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NOTICE
_ Attend The 34th Annual Meeting Os The
French Broad Electric Membership Corporation
At
Madison County High School
(Located On U.S. 25-70 By-Pass, Marshal, N.C.)
Saturday, July 19, 1975
Registration From 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM
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Meeting Convenes At 2:00 P.M.
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Prizes Will Be Given
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-- Mixers Irons Percolators Toasters
Fry Pans Other Fine Appliances Blenders
i YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!!!!! 1
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Congressman Roy A. Taylor
11th District, North Carolina
Come Eerly For Registration Being All Registrations Will Cease Promptly
At 2:00 P.M. Please Detach And Bring Entire Registration Ticket Furnished
In Each Annual Report. See Sample Below.
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THE GIRL WHO CRIED
WOLF, by Doris Miles Dis
ney. 1975. Doubleday & Co.,
Inc.
The Girl Who Cried Wolf,
by Doris Miles Disney is not
the usual run-of-the-mill
mystery thriller. In fact, it is a
masterpiece of suspense
which will force the reader to
finish the story before laying
it down.
Poor Amy Gardner, a
lonely neurotic girl, cried
Wolf so many times that she
became a nuisance to the
police force, the telephone
operator, and even her
husband. If they but knew it,
her cries for help were for
real, until finally she fell
victim to the actual wolf.
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DETACH AND PRESENT TICKET AT REGISTRATION DESK
[ N? 23757
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Madison High School - Marshall, North Carolina
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Mr. John S. Doe
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Anywhere, U* S. A.
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What burns one up is the fact
that there was no one there to
7 help and protect Amy when
she, innocently and unsus
pectingly, admitted the villain
into her home. Her murder,
which followed, was not easy
to pin on anyone.
But since there is no such
thing as a perfect crime, the
murderer met his match
where he least expected it.
With certain death weighed
against possible death, our
heroine realized that it was
only a question of choosing
the right spot on which to
gamble her life. In the end
she lived to tell the tale and
expose the wolf, although it
was too late to save the girl
who had cried Wolf so many
times,
Johnson
To Exhibit I
In Art Fair |
Gilbert C. Johnson of
Route 5, Burnsville has been
accepted as a participant in
the 1975 Ann Arbor Street Art
Fair. This is the 16th annual
art fair held on South' and East ]
University in Ann Arbor, ,
Michigan. .
Gilbert wai among 1,000 <
persons who applied for the ]
1975 Fair and submitted color <
slides of their work. The jury <
is highly selective, since only
325 arts and crafts people can
be accepted. The Fair is being j
held this week in Ann Arbor.. {
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And About Homemakers
l£H JglZn Yancey Extention Service
BY MARY M. DEYTON
Home Ec. Extension Agent
[and Patsy Fleming, Ass
Stain removal is
big laundry problem. The
main point to remember in
stain removal is to try to treat
the stain as soon as possible.
If you don’t know what the
stain is, try to identify it by
observing the color, appear
ance, odor, and texture.
Some stain removal sup
plies which you probably
already have on hand include
light and heavy-duty deter
gents, enzyme pre-soak, oxy
gen and chlorine bleaches.
Alcoholism:
Whatltls
BY JAY KAYSON
(Editor’s note: This series is based on the personal experience
and observations of the author, a member of Alcoholics
Anonymous, who uses a pen name to conform to AA’s tradition
of anonymity. Correspondence may be addressed to him in
care of this newspaper. The work of Alcoholics Anonymous in
general, and especially in the Mayland area, is contained in
this series).
An essential definition of alcoholism is elusive. Most often)
it is defined by alluding to its characteristics. Alcoholics
Anonymous describes it as a physical compulsion coupled with
a mental obsession to drink. The National Council on
Alcoholism calls it a condition in “a person who is powerless to
stop drinking and whose drinking seriously alters his normal
living pattern.”
NOT A STEREOTYPE
Despite widespread publicity to correct the misconception,
too many people continue to think of the alcoholic as the
stereotype skid-row bum, the town drunk, or the guy down the
street whose drinking cost him his job, house and family. Not
so. Skid-row types, for example, comprise less than 5% of all
alcoholics.
