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Rat Control U Year-Round Problem
Farm People Urged to Cooperate by
Using Modern Methods Now Available
The Wype Fork* Community
Club is sponsoring *» prosont a
program aimed at rat control
and ovory resident In the com
munity Is being urged to par
ticipate for their own general
welfare as well as helping to
make the plan more successful
throughout the community.
Each year rats cause an esti
mated one billion dollars in
damage to food, property, hum
ans and livestock in the United
States. .
Research indicates that dam
age caused by the rodents is
equal to the total production of
more than 100,000 average
Arms.
Each rat costs about $20 or
more a year to board, according
to Vernon Cunningham, State
Supervisor, of the Division of
Wildlife Service, U. S. Fish and
'Wildlife Service at North Caro
lina State University. Rats cause
the damages by destroying prop
erty, contaminating food and
carrying diseases. 'Vi
As an example of the damage}
done by rats', Cunningham cites
one rat* eating > about one-third
aff much feed as a laying hen
and contaminating ten times as
much as it eats.
Rats are also threats to health.
Cunningham says they are
known to transmit 35 diseases
to men and animals. Rats also
carry 18 kinds of lice, fleas, ticks,
inid mites.
Insurance companies blame
rodents for extensive damage.
They estimate that 25 per cent
of fires of undertermined origin
are caused by rats.
I A year-round approach should
be utilized in controlling rats
I and mice. Cunningham says one
pair of rats can breed five times
and produce 50 young per year.
Mice are even more prolific.
Reproduction occurs all during
. the year in North Carolina.
i Food, water and shelter are
essential for rats to live and
reproduce. These essentials can
be used to eliminate infestations
i of rats and mice, Cunningham
added.
Tall’ weeds or grass and piles
i of trash, lumber or bush serve
as breeding places for rats and
mice. These sources of. rat har
borage should be eliminated and
followed with good day-today
housekeeping, Cunningham
pointed out
Building and feed bins should
be rat-proof. Concrete, hard
wsjre cloth or sheet'metal can
be used to dose cracks, breaks,
and spaces around pipes, vents
and other openings.
Most ready-to-use or concen
trated anticoagulant baits will
give good control with proper
use, according to Cunningham.
“Pladng bait near main traveled
runways and near centers of ac
tivity which mark the living
quarters of rats and mice is the
most important factor.”
Farmers should not conduct
clean-up campaigns prior to elim
inating rat infestations. Cunn
ingham said this merely cansegt
the rats to find new hiding
places and to established wiw
feeding habits which would
make the task of proper baft
placement more difficult.
Girls Reminded of Importance in i
Learning How to Be A Homemaker
by Annette Lowery,
Jones Central Parliamentarian
National F.H.A. week is March
27 through April 2. It is a
good time for F.H.A, members
to .give thanks for1 the training
thkT we are rfecefving through
our Home Economics Depart
ment
So many girls, will not take
home economics because they
think it is not necessary and
feel that they can pick it up
along the' way. A person should
be. trained the skiil of cutting
out a dress, making ; biscuits,
freezing beans or eveii getting
along with the family.I.
These skills we learn plus many
more. All we learn and do in
home economics prepares ns for
future homemaking.
Homemaking is the most im
portant and one of the most
challenging jobs in the world.
Girls who apparenfly think they
can make a success of home
making without the proper train-,
ing will not be faft to their hus-;
bands, to their cbwtfOn or them
selves.
The home economics girls at
Jones Central had several sales
of commercial items and from
the money they raised, they pur
chased needed 'equipment for
the home economics department.
Quite a number of girls have
been working hard on their Ju
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J. V. Brittle N«w Notional President of
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American Savings and Loan Institute
erican Savings and Loan Insti
tute daring the annual, confer
ence in Chicago last week.
Brittle was presented tarith *
Life Membership in the Institute
by the Coastal Plain Chapter No.
176 after his, installation as na
tional president
Brittle is founder and instruc
tor in the Coastal Plain Chapter,
which includes savings and loan
association employees from Kins
ton , La Grange, Goldsboro,
nior, Chapter and State degrees.
These were all turned in last
week to our advisor, Mrs.Alma
Phillips.
During this National F. H. A.
Week, I would like for girls who
have not had Home Economics
to take for one of her goals to
sign up' for next year and be a
Future Homemaker of America.
Vets Have Plenty
time Under Bill
Veterans planning to go to
school under the new GI Bill
do not have to rush to meet a
deadline, W. R. Phillips, Man
ager of the North Carolina VA
Regional Office, pointed out to
day.
Although most benefits under
the new Bill are effective im
mediately, Phillips said the ed
ucation assistance benefits will
not begin until June 1, 1966.
Late ,in April, the VA ex
pects to'have application blanks
and full information available
at til VA offices and at the ad
kgfjjffi.fajBQst approv*
KfPio' i'Ottgiy ■'
class ttassr pr payments from
VA, PMHIps .said.
veterins wm
to select courses arid
plication without losi
Greenville, New Bern, Aydcn,
Jacksonville, Washington, War
saw, Farmville, and Snow mil,
with a current membership of
89.
Income from this Life Mem
bership fund helps support the
Institute’s program of educa
tion and training for leadership.
This life Membership was pre
«d to Brittle in recognition of
long service to th4 Institute,
.._ieh is the educational arm of
the United States Savings and
Loan League.
The Institute represents over
8,000 savings and loan associa
tions with a membership enroll
ment of over 35,000 students en
rolled in Chapter and Home
Study courses throughout the
United States.
President Brittle hi currently
serving on thcrtt'S. Savings and
Loan League’s Legislative Com
mittee, which hold its 12th An
nual Legislative Conference in
Washington, D. C. in January,
1968; at which tiny; he also
served on the league’s “blue
ribbon” 28-man Committee on
Savings Associations Needs in
the Changing- World of Finance.
Brittle holds the Graduate Di
ploma and the key of the Grad
uate School of Savings and Loan,
Class of 1954, Indiana Univer
sity, Bloomington, Indiana.
A graduate at Wake Forest
College, Brittle is arhative of
CdUWay. He was a tekcfaer and
coach in Durham Schools for
eight years and worked in the
commercial banking field for a
number of years befofe serving
in the Army dUrihj^World War
n. He was manager of the Kins
ton field-office of the. Depart
ment of Revenue before accept
ing the managership of Home
Federal Savings. He has serv
ed as manager officer of Home
Federal Savings and Loan Asso
ciation, since 1948, and was nam
ed president in 1962.
Active in chruch and commu
nity affairs, Brittle is a member
of the Board of Deacons of the
First Baptist Church of Kins
ton, past president of the Kins
ton Rotary Club, Chamber of
Commerce, Kinston Country
Club, past Chairman of . the Kins
ton School Board, and Masonic
Lodge and Shrine Club.
LAND TRANSFERS
Jones CoUtaty Register, of Deeds
Bill Parker reports recording the
following land transfers in his
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