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Four Days In China - (NOTE: Bill Mason of Oriental and his grand • daughter, Shirley Tingle, from Oriental, recently toured the Far East BID .rought the readers of The Pamlico News his ex periences while traveing '.around South America and now we are pleased to carry this series of Bill's and Shirley’s trip. Shirley is the daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. Forest Tingle of ■ Oriental. Shirley is presently - teaching in Harnett County.) by Bill Mason We all went in the Hotel Restaurant for dinner at 7:30 p.m. That was the first time we had all gotten together, except on the bus. Everyone was wondering what kind of food they were going to serve us. The tables were round and held 10 people. Other places we ate later had oblong tables and sat 10 people-and regardless of what shape the tables were, they werfe all made for 10 people. One place • we ate, a fellow moved from 'his table over to our table 'with his plate and chair to ' talk some and every time a waitress would come by, she 'would count the ones at our Stable. It was messing them up Tsome. • The first things they served us were hot tea, soup and ■rice. The only things at the -table to eat with were chop -sticks and after watching Isome of us eat with them, Ithey brought about half of us jsome knives, forks and Spoons. Shirley was doing light good with her chop sticks and liked to practice >ith them. • After the soup, they served Jis some stewed vegetables ivith spaghetti, then fried .vegetables in batter, some ‘roasted duck, stewed pork, barbecued chicken, some greens that looked like spinach, stewed vegetables with pork and some other dishes-we did not know what .they were but we ate a little of .each and it was all cooked good. ; The first dishes they brought out, we atfe good but when they had brought out 10 or 12 dishes, we were just nibbling. And, that is the way they fed us the four days in China. We soon learned the dishes we liked best and would eat the most of them but a few of us tried to eat some of all of it, and got sick. Our first meal was a get together and get acquainted with others on the party. That is when we learned a lot of them were from the eastern United States. There were four or two couples at our table from Mobile, Alabama; a man and his wife from Miami, Florida; one man from Iran and his wife from D. C. That made up the 10 at our table with Shirley and me. Every meal we were with different ones-but always ten-if they could keep us separated. The waitresses were all dressed alike with little blue dresses and they tried to keep everything in order but that was a job with our crowd. A few of them were boys that rolled the food carts around. Their coffee at breakfast was real good but they seemed to want to serve hot tea the most. After dinner, we visited the little shops in the hotel lobby with their handcrafts, books and cards. They had a pretty water fountain near the restaurant. When we went up to our room, a couple on the elevator from Indiana went to our room and visited a while with us and said we had a better view of the city than they did. On the second day, we had breakfast at 7:00 a.m. in the hotel restaurant. They served hot tea and coffee - real good coffee, scrambled eggs, rice, two or three kinds of meat and plain rolls and sweet rolls with butter and different jams and plenty of milk. Then we left on the buses for the city of Foshan, about 15 miles away, to visit some famous ancestral temples and a ceramic factory. On the way, we passed through lots of farming and fruit growing sections, with mountains near by. Being below the Tropic of Cancer and only 22 degrees from the Equator, it never gets cold and they grow Pamlico County Farm Bureau & Farm Bureau Inaurance Effective Auguet 10, new phone numbers will be 745-4165 & 745-4166 all kinds erf citrus fruits, also lots of vegetables, small fields of corn, but mostly rice. The large fields they had tractors and in the smauer fields they used water buffalo and did a lot of the work by hand. A lot of the farm workers would carry their water buffaloes to the field with them whether they worked them-or not, and let them feed on the side of the road while they worked. Also, they would tie their milk cows on the side of the road to feed during the day. The Foshan Zumiao An cient Temple is over 890 years old and is decorated with Shiwan pottery sculp tures and wood and brick carvings-that demonstrates the talents and artistic achievements attained by the Chinese working people in ancient times. It now houses the Foshan Museum of all kinds of folk crafts, and tools the Chinese people made and used down through the ages. We stopped in a little country