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THURS., JUNE 24,1982
Dog-Gone Squash!
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BY KAY STAMEY
VIEW STAFF
Sir Brandon Scott has a nose for fresh
squash.
What’s more, he has a very healthy ap
petite for the crisp yellow vegetable.
Brandon is so infatuated with the taste of
squash that he steals away to a neighbor’s
garden everyday and devours several as
appetizers, as an additive with his dinner
or as dessert. ’
What makes this semi-vegetarian even
more peculiar is that Sir Brandon is a dog
an auburn-colored, registered Irish Setter.’
Nine-month old Brandon is a pet belong
ing to Laura and Leslie Williams of River-
bend Acres. He was a present to the girls
this past Christmas, and they certainly
have been surprised by his unusual habits
“I’ve never seen a dog with the instinct
Brandon has,’’ said the girls’ father, Glenn
Williams. “Brandon doesn’t hunt meat or
game animals. He goes after squash ’’
Williams said this daily routine of
gathering the fleshy vegetable began when
the first signs of squash appeared on vines
this summer in his neigbor’s garden.
Lavon Laye’s garden was Brandon’s first
and favorite stalking grounds.
Laye, personnel director at Ora Mill,
said he had piled several oversized squash
at the end of his garden rows because thev
were not edible.
“All the ones I had thrown out disap
peared,’’ Laye said. “Evidently Brandon
thought they were just for him, but it was
still hard to believe a dog would eat raw
squash.’’
But eat Brandon did. Sometimes carry
ing two squash at a time in his mouth, the
lanky dog hurriedly scurried away with
Laye’s leftovers.
Williams became aware' of Brandon’s
when the dog began .foaming
at the mqfuth
I didA^t know what was wrong,’
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Williams said. “At first I thought he was
sick, but as I checked him over I saw tiny
seeds collected in his jowls that were
covered by foam.”
Williams searched his yard and found
two half-eaten squash. It didn’t take long
for Williams to see for himself that Bran
don has a yen for the summertime
vegetable, y
“It was almost impossible to believe ”
Williams said. “We had never given him
any vegetables,,not even table scraps The
only thing we ever fed him was Purina Doe
Chow.”
According to Williams, half the excite
ment for Brandon is the ritual of search,
find, and play that preceeds the final
cracking and eating of the squash.
When Brandon first spots a golden
trophy, the muscles in his slender body
tighten and he rushes toward the vegetable
as if it were living prey. Once he’s trapped
the vegetable in his jaws, he disappears in
to the brush at the corner of Williams’
yard, occasionally tossing the squash into
the air and leaping to catch it in his mouth
before it falls to the ground.
For his neighbor’s sake, Williams now
keeps Brandon in a lot during the day.
Although his spacious living quarters do
not provide total freedom, Brandon gets
plenty of exercise in the afternoon, playing
with his companions, Laura, 18, and
Leslie, 14.
And, yes, Brandon has the cool evenings
to plan and execute his squash hunts.
At The Crossroads
From China
To Cleveland
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Nancy Sneed, above, one of 12 employees of the new
Artex East plant which opened Friday in Boiling Springs,
threads tablecloth, which Artex manufactures for hotels,
airlines, and restaurants. The cotton in that tablecloth
likely came to Cleveland County from the Far East, as
Artex International was one of the first American com
panies to open trading with mainland China, and buys all
of its unblended cotton from that country.
“We found the Chinese inside (communist) China to be
very much like the Chinese outside China,” said Artex
chairman C. K. Anderson. “That is, they are very astute
business people.’ ’
Lee Funeral
This Monday
Flowers marked the
grave Tuesday of Roy Olin
Lee under a gentle after
noon rain. Lee, 81, worked
for many years as a
gardener for Cleveland
Memorial cemetery before
his death Saturday.
“He always had flowers
at his own home,” said his
neighbor, Dan W. Moore,
Jr. Moore spoke Monday at
a graveside service for Lee
at Cleveland Memeorial.
“Mr. Lee had a beautiful
garden,” Moore recalled.
“He produced food for a lot
of people in his lifetime.”
Prior to his working for
Cleveland Memorial, Lee
farmed cotton with his
father-in-law. He was the
son of the late Aaron and
Elizabeth Black Lee, and
was a member of Boiling
Springs Baptist Church.
He is survived by his
wife, Tillie Maude Green
Lee, and a sister, Mrs. Evie
Campbell of Ellenboro.
Need A Job?
Our Best For The Year
Cleveland Tecnical Col
lege is offering a program
to help unemployed men
and women, persons in
terested in making a
career change, single
parents, displaced
homemakers, and
housewives who want to
enter the job market again.
The career planning pro
gram is designed to help
participants build self-
confidence, identify career
interests, and teach job
skills.
A short course emphasiz
ing job applications,
resumes, and interviews
will begin on Wednesday,
June 23, and end on July 8.
The class will meet from
six to 9 p.m. at the Williams
House on Cleveland Tech’s
campus.
Crest Senior High School
announced this week its
end of the year honor roll of
students making straight
A’s in all courses all year.
The straight-A students
in the 12th grade are: Kay
Cabaniss, Tonda Edwards,
Pamela Hartis, Melanie
Hester, John Whisnant,
and Laura Williams.
In the nth grade: Ben
Brown, Carmen Creach,
Derek Greene, Donna
Holland, Lana Jolley, Mary
Lamb, Robert Lamb,
Deana Latham, James P.
Lovelace, Becky Proctor,
Pam Rollins, Eric
Rumfelt, and Suzanne San
ford.
In the 10th grade: Anna
Crow, Molly Holmes, Mit
chell Lipscomb, Melissa
Mathews, Beth McKee,
Renee Melton,' Jeff Owens,
Wendy Patterson, Lydia
Perrin, and Eddie Turner.
Crest students in the 12th
grade with an A average
.for the past year are: Jef-
fry Bell, Brenda
Blackburn, Eric Blanken
ship, Pam Bowen, Cynthia
Brooks, Jamie Campbell,
Lisa C. Hollifield, Andrea
Doster, Mary Crotts,
Miriam G. Bell, Amy Har
ris, Julian Hargrove,
Sherri Jackson, Angie
Jones, Sue Kelly, Beverly
McChargue, Debra
McDaniel, Mike McSwain,
Randee Pearson, LouAnn
Puckett, Tom Ramsey,
Denita Storie, Chris
Turner, Tigi Vinesett,
Crystal Jordan, Lula Gen
try, Amanda White, David
Wells, and Sam Hamrick.
To register for the class
contact the college’s
Department of Continuing
Education at 484-4014. Cost
for the course is $8.00 per
person.
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