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Strip Cropping System Should Be Seeded Now Fall iiitln season U an uhal time for,uestaHMte< ? aystem of Contour strip crapptag, says Frank Doggett, soil conservation special ist at N. C. State College. Doggett reports that contour atrip cropping is becomiag mors popular each yaar. It is a pattern ?f farming in alternate contour hands of close growing crops and row crops. "This is one at the simplest, cheapest, and in many waya one tf the most satisfactory means of erosion control available to farm ers, " Doggett said. Strip cropping can provide pro tection against both wind and wat er erosion. It can be used on sandy land and shallow stoney land where terraces are not practical. It is also quite effective on slopes too steep for terraces aa w?U as land so nearly level that terraces are not necessary. Strip cropping is generally used without terraces, but on extremely erodable soils it may be used with terraces. Doggett says contour strip crop ping has many advantages: one* established it makes a rotation simple and easy to follow. It is a simple way of balancing row crops, close growing crops on several fields of different sizes. It costs nothing to establish and provides no obstacles to the use of farm machinery. No more land is required to use a given rota tion in contour strips than is re quired to us* the same rotation in field units. Doggett predicts that many farm ers will establish contour strip farming systems this fall by seed ing alternate strips of small grain CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their acts of kindness and helpfulness, and for their other expressions of sym pathy incident to the death of Al bert Bingham. ? Mrs. Albert Bing ham and Elhot. lp U. S. to subsidize 12 new Carib bean cruises. Britain sold $224,600,000 of gold to U. S. g Supermarkets gaining foothold in France. in fields now Ravine ? solid stand of lespatfaa* of clover. Others will mad ?Ualia or percmrial grass strip* is alternate bands. Vei Income Is Pension Guide The Watauga County Veteran Serviee Officer suggested this morning that veterans and widows who are receiving pensions from the Veterans Adminiftration and have completed selling their farm crop, check the amount of their income. The County Officer said that pension is paid by the Veter ans Administration to wartime vet erans who are totally and perman ently disabled from non-service connected causes and to widows of wartime veterans if their in come is tinder $1,800.00 with no dependents and $3,000.00 with dependents. The County Veteran Service Officer, Mr. Lionel Ward, further stated that the amount of pension is regulated by the amount of in come. For example, a veteran with no dependents and an annual in come ef *800 00 would receive $85.00 per month. If this same vet eran had an annual income of $1,000,000 he would be entitled to $70.00 per month. The important thing to keep in mind according to the County Vet eran Service Officer is to keep the Veterans Administration informed of any changes in income. Increas ed income not promptly reported may cause the Veterans Adminis tration to declare an overpayment retroactive to Januar 1, 1961. If changes in income are promptly reported the amount ef pension will be adjusted but no overpay ment will be declared. In some in stances where the amount of in come is less than previously anti cipated, the pension can be raised. For further information and at sistapce in applying to the Veter ans Administration see your Coun ty Service Officer who is located in the Watauga County Court house, Boone, or Mr. Robert F. Currence, District Officer, North Carolina Veterans Commission, Frye Building, P. O. Box 148, Hickory, North Carolina. Beech Creek Study Group Ends Course The Beech Cnafc Study Group of the Beeeh Creek Community Club completed It* aeeead week ol study Saturday, September 30. This rug school mM at Beech Creek. Fourteen persons were enrolled. Miaa Isadora WiHtoma, member of the Southern Highland Handi craft Guild, was teacher She kept the group busy every minute of the time. Her remark: "This, to me, has been a perfect week. You all have shown such interest and have done such excellent work. I am very happy." Stress was put on color and design. Eeach person worked oat his own original design. We are now to get our design on burlap, collect material, select the colors needed, and dye them, and be ready to spend our time just hook ing and doing more dying in the school we hope to have in May. Miss Williams gave us dying with native materials. Goldenrod was used this time. Saturday was given over to mak ing eraft articles from native ma terials: corn, corn shucks, seeds of all kinds, gourds, etc. Some very interesting things were worked out. We were pleased to have eight women from the Toe River Com munity Club, near Spruce Pine, visit with us Wednesday morning. An interesting exhibit of Beech Creek crafts was shown them. Tbe story of the Beech Creek Com munity Club was told. Miss Williams explained