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fHr^ yl ?h*|f I' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1947 HARNETT COUNTY NEWS—Published at LllUugtou, N. c. PAOB THROB Washington News Lettei Erwin Nows Service Washington, D. C. While things are quite on Capitol Hill these days, farm news is steal ing the limelight on the Tar JHeol front in Washington. First of all. this department re ported exclusively for the first time recently that State Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, the Haw River dairyman, was being consider ed .by Prosideiu Truman for Secre tary of Agriculture it Secretary Clin ton P. .Vnderson resigns from the cabinet to become Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. .A well-informed source tljat re ported Scott was favored by Ander son himself us his successor. They have been working together a lot lately on farm projects. There's another angle to the situ ation, namely that when Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, of Golds boro, becomes Secretary of the Army under the unification of the armed forces, he reverts from Cabinet to "Little Cabinet" status under Secre tary of National Defense James Por- restal. On this basis, there will be no Tar Heel already in the cabinet when the post of Secretary of Agri culture becomes vacant. Two other men rate highly right now as prospects for the Anderson post — Milton Elsenhower, Kansas college president and brother of Gen. Eisenhower, and Undersecretary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd. Dodd is reported to have lost favor with the President for having supported the wool tariff which Mr. Truman vetoed. , As a dairy farmer, it is believed that Mr. Scott would have the sup port of tl»o National Milk Producers Federation for Secretary; as an ac- For Electrical Contracting General Repair ANYTHING ELECTRICAL —SEE— Byrd Electrical Co. live exponent of tlie co-ops the sup port of tlip National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and as past master of the State Grange, the sup- poit of tlie National Grange. Now for some general North Car olina farm news, as served up by I’liclc Sam; 'I’he State’s farm population, drop ping steadily since 1'9'39, reached a inodorn low of 1,391,000 in 1945, the liureau of Agric»altural Econo mics estimated. Reversing a nation al trend, Noith Carolina's farm pop ulation liad climbed stoudiiy botw’een 1920, when it was estimated at l,r)01,000 persons, until it reached a, l)eak of 1,060,000 in 1939. The war and war work brought down this population to well below the 1920' figure. q'hls year and last, tlie bureau be lieves, tl>o Tar Heel farm population is on the way back up again, but the figures aren’t yet available to prove this. ♦ A. Tar Heel co-op is among those slated for investigation by the House Small Huainess Committee. A staff of- Government accountants are al ready studying the records of the Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Inc., of Raleigh. Rep. Plooser (R,, Mo,), chairman of the full committee and also chair man of the subcommittee InvostlgAt- ing cooperatives, requested informa tion from the Raleigh co-op last month. The Raleigh co-op was among the .'iO large co-ops all over the country from which financial reports wore requested. Lillington, N. C. Nearly fifteen thousand North Carolina farms are being electrified as a result of the RE.A’s program during the fiscal year ended June 30, REA has announced. REA said It had made loans totalling $7,138,888 to North Carolina electric member ship corporations to finance, among otlier tilings, construction of 2,906 miles of now power line, bringing se'.'vico to I4,9i92 new customers. The fiscal 19 47 program, REA said, will leave over 146,000 Tar Heel farms without electric service. The July reiiort on bees and honey PLUMBING SUPPLIES HOT WATER HEATERS FLOOR FURNACES ELECTRIC AND OIL HEATERS ELECTRIC AND OIL WATER HEATERS SEE US FOR YOUR NEEDS Plumbing & Heating CHARLES RAY, Proprietor LILLINGTON, N. C. recently released by the Agriculture Department Indicated that >bee col onies have decreased about two per cent in North Carolina' during the past year. In 19-46, the report says, there were 177,000 colonies of bees in Tar Heelia. This year there were only 173,000 colonies. A recent department report indi cates that North Carolina truck crops for this year will not be as big as last year. Certain crops, however, will be larger this year than last ac cording to present estimates on the yield for this year. Among the vegetables and fruits which, are expected in greater quan tity this year in North Carolina are watermelons, cantaloupes, and snap beans. Crops that promise to be smaller include green peppers, car rots, cabbage and lima -beans. The Federal Crop Insurance Corp. has announced that certain North Carolina areas wore being consider ed for the cotton crop insurance pro gram. Tlie program will operate on a county basis, and only 56 counties in the nation will be covered by it. The N. C. area -being considered is the coastal plains and the Piedmont section. -1 and was unrecorded four times. Clark had no close compa'nlon in his unwavering support of the par ty—^but Redden had plenty in his divided allegiance. Rep. Bob Dough- ton voted seven times with the Dem ocratic majority and 6 times against it, and Rep. John Kerr voted 6 times for the majority and 6 times against it. He was unrecorded twice. Other members of the delegation -voted with the majority