Farm And Home Training Meetings Focus On War Production Practices
Twenty Negro Farm and Home Community Training meetings were held in February to educate 486 leaders and visitors on 1944 Production and Conservation Practices. The group urged Live-At-Home programs, improved corn seed, better land, lime on sour soils, split fertilizer rates, shallow frequent cultivation, and nitrate of soda at knee to waist height.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Knight
R. W. Whitworth
R. E. Jones
A. & T. College
Greensboro
Daniel Chapel School
Red Cross Aid Reaches 30 Nations in War Relief Effort
American Red Cross reports relief flow to more than 35 million wartime victims across thirty nations since hostilities began in Europe. Aircraft shipments to China and Russia supplement vast medical supplies, clothing, and food through Allied and International Red Cross channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tims
China
Russia
American Red Cross
Europe
Richard F. Allen
Red Cross
Asia
Far East
International Red Cross
Allen
United States
Kunming
India
Burma Road
Free
Moscow
Ussr
Russian Kuibyshev
England
East Africa
Iran
Lebanon
Spain
Iraq
Syria
North
Africa
Greece
Poland
Yugoslavia
France
Norway
Netherlands
International Relief Commission
Leaders named for 1944 state associations display
The pictured group lists 12 heads of North Carolina associations with their cities and roles. Notables include Robert E. Stevens of Goldsboro American Legion commander and Mrs. W. C. Alexander of Durham American Legion Auxiliary president, plus John B. Harris Albemarle North Carolina Press Association president and Tracy Moore Greensboro postmaster chapter head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Stevens
Goldsboro
North Carolina
American Legion
Philip Woollcott
Asheville
North Carolina Bankers Association
W. S. Burruss
Raleigh
North Carolina Retail Merchants Association
W. C. Alexander
Durham
North Carolina Department
American Legion Auxiliary
John B. Harris
Albemarle
North Carolina Press Association
C. V. Faulkner
Nashville
Mrs J E Garlington Repr esents Charge at Wilson Conference
Mrs J E Garlington represents the Garysburg and Pleasant Hill charge as a delegate at the Conference in Wilson, held Tuesday through Thursday of this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Garlington
Garysburg
Fleasant Hill
Wilson
Town News Roundup of Local Weekend Visits
Marvin Cook of Portsmouth spent the weekend with his mother Miss Helen Hedgepeth of R P I. Several residents traveled to Newport News and Richmond for visits and weddings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Cook
Portsmouth
Helen Hedgepeth
Lillian Kinker
J. B. Batton
Wilmeer Lee Cage
Isabelle Reilly
Newport News
Carlton Taylor
Rudolph Williams
Lt. Williams
Richmond
H. E. Lee
Lillian
Monroe
Marie Cates
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Pvt
Charles Miller
Alabama
Alice Miller
Herbert Gibbs
Brown
Roger Cook
Lloyd H. Sandlin
Cary
Nick Long
Salmon, Md
Doris Hedgepeth
West Hampton
Bernice Hitchens
Neal Bunn
Phebus
Ruth Bell
Ruth Lowe
Charlotte Grant
Horace Hudson
J. M. Rice
Hudson
Phylis Brown
Burla White
Clyde Fulghum
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs
John Glover
George Guthrie
Hampton, Va
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
N. C
Proctors
Coats & Suits
Proctor’s Dept. Store
Roanoke Rapids, N. C
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