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National Farm Safety Week To Be Observed July 19-25 Suppose you heard a news flash reporting that Albemarle, Reids ville, or Elizabeth City had been wiped out without a survivor. What a horrible thought, and yet the population of any one of these cities just about equals the number - of deaths from farm' accidents in tl*e United States last year. To make this needless loss even more staggering, for each one of these deaths there were about 80 time loss injuries, and many of these were permanent. Now, do you wonder why we need Good Rains Save County's Tobacco Crop Rain which fell in Orange County on Thursday, Friday and Saturday will save the county's tobacco crop, according to local, observers. “Our number one crop was hanging In the balance when the rains fell last week,” declared one spokesman here today. “Com, garden and pasture crops will re- < vtve to a large extent, he added. Most tobacco growers agree that tobacco production is cut to varying degrees by the extended dry period which extended from June 3 to July 9 in the major portion of the county. However, the rain came in the nick of time to save the day for most tobacco growers. From one to 3 inches of rain drenched the ' county to put new life in the num ber one crop. Most of the growth which will j result frotn the life-giving showers ; will occur in the top half of the j plant. Although most non-irrigated tobacco had gotten hard in the top, the moisture will cause tobacco to take a second growth and make marked improvement. “Farmers have already started talking about the tremendous im provement in their tobacco crops since the rains fell,” said one ex pert. “With favorable weather to follow we can still produce a good crop of tobacco in Orange Coun- j iy,” he said. Smohey Saysr so many hospitals? July 19-25 has been proclaimed by the President as National Farm Safety Week Let's observe the week as the highlight of a year aruund program, suggests H. M. Ellis, in charge extension agricul tural engineering for the N. C. Agri cultural Extension Service, because just as sure as the old saying that practice make perfect, safe prac tices can cut down in the number of accidents. The theme for National Farm Safety Week is "Safety Makes Sense." Let's think about that for a minute, Ellis urges. When an accident occurs, there is j bound to be a reason. Careful in- ! vestigation practically always re veals that the cause of the acci dent is human, failure. Do you want to argue with that? The person killed grossing the street might have been 100 per cent right, but the driver of the death car failed somewhere along the line. This simple explanation won’t solve every case, but statistics de finitely prove that human failure and not motor vehicles, not farm implements or animals is the basic cause of .accidents. Immediately many of us will say that to fail is only human, and that certainly is true; but let’s take a good look at these human failures— and when we do, we find we can do something about them because hu man failures include: hurry, lack of common sense, improper equip ment, improper care and use of equipment, procrastination (which is a Sunday word for putting things iff), false confidence, lack of knowl edge. ’ “We can cut down on this need ess waste of time, lives, and suf fering fey developing proper atti :udes," Ellis concludes. “The fu me happiness of your family coukl well hinge on your attitude.” Baby Contest For Scholarship Fund Is Underway A baby contest for tots under five icars of age is now underway. The contest opened on July 14 and will :lose on Sept. 15. The contest is sponsored by the Hillsboro 'Improvement Association o benefit the scholarship Amd. /otes arc ten cents each. Prizes vill be awarded to the three tots Tceiving the highest number of ■otes. Mrs. Ruth Long and Mrs. Hazel 3ayne are co-chairmen of the con est committee. The contest is open o all babies and children under ive in and around Hillsboro. Pa ents and others who wish to spon or a baby in' the contest may con act the chairmen or any member }f the association. Mrs. C r e o 1 a Srady is the committee member representing the Mars Hill section. IMtMtUM *•««••• A TASTE TREAT YOU'LL REMEMBER At Yoor Favorite Grocery Or Market Piedmont Pocking Co., Hillsboro TWO GEORGIA HOLIDAY SPOTS STAND OUT FROM THE RESTI I , „ J oflho world's orsry todUty and octtrRi wat*r fishing ... It-hoU_ Mgbttr ts tho booutUal Rlrsuhls issd ckHtMss and flam. No Boo COMPUTE fACUITItS FOR • • o o obo o• • • o Alt CONDITIONED SSSSS DeSotc Beach ^OMMOcmii I ^SAVANNAH, GA. Lfw infot motion about oitfcor hotol, writ* John' r5oar«* Gca. Aty, Caiarai Oftato** ttaftl . . . . 14 . . . SEEKS BASEBALL TITLE—Orange County'* antrant for tha title of Mi*» North Carolina Somi-Pro Baseball, to be selected at the state baseball tourney in Roxbero this Saturday and a week from this Saturday night, is Miss Jyan Neville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C- Navllla of Rout* One, Chapel Hill. She was entered by the Whit* Cross baseball team. Wootten-Moulton Photo --_r_-r—-- T Garvin Asks Appropriation For Polio Shot? Dr. 0. David Garvin Monday called upon the Board of County Commissioners for a special ap propriation to purchase polio vac cine. He said the need is great and noted that other counties in the district were making special pro visions for the emergency, caused by a reduction in the number of doses received from federal sources ir. the current year. He said the additional funds were needed for school children between the ages of six and 12 years and for pregnant mothers who say they can’t afford to get it from their pri vate doctors. The polio vaccinations aie now required of all children be