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■ Page 4A-MIRROR-HERALD-Thuraday, April tl, 1»T7 Tar Heels traveled on plank roads • > ; On fforden tUlers and cheap shots Wuuia know what it feels like to have a garden tiller run away with you? Ask Aubrey Mauney. Seems the gears Jsmnmed on hla tiller the ottier day and before he could get It stopped the tiller dragged him Into a fence and chewed up several yards of clinging vines. Police C!htef Earl Lloyd was arriving home when the Incident occurred and rushed to help Mr. Mauney. Together, they muscled the tiller away from the fence and knocked the machine out of gear. I can identify with that situation. For the past few years my wife has Insisted on a garden In our backysu’d. We hire a guy with a tractor to chum up the wire grass and weeds, then It’s my Job to tsike the tiller and chum the dirt to a fine grain. If you don’t do that sort of thing all the time It can get pretty hairy. Every muscle In your body will rebel and the next day when you try to get ig> you find yourself creaking like a rusty hinge. 1 suppose It's worth It, though, what with the price of tomatoes about 79 cents a pound. -oOo- Llons Club Bulletin Editor Howsutl Bryant tells us about what happened recently In Mrs. Jack Volte’s second grade. Mrs. White's students were studying the “■ are" words. They had been through “care, fare, bare and, finally mare.” Mrs. White asked If anyone knew what a mare Is. A grubby fist shot iq> past a smiling face and Mrs. White called on the boy to answer. “What does mare mean?" she asked. “It’s like Mare Moss,’’ the student replied. Howard Bryant writes In the bulletin, “I guess that It should be comforting to our mayor to know that his name is a household word.” -oOo- I was counting back this week and realised I have worked In five different communities on newspapers. I also realised some things are the same In all commtsiltles and that Is the jokers who always put you down. The latest joker Is our police chief. He was chatting with Bob Myers (Myers Printing Co.) one morning this week over a ciq> of coffee atOrlff s when I came hi. “Did you hear the latest?” the chief asked. “What’s that?” “Bob Myers is going to start printing his own newspaper,” the chief said. m/ TOM MciniYRG Bob cast an eye at me and said, Teah, I ought to.” Undaunted,.! retorted, "If you print a newspaper as fast as most printers turn out job work, then I don’t have a thing to worry about.” Score one for the newsman. The problem here Is, having known Bob for agreat many years, he will scheme and plsun suid when I least expect It he will give me a zbiger I’ll never recover from. Cbme on. Bob. Have pity. Mine was purely a reflex action. You know, like swatting a ghsmt away from your eye. ... . Tommy Barnette told us this week that a' bunch of the local wags were hanging around his place (Barnette’s Park-In) the other day discussing the grantsmanshlp of Hlzstmer John H. Moss. One man said he had heard the Empire State Building was for sale. Another said he heard thad Mayor Moss was putting together a grant request to buy the Empire State Building. And still another said he had heard that the mayor was gonna move the building Into the Archdale Community, off Orover Rd. Lib Stewart said Barnette wasn’t smiling when he related all of this, either. It made me wonder who would folks make humorous remarks about If John Henry had accepted the role of The Fonse on TV’s “Happy Days” Instead of hanging In here as mayor. Ix that the truth? They wanted our mayor to play The Fcnze on TV? No. But I wanted to end this column on a humorous note. RGhDGR DIMOGUe Like a slap in the face To the editor, I would like to express my opinions con cerning the President’s recent decision to upgrade the administrative discharges given by the armed forces. Evidently he feels he Is protecting the "rights” of the Individual who was discharged with other than an honorable discharge. What about my rights, and the countless thousands who served honorably, or continue to serve? It’s like a slap In the face to realise that the man who failed to live up to his com mittments In the military service. Is probably laughing his head off as he adds up the VA benefits he will be eligible for under Carter’s program. 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For a ten-year period before the Civil War — before the widespread growth of railroads — these plank roads provided a measure of dependable trans portation In a state notorious for Its muddy. Impassable roads. Significantly, these toll roads were developed by private capital, and not paid for by the state Itself. the roads were ten feet wide, with passing lanes or pull-overs located at frequent In tervals, and covered with a thin layer of dirt to hold down the noise of horses’ hooves. On April 17,1864, the most ambitious plank road of all was completed, reaching from Fayetteville to Salem (rx>w Winston-Salem). Itwas, at 129miles, the longest plank road In the world, and Included among Its engineering achievements the first bridges over rivers such as the Catawba. -oOo- On April 17, 1864, Confederate General Robert Hcdce began a three-day battle to recapture Plymouth frixn Northern forces. As a part of the attack, the steampowered €D OTITH ram "Albemarle” ran the Union blockade, sank two gunboats and bombarded Northern fortifications. -oOo- A number of Important Tar Heels are associated with this week In history. Space permits the inclusion of only four of them, however. Colonel