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Thursday. December 14 1939 Tl,E ***Lt sii*K* r Hi e h Court Big Docket lialeigh -The State Supreme -ourv began consideration of one it the heaviest dockets ever Scheduled -.his week with a total of 36 cases -.0 be heard. One case that would attect the tenure of sheriffs in the UK) counties is the one of the ques-; don whether the constitutional I amendment increasing the terms of < sheriffs to four years became effec- ! tive with the election in 1938 or does not become effective until the election in 1940. * * * Ask Labor Study Southern Pines—The Southern 1 i’olicv Committee, at its annual ; meeting here, asked President j Roosevelt to appoint an ‘impartial l committee” to inquire into “basic! differences” between the American Federation of Labor and the Con gress of Industrial Organizations. * * * Plumber Found Dead j Lumberton—Three Negroes were lodged in jail here pending an in quest into the death of. Elias Lamb. . 49-year-old plumber, whose body was found in a field in the Kings-j dale section with a wound on the , forehead. * # , College Rating Raised Greensboro—Dr. W. C. Jackson Jfjm ■gH \ m: exquisitely t. '. M l > lIIXE pay next year Easy weekly payments to suit you No extra cost Bright Jewelry Co. Elizabeth City, N. C. 1 ' ' g | MANY HAPPY “RETURNS” I OF THE HOLIDAY g You can dispense with the mistletoe when you S give The Girl a box of delicious Candy—you’ll get your reward spontaneously, without any I prompting. We have a complete selection of B all the old favorites and some new creations that are bound to please. Drop in and make 3 ” your selection today! | WHITMAN’S I HOLLINGSWORTH Columbia Drug Co. S “Where Friends Meet Friends” B_ , ~ North Carolina ft Columbia dead of administration of Woman’s College has been notiried that Wo man’s College has been added to the list o the Association of Am erican l niversities, highest aca demic rating authority in the coun try, 1 ** * Woman Gets Cup ! Raleigh—The first woman ever to be so honored, Bernice Keliv Harris of Seaboard, won the May flower Cup for the most distin guished North Carolina book of the j >' e ar, Purslane, as’Struthers Burt | of Southern Pines succeeded to the presidency of the State Literary and Historical Association. * * Strike .Ends Asheville— Carolina Power and Light Co. employees who left their jobs November 28 after they had been refused demands for a closed | shop returned to work under an agreement signed by company of ficials and representatives of the International Brotherhood of Elec trical Workers. 1 . . r To Have Road Publicist ! Raleigh—The State Highway and j Public Work commission decided to ! establish a public relations bureau which will be headed by W. M. Jones 0 Charlotte, newspaperman and publicist at a salary of 82,700 per year, subject to approval by the budget bureau. * * * Mistrial in Camden I Camden—After a Pasquotank County jury had deliberated for a jday and a half without reaching a verdict. Judge J. H. Clement of ■Winston-Salem declared a mistrial in the charges of embezzlement of : §11.678.16 against Register of Deeds Howard G. Berry. ; * -t* v To Clock OH Trucks j Fayetteville—That both oil ter minal plants here have agreed to install time clocks on all trucks transporting oil products was re vea’ed by Lieut. A. T. Moore of the Highway Patrol. The devices will be installed in a few days. * * * Forest Fire Controlled j Blowing Rock—A forest fire | which destroyed five summer homes land damaged seven others wa: 1 brought under control near the base 0 Blowing Rock. * * * 1 Dies in Roof Fall Elizabeth City—Arthur A. Gal lop, bookkeeper for the Atlantic ; Discount Corporation, plunged to j his death from the top of the four story Carolina building here. ♦ * Library Dedicated Wilson—With William T. Polk, Warrentcn attorney and great grandson of President James K. Polk as the principal speaker, a $75,000 public library building was dedicated here. * * * Fined in Wage Case Greensboro —Fred Von Canon, manager of the Sanford Furniture Co., was fined $250 and the com pany fined $1,250 in U. S. District Court, by Judge Johnson J. Hayes v. hen pleas of guilty were entered on charges of \ iohui >n of the f ed eral wage-hour act. - 4- * !• treworks Explosion Washington—The second fire works explosion in the State in re cent weeks occurred near here on Hie Cho owinity road last week "'•ten the fireworks stand of Lee (Togo) Wynn, was exploded, the noise being heard over a wide area, and the damage amounting to S 3. 