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‘Sportsmen’ Aren’t Sporting
Proper Regard For Wildlife
WEST CRAVEN HIGHLIGHTS — SEPTEMBER 15, 1988 — PAGE 5
CLASIIFIEDI
By RIC CARTER
We lost a member of the family
on Labor Day.
We watched a pair of red-tailed
hawks since we moved alongside
Tranter's Creek a few years ago.
We MW them hunt. We saw their
soaring courtships hundreds of
fMt above us. Only last winter
did we spot their nest in a tall
pine.
Two hawks hatched the same
week our daughter was born. We
MW the parents swoop on rats
and snakes and carry the prey to
the hungry youngsters. We
watched them grow daily.
We felt pride as the young birds
became more courageous and
explored, the branches of their
nest tree. They defied statistics
both successfully fledged. We
felt both pleasure and dis
appointment as they left the nest.
Edith Woolard, our neighbor,
didn't know the bird but was
frightened by a thin young man
running through her yard with a
black dog repeatedly firing a 20
gauge shotgun at a falling bird.
The bird landed within 30 feet of
her back door.
The stockier companion of the
kilter shouted the lie that he
hunted with the permission of
our neighboring industry and
hadn't fired in her yard. They
fled.
There's no mistaking a red
tailed hawk with a three-foot
wingspan for a dove, which is
smaller than a pigeon. Federal
4^ prohibits the harming of any
hawk or bird of prey. The killing
of this nonedible and strictly be
neficial bird was callous, illegal
and indefensible.
The youna hawk which had
beaten the oads by surviving had
lived through less than a day and
a half of dove season.
These fellows no doubt call
themselves "sportsmen."
That's an obtuse and vague ti
tle taken on by those who take
pleasure in the killing of various
wild animals. It apparently bears
little relation to the concept of
"sportsmanship" I learned as a
child.
What is a "sportsman"?
If we accept their view of them
selves, then:
A "sportsman" is the person
who insists on his right to fire a
high-powered rifle between
gulps from a whiskey bottle
while sitting on a dog box in the
back of his truck and alongside a
heavily traveled highway.
A "sportsman" is the guy who
shoots squirrels in your yard
from a boat in the creek and runs
into your yard to retrieve his kill.
A "sportsman” is the fellow
who brought a large buck to this
office to be photographed. He
bragged of the many years of
fame of that deer and how he out
smarted it by shooting it as it de
fended a wounded and winded
deer from a biting hunting dog.
A "sportsman” is the fisher
man who spends 45 minutes cast
ing under your pier and making
noxious bodily noises while your
family sits in the front yard seek-
ing only summer quiet and
privacy.
A "sportsman” is the hunter
who had his elementary school
age son shooting doves off power
lines over a baited area so the lad
could learn the "sport."
New Guidelines
Reeommended
For Cholesterol
This is the First in a series of
three articles on the controversy
and confusion surrounding
cholesterol
By DR. TIIO.\lAS NICHOLSON
Cholesterol has long been rec
ognized as one of the mqior risk
factors for development of
coronary artery disease and its
many manifestations, including
angina, myocardial infraction
and congestive heart failure. The
initial indication that cholesterol
was a prime factor in heart dis
ease was detected in the large
Framingham study done in the
1950s where patients with high
cholesterol levels were noted to
have a much higher incidence of
heart disease than patients with
lower cholesterol levels. It
should be remembered, of
course, that cholesterol is not the
only risk factor for heart disease
and such important factors as
smoking, family history, and
hypertension should not be over
looked.
The National Institute of
Health in Bethesda, Md., has re
cently issued new guidelines for
recommended cholesterol levels.
Indeed, a recent study has shown
that lowering cholesterol by one
percent will reduce mortality
from coronary artery disease by
two percent. To some extent,
your cholesterol level is related
to your age. It has been found
that as your cholesterol level ex
ceeds 250, the incidence of heart
disease goes up significantly.
Part of the confusion concern
ing cholesterol is that individual
laboratories do not use exactly
the same levels for measuring
cholesterol. In some laborator
ies, cholesterol may be higher
than the National Institute of
Health recommends; yet, that
“idhoratory may still define the
level as normal rather than
dangerous. This disparity in it
self has caused significant confu
sion among both patients and
physicians. There continues to
be considerable controversy in
the medical community concern
ing what should be done about
high cholesterol levels.
The National Institute of
Health has asked: What is your
number? They are referring to
your cholesterol number and
have given a series of cholester-
ols at certain ages which arc de
sirable. It is also helpful to know
your high density lipoprotein
(HDD and your low density
lipoprotein (LDL); both are re
lated fatty substances found in
the blood.
Ideally, your cholesterol
should not exceed 200 but as pa
tients age, your cholesterol level
does tend to rise. Generally
speaking, people are at a lower
risk if their cholesterol is below
225 and probably do not require
any therapy at this level. Be
tween the levels of 225 and 250,
cholesterol probably still does
not require therapy but should
be monitored and checked sever
al times per year.
If the cholesterol is in excess of
250, it is probably prudent to
start dietary measures to lower it.