Richard Caswell, hero of the Revolutionary War Battle of Moore’s Creek It’s important we listen to our bodies If somecne should tell you that your body talks to you, and, for instance, can warn you of an Impending stroke, what would be your reaction? We don’t think It odd that our body signals when It needs nourishment or rest, yet we tend to discount or Ignore many other signs of bo4y language. Including the ad vance signals of stroke. Stroke Is perhaps the least imderstood of the diseases and conHUons of the body, yet It Is the third leading cause of death In this country. It strikes twice the number of people that It kill, leaving many dkebled. What exactly happerui bi a stroke and how does the body warn of the dangers? Stroke Is the result of an Interruption of the blood supply to a portion of the brain. If the oxygen rich blood la cut off long enough, the cells In ttie affected portion of the brain die. Dif ferent areas of the brain control different functions and different areas of the body. Hownouchofmsbq^'laaffected^a stroke Is dependent oh ^ nftoiy'btalii'ctdls'hkve died and In which areas of the brain. There can be total paralysis or simply a minor weakness of a limb. The general Impression Is that stroke la a dlseaae of the ancient. Age Is a factor, yet almost forty percent of strokes occur In people under the age of slxty-flve. Tliere Is a pamphlet entitled “Body Language” which Is available from the North Carolina Heart Association. It Is free to anyone who writes to request It. In “Body Language” there are descriptions of the signals which the body sends that can warn . of a possible stroke. S<xne of these are: a sudden, temporary numbness of the face or limbs, particularly on one side of the body; a temporary, sudden episode of double vision or sudden, temporary dimness or loss of vision, particularly in one eye. R can be also unexplained headaches or a change In the pattern of headaches, or It can be a recent personality change that Is unerqilalnable. Itls Important that attention be paid to the signals our bodies send us. Most of us don’t want to be hypochondriacs, rushing to the doctor at every headache. Yet we should stop to ask ourselves,! “I* really a change from what 1 normally feel? Is It sudden, temporary and Is It a signal to heed?” Only a physician can Interpret these signals and conduct examinations for more Iiaeltlve determination. If he Is made awat« of the symptoms In time, much more can be done to prevent a completed stroke with today’s diagnostic techniques and modem treatment. Everyone should be more aware of the danger signals of stroke and learn to listen to his body. The pamphlet, “Body Language,” is something to keep for referral; for a free copy, write to: North Carolina Heart Association, 1 Heart Circle, Clwpel HUl, N. C. 87614. Bridge, became the sUte’s first elected Governor on AprU 18,1778. He was elected by the sUte’s first General Assembly (as Its brand-new Constitution specified) for a one- year term. As a seventeen-year veteran of the colonial assembly, Caswell had already served lour months as Interim governor while the permanant government was being ' established. Between 1778 and 1787, CasweU served a total of six one-year terms, giving him a share of the honor (with Luther Hodges) of having served the longest In office of any North Carolina governors. , -oOo- WlUlam R. King was one of two North ChroUna-bom men to serve as Vice President of the United SUtes. (The other was Andrew Johnson) King died on April 18, 1868. Both men left this state before achieving prominence. King serving as a U. S. Senator from Alabama for years. Ironically, King’s opponent for Vice President In the election of 1868 was WUUam A. Graham, the only citizen of this state ever to run for the office of either President or Vice-President on a major party ticket while actually still a resident of North Carolina. King took the Oath of Office at the U. S. Embassy In Havana; Cuba, where he had gone hoping to recover from tuberculosis. He died a month later, without ever reaching Washington. -oOo- W. Kerr Scott, one of the state’s most famous governors during this century, was bom In Alamance County on April 17, 1899. He died on AprU 16,1968, whUe serving as U. S. Senator. IBs term as Governor (1949-68) Is best remembered (or Its achievements In paving the state’s secondary roads. -oOo- Bom April 19,1818, David S. Reid, whose election as Governor In 1860 first brought the Democrat Party to power In this state, en ding Its domination by the Whigs. ' He ran for goverrxir on a platform ad vocating the election of ^dges, arxl removal of propeirty ownership as a qualification (or voting In some state elections. Reid, a native of Rockingham County, also served In the U. S. Congress. Disabilities increase yearly across state honorable discharge that wasn’t justified. Tire President’s own son has said he would rxit seek to have his general discharge upgraded, because he broke the rsgulatlona and felt he deserved the type of discharge he was given. All of this comes on top of mounting criticism that we In the mllltairy have “too many benefits.” As I enter my third mmrth of deployment In the Mediterranean Ocean, with another three and one half months to go until I see my family again, I sometimes wonder if the sacrifices of the mUltary man are realized and ^ipreclated. Carter’s program doesn’t do much to dispel those doubts. R. - E. BRIDGES Attack Squadron Seventy-Two FPO New York 09601 Disability Is a frightening