16lh-Century Spanish Town Kesurrected At Marine Base tolMtenSJ Nirim) Ci hi ifMr N*?? S?ok? lid before the sandy wil of Plum Island drifts oft into the tndal marsh of iV*t Royal Stwnd. mm far from the plush course where off-duty Marines drive golf balk, archeologists art unearthing a chapter of eart> American history that almost was forgotten. It is the once-thriving town of Santa Elena, settled by Spaniards Camp Easter Visit Can Help Handicapped For the handicapped person a visit to Camp Easter-in-the-Pines ?ear Southern Pines is more than an opportunity to have some old fashioned outdoor fun. It's an opportunity to learn that a dts amity need not interfere with social and emotional growth. Camping sessions also provide parents with a brief vacation from the near-constant demands of caring for a handicapped child. All campers are paid dose atten tion by an expert, carefully trained staff. The separation of parent and child is good for both, and there is always the fun of sharing new experiences when the camping is over. Handicapped North Carolinians, age b and over, who can benefit physically or socialhr from a camp ing experience may attend Camp Easter. They may be in wheel chairs, wear kg braces, walk with crutches, have artificial legs or arms, be deaf, blind. V* have difficulty in speaking. Their handi caps may have been the result of birth defects, disease or accidents -- it makes no difference. The Easter Seal Society believes summer is for Criteria for acceptance and par ticipation in the program are the same for oeryooc without regard to age, race, ethnic background, reli gion, or socio-economic status. For further information or application forms, contact: Easter Seal Society. Southeast Region. P.O. Box 1914. Gokhboro, N.C. 27S30; telephone (919) 73S-7420. 4 Hoke Groups Get State Job Safety Awards The Hoke County and three H*>k.e County hu\in?v?s rectiwj slate **v>rk - achio* ment awards May 15 at a dinner in Lumberton. The Dyeing Plant of Burlington Mens* ear received an award lor the sixth consecutive year, the county government Burlington Menswear Raelord Plant, and Raelord Auto Co. for the third consecutive year, and Hoke Con crete Works ol Raelord for the second eonsecutiw year. Hie awards *w presented by Stare Labor Commissioner John C. Brooks for the State Department of Labor. The honors are presented tor outstanding records of safety on the job for employees and manage ment. The award is given to an organization which has a record of no km - time injuries or a lost - lime injury rate at feast 50 per cent under the state rate for its type organization. McNeill Chief Marshall For Robeson Finals Tom McNeill, sun of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Burns of Raelord. will be the chief manhal for the 1"?p<**, ? trx L nrrcraty of South Carolina, a in the 16th century. before theTe was a Marine on Pro Island. evi^?? ihwjTte U.S. Marines, a federal government, or the British colom of Jamestown. Dr. Paul Hoffman, a m*n* S The significance of it has gone s,4n shovel. ni ?!? Jeems an un,?kclv starting p,Hnl K>r a |K.ni. But the Spanish lord there ,^ nH rV '^an >**rs. dogged by JrtT l u damKd ,hc ?*t>d and ^retK-h Huguenots. who had an T Ti'i n'iH^ ol dollars* worth o?-'ng shipped to Spain. Santa Elena. founded in I5bt> bv Spanish seaman named ?*lro Menender de Aviles. had bO bouses three fom. and a peak mutton of 400 before it was abandoned. The soldiers and "*???ts left in 1587 to consolidate ? he garrison at St. Augistine after ? aUacked b> Sir ^?nc? Drake They never returned. Otad ImmnImi - Menen4az had laid a solid toundaiion h>r settling the New ? up a svstem of g??vernmen, tor St. Auguwine and Santa Ek.ia as well av a sUpp|v nmte t.?r arms ami food. From Santa Ekna he had sent expkwers f\,jr JN ,hc Appalachians, and had arranged tor missionaries from , Pf,n ?" rt,"r devoured bv their cattle and predators. Some colonists starved to death ? J?" ** land * ^ hundred V* tht tkW m?rsh and eighth hole of the Marines' golf course, the archeologists are resur retting "downtown Santa Elena." Ten ot the 12 house* found so tar form a ribbon parallel to the shore, a layout similar to St. Augustine's. At least one other block of houses. South believes, is underwater now. lost to a rising sea level. The unearthing of Santa Elena ts sponsored by the National Geo graphic Society and the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology at ihe University ot South Carolina in cooperation with the U.S. Mann* Corps. Upcj of a Fire In the postholes ot Santa Elena's houses South has found lartte quantities of fire-baked daub, the plastic used to build walls. The orangy-red daub, baked when In dians burned the village, is all that is left of some of the town's early h' serve* as one more bit of proof that the site is Santa Elena. Inventories of the town's supplies in l>Tb listed 110 olive jars. 15t> do/en plates. 135 doren bowls. 14 do/en pots. 39 doren pitchers, and a do/en earthenware tubs. The excavators hit pavdirt one muggy day last July when thex dug 42 test pits within a rectangle laid out bv South. To their amazement, they found pottery bits or daub in almost every hole. On the F?mrth of Julv thes found a linear trench 14 feet wide and 5 leet deep that matched the descrip tion of part of the moat of San Felipe II. the second fort built at Santa Elena. Further digging turned up bastions and other" parts ot the ton. showing they had sureU found San Felipe, a surprise be cause scholars had thought it mas on a now-submerged island in the sound. History Rewrites Itself A few hundred feet from San Felipe II stands a handsome mar ker. erected to Charlesf?