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Show 1 T-Shirt Class Has Big Impact on Commission That a class in making tee shirts could make such an impact on the county came'as a surprise to Garfield County Commissioners who watched a video presentation by County Home Agent Debbie Proctor at a recent commission meeting. The commissioners viewed the video presentation made by Mrs. Proctor in conjunction with Utah State University video specialists based on a series of clases she taught during the past year in Garfield County. I She had demonstrated the same video at a montly meeting of extension leaders in Cedar City on a statewide telephone hookup. She decided to make the video after the tee shirt class she initiated last year proved to be such a spectacular success throughout the county. Garfield County women, she had found, had relatively little experience in sewing with knit fabrics and the fabrics were completely unavailable locally. Convinced that if local women once experienced success in working with the fabrics, they would want to continue, she began her first classes. Soon, it seemed that everyone wanted to learn to make tee shirts. Initially, she made fabrics available at her classes, but soon local stores began stocking It. She estimates that more than 3,000 yards of fabric were sold in the county, and, averaging slightly less than a yard each, enough tee shirts were made to deck out almost everyone in the county in the latest fad. She said participants ir. her classes, sponsored in conjunction with community education, learned to make 11 different necklines and shirts with several styles of collars, tabs and sleeves. They attained sufficient skill that they were able upon completing the approximately 16 to 20-hour course to develop their own patterns and to copy most any knit shirt. One woman in Tropic, she said, made 75 tee shirts, with 50 not uncommon. She said they are easy, Inexpensive and comfortable and have created a new market for fabric as well as saving county families a great deal of money. Commissioners appreciated Mrs. Proctor's positive commentary on the tee shirt economy of the county and congratulated her on her successful effort which had caught the attention of people throughout the state. Garfield County Commissioners Guy Thompson and Dell LeFevre view County Home Agent Debbie Proctor's video tape on her count) wide tee shirt classes which gained statewide attention. |