jTTHE CHOWAN HERALD &
SECTION B
! • ' ' '
jp:‘- ; ,
We pray that Peace may
your companion, this
Christmas Season and al
ways!
t Edenton Motor Company
jflJf'f
Holiday time is here once again! and we takej
this happy occasion to wish every joy of thej
season to our good friends. It’s always aj
pleasure to serve you, and we thank youlj
\
'i
- ;.. t ; _ v _ 31
Hobbs Implement Co., Inc. I
YOUR JOHN DEERE DEALER H
31
«
Quail On The Fly
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 26 ,1968,
Mass Schedule
At St. Ann’s
Father Joseph J. Lash,
pastor of St. Ann’s Cath-,
olie Church, announces the
following schedule of
masses:
Tuesday, 5:30 P. M.;
Christmas, midnight and
8 A. M,; Saturday, 8 A. M.;
Sunday, 8 A. M.; Monday,
7 A. M.; Wednesday, 5:30
P M.
At St. Joan of Arc, Ply
mouth: Christmas, 10:30
A. M.; Friday, 5:30 P. M.;
Sunday, 10:30 A. M.
At All Souls’ in Colum
bia: Thursday, 6 P. M.;
Tuesday, 6 P. M.
Silent Anger
In savage silence the
baffled golfer deliberately
broke the offending club
across his knee and flung
it far into the rough.
“A silly thing to do,"
observed his opponent.
“It’s better than losing
one’s temper,’’ he muttered.
N. C. Blessed With Adequate Hunting Preserves
By JOEL ARRINGTON
Outdoor Editor, N. C. Travel
And Promotion Division
WEST END —Here and
there small patches of
snow remained on the
ground. Brown leaves still
clung on the blackjacks
and rattled dryly as we
brushed by. Two lean
pointers briskly worked
the oaks and open field in
the cold morning air, their
breath vaporizing in dense
clouds.
Jocko, the liver and
white, ranged widely with
his head high, checked
cover quickly, then moved
to the next likely spot.
Sam worked closely and
carefully, following each
scent in diligent search.
In the open weed field
far ahead of us, Jocko
locked into stone - rigid
point for an instant, took
a cautious half step and
froze again, his tail a
white vertical ramrod.
#6**^
And a Free box of tissue to you.
A Peoples Bank Savings Account is nothing to sneeze at.
Why? Because when you save with a Peoples Bank Pass
book Savings Account you earn daily interest and when you
save with a Peoples Bank Certificate of Deposit you earn a
big 5% interest. And right now, during the chilly winter
months, Peoples is giving away free boxes of'.tissue to
anyone who opens a new account or adds to their old
one. Peoples is a good place to keep your money warm.
Achoooooo! Gezundheit from Peoples.
*ft Bank®
& Trust Company
Member FDIC
Sam, closing fast, had his
nose to the ground and did
not see the point. Jack
Myrick shouted, “Whoa,
Sam,” and the dog lifted
his head, saw Jocko, and
backed him from a dist
ance of nearly 50 yards.
Myrick and I strided de
liberately past Sam. I
clicked off the safety,
then slowed behind Jocko,
wishing to prolong the ex
perience, savor the morn
ing, the dogs, the air.
What followed come to
mind as a slow - motion
movie, each event set
apart, separate explosive
whir of wings, picking a
bird angling away to the
right, stock up against
cheek, a little lead, the
burst of feathers, follow
through.
Sam retrieved the bob
white, as Jocko eagerly
cast out again for singles.
Plainly Jocko felt com
pelled to find more birds,
quicker and with more
style than Sam.
A few minutes later Sam
was locked on a single.
Approaching through scat
tered briars and broom
straw, I felt confident of
the shot, but the quail
burst away low and fast
toward a distant pine and
bramble thicket as I
fumbled with the safety.
When I finally fired and
missed, it was more a
curse than a practical
wing shot.
The other birds we
found at Pine Lake Shoot
ing Preserve flew well and
were challenging targets.
Just watching the dogs
work was worth the trip.
With available hunting
lands rapidly shrinking,
shooting preserves like
Pine Lake are the answer
to hunters’ dilema. Years
ago, most of us lived in
rural areas on small towns
with nearby farm land.
The mass population shift
to the cities has left num
erous sportsmen without a
place to hunt.
North Carolina has
more than 20 commercial
shooting preserves open to
public hunting. In addi
tion, a few operate on a
private or club basis. On
the public preserves, you
may hunt a half day for
S3O and take usually eight
pen-reared birds. Addi
tional quail may cost
about $2.50 each.
With the recent advent
of preserves, some long
time quail hunters have
sold their dogs and given
up hunting wild birds. The
cost of feeding a dog all
year, combined with the
sometimes difficult task of
finding birds, makes the
preserves attractive, par
ticularly for the sportsman
who hunts only a few
times a season.
Although most Tar Heel
preserves provide dogs, you
may bring your own. There
is no better way to give a
young dog experience than
on a preserve where birds
SECTION B
are in ample supply. It
may be possible to work
your puppy with an ex
perienced dog provided by
the manager.
Preserves which have
shooting most like wild
bird hunting release quail
before and periodically
throughout the season and
hold them on the area
with food plots. Hunters
who scoff at released bird
shooting should try the
birds at Pine Lake. There,
quail are raised in spaci
ous pens and fed on the
ground. When released,
they get along very well
in the swamps and fields
scattered throughout the
pieserve and are strong
fliers the day they are re
leased.
For a list of controlled
shooting preserves, write
the North Carolina Wild
life Resources Commis
sion. Box 291!), Raleigh,
N. C. 27602.