Airport Expansion Council Makes Offer The Raeford City Council voted to offer an appraised value for land needed for expansion at the Rae ford Municipal Airport at a special meeting Monday afternoon. The three tracts of land were appraised at $35,200 including a hangar that is located on one of the tracts. The appraisal of the land not including the hangar was approxi mately $19,000. Seventy-five percent of the money used to buy only the land will be provided through a federal ?rant if it passes through Congress, he state may pay I2'/i per cent of the price, leaving the city with either 12'/j or 25 percent of price to be paid by local funds. The offer for the land had to be made within 30 days of the appraisal. The council unanimously voted to, make the appraised offer for the land and the hangar. 2,100 Acres Charred County Forests Burn Aided by firefighting units from surrounding areas, forest rangers and county volunteer firemen battled a Saturday blaze which raged over the Hwy. 211 area and onto the Ft. Bragg reservation, destroying about 2,100 acres of woodland within the county. County forest ranger Robert A. Jones reported the blaze started when a trash fire at a home got out of control. Fanned by strong winds and parched woodland, the fire sprang over a large area between Hwv. 211 west of Raeford and thicken Rd. on the military ?eservation. Puppy Creek. Hillcrest. North Raetord. and city firemen, along with the Hoke County Rescue Squad, fought the fire assisted bv crews from Chapel Hill. Rocking ham. Harnett County, and Ft. Bragg, before bringing it under control about II A.M. Sunday. Thirteen crawler tractors were reportedly used to cut tire breaks, but efforts were hampered bv the strong winds. UNC's Friday Speaker For May Alumni Meet William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina, has been announced as featured speaker for the annual meeting of the Cumberland ? Hoke chapter of the UNC Alumni Assn. The local chapter will have its annual meeting on Tuesday. May 11. at Highland Country Club. Other special guests will include UNC Alumni Affairs Director Clarence Whitefield, and Student Body President Bill Bates and President - elect Billy Richardson. Both Bates and Richardson are graduates of Terry Sanford High School. Friday was named president of the university in 1956 at the age of 36. Since his inauguration. UNC has adopted a code of academic freedom, expanded from three to six campuses, developed an educa tional television network, expanded the University facilities, trans formed the Research Triangle area (with the help of Duke), and experienced unprecedented growth in service to North Carolina. In 1%6, Friday was appointed chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Education. That same year, he was listed among the nation's 14 most "dynamic and influential" college presidents in Time magazine. He has been active in the Urban Coalition Education Task Force, N.C. Council of the National Council on Crime and Delin quency. and National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Friday has received honorary degrees from Wake Forest. Bel mont Abbey. Duke University. Princeton University. Elon College and Davidson College. He is married to the former Ida Willa Howell of Lumberton. They have three daughters. Frances. Mary and Elizabeth. Accent Un Agriculture The "Big Three" of the hundreds of U.S. agricultural products sold overseas ? corn, wheat, soy beans account for almost 70% of the total value of all foreign exports. The most common criti cism of the exports is that the price of these farm products is being driven up and thereby increases the cost of food for consumers at home. So. just what is the true relationship between the two? Following the announcement of sales of wheat and corn to Russia, futures prices of the "Big Three" rose about a dollar a bushel. When all three of these crops rise $1 each bushel, it means that consumer food expenditures are expected to increase by 3'/i to 4'/i percent. However, since food accounts for less than 20 percent of consumers' buying costs, the increase amounts to less than one percent in overall living expenditures. This $1 a bushel increase in income to the farmer, which represents less than a one percent hike in consumer living costs, can spell the difference between a year of profit or loss on the farm. Also, increases in crop prices have to be in effect for some time, usually three months or more, before they have any effect on the retail price of food. In some instances, as much as a lag of a year might elapse before changes in grain prices show up at the retail level. Let's take the price of bread for example: In mid-1972, the farmer received 2.6 cents out of the price of a one-pound loaf of bread for the wheat that went into it. In mid - 1975, the farmer received 3.6 cents of the bread's price for his wheat. Hence, in three years, the farmer was getting only a penny more for the wheat. But, during the same period the overall price of a loaf of bread to the consumer went up 10.9 cents. Thus, those between the farmer and the consumer received ten times more of an increase than the grower of the wheat. There are 78 Medal of Honor recipients buried in the 103 National Cemeteries maintained by the Veterans Administration. RUBBLE - Rubble is all that remains of a trailer near Piney Grove Church after a fire raged Friday about 4 P.M. No one was in the trailer at the time and North Racford h ire Department volunteers put the blaze out. Boy On Bicycle Hit An eleven year-old Queenmore boy remains hospitalized in Chapel Hill after he was hit by a truck Saturday while riding his bicycle on Magnolia Ave. Cleveland Tew. Rt. 3. Box 320. Raeford. was taken to Moore Memorial Hospital with head injuries following the 11:45 A.M. accident and later transferred to North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, according to Raeford police. Police Chief Leonard Wiggins said witnesses reported the boy was heading north on Magnolia St. and rode his bike through a red light and into the path of a truck being operated by Lenon Ransom, 23. of Rt. 2. Box 135-A Raeford. which was proceeding east on Prospect Quilt Festival Sunday, May 2 The public is invited to visit the Moore County Quilt Festival on Sunday. May 2 from 1-5 P.M. at the Campbell House on E. Con necticut Ave. in Southern Pines. Demonstration of creating a quilt, including the process called "putting in the quilt' . and instruc tion in natural vegetable dyeing of the cotton fibers, is scheduled. The show is organized by Deanne Belinoff. visiting artist at Sandhills Community College. More than three million veterans live in California, according to the Veterans Administration. Ave. No charges will be filed, police said. City Pair Nominated Volunteers Two Raefotd men are among 500 state residents nominated for "Volunteer of the Year" award and invited to the Executive Mansion in Raleigh April 30 for a reception hosted by First Lady Pat Hol shouser. Robert Gatlin and Jimmy Mor risey were chosen as part of Volunteer Week in North Carolina, an event proclaimed by Gov. Holshouser for April 25 through May 1. In his proclamation, the Gov ernor urged all North Carolinians to "seek out some area in the community where they can. be devoting a few hours each week and more...give aid to some needy individual or cause". Morrisey has been active in the NAACP and helped organize a successful voter registration drive for minorities. Gatlin has been active in com munity affairs and has devoted much time to the new library drive, the county's official Bicentennial project. Big May Sale! Save up to 96% of the fee on IVavelers Checks in May. 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