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Thiysday. February 17. 1983 I W Editar’a Bate: Nil an. aa Edaataa native, la vice preaWeat el Parker Bretkera Newspaper* es AkeaUe. Hie calnma appears weekly in a Banker •ftfcat jnap'* pakUcat^ona. Have you been a patient in a hospital lately? If so, you probably found the bill for services to be more of a hazard to your health than your original illness. What is behind the con tinued increases in hospital and related care? Last year, hospital costs increased another 19 per cent to a new record high. Why? If you are one of those that keeps up with the monthly cost of living reports, you’ll see right at the top of the list are “medical treatment” and utility bills. An examination of the escalating cost of electricity reveals the average household electric bill has gone up 700 per cent over the past 35 years! And still, the utilities say they need more money. But wait. Let’s look at these costs a bit closer. Actually, the cost of electricity per thousand kilowatt hours, in the average home, has in creased seven times because the household requires seven times more electricity to operate the array of ap pliances and gadgets found in most homes. The cost of operating an air conditioner, deep freezers, hair dryers, and refrigerators; washer-dryers, electric can openers, radios, televisions, night lights, and so on contributes greatly to the increased cost of electric services. What was once considered luxuries is now necessity. We find fault with everyone but ourselves when we receive our monthly electric bill but ourselves. In reality, it is real ly our dependency on so many electric gadgets that creates the higher bills. And we will not admit that we can do without many of the ap pliances and items we now have plugged in. So, how about the rising cost of health services? Are we to blame for the increases for these services also? Americans now spend $274 billion a year for medical care. Os that amount, most ALotFor ALitde. Some people seem to be under the impression that it takes a lot of money to start an IRA It doesn’t with us.\ou can open your IRA with as little as sloo.Then you can make additional deposits any time you want. Better yet, you can set up $95341 $ 190,682 $381365 1111 ! ■■■■■■■■■—■■■ I I Ml. ■ II ■■1.... automatic withdrawals every month from a Checking or Savings Account with us, or your paycheck. Whichever suits you best. As you can see by the chart, even $23 a month can set big results over the years. What’s more, all the money you put in can be deducted from your income on your tax return. Aid the interest it earns is tax only pay taxes when you make withdiawak probably after you’re retired and in a lowa- tax bracket. For more information, come see us sooaWh want everyone who does business with us. Bsnkof to get the best possible retirement. NOTthCSTOtnd ° * NowapotafNCTß 'Assumes 9% annual interest, compounded daily on a 365360 basis. Working iniividuak cm attribute as rmich as 100% of heir salary or wages, up to a maximum ofS2fiOO (s43oototal for urorkiv couples). Substantial interest penatybr early wrthdravaLAß depositors insured to SKQJHOO by FDC point of view goes to doctors and therapy. Only sllO billion actually goes to hospitals. Nonetheless, there is an enormous increase over what was paid for medical treat ment a dozen years ago. Can we go back to those years? Back before transplanted syn thetic organs and limbs, pacemakers, mechanical pancreas, the artificial larynx and steroscopically restored eyesight? Would we go back? No. Today’s Americans are willing to pay whatever it cost to live longer. We want the best doctors, the best therapy, the best of everything, in cluding hospital facilities. And the best always cost more. Americans also spend more time in the hospital today than ever before, and we go more often. Many times, hospital care is not even need ed, but we often feel we have to have the treatment so many feel can only be found in a hospital. Sure, it all cost a lot, but with insurers or employers or the government paying the bills, why not? So, who is really the cause of higher and higher cost for day to day living. The answer is probably as near as the mirror. -0- Whether you are a duck hunter or not, you’ll enjoy this story. Even during duck hunting season, it is doubtful our feathered friends are in any danger of extinction. Hunters have refined the art to using magnum cannons without birdshot patterns the size of a canned ham without ever ruf fling a feather. And still they miss their targets. Duck hunting is seldom economical but always joyous. It’s necessary to keep convincing yourself that it’s fun to get up at 3 A.M., lie in a coll wfct place, and make strarle Bounds. A plumber does lie lame thing under a house; but gets paid for it. Making duck sounds is a real art. Some guys can make sounds so realistic they have to shoot drakes in self defense to keep them from trying to mate with them. Most duck imitations can be described BY BILL NIXON as accurate duck calls, Daffy that is. Probably one of the most impressive duck stories told involved a curious sky hunter, as those that use the magnum cannons are called, and the guy who soundlessly knocked duck after duck out of the air without firing a shot. When asked how he did such a thing, the hunter replied, “I ugly ‘em down.” When asked to explain, the guy twisted his face into a horrible contortion, his eyes met the duck’s, and suddenly the air was filled with feathered cartwheels as the duck fell at his feet. “Wow!” exclaimed the curious sky hunter. “Why don’t you bring your wife out here and get double your limit?” “Can’t,” replied the hunter. “She’s so ugly she’s magnum ugly. She tears them up too bad.” -0- Until next week, we’ll leave you with this thought. If you want your child to grow up right, train them while they are young to walk in the way that they should go, and walk there yourself once in a while. Notaries PubScs Jean White, Perquimans County register of deeds, will conduct a three-hour course for Chowan County residents to satisfy new state re quirements for Notaries Publics. The one-time seminar is mandatory prior to the first appointment of persons who wish to become notaries, ac cording to Clayton Morrisette, continuing education director at College of The Albemarle. The brief training session will begin at 7 P.M. on February 24 at John A. Holmes High School in Edenton. A $8 registration fee wiUbe charged for the training course which was develßpHT by the N.C. Department of Community Colleges in cooperation with the N.C. Department of State. 'We are always getting ready to live but never living." Ralph Waldo Emerson THE CHOWAN HERALD Beyond The Weeds Start Planting March Ist ~ - Continued From Pago 3-B world gathering that smilax by himself. He told her how it was all over the ditches and just running on top of the ground. Sue packed her snippers, Hoke Roberson, Ir. I Announces 1 ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE Brick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac Or GMC Tracks r Now through March 31,1983, you can get Low GMAC financing on the finest line of low 11.9% GMAC financing on quality 1983 GM GM vehicles ever offered. Available from Hoke cars and light trucks.* And this low rate is not Motor Corp. on vehicles delivered by March 31. just limited to selected models. Qualified Vehicles ordered by February 28 are also eligi buyers can finance any new 1983 Pontiac, ble. Dealer financial participation may affect Oldsmobile, Buick or GMC light-duty truck or final negotiated price of the vehicle. So make van at just 11.9%. y OUr best deal and get a big break with low 11.9% GMAC financing. •Excludes fleet sales and leased units. PONTIAC GMAC BUICK l OLDSMOBILE CMC TRUCKS X Jlfx VISIT ™ E HOME OF THE ★GM* GIANT 7Tf llfllf r MOTOR corp. j/Yl mill W EDENTON4B2-8421 & UIIUIILn Broad St. Ext. apron and wire for her decorating duties the next morning. She got the kids off, left Charlie some eggs, and was putting on her new cor duroy split skirt with mat ching argyles and topsiders when Charlie came back from warming up the engine. He mentioned that some of the leaves were curling, but Sue paid no mind. It was when she went out to check the trunk that she became unglued. People all the way to the courthouse heard her yell, “Charlie, you get out here this instant!” And some other things. No wonder Charlie had fill ed the trunk in less than two Page 7-B —-- - • hours. No wonder the leaves'* * were turning brown. Sue taught Charlie an im- ‘ portant lession right then and ‘ there. **. Kudzu vine makes a lousy - ; Christmas wreath.
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