Page 4-B December 'Traffic Safety Sabbath Moath’ . RALEIGH—Edward L. Powell, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, has an nounced that Gov. James E. Holshouser, Jr., has designated the month of December as “Traffic Safety Sabbath Month’’ and called upon the clergy for iheir assistance in promoting this campaign for traffic safety. • Powell said “To aid jreligious leaders in their '-#j§§§ \ I PLUG OBSERVANCE—Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Edward L. Powell, right, and Rev. D. P. McFarland of the Christian Action League discuss the traffic safety kits that have been mailed to approximately 12,000 religious leaders across the state. Gov. James E. Holshouser, Jr. has designated the month of December as “Traffic Safety Sabbath Month.” in North Carolina and called upon the clergy for their assistance in prompting this campaign for their assistance in prompting this campaign for traffic safety. (Photo by Bill Jones, Information Services). mi The first derby hat was sold by a New York store in the year 1850! Worried About Your Nest Egg In The Present Market? Is it safe, insured, readily available and earning a good return 7 If the answer is "yes”, it is prob ably in our care right now. And if the answer is "no", perhaps it’s time for your money to enioy the security and earning power that it deserves. Stop m 1 £Sa fßf lllll! v, co ,r< EDENTON SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Jt Saft ' Place Do Sao. Sin ce 1905 322 S. Broad St. - Edenton, N. C. SAVE S BO Microwave ■HHI Oven with 1 emperatur * S S; Sensing y & i3f< Control REGULAR $469.95 Tnc only microwave oven we offer that lets you cook by temperature as well as by time. Mo guesswork .. . just place temperature-sensing probe into food and set power and food tem P el ? tur * deoued. Oven automatically shuts off when proper food temperature is mclMd. SALE ENDS DECEMBER 81. 1976 SHOP AT SEARS AND SAVE NORTHSIDE SHOPPING Satisfaction Guaranteed Vpo w CENTER or Your Monty Back CTtttlO Edeston. H. C. sea as. roebuck and ax preparation of this special observance, approximately 12,000 traffic safety kits have been mailed.” The safety kits contain literature related to high way safety, including statistical data, editorials and holiday data. Commenting on this an nual event, Powell said, “An awareness of the relationship between religious responsibility and obedience to the traffic laws that govern and promote highway safety can, I feel, have a significant and far-reaching impact on our efforts to make North Carolina a safer (dace in which to live. High way Safety must be more than a slogan - it must be a way of life.” With the arrival of the holiday season comes a period generally high in traffic accidents, due to increased travel, adverse weather conditions and early darkness. Some 286 persons lost their lives on North Carolina’s streets and highways during the months of November and December in 1975. “It is our hope that an early awareness of the hazards of driving will spark the interest and careful attention of every citizen venturing onto the roads,” Powell concluded. "Craziest Show On Earth” To Be Presented Thursday, December 16 The “Craziest Show On Earth*’ comes to town on December 16 at 7:30 P. M., Scotland Neck Official Honored DENVER Colo.—Scotland Neck Mayor Fred Harrison has been elected to a two year term on the board of directors of the National League of Cities during the national organization’s annual convention here. Mayor Harrision is the only North Carolina municipal official elected to the prestigious board of the National League of Cities (NLC). He just completed serving the unexpired term on the NLC board of former Raleigh Mayor Clarence Lightner, who was not re elected to his city post last year. The directors of the National League of Cities formulate policy and programs in behalf of towns and cities across the United States and speaks in their behalf before Congress. Most of the major cities in North Carolina and their own organization, the North Carolina League of Municipalities, also belong to the national organization. Scotland Neck, population 2,800, is the smallest municipality represented on the board of directors of NLC. Harrision has served as mayor for 19 years, is a past president of the N. C. League of Municipalities, is chairman of Region “L” Council of Governments, and is currently serving as president of Electricities, an organization representing the 71 town and cities in North Carolina which distribute their own electic power. He was elcted during the NLC’s business session near the close of the NLC Congress which drew about 3,000 municipal officials from across the nation. THE CHOWAN HE RAID 7,623 Foeder Pigs Were Sold In , Six State Graded Sales This Week A total of 7,623 feeder pigs were sold on 6 state graded sales this week, according to the Market News Service, Department of Agriculture. Prices were weak to 4.00 lower on 40-80 pound pigs. US 1-3 pigs weighing 40-50 pounds brought 33.00-48.00, 5060 pounds 31.0044.20, 60 70 pounds 32.0041.% and weights of 70-80 pounds sold from 32.2540.50 per cwt. At weekly cattle auctions held within the state this week, slaughter cows were 1.003.00 higher, veal calves 5.0010.00 higher, and feeder calves 25-1.00 higher. Utility and Commercial cows brought 21.00-26.00 Good veal calves 38.50 to 50.00, Good slaughter steers 33.75- 35.00 at one market and Good slaughter heifers at same market 32.00-34.50, Good feeder steers 300-600 pounds 27.50-33.00 and Good feeder heifers 300-500 pounds 22.00-27.00. when it’s men vs. donkeys at Perquimans County High School Gym. The opposing second teams will be Guidance Club Members vs. Elizabeth State University Students in a game spon sored by the Guidance Club’s Presidential Classroom Project. The donkeys will be stubborn, as usual - sometimes a little contrary - and to put it mildly, sometimes a bit un cooperative. The rules of the game are that you can only shoot while sitting on the donkey and recover loose balls while holding on to the donkey. This is where the fun comes in. About the time a player goes to shoot, the donkey decides he has been on his back too long. The local “cowboy” will