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FRIDAY, ■ February 25. 1983
BOILING SPRINGS NC
First Aid
For Ice
Hurt Trees
Have your woodlands been
damaged by the recent ice
storms? The remaining timber
can be managed to reduce pest-
caused losses, yet leave trees of
sufficient size and numbers to
produce a sawtimer crop.
How?
First, have your damaged
woodland areas inspected by
your county forest ranger,
pulpwood yard forester or a
private consultant forester. He
can determine the extent of the
damage and what should or
should not be salvaged.
Second, determine or have
determined the extent of the
damage carefully. Salvage the
most severely damaged timber
first. Concentrate on pine stands
because they are more suscepti
ble to insect and disease damage
than hardwoods.
Third, complete salvage pro
mptly. Salvaging pine areas
should begin by mid spring if
possible. Get references from the
person or agencies you contact
about buying the damaged
timber.
Fourth, consider deducting
damage losses on income tax
returns. Further advice can be
obtained from local foresters.
Extension Service, your accoun
tant or IRS agents.
Fifth, check for pest activity -
after salvage operations are
finished.
From Book Leaves
To Flowering Trees
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Line of flowering pear trees will be planted across front of Boiling Springs Baptist cemetery
(above) by Boiling Springs Extension Homemakers Club.
The cash from 1100 book
sales will turn into 23 flowering
pear trees this spring as the result
of proceeds from the Boiling Spr
ings Extension Homemakers
Club.
The Club bought and arrang
ed to have planted Thursday the
23 Bradford pear trees that now
border the cemetery of Boiling
Springs Baptist Church on Main
Street. The Bradford pear is an
early bloomer, and the trees
should flower early in April, ac
cording to Shelby Nursery &
Garden.
The trees were purchased
from Shelby Nursery with
receipts from the Extension
Club’s cookbook sales, according
to Mrs. Vernie Piercy, chairper
son of the cookbook committee.
The cookbook, “Treasured
Recipes,’ is now in its second
printing and has sold about 1100
copies. The committee decided
to use the money raised by the
sales to plant the trees, Mrs. Pier
cy said, and Boiling Springs Bap
tist approved the addition.
Other members of the
cookbook committee are:
Margaret White, Rosina
Hamrick, Brenda Hamrick, and
Kathryn Hamrick.
Only about 85 copies of
“Treasured Recipes” are
available, according to Kathryn
Hamrick. Copies are $5.00 and
are available at Nu-Way
Cleaners, she said, or may be
ordered by mail for $5.75 from
P.O. Box 524, Boiling Springs
28017.
The Craft (And Cash) Of Writing
“I believe those things happen
to Kathryn,” a neighbor was
quoted about newspaper colum
nist Kathryn Hamrick, “I just
can’t believe she writes about
them.”
Mrs. Hamrick shares her
neighbor’s surprise, she told an
audience of about 40 townspeo
ple Wednesday at Gardner-
Webb College. “I turn everyday
events into special events,” she
told her listeners. “I use my
writing as an outlet for my own
astonishment.”
Mrs. Hamrick was one of five
speakers at G-W’s “Spring
Seminar” on ‘The Craft of
Writing.” In addition to Mrs.
Hamrick, publisher Sally
McMillan, president of East
Woods Press, a Charlotte
publishing house, spoke on
“What I Look For In A Writer.”
Also in attendance was Gil
Blackburn, author of The Ger
man Apocalypse scheduled to
be published later this year.
Blackburn, professor of history
and director of graduate studies
at G-W, spoke on “Writing A
Scholarly Book.”
Other speakers included John
Roberts, editor of the South
Carolina Baptist Courier and
Grace Hamrick, a local colum
nist and author.
Gardner-Webb will sponsor a
second Spring Seminar March 2
with Frye Gaillard, Charlotte
Observer columnist and author
of Race, Rock, and Religion.
Mrs. Hamrick began writing,
she said, to overcome the “shock
of becoming a housewife.”
