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-V^OafctS' »ir^j ^t^Mij||!l}g>igij|jl''i list ni-®;,' i Jt"? Ral«“ St 3' sea- an Jon!' THE HYDE COUNTY HER j^VS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH ’%GP IBISES SWAN QUARTER. N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1941 Single Copy 5c R. POU n.—YOUTH their help Ch dres; jretf"’ Sts*; , pl9‘ ' lit* Nvar foih!|’,^"'man of the ONSF to Letter From Ri:' Chief so I P ^ .I ’ ®°’^*’'Pusses and dys- t’'’' siflj" irisist that the boys ;ll ?! the present day are "!('d t °'^^titless and shailow- ’ ir watch out, de- Jj*!’ tidargarette Silver- ;;ro>''''d County chairman of State Fu d as there jd t' "lio uian in North Caro- * take violent issue iui‘’' '''ith ^^‘'oerning criticism of he ! “fge p today, and that man rea*'' ■'easaf®®® Pou, state auditor 11, 5 lettp*'' Fund. . Itatgj ^ to Miss Silverthorne, Jujjj Since the Old North lSf‘ ^loQon campaign to fed T ^ to purchase a fully f'ri a. •'plane ambulance as a o' .entEfUs People of England from Igjj •'th Carolina, hun- ■eii'ihotp have been received jhit* “lent i interested in the S'f large number have ive Pi HYDE SCHOOLS ' END YEAR WITH LARGE DEFICIT —'■ I School Finances Are in Bad Shape as Result of Old Debts AMONG HYDE’S BUSINESS FIRMS NEGROES FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MFG. WHISKEY CAHOON TAKES OVER CAPITOL SERVICE STATION According to the financial report just released by Supt. N. W. Shel ton, the Hyde County schools end ed the fiscal year on June 30 owing week, after A. Cahoon, well known S'V’n Quarter merchant and busine'--- man, took over Capitol Service Station in Swan Quarter Hs Hyde Recorder Tries Large Docket Monday Morn ing $7500.25 e.xclusive of the. sanita- I never saw so many folks from j tion project for the Fairfield, Swan home as last Friday w hen I went ■ Quarter, and Engelhard schools. .0 Norfolk to get a second opera- ■ The county school fund defaulted aon done to the right hand of my j $3044.46 on loans from the State, little boy Roger, wdio got it badly ' There were $1031.86 in outstand- crushed in his printing press dur- ing accounts against the current Three of four defendants, charg-; ed with the illegal manufacture thrSinclair^building whiskey, w'ere found not guilty^ and girls over the ^uy have contained the Fund. These fci,d;7‘l®d on ry conceiv- ouf , Paper, have shown me iiinl lij girls have a up* '>6 of sympathy and a gef*! ••'Sbess to make per- s,” oes for the benefit of gTd^ Igi, gUi'!'] hetp*?' oontinued “for in- ggi'’ ttou, *5. extract from a jail •'? E At Overby, now bel* 1 aiv, ®.®^6laead City, which P. • to jj .^•'^Ing my cents and up * it do ^ b mercy plane, ool*, '"anev^® ^ whole lot of good, pill slioaT^® me to go to '’'‘j ■’^Svp u to bowl but I V ? Plano > the British for a /Si In ■ His brother, Dan ) ' !»iv’v^'^°te T want to give tof to buy a mercy expense fund w'hile the capital out lay' account w^as $2523.95 behind its payments. To meet these obli gations of $7500.26 the various school funds had a combined bal ance of $3908.98. This left a $3591.28 deficit. Since a one cent levy in Hyde County will bring in only $296, it would take about a 12i‘'2 ceut levy just to pay the bills due July 1st and for which there ‘af R '-y ''J uuy a n;„ British. This ing the winter. By home I mean, people from Dare County who now live in NorioiK. Dr. M. H. Todd,, who is a most splendid and skilful surgeon sug gested I take him over to St. Vin cent s hospital for his convenience, for at the time he had a number of patients in that place. I am not overly fond of the gloomy old place, and the serious-faced sisters swishing about in their long gar- were no funds in sight, ments, alwmys impressed me rather Ib addition to this $3591.28 de^ much as to the solemnity of being ficit hanging over the school funds, in a hospital, w'hich is not always the county wdll have to increase its wRat a sick man is looking for. | appropriation for its share of va- But first thing, the little boy got c?tional salary increments and re- adnritted to a ward where a num- Hrement as provided by law. her of boys were being treated for j Although the Commissioners in- broken legs and crushed bodies, creased the school levy by four and other ailments probably more cents this will bring in only $1184 painful than his owm, and among toward paying the deficit of them was a lady who had at- $3591.