■'V ■■■. ■ •msSDAY, DECraiBES 4. im THE mm-JOinDiAL i^ccrrisfi NEWS — By Mn. A. A. liclnnls. Mr. and Mrs. James Crawford* Governor of Ruritan Club? in this of Hendersonville visited Mr. and Mrs. S. N. McColl the past week end. Walter Baker of Raeford was a visitor to Rockfish Monday. The PTA of Rockfish school will meet next Tuesday night at 7:30. All parents and interested per sons are iirged to attend this meet ing. It is a cause for alarm that the attendance in the school is falling off and everything possible should be done to remedy this de lect. The singing at Tabernacle Bap tist church Simday was enjoyed by a large audience. There were fewer singers but those taking part did very well and the concensus of opinion seemed to be that what was lacking in quantity they made up in quality. Wajme Culp of Fort Bragg was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Brock and his sister-in-law, Mrs. James Culp Sunday. district attended the singing at Tabernacle church sponsored by the Ruritan Club. O. L. Townsend, Miss Ellen Kate and Lacy Koonce spent Thanks giving with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cameron and family at Carolina Beach. Miss Eloise McGill, Thomas Me Innis and Bobby Gillis from Ga latia church went on the trip to Richmond, Va. last. Tuesday to visit Union Theological Seminary along with delegates from the other churches of this Presbytery, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Brock and Mrs. Walter Hall of Aberdeen, visited Mrs. W. T. Boseman at Whispering Pines last Thursday. Mrs. Hall returned home Saturday after spending the week with Mr, and Mrs. Brock. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Jones of Roxboro spent the past week end at home. Mr. Jones who is Lt. J. K. Sheek of Wilmington spent the past week end with Mrs. Sheek’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Williams of Fayetteville. ed D. J. Lindsay in Jacksonville dUd Mr. Koonce’s father, G. F. Koonce at Lakeland, Fla. They re turned by v^ay of the east coast. Mr. Lindsay came back with them. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Campbell spent the holidays with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Campbell of Sardis, Ga. and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Teel of Milan, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Finqua and daughter of Fayetteville visited Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Monroe Sim- day. Mrs. Treva Koonce, Mrs. F. P. Bethea and O. L. Townsend visited Mrs. W. T. Boseman at Whisper ing Pines Sunday and found her getting along fine. 13 Jfatnotis I3tnerican Mr. and Mrs. D. A. McDougald of Wayside were Rockfish visitors Sunday. Mrs. Marshall Ray, Mr. and Mrs. John Ray and son, Neill, spent the past week end in Rocky Mount with Mrs. Ray’s brother- in-law, Arthur Richardson and family. Sketch of 'the DREADNOUGHT, most famous Atlantic packet, whose record passage across the Atlantic made in 1859 still stands, according to the American Merchant Marine Institute. Her best passage between New York and Liverpool was 13 days, 8 hdurs, a far cry from the 3 day, 10 hour record established by the new super liner UNITED STATES. For over a decade the DREADNOUGHT was the champion of the Atiantic Ocean before she was shifted to other Mrvices. Her proud skipper, Capt. Samuel Samuels, was a nations hero, the ideal of the Yankee tu, writes W. L. Marvin in his book ‘‘The American Merchant Marine.” The DREADNOUGHT iived up to her name in no uncertain manner. She gained a reputation for sailing with full canvass in the worst weather, day and night Mrs. F. P. Bethea and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Koonce returned from Florida Saturday. They visit- Mrs. Harold Tillman gave a party for her baby daughter. Rose Marie, honoring her on her second birthday. There were 14 little folks present. They enjoyed games for a while and then Mrs. Tillman served ice cream and cake. *lfie hSiK/ Sfahdan} of fkTWierican Road SR)RD Principal Ralph Street of Rock fish school and Mrs. Street spent Thanksgiving holdays with rela tives at Buladeen in Mitchell County. her father, F. A. Wright, week be fore last, returned to Portsmouth, Va. with her husband the past week end. