Negro Playground Now In Operation Hie playground for Negro children, located on the corner of Oakum and Freemason streets opened Monday, May 29, for the summer season. It is being su pervised by Coach Walter Hunt fir who directed a very success ful"season last summerT* 16 * In order for the .children to have the minimum essential equipment the Negro Woman’s Club purchased the fofWVing items: One catcher’s mitt, one fielder’s glove, three “I*o6 'P.S. balls, one basketball, four horse shoes, one badminton four dozen softballs and *dozen bats at a cost of $158.00, ‘ The main objecjive df the Wo man’s Club is to help the youth of the community enjoy a more Wholesome life. Other projects sponsored this season by Hie club j for the youth of the town and Announcing Sinclair DINO GASOLINE AT REGULAR PRICE 9 mm ' f ,.... 11.,1H v, - , Blended with Special HIGH-MILEAGE Ingredients For Greater Economy (mDHq;)) \\gas<*ine j/ J At Sinclair We Care...About You...About Your Car ELLIOTT OIL COMPANY SINCLAIR DISTRIBUTOR EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA mapmum Friday, June 2nd - Saturday, June 3rd - Monday, June sth GLEEM PREMIUM OUTSIDE WHJTE PAINT REG. PRICE $6.50 SPECIAL $5.50 l Bamboo Fly Rod, BV2 Ft. with Extra Tip.......... $4.95 I 20-inch Scout Powet Mower SPECIAL $46.99 I FREE - BASEBALL WITH PURCHASE OF BASEBALL GLOVE |lHugjies - Parker Hardware Co. 1 county were, $105.00 given to students in college, $40.0C given'l to Edenton High School to pur-| chase milk for underprivileged j pupils, $15.00 to White Oak! School and SIO.OO to St. John| School for the same purpose, i Total amount spent this season! for the betterment of youth in; the community was $328.00. Members of the Woman’s Club wish to thank all who contribut ed in any way to the success of their youth projects. EDENTON WOMAN'S CLUB WILL MEET WcDNESDAY Edenton Woman’s Club "will meet Wednesday afternoon, June 7, at 1 o’clock at the Edenton Restaurant. Mrs. Herbert Hollo well, Jr, the new president, is very anxious to have every member present. A pure heart is an excellent thing—and so is a clean shirt. —G. C. Lichtenberg. Hsre s important news about a great new name in gasoline. It’s Sinclair DINO Gasoline-the regular priced gasoline that performs like premium gasoline in 3 out of 5 cars on the road. If you want the most for your gasoline dollar, try Sinclair DINO Gasohne in your car today. With DINO Gasoline, you can save when you buy. Better still, you can save as you drive because Sinclair DINO is blended with special high-mileage ingredients to give you many money-saving miles per gallon. At Your Sinclair Station THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JUNE 1. 1981. CDMC Plans Dinner On Saturday» June 3 The CDMC of the First Chris tian Church will serve a chick en salad or country ham plate Saturday night, June 3. The dinner will be served in the church annex from 6 to 8:30 o’clock, but the dinners will al so be delivered. Anyone desiring to purchase a plate should call Mrs. Marina Crummey, phone 3790. RED MEN MEETING Chowan Tribe No. 12, Improv ed Order of Red Men, will meet Monday night, June 5, at 8 o’clock. Bill Harris, sachem of the tribe, is very anxious to have a large attendance. In obedience to the divine nature, man’s individuality re flects the divine law and order of being. —Mary Baker Eddy. NO DISTRACTIONS, PLEASE—Just to keep distractions at a minimum, judges at this University of South Carolina beauty contest decreed that the faces of contestants would be hidden with paper bags. Winner was masked coed standing second from the left. She is Joyce Adams, freshman from Columbia, S.C. People’s Debt Repayment Now Taking Billion Dollars A Week The American people have built up a record volume of per- j sonal debt over recent years to 1 buy homes, cars and other goods and to satisfy a variety of in dividual wants under “Buy Now —Pay Later” plans, which now takes a billion dollars a week in contractual repayments. This figure represents close to a sixth of all personal income after taxes. It has increased by 30 per cent since 1955 and is more than double what it was a decade ago. It involves only re payments on installment debt and home mortgages, and ex cludes the billions of dollars of other bills that people at large incur and repay in the routine of day-to-day living, such as charge accounts and o ner short run credit employed by the typi cal household. Magnitudes Compared Debt repayment today amounts to a substantially greater sum than the personal income tax bill (Federal, State and local com bined), and next to food and shelter expenditures represents the biggest single charge on the consumer’s pocketbook. Figures compiled from Govern ment sources show that the an nual amount involved in meeting contractual payments on consum er installment credit, and for amortization plus some partial prepayment of home mortgage debt, reached a record of just under $52 billions last year. This represented the equivalent of 15.4 cents of every dollar of ag gregate disposable