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fug t The Ptrquimans Weekly, Hertford, N.C., Thursday, December 19, 1974 I '.t RALEIGH GUEST Mrs. Shelton White of Raleigh " was a weekend guest of Mr.' and Mrs. Edgar - " i .( K .V' wmrp . j s iJ """"" ft v ...... .y 4 ASSEMBLY-LINE STLE "These four Lenoir Cottage boys at the Kennedy Home campus in Kinston have set up their own little "factory" in their cottage and are producing handmade placemats and pot holdersThe boys earned enough money this past year to finance a trip to Carowinds for the whole cottage. Boys Take Up Looms To Earn Trip Money KINSTON, N.C. - When the boys in Lenoir Cottage at the Kennedy Home campus of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina want to take a little vacation, they pick up their knitting needles! Well, almost. Actually the boys reach for looms, balls of yarn and scissors. For the last year, a dozen boys in the cottage, houseparents Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beacham and their daughter, Denise, have handmade, packaged and .sold sets of potholders and placemats. Prices at $2 per set for three items, the projects grossed almost $300 recently, and the money was used for a weekend jaunt to Carowinds. , The idea started last year when Mrs. Beacham bought 'a pair of octagonal wooden looms from a former ' Kennedy Home houseparent 'because she thought the boys would like the activity. But it was not until one boy and her husband started working with the frames -that the enterprise was launched. After only a few .hours work, $20 in mer chandise had already been sold! " The boys took orders at school and then dashed home to work on the sets. .The first day one boy took 12 order and the Beacham 's -daughter had made 18 sales. Many school friends were buying them for presents. A Kinston beautitian sold about 30 orders when she heard about the project, and Beacham's mother took fluite a few orders in Rocky Mount where the family resided before becoming houseparents. The youth made their own deliveries at school, and the Beachams delivered "in town" orders. ; "It became an every night thing," Betty Beacham explained. "We had so many orders, we couldn't find enough yarn for them. Bill and I would go shopping in the mornings for yarn and roll it in balls ready for the boys to start working with at night. "The boys started as soon as they got home from school before going to work at 4 p.m.," she said. "Then when they got in at night, we all crowded into our den and sat around watching television and working." There was lots of talk, always snacks and the project made the cottage grow closer together, the housemother feels. "You should have seen them take their looms to the barbershop," Mrs. Beacham chuckled. "Oh, and the barber bought a set of placemats too." One boy would wrap yarn around the loom and the give it to another to tie in an assembly line fashion. Bill was the business manager and kept up with the orders and Mrs. Beacham kept up with the money. The group cleared $230 and sold about 150 sets altogether. Yarn was bought in Goldsboro, Rocky Mount , Greenville and Wilson. There were so many orders the boys finally wrote the yarn company to set up a business account. Since the Beachams bought the yarn while the boys were in school, sometimes they made as many as three trip a week to buy yarn. Everybody in the cottage enjoyed spending the fruits of their labors. The group stayed at Myers Park Baptist Church the night before going to Carowinds. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY Walter Edwards, Jr., student at Central University in Durham, will spend the Holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, Sr. YA. GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilbur Forbes of Raleigh were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilcox on Saturday. Proceeds paid for gas, bought ticket to Carowinds and permitted $5 spending money for each person. On the way back home, there was enough money left over to stop in Raleigh for supper and then to have fried chicken out the next Sunday night. Today, the little "factory" sits in a brown box in the Beacham's den ... it is a permanant fixture in the cottage now. AetnaAids Higher Education " Thirteen North Carolina colleges and universities have received $14,154.00 in 1974 under Aetna Life & Casualty's