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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
Farmers Throw
Curves That Count

Both baseball and farming are
in the spring training stretch
before starting the first big post
war season but the ''curves"
thrown by farmers will hold the
respect of the paying public long
after Newhouser, Hughson, Leon
ard and company have pitched
the last strike.
J. Frank Doggett of the Soil
Conservation Service at State
College declared that the string
method" of contour tillage for
crops (such as tobacco) which
require ridge cultivation and are
sensitive to drowning is expand
ing rapidly in this, state and
will mean an annual saving -
both in cash and soil fertility -
of millions of dollars to farmers.
The curved row practice,
which has proven so effective in
the past in quelling erosion and
preserving the quality of tobacco
and other crops, is being adopted
this year by tobacco farmers in
Maryland and Connecticut who
recently sent representatives to
this state for study Of the plan.
J. E. Graham, tobacco farmer
of the Goodwin community in
Cumberland County who began
using curved rows two years ago,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
Dairy Pay To
Be Continued

G. Tom Scott, Johnston Coun-
ty farmer and head of the state
Production and Marketing Ad-
ministration, has announced that
the federal dairy production pay
ment program, previously an
nounced through March, 1916,
will be continued. through June
80. Rates for the April-June
period will be the same as those
for the corresponding period
last year when North Carolina
dairymen received payments
'totalling $932,00 State pay
ments since 1913 total $6,50O,0OO.
This action means that 1916
April payments for milk will
range from so cents to 80 cents
per hundred pounds, depending
on the area, and for butterfat in
all areas, II cents per pound.
For May and June the pay
ments will be Is cents to SIS
cents per hundred pounds for
milk and 10 cents per pound for
butterfat. The lower payments
during May and June are made
in accordance with the accepted
practice of decreased producer
payments during the flush sea-
son of milk production.
The payments will be subject
to termination or revision in the
event of any general increase in
price ceilings for milk and its
products. Scott said that it is
the governments policy to make
every effort to side-step price
increases by making termination
of subsidies subject to changes
in the cost of living.
Through the dairy production
plan, payments are made to far
mers on the milk and butterfat
they produce and sell. Intended
to offset increased dairy produc-
ton costs, the program has op-
Grated since October, 1943.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
Schedule Given
For County Clubs

jefferson All Club will meet
March II, at 1918 am. at the
school.
Green Valley H. D. Club will
meet March II, at 200 pm. at
the home of Mrs. Earl Lewis.
Healing Springs All Club will
meet March II, at $3.50 at the
school.
The regular meeting date for
the Riverview H. D. Club will
be changed this month from
Tuesday, March IL, to Monday
March IS, at which time the club
will meet at the home of Mrs
Everett Roland at 200 o'clock.
Warrensville H. D. Club will
meet March IS at the home OF
Mrs. E. J. Weaver at 200 o'clock
Rock Creek All Club will
meet March IA at the school at
200 o'clock.
Trout All Club will meet
March IA at the school at 100
p. m.
Nathan's Creek H. D. Club
will meet March IA at the home
of Mrs. Grace Saunders at 200
p. m.
Grassy Creek All club will
meet Friday, March Is, at $3.50
a. m. at the school. 49,.
Glendale Springs All club will
meet Friday, March Is, at $3.50
o. m. at the home of Mary Fran
ces Luke.
Glendale Springs H. D. club
will meet Friday, March Is at
200 p. m. at the home Of Mrs.
Delmer Rose
The topic for the H. D. meet
ings, 'The Work Saving Kitchen"
will be discussed and explained.
Slides and pictures will be shown
and new bulletins containing
plans for the kitchen will be dis
tributed.
Since March 2-10 is National
All club week, the club mem
bers are having a special pro-
gram. This is a week set aside
to make it possible for all mem
bers to become familiar with All
Club work and to analyze their
own situations and problems. To
better acquaint parents in every
community with what All mem
bers are already doing and to en-
list more public-spirited citizens
as local leaders and to provide
other opportunities whereby they
may be enabled to give further
support to the All Club Program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

reports that tobacco does not
drown in the terrace channels
and, inasmuch as channels do not
fill up, no rows are broken by
water run-off, a common damage
resulting from the use of straight
rows. -..
In applying the string meth
OBJ, the farmer simply uses a
string and stakes to mark off a
curved guide row and follows
that contour throughout the
field. When a pitcher pulls the
string, he serves up "slow stuff"
to stop the batter. When the
farmer pulls the string, he slows
up the water and stops erosion.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
Badger Rites
Held On Tuesday

