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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-07-23
RICHWOOD'S FAIR
SLATED THIS WEEK;
RACING FEATURED
Many Ground improvements
Are Completed; Exhibits
Are Open TO The World

First Of Union county's three
fairS-The Redwood Fair-will be
held in Redwood this week, begin
ming Wednesday and continuing
through Saturday
The Fair will feature three big
days of racing, and three big night
shows. Officials have put a lot Of
planning and effort into this years
fair, and much work has been done
on the grounds, so that it promises
to be one of the greatest ever held
in the north-end metropolis.
The race track has been entirely
rebuilt by the County Engineer
Claude Skidmore and State High
way Superintendent Leo Grindell
and their aides. New fence has
been erected around the track,
both inside and out, and a new
road has been constructed, done by
the County Engineers office.
Plan Chariot Races
Added to the race program on
one day, besides the regular races,
will be a chariot race, sponsored
by Marion Winter. The chariots
will be patterned after the early
Roman vehicles, and pulled by two
ponies in a half-mile race.
The night shows will present
the WLW Boone County Jamboree,
with all it's Celebrated members,
on Thursday night; the WIS. Ma
tional Barn dance, featuring the
Graham Western Riders, on Fri
day night; and Steele's Marvel
Horse Troupe, presenting riding,
roping, and equestrien acts, on
Saturday night. The latter show
will stay over for performances on
Sunday afternoon and evening.
Livestock mad horticultural ex-
hibits "open to the World" are ex-
pected to fill all available space.
Entries for exhibitors will be TAX
en- until 6 pm. Tuesday, and may
be made in person, by letter OF
telephone.
Big Midway Arranged
A fine midway has been ar
ranged, with plenty of rides, side
shows. anusementS and other con-
ceSSions. Those who attend are
promised plenty of entertainment,
as well as many educational at
fractions.
Another big feature of the Fair
will be the All club and FLA de-
partment, with a large number Of
farm boys and girls planning to eX-
hibit their projects there.
In charge of the Fair is Dana D.
Lowe, of Leesburg township, as sec
retary. Other officers and directors
are:
r. B. Dildine, president George
Battles, vice president; and Frank
Brown, r. B. Dildine, J. W. Gun
R. w. Lenox, Bernard
Gray. Fred Sidle, Dana D. Lowe,
Ralph VeStal, Ray Fryman, Claude
Swartz, George Battles, Charles
Cheney, George L. StultZ, Don
Taylor, S. II. Cheney, directors.
The speed program will be as
follows:
Thursday. July % 2:24 trot
stake, purse $500; PIT trot stake,
purse $500; 2:2O pace, purse $3.50;
pony race Friday July 81 2:24
pace stake, purse $500; 2:14 pace.
purse $3.50; 2:27 trot, purse $3.50;
pony race. Saturday, July IS free
for all pace stake, purse $500; 2:27
pace, purse $3.50; 2:20 trot, purse
$3.50; pony race.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-07-23
STUDENTS AT ONO STATE

Summer quarter students at O.
hio State University, in addition
to those previously announced, in
clude Marjorie A. Baker, Irwin;
and Elizabeth S. WORDS, Peoria.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-07-23

Pvt. Harold L. Grose, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Emor L. Grose, of Rich
wood Rt. l, is now stationed some
where in Germany. He entered SER
vice Nov. %, 1914, and received his
training at Fort Mcclellan, Ala.
Will stationed in Alabama, he
CONTINUED on page 2. col. A.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Burma Campaign Film
Strapped as Result
OF British Protest
BY the Associated Press.

