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Sunday, August 6, 1972 tl (Smnfcille Jfefas 5B Alertness To Economic Back Pack In unces, Minimums For Most Fun Signal Is Wise number of people eligible for bank loans, at perhaps half the annual interest rates, who come to us for help instead," says an officer for an important small loan company. Any one of these danger signals should be looked into carefully, so that income and outgo can then be placed in better balance. Otherwise your family faces the prospect of financial disaster even in the face of statistics that show a trend in the opposite for the last day of your trip in the very bottom of your pack. Your first meal goes on top. Mark your drinking cup with lines on the outside showing 2-3 and full measuring cup marks so that you can use it for adding water to your powdered food.

(Red nail polish is a good way to do this.) Take along a small notebook which can double as a hiking diary in which MONDAYS, 10:00 mm iiiSSsssK: i is ill-- sr. is I fil Coat X. 1 to $QQ Kancejil3 you list the amount of water to be added to each food. To keep cooking utensils to a minimum, use a set of two nesting aluminum pots. A tin plate, cup and combination spoon-fork for each person are all you need for eating, with the help of a pocket knife.

Pack an ample supply of wooden matches in a waterproof plastic container. An asbestos-type glove is also convenient. A.M. TO 9:00 P.M. ho' MAIN DOWNTOWN 529.00 REG.

$34 reg. $72. By The Associated Press Americans have rediscovered their feet. More and more families are abandoning the luxuries of civilization and substituting legs for whels, muscles for motors and pine needles for spring mattresses. Back packing has become a national sport.

If you're ready to try it with your family, here are some tips from Rich Boggs, national sales manager of a backpack manufacturer, on how to get ready for the trip. Remember you will be carrying your complete kitchen on your back. Therefore, everything you take along must be calculated to the last ounce. Package soups, instant potatoes, powdered breakfast drinks, spaghetti, dehydrated vegetables and dried fruits make good camping fare. Fig bars and chocolate carry weU for snacks.

When all your food is purchased, remove it from the cans and boxes and determine how many times each food will be served on the trip. Then make up a small plastic sandwich bag containing the amount of each food you need for one meal. Put seasonings and flavoring together. For instance, put sugar and powdered cream in with coffee. Knot each plastic bag low, close to the food.

For long hikes, cut the top of the bag off above the knot to conserve space. After all the individual items are ready, take all the small plastic bags for cne meal and put them in a larger plastic bag. Label it for the appropriate meal, such as, "Lunch, Tuesday." Later when you pack, put the items $9.95 er By BETTY YARMON NEW YORK Though half the nation's families for the first time enjoy incomes of more than $10,000 a year, economic danger signals must still be heeded, according to full service bankers and credit counselors across the country. Families can avoid economic problems only if they -stay alert to these warning signs and take action as soon as they appear that's the advice of the experts in the face of recent news from the U.S. Census Bureau that median family income in the U.S.

reached $10,285 in 1971, a jump of $418 over 1970. Here are some of these danger signals, each followed by a typical comment from the experts: Has your family income diminished because of unemployment, loss of overtime that the family has become accustomed to, or loss of a supplementary second jab? "The installment loan borrower generally adjusts his standard of living to his salary, which in many cases includes overtime or bonuses," reports a banker at Boston's State Street and Trust Co. 'Has your family suffered some major crisis recently a costly illness, a death, separation or divorce? Expenses generally skyrocket in such circumstances, with no accompanying increase in income. "Immediately after a divorce, both mates frequently go on a spending binge that they couldn't afford even when they maintained only one home," says Henry Fletcher, president of the Merchants National Bank in Aurora, HI. Do you have less than the equivalent of four months take home in bank savings, or other essets that you can readily convert to cash without a big loss? "In 6ome cases, especially families with several children, six months' take -home pay is more realistic," a branch manager at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank suggests.

Have you had to reach into emergency savings to settle bills and normal operating expenses? Is it a problem of replenishing your savings fairly soon? "The use of emergen-ty savings can get to be a habit and a very bad habit too," cautions Joanne Matson, Los Angeles credit jpounselor. Have family expenditures accelerated at the same time that income has remained fairly constant? Are those financial reserves sufficient to carry the family through a Reduction in income or a major expenditure you can't anticipate? "Too many people never seem to consider the possibility things can go terong," remarks an officer With Security Pacific National Bank in (Los Angeles. I Have installment loan payments reached a point Where they total more than 20 per cent of the family's monthly take home pay? the installment total growing? "It's easy for families MILL FABRICS Yes, it's SEW fash- ion's PLAID explosion! It's sew-sationa! stork raving PLAID! Dang entire famous-maker stock regular 26.00 to 100.00 fake-furs wools tapestry cords leathers combinations velours sizes 3 to 18 NO SERVICE CHARGE EVER ON CHARGE ACCOUNTS OR LA YAW AYS! ME Lance Hightower Son Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L.