One prominent U.S. psychiatrist sums it up this way:
‘‘Most persons suffering from alcoholism are found in homes,
offices, places of business and in every walk of life. The disease
attacks without regard to social standing, occupation,
intelligence, education, national origin, color or race...(They)
are not noticeably different from the rest of us, except in their
addiction to alcohol.”
TOLERANCE IS KEY WORD
Alcoholism is a disease that happens, by and large, to
people who consistently drink too much, too often, usually over
a long period of time. People who drink in this fashion ought
not be smug about it, because they are tempting the bounds of
tolerance--their capacity for drinking large quantities of
alcoholic beverages without any apparent harmful effects.
“Tolerance” is the key word.
Before becoming victims of this widespread disease, most
alcoholics had developed a considerable tolerance for alcohol
(though some of us never had any kind of tolerance because f
the specialized make-up of our peculiar body chemistry). They
could drink more (some far more) than other people and not be
affected as much-and they did.
In the beginning such excessive drinking builds up a
physical immunity (thus the credit: “He sure can handle his
liquor.”) Eventually, however, this excessive drinking erodes
the tolerance little by little, until the time comes (for some
sooner, others later) when the alcoholic doesn’t have any
tolerance (capacity) left at all for alcohol. It has gone, never to
return.
BECOMES A DEADLY POISON
Now alcohol becomes for alcoholics nothing less than a
deadly poison. Without the tolerance their bodies once had,
alcoholics have lost all resistance to its deadly effects. Their
physical defenses against alcohol are not only down-they don’t
exist. The alcoholic's physiological system can no longer
metabolize alcohol normally. What was once a tolerance has
been replaced by an uncontrollable allergy called alcoholism.
How alcoholics reach this point of no return is not fully
understood (despite the hard evidence that the alcoholic does
reach it). The liver function offers a partial explanation. The
liver helps eliminate alcohol from the system through a process
of oxidation at the rate of one-third of an ounce per hour.
Excessive drinking does two things: it far exceeds the liver’s
ability (plus that of our other body chemistry) to eliminate
alcohol from the system, or it may damage the liver.
Unable to burn up alcohol as it should, the alcohol piles up
in the body causing one drink to have the cumulative effect of
several, and producing anoxia (a decreased oxygen content in
the blood). In sequence, a mild anoxia may produce
exhilaration and delusions of great strength and wisdom;
deeper anoxia deadens and stupefies; in greater degrees it
paralyzes. After alcohol does its job on the nervous system,
includingthe brain, there follows loss of muscular coordination
(staggering, drunk driving) and depression of respiration and
heart action (drunken stupor).
ALCOHOLICS LOSE THE POWER TO STOP
As alcoholic drinking continues, more and more alcohol is
poured into a body that is less and less able to tolerate it. This
loss of physical resistance to alcohol often creates in the 1
alcoholic less of a capacity for alcohol than a non-alcoholic may
have. Non-alcoholics may overdo it on a New Year’s Eve, for
example, and get drunk, but they can stop when they want to,
their hangovers (withdrawals) are relatively mild, their
recuperation more rapid.
Alcoholics, on the other hand, cannot stop when they want
to, and seldom do. Their dependence on alcohol had taken on
the hues of an insane fanaticism. They cannot contemplate
living without alcohol for a year, a month, a week, often even a
day-despite the fact that they may know full well that booze is
quite literally killing them. Their minds are consumed with a
fatal obsession to drink. Their personalities are altered to such
a degree that they are often “not the same person” anymore.
With their intellects operating at only a fraction of normal 1
capacity, they can no longer make sound decisions. Their
mental malfunctioning precludes any clear self-awareness of
the gravity of their physical and psychological condition.
Medically, alcoholics are very, very sick people.
Special stain removal pro
ducts you might need are
fabric color remover, all
purpose spray-on prewash
products, oxalic acid crystals,
rust stain remover, white
vinegar, ammonia. Many
stains require treatment with
a grease solvent. Grease
solvents include dry-cleaning
solvent or spot remover, nail
polish remover, rubbing alco
hol, steam-distilled turpen
tine.
