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Here’s hoping that the
weatherman will be good to us
today (Thursday) for Edenton’s
Christmas parade is scheduled to
take place about 3 o’clock this
afternoon. Again the parade will
be sponsored by the Edenton
Jaycees and if energy and
initiative means anything, the
parade should be a very successful
one. Os course, the Merchants
Committee of the Chamber of
Commerce is again cooperating
with the Jaycees so that if nothing
interferes we should have a good
time ushering in the Christmas
season.
Among the most popular places
in this neck of the woods Saturday
night was at Gabby’s Restaurant
over toward Hertford. Gabby just
completed a very nice addition to
his restaurant and it was filled to
capacity with his friends to help
celebrate the opening of the new
addition. Various groups of
musicians and singers were on
hand to provide entertainment so
that just about any kind of music
was presented. Then, too, ap
parently just about all present
must have liked country ham, for
before everybody was served the
waitress said, “I’m sorry but the
ham is all gone.” Which meant
that some had to settle for a roast
beef meal.
This Saturday being the first
Saturday in the month, the
Methodist Men’s Club will sponsor
another of their pickled herring
breakfasts. The meal will be
served from 7 to 9 o’clock at the
church and the “boys” are hopeful
that another large crowd will turn
out for a good breakfast with a
goodly portion of fellowship as
dessert.
Edenton reminded a fellow on
Wednesday morning of “Merry
England” with its share of thick
fog. In fact the fog was so dense
about time to go to work that
here’s one who thought it was
almost necessary to use a com
pass in order to “get to town.”
Which brings to mind some in
formation by the late Paul Olson.
Paul one time told me that if lost in
a woods just look at a tree and the
side with a coating of moss was
north. That might be of some help
in Sweden, Paul’s native land, but
my trouble was that I could not
find a tree with moss on it and it
would not helped anyway, for I
didn’t know in which direction to
go in order to get out. So Paul’s
information, like a lot of voluntary
information and advice, didn’t do
a bit of good.
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a plan woulr* » consistent with
state-wide lasis on uniform
rati'"' ation, including
ipetency testing
an .if
< es ey, director of
i>tt ruction med the idea a
“two-prongs concept with a
vocational component and
academic component including
advanced courses requiring
specialized equipment. He in
cluded the possibilities of a bio
medical program with related
social studies, science and English
courses; a marine science
program; advanced courses in the
arts; advanced placement in other
Academics such as English, math
and science.
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The Chowan Herald
Box 107, EDENTON, N. C. 27932
• Published every Thursday at Eden tor by
the Chowan Herald. Inc., L. F. Amburn,
Jr., president and ganeral manager, 421-425
south Broad Stroot, Edcnton, North.
Carolina 27932.
: Entered as second-class matter August
|B, 1934, at the Poet Office at Edenton,
North Carolina, under act of March 3,1170.
L F. Ambum, Jr., Prosidont-Gon. Mgr.
1. Edwin Bufflap Editor
E. N Manning Production Supt.
(übscrtpMon Ratos
Ana Year (outside N. C.) 99.00
One Year (In N.C.) 90.32
«|x Months (outside N.C) *5.50
llx Month* (in N.CJ 90.00
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of the Chowan in Virginia. There is
much reason to suspect that if new
pipelines are built the pressure
will mount for withdrawals of
much more than the currently
sought 70 million gallons per day.
These pressures will be almost
impossible to resist once the lines
are laid. They must be fought with
every weapon that comes to hand.
As several speakers pointed out
in Roanoke Rapids, North
Carolina voters have twice in
recent years voted to issue clean
water bonds to solve our state’s
water problems. It is only
reasonable to demand that
Virginia do something similar to
solve its own water problems
rather than attempt to drain away
the downstream resources from
Northeastern North Carolina. If
southside Hampton Roads has
outgrown its resources, its growth
should be limited rather than
stealing from its neighbors to the
south and inhibiting their own
future growth potential.
