To Vote on Pearsall
Plan September 8th
Successfully guided through the
special legislative session, the
Pearsall plan aimed at keeping
North Carolina’s public schools
segregated faces its next severe
test at the polls September 8.
That’s when Tar Heels will vote
on the two constitutional amend
ments which are the keystone of
the plan that has the strong en
dorsement of Gov, Hodges’ admin
istration.
The shortest legislative session
in North Carolina’s history ended
at 4:44 p. m., Friday. The gover
nor had called the legislators into
special session Monday to act on
^ the plan.
In the Senate, the final roll call
vote in favor of the Pearsall plan
was 49-0. The only senator not vot
ing was Sen. Jack Blythe of Meck
lenburg who was home recuperat
ing from a heart attack.
The House vote, on the oriignal
roll call Thursday night was 106-2
with Reps. Dan K. Edwards of:
Durham and T. E. Etory of Kilkes
the dissenters. i
However, Friday other legisla
tors who apparently had missed
the night session added their
names and at adjournment time
the vote was 116-2 in favor.
Thomas J. Pearsall of Rocky
Mount, head of the Advisory Com
mittee on Education which drew
up the plan, and Gov. Hodges, both
expressed their pleasure at the as
sembly’s action.
The governor said the action had
“confirmed my great confidence”
in the advisory committee and “the
wisdom of its approach to the pres
ent public school problem.”
He added, “The overwhelming
support by the members of the
General Assembly, in my opinion,
reflects the thinking and the feel
ings of the general public of North
Carolina and the great confidence
of the people in the legislation that
has been enacted.”
The governor predicted a heavy
vote September 2 and asserted
many members of the assembly
had told him they would help “ex
plain further this important pro
gram” to the public between now
and the election.
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For party-happy appetites, treat your guests to old-fashioned baked
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2 medium onions, sliced 3 tablespoons vinegar
4 teaspoons salt M teaspoon Tabasco
M cup catsup 2 teaspoons dry mustard
2 Cu..s luncheon meat
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boiling point in covered saucepan. Simmer 1 hour. Drain and save 3 cups
bean liquid, add water to make 3 cups if necessary. Mix bean liquid with
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The Pearsall plan offers two
modifying constitutional amend
ments to the people.
One would authorize the payment
of public funds to families who
want to send their children to pri
vate school because their public
school had become integrated, or
because there no longer was a pub
lic school available.
The second would permit the
people of a local school unit to
vote to close their public schools
if conditions become “intolerable.”
Hodges has termed the second
“a safety valve feature” which will
help save our schools” in the face
of the U. S. Supreme Court’s deseg
regation decree.
The Pearsall plan also includes
a resolution of portests to the U. S.
Supreme Court for its “tyrannical
usurpation of power” and calls on
other states and Congress “to pre
vent now and in the future other
encroachment upon the reserved
powers of the states and the rights
of the people.” I
Forester States
Tree Seedlings
Demand Strong
Raleigh. — Some 45 million for
est tree seedlings are expected to
be grown at the State-owned nur
series during the 1956-57 season,
but State Forester Fred H. Cla
ridge doubts if this record crop of
young trees will be large enough to
meet demands for them.
An inventory indicates, Claridge
said, that the 1956-57 production of
seedlings will be about nine mil
lion more than the 1955-56 produc
tion. which set a new high for total
seedlings produced at the three
nurseries owned and operated by
the Department of Conservation
and Development’s forestry divis
ion.
The State forester said he ex
pects the demand for seedlings for
planting during the 1956-57 season
to be greatly increased because of
the acreage to be taken out of pro
duction under provisions of the
conservation reserve section of the
Soil Bank law recently enacted by
Congress.
Much of this idled acreage, Cla
ridge said, will be planted to trees
as part of the plan to cut produc
tion of a number of basic crops in
the nation.
Effective with the 1956-57 crop,
cost of seedlings produced at State
owned nurseries located near Clay
ton, Hendersonville and Goldsboro
will be increased an average of
fifty cents per thousand, Claridge
said The increase is necessary to
meet production cost, the State for
ester said.
Applications for seedlings, ship
ments of which will start in early
November, may be made by writ
ing the State Forester, Department
of Conservation and Development,
Raleigh, county farm agents’ coun
ty rangers, or district foresters at
i Asheville, Lenoir, Rockingham,
Are you getting tired of running
the cultivator and wielding the hoe
in your garden in a losing battle
with weeds and grass? Why not
use a mulch?
