Capitol W eathered Wars
To Grow With The Nation
The Capitol undoubtedly is
Washington, DCs oldest
unfinished building.
Construction projects or
plans for alteration have
surrounded the landmark ever
since the first cornerstone was
laid on September 18, 1793,
the National Geographic
Society says.
Studies have been made for
a four - level, 1,900 ? car garage
under the Capitol Plaza. One
recent suggestion called lor an
outdoor restaurant, with
umbrella - shaded tables on the
terrace facing the Washington
Monument and the White
House.
A current proposal to
enlarge the Capitol's West
Front has been sharply
attacked by many
Congressmen who prefer to
have the old wall restored
rather than extended.
Early construction of the
Capitol was hampered by lack
of funds and skilled workmen.
The building's original
architect. Dr. William
Thornton, recommended
marble walls, but President
Washington substituted
sandstone as an economy
measure. Tlic softer material
was cut into blocks near a
Virginia quarry and hauled up
the Potomac River by barge.
The first Senate and House
wings were built after the
cornerstone ceremony but they
were badly damaged by fire in
the War of 1812.
The cornerstone for the
Capitol's center section was
laid in 1818, and the Rotunda
was far enough along in 1824
to be opened for a reception
honoring the Marquis de
Lafayette.
It was an age of chivalry,
notes "We, the People," the
official Capitol guidebook
produced by the National
Geographic Society and
published by the United Stales
Capitol Historical Society.
Gentlemen of the House and
Senate welcomed visiting ladies
to the floors of their respective
halls, or, seeing their guests
sitting for hours in hot and
crowded galleries, passed up
refreshments of fruit tied to
the ends of long sticks.
In September 18S0.
Congress appropriated money
for an enlargement that
reduced the Capitol's original
wings to mere links between
the additions and central
Rotunda. The new legislative
trails were models of beauty
with handsomely paneled walls
and newfangled gas lighting.
The shiny rooms were
overshadowed at the close of
the I850's by rising tensions
that would lead to the Civil
War. "Every man on the floor
of both Houses is armed with a
revolver," observed a senator
from South Carolina. When
one member accidentally
dropped his weapon during a
bitter debate, it caused an
uproar.
The Capitol served as
barracks, then as hospital, in
the early months of the war.
Soldiers called their quarters
the "Big Tent," and boasted of
portrait ? hung parlors,
comfortable sofas, and desks
for letter writing. Basement
committee rooms were
converted into a bakery that
turned out enough loaves to
feed the city's defense force.
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Gift MuskOxenMay Turn
Playful In Chinese Zoo
The Chinese may be
surprised 10 leam that the
musk oxen they are getting as
an official gift from the United
States can be as playful as the
pandas they are giving in
return.
John J. Teal, Jr., who has
been domesticating the wild
Arctic animals for 18 years,
described their behavior in
National Geographic:
"At our various breeding
stations, when the first snow
falls, our managers use motor -
drawn sledges to haul hay to
the feed racks. As soon as the
sledge appears in a pen, the
whole herd gathers around it,
nudging it with their noses,
pawing it, and testing it.
"Then, one by one, they
climb aboard and ride. After
five or ten yards each ecstatic
rider gets shoved off by a new
passenger."
The oxen also enjoy
pushball. When Mr. Teal
throws the ball into the pen,
the animals divide into two
teams and nose the ball back
and forth.
This powerful relic of the
Icc Age, remarkably intelligent
and adaptable, and now living
in the most remote regions of
the Far North, is not really an
ox and has no musk glands,
despite early misconceptions.
Its nearest living relatives are
goats and, possibly, antelopes.
Musk oxen were hunted to
extinction in Eurasia in
prehistoric times and to near
extinction in North America in
recent times. Today their
natural range is only northern
Canada, which has 10,000
animals, and Greenland, with
6.000.
After 10 years of studying
captive musk oxen in Vermont,
Mr. Teal set up breeding
stations in Alaska and northern
Quebec. He hones to make
selectively bred musk oxen an
important addition to Eskimo
economy, chiefly through
utilization of their silky
underwool, called qiviut.
