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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1946
Page
13
A column by W A Bivins reflects on using burrs as metaphor for criticism and urges restraint in judging others. He recalls a talk with a neighbor about pessimism in politics and warns that democracy suffers if government ignores the will of the people.
Town clerk position long held by a family line ends with resignation of W. Per Jones. The role passed from William Newton to Samuel Jones in 1876, then Percival carried on until this year. Also notes U S date crop growth and mentions a medicine ad for Gallisin with high cost per dose.
State college extension service and the Tennessee Valley Authority extend test demonstrations and farm readjustment programs to 40 Piedmont and western North Carolina counties. In the watershed area 6,766 farms in 148 test areas will participate in 1946 scientific farming with soil building emphasized. About 6,000 tons triple super phosphate and 450 tons ammonium nitrate will be provided free.
Britannica notes one in four infants died in 1890, while current figures show one in twenty during the first year. The birth rate has fallen from 40 per 1000 in 1890 to about 16.7 per 1000 today, reflecting major demographic shifts.
The note mentions demonstration farmers in test areas this year for application to dissipated soils.
In Grootfontein district South Africa a 65 year old farmer battled a lion that had been killing cattle. they killed each other or one wounded the other and the beast lay dead beside the farmer as police arrived after help was summoned. An African servant helped phone for aid.
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