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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959 ' -i-l?A . " ) ,y wMMl The Rockingham' Garden Club's Yard-of-the-Month selection for April is that of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Black. The Black's yard, like last month's selection Mrs. F. B. Garrett's, has the distinctie beauty that shows a personal touch. The Black's Welcome To Kurtz Family Is Given Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Kurtz of Mt. Airy are new comers to Rockingham, Mr. Kurtz being an assistant in buying at Wood's 5 and 10 Store. Mr. Kurtz was manager of the Mt. Airy Wood's store nine years before coming here. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz and Mar gariete, who is in the ninth grade of the Rockingham High School, reside at 208 South Ran dolph St. (the Levine House). The Kurtz have two sons, one Frank Jr. in Augusta, Ga. and Worrell who is a student at Presbyterian College in Clinton, s. c. Already getting adjusted to Rockingham, the Kurtz have moved their membership to -the First Methodist Church here. A warm welcome is given to this family. Hayes-Short A late summer wedding is planned by Miss Blanche Carol Short, student at Watts Hospi tal School of Nursing, Durham, and Manley Harris Hayes of Raleigh. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Short of Hamlet. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. J. W. Hayes. It has been estimated that 500 hens will produce about one ton of manure per month. JEFFERSON APARTMENTS Located On Ann and Steele Streets ROCKINGHAM, N. C. m mam on premises Wed., April 15, 1959 2:00 P. M. There are thirteen individual brick veneer "buildings (five units on Ann Street and eight units on Steele Street). Five of which are two stories with full concrete basements and new hot-air automatic heating systems for each apart ment. One cottage with full basement and hot-ai: heating system; seven one-story buildings, each heated by oil circu lating heater. There are a total of 41 individual apartments, each apartment has a living room, dining room, modern kitchen, bath and two bedrooms. These buildings are located on 3V2 acres. All walk-ways are concrete and all driveways and parking areas are curbed. Our engineers have carefully subdivided this project into separate units. For map apartments. "For full information TTnitd rfnnrtrnent- Selling R0CHELLE LICENSED BONDED INSURED EMPORIA, VA. Va. License No. C-464 Member of the National and North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards 1 The Lovely Yard of Stanly and Ann Fielder Black Designated as Abril "Yard-of-the-Month" Here MRS. McLENDON HAS CIRCLE SEVEN MEETING Circle No. 7 met at the home of Mrs. J. R. McLendcn on Fay etteville Road at 8 3'clock on April 7th. Mrs. Leon Jenkins opened the program with a devotional. The minutes of the previous meet ing was read by Mrs- Hoyle Davis. Reports were gipn by the various committee chairman. A most interesting program was given by Mrs. Neal Cadieu, Jr. Her subject being "Winmng Our Jewish Neighbor". The meeting was presided over by the chairman Mrs. David Mc Laurin. The followingj members were present Mrs. Hqyle Davis, Mrs. D. C. ReynoldsJ Jr., Mrs. Hector Little, Mrs. MJB. Whis nant, Mrs. Robert povington, Miss Willa Marks, Mrs. Henry Hall, Mrs. Leon Jenkins, Mrs. Neal Cadieu, Jr., and chairman Mrs. David McLaurinj The members were delighted to have Miss Frances Cartner visit with them. Following the program Mrs. McLendon served her guests tasty refreshments. We feel sure that beauty and brains go together now inai several good-looking ladies have admitted that they read these paragraphs regularly. Worry is like sand in an oy ster: a little produces a pearl, too much kills the animal. of property see caretaker at contact Mr. E. J. Evans, Stores. Durham, N. C. Agents REALTY CO. ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. Home Office Ph. JE 7-2551 back yard is just as lovely as the front and they both fhave a variety of plants which will insure bloom throughout the month of April and longer. The Yard-of-the-Month is the Rockingham Garden Club's Finer Carolina Project. MEDICAL AUXILIARY MET ON APRIL 3RD The last meeting of the year for the Richmond County Med ical Auxiliary was at Mrs. Co wan's in Hamlet, Friday April 3. Mrs. G. Calhoun Pruitt was hospitality chairman and a most delicious luncheon was enjoyed by the members: Mrs. W. L. Howell, Mrs. W. H. Parsons, Mrs. Ralph Garrison, Mrs. Hugh Queen, Mrs. Gile Cloninger, Mrs. Mark Lindsey, Mrs. Joe Robin son, Mrs. C. L. Ingalls, Mrs. E. S. Sutton, Mrs. Z. F. Long, Mrs. V. G. Watters, Mrs. Stan Vetter, Mrs. George C. Pruitt, Mrs. P. F. White and guests Mrs. Plum mer of Hamlet and Mrs. Ernest Howell of New York. The Doctor's Day committee reported that a red carnation was sent to each doctor on Mon day, March 30 and that a book would be given to the