Northside School
Has Field Day
By BARBARA COOKE
The Northside Elementary
School held its Field
Day on Friday, June 3, with
12 events, 12 competitions
for kindergarten through
first grade, and a dozen
between the second and
third grades. A total of 52
blue ribbons, 17 red ribbons
and 16 white ribbons were
won by excited competitors.
Three trophies were won.
Mrs. W. L. Rose's kindergarten
class and Mrs. Fannie
Plummer's first grade
class tied for top class, K-l.
Miss Mary Burton's second
grade class won the trophy
for top class, 2-3.
From the raising of the
flag, the "Pledge of Allegiance,"
"America" until the
last team dropped the
tug-a-war rope, there was
excitement in the air.
The awards ceremony
followed at 11:30 a. m., and
it was climaxed by a Balloon
Relay between the parents
and the teachers. The
teachers, by the skin of their
balloons, barely beat the
parents, winning for themselves
blue ribbons.
Fly Rod Technique
Roots Are Explained
By JIM DEAN
The technique of fishing a
cricket on a fly rod probably
traces its roots to the
blackwater rivers of eastern
North Carolina. Down east,
anglers float the surprisingly
quick currents of some of
these rivers, using light
cane poles and tiny corks to
flip crickets into the stumps
and brushy pockets along
the bank.
In an evolutionary sense,
the technique is not quite
still fishing, nor is it bait
casting. It's sort of a
combination, and a fisherman
who is skilled at it can
catch robin, bluegills and
other fish when nothing else
will work.
A further variation of the
technique — that I see used
more and more — calls for
the use of a fly rod and a
cricket, but without any
cork or split shot. As the
boat drifts down the creek,
or is paddled slowly along
the bank of a pond, the
fisherman gently roll casts
the cricket into likely
looking spots.
The cricket hits the water
with a soft splat, then sinks
rather slowly. If no bite is
forthcoming immediately,
the angler may begin to
draw the cricket away from
the bank very slowly by
simply lifting the rod. When
the rod is more or less
vertical, if no fish has taken
the cricket, the angler is in
perfect position to make
another roll cast and repeat
the process.
it is absolutely deadly,
and if you think it sounds
like the same way you'd fish
a sinking artificial fly —
you're right. Many fly
fishermen use hard-bodied
black ants, nymphs and wet
flies to fish for bluegills and
shellcrackers— and they
use virtually the same
technique. Interestingly,
shellcrackers are not as
fond of popping bugs or
artificial lures as bluegills,
but these fish will take
sinking flies readily.
ine use ot sinning
artificial flies such as black
ants is so effective that I fish
them far more frequently
than popping bugs. Of
course, I still prefer to catch
big bluegills on floating
poppers, but the sinking
flies are more effective.
Better yet, a combination
of all three techniques
(including the use of
cricket) can produce staggering
results.
Let's say you've located a
bed of bluegills or shell
crackers. I like to do this by
fishing the shorelines and
shallow areas during spawning
season with a sinking
black ant. You can fish the
black ant quickly and cover
a lot of ground. Once a bed is
located, I switch to a
floating popping bug. Depending
upon the size of the
bed and the spookiness of
the fish, I can usually count
on catching four or five fish
on the floating bug before
they stop hitting on top.
Then I switch back to the
black ant or some other
sinking fly. Fish that (bay be
too spooked to take a
floating bug will often take a
sinking fly with no apprehension.
After I've caught a
few more, the action will
slack off again.
That's the time to try the
old ace in the hole. Replace
the fly with a small, light
wire bait hook and impale a
live cricket on it. Then roll
cast that into the bed. You
can virtually clean out the
bed with that combination,
and even fish that have
spooked at the disturbance
of a line hitting the water
will return to pick up a
cricket that has been lying
on the bottom for a few
minutes.
You're probaDiy asking
why anyone wotild fish with
popping bugs or black ants if
the crickets work so well.
There are several reasons.
You roll cast a cricket to
keep from snapping him off
the hook, but with a popping
bug or black ant, you can
make a longer regular cast.
If a fish doesn't take the fly
on the first cast, you can
quickly make another; and
if you miss a fish, you don't
have to stop and rebait the
hook.
On the other hand, once
the fish are slightly spooked,
the live cricket is far better
because you can make a roll
cast and let the cricket lie
there without further disturbance
while the fish
return.
By the way, a real short
fly rod doesn't roll cast very
well. I use an eight-foot rod
with a six- or seven-weight
line and consider that ideal
for this kind of panfishing.
There's not room to describe
the technique for roll
casting here, but you can
probably find a friend who
knows how, or check it out in
a book on fly casting.
Few Eagles Remain
Only about 900 pairs of
bald eagles still exist in the
48 mainland states.
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A crowd of student spectators lined the field ai
students at Northslde Elementary School staged Its
annual Field Day on Friday. In picture at lower left,
Calvin Sledge, a second-grader, soars to a landing la the
broad jump competition under the watchful eye of the
Rev. Elton Cooke. At lower right, John Thomas Felts, a
kindergarten student, tries his band at balancing' a
potato in a spoon in another round of competition.
News Of Littleton
Among visitors of Miss
Alice Newsom last week
were Mrs. Lena Tripp, Mrs.
Emma Stansbury and Jack
Newsom of Roanoke Rapids
and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Smith of Asheville.
Mrs. Harvey Lewis, Mrs.
