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Mrs. W. C. Campcn
Honors Mrs. Flowers
Wednesday Afternoon
Mrs. W. C. Campen entertain
ed on Wednesday afternoon for
Mrs. Charles Flowers, Jr. of Lex
ington, Kentucky, house guest of
Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Flowers. Win
ter berries and evergreens dec
orated the home.
Bridge was played at two
tables. Mrs. Fred Page won the
high score prize and Mrs. Irby
Gill received the low score. Mrs.
Flowers was remembered with a
lovely gift. At the conclusion of
the game, a salad course with
coffee was served to the following
guests:
Mrs. G. S. Barbee, R. V. Brown,
I. D. Gill, H. C. Wade, C. E. Flow
ers, Sr., Fred L. Page, Mrs. Ver
non Powers of Nashville, and the
honoree, Mrs. Charles Flowers, Jr.
Mrs. Page Entertains
Thursday Afternoon
Mrss. Fred Page entertained at
bridge on Thursday afternoon to
honor Mrs. Charles Flowers, Jr.
who has been visiting Dr. and Mrs.
Charles Flowers, Sr. since her re
turn from Europe.
High and low score prizes were
awarded to Mrs. F. D. Finch and
Mrs. W. C. Campen. Mrs. Flow
ers was remembered with a gift.
Refreshments were served to
Mrs. G. S. Barbee, R. H. Brantley,
R. V. Brown, W. C. Campen, C.
E. Flowers, Sr., F. D. Finch and
the honoree, Mrs. C. E. Flowers,
Jr.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Powers
and small son of Nashville were
weekend guests of Mrs. Powers’
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cam
pen. Mrs. Powers and son will be
here this week while Mr. Powers
is on a business trip to Western
North Carolina.
Mr. lon Alexander and Mr.
George Turner of Marysville, Cali
fornia were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Campen last week. Mr.
Alexander is a cousin of Mrs.
Campen.
Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Coltrane
have returned from a fifteen day
vacation in Florida.
Albert Brown of Raleigh has
accepted a position with Theo.
Davis Sons here. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown expect to move to Zebulon
next month.
Miss Faye Lee of Smithfield vis
ited relatives here last weekend.
Jack Potter of State College vis
ited relatives here last weekend.
Rev. Theo. B. Davis is able to
be outdoors again, following a long
convalescence from a hip fracture.
W. N. Pitts went last week to
Granville County to spend a few
days with relatives, returning the
first part of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Brantley,
Jr., and baby daughter were here
from Durham for the weekend
with the R. H. Brantleys, Sr.
Ratio of Egg-Feed Is
Lowest Ever Recorded
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during the last 10 years, Mr.
Ratchford said. Poultry is nor
mally a good enterprise for Tar
Heel farmers, as there are ready
markets, and poultry fits in well
on small farms. For these and
other reasons, North Carolina
needs to maintain her poultry in
dustry. The situation should im
prove within a few months or in
a year at the latest.
Farmers who are losing money
cannot stay in the business, but
those who are making a little
money and keeping their poultry
will be able to realize more prof
it when the situation does im
prove, he said.
THE LOWDOWN
from Hickory Grove
Today my subject is figures. Not
figures like you see in the maga
zines where the gal is leaning on
an ice box, or a hot air furnace,
or a dog food ad., or a candy bar.
The figures on today’s lecture are
the ones coming from Washington,
D. C.—in the budgets—and the
ones which only a few people give
heed or know whether it is a bil
lion or a million they are fixin’ to
spend—or squander.
Folks pay attention to little fig
ures —like in Pacific Grove, Cal
ifornia where the paper says hair
cuts are now a buck and a quarter.
Also, the paper says a course in
hair cutting is to be offered at
once to parents, by the Adult Cen
ter there, and for folks to apply
at the High School. And with the
hair cutting course are two courses
in languages and conversation. The
barbers there are perturbed—they
are not too sure they didn’t under
estimate their client’s I.
But back to big figures—and
ones which make the barbers look
like pikers—take 40 billion bucks
like Uncle Harry says he needs to
keep the Govt, in the fashion to
which it has become accustomed.
Forty bilion, if divided amongst
the families of the nation, even
Stephen, is 1,000 dollars each, per
year. Pardner, that is real ma
zuma—and you get none of it—
you pay it.
As an omen—that barber’s price
hike miscue might be it.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA
Mechanical Devices
Add to New Trucks
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let peak while production of
335,344 units was close to the pre
vious all-time record.
