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CEi|r tti'b anh Klark
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1951
‘HORTICULTURAL FEAT
Seedless Waiermellon Project
!tegins at University Farm
S<>edl<>KH Nv«il<*!'!ih , Ioiik the kind
the rind . are now hein^ jrrown on
vereity and probably " ill find their
the next few years
Grown on tin* University farm
from sr«*d developnd In Japan, the
melons have been described by ex
perts hh a "horticultural feat.*'
The seedless watermelons are the
small Ice box variety and weigh
about 10 pounds.
However, other seedless varieties
growing up to standard size could
Accounting Institute
Planned in October
The first accounting and taxation
Institute ever held In Gcorgln for a
Joint meeting of lawyers and account
ants will be conducted on campus
Oct 25-27.
The Join! hphkIoii will replace the
HcenuntuntH conference which has
been held on campus in recent yenrs.
A number of the nation's out
standing lawyers and accountants
have accepted Invitation* to speak
at the three-day session. Among them
Is t'arman (1. Illough, director of re
search of the American Institute of
Accountants.
Tsx problems front the standpoint
of both the lawyer and the account
ant will lie discussed. Lectures will
also deal with accounting and audit
ing problems of organizations and
taxation pitfalls.
that are “heart" all the way to
an experimental basis at (lie !’ni-
tvay into Georgia gardens within
he developed. Dr K. K. Johnstone,
horticultural division head, com
mented.
Similar to Corn
A seedless melon is a sterile hy
brid and Is similar to hybrid corn
In that the seeds for planting must
be bred every year by bund polling
tlon. Doctor Johnstone said. Tne
melon seed Is developed by crossing
a plant h..ving twice the ordinary
amount of chromosomes with an ord-
Inary-ehromosomed plant.
To date seeds for seedless water
melons have been grown only In Ja
pan and sell for to cents each. From
one to six melons may grow on a
single vine.
Actually there are some seed In a
“seedless" melons, Doctor Johnstone
said There may he as many as three
or four developed seed in n melon,
lie said, plus a number of undevelop
ed ones that don’t get In the way of
eating
First in Slate
The seedless watermelons growing
here arc believed to he the llrst to
he grown til Georgia. They are part
of the horticultural division's variety
planting program.
The melons are grown In a Held
where at least one out of every five
plants Is un ordinary seeded melon.
These plants provide pollen for the
sterile vines. Doctor Johnstone said.
Editors Meet—
Kohell Nicholson, editor of
Linotype News, has Non added to
the list of speakers for the fifth an
nual Industrial Editor* Institute at
the I nlverslty Nov. H-10. Nicholson
will speak on “Type And It« t'ses In
Indn trial Publications.”
Forestry School Professor
Will Alleml ValiloKlii Meet
The School of Forestry will be rep
resented at the annual meeting of
the Southeastern Forest Products
Association hy It. T. Grant, professor
of forestry. Dean Donald 1. Weddell
announced today.
The association, devoted to better
usage of Southeastern forest pro
ducts and the best methods of obtain
ing those resources, will hold its
meeting at Valdosta, Oct. 5-6.
Motley To Address Industrial Editors
Arthur H. Motley, clrculation-
douhling president of Parade Publi
cations and publisher of Parade Mag
azine, will address the fifth annual
Industrial Kdltors' Institute at the
University Nov. sio.
Editors and employees of trade
publications throughout the South j
will attend the Institute, which Is
sponsored by the School of Journal- |
Ism and the Southern Industrial Ed
itors Association. Ed Gambrell, !
Bradley and Sons, Atlanta, is insti
tute chairman.
Motley, who began his career in
business as a cough syrup salesman,
entered the publishing Held in 1928
as a space salesman with the Crowell-
Collier Publishing Company.
He was publisher of the American
Magazine when, after 18 years with
Crowell-Colller, he resigned to as
sume his present position.
j Since Motley has been publisher
of Parade the number of newspapers
distributing the Sunday supplement
has jumped from 18 to 34, the circu-
I lation has more than doubled, and
j advertising volume is up 186 per
1951 ‘G' Booklet Compiled
By Colts, Pcskin. Jacobson
The 52nd edition of the "G” booh,
freshman guidance pamphlet, wa*
edited by Leonard Cott*. Augusta.
Phillip Peskin, Winder was associ
ate editor.
Cotts is a senior pie-ined student
Peskin is a junior in the School ol
Businer? Administration.
Other staff membera were Gerald
Levy. Augusta, copy editor, and A)
Jacobson, Waycross. photography
editor.
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