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Dr. James O’Leary
O’Leary Accepts
Post At ECU
The honour of being appointed
as Clinical Assistant Professor for
the Emergency Medicine
Department at East Carolina
University School of Medicine has
been accepted by Dr. James
O’Leary of Edenton.
This appointment was of
fered Dr. O’Leary for the support
given to the Emergency Medicine
Services in Eastern North
Carolina. The responsibilities
include lecturing and training in a
manner requested by the Chair
man of the Emergency Depart
ment, Dr. Jack Allison, East
Carolina University School of
Medicine.
Clinical Assistant Professorship
is bestowed upon full - time doc
tors who have a full - time practice
and yet give a part - time service
to the School of Medicine in
Greenville.
Dr. O’Leary is a surgeon, with
his office located in Edenton. This
appointment will not relax the
time given his patients.
Other appointments and awards
are: Co - director of the Intensive
Care Unit, Chowan Hospital,
member audit and reviews
committee, Chowan Hospital;
physician advisor, N. C. PSRO;
vice chairman Eastern North
Carolina Emergency Medical
Services System Agency.
Dr. O’Leary is a member of the
advisory committee, Emergency
Medical Services of the
ENCEMSS.
Benefits Os Peanut Program In Helms Bill Are Noted
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program based on acreage
allotments, poundage quotas,
quality controls, and export
market development. The present
program has reduced government
costs dramtically, made the
United States the number one
exporter of edible grade peanuts
and assured a plentiful and con
stant supply of high quality
peanuts at fair and reasonable
prices. 1980 was the first crop
shortfall in a quarter of a century
and this was due entirely, by a
prolonged drought in all peanut
production areas of the United
States.
Attacks on the proposed peanut
bills are made by Midwestern
Congressmen, who do not un
derstand the program or the
peanut plant. They think the
peanuts can be stored in grain bins
on the farm for an indefinite
length of time, like their com,
soybeans, and wheat.
Peanuts are high in oil content
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Edenton. North Carolina. Thursday. August 6,1981
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Stem Rot CaUed Serious Problem
By Murray L. Goodwin
Ag. Ext. Agent
Most peanut fields have rank
growth this year. This increases
the chance of southern stem rot
being a serious problem, especially
if we get showers.
There are two materials
available for control of southern
stem rot-Terrador and Vitavax.
Regardless of which material you
use, it must get to the ground levd
to be effective for this is the place
where the fungus attacks.
If you use Vitavax we recom
mend 1.25 lb. of actual Vitavax per
acre in 40 or more gallons of
water. To get Vitavax in sufficient
water we suggest a 8010 nozzle.
If you use Terraclor, we suggest
that you use 25 lbs. of 40 per cent
material applied right over the
center of the row.
Bollworms in cotton
Bollworm moths are now flying
and depositing eggs in cotton
fields. When Randy Copeland or
someone else contacts you and
suggests that you apply a
biological insecticide for control of
bollworms, the quicker you can
get the material on the cotton the
better!
We have a chance of producing a
real good cotton crop this year, but
we must control bollworms and
have 2 or 3 good rains for this to
come about.
Soybean worms
Bollworm moths are flying in
soybean fields, too. We are ap
proaching the time when we
usually have to spray for worms in
soybeans. We suggest that you
begin checking your fields now for
worms.
Fields that don’t have the
middles covered are more likely to
have a high insect population.
Suggested chemicals you can use
are Sevin, Lannate, Nudrin, or
Orthene.
Grain Outlook
There was an article yesterday
in The Wall Street Journal about
the grain outlook. The outlook at
this time is for a big crop.
A record winter wheat crop has
been harvested. At this time the
outlook for corn is for a bumper
crop. Weather conditions in lowa
have been about ideal. Tem
peratures have been in the 80’s
with about half an inch of rain a
week.
Domestically, a healthy in
crease in the size of this year’s
com crop over the 6.66 billion
bushels harvested in 1980 seems
and will become rancid, if stored
on the farm until spring. Cold
storage must be available and the
average peanut farmer cannot
afford to buy such facilities. Also,
our Midwestern Congressmen
think that peanuts are traded on
the Commodity Exchange, where
investors and speculators are
active. The price-support program
has been the marketing vehicle to
bring buyer and seller together.
A “key” misunderstanding by
many congressmen is acreage
allotments and cash rental
agreements. The right to grow
peanuts and tobacco,
philosophically concern these
congressmen. They also have
difficulty in understanding the
specialized equipment peanut
production require; such as
digger-shakers, combines and
drying wagons.
