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1»H m.e.gafdner n.c.state college If you want to be sure about the warmth and glow of your fireplace this winter, here are some suggestions about the heat ing value of the different spe cies of wood. You may have 'some trees that need to be ipruned and others that should be removed. Species rated as best are: white oak, apple, black birch, dogwood, hickory and black lo cust. Good: white ash, beech, red oak, yellow poplar, sugar maple and black walnut. Fair: white birch, black cher ry, elm, sycamore, green and red pine. Species rated as poor: Aspen, basswood, willow, white pine and spruce. One does not usually think of Christmas trees in August when temperatures and humidity may be high and vacationers are seeking relief in the mountains or at the beaches. However, the growers of Christmas trees in the mountain counties consider this enterprise as a good source of cash income. Furthermore, they are doing a good job of maintenance. I have seen some beauties in my travels through the different areas and they will be ready for you come Santa time. The indus try is well organized and the numbers of quality trees offer ed for sale are increasing each year, Be sure to buy a North Caro lina grown Christmas tree for your Yule enjoyment and re member, too, that when you do, will be promoting North i you Carolina by using North Caro lina products. “What can f bunch i tfie " gg- BH 1899 to prevent my rotting? For brown spots appear op the grapes before they mature. These spots en large, turn dark and finally dry up.” The disease is black rot, a common fungus trouble on bunch grapes, which can only be controlled by following a regular spray program. Other diseases are anthracnose and mildew. Then you have the in sects — Japanese beetles, ber ry moth and aphids. Ask your county agent for a spray calen dar, or write me and I will send you one. FHA Loans Available for Recreation Projects; 1100 Started Last Year Farmers may be able to de velop income-producing recrea tional projects with Farmers Home Administration supervised credit. Nationwide approximately 1, 100 farmers and rural groups have borrowed some $65 million to develop rural recreation pro jects during the past five years. Nearly all the farmers who have developed recreation pro jects with Farmers Home Ad ministration loans showed some profit in 1966. These farm recreation pro jects are a supplementary enter prise to the farm business yet they showed an average net pro fit of $1,387. Those who had been in business three years or more showed an average profit of $2,143. ■ Fanners who have a natural recreation area on their farms that they can develop and ex ploit should analyze their situa tion thoroughly. If the project is feasible financing may be ar ranged through FHA. Among the more successful projects that have been financed with FHA loans are golf courses, marinas, hunting projects, camp ing and picnic areas, vacation farms, swimming pools and fish ing facilities. Youth camps seem to be the most profitable. They showed an average profit of $2, 67<Hn 1966. FHA uses its farm operating and farm ownership loan pro and pur gram to finance recreation loans. Farmers can obtain a maximum of $35,000 for operat ing expenses, including lie op erating costs of farm-based rec reation enterprises and $66,000 for real estate program, includ ing development of land buildings for recreation poses. / ' These loans carry a 5 percent interest rate on the unpaid prin cipal. The repayment period of loans secured by real estate may not exceed 40 years, while' that secured by chattels has a 7 year limitation. Such credit is only extended to those who cannot obtain it through normal lend ing channels at reasonable rates and terms. Developing a community’s rec reational potential is big busi ness in some areas. Whole com munities benefit when new rec reation areas are created.. Busi nessmen benefit by the influx of tourists. The community’s tax base is increased, providing more money for schools, and other public services. FHA also makes loans to com munity groups for financing rec reation facilities such as golf courses, swimming pools, tennis courts, lakes and ponds. Complete information on loans to individual farmers ’ ' munity * ‘ -J WHAT IS THE ANSWE by Henry E. Garrett, Ph.u. Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Columbia University Past President, American Psychological Association as to yield a constant IQ (Stan ford-Bin'et or Wechsler Scale for Children) give an IQ of 100 for the average school child, regard less of his age. Children may, upon retest, measure slightly higher or lower than before (e.g., 4 to 5 points) owing solely to the error of measurement in all measuring instruments. Re tarded and bright children, of course, have IQs lower or high er than 100, wbkh ds a sort of national norm. .3) Several stand ard group tests are geared to obtaiwdSt1i!rbn? Stanford-Binet. The Lorge*Thorndike and Otis tests are examples. ' By Alabama Congrastman Bill Dickinson There is one thing almost ev eryone agrees on about LBJ: that he’s quite a wheeler-dealer. Take for instance his rat bill. When he introduced it this month, LBJ cooed that it was a very necessary, humane mea sure— that it was a piece of legislation “essential” to mil lions. LBJ was hoping that Ameri cans would think that his tim ing of the bill was perfect: There was rioting in the streets; ’most everyone was unhappy with the Administration’s vague policies in Vietnam; everyone knew the President was on the verge of asking for a 10 percent surtax. In brief, he introduced the bill at a time when his popularity was at a low tide, and LBJ is not a man to stand idly by when his popularity is droopy. Like the seasoned politician he is, the President kept his “cool” and created a pressure-valve. Enter the rat bill. When Republicans and other conservatives defeated his pro posal, the President tried to blame Congress’ failure to pass it as one of the causes of the rioting, despite the fact that he introduced the bill after the most serious rioting was over. Now that most of the Adminis tration’s cannon-fire has sub sided, it is easy to see that the rat bill was little more than a smokescreen. There was absolutely no need for the President’s rat bill. We already have in the books at least three federal laws under which more than $500 'million was available in 1966 alone for rat extermination. They are: 1. Office of Economic Oppor tunity — $323 million available. 2. The Comprehensive Health Services Act 6f 1966 — authoriz ed $125 million for health pro grams, including rat extermina tion. 3. Department of Agriculture — $250 million available for pro grams, including the extermina tion of rats. And if that wasn’t enough to reveal the President’s proposal as a farce, on Aug. 9 the nation’s chief rat investigator told the Los Angeles ’Ernes that LBJ’s rat bill wouldn’t have worked anyway. Dr. Leo Kartman, head of the U.S. Public Health Service rat control center in San Francisco, said in the Times interview, “Rat control should be part of a real, long-term community health program.” i “It may be easier to get sim ple rat control programs funded, but in my opinion such pro grams will not succeed,” the Times quoted him as saying. Thus, the saga of the Presi dent’s rat bill. Smokey Bear needsyou HELf fUVENT FOM5T FIRES M THE SOUTH f ' 100% BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY 86.8 PROOF TENTH Q: Dr. Garrett, r seen tlyf read in a national magazine that Na gro school children, aftar saven months of reading instruction, had a "rate of gain" on IQ tests that was well "above the nation al norm." i thought a person's IQ von constant. Hew is such a "gain" possible? Is it possible? A: It is possible but highly im probable. Note the following: 1) Many group intelligence tests do. not yield a constant IQ. Tte re-s suits from nidi tests are not “IQs” but merely scores. Scores tend to increase with age and higher academic achievement. This, probably, is all that was meant. 2) Tests so constructed IDE MAO CLINIC
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