Friday* December 12, 1952
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Page Fifteen
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Holly Is Tree of Happy Traditions;
Cut Carefully, or Destroy It Forever
Man has noted the beauty of the
’ National Wildlife Federation, as
evidenced in songs, poems and
folktales. The spirit of old super
stitions, of gnomes, and wood
sprites hangs among its twisted
branches. It brings dreams of
happy Christmases. Holly hang
ing came from the old Roman
Festival of Saturn or from the
Teutonic practice of hanging ever
green as refuge for sylvan spirits.
In parts of England it is consider
ed unlucky to bring in holly be
fore Christmas eve. By Derbyshire
tradition the husband or wife will
rule, depending on whether the
holly brought in has rough leaves
Or smooth.
American holly is much like the
European species. It grows in
moist, suimy places from east
Texas to New Jersey, and north
along the coast to Cape Cod, Mas
sachusetts. In Louisiana it attains
a height of 100 feet, with its
stocky, rough gray trunk four
feet in diameter. In spring the
inconspicuous flowers of some
trees are all staminate, of the
others, all pistillate. Only the lat
ter, of course, will produce the
halif-inch berrylike iruits. Lus
trous evergreen leaves, bright ber
ries and pyramidal crown make it
a fine shade or ornamental tree,
particularly near the coast where
it is resistant to salt spray. Euro
peans make hedges of it.
HoUy wood is white, hard,
tough, uniform knd stains weU.
It is used for artificial ebony, col
ored inlays, scientific and musical
instruments, wood turning, cabi
network, interior finishing, sport
ing and athletic goods. The bark
was employed in making bird-
r'
lime.
The holly is the state tree of
Delaware. It is protected by law
in several states. Before Christ-
masi, imscrupulous people (tres
pass and tear off branches indis
criminately, killing many trees.
Holly grows slowly. No berries are
borne until it is 10 years old. If
the branches are cut cleanly at
their junction and restraint is
used, however, no harm is done.
Correct holly clipping is a proper
and profitable annual harvest.
The public can help most in
protection of this fine tree, says
the National Wildlife Federation,
by seeing that all, boughs offered
for sale were legitimately harvest
ed. Destructive stealing must be
made unprofitable, or the Ameri
can holly will be gone forever.
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LOT’S CLASSIFIEU COLUMN
Hunt Season Opens
Thanksgiving Day
With Lively Meet
A drag hunt that started in the
woods back of Jorfema Lodge and
finished in the dogwood pasture
on the Harold Cc-llins place mark
ed the opening run of the Moore
County Hounds,, on Thanksgiv
ing Day.
Holiday visitors afoot and a-
horse crowded the pinewoods near
the O’Neal ledge and stables. Cars
were parked among the trees,
ready to start off behind the lead
car, the station wagon of joint
master William J. Brewster, to
follow along the road and watch
the hunt. As the pack came up
behind Ozelle Moss, huntsman
and joint master, shepherded by
the three whips, the field gather
ed, many in pink and mounted on
the top thoroughbreds of the sec
tion. Corbett Alexander of Pine-
hurst acted as master of the field
which numbered 30.
Following a line that crisscross
ed the country on both sides of
Youngs road, part of it over the
hunter trial course, hounds ran
with a good cry. Checks were
short and the pack showed, ac
cording to the huntsman, “good
trailing and drive.’’ The finish
was in the big pasture, dotted with
dogwoods, in front of Pickridge,
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Har
old Collins.
A hunt breakfast took place,
following the drag, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Winkelman.
The pack was given another test
the following monday when a by
day was added to the schedule.
Hounds ran a red fox for about an
hour, finally putting him to
ground in Keating’s head.
Bookmobile
Schedule
Tuesday C. S. Galyean home,
2:30 p. m.; Marvin Hartsell’s, 3;
Worth Brown’s, 3:15; Roselands
community (H. M. Kirk home),
3:30; Colonial Heights, 4 to 4:45.
Wednesday — Pinckney school,
Carthage, 10:30 a. m.; Garren Hill
section out from Pinehurst in
afternoon.
Thursday — Carthage library,
11:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m.; Wesley
Thomas service station, 1:30;
White Hill community, 2:30 to
3:15; Walter Wicker home 3:20
Wade Collins home, 3:45; Highway
1 South to Southern Pines with
several home stops, 4 to 5.
Friday — Highway 27, Carthage
toward Biscoe, with various home
stops in afternoon.
Seafood Market
Opens For Season
The Sandhills Seafood Market
has reopened for the season, on
the corner of West Pennsylvania
avenue and Bennett street. W. F.
Bowman is the proprietor, and this
year he is being assisted in the
operation of the market by Carl
Klabbatz.
The market carries all kinds of
seafood, brought daily from the
coast by refrigerated transporta
tion. Besides the usual fare from
the deep it offers a number of
delicacies, and of course, those
fine big shrimp, oysters and—a
special treat—live M:aine lobster.
ENGRAVED Informals. Prices
reasonable. The Pilot.
Psy war Seminar
Set Next Week
At Fort Bragg
Representatives from all Army
service scho-ols in the continental
United States will meet at Fort
Bragg next Wednesday through
Friday for a seminar or psycholo
gical warfare.
The three-day seminar, to be
held under the direction of the
Psychological Warfare school, has
been planned to coordinate the in
struction in the various service
schools on psychological warfare
operations.
The Psychological Warfare
school is one of the activities of
the Psychological Warfare Cen
ter. The center was established
earlier this year by the Depart
ment of the Army to coordinate
and consolidate the Army’s psy
chological warfare program in
one central location. Col. Charles
H. Karlstad is commandant of the
schc-ol and commanding officer of
the center.
In the three-day period the rep
resentatives will receive a con
centrated course in psychological
warfare activities. They will also
/observe drganic psychological
warfare units in operation during
their visit to the 6th Radio Broad
casting and Leaflet Group, com
manded by Lieut. Col. Lester L.
Holmes.
The Psychological Warfare
school, the only one of its type in
the nation’s armed services, was
designed by the Department of the
Army to train selected officers
and enlisted men of the Army in
military propaganda, public opin
ion, and in the many other aspects
of psychological warfare opera
tions. Officers of the other armed
services also attend • the school.
Col. Gordon Singles, assistant
commandant of the school, is in
direct charge of the school.
Antibiotics in swine rations re
sult in feed savings up to $2.28
per himdred pounds gain, accord
ing to Iowa State CoUege re
searchers.
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