village and our guide let us visit and have tea in different people’s homes, 8 of us to a home, to see how they lived-it was not on our schedule. The lady of the home l was in served us tea in the cutest little tea cups and some home cooked cakes. She said they had 10 children and they were all out living by themselves but one boy about fifteen years old that was with them in the home. I don’t think her husband could talk much English for he did not say much. The home was neat and clean but not many conveniences like we are used to. They had a kitchen, and one more room besides the living room we were in also an upstairs where we did not go. They had pictures of the children hanging on the wall and other little handmade keepsakes on the tables. I told the guide I wanted to buy one of the little cups and he said I could get some near the hotel when we went to get lun# but not exactly like thgreJfar they were real old. The hotel we went to for lunch was a beautiful place. It had lots of flower gardens around it and some on the second floor where we went to eat. The dining room had some show cases with things to sell and in one of the cases were some little tea cups-I went right over to get me ohe. Our guide saw me and came to where I was and told me I could get them across the street in a china shop for less than half of what they had to charge for them in the hotel. The little girl clerk was standing there listening to our guide. She did not say a thing, just smiled. The lunch was a repeat of their other meals-eight or ten courses of different food. The had fried frog legs in one B. W. Lupton & Son Stonewall, N. C. We Accept Food Stamps end cat Pork CHOPS 99 elb ;cmcrvui * Pork CHOPS 1.39,b Kraft 12 oz. CHEESE.1.15 Fresh Tar Heel lb. SAUSAGE.1.3? Chef Boy-ar-dee Cheese, Sausage, Pepperoni 13 oz. PIZZA.99< Cabin Home a lb. SUGAR.1.19 Planters Dry Roasted 12 oz. PEANUTS.99< Del Monte sliced or crushed PINEAPPLE.49< Castleberry S oz. BEANS & FRANKS . .4/99* Carnation tall can MILK. 2/79< Carnation 11 oz. COFFEEEAAATE .... .99< fresh » ,Pork PICNICS 69,u> Luter FRANKS QQcl2 oti, Welch’s 10 oz. GRAPE JELLY.49C Welch’s 10 oz. GRAPE JAM.49C i Perfection long grain 2 lb. bag RICE.49C Cheer giant size DETERGENT.1.39 Dawn 32’oz. DISH LIQUID.1.09 Chiquita lb. BANANAS . . ..23C 3 lb. bag ONIONS---1 59C lb. PEACHES.33C Baking 5 lb. ' POTATOES ..... . . . 65C [HTe Appreciate Your Business dish. I had never eaten one, but had caught them to sell in years past. They looked so nice I thought I would try one. They looked like chicken and tasted like fish and I did not like it. So, I ate roast pork and baked fish. After lunch, I went to the china store and got me a cup and saucer and a china spoon like the ones they served tea in at the hotel but they did not want to sell me one little tea cup-they came in a set of six with a large pitcher and I was trying to tell the girl clerk I did not have room to carry that big pitcher. They did not have a door to the china shop. The whole front was open and china was all over the floor and every shelf full. They were an outlet for a factory close by and had lots of customers coming in and out. That was when I noticed a nice looking girl passing by. She had on a silk dress with lots of lace trimmings. The clerks all had on plain blue dresses with a little something different on the front of their dress or on their pockets. This lady that was passing close by me heard me talking. She stopped and came up to me and said, “Are you having a problem”. I told her what I had been telling the sales cleric. She went over to the clerk and said something in Chinese and came back by me and said that they would let me have what I wanted. I thanked her and she smiled. Then she stepped out on the sidewalk in the crowd and left-just like that. I had never seen her before or since but the clerk told me I could have what I wanted. (To be Con tinued) The Flower Pagoda, originally a dogoba, in the Six Banyon-tree Temple is over 1,400 years old. It is one of the well-known historic sites in Guangshou. Minnesott News X by C.K. Sloan The current drive of the Pamlico Rescue Squad for funds to purchase a new ambulance is worthy of the generous support of Min nesott residents. This is a cause that produces results that are tangibly apparent to the community. Sheriff Leland and Luella Brinson are local residents that give of their time to the resuce squad. Special mention should be made of the work of Mrs. Ed (Shirly) Cross in rescue squad affairs. Shirley is also Town Commissioner, a member of the Neuse River Council of Government, and of the Neuse River Emergency Medical Service Advisory Council. To save Shirley’s time in making door-to-door canvass in the current