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Weeks To Come !v W?* KPWi MUSK; ROOSTER - Hoke CO. Maaic Booster Association meetings will be flrat Monday night of every month at Hoke High School band room at 7 p.m. Parents and friends of the musk association are urged to attend. AIRPORT AUTHORITY -The Hoke/Raeford Airport Authority will hold its regular meeting at the Raeford City Hall on the sacoad Tharaday of each month at 7:43 p.m. AMERICAN LEGION -American Legion Post 20 of Hoke County meets the aeeaad Taesday of each month at the Edinborougb Restaurant at 8 p.m. Those interested in join ing are invited. COUNTY COMMISSION -Members of the Hoke County Commission meet the first Monday of each month at 9 a.m. and the third Moaday at 7:30 p.m. Pratt Building located at 227 N. Main St. in Raeford. The public is invited. CITY COUNCIL - The Raeford City Council meets the first Moaday of each month at 7 p.m. in City Hall. The public is encouraged to attend. SCHOOL BOARD - The Hoke County Board of Educa tion meets the flnt Taeeday or each month at 7:30 p.m. at the board offices on Wooley Street. The public is encourag ed to attend. AL ANON ? Meetings are held every Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Library Conference Room. JAYCEES ? Raeford Jaycees meet the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month over Howell's Drug Company on Main Street. Anyone interested is in vited to attend. Feb. 11 PTA. - J.W. Turlington will hold its regular PTA meeting on Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. in the school audit. Feb. 12 ARTS DEPT. - The Arts Dept. of the Raeford Woman's will meet Tuesday Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. la the Hoke Coaaty Pabik Library. Feb. IS ' ' BLACK HISTORY - The Hoke County Civic League An nual Black History Program will be Friday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at St. James Holiness Church. The speaker will be Dr. Fred McQueen, Family Practioner from Rockingham. The program will include dramatizations and singing of traditional Negro spirituals in dialect. The Annual Black History Program is a cultural experience, and everyone is in vited to attend. COMMUNITY CHORUS -Efforts are being made to organize a Hoke County Com munity Chorus. Once assembl ed the adult group would per form at community events, at churches and for civic clubs. Interested adults should call John Plummer at 875-2677. m*,coSr& ? If you have a beef dish that you're particularly proud of, bow it the tee to cater ta b the Na tioMl lkx( Cook-Off. You could win ?a expense-paid trip to Wichita, Kansas Sept. 24-26 where youH represent North Carolina and compete for a top prize of 13.000. To enter, send a typed copy of your recipe (in cluding name, address, phone number and a brief statement about the origin of your recipe) to: National Beef Cook-Off, 444 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. ID. 60611. Entries must be postmarked no later than March 1. Recipes are judged in stale-by -state com petition. State winners then travel to Wichita to compete in the National Beef Cook-Off. Prizes at the national level are: first place, $3,000; second place, $2,500; third place. $1,000; five honorable men tions, $300 each. Any beef recipe using chuck, round, fresh brisket, plate, shank and ground beef is eligible. All recipes must contain a minimum of one pound of beef and not more than five, and each serving must contain at least three ounces of cooked beef. Meat used must be ex clusively beef. Cooking time cannot exceed four hours. The recipe must be specific, with no use of brand names, and must state the number of servings and approximate preparation time. All entries become the property of the American Na tional Cow Belles, Inc. March 14-16 INDIAN ART CONTEST ?An art contest to recognize the talent of American Indian artists in North Carolina will be one of the many features of the Tenth Annual North Carolina Indian Unity Conference to be held March 14-16, at the Bordeaux Motor Inn in Fayet teville. The North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs, a member organization of UTNC, will coordinate the contest. For more information on contest rules and regula tions, contact Teresa Em manuel at the commission, P.O. Box 27228, Raleigh, N.C. 27611 or call 919-733-5998. FREE HEALTH CHECK -Men and women over the age of 60 can get a free health screening at the Robeson County Health Department's . Ad?M ,%*h ONo. .1* screening includes blood pressure, pap smear, urinalysis, breast examination, blood sugar, cholesterol, glaucoma and many others. For informa tion on clinic schedules and to make an appointment for this free health service, contact the Robeson County Health Department at 738-7231. TAX INFO ? North Carolina taxpayers having questions when preparing their 1984 Federal income tax returns may use one of several