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Volume XXXVII—No. 43 WfumamM Congratulations To Bill; Thanks To Jack We want to be among the first along the Public Parade to congratulate Bill Bunch on his promotion to manager of the Mount Olive branch of First Nation al Bank of Eastern North Carolina. There is a little humor involved which we wish to share with you. Nat Jones is the public relations di rector for First National. He is more prolific with PR releases than ads, how ever. So, when the announcement of Bill’s promotion came postage due we couldn’t help but call it to the attention of Jack Harris, local manager. The next morn- ing we received a check from Jack for the 18 cents we paid to get Bill’s picture and Nat’s story. We thought it only fair, though, that since it cost Jack at least 25 cents to | write the check, plus postage, he should have it back. That’s how we happen to have a savings account at First National." Re-Discovering Objectivity Vice President Agnew, following .on the heels of President Nixon, is at pres ent more interested in coming to the aid of Republican candidates than coming to the aid of the country He will soon appear in Raleigh. Last week we received a memo from the campaign office of our least favored candidate for Congress in the First Dis trict. He stated he had made a survey and found all newspapers in the district fair to him, save one. After prior per sonal attacks on this writer, we knew it was the weekly circulated along the Pub lic Parade. The candidate said he want ed the First District press to have .spe-v cial treatment when the vice president came calling. Now we find we are not the only news paper on the candidate’s black list. Our least favored morning daily of general circulation in Eastern North—Carolina has joined us. (Politics do so often make such strange bedfellows!) The candidate claims a Monday story about the Jones-Everett race was inac curate, unfair, etc. Although it may make his wife and children cry and give him a set-back, we disagree. It is almost uncanny the way the cir cumstances developed. We had just com posed a letter to Roy Parker. Jr., Wash ington Bureau chief for the offending daily, to congratulate him on re-discover *• ing objectivity. He has been accused of being objective from time to time but to our knowledge has never been convicted of same. Had the GOP candidate not been side lined by an untimely heart attack our guess is that he would have gotten no more than 25 per cent of the vote. Now his stock may rise through sympathy votes, etc. Therefore, he could reach the 33.8 per cent garnered by Reece Gardner in his battle with Rep. Walter B. Jones. Rep. Jones has represented this district well. Because of this the opposition is Continued on Pace 4 Graham To Speak At Area Banquet James A. Graham, N. C. Commissioner of Agriculture, will be principal speaker at a meeting here Tuesday, November l6th. Graham will address the 15 th annual r i ■ Inmeg A fZmhtim Jmnea A. Graham ■y : ■ ... ! -»>® - ' ~-’'X3wr- • THE CHOWAN HERALD Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 22,1970 •’-‘it! m 'm Checks Keep Coming— Thomas M. Surratt, administrator of Cho wan Hospital, is shown in a familiar pose—accepting money from civic organizations for equipment at the new $2-million facility. Mrs. Lena M. Leary presents a check with Mrs. Ed Bass looking on. The Edenton BPW Club donated funds for the purchase of a special examining table for the nursery. The presentation coincid ed with National BPW Week. Lunch Price Boost Voted Difficulty in maintaining a good lunchroom program has been anticipated by the Edenton-Chowan Board of Edu cation with a projected loss of over $4,000 for thg 1971-1972 school year. To bring a little slack in the projection the board approved the- motion that all elementary lunch prices be raised to 30 cents and all teacher lunches be raised to 50 cents to cover the cost of a lunch at 49.2 cents per plate. Also effective on January 1, 1971, is Music Workshop School teachers and supervisors in this area will go back to school Saturday in the John A. Holmes High School gym nasium. They will be attending a work shop on the N. C. Little The workshop will be conducted by Adeline McCall, who has headed the Children’s Concert Division of the N. C. Little Symphony for 25 years. Registration begins at 10 A. M., with the workshop scheduled for from 10:30 A. M., to 1 P. M. The director will dis tribute materials to aid teachers in pre paring students for the December visit of the Little Symphony, directed by Dr. Benjamin Swalin. The Little Symphony visit here is sponsored by Edenton-Chowan Schools. Her position with the organization in cludes selection of music to be perform ed, searching out recordings of the music, conducting workshops for teachers to demonstrate how they can best prepare the children for the concerts, and writing the materials which are used by teach ers for reference purposes and by the students for instruction. “The greatest thing we can do for chil dren is to give them a love of music— particularly looking forward to the fu ture insuring them some comfort and security in these times of change,” she said recently.