The last rites for John Felix
Badger, 81, of Tuckerdale, who
succumed in Chilhowie, Va. on
Sunday, we're held Tuesday at
the Union Baptist church at 2
o'clock. The Rev. Frank Stur-
gill officiated and interment
was in the Zion Hill cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Maggie Badger and two sons,
Burton and Donald Badger.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that I
have sold my stock of merchan-
disc known as Welch's Store,
Lansing, North Carolina, to Don
Francis and wife, Minnie Belle
Francis, and that I will not be
responsible for the payment of
any accounts or other indebted
ness incurred in the name of
Walch's Store, after this date.
This February %. 1916.
= c.. E. WEIGH, Lansing,
North Carolina. 2-28-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
NOTICE OF SUMMONS

NOTICE OF SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
REATH GREENE STRUNK
VS..
HAROLD STRUNK
The defendant above named
will take notice that an action as
above entitled has been com
menced in the Superior Court of
Ashe County, the same being for
absolute divorce, and that duly
verified complaint has been filed
and summons issued which is re-
turnable in the office Of the un-
dersigned on the 9th day OF
March, 1916, when and where
the defendant is required to ap-
pear and answer or denur to the
complaint or the relief therein
requested will be granted.
This February 5, 1916.
c. S. NEAL, Clerk Superior
Court. 2-14-4t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
Lemon Juice Recipe Checks
Rheumatic Pain Quickly

If you suffer from rheumatic. arthri'
tbs or neuritis pain. try this simple
inexpensive home recipe that thousands
are using. Get "a package Of Ru.Ex
Compound. a z weeks supply today. Mix
il with quart Of water. add the
juice Of lemons. It's easy. pleasant
and no trouble at all. You need only ;
tablespoonftls two times day, Often
within 4S p hours - sometimes over
night - splendid results are obtained:
If the pains do not quickly leave
and if you do not feel better. Ru,Ex
will cost you nothing to try as it is
sold BY your druggise under an abso>
lutte money,back guarantee. Ru.Ex
Compound 10 ,fos. sale and teeommended BY
Ray Drug Company
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FOR SALE-25 acre farm To-
Gated IL mile off Jefferson and
Grassy Creek highway on Silas
Creek road on North Fork New
River. Adjoining Claude Stu
arts Farm. See Claude Stuart
or write Carl Brown, Route 2,
Box 281, Kannapolis, N. c.
3-7-4tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

WANTED: A good cook, white
or colored. Woman preferred
for diner work. $4,000 per week;
also two good workers for diner
(girls) $4,000 per week to start.
w. H. Archer, Benson, Md.
(Telephone, Bel Air, 41J)
2-21-4tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

WANTED-Girl for homework
and cooking. Must have health
certificate. Good pay and work.
ing conditions. Apply in person.
Mrs. Clinton Goodman, Good
mans Store, West Jefferson, N.
G. 3-7-1tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

We now have good supply
of heavy cardboard used for in
sulating purposes. Size 32x44.
SC per sheet. Skyland Post.
Silt
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

WANTED - Renter, expert
enced and strictly sober man on
ly need apply. See or write Al
ia Perkins, Sturgills, N. c.
3-7-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FOR SALE-One 40 Dodge
Army Pickup. If interested, see
Byard Houck, West Jefferson.
3-7-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

BABY CHICKS - Approved
baby chicks. Parker's Hatchery
has enlarged, but we are getting
more early orders than ever be-
fore. Please let us have your or
ders now for March, April and
May chicks. Parker's Hatchery,
West Jefferson. 2-28-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

