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O. J. CASTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD
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» SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.60
Six Months 76
Four Months 60
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
Batered mt the post office st North Wilkes-
bors, N. C., as second class nuitter under Att
ot Mard> 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1940
Protect The Game
Today the hunting .season ends and it is
a good thing for game, especially quail,
that the hunting season is over
The winter has been unusually tough on
the birds. The prolonged snow and low
temperatures made it almost impossible
for the birds to find feed for almost two
weeks and the ones w'hich so far had es
caped the game hogs had a hard time liv
ing through.
But today the hunting season is over and
it is time to lay away the guns, put up the
dogs and give some thought to helping
nature replenish the toll of game taken
this season.
There are several ways nature can be
helped to supply game for the hunting
season next year. Hunters should keep
their dogs confined, .stray cats should be
killed on sight and farmers who are suffi
ciently interested might be induced to put
out some feed for the surviving bird.s.
The breeding season will soon be here
and the game which has survived should
be given all protection pos.sible.
Unless the public is educated to the fact
that wildlife in the form of game birds
will become extinct even in thi^ generation
if protection is not afforded, the game sit
uation is going to become acute and North
Carol’na can no longer advertise as a hun
ter’s paradise. It is the duty of every pub
lic spirited citizen to encourage such move
ments as will make each person feel some
responsibility toward conservation of
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Jobs, Profited Opport^tyf
“We have learned the l^on that when
opportunities for profit diminish, ^oppor
tunities for jobs likewise disappear."
These words happen to be the formal
declaration of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor, but any
other group sincerely interested in the
well-being of the United States could utter
them at this time with equal logic. For
the “lesson” mentioned is one that has been
taught over and over again' in the^ course
of the depression years through which this
country has passed.
Business, whether the “business^ in
question happens to be farming, running a
manufacturing enterpr'se, or performing
some other legitimate function in our eco
nomy, is the real source of jobs. Unfriend
liness towards those who produce the na
tion’s goods, accompanied by constant mis
understanding of business motives, strikes
at the roots of the job-making opportuni
ties in this country.
It’s a truth that becomes evident as soon
as it’s thought over on a common-sense ba
sis. But at the same lime it’s a truth that
will bear plenty of emphasis.
Labor’s representatives serve progress
by affirming their belief in the profit sys
tem at this time.
Another Lift For The Farmer
One of the most encouraging .signs on
the horizon of the American farmer, faced
as he is with the persistent “agricultural
problem,” is the way in which industry in
this country is laboring to find new u-es
for farm products and to increase the cur
rent use of these products.
All over the country, in indu.strial re
search laboratories, the process of turning
farm products into new m.aterials is going
on at a tremendous rate. Every new suc
cess in this field means a lighter burden, a
lessening of his surplus, for the American
farmer.
recent example offers an interesting
ca.se in point:
Four or five months ago a plant was
opened at Brevard, N. C., to manufacture
cigarette paper from American grown flax
fibre. The cigarette paper market up un
til now has very largely been in the hands
of foreign manufacturer.s, and hence farm
ers abroad have produced most of the raw
materials going into the making of the pa
per. Thus the possibility of selling the
raw materials for America’s annual con
sumption of about 3 63 billion cigarette pa
pers has been virtually closed to our farm
ers.
Now, after years of experimentation, a
blend of midwestern and California fibers
has been converted into a paper to match
the European product.
The flax straw purchased from the
farmer after the seed has been thrested
out net§ the farmer up to $4 an acre where
it formerly cost him about SI.50 an acre to
destroy the straw.
The first factory going into operation^ to
turn out this paper already employs 700
workers and is at present being expanded.
Meanwhile, wider areas are being explor
ed for- the proper flax fibers to take care
ctf an expected increase in production.
'Thus American industr>^ and American
research have scored again for the farmer
."turning a formerly waste material to the
uses of production and a higher standard
of living for all concerned!
Beating The “War Bulge”
American retailing has done a fine job
lately in protecting consumers, against un
warranted advances in prices. And there
is no evidence whatsoever of profiteering.
That encouraging news comes “right
from the horse’s mouth.” It is contained
in a report of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, which was recently presented
to Secretary Wallace and released official
ly by the Department of Agriculture.
