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Governor Buys Christina§ Seals mm 8mm • •TmiTimm—iM—- ■ _I GOVERNOR LUTHER HODGES ((center above) and DR. J. W. R. NORTON, State Health Officer (right) buy the first Christmas Seals of the 1954 Christmas Seal Campaign from CARL O. JEFFRESS, State Christmas Seal Chairman (left). Dr. Norton said, "Tuberculosis remains our most serious com municable disease problem in North Carolina. We can be thank ful for a lower death rate and improved treatment but should concern ourselves with the continuing damage known and un known tuberculosis causes. We should not relax our efforts to control and eventually eliminate TB. The people of North Carolina can help by buying Christmas Seals and supporting public health programs.” The Seal Sale opened today (Monday) in this area under the direction of the Columbus County Tuber culosis Association. Read story inside this issue. Brunswick Girl At Ft. McClellan | Geneva Meares Is Now In Training At WAC Train- 1 ing Center In Alabama In Clerical School Private Judith Meares, niece of Geneva Meares, Shallotte, has just completed basic training at, the new Women’s Army Corps Center, Fort McClellan, Ala., and has been assigned to the newly instituted Clerical Procedures and Typing Course there. Prior to entering the WAC, Private Meares wa^ employed by Fibelity Finance Company, Col umbia, S. C. Private Meares and other en listed women in the course will receive individual instruction to train for positions in post and1 Army headquarters. The purpose: of the clerical course and an ac- j companying stenographic course! is to graduate students when they have attained the proficiency needed for their jobs, rather than j to simply put them through a! certain number of weeks of class. The courses stress administra-, tive procedures, military corres- ■ pondence, English composition, military security, military courts and boards, legal affairs, orders, and other subjects with military! significance. Enlisted women from the WAC j Center and from military instal- j iations in the field may request! assignment to the courses, withj an eight-week ipaximum in the clerical cour se and a 12-week lim- | it for the stenographic course. Directors of the progr am esti- j mate the intensive typing course' will give students the equivalent! of one year of high school typing training. The WAC School conducts these j and other training courses on the Center, including all officer train ing. There is also a Basic Train ing Course, which initiates the transition from civilian to military life. Supervisor Says Farmers Can Aid When Farmer Will Net Be At Home Regularly It j Will Be Of Assistance If He Will Leave Message “Farmers, Uncle Sam needs your ' help in completing the 1954 Cen- ! sus of Agriculture,” Supervisor | William L. Culbreth of the Cen- i sus Bureau's Agriculture Field Office in Fayetteville, said this | week. Farmers in this section, ! who are away a good deal during | the “off” season, can help their Government save a good deal of } time and money if they will leave word with neighbors when is the best time for them to be seen or by meeting appointmnt dates with the census enumerator. Stating that although the cen sus, which started October 29, is progressing very well Supervisor Culbreth said that callbacks are presenting a problem in some areas where farmers have com pleted the harvest and are busy with other activities away from home. Usually the census taker will attempt to find out from ! neighbors when the best time to call is end return, at that time * or else leave a message at the farmer's home as to when he will! return. If farmers will make a! definite effort to be there at the appointed time the actual inter view can be completed in a very short time. Supervisor Culbreth again point ed out that all census information is held in strictest confidence and that census returns are used only for statistical purposes and never for taxation, investigation or regulation. Census enumerators took an oath before they were employed that under penalty of law they would not reveal any in- * formation gained while a census taker except to sworn, authorized employees of the census bureau. This oath still applies after they leave the Government service. Tour Reveals Slight Damage Tr;p Through Interior Sec tions Of Brunswick Coun ty Monday Reveals Quick Recovery On Part Of Res idents A trip through the interior of Brunswick county Monday failed to reveal many serious signs of damage from the storm, and citi zens of the county are rapidly wiping out all traces of the visi tation of last month. At Shallotte workmen were busy reconstructing the front of the Shallotte Motor Sales Co., which had been completely crush ed in. Only slight other evidence of damage could be noted in the town. Things had either been re paired or removed. Near the l’oad leading to Exum from 130 was the only visible evidence of damage to timber, outside of an occasional uprooted shade tree. At this point on the Exum road a pretty fair stand of pine timber had apparently felt