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Adi of pluses. Many become in
toxicated by the tonic of beauty,
charm, grace, and friendUness.
The result is that a growing
number become addicted to toe
better way of life and want to
meander along the Public Parade
permanently. Therefore, they
become transplants.
Even better, these people who
choose this community as the
place to cast their lot aren’t
resisted by any blue blood which
might flow hereabouts. However,
they are not only recognized, but
applauded, for their wise decision.
Hus is our seventh biennial tour
along the Public Parade. And the
excitement this year is as keen as
the first one we witnessed. The
majority of those in leadership
positions are transplants, like
ourself, and we defy any one from
outside the community to have toe
ability to pick than out.
Like the community in which we
live, our people are preserved
rather than restored. This is what
gives newcomers the ability to
quickly blend into the scheme of
things; to share an undescribable
pride; to want to contribute to a
mmimiim degree; and to put the
community above self.
If you are a visitor along toe
Public Parade during this tour
weekend, the red carpet is always
out. Enjoy! Enjoy!
Even further, if you want to join
us as a transplant, you’ll find the
precedure painless, resistance
non-existant,and the best years of
your life in the future.
Troublesome Animals
It seems that Deputy Sheriff
Glenn Perry isn’t the only law
enforcement officer to have recent
run-ins with animals. His bear
story hadn’t gotten cold before we
received the following clipping
from the Florence (S.C.) Morning
News:
DILLON, S.C. (AP) - Dillon
County Sheriff’s Deputy E.R.
Vanderhall was driving borne for
/-Whch one day this week when he
saw a than jumping up and down on
the roadside, waving his arms and
yelling for help.
The man told Vanderhall a
monkey had beaten a woman in
her house. The unidentified man
asked the deputy to go in and get
toe animal.
When Vanderhall entered the
house, he found a woman bleeding
from the wounds on her face. A
large monkey, obviously drunk,
was sitting in a corner holding a
lag stick, Vanderhall said.
“He.Btretched out like he was
coming on me, and I pulled out my
.38,” said Vanderhall. “The
monkey had seise enough to stop,
but the woman thought I was going
4p kill her monkey, so she came on
me.”
The officer convinced the
woman to leave the house and
called an ambulance.
“But the monkey stayed in the
bouse. He wouldn’t give me his
name, so I couldn’t arrest him.
And I couldn’t prove be was drunk
because he refused to take toe
brethalyzer test,” Vanderhall
laughed.
He said members of the
woman’s family told him the
monkey has been with toe woman
“fbr 23 years and goes on a ram
page about once a year, either
beating or threatening someone.
The Chowan Herald (USPS 106-380)
P. O. Box 207, Edenton, N.C. 27932
Published everv Thursday at EClanton by The Chowan Herald, Inc., L. F. Amburn, Jr.,
president and general manager, 421 425 South Broad Street, Edenton, North Carolina, 27932.
Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the Post Office of Edenton, North
Carolina, under Act ot March 3. 1(70.
L. F. Amburn, Jr.
Editor l Publisher
* J. Edwin Bufflap E N Manning R. Hector Lupton
Editor Emeritus General Superintendent Advertising Director
Emeritus
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Advertising Director
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Rate Roll-Back Requested
The Federal Regulatory
Commission is being requested to
roll back recent rate increases
approved for Vepco and to further
deny increases until such time as
the utility company is efficient in
generating electriqity as com
pared to Duke Power and Carolina
Light A Power.
This request is included in a
letter approved by Operation
Overcharge at a meeting erf the
Executive Committee in
Washington Tuesday. Stanley
Hege of Edenton, a committee
member, said toe letter was
prepared by the attorney assigned
to assist the Northeastern North
Carolina group in intervening in
rate cases.
“If you think your electrical toll
is too high, now is the time to
speak out,” Hege stated.
. In other developments, many
residents of Northeastern North
Carolina will get their first op
portunity to see the State Utilities
Commission in session when they
attend hearings in four com
munities next week in Vepco rate
cases.
The Utilities Commission will be
conductng hearings in Ahoskie,
Elizabeth City, Williamston, and
Roanoke Rapids, on a request
submitted by Virginia Electric
and Power Company last sum
mer to raise its retail rates.
The hearing in Ahoskie is
scheduled for Tuesday in the
Ahoskie Recreation Center. The
hearing will be conducted in
Elizabeth City on Wednesday at
the Knobs Creek Recreation
Center at 11 A.M. The City Hall in
Williamston will be the scene of
the hearing on Thursday. The
Roanoke Rapids Community
Center will be the scene of
Friday’s hearing.
The rate pot has been boiling
since Chambers of Commerce in
northeastern North Carolina
joined together last October to
form Operation Overcharge, an
organization to contest Vepco on
electric rate increases on behalf of
the company’s customers in
Northeastern North Carolina.
Operation Overcharge leaders
have consistently charged that
Vepco’s rates are exorbitant and
toft toe reason the company has to
charge such high rates is due to
poor planning by its management.