drive, she would appreciate having donors send their contributions to her or to others connected with the rescue squad. me Kamnco bounty Arts Council is having its general meeting at the Hardison Restaurant on Wednesday the 15th with a Dutch dinner beginning at 7:00 p.m. The Oriental Couples Bridge Club held its monthly meeting on the 8th with a dinner at the Hardison Restaurant. Sadie Paul and Helen Eubanks served as hostesses. The bridge win ners were Hugh Harris, Jr. and guest Ev Allaire. This club has been meeting for about 20 years. Judy Wolfenbarger of Hoisington, Kansas, was here from the 7th through the 9th regarding the Minnesott Beach Yacht Basin that she and her husband plan to operate at Alligator Gut. Judy was accompanied by the wife of the man who helped design the Wolfen berger’s 56 foot sailing vessel. On the 9th, Lynn Kelso and six of his guests enjoyed a day of golf at the country club. They were from a family group vacationing at Atlantic Beach. The gathering at the beach was (Jiosted by Lynn and Mary Kelso. Included in the group were Chris Kelson, his wife Trish Menius, and son Chip (Jacksonville, Florida), Kathy Kelso and escort Bill Polk (Greensboro), Bob and Mabel Van Arsdall (Yardley, Penn.), R. and Debbie Van Arsdall (Columbia, S. C. ), Tom and Mary Pillup (Winchester, Va.), and Cassandra Kelso Judson (Charlotte). The golfers were unanimous in stating that the Minnesott course whs in the best condition of all those on which they had played in this area. As the swimming season nears its end, the appearance of the pool is still excellent. The pool committee and life guards should be com plimented on their care of the pool. It is this reporter’ s opinion that the appearance of the pool is much better than it has been at any time since the first year of operation. Crawley Hartzel of Carolina Pines made a hole in-one on the #9 water hole, using a pitching wedge. He was playing on August 3rd with a foursome that in cluded, Richard Lee, Lee Jones, and J. C. Silverthorne. Recent golfers playing as house guests included Wilson and Lawrence Harvey of Princeton, West Virginia (Baxter and Olivia Harvey), and Dan Hickman of Wilmington, N. C. (brother in-law of Buddy Cagle). 32 golfers participated in the Ham ‘n Egg Best Ball Handicap Tournament on the 4th. The winning foursome with a score of 153 consisted of Glenwood Tyndall, Dan Oliver, Jr., Joe Forbes, and Bob Stewart. The next two foursomes were tied at 154, with the one consisting of Tom Mann, Don Warren, Baxter Harvey and Bynum Woodard winning the play-off over the one consisting of Malcolm Rowe, Richard Green, Tom Jones, and Bernard Hollowell. In the men’s championship flight, Dick Cribb has reached the semi-final round. The six golfers in In the men’s championship flight, Dick Cribb has reached the semi-final round. The six golfers in the quarter -final round are Don Garris, Rick Woodard, Bill Thomp son, Bud Stembridge, Tom Mann, and Jim Stembridge. In the women’s cham pionship flight, Betty Stuart .reached the semi-final round by defeating Jean Tindall. The other three in the semi final round are Mildred Lee, Millie Brothers, and Jean nette Hudson. In the men’s 2nd flight, the winners advancing into the semi-finals are Joe Forbes (over S. Jones), Buddy Best (over G. Slade), Moe Goodwin (over Tuffy Har dison), and A. Bynum Woodard (over Richard Green). The dredge arrived Saturday the 11th and is being set up to clear the deep channel to the Minnesott Beach Yacht Basin. COUNTRY CLUB DATES TO REMEMBER Saturday - August 18th - Pool Party - hors d’oeuvres and dancing Sunday, August 19th - Super Ball at 1:30 Friday - August 24th - Couples Twilite Tournament at 5:00 pm. Saturday - September 8th - 10th Anniversary Pam, seated, and Wendy Small of Reelsboro rocked two days and 10 hours each for the benefit of cystic fibrosis. Why a 10pm laundry load is better than loam. ( It won't get your laundry any cleaner. I Neither will an 8am load. Now. either time | could be inconvenient for you, but someday | it may make a difference in your energy bill. | In fact everything you can do to cut down on the energy you use between 10am and 10pm will help. Because that's our Summer "Peak Load'period the time when the demand for energy is the greatest. And we must have enough energy to meet that demand no matter how high it gets. So try to get by with less air conditioning during the day. Try to take showers, wash clothes and dishes before 10 am or after 10 pm. Conserve energy every way you can. Because the more you get out of your energy dollar, the more we can get out of ours. And the less our bills will have to go up later on; U * mi ••.- -r !§ in v:, ' ‘ :s ■■■
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