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Bumper Crop Os Peanuts This Year Ideal Weather f Favors Farmers In Harvest ing Crop < Generally, there appears to be a bumper crop of peanuts in Chowan County this season. Yields of 30 to 40 bags per acre are very frequent and most farmers to whom the Coun ty Agent has talked say that it is the best crop they have ever had. The weight per bag .is about 8 to 10, pounds below normal due to foreign 1 material and the kernels not fully fill ing the hulls. The dry weather dur ing the picking season is excellent for harvesting but the vines are so dry that they are very brittle which prevents the pickers from cleaning the peanuts as well as they otherwise ! might. Farmers say they have had the ' most ideal weather for „ harvesting crops that they have ever seen. Com pickers, combines and peanut pickers 1 have been running daily and the crop of com, soybeans, and peanuts are * pretty well housed. The soybean crop >' appears to be very good on most 1 farms. I In some areas where frequent rains occurred during the growing season yields of corn up to 100 bushels per acre are being harvested, while in other areas severely struck by the hot dry weather during the growing sea son the crop yield is less than one- I half of normal. Crops seem to be : moving at satisfactory prices and thie farmers generally apfpear to be well pleased. G. H. Hassell of Macedonia community reports that his entire crop of about 11 acres of peanuts averaged 35 bags per acre and that ; he had one two acre field that aver- ; aged 40 bags per acre. , Chowan 41st In State Population Increase (Continued From Page One) i half of the rural population are farm . dwellers. The rest ane rural non- t farm, according to Census definition. Urban Definition Under the urban definition, estab lished for use in the 1950 Census, the urban population comprises all per- , sons living in (a) places of 2,500 in habitants or more incorporated as cit- , iies, boroughs, towns, and villages; ; (b) the densely settled urban fringe, i including both incorporated and unin corporated areas, around cities of 50,- , 000 or more; and (c) unincorporated . places of 2,500 inhabitants or more outside any urban fringe. The re maining population is classified as >rural. According to the urban defini : tion used in previous Censuses, the urban population comprised all per sons living in incorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more and areas (usually minor civil divisions) classi fied as urban under special rules re lating to population size and density. In both definitions, the most im portant component of the urban ter ritory is the group of incorporated places having 2,500 inhabitants or more. A definition of urban terri tory restricted to such places, how ever, would exclude a number of equal ly large and densely settled places, merely because they were not incor porated places. Under the old defi nition, an effort was made to avoio some of the more obvious omissions by the inclusion of the places urban un- % •’ c • v: : L A beautiful piano with a magnificent ton*,.. sized and styled to fit any-r00m... largo or •mall. So* tho n*w Betsy Ro*s Spinet today . . . Easy Budget Tmrmt If yoy Me*. V--* -- - - N - : ■ •%- • 5 1 EOEJtTON Jf 5, , I FURNITURE COMPANY » ./ yM «*Mi nm Into Hm star* | i | it Mite fat M I ' j-—V ' -‘Xi : der special rules. Even with these rules, however, many large and close ly 'built-up places were excluded from the urban territory. To improve the situation in the 1950 Census, the Bureau of the Census set up, in ad- Ivaniee of enumeration,.boundaries for urban-fringe areas around cities of 60,000 or more and for unincorporated places outside urban fringes. All the population residing in urban fringe areas and in unincorporated places of 2,500 or more is classified as urban, according to the 1950 defi nition. (Os course, the incorporated places of 2,500 or more ane urban in their own right). Consequently, the special rules of the old definition are no longer necessary. According to the 1950 urban defi nition, the urban population of North Carolina included the following com ponents: (1) the 1,238,193. inhabit ants of the 88 incorporated places of 2,500 or more; (2) the 98,773 inhabit ants. of the 19 unincorporated places of 2,500 or more; and (3) the 31,1135 inhabitants of ithe 1 incorporated plaice (Hamilton 'Lakes) of less than 2,500 and unincorporated .territory in cluded in urban fringes of the 6 urbanized areas in the state. 