PERFECT - A cloudless sky and lighr winds made Jan. 7 perfect flying weather and nearly twenty planes were at the airport about noon, waiting patiently for their pilots to take them aloft. Mr BUSY - Crowds at the employment Security Commission here kept interviewers Martha Murphrcc licit) and Irene Urvant busy until late afternoon. Due to the increase in applicants for unemployment compensation, the llokc County office will be stafjed every Tuesday for an indefinite period. SENIOR CITIZENS The News-Journal NOW OFFERS YOU 50% DISCOUNT ON NEW OR RENEWED SUBSCRIPTIONS If you 're 65 or over REGULAR $C20 PRICE Special Price! $2?? The News-Journal Doctors Set For Seminar Dr. Robert G. Townsend. Jr., and Dr. Riley M. Jordan of Raeford are among 120 Tar Heel physicians who will hear the latest information on high blood pressure ? the silent disease which affects over 500,000 North Carolinians. A panel of 12 experts and the participating doctors from across the state will meet for an intensive two-day Nonh Carolina Heart Association Physician Hypertension Seminar January 25 and 24 near Raleigh. Improved detection and treatment of high blood pressure are the goals of the seminar and a continuing education program. The doctors will instruct hospital medical staffs in their own communities on information they received at the seminar. Service News mi SP4 Steven Allen Harris has been transferred to Frankfurt. Germany for the remainder of his Army enlistment. The specialist was formerly assigned to the 8th Ordinance Company at Ft. Bragg. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bethea of Raeford. Airman Ronnie Monroe has completed 452 houis of a vehicle technical course at Chanute AFB. III. He will he stationed at Nellis AFB in Nevada. Airman Moniog, a 11'*7-4 graduate of Hoke High, is the grandson of Delton Momoe. Rt. 5. Red Springs. Sclurfield Barracks. Hawaii -- Army Stall Sergeant Benjamin McRae. son of Mr and Mrs. Coston T. McRae. Rt. I. 1 umber Bridge, completed annual training tests at Pohakuloa Tiaintng Area. Hawaii. Sgt McRae is a ladar section chief in Headquartcis Battery, 5id Battalion of the 25th Infantry Division's I5ih Field Artillery ol Scholield Banacks. The test detefmmed the unit's combat leadiness. Army Private Robert A. Graham. I(>. son ol Mrs. Jacqueline I vans. Rt. I. Lumber Bridge, completed eight weeks of advanced individual training as an armor reconnaissance specialist at the U.S. Aimy Armor Center, Ft. Knov Ky. He leccived instiuction in the use of \a:K?us kinds ot weapons, maintenance ot armor vehicles, map reading, communications, artillery adjustments and mines and demolitions. McCain Staffer Trains At ECU GREENVILLE-Eighteen employee; Irom the North Carolina Department ot Correction. Division of Prisons, are enrolled in the Institute of Correctional Administration at East Carolina University. Attending from Hoke is Jimmy D Bullock. employed ai McCain Correctional Center. The Institute at ECU is conducted as a training program for personnel in the slate's prisons and correctional centers. Participants are currently engaged u lull . time studies in the area o corrections and will continue thei studies at ECU for the entire winte quarter. The Institute is sponsored by the ECU Department of Social Work and f'orrectional Services of the School of Allied Health and Social Professions. SCS Activities F. O. Clark, Dittrict Consarvationist Some of my earliest memories are of hunting on our home farm. Hunters from the town nearby often came by to enjoy Dad's company and the abundant farm wildlife. But I recall, too, the time my father asked two hunters to leave our farm because they had not asked permission to hunt. Dad never denied permission to any hunter who first stopped at the house. Yet he always insisted on knowing who was on the farm and for what purpose. I've hunted most years since that time and have found that Dad's displeasure with uninvited guests is shared by most men who till the soil. Today's farmer has more legal backing in the control of trespass than he had 40 years ago. Laws are more restrictive on the sportsman and are more widely publicized. Enforcement of trespass laws is much improved. Some farmers post their lands as a means of encouraging sportsmen to ask permission before going onto the land to hunt or fish. Others feel that the signs give them an additional legal backing in trespasser control. This is true in some states, but in others the trespasser is subject to prosecution whether the land is posted or not. Basic in a posting is the landowner's desire to know who is on the land. Also, if damages result from the presence of sportsmen, he wants to talk to those responsible. Imagine the frustration of the farmer who finds dead stock, broken fences, or other mischief and can't find out who did it. I am sure it never occurred to my father to charge a fee lor hunting or fishing. Even today some farmers appear reluctant to charge for access to publicly owned crops of wild game. Others, however, use fees as a means of controlling the numbers of those who want to hunt and fish on the farm. By doing so, the farmer can better regulate the harvest of wild animals to assure a continued supply. A few farmers charge as compensation for past or anticipated property damages. Others charge a fee to pay the cost of improving wildlife habitat on the farm. Farmers and ranchers produce the hulk of the wildlife and much of the fish that is harvested each year and usually without undue expenditure of their time or funds. But game production is intentionally promoted by thousands of farmers across the nation who devote land and water to the exclusive use of wildlife. These farmers are protecting natural habitats of squirrels, ducks, deer, and many other game and nongamc species from damage by livestock and olher agricultural activities. And they are improving additional thousands of acres by providing food, cover, and water for the use of wildlife. In this way they help meet mounting pressures for hunting and fishing opportunity. Despite present efforts of management, the size of the annual wildlife crop may vary widely. Game crops are high or low and hunting and fishing success good or poor depending upon the weather and a great many other factors. Although good management cannot gurantee abundance every year, it tends to assure better crops from yeat lo year. Farmers can get Federal cost - sharing aid through the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service for selected habitat improvement practices - such as planting food patches, planting trees and shrubs, or building ponds, marshes, and watering places for wildlife. Technical help for habitat improvement on farm and other rural lands is available through the Soil Conservation Service and other Federal and State agencies. Some agencies provide materials such as fish for stocking ponds, planting stock of trees and shrubs, seeds. With the technical and financial help now offered, farmers are creating and improving wildlife habitat at a growing rate. Sportsmen who respect ihe landowner's rights and property - and particularly those who help pay for the wildlife improvements - are increasingly welcome to harvest the wildlife produced. The above is a reprint from the I %7 Yearbook of Agriculture. If you need more information or assistance please come by your local Soil Conservation Office in Raeford. Lunacy' Hearings Criticized District Court Judge Joseph !:. Dupree called lor the stale legislature to change existing procedures lor the commitment hearings of mental patients, commonly called "lunacy hearings". "It hurts me like hell to see these people brought here," Dupree said Friday after a hearing with a disturbed 20-year-old woman Dupree expressed concern the patients may he placed under greater stress hv being required to make the trip here instead of having rheir hearings in Kaleigh. Peisons who are uiitially committed to Dorothea Dix hospital under a petition approved by a judge must be given another hearing before they can lie committed for '>() days. Ar the. end of that time, anoihcr hearing must be held to extend the commitment to six months. Dupree cited a recent case of a motliei of several children, who. when brought from Raleigh, became highly distraught. "She came completely undone." Duprce said. "She cried and cried the whole time." The judge also said taxpayer's money could be saved by moving the hearings to Raleigh. "It costs the county lour tiips. The deputy has to go get the patient, bring him here, then drive him back, and return. If the hearing weie held up there, the deputy would only need make two trips, to take all witnesses to the hearing, and then luing them back." Sheriff D.M. Barrington concurred with Dupree's complaint of the expense. "Figuring X5 miles each way, lhat's about S22 in gas." I he sheriff said. "And. figuring the lime involved, my dentlfv is nut *t