THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1943
Oxford Looks
At Abattoir
Situation
' i
Citizens Os Granville i
Discuss Compromise Ac- j
tion Os Commissioners.
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In Oxford, as reported from
the Oxford Public Ledger, the 1
following Abattoir situation ex
ists:
Under terms of an ordinance 1
which the Board of Ccmmission
ers of Oxford adopted at a called
meeting last month, retail
meat dealers in the fire .district
(business section) may, upon
conforming with regulations of
the State Board of Health,
slaughter livestock and prepare
the meat fcr market, in their
places of business or in such
places as they may prepare with
in the fire district for the slaugh
ter operation.
The ordinance was adopted af
ter Mayor T. C. Jordan, Jr., cast
the deciding ballot to break a tie
that developed when the six Ox
ford City Commissioners voted.
As a result of the action per
mitting cattle to be brought into
the business district and slaugh
tered, the board eliminated an
offer by H. E. Harris, submitted
to the board through the Gran
ville Health Department, to erect
and operate cutside the limits of
the Town an abattoir in which
Tie would slaughter under con
tract the livestock purchased by
retail market operators in the
county. Mr. Harris had said he
would be unwilling to put the
required capital in such an enter
prise unless he could serve all
meat dealers.
During the meeting, Health Of
ficer Norwood told the members
of the Board that such enterprise
in the heart of the business dis
trict, and within two or three
hundred yards of a majority of
the food stores in the city, with
its attraction for flies, would con
stitute a new health hazazrd.
Drawn-Out Fight
The action of the Town Board
came three days after the matter
had been deferred at a Tuesday
night meeting to permit attorneys
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Since we eat only the seed of
sweet corn, discarding the rest of
the large plant, the yield is small
for the space occupied. Many gar
deners are willing to make a sacri
fice in order to enjoy even a small
amount of this superlative food,
which only heme gardeners can en
joy at its best In markets, since
it is impossible to get sweet corn
in less than a day after it has been
picked, half its sugar has been
turned to starch, with correspond
ing loss of flavor.
A patch ot sweet com in a space
fifteen feet square in normal weath
er should yield ten dozen ears. This
is approximate, of course; each
stalk bearing at least one ear,
and some of them bearing two.
For the gardener who wants the
finest sweet com rather than the
largest ear or heaviest yield, suc
cessive plantings of Golden Bantam
will give the greatest satisfaction
except in locations where disease
resistance is required. The sea
son during which a sowing of this
eom is at its best is ten days at
most; so not more than a 10 days’
•upply for your family should be
sewn at one time.
Hybrid sweet corn has both ad
vantages and disadvantages. It
gives, a larger .ear, and thus a
heavier yield, coupled with a short
er season, and not quite so deli
cious a flavor. ' Mqst hybrids are
disease resistant, and more vigor
ous than Golden Bantam, but they
require mpre room and richer feed
jlW b SOW thry or four strains,
ijp. <fa”fcg dagj n at
for the Town of Oxford to draw
an ordinance to replace cne on
the book for many years prohib
iting the killing of livestock with
in the limits of the Town of Ox
ford.
Action Slow In Oxford , j
Weeks ago, the Office of Price j
[ Administration, in an effort to
control the supplies of meat
j reaching the consuming public,
i authorized the Granville County
I United States Department of Ag
riculture War Board to issue
i
slaughter permits. The War Board
was authorized to grant each
I dealer a quota for slaughter pur
poses, representing approximate- j
ly 80 per cent of the total meat<
killed for the previous year, and j
, the War Board alsc notified deal- I
ers and slaughterers that meat I
! killed for resale must be killed I
in approved abattoirs or slau-gh- 1
' ter pens.
j Meat dealers of the county,
many of whom had been killing
their own livestock for retail
sales, and some independent
slaughters, contended that they
could not comply with the regu
lations and some of the dealers
told County Health Department
representatives that it would be
necessary for them to go out of
business.
Meanwhile, the County Board
of Health was called for a special
meeting and the situation was
outlined to the members by Dr.
■Ballard Norwood, Health Officer.
The Board of Health referred the
' matter to County and Town Com
missioners, contending that it was
a question for consideration of
those Boards.
Complications Develop
The County Board left the mat
ter for consideration of the Town
Board. At a meeting of the Town
j Board, a spokesman for Harris
t and Woodlief, market operators,
asked for the privilege of leasing
Town-owned property near the
Southside disposal plant and the
' Board placed the matter in the
| hands of the Town Police by
j Committee, headed by W. H.
j Upchurch, with power to act.
j When the Property Committee
found itself unable to consum
mate an agreement with repre
sentatives of Harris and Wood
lief, an effort was made to con
tact other operators of an abat
toir or slaughter house. There
was hope of success until it ap-
the harvest. This practice also
extends the pollinating period of
the planting and lessens the danger
of a failure to fertilize the silk,
which may occur where one hybrid
strain only is grown due to unfa
vorable weather conditions.