how the guild works with communities throughout the mountain areas in seven states. She invited the group to return in the afternoon and ob serve the work our group was do ing. ATOM WAIVER VOTED The Senate has approved by a voice vote and sent to President Kennedy legislation to speed the training of French troops to han dle nuclear weapons. The bill waives the requirement of law that any agreement on the exchange of information on weap ons must lie before Congress sixty days before it can become effec tive. 5 Fun-Filled Days OCT. 10-14 * A THOUSAND THINGS TO SEE AND DO! at North Carolina's Biggest Area Fair! it Interesting exhibits from 1 1 Northwest North Carolina counties it Gigantic agriculture exposition and live stock exhibit it Competitions and record premium prizes FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ? Mil*- long 'World of Mirth' midwoy ? New grortdstond thrill show ? Q Kochmoo'j Hell Drivers ? Milltory projects ? U. S. Novy'? Polaris mltsile exhibit ^ ? Youth activities ( ? Fre? movies and demonstrations ? NASCAR Stock Cor racing ? Troctor driving contest ? Scorn of area industrial exhibits ? Community Development projects ? Homemoking displays and exhibits ? 3 Colorful flower shown Bigger 'n bettor tfion ?r*r I Pre* forking A tpoctocolor m?t for HM mHm family for 4000 cm < CklMfW (4mIM froo oa wnW "MimI Doyi" On* ?? Hm SodhNri'i Hni? taint WINSTON-SALEM FAIRGROUNDS Zionville News Notes Visiting recently with Mr. and Mrs. J, B. Triplet! were Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Triplett, Mr. and Mrs, R. D. Wellborn and Jan, Mr. and Hrv Jack Wellborn and Mark, all Of Deep Gap, Mr. and Mrj C M, Miller, of Parller, and Mr. an4 Mm. Bo ice Triplett and family ol Chftflotte. Dean Miller, sun of Mr. and Mrs. Max Miller, is a patient at Cannot Memorial Hospital at Banner Elk. Mr. and Mrs. Hough Reece, Bill and Nancy of Kingsport, Tenn., visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. i Vaughn Reece. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wagaer of > Shoons, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Isaacs of Mabel spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wag ner. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller, David and Donald, spent Sunday with 1 Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs. Jim Wil son, at Shouns, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Edd Mains, Miss Arta Rash and Monroe Rash of Trade, Tenn., visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Martin. Mr. and Mrs. James Layng have returned from Jersey City, N. J., Pennsylvania, and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Miller, . Kenneth and Nadene, and Mrs. Minnie Woodring spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harve brown. Miss Hettie Greer is sick at her home here. Lt. Andy Redder of Connecticut and his friend from Moorasville visited Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wilson and Danny of Boone, and Mr. aad Mrs. J. C. Wilson of Rt 2, Boon*, visited Sunday and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller. Mrs. Emma Warren of Sihrer stone spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Everett May. Mrs. May spent Sunday with her father, Monroe Greer, at Silverstone. The Rev. and Mrs. E. O. Gore and grandson of Deep Gap were supper guests Saturday of the Rev. and Mrs. Gene Sherwood. Miss Becky Wilson received a fractured ankle at school last Fri day while playing volley ball. Pope protests expulsion of ! priests from Cuba. Peruvian chief urges O.A.S. stand against Reds. Garden Time An you ever inspired by peo ptoT Really inspired? A Mem! dropped hr ? vM< ? law ttoyi ago and gava me toe Uft 1 needed. He lives on ISO acre* on the Neuse River' in northern Wake county and ii "surrounded by Wa lacy." When you retire, ha trite Tie, W all means surround your self with things biological because there is always something of inter est to be found in the many plant species and in the iMect kingdom. "I have more than 500 plants spe cies on my 160 acres, most of which 1 have Identified and card Index ed." Dr. Bertram W. Wells was for many year* head of the Depart ment of Botany at N. C State College. In 1933 he published a book, "The Natural Gardens of North Carolina." This book has long since been out of print and should be revised. I wish that some of you garden clubbers would help be revive in terest in this project so that we might bring the data up-to-date and make the volume again avail able to the thousands of North Car olina citizen* who would like to purchase a copy. You have guessed by now that Dr. Wells Is the person I had in mind when I bean this column. Phy*ically, he ha* changed very little, although be ha* been retir ed for some ten year*. His en thusiasm for the biological sciences la unbonded. In addition, he is an artist in his m rght. It seems that there is neper ? dull moment in hie life. Perhaps this little verse by Dor othy B. Straus* is emblematic of the philosophy of B. Wells and accounts, at least in