'STAND AID PRINTING CO XXX i - L'JUISVILLS, KENTUCKY 40200 N A SLY . 32 N-1 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, January 1, 1976 10 CENTS WEE13 ii JIILLLj. 11 15e Per Pound Aluminum RecyclingUnit To Stop Now , Reynolds Aluminum Recycling Company has recently an nounced it is expanding its nationwide recycling program . which pays cash on the spot for all-aluminum cans and other clean household aluminum to include a mobile unit collection stop in Hertford. E.J. Kelly Jr., Mid-Atlantic regional recycling manager, in making the announcement, said the program will begin cm ThiTsday, January 8, when the mobile recycling unit ar JiveH at the Harris Shonninff Center. G'ruhb St. and Edenton Vd. St., from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. ,ery other Thursday at the JL The Dublic is encouraeed to ens and other clean household alumnum found in the kit jf chen such as pie pans, frozen dinner trays and foil to the unit and receive payment of IS cents per pound. . . : Aluminum is easy to identify. The best way is to place a - magnet on the side and ends of the can. If it does not stick, the can . is aluminum. Many , cans have the words "recyclable aluminum" printed on the side, have rounded bottom edges and no seam on the side. Funds Are Allocated For Roads RALEIGH The North. Carolina -... Board of Transportation has allocated six million dollars for construction of secondary roads throughout the state. ' - . The 1975-76 remaining "allocation for Perquimans , County is .123,800. As of January 1, ,1975. there, was ,83.3 unpaved miles in the 'county and the average cost per mile is $48,825. The six million dollar allocation exhausts a 30 million dollar appropriation for secondary roads construction approved by the 1975 North Carolina' ; General Assembly. Tne Board's recent allocation represents 20 percent of the . total secondary road funds. Eighty percent of the funds appropriated by the Assembly for Fiscal Year Basketball The Perquimans County Recreation Association will again this year sponsor basketball. The season will get underway on Jan. 12 and an entry fee of $25 per team will be charged. The league play will consist of both men's and women's teams, Anyone interested in having a team should call Tommy Nowell at 297-2226, or Billy Stallings at 426-7368, or Gary Stubbins at 426-5376 before Jan. 5. & THURSDAY. JAN. 1 ' Happy New Year . ; The Perquimans C.B. Club will not meet. . .. ' t ' William Paul Stallings Post 126 American Legion will hold its regular monthly meeting at the post home. This will be'family night with a covered dish supper. Members are : asked to bring their families and a covered dish. The time - for dinner is set for 6 p.m. - T MONDAY, JAN. 5 The Perquimans County Commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. at the courthouse iri Hertford. ' , -1 The Hertford Town Council will meet at thd Municipal Building in ueruora at y:w p.m. TUESDAY, JAN. 6 ' ' Hertford Rotary Club meets. ; : . . , : Whlteston Homemakers Club meets. - The Perquimans Masonic courthouse in Heruora at 8 p.m. , . , ..- ParkvilleRiiritanClub meets. WFnitftfCnAV TAN 1 i The Perquimans County Jaycettes will meet at th A1nmaili CMP Rnllriinff at 7n m I 7 The recycling unit will return same location and time each brine all-aluminum beverage 1976 was distributed by the transportation board last July. The Board purposely held back 20 percent of the funds at the request of the State Budget Office in case revenues for the fiscal year were less than the appropriations. Upon approval from the Budget Office, the Board voted - to allocate ' the remaining appropriations from secondary roads. Cecil Budd, Chairman of the Secondary Roads Council, commented that the available funds "will help expediate our secondary roads program." The released funds have been apportioned for use in all 100 North Carolina counties and the amount allocated for each county is based on unpaved secondary road mileage. Lodge No. 106 will rteet at the . 