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News
Briefs
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Children and young people in
the Boiling Springs area are in
vited to participate in the
children’s and youth choir pro
gram of Boiling Springs Baptist
Church. College-Youth Choir
New Member Orientation begins
Sunday, August 14th at 6:30
p.m. in the church choir room.
Children’s Choir Enrollment
Day will be held after school on
Wednesday, September 7th. The
church van will pick up children
from school at 2:30 p.m.
Children who do not have a
choir at their church or who do
not attend church are especially
welcome. For further informa
tion, call the church office at
434-6244.
Orientation will be held on
Wednesday, August 17 at 10:30
a.m. and at 1:30 p.m. at Crest
Junior High School. All new and
transfer students are encouraged
to attend this orientation.
All schedules will be available
for pick-up at this time.
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John White returned from a short absence to vance, one reported, was chosen because lohn
find that his friends and fellow employees at has been known to do some clandestine auto
College Gulf had draped his car in honor of artwork, himself. His enjoyment of this "gift"
his 19th birthday Monday. This type of obser- was unfortunately not recorded.
For 80 Grads
“It’s Your Day”
Watering Garden A Shallow Relief
A vivid demostration of the
long-term effects of summer
frought is seen in the death of
some large trees along roadsides
and in towns as a result of
several years of water strees.
And a striking statistic emphasiz
ing the needs for water: a single
corn plant requires about 50
gallons of water during its
growth cycle.
, An occasional shower or sud
den brief dowpour does very lit
tle to alleviate the water stress of
plants during a summer drought.
It is instructive to dig a little way
down in a garden bed after such
a shower to see how dry the
earth still remains. What is really
needed is a slow, soaking rain.
When watering, therefore,
water should be applied slowly
over a long period. Shallow sur
face watering has a perverse ef
fect; it forces plants to produce
more root growth near the sur
face, making them even more
vulnerable to drought!
A long soak once a week is
thus much more useful than a lit
tle water every day. Many
Southern plants wilt during the
heat of the day but recover in
the cooler evenings. If they re
main wilted in the cool of the
evening and early mornings, it is
time to bring out the hose for a
long soaking, and hope for rain.
If you have questions about
the individual water re
quirements of the plants you
grow (some need much more
water than others), call the N.C.
Botanical Garden at
(919)967-2246 or visit the garden
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“You worked hard for this
day, but not really for this day,”
William Bondurant told
Gardner-Webb College’s 81 sum
mer graduates. “You worked
hard to develop the person you
want to be from this day on.”
Bondurant, who is the ex
ecutive director of the Mary
Reynolds Babcock Foundation
in Winston-Salem, N.C., was
guest speaker at Gardner-Webb’s
summer commencement exer
cises held Saturday, August 6.
During the ceremony, held at
the Boiling Springs Baptist
Church, 69 bachelor of science,
9 bachelor of arts, one associate
of arts and two master of arts
degrees were conferred. The
honorary doctor of divinity
degree was also conferred.
During his commencement
address, Bondurant stressed to
the graduates that a college
education alone does not make a
person successful. It is what the
student does with that education
after graduation that is impor
tant.
“If your college experience has
helped you raise your own ex
pectations of yourself as an ac
tive enthusiastic participant in
the larger world outside, it and
you have succeeded in the task
which we celebrate today,” said
Bondurant.
Before Bondurant addressed
the graduates, the college confer
red the honorary doctor of
divinity degree upon Alex Booth
Jr., director of Fruitland Baptist
Bible Institute in Henderson
ville, N.C.
Booth who began his career at
Fruitland in 1964 earned a
bachelor’s degree from King Col
lege in Bristol, Tenn., and a
master’s of divinity degree from
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He has
also done advanced study at
Yale Divinity School, North
Carolina State University and
Southeastern at Yale Divinity
School, North Carolina State
University and Southeastern
Seminary.
Before joining the staff at
Fruitland, Booth served as
minister in churches in Ten
nessee, North Carolina and
Maryland.
He has served on the board of
trustees of Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, the first
alumnus of the seminary to fill a
trustee role and has served as
secretary of the Southern Baptist
Adult Education Association.
Gardner-Webb College con
ferred 80 associates, bachelor
and master’s degree during the
1983 summer commencement
ceremony.
Receiving degrees during the
commencement exercises were
the following;
Janie Marie Camp, Manage
ment, Shelby, N.C.; Sherry An
nette Canipe, Early Childhood
Education, Shelby, N.C.; Gladys
Marie Hunt Davenport, Social
Science, Shelby, N.C.; Melissa
Lynne Frazier, Management,
Shelby, N.C.; Pamela Kay Har
ris, Intermediate Education,
Shelby, N.C.; Glenda Kay
Laney Harvell, Summa Cum
Laude, Intermediate Education,
Shelby, N.C.; Lisa Kay Ledford,
Early Childhood Education,
Cum Laude, Shelby, N.C.;
Phillip Ronald Rice, Manage
ment Information Systems, Boil
ing Springs, N.C.
Telling It To
The Congressman
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Taking advantage of a visit by Rep. James Broyhill to Boil
ing Springs last Monday, Max Wease talks over a matter with
the congressman at a table at the Snack Shop. In Cleveland all
day Monday, at various locations, Broyhill was here as part of
his annual tour of the 10th District, which he represents.
