PAGE 2 - WEST CRAVEN HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 9, 1989
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by; OaU L. Itoberson i
Professor Plant
By CONNIE KROCHMAL
Md HAROLD KROCHMAL
The selection of the rose in
1986 as the national flower con
firms what most gardeners feel
about these handsome and
aromatic flowers.
The diversity of forms and
shapes they come in makes it
possible to grow them in a varie
ty of conditions and the minia
ture pot roses extend their uses
around the house.
Interestingly enough, roses are
not only worn as corsages, used
in sachets and potpourris, but
wind up as rose hip tea, rose hip
jam and are an excellent source
of Vitamin C.
At special events, rose petals
are strewn on the ground.
Bare rooted roses are available
and if you plan on setting some
out, be sure to select a proper
locale with at least five or six
hours of sunlight a day, prefer
ably in the morning if possible.
The often sandy soils in the
coastal area mean that a gener
ous amount of peat moss or dried
animal manure, and, if possible,
some planting soil should be
mixed in each planting hole.
Holes about 1 Vi feet deep and
about as wide generally serve
well.
To give the plant a good start,
we suggest placing the bare—
rooted ones into a bucket of wa
ter for several hours before
planting.
The protruding part of the
stem should be placed just above
the soil surface in the planting
hole.
We like to put a small solid fer
tilizer block into each hole,
which will provide needed ferti
lizers for a couple of years, and
then add water.
A mulch around the base will
serve as added protection from
the recurring droughts of the
past years.
Roses can pick up various fun
gus diseases but there is no lack
of control material available
locally.
We avoid using insecticides be
cause we keep bees and have
never had a serious insect prob
lem at all.
We have extracted attar of
roses with some work and pati
ence.
A bunch of rose petals are put
into a bucket of water and kept in
the sun during the day for,
perhaps, two weeks. We cover
the container at night to keep
animals out.
Then, using large balls of cot
ton batting, the surface is skim
med and the batting squeezed
into another container. Gentle
heating of the pot every few days
will help release the delightful
aroma.
QurQpinion
Toll Roads Might Offer
The Simplest Solution
Package Deal Would Kill
In A Wholesale Shootout
I had no sooner left the room when his trembling, weak
voice called out for me once again.
"Honey, bring me another glass of orange juice,” he
squeaked in a barely audible tone, “and some more aspirin."
Then, he snuggled down in his easy chair as I made my twelfth
trip to the kitchen that hour.
When you man has a cold, you have a problem. And your
problem is likely to be in proportion to the size of your man.
The larger the man, the bigger baby he is when he gets sick.
While he is lying in state on the sofa or sprawled in his
recliner, which is ftilly extended to the other side of the room,
you may as well pin on your nurses cap and lace up your white
sneakers. And, you can also forego any other plans, as well,
until the ftill seven days has run its course.
Preparing for doing battle withamanandhis cold requires a
somewhat different and difficult strategy. To begin with, stop
all intelligent conversation. You can spout medical words of
wisdom all you want to, but the only thing he will understand
or even notice is: "Does my little honey bunny need anything
else for his little coldy-woldy?"
The more sympathy you give him, the faster he’ll recover.
Upon hearing those words, he’ll immediately swell out his
chest cavity and breath more deeply. And, if you look back
upon leaving the room, you’ll find that he’s developed a tiny
little smile that lies half buried under grandma’s quilt.
When he reaches the moaning and whining state, absolutely
nothing will cure a sick man quicker than the knowledge that
you have dropped everything that is important in your life to
tend to him.
And he’ll want chicken soup. Not the kind in the can, but the
stuff you have to boil for hours and hack and saw, and then run
all over town collecting accessories for. Cuddling his ego and
mothering him, however, will work ten to one against a shoe
box full of Contact and a quart jar brimming over with Nyquil.
“What’s wrong honey?” I questioned, as he moaned and
called fo me once more. “Did your little ducky fall out of the
chair again?”
While he remains in the fetal position in whatever thing he’s
lying on, you must continue making those clucking sounds a
mother hen makes when a dozen fluffy biddies are settling
down beneath the warm protection of her body. Never stop
with the clucking sounds. If you do, he will immediately be
come chilled and request a second quilt, an extra pair of socks,
another log on the fire, and a brand new pot of chicken soup.
From scratch again. And, these requests will be perfectly
correlated with your telephone calls, bath, and steaming cup
of coffee.
Remember that you married the man in sickness and health.
Exert patience and commom sense at least until the fifth day.
