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SEP 20 1 94 5 CQME
to hear
REV. H. B. ANDERSON
at the
SWANNANOA BAPTIST CHURCH
Charles Jollay, Pastor
EACH NIGHT BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 24. 1:45 P. M.
This meeting is planned for the moral and spiritual bless
ing of the entire community. Every person in the com
munity is urged to hear a man who preaches the true Gospel
simply, forcefully and fearlessly.
Those who accept Christ as their Saviour will not be
asked to join a church until after the meeting closes. Then
each one will make his own choice of the church he wished
to join. We desire to see people saved and reconsecrated
more than we desire addition to our own church membership.
One who is born again will join some church. _______
Multiplied thousands have felt the moving power of this
great man.
The person reading this is urged to attend every service
and bring a friends!. !
GOOD SINGING - GOOD PREACHING
GOOD FELLOWSHIP
Rev. H. B. Anderson hails from Durham, N. C., and
is a dynamic speaker and Gospel preacher of wide reputation.
FIRST ARMY HOSPITAL
BED FINANCED BY
SWANNANOA SCHOOL
The first Army hospital bed in
North Carolina financed by school
children through their purchases of
war saving bonds and stamps will
be dedicated at Moore General Hos
piltal next Monday at 10:3" A. M.
by the student body of Swannanoa
Sshool.
The lied is located in ward 204
of the Army Hospital and at pres
ent is occupied by Technician
Fourth Grade Ben Gaddy of R. R.
No. 2, Waynesville, X. C. Sgt. Gaddy
is a veteran of 21 months of over
seas service with the Amplibious
Engineers in the Luzon and wears
three bronze battle stars. He also
wears the Good Conduct Medal and
the Philippine Liberation Medal.
The decal on the bed will be de
dicated by a committee of students
pf the Swannanoa School, headed
•by E. N. Howell, principal. It will
•>e inscribed as follows: "To Speed
Your Recovery, the Students and
Teachers of Swannanoa School have
successfully completed a War Bond
ind Stamp campaign to help finance
he hospital facilities YOU are us
; ng."
j The dedication slated for Moore
[ Jeneral Hospital is one of many
so be held throughout the country
its school children, using the slogan
[‘Care Is Costly", seek through the
P nurchase of bonds and stamps to
[ levote their investments to the
i apid recovery of sick and wounded
I ervicemen.
■; The ceremony will be attended
By represenitives from the North
[ Carolina War Finance Committee in
f’H-eensboro. Mrs. Margaret Biair is
; tate chairman of the Education Di
i
I ision of this committee.
| It is estimated that it costs ap_
I roximateiv $3,000 p>er annum to
I nance an army hospital tied. Mr.
| Towel! revealed that since the close
| ' the 7th. War Loan in early sum-
I ier, Swannanoa School children
I ad teachers have bought approxi
-1 ately $9,000 worth of bonds.
• Master Set, David Harrison Jr.
i ill arrive the states shortly from
I le European theatre. He has been
I tached to the 17th Airborne Div.
t Europe and who has done much
ward bringing the war to a final
| ose. He is a member of the 411th
I .rborne Div. and Sgt. in the S2nd
| W. O. Cove, warrant officer (jg),
I Worchester, Mass., has reported
| Moore General Hospital for duty
B ith the finance department, Col.
| ank W. Wilson, commanding of
| :er announces.
| Mr. Cove is a regular Army man,
I ving served in the army for almost
ft ?m years. He has been stationed
I' Panama. Fort Devens.Mass., and!
| the European Theatre. He was i
i th the finance department in Eng-
BUY VICTORY BONDS
Übiko Feeds - Fertilizers - Seeds
SWANNANOA
FEED STORE
HOWARD W. BATEMAN, Owner
Honeycomb Fitting Ration - Life Guard Dog Feed
Union Grains - Dairy Rations - Übiko Calf Meal
Übiko Horse, Steer and Hog Feeds
Poultry and Turkey Rations
land, and Wales.
He and Mrs, Cove are now residing
on Montreat Road in Black Moun-
I tain.