Hightower 11 Arlene Drive just beginning to set up housekeeping to sign their names for a car, a color television, a washing machine and other major items, without stopping to add up the total figures," says J. Grant Bickmore, president of the Idaho Bank and Trust Co. Is your family always paying off a bank loan or an account at the finance company? Has the family signed up for additional loans with earlier debts still outstanding? "You wouldn't believe the MRS. DAVIDSON Floridian To Be Club Keynoter Mrs. William B.

Davidson of Tampa, will be featured speaker Aug. 16 at a Greenville Christian Women's Club luncheon, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at Greenville Country Club. A graduate of Cornell University, Mrs. Davidson did graduate work in theater at Yale University.

She says she was "rescued" from the theater by her husband, an automobile company executive. They have five children. Mrs. Davidson, who has spoken throughout the eastern states, is known for the humor she uses to present her ideas. Among topics she has selected are "How To Succeed In Heart Surgery Without Really Trying" and "Measles Are Contagious How About You?" Special musical feature at the "Family Reunion Luncheon" will be the "Power and Light Co." A pre-school nursery will be provided at Augusta Road Baptist Church, 10:30 a.m.

-2 p.m. For reservations, which are necessary, information 0 cancellations for the luncheon or nursery, readers may call 232-2093 or 269-3926 by Aug. 14, or mail check payable to Greenville Christian Women's Club to 34 Timrod Way. A prayer coffee is planned Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs.

Houston Childress, 3 Providence Square. Come see our striking authentic tartans, tweedy plaids and a score more fashions by the yard plaids in knit fabrics. You will want to sew dashing jumpers, dresses, costumes for grown-ups and little gadabouts. YD. 232-0937 239-5971 i $98 Edible, Fresh as a daisy summertime entertaining is a breeze when you serve this daisy duet, a cool thirst -quencher and cookies.

The flowery food and drink automatically which decorate the party table are a delight to gatherings on both' sides of the generation gap. DAISY DRINK Combine VA quarts each: chilled apple cider and ginger ale, with 1 quart of pineapple sherbet. Add 1 cup crushed pineapple which has been reduced to pulp in blender (if possible). Serve immediately in- a one gallon insulated' ice bucket to preserve chill, especially if punch will be served out -of doors. To make daisy float for top of punch, criss cross two plump wooden toothpicks through a i i a tu marshmallow.

Place pineapple chunks on each pick end, forming four petals. For proper floatage, be sure to use large wooden toothpicks. LOVES-ME-NOTS 3 cups sifted flour 2 14 teaspoons baking powder 1V4 teaspoon salt 34 cup sugar Vz cup shortening 2 eggs 2V2 tablespoons milk V2 teaspoon vanilla Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cream sugar with shortening. Beat together eggs, milk and vanilla and add to creamed mixture.

Mix in sifted ingredients and knead dough until very smooth. Roll dough Vi inch thick; cut into circles using floured biscuit cutter. Cut each circle into six equal triangles. Shape each into by pinching rounded edge to a with fingers. Leaving about a Vs-inch space between each petal, assemble daisies on ungreased cookie sheet.

Cut centers for daisies from leftover dough, using cap from extract bottle as cutter. Place one small circle in the center of each petal grouping. Bake at 325 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely on rack before frosting. Yields two dozen.

Icing: Combine 2 cups sifted confectioners' ar 2 teaspoons lemon extract, and 3 tablespoons milk. Dip top of each cookie into king and place on rack to dry. Add a drop or two of yellow food coloring to remaining icing; place a dab in center of each daisy. Complaints, Arguments Clear Air ANN ARBOR, Mich (UPI) The family which argues and airs complaints may be far more stable than the one insisting on peaceful coexistence, a University of Michigan researcher says. Simon Wittes, the research associate, says conflict is a natural part of any human relationship.

"Instead of trying to avoid or suppress it, people should regard it as a tool for constructive change. It is the unresolved conflicts which eventually reach crisis proportions." DARK IS BEST Buy only the amount of potatoes at one time that can be stored properly in a dark spot when the temperature ranges between 45 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Refrigerated uncooked potatoes become sweet and brown too quickly when fried. WIRE BASE WIGLETS reg. $11.88 WIRE BASE CASCADES REG.

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