by tLt hSoCCidlcu EIcoS
LONDON, April 16.-An Ameri-
can-made film of the Burma cam
paign, produced at the special re-
quest of Admiral Lord Louis Mount
batten, supreme Allied commander
in Southeast Asia, has been
scrapped after British military au-
thorities complained that it "sug-
gests most of the Burma fighting
has been done by United States
troops" the British War Office an
nounced last night.
The British military authorities
said the film. directed by Frank
Capra, Hollywood director, was
completely unfair"
1t was reported here that the
film was withheld after George
Archibald, director of the films divi-
sion of the British Information Serv-
ice in New York, and Maj. Frank
Owen, editor in India of the British
publication SEAC, saw the film at
a private showing in New York.
British authorities said ground
forces in Burma were predominantly
British. They added that the Ca
pra film would give the idea that
they were predominantly American.
1t. Col. Alexander Bryce Of the
British Army film unit worked with
Capra as co-director.
A spokesman for the British Army
film unit said "the film was intended
to cover the early stages of the cam
paign when the proportion of Brit
ish troops to American was about
20 to l."
Archibald and Owen, it was said
here, cabled the war Office that the
film lacked balance" and gave un-
due prominence to Americans. 1t
was reported that either Mountbat-
ten or the war Office will commission
the British Army film unit to refilm
the Capra assignment-thefi first part
of the campaign-while the job of
photographing the second stage of
the campaign has been given to 1t.
Col. David Mcdonald, chief of the
film unit and director of Desert
Victory"
Evening star., 1945-04-16

families In the United States are
now being transmitted by the Amer
ican Red Cross at the rate Of one
every three minutes, 1t was revealed
today.
Stanton s. Griffis, Red Cross COM
missioner in the Central Pacific,
Evening star., 1945-04-16

in addition to assisting Mr.
Coughlan.
A graduate of Notre Dame Schoo
in Baltimore, she also attended the
Washington College Of Law. Hel
assistant will be Miss Eleanor
Roberta Higdon, another Notre
Dame graduate.
Mr.. Coughlan has been men,
ber of the District Bar since obtain
ing his LII. B. degree from George
town in 1923.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Swedish Envoy Quits Tokyo

STOCKHOLM, April Is (P.-
Widar Bagge, Swedish Minister to
Tokyo, has left the japanese capital
for Sweden, placing the legation
there in charge of the first secretary
as charge daffaires, the Swedish
Foreign Office announced yesterday
Evening star., 1945-04-16

registrar of the
school t o d a y
after eight years
as assistant.
She succeeded
j. Fendall Cough
! a n, registrar
since 1885, who
has resigned, it
was announced,
to go with the
District Title Co.
M ! 5 5 . y o j. d,
whose home is
at 600 Twenty
first street NV,
is the first wom-
an registrar of
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Hurley Reaches Moscow

MOSCOW, April 16 (P).-Maj
Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, American
Ambassador to China, arrived in
Moscow by plane yesterday from
Washington. He conferred with
Ambassador w. Averell Hartman
today.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Miss StoN Takes Post
OF 6. j. Law REGISTRAR

Miss Marie L. Stoll, long familiar
with the record of every student
at the Georgetown University School
of Law, assumed the duties Of
Evening star., 1945-04-16

stationed at Honolulu, reported the
II, 900 messages handled monthly in
the Pacific Ocean area is an in
crease of more than 1000 per cent
over the number handled two years
ago.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
26 Directors Added
To War Fund Board

The Washington Community War
Fund has announced the addi-
ton of 26 members to the Board
of Directors, increasing the men,
bership from 81 to 81.
Fund officials said the additions,
approved at a recent meeting, were
made in an effort to maintain ade-
quate representation in Arlington,
Fairfax. Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties and of labor, re-
ligious and racial groups.
Members of the board of direc-
tors are:
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Red Cross Reports Record
In Servicemen's S Messages

Emergency messages between serv-
icemen in the Pacific and Their
Evening star., 1945-04-16

At the same time the Red Cross
reported that more than $1,800,000
in financial assistance was given in
March to servicemen. veterans and
their families by Red Cross chapters
throughout the country.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
Plant Bed Weed Control
Paws Tobacco Growers

the weeds from 81 square yards
of the old untreated bed, accord
ing to Hughson, while the same
four men weeded 800 square yards
of the treated bed in the same
time. Hughson used the best labor
he had on this test because the I'M
treated bed was especially weedy
and he figured the labor at So a
day.
On this basis it cost him 50 to
pick 100 square yards of untreat-
ed bed as compared with 81 for
the treated bed. Counting the cost
Of the cyanamid, 1910, and the
labor, the total cost on the treated
bed was 1910 per 100 square
yards.
Putting it another way, it took
80 hours of labor to weed 100
square yards of untreated bed as
compared with % hours for the
same amount of treated bed.
Not only did Hughson obtain
many more plants on the treated
bed and save considerable labor
and money but he also obtained
much m ore vigorous plants.
weeds were unusually bad on my
farm this year," he says. Had it
not been for the treatment of the
beds last fall, l seriously doubt
if would have made enough plants
with which to set my crop. I also
doubt if 1 would have been able to
get enough labor to have the beds
weeded.
"On April 16, the treated beds
were practically free of weeds
while on the untreated check an.
other crop of weeds was coming.
+ plan to continue the chemical
treatment of my beds and suggest
that other farmers test this prac-
tice.''
Grant says that Hughson uses
wheat straw on his beds, sets his
plants "a inches in the row, and
side dresses the crop with 100
pounds of sulphate of potash per
acre about 20 days after trans
planting. He produces good quality
tobacco and in 1914 his crop aver
aged over 1,700 pounds per acre.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11