This is a fairly large undertaking
and requires a significant altera
tion in an individual's regular
diet. It obviously is difficult to
have people follow a diet on a
long-standing basis. Unfortu
nately, the dietary measures like
ly should be carried out inde
finitely and probably for life. The
next article will discuss in detail
prudent dietary measures to fol
low in reducing cholesterol
levels.
Baptists From Page 1
fundamentalist-controlled Bap
tist presses is narrow and apoca-
lyptic. "It’s almost anti-
intellectualism,” he said. "It's a
fear of knowledge.”
Couch said that the alliance,
which currently has about 35,000
members in 34 states, is growing.
He said he saw new faces in
Nashville. "I hadn’t ever seen
some of those people involved in
the moderate movement before,"
he said.
Couch said he is certain that
the alliance will continue to grow
and will help Baptists maintain a
broad-based mission program
even if fundamentalists continue
to control the political hierarchy
of the church.
Couch is the son of the late
Rev. W. Perry Crouch, who was a
president of the state Baptist
Convention.
Washington's First Baptist
Church is a member of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
but is not a member of the South
ern Baptist Alliance, Tucker
said. He said, however, "We
would be considered a moderate
church.”
Mums
From Page 1
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Critzer, 636-2936, after 6 p.m.
A "sportsman" is the fellow
who thinks thousands of water-
fowl should continue to die from
lead poisoning so he doesn’t have
to learn to shoot steel shot.
A "sportsman" is the fisher
man blindly firing a rifle into
wooded areas from a speeding
boat.
A "sportsman” is the fellow I
used to work with who "learned
to appreciate the beauty of na
ture" by watching blood ooze
from gaping holes in the side of
doe.
A "sportsman" is the fisher
man who sent my pregnant wife
into the house by repeatedly fir
ing a pistol through our yard. He
was "just shooting snakes."
A "sportsman” is the fellow
who came into my yard speaking
of the beauty, fascination and
rarity of the river otter, all the
while unrolling the pelt of the
one he had just removed from a
steel leg trap and eviscerated.
A "sportsman" is the man who
bemoans the few bad eggs who
give "sportsmen" a bad name but
says nothing when he sees the
such behavior.
1 know the faces of each of
these.
What do they get above and
beyond what an afternoon in a
boat or a long walk in the coun
tryside will give? Is it the few
ounces of meat cut from the kill?
Is it the feel of the prey in the
hand? Is it some basic instinct
that "I kill, therefore I am super
ior and worthy of life.”?
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Shrimpers From Page 1
fisheries commission’s job to set
fishing regulations.
The county commissioners
said they take no action and in
tended to make no recommenda
tions.
Ms. Henri Johnson, a Pamlico
County lawyer for a trade asso
ciation of commercial fishermen
called the American Farmers of
the Sea, spoke as the official rep
resentative of the fishermen pre
sent.
Ms. Johnson said that if offi
cials, enacted the ban, they
"would automatically be putting
hundreds of families in food
aUmp lines."
She said fishermen categor
ically opposed a ban on trawling
and haul netting and she said
that the report generated hostil
ity among fishermen.
Ms. Johnson said the writers of
the report had tried to blame a
myriad of problems in the rivers
and sounds on one group of peo
ple. "They are taking very com
plex issues and simplifyung
them to a point that suits them,"
she Mid.
She said, referring to the
fishermen, that a ban on trawling
was "not going to happen as far
as these men are concerned."
David McNaught, director of
the Pamlico-Tar River Founda
tion, an environmental group,
Mid many fishermen seemed to
think that his organization was
behind or endorsed the report.
He said PTRF was reviewing a
copy of the report but had taken
no stand.
As McNaught was talking a
commercial fisherman named
Jarvis Mason who apparently
thought McNaught was a backer
of the proposed ban questioned
his credentials to talk about the
river.
When McNaught attempted to
explain his group's position.
Mason became increasingly and
profane. The gist ofhis argument
consisted of the repeated asser
tion that the only people who tru
ly understand what is happening
to the river are fishermen.
“Ask us out here" about prob
lems in local waters, he said,
"and we'll tell you, because we
are professionals."
In the course of his diatribe.
Mason said Smith was in college,
perhaps misbehaving, while
Mason was captaining boats on
the river. He also ridiculed the
commissioners for wearing tics
and said they didn't know the
true meaning of working.
Mason said it cost him $2,000 in
lost revenue to skip a day of work
and listen to what he referred to
as a "crock of (deleted)” at the
meeting, so he was going to take
his opportunity to speak.
When Mason was through
speaking. Buck said the commis
sioners had no "intention of shut
ting anything down" and told
Mason that he was misled about
the purpose of the meeting.
Buck said Smith had re
quested the opportunity to pre
sent the report, but the commis
sioners had no obligation to act
on it and did not intend to take
action.
The report prepared by Smith,
Dr. Boone Mora and Dallas
Ormond discusses declining fish
catches in the Pamlico river and
sound and attributes them to
trawlers and haul nets.
"The non-selecUve nature of
shrimp trawling destroys more
than six pounds of immature
flounder, croaker, spot and weak
fish for every pound of shrimp
harvested,” the report says. It
adds that "haul netting also des
troys immature fish."
It recommends, among other
things, that haul netting a trawl
ing be eliminated in all inside wa
ters of North Carolina.
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