| Show TURNING POINT Five Blew Members i&re Elected To Champion Farmers Association By W J 7 Five members have been admitted to agriculture’s most exclusive organization the Champion Farmers Association of America Representing all sections and phases of farming they prove a living example that farming in America can be profitable and honored Their names will stand high on the roll of agricultural fame men of merit whose achievements win universal admiration The new members are William T Renk Sun Prairie Wis J D Me Gee Morgan Ga Thomas J Pearsall Rocky Mount N C and RensseWilliam Gehring laer Ind (Ed Note: No Induce ment proved sufficient to Farmer Bill to secure his consent to pose for photograph) The nominations for this award are made by farm leaders and elected by CFA’s membership of agricultural authorities— the awards are which copresented by Firestone operated In the founding of the association in 1937 Camera-shwho William Gehring wouldn’t have his picture taken won his place by helping greaUy to bring the rich muck lands of northern Indiana into heavy production through the application of proper fertilizer irrigation crop diversification and highly mechanized On hi farm at Renssefarming laer Ind his production of mint of which he sold more than $500000 worth last year has proven the financial possibilities of this crop He also grows potatoes sweet corn and onions on his farm of 4000 acres Prior to 1931 he worked In a factory Without farm experience he went to the muck lands to overcome their production and set problems an example to others -shy WILLIAM F RENK With the help of three eona be produced 83 carload of food from hi Farmfarm ai Sun Prairie Wl er Renk former Wiaconsln com mlsaioner of agriculture with the Wilable aiilitance of hi sou bur Walter and Robert Iaat year Bold more than 1000044 pounda of beef pork and lamb In addiof tion to 23000 bushel hybrid seed corn and 10000 bushela of of Victoria oata and a carload wool A J D McGEE This champion la an entstandlng example of a fanner who went heavily in debt la order to succeed Be now operate 2300 acre of land at Mormajor caah gan Ga McGee’ crop la peanuts but be believe In and practices a modern of versatile farming— raising bogs Hereford cattle as well as producing oats corn and cotton Does not believe In putting all of bis egg la one basket THOMA8 1 PEARSALL Rocky Mount N C la proud of Manager FearsaU of the M C Braswell Company Farms He has the Job of operating a farm of 22000 acres and supervising the work of 1100 men women and children who live and work on the farm Cotton tobacco corn beef and dairy lespedeta hogs cattle a well as small grains are produced by) Tom Pearsall and hts family of 1100 WILLIAM RICHARDS Bill gave np a successful career as n chemical engineer and racing car driver to purchase a Cape Cod dairy farm in 1941 at Forestdale Mass and converted It Into a truck garden Bora and raised In Boston he decided to become a vegetable producer after suffertrack accident ing a serious Known as Farms bis 840 acres Include 123 acres of broccoli Like most scientists be leaves nothing to chance Irrigation cold frames and modern mechanised methods are utilised by Racer Richards - November 1945 cently concluded term offered the first real chance to study their achievements During the past term 838 veterans registered for credit under the GL BUI of Rights and only 52 dropped out at the end of the term Toepelman said The reasons given by many of the 32 were illness poor academic progress nervousness and failure to adjust Some however dropped out !ilW Mary Imlay Taylor WNU turned back Into the house a furhis own between row of worry had Jrows It ’seemed as if Mac things by caught at the meaning of out somehad hefound or instinct in alone Standing thing himself? the hall he took out the sheriff’s paof per and studied It The picture the escaped convict was unusually t and good the description accurate Jim was still studying it when he heard a light step behind him and turned to meet Fanny The young nurse caught Sewell trouble In his face at a glance "There's something wrongl” she he said V "Jim he’s faint from loss of blood —look at him I" Old Mac Intervened "I’ll fix him up you go ’phone for th’ doc Jane” he thrust his hand through well arm "You come along With me soa Hello I” he shaded hia eyea with his hand "Say Jim if I ain’t mistaken — th’ sheriff’s across th coming bridge right now!” he added pointing Jim gave a quick exclamation of "So he is satisfaction Got a posse too Just in the nick of time—it’s all right that you didn’t go for him now Hazlett!” Sherwin flushed suddenly to his hair but no one noticed it Jane was running on ahead to telephone for the doctor Mac had him by the bearm and Jim had apparently come absorbed in the approaching posse “Send a man over for that horse Mac’’ he threw back as he hurried off Sherwin’s face waa set The old man peered at him sideways ruminating “Thought you knew tha way to Hemming’” His tone was casual and he went on at once "It's a pity you missed baggln’ Jordan he’s got th’ start of us now” “We’ll have to get him" SherHe had win answered absently watched Jane's figure disappearing into the house and now he saw the sheriff's posse