DDT Toxicity Myths and Nightshade Garden Notes
A reader asks if nightshade berries are deadly while discussing DDT safety. The column explains Solanum berries can poison. it offers a pie recipe and notes on four o clock Mirabilis tubers, advising frost handling and spring replanting for earlier flowering.
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Tulips Offer Fragrance and Garden Color Varieties
Landscape note by George E. Creed highlights tulip varieties for outdoor beds and indoor forcing. Tulips bloom from January to February, provide fragrance, and serve as bedding and cutting plants. Varieties such as The Prince of Austria, Carnaval, Fred Moore, and William Copland are noted for colors and heights from several inches to over two feet.
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Apricot Nectar Floribunda Rose Garners AARS Honors
Apricot Nectar, a floribunda rose variety, earns an AARS selection for its robust garden display. The plant forms mass blooms with clear, marketlike color and graceful, swirl-like blossoms. Paired with blue delphinium, it creates a memorable garden scene.
Miami U enrolment sets record
Oxford Ohio United Press International reports Miami University on campus in Oxford posted a record fall enrollment of 9 931 students, an 8 percent rise from last fall’s 9 239 and the largest single year increase since 1946. Full time students number 9 422 with a student body of 5 531 men and 4 450 women. Freshman class is 2 033. sophomores 2 263. juniors 1 957. seniors 1 974. Graduate students total 611 with 117 listed as unclassified.
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Attorney seeks delay in trial for Akron murder case
An Akron defense attorney requested a postponement in the murder case against Charles Jennings and another defendant. The men are accused in a police shooting and are set for trial after initial proceedings.
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Rainbow to Install Amherst New Rainbow Officers
Amherst Rainbow Lodge announces installation of officers for Sandstone Assembly No 123. ORGER, to preside over the ceremony, will officiate at the Massine gathering on a Sunday date not fully provided in the fragment.
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Advised storage for fall garden crops and pests
Fall frost storage tips divide vegetables into hardy and tender groups. Hardy crops like spinach cabbage broccoli and kale tolerate freezing. tender crops include tomatoes peppers and melons. Harvest before freezes and store pumpkins and squash with stems attached. Indoor pests risk from houseplants include fungus gnats and red spider mites. use malathion and inspect weekly. Akron burglary: photographer Charles Mayer reports 29 guns stolen valued at $1700.
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The Green Thumb Mushrooms And Garden Tips
A gardening column warns about misidentifying wild mushrooms including the Destroying Angel and safe edibles, notes to avoid eating unknown species, and suggests picking lawn mushrooms for disposal. It also shares rodent deterrence with a wooden post, onion plantings to repel pets, a Cape Cod baked apples recipe, corn spacing tips, and cautions about poinsettias and fall blooming apple trees.
Jury hearing Yarosh will contest case
A Lorain County Common Pleas Court jury heard testimony in a will contest over the estate of Andrew Yarosh a La Grange farmer who died May 11 1963 at age 39 His will left about 12000 to 10 of his 11 children Frank Lakewood not included as a beneficiary is challenging the will while defense contends a 1962 gift of 5000 to Frank Yarosh was the decedent s share of the inheritance and the will should be upheld
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Youngstown Man Killed in Head-On Ohio 18 Crash
Ralph M.L. Wilkoff, 65, of Youngstown, died Thursday when his car skidded on Ohio 18 near Meander Lake west of here and collided head on with a truck.
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