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pemberton and daughter, Cathy Wood, spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Pember ton’s mother, Mrs. C. L. Wood. Mrs. Wood and all her family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McKinnon of Cumberland last Thursday. L4irge Capital It Needed To Operate Modem Farm Mrs. Baker was much improver after a right serious operation last Wednesday week. Billy Ray of the Merchant Ma rines spent the past week end at home. Mrs. D. E. Miller visited rela tives in Wake coxmty last week. Mr. and Mrs. Rayborn Barbour of Parkton visited Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barbour Sunday. Mrs. Irene Grant and son, Bobby, of Fayette ville spent Thanksgiving and the rest of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Barbour. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. English vis ited Mrs. John Baker of Little River at Moore County hospital. A. W. Wood says he will have to get in some more nails, so there will be seats enough for all the nail keg gang if this coii weather continues, so far most people are busy with hog killings. How much money does it take to operate a farm in North Caro lina? "Plenty,” say the experts, and they have figures to prove it. For example, a young couple operating a small tobacco farm in Person County would need a cap ital investment of at least $15,000. A beef cattle-cotton farmer in Cleveland County would need S50,000. These are minimum figures as represented by actual experience on efficiently operated farms. Many farms are capitalized to a much greater extent. According to H. B. James, head of N. C. State College’s Depart ment of Agricultural Economics, a study of farm credit is now be ing made in North Carolina and 11 other states under auspices of the/ Senate Committee on Agricul ture and Forestry. The study in this State is being conducted by the State Agricultural Mobiliza tion Committee through a subcom mittee made up of J. B. Slack, State Farmers Home Administra tion director, chairman; J. H. Hil ton, dean of State College’s School of Agriculture; and D. S. Weaver, director of the State College Ex tension Service. Twelve counties located in th? 12 types of farming areas in North Carolina have been selected for the study. They are Wayne, Cleve land, etrtie, Pasquotank, Rowan, Person, Wake, Columbus, Watau:- ga, Cherokee, Wilkes, and Hoke. Agricultural workers and farm Name Local Men Ta Represent State At Cotton Comicil Meet LinccRnton, N. C.—^Twenty->tip» members of the cotton industry fat North Carolina and Virginia wfH represent the area at the lUteta- th annual meeting of the Nationad Cotton Council at Dallas, Texat, Jan./ 26-27, B. C. Lineberger, chairman of the Council’s North Carolina-Virginia unit, announced Friday. Delegates, representing produc ers, ginners, warehousemen, mer chants, cottonseed crushers, and spinners, will participate in the planning of programs in the fields of cotton research and sales pro motion to be carried out in 1953. Mr. Lineberger pointed out that Dallas was the scene of the first annual meeting of the National Cotton Council in 1939. “Since that first meeting, we have seen a great strengthening of our industry’s competitive posi tion. .^t that time we were in grave doubt about the future- of cottoo. Synthetics v/ere beginning to en croach upon many of our markets. Our industry v;as disunited. With that meeting; however, came the beginning of a unified, aggressive effort to increase the consumption of American cotton and cotton seed. Today, domestic consumption of cotton has reached a level un heard of before 1939, and current research and promotion program-^ promise a brighter future for cot ton than ever before,” Mr. Line berger said. Delegates elected to represent the North Carolina-Virginia cotton groups include: Producers: T. B. Upchurch, Jr., Raeford; Fred P. leaders in the counties will gather I Johnson, Raleigh; Ginners: Clyde information on the local level. ' E. Upchurch, Jr., Raeford. Mrs. Thomas McPherson of Mebane spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Parker of Wayside. Misses Patricia Ritter and Mary Frances Newton of FMC, Red Springs and D. B. Parker were at home for the TJianksgiving holidays. imm 'DeceMBsR IT'! SftC if Fbrcf Defter^ Mrs. Herman Koonce attended the State Education Meeting in Raleigh, held there week before last to plan the education program for Home Demonstration Clubs. She was accompanied by Mrs. Broadus Jones of Cumberland County, who is chairman of the district music committee. BILL FREE CHRISTMAS Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Bostic and daughter spent Thanksgiving in Wilmington where they visited re latives of both Mr. and Mrs. Bos tic. 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