Continued support at stake ♦ . .
Cotton vote is set Tuesday;
White Cross is polling place
Bow fanners vote in the cottas
marketing quota referendum to
be bald throughout the Nation’s
cotton-growing area on next
Tuesday wiH determine whether
quota penalties will apply, the
kind of allotment program in ef
fect, and also the level of price
support for 1960-crop cotton.
The referendum therefore .is of
vital concern to every grower,
says W. M. Snipes, Chairman of
the Orange County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
'Committee.
The marketing quota program
will be in operation for next year’s
crop, the chairman explains, if
at least two-thirds of the votes
cast in the referendum 'are in
favor of the program. In that case,
farm operators will haw an op
portunity to elect a choice be
tween <AJ complying with the r
“regular" farm allotments—wih
price support available at not
less than 75 percent of parhy for
the I960 crop of upland cotton, or
(B) complying with an increased
farm allotment 40 percent larger
than the “regular” farm allot
ment—with support at a level 15
percent of parity lower than un
der the first choice; quota penal
ties will apply to any cotton pro
duced in excess of the chosen al
lotment.
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If more than one-third of the
votes are against quotas, there
would be no quota penalties, only
the “regular” allotments would be
available, and the price support
level to eligible growers would
drop to SO percent of parity. All
fanners who were engated in the
production of cotton in 1959 will
be eligible to vote in the referen
dum.
The referendum will be held be
tween the hours of 8 a.m. and 6
p.m. next Tuesday at Whitfield's
Service Station in the White Cross j
Community, located six miles west
of Carrbero on Highway 54. Only
one voting place will be designat-;
ed for cotton farmers to vote at
in Orange County because there
are less than 100 eligible farms.
All eligible voters are urged to
cast their ballot in this important
Colton Referendum.
Coer.eft Graduates
Navy Ens. Walter D. Cocnen.
Supply Corps, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frederic E. Coenen of 407
! E, Franklin St., Chapel Hill,
graduated Nov. 19, from the
Basic Qualification Course at the
. Navy Supply Corps School, At
hens, Ga. Graduates of this 16
week oourse are qualified for
I supply corps duties ashore and
afloat.
Sail *lnrf »,A,T SI‘ MARY s ~ T,d Martin- Chairman of St. Mary's
Soil and Water Conservation Committee and Reid Roberts, spon
•orm, *upermor, p|an ,om# of th# ,etivitiet that WOR Sf M .
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'As soil goes, so people go/ says Hubbard
at Neuse conservation district observance
“As the soii goes, the people
go," Rev. Charles Hubbard, pas
tor of the University Church,
Chapel HiH, said in an address
at the Schley Grange Hall last
Thursday night.
At the meeting sponsored by
Orange County’s Supervisors of
the Neuse River Soil Conservation
District, agricultural, business,
religious, educational, and other
leaders revi&ved the activities of
the District during its 20 years of
operation.
Henry S. Hogan, Chairman of
the Orange County Supervisors,
presided.
Don S. Matheson, a leader in
the organization of the District in
1939, was master of ceremonies
He presented a specially pre
pared report of the accomplish
ments in the conservation of soil
and water resources by the peo
ple and agencies'in the District.
Rev. Steve Kimbrough, pastor
of the Hillsboro Methodist Church
accompanied by Mrs. Harry L.
Brown pnd by^Quentin Patterson
sang a number of Christmas
songs. .
Charlie Hubbard in his ta'k
traced traced the decline of many
civiliztaions that followed the im
poverishment of their natural re
sources.
“Of the once vast forests of
Lebanon,” he pointed out,” there
are now exactly four acres left.
These four acres remain because
a group of monks fenced out the
goats that browse on the scant
vegetation struggling on the erod
ed slopes that once supported
magnificent forests.
“In ihis country, too,” he said,
“we have our problems. Recrea
tion is a vital part of human con
servation. Rut today from Maine,
along the eastern seaboard,
around the Gulf of Mexico and up
the West coast to Washington.
there now remain only 150 miles
of open beach. Along the rest you
have to pay a fee, or you are
trespassing.
COMING
Mrs. Roxie Greeson of Whit
sett is planning to oome here
this Sunday and spend the
Christmas holidays with her
sister, Mrs. O. L. Thomas.
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