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Thomas [Tut] Tavlor dunks the ball for two points over l.ouisburg's Bernard Kpps in the closing minutes of John Graham's 55-51 win over the Bulldogs Friday night. Taylor was the first Yellow Jacket to make a dunk shot since it was put back in high school play this season. |Staff Photos by Don Stith) This Hunter Came Up With Honey Of Story Bv JIM DEAN Lawrence Rurnette of Raleigh gets i he nomination from this corner for the strangest hunting story of the year. Lawrence and his friends returned from a rabbit hunt during (he holidays with what must be called a mixed bag. The group had 10 rabbits and five gallons of outraged honeybees. "We had hunted most ot the day and hr.d a real good hunt." said Lawrence. "As we were coming out of the woods, I passed an old tree lap that looked as though it might, contain a rabbit, so I looked around for something to throw into it. You know, when you toss an old stick or something into a place like that, a rabbit is liable to come charging out and we figured the dogs would enjoy one more race before we quit. "There was an old rusty five-gallon can with a small screw top opening — like a gas can — sitting next to the lap." said Lawrence. "I reached down and grabbed the handle so I could throw it into the lap. I noticed it was pretty heavy, and mv first thought was that it was full of water." It was full all right, but it wasn't water. Lawrence got a good hint when the first honeybee came out of the spout like an Atlas rocket. The first bee was followed closely by some equally irked companions. "They were sure enough mad. and there I was standing there holding their winter home trying to act like it was all a misunderstanding, which it was," said Lawrence. "But those bees were too busy trying to sting me to listen to any apologies, so I quickly set the can back on the ground and grabbed an old cotton glove and stuffed it into the spout. "Then. I began to swat the hees that already had escaped. A bee won't quit when he's mad, and I had to kill a half a dozen before I got things under control." said Lawrence. Then Lawrence made his second mistake. He decided to keep the honey and take the can to the truck, but he failed to realize that there was also a small hole in the bottom of the can. This oversight did not go undetected long, and the bees launched a vigorous counter attack. "I finally got everything buttoned up and got the can safely to the truck," said Lawlrence. — Once he got them home, Lawrence decided that rather than kill the bees to get the honey, he would swap the buzzing can to a local beekeeper for some jars of honey. "He was glad to get the bees, and I was glad to get the honey," said Lawrence. "I'll let him worry about how he's going to get those bees out of that can. I can tell you one thing though, that's a pretty unhappy bunch of honeybees and it's going to take a heap of explaining to get them to settle down again." Root Exposure Means Death It you take a plant from the woods or buy one without a ball of soil on the roots, make sure the roots aren't exposed to sun or wind and allowed to dry out. cautions North Carolina State University extension landscape horticulturist Henry J. Smith. "If roots seem dry and dark shriveled, don't buy the plant." Smith suggests. With a hare rooted tree, you can increase survival chances hv soaking the roots in water for several hours before planting. Other selection tips: Avoid specimens that appear weak and stressed. Look for those that aren't lone and lankv in growth. Don't forget about the plant's moisture needs after transplanting. Smith points out that, with a loss of part of its roots, a plant will he more limited in the amount of moisture it can take up. If there is a dry period during the winter, or even next spring and summer, be sure the new plant has plenty of water Jackets Get By Louisburg, Thanks To Green's Basket By DON STITH Guard Delton Green's lastsecond shot fell through before the buzzer to lock the score at 47-all and enable John Graham to pull away from Louisburg in overtime and capture a 55-51 conference win at Louisburg Friday night. The boys' win followed wins by the Lady Jackets, 51-49, and the jayvee squad, 55-34 during the cage triple-header. Jayvee Game Warrenton gained early control of the ballgame against the Louisburg junior quintet. Sporting a 15-8 first quarter and a 23-12 halftime lead, the Jackets yielded to a Louisburg scoring romp in the third frame that outdistanced them 10-8. Victor Harrison, who led the Jackets with 15 points, spearheaded the final offensive surge by the Yellow Jackets during the final quarter when they scored 24 points. Donald Bovd and Ernest Green chipped in 13 and 12 points to join Boyd in two-digit scoring. Thomas Tice was the leading Louisburg scorer with 12 points. The win over Louisburg pave the Yellow Jackets second place in conference standing with a 4-2 mark. Franklinton leads the league with a 5-1 record. Girls Game A little less than two minutes had run off the game clock before either team scored a basket. Barbara Pullen got the Lady Jackets on the scoreboard with two shots from the charity stripe after she was fouled on a lay-up. Judy May came off the bench to score six points for I/ouisburg from the top of the key. a rarity in girls high school basketball. Her clutch shooting pushed the Bulldogs ahead of John Graham 12-10 at the end of the first quarter. Turnovers and a cold shooting Warrenton sextet contributed heavily to their 27-19 halftime deficit. At the start of second half play, John Graham went to a full court press and Louisburg found themselves trailing by four at the end of the third period. Edith Kodwell tucked the game awav for Warrenton in the last seconds of play when she hit