However, it has not yet been
demonstrated that Hampton
Roads has outgrown the potential
of its own water resources. The
Amelia County alternative is
within the James River basin
which feeds into Hampton Roads.
Tidewater Virginia’s proper fight
is with the Richmond-Petersburg
area not with Northeastern North
Carolina. Only a desire to save the
upstream James River water for
further Richmond growth
prevents this lone in-state solution
from being adopted by Virginia
authorities.
Rather than talking about
getting more Roanoke or Chowan
water, the whole discussion needs
to turn instead toward shutting off
the 48 million gallons per day that
the Chowan is already losing to
Tidewater.
We applaud and support the
strong statement Gov. Hunt has
issued in defense of our rivers. He
was seconded at the hearing by
Congressmen Walter Jones and
L.J. Fountain. If North Carolina
opposition stays united and tough
as presented at Monday’s hearing,
ultimately Virginia, the Corps of
Engineers and Congress will
decide the Amelia county alter
native or one of the rejected
James River solutions is the only
way to legally and morally supply
the downstream James River
water needs.
Good Company
A recent poll by the UNC School
of Journalism indicated that the
groups of people more inclined to
support the re-election of Sen.
Jesse Helms are: whites, males,
persons between 30 and 60 years
old, and those living in Coastal and
Piedmont areas.
There shouldn’t be argument
against being identified with them
next fall.
The center could also be the site
of the alternative school, a
program serving students with
special problems.
Mrs. Emily Amburn, a board
member, was first to point cut that
would set a precedent in that no
such program currently exists in
the country and that political
boundaries have never been
crossed.
Dr. Dunn agreed noting that
legalities would greatly effect the
proposal.
T. P. Griffin, another board
member, remembered his own
experiences some 15 years before
when all three counties formed the
Tri-County Farm Bureau.
Everything’s fine on the surface
but when you get down to
negotiating points, things could
get a little stormy. Everyone’s
looking out for his own bag of
tricks”, he commented.
Mrs. Lueta Sellers, a parent
present at the meeting, urged the
board to include parents in sub
sequent diSCUSSionS and planning
On the suggestion of Dr. Edward
G. Bond, Chairman Eugene
Jordan appointed Dr. Dunn and
Stalls to contact officials in Gates
and Perquimans counties for a
possible joint meeting.
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AEC Permits Are Discussed
Procedures to obtain permits for
development in Areas of En
vironmental Concern (AEC’s) was
the major agenda item at the
meeting of N.C. Coastal Resources
Commission in Jacksonville, on
November 29 and 30, at the
Holiday Inn.
The Coastal Resources Com
mission (CRC) is planning the
steps needed to apply for AEC
permits, methods for review and
evaluation of permit applications,
hearing requirements for ap
plications, processes of appeal,
administrative actions in cases of
violations, and the role of the
permit officer. Procedures to be
discussed are those for both major
and minor development permits.
Permits will be required for
most construction activity after
March, 1978, as established by the
1974 Coastal Area Management
Act. At that time, persons wishing
to undertake development in
designated areas of en
vironmental concern must obtain
a permit to do so from the Coastal
Resources Commission. Permit
officers will be making deter
minations of whether projects for
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SUPPORT PROGRAM NCSU Dean of Agriculture and Life
Sciences J.E. Legates, left, receives notice of the support peanut
farmers will give to research and extension projects from Joe
Sugg, executive officer of the N.C. Peanut Growers Assn. (NCSU
Photo by Ralph Mills).
Peanut Assoc. Provides Funds
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projects total $51,500, according to
a joint announcement by Dean
J.E. Legates of NCSU and Joe S.
Sugg, association executive
secretary.
Legates expressed appreciation
for the support by the grower
organization, calling it a
“demonstration of the self-help
spirit of North Carolina peanut
farmers.”
The university projects the
funds will support are aimed at
some of the top priority problems
in peanut production, such as the
spider mite. This tiny insect has
inflicted severe crop losses on
individual farms in recent years.
Growers have been unsuccessful
in controlling the pest with
miticides.
Agricultural Experiment
Station researchers have studies
underway which could result in
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Nichols.
