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Ahoskie Will Have Two New Peanut Plants Ahoskie.—-Plans have been made for the construction of two new peanut processing plants in Ahoskie. One is to be a cleaning and shelling plant and the other will be a factory to make peanut butter, peanut candies, salted ipeanuts and peanut butter sand-r Riches. J. P. Nowell of Ahoskie is es tablishing the peanut butter fac tory which is named Banner Nut Company. He says he plans to fake others in with him, but at present he is the only one in the company. Work was started on the $22,500 brick factory build ing Saturday. It will be beside Farmers’ Iron Warehouse on South and Rhue streets. The building will be owned by Mr. Nowell, W. R. Raynor and B. Z. Brown of Powellsville, A. J. Eley and I. C. Ainsley of Ahoskie. The cleaning and shelling plant Will probably be named Growers’ Peanut Company, according to J. N. Vann, who with Pembroke Baker of Suffolk, formerly of Ahoskie, and J6hn O. Askew of Harfellsville, will be associated in the business. Construction of the plant will begin in the fall. It will be located beside the At lantic Coast Line Railroad tracks in a subdivision of Hazelton property. .Plans are tor the Banner JNut Company building to be com pleted and machinery installed in time to begin operation in Sep tember or October. Mr. Nowell says he will get his peanuts from Cfeorgia and South Carolina un til the crop is harvested in this section. He will not buy peanuts directly from farmers.but from cleaning and shelling plants. The new cleaning and shelling plant will begin operation in the 1946 peanut harvesting season. Mr. Vann says they plan to have 3 the building ready to install the ^machinery by the first of next year. The building and machin ery will cost approximately $50, 000. The plant will be entirely motorized and modern, said Mr. Vann. It will be able to shell from 1,200 to 1,500 bags of farmers’ stock peanuts a day. “Ahoskie has felt tjie need of an additonal plant of this type,” paid Mr. Vann, “so peanuts raised in this section won’t have to be shipped to other places to be shelled. To meet this situation We are establishing the plant.” These two establishments will give employment to about a hun dred people. The Banner' Nut Company plans to.employ about 25 or 30 persons and the shelling plant about 50 or 75. m BONDS [MEAN MORE. THAN A GOOD INVESTMENT Weather Is Favorable For Peanut Growing Washington, D. C. — Growing conditions during the past week continued favorable in all pea nut producing areas. Beneficial rains fell over north Texas and Oklahoma. South Texas is still dry, but the pea nut crop is apparently not suffer ing greatly as yet. In the South west planting is in full swing. Mills have not been able to pro duce and treat seed peanuts as rapidly as needed for current planting operations in the South west. Many peanuts are now be ing planted untreated. The in ability of millers to produce seed as rapidly as currently needed may result in some delay in the completion of planting. Appar ently there will be sufficient seed in the Southwest to meet all needs, but reports indicate that few peanuts will remain af ter seed requirements have been met. Except for occasional small late acreages, planting in the South east has been completed. The crop in that area is in unusually good condition. In the Virginia Carolina area a large percentage of the crop has been planted. While recent cool weather has delayed germination, most early planted acreage is now up to fairly good stands. The market situation has shown little or no change during recent weeks. Supplies of pea nuts available for the civilian trade are extremely light. In the Virginia - Carolina area some cleaners and shelters have dis continued operations for the sea son. In the Southeast many are operating on a greatly reduced basis. All sales of peanuts either in small lots to the civilian trade or to processors bolding contracts for delivery of peanut products to the Armed Forces have been at the ceiling. Brake Check Shows Results in State Ahoskie.—For the last six weeks police all over the United States have been engaged, in an intensified check on. motor ve hicle brakes. Several hundred have been checked by patrolmen in the Roanoke-Chowan district and about a hundred have been found defective, according to Sgt. A. W. Welch of Ahoskie. mmeomi —■ T ipepri-Cola Company, Long Island City, N, Y» Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Littleton ATTENDS BANK CONFER ENCE.