—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 16.19,77
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My Thoughts
And welcome to them
By JOANNE 9*AH*
Associate Editor
t My second cousin, Jenny, was always a cute kid,
but she never could drive worth a darn. It was
shameful--nme years old and the best she could do
if you put her behind the wheel of a car was turn on
the radio and roll down the wmdows--and she
thought that was an accomplishment. I thought it
was pitiful.
Being a farm child, I'd been burning a track of
rubber out through the back lane and fields from
the times I was strong enough (any my legs were
long enough) to hold down the clutch on the
“Fergie,” as we called the Massey Ferguson.
I was particularly good at going from third to
fourth gear--that’s the one that took skill. You r d
have to get the old blue-grey tractor revved up as
fast as it could go in third gear then-crack--stand
up and put all your weight on the clutch while you
jerked the gear shift-back toward your body at the
same time. And, off you’d go, hair streaming, face
grinning, and body jiggling as you bounced up and
down in the seat, hitting every single rock or gully
imaginable in the gutted out back lane - as long as
Dad didn’t catch you, that is.
Then, of course when the time came, I graduated
to driving the pick-up truck and learned the ms and
outs of an automatic. But, my cousin, Jenny had
never been fortunate enough to have these great
experiences because she wasn’t a farm kid. So, one
day when she came to visit, I decided I would take it
on myself to enlighten the young lady with my vast
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home improvement
the lowest in the area ...
Any amount, $1,500 to $lO,OOO, may be bor
rowed for your home improvement needs with
up to 5 years to repay at an ANNUAL PER
CENTAGE RATE OF 8.75%.
Loan Finance Total of Payments
Amount Charge Payments 36 months
$ 1,500 $ 211.08 $ 1,711.08 $ 47.53
$ 2,000 $ 281.32 $ 2,281.32 $ 63.37
S 3,000 S 422 16 $ 3,422.16 $ 95.06
$ 4,000 $ 562.64 $ 4,562.64 $126.74
$ 5,000 S 703 12 $ 5,703.12 $158.42
$lO,OOO $1,406 24 $11,406.24 $316.84
ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE - 8.75%
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I had the perfect vehicle for it--a 1956 Cadillac
my dad was fixing up. It had been in an accident
(along with several other members of my family),
and the transmission was all messed up. Instead of
going from first to second to third to fourth, as you
might expect a car to do, it went from second to
fourth in a might leap. It was 20 times better than
going from third to fourth, and it was the closest
I’d ever come to flying in my whole life.
So, the ever-so-intelligent 13-year-old that I was,
I decided to start my'cousin out in this flying
machine, with near disasterous results.
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(To be continued next week)
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Azotobacter in a finely
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