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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-11-20
BY VIRGINIA SMITH
Home Demonstration Agent

It's always good business to keep
the hens in your flock that are effici-
ent producers. With feed prices
climbing-they've risen IS per cent
since last January-it's more than
good business. It's must
Besides the practical aspect of not
losing money, you will be saving
grain for shipping abroad to less
fortunate people.
The October crop report stated
tina. the egg-feed and turkey-feed
rations were the leafs favorable in
IL years, and the chicken-feed ratio,
in "a years.
With 3 per cent more poultry on
farms than last October and with
more than 200 million pounds of
poultry meat in storage October J.,
there is little prospect of fairy
godmother with black-mdrket cash
appearing to carry away those nom
productive hens. It's up to each pro-
Queer to sift his flock down to a
paying basis.
High producing hens plus intellig-
ent management will keep you In
business. Here are some poultry
practices that will help you keep
that efficient flock.
|. Gull layers weekly. Get rid OF
the hens that aren't laying by going
over your flock each week. Keep
egg yield above the so per cent pro-
duction rate. Follow a culling guide
to augmentation, mott. and handling
factors. Gull out immature and slow
developing pullets.
2. Feed a balanced ration Your
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-11-20

Mrs. Ruth Roach attended the
funeral of her cousin, Mr.. William
Burt of Longview, Texas, who was
buried in Greenwood Sunday. Mr..
Burt was former resident Of Green
wood.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-11-20

mash, when you pay for it, may seem
as though it were sacked in dollar
bills, but just remember mash fur
nishes the protein to balance the
nutrients in grains. Feeding only
grain to a laying flock is grain
wasting practice. The grain keeps
the hen alive, but it does not furnish
her all the necessary ingredients for
economical egg production.
3. Keep no ROSTERS unless you
have special breeding flock or are
selling Matching eggs. BOOSTERS
make no contribution to egg produc-
ton, and they eat enormous amounts
of grain. If you are saving a number
of old ROSTERS for soup kettle, kill
them at once and store them in your
freezer locker Keep broilers, fryers
or ROSTERS on full feed until your
best selling time.
4. Use poultry pasture whenever
possible. A saving on the feed bill
on grasses grown at home is a grain
saving measure. Have you planned
and planted winter or early spring
range for your chickens this fall?
s. Avoid overfull feed hoppers. If |
you fill your mash hopper brimfull /
the hens will have good time flip
ping the mash out on the floor or |
ground-thereby wasting and not
saving grain. Wasteproof hoppers are
best and then fill them only half |
full.
A gusty wind can blow out large
amounts of the precious mash. Try a |
hopper full on range with no chick
ems and prove it to yourself. Study
the design and revamp any hoppers
that need attention.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-11-20

Mrs. Ruth Roach was a Grenada
visitor Saturday and while there she
was the guest of Mrs G.. c. Richard
son.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-11-20

Mr.. Albert Arnold of Memphis was
the guest of Mrs Ruth Roach Sunday
and Monday.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-11-20
GOSPEL TALKS
BY Rev. r. C. Valentine
BUILDING A CHARACTER

(4) The Test of the Building
Every mans work shall be made
manifest; for the day shall declare
it, because it shall be revealed by
fire; and the fire shall try every
mans work of what sort it isl
Cor. 3:13.
The real worth or worthlessness OF
every man will be manifest sooner
or later. The day is coming when
1--WE must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ; that every
one may receive the things done in
his body, according to that he hath
done, whether it be good or bad."-2
Cor. $40. In that day God shall
Judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christi 2:16. A day is APP
pointed for the testing of character.
This testing is severe and is de-
scribed as a trial by fire. "The day
shall declare it, because it shall be
revealed by fire" Perhaps now the
ill-planned life, and faulty constru-
cted character cannot be distinguish
ed from the soundly built life, but
the IRE VI JuosHicHt ohoh put "
proof the workmanship.
The results of this testing will be
decisive. The work that is sound
shall abide and receive reward. The
precious metals and costly marbles
shall be none the worse but rather
the better for the test. The work that
is bad will meet with destruction for
the wood, hay, and stubble of false
doctrine and worthless profession
shall be consumed and disappear
The work of lifetime will thus be
destroyed in day. There will be no
''well done" because all has been ill
| done. There will be no reward for
such life but the work shall per-
ish.
Now is the time to take stock
of the life you are building. Build
upon the true foundation, Jesus
Christ. Build for Gods glory and
forget vain self-glory. Then, ones
character will stand the fiery test.
Prove yourself and your work now
by the Divine standard, "that when
He shall appear you may have conf
dence, and not be ashamed before
Him at His coming."--1 John 2:28.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
BY PHIL WRIGHT
News State Editor

