N. C. Official
Condemns Jail
—Continued From Page One
ahead with it.”
His department will con
tinue to work with the county
so long as it is doing
something about the jail, the
official continued. “You might
consider carrying your
prisoners to another county
until you do something about
your facilities.”
He told The Times after
leaving the meeting that his
preference would be for the
county to voluntarily close the
jail without an order from the
Dept, of Human Resources to
do so. “This is really a
dangerous situation. Our neck
is stuck way out in allowing
that facility to remain open.”
Chairman Ives called on
Sheriff Milford Hubbard for a
statement:
“Do you think we should
build a new jail or should we
renovate the old one?”
The sheriff replied. “The
present jail does not meet
minimum standards. But my
job is to take care of the jail. It
is your job to provide the
facilities. Something is going
to have to be done.”
The sheriff agreed that the
county cannot continue to
operate the present jail in the
condition it is in.
rf.
Frank Williams of Williams
and Associates, architects, of
Matthews, N. C., said that his
firm had over the last nine
years made some five sets of
drawings fora new jail for
Transylvania and for
renovation of the old one.
He cautioned against
renovation of the old jail,
saying that it would be almost
as costly as a new jail, and
would “simply be stalling for
time — delaying the
inevitable. Someday you’ll
have to have a new facility.”
Mr. Williams said that a
new jail could be built on the
slope below the old jail,
“utilizing a piece of ground
that is basically unusable.”
He made the commissioners
an offer:
His firm will advertise for
bids, take the lowest bid,
finance the jail through a local
bank, employ local labor in
construction and complete the
building on county land
temporarily deeded to his
firm.
The county could lease the
building for five years, with
annual payments a fifth of the
cost, and then buy the jail at
the end of five years for $1, the
architect said.
The commissioners took the
suggestion under advisement.
Mr. Ives said he’d like to have
some method of letting the
people of the county make the
decision, about the jail.
The commissioners
renamed Joe McCall as
chairman of the Parks and
Recreation Commission, and
voted to grant $5,000 to the
Transylvania Association for
Disabled Citizens on condition
that means can be found to do
so without violating any N. C.
statutes.
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To Be Aired
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Historical Documents,
Booklets Available
Many of us tend to take our
national history for granted.
However, the activity
generated by the Bicentennial
seems to make us more aware
of the events we studied as
school kids and then tucked
away in a memory drawer.
Documents from America’s
Past, designed to jog yur
NOTICE OF SALE
$1,450,000
COUNTY OF
TRANSYLVANIA
NORTH CAROLINA
SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS
SERIES B
Sealed bids will be received
until 11 o’clock A.M., North
Carolina Time, March 11,
1975, by the undersigned at its
office in the City of Raleigh,
North Carolina, such bids to
be opened at said time and
place on said day, for the
purchase of $1,450,000 School
Building Bonds, Series R of
the County of Transylvania,
North Carolina, dated April 1,
1975, and maturing annually,
April 1, $75,000 1978 to 1996,
inclusive, and $25,000 1997,
without option of prior
payment.
Denomination $5,000;
principal and semi-annual
interest (April 1 and October
1) payable in legal tender at
First Citizens Bank & Trust
Company, in the City of
Raleigh, North Carolina, or, at
the option of the holder or
registered owner, at Chemical
Bank, in New York City;
general obligations; unlimited
tax; coupon bonds registrable
as to principal only; delivery
on or about April 7, 1975, at
place of purchaser’s choice.
There will be no auction.
Bidders are requested to
name the interest rate or
rates, in multiples of one
fourth or one-tenth of one per
cent, and each bidder must
specify in his bid the amount
and the maturities of the
bonds of each rate. The dif
ference between the lowest
and highest rate named in the
bid shall not exceed two per
cent. No bid may name more
than six interest rates, any of
which may be repeated. All
bonds maturing in the same
date must bear interest at the
same rate. The interest
payable on any bond on any
interest payment date shall be
represented by a single
coupon and the interest rate
on such bond shall be the same
throughout its life. The bonds
will be awarded to the bidder
offering to purchase the bonds
at the lowest interest cost to
the County, such cost to be
determined by deducting the
amount of any premium bid
from the aggregate amount of
interest upon all of the bonds
from their date until their
respective maturities. No bid
for less than the face value of
the bonds plus accrued in
terest will be entertained.
