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Pace *-MniROR-HKRAU)-TiiMday, May U, There’s still honest folks around TOM MciriTVRe Mrs. Jaanatta MuUlnax wanta It known Laat Wadnaaday Mra. M and a trland want tlia>« ara atUl honaat paopla laft In the world, atrawbarry plcldnc. Loaded with barrlaa, eDiiORihL?&omion9 A sound move TIm queatton ia... Doea the Klnga Mountain Com- mlaaianara’ plan to determine the teaalblllty of purehaatnf the county- owned water line runnlnc from KM toward Qrover amaek of over-atepped boundarlaa? The water line waa conatructed at county expenae and la maintained by county, government, whldi alao pur- chaaea water from Klnga Mountain and reaella It to cuatomera and coUecta tap- on feaa from new cuatomera. The bill for the conatruetlon phaae waa tremendoua and the county government had to form a non-profit corporation In order to float the loan for the work. The primary Intereat of the county at the time waa to provide Eaton Cbrporatlon with water and aewer fticllltlea. The county had alao hoped other bualneaaea and realdencea along the route would tap-on to help recoup the loan payback funda. So far not very many bualneaaea or realdencea have tapped on-. 1)10 big reaaon la the fee la too high. Several aoutheaat Clevelandera told the county board more people would tap on If the tee waa reduced. The county ia atudylng the altuatlon, but com- mlaalanera did not Indicate the tee- reduction Idea would be put Into effect. And thla bringa ua back to an anawer to the original queatlon. We do not think the local governing body la over-atepplng Ita boundarlaa by oonalderlng purchaae of the aoutheaat county area water line. It will probably coat a few bueka, ahould the ooun^ decide to accept the deal, but In the longrun It could mean a return of many tlmaa the coat In future development along the line. We have already learned KM will contract with the Town of Orover to treat domeatle waate, which will mean conatruetlon of aewer llnea and an ex- panalon of the KM Pilot Creek Plant. So, why ahouldn’t the hlatorical city look aerloualy at purchaalng the exlatlng water line reaching toward Orover. It la a aound move. Her poeketbook toll Into the atreet. While thla waa happening, J.D. Carter of Oaatonla, a retired Southern BeU dlatrict engineer, waa making a wrong turn onto the name atreet Rldttg with him waa T.D. Walker. They npottad the poeketbook, retrieved It and looked over the ID. Later at Bridgea Hardware Carter aaked If anyone knew Mra. MuUlnax and waa told ahe waa active In aenlor clUaen work at The Depot Center. Carter took the time to drive to the oenter, find Mra. M and return her poeketbook. Inalde the poeketbook waa $80 In eaah and aU her pomonal papera and oarda. That remlnda om of the time I pUcad an open atatlonary box containing ISO pagea of aerlpt on top of my ear to get at my kaya. Yep. I drove off with the box atUl on top. It took me half an hour to gather up aU thoee looae pagea blowing aU over the land- acape. Only one page had Uro marka on It. The driver had to drive onto the ahoulder, but he Jerry King heard aoma guya taUdng about the atreet work going on In Klnga Mountain the other day, eapeclally their gripea about the potholaa left by the eontractora. Than Jerry told them about a amaU town Oet It out of your ayatoma. “Hoy, I aaw your new Herald buUdlag “I like the atyla of your new buUdlng, but 1 waa a Uttle dlaappolntad in the ate of lt“ "Hey, Tom. How come they buUt your otflea flratT” Thoee three commenta came from WUaon Griffin, Jamea J. Dickey and Roy Hammett My anawer to the flrat two waa..."Oh, It’a okay now, but It wUl be a bit crowded v/tim we got the praaa In.” To “Rodney" Hammett 1 rapUad, “Becauaa my office la the cne with the John in It." Actually, the Uttla log houae wlU bo the conatruetlon office (U they over get atartad.) The algn on the alto Indicate The Herald^ PubUahlng Hoaue wUl be the world’a largeatw log buUdlng. lathattiuaT Wo don’t know, but are checking on It. Our log cabin In the plnoa wUl bo unique. We do know