SECTION TWO
Estimated 370 Writ
Meet Untimely End
Over July 4 Week-end
Prediction Made This
Week By Insurance
Executive
A total of 370 Americans will die
in highway accidents during the com
ing three-day July Fourth week-end,
according to a prediction released to
day by the Association of Casualty
and Surety Companies.
The Association’s estimate, based
upon “a conservative expansion of the
accident rates of three-day Independ
ence Day holidays in the past,” breaks
down the causes of the fatal accidents
into six principal categories.
Speeding is expected to kill 123 per
sons; excessive use of alcohol will ac
count for 82 more, both motorists and
pedestrians; failure to keep to the
right of the centerline, 37 deaths; fail
ure to yield the right-of-way, 26
deaths: over-fatigued drivers or driv
ers actually asleep at the wheel, 23
deaths; miscellaneous causes, 79
deaths.
In releasing the estimate, Thomas;
N. Boate, Accident Prevention Depart
ment manager of the Association,
pointed out that the Association’s fig
ures for the recent Memorial Dav
week-end were “grimly close to reali
ty.” The national highway death toll
for that holiday, not counting those
who were injured but didn’t die until
sometime after the week-end was over,
was 362. The Association had predict
ed 386 deaths.
Wilford Paul Sinclair,
Ryland Resident, Dies
Wilford Paul Sinclair. 67, died Wed
nesday afternoon at 5:45 o’clock in:
Chowan Hospital after an illness of,
six months. A son of the late John!
Wiley and Jennie Burcham. deceased
was a native of Green County, Indiana,'
but farmed in the Ryland section 25
years. Before coming to Edenton he
was superintendent of an electric and
water department in Indiana. i
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eliza
beth Sinclair, and a sister, Miss Joado
Sinclair of Bloomfield, Indiana.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Piney
Woods Church in Perquimans County.
The Rev. Mrs. Bertha White officiat
ed and burial was made in the Cedar
wood Cemetery in Hertford.
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THE THREE-PART EAR
By Science Features
. Most people think the ear is
simply that Bhell-like thing seen
oh both sides of the head. But ac
tually it’s a complicated mechan
ism that, like an iceberg, has more
to it than meets
the eye. Behind
w what you see
'»-4k are two internal
\ parts essential to
hearing: the
v middle ear and
a the inner ear.
fjl? I | fiy\ The external
v /sA or visible ear
fl/zX \ collects sound
\r Hr JN. ' waves and di
yl/ AS. rects them
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to the ear drum. These waves vi
brate against the drum and the
impulses are picked up on the
other side by the middle ear. The
vibrations are then transmitted
through the inner ear to the brain.
In addition to its role in hearing,
the inner ear also acts as the organ
of balance that is responsible for
any feeling of dizziness or nausea
when the body undergoes rapid,
unusual movements.
The delicate mechanisms of the
I three-part ear are very sensitive to
infection and, since the ear is open
from the outside, many diseases
cah enter. For example, one com
mon ear ailment is caused by an
infection of the mastoids. These
cells in the middle ear become in
flamed and dll up with a fluid that
turns into pus, producing pain and
fever and hampering hearing.
Remarkable control of this infec
tion has been obtained through the
use of antibiotics. Three British
physicians found terramycin high
ly effective when applied to 41
cases of mastoiditis. The drug dried
up the fluid and cleared the infec
tion in 83% of the patients. Prior
to the use of antibiotics, operation:
were necessary to remove the in
fected mastoid cells and to drain
the pus. >-
T^ISTrAf^CHTOCHSERVIC^
i Services at the First Christian
, Church have been announced as fol
lows by the pastor, the Rev. E. C.
Alexander:
Bible School, Sunday morning at 10
o’clock; morning service at 11 o’clock;
1 young people’s meeting at 6:30 P. M.,
evening service at 7:30 o’clock. Wed
nesday Evening Bible Class meets at
7:30 o’clock. Everybody is welcome to
all services.
The useful and the beautiful are
never separated. —Periander.
