99 Local Chapters of FFA Honored at 27th Convention
Ninety nine local Future Farmers of America chapters were honored for outstanding activity records in the 1953 54 school year at the 27th annual convention in Kansas City. Emblems awarded included 52 gold 28 silver and 19 bronze with the Star of America named that night. Dennis O Keefe 17 Westerville Ohio won the national speaking champion and a 250 prize.
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Kansas City
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Riculture
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Ree
Star of America
Dennis O'Keefe
Westerville
Ohio
North Carolina
Bath
South Carolina
Duncan
Woodruff
Advise Against Smoking Panel Debates Cancer Link
A New York panel cites incomplete evidence on smoking and cancer. Dr Clarence Cook Little urges patience while scientists seek full truth, arguing against definitive claims. Dr Levin notes smoking as a major factor but acknowledges other causes and supports public health efforts to reduce smoking.
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New York
Clarence Cook Little
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
Little
Levin
Tobacco Production Declines in North Carolina 1954
North Carolina Crop Reporting Service reports Sept 1954 tobacco output down about eight million pounds from last year. Foreseen total 915,750,000 pounds with regional splits: Eastern Belt 475,950,000 and Middle and Old Belts 325,850,000. Harvest nearly finished by late Sept, yield figures indicate record highs per acre in sections.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Dairymen Back Injunction to Audit Cable Dairies
Fourteen milk producers from ten South Carolina counties approved an injunction by two Anderson County dairy farmers against the Cable Dairies Inc to block a dairy cooperative sale until books are examined. Raymond R. Hill said producers would buy $100 in common stock per dairy cow to safeguard milk purchases and insisted on an audit before any sale.
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Columbia
Anderson County
Cable Dairies, Inc
South Carolina
Cable Dairy Products Cooperative, Inc
Anderson
Raymond R. Hill
Tobacco Quality Improves Across Carolinas and Virginia Markets
The Federal State Market News Service reports general quality improvements in flue cured tobacco on Carolinas and Virginia markets. Prices fluctuated with gains and losses of 1 to 2 dollars, better leaf and smoking leaf showing strength while poor leaf weakened. Volume remained heavy in most belts, with lighter activity on the Carolina Border Belt and mixed changes in the North Carolina Middle Belt.
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Carolinas
Virginia
Federal State Market News Service
North Carolina
McMullan Rules Absentee Ballots May Be Recalled
North Carolina Attorney General Harry McMullan ruled that a Graham County voter who has filed an absentee ballot may withdraw it and vote in person on election day. The opinion, following a state official's claim of absentee ballot improprieties, clarifies 1939 statewide law repealing earlier county provisions. The SBI is probing the situation amid calls for reform.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
Graham County
McMullan
Thad Eure
SBI
Graham
Rutherford
Swain
Macon
North Carolina
Oil Storage Shortage Cited by Nimitz in Speech
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz warned that U S defenses are weakened by a serious oil storage shortage on the Eastern Seaboard. Speaking to the Commonwealth Club, he noted the battleship Missouri once needed a Turkey mission but lacked fuel oil in the New York area and tankers had to rush from Gulf ports to supply oil.
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San Francisco
Chester W. Nimitz
U.S
Commonwealth Club
Naval Operations
Missouri
Turkey
New York
Nimitz
Gulf Ports
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Johnny Johnston
Shirley
Ageles
Bette Bowers
Washington, D. C
Miss Bowers
Johnston
Washington
Tcushion
Fifth Avenue
Rene
Dairymen
Church OF God
East Commerce St
J. A. Muncy
Hamilton, Ohio
R. ©. Muncy, Pastor
High
Harllee
THE
Associated Press
Graham, Jackson
Capudi
High Point
John Doe
Bland W Worley
Vasue
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