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I 11 ri Vii vrVYrtwyw yViWuwueMj Sunday, April 8, 1973 Fort Collins Coloradoan 9 r- v1 1 Better understanding goal of IFYE delegates Britain flirting with black Africa By ARTHUR L. GAVSHON Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Like an er-rant husband, Britain today is shocking the neighbors with a new affair diplomatic flirtation with black Africa. The liaison is still young. No passion has yet developed, perhaps because those being pursued in Nigeria, Zaire, Drage ing to Colorado, each county in the state will be visited by one of the delegates who will report on life in the host country. While the two delegates are abroad, Colorado will be hosting delegates from other countries.

Miss Ortner will be graduated from CSU this spring. Spacek is a junior. Staver announced that applications are now being taken for 1974 IRYE delegates from Colorado. Applicants must be single, between 20 and 30 years of age and have an interest in learning about life in another country by living with host Jury clears drug firm in damage cup DENVER (AP) A district court jury Friday night cleared an Illinois drug firm manufacturing the birth control fpill Ovulen from any responsibility for a stroke suffered by a 32-year-old Denver woman in 1968. Mrs.

Jnell M. Hamilton bad been seeking $2 million in damages against G. D. Searle Co. The jury had deliberated nine hours Thursday and 12 houts Friday before making its decision.

More than 800 exhibits were entered as evidence on behalf of the woman, who is partially paralyzed in her right hand and right foot. Her physicians said she also suffered a memory loss and impairment of speech facilities and has been receiving therapy. Better understanding between nations is the goal of two Colorado State University students who have been selected as Colorado's 1973 delegates for the International Farm Youth Exchange (IFYE). Dorothy Ortner of Holyoke, and Steve Spacek of Kremm-ling, will leave Colorado June 11 for orientation and some five to six months as overseas delegates to the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Turkey, respectively. According to Cecil Staver, state 4-H leader at CSU, both "will live with host families sharing in the work, the pleasures, and in learning the different customs of the people by participating with them as 'adopted' family members." Staver said that after return CSU county extension offices nave application forms which are due in the state 4-H office by May 1, 1973.

DOROTHY ORTNER STEVE SPACEK NEWS FROM THE NEW tentional misinformation." re ported Alan. It disturbs me when I see the deceptive pictures and read tne misleading description of plants offered recently for ter- raria and bonsai. And, the tree tomato is frequently offered; it is not a real tomato, just a relative and the fruit is only good for flavoring drinks. ARBOR WEEK, so let's talk about the good guys, the guvs white hats. Numerous clubs and organizations, the City of Fort Collins, Poudre School District, administration, teachers and hundreds of students will be participating in tree planting programs during Arbor Week.

The week starts April 13, w'th a tree planting and ceremony at 11:30 a.m. at City Park. See you there. The week ends on Arbor Dav, April 20. There will be public plantings nearly every day.

THINK TREES, trees for to day and tomorrow. Plant trees and plant them right. Dig the hole the day before you plant and fill it with water. Dig the hole a lot wider in all directions than is needed to accommodate the root ball or bare roots. Never dig the hole deeper than is needed.

In heavy soils plant balled-and-burlapped plants an inch or two higher than grade, Don't have loose soil in the bottom of the hole. When this is done the tree will settle after planting and too much surface water can accumulate and suffocate the plant. Don't put grav el in the bottom of the hole; it can be more harmful than helpful. Backfill and water-in to settle and firm the soil. Use an open hose and small stream of water; place the open end of the hose down the side of the hole and to the bottom of the hole.

Remove any plastic twine that might be around the stem of the plant. Container plants may be root bound so the root ball should be disturbed. Tear or cut into the root ball even though some roots may be damaged. Create a misshapen ball. When this is done the backfill soil will blend and all the roots don't have to explore the new change in environment at the same time.

Large plants should be staked or wired. MEMO: Don't forget the Horticulture Club's Flower Show auction tonight. It starts at 6 p.m. in the National Guard Ar mory. The chances are you can pick up some "goodies" at reasonable bids.

0 0 Sit announces Ml WSfa I hope your exposure, to the full-page or several page highly colored inserts of some mail order plant concerns, doesn't take. Victor H. Ries, writing for the American Horticultural Society, says, "Some of their claims are questionable if not downrght fraudulent." He reported that a recent ad offered Norfolk Island pines in 2Vi inch pots for $2.95 plus 75 cents for postage and handling. When he checked the local garden stores in his area he found they were asking 59 to 79 cents for plants of the same size. Alan Cook, in his column "Cook's Tour of the Garden," puts it this way, "When buying beware of the nursery dealer (he reserves "nurseryman" for the respectable) who thinks your money is plentiful and your intelligence pitiful." He de scribes a magazine ad that tries to sell Acer rubrum as scarlet maple; the usual common name is red maple.

