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faet, or 300 Feci or 3,000 feet, no depth
perception, because there is no land
reference, just endless, endless white."
"The pilot was nervous about the
jump. He couldn't get my jump line, he
wasn't taking corrections well. We got
disoriented. I remembered I was going
SK YDIVHR - Miss Britian Carroll.
Anchorage Alaska, championship
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to be coming from out of the sun along
the horizon so I guided the plane. I told
him to just head into the sun and 1
bailed on out. Of coursc I didn't hit real
close to target, about a half a block
away. There was frozen ice, water and
leaves and stuff, tricky!!
And what did it gel her besides
frostbite?
"I was made an honorary member of
the United States Army Artie Rangers.
It was a full military service. There was
an honor guard and a band at Ft.
Richardson, Alaska. Maj. George
Ferguson presented my wings to me. I
received my master parachutist badge
and a certificate saying I had enough
jumps to be a master parachutist." They
gave it to me on my birthday. There was
a huge cake and they picked me up in a
limousine with flags on the front. It was
fun. It was a great honor I suppose."
Parachuting, although her main
interest at present, is not Miss Carroll's
only interest. Neither are all her titles
related to skydiving. She sold paintings
and worked as a computer operator
eight months to get the money together
to spend four months devoting her time
to jumping. She was Miss Congeniality
and second runner-up in the Miss
Anchorage Pageant one year, and first
runner-up one year. What was her
talent?
"Singing and dancing and art. I
designed my complete backdrop, it was
eight feet tall by 32 feet long, painted
it, arranged my dance routine, it was a
modern dance, wrote it out and
performed it. I also used to be a karate
instructor."
All that before age 25?
"When I was raised, my mother
introduced us to lots of things, or
allowed us to introduce ourselves very
early. She started me drawing when I
was two, swimming when 1 was three
and by four I was allowed to compete in
swimming. At seven years old I was
learning to type and could type 50
words per minute by 10. We had a lot of
books. Anything I am is because of the
way my mother handled me."
Mr. and Mrs. John Gnagy of
Anchorage are the mother and
stepfather of Miss Carroll. "My whole
family has been behind me 1 20 percent
in everything I do." she said. How did
she start jumping?
"When 1 was eight years old I wanted
to be a paratrooper. Not because I
wanted to be in the Army, bul because I
wanted to jump out of planes. I love to
be up high. When I was 10 they told me
I couldn't be a paratrooper. And so
when I was 19. my girlfriend said she
was going to take skydiving so we took
it together. She made 13 jumps and
broker her leg. She never jumped again.
She wasn't athletically inclined."
"After I had made 30 jumps, my
mother talked to me about it. Her
theory was that if she didn't say
anything to me I would get it out of my
system. After 30 jumps I saw my first
fatality. Mother was very upset and
wanted me lo immediately stop
jumping. Bui after someone outside the
family told her she should put more
pressure on me lo slop, she said she
would rather . . . have me the way I
am."
What does Miss Carrol look forward
to lor herself.'
"Well, of course, everyone here in
? raining at Raeford for the nationals has
got one thing on his mind. To say
you're not trying to he on the U.S. team
would not be being completely honest.
Because everyone here has his eye on
the U.S. team or we wouldn't be here.
And of course from there you go to the
world meet. I suppose to try to be the
very best in anything you do...that's
what I jlways try to do in everything."
"This (the Raeford Airport) is the
best training drop /one, probably in the
United States, perhaps in the world.
Gene Paul Thacker (Raeford Airport
manager and former member of the
Army's Golden Knight Parachute team)
is the one who has given us this
opportunity. This drop zone is
becoming more and more well known.
If I had come here when I first started
jumping it would have been easier to
make the team, because it wasn't as
hard five years ago. I did relative work
(learn free fall) for the first three years.
I have only jumped style and accuracy
for two years. You could accomplish
what I have in two to two and a half
years.'" She said with a quick smile.
But only if you're willing to jump out
of a plane.
THURSDAY, MAY 23. 1974
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Has our effort to know God been as
intense as our efforts to achieve other
goals?
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Corine Cook, daughter of Mrs.
Roberta Smith, 521 Grant Ave.,
received a B.S. degree in nursing from
A&T State University at Greensboro.
Miss Cook graduated CUM LAUDE
placing 116 in a class of about 850. The
1970 Hoke High School graduate is
employed at Cape Pear Valley Hospital
in Fayetteville.
Mrs. Linda Sue Baker Huff received
an A.B. in music at Methodist College's
11th commencement exercises May 12.
Commencement speaker was Dr.
Arnold K. King of Chapel Hill, special
assistant to the presdent of the
Consolidated Universities of North
Carolina. Speaking at the 11 a.m.
