—Lincwter Farming, Saturday. Feb. 15, 1975
8
wtOLD
KHMER
Fill your Ice house while you may . . . President Nixon ar
rived in China, Feb. 21, 1972 . . . First quarter of the moon
Feb. 19 . . . Women first admitted to bar Feb. 20, 1879 . . .
Average length of days for the week 10 hours, 47 minutes
... Daylight Savings Time begins Feb. 23. Set clocks ahead
one hour ... It is said a modern house does well if it lasts as
long as the mortgage on it.
tale? D. E., Huntington, West Va.
We figure you never taw much spinning done. The real sleight
of spinning laid in the way that the spinner " stretched ” the
yam. In fact, the whole process depended on it. Size, length,
and twist. So, when old timers wanted to indicate that some
body was stretching the truth, they likened it to spinning a
yam.
H«m« HlbUi Save the water in which potatoea are boiled and soak tar
nished tiiverware in it for an hour. Wash and dry, and your silverware will
be sparkling . . Riddle antuier: A bawl tame.
OLD FARMER’S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: First part of week mostly cloudy and mild with
light snow; end of week clearing and turning very cold.
Greater New York-New Jersey: Light snow to start, then clear
ing and cold; thaw and unseasonably warm by weekend.
Middle Atlantic Coastal: Becoming clear and not so cold by
midweek, then cold again; end of week very cold and clear,
then warming considerably.
Southeast Coastal-Piedmont: Clear and warm to start, then
showers; end of week increasingly cloudy and very warm for
season.
Florida: Clear with gradual warming up during the week.
Upstate & Western N.Y.-Toronto & Montreal: Week begins mild
with flurries or light snow, then clearing and colder; end of
week very cold.
Greater Ohio Valley: Clear and not so cold at first, then cold
with flurries; sunny and warm with some rain latter part.
Deep South: Week begins fair and warm, then some showers
in central; week ends mostly warm and cloudy.
Chicago & Southern Great Lakes: Clear and mild to start, then
colder with some snow; latter part warm with heavy rain in
west, light snow then clear and warm in east.
Northern Great Plaini-Great Lakes: Early week seasonably cold
with light snow in west; end of week warmer with scattered
showers.
Central Great Plains: Clear and warm at first, then turning
cold; clear and very warm latter part.
Tcxas-Oklahoma: Week begins fair and warm, then turning
colder; end of week milder with light showers.
Rocky Mountain Region: Clear and mild in south to start, then
cloudy and cold in north and central; end of week rainy in
central with snow at higher elevations.
Southwest Desert: Week begins clear and warm in west and
partly cloudy in east; end of week heavy rain in west and
light rain in east.
Pacific Northwest: Cloudy and cool to start, then rain; rain
continuing to end of week with some snow in monutains, •
California: Early week cloudy and cool in south and rainy in
north; heavy rain latter part in south with low-level flooding.
(All RlshU Reserved, Yankee, Inc.. Dublin, N.H. 01444)
Use the Farm Calendar
To Publicize Your Meetings.
NOW IS THE TIME
TO SAVE DOLLARS
INSTALL A
Furnace Fuel Saver
Dii Your Present Oil Heating Unit.
Cut the high cost of heating 10 to 30%.
KELMANADA, INC.
RUI, box 4210, Grantville, Pa
Phone 717-469-2864
Some Dealerships Available
FEB. 17*23, 1975
Wrap up, cold map.
CONTACT
The Rural Housing
Alliance and Rural
America, Inc. recently
issued a call for a four-day
Conference on Rural
America, April 14-17, at the
Sheraton-Park Hotel,
Washington, D.C. The
Conference will deal with a
whole range of problems
which affect opportunity and
the quality of life in rural
America - defined to include
the 60 million people who live
outside the great
metropolitan areas.
“The Conference will
assess our present social and
economic needs,” Richard J.
Margolis, RHA chairman
noted, “against the historic
shortcomings of both
government and the private
sector in dealing with rural
people. Delegates will seek
ways to assure rural
Americans of their fair share
of society’s goods and ser
vices - health care and
decent housing, jobs and
educational chances, public
transportation and public
assistance - those benefits, in
short, which taken together,
go far to define the quality of
a citizen’s life.
“We hope the Conference
participants will bring forth
the broad outlines of a
platform for rural
Americans, including
positions on such critical
questions as access to land,
credit, resources, energy
and production. The focus
will be on people - the right of
rural people to determine
what actions their govern
ments take, the right of
farmers to produce the food
needed by society in an
economical manner without
being the first link in some
corporate chain, the right of
rural people to control and
conserve the land and
resources around them.”
The two convenors of the
Conference are joined by
more than 35 sponsors, in
cluding farm organizations,
labor unions, church groups,
cooperatives, community
action agencies, rural
housing advocates, and
consumer organizations. A
partial list includes:
National Farmers Union,
National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association,
National Catholic Rural Life
Conference, Industrial Union
Department, AFL-CIO,
Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights, National Area
Development Institute,
United Presbyterian Church,
Nation? 1 Rural Housing
and Citizens
Against Rural Poverty.
Included on the program
are Senators George
McGovern, Richard Clark,
James Abourezk and Ed
ward Kennedy,
Congressmen Mark An
drews, William Alexander,
Parren Mitchell, and An
drew Young, James McHale,
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture, Arnold Miller,
President, United Mine
Workers, and more than, 100
national and rural
spokespeople covering 11
major topics. Scheduled for
discussion ' are: Self-
Government in Rural
America; Rural Poverty;
Land, Resources and
People; Rural Health;
Agricultural Production -
Everybody’s Business;
Employment, Jobs and
Training; Housing and
Community Development;
Energy and Rural People;
Public Education in Rural
America; Rural Economic
Development; and Rural
Public Transportation.
Old Farmer's Rid
dle: What could
you call a crying
:ontest? (Answer
below.)
Ask the Old
Farmer: I know
they spin wool to
make yarn to
darn holes in
socks, but please
tell me why they
call it “spinning a
yam" when some
one tells a tall
Rural America
Conference Set
The National Advisory
Council for the Conference
includes more than 70
distinguished citizens, in
cluding 32 Senators and
Members of Congress.
Registration fee for the
Conference is $3O if mailed
before March 21, after that
date, $45. Fee includes cost
of resource materials and
copies of conference papers.
Checks should be made
payable to National Con
ference on Rural America,
1346 Conn. Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20036.
The Rural Housing
Alliance is a non-profit
organization, headquartered
in Washington, D.C. and
formed to help low-income
rural Americans obtain
decent housing. RHA con
ducts research; publishes a
newsletter, reports and
handbooks; provides
technical assistance to
groups developing housing
for migrant farmworkers,
conducts workshops and
administers a rural land
development fund.
Rural American, Inc. is a
Washington-based non-profit
organization formed to
encourage and carry out
research, educational and
technical assistance
programs, and other ac-
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