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SECTION TWO- NORTH CAROLMA MOVED FORWARD BL PUBLIC WELFARE WORK DURING 1953 “ The year in public welfare in North Carolina has seen continued em phasis upon strengthening local and state administration of welfare and improving services to children,” ac cording to Dr. Ellen Winston, com missioner of the State Board of Pub lic Welfare, commenting on the year’s work. “North Carolina has moved forward in getting an increasingly better trained public welfare staff. Welfare departments have stressed and im proved their working relationships with other agencies having responsi bilities for spelialized services to peo ple at both the local and state levels,” she said. “In the area of child welfare there has been much evidence of the effec tiveness of these protective and per ventive sendees. There has been an increase in the use of the services al ready available for children awaiting adoption through the greater use of foster boarding home funds.” The report showed an increasing use of the eugenioal sterilization pro gram in accordance with state law and on a selective basis. Very few of the counties do not now have a retirement plan for their employees. Service to the public has been improved because of the prog ress that has been made in the su pervision of county staffs. Bonded i staff members in the counties handle! anv special welfare funds. The legislative base of public wel-i fare was strengthened as a result of I laws enacted by the 1953 General As sembly. Certain improvements were made in the adoption law which made the law better serve the interests of the child being adopted. I A law affecting practice in public assistance administration provided for the names and amounts of grant for all recipients to be listed semi-an-j nuallv in the county auditor’s office j in each county. This formalized the i giving of essential information to pub-! lie officials and in connection with public matters as it had been handled bv county departments in the past. ; The law put additional protection around the essential information upon which case workers must base their! appraisal of the client’s need. It also! specifically stated that no names of: the children aided should be made j public. The need for additional funds forj the boarding home care of children j resulted in authorization by the Ad- i visory Budget Commission late in the year to make a transfer from another! fund to this fund. This action, the [ report indicated, permitted the mini-j mum of need to be met in the area of foster home care. Reductions at the Federal level in funds available for child welfare ser vices have reduced by SII,OOO the amount available in this program in North Carolina for the current year. Careful surveys of need and budge tary adjustments have been made to see that this reduction does not im pair drastically any phase of the work. The funds are used to staff specialized child welfare services at both the state and county levels, to provide scholarships for workers who give services to children, and to make possible the foster boarding home pro gram for children being studied for Ward’s Shoe Repair SERVICE WHEN YOU NEED IT! Complete Line of Polishes Any Leather Repair Work j WEST EDEN STREET PHONE 46-W FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL Julien Wood Home LOCATED ON COLONIAL SQUARE FACING EDENTON BAY 9 ROOMS CENTRAL HEAT 3 BATHS RECENTLY PAINTED CONTACT CAMPEN - SMITH . Auctions Real Estate PHONE 141 AND 8 EDENTON, N. C. Page Eight i adoption. - A total of 1416 adoption proceed -1 ings were pending December 1, re -1 fleeting an increase in adoptive place - ments. During the full year preceding - there had been only 1204 proceedings - registered. 3 Cooperation with civic clubs and other agencies and organizations has l] resulted, in many activities and ad r I ditional service this past year. The jj Children’s Clothing Closet project -[sponsored statewide by the Junior ; Woman’s Club resulted in gifts valued - at over SIOO,OOO to aid children who - need proper clothing to attend school ’ and t keep warm. The Help A Home I project of the State Federation of , I Women’s Club, a new project, is grow- I ing in popularity and service. Through I this plan many household items are j j given to needy families. .j Christmas giving through the co ; operation of the county welfare de •: partments serving as clearing houses j for gifts to the needy has increased rUhis past year. It is estimated that .'some 10,000 families were aided by -j civic clubs, churches, and other or-j ganizations which asked the county : welfare departments to furnish the | ■ channel of tljeir giving to people ; ! known to the departments to be in . need. The North Carolina Public Welfare [| Institute, the annual meeting of puh .i lie welfare personnel, had an all time (High record of attendance this past fall. The program was centered on 'jservices to children, i The records of the public assistance • programs in public welfare showed a ' Continued decrease in the number of ' people receiving- 'old age assistance. I A total of 50,611 were receiving this aid in November. The average pay • ment in North Carolina in that month j ■ was $30.05. Because of limited funds! ionly 80 per cent of minimum need can [be paid although the Federal govem j ment will participate up to a maxi ! mum of $55 per case. | The largest number of families re ceiving aid to dependent children | (ADC) came in April with 17,639 families listed. During the summer months the number was reduced by ialmost 2,000 cases as a result of sea-jj sonal employment in agriculture. The j average ADC grant in North Caro lina in November was $15.46 per ; child. This represented only 70 per I cent of minimum need. The maximum j [monthly grant possible under this! [ program is S3O for the one adult and ! the first child and then s2l for each ! additional child. In aid to the permanently and to j tally disabled, the newest category of public assistance, the load is still in-, creasing slowly with 7,968 cases re- j ceiving aid in November. The aver- \ ace grant in this state was $35.32 with the maximum