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Farming news ? - ? Governor Martin supports funding for state conservation programs RALEIGH -Gov Jim Martin today announced that the state will provide $200,000 this year to soil and water conservation districts as matching funds for soil and water conservation programs. The funds will be dispersed through the state Soil and Water Conserva tion Commission, which receives the $200,000 annually from the General Assembly to support each county's soil and water conservation districts. Once the districts meet the require ments and the counties appropriate matching funds on a 50-50 basis, the Commission will disperse $2,000 to respective districts. liie funds are used for secretarial and technical personnel, education, supplies and communications. Soil and water conservation dis tricts-staffed locally by elected or appointed supervisors who volunteer their time-review and approve appli cations for the state's Agriculture Cost-Share Program for Nonpoint Source Pollution and coordinate local conservation education programs for landowners and youth. The Commission sets guidelines for the state's cost-share program and matching funds. The Division of Soil and Water Conservation in the De partment of Natural Resources and Community Development provides staff assistance. State reduces traffic congestion RALEIGH? The state transporta tion department has found a way to reduce traffic congestion on US-17 at Bridgeton in Craven County. Delays and traffic backups occur on the highway when the draw bridges across the Trent and Neuse Rivers are opened to allow water tra ffic to pass. Beginning Wednesday August 12, the department will erect signs on US 17 at Vanceboro and New Bern to di rect motorists onto a series of pri nary and secondary roads bypassing i ridge ton The bypass will be signed as NC-43 to provide continuity to the route. NC-43 currently extends from just south of Warrenton in Warren County to Vanceboreo. The bypass will be 18.2 miles long or 2.7 miles shorter than the US 17 route between Vanceboro and south of New Bern. Randy D. Doub of Greenville, who represents Craven County on the state Transportation Board, urged motorists not headed directly to the New Bem-Bridgeton area to use the bypass. Doub said motorists headed south to Jacksonville and Wilmington and north to Washington, Greenville and Elizabeth City will save time by tak ing the bypass. DOT crews will begin erecting signs designating the NC-43 bypass next week. The signs on US-17 direct ing motorists onto the bypass will be erected on Wednesday. The signs south of New Bernwill go up at 8 a.m. with the ones at Vance boro set to be erected later that day. The NC-43 bypass will use sections US-17 Business, Weyerhaeuser Road (Secondary Road 1482), Secondary Road 1400, Secondary Road 1401, NC 55, Glenburnie Road (US-70 Busi ness), US-70 Bypass, and South Glen burnie Road (Secondary Road 1309). State passes ethanol legislation RALEIGH? Senate Bill 1241, distil lery tax credit changes that will cre ate an ethanol industry and enhance production of corn in North Carolina, has passed the North Carolina Gen eral Assembly on the final day of the legislative session. The new law, in troduced by Sen. Harold Hardison of Lenoir County, will become effective January 1, 1988. The law, which drew strong sup port from both the Corngrowers As sociation and the North Carolina Farm Bureau, provides a 20-percent tax credit for the construction of an ethanol production facility. Location of the new plant, as yet undecided, will most likely be in the eastern part of the state and employ 175 people. The ethanol facility will immediately generate $60 to $75 million in con struction costs into the North Caro lina economy. Ted Ivey, president of the Corn growers Association of North Caro lina, praised Sen. Hardison and the legislative leadership for their role and said the ethanol distillery plant will be a boon for family farms in the state. "There are 25,000 farm families whose income depend on the produc tion of corn. This new plant will even tually use 25 million bushels of corn per year. Methods are now under study that would even allow the plant to safely use drought-stressed ana toxin tainted corn, which in the past has caused great monetary loss to corngrowers," Ivey said. "Sen. Hardison's efforts, the work of Representative John Kerr and Senator Henson Barnes, both Demo crats from Wayne County, and Ver non James, D-Pasquotank, as well as the leadership of the House and Sen ate, were instrumental in gaining passage of this important legis lation," Ivey said. Proponents of the ethanol industry say that ethanol enhanced fuels burn cleaner and will help reduce the de pendence on foreign imported oil. Ap proximately 50 million gallons of ethanol are currently being shipped annually into North Carolina. North Carolina production of ethanol is ex pected to greatly reduce that amount. Teachers participate in project A new science-teaching method in North Carolina's public schools may have students turning into grasshop pers, shrews and hawks when they return to school this Fall. Under a correlation plan between the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commis sion and the state Department of Public Instruction, students may get a better understanding of the reasons for protecting the state's natural re sources. Some of the wildlife activ ities in the new plan call for students to pretend they are different ani mals-some predators and some prey to get an understanding of natural processes. This summer, 15 public school tea chers matched the Commission's two Project WILD teaching manuals with guidelines set by the State Board of -Education for science and social studies. Project WILD is a method endorsed and sponsored by wildlife and natural resources agencies na tionwide to help school teachers with their lessons on the enviroment. North Carolina began using Project WILD in 1964. In one lesson for sixth-graders, the teacher's goal, according to the state Department of Public Instruction, is that children learn the importance of natural resources. One Project WILD activity for that lesson calls for the teacher to divide the students into groups of grasshoppers, shrews and hawks and give them colroed pipe cleaners to represent food for the grasshoppers. Some of the pipe cleaners represent pollution. Since the shrews prey on the grasshopper and the hawk preys on the shrew, the activity shows how the shrew ingests more pollution when it eats the grass hopper. And, it shows how the pollut ion contamination multiplies when the hawk eats the shrew. This leson demonstrates the prin ciple of biological concentration of contaminants in the food chain in terms the students can easily under stand. A $2,500 grant from the N.C. Wild life Federation paid the teachers to match activities described in Project WILD with