The new series is the first since
the company’s Advance-Design
models pioneered in the low-price
market the wide, spacious cabs
that have won universal acclaim.
Blanketing the light, medium and
heavy-duty truck categories, the
line contains 107 models on eight
different wheelbases.
White described the four-speed
synchro-mesh transmission as the
most significant truck develop
ment in years.
Previously Avon Privett, mana
ger of the Phil-Ett Motor Com
pany, has made announcement of
the new improved Dodge trucks
recently exhibited at his place
here.
t
Production Records
Provide Argument
The production record of basic
American industries is the best
possible argument against more
controls, rationing, price-fixing,
allocations and the rest.
Soft coal is a fine example. Pro
duction for the week ending Jan
uary 10 was around 13,700,000 tons
—an average for the six-day per
iod of nearly 2,300,000 tons daily.
The production trend has been
steadily upward, and the industry
has been successful in taking care
of big demand at home while
meeting abnormal demands a
broad. The job has been so out
standing that the Secretary of the
Interior said, on January 14, “I
do not believe there would be need
for the allocation of coal now.”
What is true of coal is true
of most other industries—the very
industries that, if some high offi
cials have their way, will be im
mediately saddle with the kind of
bureaucratic arbitrary controls
which have hampered production
The Zebulon Record
all over the world and made the
black market the real market.
There is much talk of scarcities,
and there are some scarcities.
But we should also talk about the
amazing production job American
free enterprise has done after
years in which all the energies of
the nation were dedicated to war,
the normal processes of trade and
commerce were disrupted, and lit
tle was built that is suitable for
peacetime use.
Free enterprise gets the goods
out —mure goods, better goods and
cheaper goods than are produced
under any other system. Just take
a look at what the Labor govern
ment has done to Britain.
County Agent Advises
Growing Spring Oats
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300 to 400 lbs. of 3-12-6 on the
heavy soils and 300 to 400 lbs.
of 4-8-8 on the lighter soils of
the country.
Spring seeded oats need nitro
gen. This need is general and is
often shown by a pale yellow color
and lack of vigor. About 32
pounds available nitrogen top
dressing should be applied early,
usually last half of March or
early April or about three weeks
after a good stand is obtained.
The Victorgrain and Fulgrain
varieties are recommended for
spring seedling. Varieties of the
winter types are less desirable for
spring seeding.
Requirements Listed
For Lighting Test
Safety experts say that one out
of every five cars has defective
lighting equipment.
The importance of good head
lights for the prevention of ac
cidents is emphasized by the fact
that in 1946, 550 fatal accidents
and 12,340 non-fatals in the U. S.
were caused by either glaring
headlights or cases where the
hedlights were missing or too dim.
When you take your car or truck
to one of the State’s 40 mechanical
inspection lanes this year for its
physical check-up, certain head
light requirements must be met—
or the car will be disapproved.
The Manual of Motor Vehicle
Mechanical Inspection Require
ments has this to say about head
lights:
“All motor vehicles shall be
equipped with two headlights, the
assemblies of which shall be of an
approved type and in good work
ing odrer. Each headlight shall
be capable of producing at least
3,750 apparent beam candlepower
on the high or driving beam.
“On symetrical, mutliple beam
headlights, the highest or driving
beam of each headlight shall be so
aimed that the center of the high
intensity portion shall not be
above headlight center level nor
more than 7 inches below same at
a distance of 25 feet; not more
than 7 inches to the right or left
of straight ahead at a like dis
tance.
“On assymmetric, multiple beam
headlights, the high or driving
beam of each headlight shall be
so aimed that the center of the
high intensity portion shall not
be above headlight level nor more
than 7 inches below same at a
distance of 25 feet. The center
of the high intensity portion of
the driving beam of the headlight
which does not regularly depress
upon operation of a driving beam
switch, shall be aimed not less
than 13 inches to the right nor
more than 19 inches to the right
of straight ahead at a distance of
25 feet. The center if the high
intensity portion of the opposite
headlight beam shall not be aim
ed more than 7 inches to the right
or left of straight ahead at a dis
tance of 25 feet.
“On single beam headlights the
center of the high intensity por
tion of the beam shall not be
higher than 8 inches below head
light center level nor more than
13 inches below same at a distance
of 25 feet, nor more than 7 inches
to the right or left of straight
ahead at a like distance.”
The headlight requirements
doubtless seem very complicated
to the average layman. But when
you take your car for its inspec
tion test, a testing apparatus will
be able to tell in a few seconds
whether your headlights are cap
able of being approved.
