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New Buying Interests
Boost Tar Heel Beef
Tar Heel beef cattle going to
iex^l Sounds strange, porliaps,
but it’s true.
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
r
Ser 7, 1972
I mers to expand beef herds “on a I
sound and profitable j:asis.** I
I The average price of feeder
' calves this fal] jumped nearly $9 I
I per hun lied pOcUids to a season;
The consumer demand has average of $14.2S. The average;
hrought on rapid growth of feed- yearling steers rose almost
lots in far west, midwest and' $s per hundred pounds to $41.02.;
southwest sections of the coun-1
graded sales .saw 39,101.
gross farmers a total of j
Tar Heel
Spotlight
they have grown, they . graded sales .saw
Feedlot operations from the ^
mong thi r;"" ;! '<hoy have' had "ur go ■ further” a- e* oss farmers a total of , .‘Culture Week,” North Caro-
Sina way from home to huy young cat- “'‘‘I f,. ‘"crease of i ima's unique assemblage of its
wS safr fwc r to pot into the giant feedlots. ^^tUmill.on over returns from the th.rteen major historical and cul-
fiiauea sales this fall, and thi'ir ^ same sales in 19"1.
presence helped boost prices to 'The lots in the far west have in-i . , , i. .
new record highs. , vadod tradiiional sources of tee- Tbo slate graded yearling steer
Large shiomen, nf x. “or cattle for the southwe.stern «“! foo^ler calf sales are spon-
o:inallede;s"?rthrco^°m.y is a T'-se -states, in turn, have j --d hy _N. C. State University
new develonmAtit in th ' ” 'nto the southeastern i Agricultural Exten-
rew aevelopment in the ineludinfr Vnrth Tarn .Servi.'e). N. C. Department
}ndustry of the state. I forcalves.^ of Agriculture an dthe N. C. Cat-
‘ tlemen's Association.
including North Caro-
points out North Carolina Si uol
University extension ;;eef special-; lUichanan reporto j that some
Sam Buchanan. ! calves from the 1972 fall sales
He explained that, until this were shippc*d as far away as New
fa-1, many of the state’s feeder Mexico.
cattle were going to farmerfeed- .Midwestern buyers, particularly
ers in phio and other nearby a- from Ohio and Indiana, have heon
reas. “This year for the first steady buyers of North Carolina
ume, our biggest buyers wcie feeder cattle and were on the
&om Iowa and Texas,” the spe* markets again this year. The add-
f..
Census Bureau
Conducts Survey
dalist saw.
ed competition from Iowa and i,m5 the U. S. Bureau of the -
reasons behind this deve- the .southw<*.stern states provided census will conduct its regular. ^^^hts.
f roots in far- spirited bidding on the 11 year- monthly survey in this area on t Be^innine Tuesday the Morri
iin.g steer and 21 feeder calf sales. I employment and unemployment, son AviTrd^Dresent^ bi f^^
ttern cattle feeding area.v The I’lichanan is optimistic that this ac'^ording* to Tosenh R >Jnnvoo<i a ci presented by the Roa-
reasons are also tied directly to buying competition will continue | (Hector of the Bure-v-’-n ,.a Cob "ion'^wmMo D?‘*and‘^Mrs'^James
the mushrooming demand for providing even further <*ncour-! leetion Certler otte Th s went to Dr. and Mrs. James
consunner beef in the U. S. ngement for North Carolina far- month th^ : , 'wi'^ inciudM f
inuiuM, m .v.y wi.i mcjuoe i support of numerou:j cultural ac-
quest''" • ' -
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I any farm work tivities. Later, the Federation of
■ ■ ' Music C*ubs presented the Hinda
,ocaI households in the survey * Honigman Cup for the best mu-
are part of the 50,000 across the composition publi.shed dur-
country that have been scientifi- the prcceeding /ear to Rose
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THE VITAMIN SELECTED
FOR USE BY THE
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America’s largest selling multi-vitamiruuxilti-mineral product
KINGS nOUNTAlNi
DRUG COMPANY
the CITY'S, MODERN STORE
cally selected to represent a cross
section of all households.'
Marie Cooper of Greensboro for
her anthem, “Lord, Speak to Me.
The survey is taken by the bu
reau for the U. S. Department of
Labor. It provides monthy infor
mation on conditions in the labor
force, prime indicator of the eco
nomic health of the nation. The
October survey showed that em
ployment was continuing its
steady rise which began in 1971,
while the unemployment rate of
5.5 per cent was at about the
same level as in the previous
four months.
Information supplied by indi
viduals participating in the sur
vey is confidential and results are
used only to compile statistical
totals.
Census interviewers who will
visit households in this area are:
Mrs. Jacqueline H. Goforth, 1301
'Montrose Drive, Shelby and Mrs.
Ethel S. Rockett, 908 South St.,
CTastonia.