personal in come for the year, a proportion which has shown only a nominal change since 1957. The comparable debt repay ment figure in 1955 was $39.4 billions, equal to 14.4 cents of every dollar of that year’s dis posable personal income. In 1950 the figure was only $21.8 bil lions, equivalent to 10% cents of every dollar of the year’s dispos able personal income. Growth of Personal Debt This trend reflects the course of personal debt, which for some years has been one of the fastest-growipg segments of the nation’s debt structure. One-to four family mortgage debt and consumer credit combined added up to $176.4 billions at the end of last year, same two-fifths greater than in 1955 and two and three-quarters times the comparable figure in 1950. Much of this growth is a natural by product of an expanding popu lation and rising living stand ards, but the inflation of the last two decades, in which the dollar lost more than half of its buying power, has been a sig nificant factor as well. Whether or to what extent people may have exceeded the limits of prudence in their will ingness to borrow and to com mit an increasing proportion of their income -in advance is a moot question. Debt is not a one-way street, and that ap plies to Government as well as to the average household. It is a fact, however, that thanks to peak employment and pay levels in a growing economy, and to the widening margin of income over basic necessities and taxes now enjoyed by more and more families, the overwhelming ma-J jority of Americans have estab-l lished an excellent record of credit worthiness by meeting their obligations on time. Factor of Savings Furthermore, a basic aspecl of debt repayment is that it adds ■ Opening Announcement The Chowan Cooperative Produce Exchange, Inc. AT VALHALLA -N. C. 32 HIGHWAY 6 MILES NORTH OF EDENTON WILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS ON Wed., June 7th At 1 P. M. Mr. Frauds Hicks will be our manager. Regular opening and receiving hours for produce will be announced as soon as season's demands are determined. Auction sales Mill be held for non-members as in the past. Belt grading of beans, cleaning, grading and Maxing cu cumbers, peppers and tomatoes. Pre-cooling sMeet corn will be available for members. Machinery is ready for operation. All types of baskets and containers Mill be handled by the exchange for the members and public, and al competi tive prices. The Chowan Cooperative Produce Exchange, Inc. W. A. HARRELL, President E. L. PEARCE, Vice President C. M. EVANS, Secretary-Treasurer ownership or equities. This is particularly true with respect to amortization of home mortgage debt which last year added up to $7% billions, according to esti mates by the Home Loan Bank Board, half again as great as in 1955 and close to three times the comparable total in 1950. Be sides, the figures show that the people at large are continuing to save regularly in the more usual forms of thrift and have built up a record backlog of about S3OO billions in life insurance and other long-term accumulated savings of individuals. An interesting aspect of the consumer credit figures is the nigh level attained by install-) ment borrowing in relation to the total. In the last few years installment debt has represent ed 75 per cent or more of all consumer credit outstanding as against less than 70 per cent in 1950. A big push to the ex pansion in installment debt re payment in the last few years, other than debt in~urred on au tomobiles and other big ticket items, has come from home modernization and ‘-epair loans and from the broad classification jf personal loans covering a range from medical expenses to vacation and travel. 'Mi \ \ 1,1 * i LA.-SIFHiI) MASONS MEET TONIGHT | A stated communication of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., will be held tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock. Dr. A. F. Downum, master of the lodge, urges a full turn-out of mem bers. ROTARIANS MEET TODAY | Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Parish House. The program will be in charge of H. A. Campen and President Elton Forehand urges a 100 per cent attendance. oHOP AT YOUR NEIGH liORIIOOl) GROCERY D & M SUPER MARKET PHONE 2317 FOR FREE I PLENTY OF FREE DELIVERY ON ORDERS 1 vr SPACE OF $2.00 OR MORE! j / 1 /vA/A GSI ALE For That Cookout Try Our Swijt Premium Rib Steaks »79 c Tender . . . Delirious Swill's Premium Chuck Roast»39 c CEDAR FARM FRESH GROUND B A C O N HAMBURGER 1-lb. pkg. 39<* lb. 39c 5-LB BAG S R PILLSBURY* 20 OZ. RED & WHITE KI.OIIR I ! VIMT bay 49c | hotllc 29e 303 CANS R & W GARDENS SUN-SPUN SWEET PEAS I BISU ITS can 19c I 3 cans 2.n* LARGE SIZE RED & WHITE Powdered Determent .. I boxes SI.OO 46-OZ. RED & WHITE P’apple & Orange Prink •> rails 99c With $5.00 or More Food Order 1 Quart Wesson Oil 39c* I—SECTION ON* PAGE THREE A Great Ship is Ours Let's bring the u.ss. NORTH CAROLINA HOME Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. —Chaucer.

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