Central High School - Arrow Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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5™ AVE Shannon Imber browses in the Peddler’s Treasure, a new store in the Mam Avenue Mini Mall. Tom Berbous eats lunch at McDonalds as it is being remodeled inside. A salesclerk at Aberdeen’s new fashion clothing store. Brauns, helps Heidi Hepperle. A Nash Finch grocery outlet is in the process of being built west of the Cinema. JO Local News

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 Students experience farm crunch .For American farmers, the economic out- look was not good, according to most farm economists. Farmers may take some slim hope, however, in recalling that the econo- mists have been wrong about as often as they have been right. At any rate, most economists don't expect much recovery in the farm economy in 1986. After a four-year slide, farm income was not expected to pick up much, if at alh farm exports were expected to continue to lagi farmland values show little prospect of recovery soon and farmers who are deeply in debt are likely to continue to have serious prob- lems. ami spread it out. You need to get loans, but the banks won't give us a loan. said Carmin Beckler. We got a pretty good crop this year, but if Dad wouldn't have gotten it. Dad would have sold the farm by nowl she added. American agriculture as an industry still has something to be thankful for. For one thing, despite the gloomy stat- istics and a lot of mistaken media pub- licity. about half of all of the nation's more than 2.3 million farmers have lit- tle or no debt. An additional 25 percent have debt loads they can handle, ac- cording to economists. And a major it y of the remaining debt-burdened farm- ers may even actually squeak through. inventories, such as grain stored in bins and livestock on the farm. For that reason, economists say that net cash income is a better indication of the economic status of farmers than is net farm income. Net farm income is a statistic issued by the government to show the amount of income generated in a given year from crop and livestock production, regardless of whether the commodities are sold, fed to livestock or placed in inventory. Many in the last group, unfortunately. won’t make it through the year. You have to budget your money a lot better Net cash income is the difference be- tween gross cash income and cash ex- penses. It does not include the value of Carmin Beckler skillfully handles a tractor in the fields. Pages Designed By Julie Nikolas Agriculture 9

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■■ ■I SUPER CITY MALL CALL-605-229-1781 Aberdeen, |k Jk The Super City Mall advertises to any interested merchants. Marne Howell picks out a valentine for that someone special at the r Mini Mall. Students treasure changes in Aberdeen PAYDAY? Expansion of the Super City Mall is now underway. The Super City Mall was built in 1964 and is the first en- closed mall in South Dakota. The Turn- ing Point is the newest edition to the mall. It offers Christian Rock music and a place for teens to gather. wastewater treatment plant. The new plant is expected to be much faster and the end result-water should be much cleaner. Sophomore Cindy Schipke comments. ”1 think the biggest improvement Ab- erdeen could make would be to build a new shopping mall. Eric Rosbach agrees, saying ”The kids in Aberdeen need a place to go and hang out with- out getting in trouble. A new mall is just what we need. If an Omaha. Ne- braska firm carries through on its plans. 1986 could go down in Aber- deen's history as the year construc- tion began on a major shopping mall. It will include three department stores and 85 retail shops. OVERALL OUTLOOKI Aberdeen has an excellent outlook for the rest of this year. Teacher Mr. Alan Hoerth thinks. The general attitude of growth in Aberdeen has changed and there is a definite positive out- look.” HUNGRY? You now have a chance to try several new eating establishmentsi Arbys. A to Z Submarine Shop. Dominoes, and The Eatery in the Mini Mall. Both Hardees and McDonald's have remodeled. Driving down 6th Avenue and hanging a corner onto Main Street, one can see the many changes in Aberdeen this year. 1985-1986 brought about several new additions and improvements to Aberdeen to prove once again our motto The City Without Limits. TIRED? The Holiday Inn has just remodeled and added on. Or you could try Aber- deen 's third Super 8 recently built by Arbys. The Super 8 Corporation has also built another new office building by their new headquarters. CONCERNED? The city of Aberdeen will use 1985 to take them one step further in the pro- cess of completing its $10.5 million Commercial construction in Aberdeen seems to be on the upswing according to the industry officials here. In 1985. building permits reached the second highest on record- $14 million for 580 projects. RESTLESS? There are several new hot spots where you can check out the action. During the summer months head out to Wylie Park and try out Aberdeen’s only wa- terslide just built. Plans are also under- way for a Storybook Land Castle to be built. If you're looking for indoor enter- tainment go rent a movie. RCA recent- ly remodeled and the movie depart- ment is open later hours than the rest of their store. Several gas stations now rent movies also.