Coping With Elements
Extreme winter weather con
ditions of 1979 hindered Tar Heel
fanners from accomplishing some
normal winter chores. A major
snowstorm on February 6 along
the Public Parade left the area
digging out from one of the worst
snowstorms on record.
Field work got off to an excellent
start last spring only to be ham
pered by surplus soil moisture
conditions. Farmers must,
however, learn to cope with the
elements.
Recently Pete Thompson,
Chowan agricultural chairman,
reported that farm income was
near sl9-million last year. While
the income was up there are a
heap of farmers in trouble
primarily due to the inflation
factor.
At the same time the truckers
strike occurred at the start of the
vegetable harvest, causing a slow
down on the highway as well as
* market terminals.
The N. C. Crop & Livestock
Reporting Service, recently
released an Annual Crop Sum
mary which showed:
♦ Corn production was at 128-
million bushels, up 6 per cent;
♦ Soybeans at a record high at
45.8-million bushels, up 11 per cent;
♦ Peanuts, down 20 per cent
with 373.5-million pounds;
♦ With cotton production at
44,000 bales, down 2 per cent; and
♦ Sweet potato production
placed a 4.9-million hundred
weight, down 5 per cent.
Conditions were not as bad along
the Public Parade as in other
sections of the state. Nevertheless,
farmers must learn to cope with
the elements-the weather is not to
bembhked with by our highly
skilled technology or this would be
fouled up along with everything
else.
Bringing Census Home
The first census was held in 1790
to determine how the members of
the national house of represen
tatives should be apportioned
among the states. That is still
perhaps the main purpose, but a
lot of other reasons have been
added.
The 13th amendment, of course,
wiped out the provision that blacks
for census purposes be counted as
only three-fifths of a person; and
subsequent amendments struck
down state laws prohibiting their
full participation in the election
process.
The one-man, one-vote ruling of
the U. S. Supreme Court also
radically affected not only the way
Congress is elected, but the make
up and districting of state
legislatures.
And, in addition to these
political spin-offs of the census,
there are now important business
and economic uses to which it is
put. Public funds are often
distributed on the basis of census
figures for a given area. Business
and industry use these same
figures in making a decision
where to open new stores or locate
new plants. ,
So the federal nosecount, which
has been held every 10 years since
1790, has become a part of our
every day life; and it is important
that everybody be counted.
For one thing, it is good to know
your name is in the permanent
record. We thumbed through the
1790 census for North Carolina and
found our family name in
Hillsborough township, Orange
County. Old George didn’t have
modi, but he was there.
There is some comfort, but not
much money in that. But there is
money involved in seeing that
every person along the Public
Parade and elsewhere is counted
in the census. School funds, road
funds, federal funds are often
allocated on a per capita basis and
every uncounted person who
shares in toe services being
provided is a drain upon the
resources of the community.
Then there is the matter of
arranging the congressional,
senatorial and representative
districts. Under the one-man, one
vote rule, reinforced by a growing
volume of case law, the boundary
«f each district is pretty well
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Citizen Input Sought
Land-Use Survey To Be Distributed
Citizens in Edenton and Chowan
County will be asked to assist in
preparation of the Chowan County
Land-Use Update by responding to
a questionnaire prepared by the
Albemarle Regional Planning and
Development Commission.
Dan Tew, community assistance
planner for ARPDC, said Monday
that distribution of the survey will
be handled through the
cooperation of the Edenton-
Chowan Schools. This week,
students in grades K-10 will take
the survey home to parents, while
high school juniors and seniors
-wiU fill out the survey themselves.
Tew said the surveys should be
returned by March 15 and may be
mailed to ARPDC at P. O. Box 646,
Hertford, N.C. 27944 or may be
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR Miss Elizabeth Moore, left, was
presented the Woman of the Year award, last Thursday night, by
the Edenton BPW Club. She is shown receiving the award from
Mrs. Lena M. Leary, 1965 recipient. Rep. Charles D. Evans of
Nags Head was guest speaker for the event held at the Edenton
Methodist Church fellowship hall. About 120 persons attended.
Endowment Funds Pledged
The Duke Endowment has made
annual operating grants to 229
hospitals and children’s homes in
North Carolina and South
Carolina.
Grants totaling $2,436,730 have
been distributed within the past
week to 186 hospitals and 43 child
caring institutions in the two
states, according to Billy G.
McCall, executive director of the
hospital and child care sections of
the Duke Endowment.
Chowan Hospital’s share of
these grant funds amounts to
$2,707 for short-term care and
$1,984 for long-term care, totaling
$4,691.
