Bank Cashier Dies After Taylorsville Bank Job
Taylorsville bank cashier T C Barnes died early Sunday from wounds after a late Saturday stick up at Merchants and Farmers Bank. Assistant cashier Solon Little was wounded. two suspects Black of High Point and Stevenold of North Wilkesboro were captured and jailed. two others fled into the Brushy Mountain area as officers hunted. No money was taken.
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Taylorsville
T. C. Barnes
Solon Little
Statesville
Merchants and Farmers Bank
R. E. Black
High Point
Mike Stevenold
North Wilkesboro
Winston-Salem
Black
Pores Knob
Brushy Mountain
Barnes
Little
Roland Chapman
Morganton
Charlotte
Lenoir
State Highway Patrol
May
Alexander County
Peres Knob
Stevenold
Highway 16
Green Feed Cuts Poultry Costs Says NC State Expert
North Carolina State College poultry chief Roy S Dearstyne urges a balanced crop program to reduce feed costs. He highlights green feed grazing crops and autumn crops like Italian rye grass crimson clover oats and rape as essentials. A local effort vaccinated over 5 000 pullets to combat fowl pox in Alamance County.
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Roy S. Dearstyne
North Carolina State College
Alamance County
Wheat Campaign in State Gets Under Way
The wheat plan under the Agricultural Adjustment Act moves from planning to action with county agents and farmer committees leading local meetings in August. Farmers may apply for contracts, with a three member community committee and a county allotment panel to review applications, publish lists, and finalize contracts by late August. First cash installments for contract signers are expected mid September.
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Wilson
County Wheat Production Control Association
The
County Association
Secretary of Agriculture
Lees McRae College Announces 1947 Football Schedule
Lees McRae College released its 1947 football schedule as announced by coach Fred Dicker. The Bulldogs open at Western Carolina Teachers College Cullowhee on September 23 and travel to Davidson on September 29 to face the Davidson freshmen.
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Banner Elk
Lees-McRae College
Fred Dickerson
Bulldogs
Western Carolina Teachers College
Cullowhee
Davidson
Weaver College
Belmont Abbey
Belmont
Appalachian State Teachers College
Boone
Milligan College
Mars Hill
Boiling Springs
Shelby
Presbyterian Junior College
Collees
Western Carolina Teachers
15 Percent of North Carolina Population on Relief
Raleigh reports 15 percent of NC residents relied on public aid in June. Government relief aided 480,319 individuals, including 92,272 five person families and 18,959 non family persons. Avery led counties with 40.1 percent on relief while Cleveland at 2.6 and Stanly at 2.8 percent were lowest. Watauga rose to 29.8 percent.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Governm
Office of Relief
Cleveland
Stanly
Avery
Watauga
Science Helps Summer Cook in Roasting Meat
Practical guide argues slow oven yields tastier roasts with optional browning. Provides per pound times for beef lamb and pork, rack placement, and no water or cover. Includes pork celery au gratin recipe using cold roast pork, white sauce, celery, bread crumbs and butter for a baked dish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inez S. Willson
Home Economist
Bartered Vegetables Bring Surplus Trade At 4-H Camp
Buncombe and Madison County 4-H Club members returned from Swannanoa camp with a vegetable surplus trade. For 33 pounds of cabbage they received noodles pineapples and marsh mallows and other exchanges included sugar lemons and breakfast bacon. Miss Myrtle Keller praised the barter method noting no deficit and improved food quality. Miss Bailey Clapp earned top honors and was seen as a future club leader.
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Buncombe
Madison County
Swannanoa
Myrtle Keller
Buncombe County
S. C. Clapp
Mountain Branch Experiment Station
Madison Club
Asheville
Song of the Jolly Beggar
A first person ballad celebrating a free roaming life with joy and hardship. The speaker embraces travel and simple comforts, vows to keep moving until old age, and ends with a line about the earth as the final bed. The verse closes with a note from Hugh Hight Dotson Boone of North Carolina.
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Pearl Buck
America
East
China
Husband
England
Far East
Lees McRae College
Hugh Hight Dotson
Democrat
Wlay
Goodyear
Pat
Goodyears
Boone, N
Car
Mds
Buck & Wing
Charleston
American Legion
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