Warren County 4-H Members
Show Cattle At State Fair
By GLENN WOOLARD
Nine Warren County 4-H
club members showed 13
beef cattle at the North
Carolina State Fair in
Raleigh on Oct. 16,17, and
19. Robin West, Sallie
West, Nat West, Jim West,
Dan West, Paula Pulley,
Ben Pulley and Henry
Pulley showed ten steers
in the junior Steer Show on
Oct. 16 and Terre Smith
showed three heifers on
Oct. 17 and 19.
The ten steers were sold
at public auction on Oct. 16
for a total of $9,805.59. The
average price per 100
pounds for the steers was
$81.70. Their combined
weight was 12,002 pounds.
Virginia Packing Com
pany in Suffolk. Va. paid
$61.40 per 100 pounds for all
the steers sold for slaugh
ter at the State Fair.
Businesses in Warren,
Vance, Edgecombe, Hali
fax, Franklin, Nash and
Wake Counties helped to
buy the Warren County 4-H
steers. All money up above
the $61.40 cwt was contri
buted bv the businesses
identified in the photo's
caption. This local support
made possible the success
of the Junior Steer Show
and Sale at the State Fair
and the Warren County 4-H
Beef Program. Their sup
port is greatly appreciated
by the 4-H exhibitors, their
parents, and the Warren
County Agricultural Ex
tension Service.
In the market steer com
petition, the steers were
divided into two groups -
junior and senior. The
junior steers were about 18
months or younger. The
senior steers were about 18
to 24 months of age. The
exhibitor and placing in
the junior steer classes
were Class A: Ben Pulley -
sixteenth and Nat West -
nineteenth; Class B: Jim
West - seventeenth and
Dan West - eighteenth; and
Class C: Jim West • seven
teenth and Robin West •
nineteenth. The exhibitor
and placing in the senior
clas&es were Class A:
Paula Pulley - thirteenth
and Dan West - sixteenth
and Class B: Henry Pulley
-thirteenth and Sailic "iVest
-fifteenth The 4-H'erj
showed eight Beefntasier
steer? and two Black
Angus steers.
The eight steer exhibi
tors also entered the show
manship competition in the
Junior Steer Show. In the
junior division Jim West,
Paula Pulley, Dan West,
and Nat West were judged
thirteenth, fifteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteen
th place, respectively. In
the senior division, Robin
West and Sallie West were
judged fifteenth and seven
teenth place, respectively.
All showmanship awards
were based on 25 percent
for fitting and 75 percent
for showmanship.
Terre Smith showed
three simmental heifers in
the Junior Heifer Show on
Oct. 17. The heifers were
grouped according to
birthday. Terre's heifer in
January-February age
group won second place,
her heifer in the Novem
ber-December age group
won fifth place. Terre also
showed a heifer in the com
mercial class. Terre was
selected fifteenth place in
showmanship. Terre show
ed in the Simmental Open
Class Show on Oct. 19.
The 4-H staff is grateful
to the 4-H'era for their
many tnun and hard work
in prepare» these cattle
for the Fh« j thank the
parent' ■ . nd Rosa
mond V st, stice and
Virg'.uu ».t fravis and
judy Pulley, aud Irvin and
x,toda Smith for their
support. and cooperation.
We jJso thank the cattle
owmrs. The steers were
owned by the Golden Star
4-H Club members. The
heifers were owned by Mr,
and Mrs. Irvin Smith and
State sboro Cattle Com
pany.
Other youth ages 9-19 are
invited to participate in the
1982 Junior Beef Cattle
Shows. Now is the time to
start. Most show partici
pants buy their cattle one
year in advance. Interest
ed Warren County youth
should contact Glenn Wool
ard, Associate Extension
Agent, 4-H; or L. C.
Cooper, County Extension
Chairman at 257-3640 or 101
South Main Street in War
renton. Other youths
should contact the 4-H
Extension Agent in their
respective counties.
Warren Native
To Be Featured
Mrs. Edna Pinckney
Rodwell, a native of
Warren County now resid
ing in Richmond, Va., will
be presented in a recital
Sun., Oct. 25 at 3 p. m. in
Chapel Hill Baptist
Church, Oine community.
Mrs. Rodwell received
her B. A. degree from
Shaw University in Ral
eigh, her M. A. degree from
Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond,
and her state certification
in public school adminis
tration from the University
of Virginia in Charlottes
ville.