-28. It is hoped that back tempted to get in on the wmong tax collection will be increased side of a car, and was horribly sufficiently to meet these obliga- crushed as a reckless motorist tions. drove past. That was an impres- | Because of the financial condi- sive lesson. I have often cautioned ' tion, the school officials will have my own boys about it. Twice dur-' to cut expenditures to the bone in ing the stay, I visited the little order not to get further behind, boy, after he had his operation, and The county has three choices with two fingers had been cut, the regard to its schools (1) spend les Hyde County Recorders- Court Monday morning, as the State fail-1 ed to bring in enouj^h evidence to ; satisfy the court of their guilt. j Those tried, all colored of the Last Chance section of Lake Land- The h°st wave of lR=t week and township, were Clarence Fon- ville, Claudius Spencer, Dennis Blount and Syl Gibbs. The first three named plead not guilty, and were found not guilty by the court.' The latter plead guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 90 days on the roads, suspended upon payment of the cost of the court and 12 months of good behavior, j ENGELHARD-WASHINGTON I Warrants were issued for the; BUS CO. PUTS ON NEW BUS Negroes shortly after Sheriff S. O. Jones had raided a siill in the was vacated by J. Allen Harris, Mr. Cahoon is equipped to serve automobile owners of this section. HEAT wave makes DEMAND FOR MORE ELECTRIC FANS week before found the Berry Com pany, Swan Quarter hardware dealers, without ' enough electric fans to meet the demand of the public. They have received a new shipment of fans now, however, and are ready to serve their cus tomers. HYDE TAX RATE WILL REMAIN AT $1.85 FOR 1941-42 FISCAL YEAR County Commissioners Approved a Budget Totaling $129,470.58 at Meeting Last Tues day; $52,346 Set Up For Debt Service; Esti mated Valuation of Real and Personal Property For the Current Year Is $3,877,419 FARMERS HAVE TIME TO MAKE UNITS IN 1941 The Hyde County Board of Com missioners meeting last Tuesday- adopted a budget totaling $129,- 470.58 for the 1941-42 fiscal year and retained the same tax rate of L, J , _ 7 _ , . i $1-85 per $100 valuation for the Hydes Farm Agent Explains ensuing year. Program in Following Article By J. P. WOODARD Under the agricultural conserva- The assessed valuation of real and personal property for the cur rent year was estimated at $3,877,- 419—an increase of approximately $140,167 over the valuation of the The Engelhard-Washington Bus Company has recently put a new, larger and more comfortable bus on its Engelhard-Washington line. This is another step of this pro gressive transportation firm to serve the traveling public of this section. Watch for their schedule which appears in this newspaper regularly. woods near Last Chance on the Hon program there is set up a soil • P®-®*- year, nijfht of July 30 and caught Syl ^^“uing goal for each State, for ^ .A breakdown of the tax levy is Gibbs, who accused the other men each county and for each Individ- follows: General county, .16; who were tried, as parties con- farm. In 1938 Hyde County i poor, 13.6; health, .09.8; old age nected with the manufacture of 94.3 per cent of the goal; in i assistance, 1.07; and schools .30. The school fund appropriation for current expenses, debt service regardless of needs, (2) go further in debt, (3) raise the tax rate still further. Since the tax rate for The crop outlook in Hyde Coun tv this year is good according to assault with a deadly weapon, de- ton, commercial vegetables), further. Since the tax rate for Agent J. P. Woodard, fendant plead guilty of public farm payment will be based on the this year has been set only the county agent “I believe drunkenness and disorderly con- percentage of your soil building first two choices are possible at crons of the county as a duct, 90 days on the roads suspend- that you make. re(- llou^^ey but I am sending These boys are bones sliced and bandaged, and found him wrestling with the nausea that follows an anaesthetic. Once I found from three to four people huddled around six of the is my I eight beds in the ward, all anxious ^ . u ’■ relatives visiting their sons or I, ^ast year the County borrowea brothers. And there were many fsupplement WPA funds cheerful nurses in spotless white S’J’. auditorium at Sladesville. uniforms, whose smiles certainly T’'*® ,::^® would help to make a lad forget j'®®® than the cost and these bills that he was in trouble and unable '^’'® w p tensile to have his mother with him all /"PP‘?