This Peregrine Falcon—A bird-of-prey listed as an endangered
species is making a come-back according to environmen
talists.
Dr. Robert L. Lamb, professor
of religion and religious educa
tion at Gardner-Webb College
has recently returned from a
two-week trip to Rio De Janeiro
in Brazil.
Lamb was invited to the city
by the Baptist Institute of
Religious Education in Brazil to
serve as a consultant to ad
ministration and curriculum
development.
The Baptist Institute of
Religious Education is a college
level training school sponsored
by the woman’s missionary
union of Brazil to educate young
women for work in the churches
and mission boards of Brazil.
Accoring to Lamb, because of
the school’s growth in recent
years form approximately 50
students to 250 and because of
the high inflation rate in Brazil, a
new organizational structure
needed to be established at the
school in order for it to continue
to prosper.
“Dr. Lamb has helped us to
see the school from a different
perspective,” said Alma
Elizabeth Oates,, director of the
school and Sophia Steibel, dean
of the school’s educational pro
gram. “He gave us a vision of
how to work for better results.”
Lamb assisted Miss Oates and
Mrs. Steibel in writing job
descriptions, setting up organiza
tional charts and provided imput
on faculty development.
“The purpose of my trip was
to free the administrators for
work in other areas, such as star
ting churches,” said Lamb. “Miss
Oates is an excellent church
starter and Mrs. Steibel plans to
return to Southwestern
Seminary in the near future to
continue her education.” Mrs.
Steibel holds a bachelor’s degree
from Gardner-Webb and a
master’s degree from
Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
Lamb visited churches in-
wealthy neighborhoods as well
as a 17-member store front
church in a poor section of the
city. “I was moved by the ability
of the missionaries to meet the
needs of the people in such a
widely divergent atmosphere, ”
he said. “Rich or poor the people
knew Jesus and what he means.”
Lamb’s trip to Brazil was
made possible by the financial
support of Cleveland County’s
Sandy Plains Baptist Church and
Dover Baptist Church as well as
the Central Baptist Church in
York, S.C.
Less Than Half Know Sermon On Mount
FROM GALLUP POLLS
Although eight in 10
Americans consider themselves
to be Christians, only half this
proportion know that according
to the Bible, Jesus Christ
delivered the Sermon on the
Mount, as determined by a re
cent survey conducted for Dr.
Robert H. Schuller.
In addition, only 46% of U.S.
adults are able to name all four
Gospels of the New Testament.
The survey also shows that a
total of 70% know that, accor
ding to the Bible, Jesus Christ
was born in Bethlehem.
Knowledge of basic Biblical
facts is poor, even among
religiously involved persons and
college graduates, as seen in the
following table:
KNOW WHO DELIVERED
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
National 42%
College Graduates 59
Church Members 47
CAN NAME ALL
FOUR GOSPELS
National 46%
College Graduates 61
Church Members 55
KNOW WHERE JESUS
WAS BORN
National 70%
College Graduates 77
Church Members 75
While the level of knowledge
is currently low, a slight im
provement has been registered
since a 1954 survey on each of
these questions, as seen in the
following table:
KNOW WHO DELIVERED
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
1982 42%
1954 34
CAN NAME ALL
FOUR GOSPELS
1982 46%
1954 35
KNOW WHERE JESUS
WAS BORN
1982 70%
1954 64%
Further evidence of the
widespread lack of basic Biblical
knowledge in the U.S. is seen
from a Gallup Youth Survey.
This survey shows that 65%
of teenagers are unable to name
all four Gospels of the New
Testament, 35% do not know
the number of disciples of Jesus,
while as many as 29% do not
know what Easter com
memorates for Christians.
Only 43% answered all three
questions correctly. One
teenager in five, 19%, was
unable to come up with the right
answer to any of the quiz ques
tions.
Bank Merger
Complete This Week
The merger of City National
Bank of Charlotte into Branch
Banking and Trust Company
became effective on Monday.
BB&T, North Carolina’s
oldest bank, was established in
Wilson in 1872 tmd still main
tains its home office there. City
National Bank was formed in
Charlotte in 1920 and operated
five offices there prior to the
merger.
As of March 31, 1983, BB&T
had total resources of approx
imately $1.41 billion while City
National had $76,987,000 in
total assets. At December 31,
1982, BB&T was ranked number
160 in size among the nation’s
banking institutions. The merger
brings BB&T total offices to 123
in 64 cities and towns in North
Carolina.
The merger was accomplished
by Branch Corporation, the
parent holding company of
BB&T, issuing 6000,000 shares
of its common stock in exchange
for all of the outstanding com
mon stock of City National,
which results in Branch Cor
poration now having approx
imately 5,500,000 shares
outstanding.
