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PAGE 2 - WEST CRAVEN HIGHLIGHTS — OCTOBER 20.1988 Eastern Echoes By Gail Roberson Obituary William E. Gaskins Jr. William Earl “Billy” Gaskins Jr.. 48, died in Craven Regional Medical Center on Sunday. The funeral service was held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Wilker- son Funeral Chapel in Vance- boro by the Revs. Robert Worth ington and Verne Womack. Burial was in the Epworth Un- ited Methodist Church Cemetery. Gaskins, a native of Craven County, was a lifelong resident of the Epworth community. He was a 20-year employee of the Weyerhaeuser Co.’s New Bern plant. Surviving are three sons, Wil liam Earl Gaskins III, Roger Glen Gaskins and Johnny i^y Gaskins, of the home; his pa rents, Earl and Murrel Gaskins of the Epworth community; two sisters, Mrs. Linda Gaskins Jack- son of New Bern and Mrs, Ruth Gaskins Croom of Kinston; and a fiancee, Barbara Swindell Jor dan, of Rt. 3, Vanceboro. The family received firiends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. A Gift that remembers...^ \ t Memorial Gilts help ' I to peeveni and care for Lun^ Oiteate AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION The ChnitirvM Seal heoM • with Hie pros One mother describes her constant squabbles with her eleven-year old child. “It’s like being bitten to death by ducks,” she said. A father told his small son, “I don't care if our basement wall is cracking, stop telling everybody you come flrom a broken home.” They just can’t win. Parenting is hard stuff. Raising children is like playing golf... you keep think ing you’ll do better next time. The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she’d have children if she had it to do all over again. “Sure,” she replied, “but not the same ones.” At a symposium on risk taking, the speaker asked the parti cipants to imagine that he had placed a large I-beam about 40 feet long on the floor in front of the podium. He then selected an individual from the audience and asked, “If I gave you $20, would you walk across that I-beam?” The man enthusiastical ly assured the speaker that he would. The speaker continued. “Suppose I took the same bean and suspended it between two buildings, 50 stories above the street. Now would you walk across the I-beam for $20?” This time the fellow promptly answered, “No, I wouldn’t.” The speaker persisted. “Now, suppose I’m on top of one building, and I’m dangling one of your kids over the edge. You’re on the other building, and I say to you, ’If you don’t walk across the I-beam and get your kid. I’m going to drop him.’ “Would you then walk across the I-beam?” The fellow in the audience hesitated ever so slightly and then replied, “Which kid have you got?” Even the college classroom is not spared. A professor re turned to class with the graded exam papers and requested that all his students sit down. He then said: “If you stood up, it is conceivable that you might stand in a circle... in which case I could be arrested for maintaining a dope ring.” Children of all ages try our patience. Take, for instance, the exasperated piano teacher who finally told her pupil: “If you don’t behave yourself. I’m going to tell your parents you have talent.” And they try our sense of protectiveness too, such as the mother who was trying to reassure her little boy, who was afraid of the dark. “Just remember,” she told him, “God is always there with you.” The kid answered, “Yeah, I know God's here, but I just wish he had skin on.” In return, however, nothing tries a child's patience like a father who dawdles with his homework. Someone has said that there are many children in our world today who are a handful simply because they are too seldom an armful. Maybe we should repeat that sentence out loud along with our coffee each morning. We ought to stop analyz ing our children to death, and reading tons of “how-to” and “self-help” books and, instead, revert to some of the tactics all of us learned in the first grade. Most of the things we really need to know about how to live, what to do, and how to be, we learned in tjiat lyrst classroom: Share everything. Play, fair. Don’t hit pdople.^Put things back. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. And warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Everything we need to live a balanced life is in there some where. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work... everyday some. Our first grade guidance is the golden rule for the rest of our lives. If we had only realized that, our children wouldn’t be such a hand ful, now. School may be closed for youngsters this summer, but it’s in fill] swing for largemouth bass on lakes throughout the nation. Between now and mid autumn, anglers can take advan tage of some of the most spec tacular displays of bass activity of the year, the gathering of huge schools of fish ravenously fee ing on miimows they’ve trapped near the surface. "It’s one of the most exciting times to be on the water, because you can often catch a bass on ev ery cast,” explains Johnson Out boards Pro Staff member David Wharton, a former professional guide on Lake Sam Rayburn in Texas. “I have seen the surface of a lake turned into a white ftoth as the bass splash and chop into swarms of baitfish. Often, you can hear the fionzy before you even see it.” On some lakes well known for schooling bass, anglers adds pair of binoculars to their fishing tackle and continually scan the water for signs of surfacing activ ity. Often, diving sea gulls pro vide the signal, for they’re feed ing on the shad fiom the air while bass are feeding on them fi'om below. Schooling bass readily hit lures, says Wharton, because when the fish are gathered like this, they are feeding actively. What's happening is that as the water warms in summer and shad are hatched, they become easy prey for bass. The large- mouths continually circle the swarms of shad and gradually force them to the surface where they have even less chance of escape. Then, when the bait is effec tively trapped this way, the bass start slashing through them. "At this time, practically any lure that resembles a shad wiU get a strike,” notes Wharton. “I think a small chrome or clear topwater lure, worked very fast over the surface, is one of the most effective choices, but di ving lures or the lead