telephone numbers in addition to the toll free system, the Internal Revenue Service said. The system is called "Tele-Tax" and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It offers more than 140 information tapes on subjects including fil ing requirements, itemized deductions. Social Security tax ation, tax credits, types of in come and adjustments to in come. "Tele-Tax" is available only to owners of push-button telephones, who have a choke of seven nam ben to call for taped messages. The number in FayctteviQe is 4*3-0735. These ; numbers and a listing of tapes by number are included in the tax forms package mailed to in dividuals and in IRS Publica tion 910. When one of the numbers is called, a message will be heard giving instruc tions on bow to use the system. THESE ARE NOT TOLL FREE NUMBERS. Bill Lovelace, Chief of the IRS Taxpayer Service Division, remarked, "Last year we received about 10,000 calls over the "Tele-Tax" system. We highly recommend it for those persons unable to contact us on the toll-free system, or who need tax information during evenings or weekends." IMsWeetowi; Feb. 9 BASKET WORKSHOP - Join Rosemarie Zanders in a basketry workshop Saturday, February 9 at the Fayetteville Museum of Art. Workshop is co-sponsored by Parks and Recreation. Cost is $5.50 for instruction and materials. Learn to weave with flat reed while creating a wonderful Valentine's gift. Session will be given Saturday, February 9 from 9:30 - 12 Noon. Feb. 10 BLACK HISTORY - The number two usher board of Silver Grove Baptist Church will sponsor a Black History program, Sunday Feb. 10, at 4 p.m. They will present a series of skits entitled The Black Movement. The public is in vited to come. Next Weekend S Feb. 14-17 MY FAIR LADY - The Carolina Regional Theatre will open its 1985 Professional Showcase Season with one of the greatest musical-comedy classics of all times, "MY FAIR LADY." Scheduled for Valentine's week-end, Feb. 14-17, :"MY FAIR LADY" will run nightly (Thursday -Sunday) at 8:00 p.m. with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee. All per formances to be held at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Single ticket Pficcs range (from $25 to S5 arid'wffl'tfe available from' Raleigh Civic Center Box Of fice (755-6060), CRT (755-6916) or at the door. (Season subscriptions will con tinue to be available through February 17). For more infor mation contact the Carolina Regional Theatre. Feb. 14-22 ARTS FESTIVAL - The Fifth Annual Methodist College Fine Arts Festival will be held February 14-22 on the Methodist College campus. The theme of this year's event is "France and Its Cultural In fluences." Opening the Festival will be a performance of the French playwright Moliere's comedy Tke Would-Be Gentlemen at 8 p.m. on Thurs day, Feb. 14 in Reeves Auditorium. The performance win be followed by a salon with cast members and the audience. Three festival exhibits will open on February 14 and will remain open throughout the Festival dales. February 16 marks "French Culture Saturday." All exhibits will be open until S P ."V F*f?cll ?->? will be shown from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. A French lunch will be available in the Methodist Col lege cafeteria from noon until 1 p.m. at the cost of $2.73 per person. There is no charge for any other Fine Arts Festival events unless noted. The public is invited to attend all the events of the eight-day festival. If more information is needed, call 484-7110, extension 212. thru March 10 SKY SHOW - The Fayetteville Stale University Planetarium will present the sky show "Cosmic Dimensions." This planetarium program brings in to focus the size of the Universe by discussing the relative distance from Earth to the Moon and other planets, then the star, galaxies, and the in tense, rapidly receding quasars. "Cosmic Dimensions" will be presented on Sundays at 3 p.m. through March 10. Admission is $2 for adults and SI for children and students with pro per identification. For more in formation call 486-1681 or 486-1650 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Doriag March BINGO ? Raeford Junior Roman's Club will again spon sor bingo games each Saturday night in March at the civic center. Games will begin at 7:30p.m. and will include a $50 jackpot, split pots and regular games. Come on out and enjoy the felllowship and fun. All proceeds will be returned to Hoke County in charitable form. March 9-June 6 EU ROPEAN EXHIBIT - One of the largest European museum exhibits ever to come to the Southeast will be shown at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh in the spring. "Raleigh and Roanoke," scheduled March 9-June 6. documents the motives and history behind the first English attempts to colonize the new world, the struggles of the first settlers and the discoveries they made. Museum hours will be . , extended, as