Chowan Marriage Rate To Spurt
'*The sound of wedding bells
will be heard more often in
Chowan County from now on.
iJNore young couples will be
marching to the altar this
year and next than in some
time.
This is evident from the
sharp increase in the num
ber of young people who will
be in the age bracket in
which most marriages take
place. These potential brides
and grooms are the product
of the postwar years of the
’4os, when the birth rate hit
an all-time high.
It appears, from the local
population figures and from
previous experience, that the
marriage rate in Chowan
County will reach 12.7 per
1,000 residents this year.
Byway of comparison, ac
cording to figures from the
Department of Commerce and
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, the
local rate was 10.4 marriages
per 1,000 in 1904.
Throughout the nation, an
average of 10.9 weddings per
VI.OOO is expected this year.
The prediction for North Ca
rolina is 9.4 per 1,000.
Not since the troops came
home in 1940 has the coun
try experienced a marriage
boom such as occurred that
year when nearly 2,300,000
weddings took place. From
then on there was a steady
decline to a bottom of 1,500,-
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000 in the late ’sos.
Now, however, the curve is
moving upward again, with
some 2,000,000 weddings in
1908, a total of 2,140,000 in
1909 and about ex
pected this year.
Examination of the figures
shows that the number of
marriages In any community
is directly proportional to the
number of people in the prin
cipal marrying agns—2o to
24.
In that age bracket in Cho
wan County, at the present
time, there are approximately
1,330 well above the 1904
total of 1,030.
Up, Down Drugs Bad
Amphetamines and barbitu
rates are the "up and down” ;
drugs, usually taken In pill
form.
They are said to “pick you
up when you’re down and
bring you down when you’re
up.” For most people, am
phetamines do have exhilar
ating effects, while barbitu
rates bring calming.
They are powerful drugs,
too powerful to play around
with. Yet too many people
ere doing ao. No one knows
how many, but the beet esti
mates are that about 200,000
—and perhaps as many as
400,000 persons regularly
abuse these and other non
narcotic drugs.
The case of Mary Jones il
lustrates the matter. It’s a
hypothetical caae, not a real
name, but it is true.
Mary takes amphetamines
to get going and barbiturates
to put her to sleep. She does
this day in and out. She
takes the “up and down” pills
without the supervision of
her family doctor.
Mary is—or is on the way
to being—a slave of these
drugs, addicted to them, a
“junky” as the slang goes.
What is worse, she doesn’t
know it. She doesn't know
facts she needs to know, like
these:
The “up drugs,” pep pills
also called "bennies” and
“speed,” are a group of drugs
known as amphetamines.
They form one-half of what
.is perhaps the biggest part of
the drug abuse problem in
| the U. S. today.
1 . 'The .other half «4 the-jpreb
■ l«m ’ are th«t “d«wn;; drugs!'--n
sedatives, sleeping pills, the
large family of drugs made
for medical purposes to relax
a person.
* What do the “down drugs”
do?
They produce a relaxing
effect for most people; in nor
mal, medically supervised
doses, they mildly depress
the action of the nerves,
skeletal muscles and heart
muscle. In abnormal doses,
the effects resemble alcoholic
drunkenness.
An these drugs addicting?
The amphetamines or “up
drugs” produce “psychologi
cal" dependence —a practice
THE CHOW AH HERALD, EDENTOH. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 15, 1979
With the increase in the
number of weddings, there
will follow, la due time, a
rise in the birth rate, which
has been at e low level for
some time.
For the local business man,
the picture is a rosy one,
Each marriage represents
thousands of dollars of spend
ing—for jewelry, clothing,
furniture, household necessi
ties, appliances, insurance and
eventually baby carriages.
The initial outlay in setting
up a home is estimated at
more than $3,000 per couple
on average.
that can become a habit for
mental or emotional reasons.
The “down drugs," barbitu
rates usually, are physically
addicting. Some experts con*
aider barbiturate addiction
more difficult to cure than
dependency upon a narcotic
like heroin or cocaine.
Are these drugs dangerous
to use?
They have definite medical
and health values if properly
used under a physician’s di
rection.
None is properly available
without a physician's pre
scription. This is for the
very good reason that their
misuse or abuse can be dang
erous.
Barbiturates are a leading
cause of accidental poison
deaths. Sleeping pills dis
tort how people see things;
they slow down reactions and
responses. They are an im
portant cause of automobile
accidents.
Amphetamines misused can
lead to occidental deaths and
lo accidents because they can
distort perception, judgment,
and even cause severe mental
derangement.
For a free leaflet on “The
Up and Down Drugs,” write
to Box 1080, NIMH, Washing
ton, D. C. 20013.
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This Is The Law
By aOSHT E. U»
(Fee the K. C. Bar Asseetettea)
Contracts Os Drunks
Is a drunken person liable
on his contracts?
