LIFE WITH THE RIMPLES By Les Carroll JUST THINK. WELL SOON Be WHIZZING AROUND THIS OLD -v EARTH LIKE METEORS.* WOLiLDN T \T BE X WONOERFUL IF 1 COULD { SHOULD BE THE FIRST M*M TO S SW GOTO THE MOON, KATY.'^ NOT.1 cw ID HATE TO HfWETD FOLLOW YOU AWAN UP THERE TO SEE YOU D\DNT BURN A> HOLE IN IT/ KEEP UP ON FARMING o With Unde Walt '’Live and learn and die and forget it all." I hadn't heard that old sayin In [ don’t know when •till the other day when Ned Cun ningham stopped toy the house on his way to sell a load of com. I was out at the crib sMuckin a few ears of corn for Nancy, my old torood sow, when Ned pul led in. First thing he said was, "Walt, what makes you crib your corn in the Shucks ever year?” I allowed as how he knew I didn’t raise much corn and that I jest as soon shuck it as I needed it instead of doin it all at one time, so I sorta ignored his question. I jest passed It off by sayin, “Why, don’t you know that people don’t have oom shuekins no more?" I asked Ned where he was gonna take his oom to sell and lie told me up to Bill Spears place. He said BUI was puttin up a new storage bin at his place which would hold I forgot how many bushels but it was a pas eel more than what Ned had on his truck. So, we got to talkin a-j bout all of those grain bins you aee around at these different, places and Ned knowed a lot itaore about it tlran I figgered he did. Fact is, he knowed so much a bout it ’till I was almost sorry I even mentioned the subject. I’m one of these fellers who likes to put in Ms two-oents worth ever once in awWile and I jest didn’t j know enough about all of these things Ned was tellin me to hardly open my mouth. So I jest set there in the door of the com crib and listened to him. Come to find out though, be fore got through, that he was Jest quotin somebody else. He’d been over tp the school house the night before to a meeting where a bunch of them got together lo •hear one of them fellers from Raleigh talk. Ned said the feller doin the talkin was a Mr. Lane, Pete Lane I believe he said, and that he worked with the State Agriculture Department on the miarketin of grain all over the state. Anyhow, he must of been quite a talker ’cause I know old Ned didn’t know nothin albout all of this 'before he heard him the night before. I asked Ned if this feller Lane said anything about why they was so many grain bins bein put up all over the state. That was another mistake I made because it took him a good 20 minutes to tell me jest what was said about ’em. The way Ned give it in, I reckon we’re produoin more grain in the state about ever year. Seems to me like he said Mr. Lane said we had around 127 million bushels produced in the state last year. That sounds like a awful lot but I know that’s the figger he used. That bein the case, I guess we need all the bins that have been built so far and then some. Fact is, Ned said they weren't enough commercial stor age space in the state to take care of a fourth of the grain we are produdn. That raised another question in my mind so I asked Ned if most of the farmers couldn’t take care of wiiat grain they produced (right on their own farms. He said they weren't nearly enough good storage space on farms to where grain could be put up and took care of like it ought to be. He also said that a lot of people like to sell their grain as soon as they got it har vested and that filled up the storage bins in a hurry. I reckon they’re a lot of people who’d ru tl-_” hold on to their grain and sell it later but they about have to sell at harvest time because they need the money. INed went on to say that as more storage space for grain was i built in the State it would mean more money to the farmer. Nat i urally, I wanted to know why. So he said "If we had enough space to store our grain ever ! year it wouldn’t be necessary to ship so much of it out of state i after all the storage space gits filled up and then bring more grain back in the state later In | the year to be made up into I feed." That made sense to me. Another interestin thing he said was that the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture has worked out a plan where a farmer can borrow up to 95 percent of the cost for buyin storage and dryin equipment for grain. I believe ho said the loans run for three years at four percent interest. He told; a whole bunch more a i bout it but I didn’t quite git ev 1 erything he said. I do remember him sayin though that if a body i wanted to git one of these loans, I they would have to git it through i their county ASC office. After Ned left, I set there In i my little old crib and Chucked a ! few more ears of corn and I got ; to thinkin. I figgered If they was not some place better to store corn and other grains in the state than in a crib like mine, then we was in a bad way. In my case though, I don’t grow no grain for sale — jest enough for the rats which I have ever year and my few head of livestock is all. Most of the important insect pests in the U. S. came from other parts of the world. You'll find variety like this only at your Chevrolet dealer's One-Stop Shoppiny Center JET-SMOOTH CHEVROLETS, nimble Corvairs, the one-and only Corvette—31 models in all to choose from under one roof at your Chevrolet dealer’s. Thrifty full-sized Chev rolet Biscaynes, popular Bel Airs, sumptuous Impalas, six handy, handsome wagons. Agile, sure-footed Corvair sedans and coupes and family lovin’ Corvair wagons. Why not drop in and do your new car shopping in just one stop! i !