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1 i*r t* w»i^j!r»^ii*'i*r«.sij| „_«.Z*k^ r li!' * u. ft A re» *' ->v ^*-••^-’'- K ¥fT»» , (fA . •v\‘‘ A>'“.»>i ‘ , •'?»■' *» i ( •» -• - - /* .».u,,, >1 £v.^. Harnett County News Established Jan. 1, 1914 ISSUED EVERY TBRJUSDAT HENDERSON STEELE, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year 12 00 Six months $1.00 No subscription '.aken for less than six months Adrortising ratoK upon application CORRESPONDENCE This paper desires correspondence from all reliable sources interesting to the people of this section. We ask that the name of the correspondent be signed for the purpose of attest ing reliability. gift, and The News feels sure that the people of Harnett county now realize more fully than ever that the county has in the Erwin Mills Com pany an asset of far greater value than one that might have only a ma terial interest in the place of Us lo cation and the people who live hero. Tho News wli^hes to extend thanks to the Erwin company on behalf of all good people of Harnett county. COUNTY news—LUllnfton, N. O. .IILLIJJ! THURSDAY, EBBRU.'kRY. 28, 1948 OBSERVATIONS BY A COUNTRY SCRIBE Watch tho date on the label on yoiip paper. If your subscription has expired please scud In your renewal at oiiet*. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Llllington, N. C. TH(’R.-^n.\Y. FK15UUARY 28. 1946 WATCH YOUR STEP IN BUILDING Perliaps ii ver Ijofore in the hls- lory 01' this coniury. certainly In this part of it. ha.s I hero boon such an urge to build homos and business houses. Kven '.hough material and l.tlxn' are both .scarce and difficult tO ol)taiii U' meet the demand In con- sinution already underway, there Is a lu)"! ot prospective builders who set'in to 1)0 in much of a hurry to gel along with their wanted projects. Shall wt hear from Washington ad vice to "liold hack"? We think It will 1)0 coming soon. It l.s ea.sy lo understand why a family m ver having owned a home would want lo get going In tliat di rection since they now have the funds with whlcli to buy and build. People ha\c more money In hand now than ever before, we are told. Rut iU no time within the mem ory of the present generation, or pos sibly f.arther back, have prices been so hl.gh. This Is particularly true with regard to building projects. An oi'diiiiuy home or a small business bouse, if bnili now, wll cost about twice a^ much as It normally would, and in some instances more than iliat. It is true that the time to come into owiit r>hlp of real (Yttate Is when the money is in liand with which to acfinire It, But it is true also that a builder can easily sink more money into a slrueiure that It will he worth when normal conditions ro ta in. '.\nd so. if you are one who Is bent on eri'Cilng a building of any kind, and doing il right away, better watch your step. Better think twice before going into debt for a high-priced piece of real “State whose value can dn)p (iiiicker than a ripe apple In a sirong wind. Better watch, too, the kind of ma terial and workmanship that Is going Into your l)ulldlng, ai3 well as the methods adopted In putting up the structure. Better still, if you are not actu ally compelled to build now, wait. ERWIN MILLS CO.’S FINE GIFT People ot Harnett county have al ways been proud of the fact that thc- Erwln (Cotton Mills Company Is do ing buslne.ss in this county. They have been proud not only that It Is one of the lai'ge.u corporations in the State, that It Is the county’s greatest liulustrial asset, and that It pays Into tlu' county treasury a sizeable tax sum: they are proud, too. that the Plrwln corporation Is one with a soul. Many ilmt's, within the knowledge of this n(‘Wspaper, the Erwin com pany has demonstrated the fact that It can be truly rated ,Td ‘‘good citi zen." .Many times it has come to tho rescue when tho county was In a “light.” The News can cite some In- stance.s. We will cite one or two. Once when Harnett county's treas ury was embarrassed, the Erwin company came to its aid by paying lis tax bill far In advance; If we are not mistaken. It lias done this more than once. Again, when the county had a chance to retire some of its bonds but didn't have the necessary sum, the Erwin company came across with if. Another instance: During the de- prosslon of the early thirties, when sales of manufactured goods were ao slow as anything else, the Erwin