But to make sure that they will
meet requirements at the State
Inspection, the Motor Vehicles De
partment is urging you to have a
mechanic give them a prior check
up. Most garages will give you a
free inspection.
Every motorist who owns a ve
hicle more than 80 inches wide,
must see that that vehicle is equip
ped with clearance lamps before
it can be approved by the State’s
mechanical inspection lanes.
In addition, owners of trailers or
semi-trailers must equip them
with reflex-reflectors.
The following requirements are
set forth in the Manual of the
Motor Vehicle Mechanical Inspec
tion Requirements:
Clearance Lights: “Every
vehicle having a width at any part
in excess of 80 inches shall carry
2 clearance lamps at the front,
one at each side, reflecting an
amber light plainly visible under
normal atmospheric conditions
from a distance of 500 feet to the
front of said vehicle and two
clearance lamps at the rear; one
on each side and reflecting a red
light visible under like conditions
from a distance of 500 feet to the
rear of the vehicle.”
Reflex Reflectors: “Trailers or
semi-trailers over 2,500 pounds
gross shall carry at least one re
flex-reflector as approved by the
Commissioner. In addition to the
regular tail light located as to
a height and maintained as to be
visible for at least 500 feet when
approached by a motor vehicle
displaying lawful undimmed head
lights at night on an unlighted
highway.
“Trailers under 2,500 pounds
gross shall carry two red reflex
reflectors, each not less than 4
inches in diameter and to be of a
type approved by the Commis
sioner and which are so located as
to height and maintained so as
for each reflector to be visible for
at least 500 feet when approached
by a motor vehicle displaying law
ful undimmed headlights at night
on an unlighted highway.”
The Manual further states that
“all vehicle light switches and wir
ing shall comply with the approv
ed assembly requirements and
shall be in good working order
and in accordance with original
design. All wiring must be main
tained in good safe condition.”
All motorists know that it is
impossible to stop a car by push
ing on the floorboard, yet many
drive cars with brakes of negli-
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gible effectiveness.
Brakes are perhaps the most
important single item on a vehicle
as far as safety is concerned. The
fact that many people drive ve
hicles with poor brakes was shown
last year, when 890 fatal acci
dents and 26,200 non-fatal acci
dents in the United States were
caused by defective brakes.
The Manual of Motor Vehicle
Mechanical Inspection Require
ments has this to say about brak
ing effort:
“All motor vehicles except
motor trucks or tractor-trucks
with semi - trailers originally
equipped with 4-wheel service
brakes may not in this respect be
altered, shall be capable of pro
ducing a total braking effort of
not less than 54 percent of the
vehicle weight (corresponding to
a stopping distance of 25 feet at
20 miles per hour.)
“All motor vehicles originally
equipped with 2-wheel service
brakes shall be capable of produc
ing a total braking effort of not
less than 30 percent o fthe vehicle
weight (corresponding to a stop
ping distance of 45 feet at 20 miles
per hour.)
‘All motor trucks or tractor
trucks with semi-trailers origin
ally equipped with brakes on all
wheels may not in this respect
be altered and shall be capable of
producing a braking effort of not
less than 43 percent of the per
missable gross vehicle or vehicles
weigth (corresponding to a stop
ping distance of 30 feet at 20
miles per hour.)
“Semi-trailers or trailers having
a gross weight of two tons and all
house trailers of 1,000 pounds
gross weight or more, shall be
equipped with brakes controlled
or operated by the driver of the
towing vehicles and shall conform
to these specifications: 30 feet at
20 miles per hour.”
All the stopping distances set
forth in the above requirements
would be on dry, hard level
stretch of highway, free from loose
material when brakes are applied.
The State Inspection Program has
purchased special sets of brake
testing equipment, and will be able
to tell in a few seconds whether
the brakes on your vehicle meas
ure up to standards.
The Manual on Inspection Re
quirements state that “All motor
vehicles originally equipped with
turn signals may not in this re
spect be altered and such device
shall be in good working order,
and shall present a plainly visible
signal in accordance with original'
design. All trucks so constructed
that the hand signal is not visible
both to the front and rear shall
be equipped with approved sig
nals.”
There are the requirements. The
only persons who need to worry
particularly about them are truck
owners, whose truck bodies some
times are so wide that it is im
possible for following motorists
to see the driver’s hand signal. In
that case, the owner must have
turn signals before the vehicle will
be approved.