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The Foothills View
BOILING SPRINGS NC
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The Battle Of TheBlossoms
By Karen Gamble
View Staff
This week’s freezing
temperatures may have caused
only sleepless nights for the large
South Carolina peach growers
but for the small growers the
result could be more devastating.
As temperatures dropped into
the mid 20’s on Tuesday night,
Cash Farms of Cowpens, S.C.
prepared for the battle against
the frost and, later, the snow.
“We were up all night,” said
Gwen Cash Bulman, secretary-
treasurer of the 600 acre Cash
Farms. “We burned tires and ran
the blowers on our spray
machines to keep the frost from
settling.
“We started burning at 3 a.m.
just as the frost started to settle. _
We were burning until 7:30
Wednesday morning.”
According to Mr. Bulman, an
orchard as large as Cash Farms
would find it impossible to pro
tect every tree. “We assessed our
orchard to determine the areas
most susceptible to . frost
damage,” she said. The maturity
of the trees, the location and
variety of the trees are all con
sidered in determining which
areas should be protected, she
said.
News of any orchard surviv
ing a spring cold snap is welcome
to an area that was hard hit by
freezing spring temperatures last
year. South Carolina’s 1982
peach production was cut in half
from the 430 million pounds pro
duced in 1981.
Not all orchards survived this
week’s cold snap as well as Cash
Farms. “The frost killed a lot of
our crop, especially those that
had already bloomed,” said Joe
Suddeth, owner of a small 50
acre peach crop in Mayo, S.C.
“I have no idea how much
money we’ll lose,” said Suddeth.
“It will take several days before
we’ll know what we really lost. It
will take that long for the
blossoms that were killed to fall
off.”
Unlike Cash farms, the only
precaution taken by the Sud-
deths was to build a brush pile
for a fire. “We felt the wind
would blow it out of control so
we didn’t set it,” said a member
of Suddeth’s family'. “We didn’t
do anything else because we
weren’t sure what the weather
would be like. All we could do
was hope.”
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Before The Snow: Peach blossoms in a field at Spartanburg
County, S.C.
According to Suddeth, his or- “This was the first year for our
chard consists of approximately young trees to produce,” said
2500 young trees, the majority Suddeth. “We probably lost all
of which had already bloomed. of them.”
A Spot Of Death In The Forest
A pickup truck slowly
trundles through a darkened'
field while the passenger sweeps
the field edge with a spotlight.
Distant eyes are blinded by the
light, and a shot rings out.
Quickly, the men throw the deer
in the back of the truck—later to
be illegally sold.
Firelighting—the illegal prac
tice of shooting deer at night
while they are blinded by a
light—is now reaching its,
seasonal peak, according to en
forcement officials with the N.C.
Wildlife Resources Commission.
“However,” said Gene
Abernethy, chief of the Division
of Enforcement for the Wildlife
Commission, “in some areas
firelighting goes on year-round.
The practice is especially
prevelant in eastern North
Carolina—the large deer herds,
flat terrain, and big fields lend
themselves to firelighting.
Firelighting is less of a problem
in the Piedmont, and occurs in
small pockets in the Mountains.
“Many firelighters are profes
sional poachers who sell the deer
they kill. The price of a field-
dressed deer is usually $40 to
fields with their vehicles, and
will often kill valuable livestock
as readily as they shoot deer.”
“Concerned citizens are our
best weapons in controlling
firelighting,” Abernethy con
cluded. “We urge all citizens to
Spotlighting Deer—An illegal hunting practice - causes the animals to stop in their tracks when
they cross a car's headlights.
$50, and in some areas a team of
firelighters can kill a dozen deer
in one night. It doesn’t take long
for this poaching to take a
serious toll on wildlife popula
tions. Firelighters also damage
report firelighting—and other
wildlife violations—through our
toll-free 24-hour Wildlife Watch
Hotline at 1-800-662-7137.
Five On
Citizens
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■Five Cleveland County
residents have been appointed to
the newly Citizens Concerned
for Higher Education Commit
tee.
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They are Marie Martin, direc
tor of financial aid at Gardner-
Webb College and Craig
Meadows, president of the Stu
dent Government Association at
G-W; Senator W.K. Mauney, Jr.
of Kings Mountain, Marjorie
Hoyle Rogers and Clyde Stutts
of Shelby.
