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PAGE SIX -A VFW Club Promotes Bicycle Safety , Free reflective tape will be applied to youngsters' bikes in a program to be conducted here bv the Vet erans of Foreign Wars Post 9280. Tape will be applied to bi cycles on April 25. Strips of reflective tape will be put on the rear fender, handlebars and front forks o £ the bi cycles, making each bike vis ible after dark from all angles. The highly reflective tape—the same material used IN THE NAME OF SAFETY—Reflective tape, applied to the handlebars, front forks and rear fenders of bicycles by the VFW under a national "Lite A-Bike” program, is de signed to make bike riding safer during dangerous dusk and nighttime hours. ■PWM /% y CANT' iTOUCH ME.*) 6§f 1 fl DECLARED IP - J VEVERrTHING]/ ; MEDICAL BILLS and prescriptions are deductible items on income tax. The government shows this concern for the health of its citizens. Get prompt medi cation to avoid the cost and discomfort of prolonged illness. Kitchener's tit PHARMACY DIAL 411-J7II EDEHTON. «. C m ---'-as*.'; ! gaifgys «==>U US- S 30 ! i£s3r; B5E= j I j! pod ? / I j j I '/jf- in reflective traffic signs and license plates —is visible at distances up to 1,500 feet in the headlights of an automo bile. “Youngsters shouldn’t be out bike riding after dark, but if they are, their bike ought to have reflective tape,” said Bill Herman, director of the local “Lite-A-ißike” pro gram He pointed out that some 600 persons are killed each year in bike accidents, 65 per THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1«, 197*. ! cent of them children aged five to 14. Another 30,000 persons are injured each year in such accidents. Four out of ifive fatal bike acci dents occur at dusk or after dark. “The extra warning pro vided by reflective tape can save a child’s life,” the VFW official said. <ln addition to applying lapc, VFW members will in spect the bikes for proper equipment: horn or other signaling device, headlight, rear reflector and functioning brakes. M-orc than 1 million bikes across the nation have been marked with reflective tape in the VFW program. Support ed by the National Safety- Council, the “Lite-A-Bike” program depends on reflec tive tape donated by 3M Com pany, which has given more than $2 million worth of the •material to date. Girl Scout News By Marlon Dail, Scribe Girl Scout Troop 719 met Tuesday, April 14 at 3:30 at the Edenton Baptist Church. We talked about our up coming trip to Williamsburg on May 2. We also talked about the attendance at our last few meetings. We marked off badges and played a game. We received a thank you note from the Girl Scout troop in Elizabeth City, thank ing us for our hospitality on April 4 when we showed them around Edenton. We -made a Girl Scout wish and then we were dismissed. CARD OF THANKS I would like to express my sincere thanks to my many friends for their prayers, cards, flowers and visits whiie in the hospital and at home. Mrs. Mildred Hathaway. Special For 10 Days GREASE JOB MOST CARS WITH OIL /W £ CHANGE AND OIL FILTER Ward's JJW Service C. R. W ard Wayne Ward Comer Broad & Queen Sts. Phone 481-4979 _ Edenton, C. Buy And Sell With Want Ads Phone 482-2221 y jpf&K JH m fjffaaj SOME PEOPLE THINK ELECTRIC HEAT IS ONUT FOR THE RICH: Except people likethese who have it. 1 1 who enjoy electric heat are as careful i’ ' re way they spend their money as you are. So • : h.-v make an important purchase like a home, ■ k -for value throughout. Dr. Drane, 82, Dies In Georgia iDr. Robert Drane, third son of the late Rev, and Mrs. Robert B. Drane of Edenton, died in Savannah, Ga., April 1 1. He was buried on Mon day in the Bonaventure Cemetery. He was 82, and had practiced in Savannah for over 50 years. He was honored as Geor gia's oldest radioloogist. During World War 5, he served with ehe British Ex peditionary Force, and helped to operate field hospitals be hind the lines in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. Two of the units he served with here so decimated that they were retired from ac tion. When the Americans took over the Chateau Thierry area, he was transferred to operate field hospitals tor them. He was wounded while on duty- behind the lines near St. Miheil. Soon after being discharged from the Army with the rank of captain, he began his work as a radiologist in Sa vannah, and remained there for the rest of his life. In 1937 he married Miss Naomi Everet of Pulaski, Ga. They have one son. Surviving are his wife, his son, a sister, Mrs. J. C. Webb of Hillsborough and a broth er, Rev. Fred Drane of Eden ton. Dr. Drane was the recipient of many honors in his profes sion, among which was the presidency of the Georgia Medical Association. 