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THE LOW DOWN
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HICKORY GROVE
If I was to pick out one outfit
In our U.B.A. set-up ot depart
merits that could
have a squint-t
ing-into, I would'
say. Agriculture. >
The cost - of t
running that De-i,
partment h a s|
run into suchl
big figures thatf
nobody pay sf
much attention|
or knows wheth-1
er it is 1(X mil
lion or 10 bil
lion. If you will
Jo Sem
glance around, you will see al
most as many Dept. of Agricul
ture cars on the highway as you
will see taxpayers' cars. If the
new Congress wants a place to
start trimming expenses, an auc
tion of Agriculture Dept. furni
ture would bring in millions, and
also leave no place for thousands
of swivel chair pay-rollers ta
hang out when they were at head
quarters ? and not touring around
with free gas and expenses ? or
hid out some place writing bul
letins like. "How to make a noise
like a fish-worm, Bulletin Num-j
ber 1569."
And in the same department,
the weather bureau has just fin
, ished proving it is a sort of
I ury or something, when it clofeea
down early in the war (or a long
spell, but the weather kept right
on being good or bad, as it chose.
And we were not then deceived
by any prediction that it would be
fair and mild? and then it rain
ed, and we had left our rubbers
at home.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
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? SOIL CONSERVATION ?
? . NEWS "? J
By W. O. I-ambetli *
Thirty pounds of kudzu and SO
pounds of Bi-color Lespedeza have
j ieen gathered in Franklin Coun
ty so far this season by Technic- I
'ians of the Tar River Soil Conser-1
i vation District. The kudzu seed
j will be shipped to the Soil Con
1 servation Service nursery at !
Chapel Hill for planting and thej
eedlings produced will be return
ed to the county -In the spring of
'946. The Bi-color Lespedeza
vlll be allotted to District coopr
orators' farms for the establish
ment of wildlife borders.
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Mr. Chien-Chih Yc-h, Counselor.
Ministry of Agriculture and For
estry. of the Republic of China,
who is studying American agri
culture under a cooperative pro
ject with UNRRA spent last
Thursday in Franklin County ob
serving soil conservation practices
in the District. Mr. Yeh is a very
interesting figure. He stated that;
Chinese farmers long ago learned ;
to conserve their soil by means
of terraces and contour . tillage.
They' have had to follow soil con
serving practices In order to con
tinue production on fields that
have been under cultivation for
the last five thousand years. Mr.
Yeh visited the Leonard Brothers
farm to see the construction of
terraces with a disc tiller plow,
and the Howard Cooke farm to
see the woodland management
plan being followed by Mr. Cooke.
PING PONG
TOURNAMENT
Greensboro. Nov. 25. ? Finalists
were determined this week in
badminton and ping-pcng tourna
ments at The Woman's College.
Entrance was open to all students.
Winner in badminton was Miss
Dixie Holeman. Raleigh, who de
feated Miss Gertrude Archer, of
Greensboro, in the finals. Scoring
was based on winning two out of
three games, and Miss Holeman
won the match by scores of 13-9 1
and 13-8.
Ping-pong champion of the col
lege is Miss Martha Hamby, of
Boone, who coped the title by de
feating Miss Martha Anne Strowd.i
of Louisburg, by the scores of
21-17, 21-16, and 23-2^. MisjJ
Strowd won one game by the (
pcore of 21-17. Winner of the|
first three out of five games was
the requirement for victory.
George and Q. S. Leonard have
just finished terracing a 12-acre
field alongside N. C. Highway No. i
56 near Mapleville. They built;
the terraces with a tractor and
disc tiller plow.
ORGANIZATIONS AT
LOUISBURG COLLEGE
COMPLETE ELECTIONS
The Louisburg College organi
zations have completed their elec
tions lor the year as follows:
Louisburg Aluin,nl Association
President, Mrs. B. B. Everett.
Palmyra; Vice-President, Mrs.
M. S. Davis, Louisburg; Secre
tary, Miss Lula May Stipe, Louis
burg; Treasurer, Mrs. Genevieve
Perry, Louisburg.
WonifiiB' Student Government
President, Anne Whitehead,
Enfield; Vice-President, Barbara
Thorson, Elizabeth City; Secre
tary, Mary Strowd Ward, Pitts
boro; Treasurer, Dorothy Ken
nedy, Louisburg; Faculty Spon
sor, Miss Lula May Stipe, Louis
burg.
Men's Student Govcrnm/ent
President, Fred Davis, Carth
age; Vice-President, Dwig'at Hoo
per, Stumpy Point; Secretary,
Talmadge Lancaster, Lakedali;
Faculty Sponsor, Mr. V. R. Kilby.
V. M. C. A.
President, Woodson Fearing,
Manteo; Vice-President, LangiU
Watson, New Bern; Secretary and
Treasurer, Robej-t Mercer, Lum
berton; Fculty Sponsor, -?Mr. J.
