PAGE FOUR
Oliver J. Forehand
Improved Farm By
Drainage Practices
Soil and Water Conser
vation Plans Prepared
For Several Farmers
Oliver J. Forehand, farmer of the
Cowpen Neck section of Chowan
County, has recently completed an
open ditch drainage job on his home
place which is situated near Mace
donia Baptist Church. The drainage
improvement job was needed to dry
up a spring-wet area in his perma
nent pasture. There was once an old
ditch that penetrated the pasture, but
it has become about completely filled
up. Surplus water from the pasture
and crop lands which were adjacent
to it could not move on out. The or
dinary flow of water was completely
blocked at farm road crossings. The
outlet end of the ditch needed extra
depth for some five hundred feet or
more if effective water removal was
to be accomplished. The wet, water
logged portion of the pasture was pro
ducing bull grass and water grass—
species very unpalatable to Fore
hands cows or hogs. The more pal
atable lespedeza was crowded out.
Oliver wanted this condition reme
died and set himself about it. He has
dug a dragline ditch 1,645 feet long.
The ditch was located so as to follow
the lowest points of elevation. The
banks were sloped on a 1%:1 ratio to
prevent caving and filling up. Con
crete culverts were installed at farm
road crossings. Spoil dirt will be
spread with a bulldozer.
R. C. Jordan, shil conservationist,
and George Conner, Jr., of the Cho
wan Work Unit of the Soil Conserva
tion Service, assisted Mr. Forehand
with the surveying, staking out, ex
cavating and yardage computations.
The Production Marketing Adminis
tration will assist with the excava
tion costs at the rate of ten cents per
cubic yard of dirt removed.
Oliver plans to renovate the pas
ture, seeding it to better adapted and
more profitable species. This work .
will have to await the spreading of
the spoil dirt.
Oliver believes in conservation
farming. He set up a soil and water
conservation farm plan with the Al- 1
bemarle Soil Conservation District in
1944. Since then he has been putting ,
on the ground the practices planned
in his farm plan. Among the prac
tices established to date are these:
(1) Crop rotations for soil build- (
mg, (2) winter cover crops and win
ter legumes for prevention of soil
blowing and fertility improvement,
(3) terraces and broadcast border
strips of Sericea lespedeza for con-
trolling soil washing, (4) reseeding <
pasture for increased grazing, and ‘
(5) establishment of wildlife border ‘
strips consisting of Bicolor and Ser- J
iepE lespedeza for wildlife food and
cover.
These practices have been estab
lished as outlined in his farm plan
with the technical assistance and
supervision of R. C. Jordan, local
farm planning technician of the Soil
Conservation Service.
Last month soil and water con
servation farm plans were prepared
for William S, Privott, J. Elton Jor
dan, Mrs. E. L. Winslow and William
B. Shepard. Similar conservation
practices will in turn be applied to
the land owned by these farmers.
Life i-s estial only to the wise.
—R. W. Emerson.
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| IN WASHINGTON
la Atomic Warfare Wise or Just?
The investigation by the House
1 Armed Services Committee is more
1 than an attempt to discover why there
is dissatisfaction and discontent
among high ranking naval officers in
1 connection with the defense program
of the United States.
The hearing at Washington is rap
idly involving the soundness of a war
plan which has been adopted by the
civilian head of our armed services.
It is based upon the belief that long
ang e, intercontinental bombing,
through the use of the atomic bomb,
can produce a quick and easy victory
for this, country by rapidly blasting
another country and its population to
smitherreens.
This concept of the next war is
termed a “bad gamble with national
security” by Admiral Arthur W. Rad
ford, who also raises the moral quest
ion involved in the indiscriminate
bombing that goes along with what is
termed “the atomic blitz.”
Calling the B-36 program a “billion 1
dollar blunder” and the machine “an :
airplane of 1941,” Admiral Radford
said that the technique is not likely
to win a war and, if it does by mass '
rather than precision attacks, would
leave so much death and chaos in the
world that the United States could
never win a subsequent peace for “a
livable world.”
The Admiral went further and said
that he was now convinced that aerial
bombing of civilians during the second
World War, by conventional as well
as by atomic weapons, was wrong and
gave “no regard” to the ultimate ob
jectives of peace. Other competent
military experts have testified that,
in their opinion, the use of our air
force, in the recent war, to give tacti
cal support to military operations
would have been productive of greater
benefit and might have materially
shortened the fighting.
We are not nearly so much concern
ed with the Admiral’s belief that the
B-3C planes are “useless defensively
and inadequate offensively” as we are
in the necessity of the United States |
to determine, as a matter of national
policy, whether it intends to use air
power or any other weapon in mass
attacks upon helpless civilians, -with
Vets’ Question Box
Q —l know that $l5O is payable for
burial expenses at a veteran’s death.
Is the same award made at the death
of his widow ?
A —-There is no provision of law I
that would allow a burial based on the
death of a widow.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Elton Boyce announce
the birth of a son, Elton Keith, born
Sunday. October 9, at Chowan Hospit
al. The newcomer weighed, in at 7
pounds and 11 ounces.
Beware Coughs
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
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it goes right to the seat of the trouble
to help loosen and expel germ laden
phlegm and aid nature to soothe and I
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with the understanding you must like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
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November 2-3-r-
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THE CHOWAN HERALD EDENTON, N. O, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949.
the deliberate intention of blasting
a population as well as the industries
of a nation.
It should not be overlooked that
the atomic bomb, as a super-weapon,
will not always belong exclusively to
the United States. Consequently, it
is not necessarily certain to be used
in any future warfare. The reader
should note that the use of gas has
been outlawed by the nations and that,
so far, at least, large-scale gas attacks
upon civilian populations have been
avoided. Apparently, neither side in
any war has been willing to invite
the inevitable retaliation.
This attitude may well govern the
nations in the use of the atomic bomb.
If such a chance exists, and there is
any prospect that the nations will out
law the bomb, except when pin-point
ed upon military objectives, the United
States should not be the country to
make its use inevitable. We should
be prepared to use the atomic bomb
if, any other nation uses it, just as
we have been prepared to use gas
and germs if any other nation used
them against us.
It is quite a different thing, how
ever, from basing our entire theory
of future warfare upon the indiscrimi
nate use of the atomic bomb.
Why Try to Get the Voters Out?
In nearly every election, there is an
organized attempt to persuade the vo
ters to register and to participate in
the election at hand. The consequence
is that a large number of voters put
their names on the books and go to
the polls without having much inter
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Edenton Trio Attending
State Nurses’ Meeting
| Misses Emily Russell, Annie Ruth
White, nurses at Chowan Hospital,
and Miss Kathleen Leary of the local
Health Department are in High Point
this week attending a meeting of the
North Carolina Nurses’ Association.
The trio expects to return to Eden
ton today (Thursday).
The highlight of the meeting was
an address by Mrs. Louise P. East,
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