SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS
By JAMES H. GRIFFIN. SoD Owswtijuirt
Some farmers in Chowan
County are beginning to want
' more information about their
Soil Conservation District how
it wodcs and how the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service fits into
the picture. Today's column
will be on the SCD program.
Soil' conservation districts are
legally constituted units of state
government, created to adminis
«fer soli and water conservation
work within their boundaries.
They are not branches or agen
cies of any federal department
Each district is autonomous and
self-governed. It has authority
to enter Intel crocking agreements
with other agen
cies- and w£K private congeals
to carry ouli i*~ purposes..'l-
ajch working -agrcc
iffnts wtvhilhe dis
tricts, the V Soil Consolation
Service and *1 other agencies of
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture provide assistance to
farmers, watershed associations
and others.
Each district is created by
legal procedures under author
ity of state law. The enact
ment of the North Carolina Soil
Conservation Districts Law in
1937 and the organization of the
Brown Creek Soil Conservation
District the same yearn, marked
the beginning of districts. Cho
wan and Perquimans Counties
were organized in July, 1943.
Hie present Albemarle SCD was
not organized until January,
1945, and added Pasquotank,
Camden and Currituck Coun
ties. Founders of the • Albe
marle Soil Conservation District
were T. C. Byrum. Sr., Eden ton;
E. N. Elliott, Tyner; Archie T.
Lane, Hertford, E. M. Perry and
John T. Lane.
All districts are based on the
principle that local landowners
and operators should take the
initiative and responsibility in
directing conservation programs
aimed at solving their local sbil
and water problems.
Districts are created after pe- 1
titions, public hearings and a
referendum show that land own
ers and operators want such a
local agency to deal with their
conservation problems.
Once established, a soil con
servation district is legally re
sponsible for soil and water con
servation within its boundaries.
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much as a county is responsible
for roads or a school district for
education.
Each soil conservation district
is directed by a board of super
visors elected by the people.
Elected district supervisors in
Chowan County are L. C. Bunch,
H. F. Byrum and J. A. Webb,
Jr. This board of supervisors
decides upon a county-wide
program and plan of action. It
then arranges for assistance
from public or private sources
to put its program into effect.
A State Soil Conservation
Committee established by thej
State Soil Conservation Law hasi
general direction of district ac-l
tivitics in the state. This body;
acts for the state government in
creating new districts. It con
sults with and advises district
governing bodies and facilitates
their local operations. It man
ages the state funds made avail
able for district operations.
State laws authorize districts
to own property, to accept ma
terials and services and to use
and manage them to further
their conservation objectives.
Through cooperative agreements
with individual land owners and
operators, they make their fa
cilities available to them to ac
complish soil and water con
servation on their land. i
Technical assistance is fur
nished soil and water conserva
tion districts by the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service under
terms of formal memorandums
of understanding with each dis
trict The memorandums of un
derstanding between the Soil
Conservation Service and the
Albemarle Soil Conservation
District was signed on Julv 13.
1943. SCS will make available
to the district the services of
technical personnel especially
trained in the science of soil
and water conservation. Ser
vices furnished by the Soil Con
servst:on Services will in.-lude
soil survey's, assistance in de
veloping conservation plans for
watersheds, helping owners and:
operators of lands in district toj
develop conservation olans for
their farms, technical assistance
in carrying out conservation
pract ; ces on their farms and
other necessary work. Technic
ally trained personnel are avail-
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDEHTOH. NORTH CAROLINA. WfWUPAT, FEBRUARY 2S. 19M.
able in all phases of soil and
water conservation.
Districts have the responsi
bility for keeping their work
plan up-to-date and to create in
terest of owners and operators
and the public in soil and wa
ter conservation.
The district will be respons
ible for determining priority of
work. Adopt a system for or
derly and progressive develop
ment and application of con
servation plans of farms. It
will use the technical assistance
furnished only by lands under
cooperative agreements to the
district
Other agencies of the Depart
ment of Agriculture have their
own agreements with the dis
trict.
The Albemarle Soil Con-!
|servation District offers the
following services to its co- :
| operators; (A) Detailed soil
jand land capability map of
farmland. (B) Local and specific
information about the different
safe uses and adapted crops for
each kind of soil on your
farms, (C) Information about
the conservation practices need
ed on each kind of soil with
each of the possible systems to
use, (D) Consultation service
from a professional soil con
servationist to heap you make
a basic conservation plan for
your land, (E) Technical ser
vices as needed, to design, lay
out and check the construction
of dams, terraces, open ditches,
tile, sod waterways, ponds or
other structures you decide to
buitcl: to decide on varieties of
plants, seeding methods and
rates and cultural practices to
use in establishing glass or
trees as planned; and to answer
technical questions that arise in
managing pastures, woodland or
wildlife.
Recently the Soil Conserva
tion Service added a forester
and a wildlife biologist to its
staff to service district co
operators.
Besides the Soil Conservation
Service, other agencies help
the district to carry out its ob
jectives in soil and water con
servation.
The U. S. Forest Service has
supplemental memorandums of
understanding with certain dis
tricts. especially where na
tional forest lands are inter
mingled with private lands.