The margin between farm and retail
prices, the report states, is actually less
today that it was when the war in Europe
began. And the price of food has declin
ed since the “war bulge” of last Septem
ber.
Retail food prices, the report adds, are
26 per cent lower than in 1929.
Here is more evidence of the soundness
of our American merchandising structure,
working on a free, honest and open com
petitive basis. Nowhere else in the world
does the consumer get so wide a .selection
of goods at so low a price. Nowhere else
in the world does the farmer generally ob
tain so large a shart of the final selling
price of what he produces. And nowhere
else in the world has retailing efficiency
and economy been brought to so high a de
gree of perfection.
Borrowed Comment
PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
(Win.ston-vSalem Journal)
From Collier’s we take the following in
teresting item pertaining to life in Tar-
heelia:
■‘Hy nvT king off.its busy sidewalks into
three traffic lanes, the inner tor window
shoppers and loafers, the middle for slow
walkers and the outer for tho.se in a hur
ry, Louisburg, North Carolina (pop. 2,-
182), has eliminated its pede.strian traffic
snarls.”
Maybe Loui.sburg has something there.
While our officers are endeavoring to give
us better regulation of automobile traffic
on the .streets of Winston-Salem, they
might find it helpful to all concerned to
experiment a bit in regulatirg the flow of
pedestrian traffic on some of our more
crowded sidewalks.
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(GonUnued trom Aould before
’cbsoee Irnude. Wien s ehenge
AgrieulUiral Extension work is is desired, the Director of Agri-
supported by money appropriated
on a cooperative basis l>y the
Federal Government, the State
Government, and the Counties.
However, when a County refuses
to cooperate, the Agricultural
Extension Service may accept
'money from organized groups of
farmers. In other words, the mon
ey 1b to come through some or
ganization of farmers rather than
through indlvlduala. There is no
objection to individuals contribut
ing through the organized group,
or groups, however.
Wilkes county has appropriated
nothing for County Agent work
since September 1, |939.
County agents are selected by-
the Aigricultural Extension Serv
ice in cooperation with the Coun
ty Commissioners. However,' the
Agricultural Extension Service
dnd the Wilkes County Commis
sioners have not been able to
agree on a man.
The Agricultural Extension
Service, or the Commissioners
have the right to ask for a
change. However, either side may
ask the other side to sliow cause
why the change should I e -made.
cultural Ehttension 'is contacted
by-the Commissloifera. If the
Commissioners withdraw their
appropriation (County), the Agri
cultural Extension Service may
also withdraw dts appropriation,
and vice versa.
From our records of work ac
complished by the Agricultural
Agent and his Assistant in Wilkes
county, also in view of the large
number of farmers who are co
operating so splendidly in trying
to do better farming, the Agricul
tural Elxtension Service does not
feel that there is any 'basis for a
change just now.
However, the Agricultural Ex
tension Service offered to let the
Commissioners choose a man
from a large number of qua'lified
Agents and Assistants, but the
Commissioners took no action.
The Agricultural Extension
Service has no quarrel with the
Wilkes Commissioners because
they have withdrawn financial
support—it is simply a matter of
failing to agree on a man.
Number or Producers receiving
limestone under the 19 39 ACP,
were 734.
DATA WITH RESPECT TO PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL
CONSERVATION PROGRAMS IN WILKES COUNTY
Year
1936
1937
1938
1939
Green
Seeding Manure
Legumes Oops
5271 3747
8091 4122
13109 7595
17200 8190
Plant
Ground
Super
% Crop
ing
Lime
phos
Terrac
land in
Trees
stone
phate
ing
program
2
275
.0
59.5
29.0
10
1625
17.4
128.6
47.6
10
1700
17.6
438.6
69.9
25
6100
135.0
850.0
85.0
Estimates for 1939 are based on preliminary reports from the county.
cows at the North Carolina State
Fair.
