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285,510 Farms in Cultiva
tion in State in 1937,
Survey Shows
Raleigh. June 6—The number of
farms in North Carolina was increas
ed only two and one-half per cent, or
from 273,680 farms in 1936 to 285,510
last year, the State Department of
Agriculture’s farm census report re-
Tar Heel farmers put 189,000 addi
tional acres of land in production in
1937.
S. M. Hines, farm census supervisor,
reported increases or decreases in the
state's major crops last year as fol
lows;
C0rn—2,296,140 acres in cultivation,
thiee per cent less than 1936.
Cotton—l,o77.ooo acres, seven per
cent greater than in 1936.
Tobacco —639.780 acres, 12 per cent
greater than in 1936.
Wheat —488.880 acres, 11 per cent
less than 1936.
Oats —280.690 acres, 7 per cent less
than in 1936.
Rye —90,880 acres, two per cent less
than in 1936
Peanuts—234.33o acres, no change.
Irish Potatoes—94,lso, 11 per cent
My Thanks to
the People of
Vance County
I am truly thankful to the people of
Vance County for returning me to office
as Recorder of Vance County. The vote
I received in Saturday’s Primary was a
most gratifying expression of confidence
for which I offer my sincere thanks and
appreciation.
' Sincerely yours,
R.E. CLEMENTS
You can obtain travelers
cheques In convenient de
nominations at this bank.
Citizens Bank
<c Trust Co.
Henderson, N. C.
“Tne Leading Bank in this Section”
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Entrance on Garnett and Wyche Streets.
Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Banking Hours
9 a. m. to 2 p. m. beginning June 1 and
ending August 31.
increase over 1936.
Sweet Potatoes—Bo,lso, 7 per cent
less than in 1936.
The leading county in each of the
nine leading crops surveyed were re
ported as follows:
Corn, Robeson county, first; cotton,
Robeson, first; Tobacco, Pitt county,
first (also leading in the nation!;
wheat, Rowan; oats, Anson; rye,
Ashe; peanuts, Bertie;, Irish potatoes,
Beaufort; sweet potatoes, Columbus.
In crop land harvested, Robeson
was first with 218,000 acres; John
ston, second with 189,000 acres;
Union, third with 165,600 acres and
Wayne, fourth with 148,000 acres.
state lions will
meet during week
Convention at Wrightsville Beach
Will Be Thursday and Friday;
riam Entertainment
Wilmington, June 6—North Caro
lina Lions will hold their sixteenth an
nual convention at Wrightsville Beach
Thursday and Friday, June 9 and 10.
Convention headquarters will be at
The Ocean Terrace Hotel, where all
is ‘‘a hustle an’ a bustle” in prepa
ration for the large crowd that is ex
pected .
District Governor Mack Jernigan,
of Dunn, N. C., and Lion Luther T.
Rogers. General Chairman of Conven
tion, met with the Wilmington Lions
Thursday, received committee reports,
and made final changes in the pro
gram.
| Besides deep sea fishing, surf bath-
Hrnftrrsrm HaiEj BtapafcJ?
ing, boating, sailing and other general
beach activities, a fine program has
been arranged. All visiting Lions and
Lionesses will find that their time
wih be filled with fine entertainment
features worked ou.t by the many
committees.
For the ladies, there has been ar
ranged, in addition to the numerous
events they will attend with the Lions,
a boat ride on inland waterway. To
the uplander who has not had the
pleasure of a trip by boat along the
beautiful inland water way this will
be a decided treat.
will Use blueing
IN BEACH SURVEYS
Rate of Erosion To Be Determined
Along North Carolina Coast
* This Summer
Itnllr IMniui t«-h flnmin.
In the Sir Wnlfcr Hotel.
Raleigh, June 6.—How blue is the
ocean?
Well however blue it is now it’s go
ing to be bluer this summer around
Wrightsville and Carolina beaches
when a group of young men begin
pouring blueing into it.
No, they will not be escaped in
mates of Dix Hill, nor will they be
fellows determined to do a fcit of im
proving on Mother Nature.
