The FoothiUs View
THURSDAY. JAN. 27, 1933
Box 982 Boiling Springs, N. C. 28017
BOILING SPRINGS NC
“Vm Convinced
We Saved The
When two college students who are volunteer firemen, Chris Turner
and Paul Huggins, drove Turner’s pickup truck down Highway 150
early Saturday to look at trees downed by Friday’s icestorm, they saw
more than greenery: the two spotted a house on fire, and probably sav
ed the occupant’s life by waking him and calling for help.
No one was hurt in the 4 a.m. fire at the house of Roger Randolph
at the Anthonytown section of Highway 150 South. The fire was put
out by Boiling Springs rural department assisted by the city depart
ment minutes within after Turner called for firetrucks. Both Turner
and Huggins are members of Boiling Springs city fire department.
“I’m convinced we saved the guy’s house and life,” Turner said
afterward. “It was 45 minutes (after Turner and Huggins arrived)
before another car came down that road.”
After spotting the fire. Turner and Huggins had awakened Ran
dolph, who has no phone. Turner then ran to wake a neighbor and use
his phone, while Huggins tried to contain the blaze with two chemical
extinguishers in Turner’s truck.
“As soon as the trucks arrived, Paul and I jerked hoses off the back”
and started fighting the fire. Turner said.
For Turner, an engineering student at University of North Carolina-
Charlotte, and Huggins, a Gardner-Webb student, the ride down Hwy.
150 came at the end of a long night and morning for the city fire
department. Before the Randolph fire, the department had answered
calls to a downed power line on South Main, an overheated generator
at Crawley Hospital, and a housefire at Holly Hill Road.
“I had seen all the trees down on 150, and I asked Paul if he wanted
to ride with me and see them,” Turner said. When the two spotted the
flames, they at first thought another power line was downed; as they
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drove closer, they saw flames coming out both sides of the chimney at
the Randolph house about halfway up the building.
Firechief Randall McSwain of city fire attributed the cause of the
blaze to a hole in the chimney. Damage was between $3000 to $4000,
he said.
Turner is the son of Talmadge and Mary Turner. Huggins is the son
of James and Teresa Huggins. Both families live in Boiling Springs.
In A Word: Brr-r-r-r!
Ice and snow, not hay and flowers, stops this old mower, frozen
in temperature as well as time.
The Weather Is Not For
The Birds, Either
The loss of power throughout
most of Cleveland County not
only created hardship for urban
residents, it also endangered a
rural industry which in 1981
provided a $13 million gross in
come for the county: poultry,
produced at the approximately
50 commerical turkey, broiler,
and egg farms within Cleveland
County.
Most commerical poultry pro
ducers depend on electric feeders
to provide the birds a constant
supply of feed and water. Elec
tric power was out throughout
most of Cleveland County last
Friday and Saturday, and in
some areas outages persisted
throughout Monday.
“1 talked to a turkey man at
Union Mill who had all kinds of
problems,” said David Munro, a
poultry pathologist at the NC
Dept, of Agriculture. “His birds
had gone 21 hours without
water or feed.”
Chickens can withstand cold
weather, Munro said, “once they
get their feathers,” but a cold
wind can kill them. ‘They can
stand cold weather, but they
can’t stand drafts,” Munro said.
Munro’s turkey farmer did not
have a generator, which other
turkey, egg, and boiler producers
install to insure power; even
generators can fail, however as
Mrs. Bill Davis of B&M Farms,
a large egg producer near Double
Springs Baptist Church,
discovered.
“Our power was out about
two days,” Mrs. Davis said. Her
husband turned on the farms’
generator at 5 a.m. each day, tur
ning off the power at night. On
the third day, Sunday, the
generator failed to start.
Feeding and providing water
by hand to the 100,000 layers at
B&M would be possible, Mrs.
Davis said, “but it would be a
full-time job.”
“But we got our power back
on Sunday, so the chickens
didn’t suffer too much,” Mrs.
Davis said.
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According to Frank Spencer,
county agricultural agent,
Cleveland County ranked in the
top ten in the state during 1981,
the last year figures are
available, for the production of
eggs and turkeys. Most turkey
producers are located at the nor
thern end of the county, Spencer
said; most egg producers are
located to the south near Lat-
timore, he said.
There’s Life Under
That Snow And Ice
Not everyone welcomes the
occasional snowstorms to the
Piedmont, but they do provide
the opportunity for a different
and interesting view of the land
scape.
The goldenrod still holds its
seed heads high, reminding us of
the yellow plumes there not long
ago. Milkweeds droop in all
directions, their silky seeds
parachuted away months back.
And there are other reminders
of the fall flowers at the road
edges: the globe-like seed heads
of the black-eyed Susan and the
dried flowers and seeds of the
various kinds of Asters: fuzzy
stars or little powder puffs.
Around these remnants of wild
flowers are tiny tracts in the
snow of the birds searching out
the seeds while the stems of
rushes and grasses arch graceful
ly in the wind nearby.
Many buds can be seen on the
trees. They withstand the cold
aided by substances produced by
their cells acting much like the
antifreeze in our car radiators.
Buds employ other protective
devices, too. Some are covered
with layers of scales, others
develop a wooly insulation, and
still others have a varnish-like
protective coat. For many trees,
exposure to cold is a necessary
step in the buds development,
ending its dormancy in readiness
for spring.
The greatest concert for trees
during snow periods is the
possibility for snapping and
breaking of branches during ice
formation from melting and
refreezing, snow compaction and
high winds. In most years, for
tunately, the snow is not ex
cessive, and healthy, mature
trees are well able to cope with
the stresses encountered.
