Fishing Contest
Now Open To All
Western Auto Associate Store
Bfunmes Contest Curtail
ed By War
Alter a five year lapse due to
the war. Western Auto Supply
Company of Missouri, is again
sponsoring its well-known wad
popular Big Base Contest. This
year the contest is bigger than
ever before. Prizes totaling $10,
657.50 in list value will be award
ed the winning contestants
throughout the country. This
contest, which has proved so
popular in the past is lifted to
fresh water large and small
mouth bass taken from waters
open to the general public. It
is open to all men, women, boys
and girls in the thirty-five states
“which a Western Auto Store
or Western Auto Associate Store
is located. . .
To make the contest as fair
as possible and eliminate apy
disadvantages one state would
have over another in such wide
spread contest, Western Auto
uives a separate set of awards in
each of the thirty-five states. In
this way the fish caught in any
state are competing only with
other fish caught in -the same
•state, giving all contestants an
equal chance at winning one of
the valuable prizes. Past records
show that baas weighing as lit
tle as 1V4 pounds have taken
first prize in some states.
First prize winner in each of
the thirty-five states this year
will receive a big six horse
power Wizard Outboard motor
with a list value of $159.50. Sec
ond prize will be a Heddon rod
and Coxe reel with a list value
of $75.00; third prize a rod and
reel with a list value of $40.00;
fourth prize will be assorted
tackle valued at $20-00 and fifth
prize assorted tackle valued at
$10.00. , _
This contest is free and open
to all. There are no obligations
or purchases necessary. Free en
try blanks with complete in
structions are available at all
Western Auto Stores or Western
Auto Associate Stores. Official
opening date of the contest was
May 15 (subject to local or state
laws). Entries are eligible from
now until September 30, when
the contest closes. All entries
must be sworn to before a notary
public or verified by a Western
Auto Store manager of Western
Auto Associate Store owner.
Timely Hints
Flour and feed bags have long
been used by thrifty rural house
wives for making house dresses,
aprons, and children’s clothes,
bedspreads, draperies, luncheon
cloths and towels. The first step
in using one of these bags is to
remove the black printed letters
that labeled it, and textile spec
ialists of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture list the following
directions;
1. Scrub bags with hot water
and laundry soap. This often re
moves nearly all the ink. The
rest usually desappears if bags
are boiled in soapy water for
half an hour and rinsed. A chlor
ine bleach may be used to take
' out the last traces of black.
2. Wet a bar of laundry soap
and rub on the dry bak until it
is entirely covered with a thick
layer of soap. Roll up the bag and
let it stand several houfs. Then
wash and boil if. necessary.
3. Soak the bag in kerosene
overnight. Then wash—first in
lukewarm water, then in soapy
water—and rinse thoroughly.
4. Cover the black print with
lard or soft petroleum jelly,
rubbing the grease into the fabric
soolodl fits any Mason
jar. (any to v»o bo
caoso it's wro. Can
aort Hi# oasy way..
with BALI LARS AND
OOME LIDSI
Twin Oaks News
Among those visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Estel Anders Sunday were:
Mr. and Mrs. Brady Farmer and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Farmer and children, Mr. and
Mrs. Gwyn Anders, Mr. and Mrs.
Buren Farmer and son, Mrs. Len
nie Anders, Mrs. Len Farmer
and Wilson Farmer.
Charles Sanders, North Wilkes
boro, stopped with friends here,
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hodge, and
children spent Sunday with
thoroughly. Leave overnight to
loosen the black, then wash in
soapy lukewarm water and rinse.
5. Boil bags in water with
sodium hydrosulphite or other
dye removers, which may be pur
chased at drug stores. Follow
directions given on the package.
Rinse well. *
Jl generous serving of fresh
strawberries will, on the ave
rage, supply the recommended
daily quota of vitamin C, a study
recently reported by plant scien
tists of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture shows.
r
son Carl Wilson spent a while
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Douglas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Murray and
sons, Paige and Troy, visited
relatives, here, Saturday.
Cecil Murray, J. M. Osborne
and Carl Irwin made a business
trip to Charlotte and Gastonia,
Thursday, and visited William
Musgrove in Catawba.
Miss Edna Sanders who has
been employed in Bel Camp, Md.,
for several months, will arrive
here this week to spend a vaca
tion with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Gwyn Sanders, here.
