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Winter Weather, Trips Dangerous
CHICAGO Holiday
trips and winter weather
make a deadly combina
tion, according to Judge
Harry H. Porter of the
Circuit Court of Cook
County, 111.
“It is unfortunate that
the upsurge in traffic dur
ing the holiday season so
often coincides with the
worst possible kind of win
ter weather,’’ said Judge
Porter, who has served for
many years as president of
the Safe Winter Driving
League. “It is particular
ly unfortunate and often
tragic that drivers don’t
seem to recognize or com
pensate for the added haz
ards of winter driving.’’
He pointed out that in
addition to the normal,
year-’round hazards, winter
time driving often adds
two additional perils re
duced visibility and inade
quate traction.
“When highways are
slippery and visibility poor,
the driver has a two-fold
responsibility for his own
well-being,” he continued.
“First and foremost, he
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should drive with extra
care and take common
sense precautions, such as
slower speeds, longer fol
lowing distances and fre
quent rest-stops.
“His second responsibil
ity is to make sure that
his car is in first-class
mechanical condition, espe
cially those items that af
fect traction and visibil
ity.”
Citing traction tests by
the National Safety Coun
cil’s Committee on Winter
Driving Hazards, the judge
said that snow tires were
helpful for mild-to-medium
snow and ice conditions,
that studded tires offered
still more help on icy sur
faces, and that reinforced
tire chains were best for
severe snow and ice con
ditions.
“Whether you use ordin
ary snow tires or studded
tires, carry a set of chains
in the trunk of your car
along with a bucket of
sand, a shovel, flares and
a tow chain,” he cautioned.
For best visibility during
winter storms, Judge Por
ter advised that all win
dows should be kept clear,
not only the windshield
but the side and rear win
dows as well. “Don’t be
content with a ‘peep-hole’
in the snow on the wind
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shield," he said, adding
that good side and rear
vision is also essential in
today’s heavy traffic.
“Finally,” he concluded,
“before starting a holiday
be sure all your lights in
cluding the directional
signals are working prop
erly and that your defrost
er and windshield wipers
are both in first-class con
dition. Streaking blades
should be replaced or re
filled with live new rub
ber.”
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Midnight Mass
At Saint Ann's
By Father Joseph Lash
The midnight niass at St.
Ann’s Catholic Church of
Edenton will, once again,
be celebrated in Latin. Ac
companying the celebrant,
Father Joseph Lash, with
the high mass will be
Randolph Austin at the
organ and some of the
congregation trained in the
Latin music. It is an ef
fort on our part to keep
some of the beautiful mu
sic in the church where it
belongs.
For as the Hebrew word
“Emmanuel” expresses one
of the reasons for our joy
at Christmastime, which
tianslated means ‘God
with us,” so also can we
regard the angelic hymns
of Latin origin as our ex
pression of our giving of
“Glory to God in the
Highest.’” All this should
assist us to better recog
nize that God loves us so
much that He sent His
only Son to become one of
us, and to be like us in
everything except wrong
doing.
It might be pointed out
that in this word “Em
manuel” we have an
answer to present day ad
vocates of the “God is
dead” belief who cynical
ly ask, What is God like?
Our answer is that He is
like Jesus Christ, that em
braced our human condi
tion. What He teaches us
isn’t irrelevant because He
speaks to us as one who
was subject to the same
hopes and fears, joys and
sorrows, that come to us
all.
Our lasting lesson to be
learned at this holy sea- |
son is that God tells us j
that He loves us and we
have but to look into the 1
Christmas crib to know
that this is true. And as
we continue to look we
learn how easy it is to ..
love Him in return.
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Cotton Program
Continues To Aid
The 1969 upland cotton
program administered by
the Department of Agri
culture will continue to
offer special benefits to
small farmers.
Even though diversion
payments are being cut out
this year, small farmers
will be eligible for pay
ment that is especially de
signed for them.
Farms with allotments of
10 acres or less, or pro
jected production of 3,600
pounds or less, may plant
their entire farm allotment
and receive a payment of
11.26 cents a pound on the
projected yield of 35 per
cent of the allotment.
This is in addition to the
price-support payment of
14.73 cents a pound based
on the domestic allotment
and the projected yield.
The cotton production from
the farm is also eligible
for the price-support loan
whi.‘h averages 20.25 cents
a pound.
In recent years cotton
programs have allowed di
version payments to small
farmers even though they
planted their full allot
ment. The special provi
sion will apply again in
1969 for the small farm.
More details may be ob
tained through the Chowan
ASCS office.
Courtesy is a virtue that
seems to be on the wane
these days.
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Sunday School
Lesson
or works an abomination
shall enter into the City.
How well we know that
we are to anticipate the
journey over that last
great sea, into the un
known beyond. How well
we realize that this en
tails much work, and
many changes in our atti
tudes and outlook. And
how we do procrastinate
When it comes to such
preparation of ourselves.
We are so human. The
only things that will make
us welcome Death with
open arms is our personal
confrontation with pain,
age or complete abandon
ment of hope.
We sorely need to have
John’s faith. For he was
completely confident in his
belief of a new heaven
and a new earth. He truly
believed that there was
more future for mankind
than just being born, liv
ing, suffering, triumphing
—and then submitting to
eternal death.
As a Christian don’t
you?
(These comments are based
on outlines of the Interna
tional Sunday School Les- j
sons, copyrighted by the,
International Council of Re-!
by permission).
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