Tobacco Growers Receive Checks For 150000 Growers
RALEIGH February 1 funds flow to about 150000 flue cured tobacco growers in five states. Net gains from tobacco placed with the Fan Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp under the government loan program cover losses and reserve 0.5 percent of the support price. Since 1946 the cooperative has earned over 13 million dollars in net gains through 1950. Each grower’s check equals 6.42 percent of the price value of tobacco placed under loan. Through 1950 the cooperative received 585,944,322 pounds of tobacco sold to dealers and domestic manufacturers. For 1953 54 stabilization receipts are expected to total about 153 million pounds. Current membership stands at 485000 and members should report address changes and provide new identification card numbers.
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Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corp
L. T. Weeks
Weeks
ITS Oven Cleaner Promises Easy Grease Removal
The ad promotes ITS a jelly like cleaner that cleans baked grease from ovens without scraping. It is brushed on allowed to stand then wiped off with a plastic brush included, sold at Efird's Department Store for $1. It is advertised as non inflammable and highly effective.
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Efird
Texas Girl Wins Cotton Maid Title
Beverly Louise Pack of El Paso won the Maid of Cotton contest, besting 19 rivals from 12 states in Memphis. The 20-year-old Texas Western junior will tour the United States and Europe as part of the prize while Hope White of Uniontown and Martha Garner of Poa aa yoana earned alternates.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cotton Kingdom
Beverly Louise Pack
el Paso
Texas Western
Brownette
Alabama
Hope White
Uniontown
Missouri
Martha Garner
Aliee Carr
Selma
Ala
Pat Mullarkey
Dallas
Charles Inn Jr
Los Angeles
Jeannine and
Houston
Pack
Idrobe
United States
England
France
Germany
Coleen MacNeill
San Marino
Calif
Georgia
Barbara Brown
Columbus
Batchelors Hear From Son Overseas Return News
Mrs. C L Batchelor of Kermit Texas received word from her son Corporal Claude J Batchelor who had been held in a communist camp and was said to have returned from behind the Bamboo Curtain. He indicated he was in Tokyo with his Japanese wife Kyoko and looked forward to reunion.
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Chicago
C. L. Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Cpl
Claude J
Batchelor
Cpl. Batchelor
Tokyo
Kyoko
Rotation Changes in North Carolina Senate Districts
The report outlines rotating seats and replacements across multiple North Carolina districts. It notes which counties and current senators yield places to others, detailing balanced representation in districts 6 12 15 16 18 23 82 24 28 29 and 33 with forthcoming seat shifts and future rotation plans.
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Rockingham
Caswell
Sam Bason
Ralph Scott
Alamance
Orange County
George Hundley
Davidson
Edwin Pate
Scotland
Montgomery
Richmond
At- Stokes
Surry
Haywood
Henderson
Jackson, Polk
Transylvania
W. B. Hodges
Robert Gash
Jackson
Charles G. Reavis
Yadkin
Davie
Wilkes
Caldwell
Ray Chapman
Alexander
A. P. Stoney
Burke
Watauga County
Edwin Duncan
Alleghany
W. B. Reeves
Ashe
Reeves
Avery
Mitchell
Yancey
Calvin Edney
Madison
Graham
Clay
Swain
Cherokee
Macon
J. H. Crawford
Scott Will Announce By February 10 On Senate Bid
Former Governor W. Kerr Scott said at his Haw River farm that he will announce on or before February 10 whether he will run for the U S Senate this year. He stressed he will proceed only if enough supporters want him and that he cannot decide until he knows his chances of winning. He added he will make the announcement no later than February 10 unless events allow an earlier decision.
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High Point
N. C
Enterprise
Scott
Haw River
W. Kerr Scott
Here
U. S. Senate
Sion
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Raleigh
New
Ri Hee
Gaheers
New Spring
Texas Girl
Batchelors
Son
Capitol Square
Henry B. Smith
Union
Anson
Thomas Wolfe
Stanly
Carteret
Craven
Greene
Jones
Lenoir
Onslow
John D. Larkins Jr
Carl Hicks
Henry Vann
Sampson
J. W. Whitfield
Pender
Newver
Duplin
J. A
Coats
S. Main
B.&b. Jewelers, Inc
Wagger’s Jewelers, Inc
Myrtie
Informer
R. J
Bob” Wagger
B. & B. Jewelers, Inc
Waggers, Jewelers, Inc
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