FLOWERS IN BLOOM. ? The flowers in Southeastern North Carolina have itarted to bloom. The
famed azaleai are expected to reach a peak Easter week end. Shown here ia a garden at Orton Planta
tion near Wilmington. The flowera will continue in full bloom well into April. Gail Thomas of Wrights
wile Beach models a Colonial dreaa by Beulah Meier.
Azaleas Expected To Bloom
Freely For Easter Weekend
A magnificent display of Ala
leal throughout coastal Southeast
ern North Carolina la expected
Easter weekend.
"Already the flowers are begin
ning to bloom and by next week
end they should reach a peak,"
?aid Alex Bogie, manager of Orton
Plantation.
Bogie, a veteran of more than
29 yean of flower growing, antici
pates one of the best displays of
Azaleas ever. "The conditions are
just right for an excellent show
of azaleas," he said.
At Greenfield Lake in Wilming
ton, aialea buds are already be
gining to burst open along the
five milei of lake shore drive.
*At Orton, site of one of the most
colorful flowers displays in the
nation, the blooming of the aza
leas will climax an exciting show
of spring flowers.
t "Once the azaleas reach full
bloom, we will have a peak display
for three weeks ' or more," Bogie
laid.
He pointed out that in the oast,
some of the azaleas have bloomed
before others. "But this year it
looks as if the azaleas are all go
ing to pop out about the same
time," he said. "For this reason
I expect one of the finest displays
in 25 years."
During the past week the pansi
es and daffodils have been a riot
of color. The white flowering
peach is in full bloom, and the
pink peach is beginning to blos
?cm.
The sweet smell of yellow jas
mine has turned Orton Plantation
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into a virtual garden of perfume.
"The jaimine ia alwaya popular
with viaitora because of 1U per
fume-like smell," Bogie said.
Throughout Southeastern North
Carolina there ia atill a colorful
display of camelliaa. They began
blooming about two weeks ago.
"This time last winter we atill
bad anow on the ground," Bogie
recalled. "But thia winter has been
nothing like the one we had laat
year. This has been a very good
winter for the flowers because the
coldeat weather came at a time
when everything was doAnant."
He explained that there had
been just enough cool weather thia
spring to prevent premature
blooming of some of the flowers.
"I .can't recall a time when con
ditions were more favorable for
an excellent display of azaleas than
this coming weekend," he con
cluded.
UI8?HAUEK ENVOY TO JAPAN
Edwin C. Relschauer, a Harvard
professor who in the paat has cri
ticized United States policy in
Asia, ia President Kennedy's
choice for Ambassador to Japrtk.
? Reischauer, SO, born and reared
in Tokyo, speaks Japanese and has
a Japanese wife. Kennedy nomin
ated him to succeed Douglas Mac
Arthur 2nd In the Tokyo* post.
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"The more timet you handle
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ton ? the more breakage you'll
get."
That'i the opinion of Tom Mor
ria, poultry tpecialiat for the N.
C. State College Agricultural Ex
tension Service. .
"We're in the horse-and-buggy
daya in egg-handling," aays Mor
ria. "The truly progressive poul
tryman has long since abandoned
the bucket for collecting eggs.
They don't even use rubber bas
kets ? the big thing now is 'filler
flats'."
Morris cites the case of Maurice
Pickler, Stanly county egg produc
er and one of the agricultural
leaders in North Carolina.
"Pickler cut out 90 per cent of
his normal egg breakage by switch
ing from round baakets to square
bosket with filler flats," he says.
"He figures he saved $10 a day
by the switch."
And a New York state producer
cut his breakage by 89 per cent,
Morris says.
"Many poultrymen get a break
age of ten to 12 per cent," he
points out. "It's easy to see what
a savings can be made with a bet
ter method of handling eggs."
U. S. ahead in aid to under
developed countries.
Pciping says U. S. hostility pre
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Washington, D. C. ? The old
(tory, concerning the three mili
tary service*, is the new story in
Washington The services are row
ing over their prospective roles
in the military development of
outer sptcc.
later -service feuds have been a
tradition in the United States for
too many decades. One recalls the
groat battle between the Navy
and Air Force, a decade ago, over
the value of aircraft carriers.
Now it seems that both the
Army and Neavy fear the rising
and growing responsibilities of the
Air Force, In outer space work.
The two older services may have
reason to be disturbed. A recent
Defense Department decision. By
passing the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
turned over most of the outer
space field to the Air Force.
Defense Secretary Bob McNa
mara and Deputy Roswell Gilpat
rick are trying to eliminate some
of the confusion and jealousy
among the services, and have ap
parently decided the Air Force
must be the primary service
charged with the military develop
ment of outer space.
This has caused strong reper
cussions, which are so familiar in
the Pentagon, and the issue may
reach the President, for a final de
cision, before the battle is over.
President John F. Kennedy is
nearing a showdown with Con
gress. The month of April will
bring the first of several grim
battles ? showdown battles be
tween conservative coalitions in
each house and Democratic liber
als and part-time liberals.
Already Senator Harry Byrd, of
Virginia, has declared war on the
White House, in a sense, and the
conservative coalition in the House
feels it has the voting strength to
have its on way. The months of
April and May, then, might be
critical ones for the President's
legislative program.
