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NEW PROGRAM LAUNCHED—Dr. Scott Lawrence, left, a
second year resident at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in
Winston-Salem, arrived in Edenton this week for a two month
practice. He is pictured here with Dr. Clement Lucas, Jr., of
Chowan Medical Center.
Resident
Arrives Here
The first in what will be a series
of resident physicians arrived
here this week. He is Dr. Scott
Lawrence who is on a two month
rotation from Bowman Gray
School of Medicine in Winston-
Salem.
Dr. Lawrence, a native of the
Columbia, S. C., area, is a second
year resident in the Department of
Family Practice. He is assigned
specifically to Chown Medical
Center where Dr. Clement Lucas,
Jr., will be his primary point of
contact.
However, he will work with all
the physicians in the medical
center. This will include office
examinations of patients and
admissions to the hospital as
necessary and care during the
hospitalization of these patients.
Thomas M. Surratt, president of
Chowan Hospital, says Dr.
Lawrence has been granted full
appropriate hospital privileges.
Dr. Lawrence is a physician
licensed by the State of North
Carollina and is fully qualified to
practice medicine.
Laboratory
Is Assigned
To Albemarle
Bob Hester of the En
vironmental Management Com
mission announced today that
a portable laboratory will be
assigned to the Albemarle Sound
to step up the investigations of the
Red Sore disease and related
water quality problems in the
Albemarle and it’s tributaries.
The laboratory will be operated by
personnel of the Division of En
vironmental Management and will
be under the direction of Page
Benton, chief of the Water Quality
Section.
The Chowan River and portions
of the sound have experienced
algae blooms and localized fish
kills over the past years as well as
having numbers of fish infected
with the Red Sore disease. Hester
met concerning these problems
with George Little, Secretary of
Natural & Economic Resources;
John Thomas, chairman, En
vironmental Management
Commission, and Everette
Knight, director of the Division of
Environmental Management
recently in Asheville.
“I was assured that the
laboratory will be in operation
within the next '.ix months”,
Hester said anr added, “we will
not guarantee exults but will
promise that ev -thing within the
power of the c . mission will be
used to solve this very complex
problem.”
The Environmental Man
agement Commission is respon
sible for the' air and water
quality of North Carolina and is
presently conducting in
vestigations throughout Nor
theastern North Carolina in such
areas as fresh water intrusion in
estaurine waters, coliform bac
teria poilatiae and groundwater
use studies.
Tt* commission recently fined
Farmer! Chemical of Tunis on the
Chowan River 115,000 for nitrogen
Heater, tram Fairfield in Hyde
County, is the fish and wildlife
appointee to the 13 member
Interesting Series
Today we publish the second in a
series of articles about some of the
more historic sites along the
Public Parade. The articles are
part of a campaign to raise funds
through “Friends of Historic
Edenton.”
Miss Elizabeth Vann Moore,
recognized to be the foremost
authority on local history, is doing
a splendid job of writing these
pieces. Last week she put some
people back in the Cupola House.
This week she brings Rev.
Clement Hall back to St. Paul’s.
When Mrs. Lucille Winslow,
funds campaign chairman, made
the series part of her program, she
sought out Miss Moore for the
duties. Her only request was that
the “human side” of the historic
structures be stressed.
The “Friends of Historic
Edenton” campaign is just getting
off the ground. You can show your
appreciation for the fine and in
teresting manner in which Miss
Moore is shouldering her share of
the responsibility in the drive by
sending your membership today.
Tarn R«TdgnrrrSrt' —
The first Monday in December
will find newly elected officials
in posts along the Public Parade.
Lester Copeland will become
county commissioner from Third
Township; Wilbur Ray Bunch will
become a member of Edenton-
Chowan Board of Education; and
Mrs. Anne K. Spruill will be
Chowan County Register of Deeds
and clerk to the county board of
commissioners.
Exiting will be David Bateman,
Calrton Goodwin and Mrs. Bertha
B. Bunch, in respective positions.
The services of Mr. Goodwin to
the board of education prompted a
Resolution of Appreciation at
Monday’s night’s meeting. It was
noted that in the past six years he
“has capably represented the
children of the Edenton-Chowan
Schools in all matters brought
before him, and he has devoted
many untiring hours of time to the
children through participation in
school board activities ...”
The “heartfelt appreciation” of
the board was extended a
departing colleague.
A second Resolution of Ap
preciation from the school board
is aimed at the Edenton-Chowan
Band Parents Association. It
follows:
WHEREAS, it appears to the
satisfaction of the Edenton-
Chowan Board of Education that
the Edenton-Chowan Band
program exemplifies the high
standards of achievement desired
by the citizens of Chowan County,
and
WHEREAS, the Band Parents
Association initiated an annual
fund raising event known as the
Peanut Festival to raise needed
funds for band equipment and
uniforms, and.
WHEREAS, many hours of
planning, organizing, and hard
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366 Shots Given
Mrs. Lola Bass, nursing
supervisor at Chowan County
Health Department, reports that
3M Swine flu shots were given in
the county last week.
The Health Department will he
giving the Bivalent Swine Fla
shots Friday from 1 P. M. to 4:30
P. M.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Volume XLlt—No. 45~~
Demot ats Monopolize Vote
Chowan County voters Tuesday &%big majorities to candidates who
won election on the local, distrii % and national levels. It was a
clean sweep for the Democrats wi *JT.ies Hunt, Jr., leading the pack
here.
Hunt’s majority for governor here was 2,529 to 450 for Republican
David Flaherty.
