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FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1983
Blk. Postage Paid
BOILING SPRINGS NC
Broyhill
To Meet
Townspeople
Monday
WASHINGTON—Residents
of Boiling Springs will soon get
the opportunity to meet Rep.
James Broyhill (R-NC) face-to-
face.
Broyhill will be conducting his
annual district office hours Mon
day, August 8, at the Snack
Shop restaurant in Boiling Spr
ings.
“If you’re having a problem
with the federal government, or
you just want to let me know
how you feel about an issue
before the Congress, come on
out and meet with me”, Broyhill
said. “No appointments are
necessary. People who stop by
will be seen in the order in which
they arrive, and I will stay until
each person has talked with me
or one of my staff assistants.”
The format will be one-on-one
sessions with the Congressman
or a member of his staff.
Broyhill will be at the
restaurant from 2:30 to 3 p.m.
Bondurant
To Speak
To G-W
Grads
William L. Bondurant, ex
ecutive director of the Mary
Reynolds Babcock Foundation
in Winston-Salem, N.C., will be
guest speaker for Gardner-Webb
College’s 1983 summer com
mencement exercises.
The 10 a.m. ceremony will be
held on Saturday, August 6 at
the Boiling Springs Baptist
Church.
Bondurant joined the Mary
Reynolds Babcock Foundation
in 1968 as an executive associate
and became executive director in
1974.
During a two-year leave of
absence from the foundation,
beginning in 1973, Bondurant
served as secretary of the depart
ment of administration for the
state of North Carolina. In that
position Bondurant was respon
sible for the state’s budget office,
personnel office, planning office,
and the management systems of
fice, among other divisions.
Bondurant began his profes
sional career at Davidson Col
lege, where he was director of
alumni activities and legal ad
visor. He later became ad
ministrative assistant to the
president of Davidson while con
tinuing as legal advisor to the
college.
Bondurant received a
bachelor’s degree in economics
from Davidson College in 1958
and a degree in law from the
Duke University School of Law
three years later. He was admit
ted to the North Carolina State
Bar Association in 1961.
Bondurant is active in a
number of organizations in
cluding the Council of Founda
tions, where he serves as
treasurer on the board of direc
tors. He is also on the board of
trustees for the Southeastern
Council of Foundations, serving
as chairman of the board from
1980 until 1982. He currently is
chairman of the Donors Forum
of Forsyth County and is on the
board of directors of the Na
tional Committee for Responsive
Philanthropy.
A Heap Of Work
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There’s “no end” to the uses
people find for the sand he
pumps up from the Sandy Run
creek near Cliffside, said contrac
tor Wylie Lee.
Lee has been raising sand
from the creebled since January
as a sideline to a contracting
business. Sand is sold for
building foundation fill, for mix
ture with garden soil, and for
road beds, he said.
Lee’s equipment can bring up
four to five feet of sand a day,
which he says is redeposited by
the creek within a few days,
“especially if there is a rain.”
What else has come up besides
sand? Only one fish, said Lee.
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to learn the important things Surratte of Rockford Road is reminaing school-less days.
Goldenrod Nothing To Sneeze
At Among English Gardens
Some people have had
hayfever since spring began, trig
gered first by oak and pine
pollen, later grasses and even
roses. But right now the worst
culprit is blooming.
Ragweed is shedding
thousands of bushels of pollen
into the air, and every bushel
contains billions of grains. Every
grain is a possible cause for
hayfever in those who are
susceptible.
Ragweed pollen is very light
and dry. It sheds into the air
spontaneously, and once picked
up by a light breeze, it can float
many miles.
V arieties of ragweed, both tall
and low, are found wherever
there is fairly decent soil, either
wet or dry. The pollen is prodic-
ed in insignificant little green
flowers, crowded on nodding
spikes.
The plant is not insect-
pollinated, so it doesn’t need col
orful flowers an an attraction.
Give the stem one shake to see
how easy it is to make the pollen
dust fly.
