mo » Tobacco!armers earns 2.2 billion
Come on, now, how many
of you really believe some of
those ridiculous television
commercials they air at us
week after week?
the ones that really crack
me up are those where the
mother suddenly discovers
that her family “really does
care” about which detergent
she uses for their tee shirts
or what brand of soap she
tosses in the shower.
In fact, in this farmhouse,
as long as there’s a dean
pair of jeans in the drawers,
peanut butter in the cup
board and a gallon of milk in
the refrigerator, no one pays
too much attention to what
goes on in mom’s household
domain.
Or so I believed.
Then I went on a spending
binge last week. I lavished
upon myself two stupendous,
coQosal purchases: one new
frying pan and one very
small rug for inside the back
door.
Well, I bet no one will
notice them, I figured.
“Gee Mom, where’d you
get the new frying pan?”
asked one, tossing books on
the table and banging doors
in search of a snack. “Boy,
and a new rug, too! ”
You’d have though the
whole house had been
redone.
“Okay, Mom, who told you
that you could go buy a new
frying pan and a new
rug?” asked another one, a
wicked grin in two small
blue eyes.
Poking a finger in the
agitator’s direction, I
reckoned that I would buy a
frying pan any old time I felt
On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
like it and the next one might
come put of a certain in
dividual’s allowance if they
got too smart with me.
As usual, this one was
totally unimpressed.
The last one showed up
shortly afterward for the
Supper bubbling away in the
new frying pan.
“Oh, a new frying pan,”
came the immediate'com
ment. And the by-now
famous new rug also
received notice.
Okay. The commercials
might be right after all. They
really do notice.
Why, then, does no one
ever spot and pick up the six
pairs of sneakers left lying
permanently at the bottom
of the stairs?
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PHILADELPHIA - How
much money did America’s
tobacco fanners earn last,
year?
According to a study,
released last Monday by the
University of Penn
sylvania’s Wharton Applied
Research ~ Center, the
tobacco growers received ,
$2.2 billion for their com*
modify in 1979.
The report estimated the
economic contribution of the
entire tobacco industry to
the nation. It defined the
industry’s “core sectors” as
farming, auction
warehousing, tobacco
manufacturing, wholesaling,
and retailing and vending.
The dependent study
also showed that the tobacco
growing sector contributed
$847 million to other
segments of the economy
through purchases of goods
and services, including
equipment, fertilizer, seed,
energy and insurance.
Other findings in the
report include:
Over a half-million
Americans worked full- or
part-time on 196,000 tobacco
farms in 22 states;
Personal compensation for
these workers exceeded $6OO
million;
An addition 17,000 workers
were employed full- or part
time by auction markets,
earning $29 million;'
Tobacco' farming and
manufacturing sectors
contributed $5B, million to
local governments in the
form of real estate and
personal property taxes.
The nation’s entire
tobacco industry contributed
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air estimated $57.6 billion of
goods and services to the
U.S. economy, or about 2.5
times the expenditures mi
tobacco and tobacco
products, the report showed.
The president of the
Tobacco Growers’ In
formation Committee said
he welcomed the study’s
findings.
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"" “We feel the Information
in this report is mostjj
significant,” said Adron
of Tfcon, Ga. “It
''demonstrates the con
tribution that tobacco makes
to our nation’s economy is
, much greater than many
people may have realized.
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