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Evening star., 1947-01-19
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BECAUSE lcE-soATs PICK UP SPEED
TREMENDOUSLY AS THEY ARE POINTED
FARTHER FROM THE DIRECTION OF WIND,
siEBkE BEARS OFF SHARPLY TO STAR
6OARD, GAMBLING ON HIS ABILITY TO
IN FASTER TIME THAN OPPONENT CAN
COVER THE DIRECT COURSE - But
THAT'S NOT ALL OF THE MANEUVER. -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
COUNCIL MEMBERS
ELECTED AT MEET
John Russ Named To Head
Unit At Initial Session
In Burgaw
Especial To The Starr

BURGAW, March 8. - A better
Farming for Better Living coun-
Gil for Fender county, the first
county in Southeastern North Caro-
lima to begin a chapter, has been
formed in Burgaw.
John Russ, cashier Of the First
Citizens Bank and Trust Company
in Burgaw was named chairman,
Mrs. Carlton Harrell secretary,
and T. r. Parker, editor Of the
Pender Chronicle, was named to
head publicity. Other Council mem
bers named to date are: Mr.. Ed
ward Farrior, Mr.. Jas. ]. Malpass.
MI. Zeb Mcdaniel, Mrs. Robbie
Batson, Mrs. Jas Bradshaw, Mr..
R. R. Rich, County Agricultural
Agent, Mr.. w. G. Andrews, Asst.
County Agent, Mrs. Frances Regist-
err, Home Demonstration Agent,
Miss Mary Lee Burns, Asst. Home
Demonstration Agent, Miss Emma
Bryan, Extension Office Secretary,
Miss Parker, Home Supervisor
Farm Home Administration, MI.
Robbins, Farm Home Administra-
ton, Mr.. Bowen, Soil Conservation
Service, and Vocational Agricultur-
al Teachers, Mr.. G.. R. Hubbard,
Burgaw, MI. B. J. Brady, Long
Greek, and Mr.. Freeman Marsh
burn, Willard.
Russ stated that additional men,
bers would soon be added from
among Burgaw business men.
Farm families interested in the
program may secure information
from any of the Council members
or enroll not later than April 18th
with the County Extension office
or Farm Home Administration Of
flee, both located in the Court
House, or with the Vocational Agri-
culture teachers. $500 has already
been made available for the Coun-
ty winner. Those present at this
first meeting stated they felt sure
that additional prizes would soor
be added by Fender County bust
ness men.
Present at the initial meeting
were: John E. Russ, James E. NAL
pass, R. r. Rich, Frances Register,
Miss Parker, Miss Emma Bryan,
and Neil Bolton, Agricultural Agent
Tide Water Power Co.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

sweet potatoes, conducted in the
Nutrition Laboratory of the Sta.
ton, show that the housewives in.
dlcating this preference are choos.
Ing wisely, not only from the stand.
point of appearance Of the potatoes,
but also from their nutritive con.
tent. =
The nu%tritionists have found thar
the more orange colored the meat
OF the potato, the greater its caro-
tene or vitamin A value.
The high nutritive value of the
sweet potato has not been sui
~ficiently emphasized in discussions
OF vltamin-rich foods. 1t is not gen
orally realized, for example, tina
the yam has a vitamin A potency
from n to two times as great a.
that Of the best summer butter
nor that as a source of vitamin {
it is half as good as fresh orange
juice or lemon juice and equal tt
that of tomato juice.
During the past two years, ex
periments have been carried out
on the vltamin A and vitamin {
content of nine varieties of sweet
potatoes. The varieties studied in.
Guided Little Stem Jersey, Mary
land Golden, Nancy Gold, Ranger,
Unit No. l Porto Rico, Lib. B.
1884, BLOB, and L-37( the last four
are experimental s%trains).
Vitamin A Value
For both years, Ranger, Mary
land Golden, L-37 and Nancy Gold
and high vitamin A values, rang
ing from $3.50 to 1900 Information
al Units per 100 grams, which is
about the size of the average serv.
ing. Since the human adult require
ment is recommended as about S.
900 units per day of vitamin A, il
can be seen that these varieties
provide an excellent source Of the
food element.
These measurements are, by the
way, on the fresh basis, but pre-
vious tests have shown that sweef
potatoes lose none of their vitamir
A when boiled or baked in thei1
Jackets. Here again, the study O.
consumer preferences shows al
agreement between general taste:
and nutrition studies. Baked pota
toes were rated in the shopping
survey as the first preference O
housewives in preparing the swee
potatoes. Boiling, however, prov
ed considerably less popular.
Tests For Vitamin c
In most vegetables, vitamin {
is extremely sensitive to cooking
procedures and large losses are US
ually encountered. The sweet pc
tato, however, is unique in tina
neither boiling nor baking in thu
Jackets showed any loss In conten
of this vitamin.
Tests for this vitamin showed tina
at harvest, Maryland Golden ant
Nancy Gold had the highest vita
min C content, containing 81 mill
grams per 100 grams on a fresl
basis with a similar content Il
the cooked product, while the re
manning varieties contained, on al
average, % milligrams per Luz
grams.
The loss of vitamin c durlni
curing for seven days at IS degree
F. and. a relative humidity OF 4
to IS per cent was not significant.
Thus, the sweet potato, prlmarll!
an energy food low in fiber ant
highly digestible, can furnish II
one average serving a very sub
stantial portion Of the adult daily
allowance of both vitamin A ane
vitamin c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
Farm Notes
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

