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Page Eight MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Friday, June 29, 1973 ************^^^******^^^*)Tinnnni*MWMV>nnAnnAniifi TEEN Topics IN NEW BERN TODAY Schools in New York City have their imperfections, and problems peculiar to large centers of population. However, at the present time there are 25 High schools in the metropolis providing consumer In struction. No matter where a teen ager, or an adult lives, it is wise to shop carefully, and the more you learn about what to look for and avoid, the more you’ll get for your money. Unfortunately, in every community you stand the risk of F&L MOTORS Home of Sharp Cars W. C. CHADWICK GENERAL INSURANCE Clark Building Telephona* Office ME 7-3146 Home ME 7-3432 RAY'S UPHOLSTERY FREE ESTIMATES Pickup & Deiivery • 1601 National Avo 637-6365 being sold inferior merchanuise if you aren’t familiar with quality standards. Never shop hurri^y, and take time to compare prices. Consumer instruction is not only available in some New York City High schools, but in elementary grades and even in kindergarten. Many thousands of chil^en are participating in trips to department stores and supermarkets. Young people are being taught how to spot inferior merchandise, and how to steer clear of bargains that aren’t bargains at all. They are learning to avoid the bait and switch method of selling you what you don’t prefer. City, state, and federal agencies have given valuable consumer advice to the students. Leon Levy, one of the High school teachers, has developed into an expert on the subject, and has written a book titl^ TTie Consumer In 'Hie Market Place. The book discusses the consumer’s influence, pur chasing power, and other things that are important to anyone who has money to spend for necessities or luxuries. Today’s teen agers are usually better informed about smart marketing than teen agers of past generations, even if they haven’t had the ad vantage of consumer in struction. However, this is offset to EXTENSION SERVICE “GRADS" ... AH across the country, thousands of homemakers are "graduating” from Extension Services’ Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and joining the traditional Extension program as vol unteer leaders. Some graduates assist aides in teaching nutrition to adults and youth. Others take sewing courses and become volunteer sewing teachers. With the help of the new EFNEP volunteers, the USDA Extension is now able to contact more hard-to-reach, low-income families than ever before. A youth group is being shown how to prepare nutritious and economical pizza at home by a volunteer homemaker (second from right), serving as an instructor in this cooking class. Looking Gloss— (Continued from page 1) when they asked for it. Included among others in the original gang were Shoot Hall, Tom Davis, Buzz Mitchell, the Patterson brothers (Harry, Bill and Robert) Reid Fuller, Bill Gwaltney, Earl Harper and The Mirror’s future editor. In due time there were still more, including a contingent of girls headed by Sara Meadows. some extent by the fact that many young people have more money to spend than their parents had at the same age. If money comes easy to a teen ager, he or she may be inclined to be careless in purchasing habits. At any rate, it pays to take your time when you go shop ping. The little machine shop, located on the Meadows property at the lower end of South ^ont street was only a short distance from an al»n- doned warehouse. TTiat’s the spot he fixed up at his on expense for a recreation room. It was turned over to the kids for their exclusive en joyment. Their dogs were charter members of the Union Point Club too—dogs like the Patterson airdale, Rusty, and Reid Fuller’s Peg^. A wonderful man was Crabby—A wonderful man indeed. “Under Construction!" Once considered a “fossil” like the moon with a surface little changed over millions of years. Mars is now regarded as a planet still “under construetion." Like Earth, it may have a molten cere, a crust that shifts and cracks, and mountains that sometimes blow their tops. YOUIL FIND For Top Tunes by YOUR TOP TUNES Your Favorite AT . . . Recording Stars Central News YOUR TEEN-AGE MUSIC CENTER IS ■ & Card Shop HAWKS • 702 MIDDLE SI. RADIO & APPLIANCE CO. NE\W BERN 327 MIDDLE STREET 1 Top Ten Tunes In New Bern This Week 1. My Love—Wings. 2. Pillow Talk—(Sylvia. 3. Give Me Love—^orge Harrison. 4. I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby—Barry White. 5. Playground In My Mind— Clint Holmes. 6. Will It Go Round In Cir cles—Billy Preston. 7. Kodachrome—Paul Simon. 8. Shambala—Three Dog Night. 9. Daniel—Elton John. 10. One Of A Kind—Spinners. (This week’s Mirror pick for a future spot in the Top Ten is the Dr. John version of Right Place, Wrong Time.) CRAVEN COUNTY’S COUNTRY AND WESTERN FAVORITES 1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree—Dawn. 2. Kids Say The Damdest Things—Tammy Wynette. 3; You Always Come Back- Johnny Rodriguez. 4. Why Me-Kris Kir- stofferson. 5. Don’t Fight The Feelings Of Love—Charlie Pride. 6. Sweet Country Woman- Johnny Duncan. 7. Send Me No Roses— Tommy Overstreet. 8. Satin Sheets—Jeannie Pruett. 9. Ride Me Down Easy— Bobby Bares. 10. Baby’s Gone—Conway Twitty. (This week’s Mirror pick for a future spot in the Top Ten is Loretta Lynn’s Love Is The Foundation.) Low Prices, Low Overhead When you think of diamonds, think of Mike. d ^£,i\T£,[e,x± Hnnr nl Kreptal-r Diamonds 222 MIDDLE ST . NEW BERN N C 637-977S We ore grateful for your trust and appreciate your patronage. And in serving you we make it a point to practice genuine old fashioned courtesy. 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