ARE YOU ACQUAINTED WITH }
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE?
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What are your chances of need- j
ing old age assistance when you i
reach 66 years of age?
One way of judging what the
probabilities are is to look at the
facts about the growing segment of
older people in the population of
North Carolina and the proportion
of these who receive old age assist
ance now. Eligibility requirements
and other factors would have a
place in considering this question.
At the present time financial aid
through old ago assistance is be
ing given to less than one person
in five of the people over 65 in
the State’s population. Recipients
average 75 years of age. The to
tal number of people in North Car
olina over 65 has increased from
156,540 in 1940 to more than 268,-
000 in 1055. It is significant that
despite the low per capita income
in the State, well over 200,000 of
this age group get along without
old age assistance.
Did age assistaryce, like all of the
public assistance programs, is de
signed by Federal and State laws
in such away that the individual
will remain as nearly self-support
ing as possible. To receive old age
assistance a person mustx not only
be 65 years of age or older but
must be in need as judged on the
carefully developed budgetary ba
sis.
A budget is prepared for each
applicant for public assistance, in
cluding items such as food, shelter,
clothing, fuel, lights, water and a
small medical allowance. Since
old age assistance is intended to
supplement, rather than replace
other income, all resources avail
able to the person applying are
taken into account in determining
need. These resources may in
clude: income of children, farm
resources, savings, OASI payments,
property and any other income and
resources.
After the budget is prepared and
the available income from all sourc
es considered, a grant of only 80
per cent of the remaining unmet
need can be given under the uni
form plan in effect in all counties.
The grant is recommended by the
pounty superintendent of public
ivelfare to the county welfare
board for approval. If approved,
the'monthly check is mailed direct
to the. recipient
The maximum in which the Fed
eral government will participate is
$55 per month, but' very few are
eligible for this maximum under
the policies in effect in this State.
In addition provision for needed
hospitalization of public assistance
recipients at a per diem payment
of $6 is included in the plan in ef
fect in North Carolina. The aver
erage grant in this State is about
s3l, while the national average is
nearly $49 jier month.
A lien is filed against the prop-
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| P. O. Bor 504
PHONE 175-W
I erty of every person receiving old
age assistance so that the full
! amount of the assistance may be
recovered from the estate if it has
sufficient value. An annual re
-1 view (and if circumstances po indi
cate more frequent reviews) is
made of the circumstances of each
person receiving public assistance.
, On the basis of any new facts af
fecting the grant or the person’s
eligibility, adjustment is‘made in
terms of whatever the facts indi
cate as proper in accordance with
regulations based upon the laws.
Norfolk Azalea
Festival WAi Take
Place April 9 -15
Nell Eastland Will Be
Queen of Festival
This Year
Highlight of the varied program
of events during historic Norfolk’s
celebration of Azalea Week (April
' 9-15) will be the coronation cere
monies of the Third International
Azalea Court at the beautiful, free
Municipal Gardens. Miss Nell
Eastland of Washington, D. C.,
daughter of Senator and- Mrs.
James Eastland of Mississippi, will
reign as the Third International
Azalea Court Queen.
The impressive coronation cere
mony will be held at 3 P. M., Sat
urday, April 14th at the Norfolk
Municipal Gardens against the col
orful background of thousands of
blooming azaleas, camellias, dog
wood, and spring flowers. The
Gardens are open to the public
throughout the year without
charge.
Free bus transportation will be
i available from downtown Norfolk
and at the parking lots at the Mu
nicipal Gardens for the coronation.
Following the coronation eeremon
, ies, the Queen and the princesses
. of her court will parade through
, the streets of Norfolk to the down
town area.
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Among the events scheduled for
Azalea Week is a boat tour of the
. Norfolk harbor on Thursday, April
• 12th at 2 P. M. Sponsored by the
, Women’s Auxiliary of the Norfolk
. Museum, the tour, at a cost of two
dollars per person, will originate
| at the Brooke Avenue Dock of the
, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
The Mid-Atlantic Senior Ama
teur golf tournament will begin
Wednesday, April 11th at the Cav
alier Yacht and Country Club, Vir
i ginia Beach.
Tremendous exhibits of azaleas
will be on display as Norfolk’s
downtown area—stores and public
buildings—will be decorated. Priz
es will l>e awarded for the most
beautiful and original displays. For
the garden lover, there are many
lovely spring gardens which can
be visited throughout the area.
