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•.■y ‘ . j ' i-v- 'fe.- THE NEWS-JOUBNAL* THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949 =:W- State Higliway CnmnissMMi b Head Of Largest N^ork Of Roads m il>" ^ ^ Ralei^—North Carolina’s Righ- way Commission supervises the largest state sy^m of roads in the ¥mted States. The Tar Heel road network embraces 63,000 miles of double lane boulevards, regular hard- surfaced highways and remote rural roads, spreading over moun tains and rolling hills, through cities and villages sandy lowlands and swamps. Only three states — Virginia. West Virginia and Delaware — have direct jurisdiction over all rural roads as well as highways. North Carolina’s 63,000 miles ex ceeds the mileage managed by highway departments in these states and all the others in the Union. This diffuse responsibility means that roadbuilding is extra big business for North Carolina’s Highway Commission, especially with a $200,000,000 secondary road program just picking up full steam. Many Tar Heels know little a- bout the functioning of tneir State Highway Commission and even less about its history. By statute the Highway Com mission has a task which includes tike building of roads with its own forces, the supervision of road construction in charge of private contractors and the maintenance of the State's 63,000 miles of roads and highways. To do this job it employs .about 6.000 regular and approximately 3,0p0 temporary workers. The size of the payroll varies with the roadbuilding season. Construction has been at peak capacity recent ly because of the mild autumn.) The Commission itself comprises a chairman and ten members, one from each o ften designated high way divisions. The Governor ap points both chairman and com missioners for foim-year terms. Working directly under the com missioners is a State Highway En gineer. He supervises an engi neering staff consisting of engi neers who handle equipment, 1^4 ' maintenance, construction, road way' planning, bridges, statistics and planning, materials and test ing and roadbuilding activities in ten highway divisions. All sub- ordnate positions of an engineer ing nature come under the auth ority of these department heads. Heading administrative depart ments are a general counsel, an auditor, director of safety, pur chasing and prisons and two ad ministrative assistants to the chairman, one for personnel and the other for public relations. The Commission derives its in come from automobile use taxes and federal aids, especially the gasoline tax, but the expenditure of these funds comes under the careful scrunity of the Legisla ture, the Budget Bureau and the personnel department. Each bien nium the Legislature authorizes the expenditure of certain funds for road construction, improve ments and maintenance. Each ex penditure must be approved, as it is made, by the Budget Bureau, and this strict supervisory system effectively safeguards the manage ment of a budget which reached $85,201,539.79 during the 1948-49 fiscal year. Nine Tar Heels Win 4-H Honors A record-breaking total of nine young North Carolinians received national honors at the 4-H Club Congress in Chicago last week, according to Miss Mary Sue Mos er, assistant club leader for the | State College Extension Service. Seven of the nine will receive college scholarships valued at $300 each. Another, Joan Penland of Clay County, winner in recrea tion and rural arts, received a free trip to the Club Congress. Ralph Brown of Iredell was a national winner in health, but no prize was offered in this project. The scholarship winners are Carolyn Miller, Iredell, winner in girl’s records; Pauline Howe. Gas ton, home improvement; Wesley Manning, Pitt, farm safety; Nan cy Pritchell, Guilford, poultry; Margaret Lee Stevens, Wayne, food preparation; Doris Strick land, Halifax, canning; and Evelyn Waugh, Surry, clothing. The awards are made possible by national business organizations which cooperate with the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, Inc., and the Cooper ative Extension Service in spon soring the 4-H Club program for teen-age rural youth of the na tion. The State’s 4-H livestock judg ing team also made a good record in Chicago, placing 10th among 30 or more teams from throughout the nation. One member, Vance Vines, won an individual placing of eight in the nation. Other team members were Glen Reese, Bobby Gene Norris, and Hugh Hagaman, all of Watauga County. They were coached by C. H. Kirk- man, assistant county agent. Twenty-six State projects win ners from North Carolina attend ed the Club Congress. They were it'companied by Miss • Moser and Fred H. Wagoner, assistant