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Nematode Resistance Bred
Into Experimental Tobacco
By J. R. Franck
Jones County Agent
Putting a man into apace will be
a great achievement when it hap
pens.
However tobacco plant breeders
with the North Carolina Experi
i ment Station have accomplished a
feat on less spectacular and of a
lot more practical value to the to
bacco farmer. This feat is breeding
Root Knot Nematode resistance in
tobacco.
You may say that this is not so
spectacular, but if you are interest
ed in producing tobacco and have
had experience with nematode
damage you would be amazed to
see how complete the resistance is.
Seventeen varieties of tobacco
(13 of which were resistant to'Hoot
Knot nematodes) were planted oh
land very highly infested with Root
Knot Nematodes on Mrs.’ Will
Barker’s farm near Trenton. Dr.
E. L Moore of the Experiment Sta
tion came down September 1 to
examine the roots of> these varie
ties.
The examination revealed severe
Root Knot damage to Hicks, N. C.
76 and Coker 316 varieties. Many of
the Root Knot Resistant lines
showed no nematode injury.
Moore says that they already
have one Root Knot Resistant line
that has good yield and quality. He
also says that seed of this variety
(not yet named) will be available
to fanmers in 1961, if 1960 yield .and
quality tests produce favorable re
sults.
This writer feels that nematodes
cause more damaige to North Caro
lina tobacco than all other diseases
put together. Of course damage can
be greatly reduced by use of soil
fumigants but this practice is ex
pensive and in some cases injury
to the tobacco plants is caused
by the fumigants.
In view of the above statements
the accomplishment of breeding
nematode resistance into tobacco
is even more spectacular to the
tobacco farmer than that of putting
a man into space.
TAYLOR IN EUROPE
James E. Taylor, boatswain’s
mate third class, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James R. Baker of Route
Hurricane Claims '
Office in New Bern
Claims for tangible losses suf
fered by persons in recent Hurri
cane will be handled by the Small
Business Administration, which
will set up a field office in the New
Bern Chamber of Commerce Build
ing on Wednesday, September 21st.
'Raymond Shaw, Manager of Dis
aster Field Office stated that the
office will be open between the
hours of 8:30 a. m. and 5 p. m.
Monday through Friday. •
If one has suffered tangible
losses or damage to his home,
business, church, or fishing equip
ment, and the. loss is not covered
by normal insurance, make claims
known at local Small Business Ad
ministration Field Office.
Opening Wednesday, September
21, in New Bern Chamber of Com
merce Office Building, 611 Broad
Street, New Bern.
Deep Run Pair Held
For Check Charges
L. £L,and D. E. Stroud of Deep
Run route two are in the county
jail at Kinston charged with pass
ing a large number of worthless
and forged' checks in the past sev
eral weeks.
They have admitted passing a
number of checks of this bogus type
that have not been tamed into the
law yet, and Sheriff day Bi%id
way has urged that anyone holding
a check on either of these men on
the forged name of Robert Turner
bring these checks in so the prose
cution can be completed.
Marriage License
Two marriage license issued in
the past week in the office of Jones
County Register of Deeds Mrs. D.
W. Koonce went to the following
couples:
Marlin King, 23, of Jacksonville
to Flora Jean Mills, 20, of Mays
vflle.
Jaimes A. Loftin, 19, to Reba
Davis, 18, both of Lenoir County.
2, Trenton, is serving aboard the
destroyed Davis, operating iwith the
Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.
MaysvillePTA Holds
First Meeting for
1960-61 School Year
The first Maysville P.T.A. meet
ing of the 1960-61 school year was
held Monday.
Mrs. Robert Buck presided, call
ing the meeting to order. Mrs. W.
E. Henderson gave the devotional.
Mrs. Buck then introduced prin
cipal Clifton Philyaw who intro
duced the following teachers—Mrs.
Nancy Nance, first grade; Mrs.
Betty Williams, second grade; Mrs.
Elizabeth Allen, third grade; Mrs.
Irene Oliver, fourth grade; Mrs.
Amanda Hodges, fifth grade; Mrs.
Doris King, sixth grade and Mrs.
Laura Chapman, seventh grade.
After secretary and treasurers
reports, Mrs. Nina Bracey read
the basic aims for the coming year |
which were voted on and accepted.
The committee reports were sub
mitted and it was announced that
the date for the autumn festival
has been set. tentatively for Oct.
14. Mrs. Sarah Nell ^Thompson,
ways and means Chairman, will be
in charge.
Mr. Philyaw announced that,
following a visit by the state su
pervisor Maysville school has been
listed in Raleigh as a Model School.
Following adjournment, the pa
rents met with the teachers in their
respective rooims where they were
shown around.
Later refreshments, furnished by
the executive committee and serv
ed by the .hospitality committee
under the chairmanship of Mrs.
Hermaa^jSailey were- served. Re
freshments consisted of cookies,
nuts, mints and punch and were
served from a talble covered with
a white damask cloth with a cen
ter arrangement of fall flowers.
Kenneth May’s Calf
Wins Third Place in
Coastal Dairy Show
Kenneth May of the Shady Grove
Community entered a Guernsey
Dairy Calf in the Ninth Annual
Coastal Carolina Dairy Show last
Wednesday and Thursday in New
Bern and his calf placed Third in
the judging.
Kenneth will make a report on
his project and will receive recog
nition at Achievement Night to be
held the first of November.