Noley Thrower, Mrs. Gracie
Brinkley and Mrs. Mary
Bobbitt of Enfield were
Friday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Keeter.
Mrs. Benjamin Hicks of
Henderson was a Friday
visitor of Mrs. Cleveland
Stallings and visited Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Keeter.
Miss Jacqueline Moore
accompanied her mother,
Mrs. Macon Moore, home
Thursday night after Mrs.
Moore had spent some time
in Goldsboro. En route home
they got Miss Fannie Moore
in Enfield and she returned
to her home with them.
Among recent visitors of
Mrs. Gladys Stansbury were
Mrs. Ben U. Allen of Henderson,
Mrs. Grady Moseley
of Warrenton, Mrs. William
Sharpe of Newport News,
Va., Mr. and Mrs. Ray
McLawhorn of Richmond,
Va., and Mrs.R. H. Bright of
Warrenton.
Cecil Bobbitt and the Rev.
Joe Riggan of Macon
recently visited Mrs. Josephine
Seitz and Mr. Seitz in
Raleigh.
Mrs. Donald Pitchford of
Embro was a Thursday
visitor of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Riggan.
Mrs. James Frank Shaw
and Mrs. Lillian Wood of
Roanoke Rapids spent Wednesday
night with Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Ferguson in
Richmond, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. William R.
Shearin and children of
Minot, N. D., spent some
time last week with his
mother, Mrs. Rosalie Shearin
and his grandmother,
Mrs. J. A. Myrick. Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Salmon, Sr.,
visited them while here.
Mrs. Raymond G. Harris
and Mrs. Ida Perkinson
were in Louisburg Thursday.
Mrs. Freddie Paynter and
children of Wise and Mr.
and Mrs. John King, Jr., and
son of Norlina were Sunday
visitors of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence West.
Mrs. Stuart West was a
Wednesday visitor of her
mother, Mrs. Viola Etheridge,
in Guardian Care
Nursing Home in Louisburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Salmon, Jr., and children of
Roanoke Rapids were Sunday
dinner guests of his
parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Inscoe and Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Pittard were Sunday
visitors of little Howard
Inscoe, Jr., in N. C.
Memorial Hospital in
Chapel Hill.
Mrs. E. B. Shearin and
Miss Donna Shearin were in
Rocky Mount on Monday.
The Rev. and Mrs.
Herbert W. Baucom, Jr.,
attended the graduation of
their grandson, Tim Baucom,
in Valley Spring High
School in Columbia, S. C., on
Saturday. He was salutatorian
of his class of 720
students.
Mrs. Clemon Pegram was
a Saturday visitor of Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Riggan in
Roanoke Rapids.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmie
Isles and family and Mr.
and Mrs. John Shearin and
family spent several days
this week at Nags Head.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Jenkins
of Wilmington spent
Saturday night with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff
Harwood and children of
Wilson spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Bernice
Aycock. Sunday Mrs. Aycock
and daughter and Mrs.
Harwood and children visited
Mrs. L. E. Morris who is
recuperating in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Frailer
in Portsmouth, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Brown
and daughter of Clayton
spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Freeman Myrick.
Renn-Currin Team
Wins First Round
Renn-Currin, a men's
•low-pitch softball team
from Franklin County, won
the first annual William A.
Thompson Memorial Softball
Tournament held here
over the weekend. Haithcock's
and Miles Hardware,
both of Warren County, took
second and third place
honors, respectively.
Eight slow-pitch softball
teams converged on John
Graham's athletic field to
participate in a tournament
that was held in the honor of
the late W. A. Thompson, a
former baseball umpire and
one of the founders of little
league baseball in Warren
County.
Activities began with the
invocation by the Rev.
Wayne Young of Wesley
Memorial Methodist Church
in Warrenton.
Howard Oakley, a former
umpire and coach of the
Warren County little league
during the years that
Thompson umpired, was
master of ceremonies. He
introduced the teams as
games got under way and
acted as sports commentator.
The tournament was held
in order to raise funds and
establish a sports scholarship
in honor of Thompson.
Proceeds from the tournament
are expected to reach
between $300 and $400,
according to a report given
by Bill Frazier, tournament
director. Frazier said that a
few expenditures for the
tournament had to be paid
before an accurate count
could be given. He listed
trophies and plaques among
items which had been
purchased.
me scnoiarsnip win De
awarded to a senior enrolled
in a Warren County school
and who participates in the
school's baseball program.
Tournament officials said
that they wished to express
their thanks to the teams
which helped make the
tournament such a success
and that they especially
wanted to thank the resi
dents that live around Johr
Graham. They said thai
most of them came to the
games and made contribu
tions. The officials would
also like to thank the
umpires who called the
games during the tourney.
Mrs. Winnefred (Thompson)
Myrick and children,
Waviely, Kay and Ruby and
grandson, Will, attended the
tournament.
VALENTINE
Valentine Given
2-Year Scholarship
George Valentine, a former
Louisburg College basketball
standout, has been
awarded a two-year basketball
scholarship from Southwest
State University in
Minnesota.
He played a forward at
Louisburg and averaged
15.4 points per game and
maintained a 9.2 rebounding
average and was the junior
college's second leading rebounder
and third leading
scorer.
He is a 1975 graduate of
Norlina High School.
Big Smokers
Americans smoked 620
billion cigarettes in 1976,
almost 13 billion more than
in 1975 and 84 billion more
than in 1970.
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