Hoke Drive Chairmen Named
The North Carolina Chapter, Cyst
ic Fibrosis Foundation announces
the following "Kiss Your Baby"
Campaign chairmen in Hoke Coun
ty; Antioch area - Mrs. Charles
^ Ansley: and Rockfish area - Mrs.
' Ann Bundy.
The "Kiss Your Baby" campaign
is an annual appeal for funds to
help children with cystic fibrosis
and other lung-damaging diseases.
Cystic fibrosis is the most serious ot
all lung-damaging diseases. In
herited by one in every J 600
American children, it is incurable
and ultimately fatal.
The CF Foundation supports
vital research into the cause of
CF and a cure or control for the
disease. It also supports special
ized clinical care for individuals
with CF and related diseases in
over 120 CF Centers in the U.S..
including two in North Carolina.
These centers specialize in the
diagnosis and treatment of cystic
fibrosis, chronic bronchitis, severe
asthma, bronchiectasis, and re
current pneumonia. The Fon
dation also conducts nationwide
and local professional and edu
cation programs designed to foster
early diagnosis and treatment
which extends and improves the
lives of all lung-damaged children.
Orangutans Learning Sign Language
At A Jungle Classroom In Borneo
National Geographic News Service
In the rain forests of Borneo, a
modern-day Dr. Dolittle is giving
lessons in sign language to
orangutans.
Scientists have taught sign
language to laboratory chim
panzies and gorillas, but the O
rangs are the first of the great apes
) to be learning on their home
ground.
Writing in the June issue of Na
tional Geographic, Dr. Birute
M.F. Galdikas said she hopes that
by teaching the orange-haired apes
in their native habitat "we might
find out what was important to
them, rather than to us."
Life With Orangutans
) Dr. Galdikas has been finding
out about orangutans firsthand
since she and her husband. Rod
Brindamour, set up camp in the
Tanjung Puting Reserve of
Borneo, Indonesia, in 1971. Their
study, supported in part by the Na
tional Geographic Society, has log
ged more than 12,000 hours of
observation of orangutans in the
wild.
At the same time they have been
I helping captive orangutans prepare
* for a return to the jungle.
Although Indonesian law forbids
the capture of these endangered
apes, poachers often kill a mother
to steal her baby for sale as a pet.
The government has turned over
dozens of confiscated orangs to
Dr. Galdikas for rehabilitation.
It was these animals that began
learning Ameslan (American Sign
g Language) from expert Gary Sha
? piro. Dr. Galdikas described a
student:
"A former captive, Rinnie had
been released across the river but
faithfully came to the feeding sta
tion Every day Gary swam
across the river and spent an hour
or more with her. It was her choice
as well as his, for she was free to
leave, free to climb into the
(jungle) canopy, whenever she
| became bored....
"Within weeks, she was using
signs and stringing them together
to ask for edibles or contact."
Rinnie and an infant female,
Princess, learned 20 signs in less
than a year--a rate said to be com
parable to that of the signing
gorilla Koko and the chimpanzee
Washoe.
I Toddler's Best Pal
? Another youngster at camp
began picking up sign language:
Binti Paul Galdikas Brindamour,
the researchers' son. He signed to
Princess, his best playmate, and
began mimicking her sounds, ex
pressions, and posture.
"In fact," his mother wrote, "at
By Rod Bnndamour
t I960 National Odographc Society
PRINCESS'S BATH looked inviting, so researcher's son Binti, then age 1,
climbed in. But Princess, in a typical infant orangutan reaction, grabbed the
boy's chest, prompting a kw tears. The two became best pals, and Dr. Galdikas
enjoyed raising them and comparing their development.
the age of 3 he could do a perfect
orangutan imitation. It would not
have been any cause lor concern,
except that, with no other children
in camp, orangutans were becom
ing his role models....
"As Bin had more contact with
other children, he totally gave up
orangutan ways."
Bin's arrival in. October 1976
helped Dr. Galdikas put orangutan
behavior in perspective. Before his
birth--after years of living with
orangutans that used tools, were
curious, liked junk food, and ex
pressed emotions--" 1 was actually
beginning to doubt whether
orangutans were all that different
from human beings," she confess
ed.
"But Bin's behavior in his first
year highlighted the differences
very clearly."