clyconic winds that snapped or twisted hundreds of them off at various heights and resulted in their falling in different direc tions. A saw mill has already been working in this tract and has I cleared up the fallen trees, as j well as other merchantable tim ber that was not so damaged. From the damaged timber tract on to Exum there was only slight1 damage to buildings and trees still in evidence. The same ap plies on the road from Exum to Freeland, from Freeland to Ash and thnce to Longwood, from there to Grissettown and on- back to Shallotte. Fallen shade tres in yards and a few damaged roofs were the only evidence remaining and visi ble from the road for the above distance. All other damage had been repaired, and there \.as nothing for the entire trip that could be called permanently dis couraging to the property owners. The reduction in support prices for milk and butterfat from 90 per cent to 75 per cent of parity for the April 1954-March 1955 marketing year will result in generally lower prices. World production of paper is about 50 million metric tons a | year, about four times what it was 40 years ago. i 97% Vl&ijqhbifitu By Bill Paulson TSSSgfgJfVV / “It’s simple. First you find a place where school teachers, truck drivers and clerks have invested their savings to buy machinery and buildings. That’s a factory. Then you just ask for a job!” Social Security Law Changed To Affect More Farm Workers Recent changes in the social security law will affect over 2 million more hired agricultural workers. N. A. Avera, District Manager of the Wilmington office, explain ed that under the old law they had to work for one farm em ployer on a full time basis for several months before their work for that employer started to count towards Old-age and Survivors insurance. This work regularity test for them has been changed so that many more farm em ployees will be brought under so cial security for the first time be ginning Jan. 1, 1955. The farm worker will be earning Old-age and Survivors insurance credits when he earns as much as $100.00 in cash wages from any one farm operator in a year. One hundred dollars in the course of a year from any one farm employer is the minimum wage upon which the farm employee may begin to build his social security. The farm employer will deduct a two percent social security tax from the cash wages he has paid the employee and he will con tribute an equal amount. He will report the amount of cash wages that he has paid to each em ployee and send the total tax to the District Director of Internal Revenue. Taxes for social security will be deducted frdrri a farm worker’s cash wages up to $4200 in a year. Payments to a farm employee in any form other than cash do not count for social secu rity purposes and farm employers will not include them in their re ports. The new law also includes workers in cotton ginning for the first time after 1954. These work ers will begin to earn credits in exactly the same way as other agricultural workers when they receive $100.00 or more in cash wages from the same employer in a year. If your cash pay from * farm work for one employer is less than $100.00 in a year, he does not report your earnings and there is no social security tax. For ex ample: If you earn $75.00 in a year from one employer and an other $75.00 from a second em ployer, these wages would not count toward social security. But if you earn $100.00 from one and $150.00 from the other, both employers will report your earnings for social security and you will get credit for the total. Whenever your pay from any farm employer is less than $100.00 in a year, he should re turn to you any amount he took j out of your pay for social secu ; rity for that year. Farmers Can Obtain Operating Loans From Farmers Home Adm. North Carolina farmers can ob tain two types of operating lo ans from the Farmers Home Ad ministration, Horace J. Isenhower, North Carolina state director said today. Credit is available im mediately and can be used to fi nance current farm and living expenses as well as for the pro duction of next year’s crops. Two kinds of operating loans are special livestock loans and re gular production and subsistence loans. The production and subsis tence loans are made only to op erators of family-type farms. The livestock loans are made to oper ations of family-type farms and other farmers and ranchers as well. All of the loans are made only to farmers who are unable to obtain the credit from other sources. Regular production and sibsis tence loans help, small farmers to improve their farming operations. These loans may be made to buy farm and home equipment, feed, seed, lime and fertilizer, and to pay other farm operating and fa mily living expenses. There is a statutory limit of $7,000 on each production and subsistence loan and the total outstanding debt for these loans cannot exceed $10,000. Repayments are based on the ineome to be received each year after reason able expenses are met. In no case may the loan run for more than 7 years. When the main purpose of the production and