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, CAPITAL REPORTER Raleigh. N C . Oct.—With elec lion time just around the corner, some of the so-called political ex perts in Raleigh are predicting that Willis Smith — senatorial nominee — will be low man on the Democratic ticket . They don't think he'll be defeat ed by Republican E L. Gavin of Sanford, but they do think he'll receive less votes than any of the other Democrats on the State tick et. Meantime, nothing much has been said about the five proposed, constitutional amendments. All of them are favored by Governor Scott and other State officials, as well as members of the North Car olina congressional delegation They have been mentioned—some of them—briefly at district ral-1 lies All five of the amendmentsj have been approved by persons | who have studied them. General ly, they would help improve the personnel of the legislature, safe guard retirement funds and help speed and improve justice In a local beer and soda empor ium there is a card on the mirror advertising the business of insui ancmen Ira W. Day "Face the Fu ture with Security", it says Day apparently leaves no stone un turned to try to help his own fu- I ture. He was quite active locally j in the Democratic primaries last 'spring in behalf of Willis Smith, | Democratic nominee for senator. A report filed this week with Sec retary of State Thad Sure lists Day as contributor of $50 to the Republican campaign fund. Thus Day is now spending his money to help fight the man he supported last Spring. Some of Governor Scott's most ardent critics last week again were reminded of their predic tions that his administration would bankrupt the State, run North Carolina so far in debt that she would never get out. For last week the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission made it official that North Caro lina's 25,000 school teachers will get their contingency pay raise. That means that it now seems fairly certain that the State will have a surplus of more than $7, 000,000 above the $142,000,000! budget for the current fiscal year.! These same critics of the Cover- I nor now are yelling that Scott is letting down his farm friends by i suggesting that exemptions—man- j nv of them favorable to the far- j mer -might be removed from the* sales tax Limitations were put on farm i machinery and various farm sup L. JAMbb L.UK.JN liUUSli BETHEL, NORTH CAROLINA Write or call L. N. JAMES Office 3601 : Corn House 2041 ' i Residence 2511 VMWVVWVWWVVVSAlVVVWVWWVWVVVVWVWVWUVWWWVfWVWVVUWWI^ i<i-:<;istekki> bkkrsiiikk - The Lean Meat line - Our winnings at N. t . Fair 1950: 1st and 2nd Junior Boars; 2nd Young IbTd: 1st Produce of Dam; 3rd and 4th Junior Sows; 1st Get of Sire BRED GILTS AND BOARS FOR SALE! JAMES K. STEVENSON PALMYRA, N. C. AMAMVt/WVVVUVVVVtAMWVWVWWVVVVWVVVVAMVVVVtAnMMk' ! plies, needs and products to hcl, the farmer, they claim. Now, th critics aver, here is the farmer' professed best friend proposin elimination of these same exemp | tions. They are the same critics whi ;have charged the Governor will ; being more friendly to farm folk: ! than city folks. They have beer critical of everything he has done They have been unhappy when ever his actions proved right They have been happy only when they thought the Governor was slapped in the face, first with de feat of his senatorial candidate Frank Graham and second when j the Democratic executive com mittee refused to name his ap pointee Murray James as Demo cratic candidate for the supreme 1 court. From here, it looks as though the Governor's suggestion seems to show that Kerr Scot believes farm folks should bear their pro portionate part of the tax load in accord w ith their ability to pay. But, except for farm and food exemptions, the exemptions now favor the man more able to pay than they do the poorer folks in North Carolina. The unfortunate truth seems to be that the folks who now are trying to make it look as though Kerr Scott has turned his back on his farm friends are the ones who would benefit most if exemptions stayed in the sales tax. Several Raleigh drugists are un happy. All of the drug business from Central Prison Hospital has been going to the same lone Ral eigh druggist for the last 12 years. Ironically, the druggist getting this business has fought Kerr Scott tooth and toenail on every thing, including the Governor's senatorial nominee Frank Gra ham. But he still gets Central Pri son's business. Some of the other druggists, particularly those who supported Kerr Scott, don't think they're being done right. But it so happens that one of the pri son's top brass and the anti-ad ministration druggist are buddies, so he keeps on getting the busi ness. * » * Slickest maneuver of the week was by Conservation and Develop- ^ ment Board Members F.ric Rod gers of Scotland Neck and Roy Hampton of Plymouth. At the C; and D meeting in Charlotte, they 1 railroaded a resolution through favoring erection of a dam on the Roanoke River by the Virginia Electric and Power Company in stead of by the government. The coup was staged in the last five minutes of the four-day ses SINCLAIR HUNTS OIL BY LAND, SEA AND AIR TO HELP