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to&Otf MONOX& CAN MIL... I!QIV SAFE IS YOUR SRACE-HEATER? n NPPtPtM, NClUPm -VINT PtP?'t mp ROOM Will VMTOAm AW HAVE UMT mCKEP PERlODfCAlLY SY YOUP UTILITY COMPANY f Buy Bonds where you work. She does. A, 4 .A Dorothy Jungerman works in Long Binh, Republic of South Vietnam. At a nurse with the U.S. Army, she serves her coun try's soldiers and also Vietnamese civilians like young "Ngoc." Dorothy invests regularly in U.S. Savings Bonds, too (as do more than seven out of ten of our military personnel in Vietnam). There's a good way for you to show brave Americans like Doro thy you're with them: Buy Savings Bonds where you bank or join the Payroll Savings Plan where you work. Freedom Shares -new plan for Americans who want to help their country. Now, when you join the Payroll Savings Plan or the Bond-a-Month Plan, you are eligible to purchase new U.S. Savings Notes, "Freedom Shares, as a bonus opportunity. Freedom Shares pay 4.74 when held to maturity of just foyr-and-a-half years (redeemable after one year), and are available on a one-for-one basis with Savings Bonds. Get the facts where you work or bank. Join up. America needs your help. . T TCf Cmmmmm a3 0mm J new Freedom Shares $15, 000 Grant Awarded To State Employes By Babcock Foundation Th Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation has recently announo ad a $18,000 Grant to the North Carolina Board or Higher Eau. cation for the establishment of a Tuition Refund Program for Stat employes. Administered through the cooperation of the Board of Higher Education and the State Personnel Department, this program. . will reimburse State employes who are continu ing their education. Approxi mately 35,500 persons under the State Personnel Act are eligible. The program la specifically de signed to aid those employes In the lower level positions. Eligibility for this Tuition Re fund Program will be based on one's family and financial status. Any employe whose annual salary la lass than $5,000 may be con. sldered for assistance in the Tut tlon Refund Program' without re gard to family and financial status. Employes whose annual salary exceeds $5,000 may be considered for participation in the Tuition Refund Program upon consideration of family and tU nanclal status. Evaluation of em. ployes in this category will be based on the number of depend ents and family income. Reimbursements shall not ex ceed $50.00 per quarter or se mester for expenses Including tuition and books. Incidental costs and student activity fees shall not be reimbursed. This program is designed to complement the new educational leave policy passed by the state Personnel Board at its March meeting. This policy allows a State employe to take ONE course during working hours ' without salary deductions. However, per sons taking courses at night or on Saturdays are eligible for the Tuition Refund Program as long as the family and financial status requirements are met. The ultimate objective of the program is to develop and utilize the potential and skills of each employe according to his ability and excellence of performance. Likewise, the plan should ac celerate motivation of em ploye self-interest and self realization; boost employe morale; make them better quali fied for their present Jobs; and qualify them for better positions. A non-profit organization, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Founda. tlon functions for the welfare of laws governing such organlza. tlons. It promotes the well-being and betterment of mankind throughout the world through as slstance and support to such charitable, educational, reo page 3 The Perquimans Weekly, Hertford, N. C, Thursday, October S, 1987 national, literary, and scien tific purposes which shall im prove the public welfare. The Foundation, headquartered In Winston Salem, originated in 1953 as a result of the Last Will and Testament of Mary Reynolds Babcock. During the first twelve years of opera. tlon, over $18.3 million has been allocated through 441 grants. FIRE CHILDREN TROUBLE &u wmsm M meeimr I rmt. 60. ma taint tuMlM turn rt nu. mm ittvr ir wAmwn-mim tat 4 moMptrt 'Gram' Hams It; Spans the World ST. LOUIS Mrs. Albert Auer, a grandmother, says when she travels "I meet hams In all parts of the world." She has been a ham (ama teur radio) operator for 10 years. Mrs. Auer says fewer than one half of one per cent of the "hams" In the world are wom en. Four hours a day, two days a week, Mrs. Auer monitors the air waves i in St. Louis for the International Women's Sideband System. Once, Mrs. Auer took a mes sage from the University of Virginia where researchers were working on a venom from a South African snake, and needed to know from the St. Louis and Chicago zoos what the snakes ate. She found out toads and flies. Mrs. Auer said sne nas Deen engaged in service work throughout her adult life. For example, she monitored a call about a tidal wave on Guam, and before the emerg ency ended she had taken 20 telegrams from families In the area. Once, Mrs. Auer received a telephone call from a St. Louis surgeon who had performed an open heart operation on a Honduran child She snlri tha doctor asked her to get a mes sage through to the rectory in the small Honduran town where there are no telephones. "The message was that the youngster passed the crisis," Mrs. Auer said. "It's a most fascinating kind of service work." n H it VMMIltW aU a avMb mmrJLm smmmIIs au IM Trtturtt Dtpmrtmtnt tiwj Th Advtrtiting Council. ' Our man with the Armad Forcaa ,. Because beer la such a favorite with service men. we brewers like to do all we can to keep its surroundings right. So USBA representatives serve as adviser members of the Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Boards throughout the country. , These men from the USBA operate hand in hand with service and civilian police, with malt beverage licensees, public boards and committees; military, civil, professional. Qbject: to protect those who are underage, and to insure strict observance of the law. Wt'rp proud of Wis work thty do. ... UNITED STATES EJtSWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. V-sMh ak ltd Trait Ooapaar Baildln n n urn) r m m I If if sm,. dltslffg (o y r j A t" "U,.t;:'f ; Ksvvmaiyvilllha vcnl hsrmcn prcmisoyou? Not a year full of good drying days, for sure, fcome are too snowy or too humid or too windy. Or just plain rainy days, With an electric dryer you can dry any day you want, any time day or night. And it'll dry your clothes better, faster, with much ' less work on your part. That's a promise, too. See your VEPCO-authorlzed Live Better Electrically dealer about a f tameless clothes dryer soon. We predict you'll love drying electrically. SV.' " J threu'S Wcshday" with an electric dryer vrv vlc:NA ELC5TRIC and tower company :: ' (I ' " 'MP M 'HI
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