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Cotton Insurance Deadline April 10 Applications Should Be Filed With Local AAA Committee North Carolina farmers should lose no time in obtaining crop in-j surance protection on their 19401 crop, G. T. Scott, chairman, State! AAA Committee, has announced, j "After a full year’s operation un- j der the revised crop insurance pro-i gram, most farmers are ‘sold’ on its I advantages,” Scott stated. “Appli cations for the 1940 cotton crop should be filed before seeding, or April 10, whichever is earlier,” he said. Insurance coverage, backed by the ®W'V(lcral Government, is provided for jK'otton, wheat and flax crops on a national basis. Trial insurance pro grams for corn and tobacco are being carried out in selected counties. The trial program for tobacco is being continued in North Carolina in Vance, Wilson and Surrv counties. As risk data are accumulated, new, “experimental” crops may be added to the list. The insurance program offers pro-1 lection against unavoidable natural hazards, including drought, flood, hail, hurricane, insect infestation and plant disease. During 1945, around 7,668 farms in the State were covered by Federal crop insurance. This number in cluded 3,873 cotton farms and 3,795 wheat farms. The Federal Crop In surance Corporation has approved claims for over 342 cotton producers and claims are still being made. Principal losses were caused by cool weather in the spring, preventing a good stand, wet weather and boll weevils. Application for the 1946 cotton crop insurance may be filed with county AAA committees, or their authorized agents. ACORN HILL NEWS Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Byrum and children visited Mrs. Byrum’s par-J ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Harrell, on 1 Sunday. Miss Messie Harrell returned last Sunday after taking a business course j in Norfolk. She will spend some time with her parents. Mrs. Wallace Jordan spent the week-end at home. Mrs. Wallace Jordan and son Billie visited Jessie Byrum of Tyner, who! is very sick. Miss Eunice Forehand of Suffolk' spent the week-end with her parents, l Mr. and Mrs. Murriel Forehand. Mrs, L. B. Harreß visited her sis ter, Mrs. H. F. Brady, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. 1,. B. Harrell and (laughters, Messie and Josephine, vis )ed Mrs. R. 1,. Byrum in Suffolk last hursday. The Beulah Church R. and G. A. meeting was held with Walter Har rell last Thursday evening. Those attending were the Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Ferguson and son Dawson, Karl Stallings, Messie Harrell, Ver non and Carroll Jones, Francis Fan nins, Louis Umphlett, Bill Clark, Sarah Lee Pearce, Florence and An nie Pearl Bunch. Refreshments were served to the guests by Mrs. L. B. Harrell and M iss M essie Harrell. Dr. Geo. T. Crawford CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Specializes in the chronic and often called “incurable” conditions. CITIZENS BANK BLDG., EDENTON Phones: Office 434-W Residence 417-J TAYLOR THEATRE EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA We Have the Shows Todav (Thursday) and Friday, March 21-22 Joan Leslie and Robert Alda in “CINDERELLA JON ES” Saturday, March 23 Jimmy Wakely in “MOON OVER MONTANA” Chapter No. 8 “King of Forest Rangers” Sunday, March 24 John Carroll and Marsha Hunt in “A LETTER FOR EVIE” Monday and Tuesday, March 25-26 Deanna Durbin and Franchot Tone in “BECAUSE OF HIM” Wednesday, March 27 Double Feature Lon Chaney in “HOUSE OF DRACULA” Noah Beery, Jr., in “CRIMSON CANARY” Thursday and Friday, March 28-29 J “BANDIT OF SHERWOOD r FOREST” Peanuts Mean Money For Fanners "Thor* should be a strong dt aaa&d for the IM6 peanut harvest. Grower* ihould gtt on the whole better price* than laat year.” These are conclusion! set forth by Stephen Pace, Representative in Congress from the 3rd District of Georgia, a peanut producing area, in a recent statement about the 1946 peanut program. “There will be a support price es 90 per cent of parity. The exact amount of the support price will not be announced until July or August as it will be based on 90 per cent of the parity price on July Ist. It is hoped that parity prices will be a little higher then. The support will be maintained by both a loan and a purchase program, that is, if the buyers should not offer as much or more than the support price the pro ducer can get a loan equal to the support price, like on cotton, or the government will buy them at the support price. “Peanuts are short now. All the buyers are begging for them. This means there will be no surplus or carry-over and there should be a strong demand for peanuts when we start harvesting this fall. Therefore, the producers should realize near ceiling prices and on the whole should get better prices than last year when peanuts brought the farmers the biggest price per ton on record." Figures of the U. S. Department of Agriculture show that Ameri cans are eating more and more peanut butter, salted peanuts and peanut candies and that peanut production haa almost doubled la the last ten years. In 1948 2,110,- Insecticide School Held In Edenton [ Dr. Clyde F. Smith, professor of entomology at N. C. State College, , and Howard R. Gariss, extension , plant pathologist, last week eonduct . ed an insecticide and fungicide school in Edenton for dealers and county agents. Fifteen dealers and county agents from Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyr rell and Chowan Counties attended I the meeting. The specialists present ■]ed their subjects in a very concrete i! and informative manner and there j was considerable interest shown by ! those attending. J - - k TWO MASSES EVERY SUNDAY EDENTON CATHOLIC CHURCH ■ At 9 and 11 A. M. start holy masses, Communion, sermon (March * 24, 3rd Sunday in Lent, on “The >I Standard Os The Cross”), concluding jin 45 minutes, followed at once bj There's Money Today...and Tomorrow... in Your Woodlot . i ■ > za o» wtagWS 4 fx ' .t: ‘ Mi MBFmm ■ pyl lB B fl Sr “Son, that woodlot of yours will give you more spot cash right now than any other part of your farm ... .. .