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KATHRYN HAMRICK
Mrs. Hamrick’s column. The
Farmer's Wife, appears every
other week in the Foothills
View.
At Least It’s An Honest Name
When winter seems to have
been around too long, it is com
forting to know that some
energetic early wild flowers are
already working to cheer us up.
A February stroll through the
boggy areas of the North
Carolina mountains and the
Piedmont will reveal the
unusual, exotic flower of the
skunk cabbage.
Close to the ground, we may
see a colorful hood, maroon and
mottled green and 4 to 6 inches
high. These are really modified
leaves formed into what is called
a spathe.
Inside the hood is a knobby,
yellow-tan spike, 1 to 3 inches
tall and entirely covered with
tiny blossoms, the true flowers.
The hood-like form enclosing the
flowers is characteristic of the
Arum family, which includes
other familiar members such as
calla lily and jack-in-the-pulpit.
The skunk cabbage comes by
its name honestly. The spike has
a strong, skunk-like odor, also
recognized in other common
names such as polecat weed. The
late Vermont Sen. Aiken, a wild
flower enthusiast, opined that
the skunk cabbage flowers so
early to avoid its “outrageous”
odor being compared with plea
sant fragrances of later spring
flowers. Even the formal scien
tific name, Symplocarpus
foetidus, recognizes this distinc
tive quality. Foetidus is the
Latin “to stink,” akin to our
English word “fetid.
energetically in this period that
sufficient heat is generated by it
to melt a circle of snow around
it.
As the flowers fade, the leaves
appear, at first in the form of
compact rolled cones. Cutting
across one of these tightly rolled
leaves would reveal a pattern
very much like a slice of a com
pact cabbage-head.
Not all creatures, however,
find the aroma unpleasant. Flies
are attracted to it, as well as by
the color-and thus are helpful as
pollinators. Even honeybees,
during brief warm spells, are in
duced to enter the hood to
gather pollen from the many
flowers there.
It has been said that the skunk
caggage is growing so_
By late spring or early summer
the leaves grow to be as much as
2 to 3 feet long and a foot across,
and these enormous leaves are
called colloquially “elephant
ears,” a very apt name.
By late summer to fall, the
leaves may hide the reddish-
brown and greenish berries, so
one has to look for them. Still
later, the leaves turn ragged and
the plant seems to have disap>-
peared. But it is deep-rooted and
long-lived and is just waiting for
mid-winter to arrive to start its
act up all over again.
Three is folk lore that the In
dians boiled the skunk cabbage
for food and medicine, and
natural food enthusiasts have
suggested its utility also. One
authority, however, after con
siderable experimentation and
trial, reports that even after
many repeated boilings the odor
was still awful, and the product
left a burning sensation in the
mouth. Dehydration for a long
enough time period helped
reduce the odor somewhat, but
the taste was still judged unplea
sant and thus not recommended.
An unusual plant, the skunk
cabbage presents an almost
tropical appearance at a
welcome time of year. Have a
look for it in your favorite boggy
place, or, more conveniently,
visit the Mountain Habitat at
the N.C. Botanical Garden in
Chapel Hill.
And don’t be discouraged: you
have to get very close to notice
the characteristic smell.
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Letter To Reagan
Broyhill: Hire
A Pro At EPA
In the text of a letter not
previously released. Rep. James
Broyhill has urged President
Reagan to replace a fired En
vironmental Protection Agency
(EPA) official with a “highly
qualified” administrator.
Broyhill’s staff released the let
ter to the View on Wednesday,
the same day ousted EPA of
ficial Rita Lavelle denied any
wrongdoing to a Senate in
vestigating committee. BroyhilTs
letter to Reagan urged him to
take “an active leadership role”
in choosing Lavelle’s replace
ment. Reagan fired Lavelle on
Feb. 7.
The letter to Reagan was sign
ed by Broyhill and medled Feb.
