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Poor Show How It Is Federal, N.C. Service Officials See Conditions By HOWARD COVINGTON In The Charlotte Observer BATTLEBORO ? Mrs. Annie l>ee Wills had c leaned the cracked linoleum that covered the rough floor of her home, straightened the beds and made the paint-neglected shack ap pear as presentable as possible. But no matter the skills Mrs. Wills has acheived as a do mestic worker in soneone else's home, she could not erase or cover the sights and smells o( poverty in her own. The odor of urine, damp wood and years of use came drifting through the four-room house on the edge of tobacco fields in Edgecombe County with each gust of (lie summer breeze. Nonetheless. Mrs. 'Wills and several others like her had consented this past Thursday to talk with a croup of strangers about their life in rural north eastern North Carolina. It took courage for them to lay their problems in the jpen for these people, some of.a hum they knew controlled the li'e sustaining programs that ^up port families of the Mrs. Wiils of North Carolina. There was Louis O'Cor.ner. the director of the stale's welfare programs; John Kerr, the state director of the food stamp program: Pick Corner, the director of North Carolina's portion of the emergency food and medical program, and Ralph Eaton, the director of the state school lunch program The others in the crowd that gathered around homes in Edgecombe County carried no official government titles but Mrs. Wills didn't know that. She had only beep told that 11 state a n d federal people" wanted to talk 10 her. There was Miss Jean Fair lax. the director of the com munity education service of the NAACP Legal Defease Fund; Miss Nancy Amidl, a repre sentative of the U.S. Senate's Seiect Committee on Nutrition, and Dr. Don Madlsun of the I'V'C Medical School. They had al! been asked to Edgecombe by Mrs. Eva Clay ton. the director of the Eco nomic Development Corpora tion. a non-profit, non-partisan group organized in Warrenton a year and a half ago The EDC was formed as a Poor peoples advocate before state and local agencies with an eye toward development of community awareness and bootstran business ventures. But it soon found that before there can be jobs and busi nesses there must first be an improvement in the people who would take those jobs. "We were taliing to people about black entrepreneurship and black ownership but we found first we had to take care of hunger,'' Mrs. Clayton said. EDC begged and scraped enough money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Officc of Economic Opportunity and national church organiza tions to open 13 centers in Edgecombe. Wilson. Bertie and Warren counties where l.ooo .children arc being fed each dny Madison and the I'NC Medi cal School have supplied some medical aid and the program has some fnnds for dental bills If and when children need attention. This past week was Mrs. C'nyton's way of showing state officials and others what can be done to immediately attack hunger Thursday was the big day and it began at the Battleboro center The visitors were shown through the center, fed the lunch that children had eaten that day ? spaghetti, peaches, cole slaw and huspuppies ? and then they were taken to the homes. This was the real punch the doorsteps and rickety porches ol peoples like Mrs. Wills. Mrs. Wills stood outside the door of her home, dressed in her maid's whites, holding an 18-nionth-old grandson. Her daughter, the baby's mother, was in the fields "working tobacco.'" Two other children had gone the way of many young Negroes in eastern North Carolina. One now lives in Phil adelphia and the other in Washington. "An soon as they can can the money, they make H," saU Joe l*awsoa, a Rocky Maaat school teacher aad dlrecter at (he KtH 'i Manner ptegrm. "They are toe smart U stay." he said. Mrs Wins has four other chikfren in the program at the Battleboro center. She II* * week m a maid, the regular MRs from od sUmps Md nayi bo r^. Not far away Mrs. Eva I m the porch of her home, (ar down a dirt road with holes and ruts deep enough lo jolt a bulldozer. The home is in the city limits but the "good" road ends at the cotton gin. Mrs. Williams was not long out ot hospital, without regular income and had little success receiving aid from the local social services office. She is entitled to Medicaid because of her illness but no one had informed her of that. Lunch Thursday lor the five children in the home was rotlard greens and cornbread. Two of the children belong to her daughter who is also III and iwo others are too old for the center. The members of the group asked questions about her health, probing the woman's plight, and then turned to leave. The day bepan to be a repetition as mothers ? no fathers were around ? related their t; les. Some were defen sive and appeared intimidated l>v (he large crowd which surrounded them. One mother stood at the top of the steps of the old weath ered home she owns and said. "Now what do you want me to sav"1" She seemed perturbed that this crowd of well-dressed strangers should pry into her at I airs. "That took a lot of guts to stand up there and tell your problems to a bunch of stran gers." said Mike Street later in the day. Street is a tail, lanky, young Negro who has one more year ot law school. This sammrr he Is Mrs. Clayton's administrative