PAGE TWO-B Witnesses Gathering In Atlanta Jehovah’s Witnesses from Edenton will hear top of ficials from the organiza tion’s world headquarters when they attend an eight day “Peace on Earth” as sembly in Atlanta July 6-13. Raymond Weathers, pre siding minister of one of Edenton’s Congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses, said program pfans have been announced and the local group has completed plans for attending the Interna tional Convention in At lanta Stadium. N. H. Knorr, president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the headquarters agency of Je hovah’s Witnesses based in New York City, will lead the convention speakers. F. W. Franz, vice presi dent, and Grant Suiter, sec retary-treasurer, will also appear. Franz will deliver the main talk at the conven tion. His public Bible lec ture will be entitled, “The Approaching Peace of A Thousand Years.” “For many, it will be the first opportunity to hear these officials who have directed the amazing expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world in recent years,” Weathers said. ijtl* He pointed out that up |*»;.to 1958, international con :>:'yentions of Jehovah's Wit Armco Corrugated Steel Pipe for irrigation 8 Drainage It's Kasy to Install; Straw Uses include road culverts, ditch crossovers, stock wa ter supply lines aijd turn outs. Durable Zinc-coated Armco Corrugated Steel Pipe is available in diame ters 6 to 96 inches. We maintain stock for your needs. Call us for prices. ARMCO CONSTRUCTION V PRODUCTS Coastal Concrete Company, Inc. Windsor, N. C. 794-8189 Menton. R c. OMNI Bji - 1 - sMjj fe tMNM RM|M| dhini siyht Msitfs i Hobbs Implement Co, Inc. "Your John Deere Dealer'' Guy C. Hobbs, Mgr. Edenton, N. C nesses could be held in a single city. One that year in New York attracted 253,000 delegates. But this year, Weathers said, it is taking 25 cities to handle the increased number of Witnesses. While 45,000 are expected in Atlanta, up to 60,000 are Warning About Book "Salesmen’ RALElGH—Attorney Gen eral Robert Morgan urged North Carolina citizens to day to be on guard against door-to-door and telephone “surveys,” “public rela tions” and “advertising” programs which are book selling schemes in disguise. “The'summer book sales man has become a familiar figure in North Carolina and many have treated our people fairly in the past,” said Morgan. However, each summer in recent years the state has been plagued with book-selling programs dressed up to fool the consumers into thinking they are getting special prices on encyclo pedias, dictionaries or Bibles through public re lations or advertising pro grams,” said Morgan. “The buyer is led to be lieve that he is getting a special deal as part of the company’s public relations or advertising program,” Morgan said, "when the truth is that the companies sell all their wares through such sales schemes and no one gets any special deal.” These selling schemes are most likely to be used dur ing the summer months when there is a plentiful supply of cheap but ef fective salesmen in the form of students “working their way through college.” “Unfortunately,'’ said Morgan, “the students themselves are often duped as well as their customers. The students are led to be lieve that they are getting jobs in the public rela tions and advertising fields. By the time they realize that the job is nothing other than door-to-door selling through deceptive sales techniques, it’s too late for them to look for another job for the sum mer.” Morgan said use of such sales techniques constitutes an unfair and deceptive practice in the conduct of commerce and that such techniques were declared unlawful by the North Ca rolina .Consumer Protection Act of 1969. 