The peanut bills will be in
troduced on the Senate and House
Floors in September and it will be
a tough fight to keep the present
peanut program intact. North
assured. The Agriculture
Department estimates 7.1 billion
bushels, baaed on July 1 con-
will go up
when mPnexfeestimate comes out
on August las,
In any c&e, com supplies
should be big enough to meet
demands. A crop of 7.5 billion
bushels would mean slight
lowering of prices.
Soybean crop nationwide looks
good but it is too early to predict
the turn out of the crop.
Cotton Growers
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Growers Cooperative, Dr. Robert
G. Jones and W. A. Dickerson,
USDA and Randy Copeland,
NCDA, and the county
agricultural extension agents are
beginning a two year study of
community biological control of
the cotton bollworm. This major
cotton pest is responsible for the
use of a major share of all
chemical insecticides used in the
U.S., and therefore a major cotton
production expense. This pilot
program hopes to demonstrate
alternative control approaches to
other parts of the cotton belt.
The program involves scouting
of cotton fields for not only
bollworm infestations, but the
presence of beneficial insects.
With the boll weevil gone from
Chowan County the absence of
early season chemical control has
allowed the buildup of large
numbers of beneficial insects. The
growers recognize this group of
insects to be a valuable natural
resource for pollination and for
natural control of the bollworm.
By supplementing these benficials
with bacterial and viral in
secticidal materials it is hoped
that both more economical and
environmentally sound control of
the bollworm will occur.
Many factors can be credited for
the tremendous increase in cotton
acreage. Cotton prices have been
up and cotton grows better than
other crops in the dry weather, but
the basic factor has been people
working together. They worked
together for better insect control.
They worked together to build a
new they Have ssrked
together to promote cotton.
Cotton as a crop stimulates local
economics more than many other
crops. There is specialized
equipment to be bought, more
labor and more cash flow in its
production.
Carolina’s Sen. Helms and Rep.
Rose will lead the fight in each
body. The North Carolina Peanut
Growers Association has worked
long and hard to represent the
peanut growers in molding sound
peanut legislation. Every grower
should visit their Congressman
when they return home during the
August recess and express their
support for the Helms and Rose
bills.
Rate Increase
Continued from page 1
despite everything we can do, and
everything the state Commission
can do, the upward pressures
created by economic conditions
and FCC mandates will probably
make telephone rates continue to
climb through the next several
years.”
The road to buying
a new hqme can be diffi
cult. But United States
Savings Bonds can
make the journey a lot
easier.
All you have to do
is join the Payroll
Savings Plan where
you work.
That way, a little is
set aside from each pay
check to buy Bonds.
Automatically.
1 You’ll be amazed how
quickly they pile up.
Before you know it, the
Bonds have built you
a nice down payment.
And you can build a
nice, new home.
If you’ve been try
ing to save for a new
home, buy U.S. Savings
Bonds.
And get your sav
ings headed in the
right direction.
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FULFILLING EXPERIENCE These eager - eaters and their parents gathered on the campus
at College of The Albemarle recently for a cookout which marked the end of COA’s Summer College
for Kids program. Thirty - nine area gifted and talented students between the ages of 10 and 15
years took part in the three - week session. Three Chowan County students, Tammy Renee’ Mohn,
Margaret O’Leary, and Brian Rascoe, were enrolled in the self-supporting program at the college.
(COA Photo)
ESC Report Shows Increased Unemployment
RALEIGH ln June, 74 of
North Carolina’s 100 counties
experienced increased unem
ployment when compared to the
previous month, according to
figures released today by the
Employment Security Com
mission (ESC).
Statewide figures for June were
6.3 per cent in comparison with
May’s 58 per cent. The com
parable national unadjusted
unemployment rate for June was
7.7 per cent, up slightly from 7.1
per cent in May.
Unemployment for Chowan
County for the month of June was
4.7 per cent.
Letter To The Herald Editor
Dear Editor:
I was paralyzed from the
shoulders down from a fall nearly
three years ago. On the day of the
injury, I was told that I would
never walk again. However,
today a new evidence indicates that
there is a chance for paralyzed
agajn. I that
chance** do, I’m sure, the other
half million people now in wheel
chairs. Medical authorities report
that a cure for spinal cord injuries
could come within three to five
years, maybe less, if enough
money is raised to effect a crash
research program.
If you would like to help men and
others in my situation, you can Dy
Veteran Fights War
Against Handicap
Photo by P«i Cordell
Steve Seipp tools around with a television set in his
home workshop.
By Philomena Lawrence
Reprinted with permission
from the Glenview (111.)
Announcements, Pioneer
Press, Inc.
World War II officially
ended in August 1945. But
for veteran Steve Seipp,
the tight continues.
Now confined to his
wheelchair, his battle
ground is a converted
bedroom of his home. His
cause is financial in-
Graham County experienced the
highest rate of unemployment in
the state in June with 13.6 per cent
unemployment. In May,
Graham’s rate of unemployment
was 14.8 per cent.