Certificates of participation
woe presented to the Edenton
Aces jayvee squad by coach Mm
Dowd. Mrs. Shelton Broadnax
awarded certificates to the vanity
cheerleaders and Mary Ralnh
made a similar presentation to die
jayvee cheerleaders.
development occur in areas of
environmental concern.
The permit procedures to be
discussed by the Commission will
be made available for public in
spection for a period of 30 days
prior to holding a public hearing
on them. Comments from this
hearing will then be included in
the final permitting procedures
adopted by the Coastal Resources
Commission.
The Coastal Resources Com
mission reviewed the revised
Carteret County Land-Use Plan at
its meeting and considered
comments received from other
state and federal agencies on the
revised plan. A public hearing on
the Carteret County Plan will be
scheduled for the next commission
meeting in early January.
The commission also received a
copy of the public hearing draft of
the N.C. Coastal Plan for review.
This plan is being prepared for
approval for funds under the
Federal Coastal Zone
Management Act of 1972. Ten
tative plans are to hold a public
hearing on the Coastal Plan in
January.
new approaches to spider mite
control with reduced dependence
on pesticides. One possibility
involves the use of a trap crop that
would have the effect of preven
ting the mites from reaching the
peanuts.
A research project which could
have a major impact on (feanut
disease control, if it is successful,
is a search for resistance to
Cercospora leafspot —a fungus
disease affecting essentially all
peanuts in the state.
This study is an outgrowth of a
top priority NCSU peanut
research project, which is the
development of a commercial
variety with resistance to
Cylindrodadium Mack rot (CBR).
This disease is potentially the
most dangerous of all theme af
fecting North Carolina peanuts.
In the CBR-resistant breeding
work, new genetic materials have
been used which researchers
suspect may carry some level of
resistance to leafspot. With the
support of the N.C. Peanut
Growers Association, they will be
able to evaluate these breeding
materials for leafspot resistance.
Leafspot reduces the North
Carolina crop by an estimated 8 to
10 per cent a year. In addition,
growers spend about sls an acre in
GOQtZ'Qi
Grant Funds Purchase
By Nature Conservancy
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Using a landmark $4-million
grant from the Richard
King Mellon Foundation of
Pittsburgh, The Nature
Conservancy will purchase
for conservation two of the
finest pndisturbed areas
remaining on North
Carolina’s Outer Banks.
The grant, made to the
Conservancy’s unique Land
Preservation Fund, is the
largest single cash foun
dation grant ever made to a
private conservation
organization in the United
States. The 26 year-old non
profit Nature Conservancy
will use the $4-million to
protect the Swan and
Monkey Island properties in
Currituck County, North
Carolina.
Located about 20 miles
south of the North Carolina-
Virginia border, most of the
Swan and Monkey Island
tracts are no longer actual
islands. With the natural
closing of the last Atlantic
inlet in 1828, what had once
been a string of major
barrier islands became a
long narrow finger of sand
and wetlands that stretches
south along the Atlantic
from Virginia Beach toward
Cape Hatteras.
Included in the Monkey
and Swan transactions are
two major segments of the
Outer Banks peninsula,
thousands of acres of
brackish marshes to the
leeward Currituck Sound
side, a number of small
islands, and acres of
vulnerable shoal waters.
Researchers indicate that
the marshes of Currituck
Sound are the most im
portant unprotected
wetlands area on the
Atlantic coast. They provide
habitat for 15 per cent of the
waterfowl on the Atlantic
fly way. Approximately
170,000 waterfowl use the
marshes each winter.
Marsh waterfgtol include:
mallard, black duck,
widgeon, gadwell, can
vas back, ringnecked ducks,
greater snow and Canada
geese. Over 100 bird species
have been recorded in the
area including peregrine
falcon, southern bald eagle
and osprey. The migrating
route of endangered
peregrine falcon follows the
Outer Banks.
The marshes are also
home to fifteen species of
mammals, as are the dunes.
