Northwest Arkansas Times (Newspaper) - December 12, 1976, Fayetteville, Arkansas You'll Find The Good News On Page 1C VOL 180 The Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS SUNDAY DECEMBER 12 1976 CENTS Christmas Season Brings Out Worst in Check Passers By JACK WALLACE TIMES Staff Writer The holiday season usually brings out the best in people many instances holiday shoppers will in court and in some cases even jail The checks Also as overdrafts Many people seem to get carried away with Christmas the extent that they overdraw their checking accounts Such an act tan and often does lead to a ory courtroom appearance fines and sometimes jail Linda Grim deputy Fayette ville city prosecuting attorney told the TIMES that the days bring the hot chock t ers out in droves Hooding many business establishments with worthless checks The she said have no- where to turn but to her office in an attempt to prosecute the offenders lot of people write bad checks do it Miss Grim said She that more care be taken when an individual balances checkbook to make sure thai balance is correct office sees two types of check who make a mistake in figuring their balance and those win Write a had check on she said Miss Grim pointed out tha pena Hies er Ark an sa law are quite severe for thoai writing an Insufficient funi check On a first conviction for a Carter Could Be Faced With Record 77 Deficit heck under a fine can be to exceed If he check is more than 5 bat less than still on a first the guilty jerson can be fined not more han or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than wo both A second conviction on any check under can bring of not less than 10 days or more than two years and a line not more than A th ird conviction on any check under 550 becomes a fel ony offense and is punishable imprisonment in the state for not more han 10 years and a fine of not more than Miss Grim also pointed out that any bad check i ti an amount of more than is a offense even on a first conviction Most businesses are now requiring some form of from any person Ing a check hut many are not requiring enough or making sure that the identification fits the check writer she said The business should require wo pieces of identification Miss Grim said The first should he a driver's license and the second some form of sub- material such as a credit card with an account number A Social Security card is WOE for id entification purposes The driver's license number and account number should he written on the check by the store's clerk not by the CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO A Parading Santa Offers A Foretaste Of Christmas Glaus riding a drawn wagon In place of lite customary sleigh waves and losses candy to children lining the sidewalk on West son Street Saturday morning Santa and his equipage were taking part in the Christmas parade beld In the area which by includes Street shopping district The parade passed up to on West Center Street Block Avenue lo anil around by Leslie the Square and ended al the ton Church of Christ parking lot Holtz To Porkers By HALL TIMES Sports Editor At Saturday on almost three hours after the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees began a special meeting Lou Holtz was hired as the school's 24th head ball coach He replaces Frank Broyles who resigned as coach after a 19-year tenure during which he put the on the football map As ed the Board voted to have Broyles continue as UA athletic director HoHz accepted the position at Arkansas just two days after resigning as head coach of the New York Jets of the national Football League As recently as last day Holtz announced that he would honor his contract with the Jets But Thursday after opening a letter from a former player who said how much ho was enjoying college coaching Holtz said he was struck by the realization that college was what he also wanted to dp As he said that morning in a press conference Cod just didn't put Lou Holtz in the ld to coach pro football Both Boyles and Holtz have said that they were not in con tact with each other between the lime Holtz notified Broyles Wednesday that he would stay with the Jets and the time he announced his resignation the next day Aske d wh at caused the change of mind Holtz said The main thing about it was that 1 owed so much Eo the management and the owners of the 1 knew I couldn't stay in pro football very Ion It became a question of when I would move the family And if I was gonna move now was the time to do it Perhaps a tipoff was provided by Broyles when he said night even after stated intention to remain with the I expect him to return to college coaching IE it's not this year I think it ON PACK 1C To West Washington County Medical Aid Coining Wester Washington County will have emergency medical services available alter Jan 1 when Luginbuel Funeral Home Watching The Parade Two children watch wide-eyed as the Downtown Fa yet te ville Christm passes their vantage point Saturday n ing drawing crowds despite chill foggy weather by Leslie which has provided emergency and ambulance service for many years ceases operations Twelve persons from the area Inside Sunday's TIMES Dablemont Outdoors Water Role Throughout History Mostly About Books Veteran County Clerk Retiring Christmas 100 Years Ago Editorial 4 A Entertainment For Women IB Classified Sports Legal Notices ID began a crash course last week the first step in them to become gency medical technicians Six of the trainees are men three form Lincoln and three from Prairie Grove All are volunteers FULL TRAINING After completing the course before Jan 1 they will undertake the full se which will qualify them as emergency medical technicians The plight of the area which considers too far from ambulances based al ton Regional Medical Center has been under study for more than a year since late in 1975 its intention to quit ing service Lincoln Prairie Grove ale tripled to purchase an CONTINUED ON PACE IS P I I NEWS BRIEFS House Burglarized Lawrence Tale 820 tt North Garland reported the theft of a color television set from his residence to police Saturday afternoon Tate told he had locked both doors wnen he left Friday afternoon he returned Saturday afternoon he said both doors unlocked and ft Zenith portable television set was missing Intruder Slain LITTLE ROCK AP ald Ray Harvester 3D of Little Rock broke into the apartment of policeman Harold Thatcher early Saturday and Thatcher shot him to death police said Investigators said the men Knew each other prior to shooting but they did not vide any details of their relationship Replacement Named LITTLE ROCK Dr Kai Lloyd Erickson was Saturday to replace For- rest Rozzell as executive tary of the Arkansas Education will take office April 1 when retires ation Schools To Reopen LOUISVILLE Ky CAP Schools may open hut sands of striking teachers wili continue their strike against the school tem here the president of the teachers union said Saturday June Lee president of the