Referendum On Tobacco Set For July 12 Vote
Tobacco growers may vote on three options for marketing quotas for 1947 1948 and 1949 to adjust supply and support prices. Eligibility includes owners tenants and sharecroppers with no double votes. Allotments may be set or adjusted with loans available at 90 percent parity if quotas approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Grombmb
C L. Kelly
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Kelly
Peanut Council meeting honors Scout winners in Virginia Beach
Secretary Clinton P. Anderson congratulates Nancy Knowles of Brownie troop No. 8 Suffolk and Joanne Christian of Girl Scout troop No. 3 Suffolk as they receive Victory Bonds for winning the Snack Jar design contest sponsored by the National Peanut Council. Walter A. Richards of Columbus, Ga., retires as president. James E. Wood of Edenton, N. C. becomes the new president. delegates from 23 states attend the annual meeting to discuss peanut research and promotion as peanuts rank as the South’s fifth most important field crop.
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Virginia Beach
Clinton P. Anderson
Nancy Knowles
Suffolk
Joanne Christian
National Peanut Council
Walter A. Richards
Columbus
James E. Wood
Edenton, N. C
South
More Sugar For Canning Becomes Valid July 1 1946
The State OPA Director Theodore S. Johnson announced that spare stamp 10 will be valid for five pounds of sugar for canning starting July 1 if grower marketing quotas are not approved. He stressed this final canning sugar stamp of the year and urged housewives to use spare stamp 10 only when home canning needs arise as about 750000 tons may be available in 1946, up from 500000 in 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore S. Johnson
OPA
Johnson
Tax policy remark sparks criticism on stamp validity
Johnson denounces purchases as erroneous and notes Spare stamp 49 becomes valid May 1 while the next sugar stamp valid September 1. He adds a pointed jab about a brain worker and mocks a tax situation, mentioning worn clothes and ragged kids due to inability to dodge income tax.
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Johnson
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