10. It was not made public until
two other House Republicans
began circulating a letter this
week for GOP congressional
signatures. That letter warned
Reagan that his appointees to
the EPA had created an “im
passe injurous to the Republican
When asked Wednesday if
Broyhill planned to sign the
latest letter, an aide in the con
gressman’s Washington office
revealed the earlier letter to the
president.
After writing the president
Feb. 8, Broyhill sent a second
copy to Reagan on Feb. 10. The
second draft was also signed by
the 15 Republican members of
the House Energy and Com
merce committee. Broyhill is
ranking minority member of that
committee.
Broyhill’s letter called on the
president to replace Lavelle with
someone with “substantive
knowledge” of the environment
and with high “administrative
skiUs.”
Phil Kirk, an aide to Rep.
Broyhill, doubted the con
gressman will add his signature
to the letter currently circulating
among Republicans.
“He (Broyhill) likes to write
his own letters,” Kirk said.
party.
Two Recitals
At College
Boiling Springs, N.C.- Chris
Winans, baritone soloist and
sacred music major at Gardner-
Webb College, will give a senior
recital on Tuesday, March 1,
1983.
The 8 p.m. recital, open to the
public, free of charge, will be
held in Dover Chapel on the
G-W campus.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Sales of Fairview, N.C., Winans
will perform selections from
Handel, Schubert, Rameau,
Ravel and Quilter.
Winans will be accompanied
by Carmen Hood on piano and
Gland Summers on bassoon.
Included in the program will
be Esther Perrin on flute perfor
ming selections from Prokofiev,
Telemann and Martinu.
Accompanying Miss Perrin
will be her sister Lydia Perrin on
piano.
Winans is a graduate of Hart
ford High School in Hartford,
Mich, and is a member of
Calvary Baptist Church in
Asheville, N.C. He is a member
of the American Choral Direc
tors Association and for the past
two years has served as assistant
, conductor of the Gardner-Webb
Chamber Chorus.
Boiling Springs, N.C.—Lynne
Anders will perform as guest
solojst in a vocal recital at
Gardner-Webb College on Mon
day, February 28, 1983.
The 8 p.m. recit^, open to the
public, free of charge, will be
held in Dover Chapel on the
G-W Campus.
The program will feature
entertainment for the whole
family. Anders will sing selec
tions by Handel, Rachmaninoff,
Puccini, Massenet, Sigmund
Romberg and others.
A naitve of Mississippi,
Anders has performed across the
country in many facets of music:
recital, oratoria, opera, operetta
and musical comedy.
She has appeared as guest ar
tist at the Kennedy Center,
Brevard Music Center for the
Southeastern Region of the Na
tion Federation of Music Clubs,
and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival
in Charleston, S.C.
Anders attended Belhaven
College in Jackson, Mississippi
and won the Marie Morrisey
Keith Student Award of the Na
tion Federation of Music Clubs
for voice.
She is past president of the
American Opera Scholarship
Society and completed a two-
year term as president of the
D.C. Federation of Music Clubs
in Washington, D.C.
Gardner-Webb is a liberal arts
college affiliated with the Baptist
State Convention of N.C., offer
ing associate, bachelor and
master’s degrees. The college is
noted for its independence of
federal funding.
Local Briefs
Museum Event
The Spanish Heritage Club
will hold its first meeting Tues
day, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Cleveland County
Historical Museum, located on
the Court Square in downtown
Shelby.
The Spanish Heritage Club is
open to all those who speak
ancLbr are interested in Spanish
culture. Those who are in
terested but are unable to at
tend, please contact Lizette
Lazcombe at 487-0586 or Viola
Perez at 482-94322.
Bike Found
Boiling Springs police depart
ment asks anyone missing a
bicycle to call the police at
434-9691. The department
recovered the bike Saturday.
Seafood Fundraiser
Any oyster and salmon stew
supper will be held Saturday at
Boiling Springs Methodist
Church 5-8 p.m. tickets are
$3.50 for adults and $1.25 for
children 12 and under.