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'P-:i '?'xsdEiM&yy ????? ? ? ??.. wjfT^jSL, >??' ,> Nt V L ' -A-J ri-.l GROWING PAINS Work began last week on the expansion of the county health center. Additions will be built on each end of the building to add more waiting room and office space and to free present space for clinics. Demand, Quality Paint Bright N.C. Beef Picture The strong demand tor North Carolina feeder cattle continues to indicate tlut Tai Heel farmers base a promising future in this segment of animal agriculture. Results of state ? sponsored demons!rational sales held last fall were parti cularly encouraging, according to Sam Buchanan, extension livestock specialist at North Caiolina State University. Prices per head were the highest since I '>5!. "We have plenty of room to grow in beef c a t' I e production." the specialist said "There are opportunities for more good cow ? call and stocker operations." he adcied. placing emphasis on the woid "good." Prices farmer* tenoned foi their calves on last tail's voder call and yearling *teei *ale* lend to suppor; Buchanan'* obser v a 111>n s : eg... dmg expansion and quality The aveiage from the 22 graded call sale* was x|4?.2l? per head foi all type* at:J Aerospace J Class To See Cape Kennedy A plane trip n Cape Kennedy. II >ud.i. anJ an educational tour oi the facilities there is in *toie foi seventy - two teachei* who iust completed the two ? weeks course in Aetospacc ? iLujinn at Sandhills ( ui niunity College. The *2 hour* .'I instruction, presented hv the division ot adult edticatior at Sandhills, included :I?? e Inst.w of aviation, 'he 'henry ol llight. the I S spa^e piogram. educatois' respoiisii'ilttv in the space age. tlieoix ?! propulsion and allied * ibiect* According to OL l-ieche* director of a !ul* e t-:..i':oti .r Sandhills (ollege. lit. .? was presented under- the auspices ?>l the Intt .s State* Air I oree which wni pi.-vuiv two flights to Cape Kcn-.edv ' ? accommodate the Ijicc ? r nei of graduate's. Both tlie'iu veil! be fiom Pope Alt l ouc Base, the* first leaving March 2d anil rv'lurnmg March 24 and the second leaving Apnl (> and returning the tiexl day. A team of *-itysiinguislied persons was at, Sarnlhills t.? provide instruction foi the classes which vcere held in ihree hour periods tour evenings each week The instructors included Lieutenant Colonel Tony Mnsch. LS.M, Shaw Air horcc Base. Sumier. SC.; Lieutenant Colonel William Hanna. I SAl R. director of data processing and accounts. Baltimore. Maryland, hirst Lieutenant Brian Schicblcy. I SAP. United States Air Force Systems Command. Andrews Air Force Base. M?.yland. Dr. Douglas R Jones, dean of the school of education, F.ast Carolina University; John V Sorenson. deputy chief of staff for aerospace education, national headqua'ters of the Civil Air Patrol, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, Alabama; and William J. Reynolds, regional director of aerospace education for the middle east region. Andrews AFB, Maryland. grades. Steers averaged better management ot pasture SI58.70 and heifers S 128.36. and giving more attention t On 11 yearling steer sales animal health problems -- tlies held during the same period, are some of the factot these heavier animals averaged involved in producing the kin SI ^7.70 per head -? the highest of calves that buf crs want an ever. the Wind that make a profit fo Differences in per ? head the cow herd owner. Buchana prices between grades support said. Buchanan's emphasis on The fall sales indicate tha quality. The feeder calf Tar Heel farmers are heedin averages indicate that a farmer this kind of advice and makin with a truckload of steer calves considerable progress in the top grades -? good and upgrading their commercia better ?? received over S18 beef herds, apiece mote for his animals A record 66 percent of th< than the farmer whose calves calves sold on the state sale graded medium. The difference last fall graded good or better between common grade and This was an improvement ot the top grades was about $44 percent over the previous fall pei head. A Hereford sale at Jeffersor placed 82 percent of the calve "These differences are m the top grades The first o particular significant." said two sales at Rock> Mount hat Buchanan. "These are the 80 percent good or better differences between profit and These calves sold for th< loss in many cases." highest price pe He added the explanation hundredweight. 533.36: th< that the man with the top highest price per head grading calves probably had no 5104.87; and had the highes mote money invested in his average weight. 494 pounds animals than the farmer who "Figures like these help brought .mnmon grade calves ntake the future of beet the sale production in North Carolina Selecting better bulls, culling look pretty good." Buchanan the cow herd more closely, commented. The late Hmmett Fox used our pravers must often souni to tell a story about a city boy as it we're saying. "Why can'l who wjm spending his summer God be like a manWhy can' ?he farm His hosts had a he do things our way-1 Whv tine tune showing mm around can't he pace himself according rm. pointing out the to out schedule? Why isn't h< :hts lie had never seen in the more punctual'' i here he lived This m a v sound One at the sights they presumptuous, yet isn't thn him wa> a lien sitting what many of us feel deep a r est of eggs fhe> told down? "God. I asked you tc ?li.it some day ?