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With The Farm Women
By Maidred Morris
(Items this week from Wilson,
Durham, Davie, Carteret, Rich
mond, and Yancey Counties.)
TEA HIGHLIGHTS NATIONAL
HD WEEK
The Buckhom Home Demon
stration Club entertained the
home economics agents’ staff and
officers of the county council at a
spring tea. This was one of the
observances during National
Hornie Demonstration Club week.
Mrs. Ona P. Humphrey, home
economics agent, reports that
during the afternoon Mrs. Turn
er Bailey, Mrs. T. B. Winstead,
and J. W. Bailey presented a
program of piano and saxaphone
selections. All club members in
Wilson County were invited to
the event
REPAIRS COMMUNITY
BUILDING
Mrs. Juia C. Dobson, home
economics agent in Durham
County, says Friday, the 13th',
proved to be a lucky day for
members of the Nelson Home
Demonstration Club. During the
winter months, the members
spent $300 in making repairs and
improvements on their communi
ty building.
On Friday, the 13th, the club
served a barbecue and brunswick
stew supper to mate money to
pay their indebtedness. When
the final report was given, $252,
65 had been cleared on the sup
per. Mrs. Jodie Shipp, club pres-'
ident of Morrisville, Rt. 1, says!
the success was due to all mem
bers woridng together.
FISHING RODEO
Have you ever won a rod and
reel? About this time of year ev
eryone gets the fishing fever
and wants a rod and reel of their
own. Mrs. Eleanor W. Gabard,
assistant home economics agent
in Davie County, reports they re
cently had a 4-H fishing rodeo.
The Wildlife Club offered three
rods and reels for prizes.
One 4-H girl won a rod and;
reel for the largest bream caught
and two boys won for catching
the largest bass and the largest |
number caught.
IMPROVISED GREENHOUSE
Mrs.. N. A. Avery of Carteret
County, says her improvised
greenhouse has really paid divi
dends in her sale of plants on
the Morehead Home Demonstra
tion Curb market Mrs. Avery
and her husband converted an
old chicken house, using tobacco!
bed plastic, Into a greenhouse.
The total cost for this project
was $11.
After a recent week of sales,
Mrs. Floy Garner, home econo
mics agent, reports that Mrs.
Avery’s sales were $71.50 witli
$57.50 from the sale of flowers;
and flower plants.
FARM POND DANGER
At recent 4-H Club meetings in
Richmond County, the demon
stration on water safety was
presented before the boys and;
girls. Mrs. Martha B. Adams, as
sistant home economics agent,
reports they emphasized the im
portance of not going boating
or swimming alone, have life sa
ving equipment available a-'
round farm ponds, knowing how ]
to use such equipment, and the i
importance of staying witli the1
boat.
Phyllis Laton, 4-H member,
prepared a pamphlet "Make Your
Farm Pond Safe” Which was
mailed to all farm pond owners
in Richmond County.
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
(Baxter Silver was recently e*
lected chairman of the steering
committee of the Yancey Coun
ty community development or
ganization. The steering com
mittee is made up of two dele
gates from each community, re
presentatives from all agricultu
ral offices and sponsoring groups.
Miss Virginia Cox, assistant
home economics agent, reports
the committee selected five pro
jects to promote this year. They ;
were youth work, reforestation,
home improvement, special pro- (
iects such as participation in the
United Fund and Civil Defense, |
and increased income.
Dr. Leo Jenkins, reading from i
the text of his inabural address <
as ' president of East Carolina 1
College before an audience of
10.000. suddenly found he was
making no sense. One of his chil
dren had swiped page 8.
April egg production is now re
ported at five billion, 508 mil
lion eggs, down five per cent
from April of. 1959. For the first
four month of this year, produc
tion was down four per cent
from the same four months last
year.
CHEERWINE
A big hit
fa smv league/.
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Death, Dollars
Figures High
Says Speed
North Carolina motorists, in
more than 57,000 traffic clashes
last year, wasted manpower and
economics resources to the tune
of $4,71 every second of every
minute of every day!
So declared Major Charles A.
Speed, director of traffic safety
activities for the State Highway
Patrol, and one of careless driv
ing’s bitterest foes.
Major Speed’s estimate of the
situation was based on the Na
tional Safety Council’s death-ti
mes-dollars formula which as
signs the flat sum of $125,000 as
representative of the economic
loss involved in a single traffic
fatality.
He said the immense sum of
missing dollars included medical
and funeral expenses, property
damage, insurance claims, loss
of income arid the like.
According to records of the De
partment of Motor Vehicles, tra
ffic mishaps last year killed 1193
persons, brought injury to near
ly 25,000 others and involved
more than 99,000 vehicles.
“Anyone really interested in
improving the traffic death rec
ord should emphasize the impact
on society caused by those seri
ously injured in accidents,” Ma
jor Speed said. “Those who suf
fer permanent, disabling injur
ies present a far greater econo
mic and social problem than
Chan those killed outright.
“Most emphasis is placed on
those who die. Yet several times
as many persons are maimed,
crippled and disabled than are
killed. Many of these victims be
came unwilling burdens to their
families, both economically and
socially. Some of them will sp
?nd the rest of their days in pub
lic institutions, becoming a lia
bility to the community as well.”
Traffic accident injuries cover
the whole field of human suffer
ing. he continued. While those
who are killed cause untold
heartache and misery, those
permanently disabled many ti
mes present an equal, if not gr
eater, problem.
“We can never minimize tne
tragedy of a life snuffed out by
traffic carelessness, buit we
should give more thought to the
consequences endured by those
left behind,” Major Speed said.
A few years ago a Tar Heel
family left early one Saturday
morning, bound for Asheville
where the husband was to be
best man at his brother’s wed
ding. About a hour’s drive from
their destination, their car spun
out of control, colliding with a
truck. At the time the wife was
driving. Her husband and dau
ghter were killed. Since that ac
cident, the mother has been to
tally disabled and unable to care
for her remaining five children.
The children are now being rais
ed in fosteir homes.
Who can adequately measure
the overall consequences of this
one mishap?
A noisemaker complaint again
st an ice cream vendor in Ton
bridge, England, was dismissed
afiterthe magistrates left court
and apparently were pleased
when they heard the bells of his
truck Itinkle “Lili Marlene.”
Argentina-has started shipping
high-quality beef cuts packed in
dry ice to Switzerland by air.
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Chest Type
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Chest Type
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19 cu. ft.
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Phone 322 # 309 S. Battleground Ave.
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