I'm inditing these lines in this
special Wallace Edition to tell
you something about John Skies,
Wallace Sales Supervisor, under
whose whip-lash I shaved long
and laboriously as a reporter
and learned that Skies would
never be satisfied with less than
the best.
Skies would probably tutt-tutt
any implication that this section
required any special effort on
his part because, for some orery
quirk in his left-handed brain,
he likes to leave the impression
be never gets around to any
special effort of any kind. But
with the exception of this piece,
it's heading and the caption
above, this former Managing
Editor of the Morning Star
wrote every line, every heading,
and every caption in these six
pages, plus staging the photog-
raphy and helping the advertis-
ing department with the ads. He
even read the proofs to catch in
advertent errors. Therefore, he's
to blame for anything that has
gone wrong.
Beats All Markets
During the past three months
Skies has been the pullmotor-
he calls it "the enthusiastic
drum beater for the best one
sale tobacco market in exist
ence'-for the Wallace Tobacco
Market which, according to
Skies, cheats all markets in the
world for conscientious interest
IN the farmer and the prices he
receives for his tobaccos".
Today Sikes's sparsely-settled
pate-bald head to you-is show
Jag bare signs of his efforts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
MORRISON HEADS
HUSSEY'S STAFF
Chief Bookkeeper Leads
Large Personnel In Big
Warehouse Group

WALLACE, Oct. 70 - Hugh
Morrison, Wallace, is top man
on the staff that pays off and
keeps the records for the two
Hussey warehouses on the Wal
lace market.
In addition to his duties as
chief bookkeeper for the Hussey
organization, Morrison is con-
nected with the Wallace pro-
duce market and is, himself, a
produce buyer during the Sc
son.
Teachey Pays Off
Herman Teachey, who lists
both Rose Hill and Wallace as
home, has the pleasing task of
writing checks to payroll farm
ers who've completed their
sales. Teachey also dabbles in
the produce market and keeps
up his tobacco connections in
the hurley belt when he's not
busy here.
There is a long list Of staffers
floor men, bill clerks, and so
Disconnected with the Hussay
firms. These include Graham
Wells, Wallace, weighmaster
and bill clerk; John Zibelln,
Wallace, weigher; and c. F.
johnson, Harrell's Store, floor
manager.
Others on Staff
Others on the Hussey staff
are A. B. Herring, Watha; L..
G. Teachey, Rose Hill; James
Albertson, Beulaville; George
Rouse, Rose Hill; L. G.. Teach
ey, Rose Hill; J. E. Sloan, Chin
quapin; James Herring, Har-
rell's Store; Harold James,
Wallace; H. P. Ennis, Teachey;
Billy Taylor, Warsaw; Clayton
Brown, Beaulville; G. D. Sho-
lar, Chinquapin; M. Carr, Jr.,
Wallace; W. B. Kisner, Magno-
liza; Dave Campbell, Wallace
Joe Robinson, Rose Hill; and
Alex Switzerland, Rose Hill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
AVERAGES
Continued From Page One

"The Wallace market is bring
ing the highest price. to be found
anywhere tobacco is sold," these
warehousemen said tonight. "We
believe all farmers will profit
by bringing their tobacco here.
This week the good grades will be
in strong demand and will bring
good prices.
"We have the floor space and
we are prepared to take care
of all farmers just as Don as they
bring their tobaccos here.
"We cordially invite farmers
to come now, or when they are
ready to sell. We guarantee cour-
teous service and fast, profitable
handling of your tobaccos
IF you wish to book space
we will be glad /. have you call
us at either the New Duplin,
which has sales Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday; Blanchard and
F~arrior's which has sale Tuesday
and Thursday or Hussey's which
has sales each day. We will take
care of everybody.
eff you do not care to book
space just bring on your tobacco
anyway. Well take care of you"
The signs tonight were for
another big week here. Two
or three more such weeks will
swell Wallace's total for the year
to the $4,000, 00-pound goal for
the season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

