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Some Odds And Ends Concerning Odd Notes In Motor Vehicle Laws * : : By BILL CROWELL They'll never make me believe that an ambulance isn't a motor vehicle. However, the law says, In some cases, it just isrt't so. An hour's browse through the -State's "'951 copy of Motor Vehi cle Laws, brought this startling bit of legislation into prominence along with several other items of more than passing interest. The colorful manual of automotive do's and don'ts, issued bi-ahnually by the Department of Motor Ve hicles, says in the current edition that ambulances owned by muni cipalities are hot classed as mo tor vehicles. There follows a summary of other little known regulatory tid bits which are out-of-the-ordinary. For instance, if you are driving any military vehicle ? Army, Na vy or Marine Corps ? don't bother with a state operators permit. You won't need it. For you other non-military dri vers your license expires on your birthday fours years after the year it was issued ? not on the same issue date four years later. Own a motorized wheelchair? Well, if it weighs less than 1,000 . pounds- you are eligible for a spe cial operators permit and perm anent registration plates. The P tags will cost you one buck, but you'll have to prove that your conveyance is necessary to get around in and that you are quali fied to operate it. Let someone else drive your special vehicle and you're guilty of a misdemeanor. Members of the State Highway Patrol have police powers in en forcing motor vehicle laws and regulations. So does the top man of the Motor Vehicles Depart ment. The Commissioner himself is authorized to make arrest for any motor vehicle violation cov Your Child WILL LIKE THUS NEW COUGH HELP | For coughs and bronchitis due to colds I you can now get Creomulsion specially prepared for Children in a new pink und blue package and be sure: ( 1 ) Your child will like it (2) It contains only safe, proven ingredients. (3) It contains no narcotics to dis Iturb nature's processes. (4) It will aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed throat and bronchial membranes, thus relieving the cough and promoting rest and sleep. Ask for Creomulsion for Chil i drcn in the pink and blue package. CREOMULSION FOR CHILDREN rcflem Cotffcs, Owst tods. Ante ItmkMHi ered in the manual and commit ted in his presence. Got a hankering to bust up the old jaloppy for scrap? Better no tify the Department of Motor Ve hicles first then*- Car owners or junk yard dealers are required to send the condemned vehicle's title certificate and registration card to the Department before applying the axe. Are your license plates in an upright, horlzont . 1 position, fore and aft on your car? The book says they must be displayed in that manner. Fastening them up side down, laying flat 01 back wards will get you in trouble with Department officials. Sure you bought and paid for i your hack. But, don't grind off or otherwise alter your engine number. It's also a misdemeanor to stamp your car with any serial number other than one authoriz ed by the Department. Truckers hauling an overload on the highway can have their day spoiled quickly by any peace officer. The driver or his help can be required to shove off ex cess cargo, right on the spot, until the truck meets prescribed max imum weight limits. Stickers, posters, etc., attached to any window of your car are frowned upon by the Department. The law says that nothing is to be stuck on the windshield, side wings or rear windows other than certificates or stickers required by regulations. Don't install television in your car! Legally, it's O. K., but hard ly worth the trouble since the receiver must be located behind the driver's seat. Display of any association's emblem or insignia on your car is forbidden unless you are actually a member of the organization. Violation of this item could cost you $50. Overtake and pass another car without sounding your horn and you've broken the law. This does n't count however in business or residential areas. Dean James H. Hilton of State College's School of Agriculture has been selected by the Ameri can Feed Manufacturers Associa tion to serve, on a nation-wide committee which will appraise the current feed supply and need situation. ? Dr. L. T. Anderson Chiropractor Morrison Bldq. Kings Jvltn. Y?" . *5*T* out your mnuti frutn the Orient to J5U*,Mlt H"1* ,eM*r PU?" If the number of U?an 5 leu eri ?nV"? U S or->?". ??bt??ct from 7. If more rcinir y?"f trit name, lubtract from IJ. Now tak* ihli thU pi?te nnT?./n?V^7n'V:fL'n th? ORIENT a?tWth. top of of vnnr i/rr. wJJ' th? uPP*r left corner, check each one k'e/uV? ."^^^VAaVe f oS "SK? 