Agriculturally Speaking
Cool Dry Weather
Slows Plant Growth
By L. B. HARDAGE
Extension Chairman
Many tobacco farmers
have planted some part of
their tobacco crops, a few
are already through planting.
Plants as a whole are
looking good, however cool,
dry weather has slowed
them down. Spray or dust
regularly for blue mold and
anthracnose as this is a
safety precaution, blue mold
could show us anytime if the
weather changes to wet.
Have a letter from
Professor F. A. Todd,
urging the following County
Extension Agents assist
with 'clearing house," plan
for tobacco transplants. The
objective is to provide
information on available
transplants as a means of
discouraging "long distance
hauling." Details of the plan
follow.
(1) Growers with plants
available should first take
care of their neighbors
needs and then inform our
office in Warrenton, 257-3640
—regarding number of
yards available, variety and
telephone number.
(2) Growers seeking
plants should call the above
number of information on
plant supply for the county
(grower, supply available
and telephone number).
This information could be
used in making the farm
contact and working out
arrangement for obtaining
plants.
II ■!
As you remember the
North Carolina board of
Agriculture adopted regulations
last year to prevent the
introduction of diseased
plants into North Carolina
From other states. We need
to work with the pest control
division by providing information
on available supply
—in state, if enough tobacco
plants are available in state
there would be no need for
growers to go else where for
plants.
If you need plants try to
»et them from a neighbor or
n 'he state if at all possible.
Fashion Winner
Attends 4-H Camp
By EMILY BALLINGER
Home Extension Agent
Oita Cheston, Warren
bounty 4-H Fashion Revue
dinner attended 4-H Clothng
Camp held April 29, 30
and May 1 at Betsy Jeff
Penn 4-H Center in ReidsyiUe.
County 4-H Fashion
Revue winners from .all
sections of North Carolina
assembled at the camp
where their outfits were
judged and winners selected.
The top 30 winners will
participate in the State
Fashion Revue to be held at
North Carolina State 4-H
Congress to be held in
Raleigh in July.
In addition to the fashion
revue judging those participating
in the camp attended
classes on fitting patterns,
grooming, crafts, machine
embroidery and recreation.
The three-day event ended
with a fashion revue written
and staged by the girls in
attendance at camp.
Mrs. Mack Patillo, a 4-H
leader of the Oine Community
4-H club, also attended
the weekend event.
Oita is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. M. Cheston and
is a member of the Norlina
Youth Improvement 4-H
Club.
Mrs. Clementine Rose
Copelaod purchase seeds f
[left] and Mrs. Rosella
>r the community garden.
[Staff Photo]
Community Garden
Project Dev>'op^d
By ROSELLE COfELAND
The Community Organization
Program in its efforts
to provide more people with
proper diets and better
nourishment has developed
a community garden project.
The project consists of
families working together to
cultivate, plant and harvest
gardens for summer and
winter consumption.
The Community Food and
Nutrition Program provides
the garden recipients with
seeds, fertilizer, hoes, rake,
forks and tillers to cultivate
and plant the garden. In
addition when harvest time
begins the recipients receive
a pressure cooker with
which to prepare and store
food for use during winter
months.
The program operating in
Warren County presently
has a total of 38 persons
benefitting from its efforts.
Mrs. Roselle P. Copeland,
County Outreach worker,
feels the importance of the
program cannot be measured
in time or money, but
through the nourishment it
Summer Means
Changes For
College Students
By MRS. BERTHA FORTE
Home Extension Agent
Summer means three
months at home for many
college students. And this
can mean disruption of the
relative calm in many
families.
For example, parents
may wisely try to "get to
know" their children as they
are now—not as the children
they once were.
Parents also need to
remember that college
students have been making
their own decisions all
year—choosing what they
do, where they go, and their
own friends. This can make
it hard for them to come
home to parents who want
them to keep the old high
school curfew.
Students may have to reevaluate
their expectations
of others, too. Their hometowns
might not offer the
many activities of the
university communitycalling
for some readjustment
of their leisure
activities.
Many schools provide
prepared meals and maid
service—and that usually
isn't the case in thfe family
living situation.
