Man's Quest For Knowledge Led
To Moon And Ocean Depths
Two epic missions to the
mood crowned man's 1971
achievements in exploration
and geography.
"As tough as trying to find
your way around the Sahara
Desert." recalls Alan B.
Shepard, Jr., fo the
unprecedented journey that
took him and fellow astronaut
Edgar D. Mitchell of Apollo 14
almost to the lip of Cone
Crater - the longest lunar walk
to that time.
The two astronauts touched
down in the lunar module
Antares on February 5 at 4:18
a.m., EST. Stuart A. Roosa
orbited overhead in the
command module Kitty Hawk.
While earlier missions had
emphasized the technology of
moon landings, Apollo 14's
crew systematically explored
the new realm. After 3314
hours on the moon, they lifted
off to rejoin Roosa for the
three - day 246,200 - mile trip
home.
The most ambitious effort
to explore the moon was
Apollo IS, the 25th United
States manned space flight.
"The Falcon is on the plain
at Hadley," reported
astronauts David R. Scott and
James B. Irwin after they
successfully landed the
instrument ? laden LM between
the moon's lofty Apennine
Mountains and the deep
Hadley Rille on July 30.
Alfred M. Worden busily
performed experiments above
in the command module
Endeavour, while his two
companions spent more than
18 hours outside their
spacecraft and explored 17
miles of the rocky, crater -
packed lunar surface in a
battery ? powered dune buggy
called Rover.
The mission rewarded
scientists with rare treasures:
more than 10,000
photographs, about 100
documented samples of rock
and soil weighing 170 pounds,
and an eight - foot core tube,
which when X-rayed showed
58 separate layers of lunar soil,
representing perhaps a billion
years of moon history.
Inspired in part by a 1927
article in National Geographic,
the astronauts had named their
command module Endeavour
in honor of the vessel Captain
James Cook commanded on his
first voyage two centuries ago.
Unmanned space vehicles
gathered a wide variety of
information during the year.
Mariner 9, launched on May
30, streaked 248 million miles
to keep a rendezvous with Mars
167 days later. A severe dust
storm on the red planet
obscured the spacecraft's first
pictures.
Scientists hope that
instruments and a radio signal
experiment on the orbiting
spacecraft will determine
Martian surface elevations,
atmospheric pressures, and
other measurements. When all
pictures and data are received
on Earth, they want to
assemble a topographic map
for 50 million square miles of
the planet's surface - the
equivalent of mapping all the
dry land areas ol tarth.
Previous United States
spacecraft obtained only brief
views of Mars on fly - by
missions.
While some men reached for
the stars in 1971, others
plumbed the oceans.
Divers working from mini -
subs eryjlored the continental
shelf off New Jersey, examined
marine life in the Gulf of
Mexico, investigated a half ?
mile ? wide hole in the ocean
floor 20 miles south of Key
West, and studied the sea
bottom in the Straits of
Florida.
Scientists working out of
mini ? subs and an underwater
habitat began an ambitious
research project off the
Bahamas on November 29.
They will study fish behavior
and the distribution of
plankton and gauge the
fluctuations of the sea level
during the last Ice Age.
These projects were
sponsored by the Manned
Undersea Science and
Technology program, begun in
August as part of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's effort to
increase knowledge of ocean
resources and processes.
A rare view of the Artie was
afforded by a new National
Geographic map that rolled
back a canopy of ice and water
to bare a panaroma still
unknown to human eyes - the
floor of the Arctic Ocean.
The Arctic map reveals the
same sweeping panorama of a
waterless ocean that was so
spectacular in similar
Geographic maps of the Indian,
Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.
The reverse side shows the
more familiar view of the
Arctic Ocean, but among the
updated details of ice pack and
surrounding bleak land masses
are footnotes outlining man's
dramatic attempts to explore
the Arctic by snowshoe, ski,
sled, ship, submarine, and
aircraft.
rar irom tne frigid Arctic
Qatar, a sweltering sheikdon
of 100,000 people on thi
Persian Gulf, became thi
world's 146th independen
state on September 3.
Little more than 20 eyar:
ago, Qatar (pronouncec
"Kuttar") was one of th<
world's poorest nations. In ;
rock ? and ? sand wastelanc
about the size of Connecticut
fewer than 20,000 peopls
earned bare subsistence at
fishermen or pearl divers.
Then came the oil bonanza
that revolutionized life. New
housng, office buildings, anc
shops now line brightly lighted
paved streets in Doha, the
capital. Fresh water is piped tc
houses from suburban well:
and a sea - water distillation
plant.
Another country created
since World War 11 switched
names in 1971. The
Democratic Republic of the
Congo announced that it
would be known as the
Republic of Zaire and its major
waterway - formerly the
Congo Rivet ?? would become
the Zaire River. Officials at the
capital. Kinshasa, pointed out
that this was the river's
previous name.
