PAGE SIX
I —SECTION TWO.
State’s Farm Land
Drops Off 55,000
Acres Over 1955
1956 Farm Census Is
I Now Available For
Distribution
1 The North Carolina Farm Cen
sus Summary for 1956 has just
ljeen released by the Crop Report
ing Service at Raleigh,
f The summary shows county and
dtate totals of all land in farms,
utilization of farm land, acreage of
individual crops harvested in 1955,
lumbers of specified livestock on
jgarms January 1, 1956, and other
miscellaneous items.
I For the state as a whole the
Nummary shows a loss of about 55,-
QOO acres of farm land from the
previous year. The total of 21,-,
048,000 acres compares with 21,-
103,000 acres reported . from the
1955 census. There was 'also a
acreage from which crops
Were harvested in 1955. The total
<jf 5,595,000 acres of land from
Tillich crops were harvested in 1955
it two per cent below that for 1954
dnd represents 28 per cent of all
sarm land.
Acreage control programs con
ti'ibuted to crop acreage losses.
The census total of 2,166,000 acres
of com harvested in 1955 is almost
three per cent, or 58,000 acres, be
low the preceding year. Cotton
acreage was reduced sharply—from
560,000 acres in 1954 to 495,000
aicres in 1955. There was a loss of
35,000 acres in land reported tc
ljave been utilized for harvest of
tobacco and there were 13,000 few
er acres of wheat harvested for
grain. These four major crops, all
affected by acreage allotments, add
up to a 1955 total about 174,000
acres short of 1954.
The only other individual crop
ivith smaller acreage in 1955 was
lespedeza hay. The total of only
347,000 acres of lespedeza harvest
ed for hay in 1955 is 62,000 acres
below that reported for 1954. This
sharp reduction may be attributed
largely to thinning of stands bv the
severe freeze in late March of 1955
and by the utilization of an in
creased acreage of lespedeza for
production of seed.
Except for the crops mentioned
fcbove, increased acreages for 1955
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Thursday and Friday,
January 17-18
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Sunday and Monday,
January 20-21
- Sal Mineo. Luana Patten
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January 22-23
Double Feature
Fats Domino and i
Joe Turner in
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—also—
Kay Kendall in
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Charlton Heston in
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EDENTON, N. C.
Edenton-Hertford Road
Cinema Scope Screen
Saturday and Sunday,
January 19-20
Jeanne Crain and
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were reported. Fairly large per
centage increases are shown for
sorghums, soybeans for beans and
lespedeza for seed, while moderate
increases are shown for oats and
other small grains (except wheat),
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, and
hay crops other than lespedeza.
However, increases in acreages of
these crops were not sufficient to
offset the losses in acreages of ma
jor crops. The total of 6,321,000
acres of all crops reported to have
been harvested in 1955 (counting
acreage double-cropped) is slightly
more than 100,000 acres less than
the 6,426,000 acres reported for
1954.
Numbers of sows and gilts for
breeding on farms January 1, 1956,
were reported at 134,000 head—
just slightly below the 135,000
head reported a year earlier. In
ventories of breeding cattle de
clined more sharply, the 286,000
head of milk cows on farms Janu
ary 1, 1956, being 20,000 head
short of the number a year earlier.
Inventories of beef cows were also
reduced, us were numbers of laying
hens and pullets.
The 1956 Farm Census collected
some information not usually col
lected. One item of interest is the
total of 49,500 colonies of bees re
ported on farm tracts. Os this to
tal 54 per cent were in the Moun
tain counties, 35 per cent ih the
Piedmont counties and 11 per cent
in the Coastal Plains.
Owners of farm tracts also list
ed 24,336 ponds on farms, more
than two-thirds of which were in
Piedmont counties. Many of these
ponds have been used during re
cent years for irrigation of crops.
Farm tract owners report that sup
plies of water and irrigation equip
ment on hand during 1955 were
adequate for use in irrigation of
135,000 acres of land.