FACING UP TO IT
First test stain remover on
an inside seam to check for
fabric color change. If un
damaged, place garment stain
side down on a flat surface
padded with paper towels
Apply stain remover ont<
back of stain so staining
material will be flushed ontc
absorbent towels rather thar
through fabric. Use lighi
brushing motions with fin
gers, brush or clean cloth
Brush from the outside of the
stain to center. Avoid use ol
hot water on unknown stains
If using bleach, use it on the
entire garment rather than or
just the stain. In this waj
color will remain uniform
Lastly, always launder the
item after removing the stain
PROBLEM STAINS
Adhesive Tape:i Apply ice
to harden. Scrape gummj
substance off using a dul
knife, then sponge with spoi
remover. Dry. Launder.
Blood: Soak for 30 minute:
o', longer in an enzyme
presoak product. Launder oi
rub liquid detergent intc
stain. Soak in cold water foi
30 minutes then launder.
Candle Wax: Remove sur
face wax with dull knife. Place
between paper towels ant
press with dull knife. Place
between paper towels ant
press with warm iron. Sponge
with dry cleaning solvent
Dry. Launder.
Chewing Gum: Apply ice
to harden gum. Remove wit!
dull kjiife, sponge wit!
solvent.
Cosmetics: Rub detergem
paste or liquid detergent inte
stain. Rinse. Repeat if neces
sary. Launder. If greasy stair
remains, sponge with grease
solvent.
Fruits and Berries: Soal
for 30 minutes in an enzyme
presoak dissolved in hot tag
water. Launder.
Grass: Soak for 30 minute:
in an enzyme presoak dissolv
7 ed in hot tap water. Launder
Greasy Stains: (Car grease
or oil, butter, margarine, lard
salad dressings, cooking oils)
Place stain face down or
paper towels. Apply _ dij
cleaning solvent to stain
Brush from outer edge te
center with a clean white
doth. Dampen stain wit!
water and rub with iiquie
detergent or detergent paste
Rinse. Launder.
Inks: (Ballpoint) Place
stain face down on papei
towels. Sponge stain with drj
cleaning solvent or sponge
repeatedly with rubbing alco
hoi. Dilute alcohol with *
parts water for use on acetate
triacetate or modacrylic
Washing removes some type:
of inks but sets others.
Mildew: Launder using
chlorine bleach or soak in ar
oxygen bleach, then launder
Paint: (latex, acrylic, wa
terbase paints) Treat while
still wet, for paints cannot be
removed when dry. Rinse ir
warm water to flush out paint-
Launder.
Rust: (few spots) Do NOT
use chlorine bleach on rust
Apply a rust stain remover
Rinse. Launder.
Yellowing of White Fab
rics: Soak overnight with ar
enzyme presoak product, ex
cept wool and silk. Launder ir
hot water using a generou:
amount of detergent anc
chlorine bleach if safe foi
fabric, otherwise use ar
oxygen bleach. If stain re
mains, use a color remover,
following package directions.
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CARE OF FURNITURE
Give your old wooden furni
ture and antiques first-clast
museum treatment-with i
dustcloth. Many museum!
keep pieces of antique furni
ture in excellent condition just
by dusting them with a clean,
soft, lint-free cloth. Paste wu
isn’t recommended, the spe- r
cialists point out. For it car
completely change the char
acter of a finish.
Wash your fine furniture
once a year-more often il
"necessary. Dip a soft, clean
cloth in a solution of warm
water and soap or mild
detergent. Wring out the
cloth as dry as possible. Then
wash the surface of the wood,
about two square feet at •
time. Rinse the wood with •
cloth wrung in clear, warm
water. Dry the area immedi
ately. Then polish the wood
by rubbing it briskly with a
clean cloth.
But the homemaker whe
waxes the furniture weekly is
not doing it any good. Fo#
more information on Care ol
Wood furniture, carpets, and
upholstered furniture, call
your Extension Service Office,
682-2113.