subsistence loan is to improve the farmer’s operati ons, a limited amount of funds may be included to refinance debts secured by liens on livestock and farm equipment. Special livestock loans are ma de to producers and feeders of cattle, sheep, and goats, except commercial feed lot operators. These loans are made to meet usual expenses necessary to suc cessful livestock operations, such as the purchase or production of feed, and replacing, hiring, or re pairing farm machinery and equ ipment. Livestock loans are not made to expand operations or to pay existing debts, except inci dental current bills. Livestock loans are made for periods up to 3 years. Other cre ditors are not asked to subordin ate their liens, but are expected to stand by and to agree that a reasonable part of the applicant’s normal income from livestock can be used in repaying the loan. There is no limit set by the law on the amount that a farmer or rancher can borrow under the special livestock loan program. The amount that can be borrow ed under this program is deter mined by the farmer’s needs and his ability to repay. No loan is made unless it appears that an applicant has reasonable pros pects for success. * or eacn loan made, the Gov ernment obtains the best security! available including a first lien onj all crops to be produced with the loan and on all livestock and farm machinery purchased with the lo an. While special livestock loans cannot be used to Refinance ex isting debts the loans can include funds to pay for the annual de preciation on chattels serving as security for their loans. In addi tion, local businessmen who are creditors benefit from loan funds used to purchase loan supplies and services. The county committees of the Farmers Home Administration pass on the eligibility of all ap plicants. All applications for Farmers Home Administration loans are made at the agency’s local coun ty offices. The FHA office serv ing Columbus County Is in the New Agricultural Building, locat ed on West Smith Street in Whi teville. Scholes Workers Enjoy Fish Fry Outdoor Party Held Mon day Afternoon With Plen ty Of Food For All Th; Workers Attending The hundred or more employees of th T. F. Scholes, Inc., and a few friends were entertained by the company at a fish fry Mon day afternoon when the men laid off work for the day. It was an open air event with the clooking done under the shed at the field office. One hundred pounds of flounder, 50 pounds of whiting and 50 pounds of sturgeon formed the main course with 50 pounds of cole slaw, a bushel of Irish pota toes for the French fries; 70 pounds of meal, 20 pounds of flour for the hush puppies. Six gallons of oil was used in the cooking and 11 cases of drinks went to wash the things down. Reference might also be made to the several gallons of ketchup that some of the folks elected to garnish things with. Outside of the employees the only invited guest of the T. F. Scholes, Inc., was W. B. Keziah of this paper, who acquitted him self in a manner satisfactory to the occasion, despite the fact that he had been riding around all day with the tax collector and despite the further circumstance that only the day before he had stuck his head through an automobile wind shield when the vehicle suddenly ceased motion upon coming in contact with a pine stump. Berry Outlook Now Encouraging T. P. Key, Sr., of Mooresville, N. J., is spending the week here looking after his big blueberry farm. He states that the plants all look to be in excellent con dition, but that it is too early yet to predict regarding the crop next spring. As usual, the plants*have made excellent growth. Shortly after Christmas they will be pruned and soon there after they will begin blooming. This past spring’s prun ing was heavy with the aim of quality for next spring’s product. Each year only a small amount of added permanent growth is left on the plants. Heavy Traffic On River Road Week end travel on N. C. 130 is becoming very heavy, especially in the afternoons. Owing to the Saturday rains there was not so much in the way of visitors to the docks or to the railroad yards, but a trip over 130 through the reservation was interesting in it self. And that applies for all days of the week. Heretofore the con struction activities have centered some distance away to both tile right and left of the road. The biggest activities are still off the road and out of sight, but the N. E. Brewer Company of Win ston-Salem is now working at the utilities directly alongside the road and they are piling up some ,big stockpiles of matfiefcals. Statistical samples indicate that us of April 1, 1954, there were 21.9 million people living on fartfis in the United States. In 1951 there were 24.2 million. This is a reduction of close to 10 per cent m 3 years. t IN NQ8TH gfeSSOUWA ot= TOURISTS VISIT LOCKING GLASS FALLS AL PORKST, ON EOF NORTH vacation attractions * North Carolina's S360,000,000 tourist industry is promoted by ttie S+rvte Dept. of Conservat ion <L Develop Went. there are accommodation for more than 200,000 paying guests in I7g communities THER4F ARf MANV U/ATERFAIX5 ISl TH £ &R.EAT SMOKIES ANO R-t OOE, SOME OF THE MOST POFU4AR.ARE AUON6 U.