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Appointment of Randolph Williams
of 808 South Bruton Street, Wilson,
North Carolina, as the supervisor of
the 1954 Census of Agriculture field
office to be established at' Rocky
Mount is announced by Director Rob
ert W. Burgess of the Bureau of the
Census, Department of Commerce.
Mr. Williams will direct a force of
16 crew leaders and 249 enumerators
in 22 North Carolina counties from
the Rocky Mount office. Counties to
be covered from Rocky Mount include
' Bertie, Beaufort; Camden, Chowan,
Currituclc, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates,
Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Le
noir,, Martin, Northampton, Pasquo
tank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, War
ren, Washington and Wilson. . .
Mr. Williams reported on August SO
to the permanent Census Bureau dis
trict office at Charlotte for a week's
training. The training covers admin
istrative procedures, office routine,
- map work, practice in filling out farm
census report forms and other duties
and responsibilities connected with the
job. , . ' v
. The 1954 Census of Agriculture will
provide information on the number
and size of farms, acreage and harvest
of crops, livestock production and in
ventories, selected farm facilities and
equipment, selected farm expenditures,
farm values and mortgage debt
Pvt. Dillard E. Ward, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. C Ward, Hertford, N. C,
recently arrived in Germany for duty
as a patrolman with the ist Infantry
Division's 1st Military Police Com
pany. Last stationed at Camp Gor-
Is Growing Ugluy
don, Ga, he entered the Army in
March of this year and completed ba-the tourist industry is not included in
The rapid industrial development of
North Carolina is emphasized in the
new "Facts About North Carolina,"
which, shows that while more people
are still employed in agriculture, the
cash value of the state's industrial
production is nearly eight times as
great as that of its farms. ,
Director Ben E. Douglas of the De
partment of Conservation and Devel
opment, from which the four-page
pamphlet may be obtained free, said
that it is the most concise collection
of facts about the state ever assem
bled. For major industrial and agri
cultural items, figures not only for
1953 are given but comparative sta
tistics for 1939, 1951 and 1952. The
pamphlet was compiled by State Ad
vertising Director Charles Parker,
The statistics show that the value
of North Carolina's industrial produc
tion for 1953 totaled $6,924,000,000, an
increase of $183,000,000 over 1952, and
that in 1953 there were 464,000 per
sons employed in industry, an increase
of 15,000 over 1952. Employment in
Census Field Office
Will Be In Wilson
Establishment of a field office for
the 1954 Census of Agriculture is an
nounced by Randolph Williams, who
has been appointed supervisor for this
area, xne Uensus field office will be
located at Room 304, Post Office
Building, Wilson. N. C.
Mr. Williams states that prelimi
nary work on the 1954 Census of Ag7j
riculture, to be taken this fall, will
begin immediately. This includes or
ganization of the field office, inter
viewing applicants for jobs, selecting
and training of office clerks, field
crew leaders and enumerators.
The territory assigned to this office
for the 1954 Census of Agriculture in
cludes the following counties: War
ren, ' Halifax, Northampton, Bertie,
Edgecombe, Wilson, Greene, Lenoir,
Hertford, Gates, Perquimans, Chowan,
Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck, Tyr
rell, Washington, Dare, Hyde, Martin,
Pitt and Beaufort.
Approximately 16 crew leaders and
249 enumerators will be employed to
take the farm census in this area.
Only a few things are needed to
make a wise man happy, but nothing
to satisfy a fool.
L. Rochefouchauld.
sie training at Fort Jackson, S. C
Children Returning1 To
School Present New
Problem In Safety
Ithe employment totals, because the
tourist industry is a service rather
than a manufacturing industry.
Rank of North Carolina "Big Ten"
industries in 1953,
value, was given as
Corn Prospects
j Lowest Since 1944
Based on condition and yield re
ports from growers as of September
1, the 1954 Tar Heel corn crop is esti
mated at 64,494,000 bushels. A crop
' of this size, if realized, would be the j
, smallest since 1944 when 62,849,000
bushels were produced. The 1943-52
average production is 61,914,000 j
- bushels.' ,;''. ' 'A-', ";;''?':P"V:.;V4
A cording to the North Carolina
sCrop Reporting Service, September 1
prospects point to an average yield
' per acre of 25.5 bushels. This is the
same as the 1952 average yield and is
lower than any other year since 1945
when the average yield per acre was
i 25 bushels. y ' .
