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Continued From Page'l the real basic strengths of our economy; our ability to produce food and fiber better than any other nation in the world. Our freedom to a great extent is based on a strong and independent agriculture system. Today, the system provides jobs for nearly one out of every five Americans employed in the private sector. It fights inflation with a productivity growth five times that of non-farm industry in the past five years. Without agriculture, our dollar would have less buying power since exports have been a leading factor in our balance of trade. So, let’s be thankful for our country as we get ready for 1982 and especially for the farmers who help make it all possible! Highway Update As you know, the General Assembly has wisely approved Gov. Jim Hunt’s far-sighted “Good Roads Program.” That program was, and is, appropriately directed toward maintaining our 76,000-mile high way system. The Board of Transportation will approve contracts to resurface and protect 2,900 miles of our highways across the state as one result of that program. On the other hand, funds for badly needed highway con struction projects to stimulate economic development, meet traffic demands and improve safety on our roads have fallen off drastically. In fact, this year we’ll have much less money than we had last year. This reflects the effects of inflation and declining gas tax revenues due to the growing use of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Our transportation board is now in the process of updating our longrange Transportation Im provement Program which identifies ongoing and future high way improvement projects. Obviously, the board will not be able to fund anywhere near the number of projects that are legitimate and badly needed. Our State Legislators are to be commended for their support of the Governor’s “Good Roads Program” for maintenance. But you should also share your con cerns with them regarding ad ditional funds for needed highway improvements. They would ap preciate knowing how you feel about this important issue for North Carolina’s future. Services Held Continued From Page 1 Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Frances K. Baer of the home, 5344 Fox Run Road, Sarasota; two sons: Richard P. Baer, 111, of Kill Devil Hills ; and Arthur P. Baer of Herndon, Va.; two daughters: Elizabeth A. Baer of St. Thomas, Virgin Island; and Priscilla R. Baer of Charlestown, W. Va.; a brother, Michael S. Baer, Jr., of Bogalusa, La.; and four grand children. The family suggests that memorial donations be made to Shrine’s Crippled Children’s Hospital Fund. Parents, in seeking to help their children, might remember the fact that responsibility often develops unsuspected talent. 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. Amburn, 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. L. F. AMBURN, JR. E. N. MANNING Editor & Publisher General Manager SUSAN BUNCH J. EDWIN BUFFLAP Office Manager ' Editor Emeritus Subscription Rates One Year (outside N.C.) sIB*BB One Year <in N.C.) SB-36 - Six Months (outside N.C.) •..... • $••*• Six Months (in N.C.) 88.24 Edontofi >< Corolino, Thursday, Doc— nbr 17, 1981 Schedule Fa Christmas Continued On Page 1 celebration of God’s reaching into our world through the gift of his Son. The public is invited to at tend. Oak Grove is located on Hwy. 64, Vfe mile west of the 64-32 junction. “Christmas is Love”, the newest Christmas composition by John W. Peterson will be presented this Sunday by the First Assembly of God church choir. This special service begins at 7 P.M. The 20- voice choir is under the direction of Donald Bunch. A time of refreshment and fellowship will follow the evening services. The pastor and congregation cordially invite the public to attend. First Assembly is located on U.S. 17 Business South (Queen Street Extended) in Edenton. The Chancel and Fellowship Choirs of Chappell Hill Baptist Church will present special musical programs during the morning and evening service on Sunday. The Chancel Choir will present the cantata, “Festival of Lessons and Carols”, by Roger C. Wilson, during the morning worship service at 11 A.M. The Chancel Choir is under the direction of Slyvia Old, church music director. Yvonne Lane will be the ac companist. The Fellowship Choir, under the direction of Mae Belle Chappell, will present the cantata, “From the Star to the Cross”, by Gene Bartlett, in the evening service at 7 o’clock. Connie Lane will be the accompanist. Chappell Hill Baptist Church is located between Belvidere and Center Hill on State Road 1002. Rev. Billy Old is the pastor and invites the public to come share in these worship services as well as all services at Chappell Hill Baptist Church. Council Continued From Page I Town in the future. It was authorized that one mobile home be sold as surplus property by means of sealed bids. Sam Noble was appointed as a member of the Firemen’s Relief Committee. In the final item of new business the Council took action concerning municipal beautification by deciding to let Willie Spruill, presently employed with the Town, to be responsible for the upkeep and beautification of the Town. There was one item not on the agenda that was added. A1 Everson requested that a