Both parents and returning
students need to realize
that their lives have beer
changing since the family
last lived together. And
consideration on everyone's
part can help make s
pleasant summer for the
whole family.
will give to those persons
participating in the project.
The recipients are now in
the process of cultivating
and planting their gardens.
Among the seeds that are
being distributed are snap
beans, lima beans, corn,
squash, okra, beets, onions,
potatoes, tender greens,
cabbage and tomato slips.
Anyone planning to plant
a garden this year and
hasn't done so already, may
contact Mrs. Copeland in the
basement of the Warrenton
Community Center from
8:15 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday
through Friday or call
257-4341.
USDA Announces
Changes In Quotes
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture on April 25
announced two changes in
marketing quota and price
support regulations of the
flue-cured tobacco program.
Under the first change,
leases filed after June 14
will be disapproved if the
quantity stipulated in the
lease exceeds the difference
between expected production
on the lessor's planted
acreage and production on
those acres. Previously, a
producer could lease out
quota equal to the difference
between expected production
on the total allotment
and production on planted
acres.
Leases filed after June 14
will also be disapproved if
the quantity stipulated in
the lease exceeds difference
between the receiving
farm's quota and the
amount 6f tobacco it has on
hand to market. Previously,
there was no limit on the
amount of quota a producing
farm could receive through
lease. June 14 is used as a
cut-off date because of
limiting factors in current
legislation.
Under the second change,
a farm will be eligible for
price support if its reported
(or determined) acreage
planted to flue-cured tobacco
does not exceed 110
percent of the farm allotment.
A farm on which the
planted acreage exceeds 110
percent of the allotment will
receive a marketing card
indicating "no price support."
Marketing cards,
issued by USDA's Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service, stipulate
what quantity of tobacco a
producer may sell without
penalty and indicate a
producer's eligibility for
price support. Under previous
regulations, price
support was made available
without regard to planted
acreage.
On March 28 USDA
proposed changes relating
to lease and transfer and to
limitations on planted acreI
age and called for public
comment. Responses received
generally favored the
decisions made regarding
lease and transfer. The
Department originally proposed
to issue "no price
support" marketing cards
to farmers planting in
excess of 107 percent of their
farm allotment. Most respondents
considered the
107 percent figure too
restrictive, especialy this
year, as many farmers have
already planted their tobacco.
As a result of the changes
of the flue-cured tobacci
program, acreage report
must be filed on or befor
June 14. The planted acre
of tobacco cannot exceed 11
percent of the farm acreag
allotment in order to b
eligible for price support.
Seafood Cookery To
Be Stressed At Meet
i
By EMILY BALLINGER
Home Exltuiu Agent
Are you interested In
learning more about the
preparation of seafood? If
so, you will want to attend
the special interest meeting
on "Seafood Cookery" to be
given Tueday, May 17 at
2:30 p. m. at the Lion's Club
building, Warrenton. Miss'
Fay McCotter, home economist
with the North Carolina
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources will
give the demonstration. The
program is sponsored by the
gram is sponsored by the
North Carolina Agricultural
Extension Service.
In talking about the best
way to enjoy excitement and
flavor of a trip to the beach
without even leaving your
home, Miss McCotter says
"Cook a delicious seafood
dinner and I'll show you
how."
Fay works with the food
industries development program
of the North Carolina
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources. With
shellfish and finfish landings
on the North Carolina
Coast nearing 200 million
pounds each year, interest
Attends Meeting
Mrs. Mabel H. Davis of
Wise attended the Quarterly
Meeting of The Board of
Directors of the North
Carolina Mental Health
Association at the Holiday
Inn in Boone, April 29-30.
She served on the following
committees: Long Range
Goals, Children's Services
and Ethnic Minorities.
in seafood ia spawning.
"For nutrition and flavor
seafood is the best bargain
around," attests Fay. "It's
also one of the quickest and
easiest foods to work with."
Fay says the people of
North Carolina are turning
to seafood for their gourmet
meals as well as their daily
fare, so she is emphasizing
more sophisticated recipes
now. But she still gets down
to basics in her demonstrations
as she covers how to
buy, store, and prepare just
about any type of seafood.