bodied tailspiimers can also be effective. "Tile size of the lure can truly mean the difference between success and fidlure in school bass fishing,” adds Wharton. “Overall, I prefer to use a smaller lure, but I still by to match it to the size of the baitfish.” Schooling bass are notoriously famous for spooking easily and submerging, so Wharton tries to do his fishing fiom a distance. What’s requited, he explains, is a long, limber rod with light line that allows him to make exba- long casts. Slowly and carefiilly, under trolling motor power, he then eases his way closer. When the bass do submerge, Wharton changes ftom a topwa ter plug to a small Vi-ounce white maribou jig and an ulba-light ac tion rod. ’nie lure is fished in the same area where the bass were schooling on the surface, and is aUowed to sink. With the jig near the bottom, Wharton uses a swimming, hopping retrieve to draw strikes. After submerging, the bass are not necessarily scattering. In stead, they’re simply riding herd on the bMtfish, corraling them again and graduaUy forcing them back to the surface. When they’re on top, the bass will begin feed ing once more. "Normally, schooling bass weigh three pounds or less,” says the Johnson Outboards Pro Staff member, "but occasionally lar ger bass can be caught by fishing below the feeding spree on the surface. “Normally, schooling bass weigh three pounds or less,” says the Johnson Outboards Pro Staff member, “but occasionally lar ger bass can be caught by fishing below the feeding spree on the surface. “For this. I like to use a deep diving crankbait, casting it a far as I can across the school. I just use a straight, fast retrieve and bring the lure back under the sur face fish. Big bass seem to be lazy and let the smaller fish do all the work. They stay below and feed on injured shad falling to the bottom.” Another lure Wharton recom mends for catching larger bass under a surfacing school is the plastic worm. He rigs it Texas- style with a slip sinker and lets it drop to the bottom where he be gins hopping it back to the boat. "When bass are actually down on the botton,” he says, “you can reaUy catch them with a worm. Much of the time, however, the bass are suspended and are a lit tle harder to catch. When you do get a strike, you have to know the depth so you can get your lure down there again.” Certainly one of the interesting aspects of bass schooling activ ity, says the well-known tourna ment pro, is the fact schooling fiequently takes place between mid-morning and mid- aftemoon; and it occurs in the same area year after year. Normally the bass and shad re late to some type of bottom fea ture, such as a channel, sub merged roadbed, or underwater mound. At times, however, the fish also school over deep flats, and even in flooded timber. “When bass school in flooded timber, you may as well plan on losing your share of fish and lures,” laughs Wharton, who has lost his share of both as a guide. "The bass will simply wrap your line around a tree or stump and break free.” Weather-wise, Wharton sug gests looking for schooling activ ity to be most noticeable on calm, windless days when the surface is glassy slick. He has seem times when the fish also school just as frantically on cloudy, windy and rainy days. It all depends, he lieves, on the mood of the .bass and the location of the shad7~* Some Sports Myths Are Still Around And Hard To Shake By ntEDERICK D. AVSIIN m, H.D. The world of sports has many myths. Football players once considered steak and eggs the ideal pre-game breakfast. Then they warmed up with a set of deep knee bends. In the off season, they shunned lifting weights since it woulg only ihake them stiff and muscle-bound for competition. While the above myths may have been eradicated fiom the world of football, many myths still cling to America’s g^s, fitness clubs and playing fields. MYTH li A good way to looe weight io to iwcot olT fat in a sweat- loit. In at least one instance (not in Washington), a as i young player Medicine exercises to avoid heat stress and dehydration. The body loses wa ter rapidly when exercising and this water should be replaced promptly. Adequate water in take can improve performance. TIjp yrater,,^opljL be cold be-. ■ cause the coldentM solution, th&' more rapidly it'tfiill be emptied" flrom the stomach'and delivered to the body. MYTH 3i Kicking cxcrciaec, bouncing toc-tonchcc, and other foot- action otrctching excrciacs arc a good way to looocn up muoclco before a game. The purpose of stretching ex ercises is to make muscles more pliable so they will not tear. The trouble with bouncing and other fast exerclMs is that the sqdden strain of a muscle will likely trig ger a reflex action that causes the muscle to contract. In the end, you will have muscles that are tighter, not looser. Stretching ex ercises should be done slowly. West Craven f Highlights Cravon County's Family Waakly NAwspapar P.O.Box 487 Vanceboro, N.C. 28586 (Main St. Across From Post Office) Published Each Thursday Ashley B. Fulrall, Jr. Publisher Mika Voss Editor Terri Jamieson Advertising Manager And Staff Writer Edith Hodges Office Manager Office Hours Mon 8:30 am -10:30 am Thurs. & Fri. 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Telephone 244-0780 or 946-2144 IN-COUNTY RATES Single Copy 25' 1 Year *7.35 2Years’11.55 3 Years *15.75 OUT-OF-COUNTY RATES 1 Year ‘8.40 2 Years ‘12.60 3 Years ‘16.80 Above Includes N.C- Tax. Payable in advance. Subscribers desiring their Highlights termi nated at expiration should notify us of this intention, otherwise we will consider it their wish to conti nue to ti^ilyo the paper and they will be for it. U.S.P.S. 412-110 Second Class Postage Paid Vanceboro, N.C. Member: N.C. Press Association died of heat ex- Chest haustion from wearing a rubber sweatsuit under his football uni form. The coach explained that they were trying to “melt” some of the fat off.” You cannot melt fat off of an individual. The body eliminates heat excess by evaporation of sweat from the skin. You need as much skin exposed to the air as possible to allow the heat to escape. It is now recognized that shorts and cut-off T-shirts are ideal for vigorous physical exer cise. MYTH 2t Yon ihoiild avoid drink- lag cold water during exerebe bc- caiuc It wM give yon cramp*. 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