<?on a little help me last week, and 1 still .f .vk wouid conic out of each ant in the same situation " The little bov was "Lord. I've been asking fot .u\.gt.:e : with tins prospect three years for you to change at.; evoiv morning he would my husband, and he's still the race to the chicken coop to see same." .vhethe: "he great miracle had The two parables in Luke 1 1 yet occulted. and 18 are not meant to D.ivs went bv and the little compare God to an indifferent bov necame disappointed as neighbor or reluctant judge tig happened in the Rather, with these two stories Jucken coop The eggs looked Jesus ts saying that if these two rxactly as thev had when he all ? too - human men hail fust >een them They bore respond to a man's patient of change whatsoever, persistence, how much more So his taith in the expected are we assured of the eventual miracle began to wane. Finally, response of a loving God' aftei niany fruitless days of Many of us are like the watching, he gave up unhappy army draftee who was altogether, deciding that he being drilled under a hot, had been deceived scorching sun on a sultry day The next day. by sheer habit y^e rookie and his comrades and no longer in anticipation, ^fe neither enthusiastic he went to the coop and was adept at what they were doing amazed to find that the miracle A passing officer was startled had laken place: the nest was IO see the rookie drop his rifle alive with little chicks. How "How long have you been m amazing it seemed that all this the army '" he demanded of had taken place overnight. the rookie The man looked Yesterday rhe eggs had looked wearily at the officer and the same as always, but today replied "All day. sir." the eggs were replaced by fully We ail know of time when ? developed baby chicks! "all day" seems to be an Appearances, of course, had eternity, but we must been deceiving lo the boy The remember thai it is not Let us eggs appeared to be the same not "hurry the chicken." but every day. yet all the while patiently and persistently await wonderful changes were taking the answer which God will give place inside them. The miracle m his own eood rime. was growing right before his eyes, but he couldn't see it America In My 'Fair Lady, a?yus.st? Professor Higgins sings. "Why Can't A Woman Be Like A Man?" There's a sense in which Phone Company Plans $51,850 For Expansion Carolina Telephone has announced a record - shattering $51,850,000 construction and expansion program for 1971 to produce new service features, provide for normal growth, and to continue equipment modernization. H . Da i I H o I d e mess, president of the company, said that this ambitious effort will follow on the heels of the 1970 expansion totaling S40.092.000. The largest single item in the company's 1971 budget will be local and long distance central office equipment, for which S23.954.600 has been allocated. Additions to outside plant facilities in individual exchanges will require an expenditure of S16.665.000 Another large item of expense will be tne purchase and installation of telephone instruments and piivate branch exchanges ?? a total ot SK .667.800. Land and buildings, long distance lines, and geneul equipment will amount to S2.562.600. These additions are expected to increase Carolina Telephone's plant investment to about S342.3I9.000 bv the end of 1971. It is estimated that the company will gain about 968 long distance circuits for a total of about 54,317 circuit miles in 1971. During the year, the company will initiate a three - year program to establish one and two ? party rates for rural subscribers outside the individual exchange base rate areas in lieu of the present quarter ? mile charges. The new /.one rates will be fully implemented prior to December 1. 1973. and will include about one ? third of the company's rural subscribers annually. It is expected that implementation of the new /one rates will increase construction requirements substantially. In Raeford. the company proposes to spend $43,000 for additional local - dial equipment. Gas Company Tells Earnings After tax earnings of $1.12 per share for the past ?welve months was the highlight of an interim report mailed today to the stockholders of North Carolina Natural Gas Corp Earnings for the period ended December 31. 1970 increased 35% over the 83 cent per share for the prior similar period and were up from the SI.02 per share reported' recently in the company's Annual Report for the last fiscal year. Sales revenues increased about $6'i million for the vear. In the report, company president Frank Barragan. Jr.. noted that December marked the 17th consecutive month in which the company has made a profit. On January 12 the Board of Directors increased dividends to 15 cents per share payable on June 15 to stockholders of record June 1. 