The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the \ rail of Progress in the State of Wilkes" For Over 44 Years
OUR CITY
rfnrth Wilkesboro has a
trading radius of 50 miles,
serlBliv 100,000 people in
Northwestern Carolina.
16 Pages
Section Two
Vol. 44 No. 36
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C„ Monday, August 14, 1950
Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center
DOLLAR DAYS EXCELLENT CHANCE TO SAVE
Honda, Jonesville
Set Street Lights
New Type Street Lamps Go
On Automotic&lly In
Deep Twilight
Street lamps diffused light ovei
Jonesville and Ronda last week,
I affording illuminated avenues in
f these communities for the first
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GIs HEAD FOR SCENE OF NEW OFFENSIVE IN KOREA
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BOX CAR iRAN SPORT ATI ON IS THI ORDER OP THI DAY for American reinforcements rumbling frontward
over South Korea's hilly terrain. With thff new United States offensive underway beyond Masan, Gla are
packed on top as well as Inside the cars In the struggle to balance American fighting strength with that of the
Red North Korean invasion forces. (Official United Statet Army Photo from International Soundphoto)
time.
The addition is a matter of j
much pride to ciitzens of both
'towns and they'll especially note
that "it's the latest thing."
Of course, the "lastest thing" is
the photoelectric cell-controlled
device in each lamp that al
, lows it to switch on automatically
as darkness approaches. And
as daylight returns, it switches
off.
Aromatic Tobacco 1
In Wilkes County
By W. D. LEWIS, Assistant £
County Agent
Aromatic tobacco' growers in
Wilkes County have probably the
best crop of tobacco since the
crop was started in 1947. Farmers
have leraned through experience
the soil that suits the tobacccj
best and how to fertilize
tobacco. J. R. Hendren, Rt. 2,
Wilkesboro, has an excellent
fourth acre of tobacco ttyat is of
even growth. The tobacco is growing
with a pale green color and
is producing leaves of the desired
size and with excellent aroma.
Th farmers are doing an excellent
job in harvesting and curing
the tobacco. Experience taught
Ivery Glass and Clyde Call, Route
2, Roaring River, that Aromatic
tobacco must be harvest quite
green for good quality. They started
harvesting about the middle of
June and have harvested the tobacco
each week. They will complete
harvest in about three weeks.
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While not new in the field of
electricity, these devices are making
appearances for the first tim6
on individual light poles in this
section. The lamps here are
operated by a similar method, but
a master switch is used for all
stations. At Ronda and Jonesville,
individual units for each post are
employed.
D. G. Smith, manager of the
Elkin branch of Duke Power
Company, explained that the
photoelectric units in each lamn
are controlled much like the elec
'fic-eye doors which open and
jhut when a heam of light is broken.
When sufficient light is returned
the lamps cut off.
Such controls are of a distinct
advantage. Darkness sometimes
comes prematurely on stormy days.
A master switch regulated by computation
of 4ight and darkness for
a given day is not accurate enough.
With the new devices the degree
of need for light is met certainly
by the amount of light in the air.
Couple, In 70'$,
Get Annulment
Sherffield, England, Aug. 10—
A Sheffield divorce court today
annulled the marriage of a 74
year-old man and a 71-year-old
woman because, it was testified,
the wife wilfully refused to consummate
the marriage.
The decree was granted to
Charles Kay, who married Char- lotte
Kay, then a widow, in 1946.