Five Million Checks
Mailed Monthly To
Eligible Veterans
Beneficiaries Warned to
Report Any Change
'■ M In Address
%
Nearly 5,000,000 checks represent
ing monetary benefits to veterans and
their dependents are mailed out by
the Veterans Administration every
month, VA said.
The principal benefits covered in
these large mailings are compensation
and pension; payments for GI training
in schools and colleges, on-the-job and
on-the-farm, and to dependents of de
ceased veterans who qualify for death
benefits.
In announcing these large totals,
VA pointed out that under the law, a
VA benefit check may not be forward
ed from one address to another. There
fore, persons who are receiving bene
fit checks regularly were cautioned to
be sure to inform VA promptly if they
change their address.
If a beneficiary moves without hav
ing advised VA of the change, the
check must be returned to the U. S. I
Treasury and cannot be re-mailed un-'
til VA finds out the new address of]
the recipient. This usually causes an
unpleasant delay for the person en-1
titled to the check.
VA beneficiaries who are planning
to change their addresses were advis
ed to get a change-of-address from
their nearest VA office and fill it in
promptly to notify the agency. Due
to the law against forwarding checks,
it is not sufficient to notify the post
office alone of the address change.
Hospital Patients
Patients admitted to Chowan Hospi
tal during the week June 30-July 4
were:
White
Edenton—Benjamin Kennan, Mrs.
Hurley Winbome, George Pruden, C.
B. Ashley, Mrs. Minnie Oliver, Mrs.
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Hertford Master Raymond Mc-
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Tyner—Master Cotter B. White, Jr.
Columbia—Mrs. Mary Walker.
Plymouth—Mrs. Lavonne Ragland.
Belvidere—Mrs. Ida White.
Lynhaven, Virginia Master Nor
man Smith. ]
Negro
Edenton—Robert Bond, Lillian Col
lins, Merlyn Treadville.
Columbia—William Bowser.
Tyner—William Lee Beasley.
Patients discharged during the same .
period were:
White
Edenton—Mrs. Louise Wilson, Mas- 1
ter Ronnie Bass, C. B. Ashley, George .
Pruden, Mrs. Hurley Winbome, Mrs.
Lena Bell, Mrs. Minnie Oliver, T. M. ‘
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Hertford - Master Raymond Me-
Cracken, Riddick Chappell.
PI 'mouth—Mrs. Lavonne Ragland. '
Roper—Mrs. Frances Silver.
Lynhaven, Virginia Master Nor-. 1
man Smith.
Negro 1
Tyner—Geneva Leigh, Corine Welch. <
Roper—Nora Riddick.
Hertford—Fannie White.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Winbome, i
a boy; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Fleet- ]
wood, a boy.
Visiting ministers for the week July
J 5-11 are: White, the Rev. H. C. 1
[Leake; Negro, the Rev. Lenneal.
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Rowsom & Blair, colored funeral
1 home operators in Columbia and Wil
-1 liamston, plan to open another funeral
1 home in Edenton, according to George
[ Rowsom and O. F. Blair.
: According to plans Blair will be in
charge of the new home, which will
be a branch of either the one at Co
lumbia or Williamston, but will be
equipped with ambulance and complete
funeral home services. Blair is a na
tive of Edenton and a graduate of the
* colored high school. He is a licensed
• embalmer.
i The new funeral home is expected to
be located on the northwest comer of
Oakum and Church Streets.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDCNTON, W. C„ THURSDAY. JULY 8,19 M.
State’s Highway
Patrol Celebrating
Silver Anniversary
530-Man Outfit Develop
ed From Nucleus of
37 Men
The State Highway Patrol passed
its 25th milestone July 1 in a mood
reminiscent of the day it was organ
ized—quiet efficiency.
No fanfare marked the day on pa
trol boss James R. Smith’s calendar
although the tough minded patrol
skipper “noted” the date for reporters.
The 530-man highway patrol grew
from a nucleus of 37 officers and men
who stood stiffly at attention July 1,
1929, on Capitol Square in Raleigh
and received their commissions.
Captain Charles D. Farmer, who
died in 1949, was the patrol’s first
commanding officer. In the early days
the patrol ‘was divided into groups of
three troopers and a lieutenant —one
group for each of the nine then exist
ing highway districts. The 'troopers
were under the State Highway and
Public Works Commission until 1933. [
The mid-thirties patrolmen roamed
the highways on a motorbike although
the lieutenants fared somewhat bet
ter. Officers in those days drove a
wire-wheeled Model A coupe.
