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AWARD-Clarence William Page, formerly of Raeford, an employee with the Prudential Insurance Co., has been awarded Prudential's Community Service Award for 1976. Page, a division manager with the Gibraltar Agency, is shown receiving the award from Kenneth C. Nichols, senior vice-president. As part of the overall award, $100 checks from Prudential to the United Negro College Fund and North Carolina A&T State University were presented to Page. ENERX3ETIC?A new addition to the Hoke County Recreation Department 's summW pVdftram is slimnastics, an exercise class for all energetic folks. A vital part of the program is jogging, and these ladies here are moving toward the end of another lap. WORM? Sidewalk Sale SAVE $30.07' 15.5 Cu. Ft Upright Freezer R*Qui?r 299 95 Food at your flngantpa1 _ _ _ , SAVE S20 07 on 13 2 Cu. Ft Uprtght Fraaiar 4WC39I3 SPECIAL PRICE ON save ,50 07 ??1,0Cu up,igM F,M,,r4wc3918 INTERIOR & EXTERIOR PAI NT ? Stock Up At These Special Sidewalk Sale Prices Western Auto Associote Store > James Wood, Owner 1 CLOSED MONDAY. JULY 5th N. Main Street Phone 878-2061 Raeford, N.C. TVdcUUc^ By Jim Dean * -D " ? 74' ' /~h* ,; ~ NC Wildlif* Rv?ourc?t Commmion When the handsome little spike buck walked out into the creek in front of me. my frst reaction was. "Oh no, not again." Ordinarily, I'd be thrilled to get a good, close look at a deer. The average person would be scramb ling for a camera or making noises like, "Aw, ain't that sweet." _Not me. No siree bob. Not anymore. 1 feel about deer the same way a sick man feels about angels. For some reason, whitetail deer have a grudge against me. I don't understand why unless it's because I like the taste of venison. But even that seems insufficient grounds for the nefarious, underhanded, evil and totally mind - bending methods they use to gain their sweet revenge. It's going to sound corny, but for at least seven years, 1 have been the victim of a cruel practical joke. I never see a deer when I am hunting deeer, but I almost invariably see deer when 1 am fishing. All I have to do is to think about going deer hunting and a quarter of million whitetails in Eastern North Carolina move to tidewater Virgin ia. Deer hunting friends bite their tongues when the mere thought of inviting me on a hunt crosses their minds. They pray that they be cleansed of such abstract fancy. On the other hand. I cannot remember the last time I went fishing without seeing a deer. I believe I could wet a line in the bathtub and a four-pointer would come charging through the loose tile like a Schlitz bull. Just like spring. 1 was stalking a sizeable brown trout that was feeding in the pool ahead of me. I had just gotten into position to make the critical cast when a Point buck did a belly flop off the bank right smack on top of where the trout had just taken a mayfly. Ironically, the fly I was about to use is called an Irresistible. It is tied primarily with deer hair. On another recent occasion, I was casting topwater plugs for bass along the shoreline of a big Piedmont lake. I had just made a cast to a very likely looking spot when three deer walked out on the bank not 30, feet from me. They stood around casually waiting to see what I was going to do. At that exact moment, a largemouth bass as thick as a fireplug struck my forgotten plug. It sounded like a wing-shot MIG ditching in the Tonkin Gulf. I missed him clean ? never even felt him. A few weeks ago, I was heading for Harkers Island to try to catch a king mackerel at Cape Lookout. There are, so far as I know, no deer on Cape Lookout. However, as I passed through the Cherry Point Marine Air Station, a large doe leaped out from behind a tree and passed through my headlight beams only a few feet in front of the ear. She looked like a moose. 1 swerved and came within a hair of mowing down 42 mailboxes. Maybe now you see why 1 was not DANIEL H. DeVANE FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER unduly overjoyed to see that spike buck prance out into the stream in front of me. And yet. even though 1 should have known better. I stood motionless so as not to frighten my curious companion. He came closer, sniffing and looking. Brer Dean, he lay low. The deer was now only a rod length away. He began to circle me. still showing no fear. 1 carefully began to twist around so that 1 could watch him. Suddenly.? the rock 1 was standing on rolled over. I scrambled wildly to keep my . balance. It was no use. A moment later I was sitting neck deep in 50-degree water watching the deer saunter off down the creek. He stopped only once, to watch my hat go over a low falls, then he stepped briskly into the woods. Mission accomplished. 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