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Dr. O’Leary New
Surgeon For Area
Dr. James O’Leary, a trauma
surgeon with extensive training
and experience in thoracic and
abdominal surgery, is joining the
staff of Albemarle Family Health
Services of Edenton.
An announcement said this is
a signal effort to improve
emergency medical care and will
bring more sophisticated surgery
services to the rural areas of
Northeastern North Carolina.
Dr. O’Leary will be in charge
of developing a central outpatient
surgery unit in the new facilities of
Albemarle Family Health Ser
vices. He will develop minor
surgery units in each of the
satellite clinics of the Nor
theastern Rural Health
Development Association. Ad
ditionally, Dr. O’Leary will work
closely with the staff of Chowan
Hospital to develop a sophisticated
trauma and chest surgery
department with the appropriate
diagnostic and support services.
One of the major efforts of Dr.
O’Leary will be to work closely
with the Eastern Carolina
Emergency Medical Services as
well as to help local rescue squads
improve their capability in the
transport of acutely ill and in
jured victims.
Dr. O’Ldhry expects to develop,
with the medical
schools in North Carolina in order
to initiate surgical training
rotations at Chowan Hospital.
Dr. Clement Lucas and Dr.
Richard Hines, Developers of the
Albemarle Family Health Ser
vices, indicated their extreme
satisfaction at being able to
recruit a person of such out
standing capability and resources
to Northeastern North Carolina,
and especially to serve on the staff
of Chowan Hospital.
Dr. O’Leary received his
medical degree from the
University College Medical School
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Funds Raised
Nearly $6,000 was raised for the
Kitty Evans Barringer Fund in
last Thursday’s radio-thon over
WCDJ.
Mrs. Frances Hollowell,
chairman of a special committee
from Edenton United Methodist
Church, reported Sunday that
$5,851.57 had been received. She
said funds continue to come in.
Mrs. Barringer was seriously
injured in an automobile accident
on October 1. She is said to be
making steady progress toward
recovery at Pitt Memorial
Hospital in Greenville.
Board Os Education Sets Special Session On Consolidation
“Options and alternatives for
consolidation ” will be discussed
Tuesday night during a special
working session of Edenton-
Chofwan Board of Education. The
meeting begins at 7:30 o’clock in
the Third Floor conference room
in the County Office Building.
The regular monthly meeting of
the board will be January 8.
Next week’s special topic
meeting follows the recent denial
by county commissioners of a
request for $150,000 to accomplish
consolidation, including aban
doning Ernest A. Swain
Elementary School for
educational purposes. The board
sou** the funds to purchase
temporary mobile classrooms,
two additional school buses and
for renovations. ;
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What's Best?
Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education is fast running out o'
“options and alternatives ** °e &
consolidation.’’ Money is one\ o'
that already has been exhaustv •<
If the board members are sin,
cere in wanting to do what is best<
educationally for the children
along the Public Parade they
won’t now settle for a bad plan just
to accomplish consolidation.
“Options and alternatives for
consolidation’’ is the topic of a
special working session of the
board Tuesday night. The
members will be back at the
drawing board and hopefully what
surfaces will be an educational
gem. At this point, we aren’t op
timistic.
Earlier this year, after years of
“dialogue”, the board went for
broke —a $3.5-million bond
referendum for construction of a
new high school. At that point the
commitment had been made for
consolidation.
When the referendum received
an unfavorable vote, the board
reassessed its plan. They proposed
the second best, consolidation
through temporary classrooms, a
couple of new buses, and
renovations to existing buildings.
Their plan fell on deaf ears
before the county commissioners,
resulting in a 3-2 vote to deny the
money. The proposal had 2Mt votes
in that Commissioner George
Jones favors consolidation but
couldn’t find the money in this
yew’s budget to bring it about.
After two stunning defeats, the
board will probably consider a
phased (dan which, in our opinion,
is not the best educationally for
the children. This is not to say the
board should back off of its com
mitment for consolidation. This
is, however, to say maybe it
should be relaxed somewhat.
It would be best educationally
for the children to delay con
solidation for another year,
thereby allowing time to fine tune
the plan and give the county
fathers the opportunity to budget
for the necessary finances in fiscal
1979-80.
If such an approach is taken, the
board should be prepared to go to
the legal limit in getting its budget
funded —for what is best
educationally for the children.
That would be a winning play.
Single Resolution
Somehow we haven’t gotten
into making resolutions. In our 14
years of meandering along the
Public Parade we have attempted
to keep a single resolution to
publish a newspaper which most
likely reflects the tenor of this
community.
Everyone in our audience hasn’t
always agreed with what
we do or how we do it. Our
judgement has been challenged,
Continued on Page 4
At a joint meeting of the board
and commissioners, Dr. John
Dunn, superintendent, said the
alternative he could recommend
would place the top three grades
at John A. Holmes High School
and the Ninth Grade on another
campus.
Alda To Speak On ERA
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Alan Alda, TV personality, will
appear at a fundraiser in
Elisabeth City the evening of
January ao for the First District
Coalition of North Carolinians
United for Equal Rights Amend
ment. The event is aet for BP.M. at
Northeastern wigh School
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Slv*4S OF PROGRESS—The Town of Edenton issued more
than 150 building permits totaling nearly $3.5-million during 1978.
The pictures here show progress being made on work begun
during the year. At top right is the new Fellowship-Education
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
Volume XUV—No. 51
Counties Consider Action
To Combat River Algae
Officials in seven counties in the Albemarle Sound Basin have ex
pressed interest in a task force of local governments to get action to
clean up algae in the water of the sound and Chowan River. There are 11
counties in the basin.
Spearheaded by Chowan County, representatives of six other counties
met informally here earlier this month to discuss a course of action. As a
result of the meeting, Chowan commissioners have sent a telegram to
state officials expressing their concern over the condition of the river
and sound.