UIltSU fTCSS 0t1AI SOAAC OpoAAASAA
WASHINGTON U.D-Agriculture
Department experts predict that
DOT this year probably will be
used to fight pests in one-half to
one-third of the nations apple
orchards, but they are reserved
in recommending its use for this
purpose.
The question they are still pom
dering as experiments continue in
the use of DOT against the de-
s~tructive cooling moth in apple
orchards, is:
What other pests of little previ-
Gus significance may suddenly be-
come destructive where DOT kills
off beneficial parasites.
The scientists said extensive
tests last year with the war-born
chemical in experimental and COM
mercial apple orchards confirmed
the earlier conclusion that DOT
is highly effective against the cod
ling moth.
Not Fully Endorsed
But, they declared, DOT has not
yet been given unanimous, I'M
qualified endorsement" for use in
cooling moth control because OF
the still undetermined extent OF
the effect it has on the abundance
of pests other than the moth. .
Dosages of DOT ordinarily used
for cooling moths appear to have
no effect on such other pests as
various species Of orchard mites,
the woolly apple aphid and the
red-barded leaf roller. In addition,
it has been found that the chem
ical, instead, will kill off the nat
ural enemies Of those pests that
ordinarily hold them in check.
Temperance in large numbers
Of red-banded leaf rollers in or
chards sprayed with DOT some
times caused more damage last
year than the codling moth, the
scientists said. ,
In most cases Of severe worm
infestation, however, the balance
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

was still in favor Of DOT, even if
nothing at all had been done to
suppress other injurious insects or
mites, they pointed out.
Kills Other Fruit Insects
DOT has earned the good record
OF control Of certain other fruit in
sects besides cooling moth, and
further research doubtless will
s1ed more light on its effectiveness
in this fight.
Here's how the Agriculture De-
partment scientists rate DOT in
it's use against other pests:
Grape leaf hoppers-Very effec.
tive, especially as a dust of two or
five per cent DOT concentrate.
Tarnished plant bug-Promising
in control of insects on peaches
when applications set at one pound
OF DOT per 10 gallons of spray are
used at petal fall and again al
shuck off.
Peach Injury Reduced
Oriental fruit moth-One appli-
cation OF DOT before picking time
has greatly reduced peach injury
by this pest. Two applications,
however, are considered advisable,
ons five weeks and another three
weeks before harvest.
Apple maggot - Three Or four
applications of DOT at Today in
tervals is considered effective.
Pear tripes-Can be controlled
adequately by apple ations of any
one Of several Foundations.
Leaf mites-No sweeping recon.
mendations as yet can be made.
Red-banded leaf roller-Reten-
ton Of lead arsenate in the early
cover sprays, either alone or with
DOT should insure adequate con-
troll if Thoroughly applied so as te
cover the underside of the leaves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
FARMERS URGED
TO GET RAT BAIT
Sampson Agriculture Lead
ers To Start Control
Program Soon
Special To The Star