their own teaching guidelines. Teachers divided into teams according to grade levels and subjects such as science and social studies to devise the new teaching method. A 15-page manual compiled by those teams will be delivered to 3,000 of the state's teachers who have attended Project WILD workshops in the past. "Most of the activities provided in the Project WILD manual apply to science and social studies," said Rick Estes, supervisor of the Com mmission's Educational Services Section. "For example, during a geography lesson for fourth-graders, teachers may show which native plants and animals live with humans in certain geographical regions and how they are important to the area. Protecting your child's pennies Media attention has recently fo cused on a series of seizures of chil dren's bank accounts. According to the Internal Revenue Service, this is one childhood trauma that could be avoided. The new tax law requires any de pendent age 5 or older to have a so cial security number of his-her own number. On existing accounts, par ents should notify the bank of the child's social security number to eliminate potential problems. By law a bank must have a social security number in order to set up an account. When parents set up an ac count for their child, many times a parent's social security number is used because the child does not have one. This can cause problems. When a taxpayer owes back taxes, the IRS sends several notices and bills requesting payment. If the tax payer does not pay voluntarily, the IRS is authorized to levy on any ac count listed in the taxpayer's name and-or social security number. A new procedure has been inti tiated by the IRS in response to pub lic concern, which adds a safeguard for innocent parties to collection ac tions ? whenever a levy involves a joint account, the funds are frozen until ownership can be verified. Haw River man convicted GRAHAM - A Haw River man has been convicted here in Alamance County District Court of operating a bearding kennel without a state li cense. According to A1 Eatman, animal welfare director with the N.C. De partment of Agriculture, Roy C. Par ker, Jr., owner of McRoy Kennels of Rt. 1, Haw River, was charged with operating the business from July 7 through July 11 without a state li cense issued by the NCDA. District Court Judge W S. Harris, Jr. found prayer for judgment contin ued on condition the defendant not vi olate the North Carolina Animal Wel fare Act for Ave years and not apply for a state license during the same period of time. It was stipulated that if Parker violates the condition, be weuld be fined IB a day for each of the days he operated the kennel with out a license. prosecution of the case resulted from an investigation by the Veteri nary Division of the N.C. Depart ment of Agriculture. Under the law, it is the responsibil ity of the Veterinary Division to en force the laws, rules and regulations of the state Animal Welfare Act. ? I Insurance fm In tmtm Miitm Lewis B. Evans AGENCY MANAGER Pat Ward Jeff L Smith AGENT AGENT 426-5636 426-7401 Church Street Ext. Hertford, N.C. Area farmers and extension agents gathered last week in Hertford for the annual test plot tour sponsored by the Perquimans Extension Office. Farmers were given an opportunity to see various test plots and their results throughout Perquimans County. Information on webworms Fall webworms are not tent cater pillars in fall dress, say experts at the N.C. Botanical Garden at the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The communal web tent is the home and feeding ground for the lar val or caterpillar stage of a tigar moth, a relative of the woolly bear caterpillar. Trees the webworms favor most for snacking are the ash cherry wil low and apply. In this area, they munch heartily on the sourwood as well. Landis promoted ROCKY MOUNT, NC.-H. Kel Landis, Peoples Bank Executive Vice President, has been appointed Peoples Bancorporation's first Hold ing Company Administrator by Rob ert R. Mauldin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Landis' new du ties include providing coordination on mergers and acquisitions, investi gating additional opportunities in non-banking activities, overseeing strategic planning, and taking over administrative responsibility for the Audit, Investor Relations, and Legal Departments. According to Mauldin, 'The holding company needs the attention of a full time administrator in order to facili tate future growth and progress and to deal with the increasing complex ity of a multi-bank holding company. With Kel's financial management background and years of experience with Peoples, we feel fortunate that he is the one who will be assuming the responsibility of this much needed position. We are certain that Peoples Bancorporation will benefit from his serving in this capacity.' Landis has been serving in the fi nancial management area of the bank for most of his banking career. my ?! ? eiKDn rCKrCv I MXCrcK ACCORD ? Exclusively at Sleep Quarters ? 15 Year Warranty ? 440 Continuous Cotl* ? Plush Quilted Damask Cover ? Layers of Cushioning Foam ? Patented Torsion Bar Bok Spring The female moth lays from 200-500 eggs on the underside of the tree leaves. The masses of eggs are cov ered with white hair from the fe male's body. When the eggs hatch about a week later, the larvae begin a web around the leaves. This is done usually during the evening. When the caterpillars are one-and a -quarter inches long, after six molts in four to six weeks, they wander away to pupate individually in gray cocoons possibly in a rubbish pile, on a fence or in crevices in tree bark. Fall webworms nests are much like tent caterpillar nests except tent caterpillar nest are in the crotch of branches and fall webworms tents are in the tips of branches. The dif ference results because the tent cat erpillars leave the protected nest to feed on leaves, and the fall web worms build their nests around their feeding areas. The fall webworm is seldom seen outside its nest. Although the webworm's nest seems safe, the caterpillars do fall victim to birds, hornets and wasp. Yellow warblers especially enjoy dining on webworm caterpillars and can easily annihilate an entire col ony. Wasps do not cause as much damage. They either sting a caterpil lar or chew on it awhile before taking the larva to their nest. Fall webworms likely will not de stroy trees, but the web is unsightly. For gardeners who have fall web worms and do not want them, two re medies exist: the branch can be cut and burned, or it can be sprayed with bacillus thuringiensis. ? QE VHS HQ TABLE MODEL VCR MOOfl *-7115 ? Quartz Tuning ? Frequency Synthesized ? 1SS Channel ? Cable Compatible ? On Screen Programming ? 8 Event/21 Day Timer ?Specia' Effects in EP Mode ? 41 Function WireieM Remote COME IN AND CHECK OUR lOW PRICES! SALES, SERVICE
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