North Carolina agriculture reports large peanut and cotton yields
North Carolina peanut production for 1944 is estimated at 366,250,000 pounds up 20 percent from 1943 and 73 percent above the 10 year average. Soybeans total 2,185,000 bushels down five percent from 1943 but 22 percent above the 10 year average. Peanut yields forecast at 1250 pounds per acre up 96 pounds from the 10 year average. Cotton production expected at 710,000 bales up 19 percent from last season and 16 percent above the ten year average with a 427 pound per acre yield equal to the 1940 record.
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North Carolina
C. Z. Willis
State Department of Agriculture
Willis
Curtis Tarleton
Frank Parker
Ithe
Social Security Card Kept Safe and Readable
A Merchant Marine seaman returned to Salisbury Maryland after 72 days adrift in a lifeboat. He sought a readable duplicate of his Social Security card to use after the war and retain his wage record under a single account number.
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South Pacific
Social Security Board
Salisbury
Merchant Marine
Social Security Office Offers Duplicate Cards Free of Charge
The passage notes that duplicates can be obtained easily at any Social Security office and cites the Rocky Mount office at 208 Post Office Building as a location.
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Social Security Board
Rocky Mount
Post Office
Jones Named General Purchasing Agent for Seaboard
Promotion of W. G. Jones to General Purchasing Agent announced by L. R. Powell Jr. and Henry W. Seaboard Air Line Railway. Location and date not specified in available text.
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W. G. Jones
Seaboard Air Line Railway
L. R. Powell, Jr
Henry W
Seaboard Railway appoints new purchasing and store roles
A Hickory native, Mr. Jones began with Seaboard at Louisburg in 1902 and rose through train service to become Executive Assistant to the Receivers in 1942. He announces J. L. Brown as Assistant to General Purchasing Agent in Norfolk and W. P. McClenney as General Store keeper in Portsmouth.
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Chockoyotte
W. L. Manning
Geo. I. Kerr
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Jones
Seiberling
Ted
Esso Station
Roanoke Ave
G. C. Perkinson
Mgi
Johnson
Roanoke Avenue
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