The 100-acres of the Municipal
Gardens will feature 100,000 aza
lea shrubs and 15,000 camellias of
500 varieties at the height of their
spring beauty. The lovely gardens
and the coronation ceremonies of
fer wonderful opportunities for the
photographer for both color and
black and white pictures. A spe
cial stage has been constructed for
the coronation so that it will be
liter-ally floating in azaleas and
dogwood with a background of
pine.
Norfolk’s Municipal Gardens are
open to the public throughout the
year at no> charge. A continuous
display of native flora in a multi
tude of colors can be seen daily.
Chas. W. Small Dies
In Savannah, Ga.
Funeral services for Charles W.
Small, 76, of Savannah, Ga., rail
way executive and prominent in
Savannah civic affairs, who died
Monday of last week after a long
illness, were conducted Tuesday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock at Sipple’s
Mortuary in Savannah by the Rev.
Ernest Risley, rector of St. John’s
Episcopal Church.
Mr. 'Small was assistant general
passenger agent for the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad when he retired
in August, 1950. He had been em
ployed by the railroad for 50 con
tinuance years, starting as office
boy in Portsmouth, Va. He was a
director of the Georgia, Florida
and Alabama Railroad.
jS The deceased served in Savan
nah twice as division passenger
agent, being transferred to Co
| tumbia, S. C., in the interim. Oth
ler service was at Sanford, Fla.
' A past director of Bethesda, Mr.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTQN, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956.
Royal Mausoleum of ■
TOMB OF A MONARCH: The Royal Mausoleum holds the
remains of King Faisal I of Iraq, one of the Bible Lands, in the
capital city of Baghdad. King Faisal I is known as the father
of modern Iraq, a statue in his'honor dominates one of the prin
cipal squares and several buildings are named after him. Baghdad
is famous as the city of the Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid and the
thousand and one nights of Scheherazade. It is filled with golden
domed Mosques, museums and Mausoleums. Within driving dis
tance, are the ruins of Ctesiphon, the world's longest unreinforced
arch, and those of Babylon, scene of the tower of Babel and the
Hanging Gardens. Babylon was the place where the prophet Daniel
foretold the downfall of the Emperor Belshazzar (Dan 5:25) in the
fateful words “Mene, Menq, Tekel, Cpliarsin.”
60-SECOND PS
SERMONS ggg
TEXT: “Train up the child • • •
he will not depart from it.”—Bible.
There was an earthquake in a
state subject to these earth trem
ors. The people of a certain town
wel-e very much frightened. One
couple sent their little boy to stay
with an uncle in another state, ex
plaining to him the reason for the
nephew’s sudden visit.
Two days later the parents re
ceived this telegram:
“Am returning your boy. Send
the earthquake.”
To his parents, every mistake a
child makes appears to lie a horri
ble trend to a terrible end. Why
do we expect perfection from our
Small was at the time of his death |
a member of the Savannah Golf!
Club, the Oglethorpe Club, and ,
American Association of Passenger |
Traffic Officers. He was inter
ested in various charities and was]
a communicant of the Episcopal >
Faith. *
Born in Perquimans County, N. |
C., Mr. Small was educated in the
public schools of North Carolina
and attended North 'Carolina State
College at Raleigh.
A cousin, Mrs. W. A. Everett of
Edcnton, is the only surviving I
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children when, every day, we. make
mistakes in business or at home?
Perhaps our greatest fears arh
not for the children, but that our ,
short-comings as parents will be
revealed by our children’s mis
takes. i
The parent who lias firmly fixed
a knowledge of right and wrong in
his eliild need not worry over an
occasional mistake. The well
trained child will correct his er
rors just as the grown-up who
makes a mistake in business cor
rects bis mistakes. A life; trained
to high purposes, will overcome
mistakes and swing back to those
purposes as surely as the compass
needle swings back to the North
after being disturbed.
| member of the immediate family.
! .The body-was removed to Hort-
I ford where graveside services were
I held at 3 P. M., Wednesday of last
[ week. Pallbearers were: Vivian
I Darden, William Small, Harry 1101 l
l lowell, Archie Lane, all of Hert
ford, and Earl Goodwin, J. W. Da-
I vis and T. B. Smith, all of Eden
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It were not best that we should
all think alike; it is difference of
opinion that makes horseraces.
| —S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain).