company continnerl its operations so that its employees could earn a live- llliood. Goods pfled'^up and tho com pany was forced to erect a ware house for storing the goods. They continued to operate, and the goods continued to pile up. Along cam© the liret of January when property, goods and chattels jinist be listed for taxa tion, Tl',0 Erwin company was caught with half a million dollars worth of goods in Us warehouse and therefore liad to pay ta.xos on it. A corporation with a soul? Such demonstrations prove It for the Er win .Milks Company. Imst week the Erwin- Mills Com pany announced its donation of the Teacherage in Erwin to the County of Harnett. The Erwin company built and and maintained the Teacherage for the benefit of the Erwin schools. Now the company gives It, including the furnishings and eQulpment, to the county. That Is Indeed a fine IF NOT INFLATION, WHAT HAVE WE GOT? We have listened to the fellows who’ve been tollin.g us that the cost of living hasn’t gone up more than such-and-such percent since the be- gluning of tho war. We’ve also listened to those who’ve been telling us they’re holding the line and want us to help hold It too. But we’ve come to believe that the line they're giving us to hold, or help hold, is not the line by which tho cost of living Is held down, but— merely a line. iFor, we want to know. If there’s any line that’s doing anything to hold down costs, where is that lino anchored? And Is it remaining in one place all tho time? In other words, we rise to ask: If it's not inflation wo now have, what Is It we’ve got? The Nows confesses to a sense of shame in tKht we’ve had from nu merous Authorities commendation for what we’ve helped to do In sta bilizing things. The reason we feel shame is because wo know full well we’ve done nothing of tho kind. Everything and the thing next lo it have been climbing in price till we see no lighting point except It be on the moon—with which the physicists claim they’ve had contact. Our can did opinion Is that Old Cost of Living beat the physicists to It! •Vrost terrible thing to think .about In the whole matter Is that “what ever goes up must come down.” The coming down is going to make a sad picture—If anyone wants to take a picture of It. No. we’re n’ot preaching pessimism —far from it. We’re simply trying the best we know how to relate what we are sure everyone with a thlmb- ■bleful of commonsenso realizes to be a fact. 'But maybe we have not stated It as it ought to be stated. It’s the other way around, come to think of It. Instead of having inflation. It got us—hasn’t it? WORLD PEACE TO BE CONTINUOUS BATTLE While the war was going on, some thoughtful people had stored in their minds the idea that establishing and maintaining world- peace would mean a long if not a continuous battle. The Nows was among those who held that opinion. Events now transpiring are prov ing that, aside from the actual loss of life .such ns is sustained on tho battlefleld, the keeping of the peace for which so many lives wore sacri ficed, there can be little hope of con tinuous peace without constant bick ering and squabbling between the na tions. Recent rumblings have given rise to speculation over a possible tangle with Russia that might bring on war. There are those who have all along declared their belief that such a crieis would develop following the end of World War II. To bo sure, they didn’t have sufficient ground for such belief; they were only ex pressing fear. The News cannot see that such unpleasantness between this country and Russia is necessary or even like ly to occur. We have much In com mon vdth Russia, nad Russia stands to benefit in great measure through friendship with us. •Bearing that in mind, we should consider also the fact that Russians are resentful of the manner In which they have been treated by the world at large since the fall of their mon archy. In their new freedom they ha-ve come to hold an outlook that is somewhat different from ours. It does not follow, however, that "the Russians will be difficult to deal with,” as so many people in this counti-y have evidently come to be lieve. •But the “Russian problem,” If It can be termed such, Is not only the headache that goes along with main taining world pence. There are In numerable problems, most of them, we might say, arising In the smaller natlonsr When we say that eetabllshlng and maintaining world peace is to be one continuous battle, we mean that world statesmen are now on tho bat tle line, and they must do tho fight ing In the spirit of world brother hood, with a fellow-feeling for tho peoples who have not In all their history even known what It Is like to live Id a country where Is abso lute freedom from fear and want. To establish and maintain world peace our statesmen must learn the lesson laid down by the great Teach er who gave His life that the world’s people might bo saved from worse fate than more earthly death. OUR -LANQUAGE.