fore entering school The commissioners, while appear ing favorable to the request, di rected Dr. Garvin to consult the county chapter of the polio founda- j tion to see if it would undertake to | provide the necessary funds from! March of Dimes money, before rending a decision on the request. In other action prior to continuing j their work on the current budget, j the board increased the amount of j insurance carried on county build ings by $100,000, $75,000 of which was added to the coverage on the. new courthouse. Wool Producers Vote On Promotion Pact : During September Tar Heel producers of wool and lambs will be permitted to vote in a referendum indicting their ap proval or disapproval of an agree ment with the American Sheep Producers Council, Inc. ^ccirding to W. M. Snipes, Chair man of the Orange County ASC Committee, the agreement, if fav ored, would continue the financing cf the Council's advertising, promo tion, and development activities. This financing is accomplished through deductions from weel pay ments. Under the original agreement, de ductions have been made from pay ments at the rate of 1 cent per pound for shourn wool and ,5 cents per hundredweight for lambs. Un der the new agreement, the deduc tions cannot exceed these rates. The funds obtained from the deductions from wool program payments will be used as in the past to finance activities of the Council to enlarge or improve the market for pro ducts of the industry. . Mr. Snipes further explained that all producers who have owned sheep or lambs. 6 months of age or older, for any one period of at least 30 days since January 1, 1959, will be eligible to vote. Each producer will report the number of sheep and lambs on his ballot. Ballots will be distributed to pro ducers by mail prior to the Sep tember referendum. Ballots may be voted during the period, Septem ber 1 through September. 30. The extended period of voting, which was also followed for the 1955 re ferendum, is aimed at encouraging participation in the referendum by as large a number of sheep pro ducers as possible, he said. North Carolina’s green pepper crop in 1956' was valued at $1 mill ion, "* Millions Manufactured Here It's Hot Dog Month The month of July is Hot Dog month and Piedmont Packng Com pany, local meat packing plant, em phasizing this observance, will man ufacture approximately one and one-quarter million hot dogs during the month. ’ National Hot Dog Month was in augurated four years ago by the manufacturer of hot dog casings for skinless hot dogs, as a service to the public and to Meat Packers and Retailers. It has now become a cooperative program of Meat Pack ers across the country and of man ufacturers and distributors of hot dogs, condiments, bun and bread producers, and many allied food product firms. In the origin of the hot dog a mixture of fact and considerable controversy attributes the.first frankfurter to a meat packer in the city of the same name—Frankfur tam-Main, Germany. Viennese, how ever, point to the name ‘‘wiener” as proof that their city gave birth to the spicy sausage-type meat. Ap parently. though, it all happened in the 16th century and Frankfurt has the nod from most food historians. The bulk of verification of the wiener and the elongated bun is be lieved to have orginiated at the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposi tion of 1904. A concessionaire lqaned white gloved to customers so they could hold the hot wieners until he lost so many pairs that he called on his .brother, a baker, for help. The baker produced a bun to fit the meat' and "the' wiener stopped being just a sausage and became a sandwich as well. ' The hot aog Is not for any one class distinction. It is reported Queen Elizabeth served hot dogs to visiting members of the American Bar Association in 1957. President Franklin D. Roosevelt served them to the present Queen’s father and mother when they visited at Hjrde Park, New York. Hot dogs, perhaps more than any other typically American food, went round tht world—to stay—as home -;_l._ ¥*f Social Security Rulfcs Explained For Domestic Group Domestic workers who work Hi private households are covered un der the Social Security Law, if cash wages they receive from any one employer amount to as much as $50 in a calendar quarter. Employers are required to make a report direct to the Internal Jte venue Service, Greensboro, within 30 days after the end of the calen dar quarter in which the work is performed. The next quarterly re port is due in July and should be made on Household Report Form 912, which can be obtained by writ ing the Internal Revenue Service, rhe employee’s full name, social security number, the amount of wages paid (including the amount of the tax), are included in this re port. Persons h» Orange County can get details about this and other phases of social security by writing the Social Security Administration, 1433 Broad Street, Durham, N. C„ and asking for Pamphlet No. 35, "Your Social Security.’