Soil Conservation News
= OUR SOIL ? OUR STRENGTH =
Noland Uses Rock Jetties
To Halt Stream Erosion
By BOY R. BECK
Soil Conservation Service
T. T. Noland of Upper Crabtree
has installed two rock jetties in
Crabtree Creek, to stop stream
bank erosion of his bottom land.
Mr. Noland says he built the
tWo wire-encased rock jetties in
less than an hour and that they are
really doing a job of diverting the
water away from the eroded bank.
He dug a hole into the bank far
enough to keep creek water from
cutting behind the jetties. Then,
fastening two pieces of old woven
wire together, he laid this down
where he wanted the jetties, filled
them with loose rock from the
creek and pulled the wire around
the rock, fsatening -it together at
the top by twisting the edges of the
fence wire together. This makes a
cigar-shaped, wire-encased rock
pile, weighing several tons that
directs the creek water ia the di
rection the farmer wants it to flow.
This week, kits of soil and water
conservation material were placed
in the Waynesville and Canton li
braries and on the bookmobile. The
kits include a number of publica
tions on soil and watfer conserva
tion and a copy of the Haywood
County Soil Survey.
Glenn Noland, conservation farm
er of Fines Creek, has Just com
pleted installing over 1,300 feet of
field drain tile. Engineering field
work was done by Soil Conserva
tion Service personnel'and federal ,
cost-sharing was made available (
by the Haywood County ASC Com- (
mittee. Marty of Mr. Noland's
-neighbors stopped by to see this
job while the work was going on. (
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The stream channel improve- 1
ment work on Raccoon Creek, :
through the. John Morrow farm and .
the Mountain Research Station, was .
completed today. Payment for the
work is based on yardage calcula
tions made by your work unit con
servationist, acting as engineer (or
the project. Bud Whisenhunt has
already fertilized and seeded the
new ditch slopes to fescue and the
spoil bank against the escarpment
to bicolor lespedeza. Bicolor is a
shrub lespedeza valuable for quail
production that farmers plant in
odd corners and in strips adjacent
to or in woods. One-eighth acre of
bicolor produces enough seed to
winter a covey of quail. The seed
was furnished by the N. C. Wild
lift Resources Commission.
Perfect contour strip-cropping,
along with a three-year, within-the
field rotation of corn, small grain
and red clover grass meadow can
be seen on three farms In Haywood
County this year. They have been
installed by Robert Boone in Fran
cis Cove, Hugh Terguson on Fines
Creek and Mark Scott at the head
of Wilson Cove. These farmers are
to be congratulated on the fine Job
of conservation farming they are
doing.
Arrangements have been com
pleted with school superintendents
Lawrence Leatherwood, Rowe Hen
ry and Father Newman to have con
servation education taught to all
Hkywood County school children
during the next school term. Mrs.
Alma Browning, MrsxCarl Ratcliff
and Mrs. Grace Stanley are pre
paring lists of published material to
be ordered for teachers according
to grades taught. Over three hun
dred kits will be supplied to teach
ers in this program.
"The real wealth of our nation?
food, minerals and fiber ? comes
from the soil, and conservation
farming is prolonging the useful
ness for decades, even centuries."
?John F.-Cunningham, Dean of
Agriculture, Ohio State University.
Junior Old Timers Club
Annual Meeting Next Week
Dwight J. Thomson, executive
assistant to the president of the
Champion Paper and Fibre Com
pany, will be the principal speak
er at the annual meeting of the
Junior Old Timers Club at the
Champion YMCA in Canton April
26 at 6 p.m.
Thomson, also a Champion vice
president in charge of industrial
and public relations, wiU bring a
message from top management to
Junior Old limers.
A' total of 37t) employees at the
Carolina division are eligible to
attend the annual party.
Phil O. Kinken, assistant super
intendent of pulp mills, will pre
side, and the invocation will be
given by the Rev. Kenneth D.
Crouse, pastor of the Morning Star
Methodist Church, near Canton.
Junior Old Timers will be wel
comed by H. A. Helder, vice-presi
dent and general manager of the
Carolina division, and Marshall G.
Cooper, president of the Junior
Old Timers Club for 1355-6u, will
respond.
Frank Earley, of the finishing
department, will serve as chair
man of the nominating committee
to recommend a new slate of club
officers.