part, for his fresh and effervescent outlook ? "Count your garden by the flowers, Never by the leaves that fall; Count your day* by golden hour*. Don't remember cloud* at all. fount your night by (tar*, not shadow*, Count your life by *mile?, not tear*, And on thi? and each tomorrow Count your age by friends, not years." Doctor Talk By JOHN B KEMBEHT, M. D. Viruses, as discussed in last week's coluaa, have tor yaar. boen suspected by son* as Uie possible cavse of cancer in man, or at least the causative agent pro ducing same cancers. This concept is that the central ?I Mr* ai lb* virus is composed of norteie aekt with a surrounding layer of protein The protein lay er of Ike viral initiates the process of entry Mo the bedy coll and the* (ha nucleic acid core of the viraa begins the process of re itol'iMiatlng ftself within the body cell. The theory has now been ad vanced by Dr. Wendell M. Stan ley of the University of California, that perhaps the role of the virus in cancer is that of an "infecting" agent rather thaa of reduplicating agent. Dr. Stanley feels that the tumor virus may set the cancer process in motion, not by redupli cating itself iaaide an invaded eell, but simply by introducing its nuc leic acid into the cell structure and thus altering the cell's metabolism. In addressing the Amtricad Chemical Society *Dr. Stanley pointed out that there does appear to be a viral role in cancer, but to date a mature virus has not been demonstrated in a cancer cell. On the other hand, it hae been de monstrated by the addition of nucleic acid to a normal cell that cancer growth occurs. This know ledge implicates the nucleic acid core of the virus and indicates the possibility that cancer develops through the transfer of "naked" nucleic acid from ceil to cell in the body organ involved, rather than the reduplicating ef the virue within the body cell. The reader, at this point, is per haps completely confused ? hut it is felt that if the general public understands some of the possibi lities now being investigated by medical science, that continued fi nancial support for such worthy work will also be available from public donations. The problem of c ancer (and many other deadly diseases af fecting man) that is being investi gated daily by thousands of scient ists in this country and around the word must be financed ? this money must come from indivi duals like you and your neigh bors if progress and passible cures are to be found. Travelers Spent Over Million In N. C. Trawlers spent HOt million ia North Carolku last year, 4.9% above 1058, a survey by the Travel Coufttil of Nertfc Carol inn shows President Lyaa NUbet of Ra leigh aaid the iarreaae waa caused both by mtm attraction! aad high waya in Um "Yariety Vaeationland" State and because "more people are traveling everywhere." The report km areeentud aa a feature of the meeting of the Tra vel Council ia Winston-Salem, Oc tober 1-2, at which speaker was Voft Gilmore, director of the new U. S. Travel Service in the De partment of Commerce. The report reveals that the tra vel industry, third largest in North Carolina, has increased 167% ia dollar volume since 1JM8. e Expenditures by oiit-of-state tra velers waa eetimated at $348 mil lion, and expenditures of North Carolinians tttveling within their own state was set at $163 million. | Total ulen receipts of buMM it the service of traveler* wai estimated at $<10 million, of which he largest portion went to auto nobile service stations, *592 mil ion. Eating place* took In $181 nillion, and lodging places J58 ?'Wis. The Pentagon nM ordered to ae ive duty two National Gu?# fi ssions and 240 smaller MalHasl juard and Army lh'l"i Mita hroughout the countff. The mo lilixation date will be Oct. 15. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced the mobi lization at a news conference at :he Pentagon. He emphasized that he Atlantic Pact allies were also ?king measures to increase their nilitary strength. UtMY BUILD-lir ' Britons defiant on anti-atomic protests. Watcnea Watches iWatches Bargains Galore in Elgin Bulova Others Name in Gold Free on any BIBLE Purchased from U? Walker s Jewelry Opposite Post Office ? Boone, N. C. '!/) 10-02. JAR i?staxt COFFEE j aK INS! Nescafe ? $1.29 SHORTENING CRISCO ? ? ? 3 ib. 85c MDI ALL PURPOSE Shortening 3-/fc.Con69c ,?EW HEAVY DUTY EADi c- ID, P Ad Lg- Size zyc 'mil STOCK VP. *LeENEX oxes ? *00 CT. nex 4 6, JIMBO PAC COBLE'S ICE MILK - a -Go/. 39c COBLE'S TOP QUALITY ICE CREAM ^gq/ 69c JUMBO PIES - ? Box of 12 39c ARMOUR'S NORLINA BRAND YOUNG TOM TURKtYS ..29 WHITE'S WORTIIMORE BACON - - 49< PILLSBURY OR BALLARDS Sweet Milk or Buttermilk BISCUITS --, 7' AMOUR'S FULLY-COOKED BONEESS HAMS ^ Lb o,n *239 MADE IN OU ROWN MARKET Pimiento Cheese Ham Salad s^z. Chicken Salad TOAY We Feature Top Quality U.S. Choice Graded Western Beef At All Times HflH . ; v ' 39 WE APPRECIATE YOVR BUSINESS Park Free in Our Large Parkthg Lot East King St. - Plenty of Free Parking Space - Phone AMi?-8*glj&
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