both of her free-throws to (jive John Graham -a four point lead. She was the game's leading scorer and rebounder with 21 points and 15 rebounds, most of them coming in the third quarter. Lorraine Williams added another 15 for the Lady Jackets. She was covered well bv Louisburg's Audrey McKnight. McKnight led her team with 15 points and Judy May hit for 14 points. The loss to Warrenton put I/iuisburg at the bottom of Tar River standings with a 1-6 record. John Graham remained at the top with a 6-0 mark. Boys Game The much faster Iiouisburg starting five jumped past the Jackets 12-8 as game action got under way. The Jackets were slow at the game's start but picked up the pace as the period grew old. The late offensive rally fell short for Warrenton as Louisburg gained a slight 21-20 halftime lead. It was a nip-and-tuck ballgame from the second half tipoff to Delton Green's desperation shot from the top of the key. Thomas (Tut) Taylor kept Warrenton in the ballgame with excellent rebounding and shooting. Taylor dunked one over Louisburg's 6-7 Steve Brown midway the fourth period to give the Yellow Jackets a seven-point lead. Louisburg came back and locked the scores at 45-all with 52 seconds left on the clock. Travelling was called on Taylor and the Bulldogs called time-out to discuss final strategy against the Jackets. When play resumed Louisburg held the ball until they got the open pass to Brown, under the glass. Brown put the Bulldogs ahead by two with six seconds showing on the clock. Green saved the Jackets from defeat with his 20-foot jump shot under the pressure of Louisburg defenders. Louisburg lost the services of Steve Brown during the period of overtime when he committed his fifth foul of the game. Without Brown. Louisburg was helpless in the middle. Taylor led the Jackets in scoring and rebounding, scoring 22 points, 14 of them in the fourth quarter and the overtime period. He also grabbed 17 rebounds. Dougtaas Stiff netted 14 points for John Graham. Steve Brown led Louisburg with 17 points. Tonight (Thursday) the jayvee team hosts a cage double header, jayvee teams only, starting at 6:30 p. m. Featured in tonight's first game will be the Norlina Blue Waves facing the Franklinton Red Rams. The second game will match John Graham against Bunn. Norlina Topples Clubs From Bunn Norlina toppled Bunn in two games Tuesday night as Coach Bob Price's team continued a late-season spurt, 52-50, and the Blue Wave boys knocked Bunn out of a first-place tie with a 83-73 decision. For Coach Tom Evans' lads, the victory kept alive a hope of entering playoff competition, pending a battle with Warrenton on Friday night. James Green and Michael Yancey teamed for 15 points to lead a Norlina attack that featured five players in double digits. Rodney Marshall and Donald Hopkins led Bunn with 20. The win moved Norlina's league mark to 3-4. Tuesday night's victory helped atone for a 69-59 defeat bv Franklinton on Friday night despite Green's 28-point effort. The win was the third straight in league action for the Norlina girls, who were paced Tuesday night by Cindy King, with 14 points and Irene Durham with 13. Helen Gilchrist's two free tosses with one second remaining gave the Lady Waves their third two-point victory in eight days. Last Friday night Cindy King had 21 points as Norlina defeated Franklinton, 42-40. Visitors Take To Air At New Space Museum Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum pet to fly, perform aerobatics, and land on the moon—all without leaving the building. An imaginative array of 118 audio-visual displays uses everything from films and slide shows to stereo tapes and animated puppets to give onlookers the feeling of flight. Spectators standing at the control console of an Apollo command module can peer out its narrow triangular windows while film shot during the Apollo 17 mission gives them the same view the astronauts saw as they maneuvered for a lunar landing. Stunt Rides More hair-raising maneuvers take place closer to earth in another part of the Smithsonian Institution's $40 million museum in Washington, D. C. There viewers are given a filmed ride in a barnstormer's open cockpit biplane. Looking over the engine cowling, through the center wing struts and the flashing disc of the propellor, visitors see earth and sky turn topsy-turvy and spin dizzily as the pilot puts his plane through its paces. The sensation is magnified in another film shown several times a day in the museum's 485-seat theater, the National Geographic Society says. Multiple projectors, a screen that towers nearly five stories high, and quadraphonic sound combine to put the audience in the open gondola of a hot-air balloon as it drifts placidly over the landscape—and, at one point, almost crashes into a church steeple. The huge screen provides such realistic effects that in one sequence the viewers might think they are hanging upside down in their seats while a plane makes a low-level, inverted flight through a winding valley. Even Go To Sea On the simulated bridge of a Navy carrier, museum visitors look down upon a filmed flight deck and watch the launch and recovery of F-14 jet fighters, with 'full sound effects. Mini-theaters abound in the block-long museum. In one, viewers watch an air show and are treated to spectacular footage from a wing-mounted camera as a jet pilot loops, spins, rolls, and dives his highperformance fighter. In another, they sit behind the crew of a jetliner aa the pilot and co-pilot acknowledge approach instructions from the control tower and bring the big plane to a landing. Visitors also walk through a scarred World War I aerodrome, hear the mechanics talking as they patch up battered aircraft, look over a German Fokker D-VII, and eavesdrop on the interrogation of its