Thursday, November 34,1977
Conferences Set
111 Williamston
<dn Handicapped
Regional parent con
ferences on services for
handicapped children will
be held in nine North
Carolina locations
December 3. For parents of
handicapped children,
professionals, and other
interested persons in the
Edenton-Chowan area, the
conference location will be
at the Northeast Regional
Center in Williamston.
Registration starts at 8:30
A.M., with sessions
scheduled from 9 A.M.
through 12:30 P.M.
The conferences, spon
sored by the Division for
Exceptional Children, State
Department of Public In
struction, have been
planned on a regional basis
make meetings easily
accessible for participants,
to pinpoint services
available in each area, and
to allow informal exchange
among parents, educators,
and other service providers.
The December 3 meetings
are a follow-up to similar
state-wide Parent Con
ferences which were held
last May.
According to Director of
the Division for Exceptional
Children, Theodore R.
Drain, the purposes of the
meetings are to share with
participants the provisions
of new state and federal
laws affecting programs for
the handicapped and to
assist them in un
derstanding the many
services available in their
schools and from other
community and state
agencies. Sessions also will
Address the importance of
family involvement in the
success of educational
programs for the han
dicapped, and special
problems of children with
specific handicaps.
Additional conferences
information is available
from Mrs. Mary Horton
Director of Pupil Personnel
Services, Edenton-Chowan
Schools, $24436, otflfrom
Jeanette Shaw, Northeast
Regional Center, P.O. Box
1028, Williamston, N.C.
27882; (919) 792-5166.
Six Locations
To Offer Tax
Short Course
A Farm and Small
y Business Income Tax Short
Course for individuals who
help others in filing income
tax returns will be given this
year in six locations, R.M.
Thompson, county extension
chairman, has announced.
Locations and dates for
the short courses are:
Asheville, November 28-29;
Greenville, November 28-
29; Winston-Salem,
November 30-December 1;
Charlotte, November 30-
December 1; and Greens
boro, December 59.
Both full-time ac
countants and individuals
filing tax returns will find
the short course helpful in
increasing their knowledge
of tax laws and as a fast
review prior to the tax
season.
An advanced program for
y persons experienced in the
income tax field will be held
in Raleigh on December 7-9.
The short course will be
conducted by N.C. State
University in cooperation
with the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service, file N.C.
Department of Revenue, the
N.C. Society of Accountants,
the U.S. Department of
Labor, and the Social
Security Administration.
The county extension
chairman pointed out there
is both a need and an op
portunity for someone to
render this service to far
mers and small businesses.
The complicated nature of
modern business, the lack of
adequate accounts, and,
spedal provisions in income
tax laws applying to far
ming and other small
ljinintians the fiMng
k* income Ux returns
ysrr.
jgnnation, see Thompson or
write to: Kelly Crump,
Division of Continuing
Governor Slates Child Disease Campaign
RALEIGH—Gov. James.
B. Hunt, Jr., has announced
the start of a special effort
to protect all children and
Infant* in die state from the
most serious childhood
diseases—polio, mumps,
measles, rubella (German
measles), diphtheria,
whooping cough, and
tetanus.
This campaign, which is
being handled by the
Communicable Disease
Branch, Department of
Human Resources, is part of
a nation-wide, federally
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financed program to fully
immunize an estimated 20-
million children who have
received no immunization,
or whose protection is not
adequate, according to the
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
In announcing the
program earlier, HEW
Secretary Joseph Califano
said that the aim was to
raise the national level of
protection among children
from 60 per cent to 90 per
cent over a two-year period.
Gov. Hunt set a higher goal
THE CHOWAN HERALD
for North Carolina:
“I am happy to tell you
that this state already has a
protected level of an
estimated 84 per cent among
the one to four year olds, but
that leaves some 55,000
children in this age group
without adequate protec
tion. No medical doctor,
public official, or parent
should be satisfied until we
have eliminated the threat
of these terrible diseases
through immunizing every
child in the state.
“Therefore, I have asked
Dr. Sarah Mqrrow,
Secretary of the Depart
ment of Human Resources,
to set North Carolina’s goal
at 95 per cent protection; and
I ask all parents to have
their children vaccinated,
either by a private physician
or at public health facility.
These shots are free at
public health offices.”
Dr. Morrow and other
medical people in the state
and across the nation have
been warning that we may
be facing outbreaks of polio
and other infectious
diseases if we do not raise
the present level of
protection among pre-school
children.
“We have the vaccines to
control these diseases,” said
Dr. Morrow, who was for
merly the chief medical
officer for Guilford County,
“but too many parents
aren’t getting their children
immunized. Unless we can
quickly protect more
children against vaccine
preventable diseases, I fear
that these predicted
epidemics will occur.”
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