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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
6
Local night tennis club operates in weary business world with members like Slippery Slim Coggins and Doc Pill Roller Shutard active, while others await better conditions to play. Chamber of Commerce plans annual meeting to explore restoring national income to $80 trillion.
Four North Carolina 4 H delegates, two boys and two girls, were selected from 16 000 club members to attend the 12th annual National 4 H Club Camp in Washington June 16 to 21. Delegates are Margaret Killen Wagner Guilford County Virginia Eyton Polk Luther Paul Camp and Walton Thompson Wilson County. They will be guests of the U S Department of Agriculture Extension Service for leadership training and tours of conservation and wildlife projects.
The newly formed Boy Scout Troop of the Corn Mill will host an ice cream supper next Saturday at 6 PM on the Corn Mill lawn in Padena California. Troop Eight sponsors the event to raise funds for sending members to Scout camp this summer. Local Scouts invite the public, led by Scoutmaster D C King. May 30. Charleston reports no quarantine for adults traveling to or from Charleston. Floyd Reavis, 26, died after diving from a Pier at Hollywood, Roanoke Island, as surf hit seabed.
Forester R W Gractier notes black locusts thrive on lighter Coastal Plain soils. Plantings since 1931 in Bertie Camden Currituck Hyde counties yield posts in eight years. Early adopters include Dr S H Crocker of Wilson County. By 1982 two acres yielded several trees three to four inches dia. Sugar Planting begun 1986. Fields abandoned for cultivation may suit fence post woodlots.
A reader asks whether it is economical to sell broody hens during a peak production period and how to phase them back into normal laying. The same issue discusses controlling boll weevils on young cotton with quarterly dust or liquid treatments as squares form, referencing Extension Circular No. 23% and the Agricultural Visitor for details.
A fragmented ad lists prices for Palmolive items and Octagon brand products including Small Super Suds blue box three for and Large Super Suds blue box two for . Octagon Soap giant six for, Octagon Powder large ten for and Octagon Toilet four for good, with other Octagon items and Crystal White Beap noted.
Excellent results from a swine sanitation program in Eastern North Carolina are reported by H. L. Taylor of the State College Extension Service. Tyrrell County grower H. P. Swain tested a self feeding oat patch with three feeds for piglets born March 15, and tracked older hogs from February to April, noting weight gains and sale in late April.
Greensboro report notes John A Arey of State College outlines molasses as a preservative for silage across many crops in North Carolina. He cites winter mixtures with cereals and field peas as common, explains timing for cutting and moisture levels, and provides ratios for molasses additions. Also covered is a separate hospital death in Siler City affecting Worth Whit, 35.
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