'rum "" * ? Tax Increase On Cigarettes Edwin Gill, collector of inter nal revenue of Greensboro, has issued a directive relative to the tax increase on cigarettes which went into effect November 1. The directive follows: "Section 421 Of the Revenue Act of 1951 increases the rate of tax on small cigarettes (including standard and so-called "Xing" sizes) from $3.50 to $4.00 per thousand, or lc per package of 20 cigarettes. Section 422 of the Act imposes a floor stocks tax at the rate of 50 cents, per thousand (or lc per packages of 20 cigarettes) on all such cigarettes held by any per son for sale at the first moment of Novembes 1, l&ol, the day on j which the increase in the tax oil | small cigarettes becomes effect- i ive. Persons liable for floor! stocks tax: Manufacturers of, f and wholesale and retail dealers I in, small cigarettes; owners or operators of cigarette vending . machines; post exchanges; and commissary stores for the armed forces. Every person liable of the floor stocks tax will be required to make a return and pay tax due on or before December 31 1951, on all stamped (tax-paid) small cigarettes held by him for sale at the first moment of Nov ember 1, 1951. "Form 187, revised, has been provided for use by wholesale and retail dealers in small cig arettes. Prepare return and in ventory IN DUPLICATE, BUT FIRST CAREFULLY READ Orderly Marketing Of Cotton Advised If cotton prices are to remain steady; growers must continue to market their crop in an orderly Way, D. H. Standi, cotton market ing specialist for *?ie State Col lege Extension Service, declared this week. So far this fall, Stancil said, cotton farmers have done an un usually good job of orderly mar keting. Instead of dumping the entire crop on the market as fast as it was ginned, they have held enough off the market to enable the channels of trade to handle sales efficiently. As a result, pri ces have gone up. "However," added the special ist, "the present higher prices are leading many farmers to change tactics and begin selling as rapidly as the crop is ginned. This is unfortunate and could easily cause prices to drop again." The government loan, he point ed out, offers farmers necessary operating capital while holding their cotton off the market. By means of the loan program the grower can obtain a large per centage of the value of his cot ton and still not sell it. Stancil said farmers would do well to ask their ginners to sam THE PRINTED INSTRUCTIONS ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE FORM. Forward original copy to Collector of Internal Re venue, Guilford Building, Greens boro', N. C., with tax due, on or before December 31? 1951. Keep duplicate copy at t h e place of business for which such return is filed and the tax paid." Ladino Pasture Farmer's Favorite What's the one thing, above all j others, that farmer needs on his j place? A Tractor? Refrigerator? j Television set? Automobile? All these things are fine, but they're not as important as hav ing a good Ladfno clover pasture, believes Sonny Leathers. Negro farmer of Fletchers Grove com munity. Wake County. Leathers says a farmer needs a Ladino pasture even if his farm is only half an acre in size. He reached this conclusion, accord ing to W. C- Davenport, Wake Negro farm agent for the State College Extension Service, after observing pastures on the farm 'Villle Chavis In the same community. "Willie's mules anfl cows stay in the pasture and are just as^at and round as a butterball," Leath ers told Agent Davenport. "That's what makes me want a pasture," he added. This fall Leathers laid off a four-acre plot, prepared the seed bed carefully, and sowed the area to Ladino clover and orchard grass. By next summer he expects to have some good grazing for this livestock. Davenport says many other Ne gro farmers throughout Wake County have also seeded improv ed pasture this fall. pie each bale of cotton when it is ginned so that a government classification may be obtained, yhis information on grade and staple will enable the farmer to watch the markets more intelli gently and know approximately what price he can expect for each bale on each day's market. Hav ing the cotton sampled at the same time it is ginntd may save a trip back to the gin or ware house. The Market News Service of the North Carolina Department with the Extension Service, now of Agriculture, in cooperation provides daily price quotations from six leading cotton markets in the State. This information is sent out over Associated Press and United Press wires each day before noon, and the quotations are carried by many newspapers and radio stations. Thus the grower who has. had his cotton classed, knows the grade and staple, and watches daily price quotations is in good position to sell his crop for the highest pos sible price. During 1950, tobacco grown in the United States was exported to 93 countries. About two-thirds of these countries got more than one kind of tobacco. However, flue-cured is the most important qxport tobacco and in 1950, in leaf form, went to 76 countries. WITH DENTAL DEPARTMENT? Curtis K. Wright DA. son of Mr. and Mrs. Kossie Wright, is now serving with the Dental Depart ment at US Naval Station, Treas ure Island, Cal., after graduating from the Dental Technician School in San Diego. Calif. Cur tis joined the Navy in March of this year and took his recruit training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. Membership Drive Launched At Meet SHELBY ? The Executive Board of the Piedmont Council, Boy Scouts of America, in a din ner meeting here Tuesday night Oct. 23, with representatives pre sent from counties of Burke, Cald well, .Catawba, Cleveland, Gas ton, Iredell, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk and Rutherford, adopted plans for an intensive member ship Crusade which will get under way at once and run until De cember 31 as a part of the Na tional "Round-Up" program Of the Boy Scouts of America in an effort to carry the Scouting pro gram to every possible boy and young man. The Crusade will in clude plans for each of the 2-10 Scout Troops and Cub Scout Packs of the Piedmont area lo enroll at' least five new members and for each of the eleven County District Committees to