Az AAS StdI
CLINTON, March 9-Sampson
county farmers have been re-
minded that they should contact
their farm agent or home demon
stration agent before March 20 in
order to obtain bait for the rodent
control program which is sched-
uled to get underway March 26.
Sponsored by the USDA council
of Sampson county, the program
is designed to destroy as many
rats in the county as possible
at the beginning Of planting sea-
son.
In pointing TO The seriousness
which the rat situation may ar
rive at if the rodents are not
controlled, agricultural officials
explained that a single rat will
eat or destroy as much food in
one year as a good laying hen
will in the same length of time.
In addition to the great destruc-
ton Of food and property caused
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
ender Forms First Better Farming For Better Luing' Chapter

her ideas, the nutritionis,s conc,,,
completely.
one OF the more obvious oi
snese agreements is in the subject
Oh color OF potato. According to a
recent survey conducted bv Dr..
Martin Abrahamsen and other
members OF the Agricultural Eco.
nomlcs Department OF the N. c
Agricultural Experiment Station OF
the preferences of a representative
sample OF Tar Heel shoppers. 8s&
OF those indicating a preference ir
the color of yams they bought.
chose the copper skinned. sal.
mon fleshed sweet potatoes"
Studies on the nutritive value oil
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
HEALTH CENTERS
BECOME POPULAR
Relation OF Food And Soil
To Healthy Living Be-
ing Studied

Farm people throughout North
carolina are becoming more aware
of their health needs and are IN
terested in ways to solve their
problems.
For example, in Hartford County,
240 men and women recently
came together in community meet
ings to study foods and soils IN
relation to health and discuss now
they might improve the soil so as
to produce more nutritive foods.
Such a health program in all
counties is being sponsored by the
Extension Service and the Public
Health Department.
W. C. Lackey, Hartford county
health sanitarian, met with the
neighborhood leaders and informed
them of the services available to
all rural families, emphasizing
the functions OF the, department
and duties of personnel. The neigh
borhood leaders will carry this in
formation to their neighbors SO
that they may know of this valu-
able public service and take ad-
Vantage of the clinics.
The Pasquotank County Council
members and health leaders met
at the home agents office for a
tour of the District Health Gen.
ter, with the tour being arranged
by the county council of home
demonstration clubs in cooperation
with the local health department
as a part of the 1887 health pro-
gram in the county .
Although many in the group had
had an occasion to visit the health
center before, much new informa-
ton was learned about facilities
and services Of the public health
center.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

by rats, the are also responsible
for the dissemination of typhus,
bubonic plague and other deadly
diseases, farm experts say.
1t was pointed out that the labor
of a quarter of a million men is
required to support the rat popu-
lation. whose only function in
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
PIONEERS SET DATE

MYRTLE BEACH, S. c., March
9-PHThe Telephone Pioneers of
America, with an expected atten-
dance of 500, will meet here May
q and "a. E. D. Boovy, of Char
lotte, is secretary-treasurer of the
association.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

The annual winter meeting OF
the North Carolina Beekeepers AS
ISOLATION will be held at Green.
vile, March IA, according to W.
A. Stephen, Beekeeper for the State
College Extension service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
MsSUBJECT OF
yITAMlN SEARCH
|,x.et Potato Has High
|'' Nutritive Value,
Tests Show

.. North Carolina housewife
,+o have some pretty definite
about the kind of sweet po-
,be buys. And, Uncertain of
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

life appears to be 10 spread
disease, destroy food and clothing
and damage real estate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

Wayne countians have shown an
unusual interest this year in set
ting out home orchards, the farm
agent says.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

Thirty miles of new electrical
lines have been constructed in
Moore county in the past two
months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
COMMUNITY CHEST
COLLECTIONS HIGH
Wilmington Organization
Holder Oh Best Record
In The Nation

Richard S. Rogers, Community
Chest, treasurer, announced yes
terday that collections on pledges
from the campaign last October
have reached 1914 per cent.
This is a net gain of 8.4 per
cent since Jan. l, 1e47, he said.
1t is the best collection record
for the first two months of the
year that the Chest has made
since it was organized five years
ago, he added.
The campaign for 1947, held last
October, raised a total Of $685.
580.5 We have collected
SIP, Pitt to date, Rogers stated.
The average collection on
pledges at the end of one year fol-
lowing each campaign, he con-
tinued, has been 81 per cent, which
is one of the best records in the
country, and there is no reason
why the most recent cam
paign should not equal this same
record by the end of this year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
REDS REPORTED
HOLDING SLAVES
German Welfare Leaders
Claim 10000 Women
Held In Russian Zone

