The Pembroke journal. (Pembroke, Ga.) 1969-1976, October 02, 1969, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPage 2 !—THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL, Thursday, October 2, 1969 9 TIDEWATER GARDENING I BUGGING THE BUGS By: Francis Meeks Summer’s end is celebrated by a multitude of insects that set the garden to music. If you have not tuned in on the per formance you will find insects that creep, jump, fly, sting, sing and chirp. There are useful in sects as well as harmful pests. Some, like butterflies are orna mental while others make inter esting pets, especially for the younger set. Getting to know them could make your garden more productive as well as help you tell the temperature, pre dict weather changes, or what kind of winter it will be. An estimated two million dif ferent kinds of insects inhabit the world we live in. You won’t meet more than a few of them, but a backyard census might reveal these interesting insects sharing your garden with you. Balancing the destructive in sect forces so plentiful this year are useful ones like the friendly lady bug which devours soft bodied insect pests. Fifty aphids could be on the menu in one day. Hibernating in great swarms on western mountain tops, lady bugs are collected by a special vacuum and used by orchardists in place of harmful insecticides. Hungry lady bugs invade hideaways seldom pene trated by spraying. Sold to gardeners by packages the dor mant insects are refrigerated until needed. The ‘praying mantis’ is the largest and most fascinating insect you will encounter. An swer to a gardener's prayer it preys upon all kinds of harmful pests. Never kill a mantis and protect the frothy brown egg masses you find cemented to certain shrubbery. Every garden should have a buddleia or butterfly bush. Also known as “summer lilac" this old-fashioned shrub attracts all kinds of butterflies for an addi tional color treat. Named after Adam Buddle, a British botan ist, the butterfly bush has been known to American garneners since the eighteenth century. Broad black bands on the helpful black and brown “wooly bear” caterpillar (Isabella moth) are said to forecast a cold winter. Holes under the shrubbery and empty plastic-like shells mean that nymphs of the cicada have graduated to the treetops after burrowing underground for seventeen years. Their rasping summer song (regard ed as an indication of continu ed hot weather) was enlikened by the New England colonists as "Pharoah” so they called the big flies locusts after the Bibli cal pest. This may not be the year of cicada, but there are various broods on different time schedules. A flashlight tour any hot humid night reveals action 1970 Caprice. A lot of cars cost more. But few if any are really that much more car. Which explains why more and more of the smart money is coming to Caprice. Look what you get: A big substantial 18-foot-long prestige car with a new 350-cubic-inch V 8 engine, power disc brakes. Astro V en tilation, wheel covers, deep twist carpeting, posh appoint ments. A remarkably roomy car, with a ride so smooth and If you spend more for a car, you must want to spend more for a car. everywhere. You will see lace wings, moths and crab spiders hunting on the flower faces. Tracking down a cricket by his chirping is no easy task. Ac tually crickets don’t chirp, the males fiddle by scraping their wings together. The Chinese keep crickets in cages and stage cricket flights upon which they place bets. Note that when cold weather silences the cricket choir the temperature is near freezing. The first kadydid is said to proclaim six more growing, weeks before frost. Those familiar fireflies of earlier summer evenings are still puzzling scientists with their cold green flashing light. Primitive man imprisoned fire flies in gourds to light his way in dark places. Bees, wasps, and hornets are useful to plant pollination. Wasps were the first manufac turers of paper. Call them insects or just plain bugs if you will, entomol ogy as the study of insects is known, is a fascinating subject. R. H. High School Classes Elect Officers Elections have been complet ed for class officers for the 1969-70 school term at Rich mond Hill High School. Listed by grade with the class spon sor, they are as follows: Grade 8: Sponsor, Mrs. Adri an Primo; President: Kenneth Rushing; Vice-President: Jackie Wright; Secretary - Treasurer: Karen Haymans. Grade 9-A: Sponsor, Mrs. Frances Meeks; President: Rosa Halston; Vice-President: Juan ita Jones; Secretary-Treasurer: Karen Boles. Grade 9-B: Sponsor, Mr. Har old Wright; President: Donald