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6jjr' '■•0/ y*»v'is '!rai»sDAT,-actOBBt«^us« TUB rtw»$Joi*MAL Pm -s-s- Iw.r^ r.if'v^ ’SSi- i- ^ii WMC'^' i^eeitfisti NEWS By Bta. A. A. ifoTtifi«j _ One of the projects to be upder- 'taken by the PTA this season was the beautification (%f the school grounds. A committee was - ap pointed at the last meeting and the work has begun. Those who have given work on the grounds up to this time are as follows: Verhon Parsons, Bi B. Cole, C. W. Pittman, Curtis McDoYrell, H. ,C. Williamson, Oscar Wood, James Adkins, Jimmie Wood, James Ray and E. T, Brock, Jr. Miss Beulah Jarrell - spent the past week end with Miss Bobby Jean Snellgrove at St. Pauls. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Shockley have the foundation laid for their FRfGlDAIRE dealer for the past 13 years. / Refrigerators, Baages, Wa ter Heaters and oAnr ap pliances. ^ * BAUCOH* AFPLIi^CB OOu Phone 3121 - Baeford. N. C. Southern Marble Works ' Lumberton, N. C. Get our prices before buy ing your monument. new house and are going forward with their building plans. Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Hawkes and children visited Mrs. Hawkes par ents, Mr. and'Mrs. L. H. Bo^yer at Laurinburg Sunday. Mrs. Jessie Daughtery and Miss Lillie Bimdy of Cumberland were all day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Bundy Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gillis Ray and son, Marshall of Fayetteville, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Ritter. Galatia Church Women of Circle No. 2 quilted at the Community House Tuesday for their ingather ing. The ladies carry lurich to these quiltings, make hot coffee and enjoy these get-to-gethers as much or more than ordinary pic nics. ’SMALL BUSINESS By C. WILSON HARDER Mrs. C. L. Wood, Miss Ann Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wood and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wood ’ and family in Greensboro Sunday. Are You Trading Cars? REGARDLESS OF WHERE OR WHEN — LET US FINANCE IT FOB YOU. - at Lumber River Discount Co. Phone 767 South Elm St LUMBERTON, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dement of Pontiac, Michigan were guests in the home of Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Miller last Thursday and Friday nights. Mr. Dement is a brother of Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Ida Rivers of Hartsville,' S. C. is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Long. The WMU of Tabernacle Bap tist church met with Mrs. Bill Gibson Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hare and daughter, Anita, were Rockfish visitors Sunday. North and South, Repiiblican and Democrat have b^n suc cessful in getting passed in the Senate what is known as the Wherry amendment. That, as part of the Defense Production Act, should result in a fair dis tribution of available civilian goods. * * * And as Senators Wherry (B., Neb.) and Sparkman (D., Ala.) pushed fof passage, ^ey were supported by organloed inde pendent business . . . inspired silmitly by the reproachfsd ghosts of 525,000 smaU businesses that needlessly perished in World War n. * * * T^s new bill will require that small inde^ndent businesses dis tributing civilian goods be given a fair share of the available sup ply, based on a representative period before June 24, 1950. e * * If the House passes this meas ure, it will correct one of the glaring oversights of the past when monopoly owned or con- ^roUed outlets received the avail able supplies, and independent business was left on a limb. ♦ * * This one victory has far-reach ing reverberations. Prior to this, the talk was entirely of volun tary allocations, tied in with susf- pension of anti-trust laws. In other words. Congressmen were told “the situation can be handled by ‘gentlemen’s agreements’.” * * * But Senators privately say they are becoming wary of these “gentlemen’s agreements” . . . would like to be sure of what “gentlemen” are involved in such agreements. Many feel that they, like little Bed Riding Hood, found out just in the nick of time that grandma Was a wolf. ♦ ♦ ♦ Congressmen, eyeing Novem ber elections, are aghast at some press releases sent but by gov ernment-hired press agents. ©National Federation of Independent Business They shadifnr and hope much will never be published in news papers read by tax-consciens constitnento. • '* • For example, the current re lease from the Office of Informa tion, Economic Cooperation Ad ministration, commonly known as the Marshall Plan, tells how American tax dollars are being used to modernize hotels in Eu rope, including such nations as Portugal, Ireland, Luxemberg, Sweden, Turkey, etc. # Ik With brash iwide EGA Release No. 1660 tells how Marshall Plan dollars have installed niore bath- rooinis, changed rooms from dou ble beds to twin beds, air-condi tioned ballrooms, made other changes in tb^e hotels. Thus American dollars voted to stop starvation are used to create luxury abroad. * * * As everyone knows, a lot of improvements are needed in American hotels. * • * But after taxes American ho tels don’t have the funds. And while Europe’s hotels get free American dollaro, American owners often can’t get low cost loans. o o 0 Things like this are worrying Congressmen. * * * . ’They feel this type of informa tion, if read by tax-ridden vot ers, wiU be reflected in Novem ber voting. There may be some grounds for their fears. ♦ * * Many Washingtonians are (luot- ing Nicolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union. * * 0 He wrote: “Germany will arm itself out of existence.” (Has happened, they say.) “Britain will expand itself out of exist ence.” (Has happened, they say.) “America will spend itsdf out of existence.” (Is it happen