1 1 In Hertford With the addition of Hertford, the total number of loca tions in this state moves to 43. "This program will make an even cleaner Hertford environment," Kelly said. "In addi tion, aluminum recycling conserves an important natural resource and saves energy each time aluminum is recycled, a 95 per cent energy savings results over produc ing alunimum from virgin ore." Kelly pointed out that in other cities with recycling pro grams civic clubs, church groups, charitable organizations and schools use the Reynolds program as a worthwhile method of raising cash for their needy projects. Since beginning its program in 1967, the company has paid the public about $25 million and collected in excess of four billion all-aluminum beverage cans. In the first ten months of this year, Reynolds collected the equivalent of 1.6 billion all-aluminum cans from the public, operating its pro-, gram in 36 states, an increase of almost three times over the similar period in 1974. "We are very proud of the fact that Reynlds is redeeming the equivalent of about one out of three cans sold by its can division, the leading aluminum can manufacturer in the United States," Kelly said. A Safe New Years ; Dnve Carefully RALEIGH - Edward L. Increased travel, adverse pu,ii rnmmimnpr of weather conditions, and ear- Powell, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles reminds motorists to be especially careful over the upcoming New Years Holidays. Statistics for the two-day New Year's holiday last year showed that driving coder the influence and speeding were major fac tors in traffic accidents and fatalities. Four people lost their lives during the holdiay period last year and another 223 were injured on North Carolina streets and highways. More Liberal Regulations RALEIGH New more liberal food stamp regula tions going into effect on January 1 will not only allow North Carolinians with low incomes to purchase more' food from their grocers, but more people will be able to participate because of in creased maximum income eligibility standards. The monthly amount of food stamps a four-person household will be allowed to purchase will be increased from the current $162 to $166. The maximum monthly net income level for a family of four will increase from the present $540 to $553. ; The Federal Food Stamp ' Act requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture to adjust the monthly coupon allotments every six months to reflect changes in food prices as published by the . Bureau of Labor' statistics. Apply ' ' Most people will need a social security number sooner or later. Apply for the number before you ac tually need it because it, usually takes six to eight weeks to get an original -number. It takes approx imately ten days if you are applying for a duplicate card and you know your ' number. weather conditions, and ear ly darkness contribute to the high traffic accident rate during the holidays. Powell said 1,334 people have been killed in North Carolina traffic accidents over the past 11 months, "This figure represents the lowest death rate in ten years," commented Powell. The Commissioner added, "that if every motorist -will drive defensively and cautiously during the News Year holidays that the d :.th fate could still be lowta." The new scale developed by USDA is more generous for households of six or more persons than it is for smaller households. In North Carolina, county departments of social ser vices administer the food stamp program and deter mine eligibility. ' The amount a household pays for food Stamps is bas ed on its net income. Under the scale going into effect the first of the year, a family of four with $100 monthly net income will pay only $25 for $166 worth of food stamps, but if its income is $550, it would cost $142 to purchase the same $166 amount of stamps. ' Persons not participating in the food stamp program who need help in purchasing adequate food should con tact their local social ser vices department to see if they are eligible. Early ' The Social Security law requires that . you furnish evidence of age,, identity, and citizenship or alien status when you apply for a social security number. If you .were born in the United States a birth certificate or church record or birth or baptism is perferred as pro of of your age and place of birth. p - - IP; t THIRTY YEARS OF 8ERVICE Inez H. Sawyer was recently recognized for 30 years of service as a federal employee with the United States Department of Agriculture. Mrs. Sawyer works with the Farmers Home Administration in Hertford. Mrs. Sawyer, county office assistant, is pictured with Melvin Howell, (center) county supervisor, and Dan Norman, district director for FHA. (Photo courtesy The Daily Advance) Ten Perquimans Stude nts Receive Ef-Tj Honor Listinff JJJ J JL JL KJ 1 VJJL JLJJ.O VLLlCL ' O GREENVILLE - A total of 3,168 East Carolina University students earned places on the university's of ficial honor lists for the Fall quarter. The total compared with 3,192 for the Spring quarter of 1975. The honors lists included students from 91 of the state's 100 counties, from 22 of the 50 states and from five foreign countries. Most elite of the honor Mass Unemployment Is Not Expected Mrs. Alice W. Bond, Manager, of Edenton . Employment Security Com mission office announces that from July 1, 1975, through November 30, 1975, the Employment Security Commission office in Eden ton has placed 258 ap plicants on jobs in the four county area served by the office located in Edenton. This four county area in cludes Chowan, Gates, Per quimans, and Tyrrell.