In the 4-H club show Archie
Mathi.s won first place with his
Senior Calf and also won Junior
(’hampion. This is the first time
he had ever showed a calf. Demp
sey Morri.son won first place with
his Senior Yearling, in both the
4-H club show and in the open
show. Thi.s cow waa also Jiinion
Champion in the open ■ihow. In
the agetl cow class Denvpsey
Morrison won Senior and Grand
clnh
boys
Year
Tobacco
Acreage
.Allotment Planted
1936
1049
622
1937
1600
1283
1938
14 58
1437
1939
1419
1S45
Niiiiibci- of Producers
Year
Cooperating
Pay. Earner
1936
910
$33,748
1937
1539
32,305
1938
2444
65,621
1939
1443
91,603
klao
b««n dt^Mtrudted awd hdre again
■pedal entphaaia baa been placed
upon proper Insulation and com-
strnctlon.
In the spring of 1938 there was
a great demand for leqpedeza of
known origin and good quaUty.
We, ae Extension workers con
tacted a number of farmers in
other counties and arranged for
the delivery of 16,000 pounds of
lespedeza seed to farmers in
Wilkes county. These seed saved
the farmers quite a bit of money
and assured them of a better les-
pedeza crop. As a direct result of
this, seed merchants in the coun
ty have reduced their prices on
lespedeza and ever since handled
a higher quality of seed. In 1939,
17,149 acres of land was seeded
to legume crops In Wilkes county.
This, of course, included cow
peas and soybeans planted in
com. Special emphasis has been
placed upon this practice, and in
the .spring of 1939 more soybeans
and cowpeas were sown than at
any other time prior to this date
lOTr^
#^rii 4tlber ioll , „
crops. Bteee that time, 6
al demonstrators have been addd
ed. The demonstration farms now
represent all communities of the
county, as well as soil types and
farm classes. At the end of 1988
and at the end of 1939 pracUcal-
(Continued on page six)
NOTICE
By virtue of an Order of the
Superior Court of Wilkes County *,,1
signed by the Clerk thereof on ” «
February 14th, 1940, in the Specif
proceeding entitled W. C. McNeil,
Admr., of Robert J. McNeil, de- 'w
ceased, and W. C. McNeil, J. T.
McNeil, Mrs. Carrie Church, Mrs.
Ida Brookshire, Mrs. Bessie Par
ker, Mrs. Alda Shepherd, Mrs. Ber
tie McLean, Blanch McNeil, Mrs.
Pearl English, Com McNeil, Jesse
McNeil, John McNeil, Wilson Mc
Neil, Ruth McNeil, Edgar Church,
Estdle Church Hunt, and Chelsie
Church, heirs at law of Robert J.
McNeil, deceased, Ex Parte, ap
pointing the undersigned Com
missioner to sell the lands describ-
^ in the Petition, Order, and here
in described either at public or
of
private sale for the purpose
making assets for the payment of
J — I debts, and for partition among the
In 1939, special emphasis wasltena^its in common, the undersign-
, , , 1. led Commissioner will on March
placed upon the use of agricultur-1 M.
al limestone which was made j Court House door in Wilkes-
avallable on the AAA Program as,boro, sell at public auction to the
a “Grant of Aid. ’ .As a result of highest bidder for cash the follow-
this drive, farmers in Wilkes ing described land.s:
County received approximately I Lying and being in Rrfdies
ninety-three 50 ton cars of this T'«^'"ship, and bounded as fdlows:
. , , rr-i. . u u . , J I Beginning on an Oak, comer ofc
material. This has been estimated Clark, and running a South*
■by many to lie more lime in this west course with Mr. Clark’s line
one year than the county has used a Maple, Clark’s corner; thence
in the last twenty-five years. This a Southwest direction with the line
lime went t‘o 736 farmers in the of Mr. Clark around the of
county, and if valued at 12.40 per *he hill to a branch, comer of No-
. ,j , , . , ma Pierces land; thence with hejijf
ton would be approximately ?n,- ^be branch to Oscar Bller’.s^
246 00. thence a South course with
In order to meet the demand Oscar Eller’s line to the top of a
for milk required bv the two new I knob, in Thomas Pierces line,
milk markets, emphasis was also'thence Eas^ardiy direction with
, , . Thomas Pierce’s line to Dccater
placed upon pasture seeding. In whence with Decator
1939, 90.S acres of permanent M],^ton’.s line to the beginning,
pasture was seeded in Wilkes Containing 30 acres more or less.
