GROWING UP IN ROBESON COUNTY Editor's note! This Is ano ther exciting article ceotrl bstod frees w Mend, Ronald H. Lowry who lives In Virginia Beach, Virginia. He snbnilts articles periodically and they always prove to be very Interesting. The article Is entitled "Growing Up In Robeson Connty," and wll be presented In foor parts be cause of space problems. The first of these four installments follows. by Ronald H. Lowry Life in Robeson County during my formative yesrs was lived at a slower pace than that we experience to day. The lack of mobility and communication limited one's knowledge of events going on in areas outside one's own community. There was no television, few radios, and the county's primary newspaper had not advanced to a daily publication. The primary way the people communicated was by word-of-mouth. The art of conversation was practiced on a large scale, and most of the local news traveled by this means mostly on week ends in the local towns, at church, and week end visitations by families in the homes of relatives and friends. This type communication took place on front porches and under shade trees in warm weather, and around fire places in cold weather. When I was growning up in Robeson County, children were sup posed to be quiet and listen to adult conversations. As a result I developed the art of a good.listener, and have heard some very good conversa tionalists perform in Robeson County before the modern age of mass communication ar rived. We respected our elders and received some good ad vice about life and how to deal with many of its problems. Their conversations were in formative, amusing, and sometimes scary when the subject got around to telling stories about ghosts. Stories about Robeson County snakes have held top billing in many conversations which I have heard. My dad's favorite snake story relates an ex perience he had with a snake as a small boy growing up in Robeson County. He had gone down to the edge of the swamp to "slop the hogs." an expression early Robesonians used which meant feeding the hogs with an unbalanced diet concoction formulated from meager left overs from the kitchen. Just before he neared the hog pen down a path, he saw a big snake crossing over to a brush thicket. Unable to find a stick big enough to kill the snake, he decided to run back to the barn, one-quarter mile from the hog pen to get the pitchfork. When he re turned with the pitchfork.' he saw the snake's tail slowly disappearing into the thicket. We knew this had to be a long snake when the tima element of securing a weapon is con sidered. In telling this story, my dad would describe the snake's size as being as big as his thigh, but we never did question him about whether he was talking about the thigh of a grown man telling the story or of a small boy experiencing the event. After hearing this snake story one Sunday afternoon on our front porch, a neighbor had one of his own to tell. On a cold late fall afternoon he was hunting for squirrels in the swamp. He decided to conceal himself in some bushes under aiL .oajt tree near some hickory nut trees, and wait for a squirrel to come within gun range looking for hickory nuts. He was sitting on a mound of falling oak leaves, when a squirrel appeared in a hickory nut tree. As he was at tempting to get the squirrel in his gun sights, he felt the ground move beneath his body. Not wanting to miss getting the squirrel, he made several attempts to line up his gun sights, but the shifting mound of oak leaves inter fered and finally the squirrel was scared away. Upon in vestigating under the oak leaves, our neighbor found out that he had been sitting on a large rattlesnake. He the orized that this snake was beginning its hibernation pe riod and his body heat was beginning.to revive the mata bolism within the body of the snake. In both these stories, the snakes were left to enjoy their natural habitats. I could tell a few myself about some close encounters with some of those "Lumber River" water moccasins, wjhile growing up in Robeson County. Good conversation today is becom ing a lost art. now that people have left the front porches for easy chairs in front of T.V. sets in their dens. Next week's installment of "Growing Up In Robeson County" will be entitled "Grandpa's House." Don't miss It! Students take part in Presidential Classroom Program dBROKE--Two Pem broke State University "Up ward Bound" students--Brian Dial of West Robeson High School and Jerome McDonald of Parkton High School recently flew to Washington, D.C.. for a seven-day visit to in the "Presidential Class room for Young Americans" program. While there, they met with policy makers in the three branchd<^of government plus visiting with public interest groups, the diplomatic com munity. business, and labor. They also had the oppor tunity to visit the offices of the U.S. representatives and sen ators. Students from all 50 states and schools abroad combine a wide spectrum of races, reli gions. economic backgrounds and lifestyles to make the "Presidential Classroom" program very onique. Dial, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cotden K. Dial, is a high school junior. He plans to major in mathematics and chemistry in college. He is vice president of the Junior Class and served as president ' of both his Freshman and Sophomore classes. He is an ? honor roll student, won the * science award, and is a member of the Science Club, Spanish Club, and Engineer ing and Technical Society. In PSU's "Upward Bound" pro gram he has won the Direc tor's Award. McDonald, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McDonalds is a senior in high school. He has been president of the student council plus a mem ber of the National Honor Society, Beta Gub, Dean's List, N.C. Scholar Bowl Team, and president of the Parkton Chapter of the Future Far mers of America. He also won an academic award in Fun damentals of Agriculture. In "Upward Bound," he was selected for a Director's Award. McDonald plans to study engineering in college. Seasonings appropriate for people on a low-sale diet in clude chives, curry, garlic, fresh parsley, mace, paprika, vanilla extract, vinegar, lemon juice, pepper and poultry seasoning. Jerome McDonald (left] & Brian Dial took part recently in the "Presidential Class room for Young Americans" program in Washington, D.C. McDonald attends Parkton High School, while Dial at tends West Robeson High School. Pembroke State Uni versity'? "Upward Bound" program helped to make the trip possible. Wardrobe Seminar set for April 24. & 25 Image Impact, a relatively new image consulting agency, is sponsoring a two day wardrobe seminar, in the auditorium of the Robeson County PvM'c library, on Chestnut Street, Lumberton, North Carotin*. The seminar is set for April 24 Sc 25 from 7 p.m. til 10 p.m. (both even ings). The agency is gearing the seminar to the career woman on a budget; yet, interested in achieving a better image and success in her chosen field. The goals of the seminar are; 1. To inform the partici pants how to use color ef fectively to enhance their ap pearance; 2. To teach the participants how to analyze their figure and ways to camouflage fi gure flaws; 3. 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