■****■ ' New 9-Passenger BROOKWOOD STATION WAGON There are six Chevrolet wagons, from budget-wise Brookwoods to luxurious Nomads—each with cargo opening nearly 5 ft. across. Bel Air 2-Door Sedan CHEVROLET’S GOT MORE OF WHAT IT TAKES . . . and that’s why more people are taking to it. That built-in Jet-smooth ride, for instance, with Full Coil suspension. Body by Fisher refine ments unmatched in Chevy s field. And so many more things to like ! No wonder Chevrolet’s the most popular on the highway and buy-way! See the new Chevrolets at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's^ Dealer License No. 110 VICTORY CHEVROLET COMPANY. INC. Corner Railroad at Mountain TELEPHONE 739-5471 KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. G Auto Dealers At Convention RALEIGH — The 26th Annual Convention of the North Caroli na Automobile Dealers Associa tion was held Sunday, Mjonday and Tuesday at The Carolina Ho tel in Pineihurst. Key figures of' the automobile industry from Maine to Califor ia addressed the business ses sions. Governor Terry Sanford and Congressman A. Paul Kit chin from North Carolina’s 8th district featured luncheon speak ers and over 600 dealers from North Carolina and their wives' attended. Attending from Kings Moun tain were Mir. and Mrs. Charles E. Dixon, Victory Chevrolet' Company, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Grantham, Victory Chevrolet Company, Inc.; and Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Southwell, Plonk Motor Comply. The average person ate 1,488 pounds of food in 1960. -\ Women Noting H-D Week This week, about 1 1/3 million women coast-to-eoast are partic ipating through some £3,000 or ganized clubs in observing Na tional Home Demonstration Club Week. There are 57,320 white and Ne gro Home Demonstration Club women in North Carolina. They are observing the week through local county events. Mjore than 7 million other wo men in the nation are enrolled in special interest workshops, at tend series of meetings, enter in to discussions, watch demonstra tions, read bulletins, and hear extension radio programs. Miss Ruth Current, assistant' director for the N. C. Agricultur-! al Extension Service, says, “Whatever their method, they strive to become better manag ers, to handle their resources of time, money, and energy more wisely." In the organized groups, the volunteer leaders help plan and carry on the home demonstration program. They are the “teachers’* named toy homemakers themsel ves from their ovyn ranks. All are trained and assisted by home demonstration agents. > Home Demonstration agents, besides their work with groups, assist many other homemakers through workshops, visits, de montrations, tours, and publica tions. CARD OF THANKS The family of Walter C. Smith acknowledges with sincere appre ciation your kind expressions of sympathy at the loss of our lov ed one. SPRING GLEANING — Elim inate the annual upheaval known as “spring cleaning.” This you can do by scheduling a cleaning job a week the year round so that each room in the house is thoroughly cleaned every six weeks or so. If you will do this, your Home will look its best al all times., , Of course, there are certain seasoned chores that you will do in the spring and fall such asj closet cleaning, putting away winter clothing and bedding, etc. A constant and continuing pro -am of house cleaning will e lixhinate the period of complete turmoil once dreaded by every J family. I APPETIZERS — like a feat foa a costumes, we choose an appo tizer to dress up a meal, to kej tile meal to a certain occasion give it timely interest and zest or make it more complete. The appetizer must complement th« meal in appeal and flavor and H should whet the appetite foi What is to come. IMPORTANT — CJhill fruil juices and fruit appetizers well! Serve a generous wedge of le mon with tomato juice or fish. Remiber, first • course fruit cups Should he tart, not sweet. So use little sweetening and plenty ol lemon, grapefruit, or orange jui ce, cranberry, pineapple. No hea vy'syrup fruits. HARRIS FUNERAL HOME —Ambulance Service— Phone 739-2591 Kings Mountain, N. C. TERMITES SWARMING? . Vx . I ' nnonnn C.B. PORTER. PLUMBING CONTRACTING AND REPAIRING CONTRACTOR § Water Heaters • Well Pumps . . . REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY Phone 739-2381 Night Phone 739-4153 FREE ESTIMATES Prompt Efficient Service All Work Guaranteed Kings Mountain. N. CL These gloved hands are placing sensitized film on a radioactive piston. This produces a "radio autograph," from which Shell can study the effect of deposits on top"performance, BULLETIN: Super Shell with 9 ingredients now contains 1 quick-start component; 1 fast warm-up ingredient; 1 mileage booster; 1 anti-knock mix; 2 octarfe boosters; 1 gum preventive; 1 anti-icer and new improved TCP—to give your car top nerfnrmnnra Bead the facts about today’s Super Shell. You’ll learn why each of its nine ingredients is essential if you want ton •performance from today’s engines. Engines today are much more i finicky than they were even a decade ago. That’s why your car needs all of the ingredients in today’s Super Shell. Test drivers, noted for conserv ative statements, call many re cent engines “critical.” In fact, some say that you may not know how good your car’s engine really is. simply because it is running below peak efficiency. Today’s Super Shell is designed to help correct this state of affairs. Read on to learn exactly how Super Shell helps every car de liver its top performance. 