The acreage of strawberries available for harvest In North Carolina In M53 well be 5 per cent less than the 1952 harvest ed acreage. Almost every legume com monly grown for bay in the United States grows well over the greater part ol North Car olina. -- See Us -- Before You Buy A Used Car or Truck WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY DUNCAN MOTOR CO. 1 Phone 69 FRANKLIN, N. C. ? i Sewing Offers Chance To Use Original Ideas Do you like to sew and cre ate? Most women and girls do, says Miss Mary Em Lee, State college extension specialist in clothing. And if you do enjoy being original and using your crea tive streak, you can make many ol your own clothing accessor ies. Accessories that show good taste are often way out of line as far as price is concerned, and by making your own, you can have a lot of fun and at the same time save yourself a great deal of expense, she sug gests. Patterns for attractive neck wear, bags, hats, and gloves are found in almost all popular pattern books at your local de partment stores. Accessories are very expres sive of certain modes and per sonalities, explains Miss Lee. They can be dressy, tailored, feminine, exotic and very dra matic, according to the wishes of the wearer. Accessories can ] completely change the charact er of the suit or dress ? "dress ing it up" or "dressing it down" so to speak. Of course, here again, the occasion, as well as the costume and personality, will enter into the decision. The use of artificial flowers as an accessory comes and goes with the seasons. They can strike a small colorful note as can no other small accessory. For -winter, Miss Lee suggests velvet, satin and heavier flow ers in ueep, rich colors ? for > Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water, But Jack got hungry on the way, Went, instead, to Strong's Cafe And Jill came tumbling after. A! Strong, Proprietor I Calves like these make ... I . steaks like these A| Produced In Macon County \fUCIIIiy Dvvl i Consumed In Macon County Baby Beef calves raised by Future Farmers and 4-H Club boys are a source of top quality Beef equal to the best packing house meat you can buy. ^ ? ' * Pictured above is an example of Future Farmers and 4-H Club calves which were bought by Franklin Frozen Foods, Inc., at the Fat Stock show in Asheville last week. Some of these calves will be butchered and sold to the people of Macon County who desire top quality beef. Whether you have a locker at the Franklin Frozen Food plant or a home freezer in your home, give us your order today for a side of this top quality beef. * Franklin Frozen Foods, Inc. Phone 240 Franklin, N. C. iMEtflCA* Pl?e6>DFtfTlAl CAMCXDATE* U*RE MOT AlWAVS NOMINATED By POLITICAL COMVEMT?ONS. T^f FtRST MAltOtUl NOAAIWAT1M6 COMVEMTIOM itf We as- uva$ held ?m Mew yo?* crry U4 \8l2 WEN TME FEDERALIST paghv k.o^?matep peK/m earned. <5 %AAtrtOtfT AlD OF WIND OB Roil on longest PttrJE CM REfOWD FO? TOOfiNAMtm PlAy ...... 7 o/7V, 5* /MoepMi, /931 - ?c?ut noovcn XOvMUH. tw. I I spring and summer, in pastel, lighter weight fabrics. At the present time costume I jewelry is' enjoying a bright spot in women's wardrobes the ! country over. Everyone is wear ing it and enjoying it, too. But Miss Lee cautions those who 1 I New Tomato Is Resistant To Fusarium Wilt Seed of Homestead, a new highly - productive, fussjlum wilt-resistant tomato, is avail able to North Carolina farmers and gardeners for spring plant ing, according to W. S. Barham, vegetable breeder for the N. C. State college horticulture de partment. The Homestead tomato has been tested for five years by the North Carolina Experiment station and has proved satisfac tory; however it is not resis tant to bacterial wilt. No bac terial wilt tomato has yet been developed, Mr. Barham says. The Homestead was develop ed at the U. S. department of Agriculture (USDA* laboratory at Charleston, S. C. and has been tested in Florida. The to mato is named for the town of Homestead, Fla. location of the Sub-Tropical Experiment station ! of the University of Florida, j where the principal trials of its commercial possibilities were 1 ^UIIUUULCU. ? News About People MRS. EMORY HUNMCUTT, Editor ? Telephone 211 i Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Wood and 1 two sons, Danny and Bruce, of Washington, D. C., spent Thurs day and Friday here with Mrs. Wood's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Frank A. Starrette. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Moore re turned Monday, after a two week vacation at Commerce, Ga. W. C. Burrell, Wiley Brown, and Walter Gibson have been at Crystal River, Fla., this week on a fishing trip. Miss Patricia Childers spent the week-end in Charlotte with her sister, Miss Barbara Child 1 ers. Mrs. Ellen Franks, of Hend er%onville, formerly of Franklin, spent the week-end here. Mrs. Sam Alexander and son, David, of Swannanoa, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Gus Leach. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Winkle black are visiting their daugh ter, Miss Pat Winkleblack, in Tampa, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Conley have returned home from Cleve land, Ohio, where they spent several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Overton are on a vacation trip in Flor ida. September, Once Noted For Deaths, Now Seems j To Be Healthiest M~nth I September is the healthiest month of the year, judging from the way life insurance death claims are distributed across the calendar. But it used to be one of the worst, months, according to th 1 ' Institute of Life Insurance. ! A century ago. September | registered nearly the greatest death toll of the year. The best i available statistics for 1850 I showed September to be one ; of the two highest mortality months Of the year in thi? 1 country, with a death ratf j r.earlv twice that of winter , months. Today September shows the smallest death toll of any month This is shown in U.S j mortality .statistics for the j population as a whole and is borne out by the experience among the nation's 86,000.000 I life insurance policyholders | Analyzing the monthly distri I bution of death benefits' ovei | the past flecade, adjusted to | the different number of days , per month, the Institute found that September death payments average 10 per cent below the yearly figure and 20 per cent under the peak March figure. The September improvement over the past 100 years has been doubly impressive. Not only has the month's relative position changed, but the death ate has dropped materially from that of 1850. In 1850, the death rate in the United States was estimated to be nearly 20 per 1,000. The population death rate today Is less than 10 per 1,000. The death rate among life insur ance policyholders is only 6 per 1,000. love costume jewelr; tot to wear too much of it at a time. Use costume jewelry sparingly and use only those pieces that show good taste and fulfill a definite need to achieve the best results, she advises. There have been major changes in the principal causes of death over the cer.tury. A large share of the 1850 death causes have been almost entire ly eliminated. For instance, I about a tenth o: all deaths in 1850 \\f-e reported due to chol e.-a. a disea-e nbw eliminated in the United State* as a cause of death. I I Tuberculosis. then labeled consurr.p'ion. ''?'as the leading cause of 1859 death': It ac counted 'or more than a tenth . of all deaths then but has since become a minor cause, totaling only 2 per cent of all deaths today I More than 40 per cent of the ' 1850 ideaths resulted from con tagious diseases, including chol [ era, dysentery, diarrhea, gen eral fever, typhoid fever and scarlet fever. Today these same 1 diseases represent only about 1 ,|per cent of total deaths in this country. On the contrary, some of the present chief causes of death i were relatively unimportant Id 1850. Heart diseases, now the No. 1 killer in the United States, causing more than half of all deaths, was a minor listing in 1850. Cancer, today the second ranking cause of death, was not recognized as among the lead ing causes a century ago. The 1 relatively low death rates In 1850 for both heart disease and cancer were due. among other things, to lack of knowledge concerning these diseases and to the higher death rates at | younger ages. While September appears to be the healthiest month of the year, the months following It are less healthy, the Institute warns, pointing to the need for health conservation effort* wherever possible. The index of life policy death benefits shows a steady rise after September, until the year's peak is reached in March. For All Your Insurance Needs Lewis Patton Agency 383 -J Box 161