The Monkey and Swan
Island highground tracts,
separated by about three
miles, run from the mean
high water mark on the
ocean side to the mean high
water mark on the sound
side. Together, counting the,
areas that will be purchased
directly and where con
servation easements will be
acquired, 6,508 acres will be
protected at Swan and
Monkey. Combined, the
purchases account for three
and a half miles of ocean
front. The sellers of Swan
Island will retain limited
compatible use rights.
Swan Island is being
purchased from the Swan
Island Hunting Club which
was formed under unusual
circumstances. Proceeding
southward from Long Island
in November 1870, a small
group of hunters aboard the
yacht “Anonyana” sought
safety in upper Currituck
Sound from a fierce winter
storm. They anchored next
to what is now known as
Swan Island. When the tides
subsided, the yacht was
stranded. Taking advantage
of their misfortune and
surrounded by thousands of
waterfowl, the travelers
formed a hunting club. The
group, returning each year,
took its present name in 1876
and abandoned what
remained of the yacht in
1877.
Monkey Island is being
purchased from the heirs of
the estate of C.A. Penn of
Refakviße.
In announcing the grant,
Patrick F. Noonan,
president of the non-profit
Conservancy, said, “Thanks
to the foresight of the
Richard King Mellon
Foundation, two of the finest
segments of th'e ecologically
valuable Currituck Outer
Banks will be preserved in
their natural state for future
generations to know and
enjoy. Today, when coastal
areas everywhere face the
threat of extensive and often
unplanned development,
Swan and Moneky will
continue to provide habitat
to a variety of wildlife. Even
more important, the
marshes they protect will
contribute to the delicate
ecological balance of the
sound. Unquestionably,
protection of the natural
character of the Currituck
banks is a matter of
statewide pride and national
importance.”
Officials of the Richard
King Mellon Foundation
said that the $4-million
grant to the Conservancy is
one of the largest ever made
to a single organization in
the Pittsburgh foundation’s
years of operation.
L. Gregory Low, a North
Carolina native, executive
vice president of the Con
servancy, and a key figure
in the negotiations for the
two areas, said, “The
generous and very timely
grant from the Richard
King Mellon Foundation
gives the Conservancy the
funding needed to exercise
our existing options on Swan
and Monkey Islands. We
expect to do so during the
first two weeks of
December. Ours is a
positive commitment to
protect these valuable
natural resources. The
broad questions of the future
of the Currituck Outer
Banks must be solved by
innovative, environmentally
sound approaches by both
the public and private
sectors. The Mellon grant
.gives us time to work QUt the
proper solutions. As a Tar
Heel, I am particularly
pleased to have been able to
help in the preservation of
these priceless elements of
our state’s natural
heritage.”
Monkey, Swan and the
Currituck Sound have been
called a top priority in
eastern America by the
American Land Trust, a
national two-year effort
aimed at protecting key
natural areas. Nathaniel P.
Reed, chairman of the
American Land Trust, and
former assistant secretary
of the Interior, said that,
“The Richard King Mellon
Foundation speaks for
cefully, by its example, to
other philanthropies. By
making its grant, the
foundation underscores the
responsibility we as
Americans have toward
protecting our diverse
natural land. The Monkey
and Swan tracts contain
beach and wetlands of a
type that are fast, vanishing
from our shores. Without
major private action such as
the foundation’s, we stand to
lose our remaining coastal
islands and many other
ecosystems upon which our
lives depend.”
The Conservancy has
helped assure protection of
approximately 80,000 acres
of outstanding land in North
Carolina to date, including
areas in Green Swamp, in
the Great Dismal Swamp,
and Roan Mountain in the
Appalachians. Conservancy
North Carolina projects
represent successful efforts
to protect pristine
ecosystems, endangered
plant and animal species
habitats, and areas of scenic
and scientific value to North
Carolinians and the nation.
The North Carolina
branch of The Nature
Conservancy, which is
based in Chapel Hill, con
centrates on means of
protecting the state’s most
select natural areas. These
areas are identified by the
North Carolina Natural
Heritage Program.