1. The quick-start component in Super Shell is so volatile it’s kept underground. 1 he Butane in Super Shell is like the priming charge in a shot gun shell. Its quick-firing volatil ity is what gets you started fast ou cold days. Butane, in fact, vaporizes so easily that it is kept under pressure—22 million gal lons of it—400 feet underground! Because of Butane, your car can start in a hurry. You save your battery. You don’t waste gasoline by pumping raw fuel through your engine before it catches. 2. The fast warm-up ingredient in Super Shell acts like kindling for a fire. The fast warm-up you get with Super Shell comes from its Pen tane mix. Pentanes are “kin dling” molecules—split from heavier hydrocarbons. They release their energy quickly, giving you top cold weather performance in a hurry. 3. The mileage booster in Super Shell owes its energy to car loads of platinum catalyst Shell uses eight million dollars' worth of platinum catalyst to produce Platfonnate, the extra energy, extra-mileage ingredient in today’s Super Shell. The platinum catalyst, which gives the Platformate its name, helps re-form petroleum into super-energy components—such as benzene, xylene, toluene. These three alone release 11 per cent more energy per gallon than the best 100-octane avia tion gasoline. The super-energy of Platfor mate is teamed with the eight other ingredients in Super Shell, wh^re it gives you that welcome extra mileage. 4. The anti-knock mix in Super Shell is so effective that one teaspoonful treats a gallon. To detect the slightest trace of knock, Shell scientists depend on an astonishing set of instru ments. This registers the faintest knocks on a delicate picture tube, and then photographs it with a high-speed camera. Such data help Shell research men to prescribe an anti-knock mix so effectivrthatone teaspoon ful per gallon of gasoline can boost the octane rating 5 full points. 5. & 6. Both octane boosters in Super Shell have a story. One is linked with Jimmy Doolittle. The other-comes from heating petroleum to 900 degrees. Jimmy Doolittle helped pioneer the first of these high-octane in Shell's Butane Storage Cavern at Wood River, Illinois. Some 230,000 tons of rock were removed through a pipe only 42 inches wide. This tiny entrance posed quite a problem when getting a bulldozer down. Shell’s solution ? Cut the ’dozer up and weld it together again down below. gredients for Shell aviation fuel. It is called Alkylate. Alkylate —which took the dream of 100-octane gasoline out of the lab and put it into the sky— is now in Super Shell. It controls knocking in hot engines at high speeds far better than anything else yet available. ingredient is “cat-cracked” gaso line for power with a purr. This is petroleum that has actually been cracked under 900-degree heat and catalytic action. The result is a super-octane ingredient that asserts its,author ity the moment you put your foot down. 7. The anti-gum ingredient in Super Shell uses a chemical “policeman” to guard against gum-fouled carburetors. Even the purest gasoline can form gum when stored. This gum clogs carburetors and fouls automatic chokes. Bpt, with Super Shell, you needn’t worry. A special gum preventive does the trick. It acts like a policeman con trolling a mob. Regulates un stable elements to help keep them from clotting. Hence no gum problem. 8. The anti-icer in Super Shell takes care of the most myste rious stalls of all. Super Shell's formula is adjusted as often as eight times a year to beat the weather. For example, whenever the temperature is likely to drop below forty-five degrees, an anti-icer is added. U'by add anti-icer at forty five degrees? Because, even at that temperature, frost can form in your carburetor just as it does octane-boosting in your refrigerator. It can choke your engine dead. Super Shell's anti-icer tackles the problem by discouraging ice from sticking to metal parts. Re sult: you can forget about carbu retor icing problems. 9. TCP in Super Shell Increases power, mileage and plug life. In 1953, Shell first introduced TCP*—a revolutionary additive that neutralized certain harmful effects of combustion deposits. Today, Shell has developed a new improved TCP, cresyl diphenyl-phosphate. TCP can give your car as much as 15 per cent mote power and up to 17 e:;tra miles per tank ful. It can also make spark plugs last up to twice as long. Ponder these statistics. They can have a refreshing effect on your car bills. Test Super Shell for yourself Try today’s Super Shell. You'll soon feel and hear a difference in the way your engine runs. That difference is top performance. A BULLETIN FROM SHELL RESEARCH —where 1,997 scientists hre working to make your car go better and better. •Trademark for Stall's nalqne gnuBno additive. Gasoline containing TCP is covered by U. S. Patent 3S3S211. HINTS TO llowPMlkvil BY RUTH CURRENT STATE HOME 0 E MID N5TRAIION AGENT

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