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.
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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.
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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
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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
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? 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.
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