It s employ the elderly week in N.C.
la aa age of shrinking
budgets aad increased em
phasis oa maximum
productivity, the value of the
oUcr worker should not be
overlooked as a means to
increase efficiency This is the
message of Employ the Older
Worker Week in North
Carolina, currently in
progress
Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr.,
proclaimed the observance to
coincide with National Em
ploy the Older Worker Week.
The national observance ha*
emphasised the importance of
older workers tor more than 31
years.
"National Employ the Older
Worker Week is an annual
means of focusing public
attention on the importance of
using this valuable em
ployment resource," said Bill
Taylor, older worker
specialist in the local Job
Service office. "When you
realise that more than two
million North Carolinians,
two-thirds of whom are m the
civilian labor fore* of Ike
stale, arc M years oM and
older, you begin to see how
important it is that we made
good use of their experieace
and knowledge."
Job Service offices have
participated in Employ the
Older Worker Week for more
than 20 years as a part of a
year-round emphasis on
placement of older job
seekers. Since HIT,
congressional legislation has
t
Older persons may
be due a tax refund
Many older or disabled
persons across the state
may be eligible for a tax
refund as a result of a bill
passed recently by the
legislature.
According to Nathan H.
Yelton, assistant secretary
of aging. Department of
Human Resources, any
senior citizen or disabled
person who missed the
deadline for the 17,500
property tax exemption in
1900 may now receive the
1980 exemption by filing an
application with their
county tax supervisor no
later than April IS, 1981.
That is also the final date
for filing applications for
the 1981 exemption.
"Any 1980 taxes paid by
such persons on the
exempted property will be
refunded to them upon
filing the application," said
Yelton. "Persons who have
not paid their taxes must
also file an application in
order to receive the
exemption."
It is especially important
that all eligible persons file
a proper and complete
application not later than
April IS, Yelton stressed.
Persons who qualify for
the exemption in 1961 do
not have to re-apply in 1982
and future years unless
they change their
residence. They are, of
course, required to notify
the tax supervisor if they
become ineligible for the
exemption.
Leaders seek assistance
for Atlanta, Ga. families
Area black leaders began
last week distributing posters
designed to heighten the
awareness of the situation in
Atlanta, Georgia, which in
volves the unsolved murder of
19 black children.
Rev. John London, pastor of
First Baptist Church, in
Hertford, and newly elected
president of the National
Association of the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
and Walter White, Jr.,
president of the Bethel
Southern Shores Property
Owners' Association and
chairman of the county
Political Action Committee,
met with Hertford Mayor Bill
Cox last week, in a gesture
London said he hoped would
make people aware of the
worsening situation in
Atlanta.
? The poster, which * reads
"Stop the killing of the Atlanta
Children," was designed by
White. *
White and London are also
seeking donations to send to
the coalition of the murdered
childrens' families in Atlanta.
Those interested in making
a donation for the cause
should contact London.
Watches, tennis
shoes stolen
The Hertford Police
Department arrested ? low*
youth Monday afternoon being
sought for questioning in
connection with a Saturday
night break-in at Beit-Tyler
Department Store in
Elizabeth City.
Willie Lee Jones, 11 of
Covent Garden Street in
Hertford, was arrested and
charged after his car was
spotted in the parting lot of
Perquimans County High
School, where he is a student
Hertford police chief
Marshall Merritt said Jones
was wearing a watch believed
to have been stolen in the
break-in at the time of his
arrest.
Watches and tennis shoes
were among the items taken in
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Citizen's watch meeting
scheduled for March 12
Those interested in forming
a community watch program
are urged to attend a planning
meeting at the Perquimans
County Courthouse in Hert
ford on Thursday, March 12,
at 7:30 p.m.
Tony Young, field
representative for the North
Carolina Department of
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Zaia Filter and Eric Skamer double their fun in Heart Fund rope jumping at Perquimans
Cownty High School.
Kids raise cash for Heart Fund
The thump, thump, thump
of the disco beat coincided
with the rythmic pounding of
the teenagers' feet as PCHS
students jumped rope for
Heart Fund Saturday morning
at the high school gym.
A total of M students raised
?.?? in a jumping session
that lasted from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. The students
solicited contributions based
on minutes jumped.
And as "Ray the DJ." (Ray
Ward of WBXB in Edenton)
spun the singles, the young
people kept their ropes tur
ning.
The top team raised $580
and won jogging suits for their
efforts. Each of the six team
members jumped for 30
minutes, and members in'
eluded Cindy Sawyer, Sheila
Rountree, Carla Skinner,
Catherine Jones, Joy Chappell
and Randy Winslow.
