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■B tBH' , ’ _ MMJL H ■ I jpr • iBWEjy WyT '*. •■ sy K J.; Wm BP Bk I mm f v b wpi *»jtl» \ P 888 flflß wSm® Bfc' Hi UHF Hi 99 ®R||f ■Bk j ; Igii mKmmi' Jfßfc GIANT WATERMELONS A. C. Griffin stands with Linda Evans, left, and Carolyn Ricks, right, in front of one of his “A. C. Griffin Specials”. This watermelon, pictured in People’s Bank, weighed in at 110 pounds. Mr. Griffin grew the watermelon on his farm located at Route 3, Edenton. Cajuns Select Flanagan For Post Continued from page 1 during the coming season. The 33-year-old Flanagan came to USL in 1974 and became full time in 1975. He is a 1971 graduate of East Carolina and earned both his masters’ and educational specialists’ degrees from USL. He coached at Samford. Ala. before coming to USL. Rodgers is in his fourth year as offensive line coach after serving for three years as defensive line coach. He came to USL in 1974 and earned his masters' degree in 1976 after receiving his bachelors' at Arizona, where he was a three year starter on the football squad, in 1969. Lockwood is the dean of the Cajun staff after coming to USL in 1971. The 44-year-old Lockwood, who also served for eight years as the Cajuns’ head baseball coach, is switching from the defensive ends to the linebackers this season after coaching the ends for nine seasons. He played football and baseball at Tulane and graduated from Lamar in 1961 and earned his masters’ from USL in 1973. “I feel we’ve got one of the outstanding football staffs in the country,” Robertson said of the staff that also includes defensive coordinator Dave Dunkelberger, defensive line coach Thielen Smith and defensive ends coach Tom Couste. “We’re very lucky to have a group of high quality coaches like this on our staff.” The Cajuns will open fall practice for the 1981 season on Tuesday, August The Cajuns opened fall practice for the 1981 season on Tuesday, August 11, when the freshmen checked in. The varsity will report The Chowan Herald (USPS 106-380) I P.O. BOX 207, EDENTON, N.C. 27932 Published every Thursday at Edenton by The Chowan Herald, Inc., : L.F. Ambum, Jr., Editor and Publisher, 421-425 South Broad Street, Edenton, North Carolina, 27932. Entered as second-class matter August 30,1934, at the Post Office ; of Edenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1870. 1..K. AMBL'RN. JR. E.N. MANNING Editor & Publisher General Manager SUSAN BUNCH J. EDWIN BUFFIAP Office Manager Editor Emerttn \ ;! V . i _ Subscription Kates One Year <outside N.U.) $lO 00 One Year i in N C.) Six Months (outside N.C.) jggo Six Months < in N C.) $6.24, Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, August 13, 1981 on August 15, and pre-season practice officially begins on Monday, August 17. USL opens its 1981 season on Saturday, Sep tember 5, against Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss. Second Quarter Sales Are Noted Sales of Series EE and HH Savings Bonds in Chowan County during the second quarter of 1981 were $12,451.00. Total sales for the first six months amounted to $24,644.00, according to R. Graham White, volunteer county chairman. For the quarter, April-June, sales of U. S. Savings Bonds in North Carolina totalled $14,035,867, bringing January- June 1981 to $29,678,182. Nationally, June 1981 U. S. Savings Bonds sales of $3Ol - were SO.B-million above June 1980 sales. Sales for the first six months of 1981 amounted to $2.6-billion. Series E Bonds ex changed for Series HH Bonds during the April-June quarter totalled $lB5-million; bringing the Fiscal Year total to $493-million. Dr. Pressley Continued from page 1 other vacancies prior to the beginning of school, Dr. Dunn stated that the application process for filling the Director of In struction’s position will be an nounced at a later time. In making your future plans, don’t count heavily on what you think other people will do tor you. Latest Unemployment Figures Show North Carolina At 6.3 Per Cent RALEIGH While North Carolina’s statewide unem ployment rate stood at 6.3 per cent in Juhs new-claims for unem ployment insurance claims be tween May and June of this year occurred in the service industry, 41.4 per cent. The lumber and wood industry also showed a rather sizeable upswing amounting Jo 35.8 per cent. Downtrends of 39 per cent in metals and machinery and 26.4 per cent in apparel served to somewhat offset the rises in the service and lumber and wood industries. Since last June, the major retrenchment was noted in metals and machinery, down 71.2 per cent. Additionally, new claims were down in furniture (-68.3 per cent); textiles, excluding hosiery, (-64 per cent); and “other manufacturing” (-58.8 per cent). In comparison to June last year, the number of weeks claimed for unemployment by individuals was down in over 75 per cent of the selected industries. The major reductions were recorded for furniture (-63.9 per cent); hosiery (-42.4 per cent); and textiles, excluding hosiery, (-36.1 per cent). Approximately 53 per cent of ESC’s local Job Service offices reported declines in the insured umemployment rates. Charlotte posted the lowest rate (1 per cent). Other areas posting the lowest rates included Raleigh, 1.3 per cent; Durham, 1.4 per cent; and Asheboro and Concord, 1.6 per cent each. On the other hand, the v «ss> Sen. Melvin R. Daniels, Jr. Sen. Daniels Reappointed Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green today announced the re-appointment of Sen. Melvin R, Daniels, Jr., of Elizabeth City, to a two-year term of membership on the N. C. Seafood Industrial Park Authority. He was first appointed by Lt. Gov. Green in 1979, after the General Assembly created the Authority, and his present term will expire July 1, 1983. Sen. Daniels is a senior vice president of Peoples Bank and Trust Company in Elizabeth City. He represents the first Senatorial District, which is comprised of Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford. Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties. This is his third consecutive term in the Senate. During the 1981 Session Sen. Daniels was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee on General Government, and vice chairman of the Senate Com mittee on "Economy, and of the Senate Committee on Congressional Redistricting. The purpose of the authority is to “engage in promoting, developing, constructing, equipping, maintaining and operating the Seafood Industrial Parks within the State,” including the Wanchese Seafood Industrial Park, located within Dare County. News Views Ronald Reagan, President: “We’re moving ahead with a bipartisan coalition in the Congress. We believe that on economic recovery there can be no Republicans and no Democrats - only Americans.” if highest rates wre sustained in Ahoskie, 6.6 per cent; Murphy, 6.5 per cent; Roxboro, 6.7 per cent; and Spruce Pine, 6.8 per cent. A total of $17,055,697 in unem ployment insurance benefits was paid to claimants for a weekly average of $3,876,295. That left the Unemployment Insurance Fund balance standing at as of June 30. 1116 number of covered employers as of June 30 was 102,695. Between May and June of this year, the weekly average of unemployment insurance benefits paid dropped 4.7 per cent and compared to the same period last year the weekly average dropped 18 per cent. The average payment for a week of total unemployment during June was $91.01 up from the $90.26 of May and the $88.58 of last June. Mecklenburg County residents received the largest dollar amount in benefits, $927,374, followed by Guilford County with $926,030. A high volume of benefits was also paid for residents of Forsyth and Gaston counties. The total number of unfilled job openings on record at local Job Service offices across the state at the end of June was 8,867, down from both the previous month’s and the previous year’s volume by -7.7 per cent and -12.9 per cent, respectively. For every unfilled job opening, approximately 23 applicants were available for work in June compared to 21 in May and 20 in June of the preceding year. Coastal Grants Continued from page 1 designed to provide increased public access to ocean beaches. This new program under this Coastal Resource Commission’s direction includes an ap propriation of sl-million and will be used to acquire some par ticularly hazardous ocean front lots. The federal law that is the basis for grant announcement is the Coastal Zone Management Act of i law that is within the v jurisdiction of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Hollowell Found Guilty On DUI Continued from page 1 guilty of throwing at trains, and were given a 60 day sentence suspended for one year, SSO fine and cost of court, and were told not to throw at a train for a year. Oscar Lee Wilks was found guilty of larceny and given a seven month sentence suspended for two years, $125 fine, cost of court, and was ordered to pay a restitution of $8.99 to Fast Fare. An appeal was noted. Calvin Lynn Garrett and Michael C. Mizelle and David Clyde Silverthorne were found guilty of possessing an alcoholic beverage and given a 10 day sentence suspended for one year, $25 fine and cost of court. An appeal was noted. Shooting Incident A shooting incident was reported at 1; 15 P. M. on August 6. According to the Sheriff’s Department, Kenneth