SUPPLY AIRIAl. PHOTOOft*. PNYudfKOMliMM are uaad to up gening * ical atructoro ot eartfe’e aurface in Sindnir'a ka>‘ tenaified aearch tor now oil-bearing atroctnree. Ifa part of Sinclair^ $150,000,000 arpaoaten program to help meet todajr’a record demand UNDER WATER exploration is yielding new, un tapped oil reserves. Picture shows use of the gravity ooeter, one of the newer scientific tools employed by g“>fUtr tP.nap subsurface formations. SHOT HOLE drilling machine m ueed by Sinclair to drill holea (or uptosivn charge*, thn tlida of ilil> , are recorded by eenaitive Seiamograph to mafwOton ground formation! •» dnap a* 15,000 (Mt N. C. GREEN, AGENT WILLUMSTON. N. C. 3 5 Higher Incomes For Farmers Are Expected In 1951 ' —»— 1 Most farmers will receive high er incomes in 1951 than this yeaj but production goods, family liv ing and taxes will cost them more The outlook for higher income stems from: 1. the likelihood tha prices of most farm products wil average well above 1950 levels and 2, the prospect that agricul tural production will total th< largest hi history, if the wcathei is normal. Prices received by farmers crept upward through most of the first half of this year, then climb ed rapidly after the Korean War broke out. By mid-September prices averaged 10 percent higher than in mid-June. The gains so far mean that farmers prices will be considerably higher than a year earlier as 1951 begins. Much of the expected boost in farm output will come from meat animals and cotton. Cattle and hog marketings are expected to increase and the cotton crop is likely to be much larger than this year’s small output. Smaller in creases are expected for other farm commodities. With prices and production both up, farmers probably will get about 10 percent more from mar ketings than this year. Since pro duction expenses probably will not go up as much, the net in come realized by operators may rise 15 percent or more but proba bly not to the levels of either 1947 or 1948. And rising prices will hold the purchasing power of farm income below each of those two years. Behind the prospect for a stronger consumer demand for farm products is the outlook that business and industrial activity will continue at a high rate well into 1952. The economy has been on the upgrade since mid-1949; is now operating at the highest lev els in history except for the peak of the World War II effort. Em ployment and consumer income are at record levels, and will be pushed higher. Chief factor in the business and industrial outlook is the Defense program. Military spending is now running at an annual rate of about 15 billion dollars. Under the present program, the rate is expected to about double by mid sion. VEPCO showed no interest in building the darn at Roanoke Rap ids until the federal government had built the Buggs Island dam, which regulates the flow of the water at Roanoke Rapids and makes the new dam possible. The federal government has plans for a dam there, too, and the Federal Power Commission has held extensive hearings on whether the dam should be built by, private enterprise or federal funds. All of which makes the last minute move by Rodgers and Hampton take on new signifi cance. They simply are siding with the private power companies in their running fight with Gov ernor Scctt. At the Charlotte C and D meet ing, Interior Department officials charged that there is not ample power and that public power de velopment is necessary in our ex panding economy and war effort. Hampton, presiding over the meeting, called for questions or statements by private power rep resentatives — headed by Louis Sutton, CP and L proxy. They said nothing at the public meeting. But immediately afterward, Sutton held a press conference, where his statements could not be challenged, and reiterated his statement that there is plenty of power and that private companies are doing a fine job. CP and L, incidentally, has been putting on quite an advertising and promotion campaign stating this and cussing Governor Scott, who has said repeatedly that North Carolina needs more power than the private companies are providing. CP and L is taking costly ads in newspapers and is using direct mail to try to plug the fact particularly that they pay taxes. Actually, the consumer pays the taxes when he pays his light bill, so from the consumer stand point it doesn’t make much differ ence. He comes out about the same. If he has private power but pays more to help the company pay its taxes, or if he has cheap public power but has to pay more taxes personally, it winds up com ing out of the consumer's pocket any way you look at it. But, 1 think, under the Ameri can way all of us would rather see private industry do the job—if it will provide the service. Ameri cans have always turned to pub lic building—now suddenly term ed socialistic—whenever private enterprise failed to deliver the goods. 