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Jaycees To Sponsor Run
ASHEBORO Ed
Shifflette of Kernersville
will run from Murphy to
Morehead City later this
month to raise money to
help build chapels at the
four state centers for the
mentally retarded.
: N. C. Jaycee President
Maurice Wilson announced
Shifflette’s run. The Raleigh
Jaycees and Durham Life
are sponsoring the run.
They will be supported by
other Jaycee chapters
across the state.
• Jaycees are asking people
to sponsor Shifflette in the
580 mile run by giving a
nickel or a dime for the
chapels for every mile run.
f The run is one of several
Jaycee projects to raise
funds for the construction of
the chapels.
Chapels for the North
Carolina Centers for the
Retarded is a project
supported by many religious
groups, civic and service
organizations. Many
churches will take special
offerings in November to
help raise the $2-million
needed to construct the
chapels.
There are more than 3,200
mentally retarded North
Carolinians living at the
tour institutions. Many now
attend church services in
make-shift facilities, such as
a school auditorium, a gym,
and cottages.
Wilson said, “the Jaycee
Owed recognizes that faith
in God gives meaning and
purpose to human life and
teat die greatest work in life
is service to humanity. Our
recognition of these prin
ciples causes us to support
chapels for the mentally
retarded and Ed Shifflette in
his run across the state.”
Shifflette has run in a
| nmriw of distance races,
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Marathon. He is vice
president with the Handi-
Clean Company of Green
sboro.
The run will begin October
29. He will go from Murphy
to Morehead City on a route
which will take him through
Asheville, Kernersville, and
Raleigh.
Shifflette will visit the
sites for the chapels at
Communication Is Priority
With reorganization and
consolidation of Edenton-
Chowan Schools in sight fur
1960, constantly changing
state and federral
guidelines under which
school programs must
operate, additional
programs being instituted to
meet die varied needs of
students and efforts to unify
the systems’ curriculum
offering to students, there is
an increasing need for the
community to be
knowledgable of that which
affects roughly 26 per cent
of the county’s population
its students.
Plans to communicate
Edenton, Chowan’s “Edu
cational Story” now
include informal, neigh
borhood “coffee’s” or rap
sessions. Through this
medium of exchange, in
terested persons will
assume the responsibility of
organizing and acting as
host to neighbors sharing
concerns and the desire to
learn more about the
schools’ programs and
operations. It is felt that by
having no planned topics,
other than what is on
people’s minds, con
structive understanding can
occur. Supt. John Dunn and
Central Office Staff
Western Carolina Center at
Morgan ton, Murdoch Center
at Butner, O’Berry Center
at Goldsboro, and Caswell
Center at Kinston.
Those desiring to support
Shifflette’s run for the
chapels should send their
contributions to N. C.
Jaycee Foundation, P. 0.
Box 33244, Raleigh, N.’ C.
27606.
members will also invite
small gatherings into the
schools for similar sessions.
For several years school
personnel and students have
enjoyed invitations from
ciivic organization and
church croups to provide
educational programs or
entertainment at its
meetings. Through its
Speaker’s Bureau, and
given advanced notice, an
informative program on any
facet of the school’s
educational function can be
supplied.
Anyone or any group
interested in hosting a few
neighbors for an informal
session or needing an
educational program should
contact Mary Rhea Gardner
at 482-4436 for additional
information.
Medic Course
Is Planned By
Rescue Squad
Plans have been made to
start an Emergency
Medical Technician course
on October 25 at Edenton-
Chowan Rescue Squad Unit
3 at Rocky Hock. Gasses
will be held Tuesday and
Thursday night between the
hours of 7:30 o'clock and
10:30 o’clock.
Those who desire further
information should contact
either Murray D. Ashley or
Gail L. Johnson at the
Edenton-Chowan Rescue
Squad office, 482-3111.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
Poultry Queen Is Chosen
RALEIGH Miss Cyn
thia Lyme Gentry, a brown
haired, green-eyed beauty
from Stedman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gentry,
was recently selected 1979-
BO N.C. Poultry Queen at the
Annual Poultry Queen
Pageant competition in
Rose Hill.
During her year as am
bassador for the state’s
largest food industry, the
new queen will travel across
the state making personal
appearances at. parades,
fairs, exhibits, various
poultry meetings and
conventions and other in
dustry related functions
publicizing this dynamic
industry and it’s nutritious,
economical and versatile
food products chicken,
turkey and eggs.
Miss Gentry’s interests
and talents range from
sports activities such as
tennis and racquetball to
cake decorating to music.
