Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1944 Page: 3 of 8
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SHELBY-PANOLA SOIL CONSERVATION
DISTRICT NOTES
PRISON LABOR
LIMITED
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Winter Legumes This Fell
J. M. Windham, J. B. Tay-
lor, and B. B. Fults of the Mt.
Adams’ farm and if the dry
weather permits will have ap-
proximately five miles of ter-
Herman Conservation Group,! races completed on this farm
Mrs. Orvilla Humphries of this week.
Antioch, J. E. Steadman and Jjm f^nsborne planB to com-
A. C. Hairgrove of the Tena- p,ete Urracea on Di3trict Sl3_
ha Conservation Group, and pervisor Ben Childs’ and W. B.
L. B. Dean of Tennessee are Wortbam.8 farms thia week.
some of the bnelby-Panola These terraces were started
Sod Conservation District co- weeks ago and wet
operators who planted and ather has preyented Mr.
turned under winter legume Xjnghome from completing
soil building crops daring the teTracea
past year. All of these farm-
ers. along with many others
have recognized
The Shelby-Panoia Soil Con-
the value of _ _
as hairy District Supervisors
*®*r: act in Carthage, Texas, Tuea-
J day. Jane 6, at their regular
meeting, and Ben
Quids, newly-elected snpervi-
j scr for Zone 4, which is the
northwestern portion of Shel-
by County, west of Highway 7
naming from Nacogdoches
through Center to Logansport,
took over his first duties as a
distriet supervisor, at which
time the conservation plans
on the farms of L. F. Bearden,
Morris Childs, Ben Childs, C.
H. Perry, A. F. Borns, S. 13-
Shepherd, Sam Espy, Gordon
Weaver, and Ivy Chandler
and J. M. Windham of Mt. • were approved for assistance
Herman, and L. B. Dean of (from the Soil Conservation
Tenssefe are a few of the Shel-j Servicei and applieationS for
by County farmers who be-i aesistan„e frora the Shelby-
licve that if terraces are worth iPano,a Soil Conservation Dis-
building they are worth main-; were approved on the
taming. Various methods are j Jl8imes D Harrison farm in the
used for maintaining or build- Good Hope conservation
mg up old terraces, but one of | Group> and the farni of Alto„
the most common and very, Barnes, colored farmer in the
practical methods as used by Buena vista Congervation
these Shelby-Panoia District Group. These applications
veteh asd
peas in
yields and
mutter to the Mil to i
preventing veil eras
tween their ter .wee*,
way mach soil esuved and
terrace channels are kept from
silting full. These farmers
when asked if they plan to
plant these legumes again
usually reply, "I plac to plant
all at the winter legumes this
fall for which I can secure
seed.”
Terrace Maintenance
N. P. Bussell, E. L. Hopkins
cooperators is to plow up the
ridge with a email turning
plow and then plow out the
water channel leaving the
dead furrow of the last plow-
ing in the center of the water
channel. This seems to give
the terrace more water-hold-
ing capacity, assists in remov-
ing small and bar conditions,
and assists materially in
draining wet-natured fields.
Terrace Construction
Marlin Jones is again
structing terraces on Kennie jT- Weir.
for assistance are in groups al-
ready established by the Dis-
trict Board of Supervisors.
New Conservation
Group Set Up
An extension of the old Ten-
nessee Conservation Group
was established by the District
Supervisors by approving the
following group of adjoining
farms: Ellis Rider, E. L.
Moore, C. D. Morris, J. B.
con-' I-ane, W. S. Crawford and
College Station. — Only 4,-
500 prisoners of war will be
available co Texas farmers for
agricultural work in the
months ahead, the Eighth Ser-
vice Command has advised the
Texas A. and M. College Ex-
tension Service.
At the present, time there
are only one-third as many
prisoners in the Command
area as a year ago, Extension
representatives have been
toid. Earlier, one-half of all
the war prisoners in the Unit-
ed States were located in this
area Command embracing 5
states, but many have been
moved out to help meet criti-
cal labor needs in other areas.
