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THE NEWS-JOURNAL. RAEFOKO, N. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 4. 1943
Of Interest to Farmers
Rural Women Will ; State College
Pledge More "Food Answers Timely
For Freedom" j Farm Questions
Mrs. Esielle T. Smith, assistant
home demonstration agent at N. C.
Suite College, has announced that all
rural women in North Carolina will
lie d'.ven too opportunity of signing
a pUdi.'e in the "Food F'or Freedom"
vaivpaiKn, which will be held during
M .-e'i.
President of the home demon
U; t on clubs county federation pivs
ii!c"K district chairmen, members
of the executive boards, and home
ler:i.iist:.!t."ii ayents are all takinR
a part in tho drive. Home demon-.-,1
ration elub women, with the as
s. ;t nee ot neighborhood leaders.
w :11 visit every family in their dis
tricts and explain the food situation.
Mr;. Smith said that ' L ve-at-Jlo'iie"
is not just a popular slogan
but it is an idea hifh . hould re
ceive tho serious consideration of
larm la. l .ly tnnnmhout the
Plenty of fresh fruits and
-W':. during the season and
h home-ranned prodtats fur
m under of tin; year, will rv
t'n stni'n on rationed foods,
iiitttl-.wte supply tit
m-d product . l.r
and the Allies,
i-r aked t i make
li" of n d for
t'on !aiiyhe- for
rev.i'.t '.: c V.etory
i N.i 1 voiei't on
every
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loin
inemher
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Klines lor canning.
ring ; nd drying foods will be
Thousands of home denion-
str, tiun elub women throughout
North Carolina have produced and
conserved enough food for tiie en
tre familv n the past, and the e lead
ers will attempt to .v-ake the "Live-at-Home"
program a realitv on every
farm in 1943.
THAT VICTORY GARDEN'.
HERE'S WHAT IT DOES
Q. What are the lime requirements
of peanuts?
A. Te. units need limestone both in
the root zone and m the area of the
land where the peanuU are forming
says Dr. E. K. Collins, who is in
j.'har;.'e of Kxlens.on Agronomy at
State College. Four hundred pounds
of ground dolomitie li nestone should
be appliud in the row and mixed
with liic soil with a fertilizer distri
butor. Burned lime, potash limp or
gypsum (and plaster) may be ap
plied along the row where needed.
Q. How can I distinguish blue
mold in my tobacco bed?
A. The plants may show various
symptoms such as slight wilting,
pale green color, or dvad leaves. The
presence of gray to blue mold on the
lower side of the pale-green leaves
is a lire sign of the diseas-e. This
symptom distinguishes it from cold
injury, burn trom nitrate of soda,
or other conditions sometimes con
f .si".l with it. If the night tempera
tuns are below ). degrees or above
05 digiocs. the di ease di es not de
velop rapidly.
Cotton Limit
Plan Totters
Growers Flood Wnshington
With Protests Against Com
pulsory Crop Control.
Peanuts Given
Price Levels
Ceilings Established for Prod
net Front Farm Right Down to
the Consumer.
Saves Monry Every member of a
well-fed family consumes $25 to $30
-wjrtfc. of vegetables every year.
Raise these in your garden and save.
A garden one-half to three-fourth
acre will supply the year-round
needs of a family of five.
Protects Health Home - grown
vegetables are rich in vitamins and
nutrients. They can't be duplicated
m the market or at the store.
Home-grown vegetables add va
nity to your diet and give vitality
and health to yaur body.
AWs Victory By keeping your
family strong and self sufficient
willv plenty of home-grown food, you
are helping to defend America.
Price Raised
On Newsprint
Washington. Feb. 227. The Cana
dian and American governments an
nounced today a S4 a ton increase in
the ce ling for standard newsprint
paper. The announcement was made
jointly by the Office of Price Ad
ministration and the Canadian War
time Prices and Trade board.
The increase becomes effective
March 1.
OPA Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown said the increase was neces
sary "because the newsprint indus
try can no longer absorb the increas
ed cost which war conditions have
brought about."
Washington, Feb. 28. The admin- !
istration's compulsory cotton control
program tottered today before a l is-
ing tine of oppo ition in Congress.,
among grouvrs and in the industry, ;
The program is designed by Soe- i
rotary of Agriculture Wickard to j
prevent expanded planting of the;
types of cotton of which there is ai
relatively large supply and to en-1
courage instead the planting of war
time food crops, part cularly peanuts
and soybeans for vegetable oils, on
land which otherwise would be u. ed
for cotton.
Demands that the program be
abandoned have reached Wickard in
such proportions in recent days that
his aides expressed doubt he will I
be able to withstand them.
The program features a rigid
marketing quota system under which!
farmers are subject to a cash penal-!
ty or nearly half of the market value!
of cotton sold in excess of AAA sales!
allotments. 1
i Chairman Tarver, Democrat ol
-Georgia, of a House appropriations I
subcimvi'tee, drafting the Agricul-!
'tore Department's new supply bill,'
; .summoned I. W. Dugan, AAA direr-
I tor. before the committee timorrow ;
! to explain why the quotas should not !
(be removed and fanner., allowed to!
'plant all the cotton they want. Op.
' position to the quotas has been par-j
licuiarly strong among Ueorgia far
i mers.
