Old Belt Leaf Prices Move Up
The Associated Press reports light volume and mixed results on North Carolina Middle and Eastern belt flue cured tobacco prices Tuesday. Old Belt prices held steady to higher in North Carolina Virginia markets with some declines in non descript grades. Monday totals show belts selling over 7.19 million pounds at $56.20 per cwt while Virginia and North Carolina averages were $57.30 and $54.56 respectively. Eastern Belt declines ranged $1 to $9 with low volume. Ahoskie Farmville and Kinston near season end October 27. Middle Belt drops $7 to $8 as quality worsened. Aberdeen Carthage Sanford set closing dates in late October.
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Harriman Predicts Democratic Victory in 1960 Race
Averell Harriman said Democrats can beat any Republican candidate in 1960 led by Vice President Nixon. He cited GOP policy and the Ranetinen philosophy as a handicap and urged careful foreign policy after noting Khrushchev’s four year disarmament proposal as propaganda. Harriman spoke at a United Nations Day dinner in Raleigh.
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Window mechanism causes death of Susan Kirk
In ST Louis Missouri 2 year old Susan Kirk died when a window control button moved the glass up and down. Police say she leaned out and was strangled by the window frame. Two Boy Scouts found her wedged in the window. Susan was the youngest of Reverend Jon W. Kirk and his five children.
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Fieldcrest to Build $750000 Blanket Plant in Smithfield
Fieldcrest Mills Inc will establish an electric blanket plant in Smithfield, North Carolina, costing about 750000 and employing hundreds. The Sel-Field Area Development Corp. will build the facility, due to finish next spring, with production partly relocating from Spray and St Marys Ohio.
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1960 Cotton Acreage Set by Secretary Benson
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set the 1960 cotton planting allotment at 16 million acres, with a 40 percent overplant allowance at reduced price supports. Voting on quotas is due by December 15, requiring two thirds approval. An extra long staple cotton allotment of 64,776 acres is also announced for next year.
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