over 65 per cent of the time,. The survey showed their ■ records asT iBarden, with 6 times, against 3; Bonner, 9 and 3; Bulwinkle, 5 and 3; Cooley, 10 and 2;. Dean, 10 and 3; Durham, 9 and 2‘ Folger, 10 and 2, and Jones, 8 and 3.' The survey, which also covered the 32-rQll call votes during the 3- month period, showed Doughton, the dean of the delegation and oldest member of the House bad not miss ed a single roll call, with Dean, a freshman, in second place with 29 responses. Bulwinkle, who was ill during most of the period, voted only 18 times and was paired 7 times. Clark had the second low number of votes recorded, 19, and was paired on 1-1 others. In a White House press confer ence, President Truman announced the appointment of Kenneth C. Roy- all, of Goldsboro as the new Secre tary of the Array under the new uni fied national defense setup. In a radio broadcast that evening, a network commentator said Mr. Ro.vall would be resigning soon to run for Governor of North Carolina next year. Your Washington correspondents, first recently In forecasting the pos sible Royall candidacy and first in citing that it appeared to bo inspir ed by Governor Cherry and Demo cratic National Committeeman Joe Blythe, polled the War Department on the commentator’s remarks. The woyd came back from the Sec retary’s office, "No comment.’’ The betting here Is that Mr. Roy all will—repeat, will-^—be a candi date for the Democratic nomination for Governor against State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson. In that event, it is believed, there will be an unoffi cial lineup, one that will never be admitted, with Royall and Senator Wm. B. Umstead on one side, and Johnson and former Governor J. M. Broughton, candidate for the Senate aaglnst Umstead, on the other. Following a visit to Washington for a single day by Rep. J. Bayard Clark and Senator Wm. Umstead, the Army Air Forces announced they had decided to keep the 316th Troop Carrier Group at Pope Field, Port Bragg, and abandon plans to trans fer it to the Greenville, S. C., Army Air Base. Depend on us to keep minor .car defects from be coming major driving hazards. Our' expert ad- •i justments and repair service will protect your car— save you grief and needless expenses later. See us for those needed car repairs today. SMITH'S GARAGE Phone 2636 H. E. SMITH, Propnetor ULLINGTON, N. C. The baby diamond back terrapin that bids fair to become North Car olina’s most famed product of the sea has developed a new wrinkle. The terrapin, a gift from Dr. H. P.- Prytherch of the Marina Laboratory at iBeaufort, to Rep. Graham A. Bar den, and currently a resident of the rectangular aquarium in Barden’s front ofdce, has taken to drinking coffee. Believe it or not—but it’s true. Miss Jeanette Harrison of New Bern, Barden’s assitant secretary, -has been letting Joe Junior (the baby terra pin was named in honor of the son of a Barden neighbor,' Rep. Orville Zimmerman of Mo.) have some of her morning coffee. And since then, Joe Junior has become more frisky than ever, caus ing Secretary Tom McGee of Mount Olive to believe .^that after a few more days on a coffee diet ‘‘he'll bite somebody right through that glass.” Rep. Monroe M, Redden, the 12th District freshman from Heliderson- vllle, is the North Carolina delega tion’s most Independent member, or worst Democrat, depending on how one looks at things, a current sur vey indicates, and Rep. J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville, the 7t'h Diet., the best Democrat, or at least inde pendent member, again dependtog on the point of view. A survey of the voting records of members of the House on 13 issues in which the membership of both the Democratic and Republican par ties split among themselves In the second quarter of the year, shows that Redden voted with a majority of the Democratic party on six Is- .sues and against the -party majority an equal number of times. He was unrecorded once. ' In contrast with Redden’s 50-50 record, Clark went down the line with the party majority 100 per cent. He was recorded with the majority on nine' issues, against it on none, 4'^u.- ^ ^ g f? ixi B r -tit.', O; CL -'ic n Ofi • S" U. S. SURPLUS CLOTHING* BARGAINS FO]^ BdBN KHAKI PANTS «S.OO SHIRTS 91.40 D. M. RANSDELL SURPLUS STORE Fuquay SprlngSt N. O. CHATTEL MORTGAGES, 9 tor S cents nt 9Rie News otflee.' " ' Ilk lOir Gi0(!6r lor AePAVlS Recipe Booklet IT'S OUT TODAY .. . The Davis’ Recipe Booklet containing 14 recipes for the finest baking you ever tasted. 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DAVIS MILLING CO. 66 .. .to fetch a pail of \vater 99 IlM" /»»** ft* - Poor Jack—and poor Jill—and poor YOU If you have to carry water by the pail on your farm. Oij one farm where they kept count of it, 769 hours a year 'were spent in pumping .water by hand. Members of the family Walked 124 miles during the year carrying 15,042 gallons of water to the house, barn and chicken house. The next year they bought an electric pump and installed a farm water system. Electricity pumped more than 19,000 gallons of water— nobody walkei even one mile to carry it where needed.. Yes, there is a better way than carrying water by the pcfil. AgriculiuTal RepresentaUves oi this Company ^will be glad to give you information about installing an electric pump, and water system on your farm. There is no obligation, of course. CCAROLIWA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY)
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