I - 'i.rnAifs witUir. •■'•-i'sif; <*!•'' s -j ^>’ni>W«,. -', lv<’ ♦■-Wi IWWf Kts. Eric l.ingerfelt, Duane King, Billy Keetor and James Neal. TFIN YFIARS OLD: Erie Dixon, ,Ietf Clonmger, Mark Hullcnrier, Srott Bueh.nnan, Craig Champion, Hry in Hardin. Lerrv Pearson, Jeff Ross, Dennis Wright, John Warlick. and Duane Brown. ELFIVEN YEARS OLD: Barry Ledford. Aaron Wi'.son, Jeff In gram, Robbie Biggerstaff, Tom my Buchanan. Kenny Lowranee, Mickey Lowrance, and Mike .Spear.s. TWELVE YEARS OLD: Roy Pearson Jr.. Andrew I.oftin Alan C'oninger. Joe Earle. Tim Greene, Christonher Holmes. Mike Howze. Joe Ayers. Jimmy Bridges, and William Navv. THIRTFFN YF.ARS OLD: Richard Fddins, Tom-nv Burke Kevin Tin.slev, Jim Baity and Steve Lancaster. That didn't stop him though. .Since then, he’s done a little of lots of things. Today, he holds the position of director of North Carolina State University’s Peru Contract. But in the years between high school and today; Bumgardner has been a student, marine, professor, re searcher, actor, poultry judging champ and a flower gardner. As director of the Peru Con tract, Bumgardner is head of a 17-year-old program carried on by N. C. State which is aimed at upgrading agriculture in that South American country, His job includes working with the Agen cy for International Development (AID), the principal funding agency for the project, recruit ing personnel to serve in Peru and keeping close contact with students from Peru studying in the U S. According to Bumgardner, the goal is to build institutions in Peru, such as the national agri cultural university at La Molina and the governmental ministry of agriculture, into organizations capable of solving their own nroblems. Since the program was initiated, NC.8U has sent, more than 130 professors, researchers and otho-.- ner.son-ncl from it.s own staff to Peril to work at the uni versity and the ministry of agri culture in training, research and extension programs. Profession als from other institutions have also participated in the project through N. C. State. The lion’s share of funding tor the Peruvian Contract has come from AID. While most of the money from AID has gone toward developing agriculture, funds from the V>ckefeller and Ford Foundations to the Peru Contract have teen used for study in the social sciences. Much of the w ^^ey granted for the program since (1955, which totals around $12 million, has been spent for training Peruvians to teach, conduct research and work in ministry progranis, says Bumgardner. Many Peruvians have earned master's and Ph.D. degrees from N. C. State and other U. S. institutions with funds made available through this con tract, he notes. According to Bumgardner, agri cultural production in Pciru has been on the upswing since the contract was initiated. Scientists have concentrated largely on the fertile coastal region and on major food crops including rice, potatoes, beans and livestock. Production of these crops has increa.sed, hut there remains mu^h room for imnroverncnt, ac cording to Bumgardner. Rice has shown the greatest increase ^ so much that Peru now produces all the rice the country needs. Po tatoes shou'tl become more plen tiful in Peru and all over the world as research developcs at the Internatiotfil Potat'' Center in Lima, an institution also spon- .sorefl by NCSU in the area where potatoes originated, he said. Bum- gardner a'so po’ntcd out that beans are being improved as a valuable source of protein in a country where moat production lags, as it docs in Peru. Scienti.sts have seen success in the training and re.search areas of the program, hut takipg the new information to the farmers of Peru through extension ser vices has not been easv, said ■Bumgardner. Learning the cus toms of a strange cidtarc and nvorcomino languaoo harr'o^'s are just two of the nrob'eros hamp ering progress through extension, he explained. The position Bumgardner held before assuming the director’s seat prepared him for his present duties. From 1966 until 1970, he lived in Peru where he served as Chief of Party, or head of the project. Four years at that post spelled out the program’s needs and gave Bumgardner an overall understanding that enables him to better direct the program’s future. A military take-over of the Peruvian government in 1967 briefly interrupted the work of Bumgardner and other scientists in Peru. According to Bumgard ner, when he wasn’t allowed to work in his office, housed in one of the Peruvian government buildings, he and his staff moved their work to their homes. As soon as the new -Peruvian gov ernment was recognized by the U. S., the scientist? were able to return to their offices with few changes apparent. ■Ml. Ware gave a review of the activities at the .Annual Goveru- cr’s Committee meeting -held in Charlotte. Due to accMents, ill ness and wars, he said, “wc have approximately 20 million handi capped citizens in our nation. This represents about 10% of our population. This is a minority group who make no demands