Hamlet Library, the Richmond County Library and the Ellerbe School Library in tribute to the doctors of this county. Delegates to the State Con vention in Asheville next month will be Mrs. Long, Mrs. Lindsey, and Mrs. Howell. The next meeting will be Oc tober 2 in charge of the newly elected officers: Mrs. Mark Lindsey, president; Mrs. P. F. White, vice pres.; Mrs. E. S. Sut ton, treas.; Mrs. Robert Rankin Sec, and Mrs. C. L. Ingalls, parl iamentarian. WOMEN OF THE MOOSE GAVE CARD PARTY A card party given by the So cial Service Committee of the Women of the Moose was held Friday evening at the Rocking ham Moose Lodge with eleven tables of bridge, contract rummy, and setback in play. The party rooms were attractively decor ated with spring arrangements of gladiolus, azaleas and other mixed flowers. A bouquet of yellow snapdragons and chry santhemums centered the re freshment table. When guests were seated a lime ice drink and cookies were served, while Cokes, mints and nuts were enjoyd during pro gressions. Door prizes were won by Henry Boggan, Mrs. Al Cason, and Mrs. Giles Songer and Mrs. Claude Napier. Bridge winners were Mrs. George Harper, high; Mrs. Dempsie White, consola tion.; and Mrs. Fred Holt, run ner-up. Mrs. Ray. Toledo was rummy low score winner and Mrs. Bill Ennis received high. Mrs. Harry McCaskill was ca nasta high scorer and Mrs. J. B. Melton was low. Setback high went to Mr. Boggan and low to James Billingsley. First bingo prize was won by Mrs. Harwood Bledsoe and second bingo by Mrs. Charles Ashe Jr. Present for the occasion were Mrs. Harper, Mrs. C. L. Thomas Jr., Mrs. John Nicholson, Mrs. Graham Inman, Mrs. Leo Jen kins, Mrs. Holt, Mrs. White, Mrs. Ashe, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Burns, Mrs. Napier, Mrs. Ennie, Mrs. Lewis Brown Jr., Mrs. Toledo, Mrs. W. A. Killough. Mrs. J. W. Jernigan, Mrs. Cason. Mrs. Songer, Mrs. Joseph Aik ens, Mrs. Bryant Thompson Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Bledsoe, Watson Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Billingsley, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Lamb, Mrs. McCaskill, Mrs. Melton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Spivey, Gene Spi vey, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Starts, Mr. Boggan, Mr. and Mrs. Wade McKenzie, and Mrs. Watson Jones. ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH Uncle Sam Gets Over 4 Million In County NEW YORK, Apr. 6 - How much will Uncle Sam be col lecting, in the form of indivi dual income taxes, from resi dents of Richmond County this year? The Government anticipates that it will be more than it was last year, when local income and employment taxes came to approximately $4,805,000. The figure, and unofficial es timate, is based on a breakdown if the Statewide total announced! by the Treasury Department and I cial Security Act permits a bene on local earnings and income ficiary to earn up to $1200 per distributions. year and still draw all of his The returns from Richmond benefits for that year. If he County represent 0.88 percent It vef $1200, there will be of the amount garnered from the State as a whole Nationally, the Government looks for the payments now be ing made to be $2.2 billion great er than they were last year. This budgetary increase reflects and average rise in income a mounting to 2.8 percent. Assuming a proportionate rise locally, the current returns from individuals in Richmond County will be about $4,940,000. According to the President's new budget, a further increase in personal income taxes will occur in 1960. The boost expect ed is over $3 billion. It is to re sult from bigger incomes in 1959 and from an increase in employ ment, taxes. The total take from indivi duals, through income and em ployment taxes alone, would then exceed $50 billion, a his toric peak. To keep pace with this bud getary planning and to continue bearing their present portion of the tax burden, Richmond Cou nty residents would have to raise their combined income by approximately 5.8 percent in the year. A study by the Tax Founda tion discloses that the U. S. Government is presently spend ing at the enormous rate of $360 million per day, over $2.5 billion per week. Expenditures in 1958 were $7 billion above the 1957 total, and those, in turn, were $11 billion over the 1956 outlays. The Federal tax take, to meet these expenses, is now running at $77 billion a year. State and local governments get an addi tional $32 billion. One-fourth of our gross annual product is thus recoved in taxes, states the Foundation. COM. JERRY GRIFFIN ON VISIT AT HOME Gerald L. Griffin who for the past two years has been on the carrier xuig in tv,P Pacific, reached RocK ingham March 30th to spend three weeks with his wife and two sons on Hincrest uii rnmmander Griffin in two weeks goes to Washington on a new assignment, as Aide to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His wife, the former Eva re Bynum and two sons, will 0?n him at Arlington in June, aiwr school closes. Tii,iov.PT-rips from . Bladen County, N. C are shipped to section of the country a full six weeks in advance of the nation's normal Diueoerry sea son. N. C. Mrs. Charles McKee, formerly Norma Kearse of Cordova, has joined her husband in Rich mond, Virginia. Norma has been attending Hardbarger's Business School in Rockingham. