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* « Attend TV Clinic Held In Elizabeth City Hotel Messrs. Joe Thrower, Lester Terry, Ernest Carraway and Jim my Kitchengs attended the tele vision service clinic conducted by Sylvania factory engineers in the Oyster Bar of the Virginia Dare Hotel Thursday night in Elizabeth ( >ty. Quite a bit of information was given, the men report, on ways to improve reception in the to unusual service problems. A combination seofoor* C-jAVco by ^uuisuinea^v meeting: Better Living p For You Bottled pas is your (|iiiek, low cos! solution to rook t iiifj and heating prob lems. Phone 2572. SERVICE COOKING HfdT/Nf-, KOrw/ST(R Brief Review Of Various Markets —<*— The following bsir* .'-eview of various markets is released by the Division of Markets, N. C. De partment of Agriculture, in co operation with the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, us of lust week-end: Hog prices ?5 e'wts...per hundred pounds lower at Caro lina s Cash Hog Buying Stations •durum l.bv week gryfimg7 Kniinj' v 3. Good and choice barrows ami gilts ranged from 17 75 to 18.00 with most markets topping at 17.75. Hogs closed 25 cents lower in Richmond and Baltimore to top at 18.00 and 19.50 respectively. C hicago closed steady to 10 cents lower with a top of 18.75. Cattle prices were steady to stronger for light to moderate receipts at Rocky Mount and Rich Square livestock auction markets. Cows auctioned from 14.50 to 22.75; heifers from 17.50 to 40.50; calves from 24.00 to 45.00; steers H orn 23.00 to 32.25; and bulls from 24.00 to 28.75. In Chicago, slaught er steers and heifers were steady to 50 cents higher and cows and bulls 50 cents to mostly 1.00 high er. Stockers and feeders were steady to strong while vealers j were 2.00 to 3.00 lower. In Chicago's wholesale dressed meat market, steer and heifer beef was steady to 50 cents lower w itli instances 1.0 lower. Cow beef was barely steady and lamb was 1.00 o 2.00 lower. Veal closed fully i steady, mutton firm, and pork \ PLANTING SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Be Sure I o Buy hirm Equipment Thai Will Supply Your Needs. MS «* liuve hundreds of satisfied eustomers who have been using Farniall Trai lers anil eijuip men! for years. Vie will be proud to serve you. WE SELL AND SERVICE FAR MALL Tractors (NEW and USED) POWER UNITS p| I’his iiH attachments to go with tractors and other equipment. ALSO International Trucks SALES ami SERVICE Jenkins Equipment McCormick Farm Machinery INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS Phone 2812 Willianmon, N. C. iWMMWXMlti Disillusion at end of romance RETURNING TO HER FATHER, Deputy Petrakoyoryt, the fiery Tuesoui* brings to a routine ending a romance that at one time threatened to sei ofT a civil war on the island of Crete. The dramatic highspot was attained some time ago when Costas Kefaloyanni abducted Tassoula at ' made her his bride over Ihe fierce protests of her family. Arrested, Costas went to jail for her and natives of Crete were aroused. It's all over now. Costas is disillusioned. Tassoula is home. (International) cuts steady. Fryers and broilers were mostly steady to one cent higher at Cen tral North Carolina points with farm pay prices at 30 cents per pound. Heavy hens were mostly steady to one cent weaker at 26 to 27 cents for the farm. Fryers were generally steady at other leading southern producing areas. Closing farm pay prices ranged i from 29 1-2 to 31 cents in the j North Georgia section, from 29 1-4 j to 33 cents in the Delmnrva area,! and from 29 to 30 cents in the Shenandoah Valley area. Egg prices were steady in Ral eigh. Local grading stations paid 43 cents per dozen for A. large; 40 for A, medium; 38 for B, large; and 33 to 35 for current collec tions. In New' York, sweet potatoes closed firm with bushels of U. S. j No. 1 Porto Ricans from North j Carolina wholesaling from (1.001 to 6.50 with most sales at 6.25 to j 6.50. Strawberries were steady to film with Florida Missionaries re- \ pmted from 32 to 33 cents per! pint and a few as high as 35. Corn prices continued to show! a weaker tendency at Eastern ! North Carolina markets with de creases up to live cents per bushel 1 reported at si veral markets. Num her 2 yellow is jwv quoted from' 1.70 to 1.80 per bushel; however most markets reported a range i from 1.79 to 1.75. In the Piedmont section, Numbei 2 yellow ranged firm 1.83 to 1.90 per bushel. Num ber 2 white corn also declined in the eastern section to range from 1.56 to 1.75 per bushel. In the Piedmont area, numbei 2 white is reported from 1.75 to 1.90 per | bushel. Soybean prices were I steady at eastern markets to range , from 2.50 to 2.65 per bushel for Number 2 yellow. Wheat declined ( ten cents pel bushel' in Aibe- , | mane and number 2 i cd winter || was quo'ed at 2.40 at piedmont j, markets. Number 2 red oats were j ’ ten cents per bushel weaker in!