“and keep on paying you year in and year out. “Pulpwood can be de pended upon when other crops are poor. And, its ex tra income comes in mighty DONI WASTE PRECIOUS TIME ★ CUT TOP QUALITY WOOD*** **» « VICTORY PULPWOOD COMMITTEE ||^Qnn J. M. PRICE J. EDWIN BUFFLAP C. W. OVERMAN R. C. JORDAN **** THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946. Ak|, f . m M' m STEPHEN PACE, Georgia Congressman, who sees big demand and better than ever prices for 1946 peaunt crop. 775,000 pounds were picked and threshed as compared with 1,152,- 795,000 pounds in 1935. During the past few months more than one-half the No. 1 grade nuts, ap proximately 55%, have been used for peanut butter. Os the remain der about 23% were salted and 19% went into candies. Up to 1943 farm production kept pace with the demands of the manufactur ers at these three products but since then the demand has con tinually exceeded what the farms have been able to supply, owing to the ever increasing popularity of peanut* and peanut product!. Sunday School, in St. Ann’s Catholic Church, stated Father F. J. McCourt, rector, who invites everybody to all j. services. Confessions begin half hour, end five minutes before ser | vices. Lenten Fridays 8 P. M.: Stations I of the Cross, benediction, choir prac . tice. Week-mornings: one mass, communion and Rosary. 3 i try a Plyler Fryer DRESSED AND DRAWN 1 AT YOUR GROCER S SOON ; Plyler Poultry Farm.. Gatesville, N. C. Cotton Drops Little Under 22-Year High Prices In Ten Spot Mar kets Average 26.50 Cents I Cotton prices this week averaged | a little under the 22-year high es-i tablished earlier in the month. I Among the major developments ofj the week were: (1) Upward re visions in ceiling prices for cotton textiles and yarns to offset increased labor and cotton costs; (2) The announcement of incentive prices | and control measures to secure in creased output rif urgently needed i cotton textiles; (3) The Govern- ' ment proposal for uniform margins' in futures trading and its rejection by futures exchanges; (4) The: Stabilization Director’s order to re quire exchanges to fix specified uni- 1 form margins; (5) The announce-1 ment of the sale of more than 330,- i 000 bales out of the 538,000 bales of C.C.C. stocks offered on February 27. The C.C.C. sold approximately 1,699,0(H) bales during the period January through mid-March, 1946. Prices for Middling 15/16 inch in the ten spot markets averaged 26.- 150 cents per pound on Thursday, March 14, against 26.71 a week j earlier and 21.72 a year ago. RETURNS FROM PACIFIC Lieut, (jg) P. E. Chappell, son of the Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Chappell of Tyner, has returned from the Pacific, where he was stationed for about a year. Lieut. Chappell was connected with amphibious opera tions. “ 666 Cold Preparations LIQUID. TABLETS. SALVE, NOSE DROPS ‘ CAUTION USE ONLY AS DIRECTED handy when times are good, too. “Your county agent or for ester will tell you how to get the most out of your woodlot By wise cutting, you can guarantee another cash crop. “Let’s get busy now and collect a cash pulpwood divi dend” | High School News | | A delegation composed of Char- I lotte Bunch, Jack Habit, Shirley Norris, Lillian Bass, Erie Cofield and Mrs. Fred Hoskins will represent j Edenton High School in the Eastern i District Student Council Meeting | which will be held in Kinston on) i Friday, March 22. At the meeting, | the delegates will discuss Student ijCouncil problems in the post-war 1 wmrld. | The E. H. S. Student Council in-1 • | tends to enter its president, Char-j j | lotte Bunch, as a candidate for the ! vice-presidency of this district. | A presentation of what is probably : .I William Shakespeare’s greatest farce-comedy, The Taming of the j Shrew, will he presented in the High : School Auditorium at 2:15 I’. M. on .Friday, March 22. Every part in ■the play, both male and female, will , | be portrayed by the noted dramatist, playwright and protean artist, Jack j Rank. With a background of full] symphony orchestral music, Mr. j Rank will play ten characters, going* ’ 1 : How would you CHART YOUR COURSE? Pictured here are the records of four "life lines” of our busi ness—four things which largely control the destiny of any business, | whether it be a farm, a factory or a store. They are Wages, Mate r rials Costs, Prices, and Profits. Suppose these were pictures of s what is going on in your own affairs. How would you chart your future course from these facts? ra cimt too 1 | WAGES i PropOMdl 140 Incrtoa# | • \ •» I to MO / IQpy •41 ’4l *4J *44 45 *44 With »he proposed increase, wage rale; will Save risen from $0 85’/a P«f hour in 1941 to $1.33'/i In 1946—0 com of 561%. WeeVlyoveroge would be $53.40 ,6 ° | 3 1 PRICES 150 l._. f >4O 130 ISO iio L -1 