* ARRA SMITH REUNION The Arraamith family will gathers here tomorrow for their annual family reunion. sick GI’s longed for their favorite foods. The skinless frankfurters became' popular in the early '30’s. At that time, national production was about 13t> million pounds. Last year total output of American packing plants was more ithan one-billion pounds. The average- five inch hot dog has about 120 calories. There are 10 hot dogs in the average pound pack age. The largest hot dog ever made in this coaqtry is believed to have Been one 17;•feel long, five inches in diameter weighed 80 pounds. •American writers haVe given a variety of names to hot dogs: frank furters, franks, wieners, red hots, pups, hot pups, V i e n n a s and wienies. _ ...The recipes for. making hot dogs Sre as marvy as the names given to them. There are all beef and mixtures of beef and pork. Some are all meat and other have vege table fillers added. The vegetable dye on cellulose casings makes dif ferent tint*, possible, ranging from debp red td nghi orange. People in the south prefer bright red while sjftsternera iigbem to prefer orange. In, the sou^west, red and dark orange > are most popular. On the west coast where people come from all parts of the country, all shades if hot dogs are popular. Custom Of Picnicking Dotes Back To Ancient Greeks The picnic has become an Amer ican institution. From Colonial days to the present time it has been ideally suited to the American way of life. However, picnics have had a long and interesting history dating back to the early Greeks. '■$ “The actual word, ‘PichtcY * on ly 200 years old, but the idea ^oes all the way back to the Ancient Greeks and even earlier. Plutarch means a picnic by the seashores, a favorite Athenian picnic s(aH The Greek word for- picnic meant ‘contributor feast,’ one to which all who attended brought some of the food or drink. When this word was first used by an Enghsh writer — Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son — the affair described was a party to which ail brought some of the food. “In the early Nineteenth Century, guests at an English picnic contri buted food, drink or entertainment. The usual method was to present the menu to those "invited. Then, they drew numbers corresponding to items on the menu and furnished whatever they had drawn. “As "with so many other things, the word ‘picnic’ was popularized when it attracted a degree of notor iety. Some members of the British aristocracy formed a private club which they named, the ‘Picnic Club.’ Before the members sat down to a picnic meal, they entertained themselves with a series of private theatricals. Although these perfor mances were somewhat like char ades, the people were scandalized at these goings-on and the scandal helped to popularize the word. "By 1812, the original meaning was lost and the modem one, a meal eaten out-of-doors, was taken on. “The origin of the word ‘picnic’ is unknown It is thought to have English roots, but a French origin since it appears in a French dic tionary dated 1694. It was almost a century later when “picnic” was frst mentioned in an English dic tionary. The first sylable is thought to be taken from ‘pick,’ meaning a nibble or peck.’’ “The second syl lable could be either rhyming slang or a shortened form of ‘knick’, which means a trifle. Whatever the origin and development of the word and tffe event it stands for, it re mained for the Americans to re fine and develop picnics as a na tional pasttime. "At first, picnics were restricted to some special event such as the Fourth of July. Most frequently, k was a family affair with many re latives and more food. Picnics soon became community events such as ho.use-raisings, political rallies, and T. N. BOONE TAILORS 1 Fine flAede to Order Clothing Since 1914 l BURLINGTON GREENSBORO _ FORMAL RENTALS other activities providing uie occa sion for picnics — if occasions or reasons were ever needed. “Today, the picnic is popular throughout the United States, and each region has its own favorites, from the New England clambake to the Western barbecue. Vacancies In Comity System There we still six teacher vacan cies in the Orange County School system for the coming session, ac cording to Superintendent G. P. ^Carr yesterday. Five of these arc in the white schools and one, a position of guid ance counselor, is open at Central High School. The vacancies are as follows: Ay cock High School, one in social stu dies: at Hillsboro High School, one in English; at Cameron Park, a third grade teacher; at Efland and at White Cross, a second-third grade combination teacher at both places. Demei Daptist Homecoming Set For This Sunday \ The numbers of Bethel Cimrch. wesjt of Carrbon, Highway 54, are planning# nuai homecoming for &L 19th. ’ ^ All former member*, ^ members, and friends are to the morning service of, to lunch on ti* church ft, to the hti|ipy renewal of ( quaintance in the afternoon The Rev. W. Bryar* Can tist Pastor at Matthew*, the morning sermon, music will be rendered by ft rish from Lystra Baptist f and by the home choirs, s, will be spared to ti* si,on a happy one f<y aU The Rev. Leon C. Cheek is p TO ATTEND CAROtINA William Britton Sawyer, i Mr. and' Mrs. Bonner D. is attending a pre-registrati* ference at the University of Carolina in Chapel Hill He has been accepted as * man-in the University aidi ter in September, having all entrance examinations Many a good argument ii| ed down and run over by % Nothing contributes more to better living in North Carolina than its climate. Four distinct seasons, all of them mild, with adequate rainfall throughout the year, make for an equable climate that » pleasant, healthful and with ever changing interest. It is the climate that makes North Carolina a Vacationland of industrial! opportunity. And in those areas where better living is enjoyed to -1 the fullest, they have adopted “legal control" of the sale of beer and ale as the most enlightened system for law-abiding communities. North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. m-tta (ijid, iijld kmajz o| • LETTERHEADS? • ENVELOPES? • OFFICE FORMS? • BUSINESS CARDS? • POST CARDS? • BROCHURES? • STATEMENTS? • BILLHEADS? • FILING CARDS? • BLOTTERS? T • CATALOGS? • CIRCULARS? Yes, you should check your stock of these items now ... and order your supply for the coming months! Hillsboro 4191 SUMMER MONTHS ARE "PRINTING MONTHS" HE NEWS Printing Department Telephones Chapel Hill 8^
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