Mrs. Rodwell is a lyric
vocalist who chose music
as a hobby. She is a
member of Mosby Baptist
Church in Richmond.
The public is invited to
attend the recital.
Drug-ResiiUat Bacteria Eyed
Bacteria that once succumbed
to antibiotic drugs have evolved
into strains that resist such won
der drugs as penicillin, primari
ly by indiscriminate use of th<
drugs over the years. A medical
researcher is examining how
drug-resistant genes move from
one DNA molecule to another,
creating more organisms thai
are unaffected by common anti
biotics.
NEW
APPLIANCE
LABELS SHOW
COST OF
OPERATION
I sure do appreciate the
new labeling law for major
appliances. Manufacturers
of refrigerators, freezers,
water heaters, dishwashers
and clothes washers are
now required to attach a
yellow label that shows the estimated annual cost of energy
for using these appliances.
The label tells you a lot of other things, too. Like the
estimated energy costs for competing brands.
This can save you a lot of money. So look for the yellow
label when you re in the market for an appliance.
And shop around. We're AH/n This Together Ml
Granny and her good advice were
brought to you by your local electric
cooperative 'Halifax EMC
Warren County 4-H'ers Paula Pulley, Sallie West, Dan West, Henry Pulley, Ben
Pulley, Jim West, Nat West and Robin West (left to right) showed ten steers in the
Junior Steer Show at the State Fair on October II. Grateful appreciation is extended to
the following businesses who helped to buy the steers at the public auction on October
16: N. C. Farm Bureau Federation - Raleigh; Carolina Biological Supply - Burlington;
Long Manufacturing Co. and Long Equipment Co. - Tarboro; Melvin Shearin Logging -
Areola; Carolina Production Credit Association - Weldon; FCX - Warrenton; Drs. Nash
and Galphin - Apex Veterinarian Hospital; Stallings Milling Co. - Louis burg; E & E
Farm Equipment Co., and Farm Tractor and Equipment Co. • Henderson; Henry M.
Milgrom, Inc. - Battleboro; Gus Lancaster Stockyard - Rocky Mount; First Federal
Savings and Loan - Roanoke Rapids; BB&T, First Citizens, Citizens Insurance and
Bonding, IGA, Bowers and Burrows 00 Co., W. A. Miles Hardware, Norfleet's
Hardware and Bullock 00 Co. - Warrenton; Peoples Bank and Traylors Hardware -
Norlina; DOlards Auto & Tractor Parts, A. M. Newsom Agency, Roger Moore 00 Co.,
and BB&T - Littleton; and Lockhart School of Dance - South HOI, Va.
Potato Growers
Meeting Slated
Sweet potato growers
meeting will be held in the
Agricultural Building,
located on the Courthouse
Square, Thursday, October
22, at 7:30 p.m., reports L.
C. Cooper, county
extension chairman.
Dr. L. G. Wilson and Dr.
Ed Estes, sweet potato
production and marketing
specialists, N. C. State
Agricultural Extension
Service, will discuss
production and marketing
of sweet potatoes.
Tom Glendinning,
president of the Piedmont
Vegetable Marketing
Cooperative, Arnie Katz
and J. K. Williams,
members of the
Cooperative, will discuss
the cooperative
membership drive and its
advantages in marketing
of certain vegetables.
The Piedmont Vegetable
Marketing Cooperative is
one of three projects under
the N. C. Department of
Natural Resources and
Community Development
to receive a $90,000.00
grant to establish the
Vegetable Market. The
N.R.C.D. reviewed
projects all over the state
and judged the P.V.M.C. as
one worth high potentials
to have a positive impact
on the economy of an
economically depressed
rural area.
The money, part of a
package submitted under
the Community
Development Black Grant
Small Cities Program of
the U. S. Department of
Housing & Urban
Development, will be used
to purchase a building for
the PVMC packing and
storage facility.
Approval of this grant
marks the transition from
being a dream toward
becoming a functioning
cooperative business.
After almost four years of
effort, concrete results are
finally visible. Now the
real work can start, Cooper
said.
Hie major job now is for
the co-op to get
approximately 800 or more
acres of produce, mostly
sweet potatoes, committed
and signed up. A meeting
of interested growers in
Warren County will be held
on Thursday evening at
7:30 p.m. October 22.
PVMC Board members
will be there to answer
questions and to explain
how the co-op will work.
