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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1948
Page
9
In December 1947 the farmer received 55 cents per dollar of farm food, up from 40 cents in 1935-39, while marketing costs in December were the highest since August 1929. Large Irish potato shipments moved from Mississippi Alabama Georgia and Florida with continued diggings in North Carolina.
A discussion on transportation policy criticizes heavy government control and taxation, warning that postwar rail and transport sectors need efficient, low-cost private capital and coordinated policy to prevent nationalization and preserve the American system. The piece argues reform is essential as wartime shifts end.
A New North Carolina wildlife agency crackdown led to multiple arrests for dynamiting fish in Caldwell County and Alleghany County. Nine Caldwell residents face prosecution in Caldwell County Superior Court after investigations by District Supervisor H L Biggers and Game Protector Clyde McClean. Three Alleghany County residents were bound over for September term with 300 dollars bail, while five others paid 97 dollars in fines for Sunday hunting violations. Local farmers reported dead, floating fish as officers and protectors executed the roundup. North Carolina cotton acreage shifts to a one variety, improved program.
Lake Mattamuskeet reported a remarkable catch of 240 mullet in one day led by anglers from Lexington North Carolina and Linwood B. tunn er of Lake Malietcuskeet. The jumping mullet and local competition drew about 400 participants at the Willard Test Farm in Denver.
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