'Since there were no places urban under ; Special rule under the old definition, the difference in the distribution of the population of North Carolina by I jUiban and rural residence is that the new definition classifies as urban the |129,908 persons in components 2 and 3 who would have been included in the rural population under the old definition. Urban and Rural Trends I Trends in the urban and rural popu lation can be explained only on the basis of the old definition. On this basis, .the urban population rose from 186,790 i£ 1900 to 1,238,193 in 1950. The highest rate of growth in the 50-year period occurred in the decade 1900 to 1910, when the increase was at the rate of 70.5 per cent. The largest numerical increase was in tto: 10-year period 1920 to 1930. For the decade 1940 to 1950, the increase was 264,018 or 27.1 per cent. In 1900 the urban population constituted 9.9 per cent of the population of the state, whereas by 1950 it had risen to 30.5 per cent. In 1900 there were no in corporated places of 25,000 inhabit ants or mor e ; by 1950 there was 10 such places with a combined popula tion of 633,660. The rural population also increased, but the rate of growth in the rural population was consistently below that of the urban population in each dec ade of the 50-year period. As a re sult, the proportion of the population living i.i rural /territory declined from 90.1 per cent /to 69.5 per cent-in 1950. The rural population increased by 26,288, or 8.7 per cent, between 1940 and 1950. The rate of increase was TAYLOR THEATRE EDENTON, X. C. Week Day Shows Continuous From 3:30 Saturday Continuous from 1:30 Minday 2:15. 4:15 and 9:15 o Thursday and Friday, November 13-14 Mario Lanza and James Whitmore in “BECAUSE YOU’RE MINE” CHARLES P. WALES, JR. O Saturday, November 15— Tim Holt in “DESERT PASSAGE” MRS. THOMAS ELLIOTT ~ —■—o Sunday and Monday, November 16-17 — Marge and Gower Champion in “EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS” HOLLAND, CAYTON 0 Tuesday and Wednesday, November 18-19 — Double Feature Marshall Thompson in “THE ROSE BOWL STORY” —also— Brian Donlevy in “I WAS AN AMERICAN SPY” EDEN THEATRE o Friday and Saturday, November 14-15 Wayne Morris in “ARCTIC FLIGHT” Jim Bannon in “THE COWBOY AND THE PRIZEFIGHTER” MYRA BRINKLEY ■0 Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, November 16-17-18 Maureen O’Hara and Peter Lawford in. “KANGAROO” J. H. MORGAN 0 Wednesday and Thursday, November 19-20 Louh Hayward and Patricia Medina in “THE LADY IN THE IRON MASK” MRS. J. W. CHILTON * ‘ Z' ' f , (Note: If £<mr name appears in this ad bring it to. the Taylor Theatre box office and receive a free pass to see one of the pictures advertised in the ad.) * .; ‘ i THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. N. C., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1952. i i the lowest over the 50-year period, t ■ Whereas the numerical increase was . i exceeded by the gains for the decades s 1920 to 1930 and 1930 to 1940. . Facta About Counties j The 100 counties in North Carolina , ranged in size from Tyrrell with a , : population of 6,048 to Mecklenburg , with a population of 197,052. Be tween 1940 and 1950, 78 of the coun ' ties shared in the population growth lof the state. Twenty of the 22 coun ‘.ties losing population had no urban , J (population. Included in the 22 were 7 of the 9 counties which had lost ; ((population between 1930 and 1940. ] ' Fifteen of the counties gaining be- ' ! tween 1940 and 1950 had rates of (growth in excess of 20 per cent. Near- ' : ly one-fourth of the population growth i(of the state was accounted for by .three counties —Mecklenburg, Guil ford, and Cumberland. ■ 1 Incorporated and Other Places •[ In 1950 North Carolina had 475 ' places incorporated as cities, towns, ! '(and villages, and 48 unincorporated : places of 1,000 inhabitants or more. ■ ' Os the 1,629,617 persons living in the ■ • incorporated places, 291,424 WFre in : ! ( the 387 places of less than 2,500 in habitants. The 29 unincorporated i ' places of between l,(Jt)0 and 2,500 in- ■ i habitants accounted for 44,387 of the 3 j 143,160 persons living in the unin- i corporated places. ‘\ The Bureau of the Census has de Tomorrow ... At 9 O’clock Sharp! 