FOB KENNEDY—Hands spring forth to shake the
during a campaign stop through the
Wa& ,
of Democratic
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Extreme Care Urged by Franck
In Eliminating Contamination
Ot Com by Crotalaria Seed
Long-Standing and
Complicated Suit
Finally Settled
An involved law suit between
kinsmen of the Late John Baker,
Kinston negro undertaker, and the
University of North Carolina was
ended in Lenoir County Superior
Court this week in a consent judg
ment. ,
Baker’s property at the time of
his death was troubled with fed
eral tax l ens and his brothers and
sisters waived any rights they had
to permit his wife to settle the es
tate. She died without a will and
without relatives.
This caused the property to fall
into the escheats: fund of the Uni
versity and in an effort to get it
back in the Baker family the
brothers and sisters and other
kinsmen of Baker had brought the
suit.
The settlement calls for sale of
the Baker estate which includes
considerable valuable farm lands
and a distribution of one-twelfth
of the proceeds among his heirs
and the other eleven-twelfths will
go to the escheats fund.
Ordination Service
Sunday Night for
Baptist Deacons
The Trenton Baptist Church will
have an ordination service Sunday
night, Sept. 25 at 8 for three newly
elected deacons.
John Larkins, chairman of the
Board of Deacons, will bring the
charge to the deacons. The Rev.
Stanley Cover, pastor of the church,
will preach the ordination sermon.
The otjier deacons who have been
on the board previously will also
have part on the program.
The three deacons to be ordained
are Dalton Jones, E. L. Noble and
M. B.. Wright.
Besides Larkins, the other dea
cons are P. M. Curtis, Thomas
Stiliey and R. A. Beaman.
Land Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded
in the office of Jones County Regis
ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce
during the past week included the
following:
From Furney Wilder to John
Haywood Davis one acre in Tren
ton Township.
From Roy L. Cauley to Elwood
King .5 acres in Cypress Creeik
Township.
From Walter P. Marshiburn to
Jaimes S. Jarman one acre in Tren
ton Township.
From Ralph Bruinton to Willie
Edward Koonce one acre in Tucka
hoe Township.
From Winifred Moore to Hubert
Any way you look at it,, Jones
County farmers who let crotalaria
seed get into their grain this fall
appear to be heading for trouble.
J. R. Franck, Jones Oounty Agri
cultural Agent, says one of three
things m ght happen.
“First,’’ Franck said, “farmers
may have trouble selling! their
grain if it contains crotalaria
seed.”
“Secondly,” he added, “if farm
ers can sell the contaminated grain,
they may have to sell it at a dis
count; so buyers can afford to have
the grain cleaned.”
“And thirdly,” he continued, “if
farmers plan to feed grain contain
ing crotalaria seed, they may harm
their own poultry and livestock.”
Although crotalaria has been a
popular soil improvement crop in
North Carolina for mahy years,
recent research has shown that
crotalaria seed are poisonous in
poultry and livestock.
Even small amounts of crotalaria
seed m'xed with feed will slow
down a hog or chicken's rate of
growth. If very many seed become
m xei with feed, death can result.
Franck cited a recent resolution
passed by heads of North Caro
lina farm agencies urging farmers
“to stop planting crotalaria under
any circumstances.”
For Jones county farmers who
already have crotalaria growing in
-heir grain field, Frar.ek says there
is no weed control research which
gives specific information on the
control of the crop. A very small
amount of work has been started
this year that may be of some help
to corn growers.
“Unfortunately,” Franck said,
“there is no chemical which will
control crotalaria in soybeans. The
only thing a farmer can do it to
remove the plants by Hand.”
It’s mueh cheaper to remove
crotalaria plants in the field than
to remove the seem once they get
into the grain.
If, however, existing stocks of
grain are contaminated, Franck
suggests screening the grain to.
eliminate crotalaria seed.
A screen with a rectangular
opening of x % or 7/64 x % in
ches can be used, depending on
the thickness of the crotalaria seed.
An even smaller screen may be
used for grain containing only
striata, the small seed variety of
crotalaria.
Screens with round openings
may be used, the agent added, but
losses are usually higher than with
rectangular openings.
A. Moore 105 acres in Chinquapin
Township.
Senator Sam Ervin Says...
WASHINGTON—American tex
t:le industry jobs were further
threatened by the action of the In
teragency Textile Committee last
week in Washington.
HARD TO UNDERSTAND—It is
difficult for me to understand why
the Administration in Washington
fails to recognize that ts efforts
will ultimately destroy the Ameri
can textile industry. There seems
to be no other interpretation- that
one can place upon the continuing
series of set-backs of our textile
industry at the hands of the. ad
ministration.
MAKE-UP — The Interagency
Textile Committee rejected the
recommendations of Congress by
its special Senate Committee head
ed by Senator Pastore of Rhode
Island. T^e Interagency group is
made up of representatives of the
Federal Departmnts of State, Trea
sury, Agriculture, Defense, Labor
and Commerce. It recommended
that quotas not be established to
limit foreign imports of textile
products. This is a matter for con
gress to tackle immediately upon
its return in January.
JOBS SACRIFICED—The Ad
mihistration has blocked efforts to
save American textile jobs. This is
tragic. It is sheer folly to continue
to sacrifice our textile industry
whose survival is threatened. This
recent detrimental action indicates
there is no hope that President
Eisenhower and his advisors will
heed the recommendations of Con
gress or the textile industry. This
is not a partisan political matter
and has not been considered to be
Such by the industry and the Con
gress. It is simply a problem that
gets at the vitals of a basic Ameri
can industry. To ignore it for any
great length of time will be to doom
the industry. -