In nearby Kenya, Richard E.
Leakey, son of the famed
anthropologist Louis SB.
Leakey, continued to come up
with remarkable discoveries
near the shores of Lake
Rudolf. His work is supported
by the National Geographic
Society.
Bones found by Mr Leakey
suggest that two types of early
man - Australopithecus and
Homo - concurrently roamed
the East African plain early in
the Pleistocene Epoch some 3
million years ago. A skillfully
made stone tool found by his
expedition was fashioned 2.6
million years ago.
Although bone studies are
incomplete, Mr. Leakey
speculates that Australo
pithecus probably did not walk
erect but instead was a
"knuckle - walker" much like
present - day chimpanzees and
was eventually superseded by
the mote advanced genus
known as Homo, predecessor
of modern man.
Early Birders Set The Record
In Annual Christmas Count
On the first day of
Cliristmas, dedicated bird
watchers rise at dawn to seek -
not a partridge in a pear tree
but perhaps a red ? eyed vireo.
On the first day of New
Year, red - eyed watchers rouse
themselves from dreams to see,
perchance, the blue ? faced
booby.
The birders, 15,000 strong,
get up with the lark and 700
other species to take part in
the National Audubon
Society's Christmas Bird Count
throughout the United States
and Canada.
Conducted from December
25 to January 2, the census
indicates bird population
trends and migration patterns.
But the counters enjoy it
primarily as sport - a
mammoth tournament of bird
spotting.
The volunteers are divided
into teams; each takes a
circular area 15 miles across
and records all the birds that
can be seen in it between dawn
and dusk, the National
Geographic Society says.
One year Washington, D.C.,
counters reported 200,000
starlings in a noisy, messy
congregation downtown and a
lone common loon over the
Potomac River.
Counters endure all manner
of hardships. Members of the
birding team at Cape Kennedy,
Florida, strap aluminum snake
guards on their legs and wade
through mosquito infested
swamps to break their record
for the most species - 200 -
seen in one day.
A Connecticut birder picked
his way across a slippery log
anchored three inches below
the surface of a frigid stream.
He was rewarded with the sight
of a pine grosbeak -? and wet
feet.
In Aklavik, deep in the
Canadian north, two bird
watchers spent five hours in 10
- below ? zero weather and saw
just two species - the willow
ptarmigan and the common
raven. Nevermore, they said.
in the National Geographic
Society's book, "Song and
Garden Birds of North
America," the noted
ornithologist Roger Tory
Peterson describes the many
species of bird watchers:
"Birding can be a placid
occupation for maiden aunts, a
rought - and - tumble sport, or
a hair - raising adventure. One
of my more sedentary friends
describes himself as the 'white -
breasted nuthatch type of a
bird watcher. On the other
hand, consider the late Robert
Porter Allen. Tough as nails.
Bob pursued whooping cranes
through almost impassable
muskeg to their Alberta nesting
grounds. When he returned to
civilization, he had the look of
a man who had visited hell."
Ornithologists have fallen
from cliffs and trees. They
have broken arms, legs, and
ribs. They have been chased by
tribesmen, robbed by bandits,
charged by bulls. A leading
British bird photographer lost
an eye to a tawnv owl he was
documenting.
Mr. Peterson himself and
four colleagues once were
sitting in a car parked on a
roadside at 3 a.m. A flashlight
suddenly blazed upon the five,
and a state trooper growled,
"What do you guys think
you're doing?"
Silence. Then Mr. Peterson
explained, "We're listening for
whip ? poor - wills." The men
were promptly hustled off and
held for several hours until
they could tell it to a justice of
the peace.
He laughed and let them go.
This Is
The Law
Davis agrees on May 10 to
sell a table to Ellis on June 1
for $60. On May IS Ellis
assigns or transfers his rights
under the contract to Fox. Fox
subsequently refuses to pay
Davis S60 for the table. Davis
still has the table in his
possession. The reasonable
market value of the table is
S40. May Davis sue Ellis for
breach of contract?
Yes. Davis may recover from
Ellis a judgment for $20, the
difference between the agreed
contract price and the market
price of the table.
Ellis has entered into a
contractual duty which he
cannot escape by assignment.
A person cannot be compelled
to accept responsibility for the
performance of a contract
from one who was not a party
to the original contract. A
person can transfer his rights
under a contract, but not his
duties.
? ? ?
Are there certain contracts
which cannot be assigned?
Yes, A contract may by its
terms expressly forbid an
assignment. Thus, in an
agreement to convey real estate
it is not unusual to provide
that the vendee shall not assign
his right to a conveyance. Such
a restriction is valid. Tickets,
which otherwise would be
assignable, sometimes stipulate
that they are "nontrans
ferable."
