Buyers Pay More
For Cotton That
Is "Standardized"
Premium prices are paid in com
munities where growers "standard
ize" a good variety of medium to
long staple cotton.
Last year, farmers in 781 "one
variety" communities over the cot
ton belt produced 1,500,000 bales of
high grade lint ranging from an
inch to 1 1-16 inch in staple length.
Their extra premiums amounted
to $8,500,000, said J. C. Ferguson,
cotton gin specialist with the State
College extension service,
When all growers in a commun
ity "standardize" their crop by
planting the same variety, they re
duce the possibility of having their
seed crossed with some inferior
strain of cotton.
And the growers can thus offer
buyers fairly large quantities of
cotton of uniform grade and staple
length. A buyer who can get a con
siderable quantity of good cotton in
one place will usually bid more
than if he has to pick up a bale or
two here and there.
Where cotton is bought in "hog
round" lots, the average quality and
staple of all cotton sold determines
the price paid for the individual
bale.
T
It is especially important that
farmers whose cotton is sold in this
way get together and select a good
variety for all to grow. This will
raise the average quality and staple
length.
"If you can't buy enough good
seed to plant all your crop this
year," Ferguson said, "buy some
good seed, raise it in a secluded
field, keep it pure, and use seed
from this years' planting for next
year's crop.
"Ask your neighbors to cooper
ate in selecting a good variety that
is well suited to the soil and cli
mate in your community."
Tucked in the Toe
of a shoe left with him for repair last
week, a New Jersey cobbler found a
purse holding $12,000 worth of jewels.
He returned it, and the owner reward
ed his honesty, a pleasing outcome as
he had been three months unemployed
and had three children to support, y
For the owner, tucking valuables
away in old spots is a very hazardous
and foolish practice. Besides the risks
of fire, theft and absent-mindness, there
is the chance that if something happen
ed to him no one would know the
whereabouts of his hoard, whether of
jewels, money or valuable papers.
A safe deposit box' in the Branch
j> Banking and Trust Company vaults
costs little, less than a cent a day. It is
the safe and sensible place to keep se
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More land b in farm wood
land than In any other dn|le
crop on American farms. The
agricultural conservation pro
tram makes it easier to improve
this blgfest of all crops.
Issiie Twenty-five
Marriage Licenses
Issuance Is Largest for Any
March on Record in
This County
Twenty-five marriage licenses
were issued by Register of Deeds J.
Sam Getsinger in this county last
month, the issuance being the larg
est for any March on record. The
issuance climbed from a low of five
?four white and one colored? in
March, 1933, to the high peak last
month for the season of year.
Licenses, nine to white and six
teen to colored couples, were is
sued to the following in March:
t
White
Leslie Watts Hardison and Hazel
Vivian Martin, both of Jamesville.
William Robert Gaines and Sallie
B. Hardison, both of Martin County.
Robert Clarence Barber, of Mar
tin County, and Myrtle Watson, of
Washington County.
Clifford Faxon Ammons and Es
ther Lee Dailcy, both of Beaufort
County ?
J. Henry Respass, Jr., of Pante
go, and Mary Sue Lawrence, of;
Surry County.
C. B. Harrison and Melissa Rog
ers, both of Bear Grass.
Guy Smith Bennett and Annie
Myrtle Altgood, both of Washing
ton, N. C. ?-j
Jeremiah Fulford and Daisy Mae
Bullock, both of Martin County.
William A. Jackson of Plymouth,
and Mrs. Bettie Gray Allen, of
Martin County.
' , Colored
Joseph W. Slade and Ruth Sykes,
both of Martin County.
Dick Clark, of Martin County, and
Nettie Howard, of Pitt County.
Armstrong Brown, of Oak City,
and Erma Lee Chance, of Hassell.
Joe Nathan Dawson and Marthi
lia Griffin, both of Martin County.
Curtis Perkins and Josephine Bri
ley, both of Robersonville.
Jesse James and Pearlie Bryant,
both of Martin County.
James Henry Norfleet and Carrie
Pittroan, both of Martin County.
Nathaniel Ruff and Carrie Pitt
man, both of Martin County.
Leroy Rogers and Ida Jane Wool
ard, both of Martin County.
R. S. Howell and Carrie Boney,
both of Martin County.
Edward Rawls, of Robersonville,
and Alice Smith, of Bethel.
Vernon Freeman, of Windsor, and
Esther Cherry, of Aulander.
Clyde Knight and Cleo Bell
Spruill, both of Martin County.
Stump Gorham and Alice Wil
liams, both of Martin County.
Ed Hicks and Mahala Harrington,
both of Williamston.
Willie C. Davis and Verlin J.
Jones, both of Martin County.
The colored population is off to
a good start this month to equal
and possibly better the March rec
ord, the license bureau issuing four
permits on a single day since the
first of April.
Needy In State Are
Given $343,968.14
During Past Month
More Than 43,000 Receive
Aid From Various
? Agencies
A total of 43,487 needy North
Carolinians received $343,968.14
during March of this year through
the provisions of the state's Old
Age Assistance and Aid to Depen
dent Children sections of the Social
Security program, it was announced
Saturday by the Pubhc Assistance
Division of the State Board of Char
ities and Public Welfare.
The report disclosed that 28,245
persons over 65 years of age were
awarded $247,427.57, for an average
of $9 43,-and 17,242 dependent chil
dren under 16 were allotted $96,
540.57, average $5.60 each.
