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—SBCKTOn ORE PAGE SIX ' m CONSERVATION NEWS 1 By JAMES H. GRIFFIN. Soil Conservationist District Signs j * fa ■ rs - J I l r•ssPflgjEfc£»-l ■* Metal signs marking the boun- > dary of the Albemarle Soil Con- ! servation district have been ! erected beside the highways en-1 tering the district. Chairman L. C. Bunch, Super visor J- A. Webb, Jr., Conser vation Aid George A. Conner and W. U. Conservationist J. H. Griffin erected the sighs Sep tember 10. The signs are 3 x 5 i feet with green letters on a 1 : white background. They are located in Chowan i Woodland Woodland J. E. Debnam has started car rying out his conservation plan No. 688 with the Chowan Unit, Albemarle SCD. Last Tuesday, September 20, a heavy tractor with a K-G Blade started clear ing 300 acres of cut-over wood ; land planned for reforestation in 1961. Last week, 14 acres were cleared and piled in 22 hours at sls per hour or $23.58 per acre. Some areas of the woods may cost more due to wetter •oils and other conditions. Large trees, 18 inches and up, are be ing left to be poisoned this win ter. Large stumps are being left, top. Windrows or piles will be burned by the contractor, Jim Etheridge of Plymouth. No cost figures are available as yet for burning. Mr. Debnam is well pleased with the K-G clearing operation. This mechanical preparation operation is being done on NC 37 highway on the Chowan County side of the Albemarle Sound Bridge at Sandy Point. Anyone interested in seeing this operation can do so from high way 37. The conservation plan in cludes firelanes which Mr. Deb nam says will be established be fore planting pine seedlings. Firelanes will be about 30 feet Wide and used as roads. Robert Francis, Edenton, is preparing his conservation farm Memorandum Os Understanding Memorandum Os Understanding Chairman L. C. Bunch of the Albemarle SCD announces that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the district and the Division of For estry, North Carolina Depart ment of Conservation and De velopment. . The memorandum will allow closed cooperation of the district and the Division of Forestry in the conservation of woodlands and woodland areas in the Al £ • * . c Ml 6Hw tr • Raleigh The Motor Vehicles . Department's summary of traf fic deaths through 10 A. M., ’Monday, September 26 follows: Killed Te Date . 822 Killed To Data Last You .....833 I County on Highway 37 near the ! Albemarle Sound, Highway 17 ! near the Chowan River Bridge, j and on Highway 32 at the Gates County line. Each of the five counties of the district installed the signs in their county. These signs were donated to the district by the Coastal Plain Soil Conservation District. The Coastal Plain SCD is composed of Greene, Pitt, Edgecombe and Martin counties. A. C. Edwards, ■ Hookerton. N. C., is chairman of the district. plan which includes the use of most woodland conservation practice. Technical assistance is being furnished by the local SCD. Mr. Francis says he wants to become a first-class tree farmer. Already he has plant ed seven acres of pines, poison ed weed trees on 10 acres or more this summer. By plant ing time in February, he wants about 30 acres ready plus the 11 acres of cultivated land. Lob lolly pines will be used for set ting. Mr. Francis has made his own tree injector for poisoning. He used the "blade of -an axe on metal pipe with a valve for con trolling the amount of 2-4-5-T applied. Results from using the injector and 2-4-5-T this sum mer are very good. He used a mixture of 20 parts fuel oil and 1 part 2-4-5-T. A 15 to 1 mixture is more desirable for winter tree poisoning. A tree injector is available free to district cooperators in Chowan County for carrying out planned woodland weeding on their farm. It is located at the SCS work unit in Edenton. The winter months are good for getting your woodland con servation work started. If vouj haven’t planned it contact your district supervisors of the local Soil Conservation District for technical assistance in prepar ing your conservation farm plan. “Might as well go first class, the fare is not much more”. bemarle SCD. District cooperators will re ceive better service. The dis trict will furnish soils infor mation to the Division of For estry and they will furnish tech nical information to district co operators in carrying out indi vidual soil and water conser vation plans. Mr. Bunch is well pleased with the memorandum of under standing and feels that more ser vice can be rendered because of the agreement. r Elementary School : Lunch Room Menu> Menus at the Edenton Ele mentary School lunch room for the week of (October 3-7 will be as follows: Monday Weiners, weiner rolls, carrot and cabbage salad, | baked beans, rice pudding and milk. j Tuesday—Spaghetti and meat balls, carrot sticks, school baked rolls, turnip greens, apple pie, butter and milk. Wednesday—Corned beef, po tatoes, steamed cabbage, corn bread, spiced beets, lemon cus tard. butter and milk. Thursday—Hamburger, gravy, steamed