Each bid must be submitted
on a form to be furnished with
additional information by the
undersigned, must be en
closed in a sealed envelope
marked “Bid For Bonds”, and
must be accompanied by an
official bank check, a
cashier’s check or a certified
check upon an incorporated
bank or trust company for
$29,000, payable un
conditionally to the order of
the State Treasurer of North
Carolina, on which no interest
will be allowed. Award or
rejection of bids will be made
on the date above stated for
receipt of bids and the checks
of unsuccessful bidders will be
returned immediately. The
check of the successful bidder
will be held uncashed as
security for the per
formance of his bid, but in
event the successful bidder
shall fail to comply with the
terms of his bid, the check
may then be cashed and the
proceeds thereof retained as
and for full liquidated
damages.
The unqualified approving
opinion of Mitchell, Petty &
Shetterly, New York City, will
be furnished without cost ot
the purchaser. There will also
be furnished the usual closing
papers.
The right to reject all bids is
reserved.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
COMMISSION
Raleigh, North Carolina
By: H.E. Boyle*
Secretary of the Com
mission
2-27-ltC
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sense of history, is a
descriptive listing of historical
documents in the National
Archives, and printed fac
similes which are ^ /ailable
for purchase at low cost.
The booklet was published
by the National Archives and
Records Service of the
General Services Ad
ministration. A free copy of
the 24-page booklet,
Documents from America’s
Past, may be obtained by
writing to Consumer In
formation, Pueblo, Colorado
81009.
One of the booklets listed is
Charters of Freedom, which
includes reproductions of the
three documents that laid the
political foundations of the
United States — the
Declaration of Independence,
The Bill of Rights, and the
Constitution of the United
States. Also included in the
booklet are brief historical
notes and pictures of the
National Archives Building
and the murals in the
Exhibition Hall.
Posters of the Charters are
also available. The Con
stitution is reduced to about
half the size of the original to
permit all four pages on one
sheet. The other two
documents, the Bill of Rights
and the Declaration of In
dependence, are exact, full
size facsimiles of the texts of
the original parchments. They
are suitable for framing.
The Formation of the Union
tells the story of the Con
tinental Congress, with
documents and pages
reproduced from the journals
of the Congress to illustrate
the steps toward in
dependence.
Other documents show the
work of the Constitutional
convention, the process of
election that made George
Washington our first
President, and the protest
against the Constitution that
led to the adoption of the Bill
of Rights.
Included also is George
Washington’s Inaugural Ad
dress of 1789. The publication
features an exact facsimile of
the text from which the
President read, written in his
own clear hand. The ac
companying five-page
historical notes describes the
first election and discusses the
authorship of the text of the
address.
In addition to documents
Cold Damage to Plants Often Can Be Overcome
By HENRY J. SMITH
Lndxip* Horticulturist
N. C State University
Heavy freezes following
mild weather of “false
spring” may take theif toll
among plants. A sudden
drop in temperature,
coupled with ice damage,
could result in damage to
many choice shrubs used
in landscape plantings.
You may have already
experienced this in your
area this year.
Any dead or damaged
wood should be cut from
the plant. But it is advis
able to wait until you can
determine the extent of
the cold damage. Some
times, this will be a mat
ter of a few weeks. Then,
ice-damaged and freeze
harmed limbs and twigs
will be obvious. It is ad
visable to cut off all parts
that are der.d.
Dead twigs will have no
green color just beneath
the bark. Using your
thumb-nail or a knife
blade, scratch the bark. If
wood beneath appears
brownish or tan in color,
prune away.
It is advisable to begin
the thumb-nail test on out
er lips of branches. Often,
as you scratch bark down
the stems into center and
base of shrub, you will
discover green wood be
neath the bark. This indi
cates that cold damage is
on outer tips of branches.
Prune back shrub to live
wood, removing only that
part of a stem which
shows cold damage. If
more dead twigs appear
later, they should be prun
ed away.
In order to help a shrub
make a comeback, apply
liberal amounts of any
complete commercial fer
tilizer. Apply three to four
pounds of fertilizer per
100 square feet, to stimu
late new growth. An easy
way to determine the cor
rect amount is to weigh
out one pound, and apply
to an area measuring five
feet on each of four sides.