They will just be a part of the en
gineering staff which will spend all
this summer studying “Dat Debbil
Sea” to sec just how fast he is biting
into the beaches around Wilmington
and forcing them back and back.
So the young men already mention
ed will lug bunches of cork floats up
and down the sands, and ever so often
one or more of them will dump blue
ing into the ocean, jum,p in himself
-nr! sW jftiv in the direction that,
the blueing or the floats move.
According to T. S. Johnson, chief
engineer in charge of the water re
sources division of the Department
oi Conservation and Development, tihe
corks and blueing will be used in de
termining the velocity of ocean cur
rents off the beaches.
Beach erosion work this summer
will cover the entire length of Wrights
ville Beach, including Mansonboro and
Moore's Inlets, Carolina Beach and
the beach in the vicinity of Fort
Fisher.
C. E. Feltner, engineer of the water
resources division, went to Carolina
Beach last week to make plans so.»
the work to be done there. The sur
vey party will make measurements
of the contour of the Reaches to de
termine the trend and amount Oi
erosion throughout their entire length.
These measurements will be studied
to determine their relation to base
lines which have been established for
many years.
Mr. Feltner and his party will also
make studies of the ocean currents
using the eork floats for off-shore
currents and the blueing for the cur
rents close to the shore.
CAN YO\j ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four
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1. Which is greater, the land or ocean
area of the earth?
2. What is the purpose of a centre
board in a small sailing boat?
3. Who was the batting champion of
. the National League for 1937?
4. In which southwestern state is the
Painted Desert?
5. What is the word for the main
Sabin of a ship?
6. What is a foundling hospital?
7. Where is the British crown colony
of British Honduras?
8. For what state is “Panhandle State”
.he lickname?
9. In card games, who is the pone?
10. In which state is Death Valley?
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To the People
of
Vance County
I want to thank each of
you for the wonderful
vote and* support you
gave me in my cam
paign for Sheriff of
Vance County.
I am again soliciting
your vote and support
m the recond primary,
Saturday, July 2.
Lennie L. Swanson
| Grits and Gravel
(By T. MOSES JONES.)
LOIS A>W GREEN WAY.
Little Miss Lois Ann Greenway is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Greenway of North Granville. If Lois
Ann would he shown in a Technicolor
movie, her eyes would be as blue as
the skies. She can grin, smile, and
laugh—all at the same time. When
she was a tiny tot, her mother brought
her to town for a while in a silken
lined basket but she has out-grown
that for some time.
And now let’s go back to the year
of 1881, which year it was that Cousin
He wet t Hicks’ Uncle Samuel pro
phesied that horseless carriages would
soon be running up and down the
road. It seems that folks like to hear
about “them good old days”, and T
hope some others will write us more
o ft hose old-time tales. Ben Matthews
says it was in that same year, 1881,
that the big hail storm came. He was
going to school in a log cabin school
house somewhere near Salem and
Miss Florence Hunt was his teacher.
Bud Dorsey and Bennie and Jimmie
Roberson were among his school
mates.
I can’t remember that far back, but
my mind does wander (and it wan
deis about three-thirds of the time,
and wonders the other third) back
a v out twenty-five years r.go to the.
Browning meeting which was held in
a big tent near Tabbs Creek church.
Several of the churches of the Oxford
circuit had a union tent meeting in
stead of their usual week of meetings.
Raymond Browning did the preach
ing, assisted by a Rev. Colman. A Mr.
Kidder was pianist, and he could real
ly play the piano. But I had to go
into all that introduction to tell about
Will Barnes. He was one of the ush
ers who helped seat the large crowds
and he also was one of the men who
helped take up the collection, each
of them having a tin pan. And when
the money fell in, it surely rattled.
