from certified seed on our farm in
1938. They were cleaned and treat
ed with 2% ceresan. It yielded
about 39% at the gin with the fol
lowing record of staple at the N. C.
Cotton Grower’s Cooperative Asso
ciation: 5 bales of 1 and 1-8; 77
bales of 1 and 3-32; 39 bales of l
and 1-16: 49 bales of 1 and 1-32;
36 bales of 1; and 4 bales of 15-16.
Two applications of Ferax (100
pounds at chopping and 75 pounds
the latter part of June) and good
ginning were important in getting
this fine turn-out of staple. We
applied only about 400 pounds of
4-8-4 over the Top Guano at plant
ing.
3. Poisoning with the molasses
mixture seems to have been very
effective in helping in the control
of the weevil. Beginning when the
squares were about Vi inch in size,
we put on three applications of the
mixture up to July 4. In 1940 we
intend to be more careful and
thorough in poisoning, hoping that
our neighbors will do the same.
We may not be able to make a
good crop in 1940, but we are very
decided that the poison had a de
I EMPLOYMENT
NEWS
—by—
\V. G. Cherry, Jr., Manager
N. C. State Employment Service
A Community Institution: De
fined in terms of what it does,
the State Employment Service in
North Carolina is placing in em
ployment hundreds of persons each
week throughout the year.
Defined in terms of what it hopes
to be, the public employment office
is the employment center of the
community. Every job-seeker will
make registration his first step in
seeking employment; every employ
er who seeks a new employee will
turn first to the employment cen
ter; every community agency seek
ing information or help concern
;»irv tVio nr-Ahlom nf nnpmnlnvmp.nt.
[ will turn to the employment of
fice as the logical clearing house
1 for men, jobs, and facts about jobs.
If public employment offices in
North Carolina have not yet fully
attained this place in our social
and econorr c life, it is because
they have not yet been fully accept
ed and appi ded by their local
communities.
V■'u; empb office is pri
v a con v institution. In
helpinj those n . WANT work to
fine, it, and m helping employers
jin^ their selection of qualified per
mel, it renders this service, in
ist instances, to members of the
;al community in which it is lo
ted. The success of any public
jency depends upon the support
ven it by the community of which
is a part.
The establishment of public em
loyment offices has given new
lignity to the job of seeking a job.
The application for employment is
rot a seeker of charity. He is a
self-respecting member of society,
legitimately seeking the guidance
of a specialized governmental ser
vice to aid him in the laudable en
terprise of finding congenial em
ployment.
The Roanoke Rapids office of the
State Employment Service is one
to which any person, sixteen years
of age or over, can, without cost to
himself and without loss of self
respect, seek job information and
job opportunities. He will be cour
teously received and given a pri
vate interview for a discussion of
his work history, ability, and desire
for work. His qualifications and
work history will be recorded by
the interviewer, and he will be no
tified of whatever job opportuni
ties are, or may be, available to him
when openings come up for vyhich
he is qualified.
ucim-i juu aic an
who wishes to find a competent
worker or an applicant in search
of a job opportunity of some kind
for yourself, we invite you to call
upon the Employment Service.
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Job Openings: The jobs listed
below are now open through the
Employment Service’s clearance
system. If you are interested in
any of these openings, complete in
formation may be obtained by call
ing at the local office.
1 Shop Foreman (Manager)
1 Barber
1 Watch Repairer
50 Mechanics, Aircraft and Engine
Service
2 Layers, Block, Asphalt
4 Archaeologists
1 Society Editor (Newspaper)
4 Interior Decorators
2 Vocational Instructors (Com
mercial Pilot)
4 Designers (Engineering Layout
Men)
1 Draftsman, Mechanical (Draft
ing Room Checker)
20 Loopers, Circular (Hosiery)
2 Social Workers
Rotary Clinic For
Cripples To Be In
Tarboro, Jan. 29 f
The Tarboro Rotary Club will
hold its regular Orthopaedic Clin*
ic on Monday, January 29, 1940, at
9:00 a.m., at the Presbyterian
Church Sunday School rooms in _
Tarboro, North Carolina. *
The Rotary Club is anxious to
render service to all cripples, re
gardless of age or race, who are
unable to pay for treatment. The
club will appreciate the coopera
tion of all citizens in finding these
cases and directing them to the
clinic.
Private (pay) patients are re
quested not to come to the clinic
before 1:00 p.m. ,
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Mrs. Bullock Hostess
Mrs. Thurman Bullock enter
tained her bridge club Thursday
evening at her home on Monroe St. f
Those playing were Mesdames J.
A. Wood, Pete Graham, H. E. Gib
son, Sam Bunn, M. F. White, Chas.
Fitts, Francis Starke, J. R. Lupton,
R. M. Pope, W. C. Williams, Bill
Alligood. and Miss Janie Lassiter. (
Mrs. Sam Bunn won high score,
Mrs. W. C. Williams second high,
and Mrs. J. R. Lupton traveling
honor prize.
Mrs. Bullock served ambrosia,
fruit cake and hot coffee after the 0
game was over.
1 Cost Accountant
1 Pastry Cook
1 Detailer (Wood Mill) %
1 Librarian
1 Assistant Librarian
1 Medical Detailer (Solicitor-Sales
man
1 Cook, First
1 Mechanical Engineer %
1 Designer and Stylist
By R. HUNTER POPE
Farmers and business men of
Halifax County are planning to
put on a program to increase the
production of cotton in 1940; it is a
certainty that we cannot continue
to grow it with any such yields as
•we had in 1938 and 1939, with the
price from 8 to 10 cents a pound.
In 1939 we more than doubled our
production of 1938, some of the
contributing factors we believe to
be of interest to the other farmers
of this section. The record of our
1939 crop has been erroneously re
ported. It is as follows: On the
Haurie Pope farm in Edgecombe
County 47 bale: were made on 42
acres; on the S. Pope farm 143
bales were male on 125 acres; and
on the Sandy Creek farm 30 bales
were made on 43 acres. The bales
averaged 476 pounds. The total is
210 bales on 211 acres. And it is
well to remember that the boll
weevil ate up the top third of our
crop. It seems very unlikely that
the severe infestation that we had
from the middle of July on could
have corne from the scattered spots 1
that we had prior to that time. It I
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