The strength of a tree derives
from its cellular architecture.
The active growing part of the
trunk is a thin sheath just
beneath the bark, the cambium
layer. As the cells of this layer
grow and divide, the outer por
tions form the bark and other ex
ternal tissues, while the inner
cells form the woody portion.
These closely packed woody
cells grow long and enlarge by
adding cellulose to their walls
providing strength and pliability
to the structure. As the cells die,
the cell walls remain in the form
of hollow, interconnected tubes
which can carry water and
nutrients from the roots to the
leaves.
This outer part of the trunk is
appropriately called the sap-
wood, serving as the tree’s plum
bing system in transporting sap
and fluids throughout.
As the tree matures, the
cellular tubes in the center por
tion of the trunk, the hearfwood,
become plugged with oily,
resinous substances. They no
longer carry fluids but function
to support the tree’s increasing
weight and height.
This natural design is well
engineered, enabling the tree to
withstand stresses normally en
countered. Even a heavy snow is
most often an insultating blanket
rather than a danger for a
healthy tree.
In between the human
hazards of coming and going in
this season, the winter snow
scene can be lovely, as many ar
tists have demonstrated. One
can see the graceful silhouettes
of the trees against the sky, the
spent flowers along the roadside
and even a touch of color in the
young saplings at the edges of
the trails-the green bark of the
sweet gums and the red of the
sourwoods and red maples.
Have a look now. It’ll be very
different soon.
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A Farmer’s
100 Years
L.A. “Gus” Bridges, who
began his farming career hauling
timber by mules to the new tex
tile mills being built at Caroleen
about 1896, died Friday at his
home in Mooresboro. He was
100.
Mr. Bridges, who retired from
farming in 1938, worked his
farm with mules all of his career.
“He never owned a tractor,” said
his grandson, Paul Jolley. “We
talked about farming about 20
years ago and he said then that
the changes in farming had
amazed him.”
Mrs. Bridges was a native of
Cleveland County. His wife was
the late Oral Turner Bridges.
Survivors are four daughters,
Eva Daves, Eunice Bridges, Cor-
een Bridges, and Lois Jolley of
Mooresboro; one half-brother.
Worth Bridges, of Ellenboro;
one half-sister. Lassie Jenkins, of
Ellenboro; six grandchildren; 10
great-grandchildren; and eight
great-great-grandchildren.
He was a member of Race
Path Baptist Church, where ser
vices were conducted Sunday,
followed by burial at the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Humphries
“Goes Home”
Having raised seven children
in a home her minister
characterized as a “lodging of
love,” Mary Helen Beason Hum
phries was buried Tuesday at
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
cemetery following her death
Sunday at Cleveland Memorial
Hospital. She was 68.
A native of Cleveland Coun
ty, Mrs. Humphries was the
daughter of the late Pink and
Dicie Waters Brown. In addition
to her, children, she is survived
by her husband, Archie Hum
phries, one brother and one
sister.
“A true home has.character,”
Rev. Ronald McSwain said at
her funeral, with “no pretense.”
He found those characteristics,
he said, at the Humphries home.
Mrs. Humphries was also a
woman marked by her wit, McS
wain said.
Mrs. Humphries was a
member of the Senior Adult Sun
day School class at Mt. Pleasant,
and was a member of the Sun
shine Club.
Her children are: five sons,
Dan Humphries of Huntersville,
Archie Humphries, Jr., Steve
Humphries, and Buddy Hum
phries, all of Mooresboro, and
Larry Humphries of Ellenboro;
and two daughters, Mrs. Joan
Harris and Mrs. Sara Lue
Wright, both of Mooresboro.
Boiling Springs
Resident Is
Elected Trustee
Harrill Gene Washburn of
Oak Avenue, Boiling Springs,
has been elected to Gardner-
Webb College’s Board of
Trustees.
Washburn was nominated for
the position by the Nominating
Committee of the N.C. Baptist
State Convention and was
elected by the Convention at its
annual session.
Members of the board of
trustees of the college must be
residents of the state of N.C. and
members in good standing of a
Baptist Church co-operating
with the Baptist State Conven
tion of N.C. Establishing policies
and projecting long range goals
are part of their vital roles.
Washburn is a member of
Boiling Springs Baptist Church.
He is currently a practicing
physician with the Boiling Spr
ings Medical Associates.
He has served as chief of staff
at Crawley Memorial Hospital
and as an instructor at the
Bowman Gray School of
Medicine in Winston-Salem.
Washburn received an A.A.
degree from Gardner-Webb Col
lege, a B.S. degree from Wake
Forest University and a M.D.
degree from the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine.
He is a member of the Lions
Club, the Fellowship Christian
Athletes, the American Medical
Association,, the Southern
Medical Association, the N.C.
Medical Society, the Cleveland
County Medical Society and the
American Association of Family
Physicians.
Married to Billie Falls
Washburn, they have four
children, Andrea, Charlene, har
rill Gene Jr., and Sherry.
Bringing Teachers To Apples
The 1983 area winter peach
and apple school will be held
Monday, January 31. The peach
program will be presented from
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. with the apple
program being presented from
3:15 to 9:30 p.m. The school will
be held at the Cleveland County
Office Building, 130 South Post
Road, in Shelby. Persons with an
interest in commercial peach and
apple production in Cleveland
and surrounding counties are en
couraged to attend. For more in
formation contact Curtis Styles
at the Agricultural Extension
Service,, 4824365.
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