CHRISTMAS PARTY -- Teacher aide Mrs. Ethel Marshburrt serves cake and cookies to children enrolled at the
Hoke County Children s Center during a Christmas party Dec. 21. The center teaches developmental skills to
handicapped children. The party included songs and presents, with a special visit from Santa Claus. Center
director Judy Hendrix wished to thank local merchants and others for their contributions to the party and for the
support they have given to the center. Thanks were extended to the Family Dollar Store for the loan of a Santa suit
and for the discount the store gave on toys for the children.
Hoke ASCS News
Acting Secretary of Agriculture
John White on December 20 an
nounced that the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's tobacco task force
recommends modifying the price
support eligibility provisions tor
flue-cured tobacco.
The modification would become
effective for 1978 and would allow
growers, on a voluntary basis, to
market a larger share of their
poundage quota in higher value,
upper stalk leaf. Under the pro
posed change growers could plant
up to 120 percent of the farm
acreage allotment and receive price
support if they agree not to harvest
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the four lower leaves of each stalk.
Producers who do not agree must
plant no more than 100 percent of
their acreage allotments to be
eligible for price support. Under
the 1977 program plantings' were
limited to 110 percent of the farm
acreage allotment as a condition for
price support. This provision would
be reviewed annually thereafter.
White also called for public
comment on the proposal to help
him make a final decision.
The tobacco task force was
created by the Secretary of Agricul
ture to review and develop recom
mendations for modernizing the
tobacco program. No other recom
mendations of the task force are
expected to be completed in time to
be proposed for 1978 -- crop
operations. White said.
The proposed revision an
nounced on December 20 reflects
producers' views as well as buyers
who urged the necessity of produc
ing more upper stalk tobacco to
supply foreign markets. The task
force held seven field hearings in
September and October in the
five-state flue-cured belt.
The proposed change. Depart
ment officials explained, would
help to strengthen the tobacco price
support program by reducing the
possibility of Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) losses on large
quantities of lower stalk flue-cured
tobacco currently under loan and
expected to be placed under loan
from future crops. The change
would also enable growers to share
in additional foreign tobacco mar
kets.
Producers would produce and
market more upper stalk tobacco in
substitution for lower stalk tobacco
for which demand is weak. Present
loan stocks of lower stalk tobacco
represent about a two-year supply.
Demand is expected to remain
strong for upper stalk grades which
typically are bought for export and
provide producers higher net re
turns.
The overall support level is set bv
law and would not be affected. To
the extent producers enter into
agreements at their county Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service (ASCS) offices not to
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harvest lower stalk tobacco, the
anticipated grade percentages
which are used in determining the
grade loan rates would change.
The grade percentages which will
apply to the 1978 crop have not
been determined, but the following
example illustrates what approxi
mate changes would result if
agreements are executed for about
50 percent of the 1978 crop.
Because the anticipated percentage
of the upper stalk grades which
have the higher grade loan rates
will be increased by the agree
ments. the grade loan rates to
average the support level will be
lower. For example, if grade loan
rates averaged SI. 31 a pound on
the upper stalk grades and SI. 01 a
pound on the lower stalk, grades
would average SI. 22 a pound if the
marketings are 70 percent upper
stalk grades and 30 percent lower
stalk grades. The same average
would result from grade loan rates
averaging $1.29 a pound on the
upper stalk grades and SI. 00 a
pound on the lower stalk grades if
the marketings are 7(j percent
upper stalk grades and 24 percent
lower stalk grades.
This proposed change will be
published in the Federal Register,
with public comments due 30 days
or earlier after publication in the
register. Comments should be sent
to the Director. Price Support and
Loan Division. U.S. Department of
Agriculture. ASCS. P.O. Box 2415
Washington. D.C. 20013. All
written submissions will be made
available tor public inspection dur
ing regular business hours in Room
5751 of the Department's South
Building.
Tax Figures
Released
The sales and use tax Figures for
the month of November in Hoke
County have been released by the
N.C. Department of Revenue. Ac
cording to a report, gross collec
tions here totaled S59.067, while
gross retail sales amounted to
S2. 742, 622.
Counties with the smallest tax
collections reported were Camden,
with S16.589 in gross collections,
and Tyrrell, with S16.016. Counties
with the largest gross collections
were Mecklenburg, with S5.631,
609. and Guilford, with S3, 602.
811.
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Single veterans who are going to
school full-time under the GI Bill
receive S3 11 per month in VA
education benefits, the Veterans
Administration reports. Those with
dependents receive more.
Lumber Bridge News
On December 25 services it The
Baptist Church were conducted by
the pastor. Stacy A. Wells.
