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Agriculturally Speaking ? - ".V ' Farmers Asked To Guard Against' Witchweed In Buying Tob. Plants) By FRANK REAMS County Ext. Chairman COMING EVENTS June 19-30: 1967 Cotton Classing?and Fiber Testing Short Course, Morehead City. July 10-17: American Breeders Service Stud Tour. WITCHWEED It is hopeful Warren tobacco producers will have adequate plants and not be forced to go outside the county. Anytime you leave the county, you run a serious risk of bringing in all kinds of diseases, parasites and insects. Witchweed is one plant parasite we should run from like a "shot rabbit." Mr. Jack Vinson of the Pest Control Division of the USDA was in the office several days ago bringing us up-to-date on the spread of this dreaded parasite. He states Warren tobacco farmers should be careful where they obtain plants outside the county. This pest has been found in and south of the following coun ties: Anson, Richmond, Mont gomery, Moore, Lee, Harnett, Wake, Johnston, Wayne, Pitt and Craven counties. If you do go into these coun ties, be sure to first talk to the Plant Pest Control of ficials or the County Agri cultural Extension Agents. If you contact us, we will be glad to discuss this with you in some detail Description Here is a brief description of this parasite: Witchweed is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sor ghum, sugarcane, rice, wheat, oats, barley, and morethan60 species of the grass and sedge families, and some broad leafed plants. This wt ed is a serious pest in South Africa and occurs in may many other parts of the Eastern Hemis phere. It was first discovered In the Western Hemisphere In adjoining areas of North Carolina and South Carolina in 1956. Each year Intensive surveys have revealed some addition al infestations in counties ad jacent to those originally found infested. Eradication mea sures under the State-federal program are extended to all infestations as rapidly as found. Damage Crop damage depends on the degree of Infestation. When wltchweed was first discover ed in the Carollnas, corn yields in some Infested fields were complete failures. Wltchweed was observed parasitizing crabgrass In fields of tobacco, peanuts, beans, peas and sweet pota toes. Wltchweed roots attach to and penetrate the roots of host plants. This reduces the ef ficiency of host plants in ob taining food and water. Symptoms resemble those produced by acute drought. Plants become stunted, wilt, and turn yellowish. They die if they are heavily para sitized. Roots of host plants appear to have masses of hairlike rootlets. Appearance Wltchweed plants above ground are small and bright green. The leaves are slightly hairy and the upper and lower leaf surfaces look alike. The plants rarely grow more than 8 or 9 inches high. Some, however, may reach a height of 18 inches. The flowers are small and usually brick red or scarlet, although some may be yellow ish red, yellowish or almost white. How It Grows The seeds, which are near ly microscopic, may liedorm ant 15 to 20 years. They may be spread by wind, water or anything that moves seed infested soil. A witchweed plant can produce up to half a million seeds. To germinate, a seed normally must be stimulated by secretions from roots of host plants. When the witchweed seed ling starts to grow, its roots must contact, attach to and penetrate the roots of a host. Otherwise, it dies. After its roots penetrate roots of a host, the witch weed depends on the host for food and water until it emerges from the soil. The shoot emerges from the soil about 30 days after germ ination. After emergence, the plant turns green and manu factures its own food but con tinues to depend partially on the host for water and min erals. Flowering begins about 30 days after the seedling emerges. The first flowers appear near the base of the plant. Seed pods burst about 4 weeks after flowers appear. Seeds scatter over the soil for the next month or so. Kiowenng and seed production continued until cold weather. The life cycle of the para site?from germination to re lease of first seeds ?takes 90 to 120 days. Witchweed grows best in warm temperatures and on light soils containing con siderable moisture. It will, however, grow under a wide range of