Baccalaureate Service was Dr. Lorenzo
P. Plyler, associate professor of religion
at Methodist College.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
David Baker of Route 2. Mrs. Huff and
her husband live at 607 Donaldson Ave.
A 1970 graduate of Hoke County
High School, Mrs. Huff attended
Appalachian State University in Boone
and completed her student teaching this
spring in music in Hoke Countv.
Wayne B. Wooten of Raeford, a
senior medical student at the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine, has been
awarded an inlernship appointment for
1974-75 at North Carolina Baptist
Hospital in Winston-Salem.
Wooten is the son of Mrs. Eleanor
Wooten. 711 Fulton Street, and the late
Hubert Wooten. He holds an A.B.
degree from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is one of 73 students who will
receive the M.D. degree from Bowman
Gray during commencement exercises
Monday on the Wake Forest University
campus. The commencement speaker
will be Dr. Alvin M. Weinburg, director
of the Office of Energy Research and
Development.
The traditional Dedication Service
honoring graduating nursing students at
Sandhills Community College will be
Friday in the Village Chapel in
Pinehurst. The 2:30 p.m. ceremony will
be followed by a reception for graduates
and their families hosted by members of
Moore Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and
Si. Joseph's Hospital Guild.
Robert Ewing. civic leader who has
long been associated with Moore
Memorial Hospital and Sandhills
Community College, will be the speaker
and will be introduced by Dr. Raymond
A. Stone, college pesident.
A feature of the program will be the
presentation of awards to outstanding
students.
The annual awards day at Sandhills
Community College gave recognition to
students who have excelled in
scholarship, extra curricular activities
and athletics during the 1973-74 school
year.
Fred Smith, Raeford. was the
recipient of the Covington Award of
SI00 for achievement in the department
of business education. The award was
established by Colonel William
Covington, Whispering Pines, the first
business manager of Sandhills College.
Nine cheerleaders including Kim
Thacker of Raeford were recognized at
the ceremonies.
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Mike Wood & Walt Coley
(Your Prescription Specialists)
la This Any Way To Run
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Here's a Spring-time suggestion that makes
a great deal of aenae to us - clean out "y* oT
medicine cabinet!" But don't go to any
special trouble. Just do
the job in the courae of
your regulas Spring
-cleaning chorea.
J Like people, medicines
gow old and cranky over
time. Some sour. They're
doing you absolutely no good supporting
your local spider's system of cobbwebba, and
may even do you or someone dse harm if
inadvertently taken.
We bet that if you make a check of your
medicine storage, you*l find a literal "jun^e"
of half-taken drugs, unclear or dirty labels on
bottles, and bottlea whose labels are misting
altogether!
Now, we ask - Is this any way to run a
medicine cabinet? You bet not! ADV.
Judy McDougald, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H.A. McDougald, wit named
to the dean's list for spring semestef at
University of North Carolina
Wilmington.
Ronald Jan Cher on received a
business admin sit ration degree from
Pembroke State University during
ceremonies graduating 555 students.
Wanda Gayle Grant, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Amos M. Grant, Rt. 2, and a
primary education major at Appalachian
State University, completed student
teaching internship as a junior and it at
home visiting her family for a week. She
will go to Gardner Webb May 28 for one
- week orientation in Baptist Youth
work. Her summer work will be at
Selma Baptist Church, Selma.
Tourney On
"""" By 3oe Augustoni
Today's summer Softball league
games begins at 6:30 p.m. and is the
second and Final night of a single
elimination tournament.
In May 13 league play. House of
Racford beat Carolina Turf 12 to 5 and
> I .umbee Marval beat Gty Geaners 12 to
I. May t4 games were postponed until
the next day when Raeford Oil beat
Hoke Concrete 10 to 5 in the first game.
In the second game, the House of
Raeford ended the first half of the
season against league-leaders Raeford
Plumbing & Heating. Strong hitting
from the league leaders handed House
of Raeford a 22 to 2 defeat.
In the nightcap, Virgil's Drive Inn
defeated Raeford Fire Department 12
to I.
May 16, Carolina Turf edged out
Virgil's Drive-Inn 11 to 10, City
Geaners defeated Raeford Oil 8 to 7
and Raeford Plumbing & Heating edged
a fired up Raeford Fire Department
team 13 to 10.
The women and youth leagues begin
soon providing plenty of action in the
weeks ahead.