Hie community extends svm
and J?f the Mc^?u?an f'nulies
f.?h lacVCS ln the &>ss of their
k j fmest DuvaI McGougan
who died in Veteran's Hospital
Favetteville on December 26.
Mrs. Margarite Scanlon spent
last week in Pottsville, Pennsyl
vania w,th her daughter and fami
ly. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Engle
man. 8
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shaw spent
Chnstmas Day with their daughter
AlfreJT I 3nd MrS- Sa?
pi ? u y* Laura and Heather
?n Kaleigh.
a the holidays with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Bullard were their
Mr"^ rrSpand. fat?i,ics ?* Mr. and
Mrs. J C. Fowler. John Cooper and
Eliza Sinclair of Southern Pines.
Mr. and Mrs. F.C. Tvner R*.?h
Mrc'jvf ?MRal;'eh and Mr' and
P?uiofF,?^LanNdYS?n' '?hn
Mrs. William Brown of Augusta
Arkansas visited her parents
several days last week. Mr. and
Mrs. John Brown,
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Clark spent
Wednesday in Elizabethtown with
Moore! ' M"
Johnny Balfour spent the holiday
with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John
O Balfour. Johnny is a student at
N.C. State University.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A.
Cobb s weekend guests were their
daughters -- Miss Freda Cobb of
Orayslake. Illinois and Mr. and
Mrs. Jon Reid Lewis of Charlotte
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wooley, Mrs.
Billy Troutman and grandson.
Kichard Jackson visited relatives
and friends in Mississippi last
week.
Mrs. Edith Troutman is visiting
her son and family. Mr. and Mrs.
Bobby Troutman in La Port
Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Schell's last
week guests were Sgt. and Mrs.
W.H. Schell. Jr. and daughters.
Deborah Lynn and Billie Sue of
Goldsboro and Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Schell and children. Sherry
and Michael of Swansboro.
Visiting Miss Mildred Williford
during the holidays were Mrs.
Elizabeth Tolar of Lumberton,
Rev. and Mrs. J.M. Smith of New
Bern, and son, James Shaw ?
student at University of W Va
5Jrr.van4d ?"? Hugh McLean
Will, ford of Rocky Mount and
daughter. Professor Jan Williford
of University of Iowa, and friends
Miss Manra Reirada of British
Columbia and Craig Hughes of
Ames. Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. J.W.
Williford of Fayetteville.
M". A F. Tolar's children and
grandchildren spent Sunday with
w ii r" JMr"J and Mrs- Worth
Williford and daughters. Mr. and
Mrs. John Cudd and Julie of
Kaleigh -- Mr. and Mrs. Tim
Courtney. Michelle and Kimberly
?/, ??,yetteville- Mr- and Mrs. J.B
Williford of Siler City. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Pinkston and Jessie
Kobert of Charleston, S.C., Miss
Pamela Williford of Louisburg
College, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred!
Tolar and children. Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Tolar, Nancy and Kay of
Red Springs, David Tolar. and
Tommy Tolar of Spring Lake.
Mrs. N.H.G. Balfour spent the
holidays with her daughter and
family. Dr. and Mrs. Major Good
man and sons, Sean and Scot in
Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Sumner, Miss
Pamela Sumner. Mr. and Mrs
George L. Caddell and Mr. and
Mrs. Fulford McMillan were din
ner guests of Misses Lib and Lois
Sumner Tuesday night.
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Townsend
of Asheville and Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Norton and sons. Ken and
Van of Greenville, S.C. spent
Sunday with their parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Johnson and Mrs. Mary
McNeill.
Mrs. Ethel D. Gibson was able to
return home from Cape Fear
Hospital before Christmas and is
getting along better.
NOTICE
The annual stockholder meeting of the
Raeford Savings and Loan Association
will be held Tuesday, January 10, 1978 at
the association's office at 10:00 A.M.
The purpose of meeting is for: The elec
tion of directors for 1978.
PROXIES MUST be submitted to the
secretary on or before January 3, 1978
to be voted on at the meeting.
Proxy forms are available at the associ
ation office. They may be obtained by re
quest, by mail or in person.
By Lib Sumner
Mrs. John Covington's holiday
fuests were -- Mr. and Mrs. Jon
Vans. Allison and Susan of
Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Max
well. Sally Lynn and Mary Monroe
of Dundarrach. Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Maxwell of Raeford. Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert Covington. Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert Covington. Jr.
and son of Fayetteville.
R.F. Hall. Jr. of Southern Pines
spent Christmas with his parents.
Col. and Mrs. R.F. Hall.
Mrs. Ruth Tolar visited her son
and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Tolar. Jr. and children. Robert.
Christana and Alana. on Sunday.
Joe Hough is a patient in
Southeastern Memorial Hospital
since Friday.
