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I Tobacco Growers Got 53 Percent More Last Fall Porada^e Was 11 Percent Off. Mat Prices Were A Great Deal Higher ■North Carolina farmers, de spite and 11 percent reduction in poundage, received 53 percent more lor their 1941-42 season’s to laccc. sales 'than they did during the 1940-41 season, reports the State Federal Crop Reporting Service. A final summary of this season's sales shows that ware housemen sold 432,892,245 pounds of tobacco during the 1941-42 sea son foT an average price of $29.85 •per hundred pounds of leaf. This compares with at otal of 487,746, ■996 pounds sold during the 1940 41 season for an average price of '$17.27 per hundred pounds. The past season’s total poundage re turned. leaf growers a total of $129,196,836 compared with the previous season’s sales of $84,255, 994. About 99 percent of the State’s tobacco crop consists of the flue cured type with burley making •aip the remaining 1 percent. Dur ing the 1941-42 season, burley sales on the two North Carolina markets amounted to 4,282,588 pounds or 16 percent more than last season’s sales of 3,680.054 pounds. Most burley growers re ceived considerably higher prices (during the 1941-42 season than during the 1940-41 season. This season’s price averaged $31.41 compared with $18.68 per hun dred for the previous season. Higher prices plus a 'larger poundage resulted in a return to burley growers -of I,244,991 or about 96 percent above the $687, <16 received for’the '194041 sea son's sales. IFtae .final summary for the sea seon showed further that flue cured growers sold a total of 428, 609,657 pounds for the season for aa average price of $29.83 per thundred pounds, compared with tUse 1946-41 season’s sales of 484, 066^42 pounds for an average price of $17.26 per hundred /pounds. Growers received a total mefnm of $127,851,856 for the past .season’s sales, or 53 percent above (he $83,668,318 received for the Today AND Tomorrow By Frank Parker Stockridge SCOOPS.(fossil It is peculiarity of the humar race thata most of us consider it £ feather in our caps to get news first — whether it is war news news of a marriage, a birth or £ death. We got real satisfaction oul of telling our neighbors some thing which they haven’t ye1 heard. In America it sometimes seems as though we are a nation of news reporteds all out to get a “scoop.’ When a friend asks, “Did you heai what happened to so-and-so?” the most disappointing answer you can give is an out and out ‘yes.’ That desire to be first with the news, which used to be confined to back fence gossiping about ev ents in the lives of common friends, is now broadened to in clude all of the news of the day— the rumors, the bulletins and the news interpretations. Radio, wih its opportunity tc speak first in the, news field, since it can get an announcement to the people a few moments before the fastest newspaper can be on the street with it, has become the envy of all gossip-land — and many a listener tunes in for a last-minute morsel before joining friends to whom he or she can say, “Did you hear the latest?” RADIO.. tirelessness If this war is going to last for ten years, as some people predict, one of the groups I feel most sor ry fen: is the radio news com mentators who have to act pan icky about some new news deve 1940-41 season’s sales. The Boone burley market, where most of the farmers in this county sold their tobacco, sold 1,469,354 pounds for an average of $30.29. The Asheville market sold nearly four million pounds at in average of $30.86. Make your tires last! HERE'S HOW YOUR , MSSO DEALER WIU SELP YOU 6ET FXTJM MILEAGE Srikb Wheels {very 3,000 to 5,000 Miles-Don’t let yumtspore go to waste. Your Esso Dealer will change all dies periodically as shown in the diagram above. The ajjwjgpis trifling compared with the additional mileage. Keep Tires Properly Inflated — Air standards at your Esso Dealer’s are checked for accuracy — important aoday when a difference of a pound or two is vital. JPooperly inflated tires go more miles and last longer. Shive Moderately - At 30 miles per hour, tires last icwice as long as at 50. •Check Regularly — Let your Esso Dealer check your tire pressures every week. Most motorists used to neglect dui for indefinite periods. Now it is urgent that they learn not only to watch tires, but to retard wear of every poaaihlr part. Leamto rely on your Esso Dealer for help. SliNDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY Core Saves Wear tfallUlMMii SOMETHING ALL CAN DO I BY LICKINGf ENOUGH DEFENSE STAMPS— i WE CAN U£&THE MTS// lopment every half hour of the day. If the same man reports the news bulletins every half hour for an eight hour day for ten years, he will make a total of 68, 400 such announcements. Almost an equal amount of sympathy should be extended to those hard souls who plan to lis ten to these announcers for the duration—who are going to per mit their emotions to be lifted and dropped several