»«• 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. mBgg&v-ii ■, . . ... ’ . The Big Three WW-tf-1 *S-fe 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.