The Sumner's were disappointed
last week due to their aunts who
failed to arrive for Christmas. Mrs.
Flora G. Boykin of Alexandria.
Virginia and Mrs. Isla G. Miller of
Van Nuys, California spent Christ
mas in Williamsburg, Va. Monday
morning Mrs. Boykin was carried
to Community Hospital in Wil
liamsburg with pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Clifton
visited relatives and friends in the
Maryland and Washington. D.C.
area. Dec. lb-Dec. 28. They spent
some time in Maryland with Mrs.
Clifton's four sons and their fami
lies. Also, in Washington with Mr.
Clifton's sister. Mr. and Mrs. Euvei
Mohler. Mrs. Clifton talked with
Mrs. George Emch. sister of Mrs.
Mildred Watson, in Rockville.
Maryland, on Dec. 26. They had
lunch with a former patent office
employee. Ernest Norwig and Mrs.
Norwig in Richmond. In Rocky
Mount they visited Mr. and Mrs.
Hermon Creech (daughter of the
late Ava Clifton). Arriving home on
Dec. 28 they learned of the death of
John Shaw, son of the. late Les and
Allie Shaw, formerly of Lumber
Bridge and the deaths of Mrs.
Clifton's uncle. Harvey Younher of
Johnston. Pa. and Ernest McGou
gan.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Koonce and
children. Jeffrey and Michael of
Chapel Hill spent the week with
Mrs. Koonce parents. Mr. at^
Mrs. John E. McGougan.
Skateboard Injuries
May Double In '77
One of the many gifts your child
might have found under the Christ
mas tree this year is a skateboard.
In case you didn't realize it. today's
skateboard is a little different from
the homemade boards of ten years
ago. Before skateboards were mass
produced, many a pair of roller
skates were dismantled and nailed
to a piece of board.
More popular than ever before,
the moden skateboard is a downhill
delight made of gleaming fiberglass
that dazzles the eye as well as the
feet. It is lighter, faster, and,
because of the number of kids
riding them, more dangerous than
ever.
In fact, injuries due to skate
boards are expected to exceed those
due to amateur football for the year
1977. A Consumer Product Safety
Commission study estimates that
375.000 people will be injured in
skateboard accidents. This figure
compares with 370,000 injuries in
all nonprofessional football games
in the country. The number of
skateboard injuries expected for
1977 is nearly double the 188,000
injuries experienced in 1976.
In addition the study indicates
that only a very small percentage of
the injuries will occur as a result of
defects in the skateboard itself.
Instead, most will be caused by
inexperienced riders or environ
mental hazards such as potholes,
rocks, or other obstacles.
While many of the injuries
suffered will be minor cuts and
bruises, more serious injuries have
occurred -- from sprained ankles
and wrists to concussions, bone
factures. and shattered elbows.
What can you do to, help lessen
the chance of serious injury? Two
things, mainly. Make sure your
children ride their skateboards in a
safe place. An empty parking lot is
better than a city street and many
areas now have special skateboard
parks.
Also insist that your child wear
protective clothing. Along with the
skateboard boom has come a boom
in skateboard protective gear in
cluding helmets, knee pads, adfe
elbow pads. However, just liH^P
seatbelts. they work a lot better
when they're worn.
Housing Tips
B> Willie Featherstone, Jr.
Assl. Agri. E*t. Agent
If you are looking for a vacation
place that's big enough to hold your
whole family without breaking the
budget -- try house swapping. That
is, temporarily trade your house
with someone in a different part of
the country or the world. Among
the advantages are -- no hotel bills,
cooking your own meals and get
ting a community view, instead of a
tourist eye view, of a new area.
Among the disadvantages, you
may be nervous about leaving your
own possessions with strangers and
the house you select may not be
what you had in mind. There are a
number of house swapping plans
around, but they all operate in the
?same way.
An interested person pays a fee
to have his home listed in a
directory published by an exchange
service. Copies of the directory are
sent to everyone who lists a house.
Or you can subscribe to the
r
directory without listing your own
residence.
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Solar collectors have caught the
fancy of many a person concerned
about the energy shortage and high
heating bills. But before you invest
-- investigate. It is true that most
commercial dealers in solar col
lectors are reputable. But. unfor
tunately. some are trying to make a
fast buck by making false claims
about the worth of solar collectors.
It's true that some time in this
century solar collectors will be
prevalent. But there's still much
research to be done on how to make
them more efficient. And until
there's a greater demand, the cost
will stay high. If you are serious^
interested in a solar collector
your home, read some reliable
books or pamphlets on the subject.
Before you lay any money down,
check on the reputation of a dealer
through the Better Business Bureau
or the local Chamber of Commerce.
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