Farm Items W. S. Young & Freddie O'Neal County Agricultural Agents The harvest season is underway lor most of the crops that we produce in this area. It is most important that the harvesting equipment be operating according to the manufacturer's instructions. If it is not ? then producers will be leaving income in the field. This loss is mostly the profit from the particular crop. With the prices fairly high on these crops it doesn't take but a few bushels loss to add up to a large amount of income. So before starting, get your equipment regulated so you can save the total amount that you produced. * * * * ? The N.C. legislature has established an Office of Rural Health Services. The primary purpose of the office is to establish primary health Revival Oct. 20 Ephesus Baptist Church will hold its Fall Revival beginning Oct. 20 at 7:30 P.M. and continuing through Oct. 26. Rev. Winford Turner, a former pastor from Denver, N.C., will hold revival. Homecoming will be observed Sunday, Oct. 26 and Rev. Willard Singletary invited everyone to attend and bring a dinner following the morning worship. care centers in rural communities manned by family nurse practitioners or phyician assistants. This office also offers several other things for people. It provides loans to students preparing for health professions, it prepares communities to become National Health Service Corps sites, it keeps in contact with interns and residents and matches them with community needs and aids in developing primary care centers. Complete information can be obtained through the Governor's office or by contacting various sections of the office of Rural Health Services. Farm records become more important each year. The government and many lending agencies are requiring more detailed records. Norht Carolina State University offers farmers a computerized record program at a reasonable rate per year. Conplele details can be secured from the County Agent's office. Usually farmers are put on the program in November or December. Information is available also on your responsibility as a farm employer. Such things as withholding social security, workman's compensation and many other things are important to your farming enterprise. PPMBROKL HONORS COUNCIL- Dr. Richard C. Pisanu, chairman of the newly formed Honors Council at Pembroke State University (on left), chats with other council members. Left to right are shown Dr. Kathryn K. Rileigh. Dr. Thomas J. Leach, Dr. Robert deist. Dr. Jose D 'Arruda and Dr. John Chay. The new council, turned this month, will be the forerunner of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus. Voter Aid Needed In Hoke County? How will Hoke County be affected, if at all, by the 1975 amendment to the Voting Rights Act, requiring communities to adjust their election procedures, under certain circumstances, to provide special assistance to minority voters'.' To what extent have the changes in the immigration law, made in 1965, brought this situation to the fore? The revisions, which eliminated the existing immigration quotas, led to a record intlow of foreign-born into this country. Although most of the newcomers have become sufficiently familiar with the English language to vote intelligently, some have not. They arc to be assisted under the new regulations, which come into play where more than five percent of the voting age population are members of a single language minority, where less than half the citizens of voting age cast ballots in the 1972 Presidential election and where the illiteracy rate is more than 4.6 percent. The special assistance, specified by the Justice Department, includes furnishing hi-lingual election materials and special monitors at polling places. In Hoke County, according to the latest Census Bureau statistics. 0.1 percent of the population is foreign-born. This compares widi 4.9 percent in tire United Stales as a whole and with 0.6 percent in the Stale of North Carolina. Conversely, the great bulk of the local population, 99.5 percent of it. consists of native-born Americans with a history that goes back three generations or more in this country. The Census Bureau and the Justice Department have released the names, to date, of localities in several states where the special help to minorities and illiterates will have to be supplied. Determinations are being made as to the remaining states. They will be announced later. The figures show that the illiteracty rate in the local area, defined as the percentage of the adult population with less than five years of schooling, is relatively low. Some 14.6 percent tall within that classification. Mail Rates Going Up The U.S. Postal Service announced temporary postal rates, including 13 cents tor a first class letter, will become effective Dec. 28 in tire event new permanent rates have not been recommended b> the Postal Rate Commission by that time. The Postal Service said the major difference in the temporary rates, in comparison with the rate proposal filed Sept. 18 with the Postal Rate Commission, will be in