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Roadside Market-'Questionnaires r>3 Being Sent Out By Committee |j Questionnaire* on the propoaed roadside market are Wing lent thii week to many farmer* and other rwidenti of Watauga county. The survey is being conducted by tke Roadaide Market Committee, w'th the cooperation of the county ex tension office. The committee, headed by Mrs Howard Carlson, also includes W. H. Vines, Glenn Andrews and Jane Street. The purpose of the survey is to prove there is local interest in a county roadside market The com mittee members have several indi cations that there is a need for it One is the success of tke small c«rb market now in operation two days a weak. This market, located on Main Street, is in the block east o( the Baptist Church, and accom modates seven sellers. It is open Tuesdays and Fridays during the summer, and some of the regular sellers average $18 to $20 a day hi sales. The items for sale at this market usually include garden pro duce, home mad* jams, jellies, pre serves, relishes and pickles, hand made jewelry, aprons and hand , woven articles. Some other popu lar products have been home made cottage cheese and pressed cheese, country ham, eggs, doughnuts and cookies. Cut flowers have been selling very well thii season, also. Another indication that a market would be successful is the labor survey taken for I he Shadowllne Corporation in March. Over 000 women have applied tor work, and at present there arc job* far only about 100 Thia survey shews that inaay womea in the county want work and additional income. Even if only a small per cent of these women participated in scliinf farm products and other articles at the roadside market, it would be a very successful enterprise. A survey taken by Mrs. Howard Carlson, chairman of the roadside market committee, has shown that there are over 80 skilled crafts men in Watauga county, producing articles in 21 crafts. This infor mation indicates that • roadside market would be a very profitable place for these workers te sell their products. The questionnaires on the pro posed market are being mailed to Watauga county farmers, crafts men, home demonstration club members, and any others who might be interested In selling at a county market. Anyone who does aot receive a questionnaire, and who wishes to express his interest in the market, is invited te telephone the home agent's office and leave Information for the home agent, or to fill out the form below and mail it to Bliss June Street, assistant Home Agent, Boone, N. C. Name Address Occupations in the family: Farming Other Q Would any member of your family be Interacted in selling at a roadside market YesQ No Q If so. please cheek the article* you might sell: Fruits and vegetables | ] Home made articles Q Home preserves and canned food £ (tome baked goods Shrubbery, plants or cut flowers Q Other merchandise (dariy products, honey, etc.) | |. Specializing In Radio-TV Repairs Teachers Hold Meeting In Phi la. By JAMES M STORIE NBA Delegate. Representing North Carolina education Association The world's largeet profeaion al organization U holding iti Cen tennial Convention in Philadelpliitf till* week. With 703,00 active member* bow enrolled, the National Education Aaaoeiation ia celebrating one hundred yean of growth at thii five day convention featuring do tens of well known speakers, scores of sectional meetings and hundreds at exhibits stretching along endless corridors In the quarter of a mile long Convention Hall. More than 13,000 teachers and administrators have jammed every hotel in th* city, and 4,000 of them are currently forming policy in the NEA*s Representative As sembly. This If in strong contrast to the 43 teachers who met here at the Athenaeum a century ago to found the organization which took as its purpoae, "To elevate the character and advance the inter ests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popu lar education in the United Stat es". This remains the NEA pur pose today. As the current school year dot ed, the NEA reported a grand to tal of 703,829 members, a gain of 44,899 over one year ago. This in crease approximates the estimated number of public school teachers hi all of Connecticut and Florida. DOLLAR CURTAIN UP The dollar curtain, which has blocked British tourist travel to this country and Canada since 1947 has been lifted. The British Treasury now allows Britains to take $280 a year out of their coun try to spend overseas. While this is a very small amount, it is ex pected that a number of Britons will take advantage of the oppor tunity to visit this country or Canada. LOW INCOME HOUSING Housing Admiinstrator Albert Id. Cple regeptjy said the nation js "seriously lagjfijig' behind pre*-.. ant congressional suthoriartiofw for both public and private low income housing. He called for a "realistic review" of the program. BoonesLad Joins Trek moWcout Jamboree? Andy Stalling!, wn o( Kr. uxl Mr*. P. W. Stalliags of Hoone, and a member of Buy Scout Troop No. 131, ni one