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Douglas and children Debby and Donald and Miss Grace Coppedge of Mt. Airy spent last weekend with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Coppedge on Fayetteville Road. Mrs. Nell Sutton, Benny and Bill Sutton and Miss Jackie Pleasent spent the weekend in Wilmington for the Azalea Fes tival. The Suttons visited her sister, Mrs. Ruth Musselwhite and Miss- Pleasant .visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sanders for merly of Rockingham. Mrs. R. A. Manship and R. A. Manship Jr. visited Mrs. Charles McLaurin in Dillon, S. C. Sun day. Mrs. McLaurin is Mrs. Manship's sister and she has been seriously ill in a Charles ton hospital;- she is at home now a,nd getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Covington and their daughters Misses Frances and Hannah Covington had an enjoyable weekend in Cttiarlotte. They attended the Science Fair in which Frances and Hannah participated. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. S. S. McNinch, Jr. and the Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Williams of Mt. Holly. Mr. McNinch has been seriously ill, but is much improved now. Mrs. McNinch is Mrs. Coving ton's sister. Old Age Benefits And How To File IMPORTANT TO THOSE 65 AND NOT OVER 72 YEARS All persons receiving SS pay ments, when they are over 72, do not have to file such amounts in Income tax reports. And they can keep whatever they earn. But those 65 to 72, cannot earn more the $1200 in a year, and MUST report such earnings to the SS office. The earnings test of the So- 3, 1 Example is a man who earn ed $2400 in the first half of the year and retired on June 30th. He can file and start drawing his social security payments be ginning with July as long as he does not earn over $100 in any month in wages or render sub stantial services in self-employ ment. If he should go back to work in December to help out in the Christmas rush and earn over $100, he would not be entitled to his payment for that month. Regardless of whether he works or not after filing for his social security payments if he earned over $1200, he is requir ed to file the annual report bet- January 1 and April 15 of the next year. This requirement of an annual report also applies to the person who reaches age 72 and con tinues to work. He can draw his payments regardless of earnings after reaching 72, but he is still required to file the annual re port for the year in which he reached 72. You can get a pamphlet about all this, by applying to Charles C. Hamrick anv Tuesdav on third floor of the Postoffice building. DASKALS ON OCEAN TRIP TO GREECE Mrs. Helen Daskal was hon ored on April 3rd afternoon at a "Going Away" party given by Mrs. Frank McLeod at her home on Fayetteville Rd. "Miss Helen and Mr. Daskal left Rock ingham on April 6 for N. Y. then take the steamer "Olym- nia" for a leisurely trip to Greece where they will visit rel atives and friends. UDon arrival the euests were invited into the dining room where they were served a dessert course. The dining room table was centered with a large mir ror on which was placed a ship The Olympia". Grouped around it were costumed dolls bearing tiny baskets of flowers and good bye notes for the honor guest. Coffee was served in the living room while Mrs. Daskal opened her gifts which were presented to her by her friends. The guests were limited to members of her Circle of the First Presbyterian Church and a few close friends. During the afternoon "Miss Helen" was assured of the nrom- "ient place she held in the hearts of those present and the deep appreciation for the splen did. Part she has taken in the 1VC; lal and Church life of Rockingham. Any glib tziver can give you reasons for either side, but if you want the truth, try to think for yourself. RICHMOND COXJVnrC, R. V. Covington Died In Florida BORN IN RICHMOND COUNTY 92 YEARS AGO. DIED IN FLORIDA MARCH 31 1959 R. V. Covington, 92, and a native of Richmond county, died in Jacksonville, Florida, the night of March 31, 1959. The Post-Dispatch has been sent the below clipping from the Times-Union of Jackson ville, by John Sims, formerly of Rockingham, who is District Ex ecutive for Scouting in that Florida area. Mr. Covington lived at 3707 Richmond street, Jacksonville Rather singular that this street is the same name as his native county. The funeral was held April 2nd with a graveside service in the family plot in Oaklawn cemetery in Jacksonville, with