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MONDAY, (X’TOBER 23. 1044.
THE NATIONAL WAR FUND
asks you to give generously to
YOUR COMMUNITY
WAR FUND
don’t let them down NOW!
TROOPS IN PACIFIC AREA.
For a long time it has been the
opinion of most Americans that
after Hitler is conquered the
war against Japan will be
mostly a naval and aerial af
fair. The United States alone
has now gained distinct supe
riority over the Japanese fleet,
without counting the powerful
British naval organization. And
so far as aerial forces are con
cerned our equipment is far
superior to that of the Japs.
Therefore it has been believed
that we ought soon to be able
to bomb the Japs into submis
sion, especially if we can get
the proper air bases in China
and Siberia.
But now it is becoming more
than possible that we may
need a considerable ground
force in the Pacific area too. j
The Japs, making progress
while we are busy in Europe,
have been penetrating further
and further into China. The
Chinese are becoming more and
more desperate and are begin
ning to complain about the
small amount of material help
they have received.
Before the war against the
Japs can be completely won
they must be driven out of
China as well as out of the
Philippines and the East In
dies. Whether destroying To
kyo and other cities on the
Japanese islands will be suffic
ient to do this is problematical.
It is possible that the Japs may
dig in in China and fight foot
by foot, using all the delaying
tactics possible, including va
rious forms of jungle guerilla
warfare at which they seem
adept.
If this possibility turns out to
be the true one then we are
going to need much infantry
force before the Japs are thor
oughly beaten, especially if
first they succeed in thorough
ly demoralizing the Chinese
Army.
It is not at all sure, there
fore, that finishing the Japs
will be merely a matter of de
stroying their fleet and bomb
ing their cities into ruins.
GET OUT AND VOTE.
At least one (maybe two)
political party is passing word
around through its avenues of
intelligence, that the election
may be lost because several
million voters, it is feared, will
stay at home. This writer can't
figure out who can possibly get
hurt if everybody gets out and
votes, and we are in favor of
every man and woman doing
that very thing.
Under the American system
all the people are supposed to
be running this country of ours.
And if the estimate of the Gal
lup Poll that the number of
votes will be only 39,500,000 in
1944 turns out to be correct
“the wrong man” may be se
lected by reason of the absen
tee voters—because that is 16,- 1
300,000 fewer votes than were
cast in 1940.
Regardless of politics, no !
American voter should allow |
himself, or herself, to become j
a guilty party by failure to vote
in the election of a President.
So, everybody should go to the
polls and vote.
WHAT NEXT?
Mechanized manure remov
al is the latest wrinkle now be
ing developed for dairy farms.
Agricultural engineers are ex
perimenting with a slow mov
ing, endless belt conveyor
placed in the droppings trough.
It is designed to deliver its load
direct to the manure spreader
outside the barn. This is not all
that has come to light of late in
the line of farm invention. A
New York farmer, tired of
pitching in hay by hand, cut
off the blower end of his
threshing machine, put the dis
charge shoot in the loft, and
did as much work with two men
as five would normally do.
People wonder how the
American farmer has managed
to get along during the war, in
the face of labor shortage. He
has done it through determina
tion and ingenuity. If it had not
been for these assets plus the
effective help of his marketing
organizations, the farmer
would have been out of busi
ness long ago.
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Z. B. RITCHIE WRITES TIMES
DESCRIPTION OF FLA. STORM
Z. B. Ritchie, who left Lincolnton
last week for his winter home in Pun
ta Gorda, Fla., has written the editor
of the Times the following account of
the hurricane which struck the state
of Florida:
“We got here Tuesday evening, Oc
tober 17, and on Wednesday as 1 '.vert
up town to have the water and lights
turned on, the people began to tell me
1 was just in time for one of the worst
hurricanes yet to hit Florida. It was
heading fo r Cuba and Key West and
the south end of Florida. It was rain
ing some and the wind blowing all
day, getting harder late in the after
noon. We got word the worst of the
storm would hit here about 12 o’clock
Wednesday night, then later we got
word it would hit Fort Myers next
morning about 8 o’clock.