- meeting of the Northeastern Area Soil and Water Conservation District Super visors to be held at 6:30 P. M., at the Edenton Jaycee Building. The North eastern Area is composed of 19 North eastern North Carolina counties. District Chairman Lloyd C. Bunch of Chowan County, said the public is invit ed to attend the meeting mid hear Grah am speak. Tickets for the event are available from the tounty supervisors; H. Fahey Byrum, Joe A. Webb and Mr. Bunch or from George Lewis and the Soil Conservation Service Office located in the basement .of the U. S. Post Office. Tickets must be purchased by Monday, November 2. The purpose of the 15th annual event is to stimulate inteicst and promote the Soil and Water Couservadon District Program throughout our area. Bunch says: “We want everyone interested in the future of our country to attend, farmers, business people, county, town and community leaders. f We are look ing for a good turnout as usual Jo con tinue our reputation *bf putting on the best area* meeting in North Carolina.” ' the policy to give everyone desiring free lunches, free lunches. If someone wants a free lunch and the board feels they do not qualify for one, the person can appeal the judgment. If the person still feels they desire a free lunch they are given one until the board can prove in court they do not qualify for free . lunches. Other action taken by the board of education included: A teacher-student holiday is set for October 30 so all Edenton-Chowan teach ers can attend a district teachers’ meet ing. A request from William Lewis to use the ballpark and Hicks Field for little league ball games was heard. The board did not take any action on this until they could talk with Cecil Fry, principal at ' - J6KB X Holmes High, WWTTtr would interfere with the school athletic pro grams. Dr. J. H. Horton is also going to work with Lewis in obtaining more details on the little league program to present to the board at a later time. Resigned from the school system is Mrs. Naomi Tillett to join her husband in Raleigh. Taking her place is Mrs. Phyllis Lane. Mrs. Tillett left Swain Elementary School. Continued on Pace 4 Water, Sewer Work Under Contract Sealed bids on $600,000 in Town of Edenton water and sewer bonds will be opened at 11 A. M., Tuesday and the project will officially be under contract Friday. W. B. Gardner, town administrator, said Caldwell Tanks, Inc., of Louisville, Ky., submitted the low bid of $211,395 on the new elevated water tank to be erected on Twiddy Avenue, near West Albemarle Street. This was the final bidding on the project. Gardner said Department of Housing & Urban Development had informed the town of approval of the contracts as of Friday. As of June 30, 1970, the town’s out standing bonded indebtedness was $340,- 000 in sanitary sewer bonds. Bids on the bonds are being accepted Course Scheduled The Edeiaon Employment Security Commission mas received approval of a training coqrse under the Manpower De velopment ■Training Act in farm equip ment mechanic and operator. This course will begin on November 2 and will run for 16 weeks. The training will be offered in Eden ton at 709 North Broad Street. There will be a training allowance paid for participation in this program. Training will be 40' hours a week, Monday through Friday, and will consist of two hours a day of bask education and six hours a day of shop and class room instruction. There are good possibilities for em ployment in this field of work, according to Neil Thagard, ESC manager. Sitfgle Copy 10 Cents Scott; Fed .$$ Needed Freeway Endorsed MYRTLE BEACH, S. C.