The control of weeds on tobacco
nlant beds by chemical treat
nent about 80 days before seed
ing the beds has been thoroughly
tested by leading Berthe County
farmers for three years and this
practice has been so successful
that it will be continued in the tu-
ture says County Agent B. =.
Grant of the State College Elk
tension Service.
Both cyanamid and uramon have
bee,, used. The tests show that the
chemical treatment of beds great
" reduces the number Of weeds,
saves the grower money, and also
saves labor in early spring when
If is so greatly needed for other
farm jobs
J. H. Hugson, Roger Cullipher,
C. w. spruill, and w. D. White
are some of the farmers who have
carefully tested the materials.
They have found that it is neces-
sary to pay strict attention to in
structions in the treatment Of the
beds or the full benefit of the ma
terials will not be obtained. For
example, if weeds are allowed to
grow along the side of the bed
and the seed are carried to the
bed by the wind, full control will
not be obtained from the treat
meslt.
Last October Hugson prepared
his beds and applied one pound OF
cyanamid per square yard to 1000
square yards of old bed, leaving
100 square yards of old bed I'M
treated, according, to Grant. He
also prepared 100 square yards
of new bed All instructions as to
the application of the cyanamid
were carefully observed.
When Grant inspected the test
this spring, the treated bed was
far better than either the part OF
the old bed not treated or the new
bed. Hughson estimated that he
had about four times as many
plants on the treated bed as on the
old bed not treated.
Four men in half a day picked
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
Expert Advises Canning
Of Fruits, Vegetables

lowed to an individual is IS pounds,
instead of the 20 pounds maximum
announced earlier this year. The
general wartime rule is l pound
of sugar q cups) to 4 quarts OF
canned fruit. The home Gamer, to
get the best use of her sugar, may
vary the 4 to l canning ratio
somewhat according to the fruit
she cans. Sour fruit may demand,
and get, more than the average
sugar, while very juicy and sweet
fruits can take short rations on
sugar. Such individual adjust
ments may be worked out by the
housewife.
Honey may be used to replace
as much as half the sugar called
for in canning. Corn syrup may
replace as much as one-thlrd OF
the sugar called for in canning.
Strong favored syrups should not
be used in canning fruits. The use
of brown sugar or unrefined syrups
like sorghum may cause the fruit
to spoil. Saccharin should not be
used as it may give the canned
food a bitter flavor.
Efficiency, using the best meth
DDS, is the only way to preserve
food al all. The homemaker wants
to do her canning safely, without
explosions or spoiled food. She
also wants to get the most food
value .out of her efforts and she
wants to know the best ways to
preserve her foods.
Every county in North Carolina
has a county home demonstration
agent who is ready and willing to
give expert advice on your cam
ming problems. So, Mrs. Home
maker, we are looking to you to
meet this food challenge in the
same big way you have always
met and solved problems.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
Carolina Farm Comment
By F. H. JETER