prospect to many thousands of North Carolinians every year. Mental and physical dlsabiUtles caused by accident and Ulness that prohibit people from being able to continue working across the state are qiparently Increasing. In January 1978, there were 94,808 disabled workers and depeixlents In this state receiving 110,681,090 per month under the regular Social Security dlsabUlty benefits program. Another 86,868 blind and disabled people were receiving $8,187,660 per month under the state’s old public assistance programs. By June 1076, there were 184,876 disabled workers and dependents receiving $31,047,000 per month under the Social Security benefits program and 71,108 blind and disabled North CaroUnlana receiving $7,873,000 per month under the relatively new federal Supplemental Security Income program that replaced the state’s public assistance programs for the blind and disabled on January 1, 1074. This program la also administered by the Social Security Administration. This means that approximately $847 million In federal dollars (using the June 1076 figures for an average) were paid to North Carolinians last year under these disability benefit programs, it also means that 74,808 more people In June 1976 were receiving disability benefits than just three and one-half years earlier. The Disability Determination Section of the Division of teclal Services of the N. C. Department of Human Resources Is a state agency, but It has the responsibility for determining if North Carolinians are disabled and unable to work according to the dlsabUlty criteria estabUshed by the Social Security Administration and eligible (or federal Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits. Ed Hamlin, chief of the section says that the agency had 99 employro tai January 1978 and they made about 700 disability deter minations a week. He says that the seams began to burst In January 1974 when the new Supplemental Security Income program was The Poet’s Corner Implemented. Today the section has 370 enqiloyes and they make approximately 1800 determinations a week. Hamlin’s staff Is composed of 17 fuU and part-time doctors, seven nurses and 160 other trained professional disability determination specialists and supervisors. The remainder are clerical employes. Social Security and Supplemental Security Income cases come from the 44 Social Security District and Branch Office located throughout North Carolina where people apply for these benefits. Under Social Security, dlsabUlty means: “InabUlty to engage In any substantial gainful acUvlty by reason of any medlcaUy determinable physical or nwntal Impair ment which can be expected to result In death or has lasted or la expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 13 mon ths.” DlsabUlty, thus Is both a medical and a vocaUonai decision. The law specifies that a person not only must have a physical or mental Impairment of a level of severity that he Is not only unable to do his usual work but unable, considering his age, education and work experience to engage In any other kind of substanUal gainful work which exists In the national economy, regardless of whether such work exists In the Immediate area In which he lives or whether a specific Job exists (or him, or whether he would be hired If he applied for work. Since dlsabUlty Is both a medical and vocational decision. It Is possible for two people with the exact medical dlsablUty to receive different decisions according to Robert Gooch, a supervisor with the section. “Any agency that has the responslblUty to determine whether people do or do not get a monthly subsistence check la In for Its share of pubUc relations problems.” said Ed Hamlin. “When based on the dlsabUlty criteria estabUshed by the Social Security Ad- mlntatratlon, you have to say no to more people than you say yes. You can Imagine the problems Involved,” he said. Only about 46 percent of the total appUcants are ap proved for dlsabUlty benefits. ALONE To be alone, and yet not alone la worse by far than Only to be alone. ' To feel the emptiness belonging To the lonely — uniquely. And yet forfeiting their only Treasure—SoUtude To know the feel, the touch Ofso many—yet Never to feel the warmth of A true embrace. To receive so many smUes— Exchanges of Words and gay glances. And stUl remain a stranger Never to be omitted when Laughter lings Aloud—yet never one hears AtearfaU Amldsta crowd. BONITA A. LOVE • SPRINGTIME IN CAROUNA Just as close to heaven As a mortal could ever be. When lea ves are rustling green Robins are nestling In the tree Blue violets cover the wooded hUls Ring leaflets around the tree OaterpUlers became butterflies Peach blossoms excites the bee. Daffodils fresh as aUppery satin Yellow tall among the green. Hyacinth awakened from their bed With perfume enUclng keen. Pansies blooming by the garden gate Roses budding on the treUls high. Sweet lUacs blossoming purple The essence Is brushing by. Honeysuckle flowering in perfusion Hanging bells along the garden gate. Perfuming the dusk of the evening Where the lovebirds congregate. WhUlng the starfUled night away Until the golden dawn appears. Dew drops on the morning glories Lingering there to lulhere. The fine feathered biuid strikes up With the glowing dawn of day. Mother Nature Is In a husUe For a flowershow In May Just as close to heaven As a mortal could ever be When Its Springtime In Carolina With -each blossoms on the tree. VIVIAN STEWART BILTCUFFE
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