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PAGE SIX-C Tar Heel Outdoors By JOEL ARRINGTON MARKERS ISLAND, N. C. —Jack McCana has a new and better way to hunt rails. Rather than waiting for an extreme high tide and search ing for someone willing to pole him. through a marsh— which is the usual procedure in Tar Heel rail hunting—Mc- Cann shuns the push-pole and couldn’t care less about the tide. He hunts only the high est marshes and uses a boat only for transportation to rail infested islands off Shackle ford Banks not far from his motel and marina on Harkers Island. Poling a flat-bottom skiff over a flooded marsh is fre quently a back-breaking chore, even if you can find someone willing to do it. Extreme high tides that are ordinarily necessary for good rail hunt ing are infrequent during the season that runs from the first of September through the first week of November. The secret of McCann's marsh henning success is a dog named Sam. Sam is a Labrador retriev er, black as marsh mud, and a former Carolinas’ field trial champion. The dog is getting along in years now, has a terminal heart-worm condition and is down in his back from a long-age encounter with an automobile. But he is a genius on rails. McCann has trained the dog to smell out birds and flush them, usually in shotgun range, and to retrieve down ed game from water or land. On opening day of rail sea son, I saw a demonstration of Sam’s skills along with Mc- Cann and Joe Suggs of Rocky Mount. McCann had previously barged an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) to the marsh on the east end of Shackleford Bank within sight of the Cape Lookout 'Lighthouse. Sam and a co-worker named Ginney, a fine marsh henner in her own right, hit the beach running. Suggs and McCann boarded the ATV and I followed along with a camera. We hadn’t gone far when McCann stop ped the'Vehicle and motioned for Suggs to get out and get ready. “Sam’s making game there, 1 he said, as Suggs slipped num- - ber eight* into hfs 20-gauge. The dog’s tail wds wagging energetically and his ears perked intelligently as he tracked a creeping marsh hen. Then the bird flushed, rase slowly at first, caught, the wind and was swept rapidly away. Suggs shouldered his gun, swung carefully and dropped the bird in a little creek not far away. Both Sam and Ginney raced for the rail, but the younger dog reached it first after swimming the creek. She re turned it to McCann, who moaned in mock disdain. “That’s the trouble with owning the dogs,” he said. “I have to carry all the birds”. It was like that, more or less, for nearly three hours, Sunday School Lesson Continued from Page 4 our lives sometimes more | than once. We have many i things in our make-up which we, like Jacob, must strive to overcome selfish preoccupa tion with our own welfare— disregard for the rights and, feelings of others over-ac tive concern with materialis tic, earthly things the ab sence of concern with our spiritual welfare. Jacob’s spiritual pilgrim age was long and fraught with anxieties. Ours can be! no less. But we must learn from the experience of oth ers in order that our own ex periences may be less pain ful, less shattering. Jacob was assured (because it was God’s will) of his birthright, but he was too impatient to claim it He suffered but he grew spiritually in that suffering and finally came in to his own. We are assured of OUR birthright in Christ; I if we are not worthy of it, we must strive to attain worthiness but with pati ence, insight and understand ing in oar souls. (Thane o—■seats baaed espyrfgkfri by the latema- Renal CoaacE of BeUgfans Eteeatfen, and wed by per- One in every *> prescboo}- age children in the United States fa affected by amblyo pia (lazy aye) or other vision probldbe which can usually be corrected if discovered and treated before school age. ' during which time McCann and Suggs missed a few, but came within three birds of filling their collective limit of 30. Clapper rails are little hunted anywhere and are quite abundant in salt marsh es from Cape Lookout to the South Carolina state line. They are common, but less abundant, north of Lookout. We have four species of rails. The king rail is a freshwater marsh bird and in North Carolina is found most ly in Currituck Sound marsh es. The Virginia rail is small- SUPER RIGHT " UAUTY HEAVY CORN ' FED IILw mtm 1 |fl H U »J m \ CUBED ROUND OR SIRLOIN TIP STEAK Lb. sl.lß . . „ ASP SUPER MARKET ■■■■■■ ■ ALLGOOD BRAND NUMBER ONE ‘ "SLIGHT" QUALITY . 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McCann fa offering this sea son a rail hunting guide ser vice out of his Calico Jack’s Inn. To my knowledge, this fa the only place in the state where such service is avail able. His fee fa sls per hunter, with boat, motor, dogs and guide furnished for a four-hour hunt. It sure beats poling. Social Security Questions-Answers By DONALD & MOWS Q. Since I am not going to school during the summer, will my student social secur ity benefits stop? A. Not if you are plan ning to return to school in the fall. Q. I became totally disabl ed on December 31, IBM. How soon can I get disability payments started? A. There fa a waiting peri od of six calendar months before payments may begin. This means that July fa the first month for which you can receive a check. Pay ments for July will be re ceived around August 3rd. I«?«e SktAUtST CKIMg KATE FOR A MAJOR AMERICAN CITY AND THE BI6&EST PICNIC IN THE WOeiO BOTH ARE FOUND IN MILWAUKEE. THE PICNIC TAKES PLACE PUeiNCTHE' TEN-PA 9 SUMMERFESTINSTiniTCP BY MAYOR HENRY W. MAIER IN ifii. THE FEST IS ALSO THE SCENE OF THE JMPgtE? LARGESr^LfcA.' Choral Society Rehearsals Set The Adult Education Divi sion at the College of the Al bemarle announces that the Albemarle Choral Society re hearsal meetings for foe fall i quarter have been scheduled as follows: Southwest Divi sion, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Parish House, Eden ton, Tuesdays at 7:45 P. M.; Northeast Division, Boom 143, ground floor, COtA main building, also at 7:45 on Thursdays. Membership is open to all singers in the area of senior high school age or over. Two series of major con certs for presentation in Elizabeth City and Edenton have been planned to be giv en the first part of Decem ber and the end of March, under the auspices of foe CCM. Lyceum Committee. In strumentalists from East Ca rolina University will pro vide foe orchestral accom paniments. Thirty state* in foe United States have passed school eye safety laws, requiring that all rtudenta, teachers and visitors in schools and colleges wear appropriate eye protection in labs and workshops. FOE QUICK RESULTS IST A HERALD FREE ESTIMATES ON ALL j FLOOR COVERING The Carpet Plaza, Inc. S2S 8. Brood St EDENTON, N. C. Phene 453-45 U
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