There were seven teams
involved in the competition.
Gas tax
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all on gas, though," said Harrington,
"We'll probably have to get it ( money for
transportation) from several places."
Evans described the effect of declining
revenues on the highway fund as
"tremendous," and also favored the gas
tax concept.
A $2.1 billion tourist industry, in ad
dition to agricultural needs, was in
centive enough to increase highway
improvement revenues, according to
James.
Also expressing favor for the gasoline
tax, James said additional highway
money could be gained by transferring
expenses of the highway patrol from the
transportaion budget to the General
Fund, "where it belongs in the first
place."
He also advocated inclusion of the tax
of up to $120 paid on new cars in the
transportation budget. The new car tax is
presently feeding the General Fund.
But operations in Raleigh are at a
virtual standstill as state government
waits until the entire economic picture is
unveiled by the Reagon Administration.
"Things are pretty quiet in Raleigh
right now," said Harrington, "We all
have to wait and see what is going to
happen in Washington."
Daniels did, however, have some bleak
predictions. "North Carolina has been
getting some 25 to 27 percent of its total
revenue from the federal government
and I don't know how much we'll be cut,"
he said.
"I will say that North Carolina is ex
periencing declining revenue at a rapid
pace," said Daniels, who added that he
expected a 6 percent decrease in
programs.
"I don't want to be an alarmist, but I
think you're going to see a shifting in
priorities," said Daniels.
Among proposals Daniels said he
would make to the Assembly was a rate
reduction from utilities, an increase in
funding to public libraries, and a
"complete review of CAMA
regulations."
Describing the Coastal Area
Management Act as "unpopular with a
lot of people," Daniels said he would
propose "reimbursement for coastal
land people own and have been denied
use of."
Daniel's comments drew a response
from Hertford resident and Coastal
Resource Commission member T. Erie
Haste, Jr.
"CAMA is a controversy because we
were delving into something that's never
been done before with a bunch of
bureaucrats who haven't done it either,"
said Haste.
"There is much more to the com
mission than restraints and regulations
put on private property," he added. "We
don't enjoy denying a person U9e of his
property, but we have to do what we
think is right, and I think it's unfair to
make a comment to this group that
CAM A should be gutted.
"We're trying to administer the
program as equitably as we can," con
cluded Haste. ?
Evans, who is also involved with
CAMA as a member of the advisory
council, told the group that he, tan, felt
"a lot of good had come out of CAMA."
But Daniels was adamant in his ap
position to the coastal program. "I think
you've failed to listen to the people. I
hear and you hear that people are Mac
denied use of property that has been In
their families for years.
"Someone once said 'CAMA was trying
to pre-judge God in their annual erosion
rate predictions' and if we've got tight
times in North Carolina, the PN.M
(alotted to CAMA) might he used better
somewhere else than to penalise people
in the 20 counties," said Daniels.
Haste reminded Daniels that the M
county area had been issued "straight
from" the General Assembly. "We <M
not seek them," he said.
The meeting then adjourned to * group
seemingly eager to turn to ACC
basketball action.
Planning input
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is the most critical problem facing
Hertford and what do you think should be
done to resolve the problem?"
Forms are available at both the town
office and the Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce office in the
Municipal Building on Grubb Street in
Hertford. Forms are alio being
distributed at Peoples Bank and Bank of
North Carolina, as well as Woodards
Pharmacy, all in Hertford.
Cox said that Hertford residents and
those persons living within one mile of
the town limits are urged tilHMti
form and return it to the town office by
March 27.
A final draft of tiR land use plan mot
be completed by Jam. Wben Mated, tke
plan should be similar m scope H tk
recently completed CMBty land nan plan
ap-date.
Visual distress signals now required
Federal regulations now
that visual distress
I be carried on boats in
coastal waters, which include
North Carolina's sounds and
bays.
These regulations will not
apply oa inland and Joint
jurisdiction waters. The new
Isdaral regulation requires
boats II feet and over, er
to carry approved
' II feet, manually
under 21 feet of completely
open construction are not
required to carry day-time
devices, but must carry night
time devices if tbey are
operating at night.
Devices which are ipproved
for day use only include large
orange flags and three hand
held or floating orange smoke
devices. An automatic SOS
electric light it approved only
tor night use. Boaters could
meet the requirement for both
day and night operation by
havtag an irange flag and an
automatic SOS light on I
A number of devtosa are
approved for both day and
night use. These include hand
held. pistol projected aad
rocket-propelled orange
flares. Boaters mm have
three flares on board that are
certified as combination
devices to meet the
night use.
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