James Vernon White, a native
Edentonian now living at dear
water, Florida, sent in his renewal
to The Herald and in a note he
asked a question: “Would it be any
cheaper for me if you left out the
advertisements in the paper, for
they are of no value to me down
here in Florida?” Well, Friend
Tom (as I know him) is now
retired and, he says, he reads
every word in The Herald. Well,
maybe because he doesn’t like to
read the advertisements is the fact
that he had to put them together
when he worked on the old
Edenton Daily News way back in
the 1920’5. And besides if there
were no advertisements in The
Herald Friend Tom would not be
receiving the paper.
—O—
Miss Beulah Perry recently
visited Mr. and Mrs. Pearly
Baumgardner who now live at
Waterford, Va. Pearly will be
remembered by many Edenton
friends for many years ago he was
a school teacher here and served
as captain of the local National
Guard unit. Anyway, Friend
Pearly told Miss Perry that he
also reads every word in The
Herald and especially this column.
Then, too, he asked Miss Perry to
tell yours truly that when I get to
be 110 years old he will write me a
letter. Well, if he knew the ordeal
I’m going through in having a new
house built and the job of moving
from a site after living there for 50
years, he might as well chop off
quite a few years from the 110
mark. And now being retired I’m
told that about all Pearly does is
take care of a large yard and play
golf something which was not
available in Edenton when he
lived here.
—O—
And while on the subject of age
reminds me of a question read the
other day: “Why is it that those
who look young want to look old,
while those who look old want to
look young?”
—O—
Members of the local Eastern
Star Chapter held a picnic Wed
nesday afternoon up at Arrowhead
Beach in honor of Bob Morris,
founder of the organization.
Here’s one who was unable to
attend but I’ll bet a stumped down
good stogie that just about
everything good to eat was spread
out on the tables. And it’s also a
good guess that some of ’em ad
mitted that they ate too much.
—O—
And speaking of eating, J.D.
Elliott, master of Unanimity
Lodge No. 7, A.F. & A.M., says
that a chicken supper will be
served at the Masonic Temple
tonight (Thursday). The meal will
be served at 7 o’clock prior to the
lodge meeting at 8 o’clock. A
feature of the meeting will be the
•presentation of an award to D.M.
Reaves for 60 years continuous
membership as a Mason. Then,
too, a 50-year award is scheduled
to be presented to Johnny Curran
and I.J. Moran. A special
dispensation has been granted to
hold the lodge meeting on the first
floor so that the “has beens” will
not have "to climb the stairs. Then,
too, Leslie Gardner, past Grand
Master of Masons in North
Carolina, is scheduled to be on
hand to present the awards, so
that Mr. Elliott hopes there will be
a large turnout for the chicken
supper and the lodge meeting.
. With time rapidly approaching
to move from my home on East
Church Street, archaeologists are
now digging all around the place
Thursday, August 25, 1977
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ties with this newspaper.
If there is a single person more
responsible for Monday’s “hap
pening” in Pitt County than ECU
President Leo Jenkins it is Rep.
J.P. Huskins, D-Iredell. Over the
past decade he has moved from a
member of the State Board of
Higher Education into the sacred
halls of the Legislative Building.
This concern for development of
additional medical manpower has
been strengthened in the face of
much adversity.
It was a bit awkard at the
Williamston meeting of the
Medical Manpower Committee of
the General Assembly that we
represent the Albemarle Area
Development Association. But we
told it “like it is” as Friend Jay
would not only expect this but
demand it. Out of that, and other
hearings across Tar Heelia,
recommendations were presented
to the legislature which led to the
continued funding of the ECU
medical facility.
But why a legislator from the
western edge of the Piedmont as a
savfor for the east? Knowing the
legislator as we do we can assure
you it was a matter of principle.
The question of a Carolina
graduate bucking the tide, or
making waves in favor of ECU
surfaced continuously. In a large
measure it was because of his
steadfast support, with no ulterior
motives attached, that the funds
for ECU Med School remained in
the budget when the state faced
financial problems.
The actions of Rep. Huskins
were set in concrete facts and
need rather than manufactured
loyalty or emotions. For this
reason, he is the best qualified to
address the ECU Med School
opening, as he did in the following
article which appeared Friday in
his “Down In Iredell” column of
the Statesville Record & Land
mark:
STORY THAT COULDN’T BE
“ECU Med School Opens”
headlines the Greensboro Daily
News.
That, of course, was the
headline that could never be
written. For 10 years or more, the
Greensboro Daily News, along
with other major newspapers in
the state, opposed the establish
ment of a medical school at East
Carolina University.