assistant. The tour ?as nothing new to him and many of the group said they had been to the "field'' before. Mrs. Clayton knew that but she had asked them to come anyhow. "We're sensitizing some stale agencies, we're sensitizing some ol those who talk about ? hunger'. They are seeing that these aren't statistics but real human b<";"gs." she said. I don't expect immediate reaction ... but at least they thought enough to come.' she said. "This is something wc can do something about now. There is plenty of food. There is no reason lor anyone 'o go hun gry. Mrs Clayton said. She said the EDC iiopes that five of the 13 centers can remain open during the school year and serve as day-caie centers. Then mothers can be relieved of staying at home and ean go to tind jobs. Some ul that has been possible this summer, bui tobaceo work is only seasonal ud p?yi little. Even (be children have been contracted for field work. A boy can make $10 to S12 a day in the fields and $7 to W working in the tobacco shed < One center dropped from an attendance of about 100 lo 30 when tobacco cutting time rolled around. In an attempt to keep them on a steady diet the center offered to take meals to the fields but the farmer declined. In the school mo:U.is the children can take advantage of fire school lunch programs which are offered in moot counties. Thursday night, the visitors and people from the Tarboro areas met at a high sehoc) for the "poor families dinner" o^ fried chicken, potatoes, beans and bread. Just before the state officials and others rose to speak, however, Mike Street talked about programs and those who design programs to help the poor. It's ivory tower stuff, he said, and it leaves him cold. But in EDC he has found something different. To Mike Street, feeding hun gry children "is real. It's doing something right now and not just talking about it. And i'.iat s why I dig it." About 8,000 Families Receiving Aid On Nutritional Problems From NCSU About 8,300 families In North Carolina are now recelvlngper sonal, In-the-home educational help on nutrition problems from the Agricultural Extension Ser vice of North Carolina State University. Dr. George Hyatt, Jr., direc tor o f the Extension Service, said that 83 percent of the fam ilies earn less than $3,000 a year. Extension started the "Ex panded Nutrition Program" in December 1968 as part of a federally financed national ef fort to Improve the diets of dis advantaged people. Sixty five counties In North Carolina now participate. The program Is carried out by 175 especially trained aides who work under the supervi sion of county extension home economists. Mrs. Minnie Brown state home economics agent, and Mrs. Marjorle Donnelly, In charge of extension nu trition programs, supervise the program at the state level. The aides visit needy fami lies and offer personalized help on buying, preparing, conserv ing and storing food, and on basic nutrition, meal planning and sanitation. They work mainly In the kitchen of the homemakers, using whatever foods and utensils she might have. In addition to working with in dividual homemakers, the aides have succeeded in enrolling over 5,400 of the children in special 4-H group activities de signed to teach better nutrition. Families are encouraged to take advantage of donated foods and the food stamp program if they are eligible, and they are encouraged to plant a garden if practical. About 40 percent of the fam ilies are on the donated food program. Another 25 percent receive food stamps. Three fourths of the families live In rural areas and 63 percent are black. Dr. Hyatt believes the big gest impact of the program so far has been ingettlngfamllles to increase their consumption of vegetables, fruits and daily pro ducts. Surveys have shown that these foods, and not meat as common ly supposed, are the foods most likely to be missing from the diets of the disadvantaged in North Carolina Aides can cite numerous ex 5N W All of this talk about infla tion, gross national product, ixillution. and dropping hem lines is enough to make a woman get hooked on soap operas. They're ideal. I've found for getting away from your own problems by escaping into some one else's . . especially when other |>eople'a problems involve such simple matters as John's other wife's son eloping with her current husband's daughter by his first marriage and using John's present wife's second car to elope in. My husband doesn't exactly see eye to eye with me on this "escape" routine. He's a firm believer in facing problems squarely with a cool head . . . unless it's some domestic crisis like that one glass of milk that keeps getting overturned at every family meal. Things like that really make the old boy lose his cool, but I kind of en joy them 'cause it'a the one time I turn into a model of ef ficiency. (Unfortunately, the' image lasts only as long as it takes me to wipe up the spill . . . so lately I've toyed with the idea of adding a little dance routine to my mopping up chores to protons the image a few minutes more.) Anyway, the other night we had one of thoae serious hua hand-to-wife talks after the kida were in bad and the pil low fights had dropped off *o a norma! hoya-will-be-hoya level. Seemp that he had been seriously about infla etc., and decided we should contribute to their solution by starting in our own home. For one wild moment, I