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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
Contract For Soldiers
Recreation Hut Planned

In the matter of the soldiers hut,
Chairman Hewlett said he consider
ed it more desirable to have a larger
building, than now planned, which
will be much more in demand be-
cause of the shipyards.
Chairman Hewlett called attention
to the passage by the legislature Of
a bill granting the city and county
boards authority to enter into an
agreement for recreational facilities
here for the soldiers at Camp Davis.
Passage of the bill removed re-
naming legal technicalities and
paved the way for immediate &C.
ton. The two boards have yet to
take final action at another joint
session on final detailed project
plans, estimates, and specifications,
now being shaped up by Lewis j.
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col; ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
Reapportionment Bills
Introduced In Assembly

18th district would be comprised
Of Cleveland, Castor, McDowen,
Madison, Polk, Rutherford n
Yancey counties. The 18th Wouio
be made up of Buncombe, Chero-
kee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, hen,
erson, Jackson, Macon Swain, ana
Pennsylvania counties.
E. B. Denny of Gastonia, CHAIR
man of the state democratic execu.
tive committee, who helped draft
the measure providing for a new
congressional district, said the
present 10th district, with 49l,0Oo
persons, had the largest popula'
ton in the state.
Under the new congressional set
I'D, he said, the population OF the
various districts would be approx
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14

Firm Finances
Construction
Will Be Reimbursed By
Maritime Commission
From Time To Time
WILL RUN SUBSIDIARY
Six Or Eight Ways To Be
Built For Construction
OF "a Cargo Ships

A Maritime commission official
said yesterday in Washington that
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock company would finance
construction of its shipyard SUBJ
sidiary at Wilmington, but would
be reimbursed by the commission
from time to time as the work
progressed, according to an AS
sociated Press dispatch received
from the capital last night.
The official explained the COM
pany had it's own capital to go
ahead with the project, which is
estimated to cost about 81, 900, 900
or 5000, 900.
In Line With Program
Reimbursement. however, will be
made in line with the program of
the government to finance con-
struction essential to national de-
eense.
The Newport News company
which plans to operate the SUBJ
sidiary to be known as the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company, is
planning to build "a cargo vessels
at an estimated cost of 81, $50, 900
each. The vessels are to be built
for the Maritime commission I'M
der its program for emergency
construction of 200 cargo ships,
The "a ships are to be COM
pleted in "a months and Capt.
Roger Williams, vice president of
the Newport News firm, stated
Sunday to the Star-News that
We'll be ready to go when the
whistle blows"
No official announcement on Sc
lection of the site for the shipyards
has been made but Captain Will
liams has said I'VE have plenty
of information and are working on
it. We still like Wilmington 100
per cent"
Six or eight ways will be built
and the site for the shipyards is
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
$526,72OP Put
On Tax Books.
By High Court.
Includes Property Owned
By Charitable Institu-
tions In County
ORRELL MAKES REPORT
County Expected To Re-
ceive Additional $4,000
Annually In Taxes

Property in New Hanover county
with taxable valuation of $526, 720
has been added to the county tax
books under a recent ruling of the
state supreme court that property
Of charitable institutions must be
taxed unless they occupy their build
ings. J. A. Orrell, county auditor,
yesterday reported to the county
commissioners.
Orrell referred the county board
to a decision made some time ago
by the state tribunal pertaining to
what the legislature had a right to
exempt from taxation.
Has Right To Tax
Under the ruling, he said, the
county now has a right to tax certain
properties in the county which here
tofore had not been listed for taxes.
Decision of the tribunal applied to
owned by benevolent So
cieties and such other organizations
which Is rented out to others and
LII JILL Wli1S1l oil 1llCO1llS Is uclIvSus
: Orrell estimated that the county
government would receive an addi-
tional $4,000 annually in taxes as
the result Of the addition of this
property to the tax books for coliec-
lions. The auditors report to the
county commissioners follows:
Il attach hereto tax book sheets
for 1910 for property that was form
erly free of taxes. These sheets
show valuations as follows: Will
mington, sS75,0S0; Federal Point,
$1,000; Harnett, $7,655; and Mason
boro, 5 2,950; for a total of 1888, IT'S.
II also attach list of formerly free
taxes which have not been listed,
which we have entered with a penal
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
SCHOOLS CLOSED
BY WAVE OF FLU
Authorities Ask Public To
Take Precautions To
Prevent Its Spread