The banquet menu will be super
vised by Mrs. Ben Grube and after
dinner entertainment will feature
the WNOX Variety show from
Knoxville.
Lowell Blanchard will be master
of ceremonies and entertainment
will feature such stars as the Mel
odyalres quartet. Bill Crowther and
his baritone folk songs, Red and
Fred, a rustic comedy team, and
Jerry Collins, piano specialist.
The following 60 Carolina Cham
pion employees become eligible
for club membership this year:
R. W. Allison, Ernest Anderson,
Wilson Barefoot, Dorothy Bentley, i
Leona Boone, H. F. Boyd, Howard
Cole, R. D. Coleman. Jr., Maude
Curtis, Hugh Earley, A. M. Fair
brother, John Ford, Bill Franklin,
James Gaddls, Charles Gregory,
Joe Sam Hardin, Turner Harkins,
W. C. Harris, Levi Haynes, Nina
Hemphill and W. H. Henson.
E. D. Herndon, Jr., Gerald G.
Hill, Elwood Howell, Vincent Ives
ter, Wayne King, Russell Kinsland,
Paul Led better, Ira Massie, Spen
cer Matney, H. L. McDowell, Jr.,
Bruce Nanriey, Sam Parrish, Bar
ton Ray, Gaston Rhinehart, Floyd
Roberts, Charles F. Robinson,
Edith Mae Robineon, Glenn Rob
inson, Gurley Robinson, R. W.
Rush, Charles Scroggs, Luke Smah
ers and Glenn Stamey.
James R. Stamey, Clyde Stock
ton, Nannie Stfles. Roy Suttles.
Arley Swanger, Howard Taylor,
Roger H. Terrell, C. V. Watts.
Eston West. William Ray White
sides. Barbara Ann Wiley, James
E. Wilkinson. Veils B. Williams,
Bobble Willis, L. E. Willis and
Sam M. Wilson.
As Forest Service roads develop
ifito general public thoroughfares
they are turned over to the State
Highway Department for mainten
ance. However 856 miles in North
Carolina are stiil maintained by
Forest Service crews, as are 1,209
miles of trails.
THE OLD HOME TOWN ??- By STANLEY
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V?? ? HEIftMIT IN A UTTUB STONR ROOM
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A WHEELCHAIR especially designed for chil
dren was presented to the HiyWood County Hos
pital recently as a community-service project by
members of the Bearerdatn Home Demonstration
Clnb. Officers of the dab shown here with Lee
Davis, hospital administrator, are (left to right)
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Mrs. George Frady, president; Mrs. Elmer Keen
er, second vice president; Mrs. George Worley,
secretary; Mrs. Lloyd Jones, treasurer; Mrs. Paul
Robinson, historian, and Mrs. George Wright,
first vice president.
(County Agent's Photo).
39 Employed at Belk-Hudsdn
Salute Growth of Industry
and Progress in Southland
39 employees will be waiting at
Belk-Hudson today to serve Way
nesville customers when it opens
its doors to a 9-day jamboree of
values saluting Southern progress
and honoring the principles of
good store-keeping laid down by
its founder sixty-tight years ago.
This large group of well-informed
people will be distributed among
the many departments ready and
willing to satisfy the store's many
value conscious shoppers. For the
most part, the men and women
behind the counters at Belk-Hud
son are local people, many of
whom have been with Belk-Hudson
for years.
Hundreds of young men and
women throughout the Southeast
have advanced to high posts
through the Belk family of stores.
They are young folks who live
clean, wholesome Christian lives
and have vision. Above all, they
don't mind hard work and enjoy
putting themselves Wholeheartedly
into their jobs.
The Belk system of stores is,
this year, sixty-eight years old.
Twenty years ago there were 138
Belk stores . . . today there are
more than three hundred! The
prediction is that in a few years
there will be over five hundred
Belk stores. With the .startling
growth of industry ? both home
grown and streaming from the
North, this will be certain, for
with industry comes an upward
trend in retail sales.
Following a practice of growing
their own executives, promotions
to responsible position come from
within the Belk system." Those
showing particular promise are
recOmrtiended by the store man
ager under whom they serve to
attend classes held under the
Executive Development program
at the Charlotte Buying Office.