But that, too, is not what I start
ed out to tell. At, that time Will
Barnes had a beautiful grey-checked
suit which he wore on Sundays. It
was that suit that, he wore to the
meetings. And when Will got on the
inside of that suit, he was dressed fit
for Sunday. 1 asked him about the
Defends Press
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Speaking today at the Duke Univer
sity commencement, Dr. Felix Mor
ley, editor of the Washington Post,
declared that the rule of the press
is vital to the preservation of Ame
rican democracy.
This is to express my appreciation to the
people of Vance County for their sup
port in the Democratic Primary of June
4, 1938.
SAM R. HARRIS, Jr.
Voters, I Thank You
To you, the voters of Vance County, I express my
sincere thanks and appreciation for the splendid sup
port you gave me at the polls Saturday, June 4, enabl
ing me to be the Democratic Nominee for the two-year
term County Commissioner in the General Election in
November.
It is most pleasing to me to know that I have so
many friends. I promise you will have no cause to re
gret your action.
Respectfully,
Henry W. Hight
U. N. C. Speaker !
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Judge John J. Parker
Federal Judge John J. Parleer of
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, who will deliver the bacca- 1
laureate address at the final exercis
es of the University of North Caro
lina Commencement on Tuesday even
ing at 7 o’clock. His subject will be
“Democracy and Constitutional Gov
ernment.”
suit some time ago, and he said he
still had the coat. How on earth Will
escaped getting married while he had
that suit, I will never understand, for
he must have been a restful sight for
tirodi eyes among the ladies.
And further back than that, but
still not reaching as far back as 1881,
I remember a Children’s Day exer
cises I was in. It was nigh on to thirty
years ago. The children came in with
flags from different countries while
the main one had a large United
States flag. Sidney Walters, now a
big business man of Winston-Salem,
and myself, were both in the flag ex
ercise. Sidney also had another poem
which he recited. He was slightly
sandy-haired at that time, and the
poem went as follows, as I got him
to recite it for me several weeks ago
when he was home for the week-end;
“I’m just a common dandelion
With a fuzzy, yellow head;
They gave me to a little boy
W/hose hair they say was red.”
Sidney said he had tried in vain to
remember the second verse, but has
never yet been able to do so.
When he was just a grown young
man, Irby Smith used to sing at Salem
church, and his sister, who is now
Mrs .Toe Hicks, also of Henderson,
was: a guest singer. Mr. and Mrs.
Hicks still like singing as I have since
heard that they were out at Hester’s
cburch Sunday to the big singing
Ihere.
I took Cousin Albert Crews a copy
of Cousin Hewitt’s letter which told
that he was one of those nine of his
j randfather’s forty-eight grand-chil
dren that still live. Cousin Albert is
now eighty and has been sick for
more than a year, but is able to get
around in the house. He is a great
great uncle of the young Mr. Rogers
from Henderson who works here in
the Union Bank, and an Uncle of
C< usjn Lorena Bobbitt, of Henderson.
/.nd as I wind up this last para
graph, it •is Saturday morning, and
when this gets into print, it will be
Monday afternoon. By that time the
big election will be over. Some will
have won and will be happy. Other?
will have lost, and that’s the way th
nig game goes. But in away, every
election day is election day. Every day
is election day. Every day we either
win or we lose. We either have a goo J
day, and feel that we have accom
plished something, or we feel that the
day is a loss. But then every morn
ing we can repeat those lines which
cegin:
“Every day is a new beginning,
Every morn is a world made new.”
T. MOSES JONES.
THANKS
To the people of Vance Coun
ty for the vote given me for
Coroner in Saturday’s Primary.
I appreciate everything that
was done in my behalf.
P. M. PORTER
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938
Thanks To Everyone
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I wish to express my deep and sincere
appreciation for the splendid vote given
me for the office of Sheriff in Saturday’s
Primary.
«
J. Ed Hamlett
To the Citizens
of
Vaiice County:
I wish to express humbly and sincerely
my appreciation for the splendid vote
given me that re-elected me as Register
of Deeds for the coming term.
It is my honest desire to fill this office
efficiently and economically and to merit
the confidence that has been placed in
me.
Faithfully,
Horace M. Robinson
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