Assignments of certain
contracts are sometimes
forbidden by statute or by the
public policy of the common
law. Workmen's compensation,
unemployment compensation,
government pensions, and the
like are. for example, not
assignable.
Contractual duties which
involve personal performance
cannot be delegated. A doctor,
a teacher, a secretary, a cook,
an artist, or anybody else who
is employed by reason of
peculiar personal qualities
cannot turn over to a
substitute the performance of
the work he has agreed to do
without the consent of his
employer.
? ? ?
This is the last of a fall series
of articles which have appeared
weekly for the past three
months. They have been
written for the non ? lawyer as
a public service of the North
Carolina Bar Association.
Another series will be started
in the spring.
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BY JIM DEAN
The new Game Lands
program initiated by the N.C.
wildlife Resources Commission
this year has passed its first test
with flying colors.
The program - which went
into effect with the current
hunting season -? brings the
amount of land being managed
and protected for wildlife in
the state to some two million
acres, an increase of over a
million acres. When it was
initiated prior to this hunting
season, cooperative agreements
were worked out to bring all
four of the state's National
Forests plus some large private
tracts of land into the
agreement.
Also, the Wildlife
Commission abandoned its
previous long lists of special
hunts, check stations and
replaced a tangle of permits
with a single $6 season Game
Lands Use Permit which allows
sportsmen to hunt any legal
game or fish for mountain
trout on the Game Lands
throughout the legal season as
long as they have the required
license.
Many hunters were afraid
that the expansion of the
Game Lands would lead to
inferior protection of game
laws. Some said that Wildlife
Protectors would be spread too
thinly over such a large area.
Others were apprehensive that
doing away with the check
stations might lead to increased
game violations.
With part of a hunting
season behind, none of these
things have caused problems.
"The Game Lands program
is working fine, better even
than we expected." says Don
Curtis. Chief of the Division of
Protection. "If anything, it has
eased our problems in game
and fish law enforcement.
"We expected our biggest
problem to be an
unsatisfactory distribution of
hunters," says Curtis. "We
were afraid that hunters might
tend to concentrate in certain
areas, but this hasn't happened.
Hunters have spread
themselves.
"We also have learned that
by doing away with the fixed
check stations, we've been able
to increase our efficiency as
protectors. Our new system of
transient check points manned
by mobile crews of Wildlife
Protectors has worked
extremely well. We've picked
up many unlawful kills that we
would have missed with fixed
stations because now, those
who are violating game laws
don't know where to expect
us. One day, we might set up a
check point on a road and
check every hunter that passes,
but at another hour or on
another day, we could have our
check point somewhere else."
Curtis is very enthusiastic
about the way hunters have
cooperated with the new
program.
"We've had the best
cooperation from hunters that
we've ever had," says Curtis.
"These hunters like the system
and they can see that it will
work. The result is that lawful
hunters have turned in many
violations ? far more than in
the past. We appreciate it. It
makes our job easier, and it
provides better protection for
our natural resources of game
and fish."
The new program means
that the average hunter or
fisherman now has a better
chance of being checked by a
Wildlife Protector than ever
before.
"We've always had random
reports from people who say
that they've been hunting for
years and have never been
checked." says Curtis. "That's
just the law of averages. Some
hunters and fishermen get
checked many times.
"I recently received a letter
from a man who said that he
had been fishing four times this
year and had been checked six
times by eight different
Wildlife Protectors.
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radio, heater, power sleering,
rower brakes. 5150, Call
75-4161 after 5 p.m.
LOST: Reddish male
Dachshund, 6 years old, in
Raeford area since June, 1971
Reward is offered. If
information on whereabouts
please call 875-2121.
32-35P
FOR SALE: Large Electric
stove. Call 875-2968
FOR RENT: 2 bedroom
Mobile Home near Burlington
Plant. Free water and garbage
pickup. Call 875-2790 after 4
p.m.
TFC
HOUSE FOR SALE: Brick
house on College Drive 3
bedrooms, bath and one half,
carport, electric heat, large air
condition window unit. Shown
by appointment only. Call
875-2/96 after 4 P.M,
TFN
HOUSE FOR SALE: 3
bedrooms, 2 baths, living
room, dining room and
kitchen, screened side porch.
Central air conditioning and
heat. Call Laurinburg
276-1154. e
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FOR SALE: 1968 4 dr.
Pontiac, air condition, power
steering, power brakes.
Carolina Turf Co., Inc .
875-2359.
TFC
Weeds and vacant lots mowed
with tractor mower by hour or
acre. Call 875-2359, Carolina
Turf Co., Inc. Saturday only
after school starts.