Here specialists in the Belk sys
tem present the basic principles
in store management and the
fnany different phases of merchan
dising. Founder W. H. Belk used
to say that every man is the
architect of his own fortune and
there is plenty of room at the top
but the bottom is crowded. Just
as in the first sixty-eight years of
its existence, there will continue
to be unlimited opportunities in
the Belk system for ambitious, for
ward-looking people.
William Henry Belk
Pioneer of America's
Retailing System
The late W. H. Belk, founder of
Belk-Hudson was truly a pioneer
In establishing present-day mer
chandising methods in the South.
Just sixty-eight years ago he put
into practice policies which today
are widely accepted and praised,
but which at the time were con
sidered radical and rash.
When he became a small towa
merchant in Monroe. North Caro
lina. at the age of 26, he insisted
on two ualities as the fundamental
basis of bis store operation. They
were absolute Integrity and hon
esty?and hard work!
On this foundation of honesty
and hard work he built a way of
doing business:
1. Buy for cash in large quan
tity.
2. SSI1 for cash at a low mark
up. ,
3. Sell at one established price
for all customers ? no bar
gaining.
4. Strict honesty and fair deal
ing with customers and asso
ciates.
5. Money refunded to custom
ers on goods promptly re
turned, if dissatisfied. _
Today, sixty-eight years later,
these very same principles are
maintained as the dally policy for
all families trading at Balk-Hud
son. Friendliness and courtesy to
"all have made Belk-Hudson a
ern shoppenf^"*1^????^"
Supports Set
For 1956
Burley Crop
(By the Associated Press)
The Agriculture Department an
nounced Wednesday that this year's
crops of buriey and flue-cured to
bacco ? the two major types ?
will be supported at average
prices of not less than 47.2 and
48.2 cents a pound, respectively.
Supports last year were 46.2 and
48.3 cents a pound for these two
types.
In both Instances, these supports
were designed to reflect 90 per
cent of parity ? a price standard
declared to be fair to farmers in
relation to their costs. This level
is required by farm law. ,
The department said the support
rates were based on parity prices
as of mid-March. It said that if
the parity prices are liijhct at the
start of the tobacco marketing
seasons later this year, the rates
will be raised correspondingly, but
In no case will they be reduced
below levels announced today.
Price support aid will be avail
able Xo growers through grower
associations. It will be denied on
tobacco produced on any farm
where more than one kind of to
bacco is produced unlgss the acre-i
age harvested ot each kind of to
bacco is within acreage allotments
established for the farm.
The department said that since
1936 growers have stored 4.800,
000,000 pounds of tobacco under
price support loans. This tobacco
had a value of about two billion
dollars. As of Feb. 29, tobacco
pledged for support loans totalled
395 million pounds.
Area Man Cited c
For Falsifying . |
Benefit Claims
Willis Consrd of Route 4, Way
nesvllle, recently was found guilty
of falling to report his earnings
during the period for which he had
app)ied for unemployment com
pensation, according to Maurice
W Williams, claims deputy in the
Waynesvilie office of the Employ
ment Security Commission.
Mr. W'lllams said Consrd was
given a hearing before Justice of
the Peace J. J. Ferguson and giv
en a sentence of 30 days in jaU.
suspended on refund of $63 paid ?'
in employment benefits. He also <
was declared ineligible to receive
further compensation for a one
year period. '
Mr. Williams cautioned all (
claimants for unemployment com- ,
pensation to report any and all
conditions which may affect their
rights to receive benefits.
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Fron sun, water and air phis
hamiclis and minerals from the
oil. a sapling em *ow into ?
ree that may weigh 1,000 tons
nd tower 300 fret hleh. .
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BELK'S ?8 ANNIVERSARY
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Working together, dealing with one another honestly and squarely,
this is*the essence of progress in the South. People and the Christian
way of life ... we've built a giant network of industry on these two
forces. And the idea is not new. 6$ years ago, our founder, William
Henry Belk, pioneered a new way of storekeeping based, too, on the
same principles of honest dealing and friendly service. What of
tomorrow? Free men will always strive to do more and better things
with our country's God-given abundances. That's why we say ... our
future together is filled with bright promise!
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9 Big Days of values...exciting
storewide savings for everyone
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