fVamlalism To Highway Signs Costs State SIOO,OOO Annual!) The sharp clang of a rock Smashing into a metal sign—the' ziflig of a well-aimed gullet that finds its mark the would be artist who has found that a 3 in 35 can be changed very sim ply N to an 8. These are some of the problems facing traffic engineers and sign supervisors -in what has been termed an annual SIOO,OOO disgrace in> North Carolina, according to Highway Department officials. , R. A. Burch, State Traffic! Engineer, estimates that eachj year SIOO,OOO is spent to replace roadside signs which have suf-j sered severe damage at the | hands of some unthinking young- 1 Ster or older person who re-| gards highway markers as noth ing more than an object for "target practice. Annually the various sign de-, fartments estimate they replace j hout a quarter of a million highway signs, 20% of which j have been damaged beyond re- ; pair by rocks, bullets or bottles air by bending, stealing, break ing or painting. Missing signs pose the most serious problem for sign men because it is easy to overlook a spot where a sign should be and for this reason the marker Seajjrwns JIL Crown Qua* ***** scaani% Croum . AMERICAN BLENDED WHimf $4.05 Hwill BIOKW I "•* 4/5 Qt. umhiium «i m $2,55 lUGRAM -OlollLltßS COMPANY. NEV/ YORK CITY. NLENOEC WHISKEY. B 6 PROOF. 65% ORAM NEUiRAI SPIRITS Home Feed & Fertilizer Co. ■T? - ' - NOW BUYING CORN % BEANS 1— AT TOP M ARKET PRICES Automatic Weight - - No Waiting Large Capacity Dumping Pit SEE US BEFORE YOU SELL i % . —♦—— [Home Feed & Fertilizer Co. KW. Carteret St. PHONE 2313 Edenton, N. C. | ; may go unnoticed for days or >1 even weeks. Such thefts also ; create hazards for drivers. The ( unsuspecting motorist may run I up on a dangerous curve, bad . grade or dangerous intersection ■ with no forewarning. Acci : dents with resultant prop'erty damage, personal injury or even t ; death have "been caused by such ii lack of adequate warnings. I I Most common damage to signs j comes from rocks, pop bottles and bullets which dent or pierce ij the sign face. A pop bottle i, thrown from a fast moving car] j may have more- than a 75 MPH > impact against the face of a | metal or wooden sign. Broken | glass at the base or even on the roadfay itself stands as mute ■ evidence that a prankster has tested his aim and found it . true at the expense of the . | North Carolina taxpayer. Chanc , es are that his accurary cost 1 1 $15.00 or more to say nothing of .! the labor of replacing the dam ; aged marker. North Carolina has long-stand ing laws to the effect that any , person who willfully defaces, i damages or removes signs shall be guilty of a' tr sdemeanqr but ' apprehension cf the guilty par • ty is -difficult and conviction THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTOW. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1961. even rarer. Highway officials feel about the only way to minimize sign damage / is through education and appeals to the common de cency of individuals responsi ble. In the main, persons who get a kick ont of damaging a roadside sign probably don’t re alize just how much damage they and their kind are doing. To the men responsible for maintenance of roadside signs it seems a horrible waste of mon ey, manpower and time when vandals take aim and fire awayj at expensive State property, but the SIOO,OOO disgrace will con tinue until a method of getting through to the vandals is found. With schools starting across the state, children will be walk ing or riding by. a great many roadside signs, parents are urg ed to remind children that there are plenty of worthless targets' just as good as a highway sign where they can test their ac curacy. That hignway sign is too ex-: pensive and too important to the safety of North Carolina drivers to be damaged, beyond repair simply at the whim of a thoughtless person. Ldave it where it is doing the job it was meant to perform—directing people to where they’re going and showing them the safest way to get there. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE The nature of God' as Spirit, 1 not matter, will be brought out Sunday at Christian Science church services. Opening the Biblical selec tions in the Lesson-Sermon en titled “Matter” are these verses from Exodus (20): “And God spake all these words saying! . . . Thou shalt have no other! gods before me ... Ye shall j not make me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.” This citation will be read from “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy (pp. 199,200): “When Homer sang of the Grecian gods, Olympus was dark, but through his verse the gods alive in a nation’s belief. Pagan wor ship began with muscularity, but the law of Sinai lifted thought into the song of David. LOR Contract AJML) Repair Work CALL Twiddy Insurance & Real Estate, Inc. PHONE 2163 EDENTON I Moses advanced a'nation to the worship of God in Spirit in stead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal .Mind.” SsP i Sponsored by the North Carolina Rural Safety Council ■ Bill Jones stumbled on a mop Which he’d left -lying in his | shop. ■ He landed on a running saw, Poor Bill no longer has a jaw. 1 Clear your shop and keep it' ; clean. 