times a day as the news man reports the hourly successes and failures of all the armies of the world. Some of these listeners may be rewarded by being in on the kill —by being the first in the neigh borhood to hear such news as the surrender of the German, Japan ese or Italian forces—but even anticipation of being the first to hear such joyful announcements hardly seems sufficient reason to keep the radio blasting for months for years to come. TEMPO.hunger The chief difficulty with the present radio news set-up is that the news hasn’t yet caught, up with the tempo of radio. I Today news is happening faster than at any time in history, but the half-hour announcement plan, with break-ins between times for special annoucements, leaves the commentators constantly hungry for bigger and better stories to broadcast to their eager listeners. Even in this day of mass produc tion of news, events don’t happen fast enough to satisfy the appe tite of radio. That’s why radio headlines must be created through the voice of the announcer and a news item, which might be an inside short in a newspaper, is sent flying through the ether with all the fan-fare of a five-alarm fire. Whether the excitement of the announcers can be sustained or will be toned down by time is still a question, but all the evidence points toward its being continued indefinitely. For over the years the announcers have been able to keep themselves in a frenzy over the vitamins in a cereal, the tas tiness of a cigarette, or the fluf fines of a soap sud. CENSORSHIP.sh—h—h! Censorship, now in force in the United States, calls for revamp ing of our whole mental attitude toward news reports. Instead of passing a news item on from its source to the people as if it were a hot potato, news casters and newspapers are obli gated to mull over it a little, de cide if it’s an item which fits the rules of censorship, and stifle it if it might contain information valuable to the enemy. Radio listeners and newspaper readers, to encourage this neces sary withholding of information, must revise their news appetites so that they find such stories dis tasteful. Nothing will make the censorship job work better than the expression by the public of a real antipathy toward all news which could conceivably aid Hit ler. News of troop movements, news of the sailing of ships, news of the war work being rone in specific factories—such things must not be published or talked about. In addition to objecting to any news being printed or broadcast which reveals such information, all of us can add to the effective, ness of censorship if we carry il even into our own conversation, Instead of gulping down the “sec ret” information which our neigh bors may confide in us, we would be serving our country better il we frowned upon them for not keeping such information to themselves. A Small Farmer We very often hear the asser tion these days that people are not as happy now as they used to be in the horse and buggy days. What is happiness? How or where is happiness to be found? Is it to be found just around the corner or in the midst of gay company? Or is it to be found by travel and visiting places of in terest? Happiness of any of these types is not lasting. Happiness is not out in the big wide world—it is in you. Your mind is master of happi ness in a greater measure than you may think. Look for the good in everything and everybody and ignore the bad. Are we not surrounded by beauty and grandeur on every hand? We have possibly formed the habit of looking at the hundrum thing of ^ery day life and have lost sight of the beauty of the sunshine, fresh air, birds and trees, cool springs from the ground and the things of nature that daily surround us. If a blind man could regain his sight, he would indeed be happy at seeing the things we call com mon. A Small Farmer Glade Valley News Mr. J. M. Wells, Jr., of Winston Salem, member of the First Pres byterian church of that city and chairman of the Glade Valley school board of trustees, visited here Sunday night and made an impressive talk to the students on “Character Building.” Mr. C. M. Norfleet, also of Winston-Salem, member of the Reynolda Presbyterian church and on the Glade Valley board of trustees, conducted devotional ex ercises here Sunday night. Miss Mada McCutcheon, one of the teachers of Glade Valley, spent the weed-end in Chat tanooga, Tenn., as a guest of the First Presbyterian church of that City. This is the church which sent Miss McCutcheon as a mis sionary to China. Rev. C. W. Erwin, who has been ill, returned to his duties in the classroom Monday at Glade Val ley. lurkey Knob INews Mrs. Annlce Land reth Correspondent Mr. Frank Delp, of Pennsy lvania, was a visitor in the com munity this week. Mr. Buster Anderson and Mrs. Cleo McMillian spent Sunday with Mrs. Mack Jones. Mrs. Ennice Hash is ill. Mr. Carl Kennedy, who has been a patient at the Roanoke hospital in Roanoke, Va., return ed to his home Friday much