The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-12-02
APPEAL FOR NEEDY
BY WELFARE DEPT
IN HYDE COUNTY
Amid All Our Prosperity There
Are Many Persons In Distress
Needing Help and Cheer
By WILLIAM A. MILLER

By WILLIAM A. MILLER
Supt. Hyde County Department
of Welfare
1t is an accepted fact that one
will sooner or later come to ac-
cept proverty as one of the neces-
sary evils of our social order. Jesus
Christ Himself said we will always
have the poor with US. The per-
sonnet of the Hyde County We'll
fare Department accepts this as all
too true but there are times when
even those who live and breathe
proverty are over burdened with
the pitiful scenes encountered al
most daily in their dealings with
the less fortunate in Hyde County.
Because of this situation, the
Superintendent and case workers
are constantly aware of the need
that exists and the lack of facili-
ties to take care of many of these
situations. Even when the Welfare
Department does all it can d. for
those who can qualify for services,
there still looms before them the
great number who are as much in
need but can't get help from the
Welfare Department because they
can not meet the requirements. For
instance, the tired, frail woman
who walked slowly into the office
and said she had to have some help
or her family would starve. Her
story revealed that her husband is
serving time in prison and there
are II children in the home of a
relative. She has no home for her
self and the children because the
house burned to the ground and
every article of clothing and piece
of furniture the family owned was
burned. Another example is the
family of z in which the father
works all that he can, but never
makes enough to get the barest
necessities for wife and five chill
dren. The mother is suffering from
severe asthma and many days sh9
is physical unable to take care of
the children. They have two small
and two old half-rotten mattress
es. There is no money for medicine
and the children often go to bed
hungry, never having enough milk
so vital to the proper growth of
a baby. The Superintendent and
workers readily admit that this
can not be helped except the peo-
pie in the community know Of and
offer helping hand. There are ap-
proximateiy 200 children in Hyde
County who will probably not have
a toy for Christmas unless some
person with compassion for them
is willing to buy and give a toy
to them. There are many homes
in this county that are absolutely
bare of the most needed pieces of
furniture that the readers of this
article have stored away and could
easily do without, in order to help
a house full of children get some
little idea of what a decent home
should be like. And they never will.
until people who have are willing
to share with those who don't
have. That is why we in the Wei
fare Department in Hyde County
make repeated attempts to inform
the public of these families and
their immediate needs and urge all
who are able, and those who say
they are not able, to see the many
opportunities that we have to help
the children in this county. That
is why we ask you again for the
clothes, children's clothes that your
children no longer can wear, that
is why we ask you for pieces OF
furniture that clutter up your at
tic, beds that you no longer can
use. These items will prove bless
ing to some person who needs them
now.
We also ask that you use your
Welfare Department in this en-
deavor. Call US at any time you
have any of these things and they
will be called for or, to feel even
better about helping someone,
bring them yourself to the Wei
fare Department of Hyde County.
Would you, whoever you are or
wherever you might be, like to buy
and wrap toy for Christmas for
one of the approximately 200 chill
dren and mail it to the department
ready to deliver to an unhappy
child for Christmas If you want
the name and age of child to
buy toy for, call the Welfare De-
partment and we will give you that
information. Too many people say
they don't have time for all this
Well, we have, and just mail the
money for what ever you wish and
we will see that some child is made
happy This is just one of the many
services that we in the Welfare
Department in Hyde County try I'd
give our people but it is one that
we can not give unless you make