—Says tho Wall Street Journal; Too many witrds In the Ingllsh langwlgo are spelled dlff- runtly from the way they arc pro- nownsed. There hav bin sum faliu- harted atteinps to improov (he sltu- ayshun hut tliay don't got very far. It Isn’t only the spelling: It’s also the way wards are uted. If you say “freez” and “froz,” 'why shuldii’t you say ".skweez” and “skwoz”? And If it’s “moWHc” and "niise,” wh.y not nay "hows” and “hlso”? A ward such as “cough” roely ort lo ho spelled “koff,” and If ther’s enything lo the Ideer that usage gives aihorivty, then "government” .should long have be- eum “giivvermunt.” Speaking in.gen eral turms, we ar In fayvor of a spell ing slstem that maches tho fonlstle ellements of our miither tung. This column respectfully refers this important matter of Mrs. Lou, who glnnerly mannlges to uzo the langwlgo In a wa to pul her message across. * * * WORMS TURN.--You’ve heard of tho worm—they .say (hat worms have a way of turning, They do. They have. And they’re doing It now. In the imiltltiul'inous marriages that en sued with the parting of sweotlienrls by the draft, there followed a deluge of divorces for one cause or another, mostly perhaps on account of quick ly-married brldcis trying to rid I hem- selves of husbands too far away. la an Instance to come up in Harnett court .soon, however, a bride Is ask ing divorce from a soldier who, .she alleges, had another wife before he married her.' Maybe Judge Nlmocks’ suggested' “cooling off period” might work, one way or another, depending on which way the worm will lurn. STATE SURPLUS GROWS Truth is the gravitation principal of the universe, by which It Is sup ported, an din which It Inheres.— Evarts. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, !For love Is heaven, and heaven is love.—Sir Walter Scett. PRODUCTION NEAR THE CON SUMER.—Farmers who have seen In the price of ferlilizor an added cost for freight will hall with delight the announcemoul of the Smllh-Douglni^s company of tho establishment ot a factory at Wilmington. Inasmuch as ■farmers In this area use a whale of a lot of fertilizer, It stands lo reason a whale of a lot of It should be man ufactured close by so as to save the additional cost of hauling. For one thing, too, the Do.uglass company will make Its product more popular because It is made In North Carolina. Cost of hauling is high. It should ■be eliminated as much as possible. ♦ ♦ ♦ TRY OPA.—A prominent citizen of Harnett county .was complaining about shortages, and related that he had been trying to find this and that and the other. “I’ll tell you, I simply can’t find anything I want: nobody seems to have anything.’' A friend quietly suggested: "Have you tried' Chester Bowles?" * * * FISHING IN SNOWSTORM.—'From •Banner Elk comes the story of four Lees-McRae stivdents who last week put on a June fishing trip—In a snowstorm. The four boys ostensibly fished a stream under Mt. Mitchell for the benefit of Loomis Deane, who was doing a story for Pageant maga zine. Since the story is to appear in a hot-weather issue, the boys were clad In summer garments. A gale bowled out of Mitchell, and toward the end of the day snow began to sift down. "The goose pimples won’t show In the pictures,” Deane said confidently. The photographer also Is doing 'four stories in North Carolina for American magazine. He Is being guided on his trrlp by Bill Shanpe of the State Advertising Division. * * « •DESERVES SYMPATHY.