Prizes To Be Given
For Corn Growing
Highest corn yields will
win North Carolina farmers sav
ings bonds with a maturity value
of S400 in the State's 1950 corn
contest The highest official yield
in recent years was 148 bushels
per acre, according to Dr. E R
Collins, extension agronomist at
State College.
Collins says that yields of 125
to 140 bushels usual!' win the
district contests, and sometimes
even the State competition He ex
plains that only harvested and
weighed yields will be accepted
for entry in the contest, and that
shocked or harvested corn can
not be entered
Farmers desiring to entei the
contest should be careful to see
that their acre of corn is harvest
ed by a committee representing
agricultural agencies and busi
nessmen. with a chairman from
outside the count' The acre must
be measured by a county survey
j or, or ;i person recoinmeded
I by the county PMA chairman.
Yields abovc 148 bushels can be
disqualified by the State com
, mittec unless a member of the
! committee is present at the har
vest Certification of any yield
may be disqualified for non-com
pliance in regard to any regula
j tion.
Farmers making an estimated
yield may determine the moisture
content of their corn by sending
one pint of shelled corn in a seal
ed container to Clyde Cornher,
Ricks Hall, State College, Ral
eigh.
The North Carolina Foundation
Seed Producers, Inc., is making
available $100 in bonds to the
highest producer on one acre of
land in the State. In addition, a
S1U0 bond will be awarded to the
highest producer in each of three
areas.
To Carry Safety
Program to Clubs
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The Department of Motor Ve
hicles will carry its highway safe
ty program into 2.400 home dem
onstration and 2,400 4-H clubs
next year. Department officials
reported today |
The North Carolina Agricultur
Predicting Drop
In Potato Crop
I Prospective sweet potato pro
duction declined during the past
month as digging operations be
came general in the State. Octo
ber 1 conditions indicate an aver
i age per acre yield of 115 bushels
j compared with a yield of 120
j bushels per acre expected a month
al Extension Service is cooperat
m carrying out the proposed
program.
Each 4-H club will be furnish
ed a map of the county in which
it is located, together with simpli
fied a map of the county in which
I it is located, together with simpli
fied accident reporting forms and
colored stars, to represent differ
ent types of motor vehicle acci- !
dents, fatalities and injuries. An
accident report will be placed on
the map to locate the accident.
A highway safety skit has been
| prepared for presentation at a
I club program early in the year to
; launch the project. Suggestions
will be made for allied projects
I such as posters, scrapbooks on ac
icidents, surveys of highway haz
jards in the county and programs
| in chapel and before community
clubs.
j earlier or a decrease of about 4
1 percent.
The estimated total production
of 6,210,000 bushels is 6 percent
above the 5,876,000 bushels pro
duced by North Carolina growers
in 1949 but is 16 percent below
the 10 year (1939-48) average.
The average yield of 115 bush
els per-acre compares with a yield
I of 113 bushels last year and is
0 bushels per acre above the 10
year average.
The Nation's crop is expected
total 59,658,000 bushels, 10 per
cent. above last year’s production
but 3.5 percent below the 1939
48 average.
Hearing On Anio
Insurance Rates
State Commissioner of Insur
ance Waldo C. Cheek announced
today that a public hearing will
be held in the Senate Chamber at
Carolina Fire Insurance Fire
consider proposed changes in au
tomobile (physical damage) in
surance rates as filed by the North
10:00 A. M„ October 31, 1950, to
Rating Bureau on Oct o
ber 4, 1950. The proposed changes
contemplate an overall reduction
of about $2,005,900 in the cost of
this type of insurance.
The proposed changes are to ap
ply to private passenger and local
haul commercial automobiles on
ly.
Should Screen
All Reservists
Representative Carl Vinson, of
Georgia, chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee, has
suggested that no one—not even
a congressman—should hold a
commission in the active reserves
unless he car, be ready for ser
vice when needed. A method
should be set up, he declares, to
transfer reservists drawing drill
pay to the inactive reserve unless
they are available for service
when called upon. _
Now Is The Tune
to go to
COURTNEYS
For
FURNITURE
When A Man Dies There Are Three Deaths
7he Dnsfmnd, The Father and The Income
J. PAUL SIMPSON
(General A gen I
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•i nd Loafrrs
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From our children's line of good
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/toys' ami Youths'
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Mas leather midsole and
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Same in larger boys! sizes.
I through 5 1 -2 at only —
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Hen's High Grade Dress Oxfords
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Prices range from - —
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$6.95
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ITEM 1
Men's
Brown Re-Tan Leather
Seamless buck — has leather mid-sole and
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ITEM 8
Brown Leather Shoe
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