"IMPROVING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LIVING”

4H Club Week

JULY 25-30,I955

NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

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HONOR AND FUN TOO. . . Faytie Cox, Currituck County, and Jackie Jackson, SampsonCounty,work in Clothing and Leadership projects.

seem to be enjoying the Honor Club initiation.Jackie's main work has been in Safety projects.

Faytie's costume represents her

AROUND THE WORLD WITH FASHIONS

By Joyce Routh (Randolph)

Last night 4-H'ers took an imaginary tripto fabulous countries all over the globe. Thecountv Dress Revue winners, modeling prettyfrocks, ranging from fresh cottons to taffeta,visited such countries as France, The Orient,Egypt, and our own country.

Sampson county was in charge of therevue and did an outstanding job on presentingone of the most beautiful dress revues everheld at state 4-H Club Week.

Congratulations to Gretchen O'Neal of*aufort County, who is our 1955 DressRevue winner. Willie Mae Johnson, of

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"THERE'S MUSIC IN THE AIR"

Mr. N. C. Lindsay's class on musicis very interesting and profitable.

The group sang several songs and Mr.Lindsay sang songs used in Canadian camps.

One of the songs, "A Place In The Sun",will be the theme of the Health Pageant.

Mr. Lindsay explained that singing is oneproject in which all club members canparticipate. He showed the group severalways to direct singing.

For the members who have not yetattended his class, I am sure you will enjoythe singing and also'lVIr. N. C."himself.

ening Our Horizons ."

All the students thought that ourh-H organization was one of the best andsaid they hope to have similar organizat-ions in their countries in the nearfuture.

They also said, “Anerican 'teen-agersare the best people in the world."of the exchange students brought out thepoint that the people of our country andtheirs have the same ideals.

All of them were enthusiastic aboutthe IFYE program and firmly believe thatit will help us understand. each otherbetter.

The entire panel thought the programwill help in obtaining World Peace. Thestudents commented on the warm welcomethey had received here in North Carolinaand they said they would take the goodnews back hams.

Margaret Stevens, one of our ownExchange students, said that in Japanthey told hernto ask the Anerican peoplenot to use atcmic weapons for destruction,but for peaceful purposes.

TAPS AND REVIIIERay Chancey, of Union County, is the

fellow responsible for all noise as heplays Reville at 6:30 every morning andTaps at 10:30 every night. As you'veprobably already guessed he's no beginner.

Bay has been in the school band forsix years and is in the State h-H band.Also, he played Reville and Tape when hiscounty was at Camp Millstone.

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MADAME VICE PRESIDENT

By Erwin Fuller (Franklin)

That pert young miss with a warmsmile serving as our State Vice Presidentthis year is Nancy Mason from IredellCounty. A h-H member for 8 years, Nancyhas compiled an enviable record of achieve-ment, completing more than 75 projects.

Nancy's main activities have been inCitizenship and Better Grooming. Becauseof her outstanding record and hard work,Nancy was declared National Wiiner inboth of these activities. Nancy has alsostressed Dairying in her project work, andshe has received quite a few honors inthis field.

Nancy plans to enter the Universityof Maryland this fall, majoring in HomeEconomics. Her future ambition is in thefield of public relations, possiblyfio-oMinating the effort of industry and.3.

North Carolina h-H'ers will missNancy‘s fine leadership but we wish hersuccess in the attainment of her goal.

COTTON DEMONSTRATIOAS

James Potter and Kenneth Scarboro,Hoke County took first place in thecotton demonstration with "This Bale ofCotton Went to Market."

Second place went to Charles Lamm,Nash County, and third to Joe Rogersonand Belmont Perry of Perquimans County.

This was the firstyenr we've hadcotton demonstrations and all the con-testants did a" good Job.

Judges were Dr. E. R. Collins, StateCollege; R. L. Cooper past President ofthe Atlantic Cotton Association; andJ. T. Wright, Buckeye Cotton 011 Comparv,

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YES, IT'S VERY NICETO KNOW How

By Ruth Temple (Wake)

"You learn something new everyday"was never truer than in the class, "It'sNice to Know How," taught all week by Mrs.Corinne Grimsley.

Class begins with a panel of fourwho look the group over for looks on theoutside and try to figure out what theperson is like on the inside. Then webegan tests for voice control and wesoon discovered that Mrs. Grimsleywas to teach us how to make "that specialsomeone" think that we are special.We saw a movie "Party Lines" and slideson Dating, Table Manner, and MannersAway From HOE-6.

The fun really began when we ratedourselves fran a check list on manners.We received a special thrill in theletter frcm Miss North Carolina, MissFaye Arnold, who is at Morehead City andcould not participate in the programas she had planned.

