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Tar Heel Letters Delivered
Day After Mailing - - Usually
By DAN ANDERSON
The Chapel Hill News Leader
If you send a letter from one
place in North Carolina ot another,
it’s likely—but not certain—to ar
rive the day after you mail it.
That’s the main point proved by
a test of Tar Heel postal efficiency
made by The Chapel Hill News
Leader with the help of 25 other
newspapers across the State.
In all, 41 letters were mailed, and
it took them an average of just
above 26 hours to get to a residen
tial address in Chapel Hill.
The longest delivery time was 49
hours 15 minutes for a letter mail
ed at 10:30 a.m. December 11 in
Winston-Salem and received at
11:45 a.m. December 13 in Chapel
Hill. A letter each from Kannapolis
and Henderson tied for the short
est delivery time—17 hours 30 min
utes. -
The Winston-Salem laggard led
a list of six — 14 per cent — that
took two days instead of one to
arrive.
; In addition, two nailed in Lum
berton. and one each from Eliza-)
beth City, Lenoir and Raleigh, failed
to arrive until the second day after
they were posted. The late one from
Lenoir, though, was mailed on a
Saturday, and its lateness very like
ly was due to the Sunday mail noli- 1
day before its arrival.
Who’s To Blame?
It’s a question whether the Post
rXflUceT can keep up to this mark
when the Christmas rush gets
» , heavy, and early mailing certainly
would be wise. But the results,
based on deliveries early in the
\ month, may be taken as typical of
the regular run of the mail.
The News Leader sent envelopes
lo the cooperating papers, asking
that they be,mailed, with slips inside '
to tell when this was don^. All were 1
stamped and clearly addressed to
the home of a News Leader staff
member in Chapel Hill. A residence
address was used so that the re
sults would be like those of most
people's ordinary mail.
Once A Day
One effect of this, of course, was
to cause seeming delay in some de
liveries. Mail comes ,pnce a day,
late in the morning, to the house,
and a letter that reached the Chapel
Mill Post Office atf say, ll^a.m.,')
when the carrier was already on't
his rounds, had to wait until the
day after. But the point of the sur-!
vey was to find out how common I
mail gets cfclivered, and the same
thing would happen to> any letter.
How Fast Mail Went
PLACE
Asheville
Asheville
Charlotte
Concord
Concord
Durham_
Durham
Elizabeth City
Elizabeth City
Gastonia
Greensboro
Henderson
Henderson
Hendersonville
Hickory
Hickory
High Point
High Point
Kannapolis
Kinston
Lenoir
Lenoir
Lexington
Lumberton
Lumberton
Mew Bern
New Bern
Raleigh
Raleigh
Reidsville
Reidsville
Rocky Mount
Salisbury
Salisbury >
Shelby "
Shelby
Statesville
Statesville
Wilson
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem
MAILED
Doc. Tim*
•1 2:15 p. m.
2 8:30 a. m.
1 1:40 p. m.
1 9:55 a. m
3 11:00 a. m.
‘ 1 10:30 a. m.
1 1:90 p. m.
-1 4:00 p. m.
2 10:00 a. m.
1 3:00 p. m.
3 9:00 a. m.
8 1:00 p. m.
8 5.30 p. m.
9 3:30 p. m.
1 4:15 p. m.
2 9:30 a. m.
4 3:30 p. m.
5 11:30 a. mi
1 ’ 6:00 p. m.
1 %A5 p. m.
3 9:50 a. m,
,■ 6 5:00 p. m.
3 2:21 p. m.
1 4 30 p. m.
1 - 11.10 a m.
3 9 00 a. m.
3 2:00 pm.
2 12:45 p. m.
3 9 15 a m.
1 9:45 a. m.
3 2:30 p. m.
2 2:55 p. m.
1 4:30 p. m.
1 i2;00 noon
'•’"“t 4:15 p. m.
4 9:35 a. m.
1 10:00 a. m.