A sowing of sweet corn should be
made in four short rows, rather
than in a single long row. This
insures that when the pollen is ripe,
a cross wind will carry it to the silk
in the young ears of an adjoining
row, rather than wasting it on the
ground, as might be the case in a
single row. Each silk must be
fertilized by pollen, in order to pro
duce a kernel, and many failures
with com are traceable to poor pol
lination. |
Seed should be sown when dan-,
ger of frost is over about two
inches deep either in continuous
drills or hills. In drills, sow three
or four seeds to a foot, later to be
thinned out to six inches apart for
dwarf growing varieties or a foot
apart for tall ones. Space the hills
two to three feet apart in the rows,
according to the size of the variety,
and for both drills and hills, space
the rows two to three feet apart
Deep cultivation of com must be
avoided because the plants have
shallow roots; but all weeds should
be kept down and the soil stirred,
-to break its crust, until the plants
are half grown. Side shoots and
suckers need not be removed. ;
Ears should be picked when they
are ready; neither before or after.
If you grow Golden Bantam, for
the last sowing a later variety will
probably do best, as the extreme
not favorable^
peared certain that such an es
tablishment would be erected and
operated in connection with a
livestock market here.
Thereafter, H. E. Harris dispos
ed of his interest in the business
of Harris and Woodlief with the
expressed purpose of erecting and
operating an abattoir to do cus
tom killing. Mr. Harris contacted
meat dealers here and solicited
their slaughter business.
. Commissioners Notified
The Granville Health Depart
ment, prior to Friday night’s
meeting of the Board of Town
Commissioners, approved plans
| for an abattoir which Mr. Harris
| said he desired to bu ild provided
I the Board of Commissioners of
Oxford would not permit slaugh
■ tering to be done within the bus
iness district or elsewhere in
| town. The fact that such an
I agreement had toes n reached be
i tween the Health Departmnt and
| H. E. Harris was placd by Sani
j tary Inspector David Ashworth
I before each commissioner and the
. mayor individually prior to the
meeting of the commissioners
Friday night and the statement
was again made at tbs Board
meeting by Dr. Ballard Norwood.
Protests Being Made
Members of the Oxford Board
of Town Commissioners admitted
that they had already been be
sieged with requests for recon
sideration of the action and Dr.
Norwood asserted at the meeting
of the Board Friday night that
he did not believe that the State
Board of Health would approve
of and permit the slaughter of
livestock in the business area.
Slaughterhouse By-Products
D. ,S. Coltrane, assistant to the
Commissioner of Agriculture and
chairman of the North Carolina
Feed Conservation and Produc
tion Committee, of Raleigh, de
clared recently that “if plans
now under consideration mater
ialize, all tankage, meat scraps
and other parts of slaughtered
animals which are ordinarily
thrown away will in the future
be rendered and made into meat
meal suitable for animal feed
ing”.
Coltrane said that such actions
would “possibly help relieve” the
serious shortage in protein con
centrates. that exists at the pres
ent time.
Dr. A. O. Shaw, assistant chair
man of the committee, and Mr.
Coltrane has contacted virtually
all slaughter house owners in this
State relative to the plan which
was discussed at a recent meet
ing of the feed committee.
Shaw explained that the com
mittee is making an effort to de
termine the number of slaughter
houses in the State that have
rendering equipment and are able
to produce tankage and meat
meal.
Owners of abattoirs that do not
have rendering facilities are be
ing asked if they would “be will
ing to install rendering equip
ment if proper priorities and
adequate finance could be ob
tained.”
The committee is considering
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Mrs. Lizzie Baker Tried
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GOLDSBORO, June 3. Liz- j
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Dortch, to second degree mur- 1
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daughter of the defendant. Doro- .
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morning, May 6, she saw her
mother pour two teaspoonfuls of
lye- into a glass and mix it with |
water. She -added her mother
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sent a younger daughter to the 1
store to get Jesse Baker to come i
to the house and get some wood
so she could wash.
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“Mighty bad.”
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he take a dc-se of soda, and gave
him the lye. He drank part of
| it and then said: “You’ve given
I me something to kill me.” !
Baker went out into the yard •
1 “hollering.” The girl said she
heard her mother say: ’
| “I reckon that’ll get him.” (
j Lonnie Strickland, on whose
| farm the family were tenants, !
testified that he heard the man
crying out and found him in the
yard, his mouth bleeding, and
, that Jesse told him Lizzie had
1 given him something she said |
was soda, but that it didn’t taste
like soda. |
! Louise Hair testified that Jesse
went to the store, told him that
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’ ed him a knot on his head where
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the court appointed Hugh Dortch.
Mrs. Baker appeared nervous
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