Pity the poor goldenrod,
blooming at the same time, but
much showier, with graceful
braches of golden flowers. The
ragweed is not especially
noticeable, while the goldenrod
catches the eye, so the goldenrod
gets the blame for all the
hayfever miseries.
The number of people actually
affected by goldenrod is
miniscule. In the first place, its
pollen doesn’t float through the
air at all. It is heavy, sticky and
picked up by flies, bees, but
terflies, ants and birds. We
should remove once and for all
the hayfever stigma attached to
goldenrod.
Trees Coming
Up Empty
Parsimonious rainfall during
July has parched even large oak
trees and will continue to cause
problems for dairymen and
livestock producers this fall.
In Cleveland County, quite a
number of red oaks have not sur
vived the lush spring to celebrate
the first day of summer, or
witness the fourth of July
fireworks.
Away from the treeline and
out in the fields, corn is drying
rapidly due to the drought, and
many growers are thinking
about cutting it early.
Although drought alone is not
killing the large oak trees this
year, the sparse rainfall of the
last three years has dropped the
water table below the reach of
the tree’s roots.
Red oaks are shallow-rooted,
and some of the older trees are
unable to adapt to the lower
water table.
The dry weather has also forc
ed farmers to harvest their corn
early to avoid mitrate poisoning
when the silage is fed to cattle.
Drought upsets normal plant
growth, and nitrates move from
the soil to the plant in concen
trated amounts.
F eeding high levels of nitrates
to livestock can result in reduced
feed consumption, lowered pro
duction, abortions, and even
death, according to county ex
tension personnel.
Remember The Flower
Of Nostalgia?
Some people have nostalgic
recollections of Grandma put
ting a leaf of rose-scented
geranium at the bottom of a
glass of apple jelly.
Or, they may remember the
fragrance of the leaves in the
sachets kept in her closets or
dresser.
The popularity of fragrant
geremiums reached a peak in
England and American in Vic
torian times, and enthusiasm for
them has once more begun to
rise.
Scented geraniums are
primarily grown for their
fragrance, although the leaf
shapes can be interesting as well,
as suggested by names like fern
leaf, skeleton rose, and oak leaf,
in addition to the usual geanium
leaf types. A few produce a few
bright blooms in winter and
some flower more abundantly in
the summer, but, in the main,
the flowers are small and in
significant.
Among the seven types of
scented geraniums-rose, mint,
lemon, fruit, nut, spice and
pungent-the first three are most
readily detected and clearly
defined by ordor, most
noticeable on bruising a leaf.
In studying the odors, it is best
to handle one type at a time,
washing the hands in between,
since the essential oils blend on
the skin to produce a delightful
but mixed fragrance like pot-
pourrV.
These aromatic plaivts do >jve\\
indoors in the winter as well as>
outdoors in the garden during
other seasons. Good practice is
to pinch them back in the sum
mer to make the plants compact.
Cutting for new plants are
usually made in August so that
the rooted cuttings may be pot
ted up in September. They can
tahen adjust for a time before be
ing brought indoors for the
winter; they like humidity in the
air but are tolerant of their soil
becoming dry between water
ings.
Many examples of scented
leaved geraniums can be found
in the N.C. Botanical Garden in
Chapel Hill, and recipes for us
ing some of them in potpourris
are available.
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There are at least 75 varieties
of native goldenrods in the East.
While all are yellow except one,
there is an astonishing diversity
in form, height and growth
habit. The flowering stalks can
be flat-topped, cylindrical or
plume-shaped. Some goldenrods
grow in dry areas and some in
bogs.
The showiness of its flowers,
necessary to attract pollinators,
makes goldenrod a great garden
plant. Plant nurseries now
hybridize it, giving it such flatter
ing names as “Cloth of Gold”
and “Golden Shower.”
English gardeners for a cen
tury have included our native
goldenrods among their peren
nial garden treasures. So let’s get
goldenrod off the hook. Its
sticky, heavy pollen is not flying
through the air to make anyone
sneeze.
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The writing spider is a study in patience as it weaves on a
summer afternoon in a Cleveland County sunflower field.