Only seven other counties ex
perienced unemployment rates at
or above 10.0 per cent in June.
They were: Clay County at 10.8
per cent, Cumberland at 10.1 per
cent, Franklin at 10.0 per cent,
Robeson at 10.4 per cent, Swain at
12.8 per cent, Tyrrell at 10.2 per
cent and Wilson at 10.9 per cent.
Among the seven standard
metropolitan statistical areas
(SMSAs), unemployment in-
becoming a part of a national
organization, Spinal Cord Society
of Minnesota, which is feverishly
pushing politicians to raise the
needed money. Your efforts will
cqst you no money. For further
details, please write to the address
below
next time
hear aHfrwHlfl’ter sa.vJMTh
paralyzed for the rest of his life” V
or “He’ll be confined to a
’ wheelchair for the rest of his life,”
! say it ain’t so.
Sincerely,
Steve Lail
I 182 25th St. N.W.
Hickory, N. C. 28601
dependence and his
ammunition is electrical
supplies.
Even after dusk, Seipp’s
“flag” stands firmly
planted in his front lawn.
It is a sign board reading:
“Steve’s TV and small ap
pliance repair.” Toasters,
vacuum cleaners, irons,
coffee pots and calculators
are part of his arsenal.
In 1943, however, the
military scenario was for
real. In that year, Seipp
creased in six areas and
decreased in one area. Unem
ployment in the Raleigh - Durham
area increased from 4.2 per cent to
4.7 per cent in June, Greensboro -
Winston Salem - High Point from
5.1 per cent to 5.7 per cent,
Charlotte - Gastonia from 4.4 per
cent to 5.0 per cent, Fayetteville
from 8.9 per cent to 10.1 per cent,
Burlington from 5.5 per cent to 6.2
per cent and Wilmington from 6.8
per cent to 7.5 per cent.
Unemployment in Asheville
decreased in June from 6.3 per
cent to 6.2 per cent.
Floyd Outland of ESC’s Bureau
of Employment Security Research
said, “The June figures reflect
movement of students and others
who are entering the labor market
for permanent or temporary work
and contribute to expected
seasonal variations.”
The number of counties with
unemployment rates at or below
4.0 per cent in June declined from
nine to four to include: Alleghany
at 3.2 per cent, Dare at 3.4 per
cent, Hdhdefsbn at 4.0 per <fent:
Life should not be all work.
Everybody is entitled to some
recreation and amusement
whether everybody gets it or not.
v Persuasion is what you hear
from those who want you to accept
their plans.
enlisted in the American
Bth Air Force and served
in England, Ireland,
Belgium and France.
While in France, he suf
fered broken vertebrae
and was operated on
three times, once by Dr.
Loyal Davis, father-in-law
of President Ronald
Reagan.
THE 56-YEAR-OLD
Seipp has not always
fought under the
American banner.
Os Polish and German
descent, he joined the in
fantry division of the
(g)
International 'Hear
of Disabled Persons
1981
Polish army during his
early teens. He shouldered
arms for 3Vi years before
transferring to the U.S.
forces.
Though injured, he did
not pass the helmet
around for handouts. He
worked on the military
section of O’Hare Interna
tional Airport and then at
the Glenview Naval Air
Station as a federal police
officer. He was discharged
on disability in 1978,
when paralysis in his spine
and legs interfered with
hiswoX
“The next two years
were the most harrowing
of my life. Until then, I
had led an active life; sud
denly I was spending
sleepless nights, bitter
about my illness and in-
ability to provide for my
family,” Seipp said.
IT WAS DURING one
such night that Seipp
decided to reach out for
help. The Veteran’s Ad
ministration (VA) seemed
a logical choice and, as it
turned out, a wise one.
The VA gave Seipp an
aptitude test which revealed
that he was mechanically
inclined and suited to
working with small
appliances. . . .
Previously trained to
aim at an enemy, Seipp
now set his; sights on
learning a trade. Giving it
his best shot, he spent as
many as 16 *hours a day
studying. He completed a
1 Vi-year course in two
months.
The VA rewarded his
conscientious study by
providing him with at
home training in elec
tronics. Oakton Com
munity College teacher
Tom Witte conies in each
weekday to instruct Seipp
in the repair of electronic
appliances and circuit
boards, under yA supervi
sion.
“MR. WITTE IS
outstanding in (he way he
makes learning even com
plex concepts simple and
enjoyable. He often
volunteers more than the
stipulated hour when we
are working pn a par
ticularly difficult pro
ject,” the appreciative stu
dent said.
The entire project
would have been difficult,
if not impossible, without
VA assistance, Seipp is
convinced.
“I wish other veterans
were aware of the helping
hand they could reedve in