shelter for civic organizations be con structed behind the Scout Hut as a Scout project. This was referred to the Finance Committee. In unfinished business, Coun cilman Homthal discussed the Committee appointments that were made and made a motion that he be put on the Public Works Committee and the Recreation Committee. Councilman Herbert Hollowell seconded the motion. The ensuing vote w/is tied at three, and Mayor Harrell killed the issue by voting against it. Homthal said that he didn’t want any one taken off the committees and that he didn’t want them changed, but he wanted to be treated equitably. I larrell countered that the Council had the opportunity to reject the committee appointments. The meeting ended following the payment of the Town Bills. Full sendees are offered in cluding Sunday School for all ages at 10 AcM.r TTTWning worship service£at Church TraininglfeiiWjLatS:3o P.M. also services cm Wednesdays at 7:30 P.M/ A sUft|sn4*welcome awaits you at Chappell Hill Baptist Church. . £jO— ' The Edentdk Historical Com mission announced today that all is ready for the Christmas Can dlelight Tour. On December 18 six homes will be open in the Court Square area of Edenton from 7- 9 P.M. On December 19 six homes in the West Church and Gale street area will be open. The entrance to each open home will be marked with luminaria. The Barker House Gift Shop will also be open. Tickets may be purchased there or at any of the open houses. The price for tickets is $7.50 both nights; $5 single night; $1 per house. Refreshments will be served on Friday evening at the Barker House and Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Bond, 106 W. Church Street. Everyone is invited to come out and support this worthwhile event. All proceeds will be used for restoration and preservation of Historic Edenton. First Presbyterian Church of Edenton will hold its sixth annual Moravian Love Feast at 7:30 P.M., Christmas Eve at the church. The public is invited. Special music will be provided by the choir and a brass and woodwind ensemble. Traditional Christmas carols and chorals will be performed by the choir and ensemble along with congregational singing of traditional Moravian Christmas hymns. The yeast bread buns are baked by the women of the church and are served with mugs of coffee by “dieners”. After the love feast meal, the church is darkened and homemade beeswax candles from Old Salem are distributed. Choir director is E. Gil Burroughs, organist is Mrs. Otis Strother and progra’m Erector ft Mrs. Chester Stevens. N.C. Receives Federal Funds RALEIGH - David Kelly, assistant secretary of the N. C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, announced today that $1,145,900 has been authorized in the 1982 federal budget for North Carolina under the Emergency Management Assistance Program. Kelly, who administers the public safety arm of the depart ment’s operations, said about the grant, “Through economies initiated on the state level, we are forwarding more money this year to counties participating in the program than we have been able to give them in the past. This year we will apportion $767,753 among the 76 counties participate in themogram. That is s an increase of s]ft),ls3 more than the 1981 fiscal ylar allocation to counties of $637,600,” Kelly said. Chowan will receive $7,051. The Emergency Management Assistance Program is designed to encourage local governments to employ professional staffs to design and administer their Comprehensive Emergency Managment Programs. Each county provides matching funds to the federal grant money This year, all allocations are subject to final congressional approval of the federal budget. Kelly said, “For the first time in several years, funds were available to support every position requested by local governments. We were able to achieve this by maintaining a reduced staffing level here and allowing a larger share of the allocation to be ap portioned among the local governments,” he said. This year the percentage split between the counties’ share of the allocation and the state share is 67 percent to33per cent. Last year it was 64 per cent to 36 per cent. “We are working hard in Raleigh,” Kelly said, “to increase the counties’ share because we realize their needs, are great.” A-A- -f- -J f ■ —1 nunt Reinstates uustefl iviemDers I ' k * . f •-' ■/.' ** ' .'"-V:' ■"> •» • I ■ ■ Gov. James B. Hunt’s apparent purge of the Edenton Historical Commission last week was short lived. Five of the commission members who got “Dear John” letters have been reinstated. But “eight new members named in the confusing events will remain on the commission. W. B. Gardner, newly elected commission chairman; George Alma Byrum, immediate past chairman and head of the im portant Operations Committee; and Mrs. Judy Earnhardt, the commission’s representative on the Historic Albemarle Tours panel and head of HAT, were among the five existing members reinstated by Gov. Hunt late Monday. Mrs. Peggy Anne Vaughan, commission secretary, said she was recently asked by a Hunt aide to comment on the activities of the .three ranking members, as well as: Mrs. Ruth Phillips, Mrs. Lindsay Hornthal, Tom Wood of Post Re-Elected To Presidency WASHINGTON The Highway 17 Transportation Association In North Carolina is winding up its most