Permanent Cleanup Drive Opens Here The Edenborough Shopping Center was the beneficiary last Friday for the kickoff of a perma nent general cleanup and beauti fication campaign sponsored by the Raeford-Hoke County Chamber of Commerce and the Hoke County Agricultural Extension Service. Boy Scouts of Troop 404 of the Raeford United Methodist Church participated with Earl Fowler, manager of the chamber, and his daughter Carmen, and another adult volunteer. Junior Blue. Carrying trash bags they went through the shopping center pick ing up everything that resembled refuse. Fowler said the campaign would be expanded into other areas of Hoke County and that a permanent committee for the campaign would be established. Willie Featherstone, county Ex tension chairman, said it could be extended by the people to planting of trees and shrubs on their properties to help beautify their community. L-R. Earl Fowler, Carmen Fowler, and Willie Featherstone. with trash bag and 'cleanup' bumper sticker at Edenborough Shopping Center last Friday. Junior Blue and Earl Fowler in action cleaning up Edenborough Shopping Center last Friday afternoon. Carmen Fowler is doing the same off camera at the left. Scouts joined the campaign later in the day. * Registration Deadline Nears For 'Life And Breath' Trek If you haven't registered to participate in the "Life and Breath" Backpacking TREK being conducted by the Uwharrie Trail Club on October 15-17, you better ^ hurry! Registration deadline has been extended to Friday, October 1. The two-day TREK will cover 20 miles of the Uwharrie National Forest which begins at the edge of Randolph County and extends into Stanly County. Overnight camp site will be in Montgomery County. Evening entertainment is scheduled for Saturday night. Indications are that mid-October ^ is going to a colorful time along the trails with autumn foliage color. The 20-mile TREK is not a strenuous trail, according to TREK Coordinator, Jack White. It will be more appealing to the less ex perienced hiker than some of the western North Carolina mountain trails. Uwharrie Trail Club President ? Mike Chisholm will be TREK Leader. Meals will be provided at the camp sites and to carry on the TREK. Emergency communi cations, transportation and medi cal service will be available at all times. Participants will obtain a mini mum of $200 in sponsor donations to go on the TREK. The funds will go to the American Lung Associa tion of N.C., Mid-State Region, to aid the Association in its patient service and health education work in the central part of the state. Early registrants have already started turning in the sponsor contributions, according to Lung Association Mid-State Regional Di rector, Mary Jane Knight. Special awards will be given to those who raise the greatest amount. All TREKKERS will receive TREK t-shirts and certificates of achieve ment after the event. Registration and kits may be obtained by writing or calling the Lung Association at ALANC, Mid State Regional Office, P.O. Box 726, Southern Pines, N.C. 28376, telephone (919) 692-3981. Toll Fre?1-800 672?87? CHECK OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY PONTIAC buick TOYOTA Toll Free 1-800-672-4674 Hwy. 1 South Southern Pines 4] Whatever You Drive Ti 0 1 1 F r e ? 1 8 0 0 6 7 2 4 6 Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Although it's still two years before the next Presidential elec tion, some people are already turning their thoughts to it. Several potential candidates are already mapping plans. Other people say it's far too early to be thinking about an election two years away, but they're wrong. I'll explain why. It's now customary to name the economy after whatever President is in office. Hence we have Reagan omics. So you can see the name of a President is very important. What if somebody named Jones got elected? Jones-nomics? Wouldn't work at all. Nobody knows who the next President will be but it's clear, in case Mr. Reagan doesn't run, we ought to be giving some thought to how his name can be hooked to the economy and still come out in a fairly pronounceable way. To get our thinking turned in that direction let's run down the list of early potential candidates to see if they qualify from an ear stand point: Bush-nomics. Kennedy-nomics. Mondale-nomics. Baker-nomics. O'Neill-nomics. Glenn-nomics. Jackson-nomics. Those of course are just some people already in politics. What if an outsider shows up? For ex ample, the head of Chrysler, Lee Iococca, who has Presidential qualities because he sure knows how to borrow money, Iococca nomics? That requires further thought. 1 don't know how we fell into naming economy after a President, probably some newspaperman started it, and I don't know that it should be continued. There are some economics times no President would want to have his name tacked to. Yours faithfully, J.A. finni Is Coming October 20th ENTIRE STOCK GIRLS' ENTIRE STOCK LADIES' ENTIRE STOCK BOYS' M\ Is Coming October 20th

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