Contract Awarded For
Watauga Parkway Link
Washington, March 29—A *748,817
contract ni awarded her* today
for paving of the Deep GapTriplctt
Road lector of the Blue
Ridge Parkway in Watauga County
The 3.517-mile stretch is one of
only two remaining unpaved on
the Parkway between Roanoke,
Va.. and AaheviUe, N. C- Macon
Construction Company of Franklin,
N. C., low bidder among 11
competing firms, will do the job.
Completion of grading, draining
and base-coursing the Deep GapTriplett
Road sector will eliminate
a seven-mile detour over Route
421 which is presently necessary.
And it will leave to be completed,
north of Asheville, only a
13-mile stretch near Blowing
Rock, 7.4 miles of which are partially
completed.
Secretary of the Interior Fred
A Sea too announced the contract
for completing the Watauga County
lector. National Part Service
Director Conrad Wirth laid the
.contract would bring to about $8
million the coat of construction
project* now under way on the
Parkway. ,
Theae include several aectiona
of road, totaling as milea, aeven
bridgea and one grade separation.
Still to be contracted for this year
are grade separations at Deep Gap
and Triplett Road.
At present, 837 miles of Parkway
are paved in Virginia and
North Carolina; 38 miles are graded
or under construction and 104
miles remain to be started. When
all work is completed, the 477-mile
Parkway will link Shenandoah National
Park In Virginia with the
Great £moky Mountains National
Park in North Carolina.
Care Stressed In Weed
Disease Treatments
Has anyone suggested that you
try antibiotics to control blue mold
and anthracnose in your tobacco
plant beds this year? If so, dno't
The streptomycin formulations will
do a creditable job of controlling
blue mold, but it won't touch a
second and just as serious plantbed
disease—anthracnose.
Howard R. Garriss and J. C.
Wells, plant pathologists for the
N. C. Agricultural Extension Service,
say the antibiotic treatment
for blue mold is more expensive,
too. But the main point is that it
will not control dreaded, anthracnose—a
plantbed disease that is
just as serious and widespread as
blue mold. /
However, antibiotics are recommended
for wilfire disease control
in burley tobacco.
Failure to prevent both anthracnose
and blue mold in the
tobacco plantbed can be a very expensive
farm management error,
according to the plant pathologists.
And this is the time of the year
when the problem of control is
most important. Plants are often
destroyed, or damaged to the extent
that transplanting is delayed,
resulting in expensive replanting.
When one considers the total coat
of labor, seed, fertilizer, plantbed
covers and chemicals for weed and
nematode control it is easy to see
that gambling with a material that
controls only one of the two
dreaded plantbed diseases is risky
business, says Garriss and Wells.
"North Carolina flue-cured tobacco
growers," says Garriss,"
should be ever mindful that -*nthracnose,
a relatively new plantbed
disease in this state, can be
just as destructive as bjue mold.
Consequently, control of both diseases
must be considered if the
grower wants to be assured of
„gQod. .healthy plants for trans"pfanting."
Agricultural Experiment Station
wdHefl have developed an effective,
economical treatment that
will control both diseases. The official
recommendations call for
the use of zineb, ferbam, or maneb
fungicides. They also redilce damage
from "damping-off" when
used properly. These materials
are svailable in either concentrated
form for spraying, os as a
dust.
Detailed instructions for the
use of blue mold-anthracnose fungicides
may be obtained from y&ur
local county farm agent, or by
writing Division of Agricultural
Information, N. C. State College,
Raleigh, and requeating "Tobacco
Blue .Mold and Anthracnoae Control,"
Extension Circular No. 387.
March Rainfall
Lowest For Years
March km a "dry" month this
year, compared to the sain* month
for the paet three yean.
But April darted off with a
splash. Rain itaitad sometime the
morning of April 1, and fell continuously
until Tuesday morning
At 7 a. m. 2.6# inches of rain was
in the raia gauge, or nearly as
much as fell daring the entire
month of March.
Records kept of the rainfall
(snow, etc.) showed that only 2.87
inches of moisture fell on Boone
from March 1 through the 31st
Several days were damp, but there
was not enough precipitation to
be measured with the rain guage.
In IMS, 430 inches of water
was measured during March; in
1055, 8.81 inches; and in 1954,
6.25 inches were recorded, according
to records kept by the U. S.
Bureau.
Snow fell on the 1st and 5th
of the month, with a heavy snow
being recorded on the 8th and
8th. Between three and four inches
(depending on the place) were
measured on these days. It had
all melted by the 12th, however,
the balance of moisture being
rain and fog/
Mother Of Boone
Woman Dies
Mrs. Lizzie Melinda Townsend,
76, of Route 1 Banner Elk, died
March ft at Blowing Rosk Hospital.
Funeral services were held FrV
day morning at the Holy Communion
Lutheran Church, with burial
in the Holy Communion Cemetery.
Rev. George Shuford and Rev. Edwin
Troutman conducted the services.
