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.THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume 37, Wo. 51 USPS 431-010 HertforxtPerqulmans County, N.C.# Tuesday, DEC. 22, 1901 20 CEN' Christmas at the Post Office Hertford P.O. keeps those cards and letters coming The Christmas rash, a characteristic of most businesses i? doubly true for the U.S. Portal Service. Getting out the Chri*tmas cards, packages and advertisements ? along with the usual load of Mils, magazines tad junk ? keeps the post office working overtime through the month of December. ? The Associated Press reports that Christmas mailings are down in the state of North Carolina, and at the Hertford Post Office the situation is no different. Postmaster Henry Stokes reports that as of last Friday this year's mail is unusually light. In years past, a mailman might be buried underneath that day's deliveries, but this year the carriers have managed to make pretty good time getting out the first class mail, without leaving too much third class mail behind. The sale of stamps is down also. Stokes chalks it up to a com bination of thihgs. Not only has the price of postage increased, but the price of greeting cards is also high. In addition, Stokes thinks the at titudes have changed somewhat. Ray Haskett delivers mail oo Harvey Point road. "I think people tend to greet people personally rather than send them a card," he said. "There's no reason to send a card to someone you see everyday." There is another reason also. The Postal Service's drive to get people to mail early has made a difference. It used to be the Christmas mail didn't start coming in until a few days before Christmas, Stokes said. Now it begins to dribble in a few days after Thanksgiving. "People hav? generally been very cooperative in mailing early," Stokes said. But they're not ready to take it easy yet. The last few days before Christmas are still heavy, and the light load so far may be the calm before the storm. Associated Press notes that although the mail is light, the sales of Christmas cards is heavier than in past years. The cause of the light mail may just be procrastination. It appears that many people spent last weekend writing cards. If the post office does get buried this week, it may be hard for cards to feach their destination by Christmas. Stokes said that mail delivered within about 200-300 miles, of Hertford should still get there the next day, but farther out than that and the letters might not get there by Christmas Eve, the last delivery day before Christmas. The windows at the Hertford Post Office will open on Christmas Eve from >-11 a.m., closed from U a.m. to 2 p.m.. and opened again from 2-5 p.m. There will be no deliveries or window service on Christmas Day. Normal hours and duties will resume December 26. Hertford women revives local PTA y The Parent-Teacher's Association, long a silent organisation in this part of the state, is prepared to make its voice heard once again. Mary White of Hertford, district director of the PTA, spelled out her plans for the Albemarle-area PTAs at a meeting of district representatives in Elizabeth City last Wednesday. With her was Meetta Lam pert, field ^representative for the North Carolina PTA. During an interview before the meeting, they spoke of the work the local PTA hopes to accomplish in the near future. Though it is often thought of as a kind of milk-and-cookies social club, the PTA is in fact involved in child related issues on many levels. As Lampert explained, the PTA has worked in three main areas of child This week Dwayne Parks of Hertford, suffering from cancer, is prepared for a very Joyous Christmas. Turn to page three. Weather Fair and cold through Thursday, highs in the upper 90s and lows in the low 20s. _ and school issues. One is a program of encouraging and training parent volunteers to work as tutors and teacher's aids. Another is to initiate programs for parents, teachers and students on such problems as drug and alcohol abuse, adolescent sexuality, and school discipline. The third area is working as a legislative advocate ? a lobbyist ? to promote laws for increased teacher's pay, for smaller class sizes, against tuition tax credits, and other school issues. For years the Albemarle area hasn't had a strong PTA, due in part to racial issues, administrative neglect, and plain disinterest. But White hopes she can stir new interest in the organization. Last Wednesday's meeting was her first step in making a change. District 14, for which White is director, has nearly 21,000 members in eight Albemarle counties. In recent years their voice has been drowned out by larger, better organized PTAs in the Piedmont area of the state. White believes the problem was there wasn't enough push, and where the push was applied it was misplaced. "We weren't doing our job," she said of local PTA leaders. "We didn't give them the information to let them know what's going on. And sometimes they'd get the information, but they didn't know how to use it." (Continued on page three) Catching snowflakes A student in Julia Bryant's first and second grade class at Perquimans Central Gram mer School takes time out from a class project to enjoy last Friday's brief snowfall. Bryant's class was collecting snow flakes on black card board to study their shapes. iy,L- J-tzOb Dear Santa ... Heather Leicester's letter to Santa Claus. For more letters to Santa from Perquimans County, see page five. Merry Christmas
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