Miss Mable Wyatt, visited
friends here, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Irwin will
leave for Norfolk. Va., where
they will live until he finishes
his enlistment with the Navy
next January. ' v
Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Irwin Sunday were: Mr.
and Mrs. Wade Irwin, Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Irwin and J. E. Ir
win.
Mrs. J. L. Bare, Sparta, spent
a short while with friends here,
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Letcher Gentry
had as {heir dinner guests Sun
day: Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Joines;
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Truitt, also,
Mrs. Allen Irwin.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mabe and
children visited, Mae and Kelly
Williams Saturday night
Mr. and Mrs. Philo Caudill,
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Caudill, and
Estel Caudill spent Sunday with,
Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Caudill.
Mrs. Liford Rector, and child
ren, Louise, Dawane, and Roy
spent the week end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Douglas.
Rev. and Mrs. Ray Billings
and children, of Dobson, visited
his sister, Mrs. J. F. Atwood one,
night last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Caudill,
•hd daughter, Pauline spent Sat
urday night with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Brooks
near Chestnut Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Southern,
Jr., and baby visited her parents
in Virginia Sunday.
Mrs. I. B. Richardson visited
had
t in
as their Sunday guests; Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Taylor, also Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Taylor.
James Douglas left this week
tor Williamston where he has
accepted a position.
The word “tobacco” is thought
to have originated either from
a reed called tobacco that the
Caribbean Indians used as a pipe
in which to smoke a weed from
a province now referred to as
Yucatan, where tobacco was first
grown.
Announement
THURS.. JUNE 5
is the last day for bidding
on caretaker’s position for
Shiloh cemetery, which
contains 4 acres.
Bids should be made to
J. T. Finney
Sparta, N. C.
The USDA
nearly ten million bushels of po
from the 1946 crop have
been shipped abroad under tha
Department’s pots toe .export
program. •
From where I sit ~Ay Joe Marsh.
Want to Run a
"Collective" Farm?
Waa reading the other day about
the “collective" fanaa they have in
certain countries. It aeeaia the
folka who ran them have plenty ot
help ... good hours ... and the
beat equipment.
Sounds pretty nice—till you
learn that the “farmer" doesn't
own Ids land, or even farm it, in
our sense. He takes orders from
the *latef produces what they
want, at prices they set Even his
off-hours are spent according to
state regulations.
That wouldn’t go harm We’re
proud of our farms.
still of the right to i
rules. That goaa not Just for fa
era. but for every American I
try. Like the brewers' procram of
Self-Regulation which sees to it
that taverns selling beer are de
cent. law-abiding places.
From where t sit, we've gone
a lot further in this country with
self-regulation than other nations
have vnth strict controls. Let's
never change.
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“Daddy, when will
it be tomorrowf
“ Well Sonny, tomorrow
never really comes. When
the time called tomorrow
comes, it will be today.”
We on the Norfolk and Western believe that answer
makes sense . . . for the railroad does things today.
Tomorrow isn’t soon enough.
Today, the N. & W. is working on a $12,000,000 improve*
ment and modernization track and tunnel project on
one of the busiest districts of its main line in West Vir
ginia, which will increase operating efficiency, improve
safety, and enable the railroad to handle more traffic.
Today, the N. & W. is making important changes in
grades and track, and installing Centralized Traffic
Control on its line between Portsmouth and Cincinnati,
Ohio, at a cost of about $3,000,000, which will provide
speedier, safer and more efficient movement of traffic on
that district.
Today, the N. & W. is expanding its ocean terminal
facilities by constructing one of the largest and most
modern merchandise freight built, with new
warehouses and a supporting yard at the Port of Norfolk,
in order to handle foreign freight and intercoastal traffic
with the greatest possible speed and efficiency. Cost —
about 96,000,000.
Today, the N. & W. has on order a fleet of the latest
streamlined luxury passenger coaches and the newest
type roomette sleeping cars, which involves an expenditure
of several millions of dollars.
These additions and improvements are some of the
principal things the Norfolk and Western is doing today
to provide better railway service. And there are many
other things not so big, but important.
In short, this railroad and the Norfolk and Western
Family are working tooth and nail to improve their
service to, and their relations with, the public , . . to
day and every day.
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