McCall pointed out that trustees
of the Endowment, in making
their annual appropriations for
operating expenses, were
following the wishes of the En
dowment’s founder, James B.
Duke, who established this pattern
of annual support for hospitals and
children’s homes during his
Immunizations
Are Required
RALEIGH Parents of
children who will be starting in
kindergarten or the first grade
this fall should get their
youngsters immunized as soon as
possible if they want to avoid a
“tremendous rush” at the doctor’s
offices and the health departments
in the summer months, advises a
state health official.
Dr. J. Newton Mac Cormack,
head of the Communicable
Disease Control Branch of the
Department of Human Resources,
said: “If there ever was a time
when parents should get their pre
schoolers immunized early, it is
this year. The new state im
munization law requires all upper
grade students to have full
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returned to the schools for
collection.
A tabulation of the data con
tained in the survey will be
completed about two weeks after
the deadline. Deadline for the final
draft of the Land-Use Update will
be August 30.
The 47-question survey will ask
opinions on county growth, con
solidation of government, tourism,
historic preservation, business,
industry and agriculture. It will
ask what shopping, entertainment
and recreation facilities are
needed beyond what is already
available.
Attitudes toward wildlife, en
vironment and land management
will be guaged. Questions con
cerning waterfront development,
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, February 28, 1980
lifetime
Grants to nonprofit hospitals
totaled $1,574,949, of which
$1,205,686 was for the cost of
providing care to indigent patients
and $369,263 as reimbursement for
participating in information
gathering services provided by
Hospital Administrative Services
(HAS) of Chicago and
Professional Activity Study (PAS)
of Ann Arbor, Michigan. These
two organizations prepare com
parative statistics on various
aspects of hospital operations
which are useful both in managing
hospitals and in measuring the
quality of care being delivered.
Assistance by the Endowment
for indigent care amounts to $1 for
each day of free care reported by
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NAMED TO BOARD John H. Woolard, center, has been
elected to the General board of directors of Tarheel Bank & Trust
Company in Gatesville. At the same time he was named chair
man of the local board in Edenton. He is shown here being
congratulated by Robert Lee, executive vice president. At left is
Mac Self, the bank’s city executive in Edenton. (Staff Photo by
Luke Amburn.)
public transportation and energy
will also be dealt with.
Enacted by the General
Assembly in 1974, the Coastal Area
Management Act called for the
establishment of a comprehensive
plan for the protection, preser
vation, orderly development and
management of the coastal area.
The law requires, as the basis
for the plan, that each coastal
county prepare its own land-use
plan to be submitted to the Coastal
Resources Commission who ad
ministers the provisions of the
legislation. These land-use plans
must be updated every four years.
In 1976, both of Town of Edenton
and Chowan County developed
such a plan through their planning
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Miss Moore Named Woman Os Year
Miss Elizabeth Vann Moore,
considered Edenton’s foremost
authority on local history, became
the 29th recipient of the Woman of
the Year award by the Edenton
Business and Professional
Women’s Club, last Thursday
night. Guest speaker was Rep.
Charles D. Evans of Nags Head.
Mrs. Lena M. Leary, a past
recipient of the award, in making
the presentation cited Miss Moore
as a sincere, dedicated, kind,
unassuming and gentle person.
Miss Moore, whose research and
knowledge has played a vital role
in preservation in Edenton for the
last 25 years, is a charter member
of Edenton Historical Commission
and the Cupola House Association.
In 1977, she was presented the
Cannon Cup for excellence in
research by the Historic
Preservation Society of,N.C., Inc.
Her research work began when
her aunt’s selling of the Barker
House prompted her to find out all
she could about the house and the
people, like Penelope Barker, who
had owned and lived in it.
She sent her material to Dr.
Christopher Crittenden who
responded that he had never seen
a job so thoroughly done. Her
Rate Increase
Electric consumers in the Town
of Edenton can expect an un
pleasant surprise on their utility
bills this month. According to
W.B. Gardner, town administrator,
the fossil fuel rate will be 319.67
per 1,000 kilowatt hours, up $5.56
from the previous month.
The fossil fuel rate is set by
Vepco who sells electricity to the
Town of Edenton. The town in turn
passes the cost on to municipal
consumers.
For the same billing period in
1979, the fossil fuel rate was $2.08
per 1,000 kwh. In January of that
year, consumers received a credit
of $2.19 as compared to the $14.11
fossil fuel rate paid last month.
