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• 111 ' rf f i i i" l /Qg&epfyty On Fartt&g}' with facie Walt We ettie have been havin some real hog killin weather down our way for the past few days and I believe about everbody here in the community is takin advantage of it too. I ain’t kill ed yit but I been helpin oult my neigh bors ao when I do git ready, I’ll have plenty of help ito take care of mine. I’m always glad to see hog killin time roll around ’cause it gives a body a chance to help out his feller men. It use to be where we would have corn shuckins, cotton picking and barn raisins. But times has changed so much ’til it’s got to where it is sort of ever man for hisself. That ain’t fer the beat either I don’t think ’cause the effect of it is carried on into the churches and schools and everwhere else. Take when we had corn shuckins a and everbody in the community would ' come in and set around a pile of corn a shuckimand a talkin. Nobody work ed hard or very long either and ever body had a lot of fun and the women folks always had a table full of good Ivittles. Back then we had a lot bet ter cooperation in our little church and the whole community was sorta nitted together. It ain’t like that no more though. When we sorta got away from helpin each other on the farm, we sorta become individuals in the church and in everything we un dertook to do. • I ain’t sayin that com shuckins and cotton pickins have that much effect on the life in a community. 1 am a sayin though that they do a lot of good and: I would like to see them come back into bein. I don’t grow enough com myself to think about havin a shuckin but I sure would like to git behind a big pile of com with a bunch of other folks and shuck and talk like we use too do. People is jest livin too fust these days and times. It ain’t only here but it must be the same way everwhere. I thought our little old community would be the last one to ever git away from the good old customs and ways of doin things. But we’ve joined ranks along with the others and we’re a losin ground mighty fasit. I think we’re still better off than a lot of others though because we still love our neighbors and always help out in of sickness and what not. Most people lay our changes to the Tigress that’s been made in farm ma- V .ls and the like. They say a man mjith a tractor and the right tools to ■go with it can do more work in a day than several men use to could with their mules and plow stocks. That may be true and, I .think it’s a good thing that we’ve gone that far in our I farmin, but the thing I’m gittin at is is our gains in that direction more im portant than our losses in the other. Course I know it is. but I was brought up durin a time when everbody had to work for a livin and the ones that didn’t work didn’t have much to eat or to wear. We’re jest livin in a dif ferent kind of world now, one in which everbody’s better off any way you look at it. But it’s sorta hard fer us old codgers to fitrgit about the good old days when we use to have so much fun a doin such hard work. The fact that we've sorta got away from our old ways of doin things is makin it a lot easier on all of us. Most of the time now when we git ready to do somethin, we’ve got the equipment and things *to do it with without havin to wait ’til some day it suits our neighbors to help us out. Take the corn shuckins fer instance, l these here com pickers and combines Band things will do the job in a lot Vless time and in most cases do it bet ter than we use to could do. You can say about the same thing fer most any job you start to do on the farm , nowadays. And I doubt if they’s any ► body who would like to see us go a slidin back after we’ve made all the progress we have. Yessir, things sure is different, and far be it from me too say that I’d like to see us go back to the old days. I jest wish we could have some of both. I COTTON QUIZ 1 |r<\aw MUCH COTTDM GOES INTO THE 00TU1N6 OF lASWWIW KftMß WYCOM grsteßiLE COT TON UJCDINASPIWIIBOTTVES 1 AMOUNT TO AN 6CTMATEO 6fiOQQ toun osi [Hospital Patients] Patients in Chowan Hospital as of Monday of this week were: White—Mrs. Claudia Moore, Mrs. Mattie Elliott, Kenneth Byrum, Vern on Moore, Willie Shaw, Miss Carol Edwards, Mrs. Thelma Nixon, Mrs. Cornelia Helms, Eddie Miller and Mrs. Maggie Walters. Negro—Mattie Brinkley, Queen Cooper, Roger Thatch, Clinton Jor dan, Tency Bond, Willie Skinner and IBebty Ann Webb. Patients discharged from December 29 to January 5 were: White —Mrs. Beverly Harrell, Mrs. Pearl Gardner, Alexias Martin, Mrs. Hattie Chappell, Mrs. Violet Lam bardo, John Porter, Mrs. Mildred Wil liford, Mrs. Mary Wright and baby hoy, Micheal Ruiter, Baby Girl Low ther, Mrs. Lavenia Harrell, J. L. Bat ton, Si;., and Mrs. Madge Whitehurst and baby boy. Negro—JOdia Lee Brothers, Caedle Baum, Birda White, Doris Rountree and baby boy, Johnnie Armstead, Mar tha Johnson and baby girl, Annie Bon ner and baby boy, Baby Boy Rodgers. Chaplains for the wee}c are: White, the Rev. C. H. Beale. Negro, the Rev. Alexander Valentine. BRIDE-ELECT HONORED Miss Marlene Miller entertained in honor of her twin sister, Arlene, bride elect, on Monday night with a mis cellaneous shower. Those attending and sending gifts were: Misses Annette Oliver, Margaret Miller, Jean Spruill, Elwanda Gibbs, Carolyn 'Sadler, Legion Owens, Emma Lou Wheeler, Grace Hudson, Edna Lassiter, Juanita Bennett, Sherry White, Evelyn Harrell, Mesdame.s David White, D. W. Wheeler, Larry Dowd, Harry Lassiter, 'Frank Habit, Ernest Spruill, George White, Paul Caytoon, Nathan Owens, Bruce White hurst, Grace Britton, Leo Lavorie, Erma Allsbrook, Joe Basnight, Kisler Phillips, Helen Spruill, George Comer, Major Forehand, Lee Sadler, Andrew Hawkins. Richard Hollowell, Bertram Byrum, Zettie White, Buck Wheeler, Ray Norris, William Stokley, Henry Rogerson, Tex Parillo. Allje Hud son. 1 TAYLOR THEATRE I EDENTON, N. C. Week Day Shows Continuous From 3:30 Saturday Continuous From 1:30 Sunday 2:15. 