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Airplanes Warn
About Wood Fires
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Believed Many Potential
Fires Have Been
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If you should hear a voice from <
the sky warning you of allowing a 1
woods fire to spread while you are on
a camping, hunting or fishing trip, '
don’t be surprised or startled. <
For such warnings are being is
sued from time to time in this sec- :
tion of the State by forestry offi
cials of the North Carolina Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment. It is believed by forestry offi- 1
cials that many potential forest fires '
have been prevented as a result of the
airborne warnings.
From time to time the State forest
service has employed private pilots
on a contract basis to fly over wood
ded areas in this section of northeast
ern North Carolina and by means of <
a loud-speaker warn campers, hunters
and fishermen against the danger of
allowing woods fires to spread.
The State forest service owns no
airplanes, but contracts with private
pilots for such flights on days when
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the forest fire danger is brought into
sharp focus as a result of winds and
weather.
Use of airplanes on a limited basis
here in District 7, which includes the
counties of Pascfuot&nk, Bertie, Cam
den, Chowan, Gates, {Hertford, Mar
tin, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington
and Dare, has been made for some
time. Forestry officials wish they
could utilize planes considerably more
than they do.
According to John F. Davis, acting
district forester for District 7, March
is an especially bad month for forest
fires in this heavily wooded section.
And some woods fires prove most
troublesome and damaging before they
can be extinguished, Davis said.
Pilots are usually accompanied by
forestry officials when they go aloft
to look for woods fires or to warn
people against them. Observers can
talk by radio to persons in four of
the 17 lookout towers maintained by
the forest service in the district and
when fires are spotted from above
word can be sent quickly to those be
low as to where such fire is located. .
His Firts
“Ever had a motorcar accident?”
queried the insurance man as he com
pleted the proposal form.
“Well,” hesitated Mr. Brownson, “I
first met my wife in a garage.” 1
Without labor nothing prospers.
—Sophocles.
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARC& 27, 1952.
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George Wood Lyon, Jr., of High
Point is North Carolina’s Easter Seal
child for 1952, it was announced by D.
Hiden Ramsey, Asheville, president
of the North Carolina League for
Crippled Children.
George will symbolize all crippled
children during the sale of Easter
Seals from March 13 to April 13 dur
ing the annual campaign of the Lea
gue.
For two years George has been un
der observation and treatment in the
out-patient clinic of the North Caro
lina Cerebral Palsy Hospital in Dur
ham.
“Going on four” is exciting antici
pation for any child, and it was par
ticularly so for George, who was four
years old last Sunday. Neighborhood
children and friends helped him cele
brate his birthday.
The first thing one notices about
George is his winning smile and his
plump blondness. Without his braces,
he crawls and plays with his toys,
reaches up to turn the television or
radio on or off, and sits when prop
ped up.
With his braces he stands in his
standing table and can sit alone for
short periods. These two accomplish
ments have taken long and patient
training—at least four hours a day for
exercises given by his mother under
the supervision of a doctor and a
physical therapist. “Now he is ready
for speech therapy, which will again
take months of training. i
“The steady optimism and the hope
ful outlook, based on realism which
one senses when talking to George’s
parents, makes one wish that all par
ents of handicapped children could
come together and learn from each
other,” President Ramsey said. “The
League knows it must reach out to
many more handicapped children and
their parents.”
Windsor Man Drowns
When Boat Capsized
Funeral services were held in the
Windsor Methodist Church Friday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock for John Merle
Perry, 34, who lost his life Wednes
day afternoon when a boat capsized
while fishing in Cashie River. The
pastor of the church, the Rev. Key
Taylor, officiated, assisted by the Rev.
Mr. Johnson,, pastor of the Windsor
Baptist Church, and the Rev. W. W,
Williford of Norfolk. Burial took
place in the Edgewood Cemetery in
Windsor.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lida
Mae Perry; his mother, Mrs. Mollie
W. Perry; a son, James Maslar Per
ry; a daughter, Miss Caroline Perry;
one brother,’ Herman Lestie Perry of
Portsmouth, and two sisters, Mrs.
Cecil Daniels of Colerain and Mrs.
Herman Reavis of Norfolk. He was
a veteran of World War 11, a mem
ber of the Methodist Church and
Charity Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M.,
which conducted a Masonic funeral.
MASSES SUNDAY IN MARINE
CHAPEL AND EDENTON CHURCH
March 30, at 7 and 9 A. M., holy
masses in Marine Air Station, near
Edenton, each including sermon on
“Direct Human {Sterilization Worse
Than Murder," Holy Communion, fol
lowed by Rosary for {Peace, Sunday
School, the same program repeated
at 11 A. M., in St. Ann’s Catholic
Church, Edenton, with confessions for
half hour before services, stated Fath
er F. J. McCourt, Auxiliary Chaplain
to station and pastor of parish. Wdek
days mass at 7 A. M., in church.
Thursdays 7:30 to 8:30 P. M., Study i
Club in church rectory library. Choir
rehearsals Fridays and Saturdays 7:30
P. M., Lenten devotions Fridays 8
P. M., in church.
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