Tryon Daily Bulletin, Wed., Mar. 12, 1980
95th Birthday
Mrs. Annie Turner
On March 3, Mrs. Annie Turner
of Peniel Road reached a
milestone that few people reach
— her 95th birthday.
Long lives seem to be
characteristic of her family. Her
mother lived to within 3 weeks of
her 100th birthday, when she died
as the result of a fall. Her two
sisters are 88 and 90 years old,
and the latter is pianist for her
church.
Mrs. Turner is still active. She
writes letters, enjoys playing the
piano and walking, and is reading
the Bible through. She is a
member of the Tryon Seventh
day Adventist church, which she
attends regularly.
Mrs. Turmer makes her home
with her daughter, Marlete
Pitton and her husband, Elder
Leslie Pitton. She also has one
son, 6 grandchildren and 6
great-grandchildren.
THE ST. ANDREW SOCIETY
The March meeting of the St.
Andrew Society will be held at the
Biltmore Forest Town Hall on
Friday, March 14th at 8:00 p.m.
Shannon Harper, member of
the Society, will talk on
Pre-historic and Celtic British
and Scottsh archaeologic and
manuscript studies. With him
will be Eamonn Walsh, Professor
of Gaelic.
All those of Scottish birth or
descent and their spouses, are
invited. For information, write to
the Society, P. 0. Box 2262,
Hendersonville, N. C. 28793 or
call 684-7302.
Want To Attract
Birds? Feed Them!
No aouDt you have had
experience with man-made de
vices that attract birds such as
feeders, bird baths, bird houses,
nesting shelves and the like. With
the high cost of feed this year, it
may be time t.o think about
natural ways to atfract birds to
your home or grounds. Birds
require more than just feed, they
need space to sing, court, nest,
rest, hide and do things that birds
do.
Birds like variety. When
thinking about birds we need to
think as birds do and not as how
we think birds do. Birds like a
wide choice of plants from the
tall mature pine and hardwood to
the lowly weed. Acres of tall
mature trees offer little variety
to the birds; and acres of weeds
also lack variety. A weed field
may be a good place to feed, but a
poor place to sing, court and nest.
An annaul food plot of
buckwheat, sunflowers and mil-
lets may furnish the feed for the
seed eating birds, but the insect
eaters would much prefer open
grassed areas. In the open
grassed areas you may only need
to fertilize and keep the woody
plants out by mowing and let
mother nature furnish the feed.
Free wildlife planting mater
ials are available from the North
Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commission and can be ordered
through the Polk Soil & Water
Conservation District Office. For
more information and a free
coply of the publication “Invite
Birds to Your Home”, stop by the
local office in the Courthouse
Annex or call 894-8550. — Levourn
Wiggins — District Conservation
ist
WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS
PLANS VISIT TO COLUMBUS
On Friday, March 21 from 11:00
a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Michael
Scruggs, Wildlife Biologist with
the North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission will be at
the Polk Soil & Water Conserva
tion District Office in Columbus.
Mr. Scruggs will distribute free
wildlife planting materials to
individuals who have sent in
applications.
Persons who have not yet
applied may fill out an
application during this time and
receive the materials as long as
the supply lasts. Also during this
time Mr. Scruggs will be
available to answer questions
concerning the improvement of
wildlife habitat on your property.
For more information contact
the Polk Soil & Water Conserva
tion District Office at 894-8550.
THE COSMIC REPORTER
“Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)”
by Tim Linder
One of the world’s greatest
astronomers was born in 1571.
This was the German astronomer
Johannes Kepler. Kepler was a
student of another great astron
omer, Tycho Brahe. Tycho
made many observations of the
solar system that led Kepler to
discover that the planets did not
orbit the sun in a circle but in an
ellipse or oval shaped orbit.
By using the observations of
the solar system made by
Tycho, Kepler was able to
determine the three basic laws of
planetary motion. These laws
are: (1) The orbit of each planet
is an ellipse having the sun at one
of its focal points. (2) The motion
of each planet in its orbit is such
that the radius vector from the
sun to the planet describes equal
areas in equal times. (3) The
squares of the periods in which
the planets describe their orbits
are proportional to the cubes of
their mean distances from the
sun.
Kepler also discovered that by
using the orbit of one planet that
he could calculate the distance
and orbit of another planet by
using Kepler’s laws astronomers
could now draw a map of the
solar system. The distances of
the planets could not be accurate
but they were fairly close.
In our galaxy novae
(exploding stars) occur quite
often but super novae (very
tremendous exploring stars)
occur very rarely. The last super
nova to be observed in our galaxy
occurred in 1604. This super nova
was observed by Johannes
Kepler. Much of the information
that we have on actual super
novae came from Kepler’s
observations of the nova of 1604.
In 1630 Kepler wrote a book
about a fictional trip to the moon.
In his book Kepler first suggested
that outer space might be airless
and there would be no gravity.
Johannes Kepler died in 1630,
he was truly one of our greatest
astronomers. ,
That's it for this week, HAPPY
STARGAZING!!!!!
20 Years Ago
This area gets it second big
snow and many people couldn’t
get home from work. Half a dozen
warehouses collapse on account
of the weight of the snow. A
snowslide between Tryon and
Melrose kept a train from going
through....The 27th Annual Any
and All Dog Show, sponsored by
the Tryon Riding & Hunt Club is
held March 13th at Harmon Field
under the direction of Ralph
Milner. Fanning Hearson was the
master of ceremonies and Dr. G.
K. Smith of Spartanburg the
judge...Miss Florence Wilson of
Rt. 1, Tryon, former dean of the
School of Nurses at Duke
University Hospital has been
elected a member of the Board of
Trustees of St. Luke’s Hospital....
Mr. and Mrs. J. Coke Foster, Jr.
have purchased the H. F.
Wuehrmann house on Warrior
Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Wuehrmann
are building a home on Godshaw
Hill This area got snow on its
third straight Wednesday....After
defeating Old Fort and Edney
ville, Tryon fell before Cullowhee
60 to 39 at Enka. Playing without
their center, Duke Fisher, who
injured his knee against Edney
ville, Tryon was no match for
Cullowhee. Leading the Tigers
scoring was John Shields 11
points and Carroll McKinney and
Jim Kolb with 10 each....The
lobby at Oak Hall Hotel is being
remodeled under the direction of
Carter P. Brown. The plaster on
the ceilings and walls is
interspersed with brown rye
straw plus light brown paneled
wainscoating and paneled
beams.