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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVI. Number 30 Moim Street by Ralph Stein -nte^CONISIOERATE igg|| ATA 6MF.H. CUP SHE -■^= T =- STACKS UP TRAFFIC FOR MICES ! Soil Conservation Notes G. L. Winchester S. W. Holleman John F. Mcßane • D. Y. Murphy of the Bethlehem Church Community signed a soil conservation plain in the fall. He sowed a two-acre pasture and three meadow's totaling one acre to a mixture of orchard grass and Lad ino clover. The meadows will be cut for hay and the pasture is to j be used for grazing hogs. These; fields were lined at the rate of two tons per acre and fertilized with 1000 lbs. of 2-12-12 fertilizer per acre. • t Woodrow Smith is fencing a pas ture now that was sown in the fall of 1949. It was cut once during the summer of 1950. It now has a well-established sod of tall fescue and Ladino clover and should fur nish excellent grazing for his herd of Hereford cattle. • John Blackard of the Bethany Church Community has recently fenced some of his cropland in for winter grazing. In this field Is a one acre meadow of orchard grass and Ladino clover that the cat tle are grazing at present. This is just anothed way in which a mead ow may be used. Mr. Blackard plans to top dress this meadow with 600 lbs. of 0-14-14 fertilizer. Mr. Blackard cut this meadow one time for hay this summer. • Many farmers are contemplating reterracing some fields this spring. Many of these fields have been terraced many years. These ter- races are large and it is a much more difficult job to tear down the old terraces than to build the new ones. O. R. Whitley of Knightdale re cently hired a motor grader to do the job of brushing out these old terraces. It looks as if it did a very good job. He will build the new terraces with farm equipment. The Soil Conservation Service per sonnel is furnishing the technical assistance and supervising the construction of the terraces, mead ows, and other conservation prac tices on the farm. Over 35,000 Cows Bred Artificially Estimates made this week by dairy specialists at State College indicate that the number of dairy cows bred artifically in North Car olina during 1950 will reach a rec ord-breaking total of 35,000. This figure is more than twice as large as the total of 17,000 cows bred under the program in 1948, the first year of operation. The to tal last year was about 27,000. Except for Burke, Cabarrus, Lin coln, and Stanly, all counties west of Raleigh are now organized into artificial breeding associations. Even in these four, many dairymen are receiving service from neigh boring counties. The newest association is in Sampson County, where opera tions were started last week. Pitt, Robeson, and Richmond have re cently entered the program. Second Section «<* Zebulon, N. C., Friday, December 22, 1950 MERRY CHRISTMAS Behind the Scenes in Business The return of “big war” jitters has alerted the home front again to the dangers of modern living. It found expression in the past week in top-level thinking about the industrial plant of the future. The factory of tomorrow will look like a concrete box. It will be designed to give protectior against the dangers of atomic en ergy from without and within. A number of plants are beginning to use radioactive molecules in their manufacturing and this calls for the utmost in precautions. Simplicity in design and freedom i from ornamental gee-gaws will be the keynote of industrial plant j engineering. But the cost of con struction will be greater many times greater than the cost of: putting up a conventional plant. Any factory using radioactive molecules must assure the Atomic Energy Commission it is fully equipped to protect its workers against exposure to radioactivity. Safety measures are being adopt ed which will establish patterns for the plant of tomorrow. In one large plant X-ray technicians are supplied with “Minometer pencils” which indicate when they are get ting too much dosage from radio logical hazards These pencils which are clipped to the worker’s pocket are checked by special lab oratory instruments each eight hour working day. Carelessness at home could kill more of our civilian population than enemy bombings, safety ex perts says, and proper precautions on the home front are vitally nec essary. PROTECTING THE HIGH WAYS Another precaution that is necessary, as Far East and Euro pean tension mounts, is in the care of our highway system. Much heavy traffic moves over our highways from East to West and the physical job of highway re habilitation, as well as the ex pense involved, is staggering. The worst fears of engineers that gi ant trucks are breaking up na tion’s highway system appear to be confirmed by a half-million dollar road test in Southern Mary land. Conducted by federal gov ernment and highway departments of 11 states and the District of Co lumbia, the test has resulted in ex tensive damage to the most heavily burdened sections of a 1.1-mile concrete road. Each lane tested a different truck-weight category 18,000 and 22.400 pound single axle, 32,000 and 44,800 pound tan dem axle loads. The six-months’ experiment was launched on a round-the-clock schedule June 23. Early in October the test lane for the 44,800-pound tandem axle was destroyed to a point where en gineers found it necessary to sus pend operations for this weight category. Well before its comple tion, the test fully substantiated warning of highway engineers that the nation’s road system was not designed or constructed for the vastly greater volume and weight of today’s truck traffic. THINGS TO COME More light from an ordinary bulb is promised through a new plastic filter-magnifier that blocks out red Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers and yellow light from an incandes cent bulb and sends a whiter light, with nearly double its original in tensity ... A new liquid silicone water repellent designed to protect unglazed exterior masonry and stone building materials; it “water proofs” without blocking the pores of stone and masonry, and is ap plied with spray or brush . . . Rub ber floor mats, with company name or trade mark inlaid in col or, as point-of-sale advertising pieces . . . Perfumed bills, sent out by a New York department store, to advertise a new scent and to make a sales promotion piece out of the “bad news.” HOUSEWIFE’S BURDEN The amount of work performed annu ally by the average housewife is staggering when the statistics are added up. With the accent on la borsaving, her job is becoming easier. Time was when the typical home maker walked seven ir iles a day inside her own house. Mod ern, compact kitchens have re duced that by several miles. Au tomatic dishwashers have remov ed much of the druggery from cleaning the 20,000 or more dishes that the family of four would use in a year. Now the American Can Company adds a new statistic bas ed on the fiber milk containers it manufacturers. The six and a half billion one-trip paper containers being produced by the industry this year weigh about an ounce and a half each, while round-trip types of containers tip the scales as much as 22 ounces. Measured in quart size containers alone it is estimated that about 10 billion pounds is saved in trips between home and grocery store. That gross tonnage approximates the weight of more than 16,000 main line locomotives of 300 tons each quite a load off mother’s back! COMIC BOOKS AND CRIME— Publishers of comic books, espe cially those dealing with crime, are breathing a. little easier as a result of a survey conducted by a Sen ate Committee investigating their effect on children Nearly 100 public officials publishers and child guidance experts were ask ed if they thought there was any relationship between reading comic books and juvenile delin quency. The answers, including one attributed to J. Edgar Hoover, were preponderantly “no.” In the hands of an unstable child, the FBI chief said horror comics might prove disturbing. The ma jority advised restraint in pre sentation of comics and guidance or control by the pare its es chil dren overly excitable. BITS O’ BUSINESS Military expenditures have been overesti mated, analysts state, being near ear to S2O-S3O billions annually rather than the SSO-S6O billions talked about publicity . . . Invest ment bankers, now in Florida for their convention, are confident they will win in the government anti-trust suit charging monopoly . . . Claims for damages due to the recent storms in the East are | expected to hit an all-time record, | exceeding 1938 claims of $400,000,- 000.
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