They opposed it with all their
resources, not the least of which
was the exaggeration of costs. It
became almost a habit with the
Charlotte Observer to refer to it as
a S2OO million project. On oc
casion, the figure rose to $250 and
even S3OO million.
Besides that, they contended,
another medical school was not
needed.
As a legislator and former
member of the State Board of
Higher Education, we were
destined to play a major role in the
ECU med school controversy.
While on the Board of Higher
Education, we served as chairman
of a committee which recom
mended against establishing a
full, four-year medical school at
East Carolina. We proposed, in
stead, that the first and fourth
year be offered at ECU, with the
second and third year being
provided by the medical school at
Chapel Hill an arrangement
being followed in Indiana. ,
- The legislature approved that
idea and authorized East Carolina
to accept first year students, with
the understanding that they could
transfer to Chapel Hill for their
second and third year, then return
to ECU for their fourth year and
residency in hospitals having
AHECs.
After a while it became ap
parent that the Chapel Hill school
was determined not to co-operate
in the program, raising one
stumbling block after another and,
we always felt, influencing the
decisions of accreditation
authorities.
The Chapel Hill group wanted,
instead, to expand its Area Health
Education Centers from three to
eight mid farm out its med school
graduates across the state for
and even trader the bouse in
I’m hoping to move out soon for
fear, maybe, the whole rail will
cave in.
The chairman of the Coastal
Resources Commission believes
tiie major tasks of implementation
of the Coastal Area Management
Act are basically done and not
being one for “routine” he is
quitting. This is a shame.
Without tiie steadfast labors of
David Stick the clout of CAMA
would only be faint. Setting up the .
mechanics of the act have not been
popular. In fact CAMA has been
one of the more controversial
measures to crane out of the
legislative mill since the Speaker
Ban Law.
The likes of David Stick though,
once given the responsibility for
development of a land
management plan for 20 coastal
Tar Heel counties, accepted the
challenge and have produced
something workable.
A stickler for detail, Mr. Stick
was not the most popular member
or chairman of a commission. In
the early stages he was so vocal
that a man of less patience than
the late Tom Eure of Morehead
City would have exploded.
However, Mr. Eure and the
other commission members
recognized the sincerity of their
colleague and appreciated his
efforts. As a writer, Mr. Stick is a
near genius. As a speaker he often
times finds his spoken words
coming out different from what he
intended.
As a member of the Coastal
Resources Advisory Council,
representing Chowan County, we
have become a student of
Professor Stick in his CAMA
course. We have found need from
time to time to question his
judgment, but never his motives.
We, therefore, disagree with Mr.
Stick’s assumption that the major
tasks of CAMA are basically done.
We believe as implementation and
enforcement continues there will
be nothing “routine” about the
commission’s work. There will
still be a need to promote un
derstanding and leadership at the
their residency training in AHEC
hospitals.
While this was going on, we
headed a medical manpower
"Study commission, authorized by
the General Assembly, which went
from place to place over North
Carolina, holding hearings on the
need for more doctors.
Convinced that there was a
serious shortage of doctors in
many areas, this commission
recommended that a second year
of medical training be added at
East Carolina, with its students
being permitted to transfer to
Chapel Hill, and that the ex
pansion of the AHEC program be
funded.
To that end, the next session of
the General Assembly ap
propriated sls million to provide
necessary facilities at ECU and
S2B million to fund the AHEC
expansion.
While accepting the S2B million
in AHEC money, the Chapel Hill
group stiffened its opposition to
the two-year school at East
Carolina. But, in the face of
determined legislation support,
the university board of governors
finally recommended that, instead
of a two-year program, the state
establish a full four-year program
at ECU.
But, instead of the S2OO million
that had so freely been kicked
around by opponents, the board of
governors recommended that S3B
million be appropriated to provide
facilities for the ECU med school.
This, of course, resulted in a
delay of a year or two in im
plementing the medical education
program at East Carolina. But the
legislature went along and put up
the S3B million, a bargain for tiie
state inasmuch as Pitt County had
just completed a new General
Hospital which, with slight
modifications, will serve as the
school’s teaching hospital.
Now the school baa been ac- ?
credited, its first class at 28
students admitted, and an Mon
day, August 22, the admri that
couldn’t be will be officially
opened. All the students are North
Carolinians, drawn primarily
from rural areas. Eventually the
class size will be increased to M, to
75 or. 100 as the need justifies.
