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Gates County ROLL of HONOR KILLED Ensign O. C. Turner of Gatesville. Lt. Harry Matthews of Drum Hill. Carlyle Spivey of Hobbs ville. Cpl. Fred D. Matthews, native of Drum Hill. Cpl. Shirley R. Bunch of Sunbury. William Powell, Jr., Negro, ^killed at Pearl Harbor. F~" - .m. County Agent's News - Views You can always be sure of the yield of one crop — War Bonds. For every $3.00 you plant, you’ll get back $4.00 when your Bond crop matures.—PCA News. Want a Calf Two farmers within the past week have remarked that they have Guernsey calves for sale. Both animals could be sold for veal in a few weeks, but the owners prefer that the calves be placed on farms for future breeders. 'One calf, a purebred male (not registered), is three weeks old. The other, a heifer, is five weeks old. If interested, write the county agent. Hogged Wheat Saved Corn Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Carter of the Drum Hill neighborhood had % acre wheat planted on their farm in the Fall of 1943. After it matured this Spring, Mrs. Carter states that they decided to turn some hogs on it, as corn was scarce, and, too, they had no other way of harvesting the wheat. By so doing, it saved feeding corn, she said, and the dabor and expense of sowing the pgrain was hardly worth men tioning. In view of our present lack of feeds, our farmers could do noth ing better to overcome their predicament than to raise more small grain either for hogging down or combining. Three Inch Rain A little over three inches of rain fell last Friday night be tween 5 p. m. and 1:30 p. m., according to the local U. S. Weather Bureau rain guage. ;The total for the week was 3.45 inches. The rainfall for May this year was 2.33 inches, compared to 5.62 inches in the same month of 1943. Kittrell’s Hybrid Corn In the course of a conversa tion in the office with George P. Kittrell, progressive farmer, gin and saw mill operator of Parker’s Church neighborhood, he remarked that he was con ducting a demonstration with Funk’s hybrid corn in which six different strains of Funk’s corn, each occuping y2 acre, were be ing tried out on his farm. These strains of hybrid are 46j G 135, 711, 722, 680 and 515 (white). George says, his entire corn crop is hybrid and that it was show ing the effects from the dry feather, but since Friday night’s ^Rin, it has come out Wonder fully. He stated further that his pea nut crop was mighty good, at , least it was growing nicely and All Kinds Floors Scraped, Waxed, Finished 23 Years’ Experience. Work Guaranteed.- • J. S. HUDSON Phone 83-J Ahoskie,' N. C. he, had almost a perfect stand, due in part he thinks to the fact that the seed, excepting one bag, had been treated with Ara san. He has been disinfecting the seed for the past two seasons and is of the opinion that it pays him well. Rationing Program Subject of Report Released by Board During the hearings on the OPA budget before the House Appropriations Committee re cently, various facts concerning the accomplishments of price and rent control and rationing programs to date were brought out. Since then, similar facts have teen released through the local War Price and Rationing Boards. In rationing the 14 scarce commodities that have berm placed under rationing regula tions, OPA must see to it that a fair share goes to each of 127 million people. OPA must ap portion the limited amount of gasoline and tries not needed for war among 24 million passenger cars and handle the clerical work for rationing them to another five million buses and trucks. The equally scarce fuel oil must be alloted among five million homes and dwellings. Fourteen million homes and dwellings have been covered in recent control areas from Seattle to Bangor, Me. In spite of the size of the job, however, rents in the 370 critical areas have shown no rise whatever since these controls went into effect. In the price control program, QPIA has to deal with eight mil lion commodities, and on about one million of those, specific dollar and cents price ceilings have been placed. Before price control went into effect, the cost of living had risen per cent. Since controls have been established, however, the price rise has been only seven and one-half per cent. The cost to each person of running the entire program of rationing, price and rent con trol during the past year has been $1.33 for each one who had a ration book— that is, $1.33 for each man, woman, and child in the country. Almost half of that sum has been spent by lo cal boards which serve the com munity directly. Only about seven per cent of OPA’s paid employees work in Washington. More than half of the remainder are in 5,500 local War Price and Rationing Boards, and for every paid employee in OPA, there are two volunteers who are helping without pay. KEEP ON with WAR BONDS Our Post-war Plans for G. I. Joe... 2” m a series of ads on post-war opportunities When it’s over ''over there,” G. I. Joe will come home to a wave of gratitude such as this country never saw. And he’s earned every bit of it—and more. But gratitude won’t buy groceries—G. I. Joe wants to go to work. He’s got to have a job—and a chance to grow into still better jobs. We are going to do our part in the great task of providing these opportunities. The day after Pearl Harbor, Esso Marketers adopted a plan of wartime benefits and job protection for our people in uniform. We published its main points here recently. We now want to tell you about tw6 plans for taking returning servicemen into our organization. Here are their main points. PLAN ONE covers our own employees as they come back: 1. Assurance to each man of his old job or another as good or better. 2. Review of changes in the man and in the business since he went away to be sure he gets the best job for him now. 3. Recognition of the development of men during the war, by providing Setter jobs than they left, either at once or as soon as possible. 4. Provisions in the case of a man not physically up to his old job for finding one he can do, temporarily or per manently as soon as possible. . ' ~ PLAN TWO aims to take as many new people as possi ble from the armed services into our business. Post-war petroleum will need more people. Wartime experience will equip many men for this business. Here is our plan for these men: 1. Careful analysis of the man’s abilities as they can best fit our business on the basis of a real career for him. 2. Special training with pay to prepare the man for prompt assignment to a definite job on a regular basis. 3. This also means full participation in old-age pen sion, disability, savings plan, and other individual job security benefits which our employees share. 4. Opportunities for further training to prepare for advancement on a basis of proved ability. For information please address Mr. C. M. Byers, Division Manager Standard Oil Company of New Jersey 901 West First Street Charlotte 1, North Carolina _ Copr. 1944, Ewolne. STANDARD OIL C O M PA N Y OF N E W J E R S E Y
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