Rev. Albert J. Kissling officiat ing. He is pastor of Riverside Presbyterian Church. He is survived by a son Vic tor M. Covington, two grand daughters Cornelia Munroe and Victoria Lee Covington, six nep hews and nine nieces. THIS COVINGTON FAMILY R. V. Covington was born October 5, 1866, in Richmond county, North Carolina, near Rockingham. He was son of Terrel and Eranda Chappel Covington. Eranda was daugh ter of Brittain and Mary Crouch Chappell. Terrel's second wife was Annie Lawrence. There is a deed here written March 6 1883, whereby Terrel and Eranda deeded to John Reynolds 261 acres of land just east of Cole man's Creek, for $375. Terrel was one of seven chil dren of Matthew and Elizabeth Capel Covington (six boys and one girl). This Elizabeth Capel Covington was daughter of Wil liam C. and Sarah CapeL Wil liam Capel wrote his Will Dec. 30, 1858 (he died in summer of 1872), this Will witnessed in 1858 by Isaac Ewing and Isaac M. Covington. In the Will, William Oapel left a slave jack and $900 to Eranda. William and Sarah Capel had three sons and six daughters. Matthew Covington (grand father of deceased R. C. Cov ington) was son of Benj. and Rebecca Hunter Covington, and Benj. was son of William the second son of John and Nancy Covington (brother of original William). 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He establish ed in Jacksonville the Coving ton Company, wholesale dry- goods, and was also a director in the Hutchinson Shoe Company. Retiring from the drygoods business, Mr. Covington and his son, Victor M. Covingtont de veloped a large mortgage and loan business in which he was engaged until his retirement. And long after Mr. Covington moved to Jacksonville, he assist ed in organizing, and was a di rector of the Consolidated Naval Stores Co., one of the South's largest naval stores concerns. The company also erected the Consolidated Building on East Bay street. In the wholesale drygoods field, Mr. Covington's company covered the entire South. He built the building now housing the J. H. Churchwell Co. at Mar ket and Bay streets, which some years ago bought the Covington company. Mr. Covington helped organ ize the Atlantic National Bank and was an active director for a number of years. Mr. Covington probably will be best remembered for his many civic and charitable ser vices. He was one of the founders of the Children's Home Society of Florida, and was its treasurer for almost 50 years. He retired as treasurer in 1952,. and was subsequently honored as trea surer emeritus. Probably Mr. Covington's next outstanding service to the city was in the Boy Scout move ment. He was awarded the Sil ver Beaver certificate for dis tinguished service to boyhood by the National Council of Boy Scouts of America and the Oreater Jacksonville Council of Boy Scouts on Dec. 15, 1931. One of his prized mementoes of his long and useful public SALES FIRST IN rem PAGE THREE serviqe career in Jacksonville was a bronze plaque he kept in his office in the Florida Title Building, describing him as the "Father of Scouting in Japkson- ville." He served as president ox the scout movement here from 1920 to 1941, and was subse quently elected president em eritus. Mr. Covington was one of the charter members of the Jack sonville Rotary Club and sever al years ago he was elected a life honorary member. The club erected a Boy Scout infirmary and named it for Mr. Covington. For years Mr. Covington was a director of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce and a member of a special committee which erected the present Na tional Guard Armory. He served several terms on the Duval Cou nty Board of Bond Trustees. He was a member of the Seminole Club, Florida Country Club and Timuquana Country Club. .NOTICE OF EXECUTOR Having qualified as Executor of the will of Kate Finley, late of Richmond County, North Carolina, the undersigned here by notifies all persons having claims against the saidestate to exhibit the same to him on or before the 9th day of April, 1960, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immed iate papyment to the undersigned.- ; This, 9th of April, 1959. Thomas H. Leath, Executor of the Will of Kate Finley. Leath & Blount, Attys. (April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14-c) PERSONAL LETTER To: Those with HEARING ; PROBLEMS. You can now understand again WITHOUT clothing noise, cords, bulky batteries or button in the ear. We invite you to Room 30 in the LONG BLDG. opposite Court House, ROCKINGHAM for FREE Hearing Examina tion and to see the latest tiny electronic custom fitted Beltonesv . . Supplies and re pairs . are handled for all makes. Our office is OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 pjn., the phone is TW5-6560. BELTONE-BULLARD HEARING SERVICE C. D. Holland, Mgr. The best way to get a day's work done is to work a day. QUALITY 71 pi) u u
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