Burley Tobacco Growers Set Vote On Quotas November 22
Raleigh reports tobacco growers will vote Saturday November 22 on whether marketing quotas for burley tobacco should continue. Eligible voters include owners sharecroppers and tenants with main farming activity in the 1952 crop. Voting location depends on farming activity with cross district options allowed but ballots may be challenged if not on the local list. Propositions include three year quotas for 1953 54 55 one year quotas or no quotas depending on majority.
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Raleigh
Rley Tobacco
Burley Tobacco
Jo State College Extension Servce
Good results from artificial breeding show in North Carolina
Raleigh reports on a North Carolina State College Agricultural Extension Service dairy show. Of 345 animals, 32 percent earned blue ribbons, 53 percent red, and 15 percent white. Blalock notes 40 percent were artificially sired and all sires ranked in the top 2 percent, signaling strong breeding value.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
T. C. Blalock
Agricultural Extension Service
N. C. State College
Blalock
Shooting Ranges Put Japs In Middle
Tokyo reports United States forces in Japan ask the Japanese government to select approved firing-area zones. Farmers and fishermen complain of crop and catch losses, while munitions makers urge faster selections to secure orders for Japanese manufactured ammunition.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Kyodo
Japan U. S
U. S
Citizens for Eisenhower to push NC presence in upcoming plans
Jesse W. Page Jr. announces that Mecklenburg Citizens for Eisenhower will persist as a political force in North Carolina. A meeting in Southern Pines on November 29 will map the group's future, following a Greensboro leaders meeting that reached the decision.
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Charlotte
Citizens For Eisenhower Organization
North Carolina
Jesse W. Page Jr
Mecklenburg
Citizens For Eisenhower
Southern Pines
Greensboro
Planting of Forest Trees Helps Add to Farm Income
Forester John L. Gray urges Tar Heel farmers to convert marginal land to timber. Three public nurseries grow seedlings. costs exceed three cents each, with some counties offering up to 5,000 free to 4 H and FFA youth. Planting labor costs around two days per 1,000 seedlings. PMA payments offset seedling and half labor. Seedling types vary by region with specific spacings and seasons. applications available via county agents, forest rangers, or State Extension Forester, Raleigh.
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Raleigh
John L. Gray
Agricultural Extension Service of
North Carolina State College
Gray
FFA
PMA
Piedmont
Coastal Plain
State Extension Forester
State College
State Forester
N. C. State College
Leigh
Nutritionist explains cuts of beef differ not in value
Raleigh notes State College Nutritionist Virginia Wilson says grade of beef cuts does not affect nutritive value. Tenderness linked to cut and exercised muscles. rib and loin cuts most tender, while cuck, rump, flank, and shank suited to roasts or grinding. Slow cooking at 300 degrees helps tenderness. avoid undercooking frankfurters, which may contain pork.
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Raleigh
State College
Virginia Wilson
How Can Prisoner Walk Free When He Can't Walk
JOILET Illinois Ww How can a warden let a prisoner walk free when he can't walk Warden Joseph E Ragen of Stateville Prison seeks help in deciding the future of paralyzed inmate John Long 38 due for release after more than eight years of a five to 15 year robbery sentence Long is kept in his cell for 30 more days while Ragen arranges for future care Long has no friends in the state and no money and cannot move about without a wheelchair
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Ragen
Long
Menard
Aoest
Counteracting Soil Destruction in Ohio Farms
In Columbus Ohio an extension agronomist from Ohio State University notes that farmers cannot rely on rising organic matter percentages. He cites that plowing under corn stalks straw and green manure helps offset natural bacterial damage. Using 2 tons of raw organic material per acre annually would raise organic matter by about 2 percent in a century.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
George Gist
Jobless Formed Into War Service Units in China
A Canton dispatch reports the Chinese Communist regime organized 16 000 unemployed on public relief into teams of nurses stretcher bearers cooks and launderers for service in Korea or Indo China. The article adds several thousand more were sent to labor camps on Hainan Island and in East Kwangtung province.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Lee Daily News
Korea
Indo- China
Hainan Island
Kwangtung
Bridges To Confer With Eisenhower In New York
Senator Bridges says he will confer with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower in New York on Wednesday noon. The meeting at the Commodore Hotel was arranged by Eisenhower aides to discuss governmental fiscal matters and inauguration plans for the incoming President.