Unusually large stocks of GER
titled seed sweet potatoes are
available for planting in 1916.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FREE! If Excess acid causes
you pains of StomachrUlcers, In
digestion, Heartburn, Belching,
Bloating, Nausea, Gas Pains, get
free sample. Udga, at Ray Drug
Company. 2-21-25tpd
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FOR SALE-One five-year-old
horse, work anywhere. Reason
for selling: renting farm. Weight
1000 pounds, price reasonable.
See Attorney Swanson.
2-28-3tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FOR SALE-One pair of Bay
mares, good farming team. See
Mills Goodman, Othello, N. c.
-" 2-28-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

LOST-Blue tick hound, black
head and ears, slim body, black
back, brown spots over each eye.
Answers to Bill. $40 reward.
See John Rose, Smethport.
2-28-3tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FOR SALE-2 stacks of clover
hay. See Charles Greer, West
Jefferson. N. C.. 3-7-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

FOR SALE-Electric Kelvina-
tor, Number one condition. See
Ernest Bare, Glendale Springs,
N. G. 3-7-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07
RATES

FOR SALELOne team of
horses. See or write L. P. Yates,
near Frank billiards. place, JEFF
ferson, N. C.. 3-7-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

Pretty Sybil White, IA, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. White,
of Route 2, Statesville, is full
fledged "cover girl" following
the appearance of her picture on
the cover pages of two southern
magazines.
The Cedar Mountain section Of
Pennsylvania county is one of
the newest additions to test
farming under IVA contract.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

Eastern North Carolina tests
have proved Crimson clover to
be one of the states top legumes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-07

Bargains ! ans'ns Saw r ma.
Wood Working and Road Build
e Machinery, Well Drilling Ma
hines, Gasoline Engines, etc.
P. JOHNSON, Wytheville. Va.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
NEGRO BUSINESS
INSTITUTE

WASHINGTON, D.. C-The Ne
gro Business is now formed in
Washington, with Albert Louis
Hypps as director. The chief fun
ction of the Institute is to: ~
help create bigger, better, richer
Negro business enterprises; (2)
help increase the efficiency of
business management; 81 help
maintain service standards at the
highest level; "a prepare and re-
lease tested business ideas to in
crease sales and profits; 90 help
faster community support for Ne
gro owned and operated business.
A regular weekly packet con-
tanning business ideas for more
profits will be mailed to the Negro
in business who is determined to
have a bigger, better, richer bus
mess. The Negro Business Insti-
tute is formed as a non profit or
ganization and does not aim to
conflict with existing Negro bus
mess organizations but to help
them further their plans and pur-
pose.
The first packet of weekly bus
mess ideas for more profits is now
on the press and will be ready for
release within a few days. The
Negro Business Institute head.
quarters are at GAL Florida Ave-,
NV, Washington 1, D. G. Busin-
ess men and women everywhere
are invited to write in and request
and business information they
may need or use the NBI library
or research files.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
PUBLIC X AGAINST
APPLIANCE REPAIR CYP

During the war years, and now
during the period of reconversion
electrical household appliances
are among every Americans most
precious possessions. Working on
the premie that such appliances
as radios, washing machines, re
frigerators, sewing machines, etc.
cannot be readily replaced, I'M
scrupulous pseudo repairmen'
have evolved a racket by which
many unsuspecting victims are
being hooked. This is the warning
being issued currently by the Bet
ter Business Bureau.
The appliance repair racket
works in several different ways,
the Bureau explained. The phoney
repair man will solicit business by
calling on the housewife. Stating
that he will fix the appliance at
his place of business, he may dis
appear with the article and not
re-appear. Having used a fictiti.
Gus name and a phoney receipt,
the housewife has little hope of
retaining her article.
Or, the racketeer repairman can
take the appliance to his office,
return with an exorbitant est.
mate on the cost of repair and
then make the victim his service
charges to buy it back.
On the other hand, he may go
ahead and do the work, and then
compel the victim to pay his ex-
cessive charges in order to regain
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
eFor Greater Coverage
in the Guide
OVERSEAS RELIEF:
London COnfab