BRING O. TIL RBECU B ill Farn0r and Oar Blanchard o1eru us u Sn hnm"n1 @s
FarmsY warehouse shown left md fright at the head ofthet ahe, feed the ouWr .oIo cus al n M@
between sales on the Wallace Tobacco Market Picking out some o. nus s ~ a. n " nInn~ ~
Parker iggeh buer rests his arms on the table U the SAME SUI m ~ 1880 LII G al
to the camera is lin Peamon auchonen. The gentleman the coat taking a bite OF hot corn
bread is Pete Walker circuit rider for the J. P Taylor Tobacco Co. At the extreme left back to
camera is Jmmy Hendricks government graueCW VINO was tnt Jt Wn m ~ EHnS, s.
ting redy to sHe is Garland Kennedy Wner OF ennMyS baDVME1 " VIII MS Ill" S
nntnned with some of the hest ntcmkedb barbecue in North IarOuna.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
,Wallace's Super Press
Agent Has Many Whims

Into every one of the lines
in these pages he has boosted
his warehousemen friends, Bill
Hussey, Rack Rackley, and o.
car Blanchard, so glowingly I
personally feel I know these
men and take pride in their
leadership of the Wallace mar
ket. I a also feel the growth
of Wallace as a tobacco mar
ket, as a progressive farmers
center, and as a downright good
place to be in.
What? No Summers
But, just in case you don't
know a few items about him
permit me to draw from my
memory. He admits having been
through from 80 to 40 Winters
but he refuses to discuss the
Summers. In this comparatively
brief span he has been editor,
sub-editor, reporter, and what
not on top newspapers in New
York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
Memphis, not to mention a raft
of smaller places. He didn't like
the big towns because he says
eff you boiler across the street
to somebody you're not only not
heard but the cops think you're
nuts, which you probably are.
This human dynamo has also
owned his own newspaper, sew
eral times. (He quit all that be-
cause he says I couldn't get
myself on the payroll because
there wasn't any payroll,")
Dreams Up Bridge
But, just to give you an idea
of one Of his many big dreams,
he once sat in his newspaper
office in Edenton and looked out
over the nearby nine-mile ex-
panse of the Albemarle Souno.
At one point of the Sound it is
only three miles wide. Skies
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
MART MUST
DEPEND ON WOMEN
TODD CALCULATING

WALLACE, Oct. PA tobacco
market, like everything else,
must have the women folks
around to operate properly.
The Wallace market has its
distaff side too.
Womanning these intricate
calculating machines that click
out the amount of money
a farmer is to receive for so
much tobacco are the following:
Miss Margaret Williams, Wal
lace; Miss Helen German, Will
mington; and Mrs. J. w. Powell,
Wallace.
Looking after the interests of
the farmers by checking up on
sales and the like for govern
ment agencies are Mrs. Ros-
coe Brinkley and Mrs. Sterling
Mariner. Mrs. Edward Sloan
Wells helps keep the Stabiliza-
ton Corporation details ironed
out smoothly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
WFW W1PFH0TLSES PACE WALLACES HUGE BUILDING BOUM
Million Dollar
Expansion Nears
$75O,O0O Already Expend-
ed In Easiest Growing
Town In State"

Oct. 1.-THE
Town of Wallace itself is
matching strides with the
Wallace Tobacco Market in
rapid though sound expansion
and progress.
Southeastern North Carolina
farmers, selling their millions
of pounds of tobacco here this
season, might well be excused
for rubbing their eyes at the
huge volume of building that has
gone on in this busting town
during the past year.
Conservative Figure
Since the 1916 tobacco season
there have been spent at least
three quarters of a million dol
lars for new commercial con-
struction in this place. These
figures are probably on the con-
sentative side.
BETTING it's place in the Wal
lace commerce, the tobacco mar
ket leads in the construction.
Two completely new warehouses
have been constructed to replace
two that were burned to the
ground here in the midst of the
1916 season. These are Hussey's
No. 1 and Blanchard and Far
rior's. A third warehouse, the
New Duplin, has about doubled
its floor space with new con-
struction during the past year.
Moderz Warehouses
Cost figures on these new
buildings are upward of a quar-
ter of a million, probably more.
Hussey's and Blanchard and Far
rior's, the former of sheet alumni
mum construction and the latter
of concrete block, are two of the
most modern and largest houses
to be found anywhere.
To go on down the list, prob
ably inadvertently missing some,
there are the Johnson Cotton
company's big new place; the
Blanchard Pontiac company; a
block Of buildings put up by
John Sheffield and housing the
Gowan Drug company; the Wal
lace Hardware and Implement
company's new plant built by
Mr.. and Mrs. John Farrior; the
Leading Motors, Inc, a building
put up by DR.. C. M. Miller; the
Jessup Motor company's place;
the building, constructed by D.
L. Wells, and Joseph H. Bryant,
which houses the new Danca
Theatre, the Bell Electric COM
pany and the Wallace Dry Clean
ing plant.
New Tourist Lodge
Keep right on the list: The
Wallace Wholesale company,
Stout's Frozen Food Locker COM
pany, the C. and B. Supermar-
ket, and the Wallace Pickle COM
pany.
Carl Lanier is rapidly COM
pleting one of the most modern
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