O’Quinn; Vice-President: Stev en Griffen; Secretary-Treasur er: Ginger Williams. Grade 10-A: Sponsor: Mr. Sonney Begley; President: Jo etta Norris; Vice-President: Douglas Jones; Secretary- Treasurer: Barbara Jones. Grade 10-B: Sponsor, Mrs: Russel) Brown; President: Bon nie Wright; Vice - Presided^ Dottie Johnson; Secretary: Sherrill Skinner; Treasurer Roy Anderson. Grade 11: Sponsors, Mrs. Elizabeth Giles and Miss Eliza beth Pryor; President: Jackie Gregory; Vice-President: Randy Murray; Secretary: Maria My ers; Treasurer: Paul Rahn. Grade 12: Sponsor, Mr. Rus sell Brown; President: Phil Scott;- Vice - President: Phil Hodges; Secretary: Elaine Ellis; Treasurer: Kathy Hansel. |RHHS Science Club Meets Last Thursday the first meet ing of the Richmond Hili High ’ School Science Club was held 1 in the science lab of the school. • Thirty-four students are mem -1 bers. Mr. Harold Wright, high ! school science teacher and club sponsor, reviewed purposes of ! a science club with the group. ! The Science Club is dedicat ed to several overall goals; one ' to develop in its members an • active interest in science; sec ond, to encourage independent work by individual members, * and third, to advise members of • and develop interest in career opportunities in science. The club also keeps qualified ! students informed of scholar -1 ship opportunities. • Officers for the 1969-70 school year were elected: President: Roy Anderson. Vice-President: Dale Hamil ! ton. • Secretary - Treasurer: Jackie ’ Wright. Parliamentarian: Douglas • Shuman. Reporter: Hal Shuman. i Traffic Arrests Up As Troopers Work More ATLANTA, (GPS) — State troopers worked longer hours, covered more territory, made more arrests and issued fewer warning tickets during the first eight months of 1969 than in the same period last year, ac cording to a report released by Col. R. H. Burson, state public safety director. Patrolmen this year arrested 87,800 drivers for various traf fic violations, a 12 per cent in crease over a year ago. At the same time, they handed out 125,067 warning tickets, 3,233 less than in 1968. During the current 8-month period a total 52,278 patrols (up 9 per cent) spent a total of 417,126 hours (up 11 per cent) patrolling 8,597,534 miles (up 5 per cent). Smokey Say»: I NOT FOR KIDS' Assisi * Smokey’s Friends Don’t Play With Matches! silent you’ll feel like Mr. Big himself. Tell you what, though. If you absolutely insist on a more expensive car, we won’t stand in your way. Go ahead and order air conditioning. Order stereo. Order tinted glass, power windows, 6-way power seat, our new Headlight Delay system. Your Chevrolet dealer will ——JHHHL——_ happily help. See him real soon. Putting you first, keeps us first. On the move. Programmed Instruction Courses Prove Valuable Training Technique The education and training of the unskilled unemployed is one of the nation's most serious challenges today. A second se rious problem, differing only in that a lesser number of people are involved, is the education and rehabilitation of prison in mates so that they can re-enter society to begin career jobs, many of them for the first time in their lives. As unrelated as these prob lems appear, Du Pont is helping to solve them in many in stances by making available their own training materials prepared in the form of pro grammed instruction courses. Programmed instruction is a training technique based on the principle of "reinforcement.” The learner's responses to questions of gradually increas ing difficulty are confirmed im mediately. This gives reward and encouragement for contin uing the learning cycle until a pre determined level of achievement is reached. This self-pacing method of teaching basic mechanical and industrial skills is used for training thousands of persons in industry, government agen cies, and education. For example, at the Federal Job Corps Center in Morgan field, Ky., Williard Whoberry, Jr. program director, reports that the Du Pont courses have reduced average training time by 30 per cent and increased proficiency by about 25 per cent. The ultimate payoff is a job in industry, and 75 per cent of the 400 Morganfield grad uates have been placed in jobs. The fact that the courses are being used daily at Du Pont is a big lever in helping job trainees overcome a built-in block against that "desk and pencil stuff." "They feel if the course was 'the real thing' used in in dustry, it had to be worth while," says Clark M. Younger, director for a Federal training Supervisor’s Course A short course is being offer ed at Savannah Tech in the evenings for supervisory per sonnel or those