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1.Our Mysterious Carolina Bays by Payne, Peggy Wildlife in North Carolina Vol. 42 Issue 11, Nov 1978
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Stretching across the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Florida to New Jersey are around 500,000 elliptical depressions known as Carolina Bays. Over half of them are found in eastern Carolina, and they are a land feature that exists nowhere else in the world. No one knows how they were formed.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 42 Issue 11, Nov 1978,
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31674
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Rose Bay Oyster House is one of about twenty shucking houses in North Carolina, and the only one in the state that has its own oyster beds. Henderson Miles, a manager of the Rose Bay company, discusses oyster harvesting and some of the problems facing the oyster industry. According to Jim Brown of the Division of Commercial and Sports Fisheries, some of the problems are pollution and the lack of substrate for oysters to live.
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29294
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A kind of financial censorship is beginning to restrict access to materials that libraries in North Carolina can no longer afford to buy. Academic libraries, which must buy costly research materials and journals, are particularly threatened by inflated prices. Libraries in the University of North Carolina system have had to cancel subscriptions to academic journals, or request funds from other institutions.
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9630
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Many of the state's native plants have medicinal benefits and are often used to produce commercial drugs. Among them are bloodroot, yellow lady slipper, and mayapple.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 43 Issue 6, June 1979,
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9637
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Robert Ruark grew up in Wilmington, and at the time of his death in 1965 was one of the country's best-known writers, being a columnist, best-selling novelist, and screen writer. Some of his most-remembered work is a series of tales about a boy and an old man hunting and fishing together around the coastal village of Southport.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 43 Issue 10, Oct 1979,
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35574
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Even in the midst of a region well known for production of seafood, the little town of Calabash managed to earn a larger than life reputation. As for the town’s recipe for success, the owner of one of the oldest restaurants asserted that the key ingredient was keeping it simple.
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31679
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The Mennonite community in the Grassy Ridge area of Hyde County consists of about one-hundred people in fourteen families, and has been in the area since 1965. This article profiles several members of this community and describes their daily life. Also discussed is the history of Mennonites, and how they became established in North Carolina.
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31714
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Governor Jim Holshouser has recommended a system of community health clinics staffed by “physician extenders” to address the shortage of medical care in rural communities. As a first phase in the program, five community health clinics will open next year. Details of the program and operations are discussed in this article.
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35610
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By 1973's dog days of summer, the Coastal Plains Regional Commission had realized its short term goal for Wheeler Airlines. It was a connection between Morehead City (offering seasonal peaks of business) to Greenville (promising the greater likelihood of year around brisk business). As for its long term goal, that was to extend this aerial connection to Elizabeth City, Jacksonville, and Washington. From this, the hope was to resolve even more effectively the long recognized aerial transport issue for Eastern NC.
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9632
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There are a number of treeless mountain meadows, called “balds,†scattered throughout the western North Carolina mountains. Some are covered with flowering bushes and others are grasslands. Payne discusses some of the theories about their origins.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 43 Issue 7, July 1979,
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