CHARLOTTE, Jan. 13.-R-Al-
though the state board Of health
reported no noticible increase in
influenza cases in North Carolina,
several schools closed today and
authorities asked the public to take
all precautions to prevent spread
of the disease.
Pleasant Gardens High school
rear Marion closed for the re-
mainder of the week after Locky
Virginia Huskins, seventh grade
pupil, died of pneumonia.
Two Mecklenburg county schools
suspended classes after increasln
absences were reported. Health
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
British Pushing Steady
Air Drive Against Nazis

coupled with night bombing forays
on the, harbors of Brest, LIE Havre
and Lorient and the reported firing
of oil storage and processing plants
in Porto Marghera, Italy, near We
nice; Regensburg, Germany, and Os-
tend, in German-occupied Belgium.
The British Press association COM
mented lit is significant that, since
the first daylight raids upon the
airdromes nearest u shores, the
enemy's night attacks have been of
briefer duration"
Extensively, it was pointed out
that the raids imperil Nazi COM
m%unications on the channel coast
and undermine morale of the Ger
man occupation forces.
German building of defense fortlfl-
cations along the channel coast,
armed with powerful French guns
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14

RALEIGH, Jan. 13.-R-Reap-
portionment bills to establish a l2th
congressional district and to make
the membership CT the state house
Of representatives conform with
the 1910 census figures were intro
duced in both houses of the general
assembly tonight.
The bill setting up an additional
congressional district would carve
a new district out of what now IS
Inc 10th and 18th districts. 1t would
not affect any of the other nine
existing districts.
The measure, introduced by Sen
aCor Cherry of CASTOR and Repre-
sentative Jarvis of Buncombe,
calls for a 10th congressional dis
trlct to be composed Of Avery,
burke, Catawba, Lincoln, Mecklen-
0prg and Mitchell counties. The
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
Skilled Trades Training
Project Is Assured Here
Passengers Removed
From Grounded Liner

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Jan. 13.-R-Coast guardsmen,
working in a moderately high
sea kicked up by=a brisk breeze,
removed this last of 200 pas
sengers from the stricken lux
ury liner Manhattan tonight and
brought them safely ashore.
The nearest thing to a mishap
ended happily when guardsmen
grabbed a woman who lost her
balance while being lowered to
a small surf boat and nearly fell
overheard. No one was injured
and there was nothing re-
sembling hysteria among the
passengers.
Plans were made to have the
tug Willet, using Hedge anchors
to take advantage of swells
lifting the ship, attempt early to-
morrow to pull the Manhattan
free.
The 24,0OO-ton cruise ship went
aground last night, nine miles
north of here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
War
Interpretive
Bv RKE l.. SIMPSON

Greek hopes of dealing Italy an
other heavy pillow in Albania be-
fore Germany can 60 effectively to
the rescue were stimulated by
Rome's re-shuffling of the Albanl-
an army command.
Displacement of General Ubaldo
Soddu for reasons of health" in
dicates that Rome fully recognizes
the gravity of the Greek break
through at Klisura. It. hints at a
desperate effort by Mussolini to es-
cape personal blame for W h a t
might happen to all Fascist forces
in southern and south central Al
bania.
Second Time
For the second time he has
Topped off the official head of a
top-flight Fascist general for fail
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
BRITISH AID BILL
CHANGES OFFERED
Administration To Accept
Some Restrictions On
Powers For F. D. R.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13- Up -
Amendments to the British aid bill
rejecting, in part at least, the
ideas of Wendell L. Willkie, were
introduced in the house today soon
after administration leaders had
expressed a willingness to accept
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14