'For farmers, spring is the time for work, not fever. Despite the short route and quick cures, there no no easy way to anything that is worthwhile. You can part.ally judge one’s intellect by seeing what he reads first in the news paper. Chowan Golf Club News By Pro Lew Dexter Windsor was our guest Sun day, playing our second match in the Roanoke Golf Association and we have a perfect record, lost both matches, lost to Plymouth at Plymouth by 29 points, and : lost to Windsor by 17 points. I have rearranged our lineup ■ and it is much stronger now and wc should win our match 1 at Robersonville this coming Sunday. Let me please re mind all team members that 1 are going to Robersonville to please let me know by Fri- 1 day night that I can make i our pairings. Also, I am tak- i ing some of my carts, as the < Robersonville players will be I using all of the carts they 1 have over there. So I need ’ to know how many of our ( players want to ride, so tha: 1 1 might be able to take that 1 many of my carts over there I for our members. This is ' important, so please call me { if you want to ride. ; I \ \ Brand-new Hahn-Eclipse Deluxe 8-8 Ro / Yy 'taries are the 1985 mowers available right n ° W ‘ ant^e lets them slide in imagined. Grassbag is included and so is fingertip height adjustment.,Self-propelled muscle saves yours. From Introducing the “go-Miywhere, store-anywhere HAHN-ECLIPSE f * The 7-hp Hahn-Eclipse LTD-500 ... our new- I est and finest rider. Transaxle gives tractor w1 \ performance with sports car handling. Big i wide-track pneumatic tires let you go any- with ease ' ’ • and autornotive steer* At low prices Hahn-Eclipse From $-j j j.OO the Byrum Hardware Co., Inc. 314 S. Broad St. ' Edenton, N. C. =ißi^^sui=^==aac=~=ai..---^^...i^—i.jL^^arji^^=iai==^]rai== : =nni==nßi===ini=====ini= Here’s what they’ve discovered. Electric heat is cleaner, safer, quieter, and more flexible than any other system. It’s the only system that will be as modern years from now as it is today. When you consider the cost of a .. :ating system, consider the value. Ask yourself whether any other Some of our ladies went to Washington (little Washing ton, that is) to play in a ladies’ tournament on Tues day, April 14. Mrs. Snooky Bond won runner up in her flight and Mrs. Lew Dexter was tied for runner up in her flight. Nice going, girls! The ladies will next be going to the MacOripine invitational in Pinctops on May 7. Good luck to all the ladies going, and bring back some prizes. Our first ladies' clinic has finished and I must say that wc had a very fine turnout -and everyone was most inter ested and I sincerely hope that all the ladies got some thing out of it. I will be very pleased if I have helped even only one lady, but sure ly hope that I have helped them all. Remember, girls, that you have to practice what you learn or you can’t get better. If enough ladies are interested. I will have another clinic in the near fu ture, so if anyone is interest ed, please call the shop and leave your name and phone number. I want to take this space to personally thank all the ladies who helped last Sun day in posting the scores, and with the lunch. This helps us make better tournaments and sure takes a l-opd off imy back. It is so nice to see a ladies’ association that wants In 1968-69, 102,766 water fowl hunters took advantage of the shooting offered to the public on some 14 state and federal wildlife refuges throughout the state of Cali fornia.—Sports Afield. Take Advantage Os Our Local Library Facilities You’ve Everything To Gain! \ heating system offers more for the money than flameless electric heat. Ask your builder, architect, or heating contractor about today’s best heating value. Electric. -5 And if people think you’re rich, enjoy it. VB|ICO to help promote better golf relations. I have just aerrated anet contour cut our greens in- or- - der to get air down in the greens and puli' some of the 1 poa-am out so our greens will be rather bumpy for the next couple of weeks. So please bear with us as this is some- • thing we have to do in order to bring our summer greens'' in. . : The harm of pressure groups is the suppression of individual thinking. Life would be very simple if more people were willing-, to be themselves.
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