/ / R®March can cloaa tha gap«.!\ * prevent birth defects ' \ '3 Qiy» I \to tftemardiof Dimes / ' M— . I ■ m.I « - •***! Plesser did say he works almost exclusively for Republican clients. He said he has done work for the White House. No prediction was possible from the poll, in the GOP U. S. Senate primary between Raleighite Jesse Helms and Concord resident Jimmy Johnson. Plesser said the numbers in the undecided and don’t know groups are too large for a prediction. Undecided voters haven’t chosen between the two candidates, he said. The don’t-know group includes voters who don’t know who the candidates are, Plesser said. v !, ~ ■>. He termed the Democratic contest between incumbent Sen. B. Everett Jordan and U. S. Rep. Nick Galifianakif as a contest, saying Gaiiflanakis has chance to unseat Jordan. Plesser wouldn’t release percentage figures on any of these statewide races because he said the nature of the, questions on these races don’t produce percentage com parisons. Cambridge was listed as “one of tbe more successful firms in the field” in a Time Magazine article published Jan. 10. The field described in Time is a new form Bhe was the widow of M. M. Murphy who died in 1963. Surviving are one step daughter, Mary Autrey; two step sons, Dewey and hfer man Murphy all of Route 5j two sisters, Mrs. Tassie Brad ley and Mrs. Cora Robinson of Old Fort; two brothers, Lon nie Wilson of Marion and Joe Wilson of Okanagah, Wash.; seven grandchildren andtvwlie great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren also survive. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p. m, Monday at South Estatoe Baptist Church. Rev. John Gates, and Rev. Charles Willis officiated and burial was in the church cemetery. CLYDE K.F'NDER Clyde W. Fender, 63, of the Swiss Community died Fri day afternoon in an Asheville hospital after a short illness. He retired from the N. C. Highway Road Oil Department in 1971 after 23 years Service. Surviving are the widow, Myrtle Barnes Fender; one daughter, Mrs. John Duncan of Burnsville; one son, J» B. Fender of Route 3, Burnsville; two sisterS, Mrs. Jess Buckner and Mrs. W aync Fox; two bro thers, Horace and Chester Fen der all of Route 3, Burnsville; and two grandchildren. Funeral services Were held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in the Ivy Cap Baptist Church. Revs. James Ferguson, Ebb Jenkins, and Alan McKinney * officia ted and burial was in the fam ily cemetery. Chemical For Alfalfa The Environment Protec - tion Agency has recently released the Chemical Furfdan for use on alfalfa to control the alfalfa wevil. The chem ical is cleared for use and doas *tti excellent job of controlliig the wevil. One application sprayed on during early spring does the job. Furidan was per fected several years ago and has had extensive testing on alfalfa. Some pdots have been, and are being tried in Bun combe County. A group of farmers and Extension person - nel saw these plots last week. The prospect of alfalfa pro duction in Yancey County of fers many needed advantages. Good alfalfa hay has very hijji feeding value. Alfalfa can be produced on land not suitabfe for other crops such as com silage. of certain soils sdbjfect! to erosion from silage to alfalfa is badly need ed in some cases. Variety development work over the p>ast several years has produced some i improved straits of alfalfa. Cherokee, Wevil Check, and Team are three prominent names at present. Alfalfa is most easily seed ed in early fall. It requires proper seeded preparation and Fertilisation. Anyone desiring additional information, please contact the County Extension Office. SHINES UP BRIGHT ~ IN MINUTES LASTS UP TO A WEEK WOP GRIFFIN WAX SHOE POLISH of polling in which voters aren’t asked .for whom they will vote. Instead pollsters ask voters questions about issue*, for whom they voted last time, to what clubs or groups they belong and bow they think various candidates stand on various issues. Answers are analyzed by computer and the results, Plesser feels, are more accurate than results obtained by asking voters for whom they will vote. Plesser said his margin for error in the North Carolina poll would be a maximum of three per cent. “There’s no question but that Gardner will lead,” Plesser said in a telephone interview. “There is some question about the magnitude of the win. It may be by as much as 15 to 20 per cent. “There’s no question in the minds of the vast majority of Republican voters that Gardner has a much better ’ chance of winning in November than Holshouser does.” Plesser said Gardner also is closely identified in the GOP voter s mind with President Nixon which will help Gardner in November. —, iS||| View Os Farm Pond, Planned And Designed By SCS Technicians Conservation Practices Prove Valid People interested in coiser vation of natural resources are aware that organized and sys tematic conservation work, planned and carried out by soil and water conservation districts and the Soil Conser - vation Service, have been go ing on since the mid-Thirties. 'This fact is particularly well known in North Carolina," commented State Conservation ist Jesse L. Hicks, "since the soil conservation program got its actual start in the Brown Creek District in Anson Cbunty" With this historical back ground, the next logical ques tion is: Do conservation pro grams carried out through the years have valid application for modern times and for the years ahead? 'The answer is "yes"—and in many ways tried and true programs of environmental im provement are coming into their own and proving th as real value, " the state conser - vationist said. 7^: —,b COMICS WANT ADS I 'Take farm p>onds, for ex ample. North Carolina has more than 65,000 px»nds of all categories, including both dug and dammed ponds, created with SCS technical as sistance. "Once Just a source for live stock water, irrigation and other agricultural purposes, these ponds are now an impxjr tant part of the countryside and one of the best sources of bream, bass and other fish that you can find. The currency of this program is shown by the fact that interest continues hijji even after 36 years—last year almost 600 new ponds were installed. " Erosion control has bam prac ticed by farmers for years. Some 35,000 miles of teiraces have been built, a million acres have been planted on con tours for erosion control, more than 240,000 acres of wildlife habitat have been planted and other programs have equally Plesser said President Nixon will carry North Carolina H in November. He said he did do a percentage figure™ study on the presidential general election race, constructing ■ two separate ballots. mm He said Nixon would get 42 per cent on a three-way™ ballot today between himself, Democrat Hubert Humphrey™ and Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Humphrey would get! 26 per cent and Wallace 19 per cent with 13 per cent™ undecided. ■ In a race without Wallace, Nixon would get S 3 perßS cent and Humphrey 31 per cent, leaving 16 per cent! in the undecided column, he continued. "sS Plesser said the Wallace vote tends to lean toward Nixon™ by a two to one majority. He said persons at Hie White! House tell him Wallace won’t run a third-party campaign™ this year if he doesn’t get the Democratic nomination. §gj Plesser used Humphrey as the' Democratic candidate™ because the polling was done just after the Florida primary™ in which Humphrey and Wallace were the two highest™ vote getters. H No analysis was made on tbe Democratic presidential™ primary in North Carolina, Plesser said. THE YANCEY JOURNAL impressive statistics. But now with sedimentation a major urban polluter, the soil conser- vation program takes on new significance for all the citi zens--and practices previously used on farms have "gone to town" to aid construction sites and other urban developments. Soil-surveys and other soife data is another example. Once this was primarily useful..: to farmers—and they still en joy its benefits, to help plan wise land use. But now soils data is equally important to builders, local government, planners, health departments and others—so much so that 7 out of 9 soil surveys now under way are being accelerated by funds from county treasuries , and two new ones—the Cum berland County—Hoke Comity Fort Bragg progressive sur - vey and the Mecklenburg Co. survey— are also receiving the local financial assistance. MAY 4, 1972 PAGE 5