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PAGE TWO Mfecnow owe Tar Heels Must Do Better To Average National Income ■i At the 19M-59 rate of growth, the pep capita income of North Carolina citizens will not reach the national average within the next 100 years. This is one of the conclusions reached in a study of southern incomes by Lee K. Martin, pro fessor of agricultural economics '-4 the University of Arkansas, j Prof. Maptin reported on his I sfudy at an agricultural policy institute-ifir Raleigh. N. C. State College was host for the insti tute. In general, Martin said that southern incomes compare more favorably with the national av * age now than they did in 1940. He points out, however, that the South did more to narrow the gap between 111-10 and 1945 t ian it has since. Tn North Carolina, for exam ple, the per capita income in 1940 was 55 per cent of the rational' average. By 1945, it had reached 66 per cent of the national average. * By 1950, North Carolina’s per capita income had reached 68 per cent of the national aver age. But by 19g9, it had only reached 69 per cent; a 1 per cent rise in nine years. Generally, other southern states have followed the same . pattern followed by North Caro lina; rapid progress during World War II and slow pro gress since. , In 1959, Florida had the high est per capita income in the Sjouth—9l per cent of the na tional average. Mississippi had the per cent. The differences < in per capita income by counties were even greater. In 1958, the citizens of Wake County, N. C., had a per capita income of 82 per cent of the national average. On the other hand, the per capita in come in Newton County, Ark., was only 17 per cent of the na tional average. In general, rural counties have a much lower per capita income than urban counties. Martin also found a consider able difference in the income by race and sex. In 1949, for example, the white southern . Jjiale earning $2,065. The nonwhite male averaged $1,033. The white southern fe male averaged $947 and the nonwhite female averaged $440. Martin discounted the argu ment that “the people in the South are just as well off as people elsewhere” because they produce more of their own food and have lower costs. He reported that from 1940 to 1958 farm items produced for home consumption declined 37 per cent. He also cited studies which show that regional dif ferences in consumer prices are not large enough to compensate WEEK-END SPECIALS AT THE D & M SUPER MARKET SHOP AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERV PHONE 2317 FOR FREE PI FNTY OF FRFF DELIVERY ON ORDERS «,7n~ ;A r r c p a CF OF $2.00 OR MORE! (j HEAVY WESTERN BEEF Chuck Boast j 39c LUTER'S CEDAR FARM I SUN-SPUN BACON I BISCUITS lb. 39c I 3 cans 25c Economy Cut PORK CHOPS . . . lh. 49c 14-OZ. RED It WHITE I 10-OZ. FROSTY ACRES CATSUP I Frozen Peas bottle 19c | pkg. 20c FAMILY SIZE —FROZEN PIES PEACH - APPLE - CHERRY 39c e a ch or 3 for SI.OO 4|hos. Can Red & White Pineapple Juice L or Pineapple & Grapefruit Drink it 3 cans for 89c for the differences in income. In summarizing his study, Martin said no other region in the country has as much stake in a high rate of national growth as the South. He also said that “No group in America would be more like ly to benefit from increased ex penditures on their education, | training and health than rural farm families, especially in the South.” M| . I CIVIC CALENDAR) \ ~ Continued from Page i. Section 1 The American Legion Auxili ary will meet tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. R* E. Leary on Blount Street. Edenton Tea Parly Chapter of the DAR will meet Wednesday afternoon, January 10, as 1 o'clock at the Edenton Restau rant. Edenton Lions Club will meet Monday night at 7 o'clock at llie Edenton Restaurant. Edenton's Rotary Club will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Parish House. The VFW Auxiliary will meet tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock at the post home. Edenton's Town Council will held its January meeting Tues day night, January 9, at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Build ing. A pickled herring breakfast will be held at the Methodist Church Saturday morning, Jan uary 6. from 6:30 to 9 o'clock. A reception in honor of East ern Star officers will be held in the Masonic Temole Sunday afternoon, January 7, from 2 to 4 o'clock. William H. Coffield, Jr., Post No. 9280, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The official board of the Methodist Church will mee* at the church Monday night, Jan uary 9, at 8 o'clock. Chowan Tribe No. 12, Improv ed Order of Red Men. will meet Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. A meeting of the board of di rectors of the U. S. Lumber Company will be held in Eden ton Saturday, January 6, James Griffin Goes To Smithfield Post Continued from Page I—Section 1 wan County and in the district as a whole is attributed to the efforts of Mr. Griffin. Samuel Cox of the Pitt Coun ty work unit at Greenville is scheduled to succeed Mr. Griffin in Chowan County on January 21. T 1 TRY A HERALD CLASSIFIEt THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4,1962. JMESS NAVAL Sl'Pl’OßT— Sailors from carry a group of crippled children from their ship