McNutt at a press conference today. The plan follows demands from farm state members of Congress that farm labor shortages be remedied. Only today Senator Pepi per (D-Fla.) arose on the Senate I floor to make a sharp attack on the War Manpower, Commission and Department of Agriculture for failure, he said, to "take hold of, th^ farm labor problem." "What we need is a clear-cut manpower problem," Pepper declared. i --'/vv'rWickard said the land army program would be baaed on patriotic appeals to town and city dwellers not engaged in activities directly connected with the war effort to put in some time on the farm at regular farm pay—30 cents of more an hour. Perishable* Craps* Principally, they will be used to harvest perishable food and veg»table crops. Wickard said there would be "perhaps a training prot, conjunction cruitment drive.*""" An effort will be made to enroll "all who'll volunteer—not volunteer ot work without pay, but to leave a more lucrative job to go out and save a crop to help the war effort," Wickard said, explaining it would work this way: The enrollment will be conducted in rural areas by the Agriculture Department's ertAwion service and in urban communities by the War Manpower Commission's Employment Service. Quesionnairee will be sent out to such penolw^fis store clerks to determine thosfe able and willing to take temporary farm work and those volunteering will be solicited in personal interviews to take particular nnenonwl farm work. Those taking the jobs, under tentative plans, would get 90 cents an hour or the wage prevailing in the area when they do the farm work, which ever is higher. Recruitment would be confined principally to the immediate area of the farms needing the workers, to avert housing and transportation problems and get quickest mobilisation fat emergencies. School children would be drawn into the land army by arrangement with local educational officials to adjust school terms and vacation or holiday dated to free pupils for farm work when Heeded. ... — IN THE AIR ON THE LAND ' With enough plana* in th* air, th* Allies eaa ba ana of victory ia the skies. Atrial victory will ba Inwarient,. Iwwwr, «ml— it it backed op with mammoth quantities of foea gt*lm itieeglh to aoldkn, civilians, and uppro*a>d people liberated from Nasi chain*. Contour famine la a modern way to halp assure this food. Farmer* all ovar tha nation report bigger yield* of war erope through contour fanning. If* the victory pattern for the land. Enough planes in the sky will aaaore the United Nations of victory in the air ova- world bafctlefronte. But aerial victory will be insufficient unless it is backed up with mountains of food to give strength to civilians, soldiers, and oppressed peoples freed from Axis domination. Contour farming is one of the modem ways to help assure maximum production of food, says Eari B. Garrett, State Conservationist for the U. S. Soil Conservation Service and a member of the State USD A War Board. Farmers in this state, as well as the rest of the nation, he aays, report bigger per acre yields of war crops on contoured acres, the victory pattern for the land. MOBILIZATION — The week at February 6-14 haa been designed as National 4-H Mobilization Week, the purpose of which is to oragnise boys and girls behind the 1M8 food production program. FAVORABLE I 11 The year 194S has opened with many conditions favorable for continued heavy production of agricultural products, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Tears are aometimes needed to wash the- aMd. yr^hV" ~ deliveries of oil to Unk can from the yew Texas-Illinois pipeline are expected to start during the first week fat February. But it must be repeated that all these savings and expedients will not compensate for the loss of the enormous carrying' power of the tanker fleet which operated tdeng the Atlantic Coast before the war, and so we must keep on saving fuel oil and cold-proofing oar homes by every means possible. The petroleum coordinator's plea to convert to coal if possible still goes and is still urgent Idle Vehicles Mast Be Reported. Owners of commercial motor vehicles of almost every description which have been idle for a two-weeks period must be reported to district offices of the Office of Defense Transportation. The purpose of the monthly report is to find oat how many of the nation's commercial vehicles are in actual use, and how many of those that stand idle could be used for essential war or civilian transportation. In spite of the urgent need to save rubber everywhere, and to save gasoline in the Eastern States so that more fuel oil can be transported, war workers still are not making efficient use of their antos. Most of the large war plant* would have to close down if their workers had to walk to work or use public conveyances, and yet one of the simplest forms of mileage saving—group riding—still is not practiced to the extent that it should The ban on pleasure driving has increased the traffic burdens of other transportation facilities* Motor bus traffic between cities increased 60 percent in 1M2 over 1941 sad is still growing in volume, while the bus lines are said to be spproacing capacity operations and face uncertainties with respeet to gas, to tire and parts prospects, and to skilled labor. It must be emphasized, therefore, that unnecessary travel of any kind— local or long distance — definitely handicaps the wartime operation of our entire transportation system. Smaller business enterprises and plants are coming more and more into the war production picture. Over a billion dollars worth of Army con-! tracts have been placed during the last two months with concerns employing from five to 500 persons . .. Sugar Stamp No. .11 become valid February 1, and will be good for three pounds or sugar until March 15 . . .- The ration banking program, whereby the nation's banks will handle ration coupons after they pass out of trade channels, will go into effect this month. ">• . ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE The ujKierBigned, having been appointed and duly quAified as administrator of J. P. Nichols, deceased, all persons having claims against the estate are notified to exhibit the same before said administrator on or before the 4th day of January, 1944, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, will please make payment. £"% This Jan. 4th, 1948. ALFRED J. ELLIS, J22-6wks-pd. Administrator. NOTICE! NORTH CAROLINA, Pitt County IN THE SUPERIOR COURT PITT COUNTY, PLAINTIFF . — va — GLENNIE PRAY AND HUSBAND, CARLOS PRAY. * The defendants, Glomie Pray and Carlos Pray will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenoed in Superior Court oi Pitt County, North Carolina to obtain judgment for delinquent taxbs; and the said defendants will further take WHITE HOUSE GIVEN HINT OF MOBE NEWS TO COME (Continued From Pi|t One) Churchill were believed tonight to have agreed not to delay long in throwing the full weight at their nighty coalition against Adolf Hitler, probably by the moat direct route. A more optimistic atmosphere was evident in parlimeataxy quarters here, buoyed by the aggressive tone of reports on the 10-day conference at Casablanca of the American and British chief Hans and their top flight advisers. Intimations were heard at various impending changes in the American military command of the European theetrer presumably in preparation for the offensive invasion program implied by the presence at Casablanca of Lord Leathers, Minister of War Transport; Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mounthatten, Chief of Combined Operations and Lieut.-Gen. B. B. Somervell, Commanding General of the Supply Services. The American air raid on Germany a few hours after the announcement of the RooseveltChurchill ' conference was taken here as a symbol of growing sentiment to hit at the heart at the Axis as soon as possible, even if the cleaning out of Tunisia is delayed. "SLAP THE JAPS WITH SCRAP" ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qu»Sfled u administratrix of the estate of Jim Wood Wainrifht, deceased, late of Pitt Coanty, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against (he estate of said denassd to exhibit than to the aadersiffned at Farmviile N. G, on or before the list day of December, 1948, or this notice vfll be |il—Ad in bar at their recovery. will pi—f make immediate payment ' This the 81st day of December, IMS. ALICE LEE WAINRIGHT, Administratrix of Am *H Wooi Wainright John B. Lewis, Atty. Jl-Cts
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