HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.—Barbara Britton, radio, TV and motion picture atar, enlist* the help of her ton, Teddy, 5, to blow out the candles atop a birthday cake honoring the fifth annual observance of National Kids’ Day, Saturday, September 2«. Appropriately, Barbara’; -birthday falls on Kids’ Day this year. The observance is co-sponsored by Kiwanis International and the National Kids’ Day Foundation, Inc. Barbara is a member Of the board of directors of the Foundation. . TO MAKE MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE- ..r-'-* - ‘ The flagBhip of the Holland.America Line's passenger fleet, the S. S. Nieuw Amsterdam, will sail from Norfolk, Virginia, next March 2'7th, on a 42-day cruise to the Western Mediterranean and European ports. The Nieuw Amsterdam, pictured above as It docked at Norfolk for the 1961 Virginia cruise to the West Indies, Is the largest luxury liner • cruising in the Mediterranean. J G*W SEVEN SHI * * ** * * * ST 41st National Ition, • the'-.*_ _„ntion of toe National Safety Council. It is the world’s largest safety event and one of the country’s largest conven tions. The odds against accidental death and injury have improved steadily since the formation of the safety movement in 1013. If the 1013 accident death rate had prevailed through the next 40 years, the toll of accident dead would have been swelled by a half million more vic tims. Twenty hotels will be used to house the 12,000 delegates at tending the 41St Congress — and every available meeting room, dining room and ballroom of seven Chicago’s biggest loop hotels will be used for 200 meetings, crowded into live days. More than 600 speakers and panel participants will ap pear on the program, and a convention staff of 300 mem bers' of the National Safety Council’s headquarters . staff will be required to run the Con gres. At a woman’s reception fea turing the Congress program October 20 the annual Carol Lane Awards will be presented to four American women and four women’s or parent’s clubs for outstanding contributions to traffic safety during the it Truman Miller hands United Fond Drive Worker Hor ace Sntton the first check in the annual campaign to raise mon ey for the support of the balk of) file “worthy caused’ that seek funds in Lenoir County. This year an all-out effort has been made to have a true “Unit ed Fond" bat five organisa tions, linclduing the Tuberculosis the Polio Founda tion, the Heart Society, the Can cer Society and the Crippled Children’s League have refused to take part in the c&4ve. The campaign for the United Fund gets .officially undo- way on October lZth and a one-week, campaign is expected to more than raise the $47,Mg budget which it has for the coming year. preceding year. An exposition in connection with the Congress will occupy ail exhibt space in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Insects destroy millions of dollars worth of. stored grain in the United States each year. dosage varies -with the age of tree; the tinae of treatment va ries with the climate or section of the state. For full informalon and direc tions see your county agent or write to the Department of En manas for this Too often when we plant fruit trees we concern ourselves with the fruit itself rather than the care and culture of the tree. This is especially true of the peach tree. One of the most destructive pests of the peach tree is the peach tree borer. Most com mercial peach' growers know about this prat and take the necessary-'' control measures. However, the gardener who has only a few trees usually doesn’t know about the borer and is apt to lose some of his trees of have -them ‘seriously damaged before; he finds out about it. The borer damages the tree by eating the cambium, layer and soft tissues between the bark and wood usiialy aj the ground level or slightly below the ground leyel. The presence of the pest may be shown by de posits of gum and trass around the tree at thd ground. Formerly we used to dig out the borers with a sharp knife and a pliable wire. Sometimes we did more damage to the tree than the worm did. I can recall removing twenty-one borers from one large peach tree. Needless to say, the tree was in a very weak condition. In recent years two chemicals — paradichlorobenzene and ethy lene dlchloride " — have been used as a control with very good results. In using para will not damage MOUNTAIN RIDGE I STRAIGHT BOURDON WHISKEY A COAL HEATERS

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