soil, temperature and moisture conditions. Control Control witchweed by re ducing the amount of witch weed seed in the soil. Stimu late germination of seed in the I soil and destroy witchweed plants after they emerge from | the soil but before they pro duce seed. Some Good News Population of overwintering boll weevils are down to about 50To of 1966. Even this per centage can give us real trou ble so be on the alert and treat on first sight of this damag ing parasite. Wedding Account Badly Mixed Up We don't know who was re sponsible for the errors, but along the line somewhere a grand mess was made of the reporting of a simple wedding announcement. In an effort to get it straightened out at this late date we have recourse only to Mrs. Pitchford'sletter in which errors were pointed out and corrections are made succinctly. ?The Editor. Several glaring errors ap peared in the announcement of the marriage of Miss Sylvia McDowell of Warrentonto Mr. Waite Pitchford, Jr., as an nounced in the April 7 issue of The Warren Record. Some where between the donor of the information, its transmis sion to this office by Mrs. E. H. Weston, its editing in this office, and its composition into type in the mechanical depart ment occurred an unbelievable misstatement of the actual facts of the marriage. In a most charitable letter, certainly marked by unbeliev able restrain, Mrs. Pitchford MRS. LOI ISE RICHARDSON RECEIVES AWARD FROM LARRY BROWN John Graham Graduate Honored A John Graham High School graduate was recently award ed a high honor in the educa tional field at Jamestown where she is a teacher at Jamestown Junior High School, Mrs. Louise H. Richardson was named the Outstanding Young Educator for the Jamestown School District for 1967. The award was pre wrote Mrs. Weston from Dur ham under date of April 25, expressing the hope that a cor rection could be made. She wrote: "Thank vou so much for put ting that nice article in the newspaper recently about me getting married. However, there were several apparent ly misunderstood statements. I was married March 17, in stead of March 31, in Louis burg. My husband has spent most of his life in Warrenton with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Vance Neal. He grad uated from Littleton High School instead of John Gra ham. I graduated from Hard barger Business College with a junior accountant course in stead of King's Business Col lege in Raleigh. My husband is stationed at Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts, where he will remain until he gets out of the service for good in September. However , he will make a trip to Greenland for two months?June and July. In the meantime, I am em ployed at Duke University in the Bursar's office in Durham " sented during a faculty meet ing by Larry V. Brown, chair man of the Outstanding Young Educator project for the Jamestown Jajoees. A teacher of language arts and social studies, creative writing, typing and journal ism, Mrs. Richardson repre sented the school district at a statewide event at Catawba College in Salisbury April 15. Winner of the third annual OYE Award to be presented by the Jamestown Jaycees, Mrs. Richardson has been teaching in public schools of this area since 19S9. A graduate of the John Gra ham High School inWarrenton and of High Point College, where she received a B.S, de gree in business administra tion, Mrs, Richardson expects Cheek Funeral Is Held On Thursday Funeral services lor Mrs. Maria N. Cheek were con ducted Thursday, at 4:00p. m., at the Union Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. P. G. Davis. Burial was in the Hecks Grove Cemetery, to complete work on her mas ter's degree in business ad ministration at the University of North Carolina at Greens boro this summer. In a letter accompanying in formation of Mrs. Richardson, John Lawrence, Jamestown Junior High School principal, said that "In every respect, she is an outstanding young educator." Lawrence said, "Many who have far more years of service are unable to bring the magic touch to every classroom sit uation that is always apparent when Mrs. Richardson leads the class." He said, "The business-like manner she has" results in "superb con trol of all her classes" and that "problems of class con trol arepractically non-exist ent with