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Farm fence post treatment is proving highly poplar wltSi Way ne County farmers, who to date have ordered enough materials to treat " an estimated 360,000 posts. JOINS NAVY Homer Queen, son of Mrs. Ma rie Queen of Kings Mountain, left lest week for training at the U. S. Naval Training Cen ter, San Diego, 33, California. His serial number is 3313454. tew styus mop?lS ' Cook Outside! look foside! You Can't Match a FRIGIDAIRE ? New gr>ld and-whit? beauty 1 ? New aluminum ru?t-proof shelved ? New fuH-lerigth door I ? New *|ee Blue" Interior trim I Come In! Prices start at $189.75 ses MARGBACE STORE GENERAL MEHCHAlf DISE MargraceMlll Phone 594 Ws Dslirer Anywhere in the Kings Mountain Ar*a YOUNG DEMOCRATS AT ASHE VILLE? When U. 8. Senatorial Candidate Willi* Smith went to the Young Democratic Hally at Asheville last weekend, he took with him not one but five young Demo crate. He's shown bore, second from right with three of his Youn~ Sam Rajbum of Texas. Left to tight care: Alton Bat4' " dldate Smith; and Lee Creecr Smith. Mot shown w uw picture are me rwo otner ioum. be took with him. his daughter. Anna Lee Smith, and his daughter-in-law. Mrs. Willis Smith. Jr. Candidate Smith received a reusing reception at the Young Democratic Bally. Seven times, his ad- ; I drees was Interrupted by applause. 1 1 From the deft hind* of China's imitttr w?tv?rt coma the rich straws Garay haf*" dyed to g?<1y ? and styled with such becoming crispness. You'll carry these roomy bags jauntily with Spring in your step, 'cause they're fresh as a dewy morning and light as the proverbial feather! Handsomely lined In rayon taffeta and finished with exquisite detail Your choice of these lovely colors: Natural, Toast, Keiy, Red, Turf, Navy, Black, Brown, Purple. B?iy several at this low, low price to sot off your new things!, Highway Deaths Take First Drop ; Since May 1949 i RALEIGH. ? For the first time ' since May of 1949, highway fa talities took a downward turn during Febtraury as compared with the same month last year, the Department of Motor Vehicles reportde today. | Fifty-five persons were killed In Febrnary of this year, a 19 per cent decrease below the 68 who died in highway accidents in February of last year. The ' February figure also represented a drop of 12 from the death toll s pt Uitnyw.jM In addition. Tgifc personj Wenj "Shjured, a 31 percent increase over the 988 injured last Febru ary. Reported accidents totaled <1,803, an Increase of 40 per cent over teh 1,288 reported last Feb ruary. February's figures bring to 122 ' the number of fatalities, 1,675 the number of injuries and 3,814 the number of reported accidents for the first two months of 1950. Pedestrian deaths alio were on the decrease in February as com pared with the previous Febru ary. Thirteen died and 67 were in jured in 79 pedestrian accidents. Last February's death toll was 24. Three of this February's dead < were between five and 14 years' of age, and seven were above 35. Rocky Mount, Winston-Salem, Raleigi. and Acme had one pe destrian death each. Nine died in rural areas. Pitt County had two pedestrians killed, while Beaufort ? Bertie, Camden, Catawba, Col urn- 1 bus, Currituck, Duplin, Durham,' Forsyth, Nash and Wake claimed one each. Accidents in urban areas total', ed 679, resulting in eight deaths and 138 injuries. In February, 1940, 496 accidents In urban a reas cost the lives of 10 persons and resulted in 131 injuries. Ra leigh and Rocky Mount nad two fatalities each. Winston -Salem, Greensboro, Roanoke Rapids and j Acme had one each. In rural areas 1,123 accidents were reported in wftkfli 47 persons were Killed and 634 injured. Last February 798 accidents were list ed 4n rural areas with 58 persons killed and 467 persons injured. I G<(MnN and Pitt counties led all other counties with five fa- j ralities each during February.) Halifax and Wake listed three ! , each. Counties reporting two j deaths each were: Catawba, Har- 1 j nett, Moore, Northampton, Ran i dolph, Richmond, Robeson and ' Scotland. One fatality each oc i curred in Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, . Burke, Cabarrus, Camden, Colum bus, Craven, Cumberland, Curri tuck, Davidson, Duplin, Durhah, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Henderson, Hertford, Nash, Perquimans, Polk Rockingham, Surry and Warren. No fatalities wer reported in 65 counties. Service workers were Involved J in more accidents than any other occupational group. A total of 643 drivers from this group were in traffic mishaps, 20 being in ?fatal acci^ehts^Buslness and pro-' fessional mea were TnVSlvefrofn 421 accidents, seven ,in fatal ac- j cidepts. Commercial drivers, ex cept traveling salesmen, were ! in 363 accidents with 14 being in fatal crashes. One Jiundred of the 3,084 mo tor vehicles. involved in accidents in February were found to be de fective. Two of the 100 vehicles were involved in fatal accidents. Seventy four vehicles involved in accidents last February were de fective. Two bicycles were killed dut-. ing February and 20 were injur ed. The same number were kill ed last February and 11 were in jured. Drivers operating their vehi cles on the Wong side of the road not in pasing, were involved in the largest number of accidents? 316, fifteen of which were fatal. Exceeding teh stated speed limit was second with 296 accidents, 10 of which were fatal. Drivers were exceeding a safe speed in 203 cases, one ofw hlch proved fatal. Collision of two vehicles re sulted in 22 deaths, two over 1949. Two died in train-auto collisions and 15 were killed when their ve hicles ran off the roadway. Male drivers in 1949 were in volved in more than 90 percent of all U. S. autoftK/bile accidents. 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