State leader; E. L. Norton, northeastern district agent, and Miss Rita Du- ;ois, extention nutritionist. The group returned home Saturday, December 3. * :1 B41 Gives cIs Education Nearly half a million World War II veterans who lid not com pete grade school befo.'e the war have been given the chance to further their education through te GI Bill, according to Veterans Administration. The figure is based on a VA sampling which disclosed that eight percent of the 6,000,000 vet erans who so far have taken GI Bill training did not have an eighth grade education at the time they stai'ted their GI courses. The sampling was made as of June 1, 1949. The 6,000,000 total includes 2,- 200,000 veterans who were in training on June 1, and 3,800,000 who had previously been enrolled but who were net taking training on that date. Of the veterans enrolled under the GI Bill at that time, 10.8 per cent or 240,000, had not finisheci elementary school when they started. Of those not then in training, 6.6 per cent, or 254,000 veterans, had had seven years or less of schooling. Nearly one-third of the 254,000 veterans taking institutional on- farm training on June 1, or 30.9 per cent, had not completed the eighth grade when they entered their courses. On the same date, 15.8 per cent of the 447,000 on-the-job trainees and 7i7 per cent of the 1,371,000 veterans in educational institutions /"I After more than four years of extensive stfidy and tests, the State of North Carolina recently purchased 2iO^Athey Force-Feed Loaders, shown above, as part of the highway maintenance pro gram. These modern loading tools will soon make their appearance on many miles of roads, dispatch ed from six headquarter cities to various sections of the state, j The State engineers’ first ex- I periment with^ the Force-P’eed { Loader method was in 1945. One machine was tested there for over a year; and, bn the basis of this operation, four more machines were added in 1946 to further ex pand the experiment on a wider scale. The recent purchase of 20 had gone no further than the sev enth grade at the time they began GI Bill training. a HOKE HIGH SCHOOL NEWS On Friday of this Week Miss Mayme McKeithan’s art classes will display their Christmas paint ings. The exhibit will be in Miss McKethan’s room and the public is invited to coipe see the work that the pupils have done. , On Thursday of this week a representative from the Dedmar Studios in Charlotte will visit the school for the purpose of making group pictures for the “Ekoh”, the high school yearbook. Mrs. , McLean is faculty adviser and I Mary Sue Upchurch and Fanette Gore have charge of the photo graphy, j Mrs. W. T. McGoogan attend- ' ed a Tri-County Meeting of home I economics teachers in Laurinburg on Tuesday afteri^on. Mrs. Mc Googan participate;;! in the dis cussion. A^qin in 1949 MORE PEOPLE HAVE BOUGHT CHEVROLETS than any other make —/list OS they have done during the total IP-vear period, 1931 to date! The men and women of America know value when they see ill nRST in passenger car sales for all postwar years Consequently, they are purchasing more Chevrolet passenger cars than any other make... and more Chevrolet trucks than the next two makes combined... thereby placing Chevrolet first in sales this year, just as they have done for the total 19-Year period, 1931 to date. Naturally, we and all Chevrolet dealers are deeply appreciative of this overwhelming tribute of preference; and we join with Chevrolet in pledging to do everything possible to give you greater and greater value in the months and years to come. FIRST in truck sales for '49* (OutstlBng tht aext 2 moW, combined) CHEVROLET *1949 reiulh baud on tneompMo but conclinlva notion- wido ragiitroKon flguroi. All othar fact, lldad hera ora boiad on eomplata and official noHonwIda rogl^otlon figurai. FIRST in truck sales for all postwar years FIRST in total number of cars on road today FIRST In passenger car sales for total 19-year period, 1931 to date FIRST In truck sales for total 19-year period, 1931 to date FIRST In total number of trucks on road today HOKE AUTO COMPANY Phone 2301 Raeford, N. C. Alhey Force-Feed Loaders is a' result of careful studies by State officials in selecting the most ef ficient and economical type of road maintenance equipment. I The Athey Force-Feed Loader is a self-propsAed, one-:man op erated machine. It will replace slow, expensive hand-loading me thods. With the Athey Force- Feed Loader windrow materials and almost any type of loose ma terial — earth, broken pavement, damp leaves, oil mix. gravel — can be loaded at the rate of 5 cubic yards per minute, and snow can be loaded by this modern machine at rates