The 1956 Farm Census Sum
mary is available for free distribu
tion, and may be obtained by writ
ing to the Division of Crop Sta
tistics, N. C. Department of Agri
culture, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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COMMENT
■y
JAMES «. DOOlHtf
Washington—The new Congress
will have many opportunities to
take action aiding business and the
nation.
There is every reason why this
should happen. The voters did not
return a radical Congress—i clear
majority of elected members pro
fess to support the rivate enter
prise system—and th e failure of
Socialism and regimented economy
is evident in many parts of the
world. I
But the statements of returning
New-I'air Dealers, the demands of
some labor union leaders, and fears
voiced by some conservative mem
bers of Congress could easily lea.l
to a different conclusion.
One thing is certain —lobbying
pressures on the new Congress
from those who subscribe to the
spend-tax-elect-control theory will
he extraordinary strong.
Some opportunities for Congress
in the field of business legislation
include:
Taxation The administration’s
rejection of a proposed $2.3 bil
lion rapid amortization progYam
for steel industry expansion again
emphasizes the importance of the
tax system.
Arguments for rapid amortiza
tion included the inadequacy of de
preciation allowances for replace
ment of worn-out facilities—a con
dition frequently pointed out to
Congress by spokesmen for busi
ness.
The “crisis in capital” and the
cancellation of expansion plans—
the difficulties of firms in raising
equity capital to meet future
growth needs—also have been
pointed out to Congress.
With the convening of the new
Congress, it is expected that there
will he a rising demand from busi
ness for tax relief for both cor
porations and individuals.
Economy—ln spite of pressures
for more spending resulting from
tlui international situation, con
gressional economy leaders say bil
lions could be slashed from the fed
eral budget.
The Hoover Commission blue
printed a program for congression
al and executive action that could
save billions. Congress has done I
little to implement this program.
Grants-in-aid could be slashed.
Reports of the Kestnbaum Com
mission on inter-governmental re
lations depict many areas in which
this would be done.
There is pressure for more mili
tary spending—and prices on mili
tary items have risen, But it has
been officially disclosed that the
requirement for most materials for
military purposes may drop—the
military budget will remain in *
SHAREHOLDERS CLASSIFIED BY INCOAAES
(Publicly owned only)
Annual
Income
Over
68.4 £ 62.3% $5,000
21.9% * 6 ' 155 $5,000
~9J%~ 11.6% Under $3,000
1952 1956
Source: New Yo»W Stock Exchange Prepared by N4# Reseoich Dept
Well over 10 million men and
women own shares in American
business and industry.
Two-thirds of all these share
owners live in households earning
less than 17,500 a year.
Shareowners with annual in
comes of less than $3,000 increases
from 9.7 per cent of the total in!
1952, to 11.6 per cent in 1956.
Those shareowners earning $3,000
to $5,000 a year also registered a
substantial gain—from 21.9 per
cent to 26.1 per cent of the total
fluid state because of new weapons;
many friendly nations are strong
er.
Labor—ln recent weeks both
farm and business organizations
have pointed to the dangers inher
ent in the monopoly power of la
bor—and Congress will have before
it legislation to make big labor un
ions subject to the anti-trust laws.
Thus far the House Judiciary
Committee, where such a bill has
been pending, has refused even to
consider holding hearings.
Congress also will have before it
again the Smith-McClellan hill,
which declares that a federal law
shall not prevent state action in
the same field unless there is a
direct and positive conflict. States
have seen their powers whittled
down through court decisions in
validating laws in the labor and an-j
ti-sedition field.
Conservatives believe enactment
of these two measures would go
far toward stabilizing labor condi
tions in the nation—but the (ire
session congressional talk dealt I
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THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1957.
I during the same period. Those
i with annual earnings over $5,000
declined percentagewise—from 68.4
per cent to 62.3 per cent.