Shed in great sheets in May
or June, qivuit possesses the
fine qualities of cashmere.
After cleaning, one pound car
be spun into a strand of yarn
10 miles long. Four ounces of
the gossamer - light material is
enough to make a dress - with
a mini - skirt.
Nearly 200 Eskimos knitters
in Alaska and Canada are
already being taught to make
scarves from qiviut. Incredibly,
each scarf -4 feet by 16 inches
- weighs less than an ounce.
Musk oxen need no bams
and little fodder. Though adult
males measure up to S feet at
the shoulder and weigh an
average of 800 pounds, they
eat a sixth of what cattle do.
The animals can forage for
themselves, and delight in the
leaves and tender shoots of
willows. In winter they use
their broad front hooves to
break through deep snow to
sparse grasses. When thirsty,
they "drink" snow.
Intelligent and curious, the
Vermont musk oxen always
watched intently when Mr.
Teal fastened their corral gate
with a chain and unlocked
padlock. One day an ox
ambled up and looked at the
gate for a moment. Then he
yanked the chain till the lock
fell off and pushed the gate
open.
"Domestic musk oxen enjoy
sharing human activities," Mr.
Teal writes. "One summer day
at our Vermont station, my
wife and children were
swimming in our pond when
they heard splashes and snorts.
Suddenly they were
surrounded by musk oxen,
paddling and frisking around
them like outsize dogs."
World War I Planes
Making A Comeback
In May the ghosts of
aviation's infancy spread fabric
? covered wings and ride the
sky once more.
After a winter's hibernation,
biplanes, triplanes, and other
relics of World War I resume
chasing each other's tails in
mock dog ? fights to thrill
weekend crowds at private
airfields.
The acrid smell of cordite
mingles with the aroma of hot
dogs as blank - firing
Nicuports, Fokkers, Spads,
Rumplers, and Sopwith Camels
twist and turn above the
picnicking spectators.
Wood - and - linen aircraft of
the 1915 ? 18 era would no
longer be flyable, so the
stunting fighters arc
reconstructions. Original parts,
including 55 - year . old
motors, are used in many of
the rebuilt warplancs, the
National Geographic Society
says.
Ancient LcRhone rotary
engines, burning a mixture of
castor oil and gasoline, give the
air meets a distinctive
fragrance.
The Old Rhincbcck
Aerodrome, in the Hudson
Valley some 75 miles north of
New York City, has been
staging vintage plane shows for
the past 13 summers. The
Flying Circus Aerodrome, in
Virginia about 45 miles
southwest of Washington, D.C.,
first took to the air last year.
In April, the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington
opened a display of authentic
World War I planes with a
detailed reconstruction of a
wartime airfield. It will
continue until the end of this
year.
The exhibit's twu Spads
include one flown by General
"Billy" Mitchell. The prize of
the display is a Fokker D-VII,
captured intact by three
American fliers who
interrupted their card game to
take its pilot prisoner when he
landed at their forward base by
mistake.
High point of the aerial
displays in New York and
Virginia arc battles between
British Sopwfths and replicas
of the blood ? red Fokker DR-I
flown by Baron Manfred von
Richtofcn. The triplanc
invariably loses, settling below
the horizon in a plume of
charcoal - dust "smoke."
Able to turn almost in its
own length to shoot at an
enemy behind it, or stand on
its tail and riddle planes passing
above, the triplanc was deadly
in combat. But not many saw
action. The Germans stopped
making the tricky little craft
after it killed their best pilots.
The modern versions, which
copy the original plans, also arc
hard to control. The Ohio man
who built the Flying Circus's
red Fokker crash ? landed it
four times.Then he sold it.
Stan Parris, the Virginia
lawyer who heads the Flying
Circus, describes flying the
stubby, three - winged plane:
'The first time I tried to turn
left in the DR-I, it turned
right."
