Fish fry catch
Members of the Mecca Shrine Club proudly display
a check representing the 5 5,000 raised during the
annual fish fry. The profits will go to the Shriner 's
Crippled Children and Burn Center. Pictured are
(from left to right) Vardell Hedgpeth, treasurer;
Vernon Hubbard, chairman of the fish fry commit
tee; Paul Livingston, the member who sold the most
fish fry tickets and Jim Attanay, Mecca Shrine
Club president.
Last instructions aid loved ones
If you were 10 die today, would
your survivors know your wishes
for funeral arrangements and
disposition of property and per
sonal effects?
A letter of last instruction can
provide quick answers to questions
family members face when they
have lost a loved one. The letter
can answer questions beginning
with "Where?"
Where is your will? Where are
the keys to your safe deposit box?
Where have you stored your in
surance policies, stock certificates
and other property ownership?
The letter of last instruction can
also provide names and addresses
of people familiar with your per
sonal and business affairs and a list
and location of personal property.
And it should include funeral and
burial instructions.
Here's a caution. A letter of last
instruction isn't a legal document.
It doesn't replace a will. It merely
helps survivors handle financial
and burial affairs in an orderly
On the
Front
Alice Pettitt
Home Economics
Agent
manner following a death.
Once you've written your letter
of last instruction, tell your
spouse, adult children or legal ad
visor where it can be found.
And plan to update the letter
yearly or as often as your property
holdings and wishes change.
Skip stiches
Sewing machines skip stiches for
a variety of reasons. So before you
carry the machine to the repair ser
vice, run some quick tests to see if
you can solve the problem
yourself.
First, make sure the sewing
machine- is -free of tint. Many
fabrics shed lint. And that lint can
accumulate under the needle or in
the bobbin or tension areas mighty
fast. If you do find lint in these
areas, brush it away and try your
machine again.
Next, check the needle. It might
be slightly bent, burred or blunt.
Or the needle may have become
coated with sizing or some other
temporary finish used on the
fabric. If this is the case, change
needles. Soak the old needles in
rubbing alcohol and try them again
later.
Using the wrong type or size of
thread can also cause skipping. So
be sure and use synthetic thread on
fabrics made of synthetic fibers.
If you find that it wasn't lint, or
a blunt needle, or the wrong thread
that made the sewing machine skip
stiches, check the machine itself.
Sewing over pins, racing the
machine, using uneven speeds, or
feeding fabric too quickly or too
slowly can cause a machine to
misbehave.
So always test-stich a fabric,
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Hoke celebrates Farm-City
Why is a Farm-City Week obser
vance important to the citizens of
Raeford and Hoke County?
Citizens of Raeford and Hoke
County depend on each other for
products and services that are
essential to modern business and
living.
Ken McNeill of Farm
Chemicals, Inc. puts it this way,
"Today's farmer relies upon the
skills and abilities of a vast number
of specialists to assist him in his
job of providing food and fiber for
the nation. It would be difficult to
operate one week if these services
were not available. Likewise, the
businesses which serve agriculture
could not exist without the
farmer." And in my opinion, the
? consumers they serve couldn't last
a week without the output of these
two groups.
This is what Farm-City Week ac
tivities are all about. The purpose
is to promote a widespread
understanding of the in
terdependence of both rural and
city residents, and to narrow the
gap of understanding that
sometimes divides the rural and ur
ban segments of our population.
Need Grows
A wide variety of concerns in
our society (to include Hoke Coun
ty) brings clearly into focus the
growing need for better
understanding between rural and
urban people.
It is clear that this nation is ser
ved best when there is a free and
full interchange of views and opi
nions between all segments of the
population on questions that affect
the welfare of all of us.
Farm-City Week activities,
whether they are tours, banquet,
or other types of educational pro
grams encourage the interchange
of ideas and create an atmosphere
in which rural and urban people
can operate easily and effectively.
These programs stimulate an ex
change of ideas and encourge ac
tivities that bring a feeling of
mutual interest and good will.
The theme for^anffcCft?' obser
vances continues to be "PART
NERS IN PROGRESS".
Extension
News
Willie Featherstone
County Extension
Chairman
This concept gets at the very
heart of the relationship that ties
the two group together.
Goals
It is the hope of Hoke County
Steering Committee, co-chaired by
Caroline Shook and Robert L.
Gibson, that this year's observance
will:
?Promote and attitude that en
courages better understanding and
appreciation of both farm and city
viewpoints and concerns.
?Put into practice the good
neighbor policy in the local rural
urban setting.
?Spread the word that city and
suburban people have as much, or
more to gain from prosperous
agriculture as do farmers
themselves. Millions of city jobs
are created by farmers who buy the
products and services offered by
city people. A prosperous agri
culture encourages greater produc
tion of needed food.
?Push the idea that both farm
and city people have more than
usual to gain from participating in
Farm-City activities.
?Point out that the price of food
at the city retail store includes not
only production, processing,
transportation, advertising, mar
keting and other costs, but also
such less recognized items as pro
viding parking space and check
cashing services and a wide variety
of other services.
?Recognize that urban people
are the principal customers of the
American farmers, thus their con
cerns are important to farmers.
?"Talk common sense" in
regard to environmental concerns.
?Deal with the world food situa
tion as being inportant to farmers
and urban people for human
itariaq an$l ^traiqgic reasons.
?Promote activities which sup
port the theme of "Partners in
Progress".
WHAT DOES THE FARMER
RECEIVE?
When agricultural products
reach the retail market, how much
of the retail price of the product is
the farm value? Here are the farm
values for:
Eggs - 63*
Meat products - 48 *
Dairy products - 49*
Poultry - 53 *
Cereal and bakery products -
11%
Fresh fruit - 22.5*
Fresh vegetables - 28.6*
Processed fruit and vegetables -
15.8*
Fats and oils - 26.5*
Consumers spent 15.2* of their
1984 disposable personal income
for food. This is the income left
after the taxes are paid. For per
sons in low income categories, the
percentage may exceed 20 percent;
however, for the high income
family, the percentage may be as
low as 5 percent.
On behalf of the Agricultural
Extension Service I would like to
take this opportunity to express
our appreciation for the work of
this year's Farm-City Steering
Committee and all the many peo
ple that have contributed to the
success of Hoke County's obser
vance.
If through your participation in
Farm-City Week programs or con
tact with other individuals you
have developed an interest in
working with others to help nar
row the gap of understanding be
tween rural and urban people,
please call me at 875-3461.
It's time to plan next year's
observance.
Pearson receives
Spec. 4 promotion
Sherry J. Pearson, daughter of
Ledford and Mary L. Pearson Sr.,
of Rural Route 2, Red Springs has
been promoted in the U.S. army to
the rank of specialist four.
Pearson is a storage specialist in
West Germany, with the 2nd Sup
port Command.
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