Chowan County Budget for Fiscal Year 1954-1955
APPROVED BY BOARD of COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JUNE 24, 1954
Appropriated For Anticipated From Sources Amount Rate
Requirements Other Than Ad Valorem Taxation Levied
r™.t'ir™nV,; - $39,526.06 $14,226.00* $25,300.00 $ .23
Y 22,000.00 22,000.00 .20
General Assistance $ 8,583.60
Hospitalization 11,000.00
u ... 19,583.60 6,005.00*** 13,578.60 .13
Health:
District $ 9,655.80
County 1,115.00
. . , 10,770.80 10,770.80 .10
Schools:
County $27,399.00
Edenton 64,126.00
« ~ M . 91,525.00 25,966.06**** 65,558.94 .60
I Social Security:
Old Age Assistance $50,400.00
Aid Dependent Children 9.000.00
Aid Permanently & Totally Disabled 6,300.00
Administration 7,357.80
$73,057.80 1
Less State & Federal Funds 60,960.00
County-wide Tax Rate per SIOO.OO valuation, based upon a valuation of $11,000,000.00 .^1,53
REVENUE DERIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN AD VALOREM TAXATION:
*Bonds: ****Schools:
Unexpended balance $14,226.00 Dog Taxes $ 767.00
**General County: Intangible Tax __ __ 3,960.56
ABC Store earnings _..539,231.00 Poll Tax 1,467.00
Unexpended balance 5,000.00 Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures.. 14,271.50 i
***Charity—State and Federal Funds: Schools 4,500.00
Blind Aid $ 5,805.00 Unexpended Balance Edenton
Hospitalization 200.00 Schools 1,000.00
*****Social Security:
Unexpended Balance (OAA)__ 3,500.00
Prepared By: E.W. Spires Unexpended Balance (ADC)L_ 900.00
County Accountant ' ju .L; 4,400.00 , ,
THE CHOWAN mraat.q, EDENTON. N. C, THURSDAY. ffULY 1,1954.
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canvas stretched over an aluminum frame provides a beach shell.
Easily dismantled, the bright canvas cover-up folds into a small com
pact unit, the National Cotton Council says. At a crowded beach, the
shell provides privacy and protection from son, wind, and blowing
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For The Afternoon
Tea
By MARTHA STILLEY
Virginia Electric & Power Co.
Home Economist
For a cookie that is different, but
goes over well at any affair, try the
Cracky Bar.
Cracky Bar
% cup vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
% cup semi-sweet chocolate bits
% tsp. soda
1% cup flour
1 tsp. salt
PIST CONTROL
FREE INSPECTION
WORiD'f LARGEST PEST CONTROL CO.
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11 sq. melted chocolate
(unsweetened)
I % cup walnuts (chopped)
! 9 graham crackers
Blend together the shortening and
sugar. Beat in the two eggs.
Measure and sift together the dry
1 ingredients. Add the vanilla to the
t milk and add alternately with the dry
J ingredients to the creamed mixture.
Place one-third of the batter in anoth
er bowl and add the 1 square of melted
chocolate and % cup walnuts. Spread
in two well greased Bxßx2 inch pans.
Arrange 9 double graham crackers
over batter in pans. Add the % cup
semi-sweet chocolate bits to remain
ing two-thirds of hatter. Drop by
spoonfuls over graham crackers and
spread to cover. Bake 375 degrees
for 20 to 25 minutes. Cut in bars or
squares when cool.
A Treat for the Tots
This snack will appeal to the grown
ups as well as the tots, and so very
easy to have ready whether it is a ga
thering of the neighborhood children
in your own back yard, or their mo
thers for a cup of tea.
Ingredients:
4 square slices of bread
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
, % stick of butter
Shredded cocoanut
Vanilla
About 3 tablespoons milk
Put sugar, cocoa, butter, and vanilla
in bowl and cream together, gradual
ly add milk. Cut all crusts off 4
squares of bread and cut through the
bread twice lengthwise (12 fingers).
Cover each bread finger with frost
ing and roll in cocoanut. Set aside 1
until frosting is firm.
EGG PRODUCTION DROPS
Production of eggs in North Caro
lina during May, 1954, amounted to
133 million—6 per cent below the 141
million laid during April but 4 per
cent above the 128 million laid during
May of last year. The drop of 8 mil
lion in production from the April level
[followed the normal seasonal pattern.
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The average number of layers on
hand in the State during May is esti
mated at 7,612,000 or about 2 per cent
less than the 7,634,000 during May,
1953.
Farm flocks in the nation laid 6
billion eggs in May—4 per cent more
than in May last year, but 1 per cent
below the 1943-52 average production.
Egg production was above a year ago
in all regions of the country.
Money Saved
Ephraim, storekeeper in a small
Vermont town, was greeted by a
neighbor who consoled him on the
loss of some of his merchandise dur
ing a Are. “Did you lose much?”
asked the friend.
“Not too much,” came the laconic
, reply. “I’d just marked most of my
'stock down 26 per cent.”
BlS^oFthan^™^
We, the family of the late Mr%
Louisiana Jones, take this method of
expressing our sincere thanks to our
many friends, both white and colored,
’ for words of sympathy, your cards
’ and the beautiful flowers.
I JOHN JONES, SR.,
FAMILY. p