000. misce I I a n y E. M. J. 1 Now that the Times Printing Company windows are in, and the eyes of Manteo are upon us, a num ber of persons have stopped to watch H. O. Chesnut run his type setting machine. (The initial H. stands for Hailey as Mr. Chesnut was named in honor of Halley’s comet.) Before the invention of compos ing machines, compositors set ail type by hand. Very little io now set by hand. The large three-line headlines stretching across two columns are ordinarily the only ones set by hand in the Tyrrell County Tribune. All other heads, plus straight news matter, are set by the machine. The large and less plain type used in advertisements, however, is hand set. The operator has three sizes of type on his machine, in boldface and lightface. This is 8-point type in lightface. Here it is in boldface. This is how it looks in the 10-point size in lisjhtfa.ee. This is a 10-point size type in boldface. Here is 14-point in lightface. And in boldface. Everything' in our paper which looks different from these speci mens above has been set by hand. lihU Jim- is hfnih art. So is this There are a number of different kinds of typesetting machines, the brand name of the Times machine being Intertype. In front of the ma chine there is a keyboard, and be hind the machine there is a supply of letters, each one on a piece of brass which is called a matrix. These matrices have little grooves at one end, and every letter has a different combination of grooves. It is by means of these grooves that the matrices are mechanically re placed. When Mr. Chesnut presses a let ter on his keyboard, a little gate opens and lets the matrix for that letter out of its place. It slides down to its place with the other letters in the same line. There is also a space bar on the machine which puts spaces between words so theywon’tbeallruntogether Tike this. There is also a contrivance to ; expand the spaces to fill the line so the lines won’t be uneven as | these last few are. ! When enough words and spaces aire assembled to fill one line, the operator moves a lever and an as sembly elevator picks up the mat rices and puts them into a mold wheel. Hot liquid metal is forced against these letters, putting all the words in each line on one piece of metal. This metal slug hardens immediately and slides down into a tray at the operator’s left. A distributor bar replaces the mat rices. | Some newspapers were using me- Ichanical typesetting machines in 1853, but at that time the matrices I had to be put back by hand. In 1 1870 a machine was brought out solving this problem. Improve ments are being made constantly and a good operator today can set almost the same amount of type in an hour that a hand compositor used to set in a day. i The keyboard has two sets of let - ters —capitals and small letters (caps and lower case), —and has an arrangement all its own. It is not alphabetical, nor is it arranged like typewriter keys, but the men who invented the typesetting machines tried to place the keys so that the letters most often used and com bined could be most quickly touched. If all this is too technical, come in and see us sometime, and next week I’ll find something simpler to write about. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ARE DECORATING ENGELHARD Engelhard began taking on a Yuletide aspect last week as rner- I chants and their clerks started dec orating their stores, and filling their counters and show windows wih a splendid array of fine Christ mas gifts. Electricians of the i Pamlico Ice and Light Company 1 strung up lines of vari-colored lights throughout the main section of the village as business men en deavored to attract shoppers by decorating their village in the spirit jf Christmas. tut Twonn i rruiMTV TRIBUNE HOG KILLING TIME AGAIN IN TYRRELL COUNTY By THOMAS E. SPENCER i he aroma c.f roasting spare-rib a. a frying chitterlings < I thought if had gone out of style to' cook ' chitterlings b..t several housewives tell me that they still cook them sat'sfy the peculiar taste of their husbands) can he smelled through out the c -unt.y as Tyrrell comes into its own again as hog killing time' ;ohs around. Hog killing, to me, is one of the most interesting events m country life, although I don’t' know A from Z about it, except eating the many delicacies (i-hit *erlings not a delicacy) after the killing is over. The darkies, who expertly clean*j the hogs and skill idly cut them up, ore a picture to behold, as they hum and smile to themselves with a pride that is justly theirs. The boiling water in nearby pots siz-J zles and dances as if, it too, is hap-1 pv about the whole thing. No skTled men of any profession are more proud of their ability than the o'd darkies who kill and dress ’nogs. Th-’V know every thing about thej killings that there is to be known, i for they have helped since they were knee high, when they stayed ■'* their papa’s coat tail ai.d helped him boil water—learning not to ENLISTMENT IN MARINE CORPS STARTS MONDAY j Sergeants Burleigh E. Hudson i and Charles J. I’esek, representa tives of the United States Marine Corps Recruiting Service from Dis trict Headnuarters, Raleigh, N. C., will be at the post office building in New Bern, N. C-, from December ISth to December 21st inclusive, for the purpose o interviewing young men for enlistment in the Marine Corps. Applicants must be white, single, eighth grade or above in education, 18 to 31 years of age, in good physical condition and of good moral character. Young men selected will be fur nished transportation to Raleigh, X. C., for enlistment. Those en listed will be transferred to the Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C.. for training preparatory to as signment to some service school, ship, foreign station, or marine barracks for duty. Information, application blanks and pamphlets describing the life and opportunities of A. U. S. ma rine will bo furnished by the re cruiting sergeants. 