1 2:00 p. m.
1 8:32 a. m.
10 9:00 a. m.
11 10:30 a. m.
RECEIVED
Dac. Tim*
2 11:30 a. m.
3 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
4 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30a.m.
3 11:30 a. m.
3 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
4 11:30 a. m.
9 11 00 a. m.
9 11:00 a. m.
10 11:00 a. m.
2 11:30 a.m.
3 11:30 a. m.
5 11:00 a. m.
• 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
4 11:30 a. m.
8 11:30 a.m.
4 11:30 a.m.
3 11:30 a. m.
3, 11:30 a. m
4 11:30 a. m.
4 11:30 a. m.
4 11:30 a.m.
4 11:10 a.m.
2 11:30 a.m.
4 11:30 a.m.
3 "11:30 a. m.
, 2/ 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
5 11:00 a. m.
5 .11:00 a, m.
2 11:30 a. m.
2 11:30 a. m.
2 }. 11:30 a. m.
11 il-30fp. m.
13 11:45 p.m.
r
Dali vary Tima
Hour*: Min*.
21:15
27:00
21:50
25:35
24:30
25:00
22:00
43:30
25:30
20:30 y
26:30
22:00
17:30
19:30
19:15
26:00
19:30
24:00
’ 17:30
21:15
25:40
42:30
21:09
43:00
48:00
26:30
21:30
46:45
26:45
25:45
21:00
20:35
•» 19:00. '
24:30
19:45
25:25
25:30
21:30
26:58
26:30
49:15
The second longest a letter took
to arrive was 48 hours; one mailed
at 11:30 a.m.,in Lumberton Decem
ber 1 came in to the Chapel Hill mail
box at 11:30 a m. December 3. The
ether Lumberton letter took 43
hours, and latecomers from Eliza
beth City. 43 hours 30 minutes; from
Lenoir 42 hours 30 minutes; from
Raleigh 46 hours 45 minutes. Those
were elapsed times from when en
closed slips said the letters were
mailed to when they were delivered
in Chapel Hill. —
Though the Post Office, which en
courages mailing ear’.y in the day
as well as early in the season, may
not like this, it didn't seem that a
letter mailed in the morning was
likely to do much better than one
mailed in the afternoon Several
pairs were mailed and did as well
though one was posted early, the
other later. For instance, one sent
from Hickory at »:30 a.m. arrived
at 11:30 a.m. the next day, but so
did another mailed from Hickory
at 4:15 p.m.
Christmas Question
Proof that mail delay isn’t always
the fault of the postal service was
found in one enclosed slip; it had
been marked with a certain date,
but that had been crossed out and
another, three days later, was sub
stituted. Without embarrassingly
naming the place where this hap
pened, it still may be said that peo
ple who mail letters may err as
much as the service that carries
them.
Details of the mailing test appear
in an accompanying table. In gen
eral, they should reassure Tar Heels
that their mail does go through,
satisfactorily fast.
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'HILLSBORO
Jan. 1 Social Security Changes
Will Affect Almost Everyone
Changes that will affect almost
every farm and city parson in Or
ange County have recently been
made in the old-age and survivors
insurance program, Mrs. Nina
Matthews, manager of the Dur
ham District Social Security Of
fice said today.
She took this opportunity during
National Farm-City Week to say
that these changes affect the Amer
ican public as a whole. Working
persons — employed and self-em
ployed, farmers and city people—
need to know about them; their
families need to know about them.
The most important changes in
the law were designed to strength
en the Federal social insurance sys
tem which offers some protection
against loss of earned income due
to the retirement, death, or total
disability of th|c worker.
Most imoprtant, she said, is the
increase in benefit amounts be
cause these increases affect prac
tically all, working peoole and
their families. This annlies to poo
ole now getting benefit nayment?
in Orange County and to those who
will get benefits jin the future.
