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By MBS. M B. TAYLOR
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Do the energy bills at your house seem monstrous,
backing you into a corner and ripping your best laid
budget plans to shreds? Reports from many households
indicate pleasure and ease to life, they take larger and
larger bits of the income needed to buy food, pay rent
and other bills. Don't ignore them; energy bills will not
go away of their own accord, nor will they shrink unless
you do something about them.
Getting this monster under control requires some
stern action on your part. And, it cannot be done without
total family cooperation. Steps to whip energy bills into
submission might include these:
1) Keep a record of every cent spent on energy of any
form-electricity, gas for heating or cooking, fuel oil,
gasoline. Have every family member proyide in
formation on their spending and compile a total for one
or two months. Compare this amount with your income
earned during the same time. What percent of your
income was needed for energy? Was this more than you
could afford? Did other bills have to be postponed? Did
you have to pay extra carrying charges on the bills
because you had to pay fuel bills? Did your family have
to do without something necessary in order to pay
energy bills?
2) Compare the benefits you received from energy
use with their costs. Looking at each energy bill, was
the benefit you received worth the cost? What else could
you, or should you, have done with that money that
might have provided more good for you or other family
members? A
3) For each fuel, or type of energy, used by family
members list the needs it meets.
4) Bank these needs in order of importance. For in
stance, for electricity your list might include cooking,
lights, television, laundry, clothes drying, sewing, hair
drying, etc. Could the items at the bottom of the list be
eliminated? Could you find substitutes, such as drying
clothes outside in the sun?
5) For which items on the list could you use less
energy? How about less television watching, fewer
lights, (or lower wattage), using the oven less unless
you make total oven meals, watching all the little power
wasters, such as matching pan size to burners on top,
and using lids to hold in heat? Could family members
walk more?
6) Learn to read the electric meter and have some
volunteer to keep watch during the month. If you keep
track of the use in the kilowatt hours and compare it
every few days, would it help you see what the greatest
energy hogs are? When you see the wheels in the meter
going round in a hurry, does it make you want to turn
something off? (Your county Extension Agents can
provide you with a list of energy-savers.) Would it help
to set a limit on kilowatt hours used per day?
7) Make sure you are investing time and human
energy now getting your home in order for the coming
winter, so you can heat it for less. Besides cutting
energy costs, new insulation and storm windows can
mean a reduction in state income tax next year.
8) Plan now for next winter's lifestyle. Since the
upper part of your home is always the warmest, will
you change living arrangements to spend more winter
time upstairs, if you have a two-story house? Does your
wardrobe include warm winter at-home garment?
9) Get a good perspective on your energy bills and
don't expect miracles. How does the share of your in
come going for energy of all sorts compare with the
share of your income used for energy five years ago? If
your income has increased at the same rate as energy
price rises, you may not be as bad off as you think you
are.
10) When you have cut every energy waster you can,
and prepared for less energy use in the future, think
about all the jobs energy does for you. Would you like to
completely do without your electric servants, your
comfortable car, your snug home? Even with its costs, I
doubt if you would like th life of one hundred years ago.
If you're in control of the energy you use, you have
made your choices; and energy costs won't loom as a
tremendous monster. They'll only be bills to pay for
services rendered.
Taking a look back at energy supplies and prices can
help anticipate the future. All the experts tell us that
energy supplies will not increase rapidly, nor can we
ever expect significant reductions in price. Conserving
now not only helps the pocketbook but will help us have
slower price increases in the future. Only when newer,
and maybe completely unexpected, sources of power
become economically feasible can we expect con
sumers not to get excited about energy bills. Mean
while, if you want to enjoy the "good life", you must pay
for it.
People in the News
Dr. and Mrs. Frank
Ainsley and family of
Wilmington were holiday
guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W.F. Ainsley.
Miss laura Horton of
Richmond, Va. was a
holiday guest of Mrs. Lloyd
Horton.
Bison 90 Cflnvintional
r.ab Tandem
Mr. and Mrs. H.R.
Christensen spent the
holidays with relatives in
Charlotte.