including running water and cleo
trical equipment of all kinds. The
high ceiling rooms and the solid
old furniture gives the place an ap-
pearance of permanence and sta
bility. At the risk of making some
one hungry, I must tell you about
that evening meal. 1t was beauti-
fully served and there was fried
chicken, brown and tasty, thick
slices Of nome-cured ham, lima
beans, hot biscuits, candied vans,
creamed potatoes, watermelon
rind pickles, tender corn, chicken
gravy, and finally large slices of
homemade pie covered over with
delicious ice cream from Mrs. Her.
rings own refrigerator. I know
that l have left out some of the
items and l trust Mrs. Herring will
forgive me if l do, but 1 want to
say that it was the sort of meal
that only those who live on the
farm can have in these days of
food rationing and meat shortages.
At the High school that evening
it was a pleasure to see the 26
cleancut, fine young American
boys and girls who received their
certificates as graduates of the
class of 1915. Carl T. Hicks, chair
man of the local school board and
prominent official of the Farm
Bureau, paid the students high
compliment when he said that their
actions as young people had made
reputation for the entire Wal
stonburg Community. Their pride
in their school building and the
care they had taken to see. that
none of the public property was
defaced or destroyed was COM
mented upon beyond the commun-
ity, he said. +.
The program of the evening last
ed foS over two hours but such was
the interest of all the people in
their home affairs that few left
tine auditorium despite the warm
weather. 1t was wonderful dem
onstration of an unusual commun-
ity interest. Mr.. Davis said the
school grounds were being land
scaped according to plan pre-
pared by John Harris, extension
landscape specialist at State Col
lege, and that the plan was being
brought to completion year by
year with new seedlings and furth-
err paintings of shrubbery.
Carl T. Hicks is an authority on
tobacco In mis- opinion the region
of northern Greene, western Pitt,
and eastern Wilson counties has
never had better prospects for its
tobacco crop. The stands are al
most perfect and this means that
plants are growing off uniformly.
and should thus produce a cured
will mature in the same manner,
leaf of unusual high quality.
He made the interesting obser-
walton also that the tobacco allot-
ment on a farm in that section de-
termines the price of that farm.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
The Tar Heel Gardener
BY JOHN n. HARRISS
N. G. State College

soybeans DIETER to plant different
varieties that mature at different
times), quick maturing field peas,
and tomatoes Zone more planting
in JULY.
In addition to these succession
paintings you should start your
collard plants Gf not already start
ed, set your sweet potato plants,
and plant your fall squash Gf not
already planted.
The obvious reason for this small
number of succession paintings is
that the first planting of those
vegetables not listed will usually
continue producing throughout the
season, OR will not grow during the
hot summer months.
A number of vegetables should,
Of course, be planted during late
July, August, September, and Octo-
Der. These will be listed and dis
cussed in a later article.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
BY F. H JETER


On the highway map Of North
Carolina, Walstonburg seems to be
located on Route 264 just east of
Saratoga in Wilson county and q
short distance west from Farm
vile in Pitt county. Actually it is
about mile from that highway
down a lovely paved road in the
northern part OF Greene. drove
there one afternoon last week to
nave part in the commencement
exercise of the Walstonburg High
school. 1t is an interesting trip to
make, carrying one as it does
through a portion of the best tobac-
co growing country in the world.
The crop in central North Caro-
lima is, of course, not SO far adj
vanced as further east in Wilson
and Greene counties but, generally
where not damaged by hail, tobac-
co is growing off in almost perfect
stand and is being cultivated rapid
ly to keep it moving.
o1Ai, do III OtllCl5pd1IS vi tIlS
tobacco territory. litd cotton is b
be seen. Much OF t! e land has
been put to corn, however, and
more soybeans than usual seem to
have been planted. There are gar
dens everywhere and most of them
have variety Of crops with sever
al kinds of vegetables now ready
for the table Z
At Walstonburg, B. l. Davis, the
efficient and popular principal of
the school met me at the teach
erage and we had time for only a
brief peep at the fine school build
ing and its well-kept grounds be-
fore he announced that we had
been invited for supper at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs, H. T. Her
ring about three miles out in the
country. And this really was a
pleasure. The Herrings live on. a
modern and well-equipped farm
with about 500 acres of cleared
land and a tobacco allotment of
about 10 acres.
There are 10 tenant families on
the Herring place, and each of
them shares in the total tobacco
allotment. The size of the families
is not as large as it was before
the war, but the farm work moves
along fairly well. Mr. Herring
said he could not plant much cot
ton this year. Pointing to a fine
field of rye near his home, he
said, II would have plowed that
rye under several weeks ago and
planted the land to cotton if had
plenty Of labor, but, as it is, / had
to let the rye 60 to seed and will
harvest it with the combine. I
simply cannot afford to plant cot
ton when l have no one to gather
it."
The Herring home is fine ex-
ample of old rural architecture.
Like many other farm homes in
North Carolina today, it is equip
ped with all modern conveniences,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
CASTOR Farmers Plant
Alfalfa With Success