improved. , Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Osborne and children visited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Osborne Sunday Mr and Mrs. Bert Delp and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gibson and daugh ter visited in Sparta Saturday. Mr., and Mrs. Bayne Landreth have moved to Buster Anderson’s place. Farmers will have to turn more to bulk handling of grain since two-thirds of available burlap has been turned over for use by the armed forces, and grain bags will be difficult to get. Annonce Honor Roll At School For 4th Month High School List For Term Also Named At Spar ta Schools First grade—Jerry Gambill, Thomas Earl Reeves, Herman Stamper, Herbert Todd, Ann Bare, Sarah Ann Hickerson, Carol Hoppers, Ima Jean Lyon, Frances Porter, Ella Mae Hodge, Iva Jean Crouse, Iva Lee Rector and Cilfton Edwards. Second grade — Edna Mae Spicer, Billy Crouse, Zane Gray McKnight, Maynard Hines. Dale Choate, Joe Gambill, Richard Smithers, David Wooten, Beulah Edwards, Bobby Hoppers, Jo Ann Parker, Lorene Shumake, Mar garet Todd, Edith Mae Hampton and Lester Phillips. Third grade— John F. Norman, Lorene Billings, John McCoin, Lon Mack Billings, Alva Joines, Clive Edwards, Charles Higgins, Earl Huff, Franklin Sturdivant, Anna Lee Andrews, Delano Choate, Irene Edwards, Wanda Edwards, Thelma Lyon, Vena Miles, Sally, Sally Phillips and Betty Joan Gentry. Fourth grade—Patsy Edwards, Dorothy Andrews, Maxine Todd, Sylvia Petty, Anna Mae Miles, Autry Sexton, Lucy Mae Poole, Ida Maud Black, Tommy Reeves, Tommy Douglas and Ima Wray Wagoner. Fifth grade—Reva Mae Rector, Harold Woodruff, Gelene An drews, Virginia Van Croupe, Tom my Burgiss, Frank Davis, Arnold Delp, Dean Joines, Guy Perry, Allen Richardson, Junior Rizoti, Nellie Atwood, Grace Crouse and Billie Higgins. Sixth grade—Blanche Crouse Andrew McKnight, Frank Shu mate, Mary Frances S m it h George Bryan Collins, Malcoln Gambill, Jessie Holcomb and Zel ma Choate. Seventh grade—James Douglas Doris Collins, Barbara Ann Alii son, Upton Andrews, Wands Truitt, Bill Reeves. George Ro« and J. M. Sturgill. Eighth grade—Maybelline Rich' ardson, Cleo Bryant, Lassie Good man, Bernice Jarvis and Wade Irwin. Ninth grade — Eva Edwards, Patsy Burgiss, Irene Hendrix, Rebecca Irene Richardson, Tom mie Osborne and Ruth Smith. Tenth grade — Gloria Rizotti, Anne Reeves, Glenna Duncan, Donna Lou Rutherford, Betty Ann Miller, Mildred Higgins, and Dorothy Pugh. Eleventh grade—Una Lee Rich ardson, Lois Smith, Virginia Gen try, Pika Rizoti, Doris Richard son and Katherine Andrews. TERM HONOR ROLL Eighth grade—Maybelline Rich ardson, Cleo Bryant, Lessie Good man, Bernie Jarvis and Wade Ir win. Tenth grade—Dorothy Pugh, Gloria Rizoti, Anne Reeves, Glena Duncan, Dona Rutherford, Betty Ann Miller and Mildred Higgins. Ninth grade—Tommie Osborne, Eva Edwards, Patsy Burgiss, and Irene Hendrix. Eleventh grade—Katherine An drews, Claude Edwards, Ted Reed, Doris Richardson, Pika Rizoti, Virginia Gentry, Lois Smith and Una Lee Richardson. Piney Creek News MRS. G. TOM PERRY, Correspondent Miss Rebecca Warden, of Lau rel Springs, spent the week-end with Miss Betty Halsey. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Boyer spent last week-end with their parents in Tennessee. Mrs. Floyd Adams is slowly re covering from a recentillness. Misses Betty Halsey and Rebec ca Warden and Mr. Wallace Hal sey visited Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Halsey and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Perry Sunday evening. Mrs. M. F. Parsons, who has been convalescing from a recent operation at the home of a sister in Tennessee, is expected home this week. Mrs. Parsons is report ed to be getting on nicely. Only 25 percent of the Amer ican population is now on the farm, the other 75 percent being engaged in creating the comforts and luxuries called the American standard of living. ^ OH, GRACE, SOME OF THE BEST BARGAINS IkJ THE PAPERTOPAV! let's GO SHOPPING! ' f'U-A you AT WE goruer! MR. merchant WAS IT VO UR AP SHE O REAP* I WANTED Ivy & Laurel Burls (WELL TRIMMER) VISITORS WELCOMED TO— D. &P. PIPE WORKS SPARTA, N. C. SAM PORTER, MGR. Tel. 79 No New Cars No New Tires But Plenty Of Everything Else 4 WeHave.., Used Cars _ Oils _ Auto Parts Accessories _ And The Best Repair Department In The State DRIVE IN NOW AND LET OUR EXPERTS GET YOUR CAR IN FIRST CLASS SHAPE. IT MAY HAVE TO LAST YOU A LONG TIME. SO YOU CAN SAVE WEAR AND TEAR BY KEEPING IT IN TIP-TOP SHAPE. WE’LL TUNE IT UP SO YOU CAN SAVE ON GAS, OIL, AND TIRES. IF YOURWHEELS ARE OUT OF ALIGNMENT AND~NEED BALANCING YOU ARE WASTING RUBBER. WE CAN LINE THEM UP SO THAT YOU WILL GET NORMAL OUT OF THEM, WHICH MAY BE TWICE THE WEAR YOU ARE NOW GETTING. DRIVE IN NOW FOR A COMPLETE INSPECTION AND ESTIMATE THAT WILL MAKE YOUR CAR LAST AND GIVE SERVICE DURING THE PRESENT EMERGENCY. ■ v 1 ■ i i ■ ... " ’ '• 1 ii.iBSS r Castevens Motor Co. Sparta, North Carolina
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