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Washington, D. C
Sen. Bridges
Dwight Eisenhower
New York
Senate
Commodore Hotel
Eisenhower
Neighbor Lady Inherits Half of Wolf’s Estate
Memphis resident Max Wolf left half of his ten thousand dollar estate to Miss Mabel Howles a friendly neighbor to Wolf and his mother for 30 years The will underscores a long standing neighborly bond and a generous bequest to Howles.
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Memphis, Tenn
Max Wolf
Mabel Howles
Wolf
Record Price Paid In NC Boar Sale
A North Carolina boar sale at Rocky Mount set a new price record. C E Denning of Four Oaks sold a boar sired by Super Quality for 475 dollars to James Martin of Princeton. Top bred gilt brought 140 dollars to W B Ivey and Son of Newsoms Virginia. Altogether 51 hogs grossed 4346 dollars for an average of 85 21. Sponsors were the North Carolina Curoc Breeders Association State College Extension Service and Lancaster’s Livestock Market.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Rocky Mount
Jack Kelley
N. C. State College Extension Service
C. E. Denning
Super Quality
Dora
James Martin
Princeton
Clarence Chappell, Jr
Belvidere
W. B. Ivey
North Carolina Curoc Breeders Association
State College Extension Service
Lancaster
Duck Proves Perfect As Baby Sitter
Mrs. H. R. Pierce of Lincoln Nebraska says a duck acts as an inexpensive baby sitter for her one year old. The duck keeps watch at the yard boundary and prevents the child from wandering near the porch area by quacking and guiding the infant back toward the mother.
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Lincoln
Neb
H. R. Pierce
Tar Heel Harvest Outlook and 1953 Events
The Tar Heel harvest is bountiful with near record supplies of bread grains fruits and vegetables. Pork and milk will be below 1951 1952 levels while beef and poultry outputs rise. Prices rose most for fresh fruits vegetables and dairy in 1952 and 1953 should see modest declines for beef canned and frozen produce. The 1953 Tar Heel Farm Economist booklet urges home production and wise food spending. Regional events include the State 4-H Electric Congress in Charlotte November 17 18 and a Nutrition Conference in Raleigh December 11 12.
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Raleigh
State College Extension
Virginia Wilson
North Carolina
Tar Heel Farm
Charlotte
State College
N. C. Agricultural Foundation
N. C. Hereford Association
Winston-Salem
State
Woman Keeps Bees In Wall Of House
Mrs. Hugh Cole of Pittsboro Road Chapel Hill keeps bees in her home's wall with help from beekeeper S C Squires who removes boards to harvest honey. Her 75 year old father keeps two colonies for arthritis relief by using bee stings. Antelope herds in Arizona show fawn crops up to 96 percent where coyotes are controlled.
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Raleigh
Hugh Cole
Pittsboro Road
Chapel Hill
Arizona
Munitions stock booms in Japan after election
Kyodo News Agency reports a surge in Japanese munitions stocks this week. The boost follows the Republican presidential victory and a broad expectation that Japan will speed up its rearmament plans.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kyodo
Pasteeth Dental Ad Promises Comfort and Security
An advertisement promotes a powder named PASTEETH to hold denture plates more firmly. It claims an alkaline non-acid formula with no gummy taste, suitable for use while eating speaking or laughing. Available at drug stores.
Pickpocket Suspect Reported After Theft In Knoxville
Mrs J H Burnette borrowed a nickel from a passer by to telephone police that a pickpocket had stolen her purse then used the money to pay each fare home after informing officers about the incident in Knoxville.
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Knoxville
Tenn
J. H. Burnette
Peiice
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