contemplating promotion. The course, “How to Supervise Employees” will cover the areas of employee morale, the place of the super visor in the personnel picture, how to induct and follow-up on employees, and checking the ef fectiveness of supervision. The classes will meet each Wednes day night from 7:30-9:30 p.m. starting 8 October and ending* on November 5. Total cost for the ten hour course is only $3.00. Special class sessions will be arranged for tho se firms with 15 or more people attend ing. For further information contact R. C. Lansford at 236- 3400 or write Savannah Tech at 214 West Bay Street. project in Philadelphia being administered by Philco-Ford. About 800 persons classified as disadvantaged unemployed are enrolled in this program. Du Pont courses also are being used in another training project in Philadelphia. Angel Alba, who advises 60 instruc tors teaching at five locations of the Philadelphia Opportu nities Industrialization Center, said: "The Du Pont material is excellent. It tells the 'what' and the ’how' as industry does it. That's what our people have to know." Meanwhile, programmed in struction courses have been used for more than three years at the Federal prison located at Petersburg, Va., with consider able success, according to Dr. Garland S. Wollard, director of Vocational Training, U. S. Bu reau of Prisons. Other prisons such as the one located at Milan, Mich., also use PI courses, with several others to begin using them in the near future. "Individual inmates felt the program was designed toward self-improvement for them selves rather than the previous attitude which was that they (the inmates) were being 'used' by the institution," Dr. Wollard said. The report indicated that in / II I / [cHESAPEAKE “ 'I X~ L ■ t^r': - ■■ ■:■ '■ mmw Ws-5” &dl|i|9 o^'^w * v; w.^ * " , T^^ik-?xi^w»^Bh?'\'-2^---~ '.".T^'.^T" ^SSS / ^SS,-* ||gsM^ o • ._ wMlfe •-, ^v\v^h '' • s w-, '^tv; <Sss- M 1 / Im^ FISH TALE? No, it's the absolute truth. Vacationers driving os er the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in their East Coast travels can take a free "deep sea" fishing break—no extra charge—in some of the best fishing waters in the world three and a half miles off the coast of Virginia where the Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Anglers report that bluefish, red drum, flounders, croakers and many other species are being caught in abundance in this unique "highway fishing hole." Selected by top engineers as one of five wonders of the modern world, the 17.6 mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel connects Virginia Beach, Va., and Cape Charles. Va., at the tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. Included in the bay-spanning strv re are two mile-long tunnels that take automobiles under m sipping lanes, two bridges, 12 miles of trestled highway 30 feci above the water level, and four man-made islands, one of which includes the 625-foot-long fishing pier shown here, a coffee and gift shop and a lookout point. By using the Bridge-Tunnel in driving north and south, motorists save almost 100 miles between Wilmington. Del., and Virginia Beach, or an hour and a half of driving time. uL i 1 Cj AfMli BJ A ~ 1 ^gm^aa Allis-Chalmers added this riding mower to its lawn and garden equipment line. The 7 horsepower mower, called the “Scamper,” has an automatic drive transmission for on-the-go shifting. many instances the technical training required was reduced by as much as 50 per cent be cause of the programmed in struction technique. Dr. Wollard stated in the re port that many inmates went on to obtain their high school di plomas through the General Education Development Pro gram as a direct result of suc cessfully completing the pro grammed instruction courses. "Not a single inmate was dropped from the program be cause of disciplinary prob lems," Dr. Wollard said. Not one participating inmate had to be referred to the prison chaplain nor to the psycholo gist, he added. With the increased focus on training and retraining, pro grammed — or self-tutoring —. instruction is finding ever wid ening applications in industry, education, and government. Du Pont's courses, which are made available through the com pany's Industrial Training Serv ice, Wilmington, Delaware, are being used by more than 3,000 corporations and 200 vocational schools, as well as by many Federal, state, and local gov ernmental agencies. To date, Du Pont has invested over $3 million in developing about 200 courses, including 25 in safety training / isCs Jmu\ By Bvetya R StrtekU^ | onty otfiM ASC County Committee Named Farmers recently