', Yield prospects vary rather widely
between areas within the State. The
extended drouth has been particularly
damaging to the crop in most Pied-
- mont counties. In some of these coun--.
' ties more than half of the corn has
been cut for silage, or forage owing
to the extremely low yield prospects
for grain. . .
Harvesting of the crop is getting
underway on scattered farms in the
' Coastal counties.
V United States corn production is
currently estimated at 2,972,641,000
bushels. This compares with the 1953
crop of 3,176,6J5,000 bushels.
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Pot Of Gold Awaits
Cotton Picking Champ
There's a pot of gold waiting at the
end of the cotton row in Blytheville,
:' Ark., at the National Cotton Pick
, ing Contest September 30-October 1.
A thousand-dollar first prize will go
to the nation's champion cotton pick
er in the fifteenth annual competition
sponsored by the Blytheville Junior
Chamber of Commerce. Total prises
in the contest amount to $2500. Spe
cial awards will be made in children's,
women's, and old-timers' divisions.
The actual picking contest will be
staged on' October 1, but two days of
festivities are planned in connection
with the event On September 30
band parades will feature the famous
Forty and Eight Train. , There will
be an air show, street dances, arid oth
er festivities. A beauty pageant will
be held with the winner receiving a
. $500 cotton wardrobe and an all ex
pense trip to Havana, Cuba. '
The picking competition is schedul
ed October 1. : During the contest
thousands of balloons will be released
2 to add color to the event The pro
'7 gram also includes a demonstration of
' mechanical cotton picking, speeches.
musical entertainment a cotton bag
sewing contest and other features.
The festivities will come to a close
that evening with a grand cotton ball
presenting Tex Beneke's music.
Cotton pickers will compete on both
a quantity and quality basis. A judg
ing committee will decide which picker
has earned the title of "National Cot
ton Picking Champion" and the thousand-dollar
award that accompanies it
Complete details about the contest
may be obtained from Kelly Welch,
P. O, Box 707, Blytheville, Ark.
With the return of thousands of
boys and girls to their classes for an
other year, the State Department of
Motor Vehicles urges alertness, cau
tion and courtesy on the part of mo
torists and children. More specifical
ly the vehicles agency recommends the
following tips:
For Motorists
1, Always . expect the unexpected
from children. Keep a sharp lookout
for boys and girls walking or riding
bikes, v ,
2. Slow down to 15 miles an hour in
school zones. '
8. Stop for school buses when they
are loading or unloading children.
4. Remember as you drive: Chil
dren may dare, so drivers beware.
For Children
1. Obey traffic officers, school pa
trols and traffic signs and signals. '
2. Take . the safest route to and
from school. Let Mom or Dad de
cide, then always go that way.
S. Where there are no sidewalks,
walk on the left side of the ."oad. fac
ing traffic. Keep off the pavement.
4. If riding a bike, keep to the ririit
signal turns, carry no passengers, and
be watchful in traffic. ,
000,000, Tobacco $1,661,000,000, Foods ber 26th issue of
$496,000,000, Furniture $332,000,000,
Tourists $325,000,000, Lumber $271,-
00,000, Chemicals $197,000,000, Paper
$194,000,000, Electrical Machinery
$162,000,000, Apparel $125,000,000.
North Carolina leads the United
States in textile, tobacco and wooden
furniture production, and all the
southeastern states in its total produc
tion, both in industry and agriculture.
NEW DRUG SHARPENS
Amazing story of a new drug which
can make a mentally disturbed pat
ient think he is a child once again
and enable him to uncover his repress-
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Textiles $2,819,-tin-Wonderland" drug in the Septem
, Lesson in Baste English
A Navy lieutenant at a South Sea
Island station undertook to give an
old native a lesson in basic English.
He pointed at a Marine and said
"man."
The native dutifully
"Man." .. , -.- ....,
native echoed, "tree." That certainly
was progress.
Just then a plane roared overhead.
The lieutenant thought he'd give the
native the first chance this time.
repeated, j "What" he asked, pointing upward.
"I'm not sure," said the native, as
That gave the volunteer teacher a he stood up and squinted at the plane,
thrill. He went on and pointed to a overhead. "It looks like a PB2Y, but
palm tree. "Tree," he announced. The : it might be a B-24."
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