1 Practice care with each ma chine. j Says Safety Sam, “It’s quite a ■j shock 1 To die upon a stumbling-block." i —. | [ Lunch Room Menu ] \ Menus at John A. Holmes ' High School lunch room for the ] week of September 18-22 will ’ be as follows: Monday: Grilled beef pat ! ties with gravy, creamed po j tatoes, hot biscuits, apple sauce, I garden ptas, butter, milk. ’ Tuesday: Fish sticks, cole ' slaw, peach halves, milk, corn ! bread, cornfield peas, butter, Wednesday: Fried chicken, green string beans, ice cream, butter, potato salad, hot rolls, ’ milk. Thursday: Grilled bologna, ■ | buttered potatoes, chocolate j block cake, milk, bread, garden I peas, butter. ’ Friday: Stew beef with po -1 tatoes and gravy, turnip greens, cup cakes with raisins, butter, hot biscuts, milk. i - —*— 116 Receive Old Age Assistance In August Mrs. J. H. McMullan, super -1 intendent of public welfare, re ports that 116 persons in Cho | wan County received old age' 1 assistance during August, with ; $4,339 being distributed. There I were 23 cases of aid to depend- I ent children who received sl,- '.629. Forty-six cases of aid to permanently and totally dis | abled received $2,252 and 10 ! aid to blind cases received $350. I There were six emergency assistance cases for which $87.33 | was expended. Nine persons | were hospitalized in the coun jty costing $1,213.24, of which | the county’s part was $416. 1 Three cases hospitalized outside the county cost $55.80. Mary Nixon Bride Os William S. Perry 1 PA ■ i§ HP’.' MRS. WILLIAM STANFORD PERRY Miss Mary Vaughan Nixon, daughter of Mrs. Thomas E.j Nixon and the late Mr. Nixon of Hobbsville, became the bride of William Stanford Perry of j Suffolk, Va., in a ceremony j I solemnized at the Sandy Cross] j Baptist Church Wednesday as- j | temoon, August 20, at 5 o’clock ■ | with the Rev. J. Leonard Ger-| raid officiating. Mr. Perry is the son of Mrs. William F. Perry! of Edenton and the late Mr. Perry. Music was presented by Mrs. Elton Trotman, organist, and Mrs. Merritt A. Hooper, Jr., so loist of Elizabeth -City, sister iof the bridegroom. | | The bride, given in marriage I by her cousin, Marvin S. Wig-j gins, wore a wedding gown of i white Chantilly lace, fashioned I ‘with portrait neckline edged ini pearls and sequins, long sleeves, pointed over the hands and! basfre bodice. The bouffant, skirt scalloped at the hemline, , was accented in the back by; i i a bustle effect and formed a! ‘chapel length train. Her finger I tip veil of silk illusion was ar- ! i ranged from a double crown.] She carried a bouquet of white! rosebuds centered witn white orchids. Matron of honor was Mrs.| Kenneth M. Stolley of Suffolk,' Va., and maid of honor was MissJ Doris Jean Stallings of Belvi-| I dere. They wore full length] 'gowns in azalea silk organza, , styled with scooped necklines,; short sleeves, folded midriff and] full skirt with tiered back. I They wore matching crowns ar -1 ranged with a circular veil, and I carried bouquets of azalea rose buds. Bridesmaids were Miss Gloria Hofler, Miss Loretta Benton, Miss Carolyn Holloweil and Mrs. Clinton Holloweil, Jr., all of Hobbsville. They Wore full length gowns in peacock styled like that of the honor attend ants and wore matching crowns. They carried bouquets identical to those of the honor attend ants. Junior bridesmaids were Miss Cindy Walke of Portsmouth. Va., and Miss Judy Rountree of Hobbsville. Miss Liena Wiggins of Hobbs ville was flower girl and Scot tie Sawyer of Elizabeth City, nephew of the bridegroom was ring bearer. Calvin Keeter of Elizabeth City was best man. Groomsmen were Tommy McCoy, Jr., of Portsmouth, Va., and Marvin Gregory of Richmond, Va., cou sins of the bride, Raymond Mc- Clenny, Walter Ward, Jr., and John Lockewood, Jr., of Suf folk, Va. The bride's mother wore a blue lace dress with matching accessories and an orchid cor sage. The bridegroom’s mother wore a pink lace dress with matching accessories and an orchid cor sage. Honorary .bridesmaids were Miss Annie Marie Riddick, Miss Brenda Vee Stallings, Miss Beth Rountree, Miss Ann Overman of Hobbsville, Miss Betty Ralph of Corapoke and Mrs. Claude Sawyer of Elizabeth City. They wore gowns in pastel shades with matching wrist corsages. Mistresses of ceremonies were Mrs. Marvin Wiggins of Hobbs ' ville and Mrs. .Calvin Keeter of Elizabeth