The ad claims 40 feet of growth in five years; Alan says, "Highly doubtful." The ad reads, "This tree is very hardy as wood from maple trees is recognized as the hardest anywhere." "Few copywriters ever achieved such heights of inac curacy, untruthfulness, and in: Jet accidentally drops 6 bombs near game refuge LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -An A7D fighter jet accidentally dropped six 500-pound bombs near a field station at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge northwest of here, an Air Force spokesman said Friday, Five persons inside were not in-lured. The bombs fell Thursday about 250 yards from the Corn Treek station, breaking win dows in one residence and a carpenter shop but causing no other damage, the spokesman said. Five persons live at the sta tion, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Jack Helvie, acting manager of the refuge.

He did not identify them. The bombs were dropped while the plane was practicing bombing at a Nellis Air Force Rasa ranee about 10 miles northwest of the field station. The bombing range lies with in the sprawling underground nuclear test site operated oy the Atomic Energy Commission. The Air Force spokesman said the bombs fell close together but, "apparently did not make a big hole," only "slight cratering." FDA bans dye which may cause cancer WASHINGTON (AP) The government's ban on a purple dye suspected of causing cancer may force U.S. businesses and meat Inspectors to fall back on a red dye suspected of interfering with reproduction.

The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it will prohibit further use of Violet No. 1 in foods, drugs, cosmetics and meat marking. Thirty-three tons of the color additive were used last year, 30 per cent of it by Agriculture Department inspectors stamping the familiar USDA mark of grade and wholesomeness on meat. Industry mixed much of the remainder of Violet No. 1 with Red No.

40 as a substitute for Red No. 2, which was linked in recent Russian studies to widespread reproductive problems. USDA said it will switch to temporary alternative methods of marking, including tags, brands and other colors such as Red No. 2. The FDA said it was basing its Violet No.

1 ban. effective next Tuesday, on preliminary data from two Japanese studies made available in late January. Japan banned the dye within the last few weeks because re search consistently produced cancer in rats fed a 5 per cent diet of Violet No. 1, an FDA spokesman said. The dve is used widely in the United States to color candy, beverages, bakery goods, ice cream, sherbert, dietary supplements, pills, pet foods and various cosmetics including lipstick.

Sale of alcohol banned before 1 0 a.m. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) The east Slovak town of Presov started a campaign against excessive drinking by banning the sale of alcohol in low-price restaurants before 10 by Charles QLcsnsa Tanzania, Kenya and elsewhere are still unsure if their surprising suitor is serious. Even the British themselves seem uncertain about their own intentions. For safety's sake they are keeping on terms with their long-time flames in rich, white-ruled sub-Sahara Africa the South Africans, the Rhodesians, the Portuguese. Yet there have been enough telltale signs to leave white leaders in those southern lands sad and lonely.

Few here can pinpoint when it all began to happen. One little-noticed turning-point was when Sir Alec 1 a s-Home, most conservative of foreign secretaries, referred publicly in Nigeria last February to the guerrillas of southern Africa as "freedom fighters." Before then most highup Britons spoke of them as "terrorists." Nor was it accidental that Douglas-Home did this in Nigeria. The British get more than one-tenth of their oil from that Commonwealth republic, the biggest state in Africa. After South Africa, Nigeria is Britain's biggest trading partner on the continent. Britain's expanding business with black Africa helps to explain why ever-greater importance is placed on political relations.

Last year the total of British exports to and Imports from black Africa ran to about $3 billion. Officials define black Africa as all those countries south of the Sahara excepting the Sudan, the Portuguese territories, Rhodesia, South Africa and Namibia, also known as South-West Africa. This represents about double the volume of trade with South Africa in the same year. British investments in South Africa are huge about $5 billion. A comparable figure for black Africa is not available.

All this helps show why Douglas-Home and other high-up Britons now find it is so important to mend their fences with black African states. 41 runaway steers killed in train mishap MOSCOW (AP) A train roared around a bend near the Estonian village of Janeda and collided with a herd of runaway steers, killing 41 of the animals, a Soviet newspaper reported. 32 KSGS) UNO OPTICAL FOUT COUINS 4M-04-0 Moti-Fri. to 5 9 to 1 I ct Fort newest (and smallest) bank is making another friendly gesture a new checking program we call Q58 CACHE 100 rrmrrrt WTiXiTFt fnrramrr? Simply maintain a minimum balance of $100.00 or keep an average balance of $300.00 and pay NO SERVICE CHARGE. Come in and open your "Cache 100" Checking Account today.

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