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Page TWENTY THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1962 SUNRISE THEATRE Phone OX 5-3013 Continuous Shows Daily Thursday ar^ Friday Feb. 1-2 Marlon Brando - Katy Jurado in "ONE EYED JACKS" shows- 3:20 - 6:30 - 9:00 IT CAN BE DONE HERE ! Saturday Feb. 3 Double Feature Clark Gable in "THE TALL MEN" also Ron Foster in "SECRET OF DEEP HARBOR" Continuous shows starting 11:30 A.M. Last Complete show 8:00 P.M. Pinebluff Mink Ranch Is Family Operation Sunday and Monday Feb. 4-5 Jerry Lewis in "THE ERRAND BOY" shows Sun. - 1:20 - 3:20 - 5:15 9:05. Tuesday & Wednesday Feb. 6-7 Brigitte Bardot in "THE TRUTH" Shows - 3:20 - 5:40 - 8:00 Thursday and Friday Feb. 8-9 Jimmy Clanton - Zasu Pitts in "TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE" shows - 3:20 - 5:15 - 7:10 9:05 Don't Forget Wednesday at 10:30 It's "TWIST NIGHT" WALL-TO-WALL CARPET • BIGELOW • MOHAWK • ALEXANDER • SMITH Quality Installations J mm Over 200 Samples 50 Rolls lo Select From Select From Central Carolinas Largest Stock Select Your Carpet Today — We Install Tomorrow! Sanford, N. C. UxuJ!ifc A NEW BREAST FORr FOR POST-MASTECTOMY Now a revolutionary aolutloa la a delicate problem. The baae a4 the form la a shaped mound el soft pliable plastic foam. Sealed to this base Is a thin, CrfidtfiS washable plastic shel nAtiiral from which air Is Daiurai removed and a seM- sensation.. sealing liquid Injected mtliral match the noraaal breast The Oquld re- i6Blinin6 sponds rapidly and ioD6aranc6 •««»»»«» motion—it’s so natural even you can forget The enfke form Is enclosed In an easily laundered nylon cover for Inser tion Into the pocket of any bra desired. Developed In concert with leading surgeons. Ask about TruUfe today. ‘patented Camp Supports and : Appliances are ! .scientifically fitted here by registered fitters. CULBRETH'S Southern Pines Pharmacy (At Railway Station) Southern Pines Tel. OX 5-5321 Raising mink in the Sandhills seemed like a risky venture, but after nearly three years of suc cessful operation, the Pine Needles Mink Ranch, just south of Pinebluff on No. 1 highway, is proof that it can be done. With around 140 mink thriving in their individual cages under two long sheds on his lakeside property, Clyde A. Hunt says his project is beyond the experimen tal stage. These animals that are customarily associated with cold climates are producing good pelts which are sold regularly on the New York fur market. Mr. Hunt started his mink oper ation with five animals, at Greensboro, a year or two oefore he moved to Pinebluff. He says he’s still learning and that it takes PINEBLUFF NEWS By MRS ERRMAN PICKLER Benefit Supper The Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service of Pinebluff Metho dist Church is planning a sup per for Wednesday, February 7, in the fellowship room of the church. The menu will be spag hetti or baked ham with all the trimmings. Supper will be served from 5-7:30 p. m. Personals Mr. and Howard Anderson of Winston-Salem spent the week- a lot of experlenc-e to be a fur breeder : preparing food, skinning the mink at “pelting” time (this is now going on), stretching the “green^hide” on a long tapered board, rubbing it with a soft cloth to remove the skin oils, and num erous other techniques and oper ations used in the business. Works in Greensboro The Pine Needles Mink Ranch is a family operation. Mr. Hun^^ is continuing at his job in Greens boro—an inspector at the Western Electric plant—so he is gone all week. His wife, the former Selma McDonald, a native of Pinebluff, and their 12-year-old son, Carlton, keep the ranch operating when Mr. Hunt is not at home. Mrs. Hunt drives to Laurin- burg twice a week with a pick up truck for a load of food for the mink. Carlton helps prepare the food and feed and water them. And they keep a check on the many cages and their occu pants, to see whether any of the animals have escaped, are sick or otherwise need attention. The mink eat a scientifically prepared mixture of chicken and beef by-products, obtained from poultry plants and slaughter houses; horse meat; and a mink chow prepared commercially by feed companies, containing, vita mins, antibiotics and other ele ments needed in the minks’ diet. The food is ground up by the Hunts, fresh daily, and about a half pound is placed once a day on top of each of the individual wire cages in which the mink end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas David and his live. They eat it by reaching it parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson in Aberdeen. Hugh A. Keith, HI has return ed to Fairbanks, Alaska, after spending two months with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Keith. Dede Spence, of the N. C. School for the Deaf of Morganton, was at home for the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Spence. Mrs. R. V. Wall returned home Saturday after spending several weeks in Reidsville with her daughter, Mrs. Norman Styrer- and Mr. Styres. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hall and children, Jo and Johnny, spent four days last week at Half Moon Fish Camp in Silver Springs, Fla. Mr. Hall’s mother accompanied them home for several weeks’ vis it. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Peeie and daughters of Elizabeth City were weekend guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Morgan. Miss Diana David of WCUNC, Greensboro, is at home for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas David. Maj. and Mrs. John Eurrer arid children, Benita, Jennifer and Johnnie, of Bad-Kreuznach, Ger many, spent several days with his mother, Mrs. John Burrer and father, Mr. Burrer, who remains a patient at Veterans Hospital m Fayetteville. They were en route to Fort Hood, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Carpen ter and children, Marsha, Amy Jo and Stephen, of Raleigh, were weekend guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Williams and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Carpenter, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Gustafson spent the weekend in Raleigh with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gus tafson and family. Gerald 1. Taylor Enlists in Army staff Sergeant Paul H. Hawks of the Army Recruiting Station in Sanford announced today that Gerald Lawrence Taylor, Route 3, Carthage, had enlisted in the US Army. Pvt. Taylor attended Vass- Lakeview High School and was employed by West End Table Company in Vass before entering the Army. Before enlisting he was assigned to the Hampton Roads Terminal, Norfolk Army Base, Norfolk, Va., an element of the Army Air Defense Command. He is now taking eight weeks’ basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C., before coming home for a short leave and then reporting to his enlistment assignment at Nor folk. Private Taylors twin brothers also served three year hitches in the Regular Army. His brother Larry served with the Air De fense Command at Niagara Fails, N. Y., and his brother Richard served with the 3rd Armored Division in Germany for three years. Both twins were discharg ed with the rank of Specialist Fifth Class which is equivalent to Sergeant. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Taylor, Route 3, Carthage. through the wire. At the outside end of each cage (see photo of cage shed on this page) there is a water cup which is kept filled. A big walk-in refrigerator which was recently set up near the mink sheds will be of muc’n value, Mr. Hunt said, in storing food. Visitors Welcome Visitors are welcome at the Pine Needles Mink ranch—except during the breeding season and when the “kits” are young, that is from March to June. Mink breed once a year in March. The gestation period ave rages about 50 days and from one to 11 kits are born in late April or May., When the young are in the cages with their mothers, it is very important, Mr. Hunt says, that the animals not be disturbed. If alarmed, the females sometimes kill their young. The kits are weaned at about six weeks. They grow fast and are full size at nine months. At pelting time, Mr. Hunt kills and skins his own mink. With practice he is skilfull enough to skin one in three to five minutes, stripping the skin off over the head like a nightshirt, without a break in it and keeping tne the whole skin intact. Then comes the stretching and rubbing and then a batch of skins are sent off to processors in New York who treat them to be sold as eith er “raw” or “dressed” pelts, the price for dressed skins running about $3 per pelt higher than tnat of the raw. Males More Valuable Male pelts, because they are larger, sell for up to twice as much as comparable female pelts. Ordinary pelts (“culls”) recently sold on the New York market at around $22 for a dressed male and $13 for a dressed female. Prices in March or April wilt run about $5 higher per skin, Mr. Hunt said, and prices on certain of the light color “mutation” sKins can run much higher than that. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Mutation Mink Breeders Associa tion, a nation-wide organization that markets the skins for mem bers in New York, reports on cur rent market prices and offers oth- ar services. The Hunts raise sev eral of the mutation “pastel” shades of mink that are marketed under the Mutation Breeders As sociation trademark, “Autumn Haze.” One of the fascinations of mink breeding is carrying on experi ments in cross-breeding to obtain new color shades of fur that will please buyers. The lighter shades are by far the, most popular now with buyers—the popularity be ing determined by the ladies who purchase the finished product in coat, stole, scarf or other garment. Mrs. Hunt has a scarf, made from their own-mink, which was seen in a fashion show at the Southrn Pines Country Club last year. ’This and a number of fin ished furs, the Hunts are glad to display to visitors, as well as va rious novelty items that show the unusual uses to which small bits of mink fur are put—a bow- tie, a corsage, tiara, a perky little hat with a veil as well as tiny toy cats and dogs made from the fur. >. H - 0^" l.l.-'-i .'.i ■''iV LIVELY—Handling a mink requires skill, quickness and an unceasing respect for the animal’s viciousness that does not seem to diminish, even after generations of being raised in captivity. C. A. Hunt shows how it’s done: a good grip on the tail by which the mink is pulled out of or lowered back into its cage. Note the heavy elkskin gauntlet gloves—a “must” if a handler wants to keep all of his fingers. Each glove has a flap on its back which the mink often bite instead of the part en closing the handler’s hand. Sometimes the animals’ teeth pen- trate the heavy leather. Mr. Hunt says he’s never picked up an adult 'mink that hasn’t bitten his gloves. (Pilot photo) DENS AND CAGES— Carlton Hunt, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hunt of Pinebluff works daily in helping operate the family’s Pine Needles Mink Ranch. Inside the long shed protecting the cages, he wears on his right hand one of the elk- skin gauntlets essential in handling mink. Under his hand is a brick that holds down a trap door in the top of a cage. His left hand rests on a box or “den” that opens into the inner end of each cage, in which the mink sleep or have their young. Some times a big, strong mink can push the trap door open, despite the weight of the brick. Several have escaped in this manner and a few have also gotten out of the wire fence enclosing the whole cage area, pres-umably returning to life in the wild. (Pilot photo) ■i X ♦ 1 MINKS’ HOME—On either side of this center walkway down the middle of this sidsless shed are dozens of cages, each con taining a mink, suspended above the ground, at right angles to the center walk. This view shows a “den” or box for each mink, on the innCT end of each cage. The roof is of plain sheet metal over the rafters and both sides and the ends are open, allowing plenty of air circulation. This is one of two such sheds at the Pine Needles Mink Ranch. (PUot photo) Lovely, Larger Diamonds ONE FULL CARAT^ Difimonds • Perfectly matched • Permanently registered • Exchange privilege • Diamonds insured against loss from setting for one year NATIONALLY ADVERTISED Rtn^t enlarged to show details Prices include Federal Tax ^ L •Ml Main Sireet Aberdeen Mrs. Hayes Shop SPECIAL SALE ROLFS BILLFOLDS PRICE $2.79 PLUS TAX (WAS $3.95) FOR HER m ® i Rolfs fashion favorites for her. French purses or billfolds in assorted leathers, styles and colors. 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