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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1943
Page
8
Farmers should pick seed cotton as soon as ready and deliver clean dry cotton to the gin. Exposure in the field lowers quality, damp or trashy cotton reduces bale value, and careful handling can save from $100 to $1000 per bale. Prompt, dry delivery yields better ginning results and bale quality.
Auburn Alabama experts advise balancing leaf surface with roots when transplanting in heat. Remove lower leaves on pepper and tomato cuttings, plant in shade when possible, water copiously, pack soil, and add small amounts of nitrates to foster root growth. Use shade with boards or shingles placed on the south side to protect mid day sun.
The War Food Administration urged farmers to market surplus corn promptly to aid war industries and deficit areas. From July 1 to August 20, sellers delivering to a country elevator for CCT would receive immediate ceiling price and a later supplement if ceilings rise. Officials say this does not imply price increases, just offset rumors.
Army ordnance reports significant cost reduction from $225 to $21 per unit by stamping 45 caliber submachine guns and using uncritical materials. The redesigned 50 caliber aircraft machine gun saves 52 pounds and reduces bronze usage by two pounds.
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Alabama crop prospects are excellent overall, with dryness in Northwest Alabama and excess rain in extreme Southwest. Extension workers report boll weevils causing damage to cotton across the state, plus aphids and cotton worms in several counties. Farmers are using calcium arsenate and menthene mixes to combat boll weevils and apply heavier calcium arsenate for worms.
Red Cross Gray Ladies in Africa join counterparts in North Africa, visiting American service members held in British and French hospitals. The overseas workers call on soldiers to provide comfort and morale while hospitalized away from home.
A noted physiologist and psychologist argues that no one is absolutely immune to air sickness but people can learn to acquire or resist it. The article also notes the new Mustang dive bomber with brakes, bomb sacks, and high reliability machine guns as the fastest dive bomber in the world.
The article discusses Badoglio’s roles from premier designate to wartime commander and viceroy in Ethiopia. It notes his controversial legacy in the 1935 36 campaigns, his break with Mussolini, and his postwar reputation, alongside a caption about Italian measures to conserve aluminum in a new 80mm anti aircraft gun mount.
Betty MacDonald reports rayon scarcity pressures clothing makers who cannot obtain enough rayon for linings. Army needs exceed 4,000,000 pounds for reconstruction and hosiery demand, prompting innovations like unlined purses and other items. WPB plans push shoe style reductions, leather features eliminated, colors limited. Diaper production rises to 100,000,000 by year end to meet birthrate. Summer brings rationed irrigation distribution loosenings by War Food Administration.
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