after treating them to a tour. The children, from a hospital in Bangkok, Thialand, received cake and ice cream later. Defense Secretary Issues Statement On New Program Refers to Civil De fense Plans to Be Presented to Cong ress In January Following is a copy of a state ment on the United States Civil Defense Program recently made by Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L. Gilpatric, at a news conference: I am able to announce today the substance of the next phase in the President’s Civil Defense Program, which will be present ed to the Congress in January. The President’s proposals put the emphasis on community fall out shelters offering incentive payments to cover a part of the cost of providing fallout shelter in schools, hospitals and public welfare institutions. The Federal Government is al ready engaged in a program to identify, mark and equip fall Mr. Fanner! feL IT S TIME FOR JBk\ TOBACCO ||| BED '.mg MATERIAL X And We Have 1t... It’s Now Available TOBACCO BED FERTILIZER 5 x 20 and 4 x 25 Tobacco Bed Cover Dowfume MC2 Gas Fumigating Kits -- Patch Tape Also McNair’s Tobacco Seed In case we haven’t seen you in regard to the above items, call us collect for prompt delivery! Leary Bros., Storage Co. Phone 214MH| Edenton, N. C I—* - -»■ m -V -W-. . _ -i .M --> -■ ■ out shelter space in existing I structures. The Federal Pro gram also provides for -techni cal assistance -to state and local civil defense programs, includ ing information on how to build and operate community shelters and low cost family shelters. The proposed program would provide Federal grants of some thing less than actual cost for every shelter space meeting ap proved standards and created by public, or private, non-profit in stitutions, engaged in health, education or welfare activities. A substantial number of these shelters will undoubtedly be dual proposed, serving a use ful community purpose, in ad dition to offering protection from radioactive fallout. The Federal Shelter Incentive Program is planned to support the construction of some 20 mil lion shelter spaces in the next fiscal year. The proposed pro gram would be retroactive in effect, to provide incentive pay ments of qualifying projects be gun on or after January 1,1962. In order to qualify lor incen tive payments, each shelter would, haye to accommodate a minimum of 50 people and would have to be open for nub ile use 'in time of emergency, Wider local civil defense direc tion. Upon completion, each shelter would be marked and stocked with food, water, first aid kits, and radiation meters. The precise details of the pro gram will be spelled out in the President’s budget message in January. The total civil de fense budget request for fiscal year 1963 will be in the neigh borhood of $700,000,000. The President’s request in cludes funds for Federal par ticipation in areas of warning, radiological monitoring, and' training and information about amounts available in fiscal year 1962. i Finally, let me say a word about where the responsibility lies for civil defense. * An effective civil defense re quires the participation of every citizen. It calls for advance planning at every level of gov ernment—local, state and na tional. This planning must be flexible enough to adapt itself to changes in enemy weapons and' tactics. It must be com prehensive enough to cover peo ple living under widely differ ent conditions, from ranch houses, to apartment houses, to frame cottages. The. primary defense obliga tion of the Federal Government is to build and maintain enough deterrent power to make an ene my attack unlikely. This deter rent demands a major effort in men, money and organization, now and for the foreseeable fu ture. The responsibility for civil de fense is vested by- statute joint ly in the Federal Government and the states. Until this year there has been little interest, and less money available, for civil defense, so that these re sponsibilities have not been de fined precisely. Now we have launched a major program. This program will require, and is re ceiving, substantial Federal funds; but no program that af fects every community in the United States can succeed with out the clear assumption of op erating responsibility by state and local government. The responsibility of the Fed eral Government is, first, to keep track of the nature of the threat which the civil defense program must be designed to meet ; second, to prepare in for- j motion about the threat and how it can be met; thj.rd, to bear a| major part of the costs of cer- i tain kinds of civil defense ac-1 tivities where such sharing will stimulate alette and local and private activities; and, fourth, to prov id e Aechhical assistance through state and local chan.. ' nels for civil defease planning and activity j f An individual must be able to look to some agency of his state or local, government for j advice and assistance on civil defense planning, just as he looks to them for police and fire protection services. By the same token, the responsibility for organizing community civil defense protection falls oh the states* and, ' through them, on ] local government units. Be cause the job is an extraordi narily difficult one, the Federal Government is preparing to as