Hale Completes
Basic Training
Wednesday was “Art Day,” and
Alice Fellows of Durham won
the Art Society’s $1,000 purchase
award for her sculpture, “Moon
'Egg III,” in the 35th annual N.
C. Artist Exhibition which open
ed that evening at the State Mu
seum of Art. Winners of the so
ciety’s three $500 purchase a*
were R. W. Kinnaird of Chapel
Hill for an acrylic, “Interference;
“Dean Leary of Greenville for a
fiberglass and masonite construc
tion entitled “Composition in
Green;" and Ralph Cox of An-
Gr'een;” and Ralph Cox of A-
thens, Georgia, for an enamel
entitled “Pink Forms.”
On Thursday, Culture Week’s
emphasis shifted to history fol
lowed by an evening concert tby
the North Carolina Symphony.
Major awards of the day were
the Ruth Coltrane Cannon Cups
for historic preservation (Four
are given annually), and the Mu
seum Council Award.
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. — Ma
rine Pvt. Billy G. Hale, husband
of the former Miss Shelia K.
Humphries of 119 Center St,
Kings (Mountain, N. C., graduat
ed from basic training at the
Marine Corps iRecruit depot at
Parris Island, S. C.
'He is a former student of
i Kings Mountain high school.
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SAVINGS
ACCOUNT
IS A GREAT
CHRISTMAS
GIFT
...andbrings many happy returns
This year avoid the holiday crowds and give a gift even Scrooge would enjoy.
Open a Savings Account for any amount. Then let someone you love enjoy the
rewards and be reminded of your interest, too.
Introduce a youngster to the advantages of saving. Or use this suggestion to
please an old grouch on your shopping list. Eitlier way, it’s a great idea for
Christmas Day. And an increasingly better one every singly day thereafter.
We’ll even provide a handsome and festive greeting card holder to house the
passbook that brings “many happy returns”.
Home S&L Assn.
106 EAST MOUNTAIN
FREE PARKING
The Museum Council Award
went to Frank Horton of Win
ston-Salem for his work with Old
Salem and the Museum of Ear’y
Southern Decorative Arts. Can
non Cups were presented to Gov
ernor Robert W. Scott for his sup
port of historic preservation; to
Mrs. Joye E. Jordan of Raleingh
for dedicated service to the Of
fice of Archives and History; to
Miss Mellanay Del horn of Char
lotte for research in ceramics;
and to the Historic Hope Foun
dation for the restoration of
i Hope Plantation, the Bertie Coun-
1 ty home of Governor David
' Stone,
During Friday’s meeting of the
j Literary and Historical Associa-
! tion, the Roanoke-Showan Poe-
j try Award went to Fred Chappell
j of Greensboro for “The World
I Between the Eyes.” The R. D.
I W. Connor Award for an article
I published in the "N. C. Historical
I -Review” went to Dr. Don Higgin-
1 botham of Chapel Hill, and the
! Christopher Crittenden Memorial
^ Award for furthering knowledge
of state history was presented to
William S. Powell of Chape!
Hill. No award for juvenile liter
ature was presented this year.
Generally considered as the two
major awards of the week
are the Sir Walter Raleigh award
for fiction which went to Daphne
Athas of Chapel Hill for “Enter
ing Ephesus,” and the Mayflow
er Society award for non-fiction
which went to John F. Bivins Jr.,
of Winston-Salem for “The Mora
vian Potters in North Carolina.”
The final award of the week
went to Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson
Smith of Charlotte and Kings
Mountain for a newspaper story j
entitled “Founding Father Rev-j
ered or Rejected,” the story of
Col. William Graham in the
A'merican Revolution. She won |
the Smithwick Cup given Satur-[l
day by the N. C. Society of Coun
ty and Local Historians.
ASC Committee
To Count Votes
ASC!
The Cleveland County
committee will publicly tabulate
the ballots received in the com
munity committee election Frida/,
Decen*; er 8. beginning at 9:00 a.
m. in the ASCS office.
The ballots are for the olo'’-
tion of a chairman, vice chair
man, regular );.ember and first
and second alternate to serve as
the community committee for the
1973 year.
The chairman, vice chairman
and regular, member vidll also
serve as delegates to' the county
corivention to be held Tuesday,
December 12, at which time one j
member of the county committee ,
will be elected to serve a 3-ypar,'
term. First and second alternate I
to the county committee will beji
elected and a chairman and vice \ [
chairman to serve for'the 19731
I year.
lurai organizations, has conclu
ded its 59th sei.dion in the state
capital.
The week was marked by pro
grams on historic preservation,
musical perXcrmances, reviews of
literature produced during the
past year, opening of the N. C
Artists Exhibition, social events,
and awards to outstanding North
Carolinians for excellence in art,
literature, music, and history.
Space will not permit a full re
view of the events cr mention of
ail those who were honored for
During the week of December |kem accomplishments, but fol
lowing are some of the high-
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