Top Batters
Larry Upchurch, Raeford Oil ? 739
Tim Locklear, Raeford Plumbing &
Heating - 636
Wayne Mills, Raeford Pumbing &
Heating - 625
Artis Gay, Virgil's Drive-Inn - 586
Larry Phillips, House of Raeford -
577
Dennis Hawkes, Raeford Plumbing &
Heating - 577
George McFadygen, Raeford Oil -
571
Joe Holt, Lumbee Marval - 571
Ronnie Taylor, City Geaners - 563
Fddie Baker, Raeford Oil - 563
Fletcher Oldham, City Geaners - 563
Standings
W L
Raeford Plumbing
& Heating 6 1
Lumoee Marval 4 3
City Cleaners 4 3
Virgil's Drive-Inn 4 3
Raeford Oil 4 3
Carolina Turf 4 3
House of Raeford 4 4
Hoke Concrete 2 5
Raeford Fire Department 0 7
Be* Scores
House of Raeford 12 16 2
Carolina Turf 5 |0 0
Lumbee Marval 12 16 1
City Cleaners 1 8 3
Raeford Oil 10 13 0
Hoke Concrete 5 9 1
Racford Plumbing
& Heating 22 28 1
House of Raeford 2 6 1
Virgil's Drive-Inn I? 12 1
Raeford Fire
Department 1 7 4
Carolina Turf 11 16 2
Viigil's Drive-Inn 10 12 1
City Geaners 8 12 2
Raeford Oil 7 112
Raeford Fire
Department 10 15 5
Raeford Plumbing
& Heating 13 II 3
Open House
The Sandhills Mental Health Center
open house is 4 to 8 p.m. today at the
Clinic in Pinehurst, located adjacent to
Moore Memorial Hospital.
This is the second year the Center has
opened it's doors to the general public
in an effort to increase community
understanding of mental health, and the
ways the center attempts to resolve
mental health problems in iti
operations.
Many staff members will be available
to answer questions and to explain the
various programs to citizens of the five
counties served by the center; Moore,
Richmond, Montgomery, Hoke and
Anson.
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DISTRICT CONSERVATIONIST
? nil we?K we continue our aeries by
looking into tome of the functions of
the Sou Conservation Service.
To determine the maximum safe use
for an area, something must be known
about the soil. A soil survey reveals
what can be learned about a soil from
field examination - how deep it is; its
inherent productivity; whether it is wet
or dry; ondy or sticky; how much slope
it has; how badly eroded it is; if it
contains salts; and other important
information. The information gathered
in the field is supplemented by
laboratory studies.
In making a soil survey, a soil
scientist bores and digs into the soil,
studies it and tests it, describes in detail
what he finds, and outlines soil
boundaries on the aerial photograph
used as a base map.
The information from a soil survey is
interpreted for many uses. Many
interpretations are for nonfarm uses,
such as road construction, home
building, laying pipelines, and suburban
planning. But one of the most widely
used interpretations - the land -
capability classification - is for devising
a farm or ranch conservation plan.
In this classification the individual
soils are grouped according to the crops
they are capable of producing and the
risk of soil damage if they are
mismanaged. There are eight major
groups, or classes, and these are
designated by Roman numerals I to
VIII. Soils in classes I, II, and III are
suitable for cultivation. Soils in class I
require little conservation treatment,
those in class 11 require some treatment,
and those in class III require
considerable treatment to protect
against or overcome erosion and other
hazards. The soils in these three classes
make up 44 percent of the private rural
land in the United States, not counting
Alaska and Hawaii.
Soils in class IV are marginal for
cultivation but suitable for other
agricultural uses such as pasture and
woods. They account for 12 percent of
the land.
Soil in classes V to VIII are generally
not suitable for cultivation and should
be kept in permanent vegetation. These
soils also make up 44 percent. A map
showing the soils interpreted in this way
is called a land - capability map.
When an area, usually a county, has
been completely surveyed the
information is published. At present soil
surveys for about half the land in the
United States have been published. At
this time the field work on the Hoke
County soil survey is being done. It is
scheduled for completion in 1977. Soon
after this the published soil information
will be available to the general public.
From a national standpoint the soil
survey is an inventory of the Nation's
soils. It maps the soils, describes them in
detail, and places them in a national
system of classification. This national
soil survey is done cooperatively by the
Soil Conservation Service and, usually,
the state agricultural experiment
stations, (to be continued)
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77m Hawkes
Hawkes Earns
All-District Spot
Tim llawkes, right fielder for
Pembroke State's NA1A District 29
championship baseball team, was named
to the all district team Saturday after
the Pembroke Braves took tournament
honors by defeating Methodist College 5
to 0.
Methodist was the only other
unbeaten team in the double
elimination NAIA District 29 tourney.
The district includes 15 schools in
Virginia and North Carolina PSU has ^
been District champions five times in
the last six years, llawkes, leads hiS^
team in hitting with a .314 average. He
has one more year of eligibility, lie is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith llawkes,
Rt. 2.
He is married to the former Patsy
Bray.
The PSU team is currently competing
in the Area Seven Tournament in
Greenwood, W.Va.
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