amount which can be received being $55. Only 80 per cent of minimum need can be paid in this category. Heart trouble account ed for about 25 per cent of these cases. Many of the recipients are bedridden or are wheel chair cases. “Our emphasis has been upon re habilitation and prevention during the past year,” Dr. Winston said. “The decrease in the numbers receiving fi- 1 nancial aid indicates not only the care with which the resources of appli cants are evaluated but also the es- THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1954. j forts which have been made to help: individuals and families get back on J [Their feet. We are glad to acknowl-' . edge the splendid cooperation of many j 'groups and agencies in marshalling j community resources to the end that people may be helped to help them selves.” t j ARMY CITES GAINS IN BATTLE AGAINST DEATH AND DISEASE WASHINGTON—The United States' Army is getting healthier every day. | By concentrating on its preventive medicine program, the Army Medical Service has cut drastically the rate of illness and disease. Progress in the field of disease pre vention can be measured statistically' by comparing the yearly number of such admissions to hospitals and dis in rgiiiiaigi^ I Property Must ■ Be Listed In mum Notice Is Hereby Given That the List Takers for Chowan County w ill sit at the following places at the times named, at which places and in which month all property owners and taxpayers are required to return I to the List Takers for taxation for the year 1954 all the Rea! Estate, persona! property, etc«, 8 which each one shall own on the first day of January, or shah be required to give in thei i I All male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years are to list their polls during the same I time. Return of property and giving in of polls are required under penalties imposed by law. FIRST TOWNSHIP Mrs. E. B. Jordan and Mrs. P. S. McMullan List Takers Court House 9 A. M., to 5 P. M. SECOND TOWNSHIP Henry Bunch, List Taker i Jan. 6,13, 27 — Elliott Belch’s Office, Center Hill Other days at Henry Bunch’s Store. Jan. 22 Evans’ Store, Cross Roads Jan. 8, 20 Walter Miller’s Store Jan. 15 Earl Smith’s Store Jan. 29 Coke Nixon’s Store All persons owning dogs regardless of age are required to list same for taxation. See Law (G. S. 67-5). IMPORTANT: All persons, firms and corporations, domestic and foreign, engaged in operating any business enterprise in this County shall submit, in connection with his or its regular tax list, a true and accurate inventory. * EXAMINE YOUR LIST BEFORE SIGNING Report Your 1953 Crop Acreage Through Tax Lister During January, 1954 Your local Tax Lister is required to make the records but Farm Owners or Tenants must furnish the facts. Therefore, call your list takers attention to these records and be prepared to furnish the following information: (1) Acreage for each crop harvested during calendar year 1953. (2) Number of cows, sows and hens on farm January, 1954. (3) Number of people living on farm January, 1954. All of the above information furnished will be con sidered as confidential and will not be used in any manner that is detrimental to the farmers concerned. It is not used for tax purposes. HAVE YOUR FARM REPORT READY FOR YOUR TAX LISTER! “0 First Township Listing At Court House jpensaries during the last three years. J During World War I disease ad missions averaged approximately 852 [per 1,000 soldier strength annually, i The late was reduced to 588 during 'World War II and dropped to 468 dur ing the Korean war. | These same figures, if analyzed in [conjunction with total troop strength, j reveal that during World War I 41.6 per 1,000 soldiers were not available for duty because of disease. This rate was reduced to 28.5 for World War II and to 18.4 for the Korean war. The \rmy Medical Service is con | tinuing its efforts to improve this rec ord. Removal of malaria as a threat to military operations and development of preventive psychiatry are among the latest advances in this field. . Dramatic results in treatment of battle casualties also have been achieved by the Army Medical Ser . vice through use of new procedures • and techniques in care and handling t of sick and wounded soldiers. The case fatality rate which stood : at 8.1 per cent for wounded soldiers treated during World War I was re duced to 4.5 during World War II and i to 2.3 during the Korean war. , High in the list of factors which ! contributed to this lowering “miracle” i drugs penicillin, chloramphenicol, ! aureomycin, streptomycin, and terra mycin available throughout the Army medical system from the be ginning of the Korean operation. Whole blood—available at forward area hospital in Korea—also helped reduce the mortality rate. Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals— ; six of which supported combat divis ions during the war in Korea—played an important part in lowering the 1 death rate. These units usually staffed by 12 physicians, all general surgeons or orthopedic specialists— THIRD TOWNSHIP T. A. Berryman, List Taker Jan. 14 Spivey’s Store, Ryland Jan. 7 and 28 Peele’s Store Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30 Briggs’ Store Jan. 21 Ward’s Store, Lonesome Pine FOURTH TOWNSHIP Ward Hoskins, List Taker Harry Perry’s Store Wednesdays and Saturdays Other Days at Home 9 A. M., to 5 P. M. surgical treatment closer to [the front line than ever before. One | unit in Korea treated more than 50,000 | patients during the three-year con i flict. I Another factor which contributed to [! a lower death rate was the specialist I training program which provided highly qualified surgeans and ortho- I pedists for staffing mobile surgical ,i hospital units and forward-area hos . pitals. ! BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT II Mr. and Mrs. McKay Phthisic anl nounec the birth of a Pal I tricia Ann, bom December wan Hospital. The ed 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and both tM I mother, the former Miss Audrey Keetl , er, and daughter are doing nicely. 1 Honest labour bears a lovely face —Thomas Dekker.
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