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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1973
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Home Prices Continue Rising
Home prices have in
creased a third (33 per cent)
in just the past five years. The
cost of financing and taking
care of a home has increased
even more. Yet, a home is still
one of the very best invest
ments around.
In 1968, the national aver
age price for new homes was
$25,400. Today it’s $34,100.
And the rate of increase
shows no signs of slowing
down.
Cost of construction materi
als is, of course, one key rea
son for new home price in
creases. Overall, building
material costs increased by 11
per cent in just the past year,
according to a report from the
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may be held liable.
Legal rulings, Patching pointed out,
have established that growers and farm
labor contractors, or labor crew leaders,
are individually, jointly and equally
responsible for complying with the law’s
provisions.
The courts, he says, have held that
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David Gamer, Gary Barrow, Eddie
Pruitt, Ricky Castleberry, Randy
Holbrook, Joey Wofford, Phillip Gunter,
Ronnie Bobo, Kenny Durand, J. D.
Pirkle, Jerry Frazier, Steve Taylor,
Rickie Sexton and David Ridings.
Here are the remaining games to be
played:
Flu Vaccine
There’s a flu special out
this year: two bugs for the
price of one. What’s more, one
of the germs is a somewhat
new model. And because
there is something to be done,
it’s worth a look at the prob
lem ahead of time.
Influenza is caused by a
virus which is different than
most other virus-caused dis
eases of man. For one thing,
the flu virus infects only the
respiratory system of man. In
comparison, measles and
chickenpox viruses affect the
respiratory tract, but also the
skin and central nervous sys
tem.
These two common child
hood diseases are quite stable
in their makeup. Thus an at
tack of either of those dis
eases usually results in life
long protection against them.
But the influenza virus tends
to change a bit in makeup
each year.
So by the time 10 or so years
have passed, the current flu
virus is quite a different germ
than the one which came by 10
years earlier. The change in
the structure of the flu-virus
means that each person’s re
sistance is a little less effec
tive each year. That’s why
there tend to be worldwide
epidemics, called pandemics,
of influenza about every ten
years.
Available evidence sug
gests that flu is an airborne
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Research Bureau of the Na
tional Association of Realtors.
Plywood takes the cake for
the greatest cost boosts, in
creasing 18 per cent in the
past year.
Land prices are another
major contributor to the home
cost hikes. Home sites are
now selling for an average
price of $4,900, according to
the Federal Housing Adminis
tration. That’s also up one
third ova- the price five years
ago.
Like everything else, the
cost of taking care of a home
maintenance and repair
costs is also on the in
crease. Focusing again on the
past five-year period, we see
U.S. Labor
agricultural employers are responsible
for assuring that workers covered by the
Fair Labor Standards Act—whether
hired directly or through contractors or
crew leaders—are paid the minimum
wage, as well as for keeping employee
records and observing child labor laws.
Additional information is available
Soccer
Dec. 18 Paulding Home 4 p.m.
Jan. 8 C. Gwinnett Away 4 p.m.
Jan. 11 Darlington Away 4 p.m.
Jan. 15 Sprayberry Away 4 p.m.
Jan. 19 Gainesville Away 2 p.m.
Jan. 23 Berkmar Home 4 p.m.
Jan 29 Darlington Home 4 p.m.
Feb. 6 Berkmar Away 4 p.m.
infection. The virus particles
are put into the air by the
cough or sneeze of someone
who has the flu. The germs
are breathed into the nose and
throat of someone in contact
with the sufferer, and may
bring about infection.
Virus particles incubate in
the exposed patient for one to
three days. Then typical
symptoms of flu begin. The
onset of the disease is very
sudden and dramatic, begin
ning with aches and pains,
and quickly followed by fever,
chills, headache and cough.
Often there is chest-pain with
the flu, but not much in the
way of sneezing, runny nose
or sore throat.
Many patients with flu com
plain of aching bones and
muscles, as well as overall
weakness. But digestive
symptoms such as nausea,
vomiting and diarrhea, are
unusual. Patients with the
“intestinal flu” probably
have a completely different
virus infection. Even without
the abdominal complaints,
the aches and pain, chills and
fever, chest pain and cough of
flu are misery enough.
Luckily, though, flu is not a
serious disease. Most young,
healthy patients throw it off in
two or three days. Very young
children and older folks have
a problem, however. They are
subject to the complications
of influenza, the most com-
these costs have increased 41
per cent. Examples of repair
cost increases: painting, 57
per cent; roof shingling, 51
per cent; furnace repair, 45
per cent.
In discussing costs, we un
fortunately can’t overlook
real estate taxes, which have
increased 40 per cent in five
years. Insurance against fire
and other hazards cost 19 per
cent more.
