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The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C., February 11, 199215 On and the road around town Fiery foods show includes sweet and hot By J.S. JONES JR. Abbeville County chairman Clemson University Extension Service wyr Ji, Cheerleading clinic phanie Andrews, Elizabeth Raczynski, Athena Hagood, Crystal McKee, and Amanda Loos. Second row from left; Tonya Murray, Alison McBurnett, Tawan Tolbert Shuntay Kim Deanna Scott. Last row from left; Angie Fequeron, Tonya Cobb, Tekola Gilchrest, Alicia Carroll, Consuela Parks.

Southside Varsity Cheerleaders want are planning their Cheerleading Clinic March 2-5 from 3:30 to 5:30 at the Southside gym. College instructors will teach the latest stunts, exciting new cheers, roof-raising chanty a dance to make even Hammer jealous, and breath-taking pyramids. The cost will be $10. T-shirts will be given on the last day. First row from left; Julie Turner, Ste People in the BULL AND HEIFER SALE The 22nd Annual Clemson University Forage Based Gain Tested Bull Sale and 10th Replacement Heifer Sale will be held Wednesday at Taylor Stockyards in Anderson.

The heifers will sell at 1 1 followed by (he bulls at 1 p.m. A growth group of heifers will be sold by pen lots and they are open and ready to breed. They also have had all vaccinations. Heifers will be around a year old. Simmental, Simbrah, Santa Gertrudis, Angus and Gelbvieh will be offered.

This should be a great opportunity to pick up some quality heifers going into your herd this year. Fifty-one bulls will be offered which have passed some of the strictest standards of any test in the nation. A strong group of bulls consisting of Angus, Simmental, Salers, Gelbvieh, Charolais, Simbrah, Brangus and Polled Hereford will be auctioned. All of the bulls were bom between November 1990 and January 1991. Again, this is an excellent opportunity to make quick improvements in your calf crop.

Sale catalogs which have a tremendous amount of information on each offering are available at the office. CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION MEETING The Abbeville County Cattlemen's Association will meet on Tuesday at the County Office Building. Meal time will be 7 p.m. A steak dinner will be served. The program will feature a presentation on vitamins and minerals by Pacific Molasses Company.

David Hall of Taylors will be here to present our program. All 1992 members will have their supper sponsored. Also, this is 'membership night" and a good chance to come out and renew your membership. Invite a prospective member to come along. This will be our first meeting of the year, so let's get off to a good start.

Association meetings and support livestock endeavors in the County. FORAGE TESTING The Mobile Forage Testing Lab from the State Department of Agriculture will be here on Thursday from 9 to 1 1 a.m. Anyone desiring to get hay, silage, or feed samples analyzed should bring samples at that time. A $6 fee will be assessed for each sample tested. BEE MANAGEMENT IMPORTANT NOW Honey production was light in South Carolina last year, and as a result many colonies do not have adequate food stored to take bees through the winter.

Beekeepers need to manage their bees carefully from now until spring, making sure they have adequate food. Management recommendations include: Leaving one super completely filled with honey on each colony. Where colonies are short on honey stores, bees should be fed sugar syrup at a rate of two parts sugar to one part hot water. Let the syrup cool' before feeding. If a colony appears to be low on bees, but is disease free, combine it with another stronger colony.

When doing this eliminate (he queen in the weaker colony and apply a mist application of sugar water to both colonies prior to combining. Ventilate all colonies, usually at the top of the hive. This is necessary to dissipate water that builds up when bees consume honey. SOLID WASTE IMPROVEMENT I recently stopped by the County landfill to look at the new solid waste compactor recently installed. This impressive piece of equipment is a monster that is intended to save time and space in the landfill pits.

Waste material is assembled in the building and dumped into a pit to be augured up a conveyor bell to a platform. County labor will pick out recyclable material and drop it into bins. This should go a long way in meeting the goal of 25 percent of all materials eventually recycled. The material that passes through will then be compressed into bales that will weigh as much as 2,400 pounds. These wire bound bales will then be hauled to the pits and placed.

This should save a considerable amount of space over the long run. I feel that this will be a good investment as the County tries to meet solid waste mandates and goals. Handling waste material continues to be a costly and pressing need in a waste by-product society. AUTOMOBILE FLEET IS GETTING OLDER The stock of automobiles in the U.S. is growing older.

