PAGE TWO PMHMttON TWO ; |;agTT—r C== ===== ' • '• • fJt 1 ? M,i n i: i H fzist ewventKm in priMtov.lß.2t i Phases of .JL C. Farm Economics Will Be Congklered * North Carolina Farm Bureau members will gather for their twenty-first annual convention in Charlotte, November 18-21. Farm Bureau delegates will ga ther to elect 1967 officers, recog nize outstanding county member ship workers and to make recom mendations for Farm Bureau legis lative and administrative policy. in considering policy recommendations, will study almost every phase of North Carolina farm economics. They will also hear addresses by organizational and political leaders who have distinguished themselves by their service to agriculture. Organizational leaders scheduled to speak are Charles Marshall, president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, arid Marvin McLain, assist ant secretary of agriculture. Mrs. D. W. Bond, chairman of the Ten nessee Farm Bureau Women, wili speak ta>th*i«Asnal meeting of the Farm Bureau Women. Tar ‘Heel political leaders to speak ire Senator W. Kerr Scott and 4tlf district Congressional Rep resentative Harold D. Cooley. Cooley 'is chairman of the . House Agriculture Committee. Speakers representing the North Carolina and American Farm Bur eaus, will be R. Flake Shaw, State Farm Bureau executive vice-presi dent; A. EL Williams, president; Mrs. Jcjin B. Chase, women’s chair man, and 0. *. Long, field direc tor of the American Farm Bureau’s Southern Region. Farm Bureau policy formulation will be the moat importan: conven tion activity. Recommended policy will be con sidered by a statewide resolutions committee, composed of county Farm Bureau presidents, chairmen of commodity committees and mem bers of the Slat* Farm Bureau Wo men’s committee. Chairman of the resolutions group is B. C. Mangum of Henderson, Farm Bureau vice president. Committee recommendations will be submitted for final vote to the delegate body at the closing session of the convention, November 21. The resolutions committee will open its sessions, November 15, three days before the beginning of the convention. The group will study resolutions submitted by Farm Bureau county units and rec ommendations coming out of the Convention’s annual commodity con ferences. Commodity conferences will be V held'Monday, November 19 in the Hotel Charlotte and will include talks on dairying, peanuts, tobacco, field crops, cotton, poultry, fruits vegetables and potatoes. Monday’s fpnvention activity will I Priced as Low as I I a Table Model! I HI jil I IIJ [I 1 unto***' 3 *' -shl gsusae W U •WfUly Ufter • SHARP AMDCLIAR AS A MOYIISCRMNI ( ; • Sn-ANO-TOROCT VOLUMI CONTROL I \ • POWERFUL, DIPINDABU niTM»TVW V* fl /* / „ ’ : .. . y _>f AJafA CJ* I I Calling attention to the national observance of Farm-City Week, November 16 through 22, C. B. Ratchford, assistant director of the North Carolina Extension Service, says, “There i& a great need for better understanding between farm and city people.” The slogan for this second na tional observance is “Farm and City—Partners in Progress.” Last year, practically every county in the United States and many com munities in Canada observed this special week which serves to re mind people of their dependence on one another. “After all," says Ratchford, “the city dweller de pends upon the farmer for the first necessity of life —food. And the farmer depends upon business and industry for necessary supplies such as fertilizer and for a market also include meetings of the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Com pany and the North Carolina Farm Bureau Women. The annual Farm Bureau ban quet ceremony will be held Tues day evening. Farm Bureau offi cials said the banquet would be the feature event of the convention. The banquet will be followed by a ceremony honoring a North Caro lina farm leader with the Farm Bu reau’s Distinguished Service to Ag riculture Award. Last year, the award went to Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer. Sub-District Meeting Is Held In Hertford The Perquimans-Chowan sub district of the Woman's Society of Christian Service .held its annua) Fall meeting Thursday, November 1, in the Anderson Methodist Church with 73 members and eight visitors present. The meeting was called to order by the chairman, Mrs. J. L. Harris with the use of hymn “0 Master of the Waking World.” After the devotional on- Christian Friendship given by Mrs. R. C. Baker of the Bethany Metho dist Church, the president of the Anderson Society gave all present a hearty welcome. The guests were recognized by Mrs. Harris and they were the district officers, Mrs. Ed- THE CHOWAN HEKAiJ), EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1966. for his product.” Farm-City Week, 1955, received the prized Distinguished Service Award of the Freedom Foundation, the top award in the field of com munity service offered in the na tion. Again, as last year, the ob servance is being coordinated by Kiwanis International. Ratchford believes