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hat been coast'esaMe publicity m th> papers and on the radio concern ing the need for food rationing, and the point system which will be used in the rationing of foods. >1 Until now no definite dates bad been set for the registration for Bation Book Two or the time for food rationing to start We now know that no ra tioned canned food* will be sold be tween Feb. 20th end midnight Feb. 28th and that registration will take place Feb. 22 through Feb. 24th. At this time the public is interested in facts as to a) the need for food rationing; (2) the step* to be taken in registration; (3) the fbods -to be rationed; (4- the inventory of ration ed foods on hand at this time of registestka; <&) Ration Book Two; and (6) shopping under point ration ing, ao at this time I will attempt to give yon facts which I hope will help you to understand better the food rationing program. THE NEED FOR RATIONING of canned, bottled, frozen, and dried fruits snd vegetables is due to the necessity of properly flwjfling our ever increasing Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, fighting on foreign fronts and for lend-lease shipments to civilian populations of our Allies in the war zone. We here at home can use considerable quanaitiee «f fresh fruits and vegetables which are too bulky and too perishable to be shipped to the fighting forces snd on lend-lease. The needs of these have to be taken ears of and in order that everyone in this country may get his fair share of what is left for civilian consumption the point sys tem has "been devised. Point Ration ing not only divides up the available supply fairly, but it gives everyone, regardless of station in tiff, freedom of choice among afi rationed foods. It conserves food supplies by steer ing demand away from the scarce hems those which are more plenti DURING KttilSTKATXUN, reD. 22nd through 24th, no rationed can ned, bottled, frasen, or dried fruits and vegetables will be sold to per met grocers to stock op Mid property arrange and mark with point values the rationed item*. The steps in registration are (1) Any sdrt mem ber of the family,may waiter for all members.of the group, To enter the registration center, he most show at tjie door a copy of War Ration Book One (sugar-coffee) for each member of the group for wrhom he wishes to register. (2) Next he will fill oat a form for Hie. declaration of the number of containers at the ra tioned commercially dinned goods at home. Just one figure need be given—the total number of contain ers, minus the allowance (five 8-os. or over container* per person). Each separate kind of food need not be reported. Home preferred food* do not count. (8) Next he must report how many pounds of coffee were on hand Nov. 28th, the date coffee ra tioning went into effect, less one pound for each adult. Stamps far excess amounts will be torn from the sugar-cdCtee ration book. (4) At the distribution unit the registrant wilt present the sugar-coffee bodes md the deolamtton form for canned foods to * cleric who wffl keep the tora ieTteer out of each War Ra tion Book T*» 4d be issued the cor rect number of point coupons to Ration' ^wo^lj^ *»' t -i.' I " ' '.1 "TiSfite,. T*Y;.' **■&< All people la the Farmvilie Township must register for War Ration Book, No. 2, Feb. 22 through Feb. 24. Registration hours will be from ftJJO A. X. un til 8 00 p. M. This is s require^ merit; therefore, after Feb. 24th, I War Ration Books No. 2 will not be issued. Is order to register , for Book Not 2, it is absolutely necessary that you pnwmt War Book No. -1. -- For the convenience of all par ties concerned, two registering units will be set up, one at the colored school and one at the white school. . ■ 1 ** i' ■ ' . 