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LITTLETON
Robert Shearln was In the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Rlggan in Henderson Friday
and accompanied Mrs. Jack
Rlggan Ci New York City to
visit with her daughter andl
family, Mr. and Mrs. Willie E.'
Wagner, for sometime.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stans
bury and Sandra Larrlmore
were Thursday visitors of Mrs,
Hazel Jarrett and Mrs. PatrlclkJ
Quenton In Roanoke Rapids.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald King of
Wilson were Friday night guests
of his mother, Mrs. Brownlngj
King.
Mrs. N. G. Pitt and Mrs.
Alton W. Parker were recent
guests of friends and relatives
in Conway.
Miss Lizzie Moore Is spend
ing sometime with Misses Pat
and Rachel Myrick.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hazel
ton and little daughter, Susan,
of Winston-Salem visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K.
Alston, last week.
Mrs. Roy Perkinson is spend
ing sometime with relatives in
Greensboro.
Mr. and M?s. Jack Flynn and
daughter of Union, S. C., are
spending sometime with her
mother, Mrs. W. G. Alston, and
grandmother, Mrs. NoraGrant.
Mrs. Phillip Flynn of Union,
S. C., is visiting her brother
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Har
old Smith.
Mrs. W. C. Fallwellof Farm
ville, Va., was a visitor of
Mrs. Henry House over the
weekend.
Dr. IsaCostenGrant of Eliza
beth City visited the Rev. and
Mrs. M. Y. Self Saturday and
accompanied them to Lynch
burg, Va., and attended the
graduation of Samuel Harrell
Self on Sunday.
, Mrs. W. G. Alston, Mrs.
Cleveland Stalling, Mrs. Horace
~Pulill.??, Mrs. Alice Browning;
Mrs. Norman Mltchel and Miss
Carrie Myrick were in Frank
llnton Friday.
Sgt. William F. Walker of
Andrews Air Force Base,
Washington, D. C., visited rela
tives here last week.
Mrs. Eulalla Powell of New
port News, Va., spent last week
with Mrs. Ella Belle Rlggan
and Mrs. Macon Moore, Sr.
Willie E. Wagner has retura
I ed to his home after having beeo
a patient In Roanoke Rapids
Hospital for sometime.
Mrs. John D. Woodard and
son, Johnny of Picayune, Miss
spent Wednesday night with her
father and step-mother, Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse V. Shearln, and
also visited her brother, Grov
er Shearln, and sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Stansbury.
L/Cpl. Joseph E. Stansbury,
Jr., of Cherry Point Marine
Corp., spent the weekend at
home with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Edwin Stansbury. He
also attended the Shsarln-Boone
family reunion at The Class
House at Satterwhite point, Kerr
Lake Sunday. His visitors were
Walter Gray Crawley and Jesse
butts of Aurellan Springs who
also attended the reunion.
Mrs. Harvey L. Paynter and
children, Robbie, Ronnie and
Gary, and Mrs. Lloyd Salmon
were in Roanoke Rapids Thurs
day visiting Mrs. Roland Fer
rell and family.
Mrs. John Powell who has
visited several of her relatives
Including Mr. and Mrs. Willie'
E. Wagner and Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Shearin this past week
returned to her home Friday In
Newport News, Va.
Mrs. Edward Gill and daugh
ter, Mrs. Tommy People, and
her granddaughter, Lynn Peo
ple, of Henderson and little
Sharon Williams of Macon were
Wednesday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Harris and Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Stansbury.
Jack Anderson of Weldon was
a Wednesday visitor in Little
ton. ,
Mrs. Blanche Riggan of New
York City and her son, Harry
Riggan, of Henderson were
Wednesday night dinner guests
of her daughter and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Willie E. Wagner
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shear
n.
Mrs. C. B. Austin of Miami,
Fla. and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Hall and daughter, Calbert, of
Reldsvllle are spending some
time with Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Smith.
BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Salmon
of 185 William Street, Roanoke
Rapids announce the birth of a
daughter, Sarah Allison, on June
5 In Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Mrs. Salmon Is the former
Jean Cagle of Tennessee. Mr.
Salmon Is a native of Littleton.
Horace Shearln, left and Lonnle Cox, right, light burn
;rs which are used to heat food served to the 100 officers
and men of Company C now training at Fort Sragg.
SFC Roy Cameron of Warrenton talks with
Lt. Wiley D. Vaughan, also of Warrenton,
commanding local National Guardsmen who
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participated In a mock attack. Cameron, his
face blackened for the exercise, uses a
walkie-talkie to carry on the conversation.
Demand For Stocker Cattle Is
Invitation To Beef Growers
The demand shown each j
spring for stocker cattle is re
garded as an open Invitation to
the North Carolina farmer to
enter the beef production busi
ness.
The 10 organized sales in the
state sold 7,775 head of stock
ers this spring. "We could have
sold 10 times that number,"
asserts Sam Buchanan, exten
sion animal husbandry special
ist at North Carolina State Uni
versity at Raleigh.