that the farm er has many unique problems be cause of his dependence upon na ture and weather. This in turn, he adds, points to a need for better understanding and communication between the producer on the farm and the consumer in the city. “Farm-City Week can be a valua ble means of bringing about a bet ter understanding and appreciation of the role of both producer and consumer in our national life,” states Ratchford. ith Mixon, District President; Mrs. Richard Peele, vice president; Mrs. Lois Brown, promotion secretary; Mrs. Helen Brown, secretary of Missionary Education. Also pres ent from the Perquimans-Chowan sub-district were Mrs. Eddie Har rell, secretary of supply; Mrs. Earl Richardson, secretary of Christian social relations, and Mrs. J. A. Au man, who acted in the capacity of the youth, children and student sec retaries. t Mrs. Tim Brinn was recognized for having attended for 30 years and for not having missed a meet ing since it was organized. Mrs. J. L. DeLaney had only missed one meeting. After appointing the various committees, the district officers k, M I 'ijtiiiLL ii fc, J* 9 **" ‘ ij'v uHM| tm&r If you'ra thu kind of truck-buy or who has to see for himself, we invite you to see our new light-duty Inter nationals! 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Yield is indicated at 41.0 bushels per acre, 7 bushels above the pre vious record 1955 yield of 34.0 bushels and 12.4 bushels above the 10-year average. Reported yields are turning out about as expected in the Coastal Plains, some better than was expected in the Moun tains, and slightly less than was in dicated on October 1 in the South ern Piedmont. Corn acreage suf fered considerably from droughty conditions during the growing sea son in the southern Piedmont coun ties, although some acreage is pro ducing above average yields. The United States corn crop is estimated at 3,412,183,000 bushels. This is 5.3 per cent more than the 3,241,536,000 bushels produced in 1955 and is 10.6 per cent more than the 1945-54 average production of 3,084,389,000 bushels. held separate clinics to train new officers for the coming year. During the afternoon session, Mrs. Lois Brown had charge of the , .y. . ■ ‘ | v PHONE 551 VjM . 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For the United States, total, flue cured tobacco production is estimat ed at 1,384,450,000 pounds. This is 6.7 percent less than the crop for last year but about nine per cent larger than the ten-year average. The Nation’s Burley crop is placed at 496,113,000 pounds or -5.6 per cent more than was produced last year. 'tun nnm n THE NAVY* NEW FU'SKYLMNWr ALL , WEATHER «UFE**ON)» EURTtS W»T «HLT FEATURE* THIR BATMAFE* WUN*. MT AISO THE V-IHAFCO COCA FIT EHCCOAURE DM* 4 ACCOUNT* FM A MUTAWTIAA WM*** IN AIR *HI*. . | Bureau Stpeaker J J ' i\ Charles Marshall, a farmer from Nebraska’s corn anft cattle country, will be a featured, speaker at the North Carolina Farm Bureau’s an nual convention which hegins in Charlotte Sunday. Marshall is president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau and a member of the Amer ican Farm Bureau board of direc tors. He will speak to Farm Bu reau delegates next Tuesday, on the third day of their four-day con vention. In love of home, the love of country has its rise. —Charles Dickens. &NTURY jLfLUB NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, N.Y. • 8$ PROOF *'*!§*: . ______ >v? * notice” To Chowan County TAXPAYERS The Tax Books for the year 1956 are now in my | hands for the collection of taxes. We urge you to pay your taxes now and thus avoid the penalty I which will begin on February! I A PENALTY OP 1% WILL BE ADDED ON 1956 I'J TAXES NOT PAID BEFORE FEBRUARY 2. AN- BE ADDED AND AN 11 ■ |I Sandy Land Lands In New Soil Baato If you don’t know what to da with that, light, sandy land, you might want to put it in the Conser vation Reserve of the Soil Bank,” says R. S. Douglass, Extension for estry specialist at North Carolina Slgte College. / Douglass reports that several Sampson County farmers have re cently told him that they think they’d he better off by putting that kind of land in the Conservation Reserve. Douglass says they fig ure that with the present prices FOR Ready - Mix Concrete and Building Needs Call 890 WE SPECIALIZE IN QUALITY AND SERVICE! CRANE AND BULLDOZER SERVICE J. D. McCOTTER, Inc. Ready-Mix Concrete Plant East End of Hicks and Peterson Streets —EDEN JON they are (retting tor com and other low return crops which they have been planting on this land, and with ! the low yields normally obtained, they would net about as much Mid save a lot of work 'and worry if the plant trees and oottect the tie per acre annual rent Douglass adds that many farmer? ip Southeastern North Carolina have similar land that is not net ting them much profit. Comments heard here and there, says Doug lass, indicate that many of these farmers are also thinking that the Soil Bank might be a good idea for these sandy acres they- don’t know what to do with.