BAD SALZSCHLJRF, Germany.
March /. - up German news
papers in the western occupation
zones quoted German church well
fare leaders as claiming this
week that 20, 900 sick and dying
German women were slaves in
Russian prison camps.
The women were captured fe-
male personnel of the German
army and "deported" refugees,
the newspapers said. A Catholic
official who asked not to be quoted
by name said the women were
treated 'worse than slaves" .
The assertions could not
be checked with American or Bri-
fish army authorities, who said
"he RUSSIANS never give us any
information about prisoners"
Five en- a ci at ed German
''WACS" released from Russian
camps volunteered the statement
today that Hundreds" of women
working in Soviet mines and blast
furnaces were dying from
disease and starvation. They said
German girls were treated worse
than the men, prisoners and said
the Russians handled their own
women as badly" Russian girls.
they said, worked with them in
the mines.
The five admitted, however.
They were released by the Rus
SLAMS "because of our Sickness"
Freed after up to two years Of
incarceration the five women re
Gently stumbled YEARLY into
a grimy German hospital in this
old resort town, their lic%e-infestec
rags smelling of disease. Rested
and fed along with about 1000 in
valid Russian : liberated German
prisoners of war who cram the
broken down hotels here, the WON
en- said:
They were forced to work ir
blast furnaces on collective farms
and in coal mines, some
times kneedeep in frigid water,
and were treated "as equals of the
German soldiers"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
Premier IS Scheduled
By University Players

the north, and returning home has
to make an adjustment to the
conditions in the south.
Years ago Mrs. Sumner heard
of a similar situation in which the
Negro girl killed herself over the
failure to make an adjustment.
But Mrs. Sumner felt the eirl
should have been able to work out
her problems. And thinking about
the character for a long time she
got to know the girl in her mind
Ten years ago Mrs. Sumner
wrote the story into a n : act
play. Six years later she rewrote
1t into a long short story which
appeared as a novelette, in the De
cember 1915 Ladies' Home Journ-
al. Since the story has been pub
lished as the novel, EQUALITY"
Mrs. Summer wrote the full length
play while she was studying play
writing with the Carolina Play
makers last spring.
In 1887, her first novel, Ann
Singleton, ran in the Woman's
Home Companion, and the follow
ing year, "'Ann Singleton"
was published by Appleton Century
Company. Mrs. Sumner says:
The novel made no great stir in
the world" In between the publ
cation of this novel and EQUALITY"
Mrs. Sumner wrote short stories
that appeared in current maya
zines.
Settings for this premiere
production of Hear the Hammers
Ringing" are designed by Lynn
Gault, technical director for the
Playmakers. Costumes are by
Irene Smart, James Byrd OF
Chapel Hill is stage manager.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02

CHAPEL HILL, March /. Ell
leen Smith of Ashevil.e is cast in
the leading role of Pinkey in the
Carolina Playmakers' premier
production of Cid Ricketts, Sum-
ners' new play Hear the Ham
mers Ringing directed by Kai
Jurgensen, which opens Wednes-
day, March 5, in the Playmakers
Theatre at the University of North
Carolina. Ali performances will
begin at $50 pm.
Other leading roles are taken by
Lillian Prince, Chapel Hill; Port
er Van Zandt. Rochester. N. Y:
Jane Hutson, Winston-Salem; Fred
johnson, Jamestown; Robert Arm
strong, Bessemer, Ala; and
Eleanor Ringer, Asheville.
Hear the Hammers Ringing"
which is based on Mrs. Summers
latest novel, EQUALITY" recently
published by Bobbs-Merrill Com
pany, has a long history of patient
work and constant rewriting be-
hind it. Laid in Mrs. Summers ma
tive state, Mississippi, Hear the
Hammers Ringing is the story of
a Negro girl who is educated in
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
BY w. G.. ROGERS
Associated Press Arts Reporter