Os the more than 10 million to
tal, 8,630,000—(an increase of 33
■ per cent over 1952) —own shares in
; companies whose stock is traded on
i securities exchanges or is owned by
at least 300 shareowners, and 1,-
i 40,000 own shares in companies
whose securities are restricted
to a relatively feV sharehold
•ers.
chiefly with weakening the Taft-
Hartley Act.
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lo 4:30 and 6 to 8 P. M.
Children Under 12 Years
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Patients admitted to the Cho
wan Hospital during the week of
January 7-13 were:
White
Mrs. Rachel Britton, Plymouth;
Mrs. Virginia Sherman, Edenton;
Mrs. Addie Tucker, Hertford; Mrs.
Cottie Miller, Tarboro; Mrs. Ora
Woodley, Creswell; Paul Maitland,
Columbia; Mrs. Frances Lassiter,
j Tyner; Mrs. Delores Alexander,
Creswell; Jesse Coburn, Winfall;
Mrs. Juanita Brown, Edenton; Mrs.
Beulah Bunch, Hobbsville; Mrs.
Alethia Copeland, Edenton; Archie
Asbell, Tyner; Willie Skittlethorpe,
I Edenton; Miss Susan Twine, Hert-
ford; Mrs. Juanita Sanford, Eden
ton; Mrs. Irene Mosley, Columbia;
Mrs. Amell Reynolds, Columbia;
Mrs. Marion Nixon, Edenton; Mrs.
Miley Barrow, Edenton; Mrs. Mary
C. Lane, Tyner; Mrs. Vivian Hol
ton, Roper; Mrs. Mattie Yount,
Edenton; Mrs. Thelma Woodard,
Edenton. • \
i Negro
Mrs. Lillian Spellman, Winfall;
Mrs. Josephine Hill, Hertford; Mrs.
Lacie Moore, Merry Hill; Richard
Lightfoot, Winfall; Mrs. Aggie
Holley, Edenton; Mrs. Constance
Brooks, Edenton; Willie Moore,
Winfall; Mrs. Kathleen Freeman,
Merry Hill; Mrs. Eva Jemigan,
Edenton; Herbert Hines, Edenton;
Mrs. Evelyn Harris, Edenton; Mrs.
Evelyn Bond, Edenton; Mrs. Flor
ence Heckstall, Merry Hill; Mrs.
Theodosia Jackson, Belvidere.
Patients discharged from the
hospital during the same week
were:
White
Mrs. Nancy Twiddy, Edenton;
Mrs. Esther Simmons, Columbia;
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Creswell; Paul Maitland, Columbia;
Mrs. Delores Alexander, Creswell;
Mrs. Juanita Brown, Edenton; Mrs.
‘Beulah Bunch, Hobbsville; Archie
Asbell, Tyner; Willie Skittlethorpe,
Edenton; Miss Susan'Twine, Hert
ford; Mrs. Juanita Sanford, Eden
ton; Mrs. Miley Barrow, Edenton;
Mrs.' Marion Nixon, Edenton.
Negro
Mrs. Sarah Skinner, Hertford;
Mrs. Lauretta Shannonhouse, Hert
ford; Lynn Ferebee, Edenton; Mrs.
Helen Burke, Edenton; Mrs. Mary
Johnson, Edenton; Mrs. Lillian
Spellman, Winfall; Mrs. Lacie
Moore, Merry Hill; Mrs. Constance
Brooks, Edenton; Mrs. Kathleen
Freeman, Merry Hill; Mrs. Eva
Jernigan, Edenton; Herbert Hines,
Edenton.
Births
Births in the hospital during the
same week were: Capt. and Mrs.
Warren Sherman of Edenton, a
1 son; Sgt. and Mrs. Ricky Woodley
of Creswell, a son; Mr. and Mrs.
Elisha Bunch of Hobbsville, a
daughter; Pfc. and Mrs. Harry
Brown of Edenton, a daughter; Mr.
and Mrs. William Edward Barrow
of Eenton, a daughter.
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