HORSES CAPTURE PULLING RECORD Raleigh—Horses now enjoy the distinction of being workstock pulling champions of North Caro lina. Paul L. Fletcher, livestock marketing specialist of the State Department of Agriculture, to day announced that a pair of horses owned by Roger Sexton of Lillington have been certified as lifting 3,000 pounds dead weight and pulling it the official distance of 27 and one-half feet to better the record of a Granville county mule team by approximately seven per cent. The mule champions, owned by Bodie M. Currin of Oxford, Granville county, held the work stock pulling “crown” until Sex ton’s mares toppled the record at the Upper Coastal Plain Stat ion field day July 27. Sexton’s''horse team which weighed 2,800 pounds, pulled the equivalent of 19.75 tons on a wagon compared with Currin’s 2,610-pound mules team which lifted the equivalent of 18.2 tons. The state-wide champion will be determined at the North Caro lina State Fair at Raleigh, Octo ber 10 through 14, when mules, horses and steers w r ill pull in | competition. Incidentally, one of the two horses holding the present championship holds a state-wide crown won at the Fair last year, but is now pulling with another horse since her mate died several months ago. Sam Godard of Jamesville owns the champion pulling steers. Weighing 2,800 pounds, they pulled 18.2 tons the regula tion distance at the Blacklands Station field day at Wenona July 13. o REDUCTION In 1870 more than half of the gainfully employed people in the United States were framers, but by 1930 this preportion had fallen to a little more than a fifth. MIAMI BUY YOUR NOW TIRES On Our Budget Plan SMALL DOWN PAYMENT Start Riding - Balance On Easy Weekly Terms To Fit Your Purse. Budget Plan applies to General Tires, Tubes, Batteries and Other Accessories. Known Everywhere Rs headers In Their Field You no longer have to wait until you have the cash to get new tires and tubes. We have a plan . that will enable you to get your tires now and en joy them as you pay. Come In And Get A Set Os GENERALS Bumpass & Day h COY DAY ;■?' ff MAIN STREET R. D. BUMPASS Hr _ Here’s World’s Wheat Supply—Except— l?3l-’32 H33-’34 1435,’34 l»38-'39 .IW-’4O 3.500 CC*.mm!f •* 1 .'.'■*■*■*■'■*• "'.‘l'.viv. ‘.'X'j'X'^.' V.V.V.V.V .*.*.*.V.V»*. W.V.V.V V.V.V *•*•*« >V.\\V.. ® * VAVA V.%*•*•*•*•*•*. iViViV V.' •V»V.V»*.V Vi'iVtVivi * , *** , * ,,, * ,,, *** l * /.ViViVm W.V.V.V W.V.V.V. .*.*.*• V.V.V V.V.V*.*.*.*. V.V.V.V.V iVVVVVVVV .*.*.*.vwv*. 1 w.VVV.V* •••••••••• • » »••• «•••»»»••»••••»••« ........I .........I .........1........ a •*»*»*»*•*•* •*•*•*• v.VVV.V. 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Many Women Sole Support Os Family, Survey Shows Washington, Two surveys made by Government groups in dicate that great numbers of women do the family bread win ning, either alone or with the help of another woman, often while continuing their jobs as home-makers. Women’s Bureau experts, studying 58,000 working women in Fort Wayne, Ind., Bridgeport, Conn., and Richmond, Va., found 43,000 of them living with their families. Os these, they reported nearly 10 per cent were the sole support of the family. Twenty per cent were in families support ed by women and with no man w age-earners. A recent report of family in come in Chicago by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics listed women as the principal wage-earners in 14 percent of the native white families and 18 per PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. cent of the Negro families studi ed in a 10 per cent sample of the city’s families. Os 25,800 native white “com plete families” (containing both husband and wife), 1,100 had a woman as the principal wage earner. In 336 such families, the wife or some other woman was the sole wage earner. A woman was the principal wage-earner in 55 per cent cf the families that did not contain both husband and wife. The three-city Woman’s Bu reau Report indicated that the proportion of families with wom en workers increases with the size of the family, Three out of five of the nine-member families included a working woman. One-third of the 58,000 women studied combined the job of breadwinning with that of home- I maker. In general, the Three-City Report said, married women and I women with tasks at home were found in jobs offering less chance for advancement than were single women. ' In the (Chicago survey, experts found that practically 90 per cent of the families supported entire ly by the wife were living on less than $2,000 a year, and over half cf them on less than SI,OOO. o FOOD It is estimated that for ev ery increase of SIOO in the income received by families whose year ly income is $1,500 or less, from 20 to 30 percent of the increase would be spent for food. INCREASE A total of 350 cotton improve ment groups had been approved by August 10 for free classifica tion of their 1939 crop as compar- j ed with only three for the 1938-39 ginning season. ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES DIAL 4501. “What a new face courage puts on everything!” —Emerson. a DOWN / T ESS business, higher taxes. It doesn't make sense, mam. ahead / but that is one of the serious handicaps under RRjhk S which the American railroads operate. Jr 414 X • During the past ten years—l92B to 1938—revenue lufflU ' s * freight traffic of the Norfolk and Western Railway . decreased 26.5 per cent. Revenue passenger traffic MW It* 1 ) decreased 57 per cent. On the other hand, the rail road's taxes increased from $9,200,000 in 1928 to $11,485,000 in 1938, or nearly 25 per cent. Any way you figure it, you get the same answer —constantly increasing taxes. For example: Out of every SIOO taken in, the N. & W. ( $ 8.60 in 1928 paid the tax collectors ( 14.88 in 1938 For every person it employed, the N. & W. ( $ 333.68 in 1923 paid the tax collectors \ 858.47 in 1938 For every carload of freight originating on its f $ 11.72 in 1928 line, the N. & W. paid the tax collectors \ 18.08 in 1938 For every dollar paid in dividends to its stock- f 62 cents in 1928 holders, the N. &W. paid the tax collectors \ 77 cents in 1938 To earn enough revenue to pay its taxes, the f 31.4 days in 1928 N. & W. worked \ 54.3 days in 1938 The results of such a taxing policy ap plied to the railroads, and to the nation's industry as a whole, are inevitable—drastic decreases in purchasing power, produc tion and employment. These facts and figures strikingly demonstrate the vital ne cessity for curtailing Government expen ditures and the consistent application of sane economy in Government. Without economy in Government there can be no permanent national prosperity. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY . ■ • • • • • *.*-*». 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