Tuesday, October 31, 1950
Farm Home Hints
By Ruth Current
A penny in a fuse socket can
set the house afire. Many people
still are unaware of the danger
of overheating wires by replac
ing a burned-out fuse with a pen
ny.
The fuse is a protection. When it
“blows,” it warns that wires are
over loaded that is, more elec
tricity is being carried than the
circuit can handle safely. The
trouble may be using too many
appliances on one circuit, or some
defect in an appliance, a cord or
the wiring. The burning out of
the fuse cuts off the current, thus
avoiding fires from overheating
hidde nwires.
If a penny replaces the fuse, the
cause of the trouble is not correct
ed. The circuit still is overloaded,
and the wires may become so hot
that their insulation may begin to
smolder. Overloaded wires have
smoldered inside house walls for
some days before they have been
discovered. Fires in the night or
when families are away often have
Miss Marie Corbett
Weds Donald Fowler
On Saturday Evening
Miss Florence Marie Corbett,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Corbett of Zebulon, and Joseph
Donald Fowler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Onnie Fowler of Zebulon,
were united in marriage Saturday
evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Zeb
ulon, Baptist Church. The Rev.
Carlton T. Mitchell, pastor of the
bride, performed the double-ring
ceremony.
A program of nuptial music was
preceding the ceremony by Miss
Elizabeth Salmon, organist and
Mrs. C. T. Mitchell, soloist.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father wore a gown of can
dlelight satin with a round neck
line and fitted bodice. Long
sleeves ended in points over the
hands. The cathedral train fell
from a fully gathered redingote.
Her cathedral length veil of im
ported illusion fell from a Queen
Ann’s headdress of the illusion,
trimmed with pearls and lace; the
lace forming the edge of the en
tire veil. She carried a prayer
book topped with an orchid.
Miss Jean Corbett, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor. She
wore a fuchia taffeta dress with a
full gathered skirt. Her head
dress was fashioned like that of
the bride’s. She carried a nose
gay of mixed fuowers.
The bridesmaids were Miss Joyce
Young, cousin of the bride, and
Miss Fay Privette, both of Zebulon.
They wore orchid taffeta dresses
with headdresses fashioned like
the bride’s. Their nosegays were
of mixed flowers.
Mr. Fowler was attended by
Connie Mack Bunn of Zebulon as
best man.
Ushers were Roy Lee Medlin,
cousin of the bride, of Raleigh,
Lenwood and Hursell Fowler, bro
thers of the groom, of Zebulon and
Wendell, and Charles Lewis of
Dahlgreen, Virginia.
For traveling, the bride wore
a wine velvet suit with black suede
accessories and the orchid from her
prayer book.
Cotton Crop Small
This year’s cotton crop in North
Carolina probably will be the
smallest since 1875. Average lint
yield per acre is estimated at 173
pounds B6 pounds below the
average last year, 200 pounds be
low the 10 year average, and the
smallest per-acre yield since 1872.
been traced to such a start.
Every home should have extra
fuses of the right size convenient
ly near the service box where
they can be ready if a fuse blows.
To prevent trouble, wiring should
be inspected and -approved by a
qualified inspector and then rein
spected every few years.
Th housewife as well as her
husband should be familiar with
the size of wires and fuses recom
mended for the home. The Na
tional Electrical Code now rec
ommends No. 12 wire for general
home wiring for lights and small
apliances rather than the No. 14
wire used in the past. No. 12 is
large enough for most electric ap
plances except heavier items like
rang, water heater and cloths
drier. These take special outlets
and circuits.
The right size fuse protects the
wire. For light circuits, a 15 am
pere fuse is recommended. Appli
ance circuits take a 20-ampere
fuse. This information will be
stamped on the metal at the bot
tom of the fuse.
N. C. Board Approves
Five Bills Concerning
Deserters of Families
A public meeting in Raleigh last
week endorsed five bills proposed
by the Domestic Relations Com
mission for recommendation to the
1951 General Assembly, including
one which would provide for
measures to be taken against hus
bands and fathers who desert their
families and flee into other states.
Other bills endorsed at the meet
ing, which was held in the Senate
Chamber of the State Capitol and
sponsored by the Domestic Rela
tions Commission, would require
proper provision for the care of
children before their parents are
granted a final divorce decree;
make parents of children born out
of wedlock responsible for the sup
port of such children until they
reach the age of 18 years, instead
of the 14 years presently provided;
and spell out provisions for the
appointment and responsibilities of
personal guardians of minors or
incompetents.
Dr. Robert Lee of Wake Forest
Law School, vice chairman of the
Commission, who presided over
the meeting, states that the new
bill for forcing husbands and fa
thers to support their families,
even when they had fled to other
states, would be reciprocal in na
ture. "Its effectiveness,” he said,
“will depend upon whether other
states pass it and apply it as we
afe recommending that North Car
olina do.”
The bill would provide that,
under proper procedures, a court
in another state could order a
North Carolinian who had desert
ed his family, and fled to that
state, to contribute to the support
of his family. Passage of the law
would also mean that North Caro
lina courts would take the same
action against family deserters
taking refuge in this state. The
process would not eliminate extra
dition of such deserters, according
to Dr. Lee, but is designed to make
its use unnecessary. The bill is
being sponsored throughout the
nation by the Commission for Uni
form State Laws and the Council
of State Governments.
The Zebulon Record
New Idea Is Tried
Ey Transylvania
County Farmer
A Transylvania County farmer
is trying a new idea in the produc
tion of Christmas trees.
Walter Hart of Brevard observ
ed that Christmas trees generally
are used for about two weeks dur
ing the Yule season and are then
thrown away. The thought struck
him that perhaps some families
would like to use a living Christ
mas tree and after the holidays
plant it about the grounds as an
ornamental tree.
Last Spring Hart set out 1.000
blue spruce and 2,000 Norway
spruce seedlings which he bought
from a private nursery. He spac
ed the seedlin n s three feet by
three feet. When they are ready
for harvesting, he plans to lift
them with the roots on. set them
in individual pots, and sell them
as living Christmas trees.
These dual-purpose trees will
be trimmed in the house for a
brief period during the holiday and
can then be replanted outside.
According to John E. Ford, for
estry specialist for the State Col
lege Extension Service, Hart has
several idle acres of hillside with
a northern exposure. He intends
to develop this area into a Christ
jmas tree plantation by setting
i out a few' thousand spruce each
year.
Native of Missouri
Joins Extension Staff
Doris Dudley Brown, graduate
of the University of Missouri and
Harvard University, has joined the
staff of the State College Exten
sion Service as a farm manage
ment specialist, it was announced
this week by Dr. H. Brooks James,
head of the College’s Department
of Agricultural Economics.
Brown, who will also do
some teaching in farm manage
ment and agricultural economics,
is a native of Richmond, Mo. He
holds a B. S. in agriculture and
an M. A. in agricultural extension
from the University of Missouri
and a Master’s in public adminis
tration from Harvard University.
In addition, he has completed work
at Harvard for a doctorate in pub
lic administration except for his
thesis.
He served as farm agent in
Warren and Marion counties,
Missouri, from 1935 to 194(1, and
as extension farm management
specialist for the University of
Missouri from 1946 until he came
to N. C. State this fall.
Brown was a leader in develop
ing Misouri’s widely known sys
tem of “balanced farming.” He is
the author of an extension bulle
tin on that subject, published in
1947.
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ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of Earl V. Beil,
late of Wake County, North Caro
lina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to
the undersigned on or before the
3rd day of October, 1951, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar oi
their recovery. All persons indebt
ed to the said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This 3rd day of October, 1950.
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