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SURVEY TO BE DISTRIBUTED Dan Tew, ARPDC com
munity assistance planner, and Mrs. Johnnie Bass, Citizen’s
Advisory Board member, are shown discussing a land-use update
survey to be distributed throughout Edenton and Chowan County
this week. The Edenton-Chowan Schools will be assisting in the
distribution. The survey will provide important information in
updating and setting policy on land-use as mandated by the
Coastal Area Management Act.
research became the solid foun
dation for the successful efforts in
1952 of three civic clubs to move
and save the house from
destruction. It now serves as the
Visitor Center for Historic
Edenton, Inc.
The Edenton Guide Book, first
published in 1949 and updated over
the years, was her gift to the
Edenton Woman’s Club who
sponsor the biennial pilgrimage.
She has provided research on each
of the properties nominated for
inclusion in the National Register
of Historic Places.
Miss Moore has done extensive
research on the Cupola House,
Woman Charged In Shooting
Makes First Appearance Here
First appearance proceedings
were held Tuesday in Chowan
County District Court for a 31-year
old Tyner woman charged wi(h
shooting her boyfriend following
an argument on Saturday.
In Albemarle District Jail under
$5,000 bond is Ruth Saunders,
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, inflicting serious bodily
injury.
Deputy Melvin Evans, in
vestigating officer, reported that
Charlie Frank Holley, 36, of Rt.
1, Tyner was treated for a gunshot
wound through the neck from a
single barrel .12 guage shotgun
containing a number four shell.
According to the suspect’s
statement, the couple had been
drinking heavily at the time the
argument occured and her
boyfriend had hit her. She
allegedly went into their home,
loaded the shotgun and went
outside calling for Holley to show
himself. When Holley peered
around the side of the house, she
fired the shot, saying she hit the
side of the house. She went back
inside after Holley fell and offered
no assistance.
Rescue Squad Unit 3 responded
to a dispatch from Chowan
Hospital and Deputy Evans was
sent to investigate after Chief
Deputy Glenn Perry overheard
the call for help. The person
making the original call to the
hospital has not been identified.
Deputy Evans reported that
Holley refused, to be transported to
the hospital by .the Rescue Squad,
but was taken in by his brother. At
the hospital, Holley refused to be
admitted and over the protests of
the examining physician, went
home.
Holley was admitted to
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth
City on Sunday after Evans went
to check on him. He was released
on Wednesday.
Saunders was called Monday
night and told by Evans he would
serve the warrant for arrest
Tuesday morning. Evans reported
he waited to serve the warrant
pending a statement on the con
dition of Holley.
Also making a first appearance
for first degree burglary was
Douglas Allen Forward, 17, of Rt.
2,. Cape Colony.
Iredell House, Chowan County
Courthouse and St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church and church
yard, where she is a member
and church historian.
Archaeologists working on the
excavation of the new courthouse
site found her research on lcng
buried tannery and tobacco and
snuff factories made possible an
important grant for the work that
saved months of research and
thousands of dollars.
She played a key role in suc
cessful efforts to save Edenton’s
waterfront as a park rather than a
site for private development.
Chief Deputy Glenn Perry said
the arrest was the culmination of
an investigation begun December
28, 1979 when the home of Mrs.
Elizabeth Gregg and Mrs. June
Bennett on Country Club Drive
was burglarized. Evidence ac
cumulated in the investigation,
including a cap dropped by the
suspect, provided the basis for the
arrest.
A probable cause hearing has
been scheduled for the March 11
session of district court.
Cases prosecuted by Frank
Parrish, asst. dist. atty., included
the following:
Cheryl Johnson, show cause
order, suspended sentence
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On Committee
Governor Jim Hunt has named
two Chowan County agricultural
leaders to the State Steering
Committee of Agricultural
Leaders for Jim Hunt.
Those named are David
Bateman of Route 1, Tyner and
Wayland Spivey of Edenton.
“North Carolina’s farmers are
the great producers of our number
one industry, agriculture,” said
Governor Hunt, “and they have
also traditionally represented the
best in fiscal responsibility, hard
work and sound moral values.
That’s why I’m so proud to have
them working with me to keep us
moving forward in North
Carolina.”
Caucuses Slated
Democrats from Chowan
County will caucus at their
precinct polling places on Thurs
day, March 13 at 8 P.M. Any
registered Democrat is eligible
to attend.
A spokesman said Democrats
all over the state will be gathering
to elect delegates to the county
conventions and to discuss and
pass resolutions on issues that
concern them.
Broad participation in its
meetings at both the precinct and
county levels is sought, it was
stated. All active Democrats are
urged to attend these meetings