She is currently pursuing a
performance degree in
trumpet and piano at
Vepco Works On Its Image
WASHINGTON
Virginia Electric and Power
Company (Vepco) has hired
a New York public relations
firm to work on its image
and to try to beat back the
onslaught of its detractors.
“We would consider it a
compliment to our effort if
we didn’t have to pay the
bill,” J. Larkin Little,
chairman of Operation
Overcharge, commented
today.
He said Vepco would
probably pay the New York
firm sl-million over the next
few years and “I doubt if
one cent of it will come out
of the stockholders’
pockets.’’
“The customers will get it
in the neck, again," Little
pointed out.
The Operation Over
charge leader had a list of
suggestions for the New
York public relations firm.
He listed them as follows:
Teach Vepco management
not to blame everyone else
for their mistakes; Teach
them how to plan; Stress
safety to them in their
nuclear plant operations;
and Convince them that
their best bet is to move out
of Northeastern North
Carolina to get away from
Pembroke State University
and hopes to teach on the
college level. She has been
extensively involved in
musical extra-curricular
activities and has achieved
several honors and awards
tor her musical ability in
cluding a Freshman Band
Award from Campbell
College - 1977 and Who’s
Who in America. The ac
complished and talented
beauty was also nominated
to the Top Ten College
Women in America for
Glamotr Magazine in 1977.
Miss Gentry, who suc
ceeds Miss Emma Lucille
Mahn of Wilmington, says
that “representing such a
large industry as poultry
would be an opportunity and
honor that any young
women would enjoy.” Much
of her scheduling for the
coming year will be
arranged by the N. C.
Poultry Federation, a trade
organization representing
the poultry industrymen of
North Carolina.
their biggest detractors.
Little then commented on
his list. “In every brief and
in every bit of evidence in
hearings a standard reply
by Vepco people to com
plaints is: “But you don’t
understand.” “Vepco’s
terribly poor planning has
put the company into the
deep trouble it’s in,” Little
observed. “They have a
very poor record of safety in
their nuclear power plant
Miss Boswell Appointed
RALEIGH - Elizabeth
M. (Beth) Boswell, a native
of Edenton, has been ap
pointed as a media
technician in N. C. State
University’s School of
Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Miss Boswell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. Elton
Boswell, Route 1, Edenton,
has duties including
television and film
production and editing and
other work in the
“Humanities Extension
Program.”
She also is involved in the
School of Humanities and
Social Sciences’ pilot
project “Disappearing
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Course Is Slated
A free short course on
“The Ancient Art of
Beekeeping” is being
sponsored by the
Pasquotank Agricultural
Extension Service.
operations." he commented.
“The only solution to
Northeastern North
Carolina's exorbitant
electric rates is for Vepco to
sell out and go back to
Virginia,” he finished.
Little gave Vepco a
message today. “We will
continue this effort until the
problem is solved whenever
Vepco decides that's going
to be." he promised.
Roots: The Small Town in
North Carolina."
Miss Boswell is com
pleting requirements for a
degree in speech
communications from the
School of Humanities and
Social Sciences.
She is a 1974 graduate of
Chowan High School at
Tyner.
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The course is aimed at
showing people how to get
started in raising bees and
will consist of a study of the
bee, her social structure,
how to set up hives, collect
honey and general
management of the colony.
The course will be held
over three nights, starting
on October 23, Tuesday,
October 30 and Tuesday,
November 6 and will begin
at 7:30 P.M. The location is
the Agriculture Extension
Building on McPherson
Street, in Elizabeth Gty.
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and directions, you may call
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Business
Activity
Reported
Hie level of business
activity in North Carolina
was stable in August, ac
cording to die Wachovia
Business Index. The index
registered 156.2, unchanged
from the revised July level.
A slight increase in
average hourly earnings,
offset a marginal decline iq
non-farm employment and a
1 per cent shrinkage of the
average workweek ini
manufacturing industries.
The decrease in non-farm
employment resulted from a
1 per cent employment
decline in the non-durable
goods sector of manufac
turing industries. Non
manufacturing employment
was up modestly due to
gains in construction and
services.
The seasonally adjusted
unemployment rate for
North Carolina was 5.3 per
cent in August, up 0.2 per
cent from July. The national
rate for August was 6 per
cent, up 0.3 per cent from
July. The unadjusted
unemployment rate in North
Carolina was 4.7 per cent in
August.
Unit sales of cars
registered growth in
August, but modest gains in
truck sales failed to meet
seasonal expectations.
Year-to-date sales of both
cars and trucks are below
the number for the same
period last year.
Th* only woman who was
wif* of am pmstdant and
mothir of another was
Abigail Smith Adams.