Meeting Called by May
or Geo. W. Davis To
Explain New Air Raid
Warning Signals
The Town Hall- wm filled to capac
ity en Tuesday evening- when Fann
ville's Defense Council, Regular and
Auxiliary Police, Fire Watchers,
Regular and Auxiliary firemen,
Medical Corps, First Aid, Red Cross
and others assigned special duty in
our local defense program attended
an impressive, instructive and en
thusiastic meeting called by the
Local Chairman, George W. Davis.
The program opened with the
singing at "America" land by Charles
Baucom and J. H. Moore gave the in
vocation.
Brief talks were made by W. A.
McAdams and J. W. Joyner, mem
bers of the Light, Water and Utility
Department of the Defense Program;
L. T. Lucas, Chairman of the Air
Raid Wardens and Auxiliary Police;
Dr. J. M. Mewborn, co-chairman of
the Medical Corps; R. A. Joyner,
Chairman of the Firemen's Group;
and by John B. Lewis, member of
the Evacuation Committee, comment
ing on the new Air Raid and Black
out Rules and Regulations effective
immediately as follows:
(1) Alarm 2-2, total of four blows,
will be sounded when notice that
enemy planes are headed in this di
rection.
<_>n sounding 01 tms aiarm tui de
fense workers must assemble at
their stations.
All lights must be extinguished
including Street Lights with the ex
ception of Manufacturing Plants es
sential to the WAR EFFORT.
All moving motor vehicles are per
mitted to use headlights (oil low or
depressed beam) and normal tail
light and license plate lights, and
may continue to travel at slow speed.
Pedestrians may continue cautious
ly, spotting place for shelter on next
alarm.
(2) Alarm 2-2, four rounds, total
16 blows, means that enemy planes
are practically overhead. A TOTAL
BLACKOUT. *
Pedestrians must seek shelter at
once.
All motor vehicles other than those
on emergency service must park and
extinguish lights at once..
(3) Alarm 2-2, one round, total
four blows, wfll always follow
TOTAL BLACKOUT, meaning that
enemy planes have left but may re
turn.
Blackout will continue as outlined
in No. (1) above. v
Motor vehicles and pedestrians
may resume travel cautiously as
outlined in No. (1) above. '
Enemy planes may return.
(4) All clear signal. No alarm
_ will be given. Street Lights will be
turned on as only notice that Air
Raid or Blackout is over.
(5) SPECIAL CAUTION: Re
member that it is a serious Federal
Offense to leave your Automobile,
Home, or any place of Business light
ed at anytime unless attended by a
competent person that can extinguish
said lights at instant notice.
A Filter -Cento' has been set up
here with Boy Scouts acting as' mes
sengers. Telephone 4900 in case -of
emergency and aid will be sent to
you- immediately.
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Acoordmg to new mrormaiion p»
en out at the recent defense school
in Kinston, citizens are instructed to
stay away from tmexploded bombs.
These wilt be-handled by the ten
qualified men who attended the
school and were taught new methods.
Mrs. C. H. Joyner, chairman of the
Heme Nursing- Corps, and Dr. Mew
bom, one of the Knit Aid instruc
tors, announced that new classes in
each will be started in the spring if
a sufficient mynber eJtpiesM a desire
to attend. You am requested to
-fcn for these at the City Hall
i. H. Moore, Bationing Chairman,!
" the whole-heart*- ' 1
the local citizens called to
with this week's rationing, and
L. E. Walston, Bond Chairman, urged
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POINT VALUES
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Here are th« point values of
the moat common cans under the
new rationing system, which will
begin March 1.
The ration for March is 48
points per person (families may
pool their points).
Mt
Vegetables Weight Values
Peas 1 lb. 4 ox. 16
Corn 1 lb.. 4 ox. 14
Tomatoes 1 lb. 3 oz. 191
Asparagus 1 lb. 8 oz. 14
Beans 1 lb. 8 ox. 14
Spinach 1 lb. 2 ox. 11
Peaches 1 lb. 14 ox. 21
Pears 1 lb. 14 ox. 21
Sliced Pineapple 1 lb. 14 oz. 24
Grapefruit 1 lb. 4 ox. 10
Fruit Cocktail _ 1 lb. 1 oz. 11
Juices and Saupa
Grapefruit ___ 2 lb. 14 ox. 23
Tomato : 2 lb. 14 oz. 82
Pineapple 2 lb. 14 oz. 32
Tomato 1 lb. 7 oz. 17
Grape Juice 1 qt. or 2 lbs. 16
Soups 10 1-2 ozs. 6
Applications Received
For Cotton Insurance
More than 4,(XX) North Carolina
cotton growers already have insured
their 1943 crops under the insurance
program offered by the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation, according to
Tom M. Cornwell, Cleveland County
farmer an a member of the State
AAA Committee.
