davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montana farmer-stockman., 1961-11-15
Weed Control

OuIlIn0TIduOWlug IS T0IdJlV0Iy IucI-
ficient from the standpoint OF preserv-
ing the moisture that falls on the soil
Tt may. however, mean the difference
between crop success or failure in
most "dry farming areas When plant
growth occurs on the fallowed land,
soil moisture is lost. A moderate in
feStati0n Of weeds may remove as
much moisture as crop OF grain.
Russian thistle and Kochia are espe-
cially effective in utilizing soil moisture.
IN addition to the loss of moisture,
permitting weeds to grow has another
serious disadvantage Many weed seeds
can live in the soil for years. Allowing
weeds to infest the soil is major
objection to so-called idle fallow.
Weeds could be moved to prevent
weed seed production. In order to pre-
vent the early maturing fanweed and
mustard, as well as the later maturing
Russian thistle and Kochia, it would
be necessary to NOW twice. OF course,
moving would not help to conserve
moisture One moving could be re-
placed with 2,4-D.
Erosion Problem
The major problem in double sum-
merfallowing is soil erosion due TO
either wind or water, or both. since
there will be little or no protection for
the soil There are two alternatives
where the soil is especially subject
to erosion. If there is any trash pres
ent it must be preserved by the use
of weed killing chemicals and the use
of minimum tilIage. If the protecting
trash is already gone. then perhaps
the seeded acres could be so arranged
as to offer added protection to the
double fallOW.
Chemical summerfall0w has been
discussed as a possible approach The
use of chemicals will preserve all of
the trash and thereby reduce erosion
to minimum Many chemicals have
been tested by the Montana Agricul-
tural Experiment Station for this pur-
pose. They have all had one or more
of the following disadvantages: l. Too
expensive. 2. Don't control both grassy
and broadleaf weeds. g. They leave
residue in the soil that is harmful to
the crop.
While it is not presently considered
practical to control all the weeds on
summerfaIIow by chemicals. it is pos
Associate Professor. Soils Extension,
and Assistant Professor, Agronomy, re-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1961-11-15


Montana 1856
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
Let's Have Action

We are most happy to note the Park and Plan
ming Commissions invitation to Maryland's two Sem
ators Representative Matthias and Senator Alan Bible
chairman of the Senate District Committee to discuss
the urgent necessity to lift the freeze extending
Route 70-S from Pooks Hill into downtown Washing
ton
The planning agencys move deserves the support
of all motorists who must inch along trafccongested
streets to and from their Washington offices because
of the Chinese wall which Congress has erected around
Montgomery County.
AS we have said before, such situation is in
olerabIe and must be corrected with all possible speed
While the freeze on highway construction men
tons only the Northwest section of the District of
Columbia it is obviously intended to block the
of the Wisconsin corridor to bring 70S into the
Nations Capital.
The short-sighted attitude on the part of rela-
lively few individuals and organizations in Washing
ton and Bethesda which brought about the freeze
must not be allowed any longer to block the desires
and needs Of the vast majority of Montgomery County
citizens.
Commission Vice Chairman ]. Newton Brewer
IT, stated the issue clearly when he said The people
of Montgomery County want to get to town. If our
Congressman don't do something about it, we should
throw them out"
Although Mr. Brewer didn't say it, the same
should hold true for members of the State Roads
Commission. Too long has the roads agency hest
tated and wavered and delayed the firm selection
of the Wisconsin ave. corridor the most desirable
route for the 70-S extension.
AS result the Park and Planning Commissions
efforts to preserve the rghtsofway have been weak
ened and frustrated by the Roads Commissions failure
to acquire crucial properties before they de-
veoped.
The freeze does not affect the authority Of the
part of Maryland It possesses this power in Be-
thesda just as much and as fully it does in Balt-
more, or Easton or Cumberland.
II Congress refuses to heed the appeal of the
Park and Planning Commission behalf of the people
of Montgomery County, the State Roads Commission
should take immediate steps to acquire the rightsof
way along Wisconsin ave. and begin construction,
right down to the District of Columbia line
Then see how fast the District will act.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
A Few Words
Depressing Fashions