riding up the long slope to Las Palomas "It seems to take a good many men to hunt down one out here” he remarked dryly old Mac '‘Kinder nasty said "but there ain’t no bones broken I’ll wash it an th’ doc'll fix it up all right" While he worked hia patient eat by the window watching the posse He expected to be called to tell bis story of Jordan but he was not and as time passed' he began to wonder why Then old Mac startled him more "I reckon you don’t know that Jane’s said to be goin’ to marry Stenhart do youT” he asked casually He felt Sherwin stiffen under his hands "I think she will notl” he said sharply Then he fell silent Mac atared binding the arm a trifle closely hia eyea straying out of the window folThe old man waa lowing Sherwin' farsighted He made out a paper in the sheriff's hand and after a moment Jim took It and both men hurt" GEN COURTNEY H HODGES with General Pershing’s Mexican Punitive expedition and the 8th Infantry regiment of the 5th division in France Luxembourg and Germany in World War I He was appointed commandant of the Infantry school at Fort Ga in 1940 He became chief of infantry in Washington was made chief of the ground forces replacement and school command when the into ground army was reorganized air and service forces and later became commanding general of the X army corps He was assigned to command the Third army Fort Sam Houston Texas in February 1643 and served In this capacity until March 1944 when he was asto the First army In the Eusigned ropean theater of operations Assistant to Gen Omar N Bradley when the First army took part in the invasion of Normandy capture of Cherbourg and the breakthrough at St Lo Hodges assumed full command in August 1944 He paved the way for the Third army’s and his famous First's spectacular lunges across France waa the first Into Paris first Into Germany first army commander since Napoleon to cross the Rhine river in battle first to enter and clear out the Hurtgen forest in the cold winter months and first to meet the Russians Among his higher decorations are the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star from the first war and the Distinguished Service Medal and an Oak Leaf Cluster for services in the current conflict General Hodges presently command the First army with headquarters at Fort Bragg N C From private to general Is a route any soldier would like to travel— and Courtney Hicks Hodges is one who did! And In future years some of America’s highest ranking officers will come from the ranks from among men who made the army a career Returned Veterans Are Good University Students BOULDER COLO He went away to war— Just a boy He returned as a man — and went back to schooL How’s he getting along? "Fine" say W C Toepelman director of veterans’ affairs at Colorado university And with few exceptions they asked no special favors because they were war veterans Thera have been vets on the C U campus since July 1944 but the re THE STOKY THUS FAR "I want yon go over to Hemming a and get the sheriff” Jim told Sherwin who protested that he didn’t know the way HI real reanoa wai that the iherlff would arrest him But Jim wanted Sheriff Cutler to f e after Jordan ' the outlaw tot on a horao at Last bat went the wrong be way deliberately Suddenly decided he wu a coward and turned to e hack — and lac the worst He keard Lane’s voice thea saw her la a clump of bushes Ho aaw something alio— Jordan creeping np to abduct her Jane tried to Bght him off hat Jordan lifted her up to carry her away Sherwla atbut tached Jordan escaped again wounding Iherwia’i arm with a knlft to CHAPTER Veteran Farmer William Renk is a veteran farmer who has consistently followed a proHe emphasizes efgressive policy ficiency in every phase of farming with the aid of three his sons They are pioneers In archof farm buildings type construction and their machine shop is a credit to their ability Seven tractors hay slides— and their ability to produce quality seed corn — hybrid— marks them as real proThe Renks have gressive farmers developed a direct sales demand for their hybrid seed D McGee started In 1628 on a J ' smfill farm— purchased borwith rowed capltaL Last year hia peanut Soil concrop was worth $40000 servation plays an important part on his farm as they must on any farm that succeeds He is a director of the Peanut Growers' association and an authority on the economic problems of the industry Congress has heard with interest his facts and figures on peanut production and possibilities "Speed Richards”— they call William Richards This not only applies to his farm operations but to bis former record as a racing car driver He started out by leasing a tract near Providence R L Later Richards purchased his present farm from earnings from the leased tract— tenant farming may pay well He launched an extensive and costly fertilizing program— essential for this type of farming A major innovation was a large Irrigation system drawing on a lake as a water source In Many Organisation Speed Richards takes an active He it part in farm organizations a member of advisory council on agriculture the Boston Market Garden association Town Finance committee Extension Vegetable committee and Farm Bureau At 38 he has