Market Report
Shows Tobacco
Prices Increase
During the first week of sales
on the Georgia-Florida flue
cured tobqcco markets all grades
averaged from $1.00 to $5.00
.above opening week last year.
The majority of the increases
were from $2.00 to $3.00. Ac
cording1 to the Office of Market
ing Services of the USDA, a
very narrow margin existed be
tween prices paid for lower and
better quality tobacco' as most of
\ the sales ranged from $39.00 to
$43.00 per hundred. Volume of
•sales was heavy and the demand
strong. During the week, con
sisting of only four sales days,
30,671,100 pounds were sold at
an average of $41.13. This was
an increase of $2.16 per hundred
over opening week last season,
consisting of five sales days,
when 32,741,630 pounds aver
aged $38.97. Individual market
averages ranged from a low of
$38.80 to a high of $42.14 this
week.
Comparative prices with open
ing week of last year shows
common to good leaf up $1.00
to $3.00; cutters and primings
■from $2.00 to $3.00; and low to
choice lugs $1.00 to $3.00. Non
descript displayed the largest
(gains with advances of from $3
to $5.00. Growers were pleased
with prices and very few re
jections were reported.
The general quality of the
early deliveries was lower than
last season because of a decrease
itt good to choice qualities and
increases in medium grades, es
pecially lugs. The percentage of
nondescript was also larger. The
proportion of leaf and primings
was very low. Lug grades made
op 'about two-thirds of sales. The
bulk of the offerings was com
posed chiefly of low to fine
lugs, low leaf and cutters, and
nondescript. The amount of dam
aged tobacco was surprisingly
small in view of the excessive
rainfall this month.
For this year the Office of
'Price Administration has esta
blished on overall weighted sea
son’s average purchase price of
$40.00 per hundred for tooth tied
and untied flue-cured tobacco.
•However, a provision is included
which permits each purchaser a
deduction of 4 1/2 cents per
pound on all tied flue-cured to
bacco purchased before comput
ing his season’s weighted aver
age purchase price.
The Crop .Reporting Board of
the USDA, as of July 1, esti
mated the 1945 Georgia-Florida
flue-cured crop at about 112 1/4
million pounds compared with
around 110 1/2 million last year.
Total flue-cured production for
all belts has been estimated at
1,091 million pounds which is an
increase over the 1944 crop of a
little over 2 million pounds.
< Children Should Increase j
\ in Weight Every Year
By Dr. J. B. Warren
Oh — !.\
Beginning with the second up,
to the twelfth year the average;
i gain in weight of boys and girls'
j should be about five pounds a
t year.
Beginning with the twelfth'
• year in boys the weight increase
l is almost twice as much; that is,
j ten pounds during the twelfth,
l thirteenth and fourteenth year,
j and as much as fifteen pounds
I during the fifteenth and six
teenth year.
For girls, the weight increase
j becomes much greater, begin
j ning at eleven years.
Rarenttiood
BY
MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS
Associate Editor, Parents’ Magazine
One of the strangest things
parents do is try to buy their
children’s good behavior. You
often hear a mother say: “I give
John ten cents when he gets an
‘A’ in conduct”—or “I give Jane
money for candy every week if
she doesn’t tease the little girl
next door.” Or perhaps “I give
Mary a quarter if she helps me
with the dishes.”
This policy of offering bribes
or rewards for good conduct has
two serious defects. The first
and most practical one is that
it, doesn’t work—at least not for
long. Johnny soon gets to the
point where ten cents isn’t en
ough to make up for the fun he
thinks he’s missing. Or Jane
finds she’d really rather tease
the little girl next door than
have some candy. And Mary has
a date after dinner that’s more
alluring that that quarter. What
do these pay-as-you-go parents
do then? Raise the ante? And
just how much should friendli
ness and helpfulness be worth?
What is the ceiling price for not
teasing your neighbor or for
helping mother with the dishes?
The second defect of this pay
as-you-go plan is that it puts
a money value on something that
can’t be bought. Co-operation
has no price-tag. Children have
to learn that living with people
means sharing, and this means
sharing chores as well as plea
sure. They have to learn, too,
that good behavior does pay
dividends—not in money, but in
making people friendly and co
operative in return. Jane may
discover, for instance, that when
she doesn’t tease the little giri
next door that little girl invites
her in to play, and lends her]
skates or a doll carriage.
T^his is just as true in the larg
er world, and children should
learn early that the most valu
able things have no price. You
can’t buy peace, for instance, as
we are learning at great cost. So
let’s not 'fool ourselves or our
children into believing that you
can buy the approval of your
family or your neighbors, either.
Let the children discover that
they can win good will only with
goodwill, if they behave well to
ward other people they will be
rewarded in kind. They will find
it especially rewarding to be
friendly and helpful to children
who may be less comfortable or
Less secure than they are—new
children in the neighborhood, or
children whose parents speak a
different language or worship in
a different church, or whose skin
is a different color. Such child
ren, because they are often a
minority in the neighborhood or
school, may sometimes be espe
cially /in need of friendliness.
And our children who are
friendly to them will find them
selves richly rewarded in that
warm, inner feeling that comes
of knowing you have been help
ful to someone, and at the same
time have won loyalty and af
fection in return.
The important thing in all this
is to help children know the dif
ference between the kinds of
goods and services that can be
paid for with money and those
generous acts that should be
naturally a part of our daily liv
ing together—the things we do
for one another, and for our
selves, too.
musit, macstku.—Even
with his back to his music,
Mickey, a waterfront charac
ter when he is not at sea as
“crew member” of a navy oil
er, shows a touch of profes
sional skill as he “leads” a
navy band. The band is hail
ing returning heroes from
overseas.
Eure
Mrs. Tom Stallings is a patient
at Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk.
