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.dams Stresses Value ft.■ -m * ^BlParm-City Feeling Mfttd Adatna Boom, W* I n11 y* « - * a — — *— - -1 — — # __ — !, uugi wginy cnunNQ for rirre City Wee*. ha* actio atreaeed the importance of ctmymtiOB Md un demanding between rural aad ur ban group*. Fano-City *eek 1« being' nbtlH nationally duriag Um period of November 23-28 Adam* (tale* that it ia appro priato that thin program ahould cloeet- with Ttiankagviing Day. Aero by giving recognition to the America* boater* far their pari ia awkiiw the people of the U S. the Veal fed and clothed in the world Ha stated that a smaller and ffnfiffr p«rt of the population ha* bean required to faad and ciotb* aw nation One hundred rear* ago, it tai neceaaary for two thirds of the nation'! population la till the farm* to produce ade quately for ihemaeive* and the oaethird who ware not farmer* By 1(66 brat people nude up only 11% of the population ' Thi* efficiency of American agri culture ha* made it poaalble for a large (hare of the population to work la induatry and In providing the many aervleea which we have ia thia country. Adam* pointed out that although the United Stitw ocrupie* only 1 per ccM of tlu world* lead area ■Dd contain* « per cent of the world * population, we produce 40 per mnt of the world'* milk. M per cent Of ike Com, haw three fourth* ef tke automobile* and talk over M per cent of the tel» phone* Last Rites Held For Mrs. Triplett - Mrs. Eltea Caroline Hampton Triplett, M, resident of the Trip lett neighborhood, died last Thurs day at WaUdga Hospital Funeral aervlcet were held Sat urday at Mount Vernon Baptist Cbureh by Key. R. C. Euers and Rev. Roaeoe Greene and burial waa la the Hampton cemetery. An adopted aon. W. H. Benson, survives and one sister, Mrs. Mary Brown, Cooeavllle, Ohio. Farmers' coats for production items and for family living are ex pected to rise t to 4 per cent next year. U. 8. farm population is now 13 per cent of the total. Pomona Grange To Hold Kk At West Yadkin The annual joint fellowship ban quet of I be WUkea-Yadkin county Pomona Orange mil be held at Weat Yadkin school Saturday even ing at aevon o'clock Tbia event will be fcaUred by • cbick-eoi)ue dinner with ail tfie trimmings. A charge Ia made for the copper, to which only Orange members and their (amiliea are invited, and thla will include both Subordinate and Pomona Grange metnbera front Wilkes and Yad kin counties a* well a* member* from the adjoining counties of Iredell, Forayth. Alleghaney, Ashe. Watauga and Alexander. Those interested In attending should con fer immediately with Virgil Settle, Master Wilkes Pomona Grange, Klkln, route 2. or i Stowe Thom asson. Master Yadkin Pomona Grange, Klkln. The chief speaker for the occa sion will be Roy Battles, of Wash ington, D. C.. aaalatant to the (faster of the National Grange, who is a very fluent speaker and humorist. In addition to Mr. Battles, Har ry B. Caldwell, Master N. C. State Grange, and Mrs. Caldwell of Greensboro, who have just return ed from the National Grange Con vention at Colorado Springs, Col., will be present and will report on the national meeting. Other prominent Grange leaders from over the State are expected to be present. Seven Meets Are Scheduled For Gr apple rs The wrestling team of Appalach ian State Teacher* College will en gage in teven meeta this seaaon. according to information released this week by Coach <1. W. (Red) Watkins. Coach Watkina, one of the deans of Southern wrestling, states the schedule has four open dates, and that he would like to schedule matches for these dates In order to give his wrestlers a well-rounded schedule. The schedule, as released, Is as follows: Dec. 7—Wake Forest, there. Dec. 11 and Dec. 12—open dates. Jan. 11—Knoxville YMCA, here. Jan. 18—Emory U., here. Jan. 28—open. Jan. 27—Pfieffer college, here. Feb. 1—open. Feb. 7—Knoxville YMCA, There. Feb. 8—Maryvllle college, there. Feb. 19—Pfieffer college, there. Sinclair Weeks, Commerce Sec retary, has called on Industry to support a "1cm butter — more guns" Federal budget to meet the challenge of Soviet science. The budget President Eisenhower will hand Congress in January la ex pected to call for stepped-up mili tary and foreign aid spending awl curtailment of civilian programs Health Dept. News DB. MAKT M1CHAL Hie Health Crater oHIn will be rlml Tkindar and Friday, Novaiber J», and 29. for Thank* giving holiday! Asian laflaenaa Vault •■jjm.b State. County, and Town em pioyees. who reside in Watauga County, nay obtain their Asian iifliwtti vftcciae at IIm HiiHIi Cctlfr iA Bo of dnH11! regular cliniea held each Monday moraine from IJS until U:JC There will ba a charge to (*w the coat of the vaccine. Persona who had the vaeetate early in the fall might wish to «et a booater before the Chriatmaa holidays aince the vac cine if bow quite generally avail able. It it felt that there May be an increase in cases early in IMS. Physicians may wish to recom mend a second injection, as well, far other patients under their care. Vaccinations, the Public Health Service says, should con tinue to be carried out in com munities where Influenza has been prevalent for those who have not had illness. Attends Raleigh Moating Or. Michal. District Health Of fleer, attended * conference of school and medical personnel which m held in Raleigh Nove.iv her 24th The object of this meeting was the Hwr ttf nil pkiNi of planning tad work in the area df school health and school lasur litt. Health and Mtsctuos per sonnel were reminded partirulur ly of the need to brine *11 com munity resources la to plan on the needs of the child, beginning with the small toddler. The to! lowing talks ware presented: "Co operation and Responsibility of Local Physicians la the School Health Program." "Interpretation and Review of the Coordiaated School Health Program"; "Factual Report of Expenditures for 1M0 "97"; a panel discussion on "Op eration and Protection of the School Insurance Program"; "In terpretation and Identity of the Medically Indigent"; "fitness for American Youth". The morning session was presided over by Dr. W. T. Rainey, Chairman of the School Health Committee. TRADE AT HOME Falling Farm Income Topic Senator Scqtt Willard.—Sen. W. Kmi Scott last witk urged North Carolina tarawn I* "riae up sad launch a darmg campaign to fight (tiling ten iwiM." 4 SB Speaking at the Cape Fear Du trtet Meeting of the Raritan dab. Scott said caih farm income in the date will be off "at least ISO miUtaa doflarj" this ymt. aad out lined a three-point program to aff aet the toraiari uMt,vL-; He aaM the following things would "materially increase'' farm "1. Wider and wiser use* of water resources, r—1 wj ea- td irrigation of row crop*. "2 Organizing co-operative* and other grog|M to prwea our native farm products. . • '•«. Improving and expanding organized marketing." The Senator, a member of the Senate AgricuJtiire Catnmittee, said irrigation of row crops has trebled in the past few years in the state. He said experiments show that "cotton, ear*, peanuts and other traps as wall as tobacco" can be irrigated with profit. 1— mt critical pnUnia to —lv m the general (teM of proeminc Md ■radMUog «f our farm products He «aid "a (Mat deal of pragmas" has been made in procaanng and marketinf of the state's farm pro duct* in recent years, but called for stepped ap piufiams in both fields to keep farmers from being dependent on "<me- or twrcrop operations " ,
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