Anyone interested in
learning more about Seafood
Cookery is invited to
attend the special interest
meeting on May 17 at 2:30 p.
m. at the Lions Den.
CORRECTION
IN FUNERAL
The Rev. William Crouch
conducted the funeral services
for Samuel T. Dorsey
held last week. The ministers
were listed incorrectly
in last week's account of the
funeral. Active pallbearers
were A. J. House, Milton
Ayscue, Gordon Haithcock,
Melvin King, Calvin Young,
Charles Whittemore and the
Rev. Willard Faucette. We
regret this error".
Symphony
The Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra has premiered
Nuances II, a work based on
the sounds made by whales.
The work, containing
"eerie, ethereal, and often
dramatic whistles, screams,
and bellows," was composed
by Robert Hall Lewis.
Death And Funerals
HARRY 8. WILSON
Funeral services (or
Harry S. Wilson, 88, of
Lynch Street in Warrenton,
were conducted Sunday,
May 1, from Jehovah
Witness Kingdom Hall at 2
p. m. by the minister, Edgar
Limer. Burial was in the
Warrenton cemetery.
Mr. Wilson, a South
Carolina native who had
made his home in Warrenton
for many years, died in
Maria Parham Hospital on
April 22.
Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Yettie M. Wilson of the
home; three daughters,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Carroll
of New York City, N. Y.,
Mrs. Louise Smith of Bronx,
N. Y., and Mrs. LiUie B.
Britt of Philadelphia, Pa.;
one son, Harold Wilson of
Brooklyn, N. Y.; one sister,
Mrs. Queen Wilson of Estill.
S. C.; five brothers, Moses
Wilson of Savannah, Ga.,
Ulmar Wilson, Stephen
Wilson, Isaiah Wilson and
Lewis Ling, all of Estill, S.
C.; 10 grandchildren and 15
great-grandchildren.
JOSEPHINE H. WILLIAMS
Funeral services were
held last week for Josephine
H. Williams, 51, who died at
Rocky Mount Sanatarium
after an extended illness.
She was the daughter of
Ella Hicks Faulkner of Wise
and the late Leonard M.
Hicks of Warrenton.
Also surviving are her
husband, Clanton H. Williams
of Rocky Mount; two
daughters, Mrs. Carolyn
Ezzell of Winston-Salem,
Mrs. Judy Meeks of Rocky
Mount; son, Wayne Williams
of Raleigh; sisters,
Mrs. Mattie Harris ol
Henderson, Mrs. Eloise
Clprk of Virginia Beach,
Va., Mrs. Dorothy Newaom
of Wise, Mrs. Joyce Crane of
Portsmouth, Va.; brotbera,
Leonard M. Hicks, Jr., and
James Hicks of Henderaon,
Clifton Hicks of Norlina;
and two grandchildren.
MRS. LONIE A. HAYES
HENDERSON - Funeral
services for Mrs. Lonie
Adcock Hayes, 68, were held
at 11 a. m. Tuesday from
Carey Baptist Church by the
Rev. David Boan, assisted
by the Rev. Allen Ranes.
Burial was in Sunset
Gardens.
Mrs. Hayes, the mother of
Mrs. Shirley Royster of
Middleburg, died Sunday
morning in the E. A. Toney
Rest Home in Oxford following
a long illness.
Surviving, in addition to
her daughter at Middleburg,
are three daughters, Mrs.
Mildred Noell of Oxford,
Mrs. Kathleen Anderson of
Radford, Va., and Mrs.
Mattie Brummitt of Henderson;
four brothers, George
Adcock, Horace Adcock,
Joe Adcock and John Owen,
all of Henderson; 11
grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Melvin
Flora, Roy Lewis, Joel
Edwards, Jr., Ronnie Edwards,
Robert Harris, Ronnie
Clark. James A. Anderson,
Jr., Robbie Owens, and
Robbie Royster.
JAMES M.JAMISON
James M. Jamison ol
Salisbury and brother o(
Mrs. R. D. Harmon oi
Warrenton, died Monday it
Winston-Salem. Funeral
services were held it
Salisbury on Wednesdaj
with burial in Martinsville
Va.