In 1990 the average age of the 100 million cars driven in this country was 7.8 years, the oldest in 40 years. According to Nancy Porter, Clemson University Extension Service family resource management specialist, consumer ability to buy new cars has declined because incomes have not kept pace with inflation and new car prices. The average price of a new car in 1990 was almost six limes greater than the average new car price 30 years earlier. However, more than half of the price increase has been due to quality improvements. In fact, the price of today's new car, adjusted for quality improvement to make it comparable to one available years ago, has not risen as much as the general increase in prices.

Consumers should look at affordability for a better gauge on new cars. The ratio of an average worker's before-tax income to the average price of a new car was 1.86 in the mid 1970's. By 1990 new car affordability as measured by this ratio had fallen to 1.21. There is some good news. Affordability has increased recently as new car prices have eased slightly.

Another reason thai our automobiles are getting older is that reliability has improved. New car purchases should pick up as the recession eases if prices do not discourage buyers. Falling interest rates should also help reduce Hie effective cost of car ownership. 'Wow9 can I have Toy Fair sets the stage for Christmas season ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Fiery fare such as chocolate truffles with red chili, jalapeno brittle and pineapple salsa lured Hie adventurous and thick-tongued Saturday to the National Fiery Foods Show.

About 80 exhibitors brought products to (lie (rade show, which is in its fourth tyca Tables were strewn with blue cmi" tdrtilla chips, bowls of sauces and warnings such as "extremely hot, try with caution." Some visitors looked for the hottest product they could find one that would make their eyes bug out and cheeks flush with fire. Others danced back and forth between the booths of sweet stuff such as candies, jams and glazes that only hinted of heat. Stcphan Karzag, 35, a computer salesman from San Francisco, said Ijc, ets, poqud qf jjalaneno peppers a week. His car licensi plates' read "JLAPENO." His wife. Laurel, wore chili pepper jewelry.

Karzag swears the only pepper for him is one that will make him sweat when he smells it. He skipped over the pineapple salsa, and didn't linger around the pesto salsa. But Dave DeWitt of Albuquerque, founder of the fiery foods show and editor of the Chile Pepper Magazine, espouses a different approach. "There should be a marriage of heat and flavor," he said. DeWitt said some of the hottest products this year combine sweets and peppers.

Pat Harrison, president of Mayan Gold Hot n' Sassy Chocolate Truffles, said people who try his candy are surprised when the heat kicks in. They don't expect to have such a torrid experience with the seemingly gentle candy. "Chili and candy, by my taste, don't go together because they're tix different," said Bryan Lee, an Albuquerque accountant. But his wife Gloria, a teacher's said she approved. "I like to try new things," she said.

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25. Woody Allen PARIS (AP) Woody Allen's latest movie, the story of a fogbound European town in the grip of serial killer, makes its world premiere here Wednesday, six weeks before its release in the United States. WOODY ALLEN The $19 million "Shadows and Fog," with a cast that includes Olympic opening TV ratings down from '88 NEW YORK (AP) Ratings for (he opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics on CBS were clown 6.5 percent from the opening of the 1988 Games. Saturday night's cremonies at Alberivillc, France, got a 15.9 rating and a 26 share in overnight figures from 25 U.S. markets, the network said Sunday.

The rating is a percentage of all homes with television: the share is the percentage of televisions in use. WA, r. If f. news Madonna and Jodie Foster, will not be seen in the United States until March 20 because of the financial woes of Allen's American distributor, Orion. "We really didn't want to be held up, so we decided to go ahead with a premiere in France where Woody has always had a very loyal following and where there is a seemingly more intelligent movie audience than we have back home," executive producer Robert Greenhut said.

American films usually open here between four and six months after they appear in the United States. Cher NEW YORK (AP) Cher surprised an organization that helps children with facial deformities by pledging a $450,000 donation on television. CHER The singer and actress, who played the mother of a boy with a disfigured face in the 1985 movie "Mask," was appearing on "The Maury Povich Show" when she announced her gift to the Children's Craniofacial Association. Cher has been a spokeswoman for the Dallas-based organization since making "Mask." The taped talk show aired Monday. U2 NEW YORK (AP) U2, whose album "Achtung Baby" and single "Mysterious Ways" top the charts, is embarking on its first North American tour in five years.

Brian O'Neal, spokesman for the Irish group, said Tuesday U2 will give 32 concerts in 31 cities, starting Feb. 29 in Lakeland, and ending April 23 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Have you made your will? Call 3Joeepb, CCltUan Attorney at Law Located Tioni I 701 Grier Bldfl. CN. 229-6616 THE Uilll Li I Minimum 50 Ft.

