Fruits Top Plentifuls List for Southeast August
Launa Brashaws of the State College Extension Service says fruits and other foods will be plentiful in the Southeast in August, with peaches pears emotes and true concentrated juice among listed items. The Agriculture department notes pears will be largely west coast Bartletts with high carryover stocks, and potato production is forecast at 339 million bushels, up 4 percent from last year but below the 1941-50 average. Lemon trees suffer more from cold than orange trees.
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Ass” Launa Brashaws
State College Extension Service
Department of Agriculture
Hullender Reunion Slated For Sunday Near Kings Mountain
Hullender reunion set for Sunday August 10 at John Foster’s home on the Cherryville Shelby road near Kings Mountain. The old Hullender home place of Cheisty and Rebecca Kiser Mullender hosts a picnic dinner at noon with a Hullender history reading by Frank Hullender and a program. Pauline Swarris Gaston and Louis Robert—France is noted for early paper machine invention.
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Hullender
John Foster
Kings Mountain
Cherryville
Shelby
Cheisty
Rebecca
Kiser Mullender
Frank Hullender
Treas
Pauline H. Swarris
S. Church St
Gaston
Mece
New Social Security Rules Boost Benefits for Older Workers
About 50 percent more people than usual applied for old age insurance payments in July, says Miss Margaret H Lowder, Gastonia office manager. Changes allow one and a half years of post 1950 work to qualify for a higher benefit under a new formula. Self employed beneficiaries and survivors can have 1952 earnings included in benefit refiguring. Kings Mountain visits by the Gastonia office occur at City Hall on the first and third Wednesdays.
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Margaret H. Lowder
Gastonia
Miss Lowders
Farm Editor McMillen to Speak at State Farm Week Event
Wi McMillen editor in chief of Farm Journal and Pathfinder will speak Tuesday evening August 19 at the Rural Church Institute program during Farm Home Week at State College. He will discuss The Rural Church and Commerce with music by the Methodist Church choir and will note his wide influence as an editor and industry leader.
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Feaers
Fara
Wi McMiflen
Farm Journal
Pathfinder
McMiflen
Rural Church Institute
Church of
Raven
Farm Journal Oh
McMillen
National Farm Chemurgic Council
Boy Scouts of America
National Committee On Rural Scouting
American I Boyhood
Boy Scouts
Future ‘Farmers ‘of America
Rutgers
State University
Fof
New Jersey
New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company
Philadephia
Washington
Hopewell
Talent Contest Plans Listed at Farm and Home Week
Amateur talent show at N C State College August 18 21 features no holds barred acts with daily eliminations. Entrants compete five minutes per act for nightly prizes 30 dollars and grand prizes 90 30 20 donated by the State Grange and Farm Bureau. entry forms due August 11 to Eugene Starnes College Station Raleigh.
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N.C. State College
Eugene Starnes
College Station
Raleigh
N.C. State Grange
N.C. Farm Bureau Federation
Shyte's Ship At San Diego Operations Off Korea Highlight Navy Firepower
The U S Navy ship 403, part of the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force, left the West Coast in October 1951 bound for the Korea combat zone. Over nine months she fired more than 15 000 rockets in shore bombardments of Hunimam and Wonzan rail junctions and conducted harassing and counter fire missions near Paengnyang Do and Chinnampo. Commanded by Rear Admiral A K Scott Moncrieff of the British Royal Navy, the unit operated with allied fleets including American Canadian Dutch Australian New Zealand and Republic of Korea navies. In December the ship joined a White Christmas strike against Songjin targets.
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San Diego
Calif
James Mountain
West Coast
Kiean
Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force
403
Hunimam
Wonzan
New Hampshire Midget and Japanese Seedless Melons Introductory Notes
A column updates readers on two new melon varieties. The New Hampshire Midget shows strong production yet falls to Anthracnose, while the Japanese Seedless proves larger with rich red flesh and mostly undeveloped seeds. Seed saving is discouraged as true reproduction is unlikely.
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New Hampshire
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