her." He said she "possesses great teaching strength" and that this strength includes quality of character and lead ership ability and sound know ledge of subject matter and "tremendous capacity for hard work." Mrs. Richardson is the former Miss Louise Harrisof Macon, daughter of Mrs. Edna M. Harris and the late Char les Harris and is a sister of Jack Harris oi Warrenton. Mrs. Cheek died at the Granville Hospital, Oxford, Sunday, April 30, after an ex tended illness. She was allfe long resident of Warren Coun ty, taught for several years, and was active in religious, civic and community affairs. She was the daughter of the late Burrell Thorn'.on and Mary Kearney Thornton of Warrenton. She is survived by her hus band, B. N. Cheek; four daugh ters, Mrs."MaryT,"DeBemard and Mrs. Bettle C. Lee of Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Annie Y. Ephrain of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Mabel C. Nicholson of Portsmouth, Va.; six sons, Gordon L. Cheek of Newport News, Va., Byrd N. Cheek of Philadelphia, Pa., Nathaniel A. Cheek of Nor folk, Va., Everett B. Cheek and P. Cleon Cheek of Bal timore, Md., and Captain Jul ian E. Cheek, Fort Bliss, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. Mabel P. Falkener of Chicago, 111., Mrs. Vera Williams and Mrs. Flossie Tonic of Mont clair, N. J.; two brothers, Burnis H. Thornton of Dur ham, and Melrose Thornton of Dayton, Ohio, and 16 grand children. Electric power generation in the United States has been doubling about every ten years ? a rate of growth more than two times that of the Gross National Product. Inl966total electric energy production was 1.25 trillion kilowatt hours. SATURDAY CLOSING UPON AUTHORITY GRANTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA EFFECTIVE SATURDAY, MAY 6TH. WE WILL BE CLOSED EACH L SATURDAY - WITH - NO REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF BANKING HOURS AVAILABLE TO OUR CUSTOMERS BEGINNING MONDAY, MAY 1st., 1967 OUR NEW BANKING HOURS WILL BE MAIN STREET OFFICE MONDAY 9 A.M. TO 1:30 P. M. AND 3 P. M. TO 5 P. M. TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY 9 A. M. TO 1:30 P. M. FRIDAY 9 A. M. TO 1:30 P. M. AND 3 P. M. TO 6 P. M. SATURDAY CLOSED NORTHWEST BRANCH MONDAY THRU THURSDAY 9 A. M. TO 1 P. M. FRIDAY 9 A. M. TO 1 P. M. AND 3 P. M. TO 6 P. M. SATURDAY CLOSED BUY FROM OUR LOCAL MERCHANTS - BOOST OUR TOWN AND COUNTY AND - BANK WITH THE CITIZENS WARREN TON,N.C. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation : ... L#1 5 Se?SS&'. V r-. ...? Foreground, Impala Sport Sedan. Background, Camaro Sport Coupe and the Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe. Drive the cost of living down, without giving up all this. Chevrolet's room, ride and price. When Automotive hugs the road closer. It's the roomiest car you can buy. News made its annual roominess study, Chevrolet got Plus, you get a bigger standard engine. the most points. It's roomier inside, they reported, than any other American car. The ride is Full Coil suspension smooth. And Chevrolet hardtops and convertibles are still the lowest priced full-size cars of this kind you can buy. Chevelle's quick size. It's quick to climb, quick to turn. Other mid-size cars might be like Chevelle, true. But they're not as low priced. And they're not made by Chevrolet with Body by Fisher, GM-developed energy absorbing steering column, inner fenders and Full Coil suspension. Comoro's road-hugging stance. At its price, Camaro is the only sportster to give you wide stance design. It rides steadier, clings to curves better. Sale See your Chevrolet dealer during his Camaro Pacesetter Special buys on Camaro Sport Coupes and Convertibles specially equipped with: 250-cubic-inch Six, 155 hp ? Deluxe steering wheel ? Bumper guards ? Whitewall tires . Wheel covers ? Wheel opening moldings ? Striping along the sides ? Extra interior brightwork ? And, at no extra cost during the sale, special hood stripe and a floor shift for the 3-speed transmission! SALE SAVINGS, TOO, ON SPECIAL LY EQUIPPED FLEETSIDE PICKUPS (Model CS 10934). Chovrolot't romarkablo valua it another roason you gat that sure feeling BRYSON CHEVROLET, INC. E. MACON ST. WARRENTON, N- C. 27589 * PHONE: 257-3268
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