Above all else, nod in silence when he tells you again and again
how he was honorably afflicted with his cold. Do not... I say.
do NOT, remind him that he retrieved the Sunday morijing
paper barefooted and in his under draweips amid twenty .'jje-
gree temperatures ' ‘
In exactly three days from the point of his final cure, it will
be you in the recliner and him hurrying in with the orange
juice and aspirin. Absolutely nothing will cure you quicker
than to know that he has dropped everything important in his
life to tend to you. And, when he says, “Does my little honey
bunny need anything else for her little coldy-woldy?” ... you
will begin to feel much better. Immediately.
Play From Page 1
Mr. Oswald, a humorous near
sighted chap, played by Doug
Strange, to pose as a woman.
’Things really get lively, howev
er, when both Bill Thompson
and Mr. Oswald arrive as “Mrs.
Took.” Madge also changes her
mind and breezes in announcing
that she, too, is Jimmy’s wife.
Jimmy rushes about trying to
keep Uncle Dan fl'om meeting
his three extra brides. How he
manages it creates one of the fim-
niest third acts ever written,
according to the Drama Club.
Peggy Westfield, played by
Nicole Rasmussen, comes into
the performance as Uncle Dan’s
ward. Mrs. Duvalle Smythe,
played by Jennifer ’Thomas, and
her sister “Bubbles” Duvalle,
played by Misty Hartley, give
chase to Uncle Dan. Christy
Daniels appears as “Lady Mac
beth” and ’Tina Jones as “Lady
Macbeth’s” nurse, McDaniel.
Acting as understudies are Amy
Rowe and Mary Grace Opphile.
Assisting the director, Mrs.
Melba D. Hargett, are Tammy
Smith, assistant director; Larry
Edwards, stage manager and
Tracy George, house manager. ^
’The play will be presented in
the West Craven cafeteria April
14 and April 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets
are $3 and can be purchased in
advance from Mrs. Hargett or at
the door the night of the perform
ance.
In the eyes of many people the simplest solution might not
be the best solution. But the best solution is extremely hard to
come by and even more so if it is based on chance and without
adequate study.
’Traditionally in North Carolina toll roads have been a sub
ject to whisper about and opposition is quick to develop. We
do not like toll roads, and we make no bones about that fact.
Now if our state is contemplating a gigantic highway prog
ram over the next several years, and it appears we are headed
in that direction, we read about the proposal to sell bonds for
the ftilfillment of the plans for better highways.
Now we read that we have about 10,000 miles of secondary
roads which need paving. We have many bridges to be built.
We have a lot of four-laning to do. It will take a lot of money to
get the total job done.
If bonds are sold and if our people vote in statewide referen
dum to do just that, we shall pay many millions of dollars in
interest over the years. And payment comes from the pocket-
books of our citizenry.
So one way or another, we always come back to the tax
payer. He or she will have full responsibility for whatever
bonds are sold, for whatever interest is paid, and for whatever
in principal must be met each year.
What we are leading up to is one very simple question. Has
the state given adequate thought to the course to follow?
We realize ftilly the feeling and even the potential bitterness
toll roads might bring in North Carolina. But will toll roads be
a much cheaper outlet than bonds? That is a momentous ques
tion, but it deserves a good answer.
Now we have such pressing road needs in our part of the
state that a lot of people have just about given up. And the
needs become ever more pressing. If the only way we can get
the roads we need here in far Eastern North Carolina is
through a system of toll roads, then let us give full and com
plete study to such a course.
Very strongly, we would be opposed to having toll roads
only in far Eastern North Carolina. If such a study should be
made, let it be made in terms of a statewide look and not an
area proposition. If toll roads ever come to North Carolina,
they ought to be in the form of a system stretching thinly over
all of North Carolina.
The Piedmont area may have the roads it needs, and it would
fight fiercely against a statewide system of toii roads. That is a
sort of tragedy within itself.
Let no one be misled in any manner by what we say here. We
are not proposing outright any system of toll roads. We are
asking that a study be made of the practicality of such a system
of toll roads. We are asking the state to make a study of the
comparison between selling millions of dollars in bonds and
paying millions of dollars in interest with the interest-free and
pay-as-you-ride toll road plan.
We might actually find the system of toll roads to be practic
al and much cheaper than any other possible answer.
We are amazed that there is even talk of presenting a pack
age of proposed constitutional amendments to the people in a
"death on arrival” pattern.
Vet, we read that some legislators want to hand a wholesale
referendum to the people for a "yes” or “no” vote on the entire
list with the individual voter approving or disapproving of the
entire package with one X in the square.
For instance, there may be a referendum of gubernatorial
veto. ’There may be another referendum on allowing the gov
ernor to serve only one term of four years and then having to
bow out. ’There may be another referendum on the question of
a state lottery. Then there may possibly be another referen
dum on bonds for school building purposes or highway pur
poses. And then there may be other matters to be put before
the people for their approval or disapproval.
To lump them all together in one referendum or one vote is
like putting an anchor around a fellow and telling him to s\Jttsr
to safety. There will be voters against each proposition and
they ought to have the right to vote "for” or “against” on any
proposition put before them.