Have you looked at fashion magazine
lately?
We figure, after casually thumbing
through few recent issues of the high
priced, slickpaper journals, that things are
going you know where in Fandbasket, at
least as far as the women pictured therein
are concerned.
About the incest thing we can say about
it is that it's depressing
Remembering down through the years,
it was always joy at our house when new
feminine clothes came in the front door.
There was the modelling session, and then
the long debate over whether this or that
creation was just the thing to bring glamor
into all our lives.
When the garment was worn - to church
for the first time naturally; new clothes
were always Sunday clothes for length of
time secretly determined by the ladies of the
town = comments came from every quarter.
Some of them may have been tinged with
jealousy and slight disapproval, but that was
part of the game.
But take a look at those creatures which
today adorn the pages of V, H B., the
others. They have carried sophistication to
the ne plus ultra, or somebody just told them
a rich uncle died after writing them out of
his will.
There's no real smile in 200, sometimes
300 pages. A girl in a gorgeous new coat,
posing in front of a gigantic stack of hay,
looks as if she'd rather be anywhere but
there. One can only conclude she has asthma.
Her sole reason for suffering such indignities
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
By Kent Palmer

is money
And figures ;. There's no such thing
any more, The photographs are technically
very close to perfection. The clothes them
selves are, in few cases, quite pretty and,
in most cases, somewhat startling
But the girls. How can you make a
fencepost alluring?
Another hayward thought just struck
us. Perhaps the look of positive pain (and
there's phrase for you to ponder) comes
from the pounds and pounds of additional
make up, plus the time it takes to apply.
For today no woman's woman who
isn't burdened with eye shadow mascara and
whatever else it takes to approximate the
makeup of silent movies, when the lighting
situation was SO bad that heavy makeup was
out completely for the final showing
It's discouraging thing = all these new
clothes that make so many women unhappy
Fashion is funny thing; we've all known
that for long time, what with short skirts
this year and long skirts next and the like
But you'd think the people who are try
ing to get your wife and ours to buy would
see to it that the girls who show off the
new in its first blush of introduction are at
least happy about what they're doing.
It's also a little thing, that we admit
But when you add all these little things to.
gether
Well as we said in the beginning it's
depressing.
You think an appeal to the boys of the
New Frontier would do any good?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
Welsh Rare Bit

All of the family, excepting
Mercedes and Chauncey, went
to the Gaithersburg Fair Thurs
day night. 1 made such good
friends with some of the ami
mails that l returned Friday
night to talk with them. There
was one very old horse with
whom I talked. He recalled
the hectic days of his youth
when Bubblehead Wallace was
Secretary of Agriculture. The
very thought of Bubblehead and
his cohorts made the horse i'll
and he had to lie down in his
stall.
On Friday night it was my
privilege to take our Foreign
Exchange Student to the fair.
She is a 17-year-old Italian girl
from Torino and will be with
us whole year if she can stand
the old cars and dogs. She went
to the fair on Thursday night
but insisted upon returning
with me on Friday because she
said there was nothing in Italy
to compare to the Gaithersburg
fair and that there had not
been since they condemned the
Roman colosseum.
We drove in from the north
of Gaithersburg and turned
west on a street that went by
the bowling alley. The alley
was closed that night so we
were allowed to park the car
there for fifty cents and also
got a ticket for one free game
of bowling even though the al
leys were closed. We then en-
tered the fairgrounds by the
Holstein gate. Our Italian stu
dent was amazed by the large
size of the cows and the youth
of the children who took care
of them. She said that in Italy
only old people like Grandma
Moses take care of cows.
We turned left at the Holstein
gate and made our way up to
the buildings where the country
hams were. We passed the
Pla nned Parenthood booth
which featured touching
movie which / did not see be-
cause only have a very thin
academic interest in planned
parenthood nowadays. Walked
by the Temperance boot tn
where there was a gruesome
movie showing a lung opera
ton which should convince
people that tobacco and lung
cancer go hand in hand and that
cancer is a condition that one
can do without.
On the way to the country
ham display 1 had a talk with
Sparky Bear. Sparky is one of
the most articulate bears 1 have
ever talked with and the best
informed. He knew that there
was no smoking in court rooms;
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
Washington Windou
BY RAYMOND LAIR
United Press international

