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VOL. 28, NO. 9
I, DECEMBER 27, 1968
ST. MATTHEWS CHURCH WOMEN HOLD
CHRISTMAS PARTY - MEETING
The annual Christmas Meet- |
tog-Party of the Wesleyan Ser- ;
vice Guild of St Matthew*1
United Methodist Church wu
held at the home of Mrs. Mar
gie McLeod, on Arbor Drive,
on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1868.
Shown in the picture above, |
left to right, are Mr*. Albert ine
Young, secretary; (third) the
hoatese, Mrs. McLeod; St. Mat
thews pastor, the Rev. 3. B.
Bethea; (fifth) Mrs. J. B.
Brower, Guild Co-ordlnator;
| (11) Mrs. J. B. Bethea; (12)
Mrs. Mattie D. Hicks, vice
president of the Guild; (IS)
Mrs. F. A. Norwood; (14) Mrs.
G. Haveu Caldwell; and (10)
Miss Ida Jones. Others in the
photograph were guests and
were not identified.
The hostess presented cor
sages to all Guild members and
served a delicious Christmas
menu including turkey and all
! the trimmings.
(Photo by L. A. Wise)
DUIHS AND FUNERALS
MRS. DELOKE8 H. JVDD
Funeral services were con
ducted for Mrs. Delorea Hol
land Judd at Mount Zkn Holi
ness Church, Greensboro St,
Asbeboro, N. C. on Thursday,
Dec.. 30, 1968 at 2:00 p. m. El
der J. E. Eurlng officiated, as
sisted by Elder Emanuel Hol
land, pastor.
Mrs. Judd, daughter of Rev.;
and Mrs. Emanuel Holland,
was born February 18, 1948 in
Randolph County, N. C. She
departed this life Sunday after
noon at 8:58 p. m. at Chapel
? 111 Memorial Hospital in
Chapel HOI, N. C. after a week
of serious Alness. ? . , i .
She was born: in Asbeboro,
N. C. where she spent the most
of her life. She was married, to
Mr. Carlester Judd last Novem
ber and moved to Broadway,
IV. C. where they made their
home.
She was a graduate of the
caas of 1988 from Asbeboro
High School; she attended Vir
ginia Union University of Rich
mond. Va. She was a member
of Mount Zlon Holy Church
where she served as secretary
of Sunday School, a class teach
er and a member of the Junior
Choir.
She leaves her husband, Car
lester Judd of the home; her
Infant daughter, Carta De-ette
Judd; her parent^ Rev. and
Mr?. Emanuel Holland of Ashe
boro, N. C.; three sifters, Misses
Venessa and Wilfna A. Holland
of AAeboro, N. C. and Mrs.
Charles Carroway of Baltimore,
Md.; two brothers, Kenneth and
Johnny Holland, both of Ashe
boro, N. C.; other relatives and
friends.
MRS. CA8SIE Y. FLORENCE
Mrs. Cassie V. Florence, age
89, of 1409 Gorrell Street, died
Tuesday at the Moses H. Cone
Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services will be held
ZrOO p. m. Friday at New Zion
Baptist Church. The pastor.
Rev. W. D. Johnson, will offi
ciate and burial will follow in
Thomas' Chapel Cemetery,
Gullfl&rd County.
She is survived by her hus
band, Mr. Louis Florence of
the home; two sons, Elree and
John Henry Florence, both of
Greensboro; mother, Mrs. Su
san Raleigh of Greensboro; two
brothers, Andrew Raleigh of
Winston-Salem and DeWltt Ra
leigh of Detroit, Midi.; five
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren. ?
The family will meet their
friends at Hargatt Funeral
Home on Thursday evening
from 7 to 9 p. m.
Hargett Funeral Service in
charge of arrangements.
An Indianapolis veteran re
ceived the seven millionth O.L
home loan in December, 1908.
' Hie seven millionth home
loan was guaranteed by the
Veterans Administration during
December, , . ; '
$9 MILLION STAKE INTO
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
New York ? The decision to
put a $9 million stake into the
economic development of:
America's racial minorities has '
been ranked as the top United
Presbyterian news story of
1968.
