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ins. Irtw«_li,r JOUKJNAL APRILS, 1973 PAGE 2 [Cep ' i.s chewing yum tor the cyw. (John .Mason Bmwn) I >i yt'jZ/- - ».</ y/ /. / / 'ffflPPljip v '"T ~W ■ M REG. $2.49 SR protew\ 477 I W 1" r I 159l 59 I la®® MREG. $1.75 I^s ■ ---l: R. ■ •-. ■ * H ?>*„ * ) ...... ijjjr POLLARD,S DRUG STORE v s Spring Savings Special! ■RBCgKi,A‘v. © |jjfflßl|i 111 REG. $1.15 I H I shampoo J STYLE KITS fi& I IW 1 ““ 1* I Are you getting the best rate on your savings? If not, , | •': come to The Northwestern Bank. We're having a Spring Ik | t Savings Special— s-3/4% on a JIOO minimum deposit. /'’ i It s protected, renewable, and the highest allowed by law. ( I Some banks are lowering rates, but not Northwestern. (K A ' A We want your savings to earn at the highest pos // 7 rniTt im sible rate. So take advantage of this Spring MPaf ' ’ Savings Special... 5-3/4% from Northwestern. '“WJg, 5-3/4%. one of three 3-Way Passbook Savings Plans! Wm Jj UnNHpr □ *IOO minimum deposit 7 □ Save by the 10th of a quarter.. .earn from the Ist If §jr m □ Choose your maturity date between 2 and 5 years ITm □ SSO minimum add-on deposit la □ No deposits during final two years before maturity □ Protected interest rate l\ 4 □ Interest paid quarterly by check or added to your account v! i □ Renewable THE NORTHMES7ERN BANK Mtmtwr FOIC | .. . g if ‘ •••• ••• . .. aijd J^olk-^peecfy of SOUTHERN APPAI.ACIIIA with Rogers Whilrner S'ml Miur K«!(gt>Mlin«N (m . ..Umm imslrrUl !•» Huger* thinner. Ik»\ Him mi. ■, Y i.. 28MI. It has been interesting to note many books and articles in recent months on the care of organic gardens. Authors of such texts not only make recommendations for fert ilizing with natural materials, but they also provide solutions to the problems of insects. "Safe" insecticides such as Roetenoe and Sevin are usually suggested, but in addition certain puristic gardening experts say the "com panion" or compatible planting is the answer. By this they mean that certain plants help others ward of insect attacks. To the amateur gaxdner all this sounds wondrously new and green revolutionist. 'Taint necessarily so. Ask a mountain farmer what he thinks, and he may tell you that like the one room schoolhouse, natural in sect control has always been around it's just back in fashion again. "Actually in the olden days the farmer didn't have much trouble with bugs, " says Jim Byrd, a Valle Crucis, North Car olina resident. "His trouble started when man began to over power the fowls. Why I've seen the time when just the partridges alone would clean up the bug population 1 in the Valley! Then the hunters began to come in with their dogs'*and kill off the quail. After they were gone the bug crop got bigger and bigger. " But Jim says his mother found other ways to combat the pests. She discovered, for in stance, that snuff dusted over cucumba?'plants kept down the "flea bugs, " that a colony of lady bugs would devour insect eggs, and that ground red pepper mixed with a sudsy water from homemade lye soap kept down potato and bean bugs. "Sometimes she just mixed . flour and water to put on the beans maybe the bugs didn't like the looks of the stuff. Or maybe they didn't like the taste! I remember during the days of the WPA we used to joke about "relief flour. " A neighbor of mine came into Mast's store one day and asked me how I kept my beans from being eaten up by bugs that whatever I was using he wanted some too. Go back there at the end of the store, " I told him, "and get a bag of that relief flour. Mix you some up with water and sprinkle it on your beans. Onee them bugs get a bate of that stuff they'll never strike another lick at your beans. " The best way, however, to control bugs is with a flock es guineas, according to Jim. "I remember when Japanese beetles first came into the valley we thought they were goirg to ta' ce things over. But my neighbor and I talked tilings over and he bought twenty-one guineas and I bought nineteen. In three years you couldn't find a beetle on our place. Them