(By q. s. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1850 p: m. ~yesterday:)
Temperature
1:30 a. m. ~; 7.30 a. m. 80; 1880 p.
m. 60; 7:3O p. m. so; maximum 60; min
imum 80; mean 50; normal 46.
Humidity
30 a., m. So: 1870 a. m. e.; 1880 p.
m, 35; 7:30 p. m. GO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours enGing 7:30 p m.
600 inches; total since first of the
month OFT inches.
Tides for Today
From Tide Tables published by q.
s. Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low
Wilmington ----10:31a; 5:12a
10:47p 5:56p
Masonboro Inlet ------- 8:O9a 2:O0a
S:31p 2:34p
Sunrise 7:1sa; sunset 5:25p; moon
rise 7:02p; moonset 7:52a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette-
vile on JAN. Is, at s a. m. 1O.45 feet.
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-14
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy Tues
day and Wednesday, possibly light rain
or snow in west portion Wednesday
and in mountains Tuesday night; con
%siderablely colder Tuesday and Tues,
day night.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
News Quiz

l The Nazis Gently re-
leased P. C. Wodehouse from
an internment camp. He is (a)
former premier Of Austria
seized when Germany annexed
the country in 1898; (b) fam
Gus English writer; (c) French
general captured after his
country capitulated last year;
(d) an American consular ag-
ent suspected of espionage.
2 Since the Selective Ser
vice act went into effect last
fall, the army has indicted
into service approximately (a)
$4,000 men; (b) 725,OOO men;
(c) $4,000 men.
3 American defense was re-
Gently bolstered when work.
men completed tn e largest
fighting machine of its kind in
the world. This was (a) a &c.
600 ton battleship; (b) 81 ton
army tank; (c) long-range
super-boming plane.
ANSWERS TO NEWS QUIZ
/. (b) is correct.
9. (a) is correct,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
BRITISH, RUSSIAN
ARE MAKING GAINS

Continued from Page One)
ships for June were put at a gross
tonnage of $780, 96 or 1852 tons
less than for Maya sharp de-
crease which London interpreted
as meaning that growing British
air and surface power at sea was
slowly wearing the Germans
down.
Too, Britain's victory in French
Syria and Lebanon was shown by
the published terms of the armis-
tice sued for by Vichy to have
been of the first rank. Aside from
adding those areas to their now
much-strengthened middle east
ern defenses, the British gained
all remaining naval and military
aviation facilities and equipment
in the Levant.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
IT'S UP TO YOU

When one declares he's had bad
luck,
It's oftentimes his lack of pluck;
He always puts the blame on fate,
When he himself arrives - too
late. ...<
When one has been the hardest
hit,
IT'S then he needs to use his grit;
If one would reach the highest
goal,
He must himself at mourn enroll
The man who starts at dawn of
day,
Will ofttimes drive the clouds
away;
The one who tolls beneath the
sun
Will hear the welcome words,
"Well DONE"
IT'S not the one on beds of ease;
IT'S not the birds in highest trees.
IT'S he who faces shot and shell
Whose name will through the ages
tell.
The one who wins is forced to
climb;
Through caves and caverns his
path must wind;
But in the end a crown he'll wear,
If in life's game he's plod with
care.
BY c. M. DICKSON
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17

payments earned this
operating with the program andpeced to exceed 100000
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
AAA Supervisors
Checking Farms
For Compliance
Over 500 Farms Have Been
Checked to Date. Is Sup
erviSOrS AT Work.

Sixteen farm supervisors are
now busy checking AAA compli-
ance in Ashe county, Clark
Houck, county director of super
visors, stated yesterday.
Of the 4,2O0 farms in the coun-
ty, over 500 of them have already
been measured and checked for
compliance with this years farm
program, he said.
To speed up the work, a few
additional supervisors will be adj
ded this month. it was announced.
Those at work now are: Burley
Bare, G. M. Campbell, Woodrow
Davis, Morris Eller, Joe Grub,
Robert McNeill, Howard Gray
heal, J. T. Brown, A. A. Perry, C..
C. Robinson, Howard Blevins, Jas.
Roe, Ralph Tomlinson, Howard
Miller and Lester Phipps.
AS yet no particular territory
has been assigned to each super
visor, but this will be done in the
near future, Houck said. The sup
ervisors have been given aerial
maps and these have served as
territories.
To date the supervisors have
averaged checking a little over
two farms per day. eve expect
this average to be increased to
four per day." he explained.
Over two-thirds of the benefit
payments earned in this county
have been received from the soil
improvement program, through
the application of lime and phos-
phate. Most of the others repre-
sents payments resulting from
compliance with the AAA CASH
crop set-ups.
"Of course it will be necessary
to do some re-checking because
farmers are allowed to order
lime and phosphate until this
fall" Houck declared, and empha-
sized the fact that all lime and
phosphate must be spread before
November 1 in order to get any
credit.
More and more farmers are CO.
operating with the program and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
Are We In The L. S.?

