AUTHOR KNEW MISERY—Richard Wright, the author of “Native Son,” “Black
Boy” and five other novols and short story coflections, know the taste, smol and
cool deathlike careers of misery. His first 18 years wars spent In constant
struggle, often near starvation, often in fear of boating that would wipe out ids
breath. Inexplicably, Wright rose above this harsh existence and became the
nation's first successful African-American novelist.
COOKING OIL
FDA Approves Coconut Oil
Endorses Tropical Oils in Normal Diets
(NU) - The health effects of vari
ous fats have become a matter of
intense interest — and controversy
— as the nation has gone on an anti
cholesterol binge.
In fact the recently retired U.S.
Surgeon General. Dr. C. Everett
Koop, thinks the cholesterol issue is
overemphasized. He says “the cho
lesterol bubble is about to burst.”
There is no doubt, though, that
there is validity in urging Ameri
cans generally to reduce their ca
loric and fat intake. The problem
comes when some nutritional advis
ers start to draw a line between fafs
without differentiating between
those in animal products and those
in vegetable fats such as coconut oil.
Generally unknown is that the
Food and Drug Administration has
given coconut oil and the other tropi
cal oils a green light as used in the
normal American diet.
Polyunsaturates and Cancer
Also some pseudo nutritionists
in blanketing saturated fats as bad
fats would switch consumers away
from all saturated fats without refer
ence to long standing scientific re
ports, recently confirmed by research
ers at Cambridge University in Eng
land that polyunsaturates pose a risk
of colon cancer.
Similarly, consumers have been
led to believe that when saturates are
replaced by partially hydrogenated
oils they are getting a more healthful
product. The fact is that the hydro
genation process increases the nor
mal saturates and adds saturate-like
trans fatty acids to oils.
Still another oddity in the fats
picture, also not generally known, is
that when bakers and other food
processors switch away from the
tropical oils because of the unsup
ported claims that they contribute to
cholesterol build-up, they substitute
domestic oils such as soybean oil
which contains more calories than
the tropical oils.
Dr. Mary G. Enig, research asso
ciate in the Department of Chemistry
and Bio-chemistry at the University
of Maryland, reported recently that
the substitution results in an increase
of 4.6 to 5.6 percent in calories. „Y
Routine Helps Workers
Leave Job at Front Door
Some people bring home work
from the office in a briefcase.
Others bring it home in their
minds. If you find worry about work
consuming your free time, you may
want to set up a routine designed to
help you make the break.
Dr. Leo Hawkins, human
development specialist at North
Carolina State University, suggests
selecting one of the following
routines to ease the transition from
work to home:
—Take a walk, go jogging or ride
a bicycle. Walk the dog. Work out at
a health center.
—Take a quick shower.
—Rest for a few minutes.
—Talk to a friend, but not about
work.
—Work in the garden.
—Listen to your favorite music.
—Escape for a while into a good
book
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N.C. Peaches May Thrive Above This Ground Cover
What grows under a peach tree
has a good bit to do with what grows
in the tree, researchers at North
Carolina Sta|p University and
Clemson University have found.
Indeed, scientists have learned
that the presence of a grasslike
plant on the floor of peach orchards
helps discourage insects and other
pests that can damage peaches and
lower the quality of the fruit
Researchers have known for
some time that certain weeds tend
to harbor peach-damaging insects.
The presence of these weeds in or
chards contributes indirectly to
lower peach quality, said Dr. John
R. Meyer, an entomologist in
NCSU’s College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences. But scientists didn’t
know what to recommend in place
of weeds.
As Meyer put it, "We knew what
we didn’t want on the orchard floor,
but we didn’t know what we do
want."
Now, however, a study by scien
tists at NCSU and Clemson has
revealed a promising candidate, a
grasslike plant called nimblewill.
Nimblewill looks like grass, al
though it is actually a sedge, a fami
ly of weedy plants.
In fact, nimblewill seems almost
too good to be true, at least as a
ground cover for peach orchards.
Said Meyer of nimblewill, "It
looks like it’s got everything you
want It shows promise as a ground
cover in apples and Christmas trees
also."
The thing nimblewill doesn't do
is provide comfortable lodging for
insects that can damage peaches. It
was because of the tendency of in
sects to set up housekeeping in
weeds like henbit, chickweed and
cress, which are often found grow
ing on orchard floors, that Meyer
and Dr. Eldon I. Zehr, a Clemson
plant pathologist, looking for alter
native ground covers.
Among the insects that thrive in
such weeds are so-called catfacing
insects such as stink bugs and tar
nished plant bugs, Meyer said.
These insects disfigure peaches,
leaving a scar on the peach that
some believe looks like a cat’s face.
Disfigured peaches are useful only
for processing, and processing
centers are too far from North
Carolina to make shipping
profitable. Disfigured peaches are
useless to North Carolina growers.
Mites also live in weeds, and
when the weeds dry up in the sum
mer, the mites migrate upward into
the trees. Meyer said mites
defoliate the trees and spin webs
that make the peaches difficult to
pick. While they don’t have a direct
impact on peach quality, mites can
dim the vigor of a tree. The result
can be a lower yield the next year.
Then there is ring nematode.
Nematodes are microscopic para
sitic worms that live in the soil.
They seem particularly to like the
area around the roots of weeds.
Meyer said the ring nematode is
thought to be “a principal player in
peach tree short life syndrome.”
Researchers do not completely
understand short life syndrome,
which causes trees to die for no ap
parent reason four to six years after
being planted.
Weeds can be killed fairly easily
with herbicides, and ridding an or
chard of them has been shown to
reduce insect damage significantly,
Meyer said. But the alternative to
ground cover, bare ground, has
drawbacks.
There’s more erosion and the soil
compacts more easily, Meyer
pointed out. Water doesn’t pene
trate compacted soil to reach the
tree roots as easily as it does in
looser soil.
And there’s a greater tempera
ture fluctuation in the soil, which is
not good for the trees. The soil heats
up and cools down more quickly
when the ground is bare.
No wonder that Meyer and Zehr
began two years ago looking for a
ground cover for peach orchards
that would be more compatible
with the trees. They planted trees
in bare ground and in plots where
weeds were allowed to grow and
compared these plots with plots of
trees planted in various other
ground covers.
“Absolutely phenomenal, the
difference between those plots,”
said Meyer. In some plots, such as
those in which fescue grass covered
the ground, there was 40 percent
tree mortality. The presence of
these ground covers, which clearly
are not desirable in peach orchards,
apparently contributed to the
deaths of trees.
Then there was nimblewill.
Nimblewill, which grows to a
height of 4 to 5 inches, is drought
tolerant and does not represent sig
nificant competition for peach
trees. Neither mites nor catfacing
insects find nimblewill attractive,
so it appears likely there will be
fewer insects in nimblewill or
chards. And fewer insects would
mean growers could reduce insec
ticide usage.
Nimblewill may even have what
is known as an allelopathic effect on
ring nematode, Meyer said. Al
lelopathy is the tendency some
plants have to produce substances
that are poisonous to animals or
other plants. If nimblewill is even
able to discourage nematodes, it
would seem too good to be true.
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