A recent agreement be-
tween the commanding officer
of the Eighth Service Com-
mand and Acting Extension
Director J, D. Prewjtt will
permit movement of the pris-
oners to branch camps for em-
ployment in harvesting crops
wherever the Extension Serv-
ice consider the greatest needs
exist. The commanding gen-
eral also is considering the es-
tablishing of mobile camp
units for use in emergencies.
These units might include 150
to 250 men.
Recent regulations will pre-
vent the use of prisoners for
agricultural work such as
brush clearing, cleaning
ditches, and building fences,
according to C. Hohn, Exten-
sion state farm labor supervi-
sor. Their work must be limit-
ed to food production.
The provision that the gov-
ernment cannot bear the ex-
pense of furnishing war pris-
oners for agricultural work,
still stands, Mr. Hohn ex-
plains, and farmers will be
expected to pay their wages,
cost of subsistence and trans-
portation. Ordinarily there is
more expense attached to es-
tablishing branch camps for
emergency work than in ob-
taining prisoners from the
base camps in the state.
FIS muwris w
ONLY BLUFF FOH (HUES
Marriage of Pvt. Bob F.
Pinkston and Mbs Mildred
Carriker Announced
PROFITS FROM EGGS
College Station. —- Despite
the low price of eggs and the
comparatively high price of
feed, a negro farmer in Fay-
ette fcounty reports he still is
realizing a substantial profit.
Within the past year he has
made $2,820 profit from eggs
and in addition has 500 ex-
cellent laying hens he has re-
ported to the Texas A. and M.
College Extension Service.
By following recommended
practices, this farmer, David
Rivers, has marketed 12,808
Shortage to Abundance,
And Quickly
College Station. — Home-
makers, who three months
ago fretted about the short-
age of onions, now are urged
to use all they can in the next
few weeks’ meals.
There’s a good reason for
this about-face from shortage
to abundance, according to
representatives of the Texas
f A. and M. College Extension
Service. Last year in Texas
the onion acreage was 28,000,
dozen eggs, enough to supply ifnd thl? f 6 'the
an egg a day for 421 people! lnc4reased to
for one year. His family, also, }'nat\on “ a x
has had an abundance of fresh
eggs.
LIFE’S Little TROUBLES
-CAR! SLEEP-
No need to tie in best—-ta*r—
worry and fret becaujjc CON-
STlPATION or GAS PRES-
SURE won t let T<*
* X V — — -a lake
of largo intestines oa nsrvts sad
organs of die digestive met. Ad-
lerikm assists old food vesta sad
gas through a cnmicrtxbfc boed
Before yon kaov
to normal
of presume atop. I
it, yon are aateep. . ...
yeti fading than—retraced sad
ready for a good day’s troth or fan.
G. C. McDaeid, Druggist
production will be 50 per cent
over last year’s supply and 40
per cent above the 10 year’s
average, the War Food Ad-
ministration announced.
Since early onions, including
those now reaching market
from Texas farms, are not
suitable for dehydration, in
creased consumption will be
necessary to avoid waste. On-
ions contain some thiamin,
riboflavin, and ascorbic acid,
and compared with other
vegetables are fair sources of
at least three minerals. Hazel
Phipps, Extension specialist in
food preparation, says also
that adding them often
“makes a good dish a better
dish.”
Dallas, Tex., June 3. (UP)
—A housewife here put in a
hurrid cal! to police to report
the theft of 8700 while she
was doing her laundry.
Before police arrived, she
sat down and reconstructed
her morning’s activities and
found the money in an empty
dishpan.
She told Detective T. S. Con-
nelly, as he complimented her
on her sleuthing, that the mon-
ey fell from her apror. pocket
while she was hanging out
clothes.
Connelly went away won-
dering if the woman custo-
marily carried $700 in her
apron pocket.