“Well, dark came and no power or
lights. We got a couple of candles, all
w 3 could get, to make a light. The
dark clouds were moving fast and the
wind and rain getting harder ail the
time. We put ou r boy to bed and my
wife and 1 never went to bed. About
10 o’clock we got the b< y up and put
on his clothes. 1 went from one room
to another to get in one where I
could not hear the wind so plain. V\ e
discussed what to do and finally de
| t ided to go to the court house, hut
j when I looked out it was so dark and
We had no lights. About 12 o’clock it
was awful. A big palm tree blew
on the east corner of our house, hut
I think it really helped to hold the
house down. Our neighbor’s house on
the east side also protected ours. A
big porch roof, about 12 by 30 feet
blew off a two-story house east of our
back lot and fell about 20 feet from
our garage. Had it hit the garage 1
would have had a badly wrecked car.
“As I said this was about 13 o'clock,
and really the worst of it, but we did
not know it, as we had a report earlier
that the worst would come about 8
o’clock the next morning.
“The hours passed mighty slow, and!
we longed for daylight to come so we
could find a safer place, but by morn
ing the wind had checked some and
we went out about 9 o’clock to see
some of the damage. Some buildings
were wrecked, roofs torn off, some
brick walls fell, som e of the tin roof
on the Charlotte Harbor Hotel rolled
up like a scroll, tree's were uprooted
and broken down and the tops and
limbs torn off hundreds of trees. All
grape fruit and oranges blown off ex
cept where the trees were behind
buildings.
“The wind changed some time aft
e,. the hardest part was over. It came
from the west and held the tidewater
back until it came out to Main street.
But it is all over now except cleaning
up the debris.
“No train in yet that I know of.
The sun is shining and a nice day and
I am glad to see it. I have been com
ing to Florida most every year since
1906 and this was my first tropical
storm to experience. I must go out
pretty soon and see if it blew all the
fish away. I asked my boy how he
liked the storm and he said, ‘Pretty
well, it gave me something to see.’
"They claim the wind was about 100
miles perhour and some of llie natives
claim it was as bad as any they ever
had. I thought this might be of some
interest to the readers of the Lincoln
Times.”
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THE LINCOLN TIMES, LINCOLNTON, N. C„ MONDAY, OCT. 23. 1044
Seama,n Scoggins
Veteran Os The
Normandy Assault
Aboard the USS Malov, France,;
Oct. 2. (Delayed).—Still on the job;
oft the coast of France, this doughty |
destroyer escort of the U. S. Navy, a 1
veteran of the Normandy assault, has
been logging up a creditable record;
of war service.
Cleave M. Scoggins, 20. seaman,
first class, USNR., of Lincolnton, N.
C., thus summarized his experiences
as a crew member of the Maloy:
“We got oft* to a good start on D-
Dav by knocking down a Jl T BB with
our guns,” he said. “And since then,
we’ve seen plenty of action.”
While on patrol off th*' Nazi-held
Channel island, the Maloy came un
dei the hre of heavy shore guns. Al
though the German gunners fired 38
rounds at the vessel, she maneuvered
too quickly and the heavy shells
splashed harmlessly in the sea nearby.
On another occasions, Scoggins said,
his ship went in close to one of the
islands and again the shore emplace
ments opened up on her.
“Their first salvo straddled us,
showering shrapnel along our star
board side and hitting some depth
charges,” he related, “it was close
enough fo r me.”
Later the Maloy stood off St. Male,
France, within sight of the bombing
and subsequent surrender of Ceza
more, a fortified island which held
out long after German forces on the
mainland gave up.
“That was some show.” Scoggins
declared.
During the initial assault on France
the Maloy carried the stag of Com
n odore Campbell D. Edgar. CSX.. Ca
zenovia. New York, who commanded
an important phase of the invasion.
Scoggins’ home address is ill N.
High Street, Lincolnton. He previous
ly participated in the invasion of
North Africa. After attending Ruth
High School, he was employed by. the
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Legumes Increase
Pasture Production
Responses to fertilization on pas
tuies at the Lower Coastal Plain Sta
tion in North Carolina depend on
what kinds of plants are growing in
I the pasture, says the sixty-sixth an
' nual report of the Agricultural Expe
' ri merit Station at State College.