Radio communication and automo
biles for all didn’t come in until the
late 30’s. Among the first autos to be
delivered to the patrol were silver
sided Ford convertibles.
What time the veteran highway of
ficers had off was oftentimes spent in
specting retail gasoline outlets, test
ing automotive equipment and collect
ing bad checks involved in state busi
ness transactions.
The patrol was separated from the
Highway Commission in 1933 and as
signed to the Revenue Department.
Strength by 1935 had risen to 121, an
increase due mainly because of the
brand new drivers license law passed
the samp year. Additional troopers
were needed to enforce its provisions.
Two years later a communications
branch was added to the patrol, thus
making instantaneous radio messages
possible between cruising cars and
their station. Today the patrol’s
communications network includes 10
FM transmitting stations, one of
which is located on Mt. Mitchell, the
highest radio transmitter in Eastern
America.
In 1937 the General Assembly au
thorized the commissioning of a major
to head the expanded organization.
(Legislation was also passed requiring
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that all school bus drivers be exam
ined and certified by a patrol officer.
During the mid and late thirties
there were only slightly more than
a half million vehicles traveling North
Carolina highways. The death rate
from traffic accidents in 1937 was
1,123, the second highest number of
highway fatalities on record.
In the first year of World War II 1 ,
the Department of Motor Vehicles
was created and the highway patrol |
subsequently was brought under the
supervision of the vehicles agency. At
the same time additional funds were
appropriated for the employment of
25 more troopers, bringing strength
up to 213.
By 1950 the patrol numbered 423. 1
Today, at full authorized strength 1
(530) the North Carolina State High- '
way Patrol is the largest in the south- 1
east. It recently has taken steps un
matched by any other state to protect '
life and property on the highway.
First to make extensive, full time
use of radar and electronic speed con
trols, one of the first to employ satura
tion patrols, first to use traffic cam
eras in enforcement work, and first to
promote driver training classes for
employees in business and industry,
the Tar Heel patrol is now recognized
generally as one of the most aggres
sive in the nation.
Only recently, from the patrol’s
statistical unit, came word that traffic
[fatalities for the first six months of
the year were more than 100 below
last year. And average speeds on
North Carolina roads have declined to
a low of 44.3 miles per hour, the low
est since 1946.
Ten members of the patrol who re
ceived their commissions July 1, 1929,
are still on active service. They are:
Col. James R. Smith, commanding;
Major D. T. Lambert, Executive Of
ficer, Enforcement; Major W. B.
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Lentz, Communications and Transpor
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Coast Guard Gives Aid
In 134 Cases In June.
Coast Guard files at the Rescue Co
ordination Center in Norfolk reveals
a record of 134 cases of assistance,
during the month of June—the high
est monthly total thus far in 1954—in
which the Coast Guard was sent to
the rescue in the Fifth Coast Guard
District.
The vast number of incidents, rang
ing from damaged rudders to fire at
sea, kept the Coast Guard constantly
on the alert. A breakdown of the
cases disclosed that Coast Guard as
sistance .was needed as follows: 50;
disabled boats, 18 vessels aground, 15.
drownings, 10 first aid cases and a|
number of miscellaneous occurrences
bringing the total to 134.
German Pays Old
Debt Os Gratitude
Numberg, Germany—A former Ger
man army sergeant whose life was
saved by American soldiers in 1918,
recently expressed his appreciation to
the U. S. Army.
\ The story dates back to October,
; 1918, when victorious American sold
. iers were pushing hard against Im
. perial German Army troops on the
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Verdun-Toulon battlefield.
Here they found Michael Leipold
severely wounded. He had been left
behind by his retreating comrades,
who thought he was dead.
After months in American field hos
pitals in France Leipold finally re-
I covered. Since then he has sought a
way to show his gratitude to the
| Americans who had helped him, but to
( no avail.
Leipold finally decided to present
the American Army unit closest to his
home at Amberg with a token of his
35-year appreciation,
i The unit he selected was the Third
Battalion of Second Armored Cavalry
Regiment.
The gift token—a handsome deean
’ ter with matching crystal glasses.
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Trend Os The Times
Overheard in a restaurant in lower
Broadway in the luncheon hour:
“How’s your new steno, Harry?”
“Phew!” exclaimed the other, clap
ping a hand to his brow. “I don’t
think she ever went to school. Why,
just yesterday she addressed an enve
lope to Washington, Dizzy, instead of
D. C.”
“Hang on to her,” advised the oth
er. “That girl isn’t so dumb after
all.”
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