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Your big chance to save good 1 money! f f C Y O, Values to $1.29 '"•Vi** l-r 4-' V-v. BELK - TYLER ’S Os Edenton L^Mai= _— =F= -■ | Enested boundaries for the thickly settled urban fringe around cities of 50,000 or more and has also delineat ed boundaries for unincorporated places of 1,000 or more which arej densely settled population centers' without corporate limits. Although there are unincorporated places within the urban fringe, it was not feasible to establish boundaries for such places and therefore they are no't identified as separate places. The count of urban places in the 1950 Census includes all incorporated places of 2,500 or more regardless of location and unincorporated places of 2,500 or more which ane located out side the urban-fringe areas. Incor porated places of less than 2,600 which lie in the urban fringe are not rec ognized as urban plades. Urbanized Areas There were six urbanlzied areas in North Carolina in 1950—the Ashe ville, Charlotte, 'Durham, 'Greensboro, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. Urban ized Areas with a combined popula tion of 517,367. Os /this combined population, 486,232 persons were liv ing in the central cities and 31,135 in the urban fringes of these cities. The urban fringes included 882 persons in the Hamilton Lakes town in the urban fringe of Greensboro and 30,253 per sons living in unincorporated parts of the fringes. Each urbanizied area contains at least one city wi/tih 50,000 inhabitants, or more in 1940 or according to a ( special census taken since 1940, and some urbanized areas contain two<*or (more cities of 50,000. Each urbaniz (ed area also includes the surround ing closely settled incorporated places and unincorporated areas that meet the criteria listed in the section below on “Urban fringe." Thus, the terri tory of an urbanized area may be classified into incorporated parts and unincorporated parts. Urban IFringe The urban fringe includes that part of the urbanized area which is outside' the central city or cities. The follow ing types of areas are embraced if they are contiguous to the central city or cities or if they are contiguous to any area already included in the urban fringe. 1. Incorporated places with 2,500 inhabitants or more in 1940 or at a subsequent special census conducted prior to 1950. , 2. Incorporated places with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants containing an area with a concentration of 100 dwel ling units or more with a density in 1 this concentration of 500 units or 1 ; more per square mile. This density |i represents approximately 2,000 per- 1 sons per square mile and normally is the minimum found associated with a ; closely spaced street pattern. 3. Unincorporated territory with at 1 One Large Assortment Better Quality Rayop Yard Goods One big table of Gabardines, Crepes. _ Suitings, Solids, Checks and Plaids. j away priced! m C Values to $1.59 One Big Assortment Best Quality YARD GOODS Suitings, Gabardines, Sol ids, Checks, Stripes and oth- p™ ers. Fine quality Piece Mk I 3 / Goods at bargain prices! JL " Values to $1.98 .least 500 dwelling units per square i mile. 4. Territory devoted to commercial, industrial, transportational, recrea tional, and other purposes functional ly related ,to the central city. Also included are outlying non-con tiguous areas with the required dwel ling unit density located within I‘A miles of the main contiguous urbaniz ed part, measured along the shorte«* connecting highway, and other outly ing areas within one-half mile of such , non-con tiguous areas which meet the minimum residential density rule. Vets’ Question Box Q —How much of an allowance will I get rs I enroll in a correspondence school under the Korean GI Bill? A—Your allowance will be the school’s established charge for non veterans taking the same course. You, as course, must pay the school. Q —l am making arrangements to buy a house with a GI loan. Can ' part of the' loan be used for advance j payments I’m supposed to make for taxes and insurance? A —No. The prepaid items, such as taxes and insurance, must be paid for in cash, and may nojt be part of the loan. PAGE THREE
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