Weathered fields and low lake margins mark North Carolina farming notes
Brackston Younts reports a strong harvest with good tobacco prices and favorable yields across wheat corn and tobacco. Guilford agent Kimrey recommends 100-125 pounds per acre ammonium nitrate on heavy soils at seeding time to aid fall top dressing. City Lake water is low with minimal rain this month. A lighthearted column notes humorous encounters and a mishap with a late night phone call.
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Guilford
Willard Kimrey
USS North Carolina
Wilmington
Friendship Weather Station
High Point Confederate Widow Guilford County’s Fourth
Forsyth County loses its sole Confederate widow as Guilford County gains its fourth. Mrs. Viola Victoria Rush Mitchell moved to High Point last July, returning to a community where she once worked as a housekeeper. She recalls family, church, and farm life, raised two children, and lost her husband James Mitchell in 1920.
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Forsyth County
Guilford County
Viola Victoria Rush Mitchell
High Point
Mitchell
Jennings
Redell County
Union Grove
Robert Rash
Sis.ster
Fannie +atton
Filla Hubbard
Statesville
James Mitchel
Grove
Yelia Mae Holland
Sallie Allgood
Rais
Jim
Sallie
East Grimes Chapel
Green Street Baptist Church
James ‘Tchell
Company
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Flue-Cured Tobacco Prices Drop on NC Virginia Markets
Average prices by grades fall as more tobacco goes under price supports. Eastern North Carolina Belt leads with 38,164,214 pounds at 64.85 per cwt, down 1.54 from last week. Old Belt sales total 35,701,256 pounds at 63.14 per cwt. Virginia and North Carolina Old Belt averages run 63.20 and 63.07 per cwt respectively. Middle Belt notes 20,243,892 pounds at 64.38 per cwt, up 38 cents from the prior week.
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North Carolina
Eastern Belt
Federal State Market News Service
North Carolina- Virginia
Virginia
Caterpillar Sting Hits Thomasville Child
A Thomasville child suffered a severe sting from a puss caterpillar Megalopygidae opercularis. The incident follows recent child stings in the Thomasville High Point area with several victims needing treatment including steroids and calcium gluconate.
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Thomasville
North Carolina
High Point
Frank Walker
Halifax County
Henry Poore
Salesman Pleads Guilty To Grand Theft Charge
Edward M. Ashdown a 39 year old Costa Mesa real estate salesman pleaded guilty to grand theft for stealing 600000 dollars worth of paintings from industrialist David E. Bright in a Bel Air mansion. An armed robbery charge was dismissed and a probation hearing plus sentencing were set after the paintings were returned to Bright.
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Los Angeles
Edward M. Ashdown
Costa Mesa
Bel Air
David W. Williams
Ashdown
David E. Bright
Picasso
Bright
Dairymen To Talk Base Program Plan
Members of the Greensboro High Point Winston Salem marketing committee of Carolina Milk Producer Assn meet Monday in Greensboro to discuss changes in the base building program. A three year base building program was recommended by a special committee. Public hearings on proposals are set for Oct 30 31. The board recently adopted a position in favor of the proposal.
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Milk Commission
Board of Directors
Carolina Milk Producers Assn
Peace Corps Examinations Attract Few in North Carolina
Examinations were held in 10 North Carolina cities but many sites had no applicants. In Charlotte four took the six hour tests, the largest turnout, while Goldsboro and Rocky Mount reported no takers. Only two applicants were tested in Goldsboro earlier in the summer.
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Associated Press
Peace Corps
North Carolina
Asheville
Charlotte
Durham
Fayetteville
Goldsboro
Greensboro
Raleigh
Rocky Mount
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Hugh D. Sims
Board of Civil Service Examiners
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Braxton
John Smith
Dwight Lohr
Russell Zimmerman
Wallburg
Fessor
Bruce Sink
Ray Motsinger
High Pointer
Guilfords
Winston
Baptist Church
North
Viola Mitchell
THE
Electrical Living Services
English ST
Bryant Electric
Welborn
Ward St
N. C
ON Lumber Company
Springdale
Isenhour
Isenhour Salisbury,n.c
N. Main Street
High Point, N. C
W. Green Street
Salem
ABC Jalousie Company
W. Lee
Greensbero, N.C En
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