GASTONIA, June 10. - Castor
county farmers seeded $50 acres
of alfalfa last fall and such ex-
cellent yields have been obtained
that IS new growers have already
had their soils tested and are max
ing plans for sowing the crop early
in the fall. Some growers have
harvested as much as two tons OF
hay per acre and are expecting
two additional cuttings, if wealth
er conditions are favorable, says
Wright F. Parker, assistant farm
agent of the State College Exten-
sion Service.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11

There is much being said and
written at this time about success
ion paintings. This term is gener-
ally used to mean more than one
planting of the same vegetable.
have found many inexperienced
gardeners who were making sec
ond and third paintings of many
vegetables that were not neees-
sary.
l will assume that you have a
planting already made of all the
spring and summer vegetables
that you intend to plant. Ii this is
true, l would suggest succession
paintings of the following vege-
tables between now and the last of
July: snap beans every two or
three weeks, lima beans Zone
more planting in late June or
JULY. cabbage plants Gin the noun
tainS), corn (every two weeks :,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11

For instance, if a farm of so acres
in the heart of a good producing
section has an allotment of 20
acres of tobacco, then that farm
is worth $4,000. The tobacco allot-
ment is worth just about $1,000 an
acre if the place, otherwise, is in
such condition that the crop can
be grown and handled efficiently.
A farm of 500 acres with a tobac-
CO allotment of 20 acres also is
worth $4,000. Apparently the size
of the farm has little to do with
the price. It's the allotment of
tobacco allocated to that farm by
the Triple-A Committee that de-
termines its present value. Mr..
Herring has an allotment of 70
acres of tobacco which means that
his place has a price on the mar
ket for $4,000 but Mr.. Herring
also has good barns, lovely rural
home, painted and well-kept out
houses, substantial and painted
tenant homes, and ample wood
lands from which he can secure
fuel wood for curing his tobacco
crop He, definitely, is not inter-
ested in any such price.
But even were I to sell a small
corner of my farm - some land
that I do not need" he said, 81
would have to share a part of my
tobacco allotment with whomever
bought that corner. This is one of
the regulations of our county AAA
committee and no farmer can sell
even a small part of his place
without sharing some of his allot-
ment. If he does not share it. the
committee will do it for him."
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
Pasquotank Increasing
Production OF Porkers

ELIZABETH CITY, June 10.-
Hog production is rapidly increas'
ing in Pasquotank county as com.
pared with year ago. Feed crops
were scarce last year and com.
mercial feeds were comparatively
high. Today growers have more
homegrown feeds and prices Of
commercial feeds are lower
"Growers are also taking much
better advantage of grazing crops
for cheaper gains" says County
Agent P. H. Jameson of the State
College Extension Service.
Ask the home demonstrate
agent for suggestions on saving
sugar in canning fruits.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
FARMER-S0LDIER
GET SURPRISE

COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh.
June 10.-One North Carolina SOL
der will receive the surprise OF
his life when he returns from Ger
many to find 80 acres of farm land,
5 acres of pasture, a new home,
and new barns on an area that was
in woodland when he left for the
wars He will also see his son, now
eighteen months of age, for the
first time.
A wonderful mother, cooperative
neighbors, and two woods opera
tors are doing everything possible
to have the surprice" completed
by the time G. l. Joe returns.
H. E. Blanchard, farm forester
of the State College Extension
Service at Whiteville, cruised the
timber. The lumberman paid
slightly more for the timber than
he otherwise would have and be-
gan cutting at once, when the plan
wood operator followed directly
was explained to him. The pulp
behind the logging crew, cleaning
up the tops of the trees and cut.
ting all the remaining trees on the
area to be cleared.
Money from some of the saw
timber is being used to pay for the
bulldozer clearing up the stumps
and preparing the land. Money
from the pulpWood is paying for
witldows, doors, nails, roofing, and
the like
Neighbors are building the house
and barns free Of any charge.
Before this G. 1. Joe went into
military service, he selected the
area of woodland and made full
plans as to what he would do on
his return. Just after We day, he
wrote his mother and asked that
she get Blanchard to help her sell
the timber. But one suggestion
brought on another and so the big
SURPRISE is being developed as
rapidly as possible.
I