The investment program ? '
initiated by the denomination's
180th General Assembly and
currently being carried out by
the Presbyterian Economic De
velopment Corporation ? high
lighted a "top ten" list of news
events centered largely around
the nation's race-poverty crisis.
Stories related to that crisis
1 took the first four places on the
I list and won five spot* in the
! top six selected by the staff of
the Presbyterian Office of In
formation.
The $9 million for loans to
ghetto and other racial minority
enterprises represents 80 per
cent of the unrestricted invest
ment tends of the denomina
tional boards end agencies.
Loans of about $1.5 minion
have been authorised thus far.
Second-ranked In Individual
stories was the redeployment
of overseas personnel of the
church to work In a number of
crisis cities of America. Ap
proximately 70 persona, In
cluding missionaries, fraternal
workers, and officials of over
seas churches, came to the
country from Africa, Asia and
I Latin America to bring their
' own experience and expertise
to bear in the unique reverse
missionary project.
Rated third among the year's
events was another cash invest
ment in race and poverty work:
The General Assembly's deci
sion to put $100,000 into the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Poor
People's Development Fund.
The Assembly acted on a pro
posal by the Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy, who suggested it as
a means of spurring self-help
business and housing undertak
ings among the nation's poor.
Money for the contribution
came from the church's annual
Fund for Freedom offering.
Ranked No. 4 was the United
Presbyterian Board of National
Missions' complete reordering
of priorities to deal with the
racial crista. The mission agen
cy voted to "take as its primary
order of business the role of
advocate on behalf of the dis
regarded, alienated, and re
jected minorities of our nation."
Board Investment policies, the
use of Its properties, work of
its staff, and joint participation
with other agencies in race
poverty concerns were among
the specific Involvements
named In the new policy.
A poll which showed dis
agreement with handling of the
Vietnam War but strong sup
port for seeking a military vic
tory in It was the fifth-ranked
news story. Conducted by Trtm
( Continued on Pag* B)
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare
Social Security Administration
Older people who enter the
hospital under Medicare on
January 1 or after will be re
sponsible for an additional $4
of their hospital bills.
Up 'til now, Charles H. My
ers, social security district man
ager said, Medicare has paid
all but the first $40 of a Medi
care beneficiary's hospital bill
in each spell of illneua. Effec
tive January 1, he said, it will
cover all but the first $44. He
noted that the hospital bill for
an average stay by a Medicare
beneficiary now runs about
$600.
The hospital deductible
amount ? the amount for which
the Medicare beneficiary is re
sponsible ? he explained, Is sim
ilar to the deductible amounts
provided in many auto insur
ance policies where the car
owner pays the first $50 or $100
of a repair bill and the insur
ance company pays the rest.
The increase of $4 in the
portion of the hospital bQl for
which a Medicare beneficiary
is responsible results from a
provision in the law requiring
an annual review of the deduc
tible. The first such review, the
law provided, was to be made
in 1968.
The law states that if this
annual review shows that hos
pital costs have changed sig
nificantly, the hospital deducti
ble must be adjusted for the
following year, with any neces
sary adjustments made in $4
steps ? to avoid small annual
changes.
Mr. Myers said that when
the hospital deductible amount
changes, the law requires com
parable changes in the dollar
amounts a Medicare beneficiary
pays toward a hospital stay of
more than 60 days, or a post
hospital extended care stay of
more than 20 days. These
amounts, also, will go up 10
per cant, beginning January 1,
1968. <
When a Medicare beneficiary
has a hospital stay of more
than 60 days, he will pay $11 a
day for the 61st through the
90th day, up from the present
$10 per day. If he has a post
hospital stay of over 20 days
in an extended care facility, he
will pay $5.50 per day toward
the costs of the 21st through
the 100th day.
If he needs to draw on his
"lifetime reserve," the reserve
account a beneficiary can draw
upoon if he ever needs more
than 90 days of hospital care in
the same benefit period, he will
now pay $22 a day for each re
serve day used, instead of $30
per day.
For Medicare beneficiaries
who enter a hospital before tfw
end of this year, the hospital
deductible amount wQl be
rather than $44, Mr. Myers
pointed out Also, -the dollar
amounts they will pay Uiwatd
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