The antique planes have no
brakes, so pilots try to land
uphill. The Nicuport has so
little control on the ground
that men hold the wings and
run it into the wind on
takcoffs. Then they scatter
around the field to catch its
wingtips and slow it down
when it lands.
Even the relatively stable
Fokker D-VII was not always
dependable. Edward P. Curtis,
75, who was one of its captors
in 1918, recently told of his
experience with the
Smithsonian's Fokker.
"I flew, or tried to fly, the
plane to Paris," Curtis recalled.
"But the engine conked out
and I had to land in a field."
primary to score a victory over Rocky
Mount businessman Jim Gardner in a
close race.
In Hoke County, with only 46
registered Republicans voting, Gardner
took the lead with 31 votes to
Holshouser's IS. Gardner also led Hoke in
the first primary and came out slightly in
front across the state, falling just shy of
the required 50.1 percent margin for the
nomination.
This was the first runoff ever for a
gubernatorial nomination in the
Republican party in North Carolina. The
race between Gardner and Holshouser
was also the only one in which Hoke
voters gave their support to the losing
candidate.
The race for the U. S. Senate
nomination saw Nick Galifianakis gaining
a 339 margin over incumbent B. Everett
Jordan in Hoke County. The totals were
1270 for Galifianakis and 931 for Jordan.
Galifianakis had also led in Hoke in the
first primary edging out his three
opponents.
Galifianakis will oppose Republican
Jesse Helms, a Raleigh television
executive, in the November election.
Across the state Galifianakis piled up
S6.I6 percent of the total to 43.83
percent for the incumbent senator with
14 years seniority in the senate.
This was the state's first serious battle
for a Democratic senatorial nomination in
20 years. Jordan had never before faced a
serious challenge for the office.
Jordan had not actively campaigned
during the first primary, and admitted
that he had taken Galifianakis' oppositkin
lightly. He began a personal tour of the
100 counties in the state after the runoff
was called.
It was during one of his handshaking
tours that a shooting incident in a Raleigh
shopping center where Jordan was
campaigning killed four persons and
wounded seven others. Police believed the
?PRIMARY?
Continued from page I
incident was not an attempt at the
senator's life and he was not harmed.
The biggest win of all in the county
was scorea by Democrat Billy Creel for
the office of Labor Commissioner. He
collected 1737 votes to John Brooks'
422.
Creel, safety coordinator in the State
Dept. of Labor, led with 53.70 percent of
the votes to Raleigh attorney Brooks'
46.30 percent. Creel will oppose retired
Army Colonel Frederick R. Weber of
Lumber Bridge in November.
The race between John Ingram and
Russel Secrest for the nomination for the
office of Insuranoe Cojnmissioner saw
Ingram pulling far ahead in Hoke with a
1446 lead to Secrest's 691. The two had
sought to succeed commissioner Edwin L.
Lanier, who did not seek re - election.
Actoss the state, it was a close finish
?TRASH?
Continued from page I
Moore County mental health program, of
which it is currently a member, to
Robeson County's program. After some
discussion the board decided to remain
with Moore County as long as possible
because they fell they would get more
services under the present arrangement.
It was also agreed that supplies for
improvements to the Highway Office on
Donaldson Ave. would be purchased.
County manager T. B Lester said
improvements needed include carpeting,
painting and constructing a door Tor the
office. The office houses the License
Bureau, Civil Defense Dept. and
Unemployment Office.
The board also pa sac d a resolution to
provide the Antloch Community House
S350 for needed repairs. The money will
be used to repair the leaning chimney and
patch the wooden floor of the porch. The
building is mainly used as a polling place.
All members of the board attended the
meeting.
Everyone Likes Lobster,
But Who Can Afford Them
One reason lobster is si
expensive is that even lobster
appreciate the taste of fresl
lobster.
The crustaceans' penchan
for cannibalism hinders effort
to raise them commercially at
time when dwindling lobste
catches are causing prices t
soar.
