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' -• * . -•* *• . ;■ ' * 't ■ . - 15 miles at see ...Those who love sea gulls should sometime board a boat in winter and go out to sea a few miles from North Carolina and watch close up another sea bird, the gannet. Gannets are supurb fish catch ers. . . ■' Even those who sneer at bird watching could not turd their eyes from this big sleek white bird plummeting straight down through blue sky and fight on full speed with the ease of an arrow into even bluer ocean after fish. 1 When a fishing boat pulls in nets to unload a catch, gannets come with gulls to get what they can from' the scrap fiSh shovel ed overboard. They take full advantage pf the easy pickinp. On a dear day the sky above a boat can be sn«wflaked with hundreds of screeching gulls. Cool among this frenzy will be a few gannets, black wing tips working easily. One will sud denly bank apd dive fidl tilt for a fish. Then another will drop like a rock. And another. Books say they sometimes go several feet deep in the water and always catch fish on the way back up toward' the sur face. Out here they are the fighter planes; the gulls the transport planes — such is the contrast between the two. Gannets are about the size of a large gull, but are slimmer in body and head and wing. They are a clean stark white with a touch of gold to the head. The black wing tips are of court dis tinctive coloration. They are gluttons. Sometimes they will feed so heavily they cannot get off the water for flight. But they are unique glut tons. If they are too heavy to rise from the water and danger threatens, they pop their head under water and quickly regur gitate whole fish. I have seen a gannet get fid of three fish, SALES TAX Continued from page 1 just 19 of the state’s 100 coun ties, but which by now have spread to nearly all of the 100 counties. The razor’s - edge rasping of the court also overlooked that the general assembly in 1967 had granted Mecklenburg Coun ty the right to hold a referend um on just such an additional one-cent sales tax; which was later annointed with the su preme court’s finest adjudica tion oil and declared to be fair, honest and just, despite that fact that under the color of that leg islation Mecklenburg was grant ed a right which no other coun ty was given. Thus in one breathless decis ion the court’s’ precarious ma jority said that it’s fair to tax through whisky if it’s done on a permissively acceptable basis to all counties and on the other hand that it’s fair, honest and just to give the state’s biggest shopping center, Charlotte, the right to gouge an additional one per1 cent out . of every peasant from tiie hinterlands who wand ers into fair Mecklenburg to cast about his emasculated dollars. Yet it is unfair, unjust and un constitutional to hold 100 votes in 100 counties on the same tax scheme. If that’s what the law says, then as that well-known Dicken sian character-said: “The law is a ass!” { . !*'■ \ L - eaeh^would go at least half a pound. With empty belly they are lighter and soon airborne and away from danger. Gannets give North Carolina ocean fishermen something dif ferent to watch during winter months. The birds are seldom seen dose to land along North Carolina. Gannets are offshore here dur ing winter. Come warmer wea ther and they turn northward. Deaths Mrs. Prudie Adams Whaley Funeral services were held Friday for Mrs. Prudie Adams Whaley; 75, of the Pleasant Hill section of Jones County, who died last week. Herman Vance Lee Funeral services were held Friday for Herman Vance Lee, 48, a native of Lenoir County,' who died last week in Nonfolk, where he had been making his held Max wile HI* I IW«i\ w _ Mineral services were held Tuesday for Frederic* L Sutton, 84, of 1001 Harvey Circle, who died Sunday after a long illness. William BaHey Hill 1 Funeral aervipes were held Tuesday for William Bailey Hill, 57, who- died in a fire that dam aged hjs trailer home on Kins ton route 3 Sunday at about noon time. Jesse Stanley Funeral services were held Tuesday for Jesse Stanley, 82, of Deep Run route 1, who died Sunday. Calvin Casey Funeral services were held Wednesday for Calvin Casey, 43, of 608 Daughety Road, who died Monday at his home. Mrs* Minnie J. Basden Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs. Minnie J. Bas den, 80, widow of Lib M. Basden of Kinston route 3 who died early Monday. Visi The Tidewatfe Bloodmobile of blood in LaGrange The LaGrange Jaycees, with Mar vin Gray Jr. as chairman and the Blue Bell Company sponsor ed the visit. Twenty-two per sona were first-time donors, 36 donors were women and 17 were rejected for medical reasons. Jimmy Jones, William C. New berry, Jessie T. Suggs, Wflliam L. Britt, Simon. Ray Foss and Mrs. Doris Wood all received one gallon donor pins. Physicians on .duty during the visit were Dr.- Jolm Ward, Dr. C. C. Bremer, Dr. John Hender son and Dr. John Parrot!. > Nurses assisting were Mrs. J. B. Temple, Mrs. John Ward, Mrs. Mrs. Woodard Gurley and Mrs. Mrs. James. Trlvette. Other volunteers helping man the operation were Mesdames Clifton Spence, James Foss, Bec ky Kneeshaw, Sid .Myers, Jack Crews, L. D. Hardy, Marvin Gray Jr., Max Smith, Sharon Stinson, Jack Jones, Malcolm Barwick, and Emmett Jones. st and acceasory Jbupers: tend the Winter Furnitui'e Mar ket, January 18-21. Among the retailers who have registered at the Southern Furn iture Exposition Building are: Archie Bennett of Belk-Tyler,. d|ames Daugherty of Maxwell Bros. Furniture, Fred Dickinson of Meyers - Thornton, and L L Oettinger of Oettinger Bros. Furniture. ' According to Leo J. Heer, managing director of tie mam moth Southern Furniture Exposi tion Building complex, “Nowhere else in the world can a mailer find the breadth and depth of home furnishings as right here ih High Point.” - first Cheddar The first American Cheddar cheese is said to have been made not long after' 1620, in or near Plymouth, Massachusetts, by Pil grims. m m m mmmm ■ ■ hbm m -^mr mm m mm—mm THAT CAN BREAK,THERE'S Ol There are more than 400 parts in a standard telephone. And although every . part is designed not to break, sometimes one does. If anything gets broken in your phone, it’s nice to know that someone will come to your home and repair _ it quickly and at no additional cost SERVICE. ofTtCUNTTEDl E SYSTEM I
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