BAILEY EUGLE, BAILEY, NORTH CAROLII\[A, I^ERUAP.Y, 1957
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FUTURE
FATHER'-SON BANQUET
March 6
Team Wins Fourth
Place InContGst
Freshmen, Jerry Bissette,
Charles Eatmon, Don Eng
lish, and Donald Bass re
presented Bailey in the
Nash.Edgecombe Federation
Tool Judging Contest last
week at Dillion Supply Co.
in Rocky Mount.
The boys competing with
eleven teams came in
fourth place behind first
place West Edgecombe.
Coopers and Benvenue
placad secoid and third.
HIGH SCGRilRS
Out of a possible hundred
points Jerry Bissette was
high for Bailey with 95
pointsj Don English, sec
ond with 9h points;
Charles Eatmon, third with
8? points; and Donald Bass
had 86. The three high
scores counted thus giv
ing Bailey a total of 276
points.
There was a total of one
hundred tools, materials,
and equipment used in tiie
contest.
STUDENTS OBSERVE
NATIONAL FFA WEEK
Future Farmers of America
througho.ut the nation are
scheduling special activ
ities to focus public at
tention on the work of
their organization during
National FFA Week, Febru-
arey 16-23
Locally, members of the
Bailey FFA Chapter are put
ting up posters in obser
vance of this week through
out the community. Several
boys from the ninth grade
have participated in the
Federation Tool Judging
Contest this week.
Membership in the FFA is
made up of farm boys who
are students of vocational
agriculture in high school
The organization's activ
ities are designed prima
rily to help develop rural
leaders and good citizen
ship, to stimulate the
boys toward better achieve
ment in their study, and
to work toward successfull
farming.
Bailey's FFA Chapter has
61 members. Officers are
President, JAMES WELLS;
Vice President, CHARLES
WTT,T,TA.vr.q -
Records Attest Fact
s
Summarization of last
year's records shows that
Bailey FFA students receiv
ed a gross income of
-‘Ill4,58l.87 for their farm
projects.
Among the enrollment of
61 members, ii8 boys had
corn for their special pro
jects; 23 tobacco; and’i,
cotton.
Tobacco projects of the
boys average tlOhO per
acre. Members having corn
produced a yield of 78
bushels per acre. Four
boys with cotton projects
produced one and a third
bales per acre.
WELLS; Treasurer, JEFF
DK'^TON; Reporter, CARROL
BOTTOMS; and Sentinel,
LEWIS WLLIAI'4S.
John H, Wells, vocational
agriculture instructor,
serves as advisor of the
chapter.
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