TFC
Exterminate for roaches,
waterbugs, ants. Free termite
inspection. Call 944-2474
Aberdeen Exterminating Co.
Aberdeen
26-45P
FOR SALE: Used Hotpoini
range. Very reasonable. Cal
875-4178 after 6 p.m.
33-34C
FOR SALE: Ladies' horse,
spirited but penile. Also,
ribbon ? winning pony, cart
and tack. Phone Becky Hood
at 875-3278.
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WEIGHT safely with Dex - A
Diet, SI .98 at Hoke Drug.
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FOR SALE: Zig-Zag sewing
machine in cabinet. Makes
fancy stitches, buttonholes.
Repossessed because of non -
payment. Balance owing S52.
If interested, can finish balance
in payments or cash. Call
collect 692-3348. Southern
Pines.
TFN
Blue Lustre not only rids
carpets of soil but leaves pile
soft and lofty. Rent electric
shampooer SI. Raeford
Hardware Co.
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BORED With All This Talk
About Sales. WELL, WE ARE
TOO WE DO NOT offer "Free
Gifts." WE DO NOT sell with
no down payment. WE IX)
NOT sell "CHEAPER" than all
others. WE DO sell clean,
reconditioned cars at a fair
price ... on lowest terms, with a
guarantee! II you are tired of
extravagant and misleading ?
claims come in ai QUALITY
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SERVICE
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TIRE SERVICE
SOUTH MAIN STREET
Inman t Tuttle
Repair Service
ROOFING
CARPENTRY
PLUMBING REPAIR
PAINTING
HEAT & AIR CONO.
PHONE 875-2186
RAEFORD
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NEW TIRES
and RECAPPING
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SERVICE
PHONE 875-2079
114 RACKET ALLEY
8. STEWART STREET
TILE AND
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INSTALLATIONS
FREE ESTIMATES
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875-3490
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at LIPSCOMB GROCERY
Harris Ave.
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Cabinets
Of All Types
& General
Carpenter Work
Call 875-4828
For Free Estimate
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APARTMENTS
FOR RENT
Air Conditioned
Raeford Hotel Building
See
Ernest Cartwright, Mgr.
or Phone 875-3055 Day
875-3492 Night
WOMEN ... GIRLS ... >ge
16 to 65I Bring an extra
$25 to $50 into your
home every week for a few
hours a day pleasant work,
or earn up to $150 per
week full time. Show and
take orders for 300 Good
Housekeeping Approved
Studio Girl Cosmetics,
Wigs and Hair Fashions.
For full information and
Free Samples phone
875-4560 4 to 8 PM. NO
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RESTRICTIONS.
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9 A.M. TIL 6 P.M.
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A CHRISTMAS MENU
Grace
Kindness ? Conscience Clear ? Good Cheer
Tender Memories
Charity, Served with Discretion
Love
Peace True
Long Life, Stuffed with Usefulness
Heart Unselfish and True
(A Large Portion)
Kindly Thoughts
Affection Happiness
Best Wishes for Absent Friends
Mispah
That Christmas Feeling
When the days of December are numbered
And the earth becks its snow flakes to fall;
That's the time of the year Christmas is here;
With Peace and good will for all.
How I love that Christmas feeling;
How I treasure its friendly glow;
See the way a stranger greets you;
Just as though you had met him Christmas ago
Christmas helps you to remember;
To do what other folks hold dear;
What a blessed place the world would be;
If we had that Christmas feeling all year.
Christmas In the Heart
it is Christmas in the mansion
Yule-log fires and silken frocks;
It is Christmas in the cottage
Mother's filling little socks.
It is Christmas on the highway.
In the thronging, busy mart.
But the dearest truest Christmas
Is the Christmas in the Heart.
Author Unknown
"It Ain't the Gift A Fellow Gits"
It ain't the gift a feller gits, it ain't the shape nor size
that sets the heart to beating and puts sunshine in your eyes.
It ain't the value of the thing, nor how it's wrapped nor tied
it's something else aside from this that makes ynu glad Inside.
It's knowing that it represents a love both deep and true,
that someone carried in his heart and wants to slip to you.
It's knowing that some folks love you and tell you in this way
- just sorta acting out the things they long to say.
So tain't the gift a feller gets, nor how it's wrapped nor tied,
it's knowing that folks like you that makes you glad inside.
WHAT DO I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
"Whai do I want for Christmas? Friendship and love and cheer
Faith in my fellow comrades to last through the coming year.
Fill up my Christmas stocking with laughter and mirth and song.
Tuck in plenty of patience to have when things go wrong.
Leave out all greed and self - pity. Give me the strength for my
task.
Give me more wisdom and courage this Christmas. Dear Lord,
that's all I will ask."
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