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1948 OUTLOOK IS GENERALLY FAVORABLE
FOR SOUTHERN-PRODUCED COMMODITIES
Belief Advanced That
Products Will Find
Ready Markets
The market outlook for southern
produced goods is generally favorable
for 1948, according to Marion A.
Leonard, district manager of the U. S.
Department of 'Commerce.
Granted that nothing unforseen
hapf>ens to upset the equilibrium of
the national economy, producers of
such commodities as fertilizers, tex
tiles, lumber, tobacco, pulp and paper
and certain other products that are
being produced in relatively high de
gree in the South should continue to
find ready markets, it was stated.
Here is the way the Commerce De
partment pictures the situation for
the coming year on commodities im
portant to southern industry:
Fertilizers —Another record produc
tion year is anticipated. Production
nationally will possibly exceed 17 mil
lion tons, or about 7 per cent over
1947, but demand will be too heavy
to be satisfied completely. New
plants or expansions are taking place
to meet the unprecedented demand.
Lumber Active demand should
continue at current high levels, or in
crease in pace with indicated con
struction activity. Production may
be expected to continue at about 1947
levels with perhaps slight gains, but
limited plant facilities, equipment,
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v I 1948 promises to be a big
0m year for all of us. We sin
cerely hope that you will receive your full
share of happiness and good things of life in
the coming year.
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Donald Comer, chairman of the
board of Avondale Mills, Sylaeauga,
Ala., who has been selected the
South’s Man of the Year. The high
honor, announced by Hubert F.
Lee, editor of Dixie Business and
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the South, goes each year
to an outstanding Southerner for
his contribution to the advance
ment and well-being of Dixie. The
textile executive has devoted his
whole life to promoting the ma
terial prosperity and social welfare
of the South,
labor and resources will operate
against any material increase. Hard
wood flooring, continuing to gain in
production volume should become
relatively easier, but neither it nor
millwork show promise of becoming
in plentiful supply during 1948 in re
lation to prospective demand.
Pulp and Paper—With additional
domestic pulp and paper capacity
coming into production in near future
months, it is believed that around the
spring of 1948 supplies of most grades
of paper, excluding newsprint, will
approximate domestic consumption re
quirements. Assuming that the total
United States economy will continue
at peak levels through 1948, which
would mean some additional expan
sion in paper requirements, and that
there will be no material increases in
exports of duld, it may be estimated
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that both pulp and paper supplies will j
just about balance customers’ needs
during the year. j
.Textiles —The apparel and acces
sories industry, which is an outstand- 1
ing example of small business in mass
production, may, by taking measures
to curb the inflationary spiral, find
the year 1948 to be an era of good
business activity with sustained finan
cial health. An increase in the pres
ent high level of production is fore
seen. Production of lines evaluated
on their worthiness of depth buying,
may be termed the key to prosperous
apparel markets, supported by the
rise in per capita income.
Tobacco—Domestic demand for un
manufactured tobacco in 1948 should
be satisfactory, since production and
consumption of .most tobacco products
bid fair to continue at the 1947 high
levels, and in the case of cigarettes
may rise above it. This is especially
true of the cigarette types of leaf.
Prices received by growers for most
kinds of tobacco will remain close to
support levels, which have increased
substantially during the past year.
The export outlook is less favorable,
with dollar shortages abroad and
loss of the United Kingdom market
for an indefinite period.
Furniture —The supply of furniture
is expected to equal the demand as
the industry continues to produce at
record levels. A larger volume of
the popular priced lines of furniture
will be available as people become
more price and quality minded.
Dairy Products—lt is expected that
the amount of milk produced on farms
in 1948 will not be noticeably differ
ent from the 1947 output. Assuming
that consumer incomes remain high
and no major change in fluid milk
prices occur, the per capita consump
tion of fluid milk will about equal the
403 pounds consumed in 1947.
Poultry Products Production of
eggs in 1948 is expected to be less
than the output for 1947. Less feed
will be available, and prices for feed
stuffs will likely remain high. De
mands in 1948 will probably remain
as heavy as in 1947.
Construction —For the country as a
whole, construction activity in 1948
will amount to about $15,200,000,000.
Based upon 1947 activity, some 10
per cent of that may be expected to
be conducted in the Southeast. About
75 per cent is expected to be privately
financed.
Processed Fruits and Vegetables—
Prospective 1948 supplies may be
about equal to the ample supplies of
1947.
Joyce-Harrell In Choir
Christmas Broadcast
Miss Joyce Lorine Harrell, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harrell,
was among the 80-voice Meredith
College Choir which broadcast the an
nual Christmas music over Station
WPTF, Raleigh, on Christmas night.
Miss Harrell is a member of the
choir.
Miss Harrell, home for the Christ
mas holidays, will return for the re
opening of the college on January 2,
with semester examinations scheduled
to be held January 24-29.
USD A Locates Plant
Disease Forecaster at
N. C. State College
Dr. J. H. Jensen, plant pathology
! head at North Carolina State College,
i has announced that the North Caro
lina Agricultural Experiment Station
jat State College has been chosen as
' one of three strategically-located sites
i where plant disease forecast stations
i are being set up to serve the nation’s
farmers. The other two stations are
located at Newark, Delaware, and
Ames, lowa.
Dr. Lee H. Person, who has bper
designated as chief of the Raleigh
station, arrived in Raleigh in Novem
ber. Working under the Bureau of
Mycology and Plant Disease Surve>
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, he has begun setting the disease
i forecast machinery in motion. From
his Raleigh headquarters, Dr. Persor
I will cover the entire southeastern re
gion which includes the Carolinas
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas Mississippi, Alabama, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Virginia and Okla
homa.
| The new research project was or
ganized under the Research and Mar
keting Act passed last spring by Con
gress, Dr. Jensen explains. It looks
' forward to the time when agricul
tural specialists will be able to pre
dict coming attacks of plant diseases
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whole system is upset when kidneys fail
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These were Horace Mann's worm when
HE LOCKED THe DOOR OF HIS PROFITASLC
LAW PRACTICE TO DEVOTE HIS LIFE TO
Persuading taxpayers to support free schools-
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as accurately and as readily as
meteorologists now forecast coming
changes in the weather.
The three stations provided at pres
ent are Out the beginning of the ser
vice. Until they have become well
established and ready to expand, the
stations will concentrate on only
three of the country’s chief crop dis
eases. These diseases are the late
blight of potatoes and tomatoes, the
blue mold of tobacco and the downy
mildew of cucumbers, cantaloupes
and the like.
The disease forecast will function
much the same as weather forecasts,
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IT’S heartening to see that upward slant for business, but it takes
a lot of hard work, cooperation and high principle to keep the fig
ures rising. This community, just like the nation as a whole, cap
absorb a lot of goods; and in turn is called upon to produce all it
can. The business men we know are pledged to chart a good record
for 1948, and invite your full cooperation so that you can share in
the worthwhile results.
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since plant diseases generally travel
with the weather. The diseases ap
pear in the extreme southern states
early in the season and move north
as the season progresses. Through
the cooperation of State Experiment
Stations and individual farmers, the
forecast service will function as a
communications depot where the re
ports are received and the warnings
sent out.
The same arrangement has been
carried on unofficially in past years,
but the new service aims to speed up
and coordinate the proceedings. The
aim will be to get the warnings out
soon enough for growers to apply
preventive and control measures and
thus safeguard their crops.
JjppPerson, a native of Tennessee,
is a specialist in vegetable diseases.
He received his bachelor’s degree
from Mississippi State College, and
his masters and doctor’s from the
University of Minnesota. He has had
a wide experience in disease of sou
thern field and vegetable crpps.
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