Owens, with a 12-year-old child in the car, was turning off Highway 32 onto Rocky Hock Road when another car passed and fired shots into Owen’s car. Honore Louis Blount was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. The weapon used was a gas-operated revolver. Blount is now being held in the Chowan County jail. Happiness is a dollar that won't blow away. it 1 I if GOVERNOR TO APPEAR There will be an informal reception and dinner on September 9 with Gov. Jim Hunt and officials of Virginia Electric & Power Company to discuss the future of industrial development in northeastern North Carolina. The meeting will be held at the Chowan Golf & Country Club beginning at 6:30 P. M. Cost of the meal will be $lO per person to be paid at the Country Club. “Lights On” Law Saved Lives CHAPEL HILL North Carolina’s “lights-on” law for motorcycles saved both lives and money during its first five years, according to a University of North Carolina study. The law that requires motor cyclists to burn both headlights and taillights during the day saved more than 40 lives, 1,470 injuries and almost $14.5-million between 1974 and 1978, the study revealed. Dr. Patricia F. Waller of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center and Dr. Lindsay I. Griffin 111 of the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A. & M. University conducted the in vestigation. “The best estimates indicate that daytime* multi^ehigular crashes ppt^jcycles • have-beeri "reduced by almost 20 per cent because of the law,” Waller said. “During the first five years following its passage, there were 1,713 ‘missing’ crashes that would have been expected but did not occur.” The effect of the “lights -on” law was determined by analyzing motorcyles and other vehicle accident statistics between 1971 and 1978. Enacted on Oct. 1, 1973, the statute was designed to increase the visibility of motorcyclists to other drivers during daylight hours, she said. Car-motorcycle accidents often result when car drivers fail to yield the right-of way to cyclists because they have not seen their approach on the highway. Since the study did not include accident figures for 1979,1980, and 1981, Dr. Waller said the total savings to date are undoubtedly much higher. “We have every reason to believe the effect has continued because it was so consistent for the years we studied,” she said. The decline of daytime, car motorcycle accidents cannot be Wbrking for us helps them wort better for you! flflj - Oh,whatateam! Employees who serve on National lightened employers who already do. Guard and Reserve teams make bet- Sign the Statement of Support. For a ter team workers for you. complete information package on If you already encourage employee how you can participate, write today: participation in Guard aqd Reserve Employer Support. training, many thanks. If not, join the Arlington. Virginia B now more than 360,000 en- 22209. qj RRI UomWiMUM (Suj * *Mc oi tn> mww» 4 Th* iMw < 4i Unjpon \ \ 2JJW* attributed to an overall decline in motorcycle crashes -- including those that occur at night or when an operator loses control of his bike - because there was no overall decline. The UNC Highway Safety Research Center study found nothing to support the view of opponents of “lights-on” laws that , the regulation actually increases * the number of rear end collisions. “On the basis of the prepon- : derance of evidence, we recom mend that states enact legislation ■ requiring the use of headlights : during daylight operation of ; motorcycles,” Dr. Waller said. . “Such legislation appears to be a : highly cost-effective method of reducing injury and death from \ motorcycle crashes. ;.? The researcher said she and her <* colleagues are sympathetic to those who oppose increased government interference in what might be called personal decisions. “But the injured motorcyclists affects more than just himself,” she said. “These injuries represent a burden to all of us in terms of increased medical costs, increased disability payments and increased taxes. “What we’re talking about is the tough question of an individual’s rights versus the rights of society.” Miss Everson Award Winner Janet D. Everson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Everson of Edenton, has been awarded a Winslow Foundation Scholarship at North Carolina State University for the 1981-82 academic year. Miss Everson is a junior in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences majoring in animal science and pre-veterinary medicine. This summer she has worked as an intern at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
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