W ith Dallas grass and carpet grass
od, without legumes, the yield on the
unfertilized plot was 1,2X>9 pounds of
lorage. Additions of limestone, phos-1
phate and potash did not increase the I
yield, hut the application of 200!
i pounds of nitrate of soda raised the
j yield to 2,105 pounds.
However, when low hop clover was j
added to the grasses, the yield was,
1,444 pounds w hen unfertilized; 3,0081
pounds w ith limestone, phosphate and
potash; and 2,670 pounds when nitro
gen was added to these fertilizers.
Kent wild white clove r in
! much the same way as hop clover.
The yield of this clover and the
i glasses was 1.371 pounds on the un
| fertilized area. 3,175 pounds with
limestone, phosphate and potash; and
j about the same yield w ith the addi
-1 lion of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda.
Eight grass-legume combinations
I were tested unde,, six fertilizer treat
ments, but the use of low hop clover
I or Kent wild clover in the mixtures,
i with applications of limestone, phos
phate unad potash, produced ti e most
i economical forage.
Soldiers Attending
Religious Services
I Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 16.—Soldie r at
i tendance at 5.465 religious services
j conducted in chapels at Army posts,
i camps and stations in the southwest
. ern states was nearly 250,000 in Sep-
I tember, according to a report released
today by Chaplain (Colonel) Ralph W.
I Rogers, chaplain. Fourth Service Com
-1 mand.
There wer e 2.221 Sunday services
with a soldier attendance of 102,170,
while 57,391 soldiers attended the 3,-
244 weekly services. In addition, chap
lains stationed at the various Army
installations in the southeast conduc
ted 1.410 services off their posts, at
tended by 76,623 civilians, in which
connection Chaplain Rogers explained
that it is the practice of Army chap
lains to conduct services at communi
ty churches upon invitation, when-
I ever possible.
j Post chaplains made 5.752 hospital
visits, speaking to 75,358 patients ami
held 2,853 interviews with prisoners
* on 540 guardhouse visits. A total of
1.208 welfar e cases were handled.
Consider Rotations
In Fertilizer Plans
In determining what fertilizer to
use for a particular crop, most farm
ers consider the needs of the crop and
the type of soil on which the crop is
grown, in selecting the fertilizer
r.teded.
This plan provides only two legs
fo r the stool, and sometimes it top
ples over. Dr. Emerson Collins, in
charge of Extension Agronomy at
State College, suggests that growers
plan their fertilizer programs so a*
to keep them in balance with the par
ticular rotations that are followed on
the farm. This plan provides a third
leg fo r the stool.
! The requirements of cotton on land i
I that has been in small grain and hay;
i ciops for two years, for example, may
bi quite different from cotton in a
three-yea r rotation of corn, cotton and
I small grain, with a crop of lespedeza
turned under the third year.
I How iiie various crops in the rota
| tion are fertilized has an important
bearing on working out the program
so as to maintain the proper balance.
| Does the corn crop receive a com
plete fertilize r and a nitrogen of top
dressing or only a nitrogen topdress
ing? If the corn receives only nitro
gen, what about the phosphates and
potash needed to maintain a proper
| balance ?
In his December Suggestions Shett,
which will come out next month, Dr.
Collins will give the plant removal of
fertilizer materials by various crops.
This information may be obtained at
tlie office of the county agent in De
cember and will serve as a basis for
' planning the 1945 fertilizer program,
j Dr. Collins suggests that every far
| mer ask himself the following ques
j tion: “Are the fertilizers applied to
the various crops maintaining soil
! fertiity?”
! . T — :
i Keeping six or seven dairy cows
j on the farm to fully utilize labor and
i bring i»i a cash income throughout
! the year is a good plan fo r many far
] mers, suggests T. J. W. Broom, vet
' eran county agent of the State College
| Extension Service.
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Democratic Campaign
Meetings Scheduled
Raleigh. Oct. 22.—Campaigners of
the Democratic party will wind up
their 12 congressional rallies this
week with meetings at Burlington in
the Sixth district Tuesday, and at
Lumberton in the Seventh district
Wednesday, William B. Uinstead,
state chairman said today.
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rallies, ami former Governor Clyde
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U. S. St ante, will speak at the Bur
lington meeting. At each place, the
respective congressmen from the dis
trict are expected to be present and
to make addresses.
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