There are severs 1 indications
that in East Europe the commu
nists sre facing serious problems.
In East Germany the communist
government has just announced
that the entire aircraft industry of
East Germany will be scrapped.
Working and capacity will be de
voted to improving the economy
and producing consumer goods, It
was said.
And ? officials sdmitted ? East
Germany has not overtaken West
Germany In consumer goods pro
duction, which communist propa
ganda has so long claimed would
be accomplished by 1961.
In Poland a showdown fight with
the Roman Catholic Church is un
derway. Following the state's de
cision to end religious instruction
in the school, last year, relations
have steadily deteriorated. The
top Catholic Cardinal in Poland re
eentiy called communist leader*
"caeaars" and bluntly warned ike
government that it was in error.
Sueti bitter actions resulted in
three years in prison for Cardinal
Stefan Wysxynski several years
ago. Ueanwliile the Polish Govern
ment charges that the church in
Poland is not serving Poland but
the Vatican, and terms the Vati
can hostile to the Polish Govern
ment.
Deep Gap Poet
Exceeds Goal
Deep Gap Post 392 of The
American Legion has exceeded its
membership Incentive Goal for
1901 according to information re
ceived here from State Headquar
ters of The American Legion in
Raleigh.
James C. Watson, Commander of
the Post, has received a letter from
the Legion State Adjutant, Nash
McKee, expressing congratulations
and thanks to the membership
chairman, all Post Officers, and
membership workers for their ef
forts.
"We do not intend to stop our
membership drive now that we
have reached our incentive goal,"
Post Commander Watson said.
"There are many more eligible
veterans who have not yet joined
our Post and we invite them all
to become members."
Blue Mold
Is Expected
Tar Heel tobacco growers can
ex pact blue mold again this year,
as >ure aa the south wind blova.
Already, thla dread tobacco dis
ease baa ibown up in Georgia. "If
tobacco groweri don't treat their
plant bedi aa soon aa powible,
blue mold may build up to epidem
ic proportion! overnight," warns
Furney Todd, Extension plant
pathologist at N. C. State College.
The reason thu fungus-caused
diaeaie can spread like wild-fire
la that sporee or seed of the fun
gui are carried in the wind for
many miles, say* Todd. "It will
be back in* North Carolina ? tor
the 30th straight year," he pre
dicts.
Many groweri feel they can
hold off on treatment until blue
mold hits North Carolina. "This la
pure gambling," warns Todd. "You
can't tell when or where it's going
to hit, and by the time you know
it may be too late."
The answer is to treat the plant
beds. Todd recommends:
Apply one of the fungicides con
taining ferbam, zineb or maneb
when the plants are about dime
size. Put on one treatment for the
first week or two. Then go to two
treatments a week. Continue until
transplanting is complete.
Todd also says that tobacco
growers can expect two other di
seases that attack plants in the
beds. They, too, can be controlled
by fungicide treatment. *
"Anthracnose can cause stunt
ing of plants and a delay in trans
Boone PTA
Likes Panel
Discussion
The Boom Parent Teachep A?
locution meeting Monday evening
at the Appalachian High School
wai enlightening and interesting
for the pares U and teacheri who
attended.
A panel was made up of four
National Honor Society students,
three mem Deri of the school ad
ministrative staff, and Robert
Snead, biology teacher, who served
as moderator.
The administrative staff were
Dr. Roy K. Blanton, principal, L.
M. Venable, assistant principal, and
planting," he says. "And last year
losses were high from damping
off."
A* for blue bold, the plant beds
shoulds be treated with fungicides
containing zineb, ferbam or maneb.
Maneb should only be used as a
dust.
Todd warns against using organ
ic forms of nitrogen as top dress
ings' on the (riant beds ? such
things as dried blood, feather
meal, cottonseed meal, tankage,
sludge.
"Several trade name products
containing either streptomycin sul
fate or nitrate are on the market,"
he points out. "These antibiotics
will control blue mold; but gen
erally they're more expensive than
4he fungicides, and they don't
control anthracnose or damping
off."
Mrs. Margaret E. Grass, director
ot guidance. The atndenu were
seniors Barbara Matheson, Mary
Jane Shelton, Sue Green, and
Tommy In man
The sutdent* asked questions of
the admiinstraUve itaif, but Mr.
Snead invited question* and corn
menu from the audience at any
time during the discustion. These
became to animated that the al
lotted time elapsed beiort all the
prepared question* had been cov
ered.
Questions and discussions cover
ed athletics, homework, vocational
guidance, college entrance exami
nations, and the accelerated pro
gram used in the school.
Eric DeGroal, president of the
PTA, said such a program might
be of interest again, and that a
similar program might be well-re
ceived by parents of elementary
school students also.
As in other PTA programs this
year, a great deal of work, plan
ning, and advanced preparation
had gone into Monday night's pro
gram.
PEACE CORPS NO JOT RIDE
The head of the Peace Corps
said that any prospective member
who expected a "joy ride" ought
to get off the train right now."
R. Sargent Shriver, the corps'
head, said that applicants must
accept "very difficult, very hard,
very real work."
Mr. Shriver said that 4,500 let
ters had arrived at his office the
day after Mr. Kennedy announced
he was creating a pilot Peace
Corps. He said that application
forms would be ready soon.
Protestants praise Kennedy's
school stand.
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