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Volume XLn.—No. 53.
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Everyone Has A Stake
The importance of tobacco to
every segment of North Carolina’s
economy cannot be overem
phasized. For example:
—ln 1975 North Carolina’s cash
receipts from tobacco were almost
$952,000,000, or around 56 per cent
of the state’s cash crop income
from all farm commodities.
—5473.9-million worth of tobacco
was exported from the state in
fiscal year 1976.
—Over 29,000 persons are em
ployed in the manufacture of
cigarettes and tobacco products.
—Retail sales of. tobacco
products amount to over
$459,100,000 each year.
And yet, in spite of tobacco’s
vital role in North Carolina, and
importance to every citizen,
consumers of tobacco products
paid over SIOO million in federal
cigarette excise taxes in fiscal
year 1976. In addition, they also
paid over $25-million in state
cigarette taxes and over $lB
- in state general sales taxes
on tobacco products.
That the cigarette tax is
discriminatory, there can be no
doubt. It is a tax only against those
who use tobacco products and
whose tax burden bears a
disproportionate share of
goveranrast revenues and ex**
penditures.
It is clearly time to hold the line
on excessive taxes levied against
an industry already besieged by
threats from every side. It is
important to remember that you
don't have to grow tobacco or
manufacture or sell tobacco
products to be affected by in
creases in cigarette taxes. Either
directly or indirectly, everyone in
North Carolina has a stake in
tobacco.
~We must make sure that the
leading commodity of this state
remains strong and healthy.
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Gov. James B. Hunt Mrs. James B. Hunt
Jim Hunt Administration
To Emphasize People
“I want the success of my ad
ministration to be measured in the
neighborhoods and communities
where people live,” Jim Hunt
says. “If my administration can
get the people of North Carolina
involved in making their neigh
borhoods, their communities and
their state better, then it has
succeeded.”
“Involvement” is a key word for
the new governor. “I got involved
because I care about people and I
want to help people build a better
‘“"future and have gn opportunity to--
burgeon out all the best that is
within them.”
And he sees politics and
government as the means for
mobilizing that kind of citizen
involvement. “I want to be more
than the executive head of
government. I want to be the
leader of all the people, setting an
example and involving them in
dividually and collectively in
solving their own problems.”
The new governor has been a
leader all his life. Re was state
Grange youth president and state
Future Farmers of America
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 30, 1976.-
president as a teenager, student
body president for two years at
North Carolina State and
president of the State Young
Democratic Club.
He was elected the state’s first
full-time lieutenant governor in
1972 and, in four years, presided
over four sessions of the General
Assembly. He was the highest
ranking Democrat to overcome a
Republican tide that year; for the
first time in this century,
Republicans won the race for
Governor v and United. States
senator.
As lieutenant governor, he
established a record of
progressive, people-oriented
leadership. He was responsible for
enactment of campaign finance
reforms that reduced the influence
of special interest in elections and
for the passage of an ethics code
requiring legislators to disclose
their economic interests. He
followed suit by disclosing his own
income tax returns and full details
of his economic interests.
He also actively supported
utilities reform, the establishment
of a reading program for the
schools, land-use legislation, the
Equal Rights Amendment, the
Energy Policy Act and a state
kindergarten program.
The new governor traces his
interest in government to the time
when, under Governor Kerr Scott,
the state paved the muddy road in
front of his family’s farm in
Wilson County. “It showed me, at
a very young age, that govern
ment can respond to the people,”
he said.
His parents also are responsible
for his commitment to service to
people. His father was a district
conservationist with the Soil
Conservation Service for 42 years.
“I can remember my father
planting cover crops for wildlife,
or planting seedlings for
reforesting,” he told an in
terviewer once. “That started me
thinking early about the forests
and the trees, the coast and the
mountains, and all the natural
resources that belong to all of us.”
The new governor’s mother was
an English teacher. “My mother’s
love for education is basic to me,”
he said in the same interview. “I
have a deep belief and a
tremendous respect for what
people can do if given the op*
portunity to develop their in
tellect. And I’ve got a strong beliel
that everyone is entitled to a good
education, to burgeon out the best
that’s within them. That’s an
article of faith with me.”
Jim Hunt was born in Green
sboro May It,’ 1837. He grew up in
the small Wilson County com
munity of Rock Ridge on his
family’s dairy and tobacco farm.
He attended Rock Ridge public
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Green Seasoned Politician
James Collips Green was bom in
Halifax County, Virginia on
February 24,1921, the son of John
Collins and Frances Sue (Oliver)
Green. He graduated from Volens
High School, Nathalie, Virginia
and attended Washington and Lee
University in Lexington, Virginia.
He moved to North Carolina as a
young man and has made his
home in Clarkton, North Carolina
since that time. He is a
businessman and tobacco
warehouseman, operating
warehouses in North Carolina,
Virginia and Tennessee.
