Local Nan In The
"Hobby Business"
In A Large Way
—«—
T. P. Wood Plant)> Bulbs By
Thr Thousand* And
Doe* Other Things
T. F. Wood, employe in the lo
cal office of the Virginia Electric
and Power Company, has develop
ed a “hobby business' into big
business hvc. Little noticed by
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tivit.es were "aired" m an ar
ticle by Miss Marjorie Lmrtsley
in the Silver Anniversary Edi
tion of "The Vecovian’ . just re
cently released The story - fol- I
lows under the title of " ‘T. P.‘ |
Mixes His Hobbies":
If you want to pick up a varied
education the easy way, just talk
to Tilghman P Wood for a while.
In the past few years he's be
come an expert on several hob
bies—flower growing, breeding
dogs, parakeets, and canaries
“T. P " is a meter tester in the
Williamston Meter department
and a very busy man His big
business currently is raising
Dutch iris and gladiolus. While
he claims that he needs to install
an irrigation system to do it right,
he seems to be very successful
relying on rainfall.
“T. P." plnated about 5,000
Dutch iris bulbs this year, part of
which he raised himself, the oth
ers bought from a Dutch bulb
grower at Terra Ceia, N. C. His
iris were of blue, yellow, and
white varieties. "T. P." has been
raising flowers for about 4 years.
He starts planting glads in March
and continues at two-week inter
vals until the middle of August
This year he planted between
25.000 and 30,000 bulbs which
were bought from dealers all ov
er the United States, and about
8.000 of them were imported
fi an H H ft 2*' ■ tm &f ■ ■
arc gorgeous—the florets measur
ing ix o) t in hes in tin sx:
Currently, he is growing 15 or 20
varieties, including both com
mercial and exhibition types.
Among the whites and creams arc
White Gold, Oriental Pearl, Lead
ing Lady, and Silver Wings. Bur
ma is a beautiful deep rose, Eliz
abeth the Queen is a lavender, and
he also likes Purple Supreme and
a blood red- Mansoer. One year
he had glads blooming during
Christmas week but the bloom
ing season depends upon cold
weather. The work doesn’t stop
when the flowers are cut, as the
bulbs are dug up about six weeks
afterwards and are dried out in
trays. After four weeks, they are
shucked of the old mother bulb
and bullets, dusted with five per
cent DDT, and stored in a dry
place in trays, four bulbs deep.
"T F " sells all his flowers by
wholesale lots to florists. Finding
time for all his activities seems
to be his problem. Usually, he
gets up at 5:30 A. M„ and to get
Ins quota of sleep he must be in
bed by nine o’clock at night.
Dogs are one of his oldest hob
bies At present he is breeding
Brittany spaniels, which is the j
only breed of spaniels which will
point birds like either a pointer
or setter. They range in color
from orange and white to liver
and white, have longer hair
than a pointer, but are shorter
haired than a setter. The dogs
are natural retrievers. “T P." has
three of the dogs now'—a brood
matron ana two pups His dog
bad eleven pups last March, but
he sold all except two. Before
raising Brittany spaniels he bred
English setters.
His newest venture is raising
shell parakeets (love birds) and
canaries. The shell parakeets de
rive their name from the fact
that the feathers on their wings
arc shell shaped. Their present
popularity is due to the fact that
people can take them when they
air ready to leave the nest), tame
them, and teach them to talk. A
A-Bomb Explosion Forms Z P attorn In Sky
Dissipated bv high winds, the mushroom formed by the explosion of an A-bomb over the Ne
vada test area turns into a Z-shaped cloud. This second blast in a week was much greater than the
one set off on Sunday. The flash was clearly visible in Las Vegas^ eighty miles away.__
tame bird will perch on the fin
ger or shoulder and can be taught
to speak up to 100 words. The
birds breed about nine months
each year and lay from 3 to 8
eggs in a clutch. Love birds differ
from other birds at this point, as
the female starts setting as soon
as she lays her first egg, then
lays an egg every other day. The
clutch hatches in the same order
approximately 18 days later—one
bird every other day. The male
bird feeds file female during the
incubation period. Parakeets are
raised in cages one pair to each
rage, or in colonies of several
pairs m a large pen. Their colors
range thru shades of blue, yellow,
and white.
“T. P.” now has eight canaries,
which are more difficult to raise
than parakeet They are bred, one
pair to a cage, from March thru
June, and are yellow or cinnamon
colored. Some breeders are trying
to produce red canaries by cross
ing the South American siskin
with canaries, but T. P breeds
for singing qualities only. The
average life span of a canary is
‘Nickels For Know-How* Sample Ballot
SAMPLE
OFFICIAL BALLOT
"Nickels for Know-How" Program for Expanding
Agricultural Research
(As authorised by the 1951 session of the General Assembly of
North Carolina)
< [X] VOTE FOR ONE )
□ For adding 5^ per ton to the price of feed and fertilizer
for a period of three years for supplementing an expanding
agricultural research and educational program in North
Carolina.
□ Against adding 5<* per ton to the price of feed and fertilizer
for a period of three years for supplementing an expanding
agricultura1 -esearch and educational program in North
Carolina.
Ballots like the one shown here will be used in the “Nickels
for Know-How" referendum in which farm people will decide
whether they are to contribute live cents per ton on feed and
fertilizer to support expansion of agricultural research and teach
ing the State. All persons who use feed or ferilizer, including
wives and husbands as well as 4-H, FFA, and NFA members with
crop or livestock projects, are eligible to vote. The plan must
be approved by two-thirds of those voting to become effective.
Proceeds would be turned over to the Agricultural Foundation,
Inr, at State College to promote research, education, and exten
sion work for the benefit of farm people.
