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Arrest Coming
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In Tractor Case
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Boiling Springs
police have charged
a Blacksburg man in
connection with the
1980 theft of a tractor
from the C. J. Hamrick
Company here.
James Edward
Norman, 45, was
charged with pos
session of stolen
property in a warrant
issued Monday by
local police and
sheriff’s deputies.
Norman was to be
arrested Tuesday,
police told the View.
Police had re
covered a tractor
reported as stolen
on Norman’s property
in the Midpines com
munity Dec. 28. That
recovery came after
Norman had offered
the tractor for sale
to the Hamrick com
pany.
Hamrick officials
noticed serial numbers
on the vehicle were
the same as on a
2040 John Deere
tractor reported
stolen from their
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Patrolman Dan Ledbetter stands by the 2040 John Deere tractor
reported stolen from C. I. Hamrick’s and recovered in the Midpines
community. Police issued a warrant this week in connection with the
theft.
lane
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business June 5, 1980. icy roads sent one opposite
They in turn alerted driver to the hospital
police. Friday with neck, front of the Moores-
The recovered back, and shoulder
tractor is worth about injuries after his boro school. The
$9,500, police say. Ford skidded into driver of the tractor
In other action, a tractor in the was unhurt.
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Area News
ioiling Springs, N. C. — Sophomore center Eddie Wilkins (No. 50) led the Gardner-Webb
uUdogs to 3 straight wins last week and was chosen North Carolina’s District 26 Player of the
' «^eek. The 6 foot 9, 217 pounder was unstoppable as he scored 70 points and grabbed down
23 rebounds.
The Bulldogs travel to Concord on Thursday, January 21 for an 8:00 p.m. contest with Barber-
Scotia. Gardner-Webb will not play on Saturday, January 23 against Friendship College. That
game has been cancelled and the day off could help Wilkins and Kinney and Terry Camp
recover from their injuries faster.
“Why I turned From A Hawk To A Dove”
will be the subject of a Thursday night speech
in Charlotte by W. H. Withrow, a retired
U. S. Navy commander and a faculty member
of Gardner-Webb College.
Withrow will speak at 7:30 at St. Martin’s
Episcopal Church at 1510 East 7th Street.
The public is invited.
Clevelaad Technical’s Continuing Education department
courses beginning the next three
we0KS. Offered to the public are:
Adult Driver Education, Advanced Cake Decorating
clkT'n"^ Martins, Beginning Cake Decoration’
Counted Cross Stitch
Creat Decisions, Greenhouse Gardening
Knitting, Macrame, Quilting, and Typing. ’
«« ^®®® continuing education classes is
?8,00. All persons 65 years of age and over can register
Con;ge at 484-4014“^°™'^“"' Cleveland Technical
For 190 Years He's Been Saying:
Shivering surprise was the state in which
many local weather forecasters found them
selves last week after unexpectantly frigid
air lowered temperatures in Cleveland County
and left an average of eight inches of snow
across North Carolina. But how well did the
nation’s oldest weather forecasting service
predict J anuary’s bitter cold?
The Farmer’s Almanack, self-styled as
“America’s oldest continuously published
periodical,” has been giving farmers weather
advice for the last 190 years. The secret to
its forecasts, according to current editor Jud
Hale, is a formula devised by its first editor,
Robert Thomas, ip 1792.
That “secret formula,” according to Hale,
is based on solar cycles and notes on the
weather made by Thomas two centuries ago.
In a concession to more recent research,
a former scientist for the National Aeronautic
and Space Administration also contributes
to Almanack forecasts. With that modern
qualification, how well does Thomas’ two-
century formula work?
At least as well as modern forecast, after
reading the Almanack’s predictions for the
“Piedmont and Southeast rooD.n
We ll Have Weather
FARMER’S ALMANACK,
CALCULATED ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN
FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
According to the 18-century formula, nere's
1982: “After a cold snap, Jan. will be mild
and drier than normal through mid-month,
then cooler with considerable snow in the
west.” Snow fell here in mid-month Jan. 12
and 13.
For the first three weeks of January, 1982,
the Almanack published this Sibylline verse:
Milder then wilder/ Skeins of rain, again/
Mercury falls, then snow squalls./ Bodes
well for bundling.
1982
Being 2nd after BISSEXTILE or LEAP YEAR, and (until July 4)
206th year of American Independence
FITTED FOR BOSTON. AND THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. WITH SPECIAL COR
RECTIONS AND CALCULATIONS TO ANSWER FOR ALL THE UNITED STATES.
“We’ll be the first to admit that, like the
media forecasters, we have a long way to go
before achieving meaningful accuracy,” Hale
says. But, he claims, “scientists in various
universities say we’re as accurate as anyone
in long-range forecasting today.”
Containing, besides the large number of Astronomical Calculations
and the Farmer’s Calendar for every month
in the year, a variety of
NEW, USEFUL, AND ENTERTAINING MATTER.
ESTABLISHED IN 1792
BY ROBERT B. THOMAS
You be the judge. But just in case you’re
curious, here’s the Almanack’s forecast for
February: Getting cloudy, then wild and
rowdy./ Wet every which way./ Sunny thaw
slides to wet and raw./ Warm? Just teasin’
It's sore throat season.