Tuesday, March 28, 1950 Local News Items Mrs*. Nellie Kemp recently at tended the annual Music Semi nar at the Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte. Dr. and Mrs. John Williamson of Westminster Choir College were speakers. PThe Methodist Church chimes be played every afternoon uring Holy Week from 5:30 to 6:00 o’clock. Members of the Wakelon boys’ basketball team, accompanied, by Herbert Appenzeller and Ed El lington, returned Sunday from a trip to Washington and New York, where they saw the NCAA basket ball game between N. C. State College and City College of New York. Making the trip, in addition to Baxter Hopkins, Hilliard Greene and Randolph Mac Swain who fur nished transportation, were Sonny Rowe. Jimmie Greene, Bobbie Mc- Gee, George Massey, Ned Moss, Bobby Murray, Bobby Kitchings, Henry Kitchings, Reuben Mac- Swain. Ben Allen Rhodes, Donald Fowler, K. D. Lloyd, Billy Joe Bailey and Warren Greene. Jommy Spivey spent the week end in Norfolk, Va. Miss Elizabeth Salmon of West minster Choir College and Harris burg, Va., visited the Carlton Mitchells last week for a few days. Grace and Betty Mitchell re cently spent several days in Rocky |Mount. f Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Mitchell spent yesterday at Campbell Col lege. Bill Brantley is home for spring holidays from Wake Forest. Soil Contest Lauded “North Carolina farmers are just as poor as their soil is, and bankers, being sensitive to eco nomic conditions, encourage con serving the soil and giving it an opportunity to achieve full pro duction,” G. Harold Myrick, Lin colnton banker and chairman of the agriculture committee of the North Carolina Bankers Associa tion, said this week. Explaining why the Bankers As sociation sponsors an annual soil conservation speaking contest for high school students, Myrick said bankers are “keenly aware of the value of agriculture to the State as it relates to the whole economy and recognize that agriculture is the major base in such economy.” “In the speaking contests,” he asserted, “we have stressed the techniques of soil conservation, its economic values to the State, and this year we emphasized soil wastage and its social aspects. The bankers of North Carolina will continue to boost every phase of economic development to the end | that our great State will rate sec ■fcnd to none in economic stability, and financial leader- RUPTURE SHIELD EXPERT HERE AGAIN E. J. MEINHARDI, widely known Rupture (Hernia) Shield Expect of Chicago and Michigan, will be at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Friday and Saturday, April 7th and Bth. Office hours 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. only. Positively no evening office hours. He,has been coming here for 20 years success ful years. Thousands recommend ed him. Ask your neighbors. The Meinhardi Shield positively prevents the Rupture or Hernia from protruding in 10 days on the average thereby guarding against dangerous strangulation. (No surgery, no medicines or in jections, and no time lost.) The smallest or largest and most diffi cult cases are all invited. There is no charge for private consulation or demonstration during above specified days and office hours. (This visit is for men only.) ship. This can be accomplished | only through better farming, the I very foundation of our economy.” Myrick pointed out that more than 4,500 students in 80 counties participated in this year’s contest. In addition, Negro students in 16 counties were given an opportunity to complete in a special division I for the first time. The Negro con j test, he added, will be enlarged gradually until it covers the : whole State. Myrick praised the bankers of the State, county farm and home agents, Extension Service person nel of State College and A. and T. College, principals and teachers, i and the students themselves for j cooperating so wholeheartedly in j carrying out the program. Farm Census Begins All Over United States . A copy of the Agricultural Census Questionnaire for 1950 is being placed in every rural mail box in the nation this month. Lat er a census enumerator will call for the form, check the informa tion, and help complete it if neces sary. Reduced Prices on Baby Chicks U. S. Approved, Pullorum Clean CHICKS ON HAND AT HATCHERY NOW Massey's Hatchery * C Z. 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Weaver, assistant director of the State College Extension Service, says North Carolina farm families can help save considerable time and money by having infor mation ready when the census rep resentative calls. Weaver points out that many | decisions and policies, both public and private, depend on accurate census information. Such infor | mation, he adds, is used in the apportionment of funds for edu ! cation, including agricultural ex tension work; and in decisions as to size and location of business es tablishments, to mention only a few of the more important uses of it. Although the questionnaire is a formidable looking document, with a total of 181 separate question, it really isn’t as difficult as it looks, says Weaver. Many items will not apply to all farmers. Many others require only a “yes” or “no” answer. Acts of Congress provide that individual information given to census enumerators must be held in confidence and cannot be used j for taxation, investigation, or reg- ! ulation; and that census questions must be answered truthfully. The census, Weaver points out, is one of the oldest of American institutions. The first one was taken in 1790, and others have been taken every 10th year since then. Since 1920, an agricultural icensus has been taken every five years. Tar Heel Farm Facts The 10th annual Coastal Plain Fat Stock Show and Sale will be held in Kinston on April 12 and 13. A Surry County farmer, James I Cook, fed more hay last winter !to one cow and one mule than he has fed this winter to eight cows and two mules. The reason: Last spring he seeded a five-acre MfLO^ESS Jp:. * CAMELS ARE SO MILD that in * 1 -Ml' a coast-to-coast te*t of hundreds *'*^* > *£jr~ \ / of men and women who smoked -r-mm i"' ** I Camels and only Camels —for I > | 30 days, noted throat specialists, j making weekly examinations, jP*' reported Notone single case of throat irritation due to smoking CHHIIS j m permanent pasture pasture of La dino clover and orchard grass which has given excellent grazing. Franklin Ward, Route 1, Denton, says he makes more clear money from sheep than from any other type of livestock. Neighborhood farm and home i outlook meeting held each January jin Tyrell County have increased greatly in popularity during the past few years. Total attendance at the meetings this year was 462. The Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Farm and Home Improvement Contest in both Nash and Edgecombe Coun ties this year. First prize of SI,OOO will be given to the community showing the most improvement during the year. Page Three

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