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McPherson has also claimed that Starr and Johnson owe him royalties. Ossie Davis BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) Actor and playwright Ossie Davis was honored by West Virginia Wesleyan College for his career and his civil rights work. DAVIS The Methodist college on Monday presented Davis with its Wesleyan Peace Award for work that included helping to organize the 1963 March on Washington. Davis, 74, also delivered the eulogy at the 1965 funeral of Malcolm X.

Davis' most recent film appearance was in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever." Ron Shelton LOS ANGELES (AP) Director Ron Shelton, whose basketball film "White Men Can't Jump" opens around the nation this month, says playing sports gave him the emotional stamina needed to make movies. "Great basketball scorers have what I call offensive egos. They're going to score no matter what," said Shelton, who plays pickup basketball games of the sort depicted in his movie. "Making movies is sort of like (hat. You just have to willfully do it no matter what." His first film, "Bull Durham." was set in the world of minor league baseball.

Shelton played minor league ball. Jacksons RADNOR, Pa. (AP) Family tics may not be enough for Jack-sons to get a job in ABC's "Hie Jacksons An American Dream." Twenty-six, youngsters are needed to pfay three generations of Jacksons in the movie, scheduled to air this fall, according to Radnor-based TV Guide. The Jackson 5 Michael, Jer-maine, Tito, Jackie and Marlon are needed in triplicate, and the other Jackson siblings, Randy, Re-bbie. La Toya and Janet, also appear at different stages.

But while Jermaine JacKson said he's confident most of the parts will remain a family affair, the executive producers said no one is being cast without an audition. "We're testing hundreds of including the newest youngsters. feneration of Jacksons," said ex ecutive co-producer Stan Margu-lies. "They have to do more than look like Jacksons; they have to be able to dance and act." in 1 I im i far' 1 THE BEAUTY LASTS. SALE WON'T.

An 0 0 Yard 87 Galoob' pitchman. "Watch ladies, you dunk it and bah-dah-boom, bah-dah-bing, it's Garbageator!" Blood and guts was a definite theme. The Ertl Co. offers the Blurp Ball, a collection of blood-spattered, eye-popping, hideous rubber balls that barf smaller, but equally repulsive projectiles across the room when squeezed. The slogan for this toy marvel (which comes from those same crazy Cleveland guys who dreamed up the pigfaced, shotgun-toting Barnyard Commandos): "They retch it! You catch it!" Also from Ertl: A collection of maniacal plastic figures called Socket Poppers.

"These are really sick," spokeswoman Patricia Story said with glee. "You just tear an arm off like this," she said, reaching into a heap of little robots and purple bug men, "and you can put this guy's head in this one's leg socket, see?" Afraid so. Tyco is banking on its Incredible Crash Dummies to capture (he hearts of boys and girls who love to play "smash and crash," said Tyco executive Neil Tilbor. The cars come with air bags and seat belts. When Sally or Joey forget to buckle up before the big accident, the car folds like an accordion and the little crash dummies' heads and arms come flying off.

NEW YORK (AP) Figures that retch, dummies who lose their heads and the chance to bat George Bush around. The 1992 political season? No, the 1992 Toy Fair. It's that once-a-year, week-long bash where 10,000 toy buyers descend on New York to decide what your kid will be clamoring for this Christmas. Qn opening day Monday, buyers crammed all 20 floors at The Toy Center, clipboards in hand, asking themselves the burning question: Will kids be begging for Blurp Balls, craving Incredible Crash Dummies or pleading for a G.R.O.S.S. a Gruesome, Rude, Obnoxious, Silly Scarfer? Lest you think you already have one at home, rest assured this is a toy that makes repulsive guttural sounds, eats plastic bugs and has a clear stomach so kids can watch gastronomic chemistry in action.

Gross? Yes, and at $30 retail, Tiger Toys predicts a big hit. Lewis Galoob Toys also is betting on kids' fascination with things that fizz. The company is introducing drum roll, please the Trash Bag Bunch, toxic good guys and bad guys straight from the garbage heap. Each figure comes in its own trash bag that dissolves when dunked in warm water. "Ya never know what you're gonna get That's the beauty of it," said Vinnie from da Bronx, wear dated WEAR-DATED STAIN BLOCKER PROTECTION A DDThT 100 NYLON SEMI-TRACKLESS New Hours M-F 9-6 Sat.

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