$. HIGHWAY 64 114 THE. MIOHLANOS OF south wesrcfeAi north CAROLINA - Visiting Ministers To Preach Sunday The Rev. L. D. Hayman will preach at the morning worship service at Trinity Methodist Church Sunday, and the Rev. William Hicks will preach at the evening service. The morning ser vice will begin at 11 o’clock and the evening service starts at 7:30. The Reverend Mr. Hayman is a former minister of the church and is now residing in Southport, being retired from the active min istry. The Reverend Mr. Hicks is minister of St. Phillips Episco pal; Church here. Both will preach in 'the absence of the minister, the Rev. R. H. Jordan, this week end. United States hides may now be shipped to Russia and other eastern European countries be hind the iron, curtain because hides have been put on a “non strategic commodities” list. “S-D Day” December 15 is the day set aside by President Eisenhower’s Committee for Highway Safety as “Safe-Driving Day”. During that 24-hour period every mo torist and pedestrian in the United States will be asked by President Eisenhower to do his part to show that traffic acci dents can be prevented.. It is through this effort on the part of every citizen in the United states that the President hopes that not a single traffic acci dent will occur. Governors, mayors and all county officials are behind S-D Day. They recognize that acci dents kill more people under 36 years of age than any other cause. Local officials urge that every citizen of the county join in this public service contribution that reaches from the smallest community to the White House. Several School Bands In City’s Christmas Show Four High School Bands Have Entered City’s Chris tmas Parade And Others Are Expected BIRTH OF CHRISTMAS TO BE PARADE THEME Whiteville Recreation De partment To Have Young Folk Section In Event Plans for the annual Christmas season opening street para,de in Whiteville, Wednesday, Dec. 1, according to R. G. Maultsby, exe cutive secretary of the Whiteville Merchants Association, who stat ed that all schools in the county, churches and clubs had been in vited to participate in the event. Theme of the parade will be “The Birth of Christmas” and all entrants in the parade will be asked to stress the theme. Maultsby said that four high school bands had already accep ted an invitation to participate in the parade. The bands are Whiteville High School, Columbus County Band, Artcsia High School and the band from Booker T. Washington High School in Clar kton. It is possible that other school bands may be added later it was said. Attention was called to the fact that Whiteville merchants would start keeping their stores open until 8:30 in the evening on Mon day, December 20th, /or shoppers who cannot shop during regular store hours. Frank Kelley, superintendent of the city’s Department of Re creation, is planning to have a number of the city’s young folk take part in the parade, Maults by said. Whiteville merchants have been mailed a letter explaining the As sociation’s plans of the big Chris tmas promotion, according to Maultsby, who asked that the merchants use the stamped, ad dressed envelope to mail the As sociation their checks covering their proportionate part of the host of the promotion at the earl iest possible date. He said that several had already mailed in their | checks. Seed beds for North Carolina small grains should be firm, witH two or three inches of clod-free soil on the surface. In North Carolina, top-dresa small grains with nitrogen be tween February 15 and March 15. In North Carolina, “proved bulls” used in artificial breeding rank in the top 2 per cent of all bulls proved in the United States. To keep the average herd bull requires 1,500 pounds of grain, two tons of hay, 1 ton of silage, one ton of bedding, and 100 man hours a year. AMUZU THEATRE SOUTHPORT. N. C. ADMISSION—10c - 40c SHOW STARTS at 7:00 P. M. EXCEPT SATURDAY, 6:30 Thurs., Fri., Nov. 25-26 “GO MAN, GO” Dane Clark—and The Harlem G'obetrotters . ---j Each Fridav and Saturday PARAMOUNT NEWS Saturdav, November 27 ‘THE UNTAMED HEIRESS’ Judy Canova Mat. 3 p.m. — Nip-ht 8 :3Q Sunday, November 28 “STEEL LADY” Rod Cameron and Tab Hunter Monday, November 29 “1 CONFESS” Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter Tees., Wed., Nov. 30-Dec. 1 “SHARK RIVER” (In Technicolor) Steve Cochran and Carole Matthews — COMING — “BEACH-HEAD” (In Technicolor) Tony Curtis and Mary Murphy It’s Thanksgiving j .. and we say thanks to you for your friendship and confidence 1 Together with the many other reasons for being thankful this year, we are appreciative of the friendly spirit our customers have shown toward this bank, it has been a real pleasure to serve you. f • We l;ope that you, too, have had good reason to be thankful that r ¥ttpxv ~ ^ you placed your confidence in us. We hope to continue to serve you ! WACCAMAW BANK l AND TRUST COMPANY & Southport, N. C. Shallotte, N. C.
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