Our Boys in Service
SGT HARRISON ON WAY HOME
Master Sgt. David Harrison. Jr.,
of Swannanoa is due to arrive in
the States shortly. David has been
With the 17th Airborne Division
in the European theatre and has
achieved much toward the final
decision in Europe. He also is a
member of the 4>lth Airborne A.
M. Division and Sgt. in S2nd di
vision also. Set. Harrison has been
in several campaigns, such a-'
Sicily, Italy. Normandy. Holland,
and Central Europe. His wife.
Mrs. Mary Katherine Harrison,
resides on Brevard road.
Charles Linder Allen, gunners
mate 2 c, assigned to transport
in South Pacific, took part in
several campaigns. Charles, at the
age of 23, went through the
Tarawa and Okinawa invasions
t without a scratch. He has been
in service for three years and
after Tarawa he was granted a
[ furlough. His wife, formerly Miss
1 Sue Ford of Wane. X. C., lives
with his parents in Grovemont
and works at Moor e General.
Pfc. Willard Reed is now sta
tioned in Europe and served in
I the invasion of France. He has
been in service for three years
and was driving a truck in Ist
lin the th Division and was in
Germany at time of their sur
render.
Francis Clifford Reed. S 2 c of
U. S. Navy, assigned to the F.S.S.
McDougle stationed in Boston,
Mass., has been in the service
for a year. He took his boot
training at Camp Peary. Va.
Cpl. Jay Blankenship of U. S.
Army took his training at Fort
. Bragg and was sent overseas in
December 1943. He landed at
Naples. Italy, and has seen twen
ty-one months combat service. He
has a twenty-one months old son
he has never seen. His discharge
is expected soon, and his wife.
Velma and son, are staving with
; her mother at Grovemont. Cpl.
Blankenship’s brother, John, was
| killed in France and he has three
i ijiore brothers in service.
Mrs. Swain Gill’s brother-in-law.
Pfc. Robert W. Edmonds, is in
the Philippines. He has seen 32
months service and has been in
five major battles in the Pacific
area. Pfc. Edmonds has a three
year-old son he has never seen.
His wife. Mrs. Reva Edmonds, is
residing in Washington, D. C.
Sgt. Willie R. McCann of IT. S.
Army has been in service four
years and wears the Purple Heart. ,
He served in the invasion of Nor
mandy. He was injured in Ger
many and has returned to civilian I
life. He was in the 4th Infantry !
Division and in 3rd Army under j
General Patton.
Cpl. Allen B. BianKensbity now j
in Helmstedt, Germany, was in :
the Normandy and France invas- i
ion. He has been in service three
years, one year overseas. He had
his boot training at Fort Bragg.
His wife, formerly Miss Frances
Costner from Rock Hill. S. C., re
cently underwent a major oper-
War Manpower
Commission
Raleigh Two state-wide war
; time committees, the Manpower
I Priorities and the Production
Urgency Committees, with identi
| cal memberships. whose functions
ended with the end of the war.
held their final meeting Wednes
day in the Caswell Building here.
The Production Urgency Com
mittee. composed of officials re
presenting the several agencies
dealing with procurement of war
time supplies, determined the urg
ency of production in the plants
engaged in producing war ma
! terials and supplies, giving each
> a rating, while the ManpQwer
, Priorities Committee established
S employment ceilings and rated all
! plants on the basis of need for
j manpower.
Dr. J. S. Dorton, State Director
•of ( the War Manpower Conimis
i sion. was Chairman of the Man
power Priorities Committee, while
j Thomas J. Love. District Manager
lof the War Production Board.
I served as Chairman of the Pro
j duction Urgency- Committee. Other
identical members represented the
I War and Navy Departments. War
I Food Administration. Office of De
! sense Transportation. Civil Service
| Commission, Aircraft Resources
; Control. Selective Service System,
j Smaller War Plants. Maritime
I Commission, Offic e of Civilian Re
quirements, W.P.8., and Office of
I Labor Production. W.P.8., with
| advisory members from the Os
: fice of Price Administration. Rail
road Retirement Board and Solid
j Fuels Administration for war.