—One of this State’s commissions deserving a lot of sympathy, but, won’t got It, Is the Highway Commission; Ever since the end of the war gave the Commis sion what seemed an opportunity to get right down to the Job of reha bilitating the worn-out roads, Jupi ter Pluvius has been doing his very worst in bogging things down, and up. Bogging down the works, and bogging up the roads. Meanwhile, in every corner of the State arose com plaints that didn’t bog, up or down. The complaints kept pouring in, and are still. No one seems to have a bit of sympathy tor the Highway Com- mlsision or the fix it’s In. Why can't It do the Impossible? Is the way the folks seem to be thinking. Then, too, there’s the.matter, not a laughing matter either, If anyone should ask -you—the matter of get ting equipment, supplies and labor. Equipment and material to work with, and ’ men to do the work— that’s a headache which v/111 keep the Highway Commission with a bad case of bluee for sometime, maybe. But It has been suggested that contracts'be let to private concerns for building tho roads. Including tho rural drlvo- •ways. It's a good suggestion, and It should be helpful. But again, there's tho matter of labor, equipment and materials. Sandy Graham is unfortu nate In that Governor picked a bsd time to sentence him to the roads! Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that man should do unto you. do ye even so to them: for this Is the law and the prophets.—Matthew 7:12. (We the People) The first seven months of the State’s fiscal year Indicates that .pos sible oollectldne for' the general fund will reach 85 million dollars, as com pared with the previous high of si million, The March income tax pay- mcMits, of course, must be counted before the whole story for the pres ent fiscal year, ending next June, will be clear. It is probable, however, that the Income tax schedule, despite u tendency to level off, wll! not ma terially change prospects for a snh- slanlla! Increaue over the past fiscal year. ■As this magazine has repeatedly pointed out. North Carolina’s finan cial barometer Is more responsive to tin- nalloiial economy than Is the case of those states which entinue to levy a |)roperty tax. For that reason the present wave of strikes, which beset the iiaflon, will be reflected In North Carolina lax collections for, the' next fiscal year. This will he true, al though North Carolina Industry, with th.c exception of the Erwin Cotton Mill strike, has been particularly free from misunderstanding, which caused work stoppage. The Increase in minimum pay an nounced by many textile mill will help the salcii tax schedule hold Its war boasted position o's the general fund revenue pi'odiicer provided the workers stay on the Job. Much of the total wages of thi.s group of workers goes for the purchase of fod and tax exempt arilcle.s, but tiie pay Increase will put more money in cli'calallon and some of It will go for goods on which the tax is levied. This aeliedule mounts slowly, however, and increases can be offset many limes over by business and economic eondltions which cut the income tax materially. No une In an official .position la likely to risk a prediction until after March 16, but the chances for continuation of the war bonus to state employees for the second year of the Cherry admlnlu- tratlon look very favorable.r- THE FEI*r PILinUSTER (We the People) The filibuster Is not. the most com mendable method for conducting, a legislative fight, but once again that seems to be the only way left for a ininorlLy to protect Itself In the mis guided effort.s of the United States Senate to permit bureaucracy to still further invade the right of private business to conduct its own affairs. To begin with, I he Fair Employment Practice Commission proposal is a misnomer. Many good people have endorsed the proposal without oven having taken the trouble to read the act. These people approve fair em ployment.practices Just as they would approve any other good cause, and have assumed that the bill d'Oes what they assume'ah,y:‘bill so named would do. It Is always difficult to legislate sociological and moral change Into the life of a people. The process re quires time, and must be .accompa nied by education, which is always a slow process. Unfortunately, those who would make over the world to their liking are impatient of the slower proce.s'!. Bringing the bill up at this time was unfortunate. The Senate could well devote its energies lo more Important legiislatlon. The proponents are doubtless honest, in their espousal of the measure, but their ol)Ject In forcing a filibuster at tills time was not to get this bill pused, but lo prevent the, Senate from considering, and possibly pass- Ig, labor legldlation that Is opposed