then show his skill as a rodeo star. Trying to move the donkey two or three inches when going after a loose ball, can sometimes seem like a city block. It will be a real challenge to the local men of strength. There will be thrills, spills, laughs and more laughs. The local drug stores will sell their liniment stocks the day after the game. It’s fun for members of the entire family. It’s the basketball game of the year, where everyone goes home laughing. NORTH CAROUNA CROWS ON TOBACCO. It has for three hundred years. It still does. tobacco products mean some $43,000,000 in rev- To the farmers of North Carolina, tobacco enue to support state services, represents almost $952,000,000 nearly 56% That’s an impressive contribution in jobs, of the state’s cash crop income from all farm in income, and in taxes. It directly benefits the commodities. • ninety-one North Carolina tobacco-growing ooun- To fjie state’s industrial workers, it means ties.lt indirectly benefits allfene hundred counties 29,100 jobs and nearly $312,000,000 in wages. in the state. J To the retailer it means more than North Carolina - anci North Carolina’s $459,100,000 in sales each year. tobacco industry And in terms of sales and cigarette taxes, three hundred years. * . v f . ' ®p c o . - ■w- T • » if ■ - .e / '.£ •, % r ;. •' J '*; North Carolina market hog prices at daily buying stations this week ranged from 33.75-36.50. Prices at weekly livestock auction markets brought 33.00-35.00 and sows 22.00-33.75. Egg prices were un changed in the state this week. Supplies wore adequate with the demand good. The weighted average price for small lot sales of consumer grade A eggs in cartons delivered to near by retail stores on December 3 were 82.92 for large whites, 79.13 for medium and 68.95 for small. Broiler and fryers are steady for next week’s trading. Supplies are fully adequate with the demand moderate. The North Carolina fob dock weighted average price is 34.40 cents per pound for next week for small purchases of sized plant graded broilers picked up at processing plants. Weights range from desirable to heavy. A total of 6,247,000 head were slaughtered in North Carolina week of November 29th. Sweet potato prices were higher this week. Fifty pound cartons of US No. 1 cured jewels were quoted on Thursday at 5.50 to 6.00. Supplies are adequate and quality good. Cotton quotation ranged rrom 75.50-76.00 for strict low. middling 1 and one sixteenth inch in Charlotte through Thursday. Corn prices were 14 cents higher and soybeans 1-B‘a cents lower through Thursday of this week. No. 2 yellow shelled com was quoted at mostly 2.24-2.26 in the eas tnad 2.24-2.35 in the piedmont. No. 1 yellow soybeans were 6.48-6.64‘2. Letter To The Editor I am a cruising sailor, qpt a writer, but I did want to express my appreciation to the town of Edenton for the , wonderful reception a yachtsman receives. Your town pier, with facilities, right in town where one can walk to the store and not have to get transportation in order to get supplies aboard ones boat, are the answer to a cruising mans dream. Many thanks to your town Frank H. Cadden Ketch Jefra SKITS PRESENTED-Eighth grade students In Mrs. Hattie Byrum’s Home Economics class voluntarily assisted the ESAA Counselor Program in creating dramatic skits for grades Kindergarten to Third grade in Development Guidance. Students prepared posters, and wrote skits on proper attitudes in lunchroom behavior. Primary student and teacher responses were so positive to this approach that other programs are being planned to present a series in developmental guidance in the areas of self concept, in terpersonal relationships and values. Students who presented the skits were Jacqueline Roundtree, Patricia Hill, Tamie Bembry, Vickie Cruz, Terry Hoard, Michele Flynn, Sharon Privette and Susan Storie. Airman Boyce In Germany Now ,SETBACK, Germany— U. S. Air Force Airman Ist Class Darrell S. Boyce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson A. Boyce, Route 1, Edenton, N. C., has arrived for duty at Sembach AB, Germany. Airman Boyce, an ad- TURKEY SHOOT The Belvidere-Chappell Hill Fire Department will have a turkey shoot each Saturday until Christmas. The events will begin at 4 P. M. All proceeds will go to the fire department. WORMS CAN KILL YOUR PET. Large roundworms (Ascarids) can kill your cat or dog. And he can pick them up any time—even be born with them. What can be done about the-“worry of worms”? Sergeant's Worm-Away" Cap sules mix easily with pet food to rout roundworms. Forotherworm problems, get Sergeant's Sure Shot ’ Capsules, Puppy Capsules or Tapeworm Medicine. - |Albemarle Chiropractic Office^ I DR. FRANK WAFF . I am hh Mon. ° Wed. - Fri. Tues. - Thun. • Sot. I 411 S. Hughes Blvd. 933 N. Brood St. I Elizabeth City Edenton 338-3206 482-8534 ministrative specialist with a unit of the U. S. Air Forces in Europe, previously served at Peterson AFB, Colo. The airman entered the Air Force in June, 1974. Edenton Upholstering and Antiques QUALITY WORKMANSHIP COME IN AND BROWSE .... WE BUY AND SELL Margo and Milclos Barath Quean Street Extended In Albania Acree TELEPHONE 462-4844 Thursday, December 16,~f1?6 I Final Chance To ! Porchase Medal f As Christmas and the end of 1976 draws near, people will have their last chance to purchase one of the Official State at North Carolina Bicentennial Medals. The face of the medal depicts* a collage of the state’s agricultural, creational, industrial, and human ’ resources. , Medallic Art Comapany, the oldest private mint in the United States, and producers of the Congressional Medal of Honor and many official Presidential Inaugural medals is the producer of the State of North Carolina. The medals are available in gold, silver, and bronze, and may be purchased in dividually, in necklaces, or in paperweights. They may also be purchased as part of the Official Original Thir teen Colony Collection. They make excellent Christmas gifts as a lasting piece of memorabilia. For ad ditional information contact your local Bank or Savings and Loan or write to Official Bicentennial Medal Programs, P. O. Box 1332, Atlanta, Ga. 30301.

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