In many instances, the
most damaged shrubs are
those located where they
received no protection, as
afforded by walls, fences
and tall trees. Some
shrubs that are “border
relating to the Bicentennial,
the booklet lists other
historical documents in
cluding the Emancipation
Proclamation, The End of
World War II. and Into the
New Realm, a documentary
history of America’s venture
into space.
line hardy” in your area
may have suffered severe
cold damage; possibly
they were Idlled. I know
of one instance where two
camellias of same variety
grow in a home yard. One,
planted ^eneath two tall
pine trees, shows minor
freeze damage. Its twin,
located in an open area,
was Idlled back to within
12 inches of the ground.
In addition to supplying
protection for the more
tender plants, it is advis
able to select those kinds
that are more hardy and
better-adapted to your
area.
If all symptoms of win
ter were as clearly identi
fied as dead plants, diag
nosis of winter injury
would be simple. Unfortu
nately, symptoms are not
always so clearly evident.
A plant injured by low
temperatures now may not
show the effects for a full
year; sometimes two years
later.
Winter-injured shrubs
and trees may grow poor
ly or show signs of nutri
tional deficiency. Winter
sun scald and wind burn
often cause brown leaves
or large dead areas in
evergreens, as junipers
and yews. These usually
are evident in spring and
early summer. Leaves and
stems may brown and die
during the following sum
mer and fall.
As much as a year or
more after severe winter
injury, graft unions may
blacken and appear injur
ed long after the freeze is
forgotten. Damage may
appear to be that of dis
eases, insects and lack of
fertilizer. But winter cold
injury often is the real
culprit.
Dieback on many woody
plants often results from
tow temperatures. When
plants suffer dieback, four
to five inches of tip growth
may fail to leaf out in
spring. Sometimes, entire
branches or canes die.
Dieback is common among
ornamental trees and
shrubs, as well as tree and
bush fruits.
Crotches between
branches of some trees
and shrubs are vulnerable
areas of winter injury. In
some cases, other parts of
the plant may be winter
hardy. Crotch damage may
not become apparent for
many years after damage
occurs, and can be difficult
to diagnose. The end re
sult may be dead or dying
branches, or entire plant
may die.
Another common form
of winter injury is frost
crocks. Vertical cracks in
limbs may be evident on
trunks of fruit and orna
mental trees. These usual
ly appear during a sudden
drop in temperature, es
pecially after a warm, sun
ny, winter day. Diseases
and decay organisms may
enter these fine, weaken
ing cracks, or eventually
kill a tree or large shrub.
Winter damage some
times causes a plant to fail
to produce flowers. Many
ornamental shrubs and
trees, as well as fruit
plants, form their flower
and fruit buds in late
summer and early fall.
Winter cold can kill this
growth. Plants will not
bloom the following
spring. A good example is
Forsythis (Goldenbell)
which often fails to bloom
because of cold damage to
flower buds.
The best way to carry
your garden plants thru
the winter—and be as
sured of a garden that
“holds together” year
around, is to select only
those plants that are
hardy in your area. Many
folks, however, secure
plants that are not well
adapted for the sake of
having a novelty or some
thing different from com
monly grown plants.
If you do select some
semi-hardy and tender
species, don’t be too dis
appointed if they’re win
ter injured or killed. How
ever, some "tender" spe
cies may live many yean
if they become climatized
and endure the first 4-5
yean.
HamiltonA
Funeral
Conducted
Services for Richard
Hamilton, 91, of Rt. 4 Penrose,
Pleasant Grove Road, who
died Monday, were held at 2
pm. Thursday at Pleasant
Grove Baptist Church, of
which he was a member.
The Revs. John Dickerson
and James Ayers officiated.
Burial was in Little River
Baptist Church Cemetery.
A lifelong resident of
Henderson County, he was a
retired farmer and a son of the
late Calvin and Susan Sentell
Hamilton.
Surviving are the widow,
Mrs. Minnie Justice
Hamilton; a son, Fred J.
Hamilton of Little River; a
daughter, Mrs. Mattie Shook
of Lumberton; two sisters,
Mrs. Della Whitmire of
Chetryfield and Mrs. Ella
Wilson of Etowah; eight
grandchildren and 13 great
grandchildren.
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North Carolina farmers
produced an estimated 8.7
million bushels of sor
ghum grain last year with
an average yield of 68
bushels per acre — 6
bushels higher than in
1978.
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