THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961
Page FOURTEEN
early one morning, (the beaver
kit) discovered he’d drifted be
tween the legs of a great blue
Rounds Praised by,heron busy at its fishing How-
^ ' ever, they handled the situation
Beaver Books by
Tobacco Survey Being Conducted to
Check Varieties; Corn Contest Noted
Review in ‘Times’
“Wild Orphan,” the book about
a young beaver, "written and il
lustrated by Glen Rounds of
Southern Pines and recently pub
lished by Holiday House, has won
praise in a review by Phyllis
Fenner in The New York Times.
A review of this book appeared
in Miss Lockie Parker’s “Some
Looks at Books” column in The
Pilot October 5.
The book is of particular inter
est in the Sandhills, as Mr.
Rounds—author and illustrator
of more than 20 volumes of his
own and others’ work—gathered
material for it in this area, spend
ing many hours in swamps and
woods, observing beavers and
other wildlife. '
The Times review follows:
‘Lazily letting the current
with the usual dignity of wild
creatures; both going on about
their affairs as if nothing what
ever had happened.’;
“Glen Rounds, who also treats
animals with dignity, tells here
how a young beaver, orphaned
before he was weaned, struggled
to stay alive, learned by trial and
error about foods, how to avoid
dangers and, eventually, ‘to be
gin the beaver business of build
ing.’ The reader comes to know,
as through the beaver’s senses,
the world of the swamp with its
waterways and plants, its sounds
of birds and animals, even its
smells.’
Like Mr. Rounds’ ‘Beaver
Business’ and -'Swamp Life,’ this
book is based on acute, personal
observation, written with warm
sympathy and effortless poetic
quality. It is also beautifully de
signed and illustrated with black-
BY F. D. ALLEN
County Agricultural Agent
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A tobacco variety performance
survey is being conducted in
Moore County to determine how
various varieties compared in
yield and value during 1961 on
tobacco farms.
As many farmers as possible
are being contacted so that the
information gathered will repre
sent a sizeable portion of the
tobacco grown in the county.
Growers are being asked what
total yield and value he received
from each variety he grew in
1961.
Cards are being sent to a re
presentative group of growers m
the coimty and the growers who,
receive cards are urged to fill out
the card accurately and retixrn it
to the county agent’s office.
Everyone who receives a card
should send it in regardless of
whether his yield is low, medium
or high. This is essential if the
summary of the variety data is
to represent the actual perfOT-
mance of a given variety in the
county and state.
This information is also being
accumulated by other counties,
and a summary of the coimty,
belt and State results will be
available for growers to see as
son as it has been compiled.
Com Contest
J Last spring, farmers throughout
I Moore County entered the State
Corn Production Contest. County
Prizes to be awarded to the top
three yields in the County are ^
follows; 1,000 pounds of 5-10-10
fertilizer to the highest yield as
first prize and 500 pounds of 5-
10-10 fertilizer each to the
ers producing the second and third
highest yields in the coimty.
We had the State Com Com
mittee from Raleigh here this
week to harvest an acre of com
on the Elwood Reynolds farm.
Route 2, Seagrove, to get an ot-
ficial yield to be used in the
State Contest. In about two
weeks, the Committee will come
back to the county and harvest
an acre on the farms of D. A.
Dunlap of Route 2, Robbins, and
Ollie Beane, Route 2, Seagrove so
they wiU have official yields for
the State Contest.
Each of these farmers have
fence in utilizing this experience
in the fields of nuclear weapon
safety and technical engineering
development contributed greatly
to the Air Force effectiveness in
these significant areas.”
Colonel Trogdon entered the
Air Force in 1943. He is a grad
uate of Asheboro High School
and received his B. S. and M. S.
degrees from' the University of
Maryland. He and his wife, Bere
nice, and children, Linda, 11,
Elaine, 7, Nancy, 6, and Denise,
about 100 bushels of com peri2, reside in quarters at Carlisle
acre and have a good chance to
win in the State Growing Contest.
We will give the yields of each
man when the others have been
harvested and the winners can be
determined.
J. w. Powers,
Carthage, Hies
At VA Hospital
Barracks.
Colonel Trogdon
Given Medal for
Service in Army
Lt. Col. Floyd H. Trogdon, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Trog
don, old No. 1 highway, north, re
ceived the Air Force Commenda
tion Medal from Brig. Gen. Harry
L. Hillyard, deputy commandant,
ceremonies at the US Army
War College, Carlisle Barracks.
Pa. Colonel Trogdon is currently
attending the 10-month course at
the Army’s senior educational in
stitution.
The award was presented for
meritorious service while assign
ed to the Engineering Liaison Of
fice of the Third Air Force,
United Kingdom, from August 1,
1958 to March 31, 1961.
The citation read in part, “Dur
ing this iperiod,' Colonel Trogdon s
exceptional knowledge of Air
Force nuclear development pro
grams and professional compe-
James Wilton Powers, 49, Car
thage, Route 1, died Saturday
afternoon at the 'Veterans Hospi
tal in Fayetteville.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Edith Jones; two sons,
Wayne Powers of the home, and
Reginald Powers of Evansville,
Ind.; his mother, Mrs. J. A. Pow
ers of Carthage; two sisters, Mrs.
J. B. Alined oU.High Point, and
Mrs. Pauline Currie of Carthage
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 3 p. m. at the Cool
Springs Methodist Church, con
ducted by the Rev. Jefferson Da-
assisted by the Rev. Edgar
Dupree and the Rev. Melvin Wil
liamson. Interment followed in
the church cemetery.
Mr. Powers had been employed
by the North Carolina Highway
1 Department for the past 19 years.
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