LITTLE CHANGE J W ■col F l l H * •41 4J 43 • '44 43 '44 Ui ng IJ S Bureau of Labor Sfaiisfics with 194 1 prices equolmg 100, prices of farm machinery in 1945 were only 104 9. t What about wages? Wages have* risen steadily for five years. Before the strike which tie pin on January 21 in ti n of our plants and which has choked off n irly all farm machinery produt t ion. earnings of employes of t hese plants averaged $ 1.1 *> 1 an hour, not including any overtime. This Union demanded a .'M cents per hour increase and a (Jqvernment board has now recommended a general increase of 18 cents an hour, which would make average earnings SI.BB 'an hour. Week I> avc*rag<* would he $58.40. What about materials? No one seems to know how high materials costs will go. r Phe Gov ernment has increased steel prices as much as $12.00 a ton, with an .average increase for all grades of 8. 2 r Steel is the most important material we buy, hut prices on other materials are also increasing. What about prices? , There has been no general increase in our prices sihec they were frozen by the Government in early 1942. Since then a few small increases have been allowed where particu lar machines were substantially changed in design. What about profits? Risk is part of the American profit and loss system, so we do not, of course, ask either our customers or the Government to guarantee that we can be certain of profits each year. The chart tells the story of our profits during the war. Although Harvester produced more goods than ever before, it had no desire to get rich out of war, so our rate of profit has steadily gone down. What our 1946 profit will be is extremely uncertain. What is the next step? As you can see, our present situ ation is that with frozen prices and declining profits, we are asked to pay higher materials costs and to make the biggest wage increase in the history of the Company. Can we do thus? Wages and materials consume aU but a few cents of every dollar we take in. If our prices continue frozen, and cost of wages and INTERNATIONAL |S. HARVESTER 191 through thirty-five costume change*. The lavish settings, clever light ing, Mr. Rank’s rapid costume changes and amazing changes of mannerism and voice, coupled with I Shakespeare’s famous play should be I fully worth the small admission price. UPSET STOMACHS YIELD INCHES OF GAS AND BLOAT “1 was so full of gas I was afraid i I’d burst. Sour, bitter substance rose | up in my throat from my upset storo ach after meals. I got INNER-AID. I arid it worked inches of gas and bloat from me. Waistline is way down l now. Meals are a pleasure. I praise INNER-AID to the sky.”—This is o actual testimonial from a man living right her* l in Edenton. INNER-AID is the new formula containing medicinal juices from 12 Great Herbs: these herbs cleanse bowels, clear gas from stomach, act on sluggish liver and kidneys. Miser i able people soon feel different all j over. So don't go on suffering—Get INNER-AID. Sold by all Drug . Stores in Chowan County. adv no CM “°| 11 , M MATERIALS 1944 incrooooo not included 140 '3O toclr 41 -41 "45 '44 '45 ‘46 By th* end of 1945, dmc« on oil com modities other than (arm products and lood hod oone up 19.2% since 1941. Chart does not show effect of 1946 Increases. 100 KT 11 X PROFITS 90 -- - - - - •0 \ - V 60 50 J > H • 41 4! 43 44 45 '4t Profit per dolior of ;oi« hj; decUned ,in»il in 1945 it was /.lightly lev; thah four OAnt;, a; against 8 4 cents in '.94 1. materials continues to rise, obvi ously our Company will begin to operate.at a loss at some point. The exact point at which oper ating at a loss would start is a mat t«*r of judgment- Government agencies and union leaders may have opinions as to where that point is. But if they turn out to be wrong, they can shrug their shoulders and say : "Weil, it wasn’t my responsibley. / didn’t make i he decision. The management of this Com pany cannot and w ill not say that. It dares not gamble. It has to be sure. Continuation of our service to millions of customers, the fu ture jobs of thousands of em ployes, and the safety of the in vestments of 89,000 stockholders depend on our making as correct a decision as is humanly possible. What about future prices on farm machinery? Thi: judgment of Harvester’s man agement nowisthat we cannot safe ly make the huge wage increase recommended by the Government until the Government authorizes adequate increases in the prices of farm machinery to cover the resulting increased costs. That is not a judgment that makes us happy. The Company does not want to raise prices. We prefer to lower prices, when pos sible, and wc know our customers prefer to have us do that. We have produced at 1942 prices. and hoped we could continue to do so. We have delayed seeking general price relief in the hope that it could be avoided. Now we are convinced that it cannot be avoided any longer. The price question must be settled. Until it is settled we do not see how we can settle the wage question. Until the wage question is settled we do not see how we can resume production and begin turning out the farm machines which we know our farmer customers need. Because of the important stake which both farmers and city dwell ers have in this controversy, we are bringing these matters to your attention. Through the cross cur rents of today’s conditions, we are trying to chart a course that is fair to our employes, to our farmer customers, and to ou r stockholders. PAGE THREE