tourist lodges in the State at a
cost of something like $75, 900.
DR.. c. M. Miller has started
work on a new two-story build
ing at the corner of North Rail
road and Main Streets. This
structure will be As by 80 feet
of face brick with a modernistic
glass and stucco front. When
completed, Roger Alderman will
move the Rogers S and 10 cent
store into the building. Acker-
man will then operate as one of
the chain of $500 Ben Franklin
stores.
Another One Started
Another building has Just been
started on the site of one of the
tobacco warehouses that was
burned last year. This is BEING
built by David W. Rouse and
Frank Blanchard. It will be a
o~ne-story building 20 by 100 feet.
Flave Stroud, Wallace, is con-
tractor.
Not to be outdone by all this
building, Harry Lee Oswald
publisher of the up and coming
Wallace Enterprise, a progressive
newspaper worthy of 50 progress
sive a town, has just moved his
business into a modern plant.
There are probably others in
process OF construction or in the
blue print stage.
By the time 1949 comes around
wallace may be able to look
pack over 1947 as the n year
IN which it expanded by ST.
ooo'ooo worth Of commercial
construction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

didn't have anything to write
about that day so he decided it
would be nice to have a bridge
over the water. So he sat down
and wrote about it. In less than
three years the State Highway
Department built the bridge.
("There's a little of the opium
smoker in all of u.s." Skies. ex-
plains when asked about the
bridge.)
Skies is as full of varied acti-
vities as a Christmas turkey is
full of gobble. He's written three
books. Q'm sorry to report that
none has been published yet.
Thu last two he wrote in a year
he took off from a tour of duty
as Managing Editor of the Star.
They're now in the hands Of
a literary agent. The first he
uncharacteristically has nc hopes
for because he says sit was writ
ten way back when I thought
the world was round instead of
sharp-cornered and saw-tooth
edged"
Always Speaking
He has been an after-dinner
speaker. (He says he didn't like
that because his talks not only
took the appetites of his audi
ence but, he says, 81 couldn't
eat after one of them myself".)
He has written, produced and
directed plays and shows, the
last Of which was the revue,
20, Fireman, Save My Daugh-
teri" which drew popular APP
proval when it was staged at
Wrightsville Beach last Spring.
Down On The Farm
The guy has even farmed. He
regrets that this wasn't tobacco
farming. 1t was cattle and cot
ton farming in Arkansas. CT hao
to quit" he explains, "because
the cattle gave stew beef in
stead of sirloins and the boil
weevils not only ate up my cot
ton but my shirt as we'll" La
ter he spent a short period
chicken farming, but, he says,
he was SO petered out at the
end of a day of honest work
Il couldn't stay out of bed long
enough to put the chickens to
roost",)
He's been in the fish business,
having organized the N. C. Fish
cries, Inc, at Morehead City.
He's had a hand-or mouth,
I should say-in radio and now
has three shows in work that
have cooked up beyond the
idea stage.
Skies insists his idea of Heav-
en- on Earth would be to settle
permanently in Wallace. He
likes Wallace because, quoths
he, there ought to be a gooc
opening for a young man in g
town where men have enough
faith in the future to build ware
houses big enough to hold three
and a half million pounds of to-
bacco at one time when, under
present rules, they're not allow
ed to sell but 500, 900 pounds on
any one day-and where folks
build so many buildings so fast
you can't keep up with them
from one edition to the NEXT,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
HUSSEY'S
Continued From Page One

varied interests throughout Dup
lin. He is listed as a farmer and
is a leading tobacco grower.
Bennett has been in the tobac-
co business for Sc years, since
he was IA years old. He has
been sales manager in Kinston,
Farmville and Wilson and he
has been associated with Bill
Hussey for the past nine years
as operator of warehouses in
Wallace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
HOT FOOT

