PLA YERS -? Pam Patterson s Second Graders at West Hoke School are shown here after performing in two plays
and reciting a Mother 's Day poem. "My Own Mother. " The largest group played in "The Bat. the Beast, and the
Birds. " The students in the group of 10 recited the poem, and the six students played in "Joey s Useless Mother 's
Day Gift. " The latter, shown at the table, are. L-R. Shawn Monroe. Pam Heath. Larry McGuire, Robin Etrvin.
Lisa Edwards, and Bryan Monroe. The teacher 's aide of the class is Janelle Thompkins.
People At
Burlington
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Mark Goodlett
Mark Goodlett recently joined
the Industrial Engineering Depart
ment at the Raeford Plant of
Burlington Industries, transferring
from the J. Spencer Love Plant of
' the Hosiery Division.
Goodlett has been with Burling
ton for about three years. Part of
this time was spent with the
Kernersville Sock Plant.
Goodlett is a native of Aiken.
S.C., a graduate of the College of
Charleston, is single, and plans to
live in Raeford.
STATE AWARD - Mikki Freeze
of Raeford. u Hoke County High
School senior, is shown with the
Chairman's Award of the Youth
Councils of North Carolina she
received the weekend of April 30 at
a State Youth Council elections and
Board of Directors meeting at Ft.
Caswell She II keep it till next year
when another senior will he
honored. [Staff photo).
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With the return to outdoor
activities this spring comes once
again the hazard of bees and
wasps.
For most of us the venom of a
stinging insect hurts and is annoy
ing. but is not a serious health
problem. For some the bee sting
can kill. Those are the individuals
who are allergic to stints. Insect
stings cause more deaths yearly
than snake bites, says the Ameri
can Medical Association's Hand
book of First Aid and Emergency
Care. The most common stinging
insects are bees, hornets, wasps,
yellow jackets, bumble bees and
tire ants.
The sting causes pain, swelling,
redness, itching and burning. It
stung bv a honey bee. carefully
remove the stinger by gently scrap
ing with a knife blade or linger
nail. Wash with soap and water.
Place ice wrapped in cloth or cold
compresses on the sting area.
Soothing lotions such as calamine
or a paste of meat tenderizer or
baking soda and a little water -trc
often helpful in relieving discom
fort.
Those allergic to insect stings
may suffer from a condition known
as anaphylactic shock. It can occur
sometimes from only one sting it
the victim has been stung previous
ly. Insect sting shock symptoms
include severe swelling in other
parts of the body, such as around
the eyes, lips and tongue. Weak
ness. coughing or wheezing, severe
itching, stomach cramps, nausea
and vomiting, anxiety, difficulty in
breathing, dizziness, collapse, un
consciousness and hives or rash
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Behavior of the adult eel still mystifies scientists, who can't
figure out how they find their way from North America and
Europe to their breeding area in the Sargasso Sea. One the
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ory holds that they may follow electrical charges generated
by ocean currents, since it's been proven they can detect
weak electrical charges in the water.
Eels' Annual Meeting Place
Discovered In Sargasso Sea
over the body often follow quickly
alter the sting.
It is important to open an airway
and restore breathing. Some ex
perts suggest placing a tourniquet
above the site of the bite in severe
reactions where life might be at
stake. Hmctgency insect sting kits
available only by prescription
sometimes contain a tourniquet. It
can be used only if the sting is on an
arm or leg. Don't tie it too tight and
loosen every live minutes until
medical help arrives. A watchband
or belt can serve as a tourniquet.
Place cold compresses on the
sting area. Keep the victim lying
down unless they are short of
breath. Then let the victim sit up.
Keep victim quiet and comfortable.
It a first aid kit for insect stings is
available, use it according to the
directions.
11 you have experienced signifi
cant reactions to insect bites, ask
your doctor for information about
desensiti/ation and emergency kits.
Memorial Memory Day
Program May 23 Here
A Memorial Memory Dav prayer
and special-singing program will
be held May 23 at 2 p.m. at the
Church ot God on Green Street.
The pastor. Brother Childress,
will speak on love and fellowship.
I he Bahv Bobby Lowrv Family
will be special sinking group. Other
sinners will participate. Hillcresi
Baptist Church. Church ot God.
and Church of God of Prophecy
and visiting singers v\ i 1 1 be among
those attending.
Brother Robert Tyner will be
master of ceremonies.
The ushers will be Howard
Smith, and Robert Brewer of
Hillerest Baptist Church.
