Candidates For Festival Queen
CHRISTINE BOGER (left) and ANNA JANE STANTON are
among the nominees for queen of the Whiteville Tobacco festival to
be held he.re August 18. Miss Boger is sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and Miss Stanton is the representative of the
Whiteville Breakfast Club.
BOLIVIA P. T. A.
There will be a meeting of the
Bolivia Parent-Teachers Associa
tion on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock
at the high school auditorium.
All parents are invited to attend.
89TH BIRTHDAY
R. Will Davis, venerable South- j
port resident, will celebrate his |
89th birthday anniversary Sunday, j
August 13. He and Mrs. Davis i
have been married for 64 years. ^
Queen Nominees
Will Appear In
Public 4 Times
People Will Get Chance To
See Beauty Contestants In
Afternoon, In Early Even
ing And At Coronation
Ball
ALL JUDGES WILL BE
FROM OUTSIDE AREA
Col. James R. Smith, Com
mander Of State Highway
Patrol, Invited To Be
Here As Festival
Dignitary
Nominees for queen of the
Whiteville Tobacco Festival will
make four public appearances
during the all-day festivities
which will accompany the one
day promotion of Whiteville as a
tobacco center on August 18.
The first will be at a rehearsal
in Planters Warehouse No. 1 in
the early afternoon, the seqond
will be on the lawn of Hotel
Whiteville in late afternoon, the
third will follow the festival ban
quet at the hotel, and the final
will be on the stage and ramp
when the judges will render their
decision immediately before the
coronation.
A festival innovation this year
BRUNSWICK COUNTY FARMERS!
Check These Averages!
AT THE BIGGER and BETTER
CRUTCHFIELD’S
WAREHOUSE — WHITEVILLE
GROWER POUNDS
J. w. wilson & McClelland 830
H. B. INMAN . 1238
L. M. TURNER 666
L. O. WARD . 232
BALDWIN & JOLLY . 796
GEO. L. WARD 432
ROBERT HUMPHREY 2052
CUTTER WARD 722
J. H. MARTIN .*. 708
AMOUNT
$564.80
$843.84
$444.24
$155.28
$522.00
$295.95
$1328.14
$483.58
$459.28
AVG.
$68.00
$69.00
$67.00
$68.00
$67.00
$68.00
$66.00
$67.00
$66.00
SELL WITH THE “OLD RELIABLE”
FOR HIGH PRICES THAT PLEASE,
A Good Sale Every Day
will be the selection of judges
who live outside the Border Belt
area and have no connection
whatever with any of the tobacco
market towns which will have
entries in the contest for queen.
Two judges have already been
selected. Mrs. John Nixon of San
ford. president of the State
Federation of Business and Pro
fessional Women's Clubs, and Miss
Lois Smith, dietician at Mere
dith College, Raleigh, have ac
cepted invitations to be festival
Continued On Page Six
guests and serve as Judges.
An invitation has been extended
to Col. James R. Smith, comman
der of the State Highway Patrol
With headquarters in Rnleigh, to
attend as a festival dignitary
and be a judge in the beauty con
test.
Festival officials reported dur
ing the week end that the pro
gram was shaping up highly sat
isfactorily. They said the outlook
for the 1950 event was among
the best in all the history of the
promotion.
North Carolina
Leads South In
Motor Vehicles
State Figure For Last Year
Was 899,645 Against 867,
467 For Florida And 819,
448 For Virginia
RALEIGH—North Carolina led
the South in registrations of
passenger cars, trucks and buses
during 1949 and ranked fifteenth
in the nation, according to in
formation received by the North
Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles. '
California was first with
3,971,141, followed by New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas,
Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey,
Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa.
North Carolina was next with
899,645. The figures do not in
clude such motorized vehicles as
motorcycles, scooter-bikes, and
tractors, which brought the State
total registration for 1949 to
1,030,319.
Registrations for other South
ern states were as follows:
Florida, 867,474; Virginia, 819,
448; Georgia, 797,678; Tennessee,
686,600; Louisiana, 613,103;
Alabama, 545,704; South Carolina,
500,872; Mississippi, 403,889.
Nevada haa the lowest passen
ger car, truck and bus registra
tion listed with 66,595.
More Fords were in operation'
in North Carolina last year than
any other make of car. The
Ford figure was 183,019 with
15,067 being last year’s model
and 25,682 older than 1933. More
1941 Fords were in use than any
other model—a total of 23,046.
Chevrolet was second with 173,
760, a total of 7,966 being 1949
models, 25,236, 1941 models and
4,405 older than 1933. Plymouth
was third with 70,391.
Sixty-five Hupmobiles still were
in operation, none being post-war
products and 36 being older than
1933. Graham listed 157, none
older than 1941 and 30 being
older than 1933.
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Inner-spring Mattresses
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LONG BEACH, N. C.
Soil Conservation District Notes
H. F. KIZER
Soil Conservation Service
By. H. F. KIZER
Soil Conservation Service
And thi rains came to Bruns
wick county as they always do.
Some rain fell each day or night
during the entire first week in
July. They were badly needed and
Were welcomed by ail. Some sec
tions got more than their share,
however ,the Mount fisgih com
munity on the Holden Beach
road, being one of them. Wide
spread dimage to crops, especial
ly from drowning, have resulted
on sfeveral farms in this area.
During the past spring, when
it was so dry that it looked as
if farm drainage would never be
heeded again, the Holden Broth
ers (Cedi & Wilbur) and their
neighbor Hamilton, Robinson,
were at work laying drain tile in
the wetter spots in their fields.
T
When I visited these farms £1
few days ago, the wet spots that
were underlain with tile were
now the driest parts of the fields.
“My tile will pay for itsef the
first year’’, said Mr. Robinson,
“look at my tobacco f nd that of
my neighbor across the fence".
We must admit there was a con
trast. “I like the way it works
clay and night. Twenty four hours
per day water is leaving my
field”, he added.
“I can tell exactly where each
line of tile is on my place by the
way the crops have stood up on
it,” said Wilbur Holden, “I only
wish that I had added more
branches and covered the entire
field”.
The Holden Brothers and Mr.
Robinson both plan to lay more
tile next spring to complete their
farm drainage programs as re
commended in their farm plan;
prepared by the Lower Cape Fear
Soil Conservation District. Soil
Conservation Service technicians
assigned to the district made the
engineering surveys for installing
the tile systems on these two
farms.
District Governor
Visits Rotarians;
TABOR CITY. — Dr. Howard .1.
McGinnis, district Rotary gover
nor, outlined the fundamentals of |
Rotary at the supper meeting of
Tabor City Rotarions held here
last week.
Dr. McGinnis met with club di
rectors prior to the regular meet
ing. The phases of Rotary were
discussed and suggestions were
made for a program to better the
local organization.
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