Even in the light of in
creased prices, families have
never been more determined
to purchase and own their
home. The buyer market is
strong throughout the coun
try. Perhaps it’s “pride of
from the Labor Department’s Wage and
Hour Division area office at 1100 Citizens
Trust Building, 75 Piedmont Avenue,
N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303; telephone:
(404 ) 526-6396.
C. D. Com
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program to provide signs for unmarked
area roads.
Dr. Frank Groschelle, Director of
Region IV for the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare was the keynote
speaker. He emphasize that “local
people, dealing with local and state
governments, do possess enough in
telligence to solve many of their own
problems.” He also advocated a part
nership between local, state and federal
arms of government.
Suggested
mon of which is pneumonia.
The pneumonia can result
from the flu-virus itself or
from a bacterial infection
which moves in on top of the
flu. In infants, flu sometimes
causes a type of croup. But
many persons who are ex
posed to the flu-virus don’t get
sick at all.
This is especially true of pa
tients who have in their blood
streams antibodies which
fight the flu. Or they can be
artificially produced by treat
ment with flu vaccines. These
vaccines, incidentally, have
been improved in recent
years to increase their effi
ciency and lessen their side
effects.
Flu epidemics usually begin
in the Far East and spread
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ownership.” Or perhaps folks
relate past price increases
with probable future in
creases, and see a current
home purchase as an excel
lent investment and hedge
against continuing inflation.
One significant effect of the
sharply rising costs of new
homes is an increasingly
strong market for resale
(used) homes. Another resul
tant effect is a rapidly ex
panding home remodeling
field.
About 105 million home re
modeling projects will be un
dertaken by home owners in
1973 by far a record number
in a single year.
westward around the world.
That is the case again this
year. The flu which is headed
our way will probably consist
of a modified form of A virus,
related to the Hong Kong flu.
But spreading right beside it
is a strain of B-virus influen
za. So this year for the price of
a week of fever, cough aches
and pains and possibly pneu
monia we can have two types
of flu at the same time two
flu’s for the price of one.
Or we can take steps to
build up fesistance. A vaccine
against the new strain of Type
A flu is available already, and
another against the Type B.
So again this year there are
strong recommendations for
the use of flu vaccine.
Ghost Towns Are Fading Away
Ghost towns, and the in
triguing drama of American
history they reflect, are cre
ating a new wave of interest
and excitement throughout
the country. At least, this has
been so indicated by recent
inquiries.
Many genuine ghost towns
(no permanent residents) are
steadily fading away. If
you’re inclined to visit one of
these remnants of the 19th
Century bonanza mining era,
as increasing numbers of ad
venturous souls are, better
make it soon. Weather and
careless visitors are rapidly
taking their toll.
Some ghost towns are re
viving from the dead as liv
ing, breathing tourist centers.
Cripple Creek, Colo., for ex
ample, became a ghost town
after once producing almost a
half-billion dollars worth of
gold. In recent years, the
wind-blown community has
reawakened as a tourist at
traction.
Silver City, Idaho, once a
rather large and well-planned
community, was the victim of
declining silver prices. The
town was exceptionally com
plete and efficiently planned.
It even included a hospital,
court house, newspaper office
and cemetery. After being
abandoned, a few of the build
ings were demolished or
moved away, but most still
remain. Some of the finer
residences have recently been
refurbished, deghosted and
reoccupied as vacation
homes.
How does a once-thriving
community become a ghost
town? Most were once “boom
communities” left as orphans
in the wake of mining strikes,
railroad and land booms. A
depleted mine or rerouted rail
line can quickly result in a hu
manless town, leaving a fas
cinating destination point for
today’s travelers seeking in
teresting and unusual sights.
Coloma, Calif., for ex
ample, was the sight of the
earliest discovery of gold. It
was here that James Marshall
made his famous “gold find”
that triggered the California
gold rush in 1848. Now desig
nated as a state park, it has
moved a few ghosts aside to
make room for a museum and
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Copper was the glittering
attraction that caused the
birth and rapid growth of Cop
peropolis, Calif. The price of
copper, very high in the 1860 s,
fell sharpiy later in the cen
tury, causing the death of an
other town.
The lure of free land and
lucrative farming and ranch
ing opportunities sparked a
number of “instant towns”
in the Northwest. Several
such communities, like
Shaniko, Ore., flourished dur
ing the late 19th Century but
dwindled to ghost town status
in the early 20th Century due
to rerouted rail lines or de
pressed prices for farm pro
duce and cattle.
Ghost towns are indeed fas
cinating to see and study. If
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