DECEMBER ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
Page Three
NEWCOMERS — Barbara Ann King, of dungaree, and Charles R.
Lewis, of the overall department, are newcomers at the Hudson
division this month.
NEW AT SHEHROl) — These three girls arc recent additions to
the staff at the Sherrod division. From left to right they are Rachel
Scott, Marie Earnhart, and .Jean Heck.
Winners!
Whoopee!
The Anvil Brand basketball team
hasn’t lost a game yet.
So far our boys have l)eateu
(Jlobs Parlor Furniture Company,
Marsh Furniture Company, and the
Adams-Millis and Myrtle Desk
teams. As Sew It Seams prepared
to go to press they were all set to
tackle Highland Cotton Mill.
Right now Sew It Seams apolo
gizes to Dwig-ht Craun for letting
his name get dropped out of the
cutlines under the team’s picture
last month. But everyone knew the
good looking guy between Jerry
Paschal and Joel Paul was “Ike,”
so why worry?
Why Santa Claus?
The name of Santa Claus for the
patron saint of Christmas comes
from a German-Dutch corruption
of the name of Saint Nicholas.
Legend has it that this good
saint lived in the fourth century.
He learned that three young wom
en were without suitors because
their father was too poor to pro
vide a dowry. St. Nick tossed three
bags of gold into their room one
night, and they all lived happily
ever after.
“San Niklaus” of the Germans
became “Sinteklass” of the Dutch,
and those who settled New York
wound up with “Santa C'aus.”
Drivers Affected
By New Stale Law
Do you drive an automobile?
If you do, take heed! A new law
which becomes effective on Jan
uary 1 affects you. It requires that
you be able to prove financial re
sponsibility within 60 days after
becoming involved in an accident—
and it makes no difference whether
or not the accident was your fault.
Obviously, the easiest way to
prove financial responsibility is
through liability insurance, either
of you as the driver or of the auto
mobile which you are driving. You
must have a minimum coverage of
$5,000 for injury to one person;
$10,000 for injury to two or more
persons; and $1,000 for property
damage.
If the automobile you are driv
ing is insured, even though you
are not the owner, every thing is
all right as long as you have the
owner’s permission to drive it.
Without liability insurance, on
either the vehicle or yourself as a
driver, the only other means of
proving financial reliability, ac
cording to the ne^ law, is to post
a bond ; p to, Of' make a de
posit \/t CP. h"'^^^Vui'ities in the
same amou
After Jail 'y 1 the d|^r of
every motor vehicle involveiT in an
accident, regardless of fault, must
within 24 hours file a written re
port with the Department of Motor
Vehicles in Raleigh. It’s suggested
that you carry a form in your auto
mobile at all times. If you are in
sured you may notify your agent^
FORMAL WEDDING — Rose
Marie Hutchins, who sews zippers
in ladies dungaree, was married
in a formal ceremony at Pinegrove
Baptist Church on October 30. She
is now Mrs. Donald Kidd and re
sides on Route 3. Her husband is
employed by Burlington Mills in
this city.
and the responsibility of filing this
report becomes his. You also are
required to notify local police, if
the accident is in town, or the State
Highway Patrol if the accident
happens outside the city limits.
The “teeth” in the new law is
the fact that if proof of financial
responsibility is not made within
60 days, the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles is required to suspend
your driving license. In such an
event, the license remains sus
pended until you have either met
responsibility requirements or one
year has passed without the “other
party” having filed a claim for
damages.
The taking away of your driving
license is automatic unless your
automobile, or the one you are
driving, is the only one involved
and no property damage is done to
anything except this particular ve
hicle; your car was legally parketl
and someone ran into it; someone
without permission from you was
driving your car at the time of the
accident; or unless you and the
“other party” have agreed on a
“proper” settlement of any dam
ages resulting from the accident.
And your insurance rate may
depend upon your carefulness as a
driver. After an accident those per
sons who do not have proper in
surance, and cannot otherwise
prove financial responsibility, will
have to apply for insurance cover
age. If they can’t get it, their driv
ing licenses remain revoked.
There is to be an assigned “risk
pool” in the state which will as
sign bad risks to an insurance
company after the applicant has
not been able to get insurance
through noimal channels. Prem
iums for the insurance, in such in
stances, may cost up to twice as
much as^ usual. But the Commis
sioner of Insurance in many cases
will allow the pool to refuse ac
ceptance of the bad risks. That
would bar them from driving per
manently.
Backers of the new law’ believe it
will eventually force the bad drivers
off the roads—making our high
ways a lot safer for the average
driver.
DOWN THE ( HIMNEV
Why does Santa Claus c o ni e
down the chimney — at least on
greeting cards and in the ads ? The
myth which old-time Englishmen
favored was that Santa was there
by cleaning the chimney of soot, to
allow good luck to enter the house
at the New Year.
THE NAME
Our name for the day, Christ
mas, dates back to the 11th cen
tury when it was called Cristes
Maesse—literally, Christ Mass.