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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1956 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina POOR CLIFF'S '57 VERSION Page FIFTEEN cJl ile o{ (Elimtmas GINSBURG DEPARTMENT STORE CARTHAGE. N. C. Almanac’s Prediction For Winter Isn’t Cheeriul; Begins Tomorrow At Christmastime our thoughts again go out to our friends. May we express the wish that your Owistihas radiate warmth and happiness in your hearts? May you have the sort of Christmas you hope it will be. ■ y-. I C << JELLISON PRESS ^UTHERN PINES, N. C. . tA ./© cv' A host of ceod wishes i';| % to our many friends MELVIN BROTHERS, Inc. SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.- Winter begins officially tomor- only in the long range weather row (Friday) at 4 p. m. predictions (something the Na- And tomorrow is also the tional Weather Bureau wouldn’t shortest day in the year with the dare tackle) but in planting days sun scheduled to rise at 7:38 a. m. (May 1 is an excellent day for and set at 5:33 p. m. planting crops that bear their Now, as the poet asked, can yield abov? ground), time saving spring be far behind? hints for children, hints for bet- It can, and wiU, and in be- ter sewing, decorating, freezing, tween there’ll be lots of nasty baking, and a complete listing of weather if you go along with church days, holidays, and what you find in almanacs. weights and 'measures. Take Poor (Cliffs, for instance. There’s also a section for Between the first and third of sportsmen, designed to tell them January the weather is classed which days are best for hunting as “unpleasant and blustery in although it gives nothing about the south Atlantic states,” but state regulations that might say wUl be “pleasant in California.” you can’t fish or hunt on that _ _ _ . particular day that the almanac posed to be a little better in Feb- described as best, ruary, which begins with “pleas- in addition the editors have ant” in the southesist. However, compiled worlds of information along about the middle of the on the county’s governmental of- month we’ll have it unsettled Eind ficials, schools, city government, blustery again, followed by and an excellent short descrip- stormy conditions in the latter tion of the county. Up-to-date in formation on the 1956 tobacco gether with the election returns of the year and a listing of all tlm officials in both political parties. The almanac is bigger this year than it was the first time it was published and H. Clifton Blue, publisher of The Sandhill Citizen, says he’s having a remarkable sale of the book. There were fewer milk cows on U. S. farms in June of this year than at any time since rec ords were started back in 1930. The number of animals in June was 20,998,000 compared to 21,- 220,000 a year ago June. This is a drop of one per cent from last year, and it is 18 per cent below the all-time high of 25,600,000 cows in June, 1944. x' HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS to our Many Friends and Customers CAMERON OIL CO. SINCLAIR Distributors Herbert Cameron days of the month. Want to plant in January? By all means get out the spade and rake on either January 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11> 15, 16, 21-24, 27-29. No other days will do. Winter, which wasn’t so good this year, ends at 4:16 p. m.' March 20, a day in the comfort ing words of the ahnana^c which is the beginning of a storm period oh the West coast that' wiU eventually reach the East' coast. Summer, in the event you’re interested begins Jime 21 shortly before noon. April begins with “warm* in the south” but has periods of thunder storms before finally bowing out with "a prediction of “fair and warmer.” Poor Cliffs Almanac, publish ed by the Sandhill Citizen in Aberdeen, is a veritable store house of information, dealing not sales in the county is listed, to- I HJI.I I Wolmanized^ PRESSURE-TREATED LUMBER STOPS ROT AND TERMITES Sandhill Builders Supply Corporation Service-Quality-Dependability Tel. Windsor 4-2516 Pinehursl Rd. If Aberdeen, N. C. ’'...for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." Mathew 2:2 PARKWAY CLEANERS BILL SHORE CITIZENS BANK & T^UST CO. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. ^ A f \ * * < <.vwv»vWii^i V Co-op Don’t guess Merouiy’s price by the new size and luxmy 0 , (never before bas so imicb bigness and luxury cost so little) m : " V . ' IN MERCURY’S LOWEST PRICE SERIES Monterey Phaeton Coupe. Also in the big-value Monterey series: Phaeton Sedan, 2-door Sedan, 4-door Sedan. 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