Some seafood restaurani
have begun removing lobste
dishes from their menus rathe
for Ingram, who collected 282,204 to a
second place 272,275 forSecrest. Ingram
will oppose Republican L. W. "Bud"
Douglass, an insurance agent in Maiden,
in the November general election.
?STAMPS?
Continued from page I
Food and Nutrition Service urged local
retail grocers to apply for authorization
to accept food coupons s> they can
obtain their authorization cards as soon
as possible.
Grocers may apply at any time, but
failure to be authorized by opening day
could result in losing customers, since
eligible food stamp recipients may only
spend their stamps in authorized stores.
Any bona fide food retailer serving
customers in a food stamp county is
eligible for a authorization to handle
coupons.
A grocer meeting will be held at 10
a.m. June 12, in the second floor
courtroom of the County Court House in
Rueford.
Any grocer who wants to be able to
accept food stamps from tl>e beginning,
should attend tliut meeting. Those who
miss tluit meeting will probably not be
able to be authorized until after mid -
July.
For more information on grocer
autlmrization, local grocers may contact
Shepherd L. Schulz, officer - in - charge
of the I'NS field office at Raleigh. N. C..
lelcpltone: 755-4066.
Schulz noted that live inauguration of
the food stamp program in Hoke County
is meaningful to the entire community,
since it has about the same economic
impact as would tl?e opening of a medium
? sized new industry. Through the
increased food sales brought about bv
bonus coupons given each food stamp
recipient, the economy of the entire
county is affected.
tnan pay Jl 2 or more a pound
for the meat.
It's a far cry from earlier
days, when American colonists
found lobsters so abundant
they plowed them under to
fertilize wheat and corn fields,
the National Geographic
Society says.
Lobsters then were
considered a poor man's dish,
since anyone could wade into
shallow water and pluck them
from hiding places under rocks
and seaweed. Indians resorted
to lobster cookouts when game
proved elusive.
The first recorded European
encounter with the northern
lobster, Homarus americanus,
occurred when Captain George
Weymouth explored Main's
coastline in 160S.
In a journal of the voyage,
one expedition member
reported: "And towards night
we drew with a small net of
twenty fathoms very nigh the
shore; we got about thirty very
good and great lobsters ...
which I omit not to report,
because it shewcth how great a
profit the fishing would be ..."
Two centuries later,
fishermen were filling rowboats
just by hooking lobsters from
the sea floor with long ?
handled gaffs Sold for a penny
apiece, many were used as bait
to catch New England cod.
Massachusetts decreed in
1812 that only residents could
land lobsters, unless given
permission. Not until 1840
were laws enacted setting
minimum sizes for lobsters that
could be taken.
Lobsters five feet long had
been found in New York Bay
in colonial times, and giants
weighing more than 40 pounds
have been caught in this
country. Their claws could snip
off a man's arm.
Though 10 ? pound lobsters
once were common, by the
1870's catches were averaging
214 to i pounds -- and most
lobsters landed today are less
than halt that size.
As lobsters become scarce,
lobstermen are forced to go
farther offshore. Lowering 6 ?
foot metal pots 400 feet iiflo
the sea
CLASSIFIES AKS
85 5ir Tllr" hundred
good coffee bags at 15 cents
V. A "eal " Also milk
cans. Clarence Lytch.
5C
FOR SALE: Used Kelvinator
air conditioner. 10,000 BTU
875^58l5l?nC DaV'd Love"c'
5C
SALES PERSONNEL
^C0!!?pany locahng in
Raeford. Need three men or
women for sales work No
expenence necessary. Will train
at company expense. For
uiformation, write P. O. Box
number"3""* ^ "nd phon<
TFC
Do you need a plumber? Back
Hoe work. Septic Tank. For
plumbing or plumbing repair
work, call 875-2530, Jr. Long
5-8P
WANTED: Domestic
habyatting. Call 875-3164,
Eva Mae Murchison.
5P
FORE SALE: Baldwin upright
piano. Good condition, $225.
2?3nnn0i S?,.,air conditioner,
42,000 BTU, $175 ra|i
875-3494 after 5 p.m.
