LIFE WITH THE RIMPLES
By Les Carroll
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With Unde Walt
'’Live and learn and die and
forget it all." I hadn't heard that
old sayin In [ don’t know when
•till the other day when Ned Cun
ningham stopped toy the house on
his way to sell a load of com.
I was out at the crib sMuckin
a few ears of corn for Nancy,
my old torood sow, when Ned pul
led in. First thing he said was,
"Walt, what makes you crib your
corn in the Shucks ever year?” I
allowed as how he knew I didn’t
raise much corn and that I jest
as soon shuck it as I needed it
instead of doin it all at one time,
so I sorta ignored his question. I
jest passed It off by sayin, “Why,
don’t you know that people don’t
have oom shuekins no more?"
I asked Ned where he was
gonna take his oom to sell and
lie told me up to Bill Spears
place. He said BUI was puttin up
a new storage bin at his place
which would hold I forgot how
many bushels but it was a pas
eel more than what Ned had on
his truck. So, we got to talkin a-j
bout all of those grain bins you
aee around at these different,
places and Ned knowed a lot
itaore about it tlran I figgered he
did.
Fact is, he knowed so much a
bout it ’till I was almost sorry I
even mentioned the subject. I’m
one of these fellers who likes to
put in Ms two-oents worth ever
once in awWile and I jest didn’t j
know enough about all of these
things Ned was tellin me to
hardly open my mouth. So I jest
set there in the door of the com
crib and listened to him.
Come to find out though, be
fore got through, that he was
Jest quotin somebody else. He’d
been over tp the school house the
night before to a meeting where
a bunch of them got together lo
•hear one of them fellers from
Raleigh talk. Ned said the feller
doin the talkin was a Mr. Lane,
Pete Lane I believe he said, and
that he worked with the State
Agriculture Department on the
miarketin of grain all over the
state. Anyhow, he must of been
quite a talker ’cause I know old
Ned didn’t know nothin albout all
of this 'before he heard him the
night before.
I asked Ned if this feller Lane
said anything about why they
was so many grain bins bein put
up all over the state. That was
another mistake I made because
it took him a good 20 minutes to
tell me jest what was said about
’em. The way Ned give it in, I
reckon we’re produoin more grain
in the state about ever year.
Seems to me like he said Mr.
Lane said we had around 127
million bushels produced in the
state last year. That sounds like
a awful lot but I know that’s the
figger he used. That bein the
case, I guess we need all the bins
that have been built so far and
then some. Fact is, Ned said they
weren't enough commercial stor
age space in the state to take
care of a fourth of the grain we
are produdn.
That raised another question
in my mind so I asked Ned if
most of the farmers couldn’t
take care of wiiat grain they
produced (right on their own
farms. He said they weren't
nearly enough good storage space
on farms to where grain could
be put up and took care of like
it ought to be. He also said that
a lot of people like to sell their
grain as soon as they got it har
vested and that filled up the
storage bins in a hurry. I reckon
they’re a lot of people who’d ru
tl-_” hold on to their grain and
sell it later but they about have
to sell at harvest time because
they need the money.
INed went on to say that as
more storage space for grain was
i built in the State it would mean
more money to the farmer. Nat
i urally, I wanted to know why.
So he said "If we had enough
space to store our grain ever
! year it wouldn’t be necessary to
ship so much of it out of state
i after all the storage space gits
filled up and then bring more
grain back in the state later In
| the year to be made up into
I feed." That made sense to me.
Another interestin thing he
said was that the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture has worked
out a plan where a farmer can
borrow up to 95 percent of the
cost for buyin storage and dryin
equipment for grain. I believe ho
said the loans run for three
years at four percent interest.
He told; a whole bunch more a
i bout it but I didn’t quite git ev
1 erything he said. I do remember
him sayin though that if a body
i wanted to git one of these loans,
I they would have to git it through
i their county ASC office.
After Ned left, I set there In
i my little old crib and Chucked a
! few more ears of corn and I got
; to thinkin. I figgered If they was
not some place better to store
corn and other grains in the
state than in a crib like mine,
then we was in a bad way. In
my case though, I don’t grow no
grain for sale — jest enough for
the rats which I have ever year
and my few head of livestock is
all.
Most of the important insect
pests in the U. S. came from
other parts of the world.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. G
Auto Dealers
At Convention
RALEIGH — The 26th Annual
Convention of the North Caroli
na Automobile Dealers Associa
tion was held Sunday, Mjonday
and Tuesday at The Carolina Ho
tel in Pineihurst.
Key figures of' the automobile
industry from Maine to Califor
ia addressed the business ses
sions. Governor Terry Sanford
and Congressman A. Paul Kit
chin from North Carolina’s 8th
district featured luncheon speak
ers and over 600 dealers from
North Carolina and their wives'
attended.
Attending from Kings Moun
tain were Mir. and Mrs. Charles
E. Dixon, Victory Chevrolet'
Company, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. W.
G. Grantham, Victory Chevrolet
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Comply.
The average person ate 1,488
pounds of food in 1960.
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Women Noting
H-D Week
This week, about 1 1/3 million
women coast-to-eoast are partic
ipating through some £3,000 or
ganized clubs in observing Na
tional Home Demonstration Club
Week.
There are 57,320 white and Ne
gro Home Demonstration Club
women in North Carolina. They
are observing the week through
local county events.
Mjore than 7 million other wo
men in the nation are enrolled in
special interest workshops, at
tend series of meetings, enter in
to discussions, watch demonstra
tions, read bulletins, and hear
extension radio programs.
Miss Ruth Current, assistant'
director for the N. C. Agricultur-!
al Extension Service, says,
“Whatever their method, they
strive to become better manag
ers, to handle their resources of
time, money, and energy more
wisely."
In the organized groups, the
volunteer leaders help plan and
carry on the home demonstration
program. They are the “teachers’*
named toy homemakers themsel
ves from their ovyn ranks. All
are trained and assisted by home
demonstration agents. >
Home Demonstration agents,
besides their work with groups,
assist many other homemakers
through workshops, visits, de
montrations, tours, and publica
tions.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Walter C. Smith
acknowledges with sincere appre
ciation your kind expressions of
sympathy at the loss of our lov
ed one.
SPRING GLEANING — Elim
inate the annual upheaval known
as “spring cleaning.” This you
can do by scheduling a cleaning
job a week the year round so
that each room in the house is
thoroughly cleaned every six
weeks or so. If you will do this,
your Home will look its best al
all times., ,
Of course, there are certain
seasoned chores that you will do
in the spring and fall such asj
closet cleaning, putting away
winter clothing and bedding, etc.
A constant and continuing pro
-am of house cleaning will e
lixhinate the period of complete
turmoil once dreaded by every J
family. I
APPETIZERS — like a feat foa
a costumes, we choose an appo
tizer to dress up a meal, to kej
tile meal to a certain occasion
give it timely interest and zest
or make it more complete. The
appetizer must complement th«
meal in appeal and flavor and H
should whet the appetite foi
What is to come.
IMPORTANT — CJhill fruil
juices and fruit appetizers well!
Serve a generous wedge of le
mon with tomato juice or fish.
Remiber, first • course fruit cups
Should he tart, not sweet. So use
little sweetening and plenty ol
lemon, grapefruit, or orange jui
ce, cranberry, pineapple. No hea
vy'syrup fruits.
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