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PAGE 2 — WEST CRAVEN HIGHLIGHTS - JANUARY 26, 1989 Eastern Echoes By Gail Roberson Intensity West Craven's girls’ basketball coach Liz Cox has an intent look on her face as she reviews strategy with her team during a timeout. The Lady Eagles are the top-ranked Class 3-A girls’ team in the eastern part of the state. The Lady Eagles have suffered only one loss this season. Cox will be the subject of a feature story in next week’s edition of the Highlights. Obituary Kathleen H. AUigood WASHINGTON — Mrs. Kath leen Hodges Alligood, 69, of 710 E. Fourth St. died Satu^ay in Beaufort County Hospital. Services were held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the ISth Street Church of God with the Revs. Elmer Bauman and Jay Jones officiating. Burial was in Pamli co Memorial Gardens. A native of Beaufort County, Mrs. Alligood was the daughter of the late Elijah Plum and Lena Bell Jackson Hodges. She was married to Lonnie Gray Alli good, who died July 24, 1977. Mrs. Alligood was a home nurse for the elderly. She was a mem ber of the ISth Street Church of God and CBH Lodge No. 1. John Brown, Ricky Hatcher, Sherrill Gaskins, Christopher Sanders, Morgan Smith and Chad Williams will serve as pall bearers. Mrs. Alligood is survived by four daughters, Mrs. DeVaughn (Belly) Ross of Washington, Mrs. Beverly (Stella) Gaskins of Van- ceboro, Mrs. Clark (Annie) San ders of Eagle Springs and Robert (Barbara) Smith of Pinetown; three sisters, Mrs. Lucy H. Woolard, Mrs. Joyce H. Jackson and Mrs. Margaret H. Crisp, all of Washington; a brother, Earl Hodges of Albuquerque, N.M.; 12 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. wuuAst wsvtB Mill IS su luatsTAsr scnuoui r'f SHrifUy Sstrtt, cs«u« A tomfUf IujkS iocIwAtt CM cclftc, c cSoicc of Ivo Iim «S« mscuSIo asA fivic scocs, SrccA, AcccccI A Scvtrcsci lovfoK sUS, lAclc slU or sflkcscM Oy LUNCH MENU Winter has happened, and colder temperatures and cruel winds are upon us. We toss another tog on the fire and yearn for spring. But, we live in the more gentle portion of the coun try, where the four seasons, though boldly different, are not as drastic as in other parts. For years, folks who lived through the harsher winters of the great plains would gather to pass the time and stretch the truth.. .about how cold it was. Some might even tell you that their tales never reached a conclusion, for the words froze and fell to the floor as soon as they left their mouth. Anyone who wanted to hear the story could gather up the frozen letters and set them next to a roaring fire to thaw.. .but more than likely, the letters wouldn’t thaw in the correct order, resulting in total confusion. Roger Welsh compiled a book of tall tales about such times, and some of them about the weather particularly caught my eye. In North Dakota, for example, it would get so cold that a member of the household would go outside to chop the ftozen smoke from the top of the chimney. But they didn’t have anything over on the Nebraska farmer whose flames in the fireplace froze solid. He chopped the frozen flames up with an ax, and, in doing so, scattered chips of solid flame all over his cabin. When the thaw finally came in the spring, he discovered little fires had sprung up all over his home. And, it would seem that their summers were as hot as their winters were cold. One farmer testified it was so dry that his cows gave powdered milk and his chickens laid nothing but hard-boiled eggs. Due to the intense heat, the corn crop pop ped right in the fields. Evidently, the good times for those people were just as fan tastic as the hard times. One com farmer had such a healthy crop that he couldn’t harvest it. He tried chopping the stem with an ax, but it grew so fast he couldn’t hit it twice in the same place. And the pumpkins.. .well, they had to be secured inside wagons or else the rapidly growing vines would drag them around the fields until holes wore in the shells. The weather-wise kids in Harold Heifer’s elementary class in St. Louis, Missouri, have a few words to say about weather in general: “When lightning goes through them, clouds start making sounds. So would anybody.” “Rain is saved up in cloud banks. Water vapor gets huddled and snuggled together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.” "Some oxygen molecules make rain, while others help fires to bum. Sometimes it is brother against brother.” “The water cycle is a cycle made out of water that you can pedal along on. I don’t believe it has been invented yet.” “A blizzard is when it snows sideways.” “The main value of tornadoes is yet to be discovered.” “Listening to ihateorologists is one of the chief by-products I of bad weafi^. (^Steolnlogi^ts ioolc^omething like people.” » “When the siui-^es in, I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.” “You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.” As for me, I like all kinds of weather. There is beauty in every season. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us and the snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather.. .only different kinds of good weather. Besides, here in North Carolina, especially at this time of the year, if you don’t particularly like the weather.. .just wait a minute. rlMlAdA Crunchjr ri«)i CoU»law Kanagtr** CiMic* Petita iMM« CornVrtad/Bun Oatwal Cookit Cheaat Pits* Barbacut SlaiMtl Cabbafa Manatar'a Cheica Va|atahi« MiicB Fruit Hot Cornbraad Paanul Buttar Cookia 10 Sauaafa Piaaa Saliabury Btaar w/Spaniab Paaa & Carrota Bica Hanasar’a Choica Vagatabla Sliced Paaebaa Hot Boll Chocolate Chip Cookie mESIDCPfIVOWftOkMrqeO Cheaae Haaa Tuna Salad Lettuce 4 ToMto Cup Hot Vegatabla Sticka Peach Hair Captain Valera Kanatar*a Choice Cookie Chicken Huifota V/Honap 4 Barbecue Sauce Kan 4 Cheaae landvich VaBatabla Soup Hot Apple Sticka Spiced Ckceriea Hanascr*a Choice heaaert 14 Chicken Hufteta V/Hcnep 4 Barbecue Sauce ^ Italian Spaghetti H/Meat Sauce 4 Panaeaan Cheeac Toeaed Carden Salad Potatoea V/Skina Appleaauce French Bread Sveetheart Cake VAltmWFSOAY Chicken Huggeta H/Hoooy 4 Barbecue Sauce Brunauick Stew Steaaed Cabbage Sweet Potato Fluff Baiaina Cheeae Biecuit Cion ion Bun ’ Chic Fillet Oriental Perk Fried Bice Lettuce 4 To»ato Stir Frp Vegeteblea Chilled Pineapple Bgg Belle Alaond Bar Cookiea 15 Oeli Cold Cut Sandwich on Seeded Bun Potato Chipa Bavioli Caaaerole Fried S^uaah lettuce 4 Toaeto 4 Dill Fruit Strip Brownie 71 Virginia Baked Han SIoppp Joe on Bun Hount Vernon Salad Kaoager'e Choice Vegetable Freah Fruit Bread Sticka Charrp Cobbler WtfHWCnom MTTHDMr (AcMi) 1 Sarbecue Chick** B*C Peg V/ChiU lakad ieaaa Collars Green* Chilled Appleeawca dkeeae Biecuit Chocolate Cake V/lctng Fappireni FIsaa TMh«F Salad Latevea 4 Teaat* or Card— Salad Vaffla Prie* Chilled PluB* Bran Merfi* Ma«aser*e»Choica Beaaert ' Cheeaeburger on Bva Fried Chicken Potato Salad Creen Leafp Vegoteble Fruit Angel Biecuit Trail Ki» age P Colonial Fried Country Steak Potatoea Pea* Keatucky Boll* ladee* aritoad) r^.n 16 Criapy Chicken Chili V/Sachoa Whole Fomel Com Creen Beaaa Chilled Purple Pluaa Strawberry Shortcake 17 Pepparoni Piaaa Saokad Sawaag* V/Macaroois Field Peaa Cheeae Carden Salad Spiced Applea Cheeae Puffa Hanager'a Choice Oeaaert 33 Tacoa W/Cheeae Hanager'a Choice Chicken Fruit gntree Lettuce 4 Toaato Hanager'a Choice Vegetable Jello V/^srtw. Topping 34 Fieetada Boaat Turkey V/Cranberry Sauce Haahod Potatoea Creea Leafy Vegetable Fruit Hot Boll :b Bar Bodine ‘Sprouts’ Off About NASCAR By MO KROCHMAL Sporta Editor FARMVILLE — You might not recognize NASCAR racer Geoff Bodine if you spot him without a helmet on and out of his No. 5 Levi Garrett Monte Carlo Winston Cup racer. Going into the 1989 season, Bodine has picked up a little optional decoration — a beard. Bodine, one of three drivers on Rick Hendrick’s Winston Cup rac ing team, was in Farmville Saturday busily signing autographs in promoting the grand opening of a Chevrolet dealership. The ftizzy growth may be evidence of Bodine’s determination to turn things around for the 1989 season. ”I grew a beard in 1978 and won 55 races in the modifieds,” Bodine, a resident of Julian and a native of Chemung, N.Y. said. ”In 1980,1 grew another one when I was running late models and had a good year. But no. I’m not superstitious,” he grinned. Last year, Bodine won one race — the Miller High Life 500 at Pocono — and finished in the top 10 18 times. He said he was taking his crew to Daytona Beach, Fla. Tuesday for a week of testing in preparation for the Feb. 19 seasonropening Day tona 500. Bodine goes into the season having been forced into a somewhat ackward position by NASCAR. Bodine and his feUow Chevrolet racers are marking time until May 7 and the Winston 500 at Talladega, Ala. In that race, they will get to roll out a new ride — the