Meeting about twice a month.
: the committees held 31 meetings,
j 23 in Raleigh, three in Charlotte.
• and one each in Washington. N.
| C.. Wilmington. High Point. Ashe
| ville and Winston-Salem. The first i
'■ meeting was in Raleigh June 22. |
i 1944. Poseph W. Beach served a : |
1 secretary of both committees. j
In its first few meetings, thtu j
July. 1944. th e committees es
| tabiished priority ratings and ap- ,
i proved employment ceilings for J
I 23.531 plants with 724.219 work
ers. In later meetings they es
tablished new priority ratings and I
approved ceilings for 1.836 addi- I
tional firms, and made changes}
in the ratings and ceilings of 1.- j
; 300 firms.
In North Carolina one state- j
I wide joint committee was estab
: lished. instead of several area j
j committees as in other sections
!of the nation. Due to its distinct !
: advantages, other states over the |
■ country iater adopted the North !
i Carolina plan. |
At the final meeting. Chairmen ,
: Dorton and Love commended the ,
; members for the faithful perform- (
[ ance of their duties and Dr Dor
j ton announced that certificates
will be sent to ali members as
j tokens of appreciation of their !
: services.
Ruritan National To Hold
Annual Convention
ELIZABETH CITY'. X. C.. Sept.
, is—Ruritan National will hold its i
! annual convention at Elizabeth
| City. X. C., January' 14th and!
loth. 1946. According to an an
nouncement made today by L T.
Hall, of Windsor. Va . National
| President of the organization,
i more than 500 delegates from
[clubs composing Ruritan National
[are expected to attend the meet-
I ing. the first Ruritan Convention
!to be held in North Carolina. Ar
rangements for the convention
were completed this week by in
: terested citizens of Elizabeth City
j and representatives of Ruritan
National Convention headquar
j ters will be at the Virginia Dare
I Hotel in Elizabeth City where the
various assemblies, banquets, and
i the convention ball will be held.
Ruritan. having chosen as its
I field, the small town and rural
community, has adopted as its ob
' jective. “To make the rural com
• Biunity a better place in which to
lira Bimr' moorre.e eterto'.’U
live.” Barring work only in the
fields of politics and religion the
practical application of Ruritan
work and the procedure adopted
to accomplish this broad objective.
Icoevrs almost every phase of rural
community service. Ruritan. dur
ing the 15 years since its organi
zation, has had a far reaching ef
fect and influence in the com
munities where Rurtian clubs are
located
The clubs seek to bring together
in a common co-operating work
ing unit men of various ages and
1 occupations of divergent tastes,
of different religions and faetiins
to work for the good of the com-
I munitv as a whole, maintaining at
all times a wide awake and ag
gressive organization equipped to
; lead in thought and action in all
things which contribute to com
munity progress. The two da}'
convention at Elizabeth City will
be devoted to the business of the
organization and the discussion of
many phases of rural community
problems looking to the guidance
! of the Ruritan clubs in the work
they are undertaking in their re
spective communtiies. Although
the convention will not undertake
|to dictate or determine the ob
i jectives and activities of the local
I clubs for 1946. it will undertake
to aid the local clubs in their
| chosen functions in the divergent
| communities which they serve
through discussions, reports and
plans conducted, made and formu
: lated by the district governors and
zone leaders and by the perma
nent committees maintained by
i the organization in the fields of
agriculture, rural beautification,
public utilities. business enter
prises and methods, recreation,
public welfare and safety, indus
try and education.
There are 17 Ruritan clubs in
North Carolina. John R. Jenkins,
prominent Bertie county lawyer,
a member of the Aulander Ruri-
I tan club and now serving in the
United .States Marine Corps, is
j vice president of Ruritan Na-
I tional.
| ation but is recovering in fine
1 shape.