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ARPDC is Getting
"better and better"
HERTFORD-The Albemarle
Regional Planning and Develop
ment Commission's senior citizen
nutrition program has become
"better and better" in 1978, ac
cording to Ms. Rebecca J. Rhodes,
nutrition director.
Reports indicate the nutrition
program participation in Camden,
Washington, TyiTell, Pasquotank,
Gates, Perquimans, Chowan and
Dare counties has almost doubled in
the second half of 1978, according to
Rhodes.
"1979 will begin with some
changes in the program," the
director said. However, details on
those changes are not complete.
Ms. Rhodes stated that county
commissioners in the area have
given both moral and financial
support to the nutrition program.
She further thanked housing
authority directors, church and
community building trustees for
providing the program with meal
sites.
ADD FUNDS ? While Dr. Gerald Bray, dean of ad:
ministrative services, and Nedra Boswell of Hertford,
president, look on, Mary Forbes of Hertford, secretary
treasurer, writes a check which will be used to sustain
the trust fund for the Alexandra K. Boada Citizenship
Award. The scholarship for language students attend
ing the College of the Albemarle was established in
memory of the former instructor. (COA Photo)
Students will fail
Figures recently releas
ed by the Department of
Public Instruction show
that the 11.1 percent of
Perquimans school chil
dren will not pass their
grade.
According to the figures,
there was an increase of
26.4 percent over . the
number of non-promotions
in 1977 and 1978. Some 126
local school systems out of
145 in the state showed an
increase in the past year.
State School Superinten
dent Craig Phillips noted
that each school unit had
its own polices for failing
the student. The lowest
non-promotion rates were
found to occur in the west;
the highest in the east.
Grades one, nine and ten
are the hardest to pass. In
Perquimans, the high
school years, except for
the senior year, are the
hardest to be promoted.
MADRE AWARDED ? On behalf of Donald Madre,
president of Perquimans County Farm Bureau, Agency
Manager Walt Humphlett receives a special award
from John Sledge, president of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau Federation at its annual meeting in
Asheville this week. The award was presented in
recognition of outstanding production by Farm Bureau
insurance agents in the county in a statewide contest in
which agents had an opportunity to win this honor for
their county presidents who serve on a voluntary
basis. Shown in the picture (from left) are Sledge and
Humphlett.
OF VALUABLE FARM EQUIPMENT
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1979-10:00 A.M.
SALE LOCATED: WALTER VANN FARM; Between Corapeake, N.C.
md Suffolk, ??.; 3 Miles from Va., and N.C. Line off HWY. 32.
LOOK FOR AUCTKM SICK.
? Ford Tractor - 3000 Diesel (786 Hrs.)
? I.H.C. A Tractor ? with Cultivators
? Masaey- Ferguson Flip Flow ?
3 Bottom 16 inch
? King Disc ? K Ft - 3 P|. Hitch
? King Diet - 7 FL 3 PL Hitch
? Pittaburgh Dtae - 0 PL 8 Pl Hitch
? Cola Plantar* ? 4 Row on Tool Bar
with (landy Boxes
? Ferguson Rotary Hoc ? 4 Row P.T.O.
? Pittsburg Cukivatora ? 4 Row
? Maaacy-Ferguaon Cultivators -i Row
? Massey- Ferguson Sickle Mower ?
7 Ft. Blade - 3 Pt Hitch
? Benthal) Peanut Combine ? P.T.O
? LUUaton Peanut Digger-Shaker
? 2 ? Hobbe Peanut Diggers-Shakers
? Ferguson Peanut Digger
? Ferguaon Peanut Shaker
? Roller - * PL Hitch
? l eant* Shock Lift ? 1 PL Hitch
? Johnson Vim Cutter with Cylinder
? Seed Sower on Rubber
? Cm Tank with Pump
? 2 ? Pertilixer Sower - 4 Row on Rubber
(1 John Deere? 1 Exee-Flow)
? Berus ? T ranapUnter ? 1 Raw
? 3 ? Farm Trailer*
? So- Rite Sower - S PL Hitch
? 4 ? Conveyor* (t Corn, 1 Peanut)
? Box ? 1 PL Hitch
? Hom* Trailer Axles, Tire*, Wheels (New)
? Fan? I FL with Electric Motor
? Planter* ? 2 Row I Pt Hitch
? Wood Saw Tractor Mount
? Anvil. Chains, Binders
? 2-Larre Chain Pals
? Steam Jmb
SALE AUTHORIZED BY:
People in
the News
Mr. and Mrs. George
Clarke and family of
Petersburg, Va. were
holiday guest of Mrs. J.E.