Jimmy Green was elected to the
North Carolina House of
Representatives in 1961 and
served in that body in the 1961,
1963, 1965, 1969, 1971 and 1973
sessions. In 1975 he was elected
Speaker of the House by his
colleagues. He served as State
Senator from the Fifteenth
Senatorial District in 1967.
Lieutenant Governor Green was
a member of the Bladen County
Board of Educaton from 1955-1961;
member of the Bladen County
Democratic Executive Com
mittee; Precinct Chairman or
Vice Chairman for ten years;
Trustee of Southeastern Com
munity College in Columbus
County and Chairman of the
Building Committee; member
LI. Gov. Jimmy Green
Inaugural Parade Scheduled
“A New Beginning for North
Carolina” is the theme of a 130-
unit, two-hour Inaugural Parade
slated to begin on North
Wilmington Street in Raleigh at 1
P. M., January 8.
Bands from over forty high
schools, seven colleges and three
organizations will provide plenty
of music for the parade. The
theme will be carried out through
the messages of floats repre
senting over forty counties while
military marching units and other
participating units will add to the
color and excitement of the event.
The parade route will follow
Wilmington Street from Jones
Street to Martin Street and on
Salisbury Street between the same
blocks. The parade will be
reviewed by Governor Hunt and
the inaugural party on Wilmington
Street at the State Capitol.
Governor-elect Hunt has invited
residents of Chowan County to
attend the day’s events on
January 8. “We want this
inaugural to be for all the people of
North Carolina and I look forward
to seeing the people from
throughout the state at the
inatgufal,” Hunt said.
District Court
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An unusually short session of
Chowan County District Court was
conducted by Judge Grafton
Beaman of Elizabeth City,
Tuesday.
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Davidson College Board of
Visitors; Commission on Indian
Affairs; state Board of Tran
sportation; North Carolina Land
Policy Council; former member of
the Board of Trustees of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
He served as a corporal in the
United States Marine Corps from
1944-1946. He participated in the
invasion of Iwo Jima as a machine
gunner with the Third Marine
Division.
Mr. Green is an active member
and Deacon in the Clarkton
Presbyterian Church and past
Superintendent of the Sunday
School. He is a member of French
Lodge No. 270 A. F. and A. M.;
Thirty-second Degree Scottish
Rite Mason ; Clarkton Woodmen of
the World Camp; past president
Clarkton Rotary Club; Director
Clarkton Community Developmnt
Corporation and Clarkton Mer
chants Association.
On October 7, 1943 Mr. Green
married Alice McAulay Clark.
They have three children:
Frances, who teaches in the Wake
County School System; Susan
Clark, who is employed in the
Department of Human Resources;
and James, Jr., who is a college
student.
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Mrs. Jimmy Green
“The inaugural ceremony at
noon, the parade and the public
reception at the Executive
Mansion following the parade are
all free and open to the public. No
ticket or invitation is needed to
attend any of these events.
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NEW LICENSE PLATES—Mrs. Jeanette Dowd, left, and Mrs.
Minnie Nixon display a 1977 license plate and validation sticker
which will go on sale January 3. They may be purchased at the
bus station on North Broad Street. Citizens are reminded to in
clude insurance company, policy number, and signature on the
back of registration cards, before purchasing tags or validation
stickers. (Story On Page 4.)
Single Copies 15 Cents
801 l Weevil
Program Success
(Editor’s note: The following
article appeared in the Wednesday
edition of the Virginian-Pilot and
is reprinted here in its entirety.)
By Frank Roberts
Cotton acreage in Chowan
County is expected almost to
double in 1977, thanks to a suc
cessful experimental program
that has drastically reduced the
population of the boll weevil.
Chowan is the only area in the
country that participated in the
program conducted by the U. S
and North Carolina Agriculture
departments, and the chemical
used in the tests cost the par
ticipating farmers nothing.
“Profits were something,” said
Clarence Leary Jr., a farmer
warehouseman. “One farmer I
know made about $555 per acre
and the cost of production per acre
was less than $200.”
Just as exciting to farmers as
the profits that were made this
year was the news that the
chemical called Demline, was so
effective.
“It has done more than we
anticipated,” Leary said, ex
plaining that it has almost
eradicated the boll weevil by
stopping the eggs from hatching,
while not harming such bene
ficial insects as ladybugs, which
feed on bollworm eggs.
The bollworm is another
problem, one that Leary says is
“just as bad as the boll weevil. ’
Farmers paid for application of
another experimental chemical to
try to control the bo 11 worms,
according to Leary, who said that
their cost was $25 per acre
“We were trying to kill the egg
We used Galecron. It was very
good but was taken off the market
by the manufacturer because
cancer cells developed in some of
their laboratory mice. It was all
we had that controlled bollworm
eggs,” Leary said.
“I don’t know what we'll do next
year. We can handle the worm
when it’s mature by using another
chemical, but not one we want to
use because of its toxicity. Next
year, we hope to have something
as effective as Galecron against
the eggs, but less toxic than other
chemicals we already have that
are designed to destroy the
bollworm,” he said.
Next year’s cost for Demline
will be handled by the farmer, the
federal government and the state
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