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The governor of North Carolina, largely because of various organizations, businesses, and lobbying groups, spends a great deal of time proclaiming special observances, days, weeks, and months. So numerous have these proclamations become that the governor has to hold two proclamation days a month to take care of the signings and attendant ceremonies. In 1969, Gov. Robert Scott signed 143 proclamations. Carolina Country visited the governor and describes what a proclamation day is like.
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Cy Rich and his sons have purchased 20,000 acres of muckland twelve miles east of Belhaven and are converting it into one of the most unique agricultural ventures in the nation. The farm is called Farm Boys Ranch, and a chain of Farm Boys Restaurants will operate in North Carolina and the nation. Vertically integrated agriculture is what gives the farm its uniqueness. Simply stated, grain products are grown on the farm and processed by the cattle and hogs. The cattle and hogs are processed in the farm's food processing plant. The food is then sold in the restaurants.
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8438
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Catfish farming is booming in the lower Mississippi River Valley, but how successful would it be in North Carolina? While people in the deep South consider catfish a delicacy, many North Carolinians consider the catfish a trash fish. The primary obstacles to catfish farming in the state are the unavailability of processing facilities and the lack of a steady market.
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In 1799, the first documented gold strike in the country occurred at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County, twenty miles east of Charlotte. Reed had been a Hessian soldier who had deserted the British cause. The gold was the first native gold to be used by the U.S. Mint, and the discovery meant that America would not have to depend on European mines for gold. In 1828, a second gold strike was made in Burke County. Gold mining became the leading industry of the state after farming. For the next fifty years, until the California Gold Rush of 1849, North Carolina led the nation in gold mining.
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Every year between 400 and 500 North Carolinians are victims of significant burn accidents. Of that number 100 to 175 people suffer third and fourth degree burns. Only a few of these ever receive the complete treatment they need to keep them alive and return them to relatively normal lives. North Carolina has few burn specialists and no burn center. The nearest burn centers are in Richmond and Atlanta. Lefler discusses the burn problems with Dr. A Griswold Bevin. Bevin is chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery and surgery of the hand at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical School and is also responsible for the hospital's limited six-bed burn unit.
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The Sixty-fifth Congress was called to order on April 2, 1917, and adjourned on March 4, 1919. During those two years the United States played a pivotal role in winning World War I, experienced the difficulties of a wartime economy, and faced a multitude of domestic and international problems. During these two years the state's congressional delegation wielded pronounced influence in national affairs, and a North Carolina editor, Josephus Daniels, served with distinction in the Wilson Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. Grant provides a brief sketch of each of these individuals.
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William Hoff is the new director of the North Carolina Zoological Park. The park is now under development on the nearly 1,400-acre Purgatory Mountain site near Asheboro in Randolph County. Hoff has worked with the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and the Cincinnati Zoo. Before taking the North Carolina position, he was director of the world-famous St. Louis Zoo. He was attracted to North Carolina because of the challenge to build the ideal zoo from scratch.
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The Pamlico Marine Laboratory, located near Aurora, studies the waters of Pamlico River and other waters of coastal North Carolina. The laboratory is the coastal research station of the Department of Zoology of North Carolina State University. Work at the laboratory began in 1965, under the direction of Dr. Donald B. Horton. The ecological studies attempt to understand and describe the complex relationships between organisms in the river, including the commercially important fish, shrimp, and crabs, and their aquatic environment.
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In March 1972, an article appeared in Carolina Country discussing the large number of burn victims who required treatment every year in the state and the fact that the nearest burn centers were in Richmond and Atlanta. In the current issue, Dr. Christopher C. Fordham, III, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reports on the progress of building a center at the university. Architects are well along with plans. The center will include twenty-four beds, operating room facilities, and areas of physical and occupational therapy.
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In 1969, Bob Timberlake took six of his paintings and drove to Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, to show them to the famous painter Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth advised him to go home and devote himself fulltime to painting. In 1970, at age 33, Timberlake left a successful business career to follow Wyeth's advice. In a few short years he has gained the reputation of being the most popular realist painter in the South. The authors discuss several of Timberlake's paintings and why his work appeals to so many people.
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Most North Carolinians do not need to be told what a pig pickin' or a pig pull is. Because state citizens love pork and an outdoor shindig so much, former Governor Robert Scott in 1972 declared the state the Pig Pickin' Capital of the World. Sargent describes what is involved in a traditional pig pickin': selecting the pig, building the barbecue pit, building the fire, and placing the pig on the grill.
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North Carolina's Highway Historical Marker Program, which celebrated its seventieth anniversary in 2006, is one of the oldest and most respected of its kind in the country. There are markers in all one hundred counties, over 1,440 currently. Gery describes twenty-eight markers that highlight the important role rural people and places have had in the state's history.
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In 1933, the nation was in the midst of the Great Depression. One of President Franklin Roosevelt's plans to get people back to work was the National Industry Recovery Act of 1933. The act established the Subsistence Homesteads Division in the Interior Department. The purpose was to create towns that would help farmers and industrial workers by moving families to homestead farming communities and planned mill towns. Penderlea, in Pender County, was the first homestead farm project in the nation. Gannon describes the building of Penderlea, what life was like there, and what the town is like in 2007.
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After the Revolutionary War, farmers in western North Carolina and Virginia could not compete with the farmers in the eastern parts of the two states because of the cost of shipping goods overland. Rivers soon proved an alternative to roads, however. The Roanoke River was selected because it rises in western Virginia and flows 400 miles to the Albemarle Sound. Many improvements were needed to make the river navigable. The biggest project was a canal that started at Weldon and ran about nine miles upriver to bypass the rapids at present-day Roanoke Rapids. Today the canal has been turned into a park and walking trail. The middle canal locks in Roanoke Rapids have been renovated and turned into a museum.
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Georgia Thompson Brown of Granville County was a pioneer of aviation. Better known as Tiny Broadwick, she made her mark not by flying airplanes, but by parachuting from them. Broadwick saw her first parachute jumper at a circus, and from that moment, she wanted to do nothing else in life but be a jumper. Her first jump was from a hot air balloon in 1908 at the North Carolina State Fair. In 1913, she became the first woman to parachute from a plane and the first to jump from a hydroplane. Between 1908 and 1922, she made over 1,000 jumps. She received the John Glenn Medal in 1964, and in 1976, she was inducted into the OX5 Hall of Fame, along with the Wright Brothers and Charles Lindbergh.
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