Public Parade
Fish Tale
It was about 8:30 A.M. Sunday.
The telephone rang. We had been
at work so long we thought it was
the top sergeant reminding us to
come home for lunch.
What it was, as Andy Griffith
would say, was Steve Stevenson of
Hertford. When he identified
himself we thought what always
comes to mind when a banker
rings overdrawn or a note past
due.
Since we have never “hung
paper” at Peoples Bank in Hert
ford, let alone have garnered
sufficient cash to have more than
one bank account, we listened with
interest at Steve’s proposition.
Seems that some quarter of a
century ago the forerunner to
Peoples Bank in Hertford and
Winslow Oil Company sponsored
an annual fishing trip to the Outer
Banks. One of the 12 participants
had to cancel 6ut this year because
of a< serious illness in the family.
The bed, board and boat was
paid, and like any good banker
Steve didn’t want to forfeit
anything. He felt it was just the
right tonic for the day before’s
father of the bride.
We accepted and had a ball!
Julian E. Winslow, Jr., was on
the reception committee and was
fully entrenched in the dugout
upon our arrival.
Also on hand was Tillman Cooley
of Jackson, a Peoples’ man we
were acquainted with through
telephone bills and correspondence
generated by the disc jockey in our
family.
Walter Harlow of Bank of North
Carolina, N.C., was just beginning
to recover from a severe case of
Hatteras “fever” and stopped
over enroute to Hobbsville, where
he can sometimes be found.
Later in the evening in came
Buster Bell of Raleigh, retired
from Branch Bank & Trust
Company and a former co-worker
with John Campbell, whose wife
now resides in Edenton.
J. Mac Duff, First Union’s man
over on the Isle of Pasquotank,
-and’Bttt'ftaittrtr of Atlantic Credit ~
who is headquartered
thereabouts, joined Leigh
Ballance of Rocky Mount and
Mike Patterson of Wilson, both
with Peoples Bank, to round out
the money bags in attendance.
Tony Hornthal, an attorney,
appeared as out of place as us. We
later found out why he was invited.
(To rule on close plays at the House
of Cards and be a credible witness
in a wager between Duff and
Gaither. Seems like bankers don’t
even trust each other.
Thomas Johnson of Albemarle
Chemical Company in the “Land
of Beautiful Women” came in
from Yankee Stadium. He ad
mitted that petty cash was pretty
well depleted so he found the
couch more comfortable than the
hot seat in which most of us found
ourselves.
There was a lot of talk about
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From Vineyards To Bottle In Chowan
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There is a bumper crop of grapes being harvested this year in
Chowan County. This is a rapidly growing industry and local
interests are busy taking the grapes from the vine to the bottle.
This pictorial shows the process at Deerfield Vineyards and Wine
Cellars, Inc. George Wood and Hugh Rice of California, (back to
camera), talk with a field hand as he prepares to put Wood’s
design of an automatic harvester to work. In the second picture,
Paul Williams operates a highly technical model. At Wine
Celters, where an old barn Is now a winery, the grapes are
crashed and put into tanks, shown behind Frank Williams and
Joseph Bradley of the Alcohol, Tobacco A Firearms Division of
the U.S. Treasury. Mrs. Nan Edmunds proudly reaches for a
bottle of Uie finished product which is retailed at the winery.
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STATE DIRECTOR IN CHOWAN—Robert Ward, second from
right, state director of Social Services, and other members of his
staff are shown with Mrs. Hazel Elliott, second from left, director
of the local department. At left is Ted Linford, director of the
Eastern Regional office in Greenville with Lillian Gaskill, an
assistant state director, at right.
Foster Children Get Emphasis
The st?s% ’irector of the
Division uo\ ial Services,
Department \ Resources,
doesn’t want Wfc, % Carolina to
become a “second
parent”. So, in ravels
throughout the state Tges
county units to find p' r ' .nent
placement for foster children as
rapidly as possible.
Robert Ward said here last
Thursday that when the courts put
a child in the charge of DSS then
the state automatically becomes a
“second parent”, in a sense. To
place the child in a foster home
and forget him, in Ward’s opinion,
would be gross negligence for
which prosecution could result.
Ward is taking his philosophy of
administration and management
directly into county DSS offices in
an attempt to gain a better un-
Norvell Heading
Local Delegation
W.L. Norvell, immediate past
president of Edenton Chamber of
Commerce, has been named
chairman of the Chowan County
representatives to the Governor’s
Volunteer Energy Conservation
Corps. The announcement of the
local committee was made today
by N.J. George, chairman of the
county commissioners.
Named to serve on the local
committee with Norvell were
Cecil Fry and Lester T.
Copeland. Fry is running unop
posed in the general election for
Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education. Copeland is a county
commissioner.
The energy corps is being for
med by Gov. Jim Hunt in an effort
“to provide the people of North
Carolina with factual information
on how they can save energy and
money for themselves, their
businesses and their govern
ment.”
Gov. Hunt is asking each county
to appoint three representatives to
the corps in hopes that some 300
people might attend the Gover
nor’s Energy Awareness Con
ference in Raleigh December 7-9.
derstanding among employees at
the local, regional and state levels.