thought he was about to sug gest that I go on a diet to com bat my own |>ersonal inflation and slim down from a gross local product. But then he started talking about nil of the garbage we have at our house . disposable soft drink bottles, plastic milk carton*, paper towels, etc. I was about to remind him it's his dear little wife who has to empty the garbage every night, but the caution light was clearly on. If the average family, he said, would refuse to buy "dis posable" items and demand reuseable or returnable con tainers. it would do more to reduce pollution than elimi nating all the factory smoke stacks in America. Before I could think that one out. he started talking about all the money we could save. too. Turned out we could save $30 a year just by buying a few kitchen cotton towels, washing them with our regular laundry, and using them over and over again. What's more, he continued, buying soft drinks in returnable bottle* would not only save money but reduce our garbage by about 600 bottle* a year. (We're our own drinking uncles.) My husband apparently didn t realise he had also of fered ma ? solution to the hemline problem. With the savings we'll have by i" of disposables in our shopping, I just might to buy me a new midi this full. K?X ample s of how better nutrition has Improved many aspects of life for the participating famil ies. However, noone lsclalm lng that the program Is a cure for all of the problems of the disadvantaged. "We find that nutrition pro blems can be extremely compli cated," Dr. Hyatt said. "They can Involve such things as al coholism, child abuse, poor health and old age. As a re sult we try to work closely with other government and community agencies. They re fer families to us and we re fer families to them." Court (Continued from page 1) der, Robert B. Davis, M. V. Edwards, Randolph Hawkins, E. G. Hecht, Jr., Howard M.Jones, A. L. Lynch, C. P. Rooker, Cal vin Gardner Young, b. A. Mea dor, Mrs. Ida S. Darnell. Rldgeway ? Richard John Bender, Phillip Jones, James L. Miller. Manson?Minnie May Boyd, Robert L. Epps, Mary Evans Hendricks, Thomas Twisdale. Macon?Mollle AdcockHaith cock, French Johnson, Jr., Myrtle D. Overby. Henderson, Route 2 - Willie Short. Grand Jury Members of the Grand Jury are Virginia Mae Hawkins, R, J. Liles, B. G. White, Robert M. Davis, Mrs. Irvln R. Davis and Eugene Hicks, all of War renton; Russell E. Shear In of Littleton, C. W. Hllllard of Ma con, and F. F. Ingle of Rldge way. Reaches Goal Careful plai ning over a per iod of years helped the Cleve land Pettigrew family, Cleve land County, reach a long-time goal. According to Thelma E. Mc Vea, home economics extension agent, "the Pettlgrews start agent, "the Pettlgrews started making Improvements in their home more than six years ago. The last Improvement, which Included additional kitchen storage, has Just been com pleted" Pettigrew, a laborer, is re tirement age. His wife is a few years younger. "It has taken us a long time > to get our house the way we want It," Mrs. Pettigrew said, "but we are glad to get it done with out going into a big debt at our age." Through her participation in extension workshops and club meetings, Mrs. Pettigrew gained knowledge In how to manage the family's Income and other resources, the agent points oat. One ot the most popular houee furnishings color combinations in 1(71 will be brown with black. Other significant combinations ?m be bright Use with yellow yellows wttt ?old, deep km, and auto* pkk or tar First Aid For Ailing Windows If neglected windows are what's ailing your decor, there's a new remedy on the market that offers prompt re lief. It's a do-it-yourself shade laminating kit that |mts win dow wizardry at your finger tips. Designed to make it easy to manufacture your own dec orative fabric shades, the kit includes adhesive shade cloth, roller, slat. pull. mounting brackets, and screws. If you can iron, measure, and cut reasonably well, vou'll have shades fil to be bung in a few hours' time* In selecting a fabric to iron onto the adhesive shade cloth, choose a firmly woven cotton for best results. Pick one that matches or contrasts with walls. repeats a chair or couch cover, or supplies a major color |xnnt in tone and tex ture. To determine yardage needed, add six inches to the height .of the window o|>ening and one inch to the width of the shade. Before beginning the lami nating process, install mount ing brackets at window. Cut roller to size and cap it. then insert into brackets to be sure it fit.? pro|>erly. Set roller aside for later use when trimming shade to exact width. For a clean lined look, make "reverse roll" shades?with the roller side facing towards the window. Here's how: (I.) Square off one end of your fabric so the edge is straight and even. Press with a dry iron to remove any wrin kles or creases, and mark fabric center top and bottom with tai lor's chalk. Set aside. Cut ad hesive shade cloth 18" longer than your window height and 2" wider than the finished shade From this cut piece, cut 2" and 8" strips for slat and roller attachments and set aside. (2.) Now place shade eloth adhesive-side up on a large flat surface like a floor or table. Remove liner pa|>er and save for use asx a pressing cloth Measure down 2" from top of adhesive shade cloth and draw a line across the entire width Mark center. (3.) Place squared ?