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'*3 -rffceiUt '—BY JIM DEAN "Nowadays, there's foils and then there's crlt - ten," said Uncle Remus, "but it ised to be long ago that foils and critters were very close to one another, and got along satisfactual. " Uncle Remus was getting pretty close to one of man's biggest problems. Despite man's great know ledge, he still tends to think "there's folks, and then there's critters. " Man still separates the two. It's a misconception that could kill us all—folks and critters. The problem is that man is a rather unique crea ture. He is intelligent, inventive, opportunistic, industrious and most of all—proud. But he is too proud to admit any real kinship with the other "critters" on this earth, Man refuses to accept any notion that he is just another animal on this earth albeit a unique animal. There is much evidence to support man's refusal to accept himself for what he is, and at the same time, there are compelling reasons why he must. This world not jiEt this country is in the midst of an environmental awakening. Poor land use, air and water pollution and other forms of en vironmental degradation have shocked man into the realization that the ultimate quality of his life is dependent upon how he uses the earth. Man is at last beginning to pay the price for his determined and short-sighted destruction. But while man is beginning to look for ways to restore and protect his environment, his pride still stands in the way of any real solution. His pride is the small inner voice that says "I'm separate from the rest of the earth's creatures; what happens to them can't happen to me. " Almost daily, we read reports of how pesticides, air and water pollution are harming various forms of wildlife. Pesticide residues arc affecting birds and mammals. Acid rains from air pollution are thought to have killed trout and other European wildlife,and similar problems are cropping up in this country. Water pollution is wiping out aquatic life in many estuaries and watersheds, and causing vast changes in many others. The oceans are becoming polluted. "We expect some adverse affects on various spe cies of wildlife, but none on man. " That's a state ment we commonly hear, but it is vastly and per haps criminally misleading. Man shares theenvirai ment with the other "critters. " Why should he presume to have some sacred immunity from the pollution? Man in terms of his living needs is as much an "animal" as an eagle, trout,buffalo, or insect. lie quite literally cannot live in an en vironment which will not support wildlife anymore than he can live in one which will not grow plants. If there are adverse affects for wildlife, there are adverse affects for man. Tie problem is that man in all his wisdom has not learned enough about himself and his environment to be able to measure some of these adverse effects. So he buries his head in the sand and denies their existence. But it is pure folly to insist that man is not one of the victims of his own environmental destruction. Man is a critter, and the critters are in trouble. Lady Handles Tough Job On a typical day when most ladies of means are en joying a leisurely cup of cof fee over the morning news paper, Mrs. Lucille Brown of Pompano Beach, Florida mijjl be out inspecting a dredging operation at a waterfront fome site. Mrs. Brown, a former resi dent of Burnsville, is the sis ter of Byrd Gillespie of Burns ville. She finished hifJiKhool here and received a degree in pharmacy from UNC at Chapel Hill. Afterwards she served five years as pharma - cist at Pollards Drug Store. While living in Burnsville, h;r husband, Jack Brown, was in real estate and built many houses here. The Browns moved to Flor ida in 1959. She was employ ed as chief pharmacist at Holy Cross Hospital until the death of her husband last summer. At that time she took over as president of her husband's contracting firm, Jack Brown Properties, Inc. Originally, die kept control of the com pany to complete a number of homes then under construc tion, to fulfill contracts made by her late husband. "The design and decora - ting of our model homes, the landscaping and even sales weren't too tough to leam" she smiles. "But learning about bulldozing and grading and sewers—these things have come a little harder. " started, she's kept going. And she finds excite - ment and pleasure in herwork. "I thought it was just a temporary situation, but I can't seem to stop, " she says, eyeing a production schedule that lists 28 homes, in the $33,500 to $57,000 (Trice brac ket, currently under construc tion. Also on her agenda are new townhouses. Looking back over the past several months, Lucille Brown sums up: "Sure, there were times when I wandered if I'd bitten off more than I could chew. But there was a job to do—and to tell the truth, it never occurred to me that 1 couldn't do it. If I'd stopped to think about it, I probably would have lost my nerve." iiii n FYOV'O Ittcg TO IHVirt •'SOMEONE YOU'VE MET AT A FRIEND'S PARTY TO A PARTY OF YOUR OWN, 01 SURE TO ALSO INVITE TME HOSTESS. WHO BROUGHT YOU TOGETHER . OTHERWISE. SHE'S APT TO fill SHE'S VEEN USED ASA SOGIAI STEPPING STONE . TO MAKM MOUSE PUNCH" STIRS OP EXCITEMENT AT ANY PARTY. JUST POUR Z QUARTS OF ICED TEA INTO a punchbowl. ANP STIR IN Z CANS EACH OF FROZCM LEMONADE AND LIMEADE AND 2 CUPS OP CeANBERRY JUICE. ADP Z 816 POTTLES OF GINGER ALE AND ICE JUST BEFORE SERVING. Consumerama To Be Held In April Consumerama 2—a four day survival course for con sumers—will begin April S in Winston-Salem's Benton Convention Center. It is being sponsored by the Fbrth west North Carolina Deve - lopment Association which is made up of several North Carolina counties. More than 90 exhibits and more than two dozen speakers have been lined up to help consumers who arc concerned about dresses and dollars that shrink up and appliances and guarantees that break down. All the speakers and ex hibitors have been asked to come prepared to give ad vice about selecting new products and suggestions for better ways of usingoUoncs. There will be new pro ducts on display; there will be fashion shows for allagps and sexes, instructions for sewing everything from men's wear to flame-resis - tant fiberglass, and demon strations of everything from see-through plastic cooking bags to garbage compactors. North Carolina's attor - fr- P?