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for
as members of the
for this purpose
Florid*
July 24.
dates for other belts are:
Bat, Thursday, August 7;
Eastern Belt, Monday, August 2b;
Middle Belt, Monday, September IS;
Old Belt, Tuesday, September 23; and
Bark Flue-Cured Virginia Belt, Mon
day, December 8. . -
The 1947 dates are, in most in
the same as last year's.
at the crop, however, -ac
count* for a push-back in the open
fag dates of the^Border and Eastern
belts. Last year the Border Belt
opened on August 1; this year it will
epen on August 7. Last year, the
Eastern Belt opened on Auguet 19;
this year it will epen on August 26.
In addition to setting the market
opening dates, the' committee also
adopted a series 41 regulations de
signed to speed tobacco seise.
For the flnt time in the history of
tobacco auctioneering, the selection
of the opening dates and adoption of
aales regulations was entrusted to a
Joint committee of growers,' ware
housemen and buying Interests.
In an effort to avoid last year's
congestion in radrying and process
ing plants, detailed reguktisna?par
ticularly in regard to selling time?
were adopted.
The selling rate will be 400 piles ef
tobacco per boor per warehouse, or
the same that obtained last year, and
the maximum weight of each pile
will be 260 pounds.
The Georgia-Florida Belt wifl open
with a five-hour saite dayrbrut when
the Eastern Belt opens on Atigust 26,
sales time on the Georgia-Florida
Belt will automatically-he redwood 40
per cent. , -
The Border Belt will span-with ?|
four-hour sales 4a*. tat
Middle Belt opens, the
will revert to a three and a-half
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houra 1
?At IhRifidary Olub
the Pitt County
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& fcraVW* uoun -
an quite active in
i hold
.of maintaining ckee
with their alma mater
h other.
Surplus Material At j
Ft Bra** Otfarei For
Sale By
Continuing its inteufTied
flee, War Aaaate
bi| sale at Ft |
June at auiplnaJ
which originally coat the
1760,000.
Sale datea an Jane 26, 27, 80 and|
July 1 and 1 " , .
According to Charlotte WAA Reg-1
daily daring the sale at|
[fort Baagg tem ? sash naming ?
til noon. Ah 1 each afternoon awards
will be made fimt to priority claim
ita, then U> bob-priority buyer*.
el* Was Iti I mi map er may
priority in pur
information and terms an available
St the aale location and aim at WAA
Easterner Service Centers in North
and South -Csnlina at
Greensboro and Wilmington, N. C.SJ
and Columbia, Charleston and Green-1
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Local Mores and meat of the bwrf
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?? Day is one of the
[ days which by-laws of the Farmville
Association state shall be
I observed as holidays. The others in
????Bind Christtteg.'
few Standards Set
For Manufacture Of
Cement, Cinder Block
New regulations governing
I manufacture of cement blocks, cinder I
were.announced by C. D. Ban-|
, superintendent of the We
[and Measures Division of the
department of Agriculture.
the new. regulations, which become I
Oective July 1, were authorised by
iMgWatiou enacted by the 1M7 Gen
1 feral Assembly. They specify Ihatj
| all concrete Weeks, cinder blocks
I other concrete masonry units
[have a load-bearing strength of not]
| lees than 700 pounds per square inch
I of grow bearing area. They also re
I quire manufacturers to make regular
I tetts of their products to assure that I
|the minimum standard is attained!
t be make reports of these tests to f
Weights and Measures Division.
Any person manufacturing and of
fering for sale such products shall
| register with the Weights and Meaa
lures Division the name and address
I of the manufacturing plant, name and I
1 address of the legal office of the
I manufacturer, name and address of!
[such auxiliary plant, subsidiary or)
I holding company, the kind and sizef
| of manufactured units, daily capa-1
|?Jty, aril any identifying mark]
laced on the products,
hi addition, inspectors of the di
I vision riisy visit such a plant at any |
Itime to tag samples for testing by|
| the manufacturer. Inspectors also |
| may select-samples from blocks al
Foliowing legislative authorixa
| tion, the Board of Agriculture adopt
|ed the new regulations in a move to
the -public from sales of
| ferior blocks.
| Livestock Baiang
It Given Boost
Plans for pushing the development
[of North Carolina's commercial live
stock industry as one means of off
itting '? possible decline in i
mue from tobacco are being made
Iby the State Department of Agricu
lture following a meeting, of Eastern
I North Caroling producers aad mar
ket operators" interested in the pro-.,i
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Representatives of the department
._nd the State College Extension Ser
| vice met ia Rocky Mown to discuss
men, county agents and
ftum about 10 east
J.
us^jINPHMH
Fears Uiat Fwmvifl# high school
he able to reopen its ag
d?pertinent after a lapse of
the work in this district
hiflSottiMMd tw? years ago V^teen
the instructor aeeapted a position
with the extension sendee in Ken
tucky, passes fa niiaitow and
ed because no tana or was available.
Qualified personnel la asw available
bat a asw regulation, brought on bp
a curtailment of tfedarai funds for
this type of work, prohibits the use
of State-Federal money for setting
op new departments in schools which
did not hays' the program last year.