guinea hens would not only pick them bugs off the plants and grass but would catch them on the fly! I've been told that one guinea can eat up to six gallons of bugs in a single day. " John Welbom, Food Services Manager at Appalachian State University, is another mountain man who remembers bug -fightin; on the farm before insecticides came into general use. "I'd hate to do this now, but- I remember as a boy walking the rows of potatoes with a kerosene bucket in my hand. Pd pick off potato bugs, throw them into the bucket of kerosene, and then bum them when Pd finished the job. " . John Also noted that his mother had a number of home made mixes to sprinkle over her garden plants "onion juice, garlic juice, and the likes. They seemed to work pretty well. " He also remem bers that she planted marigolds, sage, geraniums, larkspur, and nasturtiums to drive away gar den pests. "But the strongest thing in my memory was how she kill ed flies. Long before the days of sticky flypaper, she used to smear newspapers with molass i GREENLEE I I TRADING POST I I GRAND OPENING I I SATURDAY APRIL 7.1973 I \ I T he largest trade lot or flea market in I K the South. |IJ B N ew restaurant where plate lunches, sand- I wiches, hot and cold drinks of all kinds B M will be served. B B Clean rest rooms, acres of free parking HI ■ customers, small fee for merchants, B P lus free camping for tho-se who wish to B B spend the night. Two well stocked lakes, B B travel trailer park, swimming with sandy B B beach opening 1n early spring. All grounds B B are sand and gravel (no mud). B B Thls P°st is located 8 miles west of Marlon, B B N. C. one half mile off Highway #7O. Look fl B for s1 9n. Three and one half miles from B B 1-40 at Parker Padgett Exit. B B We urge all merchants to come by and make B B reservations for the spot that suits you 9 B best while you have a choice. B B This lot will be open Wednesday, Friday and B B Saturday of each week, full time later on. B B Bring this ad and trade free on opening date. es and hang them up by the doors to catch flys, gnats, and other small insects. That way she kept the bugs out of the house. " Byway of postscript, I'd like to thank those readers who have recently helped to im prove my folk-term vocabu lary. There is now no doubt in my mind as to what a thunder mug is! The Movies Movie fans are in for a treat weejt at .Yancey Theater. Featured are Charlie Chaplin, Charleton Heston, and a Walt Disney film. "City lights", a 1931 Char - lie Chaplin classic, features a blind girl as the heroine. At a time when all the silent movie greats were graduating to "talk ies", Chaplin refused because he felt that he was primarily a pantomirriiSt, and since his au diences were all over the world, a talkie would be limited to English speaking audiences. De termined that "City lights" ; would not be completely silent, Chaplin toiled at the piano for three months composing a score and personally conducting a symphony orchestra for the film. "The Omega Man" stars Charleton Heston as the last man on earth trying to elude strange creatures aroused by bacteriolo gical warfare who are trying to destroy him and the technology they feel has caused the destruc tion of the world population. Roaming the empty streets .of los Angeles, the hero finds the only girl in the world—and this is only the beginning of this in teresting and unusual movie. A full length Walt Disney movie, "Chitty,Chitty, Ban& Bang" is the main attraction at the Saturday and Sunday Mati nee. It stars Dick Van Dyke and a car that flies. | Yancey Health DeptT| April 2 (Mon.) Child Health,Dr. Pope 12:00- 3:30 April 3 (Tues.) Nurse Screening 9:00 *12:00 h April 3 (Tues. ) Maternal Nurse, Miss Kingham 1:00 - 4:00 April 4 (Wed. ) Eye Clinic, Dr. Powell by appointment April 5 (Thun.) Mental Health,Dr. Byron 10:00- 3:00 April 6 (Fri. ) Mental Health, Mr. Hutchison 10:00- 3:00 April 10 (Tues) Nurse Screening 9:00-12:00 April 11 (Wed) Chest Clinic in Bakersville April 12 (Thurs) Family Planning, Dr. Webb 8:30- 12:00 April 13 (Fri) Mental Health,Mr.Hutchison 