Jefferson County Teachers sociation said school tendent Ernest Gray son to the system's teachers schools would reopen Tuesday with or without a contract Risk Is Seen In Effort To Aid Economy WASHINGTON AP Carter probably will have to propose a record et deficit for fiscal 1977 if he decides a government program is needed to stimulate the omy his advisers say The advisers describe the in- coming chief executive 33 being concerned over public reaction to a record deficit because ho ants to avoid the abel that President Ford tried pin on him during the aign One adviser suggested that le prospect of proposing a ecord budget deficit so soon aEter taking office is among the easons Carter is delaying any quick decision on a tax cut or obs program for 1977 There also is some concern in he Carter camp that Congress may balk at approving a record deficit It is partly to counter these concerns that Carter has his transition staff preparing an program that could be disclosed at the sams time any economic initiatives are announced after he is sworn in Jan 20 HEAVY DEFICIT The deficit for fiscal 1977 which started last Oct I ready is likely o he near billion according to experts Anything Carter docs to increase ing or cut taxes is almost tain to push it above the record deficit of trillion in fiscal 1976 they add IE Carter decides on billion lo jobs and lax cut program his advisers are recommending the tial 1977 budget deficit could ba as high as billion Carter has repeatedly gone out of his way to emphasize that he hasn't yet committed himself in any program He said recently that he prefers spending for jobs rather than a cut to stimulate the my COULD DO NOTHING Carter also couVi decide not to do anything or very little to stimulate the economy but most Carter advisers believe this would be a mistake In order to get his programs considered for he current cal year Carter must propose them within a few weeks of taking office advisers say Part of Carter's problem in getting public support for er budget deficits is that many fiscal conservatives have blamed the persistent deficits of the past 15 years for the inflation problems Carter has pledged a budget by fiscal 1981 One adviser says that still could he possible even with a record deficit in 1577 LOCAL Partial clearing today with a in the low Clear and cool tonight with low near 34 Continued mild Find partly Monday Sunset today sunrise Monday Carter Presidency May Spelt A New Look For U.S Menus By DORRIS HENDRICKSON TIMES Writer With the election last month of deep southerner Jimmy ter as President there has a lot of comments about southern victuals most of it Issued in a derisive tone Well those people making light of southern cooking or as one ethnic group has chosen to label il soul just dont what they have been missing all Whether or not southern dishes can be attributed to poor blacks poor whites or just U the region itself is immaterial The food Is good substantial ind at least in the past Ively inexpensive What mote could one ask One of the slurs on er's southern heritage was Grits and Fritz with the grits referring to Carter and Fritz being Sen Mondale's name Cartoons have depicted stack upon slack of cartons of grits chitterlings cracklin red eye gravy corn pone gumbo etc being moved the White Huse pantry That may be true As a true son of the south Jimmy Carter no doubt enjoys some if not all of the al southern dishes But who can resist southern fried chicken or southern pecan So those who at southern dishes must be sel i n their sneering Probably every cook has Ms or her own recipe southern fried chicken but few outside the south and Is border states have a in of recipes for other southern delicacies A few years ago when the television program The ly Hillbillies was the rage the dampens dined on such things as possum shanks owl gizzards and crow Maybe at some time someone somewhere has eaten such things It is known that many southerners ed in various dishes But as he Carter family moves to the nation's and the stories about their ice of delicacies spread no doubt there will be those to try some southern dixies o see for themselves While Northwest Arkansas Is tittle outside the deep south many of the early settlers here came from the southern states and their descendants today can carry on with their traditional methods of cooking In the early years ators and freezers the most commonly consumed meat was pork which could be cured and retained throughout the year Thrifty housewives learned to use everything but the squeal This probably accounts for such dishes as cracklin bread and red-eye gravy Cracklin bread for those unfamiliar with this rich but tasty bread ia cornbread made with flour and eggs and a full of For the iated cracklins are small bits of crisply cooked pork Eat ilar to the fat portion of crisp bacon Cracklins are obtained when pork fat is rendered Most of the frying in old-time kitchens was done with pork fat or lard No polyunsaturated garine or com oil then When the fat meat was fried the uid grease was preserved for lard and the resulting meat ces or cracklins were often added to the raw batter which was then cooked making cracklin bread gravy also called streaked or striped gravy was another by-product of the cook ing ot pork When pork as chops or steak is pan fried some of the meat juices are left in the pan Probably some I h r t y housewife in an effort In get the most out of every bit of food discovered that if she would dip off most of the grease and add a little water or coffee and declare the frying pan the resulting gravy was a delicacy The term red-eye or streaked comes from the fact that the red meat juices congregate in the center of the bottom of the gravy with the grease and water rising lo the top you turn up your nose forget he diet for a liltte while and try some You will try it again and again Another thrifty and typically southern use of a portion of the hog's anatomy was what was called was a thin seel ion of fat moat which was parboiled to remove the salt and much of the grease and then rolled in corn meal and until it was Grits small bits of coarsely ground corn or hominy are ved both as a breakfast food with sugar or honey and milk or for a starch dish in place of potatoes much as rice is s Ml Chitterlings are parts oE the small intestine of the hog and are sometimes used for food Gumbo is a stew which is thickened with either okra a somewhat southern vegetable or file powder which comes from he sassnfrass tree There are varying types of gumbo Some use chicken as the meat others use shrimp crawfish or other sea food Whether Jimmy Carter ij familiar with poke salad or not one can't be certain hut it was and lo an extent still is a very popular but inexpensive green It grows wild and can be had for picking Other greens dear to the southern heart include turnip greens which grow profusely in the southern are are easily cultivated and provide a delightful and distinct taste Some like them dressed with CONTINUED ON