WASHINGTON CUPID = 1t
could be that the vote of a man
in Congress is influenced by
political kinship with the man
in the White House.
The lawmakers are now en-
gagged in their annual struggle
over foreign aid. Some Of them
are not voting as they did four
years ago before a Democrat
replaced a Republican in the
presidency.
The big issue this year has
not been how much to spend
but how to spend it - whether
some of the money should be
funneled through the passage
way which critics call back
door spending"
Eisenhower Request Similar
President Kennedy asked for
this spending authority to bor-
row SS.S billion from the Treas
ury over the next five years
for loans to foreign countries
without annual appropriations
from Congress. President Ell
senhower made a similar but
more modest request in 1857.
According to varying view
points, the appropriations COM
mittees handle an agency's bud
get with perceptive scrutiny or
attack it with a meat axe.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Diva, Of
fered the amendment last week
which gave the administration
its toughest foreign aid test in
the Senate. His amendment
would have authorized the five
year loan program but would
have compelled the administra-
ton to make an annual show
ing before the congressional ap-
preparations committees to get
the cash.
Democrats Beat Proposal
The amendment was beaten,
Sc to 80. with 46 Democrats
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29

picnic lunch served at 1890.
There were a good many win
ners of prizes at the County
Fair in the Girls All and the
Home Arts Divisions by people
in Laytonsville-W oodfield area
and some of the first prize win.
ners were: Best Gamer Col
lection, Peaches and Meats, Mrs.
Harrison King. Mrs. King also
won the Grand champion ribbon
in the Canning Classes on her
canned pork tenderloin. Rhu-
barb and Crabapple pickle, Mrs.
August Priebe; Blackberry
Jelly, Blackberry preserves and
Peach preserves, Mrs. Jack
Payne; Pickles and House Coat,
Mrs. Joyce Mason; Spice Cake
and Ginger Cookies, Jean Grit
fifth; Ice Box Cookies, Apple Pie,
Mrs. A. w. Priebe; Biscuits,
Mrs. Ruth Frye; Cherry Pie,
Mrs. ellis Owings; Plain Choc-
olate Fudge, plain light Fudge,
Mrs. Jack Payne; Seafoam, Mrs.
Wiley Griffith. Among the Spe-
cial Award Winners in tn e
Washington Flour and Royal
Satin Contests we also had sew
eral winners: Mrs. Jack Payne,
Mrs. Ruth Frye, Mrs. Harrison
King, Mrs. A. w. Priebe and
Mrs. ellis Owings. In the All
Demonstrations from this area
the following won first places:
Brenda Stup, date bars; Paula
Steers, biscuits; Donna Gels
Continued on Page 81
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and 10 Republicans voting
against it.
When substantially the same
issue was before the Senate in
1857, President Eisenhower's re-
quest for three years of bor-
rowing authority was backed
by 80 Republicans, including 81
still in the Senate. Fourteen
of the 81 voted the other way
this year.
Six of the Democratic votes
against Byrd and for Kennedy
came from Senators who voted
on the other side in 1857.
Among those who switched
were both of the present party
floor leaders, Republican Sen.
Everett M. Dirksen and Demo.
cratic Sen. Mike Mansfield. An.
other was assistant Republican
leader Thomas H. Kuchel.
Members Switch Sides
All 20 Senators who switched
sides could no doubt deliver
speeches and some of them
did - to explain their votes
and tell why the issue in 1861
was not the same as that in
1857. None would have to say
that he had changed because
the White House had changed
In the Senate debate, Sen
Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky., a
former assistant secretary OF
state who voted for the propo
sition in both 1857 and 1861
called up 1857 arguments Of En-
senhower and the late John Eos
ter Dulles to support Kennedy
this year.
But Dirksen and Kuchel pro
claimed their loyalty to the Ell
senhower of 1859 when the
then president had been per
suaded by the congressional
lieutenant to abandon the 1851
financing proposal. In 1859, Ell
senhower objected to "the grow
ing tendency to bypass the APP
preparations procedure" Of Con
gress and declared against his
earlier plan which had been
killed in the House in 1857.
There was a time when
President Eisenhower asked for
an arrangement like this" Dirk
sen told the Senate. But he
changed his mind when it final
ly dawned on him that this
was not good procedure"
Opponents Of "backdoor
spending" contend that it rep
resents more erosion of congress
sional power of the purse.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
BY Cattle C. Linthicum
Diamond 1882