Morris
Dr. and Mrs. Earl Sykes
of Wilmington spent the
holidays with Mrs. T.J.
Nixon, Jr., and Miss
Helene Nixon.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Brodie of Washington, D.C.
have returned home after
spending the holidays with
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Oakey,
Jr.
Doug Haskett has
returned to San Francisco
after spending the holidays
with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Haskett.
Ralph Garrett is visiting
relatives in Mount Holly.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chalk
of Wilson were holiday
guest of Miss Louise Chalk
and Miss Hulda Wood.
Mr. and Mrs. John
Morris and family of High
Point were holiday guest of
Mrs. J.E. Morris.
Mrs. C.R. Holmes has
returned home after
spending the holidays with
her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Johnson at Prin
ceton, N.J.
Mrs. Ellie Vickers of
Hertford and Roy Vickers,
Jr., of Virgina Beach were
holiday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Gregory of
Raleigh.
VISIT MURFREESBORO? Three DAR
Good Citizens from this area
representative of the Edenton Tea Party
visited Murfreesboro recently. Among
those ladies accompaning the girls was
Mrs. Marion Swindell of Hertford. She is
on the back row, fourth from the left. '
Service News
WURZBURG, GER
MANY, Dec. 8 ? Norene
Nixon, daughter of Mrs.
Irene G. Nixon, Rt. 1, Hert
ford, N.C., recently was
promoted to Army
sergeant in Wurzburg,
Germany, where she is a
training noncommissioned
officer with the 493rd
supply and Service
Company.
She entered the Army in
January 1976.
The sergeant completed
her high school education
through the General
Educational Development
program.
SAN ANTONIO - Air
man Clavin Whedbee Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Whedbee Sr. of Rt. 3, Hert
ford, has graduated at
Lackland AFB, Tex., from
Air Force basic training.
The airman, who is re
maining at Lackland for
specialized training in the
security police field,
studied the Air Force mis
sion, organization and
customs and received
special instruction in
human relations. Comple
tion of this training earned
the individual credits
towards an associate in ap
plied science degree
through the Community
College of the Air Force.
Airman Whedbee is a
1978 graduate of Per
quimans County High
School.
Staff Sergeant, Ronald J.
Harvey, son of Policeman
Robert L. and Mrs. Willie
Harvey of Hertford, has
been assigned to duty at
the Air Force Base in
Iceland. This is his first
tour overseas and will last
one year.
Harvey was stationed in
Texas and California
before being transferred to
the Seymour Johnson Air
Force Base in Goldsboro.
His wife, Frances, and
their twin daughters are
living at the base while she
completes her nursing
training at Wayne College
School of Nursing.
November 20 ? Navy
Fireman Recruit Roger A.
Keown, son of Mary B.
Keown of P.O. Box 51,,
Tyner and Navy Seams*
Recruit Charles Bj.
Broome, son of Rev.
George L. and Myrna J.
Broome P.O. Box 117,
Tyner, has completed
recruit training at tkc
Naval Training Center
Orlando, Fla.
During the eight week
training cycle, trainees
studied general military
subjects designed tc
prepare them for further
academic and on-the-job
training in one of the
Navy's 85 basic occupa
tional fields.
Included in their studies
were seamanship, close
order drill, Naval history
and first aid. Personnel
who complete this course'
of instruction are eligible
for three hours of college
credit in Physical Educvfl
tion and Hygiene. M
Both are 1978 graduates
of Chowan High School .
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