188 CHOWAN KDKNtON, NOBIS CAROLINA. MDMMT, JULY 19, MW. expected in Los Angles, 40,000 in Buffalo, N. Y., 40,000 in Vancouver, and similar throngs in New York City, Pomona, Calif., Kansas City and Chicago. Seventeen other conven tions are planned abroad, with 120,000 expected at Nuremberg, Germany, where just 25 years ago there were fewer than 10,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses —and they were prisoners in Hitler’s concentration camps. “The program at all these conventions will be the same,” Weathers said. “We look forward to re ceiving valuable instruc tion to assist us in our Christian ministry here in Edenton.” CHOWAN COUNTY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1969 - 1970 Adopted By The Board Os County Commissioners June 18,1969 FUND Arnoßuno nut amount _____ BBQ CntXMXN TB LEVIED BATE DEBT SERVICE—SchooI Building Bonds $ 40,232.96 Hospital Bonds 92,040.38 _ „ $132,273.34 Less Surplus $ 11,373.34 $120,900.00 $120,900.00 $.39 SCHOOLS $506,017.00 Less Amounts Anticipated From: Fines, Forfeitures, Penalties $ 21,000.00 D °g Tax 1,200.00 Intangibles Tax 22,000.00 Poll Tax 1,800.00 Estimated School Fund Balance 32,606.00 Federal and State Funds 160,811.00 $239,417.00 $266,600.00 $266,600.00 .86 CHARITY: General Assistance ..n. $ 5,500.00 ~ - Hospitalization 10,000.00 $ 15,500.00 $ 15,500.00 M HEALTH: "" ’ District $ 21,478.08 County 1,771.92 _ A . $ 23,250.00 Less Anticipated from Intangibles Tax 1,550.00 $ 21,700.00 $ 21,700.00 .07 WELFARE: Old Age Assistance $ 91,080.00 Aid to Dependent Children 127 832.00 Aid to Permanently and Disabled 58^933.84 Medical Aid to Aged 12.900.00 Medicaid 50,512.00 Administration 58,836.00 $400,093.84 Less Amount Anticipated from State and Federal Funds 341,193.84 Less Anticipated Intangibles Tax.... 3*100.00 344,293.84 $ 55,800.00 $ 55,800.00 .18 REVALUATION 6,200.00 6,200.00 .02 AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMICS ..$ 20,889.72 Less Unexpended Balance 5,394.99 Less Intangibles Tax 1,544.73 6,939.72 $ 13,950.00 $13,950.00 .045 CIVIL DEFENSE $ 11,412.70 Less Amount Anticipated from State and Federal Funds 5,706.35 Less Unexpended Balance 2,606.35 8,312.70 $ 3,100.00 .$ 3,100.00 v .01 ACCOUNTANT’S OFFICE ~$ 7,750.00 $ 7,750.00 $ 7,750.00 .025 GENERAL COUNTY FUND ....$162,602.00 I Less Anticipated from: Intangibles Tax 5,284.59 Other Funds ' 4,000.00 ABC Store Profit 40,000.00 Facility Fees and Misc. Revenue 20,000.00 Surplus 31,317.41 100,602.00 $ TOTAL LEVY ■> - $573,500.00 SLBS County-wide Tax Rate Per SIOO.OO Valuation, Based on a Valuation of $31,000,000. Special Tax Levy for Rural Fire Protection (Outside Town of Edenton): Based on a Valuation of $19,629,077 i $ 10,446.00 Less Unexpended Balance 632.00 $ 9,814.00 $ 9,814.00 A6 TOTAL COUNTY-WIDE BUDGET MJ99JI4JSB Regional Event Slated By ASGS Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin has an nounced that the fourth in a series of regional “lis tening conferences” will be held at the Coliseum, Uni versity of Georgia, Athens, July 24. Viewpoints of agricul tural and rural leaders on farm and rural problems in eight southeastern states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will be heard at the Athens conference. The States are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississip pi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. New Books At library New books received at < Shepard - Pruden Memorial Library include the follow- . ing: Fiction The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. Mesabi by Margaret Ban- < ning. Tsing-Boom by Nicholas . Freeling. To Glory We Steer by Alexander Kent Prize Stories, 1969: The . O. Henry Awards by Wil- . liam Abrahams, ed. Snatch by Rennie Airth. Cover Her With Roses by < Rex Anderson. j Without a City Wall by ] Melvyn Bragg. < The Goodbye Look by i Ross Macdonald. Embassy by Stephen Coulter. A Dirty Mind Never Sleeps by Max Wilk. Go Ask the River by Evelyn Eaton. Non-nctlMi The South During Re construction—lßßs-77. Pearl S. Buck: A Bio graphy by Theodore F. Harris. The Complete Book of Letter-writing and Modern Correspondence by Lessor A. BlumenthaL More than three million elementary school children have attended N. C. Sym phony Children’s Concerts over the past quarter cen tury. All children are ad mitted to these concerts free of charge. 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