Members oi the Shelby Rotary Club have dinner with their guests before attending the show,
"From Broadway With Love" during the annual Ladies Night held at the Gardner-Webb Lutz Con
vocation Center. From left to right are Mr. Tony Fzzi Jr., member of the G-W board of advisors, Mrs.
Tony Izzi, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Smith, Mr. Hoyt Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Dedmon, Dr. Carven Williams, G-W president and Mrs. Craven Williams.
Currently the state grants
$850 for each sate resident atten
ding an independent institution..
The General Assembly has been
asked to raise that allocation to
$1,025 for 1983-84 and to
$1,200, for 1984-85.
From Outer Banks
To The Foothills:
That’s Entertainment
It’s going to be a busy enter
tainment weekend in Cleveland,
highlighted by the Fifth Annual
Foothills Folk Festival Saturday
night and the premier run of the
musical, “Kinnakeet,” Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
The Foothills Festival, held at
Lattimore School, draws top
quality traditional musicians and
dancers each year, with proceeds
going to develop recreation
facilities in Lattimore.
On ^hd* program this year are
several groups who have per
formed at the World’s Fair and
are winners of competitive
festivals. Among them are Liz
and Lynn Shaw of Canton, nam
ed “Fiddlers of the Festival” at
Union Grove. The Shaws do
more than fiddle; they’ll play a
variety of traditional in
struments Saturday.
The Carolina Cut-Ups, from
Weaverville, are also frequent
prize-winners, and played in
Belgium last summer at the In
ternational Folklore Festival.
Pam Collins and her daughter
Tanya have clogged on the
“Grand Ol’ Opry, and the Ap
palachian Mountaineers, a free
style clogging team from
Candler, hold dozens of awards
from competitive appearances.
All of these groups will appear
at the Lattimore festival, along
with several others, including
the Goldrush Bluegrass Band of
Flat Rock and the Little Moun
tain String Band from Ruther
ford County. The festival starts
at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for
adults and $3 for children 16 or
under.
“Kinnakeet,” the adapation of
Boiling Springs writer Stanley
Green’s autobiographical novel
“Kinakeet Adventure,” is a
wholly home-grown musical.
Writer Michael _ Goforth and
composer Dotty Dickson col
laborated on the play, set in the
Outer Banks, which follows the
trials and errors and joys of a
young school teacher who comes
as a stranger to an island culture
like nothing he’d ever known.
Stan Logan will portray the
teacher. Other players include
Brenda Summers, Mary Lopez,
Nina Lynn Blanton and Borbert
Lamb. Performances are at 8
p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2
p.m. on Sunday. Advance tickets
are $3 for adults and $1.50 for
children; admission at the door
will be $4 and $2.
Senior Performs Recital Sunday
BOILING SPRINGS,—Sher
rie Allen, sacred music major at
Gardner-Webb College will give
a senior piano recital on Sunday,
March 27.
The 3 p.m. recital, open to the
public and free of charge will be
held in the O. Max Gardner
recital hall on the G-W campus.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold of Hamptonville, N.C.,
Miss Allen will perform selec
tions from Bach, Mozart,
Chopin and Bartok.
Assisting in the program will
be Robbie Vance on baritone
and William McSwain on piano.
Miss Allen is a graduate of
East Wilkes High School in Ron-
da, N.C. and is a piano student
of Carolyn Billings, an assistant
professor at G-W and a Boiling
Springs resident.
Miss Allen is a member of the
Gardner-College Choral Ensem
ble and is a recipient of the
1981-82 Campbell Music
Achievement Award.
She has served the past three
years as a governor’s aide and is
currently a senator in the
Gardner-Webb student govern
ment.
Miss Allen is a member of the
G-W Baptist student union and
is a member of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes. She is the
recipient of the FOCUS Scholar
ship and Leadership Scholarship.
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Drum Majorettes of America sponsored the 1983 "Metrolina's
Most Beautiful" baton and modeling competition. The Contest
was held in Gastonia at the YMCA February 26th.
Jaime Porter won the title of "Metrolina's Most Beautiful Lit
tle Majorette". She also placed 3rd in Queen of the Day; 2nd in
Special Queen of the Day; 1st in Twirling.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Porter of Shelby.
Jaime is a student at Vicky Arrowood's School of Baton and
Modeling.