An AppalaeMM State University professor, Dr. Nathaniel Shape of Boone, Is workii* with this
Caribbean Study Group in Georgetown, Guyana. Dr. Shope is seen at the extreme left in the
middle row.
Dr. Shope Visits Puerto Rico
A group of educators from
the West Indies and the United
States arrived in Georgetown,
Guyana, to continue their study
of Caribbean education under
a program sponsored by the
American Association of Col
leges for Teacher Education and
the U.S. Office of Education.
The group, which includes Dr.
Nathaniel Shop of Appalachian
State University completed a
week’s study in Puerto Rico
prior to going to Guyana. There
they worked under the guidance
d Dr. Lloyd Suttell, a staff
member of the University of
Puerto Rico, College of Edu
cation.
During the Puerto Rican visit,
discussions were held on
the training of teachers for
elementary schools. Visits were
made to branches of the Depart
ment of Instruction with con
siderable discussion concerning
the preparation, printing and
distribution of textbooks and
other instructional materials.
The group also visited schools
in session and discussed pro
blems of discipline, drop-outs
and achievement. Since Puerto
Rico is an Associated Free State
erf the United States, it receives
funds available under the Ele
mentary and Secondary Educa
tion Act.
Puerto Rico spends approxi
mately 33 per cent of its budget
for education. According to Dr.
Shope, this is a higher per
centage than is used on other
islands in the Caribbean.
Says Honey Bees Are Finding
Sweetness In Burley Blooms
BY HARVEY J. MILLER
Rt. 1, Relief, N. C. 28769
Honey-bees appears now to
make a lot of honey out of Bur
ley-tobacco bloom. This pro
bably is something practically
new in the honey-bee business.
As you know not to long ago
practically all farmers bud
topped their tobacco. All you
tobacco farmers know what I’m
talking about when I say bud
'topped their tobacco-that ‘ is
4^ hen, the tobacco be^an to pod
jjp bloom they go down And pinch
'■out the bud and take with it
the first three or four small
leaves.
But when the farmers began
to spray with the sucker con
trol formula they let their crops
bloom out real good before they
topped it which is just before
they went to spray it.
You take a half acre of tob
acco (which is about the amount
each farmer has now) and let
it bloom out good and you would
then see the bees swarming
around the tobacco patches like
it was a bee swarm. Use to
all the tobacco that was left to
bloom out was the stalks that
was saved for seeds to sow in
the plant beds the next year.
But now very few farmers ever
grow their own tobacco seed.
Also about all the humming
bird’s the writer has observed
so far this summer is in the
fields of tobacco which were
then in full bloom. I am told
by folks who has payed close
attention to it that the hum
ming bird sucks on a lot of
kind of bloom that also do the
honey bee. So far the honey
bee and the humming bird is
the only little creatures that I
have seen sucking on the to
bacco bloom The tobacco crops
in this lower end of Mitchell
County section is real good.
Well the farmers of this area
has met up with another pro
blem—that is fighting wildfires
on their pepper crops. Several
farmers this year planted a
pepper crop for the first time
and the wild fire was never
knowed to of strike the pepper
crops before in this area. But
several of the farmers says the
disease is really destroying
their crops despite the fact
that the farmers are spraying
their crops with a mixture that
was purchased on the market
BLOWING
ROCK
STABLES
are now
Open For Riding
for the rammer season.
Private Instruction and
group Instruction.
Trail riding thru the
Cone Estate.
Blowing Rock Stables
are now managed by
George Bryson Jr., of
Greensboro.
295-9245
and recommended to check wild
fire disease on pepper, but so
far the farmers says the di
sease is still spreading on their
crops. Some farmers in this
lower end of Mitchell County
section has set out four and
five acres in pepper. This is
sweet pepper and the marketing
place for the farmers pepper
crop for this area is at Bakers
ville.
Carmon Miller reported that
hb heard his first katydid holl
ering this year on the night of
the first day of August. He’Said
that he had been paying close
attention to the first night of
each year that he would hear
the katydid hollering and they
wouldn’t miss but a night or
two it not being on the first
night of August.
You know the old saying is
that has been handed down from
generation to generation is that
it is only six more weeks until
it will frost after you hear your
first katydid hollering. Well that
would throw it to be frosting
in the middle of September.
I have seen frosts here in the
mountains a little early than that
but the frost wouldn’t nip any
thing. You know it takes a freeze
along with a frost to kill grow
ing crops.
It's been a strong talk here
of late that this has been the
hottest summer that it has ever
been in this mountainous area.
It’s sorter been like a heat
wave-no cool air stirring at all.
But for several days the the
rmometer stood on 90 some de
grees in the shade. Although for
the last few days the air has
began to cool down considera
bly, with the nights getting a
whole lot cooler. Before now
even when it rained the air
wouldn’t cool down nary bit
even at nightime.
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Daniel Boone Monument
Rebuilding Plans Made
The Daniel Boone Monument,
which stands on the site of the
original Daniel Boone Cabin
and in the way of progress by
reason of a street-widening pro
ject designed to take a burden
of traffic from downtown Boone,
is to be torn down.
Appalachian State University,
owner of the property on which
the monument currently stands,
has decided to have the stone
marker reconstructed as near
to the present site as feasible,
say officials.
The street project, by which
Faculty Street is being widened
to serve as a by-pass for ve
hicles traveling between the
west edge of the downtown sec
tion and Blowing Rock Road,
is being accomplished by the
State Highway Department which
has offered to pay for the cost
of re-locating the monument.
Ned Trivette, Director of
Business Affairs at ASU, stated
that quotes on the relocation
job have been received and that
Wade Hampton, local rock mas
on, has been selected to re
construct the monument of na
tive stone “in a similar shape
and style.”
Trivette said that it was ini
tially proposed to move the
marker, but that this was found
to be impossible due to its
age and manner of construction.
“It is now planned to make
PAYS FINE WITH SHIRT
Murfreesboro, Term.—-When
Sam Crowder, 21, was fined
for speeding, he wrote a check
on his T-shirt to cover the fine.
Police chief William Cham
bliss said the check was ac
cepted.
HANDIEST
Judge: Why did you hit your
wife with a lamp?
Defendant: Because the chair
was too heavy to lift.
the new monument site a real
tourist attraction which people
will enjoy,” Trivette stated.
“We at Appalachian recognize
the monument’s historical
value, and are determined to
have it placed in a position where
it won’t be ‘lost’ as it is at
the present time.”
He added that the area around
the new monument site is to
include a patio-like place where
persons will be able to sit and
enjoy the marker.
Snake Exhibitions
Of Interest To Youth
snake Exhibitions in the Mus
eum of Natural History seemed
to be the most popular part
of a tour to Raleigh taken by
400 young people under the
auspices of WAMY Community
Action, Inc.
The WAMY sponsored tour
was planned as an educational
and cultural enrichment field
trip for low income young
people in this area. It was not
LOUD!
She: “Doesn’t a still, small
voice tell you when you do
wrong?”
He: “No, a loud, large voice
does—I'm married.”
limited to Neighborhood Youth
Corps members.
In addition to the Museum of
Natural History, the group tour
ed The Museum of Art, the
Hall of North Carolina History,
the Capitol Building and the
quarters of the State Leg
islature.
The Museum of Art proved
to be humorous for some of
the girls who were looking at
paintings which were set in deep
niches in the walls. One girl
steeped into a rather large
opening in the wall and instead
of seeing the large painting she
was expecting, found herself
lost in a elevator.
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