ing, they ask.) day with relatives at Wilmington. A. D., McFadyen. of Winston- Salem came for Mrs. McFadyen last Friday, and left for Richmond, Virginia, to spend the week end with her daughter, Mrs. Carl R. Wood. They returned to Winston- Salem on Tuesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, and Bobby spent the past week end with Mr. Smith’s parents in Lyre- ly, Georgia. They returned by way of Cleveland and Chattanooga, Tenn., in order to visit Rock City Gardens. Mrs. Ellen Kinlaw has been a patient in Highsmith for the past few days. It is hoped that she will soon be back in the community with us. A large number attended the funeral of J. M. Capps last Mon day at Galatia church. Rev. B. O. Shannon and Rev. D. E. Miller conducted the service.. Interment was made in the Galatia cemetery. The Home Demonstration ^ub met Wednesday in the home of Mrs. J. E, Shewbridge. A demon stration of wall papering was pre sented to those present. Miss Al- lie Black and Mrs. Laura Crowley were hostesses. of this week. Mrs. Louis Parker and Mrs. Marshall Newton of Wayside took part in the quilling at Rockfish Tuesday. The Women of Tabernacle Bap tist Church had a quilting at the home of- Mrs. A. W. Wood Wed nesday. These quilts usually sell for a good price at the ingather ings. Mrs. Mary Meinnis and Thomas Meinnis visited relatives at Wa- gram Sunday. Mrs. M. G. Ray visited Mr. and Mrs. Gillis Ray and Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Ray in Fayetteville the first Group Conference of District No. 5 was held at Galatia church last Friday with a very good at tendance. The Ingathering at Tabernacle Baptist Church at Rockfish will be next week, Thursday, Oct. 12. Everybody is invited to come. Don’t forget the date. 0 Wayside News By Mrs. Ralph Plummer Joe Lovette, Betty. Alma, and Sidney Lovette and Bobby Mc- Coll attended the annual Lovette family reunion at Randleman last Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Parker, a senior at WCUNC, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Parker. She had as her guest. Miss Doris Hovis, who is also a member of the senior class and roommate of Miss Parker’s. The Youth Fellowship of Park ers’ Methodist Church met with the Galatia fellowship last Sun day evening. The young people of Parkers’ gave an interesting pro gram. Hot chocolate and cookies were served by the host church. The members of Parkers’ Meth-' odist Church would |ke to take this as a method of expressing their many thanks to those who helped their Harvest Day Ingath ering a success. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Scull and family visited friends near St. Pauls last Sunday. State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: I want to use my tobacco barn for curing and stor ing sweet potatoes. What should I d6 to adapt the barn for this purpose? ANSWER: It’s neither difficult nor expensive to make the neces sary changes for using a tobacco bam as a sweet potato curing and storage house. The Department of Agricultural Engineering at State College has prepared a plan which you can use. Just ask your county farm agent for a copy of Plan No. TVA. If he doesn’t have it, you can obtain a copy by writ ing the Extension Agricultural Engineer, State College Station, Raleigh. range in size from three-fourth* to one and a fOvteth inches. How ever, neither gardeners nor po tato growers shoald get excited about them. Plant breeders have been using'^the seed balls in de veloping new varieties of potatoes but the work is laborious and time-consuming. As far as the home gardener or potato grower is concerned, the seed ba;:- are worthless. • QUESTION: Have scientists learned how to grow seedless watermelons? ANSWER: Yes,, but the/ .von- der whether it’s pijacticai to do so. Horticulture specialists think that consumer acceptance of seed less watermelons would not be great enough to make eomnietciirf growing venture. The big item the cost of seed. Since the seed less variety is riorile, growen must also raise both 'parent var-. ieties of seed to produce the new melon. Seed productiem requires twice as much land three times as much time and labor. If growers were to produce seedless melons commercially, the cost per melrni would be at least five tirhes as much as for regular melons. ,GIVES FAST RELIEF ►when CMD MISERIES STRIKE LIQUID OR TABLETS t^HKHanninuti ******** ****** *,* Mrs. A. D. McFadyen and Mrs. J. A. McFadyen spent last Thurs- QUESTION: My Irish potato plants this year produced balls of fruit that looked like small, ^re^pi tomatoes. What were they? . ANSWER: They were not toma toes, but sitnply pods of Irish po tato seed. These balls of seed sometimes appear on Irish po tato plant during cool, humid growing seasons. They usually * $ OLD - TIME SQUARE DANCE (No Jitterbugging During Sets) RAEFORD ARMORY EACH FRIDAY NIGHT 8-12 Admission 50c per person Featuring the Music of The Famous Hughie Hammond String Band Of Bonnie Dopne, N. C. COME ONE - COME ALL / JOIN FARM BUREAU EVERY FARMER KNOWS WHAT THE FARM BUREAU HAS DONE FOR HIM Let’s Support TheFARM BUREAU! See the following persons in your Township - Don’t Wait For Them To See You. Allendale — j. W. Hasty; Antioch — Dave Currie, David Liles, Willie Hodgin, G. C. Lytle; Blue Springs - J. R. Hendrix, Mrs. Lucy Smith, Emmett Smith; Little River - C. H. Marks; McLauchlin - John Parker, Phil John son, Allen Wood, Ralph Plummer; Quewhiffle — T. O. Moses, Horace Walters, Ufa Matthews, Bernice Will iamson, Walter Covington; Raeford Township — Tom mie Upchurch, Alfred Cole, W.J. McNeill, Jim Warner, Walter Parks, D, B. McFadyen; Stonewall - N. H. G. Balfour, J. M. McGoogan, J. W. Canaday, Wilbur Smith. HOKE COUNTY FARM BUREAU
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