Laboratory tests show that
black shoes are much warmer,
especially when worn in sunlight.
When the thermometer reads lis
degrees inside a pair of black
shoes, it only hits SO degrees when
placed inside white shoes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

Spittle bugs are newly discov-
cred carriers of Pierce's dis
sease in grapes, says DR.. Henry
SEVERN. University of California
College of Agriculture virus
specialist,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
BARON ROTHSCHILD DIES

PARIS, Oct. 12-R-Baron
Henri De Rothschild, IS, finan-
cier, doctor and playwright, died
in Berne, Switzerland, today, the
French News agency reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

Aggregate special taxes on
motor vehicles in the United
States reached a new high of
So, 5O7, 900, 900 in 1916.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

Lemon trees in Southern Cali
fornia develop three growth rings
each wear.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-29
81 ABOARD; SCORES OF
PLANES SEARCHING
TODAY FOR MISSING
AIRCRAFT
By The Associated presn

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-An Amer
lean Army plane. with 81 per
sons aboard, is presumed to have
crashed while on its way from
Italy to Frankfurt, Germany.
The plane was due TO arrive
at Frankfurt at $40 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, German time.
At first it was thought the
plane had disappeared without
any word having been heard
from it. but this morning a radio
station man in Munich reported
that shortly after o'clock yes
terday afternoon he heard a
faint message of q plane that
was in distress. He tried to get
d clearer report, but nothing
further was heard.
Today scores of planes are
travelling along the route the lost
plane should have taken on lis
way to Germany, but no trace Of
the aircraft had been found UP
to late this afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-29
HAL HODES, SNlITIEN
BY KEY WEST, BUYS
PROPERTY in CITY

my daughter and her two chill
dren are coming here shortly
to spend the next five months in
Key West. Everywhere I've been
I've sold your city to my rela-
tives and friends.
1--WE already made a rather
big investment in Key West
business and residential prop
erty. plan on developing those
properties in the next year.
"As secretary-treasurer of the
Picture Pioneers, whose MEM
bers include 600 persons identi-
fled with the motion picture in
dustry for Is or more years, l
expect to interest the members
of the organization in Key West.
l don't think it will be hard to
do.
II didn't tell anyone at Col
umbia where l was going. l just
up and left. I've been staying at
my sons home at 2l8 Simonton
street, and as soon as your
story hits the street I'll be the
center of kilograms, telephone
calls and conversations. But I'll
be on my way back to New
York Sunday. TIL a n k
heavens.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-29
Veterans Decide
To Build Home
On Elizabeth St

As result of the special
meeting called by Commander
Jack Clark of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars for last night,
plans for the future location of
the club rooms were agreed on
by a unanimous vote of the
members present.
Building operations of a con-
crete building on Elizabeth
street, near Caroline street, will
begin at once, Commander Clark
said. He added that he hoped
everything can be completed be-
fore Christmas for a house
warming party.
AS a grand finale to the loca-
ton at Second and Flagler,
where the club has been for the
last two years, a farewell dance
has been planned for tonight.
Harry Chipchase and his boys
will provide the music, featur-
ing that young vocalist, Miss
Grace Baker. Y =.
Plans have BEEN made to
award stock during the dance
intermissions tonight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-11-29
FRENCH PREMIER
STRIKES OPENLY
~ ~
AT COMMUNISTS
'Schu,lian Tells Assembly
# Given Power He Will
Have Nd;Pii:y In Dealing
. With Them
fhsi The Associated Press)

tnSi The Associated Press)
PARIS, Nov. 20. - Premier
Robert Schuman hit directly at
the Communists today. while
asking the national assembly to
give him power to invoke dras-
tic measures against Frances
100000 strikers.
theoretically, he also slapped
the Russians. He declared that,
if given the power. he would
have no pity on the Communists
who had been sent to France to
stir up unrest.
In commenting on that passage
of Schuman's speech, broad
caster recalled that three days
ago he ordered 20 Russians ex-
PEELED from France, and that the
remark was directed at Russia.
Schuman also asked for more
severe penalties for persons con
victed of having committed
sabotage, and for any persons
apprehended in attempts to cause
riot