It is surprising how few garden
ers use mulches as an aid in the
conservation of soil moisture and
the control of weeds. A mulch may
be any material such as hay, straw,
strawy manure, leaves, leafmold,
peat, sawdust, pinestraw or heavy
paper which can be put down on
the ground around plants for the
purpose of conserving moisture
during the hot, dry summer wea
ther. At the same time it will keep
down most of the weeds. Cardboard
boxes, flattened out, have been
used with excellent results. Ground
corn cobs are also being used.
Many vegetables, flowers, small
fruits and shrubs are good subjects
for mulching. Dahlias, tomatoes,
peppers, eggplants and cumcum
bers may be mulched with straw,
leaves, cardboard or heavy paper.
Azaleas, camellias and blueberries
which desire an acid soil may be
mulched with sawdust, leafmold
or peat. Red raspberries, dewber
ries and grapes may be mulched
with straw or straw manure.
Most mulches should be put
down after the soil has been well
moistened by rain or irrigation.
If fertilizer is necessary it also
should be applied before the mulch
is laid down. However, soluble fer
tilizers will work their way down
through porous mulches.
If mulched plants show a yel
lowing of the leaves it usually
means a nitrogen deficiency due to
the decomposition of the mulch in
contact with the soil. This can be
corrested by applying some soluble
fertilizer high in nitrogen.
Vou will find that in small gar
dens a mulch will help solve many
of your cultural problems.
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tionize present methods of harvesting, drying and storing small grains
and shelled-corn, has been developed and successfully field-tested by
the Stran-Steel Corporation, a unit of National Steel Corporation.
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grain by semi-pressure fans. Moisture-content of the grain is brought
down to safe storage level within a matter of days; the fans can then
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range. In comparison with other methods of drying and storing grain,
the complete Quonset system costs 15% less. There is no fuel to buy.
Its one operating cost—electricity for its fans — is almost 50% less
than that of heated air-systems.
The labor-saving value of the new system is by itself outstanding.
As Ernest Ham, who is using it on his farm near Saronville, Nebraska,
puts it: “What I like best about this new set-up is that it condenses
your work to the point where one man can nearly do it all."
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Mrs. T. W. Tarkenton and daugh
ter, Miss Anne Worth Tarkenton,
spent the week-end in Mt. Olive
visiting her mother, Mrs. O. C.
Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Chesson
visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Daven
port at Columbia Sunday.
New Bern, Rocky Mount, Fayette
ville, Elizabeth City, Whiteville,
Sylva, Lexington, Chapel Hill and
Belmont.
The State forester said orders
for seedlings will be filled on a
first come-first served basis as he
urged landowners to get their ap
plications in as soon as possible.
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Stocks of corn on North Carolina
farms January 1, 1956, totalled over
45 million bushels, compared with
slightly over 28 million bushels a
year ago.
Miss Becky Hutchins spent the
week-end in Edenton as guest of
Miss Ida Carapen.
Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton returned
from Nags Head Thursday. Miss
Virginia Ann McNulty accompan
ied her home for a few days.
Mrs. Effie W. Gurkin and Mrs.
Jack Gurkin made a business trip
to Elizabeth City Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. George McNair and
daughter, Cynthia, were the week
end guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Lamm.
Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Jenkins and
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jackson, of
Edenton, visited Mrs. J. C. Tar
kenton and her cottage guests,
“The McNulties” of Boston, Mass.,
and “The Sivills” of Norfolk, Va.,
Sunday at Nags Head.
Miss Corinne Davenport, of Ra
leigh. and Mrs Chester Wrros of
Smithfield, visited their parents
here through the week-end.
Rev. L. W. Ross, of Roper, visit
ed Mrs. Henry Silver and family
and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Chesson
Wednesday.
Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton, Mrs. W. A.
Swain and Miss Virginia Ann Mc
Nulty visited in Edenton Friday.
Mrs. Hallet Davis, of Darden,
was the guest of her mother, Mrs.
Will Spruill Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D Lamm and
Mr. and Mrs. George McNair and
daughter, Cynthia, visited Gilbert
Simpson and his mother, Mrs. Del
la Simpson, at Plymouth Saturday.
Gilbert is convalescing from a re
cent operation.
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