Mrs. George F. Cooley, Bealls-
vile, was 50 years of age on
Thursday, August "a. Many
wishes were extended to her.
Miss Diane Phillips of Jack.
sonville, Fla, who spent the
summer with her sister, Miss
Darlene Phillips, and her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd w.
Cregger, near Poolesville, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Phillips,
Rockville, has left to visit rela-
tives in Chillicothe, Ohio, where
her parents will meet her for
the return trip home.
Mrs. Charles Schuyler who
has been visiting her daughter
ard family, Mr.. and Mrs. Greg.
ger, for several weeks has re.
turned to her home in Hialeah,
Fla.
From the Sugarloafers Shop
at the foot of Sugar Loaf
M o u n tain near Dickerson,
comes an enticing preview of a
new Fall line and array OF
Christmas gifts. The proprie'
tors, Mrs. George v. Menke,
GAINESVILLE, and Mrs. G.. Mallet
Provost, Clarksburg, have
stocked many unusual items,
from the ever.popular penny
candy to camel saddles. One
may also find supplies for
flower arrangements, stocking
suffers for Christmas, an
tiques, and many imports in
GLIDING Oriental accessories
The shop is open on Saturday
and Sunday from 1890 noon.
Mrs. Betty Newman, Airing
ton, accompanied by Mrs. Johr
Jones, Mrs. E. w. White anc
Mrs. G. Robert Gray, Pooles
Vile, drove to Black Water
Falls near Davis, w. Va, where
they spent last week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
Laytonsville !.

Arthur Wayne Smith of Fitch
ison Is recovering after surgery
at Montgomery General Hos.
pital.
Miss Jane Ann Griffith and
her brother Ulysses Griffith v,
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Ulysses
Griffith w, will enter Mont.
gomery General Hospital to-
night, Tuesday, for tonsilectom-
les.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen E. Darnell
are visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Fraley.
Glen B. Darnell and family
have moved to Randolph Road
in Veirs Mill Village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Barber
attended a Funeral Directors
Convention in Ocean City. Md,
last week.
Spencer Mullinix is recuper-
ating after surgery at Mont
gomery General Hospital, at the
home of his brother, Carlton
Mullinix in Olney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Moore
are residing in Woodfield in one
of E. Brooke Lees homes. They
have purchased property in
Woodfield and plan to build a
new home there. They have
come to our area from Wiscon-
sin. Mr.. Moore is with the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29

and ran the gauntlet between
the Arkshires and the Hamp.
shires. There was one nice
looking red Duroc there and he
was sort of lonely. 1 think that
pigs are smart and clean. Aside
from dogs, they are my favor.
lite domestic animal. They are
also useful when decorating a
couple of eggs, or featuring
boiled potatoes and cabbage.
Roast beef and steak are com.
monplace foods compared to
country sausage or cabbage and
potatoes boiled in ham liquor
I should be an honorary mem.
her of our county swine club
and I'll gladly pay my dues to
get in.
After leaving the animal ex-
hibits l passed by the booth of
my brothers of the Montgom-
cry County Bar Association.
where excellent literature was
passed out to the public with
the best of motives; but, in
Heavens name, brothers, do we
have to do such things along
side the farm machinery, the
swine, and the sideshow fakirs
at our county's biggest fair?
We left the "animal-looking"
part of the fairgrounds and then
went into the "people-watching"
section. AS | am always at
tracted to the things of the sea,
I paid a dime to see the sharks
and other denizens of the deep.
1 believe they had been caught
in subdivision swimming
pool.
We ate some popcorn the
first Dindina had ever tasted.
Let me tell you something. TAX
ing an attractive 17-year Italian
girl around Maryland on her
first trip to America is a rare
privilege. 1t is exciting to see
her react to the things we take
for granted, such as: popcorn,
large black and white cows, the
voice of the auctioneer rising
in pitch as he gets 80 cents for
beef, the noise of the bankers,
red combs on the ROSTERS and
the wrinkly noses of the rab-
bits.
We were afraid of the rides,
but we wagered on our skill at
some of the wheels and won a
doll baby and a china cup. We
left just before the rains came.
Dindina said it was a good way
to learn about America and I
agreed. I tried to tell her that
Maryland is a very small state
and that our agricultural out
put is small compared to the
giants of the midwest. But 1
think she did not believe me
and so there will be nothing to
do but to go out west where
DR.. Welsh is and find out first
hand.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29
We Went To The Fair