or seek no favors but are deteiimin- ed to utilize theiir abilities in gain.ul employiment. North Caro lina is in the tep ten states in the rehabilitation of the handi capped.” Mr. Camipbell, the key note speaker emphaszed that em ployers can screen the handicapp ed into jobs by matching skills to jobs, remove architectural bar riers, and tell the good news to their friends. Bumgardner’s first assignment to Peru came in 1961 when he was sent there on a short term project relating to poultry, his specialty. In 1963, he was given a two-year assignment to Peru, which lasted instead for more than three years. *• In Cleveland County, 54 per sons are registered with the local Employment Security Office with various handicaps that must ^be considered as suitable job offej-s are made. The local staff wiil be contacting employers during Octo ber to assist these people obtain employment. Training opportunities provided by Vocational Rehabilitation were explained by Frank Hamrick. Mrs. Laney explained the train ing now in progress at Cleveland Technical Institute. He first came to N. C. State in 1955 as an assistant professor of poultry science. 'While w''rk- ing his way toward the status of full professor, Bum.gardner conducted research on problems in the hatching process. The imemters of the local com mittee are Mai Spangler, Victor Rossman, Roddy Eaves, Carlos Young, Richard Steeves, Frank Hamrick, Kyle Smith, Leonard Smith, Paul Hambright, Louise Laney, and Violet Dixon. A'lough he earned his three deuces — bachelor of science from iN. C. State, master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland — all in poultry scien ce, Bumgardner said that he does n’t like chickens, and turkeys less, he says. But like them or not, Bumgardner has an eye for prize winning chickens. He still wears a watch which he won for placing first in the 1950 national collegiate ponitry iudging cham pionship held in Chicago. Chad Hurt When Hit By Car Following graduation from Kings Mountain high school in 1945, Bumgardner went to UNC- Chapel Hill for a year before joining the U. S. Marine corps. After two years of service, he returned to Chapel Hill but couldn’t make up his mind on a major, so he transferred to N. C. State. Having grown up on a farm where cotton, poultry and livestock were raised, and where his father, the late H. B. Bum gardner groomed poultry- for ex hibiting, Bumgardner chose the poultry science curriculum offer ed in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. A seven-year-old Kings Moun tain youth was treated for injur ies at Kings Mountain hospital Sunday after being hit by a car when he rode his 'aicycle Into the street in front of his home at 802 Monroe Avenue. Kings Mountain ■police officers Johnny Belk and Richard Rey nolds said Rodney Lee Sellers, son of Mr. and Mrs. iBill Sellers, rode his bike into the path of a car driven by 16-year-old Joseph Curtis Salmon Jr. of 902 Boyce street. The mishap occurred at 11:15 a. m. Sunday. Damage was slight, only $25 to the car and $20 tp young Sellers' bicycle. Beyond the laboratory and the classroom, one of Bumgardner’s favorite interests over the years has been the theater. He has ap peared in several Raleigh Little Theater productions and has taken parts in theater workshops in Peru. During the summer of 1958, Bumgardner was chosen as Ra leigh's Community Ambassador to Po'and as oart of an exchange program called Experiment in International Living. Following that eventful summer, he was called upon to make approxi mately 209 talks to organizations in and around Raleigh relating his impressions of life in Po land. During the warm seasons of the vpar Bumeardner's home at 409 N, East Street is brightened with a garden of co'orfiil .flow ers ranging from Ftonivinn daf fodils to roses, recent'v won at tention in_a Raleigh nevyspaper. Police officers were also called to the scene of a pair of minor traffic accidents. Wednesday at 12:55 p. m., Ptl. C. A. 'Mauney investigated a one- car accident at the intersection of West King and Goforth streets. Howard Dean Belcher, 45, of 504 South Chestnut Street, told officer Mauney he was going west on King Street and met another car. He said the other car was across the center line and he had to swerve to miss it. When he swerved, his car hit a city utility pole, causing $200 damage to his car and another $200 to the util ity pole. Lillie Mae Moore, 37, of Route 1, was driving west on King Street Thursday at 4 p. m. when a car driven by Norman Graham, 33, of Reston, Va., hit her car. Investigating officer G. W. Ed wards estimated damage to Mrs. Moore’s car at $50 and listed damage to Graham’s vehicle at $150. Bumgardner’s mother, his .sis ter. Bessie, and brother. Don, still reside in Kings .Mountain. I COMMUNION The Sacrament of Holy Com- rnunian will be observed at the morning wor.ship hour Sunday at 9; 15 a.m. at Dion Presbyter ian church. Rev. Robert Wil son Will deliver the sermon. 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