I Want Limit Dropped
An appeal for unlimited cotton
production has been made by Oscar
Johnston, president of the National
Cotton Council and a former AAA
official. Emphasizing that cotton
seed is a source of edible vegetable
oil and of protein feeds for livestock
commodities needed in larger
quantities Johnston said,
"Soil, climate, equipment and ex
perience of cotton producers are not
adapted to the production of any
Washington, Feb. 27. Congress-
ran Herbert C. Bonner of the First
North Carolina district was advi ed
today by the OPA that maximum
prices for peanut prices, from the
farm right down to the consumer,
have been established today. The
regulation, effective immediately,
which while putting the first price
control on this commodity at the
farm level, replaced a t.mporary de
comber 1942, -f-eeze" at ather lev
els. The maximum prices per ton F.
O. B. local shipping point, which
glowers may charge for fap.rers'
: tock peanuts are, Virginia type,
grade U. S. .Vo. 1, and 2 classes A
and below), $168; white Spanish type
all grades, $169; Runner type, all
grades. $154. Tho grades and class
es are those of the Department of
Agriculture.
Vi'ginia type peanuts are the on
ly kind unshelred after the shelters
have cleaned and graded the farm
trs' stocks. A maximum price of 15
and one-fourth cents a pound was
established.
Growers Are Of
fered New Publica
tion On Peanuts
A new publication entitled "Pro
ducing Peanuts For Oil" has insl
been issued by the Extension Ser
vice of N. C. State College. Grow-
9
ers may obtain a free copy by ad
dressing a postcard to the Agricul
tural Editor of the College at Ral
eigh. The bulletin discusses "Proper
Soil Selection," "Choosing a Varie
ty," "Seed Treatment," "Fertiliza
tion," and many other factors in
volved in succe sfully growing the
crop. Farmers who are planting
peanuts for the first time, as a part
of their war effort, should by all
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other crops yielding anything Ike
comparable quantities of foods, feeds,
fibres, or raw materials necessary to
tiie war effort."
John (ton reported a general lack
of information and understanding of
the "tremendous importance of the
A nerican cotton crop as a producer
of food and feed."
"This erroneous impression is caus
ing ser ous troubles in many quar
ters." he said. "It ii placing the cot
ton farmer in an unfair and unpa
trotic light in the eyes of the general
public and is having a serious, ad
verse effect upon his efforts to secure
the labor, farm machinery and sup
plies necesary in making his crop.
It is impeding the operation of all
branches of the raw cotton industry
from production to manpfacturers
in making their maximum contri
bution to the war effort."
The removal last week of restric
tions on wheat apparently gave im
petus to demands for the lifting of
cotton quotas.
NOTICE OF
lax Listing
The following List Takers have been appointed for Hoke
County:
TOWNSIHP:
LIST TAKER:
Allendale Archie McGugan
Antioch J. A. Hodgin, Jr.,
Blue Springs R. J. Hasty
Little River Daniel McGill
McLauchlin M. G. Ray
Qucvvhifile Mrs. M. L. Maultsbuy
Racford D. S. Poole
Stonewall V. J. McBryde
Please see the List Taker of your Township and list
your property and poll before March 1st. Please remem
ber that it is a violation of law not to list and pay taxes on
your dog. When you go to list be prepared to give the list
taker your crop census report.
SIGNED,
J. A. McGOOGAN
TAX SUPERVISOR
"There is Today
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Ixoaora straightened the objects
on her aesn wun great care, one uau
put her desk at the end of her room
facing the door so that when her
mother came in she would have to
cross the whole room under Leo
nora's stern executive eye to get to
her. From movies and pictures in the
newspapers Leonora had gotten a
good idea of how the desk of a busy
woman of affairs should look.
With an important scowl, Leonora
picked up a sheet of paper. Now she
was two people herself, the busy
woman, and her own stenographer.
"Misn Simpkins, take a letter to the
Secretary of the Treasury, will you?" "
she murmured under her breath.
Yes, immediate
ly," she mur
mured back at
herself.
Leonora cleared
her throat nnd
looked at the ceil
ing for inspira
tion. Miss Simp
kins bent over the
ohpet of naoer
hanging on the words about to tall
"Dear Mr. Morgenthaji, -rt
that" "Yes. madam."
-I em ahem thirteen years
old and anxious to be of all possible
service to the country at this time,
"1 earn a weoklv income or frf.m
$1 37 to $2.12 by helping with the
housework and by shove'lmg snow.
1 am at present in possession ol one
War Savings Bond and am buying
..tamps weekly. I want to become a
member of the 10 percent Ciub. I
feel it to be - ahem not only my
duty, but my privilege ( Ho-.v do
you spell privilege?" asked Miss
Simpkins. "Don't bother me with
these details." said Leonora) my
crivilege as an American to invest
at least ten percent of my income in
War Bonds. , ,
Yours truly."
"Get that off at once. Miss Simp
kins." said Leonora. "Yes, Ma am!
You certainly are an important
woman, ma'am," said Miss Simp-
kl(Letter from an actual communi
cation in the files of the Treasury
Department.) V. S. Twn Dfrtmt
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Power has never been "too little or too late" . . . There is today no shortage
ol pevm ... I do not know of a single instance in which the operation oi
a 72r plant has been delayed by lack o! power supply.
The above statements were made by J. A. Kwg, Director ot the
C! lice oi V ar Utilities, War Production Board, on February 16, 1 943.
I.ECTRICITY is the life blood of war production", said J. A. Krug, Dire:. or of the
Office of War Utilities, so naturally we of the Carolina Power & LigM Co" y
ere prcud to be among those companies in the nationwide power system that
locked ahead so electricity has never been "too little or too late". We're cor
'o look ahead and expect to be able to supply every need for electric rervice i
teiritory. Today tere is plenty of power for all the needs of all our cv.T:?: "
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