«®"7W. P. tensive, the time ‘ tunds for waterworks and san- „ ’ . . . I itary toilets at Fairfield. Engel, crop, the county agent said that I •“''■and -ISc to hein Fn-i getting back to the visit, hard,and Swan Quarter. This pro- the prospects were very good for atiri'” ’^®hing my money for those present, in the corn- jg^.^ bas not been completed. a bountiful harvest, despite the ‘‘toV?"but ■ " whiskey at the still at which the 1®39, 97.5 per cent; and in 1940 90 sheriff caught him. The State fail- P®*" ed to prove this to the satisfaction What percentage of our units and capital outlay totaled $30,572.- of the court and thus they were will we make in 1941? As soon as 58. A breakdown of this follows; found not guilty. , farms are checked by local super-: current expenses, $14,894.02; capi- Other cases tried Monday were: visors, notices are mailed to each tal outlay, $6,789.74; and debt ser- The State vs. Harvey Lee Brown, farm that needs additional soil vice, $9,888.82. reckless driving, nol pros with building units. (Farms that have The levy for the general fund is leave. made 100 per cent and over are the same for the current year as it ri/ATTXTrr'V A /''TT'XTT^ State VS. Alton Watson, haul not notified). With the changes was for the past—.15. A reduction LOLJiNl i ALLJaI 1 netting, continued. that have been made in the 1941 of .15 on the $100 valuation was — I State vs. L. B. Midgette, haul program, it is very important that made in the levy for debt service. Hyde Farmers Have Better netting, continued. every farmer make as near 100 The levy for the school fund was Than Averase Crops I State vs. Ola Watson, haul net- per cent of their soil building as increased by .04, it being .36 last I ting, continued. > possible, for payments are equal to , year and 0 for the current year, I State vs. Clee Hardy, colored, or less than special payments (cot- j The CROP OUTLOOK IS GOOD SAYS n’ii'T ba,,'Mrs. Daniel Over- fisitr,,. ®’ who are fre- here ''^*® '® extract from a ' hir , by Shep Griswold, Vb William Gris- whole are better than usual. Mr. Woodard said that the boll weevil had done some damage to the cotton crop, particularly in Currituck township, but that in no part of the county had it been ex- In regards to the county’s corn NINE WHITE MEN LEFT FOR ARMY SERVICE TODAY ed upon payment of a $10 fine and For example: A farm with $20' cost of the court. Twelve months soil building payment and $20.00 of good behavior. cotton payment, making a total The Largest Group of Draf tees to Be Sent From Hyde The County is badly in need of damage caused in sorne^ sections reckless driving, some new buildings and others are by the rams of June and July. ‘ - in a deplorable condition. The National Outlook white schools at Ocracoke and The United States Department Sladesville are in need of replace- of Agriculture forecast last Friday Ct _ i.1 t 1— That- Tiof-i/xn’ci /xrxr'Tnr* /x't'/xrx xxr/-vix H _ ^ . j dors or waiting rooms were Leroy Hib'" ^rip* bnT ^ ’ Baum, formerly of Nags Head, a English ^ ^ mercy plane brother of Capt. Tom Baum, Nor- fi' nf'’ Of Baum, and Jesse Baum of Kit- ' ^ Vhi Hawk. u ijK wrot© ^Wq fir© i h) i '!'••' pleasure for the ’ • because a sister-, ment. Some of the negro schools that the nation’s cotton crop would 'e gilP get a flving hospital •"''^w was critically ill in the hos- ' are practally falling down. The be the smaller this year than in hon This'is not much : expected to die. It was County is not in a position to hbr- any season since 1935. The de- ' Coni/ "'Bl do some good ' Baum, for I had not row money for schools now since partment based its forecast on the give more monev and • ®®®” many years. | it defaulted on outstanding loans basis of conditions prevailing Au- a fl will raise enough ' ^ Loubett Cohoon last year and is behind in paying gcirt hospital soon.’ Cer- Bake, who was there to its current bills, aci, letters show that our ?®® ."’•^.®’ ^1 in the hospital. | The school authorities are, how- State vs. Claud Mann, colored, farm payment of $40.00, if only; assault with a deadly weapon, $10.00 soil building was made one ' plead guilty, found guilty by the half or $10.00 cotton payment court, given 60 days on the roads would be made. Instead of a farm xiine white hev,_tke suspended upon payment of the payment of $40.00 this farm would r b js th. largest cost of the court and 12 months of earn $20.00. ® ^ good behavior. jf you lack soil building units Siate vs. Tim Smith, aiding and have time to make them, abetting drunken driving, defend- program year does not end un suspended upon payment of a $10 October, and cost of the court and 12 i’lor. this reaches your State vs. Claud Mann, colored, assault with a deadly weapon, plea of guilty, found guilty, 60 [ctliefs make sacrific^'^7o i M. ^ ^ohoon, well known citi-| to an almost hopeless situation. Wan// *-bat the gift of a North State ; / /® ®“ and Mrs. ever, trying to find some solution sacrifices to zens of East Lake. hr® ‘o theVeonl/nf f/ patiently on a bench was I CALL 17 GETS NO MEN s! struck a reJonsi/e Elizabeth Drinkwater, the daugh- FROM HYDE COUNTY ••g VoiiT, ter of Watson Drinkwater of Man- ] The Hyde County Draft Board , a. X V and old in this Mr. Pou’s letter, i North Carolina agriculture stat isticians predicted a 497,000 bale harvest by Tar Heel farmers, which is 21 per cent under the past 10-year-production. SLADESVILLE METHODIST BIBLE SCHOOL SUCCESSFUL PASSES ^ Si ^ ^ Thomas S; teo, now living in Norfolk. She | was there to get a birth certificate has been notified that it will not young men to be called for service at one time from Hyde County—left Swan Quarter this morning for Fort Bragg to be in ducted in the Army—for a likely , - . , , ril October 31st. Several carloads period of two and one-half venrs pending definite action by Con gress (which may have been taken Here are some of the practices you can carry out and the credit received: Winter legumes seeded—vetch, days on "the road, suspended upon clover, winter peas—one unit per payment of the cost of the court s-Cfe- and 12 months of gonj behavior. Bye grass seeded—one half unit State vs. Claud Mann, colored, acre, assault with a deadly weapon. Lime 1200—poundsone unit. plead not guilty, found guilty, and given 60 days on the roads sus pended upon payment of the cost LAKE LANDING LIBRARY of the court end 12 months of good GETS MORE NEW BOOKS behavior. The sentences are to . j . , . - , run consecutively. large number of well known for duty in the Armv during the State vs. Mack Selby, colored, hooks have recently been purchas- month of August. The August call distarbing church, etc., pl’ea of not ed for the Lake Landing public was the 16th issued bv the North guilty, found guilty, 90 days on hbrary. The purchase is a step by Carolina Selective by the time mail box). One of the Hyde bovs—Charles Warren Garrish of Ocracoke—will not he credited to the local draft board, because he is registered with one of the selective service boards of the District of Coln.mbia, but who will be inducted through the Hyde board as a matter of routine. The nine bovs that left Swan Quarter this morning are a part i of 3,278 Tar Heels who will report Service head- th/i/'eswell, were con- | student some four years ago in the •••® Saturday I Manteo the *'911,’'’ *9ealth The Epworth Methodist church for her young nephew, Watson III, | required to furnish any regis- at Sladesville closed its yearly va- born in the hospital about three I for the 17th call which has cation Bible School and revival rC'rnkdr/i/tiend'p/unon navment the citizens of that community to months ago. He is the child of j••®t been issued by State Selective Friday night, August 8, 1941. g, ,. court and $5 fine beep their library up-to-date. It Those who left this morning for Watson Drinkwater Jr., who mar-1 Service headquarters. | A commencement was given by g^j^ colored as- is already considered one of the Army service were Ronald Baum ned Frances Hewlett, an honor „Ynp A44 