Congress Goofed

Hey there,
I'm here to tell you that Congress goofed a couple of years ago when they passed a law making the credit card companies increase their rates on minimum balance payments. I think it was at about 1and 1/2 % a month that most card companies charged. The congress made the companies charge at least 2%. Many like me objected at the time. So what if it takes a long time to pay off the debt. Any card holder could pay as much over the minimum monthly balance as they wanted and most of us did. But Congress, Republicans mostly since they were in the majority, insisted the bill be passed. But many Democrats voted right along with them. Well, thought the card companies, if they want to force us to charge more, then we'll give them what they want. Now they're increasing minimum balance payments by up to triple the amounts the cardholders were paying. I predict this move by Congress and the credit card companies will force thousands more of the card company's most reliable customers into bankruptcies that could have, and should have, been avoided.

River Swimmer

My Uncle Cliff Eury could swim like a fish before the age of 2. But on the day he went missing along the Little River bank my Grandfather, Arthur J Edgar Eury, and my Grandmother, Ida Haywood Eury, were very concerned, not to mention Uncle Cliff's four siblings, Bessie, Bertie, Clyde and Madie. Grandpa, who had poured the concrete footings of what would later be named Eury Dam, was hardly the kind to get rattled easily. He had accepted the position of dam operator after John Hurley, the dam owner, had built Grandpa and Grandma a house beside the dam on the Little River, in Montgomery County, North Carolina.

Grandma got Grandpa off his job at the dam and the whole family searched everywhere imaginable. Where could 3 year old Cliff be? Finally, the kids began crying loudly and blaming themselves for letting him go off alone. They knew he was lost down the river and drowned. How could they go on without sweet little Cliff? But 6 year old Madie refused to give up the search. She cried, but prayed, too, as she swept the area along the river bank looking in every nook and cranny where trees had been cut down to clear the area below the dam.

Finally, little Madie's prayers were answered and she let out for all to hear, "Praise, God! He's here asleep behind a stump."

Uncle Cliff never wandered off alone again, and Aunt Madie must have realized that prayers could certainly be answered because she would go on to become the wife of baptist preacher

Vernon Helms, who some said was the prayingest man they had ever seen.