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SMALL BUNNSSB FORUM - Albert Calloway, left, assistant director, Bminwe DtvWon, N.C. Deportment of Commerce, and A1 Ltneberry, center, chairman of the Small Business Advocacy Council, were members of a panel at a Small Business Forum held at Edentoo Municipal Building Tuesday night. They were introduced by Wallace B. Evans, right, president at the Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce. Merchants Air Concerns During Business Forum About 20 persons, mostly businessmen, gathered at the Edenton Municipal Building Tuesday night to air their con cerns at • Small Business Forum sponsored by the N.C. Small Business Advocacy Council, hosted by che Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce. Education, financing, taxation and inflation emerged as the most popular topics during the one and one-half hour session chaired by A1 Line berry, chairman of the council. He was joined on the panel by Albert Calloway, assistant director. Business Assistance Division, N.C. Department of Commerce, and Joe Exum of Snow Hill, a council member and businessman. . Lineberry explained that the council was established in May to prepare and present recom mendations to the governor and the General Assembly for ap propriate changes in statutes, policies and regulations which affect small businesses in North Carol uuu. Those . racorn* mendations. the result of forums being held in each congressional district of the state, will be heard at the Governor's Conference on Small Businesses on January 28. 1981 in Raleigh. Jesse Harrell, president of Edenton Furniture Company and a businessman of 35 years, cited under capitalization due to high inflation as a primary threat to small business “The rate of inflation is 13 per cent or better each year." he Parker Named New Chairman Os ‘Overcharge* GREENVILLE - Joseph M. Parker of Ahoskie, publisher of several newspapers in Nor theastern North and Southside Virginia, and editor of the Ahoskie Herald, was elected Chairman of Operation Overcharge here Tuesday in a meeting of the Executive Committee. He suc ceeds J. Larkin Little of Green ville. Other officers named by the organization which was established two years ago by the region's local Chambers of Commerce to fight what they called exorbitant electric rates being charged by Virginia Electric and Power Company, were David M Pittman, general manager of a large manufacturing plant in Tarboro. TICARO, Inc., vice-chairman: William D. Cox, Mayor of Hertford, secretary, and William R. Abeyounis, executive vice president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, treasurer. Stanley W. Hege of Arrowhead Beach, representing Edenton- Chowan Chamber of Commerce, waa re-elected to the Executive Committee. Parker has been a member of Continued on Page 4 BLOODMOBLE VISIT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 12-6 P.M. MASOMC TEMPLE, WATER STREET commented. “Not many of our businesses can net 10 per cent.” Harrell also suggested that the General Assembly take another look at a garnishee law with safeguards included to prevent misuse by businesses. “The garnishee law is serious," Harrell said. “A businessman has very little protection except through the small claims courts. I believe every person should pay his honest debts.” Continued on Page 4 Vepco Requests Bill Reductions ROANOKE RAPIDS - Virginia Electric and Power Company has asked the N. C. Utilities Com mission lo reduce customers' bills almost 3 per cent during December, January, February and March. The reduction request would lower a 1,000 kilowatt-hour per month residential customer's bill by $lB7, from $82.86 to $80.9$ based on present winter rates. Those customers qualifying for Continued on Page 4 lAJe/tome to C^oantrij / . T ’ j,' •w J * Thursday. October 2. lit* •* H *4l P M Peanut Festival Talent Shot* Swain Auditorium I rid a\. October :l l<Ma Tuk< ‘ ,! ' '*' ll N ' a * <*>*' H ill P M Kdentnn Aces vs Tarboro High School Vikings At Hicks Kidd Saturday. October I. lisa Ml 00 A M Peanut Festival Parade Starting at Water Street and ending at Hicks Field < It no A M - 5 00 P M Activities on the John A Holmes High School Campus White Klephant Sale. Clogging Demonstration. Children s (lames and Heines. Equipment Display It tat A M -700 P M Barbecue Dinner Plates S 2 50 May lie purchased and or picked up at the Hoy Scout Hut on the •l»hn Holmes High School Campus' 1 ,| " P M Field Competition Halt lent the Hands Hicks Field Admission Adults S2UO. Students -$1 upi 1 1,1 P 'I Drawing of Hattie Tickets lor Croceries and (iasoline Hicks Field' H tat PM 12 Midnight Peanut Festival Siudent Dance • Location changed to National C.uard Armory Admission Couples 42(10. Mag SI 50' o t«i P M I (DA M Peanut Festival Dame American legion Building Tic kelson sale in advance at the door • $lO 00 per couple. Set ups and Party pick-ups' Music . .... . furnished by Jim Boswell Siwtiv. October 5. Itwi 1 "" PM Peanut Festival Art Show and Sale-Colonial Pork * 1,1 P M Sailboat Kegatla ■ Edenton Bay 2'ltß P M Concert in the Park John A Holmes High School Band Sacred and (iospel Music Providence Baptist Church Sunbeam. Senior, aml Adult choirs, Edenton Community Male Chorus Country 4 Western Music Kocky Hock Kebete *-ospel Music Kocky Hock Quartet VW p M Ceremony awarding trophies for Sailboat KegaUa Colonial Park Public Support Os Expansion Sought Chowan Hoepttal to plowing new ground in efforts to improve health oho in the area throng construction of 10 additional beds. A seldom uMdpatitioo route tobeing taken ineasttempt to have the State Medfcal Facilities Plan amended tor Region “R". As now published, the state plan shows the l<*ounty region as being ever bedded by five. Dave Henson, Chowan Hospital executive, said with the local facility showing a itaady $9 per cent occupancy there an tn dkadons which point to signs of encouragement toward getting the plan alttered. The Division of Facility Services, Department of Human Resources, has called a public bearing on the hospital's petition for 10 A M. on Oc