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At a special meeting Thursday night the County Board at Com missioners meeting Jointly with the County Welfare Board signed and sent on to Raleigh a budget for the 1M8-S© year of the Wel fare Department that totaled SSfc3KSSW2# for the previous ye*r, which was WM*®!_ This increased appropriation was in line with recommenda tions made by the State Board of Welfare and the Federal Se curity Agency and it will enable the local unit to keep pace with the broadened social security program that is authorised by Sffi THE NEW ERCURY iM BOYD -MATTHB MOTORS AUTHORIZED DEALER SALES SERVICE • sn * 1405 Naum Bird. New Bern JOHN BOYD GUY MATTHIS , i __ -RA^I Service To A Standard And Not To A Price. WATCH FOB YOUR ROUTE MAN TWICE WEEKLY IDEAL CLEANERS 102 E. Peyton—Dial 3467 KINSTON And HUNDREDS OF OTHER BARGAINS Brand New, Unused Merchandise KHAKI SHIRTS $1.95 & $2.49 New Army - Type • KHAKI PANTS $199 WORK SHOES All Types from $195 .. — KINSTON — Ail the Dover - Richland) I Highway Forks the 1M General increase fat Lenoir make possible the _„r of approximately 100 more persons to the list now drawhtg o|<l age assistance and win permit the addition of at least another 100 to the list of children now drawing aid from the county, state and federal governments. It will also per mit the addition of a number more aid to the Mind recipients and it win also make possible a small increase in the average al lotment now drawn by persons in each of these categories. Provision is also made for the addition of another child welfare case worker, another case work er and one additional stenog rapher. At present payments to Lenoir County citizens total close to $300,000 per year. All but $74, 588 of this is paid by the state and federal governments. " Nearly two-thirds of all fatal automobile accidents in the United States each year occur in rufal areas. * Attend Swine Conference Among the more than 100 per sons, including farm agents, Ex tension Service officials and in terested farmers, attending the Poland-China Swine type-con ference at Dunn last week there were three from Lenoir County. They were Livestock Agent Ray mond Upchurch, A. Forrest Wal ler and Preston Harper. Most interesting part of the confer ence, Upchurch said, was the slaughtering and dressing of some of the hogs for an exact check on the judging on foot. ral Notes The sight of livestock standing in an apparently open and tin fenced Held causes many city dwellers to wonder how af aim er manages to keep any livestock saves time and money in fence installation on flie farm, and its periodic stinging shock will keep farm animals exactly where they are supposed to be, but its mis-use is dangerous. An electric charge direct from a power line will keep livestock—and humans—in a field but sometimes in the still ness of death. Reports of deaths, livestock and human, are a cause of con cern to farm agents, and. the week was expressed by Lenoir County’s Assistant Agent Bob Thompson. He said the negli gent and wrongful use of the electric fence principle is crim inal. He said these was no ex cuse for a farmer resorting to dangerous home-made devices, when there were so many con trollers on the market, tested, tried ^nd approved by the Na tional Underwriters’ Laboratory for safety and efficient operation. The controller is the instru ment that makes fencing with electricity possible. It converts the 110 volt, 60-cycle current, dangerous to life, to a harmless, stinging jolt to keep livestock within an enclosure with one or two strands of plain or barbed wire. The fencing can also be WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIRS By An Expert done with the power from a six volt dry-cell battery if power lines axe not wailabl* for a plug in. .. ;vil‘-i But proper installation is ne cessary for effective fencing and elimination of danger from - home-made gadget!. Advice is available, Thompson said, ftggpflj any county agent, or from the hardware dealer from whom the controller device is purchased. We, have every item you’ll need to keep ’em in, whether you want an electric fence, barbed wire or wire strand fence. GUARANTEED SAFE ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLS Wire Stretchers, Staples, Post Hole Diggers, Barbed Wire, Galvanized Wire, Insulators. / V EVERY FENCING’I«!Eb;|l|i| : : THE BEST BARGAINS IN KINSTON Foil Length or Half GOWNS Outing - Bemberg SKIRTS Regular $1.99 BLOUSES Ii» KINSTON
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