We suspect that the van** of
toterywfflwppnrt tbeaction of
portunities for more ymstg North
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Work Remains
grass roots.
As a former elected local
government official, Mr. Stick
steadfastly maintained that
CAMA must be developed from
the ground up and not from a
central staff down. He wanted,
and was successful in getting,
control of CAMA for local
governments. Maintaining this
will be something less than
routine.
CRC is composed of 14 other
sincere, dedicated, hard-working
members. Nevertheless, it will be
a difficult task for any of them to
pick up the gavel left by Mr. Eure
and Mr. Stick.
And as Author Stick returns to
his first love, serious writing about
the Outer Banks, all who have
known and respected him in the
public sector will wait with baited
breath his treatment of CAMA in
his manuscripts.
David Stick Now Author
David Stick of Kitty Hawk plans
to put down the gavel and pick up
the pen next month. He has
resigned as chairman of the
Coastal Resources Commission
and is already at work on a book
he has been planning for two
decades.
Stick, an initial appointee to the
commission as vice chairman,
was named chairman last year by
Gov. Jim Hunt. And it was to the
governor that he gave notice in a
letter of August 12 of his plans to
resign.
• Gov. Hunt will seek nominations
from all local governments in the
20 coastal counties included in the
Coastal Area Management Act.
The nominee must be a land
developer to fill the occupational
category in the commission’s
make up.
Dr. Parker Chesson of Elizabeth
City is vice chairman but Gov.
Hunt can designate the chairman
from among the 15 members on
the commission.
Stick said in a telephone in
terview that with the adoption of
Areas of Environmental Concerns
he felt the major tasks of the
commission are basically done.
“And I’m not just one for routine,”
he stated.
Dr. Homthal
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announcement to make prior to
the official filing date.
Mayor Roy L. Harrell, an em
ployee of the N.C. Employment
Security Commission here, has
made no statement about his
future political [dans. He has,
however, pushed a referendum on
“ward voting” for councilmen,
and whether or not this will affect
his campaign for possible re
election is not known. The
proposal has solid opposition from
the council.
At the same time, Councilman
Homthal has been the most vocal
among councilmen in opposition to
the return to ward voting. He has
raised the question of compliance
with the voting and civil Tights of
citizens as well as ward boun
daries. *
Councilman Homthal, who said
he had found solid opposition to the
“retrogressive” action of Mayor
Harrell regarding the referen
dum, would not comment on the
merits of the issue. “If I become a
candidate for the office of mayor
of Edenton you can rest assured
that it will be an issue-oriented
campaign and not one based on
personalities,” be said.
When asked about his reason for
considering seeking the office, he
stated: “I have grave concerns
about the recent trend toward)
apathy about our local govern
ment We need to work together
and move toward with some pew
and innovative ideas.”
Since moving to Edenton some
10 years ago to begin the practice
of dentistry, he has been active in
various activities within the
comraunify. He has promoted
youth activities and the
Development of the Edenton-
Also.be has been an advocate of
participation in
broadenhvofthetaxbasethro'Mh
sAajLU.ir development
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Schools Get Federal Grant
Edenton-Chowan Schools have
received a grant of $205,304 under
Part A of Title I, Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, ac
cording to State School Superin
tendent Craig Phillips. Ibis grant
will support special education
programs during the school year
1977-78.
“Title I funds in the Edenton-
Chowan Schools will be con
centrated in the area at reading
improvement to students, in
grades 2-12,” according to Cedi
Fry, Title I director and associate
superintendent. '"Title I reading
labs have been expanded to in
dude grades 9-12 at Chowan Ifigh
School and John A. Holmes High
School and the 7th and Bth grades
at D.F. Walker School, bringing
the total number of such labs to
eight,” Fry added.
The Outer Banks author and
developer already has in print
“The Outer Banks of North
Carolina” and “Graveyard of the
Atlantic” as well as other books.
The first book on his new agenda is
about the Atlantic shore.
>
Implementation of CAMA has
been highly controversial and next
week a court hearing begins in
Beaufort on challenge to the act
from dtizens in Carteret and
Onslow counties.
“Gov. Hunt and I regret Mr.
Stick’s decision,” said Howard N.
Lee, Secretary on Natural
Resources and Community
Development. “He has worked
hundreds of hours at great
sacrifice to make this important
program a reality. He has truly
served his state—and especially
the coastal citizens —admirably.”
Serious Crimes Show Increase
Serious crimes increased 4.14
per cent in North Carolina in 1976
over the previous year. However,
sit' Os “the" seven serious crime
' categories reflett’ decreases."" 1 "
Chowan was one of two counties
in the state to have no murder or
rape during the period.
