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The antics of Jaycee Bill Shepherd are getting to be a special feature of the annual Miss Watauga Pageant. Saturday night, Shepherd capered across stage, amazing the audience with his “baton” twirling ability. Shepherd is manager of Seven Devils Development on Highway 105. (Staff photo) Know The Weather BY E. H. SIMS What does smoke tell us about the coming weather? Does soot sometimes play the role of weather forecaster? Both smoke and soot some times indicate the nature of approaching weather. Most often they tell of approaching J" rain or bad weather. Smoke that curls downward from a smokestack indicates unstable weather, probably rain or even a storm. Soot which falls down a chimney into a fireplace be low indicates a falling bar ometer, and the approach of rain. Oak Trees Co] II iparison March of Dimes Physician Opposes BY M. E. GARDNER N. C. State University A man called me several days ago and wanted to know the differences between: a live oak (Quercus virginiana), a laurel oak (Quercus lauri folia), a Darlington oak (Quer cus laurifolia Darlington), and a willow oak (Quercus phel los). This was a rather large order for a quickie answer so I suggested that I do a little reviewing and call him back. Thinking that you might also be interested I am pasteng the information along to my read ers; primarily in the lower Piedmont and Coastal Plain. The live oak—This species is considered to be one of the aristocrats of the oak family. Recent Births Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Car roll Main, Route 2, Boone, girl, Dec. 3. , Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Glenn, Route 1, Sugar Grove, boy, Dec. 5. A Week Of Peanuts Oxford, England — Oxford student Richard Lee recently won a pound bet that he could live off peanuts alone for a week. During the week he consumed four pounds of pea nuts and washed it down with twenty-four bottles of beer, losing eight pounds in the process. Smoke that rises steadily, not necessarily vertically, in dicates good weather ahead Vertical smoke columns re veal a lack of wind, or frontal movement; this sign could mean that no weather change is imminent for a day or so in winter, through summer, the value of a vertical smoke column as a weather indicator in highly questionable. It attains tremendous size, is long-lived and rather slow in growth habit. It branches low into massive and widespread ing limbs and forms a broad, dense, rather round - topped crown of dark, glossy, ever green leaves. It resists storm damage and is comparatively free of insect and disease troubles. Needs plenty of room. The laurel oak—Fairly large in size, good form and semi evergreen foliage. In many respects it is similar to the willow oak but is not as long lived and is more subject to storm damage than either the live oak or the willow. The Darlington oak — The Darlington is a variety of the laurel oak but is smaller and shorter lived than the laurel. Nursery stock of this variety is grown by some of our eastern Carolina nurserymen and its use in landscape planning seems to be on the increase in our Coastal Plain and also in South Carolina. Give it room. The willow oak—This is a favorite. It is large, long liv ed, and a fast-growing decidu ous tree. Slender branches with light green willow-like leaves give the tree a graceful appearance. It is, perhaps, one of the most popular oaks for land scape use in the lower Pied mont and Coastal Plain. It needs plenty of room, 60 feet or more. For this reason it is not suitable for park strips or for planting between the sidewalk and the street curb. 1 SHOP EARLY MAIL EARLY use ZIP CODE Institutions for Birth Defect Victims The human stampede is under way the moment the tall doctor strides into the waiting room. With a flying tackle, a five year-old, born with nine birth defects, catches him around one thigh, and refuses to let go. A little girl, who’s only four and has been blind since birth, knows instinctively he’s ar rived and gleefully latches on to his belt. “A typical day,” Dr. Paul H. LaMarche says cheerfully to a visitor as he peels off the children and sidesteps a pha lanx of advancing mothers. The embattled doctor is di rector of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Center at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. He is a pediatrician who feels strongly that the last place for a defective child, with few ex ceptions, is an institution for the handicapped. “We regard it here as part of the Bill of Rights that all of these children with birth defects are entitled to the best diagnosis and treatment, re gardless of race, finances or superstitions of the past,” Dr. LaMarche says. a aecaae ago, even five years ago, almost every one of these children would have been sent to some institution. There they would have been forgotten as they wasted away and sometimes died. These tragedies still happen. But more and more of these afflict ed children are with their par ents in their own homes, where they belong, learning to be come useful citizens.” A tousled five-year-old yells “Hi, Doc!” and buries a small fist in the pediatrician’s mid riff. “Craig here thinks he’s an other Jack Dempsey. Maybe some day he will be. He was born with a good part of his spinal cord, membranes and NURSE COMFORTS young patient during check-up visit to March of Dimes Birth Defects Center at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. nerves sticking out of his back. We repaired the opening and today he swings by his knees from the monkey bars at school and c’imbs his neighbor’s trees to swipe apples. But most medical thinking at the time of Craig’s birth was that a meningomyelocele always meant you had a paraplegic on your hands—total paraly sis below the waist.” Another five-year-old named Tommy is a classic case in the annals of children who have survived despite multiple con genital malformations. ‘‘Tommy has known just about every severe birth defect in the book,” the pediatrician says, “from dislocated hips and elbows to cleft palate and curvature of the spine. “Despite all this, Tommy’s life now is pretty much that of normal kids. He plays ball and gets into the usual small-boy mischief. He’s in the stream of life where he belongs.” Gilda, born without eyes, has a radiant smile although in her sightless world there would seem little to smile about. “The basic aim,” Dr. LaMarche says, “is to get Gilda into nursery school as soon as possible. Artificial eyes will improve her appear ance, minimize comment from the unthinking, and help elim inate the stigma that cruelly but inevitably attaches to the blind.” Thus the mending of these small defective bodies pro gresses each week at the Birth Defects Center in Provi dence, just as it does in San Francisco and Denver and Chicago and at more than 70 other March of Dimes Centers across the nation. } We've Wrapped Up A Very Varsity Men s Wear E. King St. Boone, N. 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