If comity officials are not able to
circumvent this ruling as it applies
to FfcrmviUe, it is Kadotstsod here
that funds for the work in 1*47-48
will come entirely from the county
treasury and tint in 1948-49 part of
the burden will be drifted to the
State-Federal appropriation.
- Applications hare been received
from qualified man who aro intenast
ed in the Farm vi He position which
wffl probably be filled by the school
board before Ore
ben also have two other
with which to cope. One is is the
second grade. The other will be mots
difficult to fill. The board needs a
high school mathematics teacher who
can double as an athletic director
without supplement in
The vocational work la a 12-month
project, 'running from July 1 through
June 80. However, it is possible the
MMMa i 1,.. Ml. ..111..
WW neafl oi uio p otttiviiie ocpm*
ment wHl not he roqubad to report
for wwik until a short time before
school
At The Kiwanis Club
With Tarboro Khrsnians as their
guests, members of the FsrsnviHe
club played the role of perfect host
Monday night as they entertained
their visitors with a delirious turkey
dinner prepared in the ?if
Flowers style" and, for the
side of the evening's program, hoard
an inspirational addmaa by Btr. Glenn
Haney, pastor of Eighth Street
Christian Church in GroenvilW. Ibis
was tin second time ta recent weeks
that the two clubs met together. On
Da first occasion, the 1
group went 88-stmng toteo* with tlie
neighbors, who returned the visit
a much smaller delegation,
President Alex Allen to com
ment that the guests "would have to
come again" in order that the two
clubs might "get even" on the mun
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o'clock, which will 5i>
Protestant churches of the t
union services are held each
(Bitter's note: This article was
written at our request by Lola Grey
Kemp and Faye Corbett, the two
young ladies yifcp represented Furo
vffle American Legion Auxiliary at
Girts' State. Miss Ktsnp reviews the
activities Sunday-Tuesday and Miss
Corbett tells about the remainder of
the week.)
Experience has proved that goad
democratic government depends upon
an enlightened citizenship. To this
end, the Tar Heel Girds' State has
been set u^-'by the American Legion
Auxiliary of North Carolina. Its
??i.np is to provide through practi
cal experience an understanding^ of
the structure of our state govern
meat and to develop within the gisis
a sense of their responsibility
political citizens.
Two hundred aid twenty-seven
girls from 98 oossmunitiss ir North;
Carolina arrived an the Woman's
College campus Sunday afternoon,
June 8. The group this year waa the
largest ever to attend Girls' State.
:-Thlr. opening paognsm was held
Sunday night with C. W. Phillips,
the director, in charge. Greetings
were extended by Mrs. T. W. Bird,
president of the State American Le
gion Auxiliary and sponsor of the
ptogrsru; Mrs. A. M. Scarborough,
commission chairman; and Mrs. W.
C. Alexander of the Greensboro
Auxiliary. Prists for the vwt were
safcennoed by Mr. Phillips. At the
?dam of the Sunday night session, s
reesptisa was given by the Greens
boro Auxiliary. \ ?
Monday morning, Miss Louise
frit?del, faculty member, got the
week's study off ts s start with a
lecture on Active Citizenship, stasia
ing the party system sad the elector
al process. The group was divided
into ism gins ry parties, Popular and
Liberty, as s basis for the election of
Girls' State officers. A typical state
was held and a
girls to represent the
tales, Platform, Per
manent,' and Provential?were elect
fc
Monday night, Dr. E. E. Plaff, pro
of history eft the oott?e and
authority on
"Our Civilisation and Us." Theme of]
his lecture was "How our
sun be sated snd is it
tegT" Dr. Piaff said, "The only]
bope snd promise for our civ
is goodwill, intelligence, power and]
Integrity."
P Tuesday morning,
gave a brief
sf governors
ors, after which the
annual officers of (arts' State.
Tuesday night, a movie
far the entertainment of Girls Stat-j
week snd
SP*
rngc
. tort that -
most m
as well
a 40 per cent hewn to to
tries and of the work ?
Mof: _
adjournment, the girls,
| will to seniors to FarfnviHe Ugh
I Mil year,
ghren by toe
jliary to each Girl States.
Mn.'W. ??>
I in the repeating ef the
I Mrs. A.1
I votional which brought out
I er of God. Reports on t
land toe Memorial day
beard. The
K a
I Attention 01 ?o ,
| Junior Auxiliary mat
tad a poem.
a a* ? ,. ,1J ? ,,,
After adjournment
ler and the singing i
1 stanza of "America,"
I Mis. Joe H. Moore, Mrs.
I smith and Mrs. Edwto.
rved assorted cooldes,
[and ice cream. The Si
where the meeting was held,
Icorated with hydrangeas,
id roses. &
Guests included Mrs.
I Rowton of Palatka, P5a-, I
| of Miss Davis, Misses Coihett
Kemp, Miss Sybfl Barrett, who Was I
1946 delegate to Girls' ??
Ed Nash
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