I ing ground and lighted up the
sky early this year, because last
Sunday's test was held in day
light.
The earlier ones were staged
at dawn when the flash could be
seen for far as 500 miles.
Most observers agreed, how
ever, that the latest test was not
as strong as the earlier one, be
cause the shock waves were felt
only slightly by persons only
about 30 miles from the firing
range.
The cloud sent skyward b> the
blast was clearly visible here,
but no shock waves were felt.
In the tests last January and Feb-,
rtiary, shock waves broke win
dows in downtov.n Las Vegas
stores.
Troops did not participate in
the test, but it was indicated that
the world’s first atomic combat
maneuvers involving foot sold
iers were not far away.
No test was scheduled for Mon
day, but it was believed the AEC
would test another atomic wea
pon Tuesday.
Speculation that the next test
might involve the 1,200 paratroop
ers standing by for their first
close meeting with atomic wea
pons was strengthened by the ar
rival here of congressional and
military observers.
Representative Walter Baring
(D) of Nevada, observed Sun
day’s itest, and Senator Pat Mc
Carran (D) of Nevada, also was
in Las Vegas, presumably to wit
ness a test.
Chartered airliners and military
transport planes carrying mili
tary observers were arriving here
throughout Sunday and it was
understood more congressional
observers, members of the AEC
and high-ranking military officers
from Washington were expected
to arrive soon.
The atomic weapon to be used
in the troop maneuvers probably
will be one ready for tactical use
on the battlefield, such as a com
pact aerial bomb or an artillery
shell with an atomic warhead.
M“ax Miller, editor of the Las
Vegas Review Journal, was set at
a vantage point only about 30
miles from Sunday’s blast and
felt nothing.
He said the flash of the bomb
was so brief he would not have
seen it if he had blinked his eyes
at the wrong second. He describ
ed the cloud from the bomb as a
“purplish boiling mass.”
The smoke rose to form a tow
ering purple toadstool, and Mr
Miller said he heard a roar like
thunder two minutes and 10 sec
onds after seeing the greenish
flash of the bomb.
About an hour before the atom
ic detonation, a huge cloud of
black smoke was seen rising from
the firing area and it was as
sumed the AEC had followed its
usual practice of setting off a I,
non-nuclear charge before the
atom explosion.
About six airplanes then began
[circling the firing range. A red
tailed B-29 from Kirtland Air
Force base, N. M., and atom-bomb
loading center, flew directly over
the test site, and five minutes
later, the blast rocked the desert.
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Christmas trade 5 per cent
above 1950's seen by by credit
executive.
W oman Photographer, 90,
Continues About Her ff ork
Macomb, 111—Mrs. Laura R
Gaitcs, 90, believes she is the old
est active photographer in the na
tion. In her 69 years as a photo
grapher, she has taken an average
of 500 children pictures a yea';
She also has taken many 50th
wedding anniversary pictures of
couples whose wedding pictures
she has made
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First North beauty tc
mler the 19S2 Maid of Cotton con*
teat i* lioney-haired Norma Kay Fite
#f \ aldesr, N. C The attractive,
jfreen-eyed contestant in 20 year*
old and 5 feet 5 inches tall. She
w » former student at Mitchell
< ollegc in Statesville, N. (’» The
Maid of Cotton contest m open to
•uy girl horn in a cotton-producing
state, who as between the ages of
19-25, has never been married, and
•a at least 5 feet 5 inches tall. En
triea do not have to be sponsored
by any group or organisation. Win
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J«n 3. Immediately afterwards, the
^laid of Cotton will set fortli on
• six-month international tour to
«tiiig|ig' wlJon «r«Vh - 4'w* XpmMMl
•ill Bnd i ash ton message to major
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Workers del Estate Of
Aeir York Eactory Man
McGraw, N. Y.—A total of
$100,000 left by F. A. Purchas to
the lit" employes of three fac
tories was recently divided.
Workers with more than ten
years' service received $1,000;
those with five to ten years, $500;
and those with a year and a half
to five years, $250.
about 10 years.
It's hard to believe, but T. P.
hunts in his spare time. Luckily,
the bird hunting season comes at
la time when his flower rush has
eased a bit. His love of hunting
probably accounts for his start in
dog breeding In the past, he has
also raised bantams, ducks, phea
sants, quail, chickens, and rab
| bits.
THE KKCOIU)
SPEAKS . . .
With two months to spare,
motorists on Martin County
highways and streets have al
ready this year had more
wrecks, injured and killed
more people and caused more
property damage than the re
cord shows for all of 1950.
The following tabulations
offer a comparison of the ac
cident trend: first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time.
43rd Week
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dain'ge
1951 6 3 0 $ 1,515
1950 6 0 0 845
Comparisons To Date
1951 205 106 5 $47,010
1950 139 58 3 30,410
Atom Bomb Nay
Provide Support
For Foot Soldier
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Involving Fool Hotelier*
INol Far Away
Results of the second atomic
explosion m the current series
of tests on the Nevada desert
indicated today that atom scien
tists have developed a compact
aerial bomb that can be used to
support troops on the battlefield.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion set off the seventh nuclear
blast at the Frenchman Flat prov
ing ground a few days ago, ap
parently by dropping a bomb
from a B-29 Superfortress. The
detonation sent a purple cloud
mushrooming 30,000 feet in the
air.
The detonation was neither as
great as those held at Binkini
Atoll m the South Pacific nor as
tiny as the "baby A-bomb” blast
set off here last week, indicating
it was a medium-size atomic wea
pon that could be used on the
battlefield.
It was difficult for observers
to determine whether the ex
plosion was a powerful as the
five tiiat rocked flic desert prov
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