named to serve as the Agricultural Stabi lization and Conservation (ASC) County Committee are: H. L. Speir, Sr., Pembroke, for i 3-year term. Mr. Speir was ramed Member of the Commit tee. H. L. Page, Ellabell, was named Chairman and W. S. Thomson, Vice-Chairman. Al ternates elected were William Hughes and Orley Lanier of the Pembroke Community. The 1970 election was held at a county convention September 23 at the ASCS office. Electors were farmers chosen as conven tion deelgates at recent ASC community committee elections throughout the county. Chairman Page points out that the ASC county and com munity farmer-committees are in charge of local administra tion of such national farm pro grams as the Agricultural Con servation Program, the Crop land Adjustment Program, the feed grain program, the wheat program, the upland cotton di version program, acreage allot ments and marketing quotas, the national wool program, com modity price-support loans, and storage facility loans. The ASCS county office at the Courthouse annex is head quarters for the county commit- County Agent News By D. E. Meddera TIME TO LIME Fall is the most ideal time of the year to apply lime. Agricul tural limestone is not water soluble. So it does not reduce soil acidity immediately after it is applied. In fact, the pH is not substantially reduced until at least two months after appli cation. An even longer period is required if the lime is not ground to sufficient fineness. Now is also a good time to check problem fields. A soil test will tell you if low pH was the problem. A special soil test should also be made in these areas. The trouble may be due to magnesium or zinc defici ency. If magnesium is deficient, and the area needs lime, dolomi tic lime applied in the fall should correct the deficiency. It is also a good idea to take a subsoil sample in problem areas. It could be that subsoil acidity or low subsoil phosphor ous may be preventing good root development. To correct subsoil acidity the lime should be turned under as deeply as possible. Due to excessive rains throughout Bryan County this summer the soil fertility level may be real low in some fields and out of balance in others. Soil test and follow lime and fertilizer recommendations. Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Ba con are new residents of Pem broke, they are living in the little green house on Warnell Avenue, owned by Mrs. Ruby Cowart. They come to Pem broke after having lived in Mi ami, Fla. Donald and his wife. Mavis and little son David are welcome residents of President. MF W POULAN HEW SUPER B 8 MORE POWER NOW! SAME POWER LATER! Top money maker for pulpwood and saw log production. You get super lugging power in the world's toughest saw. And the Super 68 keeps Ws power longer for maximum wood production. COLON FLOYD At Ctoukonhwlmors Comer tee, and serves as the farmers’ local contact for business con nected with participation in the programs administered by the committees. These programs en courage conservation and in crease farm returns by means of price supports and market supply-management, as well as by payments. LOWER ACP FUNM^FOR TEMPORARY CONSERVA- TION PRACTICES -The Federal Government’s share of the cost of temporary conservation practices is being set at 30 percent under the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram (ACP), according to H. L. Page, Chairman of the Bryan Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) Committee which administers the program locally. “Even stronger emphasis than before is being placed oq enduring conservation practices. This is in conformity with the expressed desire of the Con gress that ACP funds should be used for conservation practices with the most lasting value for agriculture and for the general public,” Chairman Page said. Considered as temporary con servation measures are such practices as putting in seasonal or annual vegetative cover such as summer covers of millet and winter covers of rye and oats. The Federal cost-share for these practices has been 50 per cent but will be 30 percent here after except for low income farmers who may be eligible for cost-sharing at an 80 percent rate. However, farmers who already have had practices ap proved at the 50 percent rate will receive their cost-shares at that rate, the ASC Chairman said. For Sale 1967 Van for sale: Reason able price. Contact 653-2464 Call after 3 p.m. J&WSEPTK TANK SERVICE Eden, Georoia Phone 748-7128 "If you hove Septic Tank trouble call ut" REASONABLE RATES FOR SALE Horses — Ponies Horse Feed & Tack Calk or See EMME STRICKLAND Pembroke, Ga. Phono 653-4402