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America.
Caldwell, who served 22 years as
master of the State Grange (and
was succeeded by his wife), was at
the center of this agricultural
improvement. Caldwell’s
philosophies were simple. Os
agriculture he said repeatedly:
“Agriculture is basic. We must
keep agriculture strong and
healthy if we are to avoid
economic disaster.”
Caldwell also adhered to
another principle, which will
always be essential. “The saving
of the nation,” he said, “depends
not upon politics, nor industry, nor
legislation, but primarily and
basically upon character.”
Harry Caldwell preached these
principles - and lived by them, too.
The role of agriculture has vastly
changed since the 21-year-old
farm boy came to North Carolina
in 1929. It has been diversified and
moved steadily away from its
small-farm, one-crop status. At
the same time it no longer
dominates the Old North State as
thoroughly as it did half a century
ago.
Yet the principles Harry
Caldwell espoused and lived by
remain as important today as they
were then. The Caldwell con
tribution to stability and enrich
ment of North Carolina
agriculture will remain sub
stantial and memorable.
Seven Charged
With Larceny
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Feed and Fertilizer Co. while
neighboring Chowan Storage Co.
was hit for three batteries.
Another one was taken from a
vehicle owned by Mike Johnson of
Rt. 1, whose 1973 Chevrolet Blazer
was parked at Farmer’s Auto
Repairs on N. C. 32, north of
Edenton.
Mrs. Gibson Mitchell was at
tending revival services at
Macedonia Baptist Church on
March 31 when the battery was
stolen from her car while parked
at the church. .
Lloyd Parrish and his family, of
Rt. 3, were attending the same
revival, April 1, when a battery
was stolen from his car which was
parked at home several miles
away.
None of the suspects have prior
arrest records, it was stated.
Sheriff Toppin, in com
plimenting Evans and Perry for a
job well done, said, “Tbey nipped
it in the bud at a good time.”
Vepco
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their time conferring with the rest
of us.” “We know what’s going to
happen if Vepco goes,” he said.
‘ ‘They would be well advised to get
in step with the rest of us,” he
commented.
“I don’t think it’s really a
matter of ‘if Vepco leaves’ any
longer,” Little said. “I think it’s a
matter of ‘when’ ”.
The petition drive in Chowan
County continues. Those who wish
to do so may sign at Edenton-
Chowan Chamber of Commerce,
banks or retail stores.
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Edenton North Cording. Thursday, April 24, 1980
Warning Is Issued
About BB Guns
With the arrival of spring
weather, outdoor activates are on
the upswing, particularly among
the younger people. Perhaps a lot
of youngsters are reaching into
their closets for their air rifles,
anxious to get outside and test
their marksmanship on anything
from tin cans to birds.
This type of play prompted
police chief J. D. Parrish, to
caution kids and parents of the law
concerning shooting air rifles in
the city limits.
According to Chief Parrish, it is
against town law for anyone to
discharge a BB gun, pellet rifle,
sling shot or even a pea shooter
either on public or private
property in Edenton. He said a
recent complaint prompted him to
remind local citizens of this law.
The personal safety factor is the
police department’s first concern,
he said. “A pump pellet gun can
fire a pellet at nearly the same
velocity as a .22 calibre rifle.
Being hit could result in serious
injury or even death.”
Several months ago, an Edenton
police officer confiscated 9 air
rifles following reports of a
skirmish between kids in neigh
boring apartment complexes.
“Because of the danger to both
lives and property, officers will be
instructed to enforce this or
dinance,” Chief Parrish warned.
Concert Slated
On Tuesday, April 29 at 8:00
P.M., the John A. Holmes Stage
Band will perform in concert in
the Holmes Aduitorium. The band
will be playing tunes from the
Swing Era, Rock, radio tunes, and
others. Mr. Richard Duncan will
be fronting the band, and will be
featured as a soloist on a Chuck
Mangione tune, “Feels So Good.”
Band Director Otis Strother will
try to bring back some nostalgia
by singing with the band two of the
oldies, “Mood Indigo” by Duke
Ellington and “Someone To Watch
Over Me” by George and Ira
Gershwin. This promises to be a
fun evening, so plan ahead to
attend on Tuesday, April 29, 1980
at 8:00 P.M.
Tickets will be on sale at the
door.
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Gov. Hunt and had been asked to
get cooperation between the EPA
offices in Atlanta and
Philadelphia.
Dr. Neill S. Grigg, director of
the Chowan River Restoration
Project (CHORE) said the estate
has to get a corporate com
mitment from CF Industries to
clean up the site where some 1,200
pounds of nitrogen is going into the
river daily.
If commitment and action is not
obtained within a reasonable
period of time, the state will ask
the Attorney General to file a
lawsuit.
Julian Alexander, deputy
director of the Virginia Water
Control Board, said Virginia has
already committed to full and
complete cooperation.
Fred Koehler of the N. C.
Agricultural Extension Service,
said 92 per cent of the land area of
the Chowan River Basin in North
Carolina is farmland. He said his
group is working with farmers in
four watersheds in Northampton
and Hertford counties and hopes to
extend the project to Chowan,
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American Legion To Host Rescue Squad Banquet
Edward G. Bond Post 40, The
American Legion, will sponsor the
Fifth Annual Appreciation
Banquet for Edenton-Chowan
Rescue Squad on Saturday, May
10, 1 lsßb, at f y:3o P.M. State Senator
J. J. “Monk” Harrington, First
Judicial District, of Lewiston, will
be the guest speaker.