The 10-county Albemarle Area Development Association last week
adopted a strongly worded resolution and identical resolutions are being
sought from the counties.
The latest move is to get an appointment with Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr.,
for formal presentation of the resolutions.
Chairman C.A. Phillips and Commissioner J.D. Peele are Chowan’s
representatives on the task force being developed by County Manager
Eddie Dick.
The resolution urges the Hunt Administration to identify the nitrogen
source in the C.F. Industries area of Hertford County where some 1,200
pounds per day is leaching into the river, according to state estimates.
This year’s algae bloom began in July and is considered to be the most
damaging ever. The resolution points out that the growth “threatens the
very life of the river, and, in turn, the sound.”
' CFI has made application for renewal of a permit to put nitrogen-filled
waste water into the river and the state’s decision is due this week.
A petition bearing “some 300”
signatures in opposition to con
solidation is being considered by
the board.
The school board has been
unanimous in support of con
solidation and first adopted the
plan presented to the commission
earlier this year. This was con
by contacting Mrs. Julia Hassell
at 482-3443 after 5 P.M., or Mrs.
Lueta Sellers at 482-3983. The
tickets are $5 each.
Alda, star of the M.A.S.H. show,
will arrive in Norfolk, Va., for a
10:45 A.M. press conference at the
airport. At 1:30 P.M. a luncheon
with legislators is scheduled
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday. December 28, 1978
sidered the alternative to con
struction of a new high school
When the special school board
referendum was not favorable, the
board readopted the alternate
plan after it was considered and
recommended by a special
committee.
Commissioners last week said
the finds could not be found in the
current budget to provide any
assistance toward the school
board’s plan.
The school board had hoped to
implement the plan of con
solidation next fall. Next week’s
of “options and
alternatives for consolidation’’
could change the timetable.
Tbeannouncementof the meeting
stated that no decision would be
made at tin special meeting.
♦
Building of Edenton United Methodist now going up on Virginia
Road. The new Pizza Hut addition to Edenton Village Shopping
center is at top right. Below is the new Chowan County Court
house-Detention Facility project in downtown Edenton.
Single Copies 15 Cents
Tax Department
To Open Books
Starting Tuesday
List takers are prepared for
Chowan County residents to
declare their property for the
purpose of taxation, beginning
Tuesday. Dallas Jethro, Jr., tax
supervisor, said after February 2
a 10 per cent penalty will be added
for failure to list.
First Township, including
Arrowhead Beach, as well as
Fourth Township and Cape
Colony, will list at the County
Office Building on East King
Street. The office will be open
from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., Monday
through Friday, and 8 A.M. until
12-noon on Saturdays during the
entire month.
Listers are Pattie S. Byrum,
Continued on Page 4
To Aid Clinic
Since April 1, Chowan Medical
Colter, P.A., of Edenton has
provided a physician and sup
porting staff for the Hertford
Clinic.
Dr. Ernesto Lazaro, the present
physician in the Hertford clinic
has resigned as of the end of
December.
To continue needed medical
services, physicians from the
Chowan Medical Center will
provide physician coverage
Monday through Friday beginning
January 2. Office hours will be
between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.
Until a permanent physician or
physicians can be obtained to staff
the Hertford Clinic, physicians
from the Chowan Medical Center
will provide physicians on a
rotating basis. In addition, full
laboratory support services will
be continued including blood
chemistries, electrocardiography,
x-ray services, etc.
Representatives
Tour Career
Education Center
To begin the process of complete
public understanding of the
Career Education Concept, a
group of community and business
representatives from the tri
county area toured the P.D.
Pruden Vocational-Technical
Center in Suffolk, Va., December
12.
Although educators from the
Gates, Perquimans and Edenton-
Chowan areas have visited and
otherwise made loose contacts
with several other career centers,
this was the first instance in which
citizens of the three counties had
been invited to participate in the
process.
The 27 member tour group
traveled to the center by char
tered bus as guests of the Tri-
County Career Education Center
Feasibility Study, directed by
Kenneth L. Stalls of Edenton.
En route Stalls explained the
Career Education Concept which
is being explored in the area.
Stalls first became involved in a
three county effort four years ago
when he began serving as local
director of Vocational Education
for the three counties. His current
position is an outgrowth of the
former one. He explained to the
group how the Superintendents,
Boards of Education and Boards
of Commissioners had studied and
discussed many times the possible
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Mrs. Shepard Dies
Mrs. Bessie Hoskins Shepard,
104 West King Street, was taken in
death Saturday morning in
Chowan Hospital following a brief
illness. She was the wife of
William Blount Shepard.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Shepard were held at 2 P.M.
Sunday in St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church. Rev. Raymond Storie and
Rev. Fred Drane officiated. Burial
followed in Beaver Hill
* Cemetery.
A native of Chowan County,
Mrs. Shepard was the daughter of
the late Dr. Thomas Jones and
Elizabeth Coke Hoskins. She was a
retired school teacher.
In addition to her husband,
surviving are two sons: William
Blount Shepard, Jr., of
Albuquerque, N. Mex.; and
Thomas Hoskins Shepard of
Edenton; a daughter, Mrs. Jasper
W. Hassell of Edenton; a brother,
George C. Hoskins of Edenton;
eight grandchildren; and four
. great grandchildren.
Mrs. Shepard was a member of
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the
Edenton Tea Party Chapter of
DAR; the Cupola House
Association; and past president of
the American Legion Auxiliary.
Pallbearers were: Fred,
Richard and Ward Hoskins;
Robert B. Shepard, Jr., T.B.H.
Wood, and M.B. Smith, 111.
Williford-Barham Funeral
Home was in charge of
arrangements.