It will be well nigh impossible to sell a majority of our people
on a package deal because so many of our citizens feel so
strongly about some issues. Rather than see the issue w>th
which they are vitally concerned pass in any package deal,
they will just vote against the entire package.
For instance, if the lottery bill is placed before the people in
any referendum with several other issues such as veto for the
governor and single terms for the governor, all of them very
likely will go down the drain in defeat.
The sensible common sense approach is to let each constitu
tional matter or issue on which the voters are being asked to
express their opinions stand alone on the ballot. Let the voter
have the option of voting for or against each item and not that
of voting for or against an entire package.
We believe that putting out a package deal before our people
will represent a tragic waste of money. To offer a package deal
is to offer defeat at the starting gate for everything on the
ballot. In that sense if all we have before us is a package deal,
then there is no need to offer any referendum.
Now there is another consideration. Veto for the governor
and a single term for the governor represent constitutional
changes. Lottery is not a constitutional matter, but it is one
which the legislature probably will seek public approval of
before embarking on any plan. Actually, the legislature could
pass a lottery bill on its own without any expression from the
people.
There may be several matters to be put before the people
before this session of the General Assembly adjourns. ’The
people do not need any wholesale shootout in any package
deal.
Let us take them one at a time at the polls.
ASeSISrBtes
Band Members
Selected For Clinic
By CUFF MOORE
County Executive Director
'The following reminders are
submitted for Beaufort County
producers and others.
1. ’The 1989 Feed Grain Prog
ram sign-up for both the regular
program and 0/92 program will
end April 14.
2. Producers must complete all
required forms as well as be
approved under regulations be
fore receiving advance pay
ments.
3. Producers eligible to receive
20 cent advance payment for
wheat, 35.6 cents for corn, will all
be paid in cash. No commodity
certificates will be issued as pay
ment in 1989.
4. No crops will be allowed on
ACR (set-aside land) for harvest
in 1989.
5. Cross compliance will apply
except for oats, meaning that if
participating, all program crops
except oats must be planted
withing their established base.
Offsetting compliance will not
apply, meaning that each farm
will stand alone for compliance
purposes.
6. Grazing of ACR and CV
acreage will not be permitted
during the non-grazing period
which is May 1-Sept. 30.
7. Sign-up for the 1988 Disaster
Program wiil end Friday, Mar. 31.
Any individual who has above a
35 percent loss on any crop will
be eligible for a disaster pay
ment.
Any producer who has be
tween a one and 35 percent loss
may apply for advance deficien
cy payment forgiveness which
would protect the applicable per
centage of loss if reporting of the
advance 1988 corn payment is re
quired. This only applies to feed
grains enrolled in the 1988
program.
8. ’There has been no word as of
yet as to whether 1988 feed grain
program participants will be re
quired to refund advance 1988
feed grain t>ayments.
9. Disaster losses in excess of
65 percent will require crop in
surance for the farm and the
crop, if planted, in 1989 before
disaster payments can be made.
10. 1989 Tobacco Assessment
Rate is 2.24 cents per pound
which means that producers and
purchasers will each be assessed
1.12 cents per pound.
11. The 1989 price support level
for tobacco will be $1,468 per
pound.
12. Carry-over tobacco from
1988 or any preceeding year must
be sold on the farm on which the
tobacco was produced whether
the same operator tends the farm
in 1989 or not. In no case may
tobacco off one farm be allowed
to be sold on another farm’s
marketing card.
13. No-till signup continues
through Wednesday, Mar. 15 for
wheat, oats, tye and other small
grains. Each farm is eligible for a
total of three years only in a life
time for no-till participation.
14. Conservation Reserve
Program sign-up ends Friday,
Feb. 24.
15. Do not remove any grain
put under loan without prior au-
thorization from the ASCS
office.
16. Check grain to insure that it
does not go out of condition. This
is the producers responsibility
and could cost them money
when settlingthe loan.
17. For further information in
terested persons can contact the
ASCS office in the Agriculture
Building on Second Street in
Washington or by telephone at
946-1076.
Mary Neil Ipock and Amy
Rowe of West Craven High
School were selected to partici
pate in the 1989 Eastern All-State
Band Clinic held earlier this
month at East Carolina Uni
versity.
Miss Ipock and Miss Rowe
play the flute.
The clinic was hosted by the
ECU School of Music. Partici
pants were selected by audition
for the two-day event, which in
cluded intense rehearsals and a
performance.
Students were organized into
two bands, the concert band and
the symphonic band. Instructors
included Roger Pembertona^Hf
artist in residence at the Uni
versity of South Carolina, and
Mark Ford, coordinator of per
cussion at the ECU School of
Music.
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