Survivors include three sons;
Joseph T. of Lenoir, and Monroe
and Roey of Banner Elk; and five
daughters, Mrs. Howard Townsend
of Banner Elk, itrt. Monroe
Reese of Valle Crucis, Mrs. Laura
Townsend of Boone, and Mrs.
Jason Townsend and Mrs. Lela
Taylor of Banner Elk; 22 grandchildren,
and 9 great grandchildren.
Glenn Moretz
Is TV Winner
Willy* W. Clfester, manager of
tb« local Belk's store, announced
that Glenn Moretz of Zionville waa
the winner of the TV net given by
hia store at the end of its special
0-day Founders' Days sale event.
The set was won by Mr. Moretz
at the drawing Saturday afternoon
in the store, which was attended
by several hundred persons who
had registered at the store during
the sale. i
Adenauer wants arms parity for
West German forces.
Senator Scott Speaks !
For Income Tax Relief
Senator W. Kerr Scott laid this
week the President'* budget
ihould be cut by three billion dollars
and the savings paaaed on to
taxpayer! in reduced income taxea.
"It looks as though Congress*
will tut upwards of three billion
dollars from the President's requests,
and if we are able to do
that I plan to offer legislation
which would give taxpayers an additional
$100 is personal income
tax exemption by raising the exemption
from $000 to 9700," Scott
said. •
Scott said he thinks the budget
will be reduced "generally across
the board by tightening the belts
of most agencies."
By using such an approach, he
said, "no serious damage would be
done to any one segment of the
government or services rendered
by the agencies."
The North Carolina Senator said
increasing the personal income tax
exemption by (100 would cost
about 2.S billion dollars.
"We have just about wrung the
public dry with taxes. For over
two years, the Administration has
talked about reducing spending
and taxes. But every time the sub
ject mom* up, the Administration
tell* Congress we should wait toother
year. At the rate we're going,
we'll never out spend ins and
tun If we don't get an the job
now," he aaid.
Scott said about 80 of the 71 million
taxpayers pay Federal income
taxes in the first brackfet.
"There should be no argument
about giving relief on an acryssthe-board
basis," he said.
Jury List Given.
(Continued from page one.)
North Fork—Don Miller, Tamarack.
t
Shawneehaw — Eugene Eggers.
route 1, Boone; Walter Hichael,
Banner Elk.
Stony Fork — Linville Greene,
William M. Day, Fred E. Payne,
Rufus Idol, all of Deep Gap.
Watauga—J. W. Norwood, route
1; John Harrison, Blowing Rock;
Robert Bentley, Vilas; Charlie
Johnson, route 1, Banner Elk; Roy
Aldridge, route 1, Banner Elk.
Primary prices rise to 116.0 per
cent of 1947-49 level.
Library Meeting
(Continued from page one.)
day night, April 4, and will end
Saturday, April 6, at noon.
Others appearing on the program
include Dr. Dale W. Gramley,
preaident of Salem College of
Winston-Salem, who will ipoak on
Thunday night; Thelma and Corydon
Boll of Sapphire, North Carolina,
famous authors and Illustrators
of children's books, who will
speak at breakfast meeting April
S; Dr. Herbert W. Wey, associate
dean of the graduate school of
ASTC, speaking at 10:00 a. in. on
April 9; and Richard Cbaae, nationally
known folkloriat and author,
who speaks at the dinner
meeting on April 9.
Watauga Native
Passes In Maine
1Ira. MatUe Triplett Miller, 94,
of Bath, Maine, died March Jl.
Burial will be April 4 at Mount
Sthram Baptist Church. In Triplets
with burial at the Rhymer
Cemetery. The body will lie in
ftate from 10 to 11 at the church,
and Rev. Thee Besdriz will conduct
the rite*. Mra.
Miller is survived by her
huaband Jamea, two aona, Jerry
and Stuart Hampton, and two
daufhtera, Mildred and Joana, all
of Bath. Survivor* alao Include
three hrothera, C. C. Triplett of
Boone, and Eugene and Clyde
Triplett of Triplett; and four ai»
A
tan. 1*1 Maty Triplett, Mm.
Petri Triptatt, Urt Vcrda Gra#,
and Mr* Anna R*?ynoldi, || of
SHOP and SAVE
at The Trading Post
J. F. G. Coffee . . lb. 96c
6-OZ. JAR
Nescafe Coffee . . $1.29
2 CANS
Jack Mackerel ... 35c
Pinto Beans, 10 lbs. $1.00
PRUNES, 1 lb 25c
Potatoes ... 10 lbs. 35c
MILK, 8 large cans, United $1.00
PORK & BEANS, 2 large cans 35c
Entire Stock of Ready-To-Wear Going at
Wholesale Prices
.
Watauga Trading Post
WEST BOONE — OPEN LATE EACH EVENING
PLENTY OF FREE PARKING SPACE
Th« coat of going to eollaei
day l« a heavy date «a
age family'*
your child'! education
aside regular