Any indulgence toward
them (younger Kazb) will be
indulgence toward trained
criminals.—Louis Marin, for-
mer government minister re-
cently escaped from France.
$700 Borne in Apron
Pocket Lost, Woman
Sleuths Recovery
Southern Pine Mills
Step Up Production
Austin, Tex.—Southern pine
mills dropped an average of
approximately 4,000 board
feet of lumber from their
weekly production schedule
during April, as output avei-
aged 202,054 board feet per
unit per week, according to
the University of Texas Bu-
reau of Business Research.
This production compared
with 206,170 feet in March.
Weekly shipments declined
to 202,943 board feet per unit
from March’s 213,026 board
feet.
Average unfilled orders at
the end of April totaled 1,-
626,466 board feet per unit.
By Richard D. McMillan
(Representing the Combined
Allied Press)
With the Allied Invasion
Forces, France, June 8. (UP)
—We are inside the so-called
Atlantic wall. Our tanks are
■rapidly widening the breach
and we have penetrated for
miles.
We have captured towns
and villages and the whole
countryside is be-flagged with
union jacks, the stars and
stripes and the French tri-col-
or.
We succeeded in breaching
the “wail” because it was
really a big bluff, at least In
t ils sector. It consists, here,
tf a few scattered pill boxes,
some unfinished tank ifitetw
and little lese. We could Mt
have chosen a better paint Car
our attack. We drove rigid
through, mowing down the
crews of the pill bones. I saw
them lying dead by their guns
—and the guns wen not very
formidable—mostly 5b-milli-
meters.
I drove dawn a country road
which runs parallel with Ok
coast line and saw*the Ger-
man. American and British
dead lying unburied. Our men
were so tired last night that
they lay beside the dead, ene-
my and comrades, and slept.
Our forces are pouring
ceaselessly, night and day, in-
to a huge gap in the enemy
defenses with little interfer-
ence from the enemy.
Off shore, the sea looks like
New York harbor, filled with
shipping, ad convoys stretch
back over the English channel.
The warships, two or three
miles off, are battering iso-
lated points of resistance.
Some German tanks made a
furtive appearance on the
skyline but disappeared as the
warships opened on them.
They were lost in the dust as
they retreated through the
dustry lanes between green
grain fields.
The right of our own tanks,
pouring over the road, is an
indication that, we have cap-
tured a number of Important
points.
The low tide reveals the en-
emy’s underwater obstacles,
mostly intertwined bars of
iron, 'just like our anti-tank
defenses along the English
country roads.
Most of our stuff is steered
toward shore through gaps be-
tween these obstacles but ine-
vitably a lot of material,
tanks, landing craft, jeeps and
trucks have foundered and lie
derelict in the water. But
plenty more are pouring in.
I have completed a tour of
the front line covering nearly
30 miles.
Crowds are cheering the
British and other Allied
troops, shouting “Bravo Tom-
mies, we knew you would
come. We have been waiting
for you. Now we will kill
these hated Germans.”
When I entered Bayeux the
inhabitants were crazy with
joy. As we reached the town,
a squadron of our medium
bombers flew over low.
Crowds pointed upwards,
waving their hands as if the
airmen could see them.
“That is what frightened
the Germans most,” the
French said. “They scurried
underground like rabbits
whenever your fliers came
over. During the last few
days before the invasion, your
air attacks were terrific. We
could read fear on the faces of
the Germans.”
The marriage of Pvt Bob F.
Pinkston, son of Mrs. A. L.
Pinkston of Center, to Miss
Mildred Carriker, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Carriker
of Port Arthur, was solemn-
ized Wednesday afternoon.
May 81, in the First Baptist
church in Lawton, Okla., Rev.
C. C. Reed, pastor of the
church, reading the ceremony.
Pvt. Pinkston attended the
Lon Morris Junior College in
Jacksonville, the S. F. A. Col-
lege, Nacogdoches, and later
the State University in Austin.
At the time he entered the
armed service, he was man-
ager of the News-Champion,
at Center.