1951. and will continue to rise in the 1951-52 fiscal year. This will mean more jobs, higher wages, longer hours of work—and ex panding buying power of consum ers. Foreign demand for many U S. - products is also likely to increase, t with food a probable exception. We are now importing at the high est rate since the war ended and ' are likely to buy more abroad as ’ the stockpiling program gains mo I mentum. The additional dollars received by foreign countries from this trade will more than offset reductions in U. S. economic aid. Furthermore, special, appropria tions for foreign military aid will finance exchange of goods for mil itary uses. Strengthening in domestic and foreign demand will push upward on prices of most consumer and , industris! commodities. j Production Of Honey Reduced Based on reports from bee keepers in North Carolina, in cluding farm and nOn-farm apiar ies, honey production in 1950, esti mated at 3,515,000 pounds, is well above the ‘'bad year” of 1949. Even so, this will be the second smallest take of honey since 1945 | when a record low of 2,124,000 pounds was taken. Due to several adverse condi- : tions such as a mild winter, late ; spring freezes, low prices, etc., a loss of several colonies was ex perienced this year. A total of I 185,000 colonies is currently es-‘ timated for this year. This is a decline of over 2 percent from a total of 189,000 colonies in 1949. Yield per colony is estimated at 19 pounds compared with 13 pounds in 1949. Yield this year was below normal and was the second lowest since 1945. Due to late spring freezes, and a pro longed period of ruiny weather during mid-July the spring and early summer honey flow was far short of normal. However, late summer and early fall weather was very favorable to bee activi- I ty and in part compensated for , the short early season flow. For the United States as a / whole, the 1950 hone>y crop is now estimated at 234,153,000 pounds— | 3 percent more than last year’s crop. This increase in production I was attributed mostly to higher per colony yields, particularly in ' North Central and South Atlan- i tic states. Estimated stocks of honey on Champion Colion Grower In Bertie Six bales of cotton grown on 3.7 acres in spite of heavy rain fall and severe boll weevil infes tation prove the value of cotton dusting and following approved practices. That is the yield one Bertie County Negro farmer, Charlie Hardy of Roxobel, re ceived from his cotton acreage this year. M. W. Colemen, Negro county agent for the State College Ex tension Service, says Hardy is be ing called the most successful” cotton grower of the year in Ber tie County. The total yield was 2,958 pounds of lint. Hardy still has on hand 300 pounds of seed cotton. The cotton was ginned at Rich Square and Hardy has sales slips showing that the six bales weigh ed 503, 505, 502, aOO. 480, and 463 pounds. The acreage figure for the land is the official PMA mea surement. Hardy used the Coker 100 va riety and planted it between April 13 and April 25. He used COO pounds of 5-10-5 fertilizer at planting time and later side dressed with 110 pounds per acre jf nitrate of soda. The cotton was dusted seven times, the first application hav ing been made around June 15. For each application he used be tween 15 and 20 pounds of dust per acre and did his dusting with i six-row tractor-drawn dusting machine. Although the dusting material cost him $120, Hardy >ays he wishes he had dusted the crop at least once more. Ever notice how much more it costs to support one bad habit han many good ones? hand for sale in all states by pro ducers in mid-September were 120.274.000 pounds compared with 115.342.000 pounds last year and a 5-year average of 03,744,000 pounds. Farmers' Worth Is $115 BUlion The nation's farmers in the ag gregate had a net worth of $ 114.7 billions: at the beginning of this I year nearly $2 billions lower than 1 the year before but more than 2 |l/2 times greater than a decade j ago, according to the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. The dominant factor in agricul ture’s worth, of course, is the farm plant, including livestock, machinery, etc. This was apprais ied SI05.3 billions on January 1 this year as against $105.9 billions the year before and only $48.8 billions in 1940 However, the biggest relative gain was in farm ers' cash assets which in the ag gregate came to $21.8 billions at the beginning of this year, little changed from last year and more than four times as much as a dec ade ago. Agriculture’s debts rose some what over a billion dollars in 1949 to a total of $12.4 billions at the beginning of this year. Total lia bilities 10 years ago were $10 bil lions. All things considered, there fore, farmers' debts as a whole have as yet risen only moderate ly in the decade. Carnivals To Pay Regular License Taxes In Future (Continued from page one) lines project. All members of the board, in cluding Commissioners David Moore, K. D. Worrell, W. O. Grif fin, Leman Barnhill and N. C. Green were present at the meet ing which was presided over by Mayor Robt. Cowen. —-$ One thing a student of mathe matics never learns is that curves can make a triangle. A Three Days' Cough IsYour Danger Signal Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial membranes. Guaranteed to please you or money refunded. Creomulsion has stood the test of millions of users. 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