1971. A previously declared 10 cents per share dividend will be paid March 15 to stockholders of r^i-nrH Mir.'K 1 TVOdtye BY JIM DEAN nyco Lake in Person County of us gave it a good try. we after asking several lucky near Roxboro is a sprawling, caught nothing. fishermen how they caught 3000 acre impoundment with a The ride back to Use dock their fish, I learned that Hyco split personality. was murder. Solid sheets of fishing is just like any other Tom Earnhardt of Chhpel water curled over the bow. and fishing. You have to know Hill has seen Hyco at her best. tven though we had rain suits, what you're doing." In less than an hour and a half jt was uncomfortable. Tom says that his best fish one afternoon, he took three Despite this unfortunate have been caught fishing slowly largemouths that totaled 18 experience, 1 am convinced along the bottom with various pounds. His biggest bass that Hyco Lake ? also known types of plugs. Favorites weighed seven and a half as the Carolina Power Lake ? among Hyco anglers are the pounds. is the best place in the state to Hotspot. sinking Rebels. Both of us have seen Hyco hook a lunker largemouth bass sinking jointed Mirrorlures and at her worst. in the winter. pale green plastic worms. In It happened the way these The lake was built in 1965, the colder portions of the lake, things always seem to happen, but already it has produced the slow and deep retrieve is Tom modestly told me (only bass over 12 pounds. Eight- ? best, but when fishing at the three or four times) about pound fish are -not particularly hothole with plugs, a faster those three lunker uncommon, and any retrieve seems better. Plastic largemouths. Naturally, I was accomplished fisherman who worms are universally fished unimpressed. fishes the lake frequently can slowly on the bottom in both So it came to pass that at expect to catch bass up to six cold and hot water. 4:30 one recent morning, I or seven pounds. Quite a few Hyco Lake is under the arose in amazingly good spirits, limit strings of lunker bass have authority of the Person ? downed a cup of scalding been taken, and I know of at Caswell County Lake coffee, and marched out the least one string of 20 bass Authority, and a S3 daily or door into a cold January mist which averaged four pounds SI5 season boat permit is with an armload of tackle. apiece. Unfortunately, the required to launch and fish, in "You're going to catch angler violated the legal limit addition to a valid fishing pneumonia," said my sleepy by some 12 fish, and paid a license. A map of the lake wife, Diane. heavy price for his greed. which shows the launching "Well if 1 catch a There is a good reason for ramp, plus Lake Authority pneumonia, Tom says it'll Hyco's excellent bass fishing, regulations is available from weigh at least six pounds." I Carolina Power and Light the Person ? Caswell Lake hollered back. Company has a steam electric Authority. Box 343, Roxboro. "Right on." said Diane power plant on the lake which a word of warning about wearily. She knows better than pours thousands of gallons of winter fishing. Wear warm to offer discouraging words to heated water into one of the clothes, take a boat which can a fisherman who is convinced coves. Many fish ? including handle occasional rough water, he is about to experience crappie and catfish ? are and be.careful. piscatorial paradise. Besides, attracted to this warm water. Hyco has a lot more to offer she's a good angler herself, and and the bass fishing in this the fisherman that Tom and I was probably a little jealous. "Hothole" is often saw on this ill - fated trip. As I I met Tom in Hillsborough, unbelievable. Not only is said, I've seen Hyco's worse and we were on the lake by fishing good around the side, and I fully plan to go 6:30. hothole. it's also often back until I see her at her best. It's perfect." said Tom. "I've excellent in the colder portions There's still plenty of time, had my best days up here when 0f the lake. Winter fishing at Hyco should it was cloudy and calm. We'll Tom's biggest fish have be good through March, slav them." come from coves well away ! won't bore you with a lot from the hothole. Even so, of details. At roughly 6:35 Hyco's fishing is not exactly a a.m.. a cold front came sure thing. Not only is weather The ground around Point whistling through. It was a factor, so is the relative Barrow. Alaska, is frozen to a perfectly timed to eoincide experience of the angler. Tom depth of 1.330 feet. At Thule. with my first cast of the day. tells me that it took several Greenland, the freezing During the next hour, the sky trips for him to figure out how extends for 1 000 feet The cleared, and the wind rose until to fish for Hyco Lake bass. deenest ner'mai'ntsi' it was gusting near 40 miles per "The first couple of trips. 1 _ P-> ^ , ? , . * hour. While caps were watched everybody catch bass . "' everywhere, and although both but me." said Tom "Then eastern Siberia Rt'CL'lI't'S GRANT - l.ar Gibson of Raeford, who placet defensive back for Cliowai College's football team. ha. received a full grant ? in ? aid r> l.enoir - Rliyne College. Gibson, a graduate of Hoki County High School, Itai enrolled at Lenoir - Rhyne ami will participate in spring drilh there. Chowan f inished with an S ? I mark and JI lit in the nation among junior eollcgcs.. S mo key Saya: Good adric* ? any time! 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