Many Farm Ponds Wanted, Smith Finds
by John S. Smith
One of the most sought
?Iter conservation practice*
00 ike farm* at Cherokee
County, as in practically all
other counaee, is e f ann pood.
Technicians ai the Soil Con
servation Service are ftfla
frequently called n?n to
assist a land-owner in the
location of a suitable sin for
the caas traction of a small
farm pond.
In all too many Instances,
the site where the land owner
wants to btald his pood is found
not suitable for the economical
construction of a good pond.
Due to the iteep slopes which
prevail over moat of the
mountain area. It would be
necessary m "build ? very
expensive dam la order B
back up a vary a null surface
arraai o I water.
About *e taggest disappoint
ment which technicians run
lata In working with fanners
la that of a man who has plan
ned id bidld a pood la a par
ticular location only n find
that the aite la act suitable.
Not all sices prove unsatis
factory hare In the mountains.
Thla fact la well tea tilled by
the pictures a bowing one of
the moat beautiful poode in
North Carolina. Thla one la
on the farm of Carl S udder th
of peachtree and waa conetru
cted in 1958. one picture ahowa
the dam la the process of coo
? (ruction aad the other shows
the completed pond filled with
water. Suck ? pood add*
grwady 0 the valua of a
farm 10 ease lha owner
should decide IB Mil his
property . Lt Is possible
to fat lower Insurance rates
on farm property when a
source of water, such ss Is
provided by a pood. Is avail
able on the farm.
The technicians of the Soli
Conservation Service can
render valuable assistance to
farmers In helping them select
s suitable site for their farm
pond, where Che pond is to be
used for private purposes. It
is necessary ?> run engineer
ing surveys on the sits to da
(ermine whether or aoi It Is
i suitable sir siid this re
quires Instruments not a
villihle es ? general rule an
the ferai. The surveys can
be nn before a shovel -ful
at dirt Is moved so the
fanner will be out of no cash
If the site proves unsatis
factory.
Any farmer who Is planning
to build a farm pona on his
farm for private and agri
cultural use Is Invited to call
on the Soil Conservation Ser
vice for assistance before any
dam is started. It may be
possible to save much time,
effort, and even cash, by know
ing before-hand whether yours
Is s suitable site.
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From Th? Desk Of
STATE SENATOR
111, ffliu foflffliH 33m Disirici
The Legislature still faces
a heavy load. When the
General Assembly classes
began February 15, the three
"Rs" loomed large on its
curriculim -- "rithmetic, re
apportionment, and reform of
the court system.
Now with the target date
for adjournment being June
20, the Legislature has pretty
well Indicated Its position on
those issues. The court Im
provement compromise, a
constitutional amendment, has
passed the Assembly and will
be submitted to the voters for
approval.
The Legislature has voted
to apportion the membership
of the House, which gives
addidonal seats to the counties
with growing population. This
is the first time in twenty
years that this action has been
taken. No substantial redis
trlcdng of the seriatorlal dis
tricts was forth-coming in
this legislature, the smaller
counties being firmly in
control ?
The knotty problem of cut
ting the congresslonaldlstricB
from twelve to eleven remains
unsloved; and 1 predict if the
Legislature does not adjourn
on its target date, redlstrict
ing of the congressional
districts will be the reason.
As of now, three bills are
In the senate committee; and
this committee, of which your
Senator Is a member, will
have to bring out a com
promise measure.
In the 'rithmetic department
the big break-through came
last week with the Finance
Committee's voting for a
subcommittee. On Thursday
this subcommittee was named;
Senator Boyce Whitmire of
Henderson, was named.
These developments were
significant victories for the
sanford administration
although certainly not the
first. The Legislature, for
example, has Increased sub
stantially the appoindve
powers of the Governor by
raising the membership of
the State Highway Commis
sion to nineteen and the Board
of Conservation and Develop
ment to twenty-eight.
As the General Assembly
showed the first signs of
breaking into the homestretch,
a whole wad of local legis
lation has been disposed of.
On the 74th legislative day,
May 4, 1961, a meeting was
held In Raleigh of the U. S.
Highway 64 DevelopmentCor
poration headed by Mr. Potts
of Franklin. This group, com
posed of folks from all over
western North Carolina and
Including legislative repre
sentatives and senators met In
the highway auditorium at
three-thirty as a preliminary
meeting to calling on and
hearing Governor Sanford
later on that afternoon.
Governor Sanford was very
sympathetic and expressed his
desire that this road could be
started as quickly as possible.
However, he expressed the
opinion that work could not
possibly begin for two or two
and a half years because of
money problems.
House Bill 494, introduced
by Mr. Leatherwood of Swain
County to amend G. S. 51-3
reladng to capacity for mar
riage. was unanimously
passed by the Senate. This
bill, dealing with the marriage
of white and Indians and
making such marriages legal,
was a very good bill and
should have been passed some
fifty or sixty years ago. This
inter-marriage is a thing that
has been practiced, and it
certainly should have been
legalized.
V^itors in Raleigh last
week Included Mr. Percy
Ferebee of Andrews, stopping
by for a reunion of the 1957
members of the General
Assembly. Mr. Ferebee had
been In Washington attending
a White House conference on
regional planning
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