Bumper crop of dates awaits Iraq harvest
In Iraq September heat ripens dates from over 35 million trees, with more than 80 percent of the world’s supply. Basrah exports exceed 200 thousand tons annually, plus about 100 thousand consumed domestically, worth over 16 million dollars. Dates have ancient roots with 50 types known from 4,000 years ago and now exceed 300 varieties. The palm is a national emblem.
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Euphrates
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Persian Gulf
Royal Coat of Arms
Services Continue at Freedom Church of God
Mrs O C Couch reports services at Freedom Church of God are ongoing with Rev Rounk preaching and all invited. Local residents Mr and Mrs C B Dunaway and Joe Dunaway of Louisville visited their daughter Mrs Homer Hornbuckle and family. Mr and Mrs T J Campbell moved to Eva where he will teach. The Hornbuckles hosted Wayman Garrison and son Ralph for a weekend visit. Maude Scrimshire returned home from Cottonville after a week with relatives. Leslie Owen attended Ralph Jones’s funeral at Mt Olive. Walt Yancey visited his sister Bernice Bray Saturday evening.
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Fred Gifford
W. C. Mabry
C. B. Dunaway
Joe Dunaway
Louisville
Homer Hornbuckle
Hornbuckle
T. J. Campbell
Eva
Campbell
Wayman Garrison
Ralph
Maude Scrimshire
Cottonville
Leslie Owen
Ralph Jones
Mt. Olive
Walt Yancey
Yancey
Bernice Bray
Moulton Plans New Election Officers and Training
The town council announced a partial set of new election officers for the municipal election on Monday September 15 with inspectors Dalton Pearson and Elmer Posey clerks Mrs Lora Wade Mrs Zilpha Hurst and Mrs Exie Beene and returning officer W J Montgomery. Training classes for about 48 prospective employees of the Par Craft Shirt Co will begin next week at the Armory motor shed with 60 of 1000 applicants selected for the first classes and twelve machines installed for the school set to prepare workers for October move into the new plant.
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Elmer Posey
Lora Wade
Zilpha Hurst
Exie Beene
W. J. Montgomery
County Board of Education
N. Sollish
Sollish
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