the show is tx- 1 pected to be very popular. Ad mission is free, and a catalogue will be available for purchase. Groups planning to visit are urged to make reservations now by calling 919/733-3894. For details, contact the N.C. Museum of History, an agency of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh. 27611. Feb. 28 SPECIAL ARTS FESTIVAL - Very Special Arts Festival for Handicap children of Hoke County will be held on Thurs day Feb. 28 at Upchurch School with performances in the auditorium at Noon by the exceptional children of Hoke County. The students' arts ex hibit will be in the gym from 1-2 p.m. The public is invited to attend. The UCB Self-Directed IRA is perfect for the individual who wants complete control over his or her investments. It's the one plan that gives you the flexibility to buy common stocks, corporate bonds, and government bonds. ..plus earn money market rates. A?ir your United Carolina Banker for complete on the UCB Self-Directed IRA. \buTl see how your financial future by contmllino vnur . . Your Banking Partner Cameron views Brazilian farms Bill Cameron of Raeford is one of 23 southeastern U.S. farmers who took a closeup look at a major rival for world tobacco and soy bean markets recently and came away with a new appreciation for the international scope of agricultural marketing competi tion. Visiting Brazil on an extensive tour of the heart of that South American nation's most produc tive fanning region, the U.S. farmers discovered the ag gressiveness of the country's agricultural export policies as well as the efficiency of its fanners. The U.S. fanners have been par ticipating for two yean in an agricultural leadership develop ment program conducted by the Agricultural Extension Service at North Carolina State University through a grant from Phillip Mor ris U.S.A., which arranged the trip to Brazil. Farmers from North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia participated. The group, accompanied by NCSU and Philip Morris represen tatives, traveled 3,000 miles inside . Brazil, most of it in the nation's three southern-most states with the heaviest concentration of com mcrical farming. The North Americans visited a number of family farms where tobacco is the major source of in come and where the farm families live simply but comfortably on an average farm size of 30 acres, only about four or Five of which are tobacco. The tobacco earns them a net proFit of about $600 to $650 an acre. Most farms grow both flue cured and burley. They also visited Brazilian research farms, both private and government owned, and a number of agriculture-related industries, including a modern textile plant, a large soybean processing plant, a fuel-alcohol processor, tobacco processing plants, a cigarette manufacturing plant, a farm equipment manufacturer, an American-owned research farm doing mostly corn breeding, and a large Brazilian farm co-op. Much of the production technology the farmers saw was modern. "I was very impressed with their agriculture," said Cameron. "They are making very efficient use of their land, and they are doing a good job with their Checking on Brazilians Bill Cameron of Raeford checks out Brazilian tobacco that has been stunted by dry weather. Farms visited by the U.S. group do not use irriga tion but usually make a yield of around 2,000 pounds per acre. tobacco, although I don't believe it is up to U.S. quality yet." Although the technology is 1985, some of the methods are 1940 but none the less effective. Cheap and abundant labor is one of Brazil's greatest resources, and nearly all farm work is done by hand. Draft animals ? mules and oxen - pull the plows on most farms. Much of the land where tobacco is grown is too steep for mechanized equipment, although the expansive and beautifully con toured fields of soybeans in the northwest region of the three-state area are fanned with heavy equip ment. The U.S. farmers were surprised to learn that Brazilian soybeans are much more uniformly free of weeds than U.S. beans. The dif ference is, Brazilian farmers routinely. . supplement herbicides i --w i ' with hand hoeing. One bean grower told'the visitors he uses 60 to 70 hoe hands in his fields. They work for $3 to $4 equivalent per day. The same farmer estimates that the 650 acres of soybeans that he soon will be harvesting will yield 37 bushels an acre and return a net profit of about S65 to $75 an acre. "But only if we get rain," he added. The soybeans are a major export crop. The goal of Brazil is to export every dollar's worth of farm pro ducts possible to anyone they can sell to, and that includes the United States, Cameron observed. At the same time, Brazil severely restricts what may be imported in to the country - no tobacco, for ex ample, and no cotton unless there is a shortage of domestic lint. 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