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Town & Farm
In Wartime
Prepared by the Rural Prese
Section of O.W.f.
New Regulations on Used Car
Used 1942 automobiles were
removed from rationing on July
2, OPA announced. The principal
reason for the rationing of used
1942 cars—that they were the
test automobiles in the country
aside from the new 1942 cars in
stock and so should be restricted
to essential user3 — no longer
holds true. Many of these cars
have been driven by public of
ficials, doctors and war workers
who travel long distances and,
consequently, the cars have had
more mileage and more hard us
age than some earlier models
that have been driven, fewer
miles. Therefore, continued ra
tioning is unnecessary, OPA said.
The four percent decrease on
used passenger car ceiling prices
will not affect the warranty al
lowance when this allowance
amounts to 1100 or less. OPA
said. The July 1 reduction, an
nounced June 7, is the first of
a series of four percent reduc
tions to be made once each half
year, reflecting normal deprecia
tion in value, OPA expla.ned.
Civilian Motorists Get 2,544.9*4
Car Tires in Jnlj
Borrowing 333.334 t_res from
inventories to meet not weather
replacement needs. '.VP3 allo
cated 2,500,000 passenger car
tires to OPA for civilian motor
ists during July. OPA announ
ced . "Tr.e 2,500.000 tnes allo
cated to OPA for rat.or.mg should
meet the immediate requirements
of the most essential drivers,”
Max McCullough, deputy admin
istrator for rationing,*’ said.
“Only B and C ration holders are
eligible for new tires and these
drivers, as well as A-card hold
ers, who must depend solely on
their present tires, must continue
to conserve their tires in every
way possible. Motorists whose
tires can be recapped are not
eligible for new tires and should
not apply.”
Interregional Worker
Recruitment to Spur
Employment
Because of the gradual con
version from wartime to peace
time activity and the simultane
ous continuation of war produc
tion, interregional recruitment
facilities of U. S. Employment
.Service offices will be made
available to employers engaged
in certain civilian production, as
well as war production, the War
Manpower Commission announ
ced. Local USES offices in areas
where the supply of labor is in
excess of local employer needs
will receive orders for workers
.from employers whose needs can
not be met in their own locali
ties, WMC said. “By such an
arrangement, surplus labor will
toe more quickly reemployed and
the labor requirements of em
ployers more quickly met,” WMC
officials said.
New Ceiling Prices For
Farm Products
A simplified schedule of cents
per-pound zone ceiling prices for
all poultry except ducks was an
nounced by OPA. It replaces the
former basing point system of
pricing poultry and provides
ceilings for all sellers. The re
cently announced national aver
age increase of 1.26 cents a pound
in the ceiling price ol young
chickens is reflected in the new
zone prices, effective July 1. The
general level of present retail
ceiling prices for all other poul
try remains ynchanged.
Ceiling Prices Set on Surplus
Army Shotguns
Ceiling prices have been esta
blished for shotguns, both new
and used, declared surplus by
the Ordnance Department of the
Army Service Forces, OPA an
' nounced.
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The Big Three
WW-tf-1
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Cates County
ROLL of HONOR
S----*
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
Snnbury.
Lient. Julian K. Jollif of
Gatesville.
T/5 Luther A. Eure of
Eure.
Pfc. Daniel C. Jones of
Gates.
Pvt. William E. Everette
of Gates.
Pvt. W. H. Wilkins of
Sunbury.
S/Sgt. Thomas H. Langs
ton of Gates.
T/5 Norman Buck of Drum
HUE
Pfc. Sawney Cecil Eure of
Gates.
Pfc. Bernard E. Hobbs of
Gates.
C.W.O. James E. Hinton
of Hobbsville.
Walter R. Blanchard, USN,
of Eason’s Cross Roads.
W. T. Pittman, USNR, of
Gates.
George D. Sparkman, Ne
gro, of Gates.
William Powell, Jr„ Negro,
killed at Pearl Harbor.
S/Sgt. Hilton Harrell of
Eure, Negro.
T/5 Jesse J. Bond of Gates,
Negro.
Announce Marriage
Ahoskie.—Mr. and Mrs. Thad
Holloman of Ahoskie, Route 4,
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Rose Goodwyn, to
Billy Richard Donkin, U. S. N.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Don
kin, Pa.
The marriage was solemnized
Saturday, July 21, at 7:30 p. m.
in Spurgeon Memorial Baptist
Church, Norfolk. The Rev. W. D.
Morris, pastor, officiated, using
the double ring ceremony.
FSA Families Making Plans to Can
50,000 Quarts of Food This Year
Jackson.—Plans for food con
servation made by FSA families
in Northampton County for the
current year call for 50,000
quarts of fruits, vegetables and
meats to be canned. This food
will be produced by the families
from their orchards, gardens and
livestock.
