Agriculturally Speaking
Extension Service
Forming 6-Year Plan
By L_B. HARDAGE
The Warren County Agricultural
Extension Service is now
in the process of developing a
Six-Year Plan of Work.
Recently, the Extension Advisory
Board met and made
recommendations as to how
they thought the Extension
Program could be improved.
The Agents felt this was most
valuable information for them
to have.
Ideas included in the
suggestions for the program
were: better inform the public
about the jobs of Extension
Agents, including information
on specific areas of responsibility
and make the public realize
how they can benefit from
Homemakers Club
Holds Meeting
The March meeting of the
Churchill Homemakers CluR
was held in the home of Mrs.
Charlie Swenson recently with
12 members present. Mrs. Pope
gave the devotion. Mrs. Bertha
Forte gave a lesson on color
coordination with emphasis on
modern designs and color.
Mrs. L. H. Clary told about
crewel embroidery of the
pioneer days, which was the
only pastime of the women.
Mrs. Swenson showed a
remodeled dress using embroidery
for emphasis and a
dress she made styled in
keeping with the bicentennial
celebration. Mrs. Clary modeled
a dress she made in a sewing
class given by Miss Ballinger.
Mrs. L. R. Harris showed a
bicentennial copy of "Times"
magazine depicting things as
they happened and were written
in that period.
Mrs. Louise liaithcock read
an original poem, "Mollie." The
meeting closed with the club
collect. The hostess served
strawberry pie and fruit drink.'
educational programs available
through the Extension Agent's
Office; have a stronger 4-H
County Council; involve young
people in 4-H programs and
have this a more active
organization in which members
actively participate in various
planned community projects as
' well as individuals improve
themselves through project
activities; hold more special
interest meetings and workshops
in order to reach working
homemakers and others not enrolled
in Extension Homemaker
Organization; economics, man
agement, and credit are
important areas of living that
relate to both farm and home,
families should have more
training in these subjects.
Do you have suggestions for
improving the project of the
Warren County Agricultural
Extension Service? If so, your
suggestions will be most
welcome. Please share your
ideas with one of the Extension
Agents. You may call the office
(telephone 257-3640 or
257-3997) and give us this
information or come by the
office in the Warren County
Agricultural Building and talk
with us about your ideas.
Settlers Heads Vaughan 4-H Club
Ben Settlers has been elected
president of the newly
organized Northern Vaughan
Community 4-H Club. The
organizational meeting was
held Monday afternoon, March
15 in the home of Mrs. Christine
Sellers with 14 youths and
three adults present.
Other officers elected were
Joyce Johnson, vice-president;
Joyce Vick, secretary; Mable
Richardson, treasurer; and
Kathleen Settlers, reporter. G.
W. Koonce, extension agent.
4-H, conducted the installation
ceremony for the officers.
Other youth present and
joining the club were Kenneth
and Anthony Richardson;
Bobby Jean, Kenneth and
Deborah Johnson; Leroy and
James Manley; Maxine, and
George Sellers, and Michael
Vick. Adult leaders elected to
serve were Mrs. Christine
Areola 4-H Club Has
Spaghetti Supper
By CLAUDEODOM
The Areola 4-H club met
March 8 at the Areola Club
House for a spaghetti supper
served by Mrs. Melvin Shearin.
Following supper Eddie
Conn, president, called the
meeting to order. Cory Conn,
secretary, read the minutes of
the last meeting and called the
roll. There being no further
business, the meeting adjourned
for members to take part in
a period of recreation.
Women Voters Study Court
DURHAM — Following a
year-long study and discussion
of the North Carolina Court
system, the board of directors
of the League of Women Voters
of North Carolina this week
announced the results of a
survey of statewide member
opinion.
Eighteen of 21 local chapters
participated in this criminal
justice study and have agreed
to support: (1) a non partisan
merit selection of judges; (2)
the concept of a broadly based
judiciary nominating commission
for the selection of
well-qualified judicial nom
The Personnel at
FARMERS WAREHOUSE
wish to thank you for your patronage
in 1975 and look forward to selling
your tobacco for you again this season.
In 1976 we pledge to strive for:
1- highest price per pound of tobacco
2- fairness and honesty to every
customer
3- efficient and experienced office
personnel
4- and the same friendly atmosphere
you are accustomed to receiving at
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inees, with the proviso that the
guidelines used by the
commission in selecting such
nominees shall be spelled out
and publicised; and (3) the
requirement that North Carolina
judges be licensed
attorneys.
Regarding sentencing reform,
League members support:
(1) mandatory presentence
investigations over the
present voluntary use; and (2) a
more narrowly defined range of
penalties through legislative
action.
In announcing the consensus.
State president Mrs. Ruth
Mary Meyer of Durham said,
"The N. C. League has long
been concerned with the court
system, and has felt that there
must be a better way to select
qualified judges than the
present elective system. There
are no candidates for public
office about which the voters
know less than the candidates
for judges." She explained that
this fact has resulted either in
abstention or totally blind
voting for most of the
electorate. "Since there is no
requirement that judges be
licensed attorneys, it is quite
possible to elect someone as
judge who has no professional
qualifications whatsoever," she
said.
"North Carolina also has the
most severe sentencing of any
state," said Mrs. Meyer, "and
the League has been disturbed
that too often widely varying
sentences have been given for
identical crimes. While there
are mitigating circumstances
which can and should enter into
the length of a sentence, a
judge's mood or degree of
severity should not permit
widely disparate sentences for
the same offences."
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Settlers, Mrs. Branch Richard
son, Miss Loretta Johnson and
Miss Mary Powell.
The boys and girts present
and joining the club found the
name Northern Vaughan Community
4 H Club to be the most
suitable name for the organized
group.
The next regular meeting of
the club will be held Monday.
March 29 at 4:30 p. m. at the
home of Mrs. Sylvia Vick.
Crafts Project Can Be Link To Bicentennial
By JAN CHR1STENSEN
N. C. State University
Preparing costumes, crafts
and foods relating to the
bicentennial is one way to get
acquainted with Americana,
believe members of Columbus
County's Extension Homemakers
Clubs.
So extension leaders planned
workshops that could tie into
the nation's history.
Craft workshops were offered
in bonnet making, tatting,
quilting, applique, chair bottoming,
crocheting afghans and
making Moravian stars.
Clothing programs traced
200 years of authentic fashion,
showing how fashion evolved,
where styles came from and
how they became popular.
Refreshments included oldfashioned
fare—benne seed
cookies and sassafras tea.
Participants found the workshops
a fund way to help
celebrate the nation's 200th
birthday, adds Mrs. Elaine
Blake, home economics extension
agent.
Special Skills
A Christmas vacation from
school was not a vacation from
learning for eight Anton
County girls ages 8-13.
They signed up for a special
interest class in embroidery,
learning six stitches.
Not only that: the youngster*
wanted more get-togethera to
learn advanced stitches and,
maybe, even needlepoint, says
Rebecca Caddy, home economics
extension agent.