rice, blackeye peas, cheese biscuits, cherry pie, butter and milk. Friday Tuna salad, green peas, potato chips, school baked rolls, vegetable salad, fruit jello, butter and milk. Rotarians’ Teacher Night Nice Affair Edenton Rotary Club’s annual Teachers’ and Ladies’ Night was a very delightful affair Thurs day night m the Masonic Temple when school teachers of the county and Rotary Annes were guests of the Rotarians. Elton Forehand, president of the Rotary Club, served as toastmaster and C. W. Overman led in group singing. The invo cation was by J. L. Chestnutt. Teachers in the John A. Holmes High School were intro duced by Hiram Mayo, princi pal. Principal Ernest Swain in troduced the Elementary School teachers and R. H. Copeland, j principal of the Chowan High j School, introduced the teachers I in his school. A special feature of the meet ing was several numbers by the Treble Clef Club, of which Miss Suzanne Hardison, public music teacher, is director. The group included Ann Jenkins, Gail Per ry, Linda Garrett, Marion Bunch, Faye Cartwright, Nelia Lowe, Gail Hare and Phyllis Twiddy. Jo Ann Leary and Roger Lamb also contributed several delight ful piano selections. The pro gram was arranged by Derwood j Bray. Rocky Hock 4-H Club Elects New Officers The Rocky Hock Community 4-H Club met September 20, at the Rocky Hock Community Building. Harry Venters open ed the meeting and the pledge to the American flag and the 4-H pledge were repeated. First in the line of business, officers were elected. Those who were elected are as fol lows: Danny Long, president: Sandra Harrell, vice president; Margaret Tynch, secretary: Nan cy Bass and Gene Harrell, re porters. Those on the program committee are Sandra Harrell, chairman, Brenda Parrish, Arlyn Buftch' arid Thomas Peele. Next in business, a fair booth was discussed. Those appointed to plan and work on the booth were the officers, Mrs. O. C. Long, Jr., and any other mem bers needed. Entries in the fair were also discussed. Since there was no more busi ness, the meeting adjourned. The 4-H’ers then enjoyed recrea tion led by Miss Catherine Aman and Mr. Venters. Edenton Bonded OWNED AND OPERATED BY Leary Bros. Storage Co. EDENTON, N. C. ... are approved to handle A and B cot ton for Government purchase and loans. We are in position to buy your cotton when you present your Grade Card to us... Your County Agent and ASC Office will give you the proper infor mation you need. We also can give you the same infor mation if you see us. * & r » tic. CnuwAM muGUA EifcwTOK. MOmtH GAaGiGivA, jSahtjgQ*?, 23, IttQ. Letter Writing Week The 23rd annual Letter Writ ing Week will take place Octo ber 2 to 8, according to a statement issued by Postmas ter General Arthur E. Summer field to 36,000 postmasters. The slogan of this year’s event, as indicated on more than 200,000 banners, is “Let ters are Links to Friendship.” The display material will ap pear in post office lobbies, on vehicles on rural carrier routes, as well as in schools and libra ries, and thousands of stores which sell stationery for per sonal correspondence. Mr. Summerfield noted that there has been a revival of personal letter writing during the last few years. The Post master General said: “A let ter remains the most econom ical, longest lasting, and most sincere means of extending greetings, communicating so Waterfowl Hunters Requested To Cooperate In Mail Survey Daniel H. Janzen, director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife at Washington, D. C., is urging all waterfowl hunters who have received reg istration cards with the purchase of their federal duck Stamps to | cooperate with the Fish and i Wildlife Service of the U. S. j Department of the Interior by j filling out and promptly return ing the indicated portion of the form. This year more than 1,400 post offices throughout the country j have been furnished with , double postcard forms which are j handed to purchasers of duck stamps at these particular post offices. One-half of the card is to be j filled out by the hunter and re turned at once to the Bureau, i The other .half is to be retained jas a sort of scoreboard on which the hunter can list the numbers j I and kinds of waterfowl which he ! bags during the coming season, | and the number of days- he i | hunted. , FRESH FISH ALBEMARLE FISH CO. (Foot of Granville Street) Now Open Daily Fish Fresh From Our Nets Also Corned Herring Retail and Wholesale Percy Dail, Mgr. PHONE 2420 Edenton, N. C. cial news, and exchanging ideas.”