The disbursements for old age as
sistance were $20,854.08 greater
than those made in February, when
24,160 recipients were granted $226,
573.49, an average of $9.37. The gain
in aid to dependent children
amounted to $12,141.60 over Febru
ary, during which month 15,246
children received $84,398.97, an av
erage of $5.56. The total increase for
both assistance divisions was $32,
995.69, and the increase in the num
ber of recipients was 4,081, or 2,085
old persons and 1.996 children.
It was announced by Nathan H.
Yelton, director of the public as
sistance division, that the budget for
old age assistance during April, May
and June, final quarter of the fiscal
year, would amount to $840,00 in
increase of $120,000 over the prev
ious quarter, while that for aid to
dependent children would rise from
$247,500 to $336,000, a gain of $88,
500. The total budgetary increase
will be from $967,500 to $1,176,000
or $208,500.
The Federal government con
tributes one-half of the old age
budget, and one-third of the aid to
children appropriation. The state
and county governments are equal
contributors of the balance in each,
division.
New Growers Have
Leaf, Cotton Quotas
Small allotments tor new tobacco
and cotton growers will be made un
der the 1938 marketing quotas, E.
Y. Floyd, of State College, has an
nounced^ja
Five pBMRnt of the national to
bacco quota and two per cent of the
cotton quota has been set aside for
new growers.
New tobacco growers include
past four years, and new cotton
growers are those who had no base
acreages under the AAA.
Some 25,000 to 30,000 new tobac
co growers over the flue-cured to
bacco belt are expected to ask for
allotments for 1938.
The number of requests now ex
pected is so much larger than origi
nally anticipated that the allot
ments for individual new growers
will have to be limited to 65 per
cent of the amount which would
have been granted them under the
original plan.
The original plan for determining
allotments for new tobacco growers
was as follows:
One acre for each new grower
submitting a request. Another acre
would be added for each tobacco
barm-more than half completed on
Feb'ary 16. An additional 1-10 acre
would be allotted for each 10 acres,
of crop land on the farm in excess
of 50 acres, except that no new farm
would get more than four acres.
No allotment would be more than
1 1-2 acres if there were no curing
barn more than half completed on
February 16.
Jackson County farmers have pur
chased 544 tons of ground limestone
cooperatively since last September.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I HAVE SOLD HALF INTEREST IN
MV GROCERY STORE TO
Mr. Lewis T. Williams
Formerly with A. & P. Tea Co.
The new firm will operate as
hams
Our grocery stock will.be increased
and we carry a big line of country pro
duce. Your patronage will be appreci
ated.
J. O. Manning
Uncle Jim frays
1 wonder how man; city (oiks
realise that a It-cent loaf of
bread contains leas than two
cents worth of wheat, and that
a dollar shirt is made from leas
than II cents worth of raw cot
ton.
Chevrolet Proves
It Can Takv Bumps'
A record of a year's performance
by a 1936 Chevrolet Sport Sedan
over a rough, arduous route con
necting IS Civilian Conservation
Corps camps-in the Lewis ton, Idaho,
district, has just been released by
Hoyt E Henriques, district chap
lain.
The year ran from October 5. 1936
to October 5, 1937, and the car cov
ered 20,001 miles of rough travel,
the chaplain reported. Much of the
mileage was accumulated over roads
that were deep in backwoods mud
and others that rose sharply over
3,000-foot hills.
Seven of the camps were in for
est areas, some of them as far as 60
miles off a main highway and ac
cessible only by dirt roads under
construction. Only three of the 13
hills in the district boasted paved
roads.
One camp, only 11 miles from the
highway, offered the roughest road
in the group. The chaplain report
ed it took him as long as five hours
to make that 11 miles, all of jt_ in
low gear, because of the mud during
the stormy season. Grades and deep
snow btocked the road to another"
camp so that it took an hour to
make the five miles on a crushed
rock highway.
.? The chaplain cited one grade, 'the
Lewiston Loop, as being typical of
the paved roads in the district. The
DR. V. H. MEWBORN
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Williamston office Peele Jly Co.
every Fri., 9:30 a. m. to 12 m.
Plymouth office Liverman Drug
Co., every Fri, 2 to 5 p. m.
Robersonville office Rnbersonville
Drug Co., Tuesday, April 19th.
Eyes Examined - tjlasses fitted
At Tafboro Every Saturday
grade in thia cue is 10 mil? long,
he reported, and includes a five per
cent grade for 2,000 feet. Turns and
loops in the road make a speed of
more than 25 miles an hour impos
sible.
During the year, the Chevrolet
used 1,119.5 gallons of gasoline, or
an average of 17.93 miles per gal
lon. Selected runs showed mileage
up to 21 miles per gallon.
Sp rough were many of the roads
he was forced to travel, the chap
lain declared, that three of the orig
inal tires blew out before he had
traveled 15,000 miles. Tire repairs
averaged approximately one in 3.
300 miles. "
"It is impossible to convey the
Accordions Gain Popularity
In United States Since War
Before the war few
were accordion conecioua. Today
100.000 "squeeze boxes" are In uae
in the United States. The cheapest
costs $73, a good professional ac
cordion $1,000. They are now used
in three out of every four dance or*
chestras, and in many
pleasure M*ve had in these *>.
000 miles, the chaplain said. "And
no matter what the weather or road
condition. I have never missed an
appointment through any fault of
the Chevrolet."
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