Paul Jones, USA, son of Mrs.
Ella Jones, arrived home Wed
nesday. He has his discharge.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Greene,
Mrs. Novie Greene, Miss Leonia
Greene and Miss Eugenia Stal
lings visited Mrs. Tom Stallings
Friday, a patient at Lakeview
Hospital, Suffolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Jenkins
of Gatesville accompanied by A.
M. Johnson, Mrs. Minnie Jen
kins, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Craw
ford and son, IBobbie, Mrs. Bob
Hale of baby of Ahoskie, spent
Sunday afternoon in Windsor
with Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Hale
and family and Linda Pierce of
Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Jen
kins were accompanied home by
Mac Hale, USN, New Jersey.
Mrs. Henry Eure of Norfolk
spent tiie weeeknd with relatives
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Greene
were in Edenton Sunday.
Tom Stallings, Mrs. Sue Stal
lings and Eugenia Stallings
visited Mrs. Tom Stallings at
Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Greene and
A. M. Johnson were in Ahoskie
Saturday.
George Hill of Arlington spent
several days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Hill.
Mrs. Asa Harrell and sons of
Martinsville are spending some
time with Mrs. 'Harrell’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Hill.
Supper guests of Mrs. Min
nie Jenkins Sunday night were
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Jenkins of
Gatesville and Mac Hale, USN,
New Jersey.
J. H. Felton is home on a 30
day furlough with his wife and
baby and his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Felton.
DINNER GUESTS
Eure.—Mrs. Charlie Felton and
daughters gave a delicious din
ner Sunday honoring Cpl. Wal
lace W. Greene, USA. The in
vited guests were Mrs. Sallie
Langston, Mrs. T. M. Hill, Mrs.
Gertie Langston, Mrs. R. A.
Greene, Mrs. Marie Elijah, Char
lie Felton, Gladwell Felton, Mc
Coy Langston, Otis Langston,
Jean Langston, John Langston,
Billie Langston, Rebecca Langs
ton, Carl Elijah, Laretta and
Tommie Hill, Doughless Hill,
Lawrence Lyons, Mrs. Charlie
Felton, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Et
ters and children, Mrs. Earnest
ine Bowden and children, Miss
Francis Parks of Ahoskie and
Miss Ne!l Lois Greene.
End of Peanut
Butter Subsidy
Recommended
Early termination of the pea
nut butter subsidy has been rec
ommended by both OPA and
WFA but final decision rests
with the Office of Economic
Stabilization from which no an
nouncement as yet has been
forthcoming.
This subsidy of 4V2 cents a
pound is paid to peanut butter
manufacturers only on sales in
tended for consumers, hence only
on peanut butter packed in con
tainers of 2 pounds or less. It is
anticipated that the increase in
the cost of peanut butter to con
sumers will be about 6 cents a
pound when the removal of the
subsidy is reflected in retail
costs.
An analyses of the increases
in retail selling prices between
January 1941 and January 1945
of 12 commonly used foods has
been made by the National Pre
servers Association. General
average increase was found to be
40.4% and ranged from 4.9%
for round steak to 66.2% for
butter. With the help of the sub
sidy peanut butter increased
58.7% but without the subsidy it
is estimated the increase will be
90%.
Move Underway
Develop Dread
Breasted Cfiick
The two-billion dollar poultry
industry has been challenged by
its leaders to produce a fast
growing, better meat-type chick
en to help retain the markets
poultrymen have won during the
current meat shortage.
A national contest to develop
a broad-breasted chicken—com
parable to the popular broad
breasted turkey—was deci^lm
upon when 14 poultry asso&J
tion officials and key poultry
men of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture met recently in
Chicago.
The program originated sever
al months ago in a speech made
before a group of Canadian poul
trymen by Howard C. Pierce of
A & P Food Stores, which in
cluded this statement: “Probably
the most welcome discovery to
the producers of chickens would
be the development of a chicken
of a type similar to that of the
broad-breasted turkey.” Extracts
from the talk were picked up by
some of the poultry journals, one
of which based an editorial oh
the above statement, with the
conclusion that “This offers a
real challenge to poultry breed
ers.”
Due to this favorable reaction,
Pierce discussed the matter with
several poultry association of
ficials. After these conversations
a cross-section of industry lead
ers was asked to meet to discuss
the proposed contest.
The contest wil last three years
and bring a $5,000 cash prize to
the poultryman breeding the best
meat-type bird. Annual progress
awards will total $3,000. These
funds have been made available
to the committee by A & P, in
addition to sufficient sum to
cover administrative expenses of
the committee and sub-commit
tees.
“The program is designed to
crystallize thinking among all
poultry breeders, from the large
hatcheryman to the owner of a
small backyard flock, on a chick
en with an abundance of ca#: |
ings,” Slade announced. “TL*r
committee will set standards for
a bird which will have a great
er percentage of meat to bony
structure, larger proportion of
white to dark meat and a broad
er breast well filled with flesh—
in other words, xa chicken that
will offer a greater degree of
flavor and tenderness and con
tain more meat than ever be
fore produced. The bird must
mature rapidly and the breed
ing stock must maintain high
egg production.”
From the poultryman’s angle
a broad-breasted chitken should
mean more economical growth
—more meat per pound of feed
eaten, which has a lot to do with
profits.
The Health of the
Middle Aged
By Dr. J. B. Warren
/half \
MY— I
Should i 1
QIVE him /
^tM
The family doctor and the chil
dren’s specialists take care of 1
children from the time they are f [
born until they reach maturity. I
What are called geriatricians :
now look after the health of the I
older people.
What is needed is close super
vision of the 'health of the mid- *
die aged who are worth so much
to their families and the com
munity. It is up to the middle i
aged to safeguard their health
by consulting' their physician
once or twice a year and their
dentist twice a year.