Mrs. Pinkston is a graduate
of S. F. A. College in Nacog-
doches and has taught in the
Gator intermediate school for
the pcat te* years.—Center
INVADED FRANCE IS
ROARING FURNACE
A U. S, Army Air Force
Fighter-Bomber Base, June S.
(UP)—Smoke and flame rose
1,500 feet into the air along
the invasion coast of France.
An ancient French chateau
was a roaring furnace. Allied
tanks rumbled Into a flaming
town.
That's war in France today.
And the French peasants
ignored the booming of battle.
They go on about their plow-
ing, pausing only to wave to
Allied planes overhead- A
bread truck rattles along s
country road as a baker sends
his warm loaves to market.
French youths bicycle along
wooded paths.
Thunderbolt pilots returning
from low-level flights over the
invasion ares brought back
this picture today of an invad-
ed France—invaded this time
by the Allies.
GREAT DANGERS
ARE OVERCOME
London, June 8. (UP)
Prime Minister Churchill told
Commons today that the Al-
lies have overcome "great
dangers,” although he warned
against over-optimism of the
invasion and said that “enor-
mous exertions lie before, us.”
Churchill said he did not in-
tend to make a statement on
the operations in France to-
day unless something of ex-
ceptional importance occur-
red.
AH the points of interest,
he explained, have been cov-
ered by the “excellent reports
furnished by our able and up-
right press."
The prime minister urged
members of Parliament to
maintain morale against theit
constituents and give "strong
warning against over-optim-
ism.”
uei cents
HMEIHir
Aboard the U. S. Assault
Transport Thomas Jefferson.
June 6. (UP)—The landing of
our spearhead troops on
beaches is one sector of north-
ern France today was aimost
turned into another bloody
Salerno by weather conditions
which made proper softening
up by bombers and warships
an impossibility.
The roughness of the water
capsized landing craft, swim-
ming “ducks” (amphibious ve-
rictes) broke up wave forma-
tions and drowned soldiers
who , were seeking to reach
shore through the heavily
mined area which also was
studed with underwater ob-
stacles.
The Germans fought fierce-
ly and capably, often driving
our boats back to sea when
they approached. Many tanks
were shot up along with the
landing craft. Beaches were
strewn with the wrecked
equipment.
From rix-foot concrete pill-
boxes disguised as rocks and
from batteries hidden in cliffs
the Nazis fired anti-tank guns,
90, 88 and 50 millimeter wea-
pons, 155 mm. rifles asd 155
mm. howitzers as well as
scores of machine guns from
emplacements in French
home*.
Our assault battalion took
a hard pounding from the en-
emy fire and rough surf.
Much equipment was left in
the tending boats by grata
troops rushing to dig into toe
sand.
Using cross-Are, the Nazis
time and time again cot off
beaches and holdtod trap#.
Ndval gunfire support for the
beleaguered troops finally
saved the day.
The battleship Texas moved
close inshore and silenced a
155 mm. battery in a cliff
while destroyers pounded con-
tinually at pillboxes.
With this aid, troops using
flame throwers and grenades
choked off the defenders.
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In 500 B. C., the Greek
scientist Pythagoras taught
that the earth is round.
FARLEY QUITS
New York, June 8. (UP)
James A. Farley, chairman of
the New York State Demo-
cratic committee, resigned to
day, severing the last official
tie of a national political
career that atarted with his
managing Franklin D. Roose-
velt to the presidency in 1932.
The present classification of
visible stars into constellations
is believed to have been origi-
nated by the Babylonians
about 5,000 years ago.
Going into the Army, Navy,
or Marine Corps? Before you
leave, put your social security
account card In a safe place.
You may need it when you get
back. For information con-
cerning account number or
Old-Age and Survivors Insur-
ance payments, call or write
the Lufkin office of the Social
Security Board located at 125
North First Street.
The earth is about 3,900,000
miles farther from the sun in
July than it is in January. ! Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
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