BOOST# FARMVILLE EVERY DAY! K t ' <"7: V .1 7 >Ml volumb ^ 6 ."'? '-V ' ;. ? ,4. . /? ' , . f, V & r V m * i P> . * .. 1*? > L"J 1 -i ? Wt > i ii 'i mmmmmmmmMw i 'M -<*? : ""?'iV. i plWrol:1'^'" ) STATE OUTLINES PROCEDURE CARSSl SAFETY c PROJECT BEGINS JAN. 12 As your aur .or truck enters the aafety lane, which is approximately Iff) feet long, aa inspector will be at the entrance to check your opera tor's or chauffeur's license and vehi cle registration card. It is necessary to show these credentials before an inspection can be made. You will then pay your $1.00 fee and the in spector will fill out an "inspection card," which will be checked through out the lane for all types of mechani cal defects, this card becomes yonr personal property, and will be used later to aid garages and repair sh in correcting defects on your car. You then proceed with the inspec x tion card to the wheel alignment and steering tenter. It is very important that these vital mechanisms of your car be kept in good condition at all times. You will be asked to drive the front wheels of your oar across the wheel alignment tester, end the read ing will be recorded on your insn tion card.. Then the front ena of the vehicle will be jacked up to check the wheel bearing and steering me chanisms. After that, the car is dropped from the jack and the rear wheal alignment is recorded. At this second post the inspector will also check the tie rod, dmg links, mountings, joints, tires, horn, wind shield wiper,'rear view mirror, wind shield and other glass, license pistes, muffler, and brake drag to see that they all come up to the minimum re quirements When this check is completed, you will proceed to post number three where the lighting equipment will be checked. The inspector will test your parking and driving lights, lens and .reflectors, headlights, stop light, tail light, and signal light Special equipment will be provided for test ing lights. After the lights have been check ed thoroughly and the inspection . card has been punched accordingly, you will proceed to the brake tester, where your hand and foot brakes will be checked, and the grading will he recorded on the inspection card. Now your vehicle is ready for the final grading. So you drive to the end of the safety lane, where an in spector will examine your inspection card and tabulate the results. If your vehicle measures up to the min imum requirements, a 1 wight bine approval seal in the shape of the State of North Carolina will be stock in the corner of the windshield. You can drive away happily, knowing your car ?is 'in good, safe operating condition. However, if a vehicle fails to measure up to the minimum stand ard requirements, its owner will be given a red, diamond-shaped stick er, bearing in black letters these words: "This vehicle must be deliver ed to -a N. C. Mechanical Inspection Station on or before (date}." This vehicle must .not be operated or parked on any street or highway after the date dnwa unless it car ries an approved safety inspection Once a vehicle has been rejected, it is thea up to the owner to take H to a garage or iipair shop and get' his meted. It the owner is a or has thk ability, he'may repairs himself. When the defbets have been emacted, the own er then returns to the inspection sta tion for another test, and if the car is found to be tn good oader, its owner will be iseeed an "approved" sticker. On this second visit, only the part that to paai tion the first time will be checked, and there will be no additions Your inspectors trill be ss as possible at the beginning of the r, if they : a vehicle that is in that it is definitely a property, they will with a large 8 by deer, bearing a red that vehicle CON I n Christian Church To Dedicate Memorial Gifts Sunday, Jan. 4 The Farroville Christian Church will have a special service oa Sunday, January 4, to dadie^r several memo rial gifts recently donated to the church. These gifts include: an electric or gan given fay James Y. Monk, Jr., Mm. R. V. Fiser and Mrs. H. L. Wat son in memory of their mother and father, the late J. Y. and Reide Lang Monk; a pulpit Bible by Mrs. Wini fred Lang and the Opportunity Class and other friends In memdry of James Lang; a desk for the study given by Mrs. Fred G. Smith in memory of her huband; a light for the study giv en by C. H. Flanagan in mefaory of his mother; a gas stove given by Mrs. Hubert Sugg of Shaoar Hill in memory of her mother. The church has been redecorated and many improvements have been made. oTheee include a new roof, en trance to the basement, an enlarged vestibule with new steps and new front doom. The basement has been redecorated and n new kitchen and two new lavocateries bans bean in stalled. The pulpit has also been moved from the center to the left side of the auditorium. The Enterprise hopes to publish a history of the Christian Church on its church page next week. Local Firms Express Season's Greetings Farmville business firms are using this issue of The Enterprise, their newspaper and yours, to egtend sea son's greetings and to orpines their appreciation for the patronage they have received. With these greetings go their beat wishes and a desire that good luck, good health and prosperity may be youm throughout 1948. First Santa For U. S. Sketched By Artist Thomas Naat, the famous cartoon ist who created oar conception ' of Uncle Sam, the Republican elephant and the . Democratic donkey, is also credited with giving America its first modern pjctorialisation of San ta Clans. Nut first sketched his notion, of Santa Clans in 18T8, This Santa was a rollicking, chubby old man 'smok ing a pipe and dressed in what look ed like a nighty riu^t with for collar and cuff8. fence that dpy he grown taller and rounder, hu devel oped a full white beard and mustache aftd above all hu uqntod the tradi tional red suit bordered In ermine. The story of how our American veesjon ad Santa dans everted is in. (treating. According to legend, chil dren of Lapland sad Siberia, raised on tales of the good and generous St Nicholas, thought of their buedactot u dressed in fbrs and traveling in a reindeer-drawn sleigh, just u they did *? Fourth V m )A Si - lt k % V i ? ' ?<& &eagtm'g Greeting#! S3 ? of life** little'm eortaiattee and worries has all hut r-ir, L and the traditional season of Geed Cheer is upon ua. Somehow the Quintains season esasea Asm many of the past year's; that we wonder ? why we ever worried at all! ' I .' WISE MEN CAMS 'Mi HE-RA tradition, specific gifts m _ Wtke the Magi as Caspar, m ? ? a :r7??."rri It will be good to gather around the kparth again with, family and friends. The banter' of grownups, the Is lighter of children, the opening of preeeate?wel}, it all add* up to & We know again that Life has been good, that every day has been worth while they watched for the ?**. i ?on or kinsman would take his place. Finally the .-j?5 -T? the form of a efcfid be neath the-similitude rf ? ero?*. - K