The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-12

The Commission let contracts
for road work totaling about $685.
100000 compared with $24,00O,-
900 for 1949. All surplus funds ac-
cumulated because of increased
traffic on North Cardinals high
ways went to special primary
road projects selected by the Com
missions engineering staff.
Among these special projects were
several four-lane highways in the
states most congested areas GEN.
tering around Charlotte and
Greensboro. Other special funds
went to badly needed bridge pro-
jects on mainline highways.
A Cumberland County school
principal has submitted the win
ming title for the 1861 Cooperat-
i've Essay Contest, M. G. Mann
of Raleigh announced today.
v. C. Mason, principal of the
Massey Hill High School at Fay
etteville, suggested "The Farm
er's Part in the National Emer-
gency." After sitting through
more than 200 entries from agri-
cultural and educational workers
over the state, judges picked the
Cumberland mans title. u
The essay contest itself will be-
gin January Is and extend
through April Is. Mann, who is
general manager of the Farmers
Cooperative Exchange and the N.
C. Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association, sponsors of the an
nual contest, said the competition
will be open to all rural boys and
girls of high school age. Grand
prize will be a one-year college
scholarship and 500 in cash. 9th
er prizes will be in cash, with
state runners-up and county and
district winners receiving in ex-
cess of $1,000.
National crop production in
1850 was the third largest Of rec
ord. This output exceeded the av-
erage of the previous eight years,
The most productive period in
American agricultural history.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported last weekend a rise Of
IL per cent in retail food prices
between Nov. % and Dec. Is. The
price index was estimated at 1858
per cent of the 1859 average.
That was within OF per cent of
the all-time record of 216.8. The
new index was 80 per cent above
the previous month and 81 per
cent higher than June Is, before
the Korean War started. 1t was
up go per cent from a year ago.
North Cardinals new senator,
Willis Smith, has been named to
the District of Columbia and the
Judiciary Committees in the new
ly organized 82nd Congress. Sem
ator Clyde Hoey continues on the
committees in which he served
during the previous session: Ag-
riculture and Forestry, Expendi-
lures in Executive Departments,
Finance.
1t is just possible that the Unit
ed States may test it's first H
bomb this spring or summer.
Whether the so-called super bomb
will work is anybody's guess. An
official close to atomic develop
ments told the United Press rec
emily prospects aren't good. But
as Chairman Gordon E. Dean of
the Atomic Energy Commission
said a while back, eve don't
know I" And even if the H
bomb "goes," it may never be
manufactured in quantity. Item
No. l on the H-bomb agenda is
to find out whether the weapon
can be made. The Acc has been
making it's key ingredient trip
le-weight hydrogen called tritium
for some time now. It is believed
to have enough for test purposes.
A new series of A-bomb tests at
the Eniwetok atoll, atomic proving
ground in the Pacific, has been
scheduled for this spring or sum-
mer, according to Congressional
sources.
From $50 million to a quarter
billion in 10 years-that's the
record of the hog industry in the
Southeast. In the excitement ov-
er the Southeast's conversion to
cattle, the importance of porkers
to the regions farmers is often
overlooked. Yet our farmers have
sold total of more than one bill
| EnV, LO1Iorc rrvov.kL e