rOMMlTTFFMFN sault with a deadly weapon, capias best rural libraries n this section BalHnce, Fairfield: Wesley Wise HYDE AAA COMMITTEEMEN program presented; Opening , of the state. | Ballance, Lake Landing; Thos. DISCUSS 1942 PROGRAM prayer, ‘Mesus ^Saves Me,” recita-, ^ | a list of the best books included Clifton Cox. Fairfield; Fred Tun- tion by Glade Sears, “Thank You, in the recent purchase was released mH, Swan Quarter; James Roben- Hyde County AAA committee- God,” and pantomimes of “Away TOWNSHIP REVIVAL WILL this week by librarian Orphia so'' Fisher, Lake Landing: Hyatt men met with J. L. Nickolson, dis- in a Manger” and “The Old Rug-1 END TOMORROW NIGHT Berry. They include: (Adult) The McKennev, Lake Landing; Samuel trict AAA repissentative, at the ged Cross.” | Blue Window by Bailey, The Secret Alonza Dndlp^^ L^ke Tnndmg; Several booklets containing pic- The Lake Landing township re- of Dr. Kildare by Brand. Where Hugh Blair Gibbs, Lake Landing; tures, poems and songs were on vival which has been going on at Three Roads Meet by Dell, Tory and Charles Warren Garrish Ocra- exhibit which had been made by the Engelhard high school audi- Qath by Prigden, Invitation to Live coke. the students. These booklets il- torium for more than a week, will t,y Douglas, As The Twig Is Bent ^ lustrated to the children .‘Ways in come to a close tomorrow (Friday) by Habman'; M. D., Red Gardenias high school. Elizabeth , Rev. R. N. i had been waiting for hours to get ‘ Int 1 tbe signature of an absent nurse, f.'/tg •” *be| Pretty soon I ran into a girl It °l’®Hcer Ebristian church ! from Frisco. She was well known jHho , ’ a native of Hyde : as Cynthia Fulcher, but she dress-I Agriculture building in Swan "^ar lived the past 26 ed like a boy, drove a horse and i Quarter Tuesday and discussed the last Fri- | worked like a man. She was tough i B142 farm program. Certain k;'9 jj at 4 o’clock in the , as nails. I didn’t know her at first ' pbases of the 1941 program that .“’''Pltal — - - . ,, , , _ . . . >,, , . , . , ' Sp, have not been completed, were also discussed. >!l, '®ticer He had been j but when I heard her voice, I re fer the past called her. She said she had been j married,- but her husband is now ' lu l’*'®^'’essive far- dead. j o/'*’ loiev. resnected Her father, A. J. Fulcher, once Ik He had a head of a flourishing mercantile conn? Hyde and business in Frisco, and his wife /is; JJ. •®®- I 'veve also there, all visiting near fdi /tpig ^ four daughters,' friends. The Fulchers now live in' Mm Engelhard; Norfolk at 3108 Cottage Toll Road, h b S. r I^ake Land-; and have been there several years. ; L'h ,A ^rier,'Washington;' _ I have visited all the hospitals "*1116/Creswell; ,in Norfolk, and they have all j/dijij.. ®'riamin Spencer, shaken me down for something j k'oriif'"' sisters, i during the past few years, but 11 stories, coming out of the ' 'Iplinn Bv/an Quarter, | have never seen ^••Burrus of Cres- Which We May Worship God/' ill y M STRAY GOLD BUTTON LEADS TO FINDING ADMIRAL’S BONES When Admiral Bob Evans Gives Woman $50 For a Button Found on Wind-Swept Graveyard at Cape Hatteras One. of the most Spencer, shaken me down for great so many old ac- ■ treasure-house of human interest, quaintances from Dare County in ! the Hatteras Bangs, a gold button a single day, as I saw at St. Vin- or insignia medalion, found by night. The meeting which is spon- jjy Latimer, The Theme Is Love by sored by the churches of all de- Haliston, They Came to a River nominations in the township is he- by McKay, Partulaca by Harris, mg conducted by the Rev. J. W. 'Weep No More by DuMaurier, Frank, Methodist missionary of Memory by Latimer, Door- hells by Black, and Murder in The Rev. E. R. Stewart, who is 150 POUNDS OF SCRAP ALUMINUM COLLECTED ,, , , , , , . Stained Glass by Armstrong, the leader of the township revival, a list of juvenile books added to said this week that the business jbat department of the library in people of Engelhard had cooperat- eijj((es: Mv Mother Is a Violent ed splendidly with the meeting. A Woman by Wadelton, Jerry On Sa- — large crowd has ^ been attending f^ri by Hoffman, Chronicles of remarkable | arrived at the Barnett home and ““ invitation is extended to all Rebecca by Wiggins, Little Men by asked to be shovm the spot where the people of the county, and par- Alcott, Little Women by Lindman, the button was found. Upon ex- ticularly those of the Engelhard Snipp, Rieka, Dicka by Lindman, amining the ground, they soon un- section to attend the meeting to- Peter-Panda by Walker, Flop- covered the bones of what proved (Thursday) and tomorrow Rared Hand Pig'-O-'Wee, and Little to their satisfaction to be an En- (Friday) night. 