*dge <>| fabric on this marked line, aligning center marks at top and bottom and seeuring cor ners. Set iron at tem|H?rature suited to your fabric, and press fabric onto shade cloth?work ing from center to edges with a slow, even pressure l-se liner pajwr as a pressing ?-1* th and check frequently t?> l>e sure you're not ironing an> wrin kles into the fabric (It wrinkles do ap|M?ar. pull the fabric loose and re iron.) Allow shade to cool to room tem|M-rature for a secure bond. ( I.) To trim shade to proper width, center your pre cut rol ler at top of shade Mark a line on the fabric one-fourth of an inch from the inside of each end of metal caps on the roller. (Measurements must he accurate if shade is to roll properly ) t 'se .i yardstick to draw vertical lines down each side of the shade, outlining the width He sure vertical lines are the same distance apart .it top. center, and bottom of shade. I'se sharp scissors to cut along these lines for the fin ished shade edges. (5.) l**or the slat pocket, fold a IV2" strip at lx>ttom of shade over to the hack. Now lightly press the 2" strip of shade cloth you cut off earlier (ad hesive side down) to the folded back strip. (One inch will ex tjjrjd beyond each side edge and a small margin above hem edge.) Insert slat with its lower ?nine flush to inside fold of hem and press firmly along up|>er edge of slat. Allow to cool and then trim. (ti.) Before attaching shade to roller, place 8" strip of shade eloth adhesive-side down on the ex|M?sed 2" strip lett at top of shade?with lower edge of shade eloth strip meeting top edge of fabric. Press together, holding up|H'r edge of shade cloth strip away from work surface. Allow 10 c?w?| and trim Remeasure top edge of shade cloth to !>e sure it is straight and parallel with up|>er edge of fabric*. (7.) Place up|M*r edge of shade cloth strip along blue line on roller and press just enough to anchor this edge to 'roller Wind shade over roller surface, constantly pressing to obtain a complete ln?nd. Con tinue to roll and press untiJ sou reach the end of the ad hesive Now v? ?ti r shade is corn pl 't"d .iikI ready t<> hang Chance Seen To Reduce Pesticides On Tobacco A stalk shredder at the end of harvest, not pesticides, Is the best remedy for to bacco hornworms, reports R. L. Robertson, extension ento mology specialist at North Carolina State University. Robertson said that horn worm numbers appeared "to increase slightly" in the state this year. Infestation of the pests generally remained very low, however, in comparison to the days before farmers used sucker control chemi cals. These chemicals keep down sucker growth even after har vest. Thus the food supply for overwintering hornworms is greatly reduced. With the hornworm popula tion so low, Robertson said that only a few tobacco fields should have been treated with insecticides. In fact, he urged growers to greatly curtail their use of pesticides on tobacco and do everything possible to pro duce a crop free of Insecti cide residues. "Some visual Insect dam age can occur before the loss Is great enough to offset the cost of an Insecticide appli cation," he explained. This Is particularly true since allot ments are now made on an acreage-poundage basis. "Pesticide residues on to bacco are receiving closer and closer attention from countries receiving our ex ported fl.. .-cured tobacco," he continued. West Germany, one of the largest users of U. S. tobacco, plans to reduce the level of accepted tolerance on DDT to one-tenth part per million by 1973. Most tobacco would not meet this standard today. "However," Robertson st ated, '' I am con vlnced North Carolina growers can produce tobacco within accepted resi due levels If they will fol low a few simple fall cultural practices, and refrain from using pesticides when only a few Insects are present." Research has shown that most overwintering horn worms are produced after Aug. 15. The use of chemical sucker control and the shred ding of old tobacco stalks immediately after harvest will cut the number of overwin tering hornworms by at least 90 percent. "I know how busy farmers are at the end of the har vesting season, trying to get their crop sold as soon as possible. But timing Is of the utmost Import an In getting rid of their old stalks. They must get rid of the hornworm food supply as quickly aa pos sible if they are to cut down on the population next year," Robertson said. Natural enemies ? preda tors and parasites ? of horn worms are In great abund ance ahd are eliminating large number* of hornworms which might otherwise damage the currant crop or overwinter to attack the 197* crop. 11m h> et hornworms is be 1 laved to be due to the re straint that farmers are al ready showing in using pes ticides. The main natural enemies of the tobacco hornworm are a small parasitic wasp call ed apanteles, large predatory wasps, and a tachina fly. Hornworms attacked by para citic enemies can often be identified by white egg sacs attached to their body. Robertson said that the early clean-up of old tobacco fields as outlined in oper ation R-6-P would not only re duce hornworms, but would sharply curtail five other in sect and disease problems? budworms, flea beetles, nematodes, mosaic, and brown spot. The man who claims he's boss in his own home will lie about other things, too. 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