by Inbor^^paders, who know how to get votes at‘.election time. Tax Deductions* Allowed Motorists ■Motorists of North and South Caro lina may deduct on their Federal In come Tax returns this year the money they paid out In state gasoline taxes In 1945, according to a state ment Issued by the Carolina Motor Club today. The state tax rate la a r>-cent per gallon for both states. "It must be added, however,” said T. E. Pickard', Secretary of the Motor Club, "that any deductions, whether based on State gasoline tax or" on other items, may ^e made only when the taxpayer reports his Income In detail on Form 1040'. In.the mala, no deductions may be claimed by those who file a Withholding Receipt as a return, or who use Form. 10i40 and take advantage of the tax table or standard deduction.. The blanket al lowance' granted In the latter cases Is deemed to bo sufficient to cover .illowable personal deductions. "Assuming that the. car-ownlng taxpayer itemizes his inconr'd on the long-form Form 1040',” he went on, “there are a number of deductions he may claim. These Include registra tion fees, driver license fee. and per sonal property tax. The Federal Use Tax Is not deductible except when the car is used in the operation of a trade or business or In the produc tion of income from rents or royal ties.' The Federal gasoline tax and other Federal excise taxes are not deductible, since they are taxes Im posed on the manufacturer.” Sweeter than the balm of Gilead, richer than the diamonds of Golcon- da, dear as the friendship of those we love, are,Justice, fraternity, and Christian charity.—Mary Baker Ed dy. •reffaH HOME BREW BY MRS. LOU Well, since Jlnnle come back from Plorldy, hit looks like nothin’ salts her, our i^eather Is too cold an’ damp, our vegerbles la too .scaae, an’ we dont have the happy-go-lucky crowd er tourists she. enjoyed 'there. When she wus talkin’ erhout the folks, I aeted her effen she larnl much from 'em;, an’ offeu they wiig rollgoua inclined or otherwise.', “Otherwise,” sez she, “yo’ knows liou thet them tourists, aint er car- ryln' their rellgpn erlong'wltU ’em,— they travels light.” “Thet’s whatd thought, but I dont see how.yo' enjoyed them thet wus so worl’y.” “Oh, hits Jest er diffent atmos phere yo,’ enjoys, hit'rests yo’ to git clean erway from everthlng." “I sees, iJtnnfe. bul rellgon'.H er thing er the h-earl, not er garment to 1)0 shed off an' left at home.” •Befo’ Jlnnle could answer. Miss Worly Wise come up er showln’ of her gold teeth an’ bangle bracelets, “I'm glad to see yo’,’’ sez Jlnnle, “I needij yo’ Jnsistance.” "What’s tho matter, Jlnnle? Has Lou got yo’ in or corner?” “She’s er crowdin' on me, er say- in' thet folks cant leave their re- ligon at iwme, an’ I tole her thet tourists has to travel light, an’ se they has to leave hit.” "Sho ■thing, effen most folks took all the rellgon they’ve got 'with ’em, they wouldn’t have no excess bag gage,” sez •!. They 'both laughed an’ Jlnnle sez, “Lou Is hard on the light hearted.” “No," uez i], "1 loves to .seo folks light hearted, but the 'Christians is the light heartedost er eny.” Hit wii.s gittln’ too deep for 'em so Miss Worly Wise Interjuced er- nother snbjec’. 'She got to talkin’ er- bont some books she’d .been readin', an’ bein' 1 aliit Intrestod In her kind or litertnre, I started borne. Oil the way. the first one I met wus er eight year ole boy an happy a.s I ever seed, ho sez, “Mls.s ;Lon, yo’ remembers my ole domlnlck ben thet tho dogs come so near killin’,—well, she's er layin’ er egg ever day, an’ effen the days wus longer' she’d lay two eggs.” “What does yo’ do with yo' eggs, non?” “Ever tenth one I 'puts erside fer the Lord, an’ 'When I gtls or dozen, I’m goln* lo sell ’em an’ give the money into the collecshon plate at church,” iHe Jest beamed, he wus thet hap py. Then I went on an’ met ole John 'Walker, he began to shuffle an’ say, “Praise the 'Lord” .as soon as he seed me. •I knowed somethin' was on his mine bo I stops to ast him what lilt wus. "My ole 'oinan has done got well,” he shouted, “da ole Murster has done answered ole John’s prayer an’ raised Dllsy up ergln.” “I am sho glad, John, an’ 1 hopes yo’ an’ Dllsy ken live on togothor fer er long time ylt,” “Thank-ee, Missus,” an' liftin’ his ole hat brim—there wnrn’t no crown, he shuffled on. When I got nigh to my gale I need Lottie Jane er coinin’ like er racin’ pacer down