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4-H Club Week Is To Be Observed In March {forth Carolina 4-H Club mem bers observe National 4-H Club Week, March 2-9, a period set aside to bring to the attention of the public the significance in it's program to improve family and community living, which is its theme. According to L. R. Harrill, state 4-H club leader. North Carolina's 153,206 4-H members, their par ents, leaders and friends, will join with more thqp two million other members througbt the nation in observance of National Club Week. The aims of National 4-H Club Week are to provide members a special occasion for evaluating past achievements and making plans for future activities on their farms, in their homes, and in their com munities; to inform the public, including parents, of the value of 4-H training; to interest other young people in enrolling in local clubs; and to recognize the im portant part played by local lead ers, and to enlist more public-spir ited, youth-minded citizens in vol unteering for this service. Particular emphasis this- year, sajifc Harrill, will be placed upon salutes to' local" leaders, Whose manpower and womanpower con tributions are tremendous. Plans in local areas include special events where 4-H'ers, leaders, and parents will be guests and speakers. Civic and service clubs, schools and churches, farm organizations, and other groups will arrange for talks by ♦-H en, and programs partici pated in by leaders, extension agents, and others who help with ' club work. Newspapers and radio and tele vision stations will carry new* and features about 4-H in their areas. Exhibits illustrating typical and outstanding activities will be prepared" and displayed in store windows and other prominent places. One of the highlights of the week involves North Carolina's Earl Davis, Wayne County 4-H member, who is the National Lead ership winner. Davis la one of six national leadership, achievement and citizenship winners who will spend part Of National 4-H Week in Washington, D. C., giving "A Re port to the Nation." They will visit the White House, meej in per son with members of Congress, Government offiicals and other national leaders; and appear on radio and television programs to tell about 4-H accompliahments in the past year and about plans for the current year. After arriving in Washington on SSni'p.if crra; grodp will* go to New York for two days to meet other "Friends of 4-H." The entire week's program is planned by the Federal Extension Service in cooperation with the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, Inc., Chicago. Letters To The Editor 1 should like to take this op portunity to thank you fdr the wonderful cooperation in helping us to publicize the concert which we had last Saturday night. The concert was in honor of Mr. Gordon Nash and in-order to keep is a secret we * had publi cized the program as a regular con cert. However, we had more than 400 people to attend the affair and we are certain that the won derful publicity afforded by your paper was of major importance in attracting that size crowd. Please express our thanks to your staff and we wish you every continued success. J. PERRY WATSON, Director The Aappalchian High School Band. Boone, N. C. Dear Mr. River*: You were very generous with space on the front page of your splendid newspaper and civic minded in giving ugder the title of (300,000 School Building Pro ject Near Completion" a better than ample news account and pic tures of the three new school build ings. School people throughout Watauga County are grateful to you for your help in obtaining bet ter schools for their children. I thank you also for your editorial endorsing the action of the Board of Education for the construction of a school garage. „ Sincerely yours, D. J. WHITENER, Member Watauga County Board of Education. Boone, N. C. f Advertisers Bet On Boom New York.—The nation*! adver tisers will spend a record-breaking 10V4 billion dollars plugging their products and services in 1057, according to Printers' Ink Maga zine. The magazine said "an expected higher level of prosperity and in creasingly heavy competition for the consumer dollar" will boost the outlay for national and local ad vertising around 0 per cent over the 1996 total of $0,962,000,000. "Newspapers still get the lion's share of all advertising in the U. S„ with 33.1 per cent of the total or $3,309,000,000 in 1986,M said Printers' Ink. • "Thelevision agin shows the greatest increase of all media, bringing it to more than $1,200, 000.000 in 1906. All other major media increased in volume, ex cept network radio." The breakdown fisted network radio down 15.6 per cent in 1996 and local radio'up 7.1 per cent Among all media, national ad vertising in 1996 totalled $8,900, 000,000, up 9.2 per cent and local advertising amounted to $4,100, 000,000, up 7.7 per cent. Marketing specialists with the U. S. Department of Agriculture say exports of farm products from July through October were valued at 36 per cent above a year earlier, and for the year ending next June 30, they may set a new record.
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