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A 1 -year-old orangutan merely
clings to its mother. Food is its
focus: It shows little interest in
things except to chew on them or
put them on its head.
Yet even before his first birth
day, Bin was walking on two feet,
sharing food, using tools, and
speaking--many of the traits
associated with human evolution.
Dr. Galdikkas said she knew
orangutans "were capable of such
behavior at a later age, but it never
developed as fully."
Solitary Fruit-eater
The orangutan, whose name is
Malay for "person of the forest,"
is a more solitary animal than its
monkey or ape cousins. Much of
its life is spent in trees, looking for
fruits that are the mainstay of its
diet. Males usually travel alone.
Females are accompanied by a
youngster that clings to the mother
until age 4 and is fully weaned at
about 7.
Dr. Galdikas saw females go 8
or 9 years between births, far
longer than previously estimated.
A clue to lifespan is that
orangutans have lived up to 57
years in captivity.
The orangutan population is on
the brink of extinction because of
humans, not animal enemies.
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College News
Janet E. Best of Raeford attained
the dean's list at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro dur
ing the spring semester.
Miss Best, an applied music
major, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James F. Best of 1005 North
Fulton ST.
Two Hoke County students have
been named to the Dean's List for
the second semester at Livingstone
College in Salisbury.
Tney are Sonya Leach Ross,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mallie
R. Ross of Rt. 3, Box 153- A,
Raeford; and Lillian Stubbs,
daughter of Mrs. Helen B. Gains of
Box 211, Raeford.
Miss Ross is a rising sophomore
majoring in social welfare, and
Miss Stubbs, a rising sophomore
majoring in mathematics.
Warren Love of Raeford, a 1980
graduate of Hoke County High
School has been accepted by
Chowan College for the fall
semester beginning August 24.
He will be enrolled in the pre
education curriculum with an em
phasis on physical education.
Genine Michelle Gates of
Raeford, a 1980 graduate of Hoke
County High School, has been ac
cepted for admission to Chowan
College for the fall semester begin
ning August 24.
She will be enrolled in the
business curriculum.
Deaths
i And Funerals %
Henry L. WUIiams
The funeral for Henry L.
Williams, of Rt. 1, Raeford, who
died Thursday, were conducted
Monday afternoon in St. Andrew's
Holiness Church by Elder Neill
McPhatter. Burial will be in East
Freedom Cemetery.
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Ruth Frank's book, SOME
THING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
is not a how-to-do-it volume. Mrs.
Frank did not build her home, and,
judging from the book, she is not
always sure how some aspects of its
planning and construction were
handled.
Nor is SOMETHING NEWa
primer on solar house construction
for today; the house was built in
1973-74, and since then, solar
heating has come a long away.
What Ruth Frank does here is
spin a history, pleasant and person
al, of how she and" her husband,
C.B., reluctantly at First, and en
thusiastically later on, became
"solar pioneers" on the conserva
tive middle class shores of Long
Island Sound.
Part of the story is pure seren
dipity: finding the site with its
fortuitous south-facing view of the
water; finding an architect they
could trust; finding a solar consul
tant of competence and apparently
posssessed with boundless energy
and goodwill; and, finally, finding
a builder both honest and under
standing.
This book gives those who may
be considering having a house
built, and understanding of how
complex -- at times maddening and
at times euphoric -- the process of
building a home can be. And the
excellent appendices offer a good
basis for personal exploration in
the area of solar house construc
tion. If you are thinking about
building a house and have not yet
considered solar heating, the book
is a painless way to explore this
option. She provides a very good
index to its virtues, which she sings,
and some of its potential effects:
lost closet space, the continual
interest of outsiders, etc.
Her dealings with her architect,
her builders, her husband, and
even with herself while the house is
being designed and built are valu
able lessons for would-be home
owners.
These dealings are also what
make the book most valuable to the
architects, builders and planners
who deal with this same adventure
from the other side. Ruth Frank's
feelings and questions are common
to most people in her situation, and
as such, give helpful insights
toward smoothing relationship*
with them.
SOMETHING NEW UNDER
THE SUN is a short book (the story
itself takes only 125 pages to tell)
and it is a personable one, easy to
read. If you see yourself in a
position at all related to that of the
Franks, it is well worth reading.
You may order SOMETHING
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Joe Kenlan
The reviewer is a Pittsboro, N.C.
based stone mason and former
newspaperman/columnist.
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