County. To aid this pasture in This the 14th day of February,
becoming established 44 tons of 1940.
Triple Superphosphate was used, i
and it this phosphate wa.s valued |
at $.30.00 per ton. it would a-j
mount to $1,420.00. j ___
I’rior to December 1, 1937.
N. C. McNEILL,
Commissioner
By CHAS. G. GILREATH
Attorney 3 7-4t (t)
.Ma.jor .Xccoiiiplistuiients ,
Prior to December 1, 1937 iCtiampion cow in the 4-H
Wilkes coiiiily bad 4-H clnb | show and open show. The
work, 'but never had this work won a total of $274.00 with their
lieen carried out with scheduled
The Best and Worst of Things
Our best friend—he who makes us do
the best we can. , .
The best town—where we are located.
The greatest comfort—knowing that
you have done your work well
The best day—today.
The biggest fool—he who will not learn.
The greatest deceiver—he who deceives
himself.
■The greatest secret of success—perse
verance.
'The greatest mistake—giving up.
' Tlie most expensive indulgence—hate.
^ stupidest and easiest thing to do—
, ^^r^*”^^eatest trouble maker — the
''flpWEder gos^ - —Selected.
BLOODIEST COUNTY
(Twin-City Sentinel)
iUecklenburg led all other counties
the state in the number of per.sons injured
in automobile traffic in 1939. with 658, but
Guilford had the most deaths reported in
consequence of accidents, according to
.statistics compiled by the state highway
safety division. Guilford had a 1939
traffic death toll of 50.
In Mecklenburg, which ranked second,
the accident fatalities totaled 40. Wake
reported 36, Cumberland 33 and Cataw
ba 26 traffic deaths. These counties con
stitute the “high five.”
Forsyth county, with 22 deaths, ranked
seventh among the 100 counties of the
State—no record to boast of, certainly,
although the county ranks third in popu
lation and offers many peculiar highway
traffic problems due to an overplus nf
narrow, crooked streets and highways and
narrov; bridges. The injury toll for this
county was 349 and in this respect For-syth
ranked fifth.
Alexander, Alleghany, Chowan. Hyde
and Tyrrell reported no traffic deaths, and
Gates, Cherokee, Clay, Jones, Macon, Pas
quotank, Transylvania recorded only one
traffic death during the year.
While these counties are less populous
than those reported heavy death tolls and
peculiar geographic conditions make for
less motor traffic, it is probable that good
law enforcement and the safety attitude
among motorists also play a part in cheat
ing the great sickler of many lives in those
counties.
All in all, the statistics for the state as a
unit reveal that recklessness continues to
rule the roads in too many places and in
too many instances. After every other
factor has been carefully weighed, the
conclusion stands that reckless thinking
and acting on the part of drivers remains
the chief contribution to the accident
death tolls in North Carolina as elsewhere.
The bear that walks like a man can al
so run like the devil.—^Roanoke Times.
club meetings planned in advance.
There were three organized clubs
in the county. Clubs were organ
ized in the spring.of the year and
the next meeting was held in the
fall of the year. The fall meeting
was an Achievement Day and 4-H
clu'b corn show.
Since Wilkes county had no
Home Demonstration Agent, Club
work wa.s limited to boys. How
ever, some girls did take projects
which were designed for boys.
Early in 1938 a Home Demon
stration -Agent was added to the
Extension Force of Wilkes coun
ty. and it was only a shorr time
before clubs were organized in
seven of the eight High Schools
in the county. One Junior Club
was organized in one of the .gram
mar schools. 3'hese clubs were or
ganized and have met monthly
ever .„ince, with the exceirtion of ,
two siimmt'r months. Definite ‘
club programs were planned and
definite schedules worked out
with principals and club mem- I
hers. Joint 4-11 Cluib work was j
introduced in the county. Two |
hours per mouth was given for
cTnb work Ity the school authori
ties.
Prior to 1937. project
had 'been devoted almost entirely
to corn. In 1938 and since super
vision has been given to projects
ineliiding toltacco, corn, pig, po
tatoes, garden, dairy, poultry and
aitples. Tlie local Kiwanis club
donated a pure bred pig to an out-
cattle. -Also won county prizes of
best 6 calves and cows.