. During Letter Writing Week, Postmaster General Summer field suggested that individ uals write at least two letters: one to a friend or relative from whom you have not heard in a long time, and the second as a reply to a friend or rela tive who recently wrote to you. He also urged corre spondence to people in other; countries as a means of pro-, moting greater understanding j among the people of different j nations. - s As in previous years, Letter Writing Week will be officially proclaimed by hundreds of governors and mayors. With such a great variety of beauti ful stationery now available in department stores and other retail outlets. Letter Writing Week is particularly easy and pleasurable to obseive. “This sample of hunters who return the cards,” said Director Janzen, “will receive question naires at the end of the hunting season in which they will be asked to report their seasonal hunting success. It is highly im portant that all duck stamp pur j chasers receiving registration cards fill them out and mail them promptly. Cards from everyone contacted are necessary to make our sample representa tive of the entire hunting popu- I lation.” | The chief purpose of the sur- I vey is to determine as accurate ly as possible the extent of the waterfowl hunting kill for the season in order that a proper | balance between the harvest of these birds and the hunting regulations may continue to be maintained. This annual mail survey was i inaugurated on a national basis during the 1952 hunting season | when 150 post offices cooperated with the service in handing out I the card forms. According to Director Janzen, it was one of the most progressive steps ever taken by the Fish and Wildlife Service in the matter of esti mating the annual 'harvest of waterfowl.'^ Explorers Invited To Oyster Bowl i Erplorers of Post 156, spon sored by the Edenton Rotary Chib, under the leadership of Advisor Carroll Jackson, has re ceived notice from the Oyster Bowl Committee that the Ex plorers have been invited. All Explorers must attend in uni form as the entire Tidewater Council group will usher prior to kickoff time. Each Explorer should make every effort to roundup all old members and piece together the long sleeve shirts and out-grown pants to outfit the Post. Contact Bill Goodwin, Jr., or Alex Kehayes for details. The Explorer program is open ed only to boys over 14. This gives each boy an opportunity to explore vocations that inter est the boy. The Explorers seek expert assistance from all fields. The program is chock jNjSLf Old. JfU f j 55PBF wm Straight BOURBON a 3 . 0 o 4/5 ;: A T R T w mskey mow distuuno company J LAWMNCHUkO, KENTUCKY MR. FARMER We Invite You To See The NEW ROANOKE SUPER COMBINATION and ROANOKE REGULAR COMBI NATION Peanut Pickers. The Super features the all steel welded frame with sealed bearings, and specially equipped with side mounted Tractor Power Shaft Drive Assembly, oversize reel springs, self feeder and has at least one-third more capacity than the famous reg ular Combination Picker. » Shown Above Is The Roanoke Regular Combination Peanut Picker The New Up-To-Date Picker For Your Peanut Crop Combines the best features of Pickers, and Threshers to give you a thoroughly clean picking job—minimum “foreign ma terial” under government grading. HIGfl CAPACITY—PRTCED RIGHT FOR EVERY FARMER. We Stock A Complete Line Os Repair Parts For Trite Roanoke Peanut Picker Hobbs Implement Co., Inc. GUY C. HOBBS, Mgr. “YourJgto Deere Dealer” , EDENTON, N. C •*'*, M U' t«i\ ' m full of these rhany big time ac tivities. The Oyster Bowl is one of the many programs made avail-! able to the boys of this county by the Tidewater CounciC Boy*,; Scouts of America. I 20 YEARS AGO j Continued from Pago 1, Section 1 1 to stage a Lindsay Warren Day| as a token of redeem for his outstanding service to the dis trict during his 16 years as Rep- 1 reseniative. He was scheduled! to leave the district to become comptroller general of the Unit ed Stales. Governor Clyde Hoey sent out letters urging ex-servicemen to join American Legion posts. Announcement was made that President Roosevelt had opposed a WPA project for construction of a school building near the Rocky Hock Baptist Church. The federal allotment for erec tion of the building was $15,541, and was for the consolidation of schools at Gum Pond, Beech Fork and Oak Grove. Enrollment at the Edenton Negro School broke ail previous records with 678 students en rolled and 19 teachers lon duty the .first day. Churches in Edenton wets re quested to observe "Great -Brit atn Sunday," during which *p9T ( cial prayers were urged in be- ’ half .of England 'in her war with f the Axis powers to die end that democracy may be sdved. ? About 40 local Mason* and their wives attended a meeting of the Second Masonic District ■ held at Cole-rain, when 50 and 25 year certificates were present ed. Os this number E. R. Con ger was presented a 50-year cer tificate and 14 members of Una nimity Lodge received the 25- year certificate. and what a beauty! the * Tango 11 Sensational j ot» tY V V< " Ue! Ji \ Trim, compact, bookshelf size. Zenith quality radio is a perfect “dress-up” radio for any room. And you'll be amazed at its rich, beau tiful Zenith Tone Quality. AC/DC. Model FSOB. Full Zenith j f Quality Features \ Powerful Zenith Quality 4*B,l '} Speaker with Alnico 5 Magnet Zenith Wavemagnet®, I'SS* Antenna e Advanced Long Distance AM Chassis e Automatic Volume Control e Superheterodyne Circuitry RalphE. Parrish (Incorporated) PHONE 2421