re activate inactive units and to enlist all Churches not yet sponsoring Scout Units to make the Cub Scout and Boy Scout program of character building and citizen ship training available to' their boys and young men. Plans were also made for the holding of the annual Scouter Cubber "Round-Up" training con ference at Gardner-Webb Col lege at Boiling Springs on Tues day, November 13, to which all Scout and Cub leaders, and Com mitteemen will be invited. The training conference will start in the afternoon and conclude with a night banquet at whioh time of. Heating Equipment Should Be Checked .With cnki wcailu'i' approach- j ing. it's it Rood idea for farm families to cheek their heating I equipment and make sure it's in I good condition for safe rvinter 1 service, says Howard Clapp, j Cleveland County farm agent for 'the State College Extension Ser vice. ? Farm property fires always in crease its both numbers and se verity as the winter season ap proaches. A little attention to the problem now may save costly and tragic fires later in the season, says the county agent. Winter also usually brings a toll of ca u.dties from carbon monoxide. This deadly gas is col orless and odorless and gives no warning. Defective chimneys rank high (as a cause of farm fires during the heating season. All joints should be tight and a spark ar rester installed when combustible roofs are nearby. All stove and furnace pipes should be put in good condition '-and located a safe ; distance from combustible walls, j ceilings, curtains, and papers. ?The National Safety Council makes these additional sugges tions: Repair cracks or other defects and replace rusted and burned i out stove and furnace pipes, Make sure that combustible ma terials are protected. Ifse a metal or asbestos floor covering under wood - or coal ? burning stoves. Use double metal-ventilated thim bles where stove pipes pass through walls. Never use petroleum products to start or hasten a fire.. See that tank heaters, feed hea ters, and other type of heating fieers for 1952 will be elected.. John B. Hackney, Deputy Re gional Scout Executive ot Atlan ta Georgia, was present at the meeting of the Scout Hoard and j spoke briefly oil the alms and purposes of the "Three Year Pro gram" of the Boy Scouts of Amer ica which is, to follow the pro gram of the past several years in carrying the Scout program to a greater number of boys and young men. equipment around the farmstead are Installed ' safely <irtd kept in good repair. Make sure# that dampers in stoves and furnaces are never closed enough to force carbon monoxide or other gases out into the room. To prevent accidents with corn pickers, North Carolina farmers should wear close-fitting clothes or leave the arms bare. Always stop the picker to clean or lubri cate ii. Keep the power take-off shafts well shielded, ar.d don't ride the' back of the picker. M JtS FfcWMfc ftuafj SUN-PROOF I HOUSE PAINT | ww#J Today's SUN-PROOF House Paint is better than ever be cause it s fUME-PROOF! Will not darken or discolor fr.sm coal smoke or industrial gases. Self-cleaning, too. "PITTSBURGH PAINTS 1 COOK, en^ . / ? ? GALLON CITY Floor Covering W. Mtn. St. Phone 113 W. O. (Doc)) Byers. Mgr. PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES . . . by having them cleaned regularly at . . . WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phone 551-W Foote's 75th Anniversary . . . Back in 1876 the late Dr. A. E. Foote, a professor of chemistry and minerology. was awarded first prize at the Philadel phia Centennial for his large collection of rare ore and minerals. The exhibit attracted national attention and in No vember Dr. Foot formed a company to supply the demand for <>pecimens and information by schools, museums and industry. That was the start of Foote ? rare minerals caterer. By 1900 the company entered into its first contract to supply ore in commercial quantities ? this radical change coming as the result of another Foote exhibit, this one at the Paris Expo sition of 1900. Foote Mineral Company has come a long way in seventy-five years ? from First Prize in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibit to World Leader in finding and producing rare metals in stockpile quantities. Foote's search for. and research in. rare minerals has expanded so greatly that today there is hardly a section of the globe that has not been visited by a Foote representative. Our research in lithium, lightest of all the elements, has found application in practically every branch of industry and science. Foote is the leading producer of lithium com pounds and lithium ores and our search for lithium-bearing ore brought us to Kings Mountain in October. 1950. Thus, along with our 75th Anniversary, we're also celebrating reciation v, . ( ? '? -'r-l - ; '?? c?pd i'i . . " ?ga ?- cs . - wS??s WKdSSrS ??: jsv ?;; ft** . . . . where we completed purchase last week of the Solvay plant and mine, a $350,000 investment for Foote and a new industry for Kings Mountain. Our aim here is to develop fully the spodumene deposits (lithium-bearing ore) of this section to market spodumene in commercial quantities along with tin, columbite. mica and feldspar. 360 tons of ore daily. Plans are being made to greatly expand our milling facilities and work is 4* * expansion of our mining facilities. the commercial and Industrial firms, lor the ns on the re-opening of the mill and mine
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