the road. She, stopped long ernough to toll me (hot she’d' done got ’llgoii er week ergo, an’ she wus thet happy she couldn’t stay on the groun’. Thet night when I wus er sayln’ of my prayers I thought erbout them rich tourists, an’ erbout the humble folks I had met on my way home, an’ 'I sez,-"Lord, deliver me from, them tourists thet leaves their re- ligon at home, an’ let me take my place ermongst thme, humble ones thet goes down the road with thelrn, an' aint ersh'araed of hit.” A Father’s Letter To His Sons Advises Retaininsr War Ration Book 4 •Housewives were advised today by the Office of Price Administration to retain iw their possession War Ra tion Book 4, now used only lo obtain sugar. Although the. currently valid sugar .stamp .39 Is the last stamp In War Ration Book 4, that is specifically labeled for purohaseu of sugar, spare staiups iu that book will be desig nated as sugar stamps from time to tiine. For this reason. War Ration iBook 4- should be retained even after sugar stmap 39 has been used, OPA emphasized. ■Sugar stamp 40 was used for the 1944 home canning program, OPA explained. The crimes that are now being committed by man against man cry aloud not for vengeance, but for a complete change In our relatlonhslp with one another.—George Lansbury. Never, with the Bible In our bands, can we deny rights to another,, which under the same circumstances we would claim for ourselves.—Gardi ner Spring. Love is tho hardest lesson in Chris tianity; but, for that reason, U should be most our care to learn It. —William Penn. Dear Sons: We haven't heard from you In sometime now (a week or two seems an awfully long time -without hear ing from you) and we have been wondering whether you are being "moved around” so much that you haven’t found tlPie to write, or can It 1)0 that'you are bolding a home- bound ticket? It would be fine indeed If the latter should prove to be true. 'Nevertheless; you can realize how anxloiis^we; are, and please don’t for get to drop us a line, even if H Is only .Just one line, to let us know that you are alright. Of courS'B, we haven’t been hear ing .so much from the other boys lately, but the big reason for that Is that they have been coralug home lii such Increasing numbers. We have only lo look at our mailing list to realize wc haven’t near so many boys ill foreign countries now. The list of overseas subscribers has dropped off so much that It Is hard to realize we bad about five bpndred going over- .scas only a few months ago. You can be sure, though, that we didn’t mind seeing those overseas ad dresses dropped from our list. It is not one of the things a newspaper likes lo do—lose subscribers—but In this'Particular oa,ie we are more than glad. In the first place. It didn’t set well with us at all' to send those pa pers to foreign addresses. It meant that our own boys were far away fioin homo, and it meant also that they were on a dangerous mission. 'That was the big cause for our not wanting thoee subscriptions in the first place, though of course we^were glad to be able to afford the boys a batch of news from homo each week. It wus a tedious Job, you can be sure, keeping these addresses correct, ,and we had to print the Inscription on each wrapper which was required by the Postal Department—but even ai’ler wo had gone to all that trouble, many of the papers were not^dellv- ered. After coming back home, som'e of tho boys have told us they knew the reason their papers were not de livered. They had seen enough, they said, lo know .that there has been carelessness and negligence on the part of a good ma:)y postal workers. It is a fact, as we caii see right here at home, that our mall system Is not working as satlsfactojilly as It ought to work. But that is ^Just one thing. There nre many thlii'gs. It will bo fine when overylhlng gets In good shape aghin. and' things gel going as they si * * * Ill’s encouraging 1 ,)' see so many of the boys onterlni; business for ill this'country Mild! .line home. I’m |liis country as their own bus- ir own homes. themselves as they looking forward to sti'jing a more dc peiidabtc citizenry in the veterans oHiabltsi ino.wics and build Ih Lots of them are either home- r.cekers or have aliii-ady beguir to II ! build. 