that. And the boaa. Garland Atkina, la out aerounglng around antique diopo and apodal order houaea for flxturoa^ that really are unique. The front deaign on the buUdlng waa atolan from “The Waltona" TV houae. It’a a wrap around front porch. Ah, I can hear It now, at the end of the day; “Goodnight, Gariand-Boy...” “..’Nliht. Tom-Boy..." • “...DaiTeU-Boy...dyde-Boy...Bllaabeth- CUrt...” We^re proud... Dear Editor, Juat want you to know that we’re proud of Ub Stewart and her “winning artlda”. We enjoyed reading the article In the p^ter about her and her work. By the way, Eaat people were very ploaaod with coverage of our Spring raehlon Show. ,.of Elizabeth.., Dear Editor, Congratulatlona to EUaabeth Stewart and the Mirror-Herald for honorn In the N.C. Preea Women’e Aeeoclatlon. We are aU very proud of your effort. Rat control is very difficult Rato-mlUlona and mllllnna of them-thoro la about one rat for every peroon la the world and they are vary hard to oontrol. nm m get a mu wi^iy. According to Tom Blallock of the Vector Cbntrol Section of the Dlvlaion of Health "Rato ueuaUy won’t rang* any more than Servlcea, H.C. Department of Human ISO feet to SOS feet from where they burrow. Reaourcee, about the only way to control rata But If you dtoturb the burrow and don’t uae tann anlmato la apraad for oaay aeoc makaa It oaay not only for hoga but alao for on their tooth, rat Utoo often oww rati to get a ftiU aupply. lUnaoa. OUldrea are eapedaUy i to rat Mtoa. I a flu-llko broad dayU^t to eat ogga or baby ohteka. The beat way to control rata, Blallook aald, la to keep fooda encloaod and to not build up Rata often find homoa la oily ahima, but junk pUoa. Ocoaalonal rat kUla do not raduee fkrra rati ara thooewhloh have the boot Ufa. the population nor la It affeettve In oon- troUlng the rodent. 0 A oomblnatlon of olean up campalgna In la to combtae a clean up with a polacnlng the aame time, they’d juat move Deaerlblag one hog farm vlalted rooantly potexied bait prograin. Butto North «to aome place oloae by,’’Blallook aald. aa “rat heaven,’’Blallook aald that he aaw puuawa praawn AutuMgii the Ineldeaee of plague and ratoaofatthay waddled away from the oom ouwnu poiwn murine typhua la torfiy rare, rat btto fever la vraadforthahoff. There are reporta of rata method of rat aomo parta of the atate, rat control la even ———— — more difficult. “Rata are very adaptable. They can Uve In aewara, bama. In undergrowth. They can awlm, climb and walk wlrea. They are very taitaUlgent. They parallel man aitd they oat sets ...for winning Dear Editor, Juat a abort letter to congratulate Ub Stewart on the meet deaerved award. My knowledge of her work haa not been In- tenalve but what 1 do know la of Ite ex- ceUonco. The award atory eounded quite humanletlc and I do commend her wtUlngneee to capture the coverage of a human etruggle. Again congratulatlona on the award! BRENDA POSTON CAUSBY OouncU on the Aging Cleveland County Thera are aeveral different klnda of rata, but the main onea found In North CaroUna re Norway rata. Norway rata rimge In alae from nine to 17 Inchea long. Rata are not cnly deatructlva, damaging cropa, buUdlnga, fencea and other atruc- turea, they alao carry dlaeaae. Rata are the main carrlera of plague and murine typhua. Plague le atlU found In parta of the far weat. Rata Uve beat In junk pUea, traah, pUaa of lumber or In any other areaa In which they can hide. Farma ara often rat Infeated, eapeclally hog farma, becauae the food aupply for tha OONTBABY NCOLARATION Flowor lovera are hanging baaketa With dangling rope and chain, the baaketa are not guilty of any crime Not even of ralatng eaiM. Hanging them out In tha open on the porch or behind a acreen. And hanging them from a tree Where over thay can be aeon. Flower lovera ara bold They are open with their deeda. On top of hanging baaketa They doUght In killing waeda; Thay are known to chop up a garden With any kind of hoe. And bury Uttla aeoda aUvo If they ever wlah to grow. Flower lovera are never aatlatlod Thay cut flower heada off the atom, take