Put in dollars and cents, it
means that $7,500 worth of food
will go into jars and be placed
on pantry shelves during the
next six months. FSA families
know the value of producing
their own food and feed. They
also know they are contributing
to the war effort by not going
to the store and buying food
from the shelves. As one home
maker expressed it to Mrs.
Aileen Brown, FSA Home
Supervisor:
“Those of us who live in the
country and can grow our food
certainly should do so. I feel
real sorry for the city folks who
can’t go to the garden and get
j vegetables for dinner when- they
want them.”
“My children were not sick
nearly so much last winter, and
I know it was because they had
more to eat,” said Amie Mitchell,
another FSA homemaker. “When
we came on the program in 1941
Mrs. Brown talked to me about
| planting a better garden and
canning 560 quarts of food, and
I didn’t think it could be done,
but with her help we did it.
Last winter we canned 385
quarts of vegetables, 210 quarts
fruit and 68 quarts of meats—a
total of 663 quarts. If we had
had to go to the store and get
that much food it would have
cost $140. We couldn’t have had
that such because we would
not have had enough points to
get it, neither would we have
had that much money.”
YANKS SHELL JAPAN AT WILL—In the boldest naval ac
tion of the war, units of the U. S. Pacific fleet steamed into the
Jap front yard and for the first time tossed tons of shells from
heavy warships into a Jap city. The target was Kamaishi,
strategic steel-producing center on Honshu. More than 1,000
carrier planes swarmed over northern Honshu and Hokkaido
and, unchallenged by Jap aircraft, blasted enemy installations.
'Maps shows the U. S. base at Okinawa in relation to Japan.
Seventy German
Prisoners To
Do Farm Work
Winton. — Seventy-five Ger
man prisoners at Ahoskie Camp
have now been made available
for farm work in Hertford, Ber
tie, Chowan, Gates and North
ampton counties, according to J.
W. Ballentine, county agent here.
One hundred ninety are now be
ing used in industry.
The type of farm work they
will do will be regulated by
priority, with priority ratings
changing often. Ratings on farm
work from August through De
cember are as follows:
August 1-15: 1. Harvesting en
silage and hay, 2. Tobacco har
vesting, 3. Suckering tobacco, 4.
Chopping peanuts, 5. Applying
land paster to peanuts, 6. Shrub
bing.
August 16-31: 1. Hay harvest
ing. 2: Tobacco harvesting, 3.
Suckering tobacco, 4. Cutting
peanut poles, 5. Digging holes
and setting peanut poles, 6.
Grading tobacco, 7. Shrubbing.
September 1-15: 1. Harvest
ing tobacco, 2. Peanut harvest
ing, 3. Grading tobacco, 4. Cut
ting peanut poles, 5. Digging and
setting peanut poles, 6. Shrub
bing, 7. Seed winter cover crops.
September 16 to October 15: 1.
Peanut harvesting, 2. swreet pota
to harvesting, 3. Tobacco grad
ing, 4. Seed winter cover crops.
October 16-31: 1. Stacking
peanuts, 2. sweet potato harvest
ing, 3. Picking peanuts, 4. Com
harvesting, 5. Tobacco grading,
5. Seed w'inter cover crops.
November 1 to December 31:
1. Peanut picking, 2. Com har
vesting, 3. Preparing tobacco and
plant beds, 4. Tobacco grading.
During the peanut harvesting
season the camp’s total number
of prisoners will be increased
to 500 to take care of the peanut
harvesting, according to C. J.
Quarrington. Contracts for pri
soner Labor will be made
through the county agent’s of
fice.
Tar and Gravel
Treatment Given
Highway 305
Jackson. — The Jackson-Rich
Square highway is being tarred
and gravelled by a work crew
of the state highway and public
works department. The project
carried out extends from Pine
Fork at Jackson to the stop light
at Rich Square.
Due to the condition of the
roads that have been tarred and
the rainy weather of the past
week, the highway has been very
slippery in sections and several
automobiles and trucks have
slipped off the road into ditches
near the shoulders.
Although no serious accident
has been reported, some of the
cars have sustained bent fenders
and dented radiators and a few
drivers and occupants have been
slightly bruised and shaken up
when their automobiles ran off
the embankment.
Suggestions For
Tying Tobacco
Winton.—Tobacco farmers are
urged by the Bright Belt Ware
house Association to do every
thing possible to enable the
buyers to handle the maximum
amount of tobacco through their
redrying plants during the sell
ing season.
Farmers are asked not to do
four things: Do not tie tobacco
in large bundles, do not tie to
bacco when wet or in high or
der, do not dip stems in water
before tying, and do not
cover the butt ends of stems with
leaf.
They are asked to tie tobacco
in neat, medium-sized bundles,
sort tobacco carefully and re
move all strings.