76 THURSDAY cent’s. Not even at the Marine j Mrs. Dan Barnett in an old grave- Hospital, where I sometimes find I yard that had been blown out by i glish Admiral, long lost to his peo-! ®e rnan^ seafaring men from the , the winds that howl about the cape | pie. The party carried the bones HYDF SCHOOLS TO Jeemes Henry by Ellis Crerle. Of' ", 3!' at I North for 1}' 'cit, last if ofg/th Pria ^•'^■'’eyard near the at 11 t a E- R. Stew. pr//®®a ill for sev- Safl) Alexandria Carolina coast. In instance the folks I saw were Edward, visitors, rather than patients. County’s people are spread far and wide, and one never knows when or where he will bump into someone from home. were | CertMnlV, Dare SCHOOLS La Prensa, Argentina newspa per, says 270 clandestine schools are being onerated in the Argen tine by the Germans as one of the principal means of carrying out infiltration into that country. OPEN SEPTEMBER 11 this in winter, many years ago. j away and left old Mrs. Barnett the Captain Robley D. Evans, later j proud possessor of a gift of fifty i to become famous as “Fighting gold dollars. i The white and colored schools of Bob, an admiral of the U. S. I Nothing more has been heard of Hvde County will Navy, at that time inspected the , the bones or of the gold button. • 1941.42 term lighthouses along the coast. On It is one of the countless myster ies of the cape. 'Was this HYDE COTTON BUYERS ASKED TO ATTEND MEET a visit to Cape Hatteras he saw this button in the home of Mrs. Barnett, and it excited his curi osity. Mrs. Barnett told him the story of finding the button, where upon Admiral Evans asked for the button which was presented him by Mrs. Barnett. About six months later Admiral Evans, with a party of strangers, resting place discovered. open for the Cotton buyers in Hyde County on Thursday, Sep- are urged to attend a meeting in tember 11, it was announced this the Agriculture building in Swan , „ ,• i, Aj • , , ®°™® week by Superintendent of Schools Quarter tomorrow (Friday) even- great English Admiral who had N. W. Shelton. ine at 8 o’clock and hear G. E. drifted away from home, or was, Further schedules for the com- Bell, N. C. Department of Agricul- he an expatriate of his country, or jng school year have not been set ture Cotton Auditor, explain the was he shipwrecked and lost. as yet, according to the school su- nrocedure of buying cotton under Evidently, he had been bimed perintendent. He stated, however, the government control program, since long years before the Civil that he thought it likely that a two County agent J. P. Woodard said holiday would be given for this week that it was honed that j^® ^® ^®®^ Thanksgiving. Anything more than every cotton buver in Hvde Coun- that is not known. ty would attend the meeting. The Alumnium drive in Hyde County, under the leadership of the County Civilian Defense Committe, resulted in the collection of ap proximately 150 pounds of scran metal, according to a report issued this week by Mrs. Isabelle Cart wright, chairman of the group. The detailed report issued by Mrs. Cartwright showed that one half of the 160 pounds was col lected at Fairfield under the su pervision of H. T. Midgette; 30 pounds at Sladesville under the su pervision of Mrs. Jeff Credle' and Forest Sears; 27 pounds at Swan Quarter under the supendsion of Roy Cahoon; and 16 pounds at En gelhard and Lake Landing under the supervision of the Rev. Z. N. Deshields. When issuing the report, Mrs. Cartwright said that she wished to thank each person who took part in the drive for scrap metal and to each person who contributed to the collection. . GOOD Domestic market prospects for' most farm commodities continue’’" good, the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports. I 1*1 J A ri ■t.y .'ii’/lS 'J m. ‘ '■ •if §1