The serious crime categories of
murder, rape, robbery and
aggravated assault decreased as a
group by over 7 per cent.
This information is contained in
“'Crime in North Carolina’’,
published by the Police In
formation Network and released
Tuesday by Atty. Gen. Rufus
Edmisten.
Att. Gen. Edmisten stated, “It is
especially heartening to see that
the violent crimes of murder, rape
and armed robbery have
decreased significantly. Os
course, this would not have been
the case were it not for the ex
cellent services of all North
Carolina law enforcement
agencies. Law enforcement men
and women, especially those
serving at the locql level, are
doing an outstanding job in con
taining the most violent and
serious criminal activities.’’
Gilliam Wood
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the assistant principal of West
Caldwell High School.
Samuel L. Phillips of Spruce
* Pine is president of Great
Meadows, Inc., a real estate
company.
James P. Powers of Lumberton
is vice president and city
executive of the Southern National
Bank of N.C.
Mrs. Melba G. Smith of
Belhaven is president of the J.D.
» Dawson, Co., Inc.
Mrs. Lois Winstead of Roxboro
is a housewife active in civic and
community affairs.
Wood is a farmer and the
manager of Hayes Farm. He is
chairman of die local board of
Peoples Bank, a former State
Highway Commissioner, and
Development in the development
There will be a certified teacher
and an aide in each. All together,
there will be two labs at ChoWam.
Danny Long, Doris Litchfieiarji
Gloria Powell and Dorothy Cooke
will be the teachers and aides
there. Maryann Bunch and
Mildred Bom! will administer to
lab students at White Oak, as will
Gloria Bryant and Gladys Baxley
at John A. Holmes.
Instructing and aiding at Ernest
A. Swain School will be Laura
Bond, Lillian Roberts, ‘ Janie
Harrell and Doris Slade. Montrose
Hinton and Cornelia Sharpe will be
the teachers in the D.F. Walker
labs, with Dawn Whitt and Clara
Simons as their aides.
Mrs. Mary Horton will serve as
reading lab supervisor.
Title I funds, which have been
available to the Edenton-Chowan
unit since 1966, also include the
service of Mrs. Gerry Fry, home
school coordinator and office
personnel. %
According to Robert Marley,
director of the Division of Com
pensatory Education to the state
education agency, “Title I
provides funds to local educational
agencies for use in helping to
break the cycle of poverty through
equalization of educational op
portunity. These funds must be
used to expand and improve
educational programs con
tributing to the special needs of
educationally deprived children.”
Almost all the school ad
ministrative units have used Title
I funds to support special reading
programs. A few have special
programs in mathematics.
For fiscal 1978 North Carolina
has been granted a total of
$59,094,099 in Title I Part A
This is up, statewide, from $e
total of $51,885,667 received during
the 1976-77 school year.
The 1976 Annual Uniform Crime
Report shows that the total
volume of serious crime reported
•; v in 1976 was 1 206,603 V This figure
’ computes to one serious crime
being committed every two
minutes and thirty-two seconds.
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pledged their cooperation to see
that an effective and efficient v
program is provided within thcjj
region but neither would comment
on how it would be pulled off.
Allred told reporters afterwards
this was the best of the options
faced by ARPDC and would cast
ESC and EIC in “a very strong
role.”
Mrs. Bond, in her presentation,
said Floyd Spellman of the
ARPDC staff prepared the man
power plan based on statis
tics supplied by ESC. She
argued that her agency’s pro
posal provided lower admini
strative costs and better
spreading of manpower funds
($401,049).
“ESC promised to deliver more
at less cost and this is what the
bids are all about,” he charged.
After her remarks, R.S. Monds,
Jr., ARPDC chairman, admitted *
that the commission board hadn’t
exercised responsibilities with
regards to prior operation of the
program. “Spellman ... has been
the regional manpower program ..
we haven’t even kpown what was
going .on, ” he said
Morris said if EIC operated the
program it would be directed from
a central office rather than
several offices as proposed by
ESC. He said his agency’s prim:
experience in operating the
manpower program would make it
more effective and pointed out
close contact would be maintained
with ESC.
Another strong point made by
Morris was that EIC already had a
“outreach mechanism in place.”
Allred said Region “R” is a
unique part of the state wiiS
regards to advantages in#
&nd for this rcssoo
eciea roin uie 1/
wnffcjno tocrrher it will dpoviqa b
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