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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1949
Page
8
Washington reports a government crop survey shows farmers plan to reduce plantings this year due to lower prices and high wartime levels. The 1949 crop acreage is forecast at about 361 million acres, with potential for a larger total crop if yields per acre rise. corn plantings expected to be among the smallest in five decades.
Officials note farmers should return to wartime soil conservation practices and rest overworked land. Many intend to comply as production cuts and farm prices have not yet fallen in step.
A $25,000 gift to Davidson College development fund was reported. Mrs. Clarence Hodson of Orange New Jersey, formerly of Winston Salem, provided the funds to purchase an organ for the college's new church.
Mrs. H. Clapp of Druid Drive in High Point promotes Kern's Jumbo Bread as the ideal daily bread for tasty sandwiches. She advises area shoppers to ask their grocer for this bread.
Thomasville Lions club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce co sponsor a three day door to door sale of brooms and rubber door mats made by Guilford Industries for the Blind in Greensboro. Profits aid the blind workers. A truck will park at Mann's Drug on East Main Street for street sales after 5 pm.
A Buffalo druggist created Peterson's Ointment to quickly ease itching and smarting piles. The ointment offered cooling soothing relief and became a nationwide favorite sold as a 40 cent box or 60 cent applicator tube with money back guarantee.
The English love fancy pub names such as The Marquis of Queensberry and the mixups can spark jokes. Rev. Ralph Stevens notes that when asking the phone operator for the Bishop of Barking’s new number the clerk asked if he meant a pub.
Mt. Carmel Illinois. Trucker Merle Woods dumped 110 dollars in dimes before City Clerk Len Wirth to renew his truck license. Woods said he saved the ten cent pieces for a year to pull the stunt.
The Polish ministry of forestry announced about 260000 acres will be reforested this year. The program marks a 38 percent rise over 1948.
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