The insurance, which is being of
fered for the second year, guaran
tees the grower SO or 75 percent of
his normal yield against losses from
causes over which he has no control
such as floods, drouth, windstorm,
hail, and insect damage. The cover
age which can be obtained and rates
already have been sent to cotton
growers by County AAA offices. j
A new war clause in the insurance
this year, Cornwell said, -now covers
losses caused from wartime short
ages of labor and materials, provid
ed it is determined it was humanly
impossible to obtain them.
"This insurance is not designed as
a money-making proposition for
either the grower or the Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation which is
an agency of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture," he declared. "It
merely affords the grower an op
portunity to protect himself against
total or partial loss of income in
years jvhen he has a crop failure due
to causes over which he has no con
trol."
Deadline for making application
for insurance on the 1943 crop to
April 1, and applications may be
made at the AAA office in the coun
ty in which the farm is located.
Farmvilk Boy
Reported Missing
In European Area
His Parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Burnett,
Notified Wednesday;
Have Three Boys In
Service .
A telegram received Wednesday
afternoon by Mr. and Mm Herbert
Burnett revealed the fact that their
son, Tech. Sgt. Herbert Hemby
Burnett, of the U. S. Air Corps,
European Area, has been missknf b
action since Feb. 16th, 1948. He was
a Radio and Aerial. Gunner, and en
tered the services of his Country Aug.
7th, 1941.
Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have two
other boys in service, namely: Sgt
Joab Penndl Burnett, U. S. Marines,
and Cadet Clay A Burnett, U. S.
Air Corps Advance Training, Luke
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Washington, Feb. St — American
householder* an to be allowed leas
tha;? half of the canned finite and
vegetables they have been in the
habit of eating under a "scant ra
tion" program starting next Monday.
by the Office of Price Administra
tion hut nirht provides, en an aver
age, for only about three cans per
person for the month.
Price Administrator Presitess
Brown estimated the civilian supply
from March 1 to September 1944,
would average a little more than
13,000,000 caaea a month compared
with 80,000,000 in 1941-42.
This week all families most live
on the canned goods they, have, and
next week, when sales are resumed,
they take a new kind of ration book
to the store.
Everyone has 48 points to "spend"
I in March, and families may pool
1 their points. It will take, for ex
ample, 14 points to boy a standard
: size can of corn or green beam, 16
for pea* or tpmaioea, 21 for peaches
or pears, 10 for grapefruit, 28 for
grapefruit Juice, 82 for large cans
of tomato or pineapple juice, 16 for
grape juice, 6 for soup, 1 for baby
food, about 18 points a pound for
fro rem fruits or vegetables.
Administrator Brown himaatf ac
knowledged that it is a "scant ra
tion" but said people will get along
on it "so that our fighting forces
and the fighting forces of oar allies
may ham the food they need to «ar
ry on." - -
Besides thumbing cookbooks, in
search of fresh vegetable receipts
this week, every family must send
an adult representative to register
for the new ration books. „
The blue coupons in the book are
for canoed goods; the red ones will
be used later for meat A. B., and
C. Mae coupons may be "spent" in
March. The figures—1, 2, 5, or 8—
are the point values. Thus two 8
point, or any other combination of
stamps adding up to 16 will buy M\
can of peas.
April's ration will become use
able on Match 26 in conjunction
with any March stamps left. This
one-week overlap will prevent peo
ple from being stock with • small
number of points which cant boy
anything.
About the only thing "cheap" on
the list, from a rationing stand
point, is canned sauerkraut, but
| there is hardly any of that on the
| market There is plenty of bulk
sauerkraut, which is not rationed.
The table of point values will be
posted in all grocery stores, and the
point values will be marked on each
can or shelf in the store, but the
housewives will want to clip copies
wherever available in order to fig
ure out their food budgets. ■
The table covers alT canned or
frosen fruits vegetables, dried
fruit, <$nnsd soup or baby food,
To be added to it in a few days will
be the point values of dried beans,
peas, and lentils, which were frown
without warning Saturday night; but
which do not have to be declared
tarns on many agricultural com
modities during 1948.
"Now I want to state frankly that
one way to stable farmers to re
ceive the returns necessary to oover
their costs would be by increasing
prices I do not believe, however,
that all thfcigs considered, Oat this
is the preferable way.
The secretary said that then an
other ways of giving farmers in
creased returns. He outlined them
as follows:
1—Government support of prices
of all farm products needed in the
war effort.
2—A government offer to purchase
certain products—such as soy beans,
Wickard has not been able to pro
ceed with the incentive payment
part of his program becaues' Con
gress hss refused so far to auaro
priate $100,000,800 eought for such
payments. Fam state congress
men hare also critised the ides
of government purchase of farm
commodities and ramie at lower
prices. •
/ The locality seised west of Khar
kov ni not identified. The commu
nique Mid 200 German bodies were
counted, and large quantities of
war material captured. This So
viet eoiumn was within 60 miles
of Poltava on the basis of Soviet
dispatches; Mil smtfcsr operating
from Krasnogard to the sooth was