he knew my name, and l pre-
scented him to Dindina. Dindina
she is our Italian student, and
may l introduce her to you
now-said that it was the first
time that she had ever talked
with a bear although she had
talked to a New York cab
driver. We said goodbye to
Sparky and went into the pro-
duce building.
Dindina spent a lot of time
looking at the paintings and I
enjoyed a seashell exhibit and
resolved to go to the ocean over
Labor Day after / get licked at
Forest Hills. We went through
the tomatoes and the potatoes,
the beans and the infinite va
riety of squash, the corn on cob
and the tall corn standing in
the corner, the fruit and the
pumpkins and / peeled back the
wrapping on the hams and
smelled each one and must con-
fess looked around and weighed
my chances of a successful ham
snatching.
We entered the building
where the bees are and watched
them awhile and bought some
honey. / looked at all of the
fruit and vegetables nestled Sc
curely in the glass jars but 1
could not taste or smell them
so we left for the animals, the
rabbits and the fowl.
Dindina was particularly fond
of the rabbits and T. must say
that l did not know there were
so many different breeds. She
had never seen red-eyed rabbits
before. 1 became interested in
the rabbits and engaged in a
game of staring them in the
eye. Pick a good intelligent
looking rabbit about eye level
and look him dead in the eye.
AS he looks at you his nose will
wrinkle. The question is
whether you viii wrinkle your
nose or he stop wrinkling his
nose. If you wrinkle your nose
it means you are being domin-
ated by a rabbit who is staring
you down. My nose is still
twitching; and 1 was glad to
get out of the rabbit hutch.
We then went to the chicken
house and l did not see an egg
and what kind of chicken
house is it that doesn't have
any eggs? Dindina did not like
the ROSTERS. She is not clear
on why but I believe it is their
arrogance that repels her.
thought the. roosters were mag
nificent. Nevertheless l cannot
get up much feeling towards
chickens or ducks = and if l
had to make a choice between
chickens or pigs for company,
I would take a pig anytime.
We went into the swine club
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29

Rev. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sim
and their daughter Leslie Marie
were at Camp Mar-Lu-Ridge
near Jefferson, Md, where Mr..
Sim was the Director of the
Junior High Camp. Mrs. Sim
and the baby returned early last
week, and Mr.. Sim returned on
Saturday, August 26.
The Damascus Elementary
School wishes to remind all par
ents that If their children have
not been registered for school
for this coming year, they
should bring their children TO
the school any weekday be-
tween 9 and 4 and have them
registered prior to the opening
CT school on September 5. The
following new teachers will be
in the Damascus Elementary
School this year: kindergarten,
Susan Poole; 3rd Grade, Rebec-
ca Kepler; 4th Grade, Shirley
McNary; and 9Th Grade, An
tonic Almarie.
At the Cedar Grove School
Mrs. Doris Pope is the new
School Secretary. The new
teachers are: Mrs. Sara Myers,
list grade; Mrs. Margaret Vert,
End grade; Mrs. vernice Mack,
Bird grade; Mrs. John Becker,
9Th grade; the name of the fifth
grade is not yet available.
Damascus Boy Scout Troop
No. AS were camping last week
end at Rehoboth Beach, Della.
ware. About Is boys with their
Scout Master, Mr.. Milton Proett
and his family and Mr.. Herbert
Cain went in Mr.. Gains truck.
They left on Friday and re-
turned to their homes on Sun.
day.
Bernard Gladhill and Indy
Beall, the Montgomery County
Supervisors of the Soil Conser-
walton District, attended the
summer meeting of Area No. 1
of the National Association of
Soil Conservation Districts at
Hershey, Penna., on Monday,
August 81.
Mrs. Atwood Young. Mrs.
Harry Shpe and Mr.. Roscoe
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-29

flowers, umbrellas and bells.
Miss Weller will be wed to Mr..
Francis Earl Henderson, jr. on
September 3rd.
Capt. and Mrs. G. MaIlet Pre-
vost, Clarksburg, have returned
home after a three weeks trip
to Nova Scotia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Danny Breeder
and children, Debbie, Dennie
and Vicki Lynn, Poolesville, are
mentioning in Jacksonville,
Fla.
Eleanor Tolbert of London
was the young guest of honor
at a party given by Ginger Bod
mer, Beallsville, on Friday.
Games were played and prizes
distributed among the following
guests: Kay and eannie
Thompson, Dean Gray, Kathy
Hillard and Sharon Michael. At
a lookout the ten.year-old host
ess served picnic fare ending
with watermelon. Eleanor has
been spending the summer
with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sprigg F. Hays, Barnes
vile.
A Fall Hat Show will be spon-
sored by the marching unit of
the Junior Auxiliary of Upper
Montgomery County Volunteer
Fire Department at the Bealls-
vile Fire House on September
~ The organization met at
the Fire House Wednesday to
plan the affair. The members
prepared and served a dinner to
officials from PEPCO on Thurs
day at the Fire House under
the Craftsmanship of Mrs. John
Repass.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Kimmerling,
Poolesville, We're the latters
son and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles N. Staub and son, Pete,
Beallsville.