1940 AAA PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY FLOYD Announcement by E. Y. Floyd, Triple-A executive officer of State College, of the 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program shows im portant changes in the rates of per formance and soil-building pay ments to farmers for cooperation in the government’s efforts to con serve soil resources and stabilize farm commodity prices. Revision of the rates of soil building payments have been made for the following practices, which in 1940 will be: Seeding alfalfa, $1.50 per acre; seeding timothy and or redtop, 37% cents per acre, seed ing other specified types of legumes and grasses, 75 cents per acre; and turning under interplanted sum mer legumes, such as soybeans, cowpeas, crotalaria, and velvet beans, 37% cents per acre. Floyd also announced that, the rate of credit for application of ground agricultural limestone has been made uniform throughout the State, at $1.50 for each 1,500 pounds applied. The new rates of payments for conservation, or performance, pay ments: Flue-cured and Burley to hacco, 1 cent per pound; cotton, 1.6 cents per pound; peanuts, $2.50 per ton: and wheat on commercial farms, 9 cents per bushel. There was no change from the .1939 program in payments for seed ing lespedeza, seeding winter le gumes, turning under green man ure and cover crops, application of phosphates, terracing, thinning and weeding timber stands, and plant ing forest trees. The rates of performance pay ments for potatoes and vegetables in designated commercial counties likewise were unchanged. Floyd urged farmers to consult with their county farm agent, or their AAA committeeman and de termine exactly how the 1940 per gram can be applied to their farms. CORN Corn gathering time in Hender son County has kept farmers, 4-H Club members, and vocational agri culture students busy harvesting the acres entered in the annual corn-growing contest. ENROLLED A total of 560 farm boys have enrolled in 20 newly organized 4-H Clubs in Caldwell County, reports Max A. Culp, assistant farm agent of the State College extension ser vice. FISHING GUIDE Cards. Printed quickly. Give your parties some thing to remember you by. Times Printing Co., Phone 44, Manteo. scorch it. In the kitchen or wash-house where the sausages are made —and Hyde womenfolk make some of the best sausage in the world—there is racket galore as the Madame and the old Negro Auntie talk their herds off, while they cut large piles of meat. When the Auntie su't talking or singing Hallelujah she is grumbling with herseif for 'dropping a piece of greasy meat on the firor, which she knows mean., one more greasy spot for her to scour when the killing is over. But, j when she gets her arms elbow deep 'in the greasy meat to mix in the 'sage, salt, and pepper, she smiles broadly knowing that the Madame and her husband will praise her for her good work and give her several J pounds of the sausage for her fam ily’s morning breakfast. The whole affair is so interesting,' with its Civil War atmosphere, that I smile to myself thankful that I am a spectator (who might help if j instructed what to do and how to ido it) and most of all. thankful to know' that I can eat the delicious sausage and hatn, which many city folk mouths water for. I i BRIDGES CAN BE BUTT IF THERE IS A WILL TO S. CAROLINA CASE PROVES (Continued from Page 1) or than the ocean off shore. I ! Hunting Island was given to Beaufort County about ten years ,ago by Dr. Arthur E. Elting, of Al Model K-80--on!y HcJlywood&as the names for it... “sensational” is designed for tomorrow as well as for today. 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Fa.. who speci fied that it be Kept us a game sanc i tuary and thai the beach be dentd fped in conformity with tie trop ' leal appearance of the island. The ■small area on which the lighthouse ' stands was deeded to the county by i the Federal Government and in I 19Mb the island was turned ever to —————— i nr— —rainirT-n-iw —it —r-T~rrr GIFT VALUES Ev enin g Dresses $10.95 $14.95 810.95 Evening W raps Also Capes and Short Jackets with Hood $9.95 and $16.95 Lounging Robes ■— Bath Robes House Coats CHENILLE ROBES $4.95 SATIN ROBES $6.95 QUILTED ROBES $5.95 Special! Mother and Daughter BAGS . . . SI.OO SKIRTS, BLOUSES, SWEATERS $1.98 and $2.98 The Fashion Shop Miss Madge McPherson, Mgr. Located in Old Bus Terminal Elizabeth City, N. C. | South Carolina as a State park, j Through the years a small group iof Beaufort citizens struggled to I obtain funds for the development of ! Hunting Island and their efforts | succeeded early this year when the county obtained a WTA grant t-a (build a ss<H>."oo bridge over Har bor River, connecting Hunting and St. Helena Islands. PAGE FIVE
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