4:15 and 9:15 o Thursday and Friday, January 8-9 — Richard Widmark and Joanna Dru in “MY PAL GUS” B. G. WILLIS O Saturday, January 10 — Allan Rocky Lane in “THUNDERING CARAVANS” MAGGIE REEVES Sun., Mon., Tues., and Wed. January 11-12-13-14 Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart and many more in Cecil B. DeMille’s "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH” E. J. HUDSON EDEN THEATRE o Friday and Saturday, January 9-10— Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster in “ANNIE OAKLEY” RICHARD 'P. “BAER j o Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, January 11-12-13 — Howard Duff and Coleen Gray in “MODELS, INC.” J. L. BAT TON O Wednesday and Thursday, January 14-15 — Joan Crawford and Jade Palance in “SUDDEN FEAR” L. T. DUNBAR i (Nate: If your name appears in ' this ,ad bring it to the Taytor Theatre box office and receive a free pans to aee one of the pidtunes advertised in the ad.), _^j| THE, OHK>WAN HERALD, PUNTON, M. C„TtIPMPAY JANUARY 8, 1953. -U. eU-' a\ t&v & m'l Poi7i v w~ m Mi- . < ‘ A CLEAR IT AWAY/ ACCUMULATIONS OF PRV LEAVES, RUBBISH, ETC., NEAR HOUSE ANP IN ROOF EAVES ARE AN INVITATION TO FIRE 1 BELK-TYLER’S , ••» H ; CANNON FINE SHEETS AT LOWER PRICES! MUSLINS . . . PLAIN 72x88. Regular $2.19. d» 1 QA NOW 81x99 and 72x108. Regular $2.39. d* O IQ 81x108. Regular $2.59. d> O Q Q CASES. Regular 55c. /IQ/* NOW *iSIC CANNON PERCALES PLAIN WHITE . . . FIRST QUALITY 72x108. Regular $2.98. J 2 j 81x108. Regular $3.48. d*«J QQ NOW d)4.JO CANNON PERCALES COLORS 72x108. Regular $3.79. JJ4 81x108. Regular $3.98. CASES TO MATCH —B4 c BELK - TYLER'S Edenton I / 170,000 More People Are On Public Payroll Than At War Peak Unemployment in the U. S. is now at a peace-time low; almost anyone who wants to work need only apply. But what is not generally known is that this surfeit of employment also extends to workers in all grades of government, Federal, state and local. According to the latest edition of Facta and Figures on Government Fi nance, 1952-53, there were at one time last year nearly 170,000 more government employees than at the World War II peak. The 217-page, seventh edition of the reference and source book published by the Tax Foundation, a private, non profit, government research organiza tion with offices in New York and Washington, illustrates this in one of its 174 tables and 11 charts. A com pilation on civilian employees in Fed eral, state and local government shows that all forms of government in the U. S., had 6,921,000 employees in 1952. At the previou speak, in 1945, there were only 6,754,000 total em ployees. The table also shows the great rise in government employment at the Federal level, particularly after the nation entered the defense period in spired by Korea. In 1950, for exam ple, there were only about 2 million 'Federal civilian employees. 'By last year this number had increased to over 214 million. At the same time, another table showing the monthly payroll of ci- NEW LOW PRICES “ON ENTIRE STOCK OF” SHEETS I [PACIFIC TRUTH SHEETS] NATIONALLY ADVERTISED! FIRST QUALITY FAMOUS BRAND! New Low Prices! ' 81*99 $1 »T*7 72 x 108 X • I I CASES. 43c PACIFIC CONTOUR SHEETS LOVELY MUSLIN QUALITY SINGLES. Regular $2.59. d»0 OO NOW wAiOO DOUBLES. Regular $2.79. CQ NOW "WHtra CLIFF - A Real Value! “TIP TOP” d*-| CASES... FIRST Only -36 c vilian employees in -the three types of government, illustrates what it cost the taxpayer to support Ithis growing employment. From 1960 to 19512, this chart shows, payrolls for all govern ment in the U. S. rose by nearly half a billion dollars to a total of 31.9 billion a month. The Federal payroll in the same periol increased by more than S3OO million per month. i _ | Chowan High Menu | The menu at Chowan High School lunch room for the remainder of this week follows: Thursday—Milk, beef and vegetable soup, deviled egg sandwichs, crackers and bread, huckleberry cobbler. Friday—Milk, turkey, gravy, cran berry sauce, May peas, mashed pota toes, rolls, butter, jello with fruit. Might Help “Young man,” the father said sternly, “do you think you should be taking my daughter to night clubs . all the time?”* “Indeed, not, sir,” the swain re plied, then added hopefully, “shall we 1 try to reason with her?” CARD OF THANKS The family of Alma E. Harrell . wishes to express its deep apprecia i j tion and heartfelt thanks for the ; I many expressions of love, interest and > J sympathy during his illness and 1 death. ■ 1 MRS. ALMA HARRELL I AND FAMILY c PAGE NINE
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