Chevrolet Lumina, a new downsized model that may make the Chevy racers more competitive with the slick, streamlined vehicles the other manufacturers have produced. Until then, however, the Chevy drivers have to stay with the lunky Monte Carlos. “Dale (Earnhardt, who also drives a Monte Carlo) and I looked pretty bad last year,” Bodine said. ”He didn’t run go^ and I didn’t run good. The Fords and Pontiacs and the Buicks and the Olds ran good. “This car (Monte Carlo) is about seven or eight years old. It’s a good car and runs well at the big tracks like Daytona and Talladega. We’ve kept making it go faster; but you can only make it go so fast and we’ve about gotten it as fast as we can.” Thus Bodine and the others are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new downsized Lumina model. ”It’s about the size of a T-biid ora Pontiac,” he said. ’’They’ve raised the deck lid on it pretty high. “On the short tracks, the other manufacturer’s cars have been sticking to the tracks (which makes for superior handling). We need this new car.” Bodine explained that NASCAR would not aUow the model to race until the car was made available to the general public. “It’s a shame,” Bodine said. “We’re going to have to run these for eight races and test the new car — if they had allowed us to run the new cars, it would have saved the teams a lot of work and money.” With the challenges of racing one type of vehicle and preparing for another, the Hendricks team will also be evaluating tires. Radial tires may be the newest wrinkle to hit the Winston Cup tracks this season. Bodine said he expects to see a continuation of last year’s "Tire Wars”—a fierce competition between tire giant Goodyear and flesty newcomer Hoosier. Goodyear has been testing a radial tire for NASCAR and will pro vide the tire at Daytona. "Their goal is to have everybody riding Goodyears,” Bodine said. ’’Hoosier is a bias play tire. ”We’U use whatever is best—if the radial is better or if the Hoosier is better... No matter the rubber or the model, Bodine said his goal will be the same it has been since he started racing on the Winston Cup circuit. ”We want to win the championship,” he said. “It takes a lot of hard work. You have to show up and be ready to run.” He said he has learned and he said other drivers have learned. "Bili Elliott showed last year by going after it the way you ne^ to,” he said. “You need a total team commitment.” And, what about luck? ”I was getting to that,” Bodine said, rubbing bis beard, his eyes twinkling. Scouts From Page 1 be?” asked a scout, peering into a pot of food. ”At least we don’t have to worry about snakes,” said one scout sitting in front of a fire. “No, but one of the boys that live near here told me there were a lot of bears around,” said another. The weekend was chock fill! of scouting activities. At least one area of merit badge con centration became evident when Skip Waters, weather man for WCTI-TV in New Bern, arrived and began ex plaining what he hoped to accomplish. Henry Goodson, scout ex ecutive for the East Carolina Council, was busy after lunch showing a group how to make a raft from logs and rope. Goodson appeared to use the right knots to tie together the assembled logs. A reporter never got to see if the raft worked. A scout ftom Troop 97 and one firom Troop 208 spent time examining a “ladder” show ing the steps to the highest scouting honor — the Eagle Scout Award. Vanceboro scout leaders were found during lunch plan ning strategy for the weekend around a warm fire in a big iron pot. With a pot fUll of warmth, the leaders discussed their plans. A few yards away was hot pot of fish stew, just the right tempration on a cold day. Buck had a habit of appear ing anywhere, anytime. But camporee chiefs must have the ability to be where they are needed and Buck performed that duty well. One minute he was explaining things to a scout and the next minute he would pop up on the other side of the camp talking over plans with instructors. Keep ing up with Buck would merit a merit badge of its own. The scouts from the 16 troops were found washing dishes, cutting firewood, pre paring for merit badge courses and just romping in the woods. *1716 adults were found washing dishes, cutting fire wood, preparing to teach merit badge courses and just romping in the woods. er- Boys will be boys (and so will men). 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