1 10 • To Present Program At Ilaptist Church Here Sunday Evening ."vVu On Sunday evening', February SI, at 7:80, the Baptist Student Union, of East Carolina Teacher* College, Greenville, will present a program at the First Baptist Church in Farm villa. The them* for the program is; "Maximum Christianity at £h$ College Campos." The program will be in. charge of Miss Mary Lea Ernest, Strident Secretary of the college in Greenville. The Baptist Student Union is a unit of the work of the Southern Baptist Denomination and is made up of the colleges and universities; of the eighteen southern states. In ■North Carolina there are twenty-five j such units composed of 8600 students The parents and young people of Farmville are urged to attend and see what is being done "toward Christianity on our college cam-1 puses. - 1 J Mechanical Cotton Picker Introduced .,»•> < .1 Chicago, — Perfection of a new mechanical cotton picker after 40 years of experiments has bean an nounced. The machine's inventors1 say that it will do the day's work of 50 to 80 hand pickers. The machine is designed for opera tion in the principal cotton producing areas of the country and will give . maximum perflomtance in districts where gins are equipped with special cleaning and drying equipAsnt. The picker requires only one at tendant; the dHver, and becaose of this fact is. expected to be popu larly received by 'large cotton plan tation owners beset by man-power shortages. K: •> The cumulative value of all Lend Lease aid extended by the United States from March II, 1941, to No vember », 1942, was about $7,GMr 000,000. . Um w • j - , t— Corduroys In ■HPS Wi '■ Of • grade basis h be little change in the . ceiling procedure enforced during the] letted tTSStoSaJ^Tc^lJiir] of Pitt Ooimfr /Mm Charles E. Gage, chief of the U. & Department of A ^__ M - ,, M? .. n ,. !1S tl era, Agncuruire b price ceuuigs aivuRon. Gage told Lanier Ida would not recommend baais for price ceilings because H would mean the addition of hun dreds of tobacco inspectors and Federal inspection of tobacco would have to be instituted in each of the flue-cured markets. •He added that the Office of Price Administration could m* the price ceilings ^an a gr without the concurrence of the HfeH partment of Agriculture. Cant CM "We have no intention of recom mending Oat the price ceilings on 'fine-cured, if any, be made on a grade basis," Gage said. "A price ceiling on a grade basis cannot be established except there be 'A com piete inspection service covering all flue-cured markets. Our inspection |~Bervice does not cover all the lists and it is highly unlikely that -we could obtain a sufficient num ber of new inspectors to make W degree of expansion this year.. "Even if we obtained "Even if we were to obtain suf ficient inspectors," he continued, "I still would not recommend grade ceilings because the strains imposed upon the inspector personnel are such that the new men with only brief experience in our work should not be subjected to than. "Regardless of these considera tions, we should hesitate to recom mend grade ceilings if the growers were opposed to thsfltjgjj Gage's statement came aa a com-1 fndttee of tobacco men from four | Southern tobacco growing i was preparing to go to Washk*? toa to oppose any change in price ceiling procedure which would d away with the auction system belting. The committee was appointed at a meeting of buyers, growers and warehousemen" »«<i representatives the State Qrange sad the State Bureau Federation, held in Raleigh last Monday. Governor B rough ton had said he would company the committee to Washing- j ton. : ;,s London, Fab. 17, — Allied head quarters acknowledge through American line* and threat •nod to cut the Allied front in the middle, A communique said Nasi column# had driven to the outskirts of Sbeit la, 38 ihilee from the Tunisian-Al gerian frontier, and WW* W*nc ing on another town only. 12 miles from the border. After their baptismal taste of fire, American tank forces rallied on Monday and hurled the Germans hack six miles, but fell bade af*h> yesterday. A number of American units ware cut off in the rush of the German forces and had net been heard from, but Allied headquarters hoped they would be able to win their way back to the main forces, which suf fered' heavy casualties ■£■'' ■: E Explaining the setback, an Allied headquarters office# commented: "Even experienced troops can fee overran by a sudden heavy tank at tack, and it is not surprising that the Americsns haa to withdraw be cause they held' a long line with only light tanks." The Germans were reported using big new Mark VI tanks weighing 64 to 62 tons and plated with 7%-inch armor. - . A headquarters source also de dared that the British Eighth army was advancing at such a rate from the Tripolitania-Tunisia border that it would soon bring prtesare to bear on the Germans in tha south. On the North? African front, Brit ish headquarters reported that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth army continued its new of fensive into Tunisia, driving north west along the Gulf of Gates coast toward Medanine. * — — - ■■ ate - ii _ , or, center of the 60-mile-long Mareth line fortifications, when Field Mar shal Edwin Rommel ia expected to attempt a new stand. It to 46 m£Le£ northwest of Ben Gardane, whose capture was announced yes terday. -?.