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«Sgi<i>jM«»^.j&9niwiß^BWPiß3SSMlli^j|^^ H£iT4Mi^iiEf©RM VI iLE jw ORTTigA^Llßi^^^^^P Vote** 33 ijH CGsk j£X&O6GN& ■.%■• H Jy AHk JjSu/rJk T : ~ - ' ee rtditfi‘ c, ' ,!,% Take Stock Ot Our Dependence On Land On This Last Day 0< Farm City Week Everyone can be a conser vationist (the urban as well as the rural landowner) be cause regardless of where you live, in city, town or coun- Arsonist In Yancey Area The U.S. Forest Service in Burnsville reported that 3 forest fires were set by an Arsonist in the South Toe Ri ver Section. According to District Ranger Johnny Mb lain one fire was set near Caro - lina Hemlocks Recreation Area and two other fires were set on White Oak Creek. Ranger McLain said the fires were set in an area that would have made control Aery difficult if the conditions had been drier. There are seve - ral homes in the vicinity of the fires that could ha\e been threatened had the fires not been quickly controlled by Forest Service Crews. Forest Service investigat - ors are now in the area work ing on the case. If anyone has information that might lead to the conviction of a person or persons setting these fires, please contact the Dis trict Ranger, P.0.80x 128 or call 682-2567 inßumsvile. The Forest Service will make every effort to protect the names of persons contri buting information. try you are a land user. Farm and City Week is a good time to take stock of our dependence on the land. In town your home rests on it, your trees take root in it; so do your garden vegetables and flowering plants and y>ur yard grass. City people as well as the rural people need to become aware of how much they owe the land. The land and its related water supply grows plants from which come all the basic needs of food, fiber and shelter. You may want to refresh your partnership with the far - mers as stewards of the land by first caring for your own Corßu Rice For Coasurvatioa Thursday, November 27, 1969 plot of ground and then under standing the programs design ed to conserve and improve all land and water re so me es-and supporting them. A commu nity land-use plan suggests how private and public land users should be related to eadi other. Just as a farmer needs a thorough inventory of land and water resources, a com - munity land use plan is the inventory of community re - sources. Soil surveys, with interpreting information, pro vided by the Soil Conserva tion Service make us such an inventory. Your own soil and water conservation dis - trict can help put the plan into action. Major Earthquake Here Is Unlikely Says Geologist Last week, about 8 o'clock in the evening, an earth tre mor was felt by many people in Burnsville and surrounding areas. The tremor apparent ly caused no damage, but it did cause some speculation about the possibility of an earthquake occuring in North Carolina. Well, we * now have an authoritative answer. North Carolinians w orr ie d about major earthquakes can forget it! The chances of a destruc tive, widespread earthquake in the Tar Heel State appear to be very, very remote, ac cording to University of North Carolina geologist, Joel Wat kins. He made the observs - tion following the minor earthquake Wednesday night, which was centered in the mountains of Southwest Vir ginia. Dr. Watkins noted that there are two earthquake zones that can affect North Carolina, one running along Prisoner Recaptured Last Friday, November 21, at about 4:10 p. m., one of the prisoners in the Prison Camp just outside of Bums - ville attempted an escape in broad daylight. Leonard Lafond, imprison - ed for murder 12 years ago, suddenly ran out of the prison office to make a break for freedom. Lafond had no other es - cape attempts to his record, was an honor grade prisoner, and apparently acted on a wild impulse. He was im mediate ly pursued by four guards who brought him back in short order. The prisoner had just been to see the prison doctor, Dr. W. Sargent, for treatment of some minor self-inflicted wounds and was on his way back to the prison compound, according to a prison official Following a recommenda tion by the prison doctor, Leo nard Lafond was transferred to Central Prison in Raleigh, N. C. for a psychiatric workup. Lafond was from Milwau - kee, Wisoonsin prior to his imprisonment. Number Sixty -Three the Southern Appalachian Mountains and the other cen-i tering around Charleston, S. C. Damages due to earthquales in the Southeastern Appala - Chians have been slight in historical times, he said. The Charleston earthquake of 1886 caused major damages in South Carolina and minoi; widespread damage in North Carolina. Dr. Watkins also said long term predictions of earthquale are impossible. "Predictions of this type are not feasible," he explained. "Accurate pre dicting of earthquakes and tremors, even a few days in advance, is not yet possible, and certainly not a year or several months in advance. " An earthquake is general - ly earned by slippage of rocks along zones of weaknesses re sulting in vibrations of the surface of the ground. "But we just do not understand just what the initial forces or cir cumstances are, and there fore we cannot say when the breaking and sliding of rocks will happen, " Dr. Watkiis said. There are possibilities,hovw ever, for very short term pre dictions. A Japanese scientist mea - sured an anomalous change in strain at the surface of the earth prior to a quake, Dr. Watkins said. In another cas, a change in the magnetic field near a fault was noticed by a California scientist who reported it two hours before a tremor occurred. "These short term notices would suffice to warn people to switch off gas or electri - city, and leave unstable buildings," Dr. Watkins said. "The damage caused by earthquakes has often been due to fire blasts or col lapsing of poor housing. "The earth itself may not show many 'scars' after a quake. Man-made structures are much more affected.Qnly sometimes land slides and mud flows occur or parts of a coast line are lifted, "he said. The Wednesday night earthquake was recorded on the UNC seismograph in Mitchell Hall for about five minutes. The period of ac tual quaking apparent to re sidents here was a little more than 30 seconds.
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