North Carolina Fruit and Vegetable Market Report Wrap
North Carolina wholesale markets report prices and demand for lettuce potatoes cabbage apples sweet potatoes strawberries and beans. Regions covered include Phoenix Hastings Presque Isle Charleston Philadelphia and New York with varying prices and sales activity.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Hastings
Fla
Presque Isle
Aroostook
Maine
Green Mountains
U. S
Philadelphia
South Carolina
Washington
Hammond
Baltimore
North Carolina
Florida
Louisiana
New York
Cotton planting forecast for North Carolina farmers
Will Rogers of the AAA office at North Carolina State College projects that Tar Heel farmers will plant about 88 percent of their 997 252 acre cotton allotment this spring. Agronomist P. H. Kime notes delayed land prep due to wet weather but expects timely planting. Entomologist J. O. Rowell says boll weevil risk is uncertain but winter conditions favored pests. Last season NC produced 400 000 bales versus 780 000 in 1937 and a 710 000 bale ten year average. Market notes on cucumbers peppers and squash follow.
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Raleigh
Will Rogers
AAA
N. C. State College
Rogers
P. H. Kime
J. O. Rowell
North Carolina
Horton Marks Candidate For Governor Of North Carolina
Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton appears set to seek the governor’s office in 1940. Despite no official announcement, sources say he plans to announce before May-end, leveraging alliances in Conservative and organization factions and his Senate leadership record. Horton, born 1889 in Kansas City, moved to North Carolina, UNC graduate, longtime state senator, and current presiding officer with noted election machinery interest. He remains unopposed by major enemies and is tied to Huey forces through his political rise.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Henry Averill
Raleigh
Wilkins P. Horton
North Carolina
Pittsboro
Horton
Huey
Paul Grady
Senate
Sandy Graham
Folger
Chatham
University of North Carolina
Kansas City
Kansas
Chatham County
Craughan’s Business College
UNC
Democratic Committee
Old law repealed by 1933 measure in Shelby district
Raleigh April 7 The attorney general ruled that the 1933 school machinery act repealed the 1891 law for levying and collecting taxes in the Shelby school district by Shelby officials. The ruling notes districts are non existent except for indebtedness and certain teaching funds, effectively repealing chapter 403 of 1891. Tara home of Scarlett O Hara to appear at New York World's Fair 1939 as part of the Georgia exhibit.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
Shelby
Wade Bruton
Bruton
Peyton McSwain
New York
Tara
Scarlett O'Hara
Georgia
Capital Short Shots: State laws on bicycles and more
In Raleigh April 7 the Motor Vehicles act clarifies that a bicycle is a vehicle under the law. The piece notes new election rules, unemployment trends, highway patrol applications, and a string of state chores and bonds trading yielding substantial profits for the state.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Supreme Court
State Treasurer Johnson Announces Strong Bond Sway
State Treasurer Charles M Johnson announced a favorable bond sway for the sinking fund as officials report improved fiscal position and steady revenue streams supporting debt management.
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Charles M
Johnson
Dean Lindley Addresses Greensboro Kiwanis Club
Dean P. E. Lindley of High Point College spoke at the Kiwanis Club of Greensboro luncheon at the King Cotton Hotel yesterday at 1 PM. His theme The Community Measures the Man noted that the community forms an opinion of a man by what he is and does. Lindley is a past president of the local Kiwanis Club.
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Dean P. E. Lindley
High Point College
Kiwanis Club of
Greensboro
King Cotton Hotel
Dr. Lindley
Kiwanis Club
School of Sport at New York World's Fair 1939
America's sport loving youth will have a school of its own at the New York World's Fair 1939. Instructors will be leaders in baseball football track field and boxing. The term extends from April 30 opening to October 31 closing.
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School OF Sport
New York
America
World’s Fair to See Spat of 1939 Newborns Says Study
Health statisticians estimate at least a dozen babies will be born at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Ten first aid stations will operate with doctors and nurses. A mobile X Ray unit will be on the grounds for medical care.
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New York
Labor Board Probes Preacher Subsidy at Hamrick Mills
The National Labor Relations Board report details subsidizing a mill preacher at Hamrick mills in Gaffney. The preacher urged followers the Bible teaches contentment with wages and warned against labor organization. Trial examiner C Whittemore urged stopping subsidies to discourage CIO affiliate Textil Workers Organizing Committee and disestablish company formed bargaining clubs.
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Washington
Hamrick
Gaffney
Subs
Bib
C. Whittemore
Whittemore
Mills
Textil Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Tulip Bloom Plans for New York World's Fair Grounds
Paragraph describes the 1939 New York World’s Fair grounds filled with bulbs in solid rows. It mentions a million tulips hyacinths and squills expected to bloom in spring, highlighting vast acres needed for planting.
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New York
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