the price of a postal card. The temporary rate for a postal card will be nine cents. In its Sept. 18 proposal, the Postal Service asked for a 10-cent postal card.However, the Postal Service cannot raise rates on a temporary basis by more than one-third of the present 7-cent permanent rate. Major rate changes which will affect the general public are first class, from 10 to 13 cents for the first ounce and from nine to 11 cents for each additional ounce of a letter, from seven to nine cents for a postal card, and from 13 to 17 cents for the first ounce of airmail. Parcel post rates will be increased an average of 10 per cent. Honor Council Chosen For New PSU Program PEMBROKE--A Pembroke State University Honors Council, chosen to provide greater recognition and enrichment to outstanding PSU students, has been selected by Chancellor English E. Jones. The Honors Council will be chaired by Dr. Richard C. Pisano, dean of the PSU faculty. It includes five faculty members hand-picked by the Chancellor. They are Dr. John Chay, professor of history and chairman of the History Department; Dr. Jose D'Arruda, associate professor of physical science; Dr. Robert Geist III, assistant professor of mathematics; Dr. Thomas J. Leach, assistant professor of communicative arts; and Dr. Kathryn K. Rileigh, associate professor of psychology and chairperson of the Psychology Department. Dr. Pisano said the Honors Council program, which will begin in the spring semester, is expected to be a forerunner of a Phi Beta Kappa ' !. 'The chapter on the PSU campus, first question that Phi Beta Kappa's national office asks is: 'Do you have an honors program on campus?' With this new program, we do," said Dr. Pisano. On Sept. 18, Pembroke State University was accepted as a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Chancellor Jones described this "as an important step forward in our academic community." To be a part of the PSU honors program, a student must have achieved true excellence. The Honors Council is aiming toward a figure of no more than 10 students in the incoming freshman class with criteria being a college board SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score of over 1100 and at least an A-average. Ten sophomores will be chosen, based on a 3.S average in the individual's major field and an overall 3.0 average. Each sophomore must complete an honors thesis or significant project and be recommended by a professor in his major area of concentration. No more than ten transfer students will be accepted, based on transcripts of their previous college work, college board SAT and two letters of recommendation by professors of their last institution. Along with outstanding grades, honors program students entering PSU as freshmen must write as seniors a thesis, the prospectus of which must be approved by the council beforehand, and must defend that thesis in an oral examination before the Honors Council. The Honors Council and the major professor will evaluate the thesis'or activity. The rewards for those completing the program at graduation include the designation on their records and transcripts of that person "Graduating With Honors In His Major Field." These will be University Honors, aside from strictly grade honors such as summa cum laude, magna cum laude or cum laude. Dr. Pisano says it is of tremendous benefit for outstanding students to be a part of this program because "it will help them greatly in preparing for graduate school." He added: "The program offers intellectual opportunities beyond the scope generally found in the lecture hall. It provides greater curriculum flexibility and the ability to strike out on one's own in intellectual pursuits. The Honors Council not only identifies and invites outstanding high school students to enter the program. it receives recommendations from faculty members on behalf of outstanding PSU students. It serves as acadenfic advisors to Honors student and reviews the academic standing of all. honors students each semester. A special PSU committee ha# worked since last February on this honors program, visiting and studying honors programs at: UNC-Ashevillc, Appalachian State University, U NC-Charlotte, UNC-Chapel Hill, Davidson College, East Carolina University, and UNC-Grccnsboro plus the University of Georgia, Mississippi College, Carson-Newman College and Mississippi State University. In addition to Dr. Pisano, Dr. Chay and Dr. D'Arruda, that committe included Dr. Rhoda Collins, associate professor of education; Dr. Barry Childers, associate professor or psychology; and Denise Butler, a Dean's list student from Lumberton. Universities from which the Honors Council members earned their doctorates are: Dr. Pisano, Columbia University; Dr. Chay, University of Michigan; Dr. D'Arruda, University of Delaware; Dr. Geist, University of Notre Dame; Dr. Leach, UNC-Chapel Hill; and Dr. Rileigh, Vanderbilt Univeraty. g We hate to boast, but there aren't many of us around! We have our F.I.C. rating ? 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