Chowan was the 50th county he has
visited in his goal to get into all
100 as quickly as possible.
The director is also pushing a
program of employee exchange.
In the program employees in
Raleigh exchange places with
local employees for a week. “This
has been a revelation,” he admits.
“I have picked up a lot of good
information this way as well as on
these trips.”
Ward has been surprised at how
many different ways people do the
same thing and “do it well.”
Also, the director urges county
directors and employees there
are more than 7,000 of them in the
state to pay particular attention
to welfare fraud.
Furthermore, Ward boasts that
North Carolina has been service
oriented for years, being well
ahead of other states. And he
thinks Gov. Jim Hunt is extremely
interested in human service
delivery.
“Most governors focus on
economic development,” he adds.
“Economic development brings
on social problems so there should
be a good blend like what we have
in North Carolina.”
Traveling with Ward was Lillian
Gaskill, assistant state cfirector
for regional administration; and
Ted Linford of Greenville, director
of the Eastern Regional Office.
Commissioners
Hold Meeting
Chowan County commissioners
met in special session Wednesday
night in the Fourth Floor con
ference of the County Office
Building.
Items on the agenda were:
consideration of the four-county
transportation plan ; and, contract
with Alliance For Progress
Computer Center.
Details of the meeting will be
reported next week.
AEMC Re-Elects Three
Three incumbent directors were
re-elected at the annual member
meeting of Albemarle Electric
Membership Corporation held on
October 7.
Re-elected for three-year terms
were Joseph A. Wiggins of Tyner
for District 2 (Chowan County);
L.A. Harris, Jr., Route 4,
Elizabeth City for District 3
(Pasquotank County); and A.T.
Lane, Sr., Route 1, Hertford for
District 4 (Perquimans County).
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Volume XLIV-No. 42
Tea Party Birthday Set
The 204th anniversary of the famous Edenton Tea Party, which was
perhaps the first important political action by women in America, will
be celebrated on the anniversary date next Wednesday. Following a 4
P.M. gathering at the commemorative teapot on Colonial Square, tea
will be served at the Barker House until 6 P.M.
The theme of this joint endeavour by the Edenton Chamber of Com
merce and Historic Edenton, Inc., will be “Buy a brick for the Barker
House chimneys, and have a drink on us!” The “drink” will be a high
quality tea blend selected especially for Historic Edenton by a panel of
tea tasters.
This same tea, named “1774”, will be offered for sale at the Barker
House, in quarter-pound packages with an attached leaflet telling the
story of the original action by the 51 Albemarle ladies. Proceeds from tea
sales, and any donations that guests may care to make, will indeed “buy
bricks” to aid in the restoration of the Barker House chimneys, which
came down in a winter storm in January.
The sponsors of this event hope that everyone interested in the
preservation of Edenton’s historic sites will come for “a spot of tea” on
Wednesday.
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IN STATE CONTEST—I 977-78 “Outstanding Educator” in PTA
District 14, Linda Williams, is surrounded by Fourth Grade
students at White Oak School, who agree with her recently
bestowed honor.
Outstanding Educator Named
The highest award which a PTA
district organization can bestow
upon one of its professional
members has been received by
Mrs. Linda Williams, a Fourth
Grade teacher at White Oak
School in Chowan County.
As the recently selected
“Outstanding Educator” for 1977-
During the meeting, Ed Brown,
Jr., general manager of the
cooperative, made comments
regarding the Vepco’s retail rate
increase which went, into effect
September 1 and related that to
wholesale power increases which
affect members since Albemarle
EMC purchases wholesale power
from Vepco.
The general manager explained
that state officials have no direct
control over wholesale rates since
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, October 19.1978 Single Copies 15 Cents.
78 in the district, Mrs. Williams
will be honored with other North
Carolina district winners at the
State PTA Convention on
November 10 in High Point.
Mrs. Williams, her husband Ed
Williams and Mrs. Sylvia Bunch,
White Oak PTA president, will
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these are approved by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
in Washington, D.C., which is
composed of five commissioners
appointed by the president. He
said, “Any action that any group
takes on holding down Vepco’s
retail rates has absolutely nothing
to do with the rates you members
pay. But the wholesale rates,
approved by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission in
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Terry Jones
Jones Cancer
Unit President
The Chowan County Unit of the
American Cancer Society began
its fall crusade against cancer this
week. Terry Jones of WCDJ Radio
will serve again this year as its
president.
Last year was the most suc
cessful year, exceeding the $5,400
goal with a total of $5,823. This
year a higher goal has been set at
$5,800.
' ~ Mrs. Yates Parrish will lead
local volunteers in a community
wide effort to help •wipe out
cancer in your lifetime by
research and education”.
“Our volunteers will urge their
friends and neighbors to help win
this goal by supporting the
society’s life-saving programs
with a check-up and a check,” she
said.
In addition to Jqnes and Mrs.
Parrish local leaders include.
W.L. Robertson, first vice
president; W.P. (Spec* Jones,
second vice president Robert L
Bunch, secretary; Mrs. Jack
Jordan, treasurer, and Dr.
Richard Hardin, medical advisor.
Also, Mrs. W.J.P. Earnhardt,
memorial chairman; Mrs. Harry
Gibson, professional education:
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