them In the houae and than try to drown them; When their beauty haa faded how they toaa them away. How can flower lovera over acttnauchawayt Flower lovera are never aaUatflod Wlthbloaaoma of pink and blue. They are forever and alwaya digging up aomothlng new. VIVIAN S. BILTCUFFE Good self-concept is important By SKLBY BATEBIAN Special to BUrror-Herald What makea mm chUd a failure In achool. portent ter atudoata, but I think we have to bo careful not to overomphaalao and over^ GARLAND ATKINS GARY STEWART Spolia Editor MEMBEROF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION The Mirror-Herald le publlihed by General PubHahlna Company, P. O. Drawer 15t Klnge Mountain, N. C. tSWe. Baalneaa and editorial ofllcee are located at 4S1 N. Piedmont Ave. Phone . TSa-Ttae. second Clasa poetage paid at Klnga Mountain, N. C. Single copy IS cento. Subacriptlon rateo: IB.80 yearly Ijln-atate. St.tS aU months, le.SO yearly I 11 out-of-state. SS six months; Student rate l^r nine months IS.U. 981-040 J Aa educatora try to anawer that question, they are Increasingly looking at tha way chUdren view themaalveei-thelr eelf- doncepta-ln relation to academic achievement. But a study carried out by a doctoral degree student at tha Unlveralty of North Carolina at Greensboro todlcatea that when auch self-ooncept criteria are used as predictors of academic achlavomont, tha rasulto are genoraUy lose accurate than IQ “A lot of people have been quits negaUvo about IQ totaa and have Indleatod that maybe they don’t teU ua that mueh. But I think ttUa atady ravaUdataa the uae of IQ tosUBt la Ihe aohool In eo tor aa predlotlng “Looking at the ovoraU sample we took, there was a significant relatlonahlp between aslf-concept and academic achievement, but whan various aubgroupe ware examined, there were differences broken down by sex, race, grade level, and soeloeeonomlc atatuB,’’ said Mn. Helen LaOette, of BurUngton, author of the doctoral study la the xmoo School of Bdueatlon. “TiM correlatlana betereon aolf-ooaoept and academic achlavemeat, while usually positive, have bean rather low, especially when compared to correlations between tnteUlgence test seores and achievement tesU scores or grade point average," she wrote In her study. A guidance counselor with the Burlington aty Schools for tha past u years and an Engllah teache# for five years before that, I Mrs. LeGette baaed her research on three separate tests she gave to 874 atudenta In the I seventh, ninth and eleventh grades In late 1977. loally," n ba^ on primarily I -t-Sovanth and olaventh padora (early and Into adolaaeanoalhad aslt-oonoapta Mra. LoOetto win raoolva a doetor of educatloB degraa during UMCO’a annual eommoBeamoBt on Sunday, May U, at the Oraenabota OoUasum. Her dootoral dteartotloB waa aatttlad “Satf-Oano^ and Aeadomlo AoMavamaaf: Oomparlaon of intalloetlva and Non-mtonaottvo Vartablaa aaPradlotonof SehotoBUo Partermaneo and Analyala of Subgroup DUtoronoea In Self- OOBOopt.’’ "We ware trytag to find out whether. If a dtentoa ha will paetoiiB wel Mris. LoOatto aald. "Muoh of tha raaearoh piayad up. Paopio have thought that If we ean make teal good about them- Importaat value," aald Mra. LaOetta. "Paranta atraaa aueesaa In aohool. Tberafora, the atudenta’ teoUnga about themaalvaa ara tied In to whether thay I In tha I rily by white mlddlo a la the atudy, who ganorally -l-ln tha htgUoat and towoat aooloooonomle "R may ho that Juat at that pnrileular part of their Uvea, auooaaa to aohool la not a^ InqtetoBt a valuo," aald Ma. LaQattoP “Thay’ra not yet toood with tha praaauia of Mgh aohool, of gatttag Into oonaga and that aort of thing. And thay have a Uttla mors graduate of WtUlams High Sohool thara. ■ from Blon Ooilago, a auudar of eduoatlon degree tnm VHC^, and ourraatly la a Sohool In Burtlngtoa. t atgnlfloaat la their What’S yow opMoii? Herald, P. 0. Drawer 7to, Ktoga Meuatola.' W N. C.. Moaa. Be sure and sign proper name £ and Include your addrsss. Uiwlgnod lottara, to wUlnotbepubUshsd. # ▼
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