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The Foothills View
We See It Your Way
THURS., OCT. 14,1982
BOILING SPRINGS, NC
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it’s A Small Town
But It’s Got A Big Top
Circus stars have probably won
the hearts of children and adults
with their breath-taking exhibi
tions more than any other per
formers in the entertainment
field.
On Monday, October 25, the
small Boiling Springs community
will awaken to the sounds of
caravans filled with the laughter
of a parade of circus stars making
preparations for two spectacular
performances at the Lutz-Yelton
Convocation Center on the
Gardner-Webb campus.
The seven generations of the
Royal Hanneford family will be
the entertainers as they set up a
three-ring circus which will
feature aerial acts, exciting
animal stunts, magic shows, a
clown act and a lot more.
“We hope the circus will be a big
success at G-W,” Wayne Brun-
nick, business manager at G-W
said. Brunnick is coordinating the
special event and is expecting a
large turnout from over a three
county area.
“G-W is now in the position to at
tract special performers, concert
acts and other forms of entertain
ment with the opening of the Lutz-
Yelton Convocation Center,”
Brunnick said.
The multi-purpose center has
enabled the college to book
various forms of entertainment
which adds revenue not only to the
Boiling Springs community but to
the Shelby area as well.
G-W is sponsoring the famous
Royal Hanneford Circus, and per
formances are scheduled for 4:30
p.m. and 8 p.m.
Tickets will be distributed Tues
day, October 12 through the school
systems in Cleveland, Cherokee
and Rutherfordton counties. The
distribution will be two-fold.
Individuals in the K-6 grades
will receive free tickets for
children under 12 when ac
companied by a paying adult. Dis
count tickets which will give in
dividuals $1 off will be given to
students in grades 7-12.
Tickets for the general public
are $5 and children under 12, $3. G-
W students, faculty, staff and im
mediate family members will be
admitted free.
Tickets will be on sale at the
Boiling Springs Drug Store and
Suttles Drug Store in Shelby.
The Hanneford family of per
formers have carried on a circus
tradition for 350 years.
The history of the family suc
cess got its start from Michael
Hanneford in England in 1621 with
a first-class horsemanship stunt
that included dancing and leaping
upon the bare back of a galloping
horse.
The children and grandchildren
of Michael Hanneford continued
that tradition touring England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Two years prior to World War I,
the Hanneford family came to the
United States and were featured in
the world famous Ringling Bros.
Circus.
In the years that followed, a
younger Hanneford generation,
expanded the family act and staff
Cattle Between
Covers Now
A livestock marketing
directory published by the
N. C. Department of
Agriculture is currently
available free to persons or
firms interested in buying
and selling livestock in
North Carolina.
The booklet titled the
1982-83 North Carolina
Livestock Marketing
Directory, lists daily cash
buying stations, weekly
auction markets, bonded
packers and dealers and
other tips to aid in orderly
marketing of livestock.
According to state
Agriculture Commissioner
Jim Graham, the
publication contains a
complete list of all
livestock markets with
locations, day and time of
sale, addresses and phone
numbers.
“The directory also
contains the updated
schedule for the NCDA’s
Market News, toll-free
Dial-A-Market,” Graham
said.
“Information includes
individual weekly auction
prices, time and place of
sales, Midwestern market
receipts, futures in
formation, grain prices and
much more. There is also a
listing of radio and
television stations carrying
market prices.”
Those interested in
getting the 1982-83 N. C.
Livestock Marketing
Directory should write:
Spurgeon V. Hyder,
Market News Section, N.C.
Department of
Agriculture, P. O. Box
27647, Raleigh, N.C. 27611
Brunnick Aboard
Business At G-W
Wayne Brunnick has of
ficially joined the Gardner-
Webb College administra
tion as business manager.
“We are fortunate to
have access to an ex
perienced, successful cor
porate executive as Wayne
Brunnick,” Dr. Craven
Williams, president of the
college, said.
“His background will br-
inga prospective to our pro
gram which will increase
our efficiency,” Williams
said, “ and his business
skills will help us generate
additional resources to sup
port our educational pro
gram.”
A Shelby resident, Brun
nick is not new to G-W. He
has served as concultant to
the college for the past wo
months.
Brunnick joined PPG In
dustries in Shelby in 1952 as
an engineer when the plant
established the first
fiberglass division. He was
employed there for 30
years in both production
and managerial positions
including assistant director
of engineering.
Brunnick also spent two
and half years in Europe
co-ordinating the develp-
ment of the PPG Silenka
plant in Holland. After
1963, he returned to the
United States and con
tinued working in an ex
ecutive position at PPG.
Brunnick is already busy
at his new job helping co
ordinate publicity ar
rangements for the Royal
Hanneford Circus schedul
ed to perform at the college
campus Monday.
They'll Fight Tooth And Nail For Grizzly
“The big bear is in trou
ble,” Russell Peterson
stated flatly.
Peterson’s big bear is the
grizzly, whose numbers in
the western United States
are under 1000 and declin
ing. To reverse that drift
toward extinction, Peter
son, president of the na
tional Audubon Society, an
nounced that the conserva
tion group will pay rewards
of $10,000 for arrests of
grizzly poachers.
“It’s the old story of
human beings subduing
everything in nature that
gets in the way,” Peterson
said. “One major threat to
the grizzly is the profes
sional poacher who can sell
the bear’s claws and pelt
for more than he would be
fined — if he got caught and
prosecuted.”
Last year, according to
bear experts, 25 grizzlies
were shot in the
Yellowstone National Park
area.
Yellowstone is one of on
ly two areas south of the
Canadian border where
grizzlies are found in any
numbers; the other area is
northwestern - Montana.
Grizzlies are classified as a
threatened species, and
both federal and state law
prohibit their being hunted.
“But other forms of
grizzly-bear killing other
than poaching are also tak
ing a severe toll,” Peterson
said. “Hunters all too often
shoot grizzlies, claiming to
mistake them for black
bears. Some other
unscrupulous hunters and
outfitters don’t think twice
about killing a grizzly that
decides to dine on their elk
or moose that was left
carelessly unprotected.”
Peterson stressed that
grizzly bears, that once
numbered about 100,000
when settlers first arrived,
suffer greatly from loss of
habitat.
‘‘Enroachment by
hikers, road builders, log
gers, coal miners, and oil
drillers is constantly in
creasing,” he said. “The
grizzly needs large ex
panses of wilderness
habitat free from energy
exploration.”
Peterson said that con
servationists must insist on
buying back the sheep
grazing allotments on
public lands adjacent to
grizzly-inhabited
wilderness
Other than the reward
program, Peterson said
that the society “will push
for better law enforcement
and tougher penalties for il
legal grizzly hunting,
tighter control over black
bear hunting in grizzly
country, and an end to
practices like feeding gar
bage to bears that create
‘problem bears’ that must
be killed.”
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This man-caused mor
tality among grizzly bears
far exceeds the grizzly’s
slow reproductive rate,
Peterson said.
Black bears are the
bears found in the North
Carolina mountains; there
are no grizzly bears native
to this state.
The “frightful bear,” Ursus horribilis, the grizzley bear
is pictured above. The grizzly is native to the western
United States and is not found in North Carolina.