sist the states with technical help and matching funds for certain programs. A more de tailed fact sheet on the new pro gram has already been made available for you. The booklet-, ’ “Fallout Protec tion,” has gone to the printers. Copies will be available for the press late this month and for the general public beginning early in January. Mrs. Martha A. Bass Dies At Rocky Hock Mrs. Martha A.. Bass, 61, died at her home in the Rocky Hock section Sunday morning at 3:30 o’clock after an illness of 13 months. Surviving are her husband, Carey A. Bass; four sons. Rod ney Bass and Lester Bass of Edenton and Wilbur Ray Bass and Willis Bass of Windsor; three daughters, Mrs. Stewart Taylor of Merry Hill, Mrs. Ben nie Lamb of Belvidere and Mrs. Winston Lane, Jr., of Hertford; four brothers, G. P. Harrell, Elisha Harrell/J. D. Harrell and Edward Harrell, all of Edenton; a sister, Mrs. Hunter Hoggard of Edenton and 22 grandchil dren. ( She was a member of the Rocky Hock Baptist Church, where a funeral service was held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The pastor, the Rev. T. Thurman Alired, officiated, and burial was in the family cemetery at Rocky Hock. I Bf ■ when you save regularly ... You can make your own future when you decide to DO something about it, instead of leaving it to “hap penstance.” The most practical, purposeful’thing you can do is to adopt a policy of systematic saving geared to your objectives. W-*- • Why not decide right now to take your future into your own hands? Chart your own finan-/|£a|jjß|u cial course to everything you want to do andGPWfflEI have. Then open a savings account here! Where you save does make a difference! Over $107,123.88 Paid Our Saiers in 1961 ■ Edenton Savings & Lo.n Assn. Governor SanfotrdProud And Of SI At the end of 1961, I ex press my thanks to the'-'N&HM ands of North Carolinian# who have helped carry on the; state's Imany official programs. There has never been a year in this century when North CaiioUpa failed to make progress, and this year the people have con tinued to move forward. As we look at the progress, it is good to be reminded that opr • state has developed sound tax laws. An official United States Census Bureau document re minds us that we are in the lowest three of all the states in amount of paid per per-! son for state and local' govern ment. This means our schools, roads, mental hospitals, colleges, pris ons and all other state and lo cal government services com bined cost each of us less than these things cost the people in at least 47 other states. This should be a source of great- pride, to the citizens of North Carolina—not pride sim ply because we pay compara tively low taxes, which, of course, is a source of satisfac tion —but pride because even though we spend less money, many of our public services rank among the best. We are recognized as a na tional leader in school improve ment. i Our mental hospital system is held up as a model of effective ness across the country. Our correctional institutions have one of the best rates of rehabilitation. Our road system is the envy of most states. Our Greater University has long had high academic stand ing, and it is supported by ex cellent resident and community colleges. Our prison program is con sidered one of the soundest and / most enlightened. Our art museum is unique. Our agricultural iresearch con tinues to raise the income of farmers in our state, and across the South. Not a month passes that we V do lot have official vis itors bur industrial devel- ) <>pmeftt,,«rpgram or our Budget Control Act. And-so it go## as w f\ Ml'the roll of services pro vid?i our for our peop b. , ' l. c o »ot mean to suggest that weNif in any of these se| wi, but we“tan Jake-much ' pride-’fh' what has been aceom plistied while continuing to seek imiiroitfhnent to keep up with i our needed growth in roads, - colleges, . hospitals and othe*rnpublic services. Thai 'ijg are able to render so muoh for our citizens at thst iowffe* pst in America is due primarily.: to two things which- set North Carolina apart from most, other states. First, egpnomy and efficiency are acceptied traditions and cur rent facts in North, Carolina public service.' , Second, our ap proach in many fields has sav ed us considerable money. Un like most, states, we pay on ’ai" state, level for most of the stqpe-J port of the Schools, prison#, anti roads, all big items of state and local government. The savings are illustrated by the faet that we b»ve one highway depart . ment, not one for the state sys tem and one hundred fpr. sep arate county systems. At the end of 1961, we con tinue ,to have our problems, but the happy fact i# that these are problems of progress and growth and new opportunity. SWEET POTATO ACREAGE IS SMALLEST SINCE 1868 ——x , The 1961 Tar Heel sweet, po tato crop is estimated at, 2,420,000 ewt. aqd compares with a revis ed production of 2,409,000 cwt. produced in 1960. j This year’s crop was harvest ed from 22,000 acres—the small est harvested acreage since rec ords began in 1868. Last year’s crop was harvested from 24,000 acres. The average yield per acre of 110 cwt. is a record and is 10 cwt. above the previous record set in, 1960.
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