AT THE MOVIES IN CHERRYVILLE THURS.-FRIDAY AT THE LESTER Lee Bowman and Jeao Arthur admire the light ot their live* in this od terrace system established. V terrace that will meet specifica tions can be built with farm equip ment providing sufficient lime and effort is put on it. It's more effec tive from the standpoint of ero sion control and receiving credit for construction to complete one terrace at a time. Don’t stop when it’s half completed and start on another. If it's up to specifications it will do the job it’s intended to do. If not, nothing has been ac complished. John F. Ferguson, R-3, Gasto nia, in the Union Church sectTifn, is using his labor to pood advan tage these rough days in putting sprouls and trees out of the pas Hire and applying lime. He plans to disk the lime in lightly after spreading it to enable it to work into the soil more effectively. The Rural Electrification Ad ministration announces a loan al lotment of $53,000 to the Wood stock Electric Membership Cor poration, Belhaven. The WFA predicts that the 1945 butter production will be even smaller than last year, but sup plies of margarine are reported ample. Peanut buttef promises to be of better quality. If a clear broth or consomme is desired, heat the strained broth from which all fat has been re I moved, with the crushed shell and beaten white of an egg. The egg white collects the solid particles in the broth. The 1944 crop of flue cured to bacco was the second largest in U. S. history and the burley crop the largest of record. The War Food Administration says that home gardens will be just as necessary this year as last Last year 88 per cent of all farm had gardens and 44 per cent of the town and city folks. Quick freezing makes meat tender. It is believed that the formation of ice crystals within the fibers of the meat, which re sults in splitting the fibres, brings about the “tenderizing”. While men’s work shoes went up 126 per cent in price In World War 1, the rise in the present conflict has been only 58 per cent,1 according to reports. During cold weather, care must be exercised to see that hogs but chered and hung up to chill are not permitted to freeze. A frozen carcass must be thawed out be fore the meat is put in cure. BEHIND THE SCENES „ ||| AMERICAN BUSINESS / ' NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Mounting casualty lists and unexpected pro longation of the war with Gei ma ny have restrained the enthusiasm with which Americans are wont to celebrate the dawning of a new year. Yet there is much that this country can rejoice in as it con templates the outlook tor 1940. Our fighting forces have packed into one year a record of military and naval accomplishments unpar alleled in history. They are better clothed and better fed than the fighting forces of any other na tion, and, with minor exceptions, their equipment is superior in quality and quantity to that of the enemy both in Europe and in the Pacific. At. home, civilians too are the best clothed and fed of any civil ians anywhere, despite shortages and the necessity for stricter rat ioning. PRODUCTION FORCES IN1ACI Moreover, agriculture and in dustry—upon which nations today :'iust place greater reliance than in any previous war—have, in America, been unscathed by ene my occupation or enemy bombs. | The superior industrial and agricul tural machine which America pos sessed as early as World War 1 and has since built up to much greater proportions, is prepared to maintain with undiminished vigor the vital battle of produc tion. This is the keynote of the year end statements of our leaders m many lines of important home front endeavor. “The automobile industry will not have to chart its course for 1945,” says J. F. Frazer, president of Graham Paige Motors."It is the same which has been followed so diligently for the past three years—win the war as quickly as possible by produc ing fighting weapons on a scale unequaled in the nation’s history.’ The potent industrial force which America has mobilized to the point of being a decisive factor in the drives of the United Nations on every front is symbolized in the miracle that has occurred in rub ber. This is brought strikingly to our attention in the year-end state ment of John L. Collyer, president i of the B. F. Goodrich company, who says that America’s war-born | synthetic rubber industry emerged j in 1944 as the major source of the i nation’s rubber supply, account- j ing for 80 per cent of the year’s ■ consumption. ‘ i Even more significant, ne is the fact that synthetic rubber^ production has climbed is the fact that synthetic rubber Even more significant he says, mere 6,000 tons in 1941 to » >» of 800,000 tons, which is taster than this nation ever consumed rubber, even in .be *“;«?• ord vear of 1941, when 781,000 tons were used. The number one problem of the rubber mdustry now and in 1945, Mr. Collyer points out, is not raw material, but how, with the manpower avail able. to build the material into sufficient war goods to meet the desperate needs. Aluminum ‘Over The Top’ if rubber were not enough, we can nlso view with pride the country's achievement in multiply ing bv several times the capacity for production of the vital war and aviation metal, aluminum. In fact, says I. W, Wilson, vice-pres ident of the Aluminum Company of America, the industry in 1944 went far enough “over the top” in supplying needs of the United States and its allies to permit the WPR to close down entirely a number of government-owned alu minum plants, releasing thousands of workers to the shell producing plants ami other critical industries which need them badly for the fi nal, all-out victory drive. Even with substantial concur rent reduction in Alcoa’s produc tion, aluminum is still being made in this country at a rate three Because of its availability, adds times that of the peacetime peak. Mr. Wilson, aluminum during ’44 was not only returned to those military uses for which other ma terials had been substituted, but was, itself, substituted in many cases for other materials less plen tiful in supply. The new year, he says, should see growing amounts of aluminum going into the semi military and civilian uses which must be expanded as rapidly as manpower may be safely diverted to their development. FOOD OUTPUT STABILIZED Meanwhile in the vital matter of food, John A Hartford, presi dent of the Great Atlantic & Pa cific Tea comnany, foresees pro duction in 1945 being fairly well stabilized at last year’s level, and beieves it is time to begin giving increased attention to the task of retaining currently expanded mar kets for farm produce in the days of peace. Howells C January wfliC J 9 HATS 1-2 Price See our rack of Dresses Crepes and Woolens REDUCED TO $8.95 One Lot of Dresses Values to $7.95 REDUCED TO $3.98 All Fall And Winter Coats Greatly Re duced. HOWELL’S CHERRYVILLE, N. C.