Growers Vote Tomorrow on Marketing Quotas for Cotton and Peanuts
North Carolina cotton and peanut growers vote tomorrow on continuing marketing quotas for next year. The referendum covers 50 plus cotton counties and 44 peanut counties with a two thirds approval needed. Cotton quotas run one year and peanut quotas three years. Government agencies urge all farmers to participate and preserve price supports near parity. penalties apply for overplanting.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Ction Marketing Ad
Keting
Gov
Umstead
U. S
Clyde
R. Hoey
Alton A. Lennon
M. G. Mann
North Carolina Cotton Growers Assn
Mann
Kline Seeks Farmer Input At Farm Bureau Convention
President Allan B. Kline asserts the American Farm Bureau Federation will reveal what farmers want from policy at its annual convention. He contrasts views with the House Agriculture Committee and backs flexible price supports over rigid post 1954 floors. The event includes signals of a push for stronger world trade efforts and potential leadership changes.
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Chicago
Allan B. Kline
American Farm Bureau Federation
House Culture Committee
Eisenhower
Congressional
Kline
House Committee
Ihe
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
GOP
Walter Randolph
Convention Platform Committee
Randolph
Alabama Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau
Indians mined copper 5000 years ago in Wisconsin
Milwaukee's Dr. Robert E. Ritzenthaler reports carbon 14 tests from a burial ground near Oconto show remains of copper culture Indians about 5,600 years old. Charcoal linked to the bones confirms antiquity, with 45 individuals buried and artifacts such as seven awls four crescent clasps a spear point and a bracelet found. Copper likely sourced from Lake Superior region near Green Bay. The article also notes the first Christmas Seal Sale in America began in 1907 in Wilmington Delaware led by Emily P. Bissell raising 3000 to aid tuberculosis patients.
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University of Chicago
Oconto
Wis
Wisconsin
North America
Institute For Analysis
Ritzenthaler
Lake Superior
Green
America
Wilmington
Del
The
Philadelphia North American
Emily P. Bissell
Middle Belt tobacco season ends with $47.01 average
Raleigh reports Middle Belt flue cured tobacco markets sold 137 321 972 pounds during the 1953 season at an average 47.01 per 100 pounds. The Federal State Market News Service notes season totals and compares to 1952. Old Belt shows no clear trend as Virginia and North Carolina markets post weekly averages.
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Raleigh
Middle Belt
Federal State Market News Service
Stabilization Corp
Old Belt
Virginia
North Carolina
More Bibles Slated to Be Distributed
NEW YORK Two dozen national Bible societies worldwide plan a 1954 program to boost Bible reading and supply scriptures. The American Bible Society said groups intend raising annual distributions from 20 million to 25 million in 1954 and 50 million by 1960, marking anniversaries of the first national Bible group and the Gutenberg Bible.
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New York
American Bible Society
United Bible Societies
First National Bible Group
Year 1953 Seen Through Personal Memories and Broad View
A reflective column weighs the year 1953 from many angles including politics economics health and personal memories. It notes individual recollections shape how a year is remembered more than grand events and ends with a caution about fragile optimism.
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Boyle
New York
U.S
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