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
Terracing
In the Cotton Belt the terrace
is the most widely used defense
against soil washing. The prac
tice of terracingis generally well
established there. It followed close
on the heels of advanced ero
sion, coming into use in each 'agri
cultural section, however, only af
ter much soil had been lost and
erosion had become an obvious
menace to euitivttion. Unfortun
ately, terracing too often has been
accepted as a cure-all erosion
control, whereas experience plain
ly indicates it is not. In the
South, where the cropping sys
tem is especially lacking in ero
sion checks and the climate is
conductive to severe washing, soil
erosion is too complex a problem
to be solved by the appliaction
of a single defense measure. The
presence of terraces in abandoned
fields—sometimes well-made ter
races—shows clearly that if cot
ton farming is to continue on
sloping land, other protections in
addition to terraces must be pro
vided.
A great deal of progress has
been madd in terrace design in
recent years. When terraces first
came into use they were small and
weak, of excessive grade along
the channel, and seldom satisfac
tory. In the past terraces were
built in some fields which, ow
ing to the degree of slope, the
type of soil, or to an advanced
stage of erosion, should not have
been terraced. Many of these ter
races broke during storms. When
a break occurred in an upper
terrace, terraces" lying lower on
th e slope usually- gave way before
the force of the water released
from behind embankments above,
and tha land gullied. But as the
need for size and strength became
obvious, implements for building
better terraces were devised, and
terraces now are generally much
largr and sronger. The broad
base terraces now recommended
fail much less frequently- than the
narrow-ridg e terraces used to.
DEFENSE MEASURES
In times past when there was j
plenty- of new land it was cus- j
tomary for the cotton belt farmer'
to grow row crops until his land
became badly washed and gullied
and unfit for further cultivation, j
Then he moved west and cleared I
a new farm. The festern agricul- I
ANY BONDS TODAY? By Bob Burns
Illustrated by Hilda Terry
MM ,
”She sore is patriotic* She's already put in over 8200 of her
c wrjnoney,”
C. N. HARBIN GROCERY
SHELL GAS & OIL
FANCY & STAPLE GROCERIES
RADIO REPAIR
. West of Swannanoa on New Highway
»
WE WISH TO EXPRESS
OUR APPRECIATION
TO THE
BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
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BEACON
tural lands are now all taken up.
All of the good farming land had
been claimed long before the pub
lic domain was officially closed to
homesteading a few years ago. Al
though the covered-wagon days
are past, many of the careless
farming habits bred in those
days of land plenty remain
with us.
However, it is now generally
realized that the problems cre
ated by soil erosion can no longer
be solved, as in earlier days, by
moving to new lands. Nor can
they- b e solved by putting all of
the land back to trees and grass.
We shall continue to need large
acreage for growing food and fi
ber. We can, however, use our
land in such away, apply to each
field such proper safeguards, that
the productive life of our land
will be prolonged, perhaps indefi
nitely.
Many measures and practices
have been suggested for arresting
soi lerosion. Given trial, certain
measures have succeeded partially
and earned general acceptance in
certain parts of the country - . Some
hare have grown popular in one
have grown popular in one sec
tion. others in another. Terrac
ing and contour cultivation, for
example. have long been the
main reliances of southern farm
ers. Xorthem farmers have de
pended more upon systems of crop
rotation to preserve soil produc
tivity. although in a few widely
scattered communities they have
employed the practice of strip
cropping to check soil washing.
But few farmers. North or oSuth,
have been able to devise a scheme
of land use that provide for ade
quate control of erosion on all of
the sloping land in their farms.
Recognizing this, the Congress
created the Soil Conservation Ser
vice and specifically charged it to 1
bring together information on all!
known soil conservation measures
and to demonstarte these prac
tices w here they’ might be viewed j
and studied by farmers. To ac
complish this, a number of proj
ect areas of frim 25.000 to 150,-
000 acres each were selected in !
the various erosion-problem areas j
in the United States. The labor I
of a part of the Civilian Conser
vation Corps was assigned to the
service to help do the job. We.
too, as future farmers of Amer
ica, can study and overcome
some of the obstacles.
I
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BY DELAY |g§|g
BATTERIES - TIRES
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sheer neglect! Yet delaying necessary repairs can put
your car in serious condition and off the road! Don't
risk it! Drive around today for our checkup and repair
service. Drive longer . . . and drive safer.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1945