W. Carmichael, Louisburg.
Y. W. C. A.
President, Frances Merritt,
Goldsboro; Vice-President, Mary
Lee Hodges, Belhaven; Vice-Pres
ident, Carol Bessent, Beaufort;
Secretary, Barbara Howard,
Cuba; Treasurer, Pat Perry,
Goldsboro; Faculty Sponao^, Miss
Ruth Merritt, Louisburg.
Senior Class
President, Katherlne Champion,
Fuquay Springs; Vice-President,
Mary Goodwin, Edenton; Secre
tary, Earline Whitehurst, Eliza
beth City; Treasurer, Talmadge
Lancaster, Lakedale; Faculty
Sponsor, Mrs. Margaret 'M. Stan
ton.
Junior Class
President, Floyd Evans, Wil
mington; Vice-President, Barbara
Eatman, Middlesex; Secretary,
Eugene Emory, Rich Square;
Treasurer, Abner Askew, Ahosk
ie; Faculty Sponsor, Miss Mar
jorie Crisp, Louisburg. ?
Woman's Physical Education
Club
President, Dorothy Casey, Dud
ley; Vice-President, Pat Perry,
Goldsboro ; Secretary-Treasurer,
Dorothy Cothran, Kougemont.
Woman's Athletic Association
President, Mary Goodwin,
Edenton.
Men's Monogram Club
.President, Hobart Wilson, Spar
tanburg, S. C.
Columns Staff
Editor-in-chief, Charlotte Ush
er, Ashebiro; Business Manager,
Fred Davis, Carthage; Associate
Editor, Bob Bikle, Hagerstown,
Md.; Faculty Sponsor, Miss Ruth
Merritt.
Oak Staff
Editor-in-chief Dorothy Ken
nedy, Louisburg; Business Mana
ger, Barbara Thorson, Elizabeth
City; Advertising Manager, Mary
Lee Hodges, Belhaven; Feature
Editor, Mary Frances Oakley,
MorriBville; Photographic Editor,
Harold Carroll, Hlllsboro; Sports
Editor, Hobart Wilson, Spartan
burg, S. C. ; Faculty Sponsor, Mr.
J. W. Carmichael, Louisburg Col
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lege.
International Relations Club
President, Langill Watson, New
Bern; Vice-President, Carolyn
Driver, Smithfield; Sec. and
Treas., Mary Frances Oakley, Mor
ris ville; Faculty Sponsor, Mr. V.
R. Kilby, Louisburg.
Dramatic Club
President, Talmadge Lancaster,
Lakedale; Vice-President, Mary
Goodwin, Edenton; Secretary,
Vivian Creech, Smithfield; Trea
surer, Woodson Fearing, Manteo;
Faculty Sponsor, Mr. J. W.
Carmichael.
Commercial Club
President, Mattle Snead, Gar
ner; Vice-President, Mary Mar
garet Clegg, Moncure; Secretary,
Barbara Howard, Cuba; Treasur
er, Kenneth Fuller. Louisburg.
Phi Theta Kappa
President, Barbara Thorson,
Elizabeth City; Vice-President,
Marcelle King, Fayettevllie; Sec
retary, Frances Merritt, Golds
boro; Corresponding Secretary,
Anne Whitehead, Enfield; Treas
urer, Mildred Parks, Pittsboro;
Faculty Sponsor, Mr. V. R. Kilby.
Alpha PI Epsilon
President, Elva Young, Halls
boro; Vice-President; Secretary,
Mildred Cox, Ayden; Treasurer,
Oorothy Casey, Goldsboro; Facul
ty Sponsor, Mrs. V. R. Kilby.
Beta Phi Gamma
President, Charlotte Usher,
Asheboro.
Lt. Richard J, Reynolds, of
Winston-Salem, now with the
Navy In the South Pacific, has
presented 6 motion pictures on
North Carolina agriculture to the
Extension Service at State Col
lege. Three other pictures are
to be completed.
American cotton will meet in
creased competition in foreign
countries, both from synthetic
fibers and from foreign cotton,
says economists.
Some farm lands In North Car
olina are now being sold at about
2 1-2 times their normal value. It
takes about 2,600 pounds of to
bacco to make a thousand dollars
now. What abiut the future?
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? MANY TOBACCO MARKETS WILL CLOSE THIS WEEK ?
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"THE DEPENDABLE TOBACCO MARKET' jj
? IS WIDE OPEN - - - SELLING A MILLION POUNDS DAILY 8
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BUSH THE BALANCE OF TOUR TOBACCO TO ROCKY MOUNT
Where Prices Remain Stronger
Longer?
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BUSINESS GOES WHERE BUSINESS IS
NO TOBACCO MARKET ON EARTH CAN MATCH THE FOLLOWING SET OF ROCKY MOUNT FIGURES THROUGH YESTERDAY
52 MILLION POUNDS SOLD - AVERAGE $43.38
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