—Gov. Bob Scott told an estimated 500 persons here Monday he is convinced that a proposed coastal corridor highway linking Norfolk, Va., to Savannah, Ga., “is of critical im portance to the economic development of our coastal plains and coastal area’..” A similar response was heard from South Carolina Gov. Robert E. McNair during the East Coast Highway Confer ence in Convention Center. Gov. Scott reviewed avenues of fi nancing the highway, noting that the states were committed to a governmental partnership in highway construction. “The challenge at all levels of conceirn during the next few months must be on Walker Is Tough With Violators l Fines of over $5,800 were levied against 19 persons for violating state liquor laws in Chowan County District Court on Tuesday with Judge Wilton F. Walker presiding. The conviction of these 19 persons was possible through the work of three undercover agents for the State ABC office. An undercover campaign was held for approximately three months and the warrants were issued on October 2 to the parties violating the law. Each defendant was sentenced to six months in the Chowan County jail sus pended for five years upon payment of the fine and costs and not to violate any ABC laws for five years. Convicted of possession of whiskey, possession for sale, and sale and their fines were: Emma Chesson, SIOO fine and costs; Sarah Cooper, S4OO fine and costs for three counts; William Douglas, S3OO fine for two counts; William Henry Gordon, S3OO fine for two counts; Joe Hoggard, $750 fine for three counts. Annie Louise Holley, SSOO fine for two counts, she appealed; Alfred “Fats” Elliott, $550 fine for three counts; Em ma Brown, SIOO fine for one count; Ar thur Gordon, S4OO fine for two counts; Evelyn Gordon, $l5O fine for one count. Eugenia Harris, $450 fine for three counts; Art Miller Leary, $350 fine for three counts; Celia Rawls, $l5O fine for one count; Lillian Smith White, $550 fine for three counts. William Jake Stallings, $750 fine for four counts; Maggie Stanley, $l5O fine for one count; and Louise Taylor, $l5O fine for one count. by the Local Government Commission in Raleigh. Chapel Dedication Set Bandon Chapel at Arrowhead Beach will have a service of dedication and the laying of the cornerstone at 2:30 P. M., Sunday. Rev. Thurman Allred, former pastor of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, will deliver the message. v*~gs3r' '»■■■ ■ H Convenience Grocery Having Grand Opening Zip Mart Opens New Edenton Store Grand Opening is being observed this week at a new Edenton business —Zip Mart on North Broad Street. This is one of 20 stores in Eastern North Caro lina and Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Robbins manage the store and are assisted by Leo LaVc*ie. The local store is owned by Robert Windham and Sam Lee of Rocky Mount. Lee states he has wanted a Zip Mart in Edenton for a long time since he feelit this is an outstanding community. He the jkrision-making process in Washing- he said. , “The success or failure of a coastal corridor rests to u Is urge extent on the continued interest and support of people such as you at thin gathering.” He call ed on the audience, representing business and civic interests from Maryland to Georgia, to a “commitmt mt to follow up on this program and to effectively repre sent our needs to the national admini stration and to the Congress.” Those present for the con ference unan imously adopted a resolutio n noting the urgency of the coastal corrii lor highway in terms of economic develt ipment and “strongly recommending the earliest con struction” of the highway. The resolution also petitions the gov ernors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, Florida and‘*o£orgia to accelerate planning and construction and calls on the Secretary of Transportation to authorize the route and provide special funds through the C oastal Plains Regional Commission. Several public figures from Maryland through Georgia presented testimony in Coa timed oa Page 4 Proposed East Coast Freeway Seminar On Drugs The College of the Albemarle is spon soring a public seminar on the subject of drug abuse on Tuesday at 8 P. M., at the Municipal Building. Roy Epps of the SBI and vice-chair man of the N. C. Legislative Study Com mission on the Use of Illegal and Harm ful Drugs will be the speaker and answer questions. He will deal with the problem in North Carolina and more particularly as it applies to Eastern North Carolina. This is an additional opportunity for the people of Edenton to learn of this vital problem. The seminar is being promoted through the Continuing Edu cation Department of COA and the pub lic is strongly urged to attend. and Windham says they welcome the op portunity to become a part of this grow ing area. Zip 'Mart is a convenience store. It is oped from 7 A M., to 11 P. M., seven days a week. The firm builds its bust ness on quick sales. It’s a quick in aitd out store, carrying over 3 «XX> items;:!:;.; Mayo Boddie of Rocky Mount started the chain in 1967, realizing the need fojr; this type operation which stresses, friend liness, cleanliness and freshness.
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