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DAYS OF MONTH
DAMP DHCEMBRR -Rainfall last month totaled 5..> inches, even though many mistv mornings made the month seem much
wetter, weather recorder 'Bill Bailey 'explained. December, IV73, was much wetter, as lO.ft inches was measured then.
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School Board Hires Teacher
Substitute teachers for the second
semester were approved and an
instructor hired at Hoke High by the
board of education, mceiing Monday
night at the new conference room.
Lockey MacDonald was approved 10
leach drat ling at the high school, taking
over the classes of Robert Catlin. who is
retiring.
The list of substitute teachers
included: Jacquelyn Becker, ('henna
Marie Bratcher. Addie Brown. Colleen
Buchholz, Joann Conoly. Mary Lynn
Currte. Linda Kay Hendrix, Mary Jo
Lovette, Jacqueline McEachin, Nancy
McNeill, rail icia Monioe, Dazaicnc
Page, Mike Steadman. Lois Tew.
Julia Beathea was hired as a
lunchroom employee.
Lions To Meet
The Lions Club will hold a dinner
meeting Friday. January 10. at the
Hyland Hills Country (Tub in Southern
Pines beginning at 7:30.
Featured speaker will be Frank W
Wilson of Yadkinville, director of the
department of social services.
. A popular speaker. Wilson is minister
of Farinington Baptist Church and a
faculty member of Wilkes Community
CollegoTwo of his comic routines are
"The Man Who Wanted To Be
Homogenized" and "Why till Depot
Agent Wouldn't Say When the Next
Train Left for Mudville".
The Sale You've Been Waiting For
Men's Suits
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MON. - SAT.
foe Sugar's
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Wed. After
Noons at
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'FOR LOVELY THINGS'
January Clearance
NOW IN PROGRESS
Cntire Stock Winter and Holiday
Merchandise Reduced
25% To 50% OFF
LONG AND SHORT
Come Early DRESSES -
While Sixes SPORTSWEAR -
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ns & JEANS ? SHIRTS -
Are Complete KNIT TOPS - SHELLS
AND ACCESSORIES
ALL SALES FINAL PLEASE
Sale At All Stores
Sanford-$o*fll?nt Pine?-CorTti?ge-Laurinburg-Aberdeen-Rockingham
Plant Open Despite Gas Cutoff
Knit-Away, Inc., 'which had faced
shutdown last week when its supply of
natural gas was suddenly cut off, was in
full operation this week.
Emergency allocations of natural gas
and a hurried switch to alternate fuels
enabled the large textile plant to open
Sunday as scheduled after the Christmas
season holiday.
"We are reasonably optimistic that
we can continue to operate," Joe
Rackley, plant engineer, said Tuesday.
"We have no plans to curtail."
Rackley said he was notified at 12:20
on Dec. 30 that as of two hours from
that time, all natural gas services at
Knit-Away would be cut off.
Shut-offs were announced that date
for many of the eastern North Carolina
industries that depended on natural gas.
Rackley and other Knit-Away officials
attended emergency meetings in Raleigh
with state officials, industry executives
and officials of Transco, the only
supplier of natural gas to the state.
Tuesday Rackley said changes had
been made at the plant to enable
Knit-Away to operate on propane and
oil. <
The gas- curtailment has had other
effects in the county, primarily on the
sale of soybeans.
The Cargill plant in Fayetteville.
where many of the beans harvested in
Hoke are sold, was abruptly cut off
from natural gas on Dec. 30. However
the effect here has been less drastic than
was originally forecast.
Tom Jones of Dundarrach Trading
Company, said Tuesday that this war
partly due to the fact that few beam
had been cut since then due to wel
weather.
"Also, it's right on the tail end of the
season. If it had been in the peak of the
season.it might have been different."
However, since the announcement,
prices have dropped about 40 cents a
bushel, according to Alfred K. Leach of
Farm Service Company.
The supply of nitrogen fertilizer is
also expected to be affected, since two
major nitrogen plants in the state were
also cut off last week.
Leach said this week that while he
expected to be able to furnish nitrogen,
the supply was likely to be short.
However, he said, he expected the
county to be in a better position than
the state as a whole because he obtained
most of his nitrogen from out-of-state
plants and only about two percent of
his supply from the Wilmington
factories. Leach is one of the major
suppliers for the county.
Several other firms in Hoke County
who use gas on an interruptable
schedule have been without natural gas
since early fall.
Burlington was cut off in September,
according to Bob Gentry, personnel
plant; the plant has equipment to
operate on both coal and oil.
Hoke Concrete, which manufactures
concrete building blocks, has been out
of gas since Oct. 2, according to Clyde
Upchurch, Jr.
The blocks are now cured with oil,
which costs about three-eights of a cent
more per block to use, he said.,
The natural gas supply to the one
school building heated with gas is
expected to remain steady, according to
Raz Autry. The other buildings are
heated with fuel oil. except for the
Gibson building, which is heated
electrically.
S.C.S. Activities
F.O. Clark
District Conservationist
The Public Advisory Committee on
Soil and Water Conservation, meeting in
Washington, has urged a high priority on
land inventory and monitoring for the
U.S. Depgftment of Agriculture, it was
disclosed today by Jesse Hicks of
Raleigh. who heads the Soil
Conservation Service in North Carolina.
Hicks said: "The objectives this
well-qualified and public spirited group
USDA can implement them."
Some key objectives include urging:
1. USDA to support efforts toward
energy self-sufficiency.
2. Work of agencies in surface mine
reclamation to be fully coordinated'.
3. USDA to intensify efforts to
complete and publish the National
Cooperative Soil Survey.
4. USDA to seek more effective ways
to expand its resource conservation and
development program.
"Here in North Carolina we are
concerned with all of these matters, and
have two very active programs
underway now-work toward providing
soil surveys of the entire state, and
active RC&D projects with new
application in every part of the state,"
Jesse Hicks added. "But I'm glad to see
this new national emphasis on these
matters."
When the ' advisory group met.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz
opened the session, while Assistant
Secretary Robert W. Long served as
chairman of the sessions-which
included people from every part of the
nation. SCS Administrator Kenneth E.
('?rant was alternate chairman.
Meeting Canceled
The January meeting of the
Bicentennial committee has been
canceled and Tescheduled for Feb. 12.
Dr. Larry Wheeler, state chairman of
Heritage Horizons, will speak then.
Rural Fires, Call 8754242
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
land inventory and monitoring program
seeks to identify prime areas for
production of food and fiber, to
delineate flood plains, to study land use
changes and trends, to Study erosion
and sediment damage, and to detect
degradation of the environment caused
by improper use of natural resources.
Among specific areas that the
--Nonstructural approaches to
watershed and flood plain management.
-Problems surrounding land use
planning.
-Potential difficulties concerning
non-point pollution sources.
-Manpower needs related to
acceleration of soil surveys and
resources conservation and development
projects.
"These are all matters that should
concern responsible people involved in
land use decisions," Hicks commented,
"and we are certainly ready to work
with them to seek the best solution, as
we have done through the years."
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