The Co-op will have to
raise $86,000 from grower
members. The Columbia
Bank for the Cooperative,
Columbia, S. C. has
committed a loan of
$186,000 to the Cooperative
which is contingent upon
the 880 committed acre*
and 86,080 in acreage stock
subscription - which comes
to approximately $120.80
per acraa committed to the
Cooperative by grower
members.
The site selection
committee* Tom
Glendinning (Chatham),
George Green (Franklin),
Harold Coor (Johnston),
and J. K. Williams
(Warren) looked at a
number of possible sites
for the co-op packing
facility. The search
centered around Franklin
County, which is the center
of most of the acreage
which has been subscribed
to the co-op, Cooper said.
After gathering
information on what our
needs will be and
reviewing several options,
the committee selected a
building on Rt. 96 about
two miles east of Bunn.
The 10,000-square-foot
metal building is owned by
Therman Edwards of
Edwards Manufacturing
Company, and sits next to
Edwards'main plant.
Larry Hammett of N.
C. State University, who
specializes in post-harvest
handling of vegetable
crops, particularly sweet
potatoes, evaluated the
building and told the
committee what changes
would have to be made.
Most of the major
improvements will be
made by Mr. Edwards as
part of the purchase price
of $100,000, which also
includes about four acres
of land and an additional
9600 square feet of concrete
slab on two sides of the
building for future
expansion.
Alterations in the
building are being
designed to set up a line to
grade, wash, and pack
vegetables, build a curing
room for sweet potatoes,
and a large sweet potato
storage area. The Board
has decided to make sweet
potatoes the primary crop,
but peppers, cucumbers,
and okra will also be
handled the first year. The
Cooperative hopes to
expand into other
vegetables in future years,
and the curing room is
being designed to double as
a refrigeration room in the
future.
"A marketing
association gives you the
power of collective
bargaining - which can
translate Into producer
packer contracts resulting
in price stability," Cooper
said.
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which
the planet'i surface
Water heaters account
for about 2C percent of a
home's total energy costs.
Agronomist's Corner 1
Bright Leaf Has
Tremendous Impact
By RU88ELLC. KING
Associate Agricultural Extension Agent
Tobacco has become a hot issue recently on the
national scene. Because of this controversy, ! would like
to present a few facts on the importance of tobacco to
North Carolina.
Tobacco is grown in 91 of the 100 counties in the state,
and approximately 270,000 people are engaged in
producing millions of pounds of tobacco every year in
North Carolina. Approximately one acre in every twelve
of the cropland harvested in North Carolina is in tobacco.
Latest figures show North Carolina farmers grew 849
million pounds of tobacco or 42 percent of all the tobacco
grown in the United States. According to latest figures,
the total of all cash crt* receipts in the state was
$1,943,000,000. Tobacco's >1.1 billion accounted for 60
percent of e'l cash crop receipts. It also accounted for 34
percent of all agricultural commodities including
livestock.
Manufacturing also brings a great deal of revenue to
the state. North Carolina is the largest tobacco
manufacturing state in the United States. The product
value of industrial shipments in the tobacco
manufacturing industry in North Carolina is $4.2 billion,
according to latest figures. The cigarette industry in
North Carolina had an average annual hourly wage rate
of $8.10 in 1979. This was the second highest industry wage
in North Carolina in 1979.
As you can see, tobacco is extremely important to the
economy of North Carolina, and it needs the support of
North Carolina citizens to continue its strong growth.
YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF
TO VOTE
WARRENTON ELECTION
TUES., NOV. 3,1981
IN YOUR OWN INTEREST YOU
WILL WANT TO VOTE FOR:
•DEPENDABILITY W. A. Miles has a long record of
dependability as an officer of our town, both as a
Commissioner and as Mayor.
• EXPERIENCE Although he is still a relatively young
man, W. A. Miles has spent virtually all of his adult life in
service to Warrenton. He has additional municipal
experience because of his active affiliation with the North
Carolina League of Municipalities where he served as a
director. Also he serves on the Governor's Crime
Commission which set up the Community or Neighborhood
Crime Watch Program to deter Crime in Our State.
•COURTESY AND AVAILABILITY An
understanding and naturally friendly person, W. A. Miles is
noted for his attentiveness to the needs of the citizens of
Warrenton. Always he is available and accessible.
•SOUND FISCAL POLICY W. A Miles has over 22
years as an officer of our beautiful town advocated a sound,
yet progressive financial program.
• W. A. MILES will give you more for Your Tax Dollar.
VOTE NOVEMBER 3
W. A. Miles, Mayor
Paid for by Elect W. A. Miles Committee