> v] | The British radio said Gen. Mont gomery's troops were "a good 20 miles" Nbeyrtnd Ben Gardana, 20 miles inside Tunisia. On the western flank, Allied headquarters announced that Mar shal Rommel's veteran tank forces had mnsshiwl to the outskirts of Sbeifta, 26 miles northwest of ffidl Bouzid, and advanced toward Feri ana in a renewal of his powerful at tack in Tunisia. Feriana lies only l£ miles from the Tunisian-Algerian frontier. Dispatches said the American counter-attack which had driven Rommel's armored columns hack six miles ia the Sidi Bouzid region ota Monday faded yesterday as the Nasi* punched through for a gain of nearly 18 miles in a furious dawn to-dusk battle. ^ . ■r-'-V PT American losses to man and ar mored equipment were described as heavy. The Nazia thrust cot deep into the center of the 300-mile Allied front and represented the gravest seU back of the campaign. \ ' American troops had prtfrtoualy evacuated the advance air. base at v J »;**■<* down in the Gulf of Hammamet off the coast of Tunisia and a third waa beached on the Tunisian <" shore. They ware traveling' south, fully laden, Ml wan attacked by gunfire from the submarines. VA fourth sup ply ship was damaged. A medium-aired supply ship was sank near Brindiai, on the Adriatic coast, hi this attack, another ship took refuge along the shore, but the suhmarfaa moved . in and' scored * torpedo hit after lite ship was beached with har back broken, the oommunisue said. MORE JAP SHIPS ? * ■ V . Washington, Feb. 17. — American submarine*, in one of the meat severe blows yet struck against the far flung Japanese supply lines, have sunk five more enemy supply ships and transports and probably sunk a cruiser, the Navy revealed tonight. They also have damaged a cargo vessel in the intensified battle of attrition being waged against the enemy from Japanese home waters into the Southwest Pacific. R Sunk were, two medium-sized ear go ships, one medium-sized tanker, one medhim-aized transport and fen escort vessel. The cruiser was listed as "damag ed and probably sunk." With an escort vessel and a cruiser included in the catch, it appeared the underseaa raiders had ambushed a Jap convoy. y The latest successes raised to 184 the number of Jap ships mnk, prob ably sunk or damaged by American submarines alone. Their record now stands at 128 ships rank, 23 proba bly sunk and 88 damaged. This ac counts for virtually one-third of the 626 Jap ships sunk, probably sunk or damived by American forces since Pearl fiarbor. Wheat In achieving North Carolina's goal of 176,744,000 gallons of milk for 1943, John A. Any, Extension dairy ; specialist of N. G. State College, ad vises that dairy herds arid the family milk oo-w be fed more wheat I«u*e stocks of whe«t are onw in govern ' ment storage and It may be purchase ed ait a special feed wheat price. d ; Aeowding to Mr. Arey, the Sec WARDS Dnieper river. British bombers blast Nasi sub marina base of Lorisat again and range widely over Hollatad, Germany and north France. American bomb er fonee made two sweeps within 24 hr»i*s. Writer at Stockholm says morale of Germans now at lowest point of war, British raids and reverses on Russisn front deepening gloom in the German crackup ^ far Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife at .the Generalissimo, arrives at Wash ington and now it at the White Provide New Mulch kr. " • ' Memphis.—Developed-by the N«r tioml Gotten Council, King Cotton Mulch is solving the problem of many amateur and professional gardeners. Made entirely of cotton seed hulls, the mulch can be used to loosen and aerate heavy aoil around almost any plant, ft also acts as a storage reservoir for moisture, re tarding evaporation when applied one to throe inches deep. Described as "the Sooth's an swer to German peat moss," the mulch also smothers the growth at
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