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a ticket to the movies. The box
office girl asked him, “Why aren't j
you at school tflday?”
“Oh, it’s all right,” piped Tom
my earnestly. “I’ve got the meas
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Minutes Os Board j
Os Public Works 1
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Edcnton, N. C., March 6, 1956 |
The Board of Public Works met
this day in the Town Office at 7:30
o’clock P. M.
Members present: A, B. Har
less, chairman, Philip S. McMullun,
'Thomas C. By rum, Jr., and W. J.
Yates.
The following bills for the month
of February, 1956 were examined
and approved for payment: ' |
Graybar Electric Co., $1,552.05;
Electrical Equipment Co., sl,-
678.33; Dewey Bros., Inc., $50.61;
Va. Electric & Power Co., SB,-
670.40; Byrum Hardware C0,,.'
$13.66; The Chowan Herald. $13.10;
Burroughs Corp., $13.56; Edcnton
lee Co., $112.23; llqgbes-Parker
Hardware, $24.93; American Public
Power, $41.35; Bunch’s Garage,
$39.68; Southern Pipe Tool Co.,
$263,17; Universal Corp., $267.16;
Carolina-Norfolk, $19.80; Hobbs
Implement Co., $4.81; Gray &
Creech, Inc., $30.89; Henry Eagle
ton Co., $(>.88; Howerton Gowen i
Co., $100.35; Mill Power .Supply
Co.. $6.85; Butler Blueprint ('>>.,
$3.06; Wiliiamston Office Supply,
$41.15; A. S. Smith Machine Co.,
$14,20; Pamlico Power .V- I iglit
Co., $170.00; KHebrew's Radio I .V
M. $15.00; Binkley Mfg. Co.,
$19,16; A. L. .Perry,. 75c; Monroe
Calculating Co.. $150.00: Milbank
Manufacturing-Co.. $18.00; Cnlgon,
fnc., $295.00; Jefferson Island Salt
Co., $188.00: Charleston Rubber
Co., $12.39; Thurston Motor lanes,
$11.97; M. G. Brown Co., Inc.,
$66,02; U. J. Boyce, $31:66; Nor
folk Southern Railway, $ 188.00:
Postmaster, $67.46; Norfolk Caro
lina Tel. Co., $21.30: Charles
Roach, $10.00; Early Miller, $10.00;
John H, Blount, $15.60; U. M.
Smithson. $48,55; Edcnton Office
Supply, $1.25: general salaries paid
for month of February, $3,0.80.32;
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total, $18,103.65. 1
Received from current, water and
merchandise, $23,497.28.
Amount of receipts in excess of
t disbursements, $5,333.63.
| Minutes of the meeting of Feb
ruary 7, 1956 were approved as
read.
Motion was made by Philip S.
McMullun, seconded by W. J. Yates,
and duly carried that reading of
minutes of February 17, 1956, be
dispensed with and that these min*
I utes be approved.
Motion was made by Thomas C.
: Byrum, Jr., seconded by Philip S.
I McMulian, and duly carried (hat a
charge* of $375.00 lie made for
sprinkler system service on Broad
Street and a charge of $325.00 for
all other streets. It. is understood
that the service will lie furnished |
only when' there arc existing wa
ter mains with sufficient capacity
to provide such service and that
service will be made from the clos
, est point of supply to the property
line of applicant.
I Motion was made by Thomas C.
Byrum, Jr., seconded by W. .1.
Yates, and duly carried Hint' the
salary of Tom Goodman he increase |
ed $5.00 per month ;yid vehicle ex
, pease lie increased SIO.OO per
month.
Motion was made by Philip S.
McMulian, seconded by W. J.
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Yates, and duly carried that:
$750.00 be transferred from I lie
Electric and Water fund to the
General Fund to pay the balance
due on, a mosquito spraying and i
fogging machine.
Motion was made by Philip S. ]
McMulian, seconded by Thomas C.
Byrum, Jr., and duly carried dial
the Board of Public Works rcconi-l
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ELIZABETH (111 EDEN TON HERTFORD
PAGE FIVE
j mend to the TowitAftwfpSl that thfljr
purchase a hose disdij Ai the Fire
Department at a TeMnn $1,349.60
and that the Board of Public Work*
I will pay this cost' if upproved bjT
I the Council. * -***•
| There lining no further businesh,
the Board adjournedt -c,
, ERNEST J. WAiyO, JR., /
i Clerk.
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