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THURS.,AUG.4,1982
BOILING SPRINGS, NC
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Bluebirds In
Boiling Springs
It’s a glimpse of blue —
so quick, so bright it seems
you’ve thought of blue, not
seen it. But is has been seen
three times: once in front
of Shuford’s Nursury on
Highway 150, twice flying
with its mate over land
formerly owned by Dan W.
Moore, Jr.
The bluebird is back in
Boiling Springs.
“They (bluebirds) are
definitely on the increase in
Boiling Springs,’’ declares
Les Brown, a biology pro
fessor at Gardner-Webb
College. “Two years ago I
watched 12 bluebirds
gather gather on a power
line in front of our house
here.’’
Bluebirds were never of
ficially on an endangered
species list, according to J.
D. Copeland, a Boiling Spr
ings bird-bander, but “they
were in trouble,’’ he says.
Copeland and Brown
both attributed the birds’
decline to the wide use of
the insecticide DDT, which
so weakened the shells of
the birds’ eggs that they
broke prematurely.
The locust fenceposts
and dead trees^that former
ly provided the birds with
nesting holes also have
declined, the two said.
Althought the birds are
still a rare sight, their
number has increased both
“They were in trouble.
- J. D. Copeland
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locally and nation-wide,
and their survival as a
species now is likely.
“There’re two possible
reasons for the birds’ in
crease in Boiling Springs,’’
Brown said. “First, several
years ago we banned DDT
nation-wide. Second, peo
ple are putting up bir
dhouses now. Man has in
creased its habitant.’’
Bluebird houses must
have a circular opening ex
actly one and one-half an
inch in diameter. Brown
said, to keep bluebirds in
and predators out.
The houses are available
commercially at nursuries
and hardware stores.
“Other than cats and
man, their greatest enemy
in the common black rat
snake,’’ Brown said.
“I suppose the reason
that the birds prefer the
Boiling Springs area is
because they are what we
could term ‘edge’
dwellers,’’ Brown said.
“What they like is an area
in a clearing with trees
nearby, at the edge. That
describes much of the Boil
ing Springs area, where
farming and cattle raising
has created those edges.’’
The town of Boiling Spr
ings is designated by the
state as a bird sanctuary.
Sounds of Silence
North
Main
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Councilman Dies
In Cherokee
A spider builds its web inside the bell of Poplar Springs Baptist Church on a recent
summer afternoon. The interior of the bell was a cool relief for the creature from the
summer’s heat, just as the sanctuary was a relief for other of God’s creatures.
Houses fires Sunday and
Tuesday at two residences
on North Main Street
resulted in damages ex
ceeding $10,000 according
to Boiling Springs city fire
department.
A five year-old child’s
playing with matches
resulted in the fire Sunday
afternoon at a house owned
by Maxwell Hamrick, ac
cording to the department.
Fireman Randall McSwain
estimated damages at
about $10,000.
A clothes dryer Tuesday
night overheated and par
tially burned a wall in
another North Main
residence about 11 p.m.,
according to McSwain.
Damage was estimated at
about $400, he said.
Boiling Springs rural
department assisted city at
the Hamrick fire.
The Baptist church,
Cherokee County politics,
and the country store were
the landmarks of Russell T.
Wood’s life at the Grassy
Pond Community. Before
his death Monday he con
tributed to all three.
Wood, 63, died after a
long illness at his home on
Rt. 2, Gaffney, about 6:30
a.m. He was a Cherokee
County councilman. Wood
is survivied by his wife,
Grace.
“He was politically ac
tive all his life, as was his
father before him,” said
Gene McKown, a neighbor
of Wood’s and an honorary
pallbearer at his burial
Wednesday at Grassy Pond
Baptist Church cemetery.
Wood was the son of the
late John Baxter and Cor-
rine White Wood of
Cherokee County. Prior to
his managing an insurance
office in Gaffney, Wood
operated a country store on
Highway 18 south of Boiling
Springs.
Wood was serving his
first term on the county
board, replacing A. Z.
Jolley when Jolley became
a magistrate in Gaffney.
Wood was a member of
the Grassy Pond Baptist
Church, where he was a
former deacon. He served
on that congregation’s
building committee when
the present church building
was constructed.
Honors To
Mooresboro
A young Mooresboro
woman is the winner of a
$300 scholarship at Gard
ner-Webb College where
she will enter as a fresh
man this fall.
Lisa Rae Webb, daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Ray S.
Webb of Rt. 1, Mooresboro,
has been awarded the
James G. K. McClure
scholarship for the coming
academic year at the
college. Lisa is a 1982
graduate of Crest Senior
High School.
The scholarship fund was
established to aid
academically promising
residents of western North
Carolina and is awarded on
the basis of high school
scholarship and leader
ship, evidence of Christian
character, financial need,
and intellectual ability.
Boll Weevil’s
Back In Town
County farm agents
reported threshold in
festations of boll weevils
and bollworms in 18 of 73
cotton fields the county
office scouted last week in
Cleveland County. A total
1900 acres were scouted.
Boll weevils were at
threshold levels or greater
in 12 fields, the agents
reported, with a maximum
infestation of 24 percent
and an average infestation
of 14 percent.
Bollworms were at
threshold levels or greater
in six fields, with a
maximum infestation of six
percent and an average
infestation of five percent.
None of the growers had
begun to spray for
bollworms, the agents said,
as threshold levels were
not exceeded greatly and
blacklight captures have
been low.
For boll weevils, six
growers had applied the
insecticide guthion, but a
second application could
not be made due to heavy
rains.
New Editor
Speaks Here
The new editor of the
Southern Baptist Biblical
Reporter, R.G. (Gene)
Puckett, will deliver his
first public address in
North Carolina this Satur-
day at graduation
ceremonies for Gardner-
Webb College at Boiling
Springs First Baptist
Church.
Puckett, 49, succeeds
retiring Recorder editor J.
Marse Grant this
September. He has been
described as “a Baptist by
conviction, an informed,
articulate Baptist.”
Puckett will speak at the
10 a.m. ceremony for the 65
seniors scheduled to
graduate from the four-
year college.