Richard S. Coiner, chairman of
Operation Overcharge, said toe
organization will have a
spokesman at each of the
4-H Project
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a senior at John A. Holmes High
School. He received his award in
Crop Production with major
emphasis on corn. He has raised
and managed one acre of com
for eight years with 229.7 bu. per
acre as his top yield. Joseph has
been district project winner for 2
years and has won many county
awards in Agriculture and
Livestock projects. His leadership
activities include club and county
council offices and serving as a
teen 4-H leader. He has been
recognized as a blue ribbon winner
for outstanding achievement.
Joseph will continue his studies
either N. C. State University at
Raleigh (x- Pitt Technical Institute
in Greenville.
Debbie and Joseph are both
members of the Yeopim 4-H Club
in Chowan County. This club was
formed 16 years ago and has the
following club leaders: Mr. and
Mrs. Yates Parrish, Mrs. Wallace
Goodwin, jr., and Mr. and Mrs.
Lin Jordan. Five of their 4-H Club
members have now received this
coveted trip to National 4-H
Congress.
hearing* . He also said he hoped
“lots of citizens will afieqd.”
“We’re getting to the nitty
gritty a|d it’s tone the people let
toemsflm» be heard,” Coiner said
in urging attendance at the
hearings.
Meanwhile, David R. Taylor,
chairman of N.C. Municipal
Power Agency Number 2, an
nounced Tuesday that
representatives of the agency
have giet with officials of Carolina
Power & Light Co. (CP&L) to ex
plore the possibility of having
CP&L supply all or part of the
electric power needs of the
Agency’s member cities.
The 16 municipal electric
sytems involved including
Edenton, are located in Nor
theastern North Carolina. They
presently purchase all their power
from Virginia Electric and Power
Co. (Vepco).
Taylor, who is town manager of
Tar boro, reported on toe CPL
session to toe quarterly meeting of
the Municipal Power Agency’s
board of commissioners.
Citing widespread and con
tinuing dissatisfaction with toe
higher rates charged by Vepco,
Taylor said: “The agency is ex
ploring several alternate power
supply sources, one of which is
service from, or a joint ownership
with, Carolina Power & Light. We
wore very pleased with our initial
meeting.”
N.C. Municipal Power Agency
Number 2 is me of three such
agencies formed in 1976 to acquire
generating facilities for their
members. Each agency is com
posed of a group of “electric
cities” municipalities that own
and operate their own electric
distribution systems. They buy
power at wholesale from the
private utility companies and
resell it retail to their own citizens
and customers.
Special Studies
For Two Students
Approximately 400 North
Carolina students currently in
grades 10 to 11 will attend each of
two Governor’s Schools for gifted
and talented this summer.
Representing toe cream of the
educational crop in terms of
academic achievement and ad
vancement in the performing arts,
these selected students also have
demonstrated creativity, interest,
maturity and motivation in a
particular field.
Darlene Saunders, a Chowan
High School junior, and Chris
Harmon, a John A. Holmes High
School junior, will represent
Edenton-Chowan Schools and
receive unique experience in the
area of Natural Science at toe
Governor’s School West and the
Governor’s School East, res
pectively. During their six-weeks
study course, Saunders and Har
mon will become acquainted with
the latest theories and techniques
in their chosen field of natural
science and will be introduced to
some of the mysteries and
problems in that field.
The Governor’s School West,
located on the Salem College
campus in Winston-Salem, is toe
oldest statewide summer
residential program for gifted and
talented students in the nation.
Through intense efforts to in
crease service to gifted students,
the Governor’s School East,
located on the campus at St.
Andrew’s College in Laurinburg,
was established this year.
Funded through General
Assembly appropriations both
schools come under the direct
supervision of tbs Department of
Public Instruction’s Division for
Exceptional Children. Sup
plementing offerings of local ■
schools, the Governor’s Schools
provides a non-credit curriculum
program in the areas of English,
dance, natural science,
mathematics, grt, foreign lan
guage, drama, music and
social science.
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Some people used to put
coral m tfieir dop‘ coKan
for protection against rabies.
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SHOW GRAND CHAMPION ANIMALS The grand champion
animals at this year’s Chowan County Junior Livestock Show
were entered by Joseph Goodwin, left, and Ivey Ward. Ward had
the champion steer in Tuesday’s show while Goodwin was a
double winner with both the champion individual hog and
champion pen of three hogs.
Livestock Show Big Success
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grand champion animals. The
bidder paid $1.26 per pound for
Ward’s steer which weighed 1,000
pounds. Goodwin’s top hog
brought $3.05 per pound. It
weighed 205 pounds. Goodwin’s
pen of three hogs went to Byrum
Implement Company for 77 cents
per pound.
Walter Byrum showed the
reserve champion individual hog
which brought $3.25 per pound
from Perdue Farms. Harris Super
Market bought Debbie Ward’s
reserve champion steer, paying
$1.30 per pound. Ivey Ward’s
reserve champion pen of three
Highway Advisors Appointed
WASHINGTON - The ap
pointment of a 29-member
Professional Advisory Council for
the Highway 17 Transportation
Association in North Carolina has
been announced by William H.
(Bill) Page of Washington,
president.
Page said the membership on
the new council is composed of
city managers, county managers,
Chamber of Commerce
executives, industrial developers,
planners, and others from the
communities along the route of
Highway 17 in North Carolina.