The problem of tiding war-strick-
er countries over the 1946-'47 con-
sumption wear concerned delegates
from 10 Allied. neutral and former
enemy nations at the Emergency
Economic conference for Europe
being held in London.
With the U S. aiming to ship
1000, 900 tons of wheat monthly
toward a goal of IL. 1000. 900 tons,
efforts were bent on stimulating con-
tributions from other countries to fill
out the huge deficit. In this con-
nection, a report Of the conferences
combined food board recommended
that Russia be requested to fur
nish cereals and that steps be taken
to increase the extent of Argentine
exports.
Little Ireland followed the u. s.
in setting an example to the partici-
pating nations, announcing it would
send $4,000 cattle, 5000, 900 pounds
Of canned meat, TO- 900 tons Of sugar
as well as milk, bacon and cheese
to the continent this rear. Normal
ly Fire sends most Of its cattle and
eggs to Britain.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
F.D.R.:
Sell Stamps

Individual lobbyists and deal
ers shared in the purchase of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's famed
stamp collection, which brought
heirs to his estate over $210, 900.
Representing a lifetime collec-
ton Of the late President, the
stamps we're appraised in adj
vance of the auction at $50. 900.
Berry Hill, a New York deal
er, was one of the biggest buy
ers at the sales. paying 81, 1856
for most of 20 lots of French
stamps and die-proofs and S1.615
for four groups of German
stamps included in statistical
albums showing the extent Of
imitation in the reich after World
War /.
DR.. L. L. rutland, a lobbyist,
topped bids to pay 81, ZOO for 81
lots of Chinese stamps present
ed to Mr.. Roosevelt by Chang
Kai-shek. X. Biloski, a Cana
dian dealer. paid 81, 100 for 848
stamps Of a Russian collection
rendered to the late President
by Soviet Ambassador Maxim
Litvinoff.
Almost 5 $1,000 was realized on
the sale of lot lots of Venezuelan
stamps and albums.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
r
Pay adjustment

Government employees were in
line for a pay increase as a result
Of congressional action but an adj
ministration measure to raise the
minimum wage to so cents an hour
appeared doomed because of the
farm bloc's insistence that the same
bill hike the parity formula ove
President Humans protest.
The senate and house strove to
get together on a uniform pay in
crease for U. S. employees follow
ing their approval Of conflicting
raises. While the senate had o.k.'d
an IL per cent boost, the house
voted a $500 a year advance. Since
the house also decided to limit de-
partment appropriations in the 1947
fiscal year to those of 1916. how
ever, the higher pay would cover
fewer employees and thus cut the
federal payroll by 1000, 900.
In pushing for an upward revision
Of the parity formula as an amend
ment to the 60-cent-an-hour mini
mum wage bill over President Tru-
mans veto threat, the farm bloc
sought to protect farmers returns
in a period of rising costs. Trum-
peting administration disapproval.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
declared revision Of the parity for
mula to include farm wages would
result in a 33 per cent boost in
farm prices and spark an imitation
airy cycle.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20

Joined the NAACP COMMITTEE on
Columbia, Tenn. Clark Foreman
head of the Southern Conference
for Human Welfare; Judge Hub
ert Delany of New York City;
Artie Shaw, orchestra leader; Ro-
ger Baldwin, head of the Civil
Liberties Union, Jane White, act
ress, recently starred in Strange
Fruit; and Congressman Andrew
Biemiller have also been added to
the new committee.
BULLETIN!
LOBBY and Weaver filed pleas in
abatement last night in Columbia
april 81 in behalf of % defend
ants, raising the issue of the un-
constitutional exclusion of Negro
es from the State Grand Jury
They had filed pleas for three
other defendants previously. Nc
date has yet been Set for the case
to be heard and the trial by the
State Grand Jury.
The Federal Grand Jury is con-
vening on April 9Th at Nashville.
The NAACP attorneys have taken
dispositions from the defendants
and other witnesses have lined UP
witnesses to appear before the
Federal Grand Jury.
Thurgood Marshall, chief coun.
Sci for NAACP, in discussing the
case, has pointed out that both
Stevensons, father and son. are
veterans of World War II. During
his investigation, he discovered
that the elder Stevenson was 9
veteran of % months overseas
where he SAT action in the Nor
mandy landings and Battle OF
the Bulge.
BULLETIN!
At a meeting in New York on
April, 4th, the NAACP Committee
voted to organize an executive
committee to be appointed by Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt and DR.. Chan
ming H. Tobias, chairman of the
committee. All organizations in
terested in the Columbia affair
have agreed to work through the
NAACP and to support the asso.
citation in its fund raising drive as
Well as the legal defense of the
Negroes victims of Tenn. uniform
mob justice.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
MIHAILOVTTCH:
us. to Aid