>rt. a tort built by the French in 15t>2. Professor Hoffman and others sav the discovery of San Felipe II and Same Elena mean the "Charles tort" site actually is that of San Marcos, the third fort built to protect Santa Elena. Excavation ot that site in 1923 by Major George Osterhout ol the Marines appears to have left the fort's .remains intact. South said. The work on the site so tar is like looking "through keyholes at a civilization, he said. More excava tion should tell the shape and si/e of the houses and might turn up a church and other structures that historians say were part of the village. Meanwhile, as military police patrol the site, a computer is combing the data, analyzing the geographical patterns of daub and pottery to project where the town might lead. It seems to be edging toward the fairway, but that doesn't bother some Marine gol fers. "We wouldn't mind if thev had to take out a few trees." said a statl sergeant who plays the course. Things that Matter By I.uci?-n (olrman A Matter of Time Thai loony Red queen in Alicr Thrvugk ik? Limiting Glass sure had it right: It lakes all the running you can do. to keep in the s^me place. If you *ant to get u must run at least Nice as fast as that!" When lite is moving at a frenetic pace ? and it usually is - little delays can be annoying. If you're in a hum. a 90-second wait at a traffic light seems like an eternity. A six-minute holdup at the railroad crossing can be positively nerve fra/zlin'. But these small insults to our sense of timing would fade into insignificance, if we could just view them in the proper perspective. For instance, on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, just across from Louisville's skyline, you can walk along a rocky ledge where there are thousands oil small fossils. Those fossils are from 345- to *05-million vears old. But that Devonian fossil bed is a mere youngster, compared to the age of our planet Earth, which scientists reckon to be something like 4.5 billion years old! Our universe is even older than thai. Eighteenth-century European astronomers thought the universe had been around a mere b.000 years. But modern astronomers alio* as to ho* b.000-million vears is more like it. Our solar system reaches out 3.h~"0.000.000 miles across space It took the spacecraft Voyager II nearly two years to travel from Earth to Jupiter, just two planets away. You can imagine ho* long it would take to span the whole solar system. Yet. the si/e of our o0 trillion miles away. That's 21 zeroes' No*, the next time vou get stuck at a long traffic light. just let your brain s*eep across these mind boggling vistas of time and space Then ask yourself. " What differ ence will 90 seconds make, a million years from now?" SOLTH HOKI ARTISTS ? Mrs. Saruh Woodard held a Book An? Poster Coxiest rex-entlv lor her m> students in the Fourth Grnir of Somth Hoke k'lewentary School. Slice so wimv students competed, more thmm one poster mo fudged as hanng earned a place tn each of the top three positions. These 4m the students <*hose posters won places in the top three positums. on?* mw hi'HowNe mention. In the largergroup or*. L~R front ? Chris Harden, sec ond: and Shammm Lock (ear. Michael Etbs and Chris dark, first place ?iich. Rear. L-R ?? Frankte McLean, third: Twamda Pickett, second and Schandro McLeod. third. The three girts in the other ptcture art? showing their posters. They are Twanda Ptckect. Schandra McLeod. and \rtght\ Daphne Mayer, whose poster won Honorable Mention. |Staff photos by Btll Linda?l U.S. Honor Group Inducts 9 Student Darryl A. Crabtree. hcadniAster of Robeson Country Day School, announced this month that nine of its students have been inducted into the Society of Distinguished Amer ican High School Students. Students awarded this honor include: Anthony Ahumada. Steve Amnions. Beth McArthur. Tom McNeill. Meg Wicker. Sarah Kat Hughes. Millicent Locklear. Todd Buie. Lesia Sampson. The society , one of the nation's foremost high school hoooraries. tapped the students because of their demonstrated excellence in scholastic leadership and civic achievement. Only 2% of all the students in the United States are accepted for membership. Nomina tions can only be made through the student's school or church. The society's National Awards Program is sponsored by over 90 colleges and universities through out the United States. Thousands of dollars in scholarship funds from these institutions are earmarked for society members each year. The students' sponsor. Yvonne C. Cook, received a National Appreciation Award from the so ciety on behalf of the students foe the interest shown in honoring and rewarding excellence on the se condary school level. The purpose of the society is to promote both academic and civic achievement by recognizing in its Membership Registry, which is published annually arid distributed throughout the United States and parts of Europe. GBeaaty tAat ia&t&f Gifts For Every Graduate 14 KARAT GOLD botfevRuds * ADO-A-GOCD-BCAD* ... so temmme, so perfect* A golden Sphere, shmmg torever and ever Come In And See Our No* Displa\ Som* ?'1h G?mslon?&. 9om? a* GoU AM akMDV vow and * Low* Bud" H? loom ruai c?ooa? *nyr> cxr Lov? Bud" Ospto* Kinlaw's Jewelry Mam St ffatfM. N. C.