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Help Line Answers Many Complaints
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mobile emissions.
Some of the calls that reach
Help line seem almost humor
ous—unless , of course, it's your
house that has pieces of trash
"as large as a man's hat" flying
in the window, or you must
leave town for the weekend be
cause the strong, fishy odor
fiom a nearby chemical plant
]s so strong you can't live with
it one minute longer.
, Two or three people were
‘-angry at a hog farmer living
near them who fed his live -
stock bread and bakery goods
—wrappers and all. Paper was
blowing all over their property
because, as one man put it,
'feven the hogs won't eat that. "
Other humorous calls were
like the one from the lady who
looked out her back window
and saw a stream literally
"blowing bubbles" from large
amounts of seap suds being de
posited there. Then there was
the case of the fisherman who
was jerked out of the water —
boat and all—because the
slick on the Neuse River was
so bad.
That old adage that "Neither
rain, sleet, snow nor gloom of
night..." sanctioned by United
States postmen didn't hold up
in one North Carolina town.
A postman called to complain
that the odor from a nearby
feed products company was so
offensive that he had to come
in off his route. It was also
impossible for him to barbecue
Panthers
Score Big
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played host to the South French
Broad Bears. Scoring for the
Panthers were Eddie Thomas
with 14 and Eddie Wooten with
10. For the Bears, Donald Buie
had 23, Monte Hunter had 13
and Dave Montgomery had 10.
The Bears won by a score of 68
to 44.
The Lady Panthers won their
game against the Laurel Tigers
by a score of 40 to 37. Scoring
for E. Y. were Sheila Parker and
JCathy Griffin with 15 and 13
points respectively.
Joey Biggerstaff and Johnny
Hughes were the high scorers for
the varsity with 20 and 19 points
Scoring for Laurel were Craig
Antjiony and Mike Franklin, bdh
with 15 points. The final score
for this game was East Yancey
Panthers 73, Tigers 60.
Tuesday night, November
28 the Panthers played host to
the Wildcats of Klars Hill. In
the J. V. game, Jeff Bailey had
12 points, Ronnie Wyatt scored
11 points. Scoring for the Wild
cats were M. Reese and K.
Sams. The Panthers won by a
score of 36-25.
The Lady Panthers had a very
bad night, losing to Mars Hill
* by a score of 33 to their 42.
In an overtime game, East
Yancey Varsity edged by the
Wildcats to win by a score of
44 to 42, Larry Honeycutt had
a good night, scoring 17, while
Johnny Hughes made 10 points.
Jimmy Roberts made 18 points
for the Wildcats:, Mike Osteen
scored 12 points, also for the
Wildcats.
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MAY Tech
Dean’s List
The following students at
Mayland Technical Institute in
Spruce Pine have earned a place
on the Dean's List by reason of
their high scholastic average
for the fall quarter: From Yan
cey County—Janice Fox, Anna
Lou Robinson, Deborah Robin
son, Daniel Fox, Roy Laughrun,
Leßoy Bishop, Donald HensltTft
Harold Penlaad. *-
To qualify for the Dean's
list, a student must be enrolled
- full-time, have a quality point
average of 3 with no grade be
low C, and no incompletes.
outside or work in his yard, he
told Help line. Air Quality
Division personnel found that
installation of an afterburner
at the feed company greaTy
alleviated the problem and,
once again the mail could go
through.
Apparently no one is untonh
ed by such problems. Consider
the plight of the churchgoers
who had to close their windows
and bum alter candles to keep
the odor down from a plant
nearby. The minister decided
to ark for a little help from the
State and placed a call to the
Help Lane.
Many times when a call is
made, the division is already
at work on the problem. "We
benefit from having opportuni -
ties to inform concerned citi -
BY JIM DEAN—
Ecologically speaking, there are two kinds of people in
this world—those who are already aivironmentalists, and
those who will be.
In one sense, an environmentalist is a man or woman who
has experienced a tragedy or loss. A man becomes an envir
onmentalist when some bureaucracy builds a road through his
carefully nurtured farm, or when an agency floods the fami
ly homestead. He becomes an environmentalist when the
nearby river is converted into an ugly, shallow and lifeless
ditch, or when he no longer can eat certain seafoods because
they are filled with man's poisons.
Man becomes an environmentalist for many reasons,some
of them of much smaller magnitude. The loss of the old fam
ily swimming hole to pollution can do it. So can the loss of
a favorite hunting or fishing area.
But in each case, today's environmentalists were spurred
to action either by some tragic-loss or the threat of one.
"I never thought much about the environment," a wealthy
businessman told me recently. "I thought the whole thing
was a bunch of ho gw ash from sentimentalists who didn't know
what they were talking about.
"But I began to see their point of view one day last sum
mer, and it has caused me to change my thinking," he ad
mitted. "In recent years, my son and I have taken an annml
camping trip to the mountains to do some trout fishing, and
we always looked forward to it. This past year, we couldn't
g'S'to our favorite stream because road building and timber
cutting in the area had turned the stream into pure mud. We
had to go somewhere else, and I've recently heard that simi
lar work is being planned in this area. I don't know where
we'll go next. "
Here is a classic case of a man to whom the environment
meant nothing until it touched him personally. Now, he is
concerned, and he has begun to re-evaluate his whole think
ing because of it.
The people in this country who are still not concerned
about the environment are those who have not yet come face
to face with it. They have been lucky so far, but it will not
last. Sooner or later,' each of us will be involved whether
we want to or not.
The big myth that has perpetuated anti-environmental
forces is that certain losses are necessary in order to achieve
growth and progress. It is not even a half-truth. Many of
the massively destructive projects being pushed upon us are
not necessary. Almost invariably, there are alternative ways
of approaching die problem that are less expensive and less
crippling to the environment and quality of life. The main
profit in huge environmentally destructive projects goes to
the agency or bureau which constructs them. These organiza
tions need such projects to justify their budgets, even their
very existence, and far too little attention is given to the
price the public is paying in tax dollars and loss of natural
resources.
As mere and more of is are touched by environmental los
ses and become aware of the terrible price we are paying,we
will change our attitudes just as the businessman did. It is
sadly inevitable that someday soon, all of us will be environ
mentalists. The present course of human endeavor leaves us
no choice.
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zens about our work," Mrs. Wall
says. "We can tell the caller
when we expect the problem to
be controlled. "
Not all of the calls are com
plaints. School children call
for information, as do environ
mental groups. Many of these
questions can be answered im
mediately and do not require
referral to division personnel or
another agency. A caller who
inquired about noise pollution,
for instance, was informed that
there axe no state statutes cov
ering such problems.
Citizen input is the key to
Help Line's success. The past
year has proven that there is a
great need for the little white
phone that rings frequently in
the Office of Water and Air
Resources.
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