of Mine 74 Boy Scouts and Explorers Iron North veit North Carolina who left Winston-Salem Monday bound for the gigantic National Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., from July 13 through 18. More than 80.000 Boy Scouts. Explorers and leaders froqi all over tl)e United States and sever al foreign countries will attend the jamboree. The camp will con stitute a 1,900 acre tent city with Its own water, electricity, tele phone exchange, and post office. The 74 boys, representing the eight-county Old Hickory Council, were scheduled to arrive at 10 a. m. Tuesday at Valley Forge, where they will have three days to prepare for the jamboree open ing. Spectacular prograibs are plan ned for the opening Friday even ing and the closing on July IS, in a Batumi amphitheatre which haida about SS.0OG Prominent AmericaQ« will participate in each libera will be daily demonstra tion* of camping techniques and mtercamp vjaits. The hagr* wtU alao tour point! of interact in BMtty Philadelphia On Sunday several religious services will be conducted simultaneously. , '7' The teat city will be governed by the Scout Oath and Law and administered by team* of nation al, sectional and troop Scout lead er*. The Old Hickory contingent will leave Valley Forge for home at I a. m. July It. On the return trip they will camp at Haines Point near Washington, P. C., take a cruie* down the Potomac River aboard the S. S. Mount Vernon, aee the production of the "Seven Wonders of the World" at Warner Theater at Washington, and vtait Endless Caverns and Natural Bridge. Acreage Compliance Is Soil Bank Requirement Compliance with all acreage al lotments ii a basic eligibility re quirement for payment under the 1907 Sail Bank Acreage Reserve Program, H. D. Godfrey, state administrative officer for A SC. said today. In order to complete payments under the 1067 Acreage Reserve Program as soon as poesible, ASC county offices have been instruct ed to make payments under the Acreage Reserve Program as soon as compliance has been checked on the commodity placed in the Reserve, with no regard at the present time, to the acreage of other allotment crops on the farm. According to Godfrey, this means that a farmer who accepts a Soil Bank Acreage Reserve and is lat er found to have over-planted some other allotment crop on the farm will be required to refund the total amount of the Soil Bank payment or be subject to legal action. A farmer who places land for a particular crop in the Acreage Rfierve Program not only ha* to meet program requirement* for thoae acre* but al*o must *tay within hi* farm'* allotment for all other crop* covered by the pro gram. Thl* include* cotton, tobac co, peanut*, and corn. Farmer* mutt alao comply with their wheat allotment* provided the wheat al lotment i* over It acre*. Where wheat acreage i* being placed in the Soil Bank Reierve. farmer* muat comply with their allotment even though that allotment 1* leu than IB acre*. Godfrey explained the making of the*e Soil Bank payment* be fore all compliance i* checked by laying that the percentage of farmer* who do not comply with the allotment program* it *o very *mall that it would not warrant holding up all payment* until all compliance had been checked. Cow Sold Easily Democrat Ad Ed S. Williams of Mabel. who advertised a milk cow for sale in the Democrat last week, sold the animal immediately after the paper came from the pres and says he had seven calls, by telephone and in person, within the day. Other fanners interested in the cow Mr. Williams advertised, and who lived at greater distances and received their papers late, are now coming In. Mr Williams says he could have sold a hundred cows, and fully believes in the value of Democrat advertising. POLK) VACCINE Although 2,300,000 doses of pol iomyelitis vaccine were put on the market in a recent week, the sap ply is (till considered "tight" by the Public Health Service. How ever, the supply is expected to be adequate enough by fall to re sume mass inoeeulation campaigns. rjum ca« ui^l Ppunmrs, who intend to take ad vantage of the refund Feder*! tax on gaaollae used far farm pur pom are remimtM that thi« re fund should be applied for after June 30 for the period July 1, 1966 to June SO, 1N7 Those who secured the refund in IM ihould receive application blanks from the Internal Mevnnue Service. Farm op-rttn -Ko did not take advantage of the refund may w r555Sr3S in tkelr area. ^njgfiyfel mo doe The 1«67 (print pi# crop totaled M,l70.uoo head, nearly the aame as the 1M0 ipnu crop of 53.186. 000, according to the Agriculture Department. The chances are that pork price* will remain about the Mine m thojr have batfc *1 , We wUh to take thin MW M eipre*>ins air sincere and heart felt ippraciation la our nelgf' «od friends for their many of ktndaru and Miy mf, jfl reavement in the lou of our be loved huaband and father, the many floral tribut. Robert H. Phillip* FamUy
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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