TO VOTE DEC. 10TH
ON ENLARGING SOIL
CONSERVATN PLAN
Last winter the first steps were
taken by land-owners in Halifax
and Warren Counties to have a
Soil Conservation District establish
ed for the purpose of setting up an
organization of farmers for the
control of soil erosion and for
other conservation work. The State
will be held by the State Soil Con
servation Committee, or its repre
sentatives, as follows:
Monday, December 5th—Court
House, Halifax, N. C., at 9:30 a.m.;
Littleton School House, Littleton,
N. C., at 2:30 p.m.
luesday, December 6th—Tillery,
N. C. at 10:00 a.m.; Darlington
School House at 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7th—En
field Theatre. Enfield, N. C., at
10:00 a.m.; Brinkleyville at 2:00
p.m.; Aurelian Springs School
House at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 8th—South
Rosemary School at 10:00 a.m.;
Scotland Neck School, Scotland
Neck, N. C., at 3:00 p.m.
All persons, firms and corpora
tions who shall hold title to, or
shall have contracted to purchase,
any lands lying within the limits
of the above-described territory
and all other interested parties are
invited to attend this hearing and
will be given an opportunity to be
heard at the time and place here
in specified.
State Soil Conservation Committee
By I. O. Schaub, Chairman.
Dated:
21st day of November 1938
Raleigh, North Carolina
It is urged that all land-owners
and other interested parties be
present at their local meeting,
since that will be an opportunity
to become fully informed on what
this proposed enlargement may
mean to you. At the same time
you will be invited to express your
views on the proposition.
A referendum will be held De~ .
cember 10th, at which time you
may indicate whether you wish t»
have the district enlarged. Your
votes in no way obligates you or
your property.
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Murphrey
and children spent Sunday at A
hoskie.
A. M. Cameron has been con
fined to his home this week witb
flu.
^uiiservanon committee, after
conferring with representative
farmers of the counties decided on
these portion drained by Little
Fishing Creek and its Tributaries.
The included area is the Western
portion of Halifax County and the
Eastern portion of Warren County
and the name Fishing Creek was
derived from the fact that the area
was drained by the above-named
stream and its tributaries. A ref
erendum was conducted to deter
mine whether farmers wished to
establish a district. At this elec
tion the land-owners voted almost
unanimously in favor of such es
tablishment. A charter was issued
by the Secretary of State early in
the spring; five supervisors were
selected to operate the district, and
the United States Department of
Agriculture established the district
office at Littleton, where six tech
nical men and clerical help are
head-quartered. These men are
working out plans with cooperat
ing farmers to include systems of
cropping, soil management, pas
ture improvement, terracing, re
forestation and woodland improve
ment, wildlife conservation, and
other methods leading towards con
trol of soil erosion and conserva
tion of water.
Considerable interest in soil con
servation has developed since the
establishment of Fishing Creek
District. Petitions were filed with
the State Committee on October 3,
requesting that the remainder of
Halifax and Warren counties be
included within the district. As a
follow-up to this, plans have been
made to hold a series of education
al meetings in the two counties for
the purpose of explaining to land
owners how the District may be
enlarged, and what this will mean
to the farmers. These discussions
will be held jointly with those on
the crop control referendum to be
held December 10.
As required by the State Districts
Act, the following is a notice of
public hearings which will be held
at various points:
Notice of hearing upon expansion
of the Fishing-Creek Soil Conser
vation District to include the re
maining lands lying outside of the
present established Fishing Creek
District area within Halifax and
Warren Counties.
WHEREAS, on the 3rd day of
October 1938, there was duly filed
in the office of the State Soil Con
servation Committee at Raleigh,
North Carolina, a petition signed
by 139 land occupiers representing
51,039 acres pursuant to the pro
visions of the Soil Conservation
District Law, (Chapter 393, Public
Laws, 1937) requesting expansion
of Fishing-Creek Soil Conservation
District, and
WHEREAS, the lands to be in
cluded in the said district by said
petition comprise lands in Halifax
and Warren Counties and describ
ed substantially as follows:
All of the area included within
the boundaries of said Counties
lying outside of the present estab
lished Fishing - Creek District.
Town and village lots and land
owned by or under the jurisdiction
of the United States Government
are excluded from the proposed en
larged district.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is
hereby given that public hearings
will be held pursuant to the said
petition, on the question of the de
sirability and necessity in the in
terest of the public health, safety
and welfare of the expansion of
such district; upon the propriety
of the petition and of all other
proceedings taken under the said
Act; on the question of the appro
priate boundaries to be assigned to
such enlarged district, and upon
all questions relevant to such in
quiries. The said public hearings
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