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Feed a family of four for $10 a week
Many of you Subway patrons have known Cynthia Binns since the opening of the restaurant here. She was a favorite of her many customers, always cheerful and smiling and efficient. Cynthia died last week. She was the daughter of Lillie Pink and Jimmy Binns. She will be missed by her many friends and her family. I don't often put deaths in this column, but Cynthia had made a reputation for herself by being kind and gentle and she was a real asset to Subway. ƒ Restore Galore on The Square in Downtown Washington will have its ribbon cutting Saturday, June 28, at 12:00 noon. Special activities will begin at 10 a.m. and continue until 3 p.m. It's a beautiful store and its owner, Karen Carter, has done a terrific job of renovation and decorating. If you haven't visited the store, be sure to do so. . . . My spouse needed a special antiquelike door-pull for a china cabinet he was restoring and found just what he wanted at Restore Galore. . . . The store is in the old Blackmon building. All of us former patrons of Blackmons are glad to see the building restored and prospering. ƒ I have had on my ongoing "Cat List," for several weeks now, an item about how the cost of any and every thing just keeps soaring out of sight. Remember when a Hershey bar wrapped in very thin aluminum foil used to cost 5 cents? During World War II the Hershey company took the aluminum off to be used in the war effort and eventually there was no chocolate to be found on any candy bar. It all went to our servicemen. I paid 70 cents for a plain Hershey bar last week, and I have seen them for 89 cents! And besides that, the bar is very much smaller. The size of packaging on just about everything has decreased while the price has increased. . . . Last week I got a note in the mail from Irene Rousey. She had been looking in a drawer for "nothing special" when she spotted a 1968 page from The News-Reporter. It was the graduation page and included her son Tom who was one of the graduates. She turned the page over and there was a whole page advertisement for Meadows Food Market which was on The Square. She sent me some of the prices from the ad: pole beans, 15 cents lb.; fresh slicing tomatoes, 19 cents lb.; cucumbers, 5 cents lb.; Saltine crackers, 33 cents for a lb. box; six cans of dogfood, 39 cents; Coca-Cola, three six-bottle cartons, $1.00; Morton's salt, 10 cents per box; sausage, 49 cents lb.; eight ounce box Tetley tea, 77 cents; Grade A fresh fryers, 24 cents per lb; cut up fryers, 28 cents per lb. ƒ Irene also said that at that time, Julius (her spouse) would give her $10 per week for groceries. She made out her menus for a week (three meals per day) for four people and sometimes she would have two or three dollars left. Can you believe that? How much did you spend when you bought last week's groceries? ƒ Clara Sutton is the heroine of the week! And she issues a warning to all churches in the area. Clara was getting ready to leave her home on Lexington Avenue Sunday morning when she heard a horn blowing in front of her place. At first she ignored it but it kept blowing so she peeked out the window to see what was going on. (She was about to leave for church services.) A man was standing by a white truck. He came up on the porch and Clara says, "He was a black male who gave his name as Gene Bell. (I don't think this is his real name.) He said he was from Warrenton and had been stopping at churches because he had lost his gas card in Athens and he didn't have enough gas to get home." He said that he had stopped at the church down the street (Mark's Tabernacle) but it was closed. He saw "Word Bible Study" on the side of Clara's van and probably thought he had found another church. Clara told him she was on the way to church and maybe he could get some help there. At that point, Clara recognized him, and said to him, "Wait a minute. We helped you last summer at Christ City of Prayer Church. You are still trying to fool people out of money. I ought to call the police. You leave my house and you better not ever come back." He left, running, and jumped into the white truck, headed toward Downtown. "A small woman rides with him," Clara says, "says she is his wife." . . . As an after-thought Clara adds, "I had just renewed my firearms license for my pistol." ƒ The University of Georgia Baseball Team defeated Fresno State University of California in the first game of a best-of-three championship series Monday night in the College World Series. As of Monday night (when this is written), the Georgia team was the only team participating that was undefeated. The two teams met again Tuesday night, too late for this column. If Georgia won, they are the national champions of college baseball. If they lost, they played again Wednesday night. Thoroughly confused? ƒ Don't forget to be rounding up all your red, white, and blue for the 11th annual Early Morning Fourth of July Parade. It will get underway at eight o'clock sharp at Fort Washington Park (behind the Courthouse.) No motorized vehicles allowed. Dogs on leashes, children in strollers, on bicycles or tricycles, and lots of walkers for the short route are invited to participate. It's fun!
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