Landing Gen. Draja Mihailo-
vitch's contributions to the Allied
cause in the early stages Of the Eu-
ropean war, the U. S. state depart
ment asked the Yugoslav govern
ment that American officers at
tached to the Chetnik leaders head
quarters be permitted TO testify on
his behalf in his forthcoming trea-
son trial.
Famed for his daring guerrilla
warfare against the Germans dur
ing the height Of Nazi domination,
Mihailovitch lost his grip on the Yu-
goslav resistance movement with
Allied recognition Of the Commu-
n~ist-trained Tito following the Rus
sian resurge in 1943. At odds with
Tito. Mihailovitch became a fugi-
tive, charged with collaborating to-
ward the end with the Germans in
vaders.
In coming to Mihailovitch's de-
tense in the face Of bitter Commu-
mist allegations against the Chetnik
leader, the state department said
many American army f1iers had
been rescued and returned to Allied
lines through the daring efforts Of
his forces. 1t was also pointed out
that U. S. officers were attached
to Mihailovitch's headquarters as
liaison men in co-ordinating resist
ance operations.
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20
RAIL PAY:
BaIk at Findings

In protesting the 16-cent-an-hour
raise awarded by a labor-manage-
ment arbitration board, railroad un-
ion officials declared that the boost
granted failed to meet higher living
costs and adjust differences in pay
between railroad workers and en-
ployees in other industries.
Declaring railroad workers e
entitled to a 46-cent-an-hour in
crease, B. M. Jewell. representing
IS incorporating unions, and E. E.
Milliman, president of the Brother
hood of Maintenance of Way En-
ployees, asserted that the minimum
award should have included liz
cents an hour for higher living costs
plus the general industry-wide 1872
cent-an-hour postwar advance.
Meanwhile, railroad officials also
complained against the arbitration
boards wage decisions. estimated
to add up to $500 per year for
1920, 900 members of three operat-
ing and Is incorporating unions and
cost the carriers 1894, 000, 900 an
nually.
Echoing the carriers warnings
that increased wages would require
rate boosts, President Fred G. Cur
ley Of the Santa Fee announced that
the 16-cent-an-hour award was too
large and his road would immedi-
ately appeal for higher freight tar
ifs. Stating that the wage increases
would add $25, 000. 900 yearly to
Santa Fe operating costs. Gurley
said the boost coupled with higher
material. supply and fuel costs
against reduced income made the
step necessary.
Because both the railroads and
unions had agreed to accept the
arbitration boards findings as final
in submitting their dispute for set
Element, no work stoppage doomed
because of disagreement over
terms.
The recommendations were hand
ed down even as a fact-fnding pam
ell conducted hearings on demands
Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
The Omaha guide., 1946-04-20

production had reached a rate of
$50 billion dollars during the first
three months of 1916, Snyder said,
with private wages and salary pay
ments returning almost to the pre-
w Day date of 80 billion dollars.
Non-agricultural employment total
ed "A, 700, 900 in February, with
2.700,0 900 jobless seeking work.
Indicative of the huge demand for
goods, Snyder said that consumer
and business purchases during the
first quarter of 1916 equalled those
of the Christmas period IN contrast
to an ordinary drop Of 10 to IL bill
lion dollars Though overall civilian
production rose, the textile shortage
remained acute. being aggravated
by mills refusal to sell unfinished
goods because Of higher profits on
bleached or printed cloth.
Notwithstanding increasing pro-
duction and high taxes, the threat
Of an infationary spiral remains,
Snyder said. Noting the trend. he
pointed out that on March Is whole
sale food prices were 81 per cent
above those on the same date last
year and the prices Of other prod
ucts were up rs per cent.