-r A , A ,, AA , i I Ks U OPPONENTS 1236+0000 'sa | UNION 76 |+-| 1 |3 I/[5 [ 7 I I ) I 1 I Whole New BallOame... Since We've Changed Our Signs! UNION 76 DEALERS LIST FOR YANCEY, MITCHELL AND AVERY COUNTY Barksdale Service Station Red Hill Service Roberts Chevrolet-Buick Eugene Harrison Nat Hughes Audys Market Toye Burleson Hilltop Service Hemlock Grocery Howards Service Station Woody Motor Center Doug McCouny Longview Service Station Woodrow Howell J.D. Ellis Grocery | Snow Hill Service Cecil Deyton 8.8 Wilson Bill Young The Exchange § Fred Garland Quentin Higgins Junior Styles W.C. Stewart I Homer Cook Hendrick Grocery j. Bis Ray § Floyd Thomas G.C. Ledford J.L. Robinson // I Naturally we’re still fielding the same great team of dealers, attendants, // and mechanics. // \V Only now. we've added one of the real all—time greats, from out of the West. II ]| to our line-up. l\ J Union 76 - with all of its high-scoring car-care products JJ If you'd like to get in on the action with our pennant-winning combination of top-performing products and service, just pull into any of the Blevins and Riddle OilCo Service Stations in Mitchell, Avery, and Yancey Counties now I displaying the big orange ami blue 76 signs. uZ« CoZZ o. Ciilorni. f It’s strictly big league stuff. I BLEVINS & RIDDLE OIL CO. | fl Avery County Hwy Spruce Pine ney general and most out spoken consumer advocate, Robert Morgan, will open the event at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 5. The Wednesday schedule calls for a panel discussion on home furnishings by Ruth Clark of Heritage Furniture Company of Hjgh Point, Nancy Gilliam of Norman' Drapery Company of Salis bury and James Troy of Karastan Carpets of Eden. There will also be an intro duction to the "Wonderful World .of Small Applianas" by a representative of G. E. and a fashion show by the Simplicity Pattern Company. Thuisday's shows will in clude Decorating and Fash ions, and Friday will bring demonstrations on Food and a lecture on landscaping. Also on Friday will be a dis cussion on "The Changing Scene in Family Housing "by Carl Edwards, former exten sion housing specialist, and "Tips" for buying, storing , handling and cooking meats and poultry products. Saturday's program has been planned for teenagers and includes a theater pre sentation "The Wonderful O" and a teenage fashion show by Simplicity. The sliow id 11 open at 10 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. daily except Friday when a night program will be offered. Tickets are being sold by home economics extension agents in all of North Caro lina's 100 counties, and by the development associatiori directors in several counties. Advance tickets cost $1.25 per day for adults, or $4 for the entire show. Ttey will be sl. 50 at the door. Student tickets will be 754 per day. / \ DAILY TAX FAX 1 pon death of the insured, proceeds from life in surance are generally exempt. V Source: U. S. Computer Tax Service i THE YANCEY RECORD, try a little KINDNESS The elevator isn’t a smoking car, so observe the no smoking rule, (no butts about it). * * * Be sure to be kind to your hair. Set it with the Kindness Swingsetter Instant Hail-setter by Clairol. You’ll never have to wear curlers to bed (or any where else) again! A helpful pick-me-up, it features five heat-at-oncc jumbo size rollers encased in a lightweight plastic carry-anywhcre case. * * * Troubled with sea-sickness? Chewing on a lemon will help. * * * Show a little kindness to the land around you. The Sierra Club, founded in 1892 by na turalist John Muir, invites par ticipation in its program of preserving the nation’s scenic resources, including wilderness, wildlife, forests and streams. Write to the Sierra Club, 1 050 Mills Tower. San Francisco, Ca lif or ni a 9-I1 04 , for information * * * For a free button that says, “try a little kindness,” send your name and address to Con sumer Relations Dept., Clairol, 9 15 Park Avenue, New York. MITCHELL LEDGER Revenue Act Changed By Wm. Bledsoe Businessmen, farmers, tax consultants and others should be interested in changes lnthe Revenue Act of 1971 which restored the 7% investment credit. This credit qgiinst federal income tax applies to quali - fied investment in certain de preciable property. For example, if a new machine purchased in 1971 and costing $2,000 meets the requirerrents mentioned below, the taxpay er could realize a $l4O credit against his income tax ($2,000 times 7') To be eligible for invest - ment credit, property general ly mist have been acquired after S/15/71. However, pro perty which was ordered after 3/31/71 and was acquired be tween 3/31/71 and 8/ 16/ 71 is eligible. Also, property on which construction was begun after March 31 or was comple ted after August 15 is eligible for the credit. However,wit re construction was begun before April 1, 1971 and completed after August 15, 1971 only the post 8/15 costs qualify for the credit. Eligible property inc 1 udes PAGE 9 MARCH 9 1972 farm and farmstead equipment, machinery, silos and grain bins, fences and concrete for paved lots, holding areas,etc. The Revenue Act makes live stock purchased for breeding or dairy purposes eligible for the first time. Excluded are buildings like bams or milk ing parlors which have work areas. The amount of credit is de pendent upon the useful life the asset has on the taxpayers depreciation schedule: 3-4 years—l/3 of 7%; 5-6 years —2/3 of 7%; and 7 years or more —the full 7%, These ranges are a year shorter than allowed prior to the termina - tion of investment credit in 1969. The above information is not included in Internal Reve nue Booklets which w ent to press before the act was passed. Anyone needing up to date in formation on investment cre dit may send a postcard to the Asheville Internal Revenue Of fice requesting publication No. 572 which is free. A formers Tax Guide booklet can be obtained at the Extension Office or other Agricultural Agencies.
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