The ordinary contract or
conveyance made by a per
son so excessively intoxicated
as to be unable to under
stand its nature and effect is
voidable at his option. Upon
becoming sober, his voidable
contract may be ratified or
disaffirmed.
Ratification may be by
conduct, as by retaining that
which has been received, or
failure to disaffirm for an un
reasonable time. After con
tract or conveyance has been
ralified, it becomes binding
absolutely, and cannot then
be avoided.
Upon disaffirmance, that
which has been received must
be returned, or an offer made
to return it, unless it was
wasted before the party be
came sober.
The law does not under
take to relieve a man from
his contracts made when he
is under the stimulus of li
quor. It will only afford re
lief sometimes when it ap
pears that the party seeking
it was so drunk that he was
destitute of reason and un
able to comprehend the na
ture of the contract and its
consequences, or, in other
words, of knowing what he
was doing.
If a man is so drunk that
he doesn’t know what he is
doing, he is contractually in
capacitated. He doesn’t have
a mind that can meet another
mind in mutual agreement.
A person cannot have a
contract avoided merely be
cause at the time it was made
he was so under the influ
ence of liquor that he could
not act wisely and discreetly,
nor drive a good bargain.
This is because many of us
who make our contracts
“sober as a judge" subse
quently discover we have not
acted wisely and gotten bar
gains.
Although it was formerly
held that a man should be
liable upon a contract made
when he was in a state of in
toxication brought on by vol
untary excessive drinking, on
the ground that he should
not be allowed to stultify
himself, this is no longer the
law. If a man is drunk un-
Sports Afield By Ted Kesting
We all know that more
fishing waters will be needed
to prevent existing waters
from being overcrowded and
overfished by the steadily in
creasing number of anglers.
So what is the outlook for
more fishing acreage?
One of the most powerful
factors in this connection is
the Land and Water Con
servation Fund Act, which
will provide some S2OO mil
lion a year for the next five
years, available to all states.
Fishing will come in for an
appreciable share of this bil
lion-dollar fund, both direct
ly and Indirectly.
Further indirect benefit to
the nation’s 40 million fisher
men will come from the ac
ceptability of plans providing
cleaner water, additional wa
ter acreage, new recreational
facilities on water, marinas
and boat liveries, access sites
and so forth.
Direct benefit will come
from acceptable plans for
providing more fishing piers,
der the law of contracts, it
is immaterial as to the how
he acquired that status.
A drunken person is liable
for necessaries furnished to
him, or to his wife and minor
children. This is an excep
tion to the general rule. He
must pay a reasonable price
for the necessaries.
Thank You
I came here as a woman Marine,
Married a man tall and lean.
He loved the town and all the folks,
Fishing and hunting and telling jokes.
And now that he has gone his way,
There is something I want to say.
Now you are my folks and this is my town,
For you walked with me when my heart
was down,
With messages of love and helpful acts,
A person just can’t forget all that.
If I can ease your burden as you did mine,
And be as loving and as kind,
Then I will feel that an ex-Marine
Finally belongs on your village green.
MRS. FRANK ELLIOTT
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catwalks for fishermen on
bridges and causeways and
other advantages of the en
couragement of angling.
As far as pollution is con
cerned, we have seen an en
couraging about-face in the
pussyfooting which has gone
on for years because of the
political influence of the pol
luters, the pollutants coming
essentially from industrial and
municipal affluents.
Federal funds of many
kinds can now be withheld
until a state cleans up its
pollution. A good example is
the multi-million-dollars dis
posal plant erected by the
city of St. Louis when fed
eral funds were withheld
pending its construction.
Because of the pollution
abatement in the Mississippi
and Ohio Rivers, fishermen
are reporting a return of
sporting species in encourag
ing number, according to
Sports Afield Magazine’s
Angling Editor Homer Circle.
Siltation has ruined many
fishing areas and the Soil
Conservation Service is pur
suing a sound program of
showing farmers how to keep
soil on their fields and out of
our waters. Timber is now
being harvested in ways that
do not interfere with its wa
ter-holding benefits.
And while the use of
“hard” pesticides has done
undeniable damage to fish
populations, these are now
being rejected in favor of
fugitive pesticides which have
little residual effect oh fish.
And millions of acres of
water are being made into
new fishing bonanzas thanks
to advances in the sciences
of fish culture, transportation,
transplanting, hybridizing and
so on. The most notable ex
ample is, of course, the coho
story in Lake Michigan and
possibly others of the Great
Lakes.
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Farm ponds also arc a fac
tor in fishing opportunities
and the science of managing
these has been simplified so
that any layman can get into
the act. State fish commis
sions and state university ex
tension exports provide know
how and literature to land
owners.
So it goes. As all these
factors are added up and be
come part of the total pic
ture, I see every reason for
optimism about the future of
our fishing.
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