5-6P
FOR SALE: Philco electric
refrigerator with freezer
compartment Good condition,
565. Phone 875-2045.
5P
S3 0MALB '?66 Volkswa8en,
i r.. ac'ua! miles. Extra
clean. Phone 875-2045.
5P
TO WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN: I will not be
responsible for any debts made
by Joan Wood. James E. Wood,
5-6P
SPINET PIANO BARGAIN
wanted responsible party to
take over spinet piano. Can be
"en locally. Write Credit
Manager, P. o. Box 241
McClellanville, S. C. 29458
5-8F
card of thanks
I wish to thank everyone fo
k^nd dVIS'i5' "rds and man]
kind deeds dunng my recen
illness Your thoughtfulnes
m sS'-lUV!5 remembered
Mrs. Will Monroe.
SALE: By owner. 3
bedroom home on Turnpike
Road. Central air and nice size
lot. Equity and assume 6 3/4
>an. Call 875-3452.
5C
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attention lot owners
Will build 3 bedroom frame
house for 510,260 or less if
you want to do part of the
construction for qualified lot
owners or to persons who can
acquire building lots and have
steady jobs. Have several other
plans to choose from. Please
reply to Box 550, care of this
newspaper.
5P
for SALE: 1971 2 bedroom
Eagle Mobile Home, 12x65
Fully carpeted. 115 baths, air
condition. Assume payments.
Contact 867-1082 anytime
TFC
Why wait lor Septic Tank
trouble? MUlions of people use
Roebic K-37 and K-57 each
year. "It Really Works." K-77
kills roots, money back
guarantee. Raeford Hardware
2-HC
FOR RENT: Mobile home oi
?r?n' a' Ho|den Beach. Ca
o /S-3932.
2-51
FOR SALE: By owner,
bedroom house, 2 bath:
central heat. Lot 100x20C
double car garage. Priced t
sell. Call 875-3564.
TFl
FOR RENT. Almost new
bedroom Mobile Home I
C^87.5-422Td"i0n'
TF
u?R S?LE: Used 1963 M?bi
Home. PI rone 87S-4807.
TF
FOR SALE: Used 1964 Mobi
Home. Phone 875-4807.
TF
HOUSE FOR SALE: 9 room
carpeted air conditionei
Phone 875-3439.
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WANTED: Someone with got
tn to'0 take UP Payments <
SI 1.58 or pay off balance <
$47.70 on Singer Zig - Zi
electric sewing machine
cabinet. Makes buttonhole
monograms, etc. Withoi
attachments. May be see
ir>Cai'!y' For de,ails write M
Kelly, P.O. Box 58<
Lumberton, N.C. 28358.
"June it Butt in' Out All Over"
And so are w* - With Good
Uied Cm Buys! QUALITY
MQTORS, Harris Avenue,
Raeford.
4-8C
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
FREE ? Expensive Sample
Wigs. Send color wanted to:
Sample Wigs - 1203 E. Chelten
- Philadelphia, Pa. 19138.
3-6P
FOR SALE: Split level house
7 rooms, 2 baths, carpet
central air. $119.89 monthly
payment. 5ki% Loan. Call June
Stanley 875-2204 night.
875-2602 day. 311 McRae St..
Raeford. TFC
Exterminate tor roaches,
waterbugs. ants. $15. Free
termite inspection. Call
944-247 4. Aberdeen
Exterminating Co.. Aberdeen.
46-1 OP
SUMMER'S HERE! The
weather's great - so get out of
the house, start earning money
as an Avon Representative.
Discover how easy it is to sell
Avon products to friendly
people. Call collect 654-4062
after 7 p.m. or write Mrs. Betty
Ward, P. 0. Box 441,
Chadboum, N. C. 28431
4-6C
FOR SALE: Beach lots on
Sunset Beach, N. C. Trailer and
house lots near Ocean Isle
Beach, N. C. close to inlet
water way. Call day time
628-6526, night 628-8764,
Fairmont, N. C.