tober 10 in the Fourth Floor Conference Roam of the County Office Building an East King Street. The public hearing is designed to provide community input on the petition. “Unleae this proposed modification to made, die hospital’s recent application to expand its facility by an additional 10 beds will be tuned down automatically, upon later review by the state.” Hemon said Monday. “It is imperative that positive community support be demorotrated,” he continued, “as it will potentially influence the state's decision to honor and approve Chowan Hospital's petition.” HERALDj vw. aw • nb. a Get Ready The preliminary report on the 1980 census of population con tinues to generate much con versation. While the figures have not been set in concrete, efforts are being made in several quar ters to keep the “official ' designation from being placed on them Along the Public Parade it appears Chowan County is pretty much in line at 12.271, an increase of 14 per cent. The Town of Edenton’s population was set at 5,138. a modest 3.7 per cent in crease. Considering the number of housing units built in the municipality in the past decade, the town fathers have some reason to complain. Regardless of how the final tally, is recorded, the way some things are done along the Public Parade ( onlinued on Page 4 Htnton, htorth Carolina. Thursday, Ociobar 2. 1980 Mrs. Yates Parrish Chairman October Is Cancer Crusade Month October has been designated crusade month by the Chowan County unit of the American Cancer Society, reported Terry Jones, president of the local unit. Volunteers will be calling on citizens to contribute to the fight against this disease. Mrs. Yates Parrish is chairman. Money collected by the American Cancer Society goes toward public and professional education and community ser vice, but with the majority of it funding research to find a cure. "The local society is promoting community awareness of the disease and the Cancer Society’s research to discover a cure." Jones stated. "Although cancer death rates are continuing to rise, more patients than ever are being of the. disease." Well over one third of those who get cancer are able to conquer it, and many of them resume A long-range study by an Atlanta, Ga , consulting firm supports a 30- bed expansion at Chowan Hospital. The study rarmnniMnli other capital projects Ilka expaneton of ancillary services. The hospital has recently bean given approval of the ancillary portion of capital projects by the Eastern Carolina Health Systems Agency in Greenville. Therefore, a Certificate of Need for tide project is expected to be granted by the state. The hospital's application to ECHSA for the bed expansion is being held up pending the outcome of the petition which asks for modification of the State Bed Plan. Chowan County commissioners support the hospital's board in petitioning the state to alter the bed plan. The petition was forwarded to the state in early August The petition, according to Henson, is supported also by existing fac tors, such as high occupancy, the greatly expanded medical staff in the hospital's service area. “The recruitment 0f... physicians has resulted in increased access to health care, and as a by-product of these physicians developing their practices, increased hospital admissions have resulted,” he continued. "It is our strong feeling that the hospital has a community coro (ontinued on Page 4 healthy, normal lives, Jones continued He added that this positive change hasn t come about by accident "Our nation and this generation are beneficiaries of the biggest attack ever mounted against a single disease." he commented. The American Cancer Society began the program several decades ago and is the leader in the cancer fight today." "Think aboui the living evidence of progress against cancer when the Cancer Society asks you to support its 1980 81 Cancer Crusade. Although the fight against cancer has been partly won. it s far from finished. Help is needed from you." he concluded. PLAN PILGRIMAGE Planning for the 19dl Biennial Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside is underway. Mrs. April Lane, president of the Edenton Woman's Club which sponsors the tour, is shown with Mrs. Carol Davenport, tour chairman. A number of homes not previously open to the public will open for the upcoming event. Women’s Club Begins Plans For Pilgrimage The Edenton Woman's Club announcees that the Biennial Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside will be held April 24-26. 1981 with a number of out standing homes open to the public for tours. Started in 1949. the Pilgrimage has grown to w here it is now one of the most popular home tours in the South." commented Mrs Carol Davenport, tour chairman The event drew over J.juO visitors to Edenton in 1979. Proceeds from the tour are used by the Woman's Hub to benefit the town and preserve its colonial character. Single Copiet 20 Cant* -. Collections from the previous year totaled a record *8.904 The SB,OOO goai was the largest set in the history of the local unit, it was revealed at a meeting last Monday night It was also reported that 34 persons from Chowan County died from cancer last year with lung cancer leading the list with 10 deaths Thirteen patients were helped through the service program Mrs Virginia Byrum. area director, reported 924 adults and 927 youth attended some sort of program or viewed films or cancer About 7.4C0 pieces of literature were distributed during Continued on Page 4 The 1981 tour will include homes dating from the pre-revolutionary to the Victorian periods Several recently restored homes will be open to the public for the first time along with such favorites as the Wessington. Littlejohn and Rooth houses Various special events are scheduled to offer a diversified, entertaining program for visitors. Those events wiU include a living history encampment by the First North Carolina Volunteers, band concerts on the old courthouse green, and an art show in Colonial Park featuring arts and crafts from across the state
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