—ft. A. Daniels, one of the leading farmers of the Pleasantville section of North ampton county, recently at tended a conference of North Carolina secretary - treasurers held at the Federal Land Bank of Columbia in his capacity, as a member of the national farrm loan association advisory com mittee, representing eastern North Carolina. Mr. Daniels is a director of the Ahoskie NFLA, on which board he has served for a num ber of years. The Ahoskie as sociation handles Federal Land Bank loans in Northampton, Bertie, Hertford, and Gates counties. Windshield Stickers Not Needed Now Raleigh.—Windshield stickers “A”, “B”, “C’.’ or “T” indicating the type of gasoline rationing held by car owners need no longer be displayed, it was an nounced today by OPA District Director Theodore S. Johnson. This action was taken, he said, because of the use of endorsed, serially numbered ration cou pons. “The new rationing allot ments, effective June 11, will not mean more gasoline for all “B” users, he pointed out. Only, those “B” ration holders whose essential occupational driving needs exceed their present “B” allotments will be eligible for the new increase, he asserted. „ Eligible holders of “B” rations need have no concern over their expiration dates, he explained, because additional rations will be computed from tables pro vided by OPA, so that all appli cations will receive their full al lotment of gasoline after June 11; regardless of the expiration date of their present rations. Applications should be mailed to the War Price and Ration Board, together with applicant’s mileage record, he said. *♦**♦**♦* KEEP FAITH with us— by buying WAR BONDS Evans Has Road Plans; Opposes Cle&ed Meetings Ahoskie.—As soon as the gov ernment allots materials for hardsurfacing roads, which will 'be about six months or a year, more paved.rbads will be con structed in this vicinity, accord- , ing to M.;J. Evans., highway com missioner from this district. ' “Ahoskie has the worst break, [ on roads of any small town in this area and 1 hope to remedy this situation during my four years on the commission,” as serted Evans. Roads Mr. Evans says he is es pecially " interested in getting hardsurfaced are the one from Harrelsville to Ahoskie and the one from Powellsyille to Wind sor and other connecting roads. When asked by a Herald re porter how he felt about the closed door policy barring news paper reporters from meetings, which was adopted by the com mission at its last session, Mr. Evans said: “Any commission handling public affairs has no right to have a closed door po licy. I am definitely of the opin ion that it Shouldn’t have been done—not because there has been a lot of adverse criticism, but because the highway commission spends about one half of the state’s money and the people certainly need as much informa tion on how their money is spent as they can get.” Mr. Evans says he hopes to have his office set up some where in Ahoskie by July 1. GATESV1LLE THEATRE GATESVILLE, N. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY Johnny Mack Brown in LAW MEN with Raymond Hatton COMEDY SUNDAY ONLY Richard Arlen - Ellen Drew THAT’S MY BABY COMEDY MONDAY Ginger Rogers in TENDER COMRADE Chapter 10, “TIGER WOMAN” and NEWSREEL WEDNESDAY Joel McCrea - Mauren O’Hara Linda Darnell NEWSREEL JUNE 26 — SPECIAL SHOW for benefit of Oxford Orphanage. Picture will be: Wing and a Prayer Please note change in starting time. Doors open at 8:30, show starts at 9 o’clock. DANCE -AT TUSCARORA BEACH SATHRDAY RIGHT, JURE 16 Music by Tidewater Ramblers, of Franklin, Va., Featuring "Fiddling foe" SPONSORED RY JOHNNIE LIND JOHN BULL TRAITOR.—. John Amery, an Englishman who broadcast for the Ger mans, shown with his wife soon after his capture. He was placed in a camp by his Italian patriot captors, after he had tried to escape to Switzerland. Amery requested that he be placed in British custody. /CMP0 AHOSKIE Matinees Every Day Wednesday June 13 Warner Baxter - Hillary Brooks Crime Doctor’s Thursday-Friday June 14-15 Yvonne De Carlo - David Bruce SALOME, WHERE SHE, DANCED Saturday June 16 Wild Bill Elliott in . Great Stagecoach Robbery Bruce Bennett in • U-Boat Prisoner Sunday-Monday June 17r18 Lana Turner - Laraine Day Susan Peters KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY Tuesday June 19 East Side Kids Docks of New York TAYLOR THEATRE ===== EDENTON, N. C. Wednesday June 13 Rod Cameron - Fuzzy Knight in “SWING OUT SISTER” Chapt. 5, “Jungle Queen” Thurs.-Friday June 14-15 Ida Lupine - Sidney ' Qreenstreet in “PILLOW TO POST” Saturday June 16 Rod Cameron - Eddie Drew “BEYOND THE PECOS” Chapter 7, “Federal Operator No. 99” Sunday June 17 Stan Laurel - Oliver Hardy in ‘‘THE BULLFIGHTERS” Also “Plantation Melodies” Mon.-Tuesv June 18-19 Helmut Dantine - Irene Manning - Philip Dorn “ESCAPE IN THE DESERT” Coming Soon: Betty Grable in “DIAMOND HORSESHOE” “BETRAYAL FROM THE EAST” “EXPERIMENT PERILOUS” “WITHOUT IQVE”
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