Moose Lodge Benefactors
First Real Stove For Widow
By Marty Vega
Polly Jacobs' home is a two-room
house without running water or
bathroom. For most of her life,
meals meant cooking on an old
wood stove, until it finally gave out
before Christmas.
Mrs. Jacobs, 78, is a widow living
on Social Security assistance and
food stamps. When the old stove
gave out, Mrs. Jacobs' daughter
and neighbors helped out by bring
ing food over, but ever getting
another stove seemed impossible
for Mrs. Jacobs until the Moose
Lodge here heard of her plight.
Last Friday the Moose members
presented her with an electric
range, a belated Christmas gift
because of the wiring involved.
"Lord, I don't know what I
-would have done," the 90-pound
? Mrs. Jacobs said.
Marshall Bullard, Moose trustee
who did the electrical wiring,
explained that after the Lodge
' acquired a new stove, they began
looking for someone who could use
the old model.
Richard White, head of the
Lodge, knew Mrs. Jacobs because
he had been giving her wood scraps
for the old stove from his cabinet
making business.
"The members decided 011 her,
and then we found out the house
had no wiring. Mary Smith, her
landlord, put up $60 toward it, and
the Moose Lodge is underwriting
the rest. It might go $100 or $150,
if it goes more, I'll take the rest out
of my own pocket," Bullard said.
Mrs. Jacobs tried to give $10 out
of her meager income, but social
service caseworkers worked behind
the scenes to get the costs taken
care of.
Mrs. Jacobs lives frugally on her
$177 Social Security and supple
mental income check. She pays no
rent, but oil for the old-fashioned
heater which warms the living room
is expensive, and in cold weather it
is nearly $100 to fill the drum. For
$27, she gets $50 worth of food
stamps and her daughter, 60, takes
her grocery shopping once a
month.
"Have to watch pretty close.
That bottle of medicine yesterday,
they let me have it on credit until 1
get my check, it was $10. Oil costs a
lot. I just paid some on it yesterday,
the man is mighty good to let me
have it," Mrs. Jacobs said.
"My granddaughter gives me her
clothes, ' she continued.
Although tiny, her two-room
house is always neat and clean and
ready for company. Six chairs are
drawn into a circle around the oil
heater for visiting. She has no
television, but does own a small
radio for listening to music.
Although she has lived alone
since her husband's death at age
42, Mrs. Jacobs says she is not
lonely.
"I like to go visiting. I've got
three granddaughters in Fayette
ville and one granddaughter in
Rockfish. I've got a son in Laurin
burg I go visit. If I didn't go visit,
I'd have to buy more oil. I stayed
with my granddaughter last winter
some, that made my oil last," she
said.
"No, I'm not lonely. I like it
here. This is my home as long as I
live. I don't want to live anywhere
else."
BELATED GIFT? Mrs. Polly Jacobs is shown with the electric stove, a
belated Christmas gift from the Moose Lodge, given her last Friday.
Area Incidents
Dog Killed After Attacking Boy
A Raeford youngster was hos
pitalized Monday after being at
tacked by a neighbor's dog. who
was shot to death by the owner after
the dog turned on the owner,
according to police.
Paul Bissett. 10. of 602 S. Main
St.. was nlavine in the backyard .of
the J.R. Saunders home on Birch
Circle about 4:30 P.M. when
Saunders' dog. a German Shep
herd mix. attacked the youngster,
police chief Leonard Wiggins said.
Saunders attempted to beat the dog
away, but the dog turned on him in
an attack, and Saunders and
neighbor John Leandro shot the
dog to death. Wiggins said.
Extent of the youth's injuries was
not known. The dog's head was
removed from the body and
ordered sent to Raleigh for rabies
testing, although police said the
dog reportedly had been vac
cinated.
In other incidents. Matthew
McRae reported a break - in at
McRae's grocery store on St. Pauls
Dr. in which seven cartons of
cigarets valued at $19.95 are
missing. Entry was apparently
made sometime Monday night or
Tuesday morning by breaking a
plate glass window in the front,
police said.
A 1966 Ford reported stolen
Monday was recovered undamaged
on Hwy. 401 - N about 13 miles
north of Raeford. The auto,
belonging to Raymond E.
Hawkins, Rt. 4, Box 102, Raeford,
fhad been stolen from the House of
Raeford Farms parking lot Monday
between 1 - 5 P.M., according to
police.
t Sheriffs deputies are investi
gating break-ins and other occur
rences that happened around the
county last week.
Shelton McCall, Rt. 1, Red
Springs, complained that someone
broke into his house sometime
between Wednesday, Dec. 31, and
Friday, Jan. 2, and took two rugs
valued at $60.
Robert P. Musslewhite, of Rt. 1,
Lumber Bridge, reported that
someone took a CB radio from his
truck sometime Friday, Jan. 2. The
radio was valued at $100.
David Home, Rt. 3, Raeford,
complained that someone broke
into his house sometime Monday,
Dec. 29, and took a .16 gauge
shotgun valued at $225.
Rosella Locklear, of Rt. 2,
Raeford, reported that someone
broke into her mobile home some
time Saturday, Jan. 3, and took a
stereo console. No value was given.
Mamie Bishop, Rt. 1, Raeford,
reported that someone took a tape
player, a football suit, and a gym
bag from a car owned by Ed
Hollinsworth sometime Monday,
Dec. 29. No value was given for the
stolen goods.