captured pilot. Elsewhere, newsreels show the fiery crash of the dirigible Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937. Historic silent films recapture the feats of early stunt fliers and wingwalkers and the sometimes laughable attempts of the first experimental helicopters to get off the ground. After Fall, Now Is Time To Plant Fall is the ideal time to seed fescue, one of the best cool season lawn and pasture grasses grown in North Carolina. If you missed that planting time, your next best chance is coming up—February] and March. If you haven't considered tall fescue as the grass to plant, maybe you should. It does well in virtually all sections of North Carolina. However, on eastern sandy-type soils subject to drought, other types of grasses may be a better choice. Fescue is described by North Carolina State University agricultural extension specialists as a semi-erect, bunch-type grass that produces short rhizomes under favorable conditions. It is a cool-season perennial and usually remains green throughout the year., Peak production months are Mach through May and September through November. If you're considering it for a lawn, you should be aware that fescue doesn't grow well under hot, dry conditions of summer. It becomes semi-dormant but perks up again as the weather begins to cool and moisture becomes adequate. Some of the things you will want to consider doing in establishing fescue, either as a lawn or pasture grass, is taking a soil sample and having it tested for lime and fertiliser requirements; buying certified seed, and doing a good job of seedbed preparation. Preparing the seedbed properly prior to planting is extremely important and your best safeguard against having to reaeed. Making • basket was not so easy (or John Graham's Edith Rodwell [44] as she squeezed through Audrey McKnight [left] and Gwen Gregory [32) for a two pointer. Rodwell finished play as the games leading scorer and rebounder. Girls Clinch Bye Rams And Jackets Divide Cage Game Frankliriton's boys thickened the Tar River Conference race Tuesday night when they handed the John Graham Yellow Jackets a 65-59 setback for the Jacket's second league defeat and their third loss in 19 games. home court, failed to knock the Jackets out of first place in the conference as Norlina defeated runnerup Bunn Tuesday night. John Graham saw a sevenpoint first quarter lead vanish in the second frame as Franklinton roared to a 37-27 halftime advantage, turned back a late jacket rally and held on for the win. Jerome Perry led all scorers with 21, while fellow Ram Anthony Branch contributed 20. Thomas Taylor and Doug Stiff had 13 for Warrenton, followed by Michael Brown's 12. In the opener of the twinbill, Coach Ben Howard's Warrenton sextet clinched the conference championship and a first-round tournament bye. The I>ady Jackets, paced by Edith Rodwell's 21 points, downed the Lady Rams by a 41-36 count. Warrenton will have its regular season finale here Friday night when they host Norlina in a twinbill. In anticipation of a large crowd, JG officials will open the doors at 5:45 p. m., 75 minutes before tipoff. Local Aggregation Gets Cage Victory Warren County Merchants, a ladies basketball team, defeated Henderson Truss Building Supply by a score of 28-27 in a Tri-County league .. ime played in Henderson Tuesday night. The Merchants lead the league with a 7-1 mark, under the direction of William Leonard. Next Tuesday night the local cagers play at Zeb Vance Gym starting at 6:45 p. m. Warrior Quintet • ■ i Gets First Win Of Cage Season I Warren Academy's boys varisty team won ita fir«t conference game of the aeasoq. 70-63, over N.E.W. Academy last week. The Lady Warrk>*» won their frame against the hosting N.E.W. lassies 41-20.; Harold Seaman and Chip Capps were the leading rebounders for Warren Academy with eight each. Cad Quails lead all scorers with it points. Capps added another 20 and Everett Knight and HaroU Seaman scored 11 and 10 points. • Rhonda Reid and Bonni^ Greer led the Warren Academy's offensive attack with It and 11 points respectively after getting off to a slow start In games played at Halifax Academy last week, tha Warriors lost both games to the league leaders. The girls lost 35 25, in the preliminary and the boys found the rnuch taller Halifax squad to hard to handlei, falling, 71-54. A desperate comeback attempt was made in the third frame by the Warriors which pulled them within two of th* hosting quintet. Everette Knight and Harold Seaman led the Warriors in scoring with 17 points and eight rebounds each. Friday night the Warriors host Northeast Academy in % conference twinbill. Gifts Make Day Special Event If you decide to pass up the hearts and flowers, but still are looking for a Valentine gift—choose one with learning appeal. Give something that will teach a new skill or revive an old one. A learning gift can be simple—like aliew pet—a bird or a fish—with instructions for its care. Or give a book about an area— the Grand Canyon perhaps—or about a skill—such as terrarium building. You can choose an empty scrapbook to be filled with souvenirs and pictures from a recent trip. That creative eook ( might appreciate a new appliance or pan with recipes to try. So to surprise your valentine, or just to brighten someone's cold winter day—give a learning gift. COME VISIT OUR NEW MILL Now, You Can Get Purina Check-R-Mix Grinding and Mixing Right Here In Our Mill. Make Us Your Headquarters For Livestock and Poultry Feed WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING: • MONKEY and PET FOOD • HORSE FEED • CHICKEN FEED • RABBIT FOOD • CAT FOOD • DOG FOOD • COW FEED FOOD FOR EVERY ANIMAL Warrenton Feed ft Grain Warren Plains Road • TeL 257-1266
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