- Dur ing this period 538 referrals and 229 job development contacts were made. For veteran applicants 118 refer- Tax Break '-.-.-- r GREENSBORO -Everyone who files a Federal income tax return for 1975 will get at least one tax break, regardless of whether he files a long form 1040, or the short Form 1040-A. ' The break is the personal exemption tax credit. This one time credit is worth $30 for each regular exemption to which the taxpayer is en titled. However, those in- - dividuals who claim addi tional exemptions because of blindness or because they are 65 years or older, my claim only one $30 credit for ' themselves. Taxpayers who have ques tions about the personal ex- - emption tax credit or other tax matters can visit local IRS offices or call IRS toll free at 1-800-822-8800 from anywhere in North Carolina. ) students are those making all A's. Next are those who made the Dean's List with a solid B-plus average with no grade below C. The Honor Roll includes those students making a B average with no grade below C. Locally, James Mackey Lewis of Rt. 2, Hertford received all A's. Two Perquimans County students were named to the -Dea-a'S-fcistrLu-Ai'.nS. Chap-1 pell of Belvidere and rals and 67 job development contacts were made. From these efforts 51 veterans were placed in employment. 844 new applications were taken during this five month period of which 104 were its '! J ! , - ( -a iv.s,.i:i;,s,-;- uijuiiiim.iiiwiiiinimMimriTinilt-"" -1 "r " '"' " ' -m . . SHIRTS FOR HEAD START Hertford Mayor Bill Cox looks on as Stuart Anderson, manager of Don Juan Manufacturing Corp. presents shirts to Mrs. J.G. Felton, director of Perquimans County's Head Start program. Last Monday, Anderson presented three dozen shirts to the children in the Head Start Program as Christmas presents. The shirts on a retail basis would be valued at between $400 and $450. Mrs. Felton thanked Don Juan for the shirts, Bill Cox for his support of the program, the Perquimans County Board of Education, and Gary Stubbins, principal of Perquimans Union School as well as Gregory's Five and Ten who recently donated broken toys which were mended by the Head Start staff and parents. f. A Charlie M. Harrell of Railroad Ave., Hertford. Local students named to East Carolina's Honor Roll included Terry D. White of Belvidere, Lenna U. Mansfield of Grubb St., Hertford; Frances Teresa Cobb of Academy St., Hert ford; Paula J. Harrison of Winslow St., Hertford; Ruby J. Felton Manley of Rt. 1, Hertford; Marie Oneda Crowe of Belvidere; and John Creesac Sol: f fall. veterans. Although the number of job openings coming into the office has decreased, we do not expect the mass unemployment that oc curred last year. ? trr-WW .WjTrT-TTi County School Bus Data The cost of transporting North Carolina's one and a quarter million children to school increased during the 1974-75 school year by more than $5 million over the previous year, according to annual audit figures releas ed by the State Board of Education. A total of $35,638,577 was spent to transport children in 1974-75 as compared with $30,525,509 spent in 1973-74. That represents an average cost to the State Public School Fund of $49.92 per child transported in 1974-75, an increase of $6.71 per child over the previous year. Per quimans County spent $71.62 transporting each child to school. Some local money was used for transportation. Of the children who at tended school in 1974-75, 70.5 per cent rode the school bus, 3.2 per cent more than the previous year. The total number of students depen ding on buses to get to school each day has increas ed over the past three years, from 713,903 in 1974-75 as compared to 706,560 in 1973 74 and 702,957 in 1972-73. 42.1 students in Perquimans County rode the bus to school each day during the 1974-75 school year. The average bus traveled approximately 42 miles each day, carrying an average of 63 children. The average munber of school children riding on eacn bus had declined over the past three years, from 66 in 1972 73 to 65 in 1973-74 and down to 63 during the 1974-75 school year. In Perquimans County school buses travel ed an average of 43.8 miles each day, carrying an average of 1,388 children. There were 11,181 school buses operating during 1974-75, over 200 more than were in operation in 1973-74. Perquimans County operated 33 school buses during the 1974-75 school year. I M 1- i & v

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