Bill R. Boyles, Rt. 1, Raeford,
complained that someone took a
CB radio from his truck sometime
Thursday Jan. 8. The radio was
valued at $139.
David Lindsay, Rt. 2, Raeford,
complained that someone broke
into his house sometime Thursday,
Jan. 8, and took silverware, guns,
radios, and cameras valued at
$1,231.
Douglas Monroe, Rt. 2, Rae
ford, reported that someone broke
into his house sometime Thursday,
Jan. 8, and took a .12 gauge
shotgun, a .22 rifle, and a calcula
tor, valued at $220. Damages
totaling $50 were also reported.
Imon L. Brown, of Rt. 1,
Aberdeen, complained that some
one broke into his house sometime
Thursday, Jan. 8, and took a coffee
maker, money, color television,
watch, and a tape recorder valued
at $677. ' >
"Wohn Lee Henegan, of 6572
Amanda, Fayetteville, reported
that a hole was shot in his car and a
battery was taken from it while it
was at the home of Raymond Jones
on South Hoke Road sometime
Sunday, Jan. 11. The damage was
estimated at SI00 and the battery
was valued at $27.95.
Robert Charles Walters, Rt. 3,
Raeford, complained that someone
broke into his house and took a
tape, shotgun, clothes, watch, and
radio valued at $722. The break-in
occurred sometime Thursday, Jan.
8.
Henrietta Gibson Tanner, Rt. 2,
Raeford, reported that someone
broke into her house sometime
Sunday. Jan. 4, and took appli
ances, jewelry , and guns, valued at
$2,180.
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February.
SCS Activities
F. O. Clark
District Conservationist
When pines are cut in the South,
stems smaller than 3 inches in
diameter and needles are left in the
woods. These materials, called
logging residues, are often viewed
as a waste of the nation's forest
resources, and ways are being
sought to utilize tree tops, needles,
and even roots. U.S. Forest Service
scientists have found, however, that
these needles and small branches
contain large quantities of plant
nutrients, particularly nitrogen.
Logging residues, therefore, may
be an important source of the
nutrients necessary to maintain
forest productivity.
Drs. Jacques Jorgensen, Carol
Wells, and Louis Metz, soil
scientists at the South-eastern
Forest Experiment Station in North
Carolina, have been studying nu
trient cycling in stands of loblolly
pine, the most important of the
southern pines. They are trying to
find out how much of each of the
major soil nutrients-nitrogen,
phosphorus, and potassium, is
added to and removed from the soil
during a timber rotation.
Nitrogen, the element that is
most often in short supply in forest
soils, is added to the soil in rain and
by micro-organisms in the soil. It
also may be leached from the soil in
heavy rains, and large quantities
are removed when timber is
harvested. Various portions of the
trees in a 16-year-old pine plan
tation were chemically analyzed,
and it was found that a large
proportion of the nitrogen was in
needles and small branches. The
scientists estimate that taking
entire tops, including needles and
small limbs, would remove almost
2'/j times as much nitrogen from
the site as a typical harvester does
today.
In a recent article in the Journal
of Forestry, "The Nutrient Cycle:
Key to Continuous Forest Pro
duction." the scientists question
whether the increase in wood
production associated with harvest
of needles and small limbs is worth
the loss in soil nutrients. They
believe that in certain circum
stances whole-tree logging might
deplete soil nutrients over a series
of timber rotations.
The scientists are quick to point
out that their results represent a
single situation that soils and
timber types are highly variable.
Losses in nutrients, they say, might
be offset by adding fertilizer as a
farmer does. But they wonder
whether the income from the
harvest of limbs and needles would
be sufficient to pay for the
fertilizer. They think logging resi
dues may be more valuable in the
woods than at processing plants.
Reprints of the (Journal of
Forestry) article are available on
request from the Southeastern
Forest Experiment Station, P.O.
Box 2570, Asheville, N.C. 28802.
Alien Report Form
Required By 31st
U.S. Post Offices again will
cooperate with the Immigration &
Naturalization Service in assisting
all aliens to comply with the Alien
Address Report requirements, the
Postal Service announced.
In compliance with the 1952
Immigration & Nationality Act,
each alien residing in the United
States as of Jan. 1, 197b must
report his or her current address
not later than Jan. 31. 197b.
Report cards (Form 1-53) are
available now at the Raeford post
offices.
Raeford Youth Drowns
Efforts to save the life of a young
Raeford boy proved futile Saturday
afternoon after he fell into a water ?
filled hole at his home.
The child was identified as Joe
Allen Boahn Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe A. Boahn Sr., of Rt. 4. Raeford.
The parents reportedly carried the
child to their car and were on their
way to a hospital in Fayetteville.
when they were met by State
Trooper Billy Thomas near Lake Rim
on Racford Road.
Thomas tried to administer mouth
- to ? mouth resuscitation and then
took the hoy with him in his squad
ear to Fayetteville after he had
radioed ahead for help.
Thomas' right front tire blew out
near LaFayette Village, but he
continued until a Cumberland
County Res cue Squad vehicle
arrived.
In the rescue truck, Thomas aided
in the effort to revive the child.
Young Boahn died a short while
later at Cape Fear Valley Hospital.
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