three daughters one son and a modern successful farm highly mechanized Thomas J Pearsall believes in progressive plantation policiea which have attracted national attention He is not a farm owner but he manages the famous Braswell farms at Rocky Mount N C containing 22000 acres Starting 10 years sgo he was considered because he was a strong supporter of education among his Negro tenants and sharecropThe result— labor turnover pers greatly reduced and crop yields inHe installed creased mechanical and technical Innovations such as and strip cropping A terracing state representative and president of the Agricultural Foundation Inc he is now raising two million dollars for the farm research program State college at North Carolina Tom has a wife and two sons to aid him is noticeable It that particularly the section of the United States in which a farmer lives has little to do with his ability to be a "champion These five farmers come from New England the Mississippi valley the North and the South The American farmer can do his job in any state or climate when he sets him- - Bhr DRYDEN UNO Farm EilUr to In the army transfer to another school or take a Job Toepelman said a few married veterans left school before registering for the November term because they couldn’t find suitable housing The problem of adjustment Toepelman said 55 vets solved that by taking refresher cdursea without credit during the November term and then registering for credit the present term stared at il "The sheriff's got a description of some one that’s wanted" he said ‘Tv seen them papers befinally fore now" Sherwin did not answer his arm waa bound up and he 'rose suddenly and made for th door which opened But Mac caught him on the posse back "Don’t you do It son!” Sherwin stared at him "What do you meanT” The old man smiled grimly "I reckon I kinder suspicion why you took th’ wrong road son you don't need to meet th’ sheriff here Jim ain't called for you For a moment longer Sherwin stared at him sternly then he flung himself into a chair beslda th table and leaning across It buried his head In his arms Old Mae came and stood beslda him looking down at him pityingly for he saw his broad shoulders shake with a hard drawn bitter sob "Got any new men on?” Cutler bad asked "Seen a fellow like that picture?” Jim studied th picture a long then be looked around time silently at the sheriff "What’s he wanted tor Cutler?" "Murder first degree Escaped convict from Rhode Inland It’s for life there you know Jim nodded "Better leave the paper with me” be said at last "new men com along every now and then” don’t "That’s sol Personally think likely he’s round these parts too far off his beat ehT” Th sherth to door the moved iff By way where’s that feller who Keller mixed It up tor Jordan ?r Send him along to show us the way he went” send old MacDoweU TH he knows” Jim said promptly “The other man's got a bad arm I've phoned for th doctor for him" As he spoka he accompanied the sheriff to th door and shouted for Mac at once and The old man answered got his orders to go with th posse He cast a sharp look at Jim’s face nd obeyed without a word At the moment Jim scarcely noticed that be did not suggest that tba man whom they caBed Hazlett should go but be thought of it as quickly I ee "Nothing much wrong when Jim answered heartily But she was not to be put off "You’re worried 1” For answer Jim held out the pa per '‘Ever see that face before you!” Fanny?” The girl gave It a startled look then she scrutinized it carefully her own face changing sharply "Oh!" It was an exclamation KElfAS! He faced nothing right hand dropped sudhip Stenhart shrieked wall against the let him kill me!" he Sherwin said him and denly to his hi crumpling "Don’t panted fprward but Jane was she caught at SherShe took no notice of the others she seemed to see no one but this one man her lips "Tell me" she whispered white "tell me it isn’t true!” Sherwin put her hand away and stood alone facing them "It's true that I’m the man they want" he said harshly "and it’s true" he raised his hand and point"it’s true that I ed at Stenhart came here to kill him" Jane shrank away from him a Their word ahe recoiled without eyes held each other a moment longer but there was no answer In hera He saw her shrink and shudder the There was a terrible silence others stood staring dumbly Then Stenhart backed farther away white and shaken "He’ll kill me — don’t let him come near mel” he cried hysterically Sherwin turned and looked his “I’ll not kill you acorn at him here" he said coldly His face was white and drawn he did not look at Jane again but at Jim "You can “I give me up” he said harshly came lo tell you so There’ a re“Stenward" he added bitterly hart here might like ltl" ahe Fanny Sewell’s head dropped Jim started of him ahead win’s sobbed sleeve chokingly He stepped in Jim intervened front of Jane and took Sherwin by the unwounded arm "Cornel” he aaid sternly Sherwin cast one quick look of anguish at Jane turned without a word and went As he went Stenhart collapsed into a chair but Jane did not even glance at him She stood with her back against the wall staring In front of her with unseeing eyes He had dared to make love to her and