The price ranged from $24.17
per hundredweight for "good"
steers to $17.48 for "common"
heifers. The average steer
price was $23.73 and for
heifers it was $19.43.
These cattle range in weight
from 500 to 750 pounds. They
are bought in the fal^as feeder
calves weighing from 300 to
500 pounds. They are wintered
on corn silage, hay, winter
grazing crops, field gleanings
and accumulated permanent
pasture.
The lighter weight calves are
given protein supplement and
two to three pounds of grain
per day In addition to the rough
age. Calves wintered on silage
are given the protein supple
ment.
The winter stocker program
Is regarded as one of the best
opportunities many North Caro
lina farmers have for turning
beef production into a profit
able enterprise.
"It Is in many respects the
easiest and quickest way to get
Into the beef cattle business,"
said Buchanan. "It Is particu
larly well suited to the situation
of many of our crop farmers.
"They can buy these calves
to use the amount of feed they
have available over the winter.
Things are usually pretty slow
around a crop farm at this
time. The income from the
stocker sales in the spring
comes at the most beneficial
time for many farmers."
Buchanan pointed out that now
is the time to start planning
for a stocker program. "The
entire program, of course, Is
based on the feed supply. A
farmer must plan his feed pro
gram this spring for the calves
he will buy in the fall."
Feeder calves to be winter
ed as stockers are bought in
September and October and
marketed in April. During the
some 200 days they are on the
farm, they should gain about one
and one-quarter pounds per day,
the extension specialist ex
plained.
At this rate of gain, the
farmer can expect a reasonable
return at the stocker sales.
Buchanan said farmers who
are interested in getting into
Warrenton and Henderson Guardsmen,
heavily armed and partially concealedbehind
sprigs of bushes, move out along a trail
that leads to a mock ambush area, where
they will stage a simulated attack on other
members of Company C posing as enemy
soldiers. (Pictures by Set. Howard Jones)
Tunisia, Holiday City
Washington - Tunisia will
build ,a holiday city on Jerba,
legendary island of the lotus
eaters.
Th" [mvprnnipp) says the un- '
dertaking will be the largest
tourism project ever attempted
In the Mediterranean area. It j
will Include six hostelrles with
more than a thousand rooms and :
a "boatel" at water's edge. I
Visiting lotus-eaters can step |
directly from rooms to boats.
The Jerba hotel city will in
clude a half-mile-long souk or
shopping street. The main
square will offer a garden,
theaters, nightclub, restau
rants, a post office and bank.
ULYSSES DESCRIBES
LOTUS-EATING
Flat, fertile Jerba Is the
largest island in the entire
2,450-mile sweep of Africa
along the Mediterranean, the
National Geographic Society
says. Tradition has long associ
ated it with the people who de
tained Ulysses' men, in
Homer's Odyssey, by feeding
them lotus.
"As soon as each had eaten
the honey fruit of the plant,
all thoughts of reporting to us
or escaping were banished from
his mind," reported .Ulysses.
"All they now wished for -was
to stay where they were....I
had to use force to bring them
back to the ships."
No one knows what plant
Honer's 'lotus" was that made
Ulysses' men go AWOL. Per
haps they were only enchanted
by the island's beauty and their
friendly reception.
Virtually a Sahara oasis set
In the Mediterranean, Jerba
has no rivers or streams. Water
from its 3,200 wells is brackish.
Drinking water is collected In
the stocker program next fall
should contact their county live
stock agent now for full Infor
mation. "This program must be
started with the feed program.
"In our sales this year,
prices and demand were good.
There seems to be plenty of
room for our farmers to ex
pand this enterprise," Bu
chan an concluded.
cisterns during, infrequent
rains. More than a million date
palms cover the island's 198
square miles. In their shade
grow half a million olive trees
as wen as fig-*., oranges, oV
monds, peaches, apricots, and
pears.
ANCIENT GREEK INFLUENCE
Jerbans speak the Berber
language spoken in North Africa
long before the Arabs invaded.
They also show traces of an
cient Greek influence: Women
wear Greek-style conical straw
hats, and potters produce water
pots in the amphora style In
troduced by Greeks 3,000years
ago.
?Such jars once carried olive .
oil to ancient Carthage; now they
travel by truck across the Ro
I man causeway that connects
| Jerba to the mainland. Long
I ago pirates cut the causeway
to gain a back entrance to a
[harbor; for centuries its half
| submerged blocks could be ne
SffntiatPri nnlv 'hv^ surefooted
camels. But now it has been
repaired.
Modern Jerbans show little
trace of the legendary languor
expected of lotus-eaters, but
they are interested In food.
So many work throughout
Tunisia as grocers that "going
to the Jerban's" is synonymous
with "going to the grocer's."
Typically, Jerbans Leaving to
I work on the mainland return
to Jerba after retirement.
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