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by Donald J. Frederick
National Geographic News Service
WASHINGTON -- The eel re
mains a slippery character, so
elusive that many details of its
lifestyle are still unknown.
But scientists are catching on.
Now zoologists from the University
of Maine headed by Dr. James D.
McCleave think they have found
the eels' annual mating spot in the
Sargasso Sea. a vast body of water
in the western North Atlantic.
Autumn Wanderlust
Every fall mature eels get an
irresistible urge to leave their
freshwater homes in the bays,
rivers, and estuaries of North
America and Europe and head for
the Sargasso, where they mate and
spawn. But until recently no one
knew where in the 2-million
square-milc region they gathered.
Crisscrossing the Sargasso in a
research vessel early this February
and March -- spawning time for the
American eel -- McCleave and his
associates. Robert C. Kleckner and
Gail S. Wippelhauser. found the
eels' meeting place. It's an unusual
/.one of temperate water separating
the cold northern mass of the sea
from its warmer southern waters.
Using infrared photographs
made by satellite, and verifying
them with instruments on the ship
that monitored water tempera
tures. the researchers found the
thermal front to be an area 600
miles' long and 5 to 25 miles wide
east of the Bahamas and north of
Haiti.
Eel larvae found in the area
indicated that most of the spawning
takes place on the southern part of
the thermal front or in the adjoin
ing warm waters to the south. "The
front probably acts as a signal,
telling the eels that they've arrived
in the right place and it's time to do
their thing." McCleave speculated.
Net Cast for Larvae
More than 200 eel larvae, some
only a day or two old. were
collected in a large fine-mesh
plankton net. The researchers sus
pect that some eel embryos may be
hidden among them, and if so. it
would be the first time American
scientists have succeeded in collect
ing any. The project is sponsored
by the National Geographic So
ciety. the National Science Founda
tion. and the University of Maine.
After mating, adult eels die.
leaving the larvae to pull off a feat
of migration as awesome as that of
their parents. Transparent and
shaped like small willow leaves,
they hitch a ride on the Gulf
Stream to destinations in the
United States and across the North
Atlantic to Europe.
It takes almost a year for an
American eel to lose its needle-like
teeth and odd shape and become an
elver ready to enter fresh water. For
European eels subjected to an
arduous journey covering as many
as 3,000 miles, the transformation
takes two to thre? years.
Some eels that make it to the
United States end up in Europe
anyway. In the first seven months
of this year, more than a million
pounds of the fish were shipped
from this country, most destined
for Europe, where eels are con
sidered a delicacy.
But how do the two species get
separated in the Sargasso in the
first place? McCleave thinks that
shifting ocean currents are an
important factor.
Spawning in April, almost a
month after their American count
terparts, the European eels may
ride a different set of currents to
the Gulf Stream. Currents in the
region go in all sorts of directions,
undoubtedly nudging varying num
bers of larvae into the Gulf Stream
at different times and places.
McCleave also has been trying to
determine how adult eels find their
way to the Sargasso. Last year he
attached tiny ultrasonic trans
mitters to some adult eels that he
thought were ready to migrate from
rivers in England, and released
them in the North Sea 15 to 20
miles off the coast.
Riding the Tide
Many of the animals showed they
were eager to head for the opean
ocean by riding tides that would
carry them out of the North Sea.
When a tide shifted to a direction
they didn't like, they simply
dropped to the bottom and waited
for it to change.
McCleave points out that al
though tides may play a role in
getting the eels out of a relatively
enclosed body of water such as the
North Sea, they would be of little
use in the open ocean, where strong
currents take over.
Some scientists think the Fish
follow electrical charges generated
by ocean currents. McCleave, for
instance, has shown that although
eels have no known electrical
receptors, they can sense weak
electric fields in the ocean.
Sunday School
Head Honored
Dec. Simon Adams was honored
Sunday with a Prayer Breakfast
sponsored by Louise McNeiil and
Sunday School staff members of
Mt. Sinia Holy Church of God.
Guests were invited from
churches in the surrounding area.
Special guest was Elder Kelly of
Fayetteville.
The prayers were led by Bishop
J. A. Jackson of Mt. Sinia Church.
During the afternoon service. Sis
Wanda Galberth and Miss Tracy
Cox were presented a trophy by the
superintendent for being the Sun
day School quiz winner. Sis Vastine
Malloy won the award for best
attendance of the year.
The Sunday School staff: Dec.
Adams, superintendent; Sis Gal
berth, secretary; Min. L. McNair,
Adult teacher; Dec. J. Galberth.
Young Adult; Sis A. Adams.
Junior; and Sis Cook, Primary.
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