“Citizens of Chowan County are
extremely proud of the excellent
professional service provided by
their volunteer rescue squad. Post
40 is honored to have the op
portunity to give all the citizens a
chance to say a public “Thank
You” to the Edenton-Chowan
Rescue Squad”, said Commander
Crime Prevention Seminar Set
Chowan County Sheriff Troy
Toppin, local police departments
and the Crime Prevention Division
of the North Carolina Department
of Crime Control and Public
Safety will sponsor a Citizens’
Conference on Crime Prevention
Monday, April 28 at 9:00 A.M. in
the first floor courtroom of the
Chowan County Courthouse in
Edenton.
The conference is designed to
encourage citizen support of local
law enforcement efforts in crime
prevention and for the formation
of a Chowan County Crime
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the board has functioned. Manning
said the board had been through a
learning experience and would
continue to put emphasis on
registration and fair elections.
It was also announced that Mrs.
Frank Sellers and A. C. Hudson
were on a committee to coordinate
the Carter-Mondel ticket in this
county.
Earlier, Wilbur G. Pierce
reported on the census and paid
compliments to Mrs. Snooky
Bond, coordinator, and those who
worked with her.
Copeland, who headed the
Selection Committee, reported the
following: Rosa Rountree and
Earl Smith, congressional district
executive committee; James E.
Taylor and Max-Busby, judicial
Gates and Bertie counties. Better
farming practices are being
stressed and measures of
reductions in nutrients are being
taken.
“We have the full cooperation of
the farmers,” Koehler com
mented.
It is estimated that 47 per cent of
the nitrogen going into the river is
from farm and forestry areas with
11 per cent of it in North Carolina.
“Boy, that’s terrible,” said Red
Knight of Gates County, a task
force member who is active in the
Soil Conservation Service.
Koehler said it is impossible to
stop all nitrogen from farmland
and forests going into the river.
Efforts are being made to reduce
it and to determine the cost of
doing so.
Grigg stressed that the plan is to
do something about the point
sources first and then focus on
non-point such as
said he is pleased
that agricultural officials are
already at work on the problem.
“When in God’s name is
someone with authority going to
places like CF Industries and
Union Camp Corp and tell them
what they have to do?” asked J.
Gilliam Wood.
EPA deputy director Little said
if the state can’t get it done, EPA
will assist. He pointed out the state
can go no further than previously
in writing into discharge permits
such things as cleaning up the site.
Murray Nixon, a local fisher
man and task force member,
predicted that at the current rate
of decline, fishing in the river will
be completely wiped out in two
years.
A1 Howard, chairman of the
Chowan River Task Force, said
the job of cleaning up the rim
must be done fairly, but that it
must be done.
Grigg and Howard agreed that
the next meeting should be held in
July when J. E. Sirrine, Inc. will
report on an engineering study of
CF Industries Tunis plant.
E. C. Toppin.
“May 10, 1980, will be the fif
teenth anniversary of the Eden
ton-Chowan Rescue Squad. A few
short years have seen twelve
volunteeers and an old hearse
develop into one of the finest and
most dedicated rescue squads in
North Carolina,” Toppin com
mented.
The appreciation banquet is also
a fund raising, event for the
general fund of the Edenton-
Chowan Rescue Squad. Anyone
wishing to make a donation should
mail their check to American
Legion Post 40, P. O. Box 390,
Edenton.
Prevention Committee.
Crime Control and Public Safety
Secretary Burley Mitchell said,
“Governor Hunt believes that our
crime prevention efforts will
succeed only to the degree that
each individual citizen on the local
level supports those efforts. The
Governor and I are convinced that
our local law enforcement
agencies do an outstanding job in
crime prevention, but we are also
convinced that local law en
forcement needs the support and
encouragement of the local
citizens in this important en
deavor.”
district executive committee;
Wallace Evans and Clara Boswell,
state senatorial district executive
committee; and Wilbur Pierce
and Jim Hare, state house of
representatives executive com
mittee.
Mrs. Kinion and Mrs. Sellers are
being supported for positions as
delegates to the Democratic
National Convention.
Delegates to the First District
Convention in Washington on May
31 and the State Convention in
Raleigh on June 21, include:
Mrs. Lane Kinion, Mrs. Novella
P. Wilson, Mrs. Luetta Sellers,
Wilbur Pierce, N. J. George, Rev.
J. L. Fenner, Dr. J. H. Horton,
Mrs. Helen Hpllowell and
-Ruth Frinks, fe !. f 2
Mrs. Edward G. (Snooky) Bond,
Mrs. Glorious Elliott, W. B.
Gardner, A. C. Hudson, John
Mitchener, 111, Mrs. Elizabeth
Byrd, George Alma Byrum and
Felix Chambers.
Alternates Mrs. Mary Esther
George, Mrs. Rosa Rountree, W.
H. Hollo well, Jr., Mrs. Gail
Stevens, James Taylor, E. L.
Hollowell, Mrs. Mary Long,
Warren Twiddy and Mrs. Hurley
Winbome.
Mrs. Carrie Earnhardt, Jack
Evans, Dr. Clement Lucas, H.
Ivey Ward, Tom Shepard,
Clarence Leary, Jr. and Lloyd
Griffin.
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Community Calendar
Thursday, April 24, 1980
Rotary Club -1:00 P.M.
St. Paul’s Parish House
Edenton Jaycee installation Banquet - Jaycee Building Base Road -
Social Hour6:3oP.M.-Dinner & Meeting 7:30P.M.
Friday, April 25, 1980
Chowan High School Alumni Weekend
Sunday, April 27. 1980
Attend Sunday School & Church of your Choice.
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 A.M.
Monday, April 28, 1980
Lion’s Club - 7:30 P.M.
Mrs. Boswell’s Restaurant
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