The Farmers Home Adminis
tration makes loans to soil con
servation districts to help them
provide community facilities or
services for soil and water con
servation. It makes loans di
rect to individual eooperators
to help them apply a conserva
tion program.
U. S. Department of Agri
culture policy invites district
governing boards (district su
pervisors) to participate with ]
county ASC Committee in de
veloping county ACP programs.
Hie Federal Extension Ser
vices cooperates with land grant
colleges in furthering conserva
tion education. The stale and
county extension organization!
in turn make appropriate ar
rangements for assistance to
soil conservation districts. Sim
ilar working agreements with
states agencies, county govern
ments or private groups are 1
made by the board of district
supervisors in carrying out
their soil and water conscrva- j
lion objectives.
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Lunci Room Menu j
Menus for the Chowan High
School lunch room for the week
of February 20 to March 4 will
be as follows:
Monday: Milk, meat loaf and'
gravy, buttered potatoes, string
beans, sliced tomatoes, oven
bread, butter and block cake.
Tuesday: Milk, sausage, scram-:
bled eggs, green butter beans, <
1 steamed rice; apple rings and
chocolate pudding.
Wednesday; Milk, rolls, but
ter, ravioli, pimento cheese sand
wich, tossed salad, hot rolls, but
ter and pineapple-grapefruit cup.
Thursday: Milk, boiled ham,
potato salad, turnip greens,
pickle relish, rolls, butter and
jello with fruit.
Friday: Milk, fish sticks with
cheese slices, French fried po
tatoes, carrot and cabbage salad,
hush puppies, butter and lemon
* pudding.
CHOWAN 4-H CLUB MEETS
The Chowan Intermediate 4-H
Club met in the Chowan High
School auditorium with the
meeting called to order by Den
(iiis Hare, president. The Pledge
Jof Allegiance and the 4-H
'Pledge were given.
| Joyce Bass gave a very in
spiring devotional. The sp?nv
j tary, Sandra Harrell, called the
.roll and read the minutes of the
Hast meeting, which were ap
| proved.
j Arlyn Bunch and Sarah El
j liolt had an interesting program
j about the two United States
i pi'esidents who were born in
i February'. Lincoln and Wash- i
ington. The meeting was turned
over to the agents.
Miss Catherine Aman, assist
ant home economics agent, show
-led the girls the techniques of
(giving a method demonstration,
i Miss Aman urged all the girls
i to participate in the demonstra
: tion program that is directly
related to the 4-H projects. Miss
Aman pointed out that one can
gain poise and much technical
information from writing and
I giving a demonstration.
, Harry Venters, assistant coun
’tv agricultural agent, showed
the boys how to clean a tractor
| air filter. This is the most im
portant part of the tractor that
■ protects the engine from wear.
Mi. Venters pointed out to the
boys that a tractor burns 8.000
! gallons of air to every gallon of
I gasoline. Therefore, it is im
portant that the air filter be
properly serviced to insure
I dust-free air for the tractor en
j gine.
| Lunch Room Menu j
i Menus at the Edenton Elc
j mental y School lunch room for
, the week February 29-March 4
i will be as follows:
j Monday—Luncheon meat, toss
salad, cheese slices, milk, sand
wich bread, green beans, peach
pie.
Tuesday—Pork and vegetable
pie, candied yams, fruit jello,
' school baked rolls, butter, milk.
! Wednesday Beef vegetable
j soup, crackers, block cake, milk.
I peanut butter sandwiches.
! Thursday—Spanish rice with
i bcef-ehcesc slices, com bread,
carrot sticks, apple pic, butter,
milk.
Friday Tuna salad, potato
sticks, garden picas, milk, grape
| fruit, piotato sticks, school
i baked rolls, butter.
COLERAIN, RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Gladys Clay Harrell, 48, of
j Colcrain died in Roanoke-Cho
wan Hospital at Ahoskie Tues
-1 day morning at 4:30 o'clock fol
i lowing an illness of only one
j day.
Surviving are her husband,
' Grabam H. Harrell: her mother, j
j Mrs. Allie Myers White of'
Colcrain: a son, Graham Har-1
1 roll, at home: a daughter, Judy •
Harrell, student nurse at Roan- 1
okc Rapids Hospital; two broth-1
ers, George Clay and Shelly,
Clay, both of Colerain; three
| sisters, Mrs. Calvin Johnson of
; Colerain. Mrs. M. F. Monahan
of Suffolk and Mrs. Henry Ellis
’of Wakefield, Ya.
She was a member of the
j Colcrain Baptist Church, where
funeral services will be held
Assets Used In Farming Up 62% In Defcade
Capital and investment needs
in farming have £hown a big
growth in recent years, in com
mon with the trend in the rest
of the economy, according to
data compiled by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture.
The figures show that all as
sets used in production averaged
$33,455 per farm last year, al
this (Thursday) afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. The pastor, the
Rev. P. T. Worrell, will offici
ate and burial will be in Hill
crest Cemetery at Colerain.