1 have never so great a trend toward home-ou nership. It’s a great thing, and I liMpe it will con tinue unlll all, or ncijrly all at least, of our folks own tbe/r homes. The tenant business. yoii'j,'know,' is not conducive to.lhe bes't||^itizensliip. A home-owning, homol lioving' people are alway.? the most prosperous, hap py and conieiUed. Tl),j|y are prouder of llicmselves, and Ihjjirefore prouder of the community in '.v|hlch they live. 1 liopo the movementl'tWHl grow and grow. •Winter 1ms almost spent Itself and within ibo next fow,iwoeks we can mingle more with the many things outdoors. You know gel out in the open the way. I’m' still Booking forward' to some fishing withi:!you boys this how I love to spacoF.'. .\njl by summer. 1 don’t kiu (hat would make me know, too, I hat a pqrl would i-ult you boys When I looked onttl'oors the other iv of anything If eel happier!' l id of relaxatloif line (oo.- day and saw the Jonquils iu bloom I could^ rcallzei thai.^prlng is on the ?r is: lie way and .summer ls:hlot far off. The peach buds, too, niji* right on the verge of turning im'f- 1 hope, how ever, that iheyi don’t ,voniuro out too soon because we wih' have some big frosts before wintj. )* finally turns loose. Wherever you or whatever op a minute and u a rv. you’r^' doing, just ii,op a write US a note, if.'e are anxious lo hear from you. Love lo you au dies. ■As ever, jail of your bud- DAD. Rainy Weather Retards Farming The f rops-wealher report Issued Jointly liy the U. S. Weather and the Slate Department of Agriculture says that weather conditions for the luoiilh of January , 1946, were close to the seasonal normal. Temperatures averaged,slightly above normal, the excess caused largely by. an unusual ly warm spell from the 6lh through the lOlh. Precipitation totals were slightly below the normal for the mouth ill Eastern and Central sec tions, somewhat above normal In ino.st ninmitaiii sections and much above normal In southwestern moun tain section. Snowfall amounts were rather light,'with'9 to 10 Inches measured In Ashe and Watauga Counties, and emaller amounts In other counties In the Mountain and Piedmont sections. Due to the almost continuous wet weather during December and Janu ary, very little field plowing or har vest lug has been possible. The ex- ef'pt'lon is in the coastal area, but even lliere, very little was permitted. As a result much peanuts, corn, and cotton are still unpicked and un housed. Farm roads have been almost iiupassable. Tempera lures averaged one to two degrees above.normal for January and about 5 degrees warmer than De cern bm'. The week of Januarv 6-12 was unusually warm, particularly the five-day period from the sixth through-'the tenth wh^ii the tempera tures averaged 20* d-egrees or more above the seasonal normal. At the 11, close of tliLi waruij'spell some early shrubs, such as lli^- yellow Jasmine, were flowering, grujises had begun to lo grow again, auf^ even the earlh- vvorins showed slgnli of activity. Tho coldest wentlior otjiirred In many tocnlilics on the morning of the 24th, (em|'ioral with niininiuiii It tires between 10 and 20 degrervi li Hons. Cold spells w through the 3rd nh Ihj’ough'the 24'th. the interior sec- irc from the Ist i from the 20th 'Chicken frtithers; with wool and synt 1)0 In wide productji source of fiber for materials. for combination l|ietiC8 soon will 11 ns. a fine new jcloth and other t ) In the diesoliillon,''of human un (lendandlng. divine answers the bn man mull for help: and .lOvc bears and ('he voice of Truth .liters (he divine verities of being wl tala out of the deptl vice.— .Mar.v Baker I,Oil delivers nior- lOf ignorance and Eddy. Of all duties, ib with faith and constancy, in It, ranks first and bighest. lo love truth are —Silvio Pellico. • liove. of truth. jfo- love: God and ae aiut t'lio same. Hetigious Iriilh, of il yon will, has the being, and gf and 111, of eoursi reach.—(Hitchcock On'oh .what points ilways>to do with feniment of God. I illimitable in Us Truth and love powerful things when they both cannot easily be worth. 111 ire two of the most t';t|he world: and • :j' together they withstood,—Cud- 11)' I Paper For Air Mail i'! Come to The News Of fice and get some of our feather-weight writing |! paper for your air-mail 1 4 1^ You can write more for less postage . . . Better than V-mail.
Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.)
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Feb. 28, 1946, edition 1
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