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WET Weldon Carthen and his grandchildren look out on the lakes in his yard from one of the few dry spots. Carthen and his neighbors are unhappy with the poor drainage in the low lying section of Bowmore which has ruined gardens and made driveways impassable on some days. raw?emo? waiaa? nuae? wmi1 a i m:: -a? AUCTION SALE SAT., MARCH 26-1:00 P.M. a RAIN DATE APRIL 2 To Be Held At Ashley Heights I Hwy. 211 Between Aberdeen and McCain 1 1 LOT OF USED FURNITURE, ELECTRIC APPLIANCES. 1 LOT I OF NEW MECHANIC TOOLS. YARD FURNITURE, HANGING J BASKETS. LOTS OF ITEMS. 1 If You Have Anything In This Line To Sell, Contact SMITH I AUCTION CO. 281-3344. 3 Don't Miss This Sale! There Will Be Something Everyone | Can Use. I SALE CONDUCTED BY y SMITH AUCTION CO. Rt. 1, Aberdeen, N.C. IF YOU NEED TO HAVE AN AUCTION SALE CONTACT US I E.P. Smith, Auctioneer ? Phone 281-3344 Lie. No. 894 Licensed and Bonded Housing Tips By Willie Fealherttone, Jr. Ami. Agri. Ext. Agent TERMITES ARE PICKY EATERS Their main diet is wood cellu lose. Because of this, termites play an important role in forest ecology , recycling dead wood on the forest floor and enriching the soil. We have moved into their territory and deprived them of fallen trees and branches. But they thrive just as well on smoothly planed lumber and other manufactured wood and paper products in your home as they do on raw tree trunks. Leave a convenient entry way and guess who's coming to dinner. Types of Termites Subterranean termites, the most widespread of all. are found in every state except Alaska. Years ago. their damage was concentrat ed in the southern half of the United States. But with more and more homes having central heat ing. subterranean termite damage is becoming common in the North ern states. North Carolina is mod erately infested with the subterran ean termite, states south of North Carolina such as South Carolina. Georgia and Florida, have a high infestation whereas Northwestern states, for example, Montana, Idaho, Washington, have shown a low amount of damage done by this termite. The most important thing to remember about subterranean ter mites is that they need warm air and moist conditions to live. To stay moist, they must maintain a direct link with the ground unless leaking pipes or roof provide them with a nice wet home. Therefore, don't worry about termites already in wood. Cut off their access to the moisture and termites in the wood will die. These particular termites have a one-two punch. As they eat their way through wood, the structural fiber of the wood is weakened. But they cause much more damage than this and bring moist soil with them to build protective tubes and tunnels, and this leads to attack by wood fungis. Subterranean ter mites damage is almost always accompanied by wood decay which weakens the wood further. Drywood termites are important to home owners along the southern rim of the United States, especially in Florida, California, and Ari zona. They need not contact the soil. They enter the homes through cracks in windows or eaves or through screened vents in the attic. Some are brought into a home in infested furniture. Fumigation is the most effective way to eliminate them, once they've gained entry. SCS Activities Bj Oval Richie District Conaervationlst A new plant with the rare ability to make its own nitrogen may soon aid some of North Carolina's most troublesome eroding areas, says SCS District Conservationist Oval Richie. The plant is Arnot bristly locust, developed at the Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials Center at Big Flats. New York, according to Plant Materials Specialist S.I. Dronen of Raleigh. The plant's ability to generate nitrogen makes it especially well suited for growing on dry and infertile sites such as gravel pit banks and mica mine spoil. Bristly locust is a native plant in the mountains of North Carolina. The new Arnot selection is an improved variety derived from native plants. It is an open ? branched shrub that grows into thickets, spreading by under ground root suckers. The name comes from soft red - brown bristles on twigs and branches. Attractive pink flowers in late May and early June make Arnot bristly locust a valuable landscape beautification plant as well as an outstanding erosion control plant. Sid Dronen added. Spring is the optimum time for planting seed lings. In the mountains, seedlings should be set no later than April 15. In other parts of North Carolina, April 1 is a practical deadline. Dronen explained. The new variety was first planted in North Carolina in 1970 on a mica mine area in mountainous Mitchell County. Since that planting, it has been tried in other locations and is well adapted to Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Sandhills areas of North Carolina. Arnot bristly locust is well adapted to coarse, textured soils but has not been very successful on heavy clay soils. The plant materials specialist commented: "This new variety can provide an excellent solution on some problem areas of erosion where it will flourish." He urged people with eroding areas where Arnot bristly locust might flourish to conta? their local Soil Conservation Service office or their local soil and water con servation district for assistance. HELP IS AS NEAR AS YOUR PHONE. The first thing you reach tor in an emergency is your phone. You take it tor granted that mere will always be someone on dun* at Carolina Telephone to help you yet through to the nght people. Someone trained and experienced to handle an emergency situation with speed, intelligence and efficiency. You Gin always take it tor granted. Because our people never do _ rrn CaroinaTelephonetoM lTT) L fJk Ik1 saw m-r YOUNG ATHLETES ?? Wanda Black. Kenneth Wiggins and Shirley Goodman, all students in Jean Daniel's class at Raeford Elementary School, dry their bright orange T-shirts in the sun. all ready for Friday's Special Olympics at the Hoke High stadium. The ceremony starts at 9 a. m. and events begin