To sum up this class would be alittle hard so we'll Just say - it isnice to know that beauty is from theinside shining out and that manners arereally consideration and kindness. Yes,it is nice to know howl!

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Johnston County, was second place winner,Lucy Mae Harris , Granville County, third,Rosalyn Waters, Pitt County, fourth, andCatherine Rogerson, Martin County, fifth.

Others placing in the top ten wereGail Lineback, Forsyth, Nancy Tuttle,Stokes County, Florence Payne, Davidson,Betty Ann Barefoot, Sampson, and ConnieFulghmn, Nash County.

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BLADEN WERS WIN

Maurice Edwards and Hal Collier, ofBladen County, walked away with firstplace yesterday in the Beekeeping Dem-onstration. Their topic was "The Bee'sHome."

They stressed the importance of usingthe proper equipment and how to assembleit correctly.

Second place went to William Hopperof Caldwell County. His topic was“Diagnosis am Control of American Foul-brood."

Third place went to Bill Dunstan ofPasquotank County, and fourth place toLinda Bailey, Wake County.

Judges were: Professor Nahikian,Dr. Scott, Dr. Westmoreland, Dr. Wrightam W. A. Stephens.

(OVerheard on the way to Raleigh)"How far is it to the nearest Service

Station?"Two miles as the crow flies.""How far would it be if that crew had

to walk and roll a flat tire?"

GLOVE LEAVESPublished Daily During h-H

Club Week.

Advis ors

J. Harold Parker, Assistant EditorMartha Kate Cashion, Asst. Home AgentCarolyn Grouse, Asst. Home AgentDouglass Young, Asst. Farm Agent

REPORTERSEdwin Fuller, Franklin; Tom Garrett,Haywood; James Gold, Rutherford; JoAnne Mills, Beaufort, Joyce Routh,Randolph; Linda Son, Bender; Ruth Temple,Wake; Clyde Templeton, Iredell.

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State winners in the VegetableMarketing demonstrations were LoisViolet Winslow and Charles Chappell, Jr.from Perquimans County. The topic of .'their demonstration was "Marketing GreenPeppers o"

Lucretia Ellege won second place withher demonstration on "Marketing IrishPotatoes." Midgie Honeycutt and Frank Kingfrom Rowan County were third with "MidgieGoes to Market ."

The first place winners will receivea free trip to New Orleans sponsored bythe National Junior Vegetable Growers'Association.

IREDELL DAIRY FOODS TEAM WINS

By Clyde Templeton (Iredell)

Milk - - - and more milk productswere displayed before the Heart groupyesterday in Withers Hall during thedairy foods team demonstration.

Our hats are off to Betty JeanMyers and Rebecca Tulbert from Iredellfor placing first. They used as theirtitle "Swoop Away Your Troubles withDairy. Foods," as they prepared a mosttasty looking supper of Royal CheeseSoup, Vegetable Salad, Lime Sherbet, andmilk. Second place went to JeanetteFarrell and Nancy Scott from Alamance.

The "milk maids" who gave thesewinners a close race were Vivian Brittand Judy Reese, Buncombe County; SarahJane Jordan and Jcan Watson, ColumbusCounty; Jean Edwards and Rabhel Spivey,Perquimane County; and Ruby Lassiterand Jessie Mae Davis, Northampton County.

Judges for the contest were MissVirginia Wilson, Mr. Dave Worth, andMiss Rita Dubois.

INDIVIDUAL DAIRY FOODS DWONSTRATION

By J 0 Anne Mills (Beaufort)

The large group that gathered atWithers Auditorium yesterday saw a groupof outstanding demonstrations that reallydid their particular districts Justice.

as state winner.

The winning demonstration was entitled"A Soft Custard For Everyday Use". It waspresented and displayed beautifully, andthe product was delicious.

Tied for a close second were VivianThmas Tucker of Moore County and OmiaSue Rummage of Stanly.

VEGETABLE PRODUCTION WINNERS

Sherwood Harrell and Dick Lowe, ofChowan County, Took first honons in theVegetable Production demonstrationsyesterday. Wayne and Lewis Bailey,Halifax County, were second, and Johnnyand Shelby Rayner, Mecklenburg County,were third.

HEAVY VOTING HPECTED

Voting at dormitory precincts for1956 State Council officers begins as wego to press. And from the amount of'politicking' candidates have engaged inthe past couple of days there will be hoiraces for all offices.

As one candidate expressed it, "itlooks good now, but you can‘t tell untilthe last vote is counted."

Official results of the election willnot be available until later today.

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Competition was keen and the race closewith Peggy Ann Carroll of Bunccmbe emerging