Aces And Acelets
Wind Up Season
Willi Double Win
By BILL GOODWIN
Edenton Aces and Acelets
closed their regular season bas
ketball schedule Friday night by
capturing both ends of an ex
hibition doublcheader with Per
quimans High School on the
, local court.
The Acelets ran off with their
twelfth straight victory, 40-29,
in the preliminary game. The
Aces took the nightcan 43133.
Neither contest gave either team
much to cheer about.
The Aces shot with consist
ency through the first half, go-
I ing into tha rest period leading
' 23-12. The third period and
[ part of the fourth found the
home forces in a basket drought.
Perquimans took advantage of
the cold spell to cut the gap to
one point at 31-30 with three
minutes to play.
Johnny Phillips, Bryant Grif
fin and Bill Goodwin hit for
field goals and Jerry Tolley and
Phillips came through with foul
shots to shove the Aces out of
danger in the final two min
utes.. During this spree Per-
‘This huge amount of insurance in force
represents money for future delivery—evi
dence of practical planning for the future
"For 23 consecutive years, Jefferson Stand
ard has maintained a position of leadership
in rate of interest earned on invested assets.
This favorable rate enables the Company
to pay 4% on dividend accumulations and
"I am pleased to say that, through my own
efforts, the benefits of life insurance were
extended to a large group of additional pol
R. ELTON FOREHAND
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most double the comparable fig
ure of $16,979 in 1950. Trans
lated into equivalents per farm
worker, the production invest
ment rose from an average of
$9,625 in 1950 to $20,651 last
year, up 115 per cent. Aim as
sets used in farm production to
taled $155.4 billions in 1958, up
$59.5 billions or 62 per cent
in the current decade.
quimans was getting only three
gratis tosses.
Phillips led the Aces with 15
points and Griffin had 11. Tol
ley added 6, Goodwin 4. Herbert
Adams, Jimmy Jonston and Ray
Ward two apiece and Fred Brit
ton 1. Billy Colson hit for 10
and Billy Nixon 9 to pace Per
quimans.
With Sara Helfc Smith on the
sidelines with tho flu, and Ida
Campen partly Immobilized with
a wrist injury, the Acelets had
to rely on Beverly Morgan’s 22
points and a tight defensive job
by Norma Blanchard. Mary Ann
Hare and Nettie Lassiter. But
they executed their assignments
with poise and the locals romp
ed to victory on a 15-point
fourth quarter scoring binge.
Mary Anne Overton added 12
points to Morgan's total. Sue
Bunch had 4 and Barbara Lay
ton 2. Stallings led Perquim
ans with 11 points.
ORKIN SALES INCREASE
Orkin Exterminating Com
pany. headquartered in Atlanta,
has announced that its gross
sales had increased 372% since
1952. In releasing sales figures
for 1959 the company pointed
out that during the year sales
increased 20% over 1958. Sales
for 1959 were in excess of $26,-
600,000.
Recognized by a leading fi
nancial reporting firm as the
world’s largest pest control
company, Orkin opened 225 of-
l Mr. \
“The highlights which appear below, taken
from the Company’s balance sheet and oper
ating statement, indicate the increasing
magnitude of Jefferson Standard services to
policyholders from coast to coast. The
1959 ”58
$ 234,572,085 Sales of new life insurance 5 217,696,195
$1,918,487,658 Insurance in force $1,803,871,538
$ 585,519,128 Assets 5 540,773,865
Totol payments to policyholders and beneficiaries since 1907
$375,938,303.
(Copy of booklet containing complete report available upon request)
fices and expanded its coverage
from 22 states to 28 states from’
coast to coast since 1952.
Tailoring Workshop
Scheduled Maxich 1
Miss Mary Em Lee, Exten-!
sion clothing specialist. N. C '
State College, will conduct a
tailoring workshop at the Cho
wan Community Building Tues
day, March 1.
All persons interested in tail
oring arc urged to be present at ■
this meeting beginning at 9
A. M.
Miss Lee will discuss tech
niques in tailoring, which will i
include collars, cuffs, pockets, i
buttonholes, zippers. scams. I
hems, sleeves and other details |
which make a garment look j
professionally made. I
KEYSTONE SEEDS
SELECT FROM
OUR COMPLETE LINE OF GENtJINE
E. L. Pearce, Seedsman
Phone 3839 Edenton
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REPORTS TO POLICYHOLDER!
"More Protection Than Ever Before”
"I am pleased to report to my friends and policy
holders on some of the accomplishments of the
Company I represent. Sales of Jefferson Standard
, life insurance, amounting to more than 254
million dollars in 1959, exceeded all past records
and brought insurance in force to a new all t;mc
high of over 1.9 billion dollars on December fi.
by more than 400,000 Jefferson Standard
policyholders. '
on policy proceeds left with the Company.
This means extra income to our policy
holders and beneficiaries. Four per cent is
the highest rate paid by any major life in
surance company in the United States.
icyholders and their families during the pa*t
year. I shall strive to merit the continued
confidence of my clients in this area.
Jefferson Standard today is not only one of
the largest but one of the strongest and
most progressive life insurance companies
in the nation.” -
Noteworthy Comparisons
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