One Man's Weed Is Another Man's Mulche
Beautiful Butterfly Weed Back-Breaking Plant
Butterfly weed is one of the
most beautiful wild flowers to be
seen during the early summer.
Brilliant orange is the typical
color of this handsome member
of the milkweed family, but one
can sometimes observe red or
pale yellow forms along the
highways of North Carolina and
is much of the Eastern United
States.
While butterfly weed is a
milkweed by virtue of the struc
ture of its flowers-the means by
which botanists group plants in
to families-there are noteworthy
differences from other family
members. The sap of butterfly
weed is watery rather than
milky, and the leaves, which are
rough and heiiry, long, narrow
and pointed, are placed alter
nately up the stem, rather than
on opposite sides, typical of most
milkweeds.
Butterfly weed is so named
because it is a vital food resource
for some butterflies. Plurisy root
is another name for this orange
flowered milkwee. The dried
root once was a common herbal
remedy for pleurisy, pneumonia
and other lung diseases.
The botanical name for
milkweed is Asclepias, a name
that honors the ancient Greek
God of health who was renown
ed for his miraculous curative
powers.
The milkweeds also are
noticeable on roadsides in the
fall when the seed pods break
open to release dozens of
feathery parachutes. Each
parachute is attached to a flat
teardrop-shaped seed and is car
ried by wind currents to some
other raodside, open field or
wood’s edge.
The long silky seed hairs have
been used in war time and in
other periods of scarcity as
substitute for imported kapok as
the buoyant filling for amt-
tresses, floats and life preservers.
Butterfly weed has a long, thick
taproot that helps it survive in
the heat of dry roadsides and in
open fields with poor soil. It is a
good plant for a home garden or
a perennial border, but is very
difficult to transplant from the
wild. It is next to impossible to
dig up the whole taproot.
The plants are, however, easy
to grow from seed, and a hand
some, full-sized flowering speci-
ment can be permanently
established in the garden in two
years.
Another method for propaga
tion is by root cuttings, best done
in early spring before tap growth
has started. Portions of roots are
selected, cut into pieces two to
three inches long and buried in
moist sand into which some leaf
mold and soil have been mixed.
Since the resulting plants are
identical to the parent, this
method is especially useful to the
gardener wishing to increase
plants with an especially
desirable flower color.
Anyone that has ever grown a
vegetable garden knows weed
control can be a major problem.
Experienced gardeners rely on
mulches to take much of the
back breaking work out of this
dreadful job. Mulches not only
control weed growth, but also
conserve soil moisture and
modify soil temperatures.
In general, mulches fall into
two categories: 1. Organic
mulches that decompose over
time and cool the soil. 2. In
organic mulches which do not
decompose and warm the soil.
Realizing the soil is warm and
the vegetable plants are actively
growing, the use of an organic
mulch would be the logical
choice to use in the graden at
this time of the year. It is impor
tant that the soil is moist before
the mulch is applied in order to
keep it that way.
To mulch or not to mulch is a
decision each gradener has to
make on his or her own. It could
mean less work since little hoe
ing and cultivating will be re
quired. And after thinking about
it, spreading a mulch is easier
that chopping weeds anyway. In
return for mulching, the
gardener gets a better soil for
many seasons to come. In most
cases, some mulch is better than
no mulch.
Some common organic
mulching materials are: leaves,
pine needles, grass clippings, hay
and straw, sawdust, ground cor
ncobs, compost, p>eat moss,
newspapers and magazines.
There are advantages and disad
vantages for the organic
mulches.
Growers should be observant
while harvesting their wheat.
This year just like last was one
which favored diseases. These
diseases of course have hurt
yields. Prevalent this year is
powdery mildew, glume bloth,
and rust. All three are fungus
diseases and are favored by wet
ter than usual conditions.
Currently, the only defense
growers have against these
diseases is variety selection.
Resistance is available against
powdery mildew and rust.
Growers should select varieties
which perform well and have
resistance to these two diseases.
Detailed information on variety
characteristics is available from
the Cleveland County
Agricultural Extension Service.
Dairymen and Cattle Feeders
have choices in summer annuals
that can be used for grazing or
green chop. Sorghum-
sundangrass hybrids, hybrid sun-
dan grass and pearl millet are
common crops for summer feed.
In general, the dairymen
should never let these annuals
produce a seed head because
quality would be severly reduc
ed. If summer forage is needed,
select an adapted spiecies and
graze or harvest at early stages of
maturity.
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