Her head swam he was a convict! and her mouth was dry but she said nothing Outside the house Jim had his band on Sherwin’s arm “Melt sway” he said grimly “you saved me and you rescued my slater— I'll do nothing nothing at all Melt away I” They stood still In the broad dayIt was afternoon now and light doves gome were cooing In the trees Sherwin had finished bis meal and turned gravely and looked he thrust his plate aside looking Sherwin across at the old man’s face behind at Keller his pale face flushed a little the camouflage of tobacco smoke “I don't want to make such a dismay as she lifted her troubled Claim upon your geherosity" he said stiffly "Better give me up” eyes to his Jim swore a little “I’m not that "Can’t be mistaken can It?” Jim kind” he said then his eyes travasked grimly "It’s terribly like him— what’s the eled toward the distant windings of road He took out hli the crime?" and searched it as far off as Jim turned the paper over he could see He made out a dark a statement— pretty bad "There’s patch moving on the upper road too!" Fanny began to read It slowly her “You go and stay with Mac until dark that's the sheriff up there Afface losing its happy flush ter dark you can 'get off” “He’s saved my life — and got Jane Sherwin said nothing If he wantaway from Jordan today It’s—It’s ed to make a plea in his own dedarned hard to know what to do!" fense he saw It waa useless be was Th nurse did not seem to bear him As she read sho paled and Judged Yet there was something about Jim that was so likeable he suddenly she caught at a chair and could not be angry with him gasped her eyes dilated “We’re not so far from the border "Good Lord Fanny— my darling all’’ Jim added casually after ’’I’d Is it?” Jim forgot his girl what quandary as he caught her In his bead that way — if I were you” Sherwin looked up "You're genarms “Nothing!" she tried to smile "I erous I appreciate It” Jim turned away awkwardly 'He — I was a little dizzy — there’s Jane waa half way to the house when he now!" turned and spoke over his shoulder Jim still anxious and perplexed Tm relying on you not to stay looked around around Las Palomas" he aald grim"Hello Jane — Stenhart! Com ly overdone she’s Fanny’s along Sherwin nodded it was the only faint I’ve made her ait down" as he spoke he was putting the nurse thing Jim had said which infuriated him It made him feel his position Into the big chair at his desk Stenhart following Jane came in he wsi an outcast — spared because he had done something for both of slowly leaning on his stick them the girl and her brother Her "What’s it all about?" he asked Jane was getting a glass of water last look st him had repudiated him for Fanny and aa ah brought it aa completely as Jim’s words they both believed him guilty The girl Jim held out the sheriff's paper would marry Stenhart! "Look here Janet” His lister ignored him fussing Suddenly he laughed aloud harshover the other glrL “Feeling be- ly What a mad fool he had been tter dear? Sit down Max or you’ll He might have killed Stenhart unovertire yourself I” Then straight- der the tree that morning It was useless to play fair with a snake ening up: "What’a that Jim?" He handed her the description and Hia eyes swept the wide slopes of th ranch The men had stopped th picture it was near supper Jan stared at It changing color hammering time and be could aee groups of then she flung It down she "Well" said defiantly “what them down by the corrals In the water under tha bridge he aaw the of it?” Jim saw tha anger and pride in big white horns of a drowned steer there had been too much to do to her face Suddenly he remembered the scene by the creek when he recover all the bodies for cremation found her there with Sherwin Presently he too might be found lyand ing in some creek starved on his "By Jove!” he breathed "Max turned sharply look at l°ng hike for freedom He had not that!” He snatched th paper up moved from the spot where Jim had left him when he heard old Mae call and handed It to Stenhart Stenhart was reading it when they to him “Come in here I’ve got something heard a step on tha veranda and cam Into the ball His for you to eat” the old man said Sherwin arm was bandaged and his face was brusquely holding open the door of hi own room behind the kitchen colorless Sherwin saw that he had a good "Oh!" cried Jane impulsively meal spread for him and a knapsack arm—’’ "you shouldn’to-yoBut he did not look at her he was pecked As Mac closed the door beThere was a hind him he looked around at him looking at Stenhart tense moment No one spoke then and saw compassion on 'tha lined Stenhart laughed— laughed out loud face “You knew 1 was out the holding paper and Jooklng at going" he aald Jim quickly "Did Keller tell you over "IF th man” ha said “can’t the ’phone just now?" Mac smiled “You told ms son! you aee? Use your eyesl Tv known this fellow before— his name's John I’ve lived a long while I learned he killed his old uncle be how to get behind a man’s spoken Sherwin cause he'd left him out of hia will word a right smart while ago Sit cut him off He’s escaped from jail down and eat ain’t any us starHe was sentenced for life I know vin'” ltl He's an escaped convict!" (TO BE OONTINUID) |
