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Out for a stroll
This praying mantis makes his way along a wooden fence in the Hoke
County area. The insect appears to be in search of something to eat.
but it could be out just for a pleasant fall stroll. Mantis eat other in
sects and for that reason are considered to be a friend of man. The
gray-green creatures are common this time of year. They often seem to
be on the prowl or just hanging around praying for something to eat.
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Turlington School last Thursday
night for local telephone
subscribers was well attended. Ap
proximately 300 or more people
were in attendance and many ques
tions pro and con were presented
before the group.
The fuel commission for the
State's Utilities will meet here on
Tuesday, October 29 to hear both
sides of the issue. Everyone in the
county that has a telephone should
be in attendance on that date. It is
too late for comment after the
horse has left the pasture.
A petition is now being cir-.
culated for the extended service. If
you are in favor of it, please sign
the petition.
* * *
In my 67 years in Hoke County
and Raeford I have been on many
trips with men. Some have been to
play golf, other times to go fishing
and other things like the above.
Last Saturday I had another trip
with three gentlemen from
Raeford, Dr. John Ropp, Jack
Tucker, Raz Autry and I attended
the Carolina-Wake Forest football
game in Chapel Hill.
Last Wednesday 1 had the se
cond cataract removed and I told
Dr. Ropp he would have to do the
driving to the game. He consented
and it turned out he can drive as
well as he can preach. In other
words, we were in good hands.
The reason for writing about
this trip is that during the trip,
Jack Tucker didn't say 50 words
all day. I did interrupt a few times
to see if my vocal chords were still
in order. You would be amazed at
the many subjects that John Ropp
and Raz Autry can discuss and it
seemed they knew what they were
talking about during their conver
sation. But how they knew when to
let the other one talk is a little
beyond my imagination. They
didn't interrupt one another the
first time.
Jack and I know more today
than when we started off last
Saturday. Of course we were hap
py that UNC won, Ropp is a
Gamecock and Raz is from ECTC.
* * *
Last week while I was in the
operating room getting a cataract
removed from my right eye, Mary
Alice was in the waiting room
waiting to drive me home at the
completion of the surgery.
A lady sitting next to her waiting
for her husband told her a story
that I think is worth relating to the
readers of this column. . It is as
follows.
Several months ago the lady
brought her mother to the eye
clinic to get cataracts removed.
During her visits there with her
mother, she told Dr. R.S. Martin
about the condition of her hus
band. It was that her husband had
been shot twice in one eye during
the Korean or Vietnam war.
Dr. Martin asked her to bring
her husband to see him. She told
the doctor that he had been to see
many doctors and they couldn't do
anything for her husband. Anyway
she did tell her husband and he
came to see the doctor. He was
blind in the eye and his vision was
failing in the other eye.
After talking to the doctor and
seeing that he didn't have anything
to lose, he consented to an opera
tion. To make a story short, his vi
sion in the eye that was shot is now
20/20 and he was getting his other ,
eye worked on to improve a 20/40
vision.
We people in Hoke County
should be thankful that we have a
place like this clinic so near to us. I
believe it is one of the best, if not
the beat, in the world.
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