Cleveland Tech
Classes Begin
The Continuing Education
Department of Cleveland
Technical College has scheduled
the following courses:
Chine Painting beginning and
advanced begins August 15,
from 7-9 p.m. at the Senior
Center. The class will meet each
Monday evening until October
24. The instructor will be Doris
Jones. Total Hours 20. The
registration fee is $ 15.00
Cleveland Technical College
will sponsor a Notary Public
course on Monday, August 29,
at 6 p.m. on the campus in room
222. Lynn Wilson and Sylvia
Dixon will instruct. This course
is required for persons wishing to
make application for a notary
commission.
Registration will be held at the
class meeting. Anyone wanting
to enroll in the course may call
4844015 for reservation. A fee
of $10 will be charged, although
persons age 65 and older may
enroll free.
Chapel Hill Professors Batty
Despite associating bats with
madness and the supernatural,
man has long wondered at the
animals’ ability to navigate the
night sky, to home in on flying
prey with uncanny accuracy and
to avoid crashing into the walls
of caves that stand in absolute
darkness.
Understanding that ability has
come slowly, however, because
man cannot hear most of the
sounds a bat makes. In 1794, ex
periments by two naturalists sug
gesting that bats get around with
the help of their ears instead of
their eyes were ridiculed and
soon forgotten.
Jamaica leading a team that in
cludes this wife. Dr. Miriam
Henson, a research associate pro
fessor of otolaryngology; wildlife
photographer and physics
teacher Russell Hansen; Blake
Wilson, a senior research
engineer at North Carolina’s
Research Triangle Institute; and
UNC-CH graduate students
James Kobler and Allen Bishop.
wavelength of energy-such as
sound or light4hat results from
the source of the energy and its
receiver getting closer together
or farther apart from each other.
“A common example is the in
creasing pitch of a train whistle
as the train approaches someone
standing near the tracks and the
sudden drop in pitch as the train
passes by,” he said.
In a recent interview, Henson
said the transmitter, coupled
with a new photographic recor
ding system, should teach them a
lot about how the anatomy and
physiology of the bat’s ear af
fects its behavior.
And it wasn’t for another cen
tury and a half that man proved
the creatures had evolved a
remarkably sophisticated sonar
system.
Now, for the first time, scien
tists at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill are lear
ning what bats hear during the
pursuit and capture of insects.
“The ear of the bat is basically
similar to the ears of other mam
mals, but other mammals aren’t
continuously making and
responding to sounds,” he said.
‘That’s what makes the bat one
of the best models for studying
how the brain processes auditory
information.”
Whether the bats compensate
for echoes returning from sta
tionary objects like trees or from
insects or from both is a question
Henson’s team hopes to answer.
The UNC-CH scientist has
demonstrated that bats adjust
the sounds they emit so that the
echoes from trees will return at
about 61 kilohertz, a narrow fre
quency band to which the
mustache bat’s ear is particularly
sensitive. He said he thinks
echoes from insects pass in and
out of that range.
The researchers have
developed a computer-linked
radio transmitter weighing less
than a gram that Jamaican
mustache bats wear like a hat
while hunting. Connected to the
animal’s inner ear by an elec
trode, the device enables the
scientists to “see” the high fre
quency sounds the bag emits and
to record how the bat responds
to echoes returning from flutter
ing insects and other objects.
Dr. O. Williams Henson, pro
fessor of anatomy in the UNC-
CH School of Medicine, directs
the research. Currently, he is in
the mountains of central
Henson said he and his col
leagues are particularly in
terested in how bats alter the fre
quency of sounds they produce
while careening at high speed
through dense jungle vegetation.
They also want to know how the
only mammals that can fly
perceive jamming signals that in
sects make during their frantic
efforts to escape.
A key element in the research,
he said, is understanding the way
bats compensate for the Doppler
effect, a natural phenomenon
that has been incorporated into
some radar systems.
The Doppler effect, he ex
plained, is the change in the
“One might compare this to
running at night through a forest
where there are little lights at
tached to each tree,” Henson
said.
“If one of those lights sudden
ly started, blinking, it would be
very easy to find because all of
the other lights would be shining
steadily. We think bats use
sound in a similar way to locate
insects.”
Another question is whether
bats can identify different kinds
of insects by their different wing
beat frequencies.
A third goal is to evaluate and
perfect the radioelemetry system
they devised which has never
been used outside the laboratory
before.
“Although I developed the
transmitter in 1964, the problem
has been incorporating the com
puter and photography into the
system to show exactly where
the bat is and what he’s doing at
any given instant and where his
insect prey is,” Henson said.
‘This gets very complicated.
Two key advantages the new
system has over earlier equip
ment are that remote
microphones that pick up ex
traneous sounds are no longer
needed and the electrode
monitors exactly what happens
in the bat’s inner ear without
disturbing the bat and without
interference from the bat’s heart
beat.
Although the UNC-CH team
is confining itself to basic
research, Henson said the new
knowledge they generate on
animal sonar may benefit other
scientists who are trying to
develop improved navigational
aids for the blind.
One such device, based on bat
sonar, already had been used
successfully in a headset that
helps blind children walk and
run without bumpint into things.
The bad reputation bats have
in Western societies is mostly
undeserved, Henson said, and he
noted that they have long been a
symbol of good luck in parts of
the Orient.
Numbering in the millions in
some caves, some bat species
consume up to half their own
weight in insects each day, he
said. In addition, their droppings
make excellent fertilizer, and
some plants rely almost ex
clusively on bats for pollination.
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