The new aluminium plant which is to be
erected by the Aluminium Company of
America in cooperation with the Office of
Production Management is to be located
at Badin, N. c., rather than at Andrews.
This information which has all of the APP
pearances of being official comes as pain
full surprise to the people of Western North
Carolina who had been earnestly hoping
that the plant would be built at Andrews.
Perhaps there are sound patriotic and
technical reasons why the plant should be
constructed at Badin rather than at An
drews. Perhaps these reasons are so COM
polling that the federal government can
not ignore them without hampering the ma
tional defense effort. Certainly, Western
North Carolina is too patriotic to insist
that any favoritism be shown it at the ex-
pense of the swift functioning of the de-
tense program.
But the hard fact remains that not sin
gle defense enterprise has yet been locat-
ed in Western North Carolina Other Sec
tons of the country are being stubbed with
war plants: Other sections of the nation
are revealing in the prosperity stimulated
by this activity. Actually the prosperity
of this region is being retarded by the de-
Tense program. Our labor is being carried
off to other and more fortunate sections.
Our boys are being called into the fight
ing services. If non-defense production is
restricted it probably will be-our eco
nomic situation will become serious for
our normal business activity will be re-
duced without any offsetting advantage
from the quickening of defense production.
The action of the Office of Production
Management in choosing Badin as the more
likely site for the aluminium plant may
be justified by very practical reasons. The
Citizen-Times does not venture to say. But
no one can seriously contend that West
ern North Carolina is such an accursed reg
ion that it should not be permitted to share
directly in the defense effort and the de-
tense prosperity. Assuredly, there is some
war industry which can be located in West
ern North Carolina without injury to the
nations welfare and with some elemental
fairness to the American citizens who live
in this mountain region. The Citizen
Times
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
PROGRAM STARTED

Continued from Page One)
appointed:
Mrs. E. D. Barr, West Jeffer-
son; Miss Ruth Tugman, West
Jefferson; Mrs. j. Paul Miller,
Clifton; Mrs. E. C.. Francis, Sur
gills; Mrs. Edgar D. Jones, West
Jefferson; Mrs. B. E. Reeves, West
Jefferson; Mrs. ]. Lester Sc
graves, West jefferson; Miss Ruth
Allen Worth, Jefferson; and Miss
Minnie Hare, Fleetwood.
Various committees to direct
and supervise the different phases
of Civilian Defense will be Sc
lected from time to time, as will
township and local committee.
The following general commit
tees to begin work Immediately
were appointed by the County
Chairman:
Committee on Aluminium Col
lection: G. J. Rich, chairman;
! Mrs. w. B. Austin and w. B. Trib-
BILE.
Committee on Sale of Defense
Bonds and Stamps: w. H. Worth,
chairman; B. D. Barr and Mrs.
Ed M. Anderson.
Committee on Aircraft Warn
ing Service: H. c. Tucker, chair
man; Chas. H. Stellar and Up
ton Blevins.
way at Boone.
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Paragraphs

Farm conservation plans have been adop-
ted by the New River Soil Conservation
District and work will go forward at once
With the plans that have been mapped out
and with the trained soil conservation eX-
perts now connected with the work, both
Ashe and Allegheny should in time see
some big improvements in land that was
once badly eroded.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17