aid to higher education program, Aetna's share was $7,077.00, supplementing agent and employee gifts of $7,077.00 to the Notth Carolina institutions. The University of North Carolina received $5,340.00, the state's largest combined company and employee contribution. Other recipients were: College of the Albemarle, Davidson College, Duke University, East Carolina University, Elon College, High Point College, Lees McRae College, Mars Hill College, Queens College, North Carolina V. State University, Wake Forest University and Western Carolina University. The North Carolina grants are part of $395,772 con tributed to 506 schools in 47 states under -Aetna's program this year. Since the inception of the program 14 years ago,' more than $2 million has been contributed to higher education. Earn FIRST MORTGAGE REAL ESTATE BONDS o DENOMINATIONS: 400 TO '5,000. o MATURITIES: 1 YEAR TO 5 YEARS o INTEREST: PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 408 FAST MAIN STREET . EUZAMCTH CITY .: PHONE 335-081 1 ' ' ! - gaies Limited To Residents oi North Carolina , WEEKEND AT : WILLIAMSBURG Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woodard and. daughter spent the weekend at Williamsburg, Va. RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL , Mrs. Vickie Paul has returned home after being a patient in the Albemarle Hospital. S.C. GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Cor bin Dozier, Jr. and family of i r" ' A ' r rm II ' 3.-, I ' .' f linTtpr .lr nnn tnmiiv ni I i .... . Bennettsville, S.C. , will fA3- - Tl v spend the Christmas ' li ' m I Holidays with Mr. and Mrs. ff, ; ' I ? A fj Dozier, Sr. J u . " 5 V ij . VISITS IN ; v- PLYMOUTH . X , , TTT Mrs. Addie Keegan was a . , sZPjB f guest of Mr. and Mrs. r - v-L Doward Jones in Plymouth I on Monday. ' CAN DO! Members of f ! the Tec Club at College of ! The' Albemarle's" ii Technical and Vocational - ' ; Center load a pickup ' truck with aluminum I cans which they recently .! gathered along ' area ' roadsidesv. The group,;.! ! collected ' nearly 40 ;j pounds of ' cans "for r recycling during one ; ; outing.' Proceeds iifromjlj 5 the j sale ; of the scrap? J aluminum will be used to. ) fund club activities-- atv 1 COA. Carol Partin of ' Hertford assists ther; . !' youngSnen who from left. ;; 1 are Laverne Morgan,1 ;i j Tommy 1 Wood, i Roger' ! J Ferfell, George Perkins ;; and Jerry Wesner.' (COA ! Photo) .. .' V- THE PERDUE GUARANTEE: 'J'.Vl 'mw--. When our chicken catchers have cleaned the fifth flock out of your new broiler house you can bet it won't be the last round-up. They'll be back for more. A sixth flock; an eleventh. A twentieth, a thirtieth and right on. Perdue figures that when you invest in a new broiler house, you deserve to know where your chickens are coming from for a good long time. And in our book, a year or even two years isn't Irmn AnAiink , So we guarantee you a steady Supply of chickens for six years or 3Q flocks, and that's just the beginning. What's more, we put it in writing. WE'RE MORE THAN HONOR-BOUND TO SUPPLY YOU. Representatives of Perdue's housing department are carrying around a three- : page . document with 1he grand title of "Perdue's New-House Guarantee". It spells out our; committment to you for 30 flocks of blr;ds when you agree to build a new Broiler house. We sign it because we'rethe ones making the gua rantee. You initial it to show that you've ' read it. Where else could you get a gua rantee like this to " byild your future farming operations on? Look at Mr. Charles Wagner of Maryland. He's been growing Perdue chickens for 48 years. So growing our chickens doesn't have to be a short term proposition. Why, you could make it a lifetime career. So look at the people in this ad that are now receiving ; Perdue checks in the R-C area. Minimum Guarantee Average Payment - for 6 Years For 6 Years $48,C00 $57,G00 ASK YOUR UtlGIIBOR, Will TALK VJIW PERDUE. Over 800,000 broilers now growing in the R-C area. Ahoskh Office Tommy Lowe Ray Marlowe Henry Shackelford 332 5041" ( 332-5201 ' ' 332-5041 Sidney Allen -Godwin Britt Ethelyn Britt - 2 Shirley Brown L B. Burgess Vinson Deloatch Faye Drake Richard Farrow J. B. Gcrris Maryland Harrelk Helen Hedspeth -Glenn Johnson Billy Johnson Jesse Jones J.O. Jones Thomas Jones Gcorgs Jordan 7::::a:7! 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