NEW YORK, March 1.-(P-The
srtlst needs money and the public
needs art. The extent and nature
OF the exchange between artist
and public now and the possibili-
ties of each supplying the other
with more of what he wants il
the future are discussed in con-
siderable detail in a new book:
Work for Artists: What? Where?
How"
The book is a symposium edited
b. Elizabeth McCausland and pub
hshed by the American Artists
group. Government isn't buying
art any more, the editor says, and
museums and private patrons
alone won't keep the wolf from
the studio door.
The 20 contributors to her book
wonder variously whether big-busi-
ness backing can be increased,
Whether' big-business backing is
harmful to art, how much really
good art Americans can absorb,
how we'll prepared the artist is to
eXpend his sales to advertisers
and so on.
Among those with opinions are
architect = designer Walter Baer-
mann. artists Rockwell Kent and
Thomas Benton, advertising mar
Earnest Elmo Calkins ara sucn
appropriations as Z. H. Powell,
Britannica president, a d Walter
S. Mack, Jr., president of Pepsi
Cola.
A QUESTIONABLE showed that AZ
per cent of the artists and 81 per
cent of the art directors who were
queried said yes 10 the question:
DO you think the fine artist
should do advertising art?" Those
who replied in the affirmative
were asked whether. the artist
must solve ''any problems Of
adaptations" "A per cent of the
artists and 46 per cent of the art
directors said yes again. Asked
whether advertising commissions
had interfered with freedom of eX-
preston, or needed to, "a per cent
OF the artists and II per cent OF
the directors said yes.
The art directors clubs OF New
York, Phila delphia. Chicago, Bos'
ton and Los Angeles have organ.
lied the National Society of Art
n.-Aa4o,o - ,,oNor nf snnronon v
interests and standards of practice
for advertising and editorial art
Romare Bearden is exhibiting a
the Kootz Gallery; Darrell Austin
at Perls; liver Rose at the
Kraushaar. . On Monday Associ
ated American Artists open the
first U. S. postwar exhibit of con
temporary Irish art. . The Mu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
SENATOR SAYS
USE WANT ADS

WASHINGTON. March 1-LP)
Add the name of Senator
Overton tD-La) to those who
say 1t pays to use want ads.
The Senator advertised for a
stenographer in a Washington
newspaper and today nearly
100 women and two men form
ed a long line leading to the
locked doors of Overton's quar-
ters in the Senate Office build
ing.
Reached by telephone, the
Senator asserted that Il had no
idea SO many people wanted
Jobs. They've swamped me-"
He added that the Post would
net the winning applicant a ,5OO
annually.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
Attlee Disappointed
In UN's First Yea,

LONDON, March 1.-(P-Prime
Minister Attlee said tonight he wa
somewhat disappointed" in the
United Nations first year.
He spoke at a rally of the United
Nations Association along with Jar
Masaryk, Czechoslovakian foreign
minister, and Anthony Eden, one
time British Foreign Secretary and
now deputy leader of the Conserva-
tive Party.
During this past year." Attlee
declared, I'VE have all experienced
some degree of disappointment
with UNO. We had hoped for great
er unity in the assembly and the
security council.
Il share that disappointment.
But our other activities Gn the U.
NJ give us great cause for hope"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
Lake Forest Women
To Hold VIII Farley

A meeting of the women now liv-
ing in the masonry units at Lake
Forest has been called by Mrs.
Titus Williamson, temporary
chairman of the women's division,
of the Veterans Home Incorporat-
ed 152 Pinecrest Parkway, for q
o'clock this afternoon in the Com
munity building auditorium, Ken
Noble president, announced yes
terday.
Purpose Of the meeting will be
to discuss and get a group idea
on what women can engage in
when the VIII takes over.
The VIII Board of Directors has
extended an invitation to the
Junior Sorosis for that organiza-
ton to continue operating the day
nursery, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
New lr,1ian Village
Mapped Within State

SALISBURY, March l. up A
group of professors and students
from Catawba College has excavat-
ed and mapped l,500 square feet
OF the site of an Indian village on
the Yadkin river ten miles from
here, uncovering stone, bone and
pottery implements. The tribe is
believed by Geiger Omwake. head
of the party, to have been con-
hected with the southern Iroquois
nation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
DAMAGED

GREENV1LLE, March l-(PH
After battling dense smoke ano
steadily mounting flames for near
ly five hours, six companies Of
Greenvllle firemen by 7:30 d. m.
today had brought under contro.
a blaze which Quilted the basement
and main floor of the Cleveland
building in the heart of downtown
Greenville.