The association’s president said
he had asked Tom G. Thompson of
New Bern, executive vice
president of the Craven County
Development Commission, to
serve as the chairman of the
Smoke Testing
Os Sewer Lines
Eastern Utilities Specialist,
Inc., will commence smoke testing
of sanitary sewers in the Town of
Edenton area as required by the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
The purpose is to detect
locations where storm water is
altering the sewer. The smoke is
not harmful and should not enter
the house unless a leak is present
in your plumbing system.
It is recommenced that you
pour water into- any drains,
especially basement flow drains,
from which the water may have
evaporated from the trap. It is
Hul milmiki he
locked 1 in confined basements
dining* the tests in the event of
smoke entering through faulty
nhwiHwfl
Any prceaoce of smoke in the
home should be reported by one of
the men conducting the test;
Town
hogs was purchased by Baker Hog
Market for 80 cents per pound.
The third place individual hog
was shown by Angela Wilson, the
third place steer by Krista Hare,
and the third {dace pen of three
hogs by Debbie Ward.
Judged as fourth place was
Debbie Jordan’s steer, fifth place,
David Jordan, sixth place, Gary
Copeland, and seventh place,
Harriett Winslow.
Judges for the show were Dr. J.
R. Jones of N. C. State University,
and Dr. Henry Webster, area beef
cattle specialist. Wallace Evans
was auctioneer.
Professional Advisory Council.
Robert W. Moore, Executive vice
president of the Edenton-Chowan
Chamber of Commerce, will serve
as vice-chairman.
Goals of the Highway 17
Transportation Association in
North Carolina are: to bring into
being a Fully Controlled Access
Highway from Virginia to South
Carolina along the Highway 17
route; to encourage the
development of adequate air
service in the Highway 17 region;
to encourage the development of
welcome centers at both ends of
the new Highway 17 in North
Carolina; and use the new high
way to improve economic
resources in agriculture, industry,
and tourism for the region and for
North Carolina.
Community Calendar
Thursday, April 19, 1979
Rotary - 1:90 P.M.
St. Paul’s Parrish House
Water Hearing - 7:30 • Courthouse
(Quarterly Report • Division el Environmental Management)
Friday, April 29. 1979
Biennial Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton * Countryside
19:99 A.M. • 5:00 P.M.
Saturday, April 21, 1979 V
Biennial Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton ft Countryside
Edenton National Guard Ladies Auxiliary Flea Market
19:99 A.M. -.4:09 P.M. (Raffle far Quilt)
Sunday. April 22, 1979
Biennial Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton ft Camrtryride
1:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Attend Sunday School ft Church of your choice.
National Secretaries Week begins today Mud-28th
Monday. April 23. 1970
Liaa’S Club • 7:39
Boswell’s Restaurant
Wednesday. April 25, 1979 :
National Secretaries Pay
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Vepco Nuclear
Plants Closed
All three of the nuclear
Operating units that Virginia
Electric and Power Company once
had on line have recently been shut
down. Sources predict tills will
cause tael charges to skyrocket
this summer.
Furthermore, officials believe
there is a real possibility that toe
company may notbe able to meets
its pwsk ilmwhiH fa tint hot months
ahead.
The Town erf Edenton received
this information in a, memo from
Ralph W. Shaw, executive
director of ElectirctriCijUes of
North Carolina. Shaw said the
switch to fossil fuel (primarily oil)
generation will cause fuel
charges to skyrocket.
Regarding the possibility of not
being able to meet its peak
demand, Shaw said Vepco will
make emergency purchases from
other utilities to make up to the
greatest extent possible the
shortage. “But there is absolutely
no guarantee that it is possible to
purchase that much capacity
during a period of peak demand.”
Vepco is being asked to provide
member minicipal systems, such
as Edenton, with fuel charge
forecasts on a month-by-month
basis.
Shaw pointed out that the
nuclear generating units are shut
down for maintenance or by or
ders of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Surrey l (775 megawatts), down
for the replacement of a steam
generator, is not scheduled to
return to service before August 21.
Surrey 2 (775 mw), shut down by
order of NRC while a possible
design fault can be checked to
determine its ability to withstand
earthquake shock, will not return
to service before mid to late June.
North Anna 1 (863 mw) was
recently taken off line for very
brief maintenance but now the
NRC will not allow it to be
restarted until Vepco can deter
mine whether a cracked weld
found oty North Anna 2 also exists
on Unit 1. Ultrasonic testing is
bring conducted. No date has been
set for returning the unit
vice. '
North Anna 2 (863 mw), which
has not yet begun commercial
operation, may be the best hope
vepco has for getting some nuclear
generation back on line. At Unit 2,
hot functional tests have been
completed but the defective weld
is delaying the startup. It is
possible that North Anna 2 could
be put into commercial operation
by mid-summer.
Attention:
Taxpayers
call
Waste-Line
1-800-662-7952
If you have good ideas on
how to save money in your
state government
Toil-free in North Carolina
Governor 1 e Office of CMni Affaire
Capitol. Raleigh, N.C I7CII