( Albemarle but were steady at i | other markets to range from 1.00 h> 1.10 per bushel. Milo prices were unchanged at mostly 3.00 to 3 25 per hundred pounds. Spot cotton prices declined 2.45 -Cnt.s per bale on the Nation’s ten leading markets during the week. Reported sales in the ten markets totaled 157,200 bales compared with 145,600 bah . last week. Prices for middling 15-16 inch cot ton averaged 41.44 on Friday. I'his compares with 41.93 a week ago. For Foolish • Mrs. Jones: Well, Mr. Smith, where have you been? Mr. Smith: To Mr. Brown’s fun ?ral. Mrs. Jones: Is he dead? Mr. Smith: No, they just want 'd to have his funeral. Tax Probe Witness n i Arthur H. Samish WITH a broad smile and a wave ol the hand, Arthur H. Samish, beet and liquor lobbyist,.prepares tc tc*lj|v before a House'Ways and 4e*Ts; Meifffs subcoinmittee in San Fran cisco. The legislators arc probing tax irregularities in the west rn:«Rr *rr» (Jutprnational) State College Has Timely Answers ! It is not practical for a flue cured tobacco grower to raise aromatic tobacco too. The laboi demands for these two tvpes o! | tobacco both reach their j the same time during the harvest : season. For this reason it is not | considered practical for due-cur | eel growers to add aromatic to bacco to their operations However, there are many fann ers in the Piedmont and western areas of North Carolina who do not have an allotment for produc ing flu. -cured or hurley and who need a supplemental cash income, or additional labor income, for their families. For many of these people, aromatic tobacco may be | the answer. I Indications arc that the demand | f« r forest products will continue | strong in 1952 and prices arc ex , peeled to remain near present M"vels. * Forestry spi dalist at State Col lege say this is a good time for Tar Heel farmers to take advan tage of the high pulpwood de mand by thinning old field stands and getting rid of cull trees. Pine pulpwood stumpage aver ages $5 per cord, whereas the price on delivery to tin* buying yard averages $12. The difference is s her Tv.rn it he i;ng yom own cutting and hauling. If you haven’t done so, order tree seedlings now' for planting idle or cutover land. In selling raw timber, veneer, j and hardwood, mark and measure '-.-.eh tree p be •.old Sell on writ ten contract. Don’t sacrifice tim ber. Veterans On Pension Rolls I\ear 2 Million The Veteraps Administration es timates an average of 1,677,90 World War II veterans will be re reiving pensions and compensa tion in the year ending June 3( 1953. In addition, some 3,521, 60 veterans and dependents of ae ceased veterans will he receivini benefits. Hens on U. S. farms laid 4.1 billion eggs in December. Arriving Weekly NEW SOFAS Stop By and See Them ! Electronic Brain | Now lit Operation At the University of Illinois, an Ordvac has passed its final examination with perfect grades aijd will soon be put to use by the V: tp.v r* . * V-J ;..t . set r...% i A-y -i IX-X( 'it va i'i ■Laboratories in Aberdeen. Mary land. The Ordvac is an electronic NOn H CAROLINA brain, u nii'!v h■ i; 2,720 vacuum tubes ..ml .. can- ■•...ultiplj twelve digits by tvveive other dig its in one-thousandths of a second. An Ordvac ran store away 1a024 numbers and recall any one of them in thirtysix-ono millionth of a second and, in five hours, can complete computations taat would Uvh:- fiity-re by a-:na» opm i! ing an ordinary electric adding machine* In two weeks, it can solve a problem that would eri gage t’u* attention of a hunter mathematician for more than on« thousand years. The first Ordvac to go into oper ation is a mathematical whiz which tusked back answers to i series of questions put to it dur ing its final examination. Army m v •1 ‘ • U,.-;... ^.> -;: ;.U\\ ;a the machine eight hours a din lor one fu!* week and every few ! seconds an answer popped up,. Mot only were the answers err- , rect, but the man in cnarge of th-r ‘ machine said that. "Ordvac” ws j loafing and could produce the an swers in two seconds flat. One of the problems answerer! ' by the machine was the problem ; of calculating successively the .UXl'T i<Tii\ ■:> ‘ 2.000. 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