4-5C
THE proven carpet cleaner
Blue Lustre is easy on the
budget. Restores forgotten
colors. Rent electric
shampooer SI. Raeford
Hardware Co.
4-80
Reduce excess fluids with
FLUIDEX, $1.69 - LOSE
WEIGHT safely with Dex - A -
Diet, 98 cents at Hoke Drug.
45-8P
FOR SALE: 4 space cemetery
lot at Highland Biblical
Gardens. If interested, call
875-4484 after 6 p.m.
Trr
CARD OF THANKS
It is impossible for us to
adequately express our
gratitude to all the wonderful
people in Hoke County who so
willingly assisted us after our
recent loss. We especially want
to thank the Raeford and
North Raeford Fire
Department for the
outstanding job they did. We
have always felt that there was
no finer place in the world to
live than Raeford. This
experience just deepens those
feelings. If you have to have
trouble, Hoke County is the
place to have it. Your kindness
and concern made us aware
that our losses were only
material; we still have the
greatest assets in our friends.
Thank you each and everyone.
Jim and Jeanette Williamson.
SP
?SEN SAM ?
Continued from page 2
right to determine
tow at least a portion of their
larnings should be spent. The
langer is that "tax reform"
nill simply become a new
(ambit to channel into the
-ederal Government personal
earnings now earmarked foi
donations to the church
interest to buy a home, and
funds to provide child care
while they work.
Instant action on this tax
measure would ignore the
wisdom of the old proverb
which says that "one should
look before he leaps."
It costs between
$125,000 to $250,000 to
develop and test a new
food additive.
Not many companies
can afford to spend this
amount of money on pro
ducts that will fall to
pass the standards of
the Food and Drug
Administration, points
out Mrs. Ruby lizzie,
extension consumer
marketing economist,
North Carolina State
University.
Depressed prices,
brought on largely by
over-production na
tionally took a big bite
out of North Carolina's
Income from eggs In
1971, The gross farm
Income declined 13.Bper
cent to $117.2 million.
EARLS
ELECTRICAL
SERVICE
INSTALLATION and REPAIR
RT. 2, BOX 399
RAEFORD. N.C.
PH. 875 2369
EXPERT TV ANTENNA
REPAIR AND SALES
PROMPT. EFFICIENT SERVICE
tTATI OCtMtC NO MOT I
Eorl Chotort. Prop.
NEED
FENCING IN
or
LANDSCAPING?
See or Call
HOLLAND
Chain Link &
Landscaping
RT. 3
RAEFORD
Phone 875-2922
G & H
CONCRETE
FINISHING CO.
CARPORT - DRIVEWAYS
WALKS - PATIOS
FLOORS
FREE ESTIMATES
Call Eveningi After 6
875-2373
Inman I Tuttle
Repair Service
ROOFING
CARPENTRY
PLUMBING REPAIR
PAINTING
HEAT A AIR COND.
Phone 875 2186
RAEFORD
WILL HAUL
SAND GRAVEL
DIRT
for
Drivoways.otc.
Contact
LEWIS
LIPSCOMB
at LIPSCOMB GROCERY
WHEEL
ALIGNMENT
SERVICE
at
BOBBY
CARTER'S
TIRE SERVICE
SOUTH MAIN STREET
3-ROOM
APARTMENTS
FOR RENT
Air Conditioned
Reeford Hotel Building
See
Ernest Certwright, Mgr.
or Phone 875-3055 Day
875-3492 Night
WHEEL ALIGNMENT
NEW TIRES
and RECAPPING
MCDONALDS
TIRE RECAP.
SERVICE
PHONE 875 2079
114 RACKET ALLEY
& STEWART STREET
LYLE'S
Saptic Tank
Pumping
Sarvica
QUICK AND EFFICIENT
SERVICE
Phone 875-4078
RAEFORD, N.C.
COMPLETE
BRAKE
SERVICE
at
BOBBY
CARTER'S
TIRE SERVICE
SOUTH MAIN STREET