at 9:30. The public is invited and admission is free. McCain Chaplain Off On Barbados Mission The Rev. Richard Hopkins, chaplain at McCain Hospital, left Charlotte Tuesday on the first leg of his journey that will take him to Barbados. West Indies, just off the coast of Venezuela. South Amer ica. He is participating in a new program set up by The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and the North Carolina Brotherhood Commis sion. It will be a dramatic change of pace for Chaplain Hopkins -- whose main duties will include electrical wiring, plumbing and carpentry. ? He will be helping build a new church and converting an old plantation into a college. He will also be preaching in the churches of * Barbados and assisting the missionaries. College Announces Option On Purchase Of Weymouth The Sandhills College Founda tion has granted an option to buy "Weymouth" -- the Boyd Estate in Southern Pines -- to the Friends of Weymouth. Inc., and The Nature Conservancy for S700.000. The option runs for one year. Agreement for the acquisition of the 200-acre property, which, among other natural assets, con tains the last known large stand in North Carolina of virgin long-leaf pine trees, was reached by the Foundation, headed by Dr. R.M. McMillan of Southern Pines; the Friends of Weymouth, headed by Admiral I.J. Galantin, USN Re tired, Country Club of North Carolina, and Thomas M. Massery gale. Chapel Hill, and John Payne, Washington, D.C., representing The Nature Conservancy. According to Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president of Sandhills Com munity College and secretary of the College Foundation, directors of the Foundation and officials of the college want to see "Weymouth" preserved and used for the enrich ment of the entire community. They are willing to sell the estate to the Friends of Weymouth and The Nature Conservancy, which has a North Carolina branch, he said, for a price regarded as being substan tially below the current market value, to assure its continuous use and enjoyment by visitors as well as local residents. Admiral Galantin said that the Friends of Weymouth will shortly announce plans for a public cam paign to raise approximately $1,000,000 to cover, the cost of acquiring, renovating and preserv ing the property. As President, he expressed the organization's grati tude to the College Foundation and the Conservancy for their coopera tion in forwarding the goal of making "Weymouth" permanently available to the public as a natural ly beautiful and historically inter esting place. Weymouth was willed to the Sandhills College Foundation to be used by the college by Katharine Boyd, widow of novelist James Boyd. James Boyd, son of a pioneer family, and Mrs. Boyd were both distinguished writers, editors, phil antrhopists and supporters of the arts. During their residency Wey- ' mouth was visited by many nation ally known personages, and served as a center for artistic and social events. Mrs. Boyd, always interested in 4 the development of educational facilities in the state, willed Wey mouth to the Sandhills College Foundation, of which she was a charter member. She desired that it be used to benefit Sandhills Com munity College. The main manor house, the stable and the surround ing gardens have been used for college classes. According to Dr. Stone, taxes on the property, and the cost of renovation of the manor house, were prohibitive and beyond the capabilities of the College Foundation to finance. The Friends of Weymouth, Inc. was organized in 1976 and is comprised of prominent persons in the area and throughout the state. The North Carolina Nature Con servancy. a branch of the national, non-profit conservation organiza tion. is located in Chapel Hill and is headed by Thomas A. Massengale. If I were to ask you to name the greatest act of charity or benevo lence of all time, what would be your answer? Answers might range from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Marshall Plan, but no matter how impressive your answer might be, there would still be another act of giving that would outshine all the rest ? and this act of giving could be represented by two copper coins, roughly worth about one cent today. I am referring, of course, to the incident in Mark 12 where Jesus, sitting opposite the temple trea sury. sees the poor widow put in her last two copper coins. For Jesus it was an inspiring sight and he called his disciples to share it: "Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, her whole living" (Mark 12: 43.44). Jesus never measured money in terms of market value. Instead, he measured it in terms of what it cost the giver. For the affluent people who put substantial contributions into the offering, the giving did not cost that much when seen in the light of the abundance of their worldly goods. For the widow, however, the two copper coins added up to a complete sacrifice, for that was all she had. Giving is a matter of relativity. * Last weekend, for example, I put a ten dollar bill in the offering plate at church and it seemed a magnifb cent sum. especially beside all those one-dollar bills! That same after noon, however, I attended a profes^ sional football game and the ad mission charge of ten-dollars never gave me second thoughts. A ten dollar bill in an offering plate seems very heavy, but that same bill on a ticket counter seems quite insignificant. It is the value that we ascribe to money that determines its worths By itself it is neither good nor bad; Money! Money! Dug from the mountainside. washed in the glen. Servant am I. or the master of men; Steal me. 1 curse you Earn me. I bless you. Grasp me and hoard me, a fiend shall possess you; Lie for me. die for me. covet me, take me. t Angel or devil. I am what you make me. \Anonymous ] No, it is never money that is evil, but what men and women do with ? their money and what they let it do to them. * * * Farmers in the United States ge? about 40 cents of the consumer'! food dollar.
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