For the past two years, Wilkes
Wilkes County nad 4 7 farmers
who were supposed to have been
following a strict crop rotation
and keeping an accurate farm
record. These were known as dem
onstrator farms. It turned out,
how'ever, that those farmers were
not keeping their records
county has continued to win priz-1 were not follonving their rota-
ea at the State Fair on Wil'kes
County White corn, ‘both In the
single ear class and double ear
class. In 1938 first prizes were
won for the beat county exhibit
single white corn; second best
I county exhibit of prolific white
corn and first prize for yellow
I prolific corn. In 1939 4-H club
■ members won prizes again. 1st
in the single white county exhib-
lit: 2nd prolific white county ex
hibit; 1st prolific yellow—county
j exhibit; and 1st single yellow
; county exhibit. -All of these coun
ty exhibits included 100 ears of
corn.
i Miss Aline Greene of the Ron-
da 4-H Club won first prize on
her 4-H Club Room Improvement
Exhibit at the State Fair.
; In the 1939 Older Youth Con
ference, Lorraine Tharpe of the
Ronda 4-H Chub had the honor of
; being elected historian for the
'older Youth Organization.
1 n Agricultural Engineering
within the past two years electric
brooding has been introduced in
Wilkes county. .At 'present a num-
I her of farmers are using electric
work ibcooders with great success. The
cost of brooding chicks for 6
weeks waa less than Ic each,
which is cheaper than most farm
ers can buy wood, coal or oil for
brooding purposes. Electric fenc
ing has also ibeen introduced in
Wilkes County, and today a
tions. Beginning in January 19 38,
these demonstrators were' retfflfCP
ed to 22. These 22 who were kept
were given farm record books and
an inventory tvas made of all of
their farm equipment as well a
land and personal ibelongings
They were informed what rota-
ADMINISTR.ATOR’S NWK E
Having qualified as Administra
tor of the estate of Mrs. I.aura
Hester, deceased, late of Wilkes
County, North Carolina, thus is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of .said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersign
ed at Moravian Falls, North Caro-
j lina on or before the 14th day of
■ February, 1941, or this Notice
will be plead in bar of their re
covery. _ All persons indebted to
said~estate will pTease makeTnime-'
diate payment.
Thus' the 14th day of February,
1940. V
MRS. OCTIE B. GRIER,
Administrator of Mrs. Laura
Hester, Deceased. ,
3-21-6t (t) ^
standing club member with the ; number of farmers are using this
agreement that this member give'^y^g {g„ge a,.g saving hun-
two of the 'best pi.gs to other club dollars,
members—and they agreed to do i .gpggiai emphasis has been
placed upon the construction of
likewise. Within a few years we
hope that thia will mean that
Wilkes County will have a good
breed of pure-hrod Berkshire hO'gs
as a result of thus donation by the
Kiwanis Club.
Since December. 1937—Club
members have had the privilege
of attending 4-H Club Camp, Old
er Y'outh Conference, taking part
in radio programs every 6 weeks,
attending short courses at N. C.
State College, have had the priv
ilege of taking part in civic ac
tivities and have also taken part
in seed judging contests. Boys
from this county in 1938 won the
state championship in the con
test held at Lexington. N. C. John
Robert Church of the Mountain
View Club was the high score in
dividual of the state. In 1939,
the team from Wilkes county won
third place in the State contest
held at Rocky Mount, N. C. and
John Jolnes of Traphill was sec
ond high score individual.
At the fairs, Wilkes county
boys and girls have taken a num
ber of prizes within the last two
years. Prizes have beem won by
Club members at local county and
State Fairs. At the N. C. State
Pair in 1939 the following prizes
were won by Wilkes county boys
and girls:
We bad 16 Jersey calves and
2.% Penalty
On 1939 County Taxes If Payment
Is Not Made On Or Before
March 1st, 1940
Pay Your 1939 Taxes Now And
Save This 2% Penalty.
C T. Doughton,
SHERIFF OF WILKES COUNTY
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Although no great num'ber of
barns have been built, those con-
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