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter carried the county, as he did the
nation, with a vote of 1,862 against 1,019 received by President Ford.
First Dist. Congressman Walter B. Jones of Farmville, always a
popular vote getting in Chowan, polled 2,379 votes to 470 for Dr. Joseph
M. Ward.
Mrs. Byron P. Kehayes, chairman, Chowan County Board of Elec
tions, said 3,214 votes were cast out of a registration of 5,389. This is 59.6
Public Meeting On Survey Set
The Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education plans to present facts
gathered for a 1975-76 com
prehensive survey of the school
system at a public meeting on
Tuesday. This meeting will be held
at 7:30 P.M. in the John A. Holmes
High School Auditorium.
Because the information to be
presented will possibly touch
every taxpaying citizen, the public
is encouraged to attend.
The survey, conducted by the
Aces Lose Bid
For Play-Offs
With the Williamston Tigers
having defeated Plymouth 16-0,
the Edenton Aces are now out of
the bidding for a berth in the play
offs. However, the outcome of this
Friday night’s contest between
Edenton and Ahoskie will
determine who will represent the
Northeastern 3-A Conference.
If the Aces clinch the victory,
Williamston will go to the play
offs, but an Ahoskie victory will
knock Williamston out of the
running.
The Aces final game of the
season will be played at Hicks
Field beginning at 8 P.M.
—Last Friday .night, Edenton ran
roughshod over the Camden
Bruins, defeating them 48-0.
Fullback John Norris led the
Aces in scoring and rushing. He
amassed 102 yards in 13 carried,
scored three times, and kicked
three extra points.
Charles Watford provided the
first touchdown of the evening on a
66-yard punt return. Then Norris
scored on a three yard run.
Defensive end Kenny Riddick
provided the Aces third TD of the
first period when he intercepted a
pass and returned it ten-yards.
Quarterback Ray Tew hit
halfback Richard Jackson with a
13-yard aerial for a second quarter
tally, and Norris capitalized on a
15-yard carry to give Edenton five
scores in the first half.
Again Norris scored on a seven
yard third quarter tally.
Halfback Buddy Cofield wound
up the Aces romp with a one-yard
plunge to score.
Watford, Allen Bunch, and John
Felton each intercepted on
Camden, and defensive linemen
Tony Pierce, Mike Brown, and
Chuck Small led an Edenton
defense that limited Camden to 75
yards rushing.
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PEANUT FESTIVAL IN PICTURES—The success of the
Edenton-Chowan Peanut Festival can best be described in pictures
which appear here and elsewhere in this week’s newspaper. At top
left, Charlie McCullers of Garner directs the John A. Holmes High
School Band in a surprise move during a concert on the Courthouse
Green Saturday morning. At right is Mrs. L. M. Robeson of
Virginia Beach, Va., the Peanut Festival Queen in 1941 with Mrs.
Richard N. Hines, Jr., this year’s queen and her husband, who
substituted for James E. Wood. Center left shows some interested
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, November 4, 1976
N. C. Department of Public In
struction, Division of Planning,
was presented to board members
during a special meeting last
month. Dr. J. L. Pierce, director
of the division, will make the
presentation.
The 135-page report deals with
“underutilization” of the public
schools due to a declining student
population and details 11 options
for reorganization of the system.
Two of the options are con
sidered to be most feasible for the
Edenton-Chowan Schools.
Under one of the options, a new
middle school would be con
structed to serve seventh and
eighth grade students in the
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per cent of the registered voters.
A breakdown shows the following: East Edenton, 803; West Edenton,
1,033; Rocky Hock, 363; Center Hill, 252; Wardville, 278; Yeopim, 377;
and absentees, 108.
State Labor Commissioner Avery Nye, Jr., was the most popular GOP
vote getter. He polled 512 votes but was still far behind Democrat John
Brooks’ 2,133.
Local candidates ran without opposition. Mrs. Anne Spruill polled 2,395
votes for register of deeds; Marvin Barham received 2,313 votes for
coroner; and Alton G. Elmore got 2,370 for county commissioner while
Copeland polled 2,313 votes for the other board seat voted on.
Joe Webb, Jr., received 562 votes in the non-partisan election for Soil
Conservation District Supervisor.
county. Use of Swain School would
be discontinued.
Students in grades 9-12 would
attend J. A. Holmes. Elementary
students would be housed in two
facilities, D. F. Walker for the
southern portion of the county and
White Oak for the northern part of
the county.
The survey states that due to a
better site, larger cafeteria and
access to a gymnasium, the board
may decide to use Chowan instead
of White Oak for those elementary
students.
The survey recommends an
“interim” step toward
organization due to the fact that
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spectators at the parade. Carlton Goodwin and Jack Parker apply
a generous coat of greese to a pig in the photo at right while at
bottom left anxious participants scramble for the finish line and {he
prize. Being president of die Band Parents Association and horse
show chairman doesn’t mean you can delegate all the work as Bob
Harrell testifies to above as he prepares the ring for a barren race.
Harrell, Robert Dail and Otis Strother work at the public
address system with moral support from ft&icipai Bruce
McGraw, background. (Staff Photos by Amburn.)
Boards Reach
Agreement
The Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education and the county com
missioners have reached a mutual
understanding of the problems
both boards face in executing a
1973 agreement concerning use of
tennis courts at Chowan High
School.
The accord was reached during
a recent meeting between com
mittees of the boards. Although no
solution has as yet been found, the
commissioners plan to have their
attorney discuss the matter with
the Office of Civil Rights and the
U. S. Office of Education to see if a
middle ground can be reached.
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