10:00- 3:00 April 16 (Mon) Child Health, Dr. Pope 12:00- 3:00 April 17 (Tues) Nurse Screening 9:00-12:00 April 17 (Tues) Maternal Nurse, MissKingham 1 sOO- 4:00 " April 19 (Thurs) X-Ray 10:00-11:00 April 20 (Fri) Mental Health, Mr. Hutchison 10:00- 3:00 April 23 (Mon) Holiday! Health Dept. Closed! April 24 (Tues) Nurse Screening 9:00-12:00 April 25 (Wed) Orthopedic Clinic in Bakersville.. Register before 11:00. April 26 (Thins) Family Planning, Dr. Webb 8:30-1200 April 27 (Fri) Mental Health,Mr.Hutchison 1000- 300 The Clinic for Immunization and General tests is held every Monday morning from 800 to 11:30. "i. jy Activities At 4-H Forum I Mrs. Robert Treadway, a leader from the Bee Log 4-H Club, and Mrs. Steve Bryant, a leader from the Bald Creek 4-H Club have recently return ed from the National 4-H Lead er Forum which was held at the National 4-H Center in Wash ington, Delegates from North Carolina, New York, Connecticirtt, and Maryland attended the Forum. Activities during the week included a number of guest speakers, workshops, and tours. Dorthy Emerson spoke to the group on the night they arrived in Washington. Her topic con cerned pointers on public speak ing. Dr. Milton Boyce, whose topic was "Working together in small groups," advised the delegates to "divide and con quer. " Mrs. Treadway and Mrs. Bryant said that his pre - sentation helped them to realize how the 4-H club program could be strengthened by spec ial interest grouping. Mrs. Treadway attended a workshop entitled. "Programing for Teens," which advised the delegates to be tolerant of young people and take time to listen to their ideas. Mrs. Bryant attended a workshop entitled "The Challenge of Leadership" where she was told that self-confidence is the secret to leadership. The speaker advised the group to lead others and not drag others. Another workshop, I "Youth Involvement in Local Leadership," urged the 4-H leaders to get youth involved and then let the youth carry out I their activities. Some of the places the 4-H leaders visited while at the Forum included the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute, I Washington Monument, Lincoln, I and Jefferson Memorials, and the I Capitol. During their visit to the capitol, Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Treadway had the opport unity to meet with the 11th Dis trict Congressman, Roy Taylor and discussed with him several items of special interest. Garden Club Meeting Held The first meeting of the Burnsville Garden Club for ..he year 1973 was held in thehime I of Mrs. Charles Proffitt,Thurs day afternoon, March 29. The new president, Mrs. David Powers, called the meet ing to order. After the reading of minutes of the last meeting, paying of dues was in order, followed by a general disci* - sion of wither the club should join the other clubs in boycott ing the purchasing of meat be ginning the first week in April. The decision was finally made that each member should fol low her own mind in the mat ter of the boycott. Mrs. Troy Ray brought up the support needed for "Music in the Mountains". It was vo ted to contribute the sum of $25 to the project and to en courage the support of the en deavor. The club was reminded that the time of meeting especially during the summer months is 3 o'clock on the fourth Thurs day of the month. The program presented by Mrs-, Fall consisted of short readings from Gladys Tabor's "Still Meadows" and also a de scription of three ways to make a garden by Cecile Matschat. A brief report on why birds do not eat Monarch butterflies was given. THE YANCEY JOURNAL Box 667 Burnsville, N.C. 28714 Sd Yuziuk-Publlsher Carolyn Yuziuk-Kditor Pat Briggs-Manager Tody Higgins-Assnc. Editor Published Every Thursday By Twin Cities Publishing Co. 2nd Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, NC. 28714 Thursday, April 5,1973 Number 14 Subscription Rates By Mail In Yancey County One Year *3.12 Six Months *2.00 Out of County or State One Year *5.00 Six Months *4.00 SFSDFSD
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