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Loaolr—The *400,000 loan to O- Btaa Bidge Electric Member ahlp Corporation of Lenoir, which haa beea aproved toy the State Rural Electrification Authority, will be uaed principally lor im feoaea. and to moot anticipated Weada in Watauga, Aahe and Al leghany counties. it hat boon re ported The local unit aervoa an olght-eounty area The request now will be aoat to Waahingtoo, D. C., lor approval by tho Federal agency, it waa pointed out. Alleghany Project Part of tho Blue Bidge'a long range development program, gen oral manager Cecil E. Viverette aaid, will aerve the new 9LB00, 000 Appalachian Sulphidea, Inc, copper mining plant at Ore Knob ■aar Jefferson in Alleghany coun ty The plant ia expected to open in March. Vivorette aaid the owning cor poration, Nipaaing Mining Corp. of Toroato. Canada, had contract ed with Blue Ridge for 2,000 kllo watta power for electric heating of all but two of the all-metal build ing* Vivorette aaid about SO per cent of the program fundi would be apent in Alleghany, Watauga and Aahe, all of whieh depend entire ly on the REA for their power. The entire progarm, he aaid, will coat 98,000,000. The projecta Include: Watngi A new aabetatiea at Deep Gap when power loada are hnilt np to the point where it ia Meeeaary. A new aabetatiea currently ia under coaatraetiea la another aecttoa. 1 A new 44.0M volt line ia be ing eetebliahed between Boone and Sherwood. Six and a half miles of new line ia all and eld lines will be built. 8e will ad- 1 dlUonal 100.000 volt tranamla- I TW new facBttiea in m M to awl nwdnmii wealed by the giewlh e# the lli»li bek rfiort «ff*, Appaladiiti gtitc Trjfbrn collage Ml llinwi uu(r by farm*. The 1M,MO-volt Mae will extend M bUh from WiltM CmuMt** paver mhh. Ashe Substation Ashe—A 100,000-volt line, new larger substation scheduled. Alleghany — New 44,000 - volt line, new substation and two ex isting stations to bo enlarged Over the entire syctem, the pro gram will build • total of (our new stations and enlarge the pres ent ten. Vlverette said the use of electricity by farms and indus tries has been Increasing at the rate of double per five year for the past eight years, and the same increase is anticipated. The system also serve* Caldwell and parts of Wilkes, Avery Alex ander and Surry. Other loans amounting to 81, 828,000 also were approved. They were Carteret - Craven Electric Membership Corporation, W0.000; Wake Electric Membership Cor poration, Wake Forest *028,000; and Rutherford Electric Mem bership Corporation, Forest City, 1880,000. Weed Measure Service Cited Vhe Watauga ASC County Com mittee is again offering pro measurement to Burley tobacco growers again this year. The cost of the pro-measurement will be borne by the farmer. The rates are $8 for the first field and 81 for each additional field. The dosing date for accepting applica tions is March 2S, 1987. Burley Funds Here Are Ample Since many counties lo the 8UU have pract ically® wed all the fund» allocate# under the Acreage Reaerve Prof ram (or alloted crops In their countiea It might appear that (unda are alao exhausted In Watauga County. To this date (Monday), twenty five agreements under the Acre age Reserve (or Burley tobacco have been signed totaling the amount of (3220. It now appears that there will be aufficient (unds to- take care o( all applications (or agreements, however, no to bacco grower should wait until the last moment to (lie his appli cation. The maximum acreage which may be placed In the Reserve is 1 acre, there is no minimum. Any grower may place any part or all o( his allotment tip to 1 acre in the Reserve. All agreements are (or one year only. Grazing is not permitted from the date of signing until January 1, IBM No crop may t be harvested from the acreage cover ed by the agreement. No agree ment may be cancelled after March 1, 10S7, which is the clos ing date (or signing agreements. John H. Jones Dies On Friday John Henry Jones, 81, resident o( Boone, Route 1, died Friday at the local hospital, where he had been ill (or three weeks. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday at 2 o'clock from the Howard's Creek Bsptist Church, tfev. Rsymond Hendrix and Rev. Glenn South were in charge o( the rites and burial was in Meat Camp cemetery. , The widow, Mrs. Sarah Jones, survives, with three sons and two daughters: Herbert Jones, Ray mond Jones, Boone; Major Jones, Johnson City, Tenn.; Mrs. Jake Jonek Berwyn Heights, Md ; Mrs. William Poplin, Kinston. Farm price drop hurt proflts of equipment makers. HEART AND ART.-^overnor Luther H. Hodge* view* drawings of the heart nude by the third grade class of Mrs. Hilda Willoughby of Coats School. The Governor congratulated Mrs. Willoughby on the recovery she had made from a heart operation and from rheumatic fever, and endorsed the Heart Fund Drive, which will be conducted throughout the state during the month of February, with Heart Sunday falling on February 24. ASC Wool Program To Be Same As In 1956 Provision* of the wool incentive! program (or the marketing year starting April 1, 1097 will be the same as for the current marketing year. This assurance by Dwight Cable, Chairman of the Watauga Agricultural Stabilization and Con servation Committee, is based on a current announcement by the United States Department of Agri culture. The incentive price for shorp wool marketed during the coming year as announced last October remains at 62 cents per pound. Chairman Cable explains that the payment rate for shorn wool will continue to be based on the percentage required to itring the average price to growen (or tlieir 1997 wool clip to the 62-cent in centive level. Which means that the higher the price at which the individual grower sells his clip the greater will be his incentive pay ment and the total return for his wool. The first payments under the wool program were made last summer for the 1055 clip. The incentive price^then, also, was 62 cents pel- pound. The payment j rate for that clip was 44.9 per1 cent, which meant that the pay ment to growers was $44.90 for j each $100 producers received from 1 their wool sates. Payments on the 1097 dip will be made in the summer of 1966 when tihiiUtidoi based on (rowers' sales dips can be completed The payment on lamfcs that have never bees shorn when marketed also is determined the same as in 1(66. The lambs must be owned by the applicant for at least 30 days and payment will be baaed on the weight increase of the lambs1 while under each person's ownership. For incentive payment purposes the weifht of wool is based on an averaie of 5 pounds of wool for each 100 pound* of unshorn lamb. The wool payment rate is based on 80 per cent of the average pay ment for shorn wool. The lamb payment is designed to discourage unusual shearing of lambs before slaughter fjf Chairman Cable urge* all pro ducer* to keep their tale* slip* for wool and l>M>vt since these must accompany applications for payment. Applications for pay ment, with the necessary sale* slip*, mutt be sent of the County Agricultural Stabilisation and Conservation Office at Boone, N. C , before April 1, 1958 Detroit—A woman called police and irately exclaimed, "A dog is chewing up my shrubbery. I want some action." Dog Warden Aschel Smith was dispatched to the wo man's home, only to find that the "dog" was ■ goat World shipbuilding rise has been found to continue strong. • Western Ewes Are Available Any termer wanting to purchase Western breeding ewes should con tact the county agant'i office tor detail* about the plan. The ewes may be purchased through the N. C. Department of Agriculture on • cash basis as a service to farm ers, explained L-, E. Tu^willer, county agent Seventy-two-year-old Tailll Ishibashi, of the Liberal Demo cratic party, has been elected Prime Minister of Japan. Ishi bashi advocated continued co operation with the United States, but he ts also, said to favor In creased trade with Communist China.
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