Monthly benefit cljfflca to workr-s
who retired at age 65 or later will
he increased autdmatically bv at
least S3. The maximum mo«*hi*
oavment a fami’v mav
increased from $200 to a
month. Families nr-w receiving
maximum monthly benefits under
the law will recej- e increase* from
$3 to 354 deoending upon the de
ceased worker's average monthly
earnings.
Mrs. Matthev.s pointed out the
larger amount will show up in
benefit checks that go in thejnails
early in February.
Beginning with 1959, earnings
up to $4,800 will be creditable and
taxable for social security purposes
and social security taxes will be
increased. A person who worked
in a business or on a farm will
have 2l/2 per cent takert out of
his pay instead of the present 2'/i
ner cent; his employer will contri
bute 214 per cent also. The self
employment social security tax will
be increased % of ,1 percent and
will become 334 per cent of net
earnings up t« S4.0OO in the year. I
Many pespte who could not qual
ify for benefits before may do so
now. These include:
1. Dependents of disabled work j
ers who are getting monthly dis- ]
ability benefits because they are ,
too disabled for further substant
ial gainful work. These payments ,
can be made to his dependents just
like the payments made to old
age Insurance beneficiaries. ..'
2. The amended law also makes
it easier for people whose dis
abilities develop gradually to
qualify for either cash disability
benefits or the disability “freeze.”
This is brought about through a
change in the work requirements.
It is no longer necessary that the
worker have at least 1V4 years of
social security credit out of the
3 years before he became disabled.
The standards fob determining dis
ability remain the same. A person
most still be enable to perform
substantial, gainful work and have
worked for at least 5 years in a
job covered by social security.
3, Aged parents who were de- j
pendent on „ the worker can Ret
payments now even if the worker
was survived by a child or widow
who is entitled to1 benefits.
Roclul security in the past has
been a program fpr citv people.
Since 1950 it has been extended to
cover farm people and now affects
them the same way it affects all
other people; — -• —
The ever-growing Interdepend
ence of farm and city as a result
of the machine age has created
a need to brin4 about a better un
derstanding of our farm economy
by urban people and of town and
city problems by rural people.
“Our social insurance program is
an important part of that economy.
That interdependence was a fac
tor irt the extension of old-aee sur
vivors arid disability insurance to
farm neop'». and it is the rca«nn
why the Social Security Admin
isfnation is whole hearfedly conn
erat'n ' in t>«* nt'sor'B"'"1 of Vn.
tional Farm-City Week," Mrs. Matt
; hews declared.
Income Tax
Short Course
UNC Offering
While Christinas spending occu
pies the minds of most North Caro
linians, officals of the University
Extension Division are thinking
ahead—to income tax time.
For the second year a short
course will be given to teach lay
men the most economical methods
for filing personal income tax re
turns.
Beginning on Tuesday, Jan. IS,
the class will meet one night a
week for two hours during a ID
week period. Harold Q. Inn!
enderfer, associate professor of ac
counting at UNC, will provide in
struction.
Overflow registration in last
year’s course necessitated setting
up two sections to handle the num
ber of interested persons.
Extension Division otficiats urge
those ’interested in the course to
pre-register, although applicants
mny sign un at the time of th* tltM
"Ittss meeting on Tuesday nigHt,
Jan. 13 at *7 o'clock in Carroll Hill.
In addition to bearintf leetSBM*
and examples of tax principle ap
plications. those in the course will
nrepare typical income tax returns.
Subjects to be covered .include
exemptions, tax rates, method^ of
computation, capita! gains and
losses, deductions,_ depreciation, tax
withholding and Social Security
taxes. ....
Langenderfer is a certified pux>
lie accountant and holds the Mt.B.
degree from Indiana University. A
member of the UNC faculty since
1953, he is a member'of the Amer
ican Accounting Assn, and the
N. C. Assn, of CPA’s.
Information and registration
procedure may be, obtained from
Short Course. Box 1050. Chapel
Hill.
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