cially.
Just now our country is enjoying mea-
sure of prosperity resulting directly or in
directly from the war. In thought-prevok-
ing address before a group of newspaper
men and women at White Lake last Satur-
day evening, Congressman Bayard Clark
asked the group to consider the outcome of
the war and it's effects on economic condi-
tons.
Congressman Clark suggested three pos
sible ends of negotiated peace, which he
said was unlikely; victory for Germany or
victory for the allies which he hoped
would be soon. He explained that what
ever happens, economic conditions are to
be vitality affected and that all Americans
will feel the pinch.
Like the Congressman from the seventh
district we believe that Americans should
take advantage of the present prosperity
by paying>their debts, making wise invest
ments in homes and businesses and not liv-
ing up to their incomes and piling up debts
that will be hard to meet when conditions
are not so favorable.
It is inevitable that the war will end
and it is toward this end we should be
thinking. Whatever the end may be it is
certain to be far reaching in its economic
effect. Like all other Americans, we pray
God that it will mean the end of Hitler,
and toward this end we must do our part.
But we will not be declaring an about
as citizens of democracy unless, as in
dividuals we make plans for ourselves and
our children to be able to carry on as sub
stantial citizens exercising thrift and in
dependence from unnecessary debts.
Regardless of which side wins, or whe-
Their we get involved directly in the war;
most of the warning nations will be bank
rupt and our national debt will probably
be close to hundred billion. This condition
is bound to mean less business and higher
taxes.
Look ahead! Don't spend every penny
Pay all debts! Save and invest some mo-
ney! The survival of any system of gov
eminent depends, in large measure, upon
general economic conditions. We must
prepare to save Democracy after the war,
as we'll as from the war.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
TTsITsITIEITTSIITIaITIEIIIsIII ITIsIITs
DAIRYlNC
In Ashe County
BY HI. D. QUESSENBERRY
Assistant Farm Agent
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The dairy industry being one of
the largest industries in the Uni
ted States has very important
place in the agriculture of Ashe
county. With our permanent pas
ture and fresh water we have a
decided advantage over many 9TH
er sections in dairying. Dairying
has made sections that do not
have these adVantages,~andsthere
fore there is no reason why it
should not be a success in Ashe.
The improvement factors in
Ashe county effecting successful
dairying are quality of cows,
feed, and care of them.
The dairy cow has a place on
the small farm that cannot keep
enough beef cattle to give suffi-
cient cash income to support the
farm family. A farm of fifty ac-
res can support, along with the
crops, five or six good dairy cows
which will bring in a cash in
come of one hundred dollars or
more per cow at present manu-
facturer's milk prices. A good
grade beef cow bred to good
bull will raise a calf worth, at top,
approximately forty dollars. Five
dairy COWS on the fifty acre farm
would bring in approximately
$4,000 per year while the five
beef COWS would bring in ap-
proximately $4,000. Of course
the dairy cows require more feed
and labor but on the average
small farm the labor is not the pro-
blem. Also most feed can be pro-
duced on the farm. On the large
farm in Ashe county where a
large number of beef animals can
be kept and there is a limited
amount of farm labor the beef in
dustry will usually furnish the
necessary cash income. There is
greater need for a cash income on
the farm of today than in the past
to pay the light bill, keep up the
automobile, and clothes cost more
than they did when we did not
60 so much.
For success in dairying in Ashe
county, we need to improve the
quality of cows being MIXED by
use of better bulls. Use our bet
ter grade dairy COWS and breed
them to purebred dairy bulls of
high producing strains. The one
important factor, both to the dali
ry and the beef industry, is to not
cross breed the two types Of cat
tie because you do not improve
either but destroy the good points
of both. Dairy cattle being bred
to transform their feed into milk
and beef cattle being bred to
transform their feed into meat
and the cross gives poor quality
beef calf and does not fill the
milk pail.
The next most important factor
is proper feed. Our most impor-
tant feed problem is winter feed.
Every farmer that keeps five
head of cattle or more should
have silo to help solve this pro-
blem. This cuts down on cultiVa-
ted acreage to winter your cat
tie and furnishes the next cheap
est feed to pasture.
In a season like the present one,
with prospects Of hay crops being
short, the successful dairyman
should be preparing land to sow
soybeans for hay between now
and the first of Aug. if he has not
already done something to take
care of the roughage shortage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
COLD STORAGE GROUP
is STILL ACTIVE

Continued From Page One)
The application for $4,000
loan from the R. E. A. has al
ready been approved and work
may start this year.
Mr.. Vannort, Of Charlotte, who
was employed over a year ago as
engineer to draft plans and super
else the construction. has been the
cause of the extensive and I'M
necessary delay, local directors
state.
Unless Mr.. Vannort comes
through Immediately, it is being
suggested that he be dismissed
and another engineering firm be
employed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-17
Looking Ahead

Americans, as whole, are endowed with
the faculty of living happily in the present,
which is all very well for the present but
often results in economic insecurity for
the future When times are prosperous few
Americans take advantage of this pros
perity by looking ahead, so to speak, finan-