as high, as 20 cubic yards per minute. The first and second year home economic classes are making Christmas candies and cookies. Mrs. Gore’s first and second year Latin classes are learning to sing the Christmas carols in Latin. Pupils of Miss Williams’ Eng lish classes have just completed a unit in writing of Christmas essays, stories, and poems. Some of the papers show evidence of creative abiity. Under the direction of Mr. Gib son volunteer workers from the high school are cleaning up the school grounds. Mr. Douglass, Extension For estry Specialist, and Miss Jose phine Hall, County Home Dem onstration Agent, met with the the 4-H Club members Tuesday morning in the high school audi torium during second period. A movie, “Lonnie’s New Crop,” was shown. Mr. Douglass spoke on “Forestry”. Miss #Hall presented awards to Betty Jo Lpvette for food preparation and clothing, to Freida Moss for work in frozen foods, and to Grethchen Hine for dress making. Messrs. Foster and Callahan,, representatives from the Fayette ville office of Employment Se curity Commission ,administered General Aptitude Battery to mem bers of the senior class Thursday, December 8. The results of these tests will be interpreted for the pupils by Miss Watson, Guidance Counselor. The results will be used for guidance purposes. School will recess Tuesday, De cember 20 for Christmas holidays and work will be resumed on Monday, January 2. In connection with a unit on “Transportation and Communi cation’” Mrs. Cameron’s history classes saf a movie, “Behind Your Radio Dial.” This movie gave a brief history of radio, showed how a radio program is prepared and produced,^ and how its influence reaches into every phase of American life. i-O Home Agents Narrative Report For November “Making Tufted Bedspreads” was the demonstration given at the 13 Home Demonstration Clubs in Hoke County in November. Leaders gave the demonstration at all of the meetings. One hund red sixty-two (162) club women were present. As a result of the liaeetings quite a number of (sp^reads and tufting materials have, been ordered by the women. Frieda Moss of the Hoke High School 4-H Club represented Hoke Cpunty at the Better Methods Electric Congress which was held at tljie Carolina Hotel in Raleigh on November 5, 6-and 7. Frieda received her trip with all ex penses paid. The Home Demonstration Club Achievement Day Program was held in connection with the An nual Farm Bureau rally on No vember 4. Congressman C. B. Deane of Washington was the speaker.^ The club Tramen assist ed in preparing and serving sup per -to the 350 people attending. Reports of the years work in Home Demonstration Clubs were given. The Mildouson Club re ceived the $25.00 Savings Bond presented by the Hoke Coimty Farm Bureau to the Club making the greatest progress in 1949. Annual narrative and statistical reports were compiled in No vember. The Home Agent attended four 4-H Club meetings' ip November. She spent five days in Novem ber attending the National meet ing of the Home Demonstration Agents Association in Chicago. Josephine Hall, Home Demon stration Agent. , 100 Chicks Will Pay For Year At College A 12-year-old 4-H Club girl who has just completed her 1949 poultry project says the - return from 100 chicks will pay a year’s' expenses at college. The girl is Ellen Barrow of Jones County, whose project was supervised by G. T. Wiggins, as sistant coimty agent for the State College Extension Service. Following is an account of El len’s project work in her own words: “The chicks given me were pr^operly taken care of with only three dying. I have furnished chickens and eggs for family use which paid for the grain fed to them. Ten chicks were cockerels which I sold for $15, and 12 were returned to the farm agent to-be sold. “The remaining 78 have laid 11,- 016 eggs, 8,719 of which I sold for $365.80. received $10 prize money. I had enough money to pay for the starting and growing mash. “After all the expenses have been deducted and I seU the re maining chickens, I will have enough money to purchase five $100 government bonds, which I believe will pay my tuition, room and board for one year in college. tK«ICCtE(KlC(C«tcec«eetCte«(ctE(KiC(KtK(K(K«tStCt«CHW«tCtCtei^«CtC«t^^ Other Elgins froiD *29.75 15 jewel Elgins for him and her... the best buys of all time! Only in Elgin do you find such prize styling . . . such enduring accu racy ... at such modest cost. Make Elgin your choice now! Prices Include Federal Tax i V / -t'. r' . MARTINS JEWELERS 445 Hay Street Fayetteville, North Carolina Beside Carolina 'theatre — Owned and Operated by CHARLES W. SEATE /I 0' 4 '^1-
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