successful year and is get ting ready for its third annual effort. Thomas H. Campbell of Elizabeth City, chairman of the association’s nominations, an nounced the annual election of officers today. They will serve during 1982. Re-elected president was William H. (Bill) Page of Washington. Mayor William D. Cox of Hertford, was elected vice president, and Mayor W. Bruce Teachey of Jacksonville, was re elected secretary and treasurer. Named to head the various boards and support councils of the association were: W. P. (Spec) Jones of Edenton, vice chairman of the board of directors; Mayor Cox, chairman of the Govern mental Leadership Council; Franky Thomas of Leland, chairman J of the Brunswick County 'Commis’sfohdrS,* 'vide' chairman of the Governmental Leadership Council; Dick Paul of Washington, president of WITN TV, chairman of the Executive Advisory Council; J. A. Stafford of Williamston, official with Vepco, vice chairman of the Executive Advisory Council; Tom G. Thompson of New Bern, Craven County’s industrial developer, chairman of the Professional Advisory Council; and Tommy Combs, Elizabeth City’s city manager, vice chairman of the Professional Advisory Council. During a meeting of the Executive Committee of the association, Page said a study, being conducted for the N. C. Board of Transportation, should be completed by next June. It is to determine the need of improving Highway 17 from the Virginia line to the South Carolina border through North Carolina. During a meeting of the Executive Committee of the association, Page said a study, being conducted for the N. C. Board of Transportation, should be completed by next June. It is to determine the need for improving Highway 17 from the Virginia line to the South Carolina border through North Carolina. The association took a caravan to Raleigh to meet with Gov. James Hunt in August, 1980, asking for such a study. The governor called for the study a short while later. It is being conducted by Kimley-Hom, Inc., traffic engineering consultants from Raleigh. Page, also reported that a conference with officials of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Authority in Norfolk, Va., in October, had resulted in stepped up efforts by that group to get adequate highway passage from the bridge-tunnel to the North Carolina line north of Elizabeth City. In addition, Page said suggestions made in the summer at a meeting with Federal High- Raleigh and Mrs. Anna Bair of Elizabeth City. She said she thought it was a routine inquiry until late last week when she received copies of letters to the seven existing members, thanking them for their past service, and the eight new members designated by Gov. Hunt. Gov.. Hunt had appointed all seven members affected by the, purge in November, 1977. At that time he named 38 members, in cluding some who had served since 1962. On June 1, 1979, the General Assembly ratified a bill to recreate the commission, which was designed to merge Historic Edenton, Inc., into the hroader based panel. When this was ac complished the commission established the Operations Committee to operate historic sites here. Prior to 1979, the commission was composed of no fewer than 25 members, all appointed by the governor. All members served at his pleasure, except for ex-officio members who included the Mayor Ester Is Convicted On DUI Charge The following cases were heard in the Chowan County District Court on December 8 by J. Richard Parker, the presiding judge. Ingram Approves Rate Reduction RALEIGH lnsurance Com missioner John Ingram says he will approve the 7 per cent automobile insurance reduction requested by Nationwide. Ingram said the request by Nationwide for the reduction is proof that expert testimony in last year’s auto insurance filing is correct. Ingram said, “The statement by the cartel monopoly (the Rate Bureau) is a smoke screen.” Nationwide has appeared at rate company saying*tteey needed rate increases. “The statement* tan Mr. Ben jamin F. Seagle of Aetna Life and Casualty proves the cartel monopolistic Rate Bureau must be abolished,” he added. According to newspaper reports Seagle said, “I’m sure that after this, we’ll be taking a hard look at our figures too,” referring to the request by Nationwide. How many looks at sets of books does the auto insurance industry have to make to give the people this kind of rate reduction? The Aetna said they would look at their books again. Ingram said the Aetna’s second look statement and the Nation wide’s request show that the auto insurance companies have had all along, for years, the ability to compete using the deviation procedure. Ingram said more competition will come about when the cartel Rate Bureau is abolished and the companies file directly with him, audited information from one set of books. Nationwide is not the first auto insurance company to request lower rates in North Carolina. ■ Notice To Subscribers I 8 Subscription rates for The Chowan Herald will be increased B January 1,1982. The price for a single copy will be 25 cents. if i- This is the first increase in subscription and single copy rates » f§ in a good while and is necessary due to the continuing increase in H U postage, newsprint and production. However, our rates continue -8 to be lower than those of most community newspapers in {he m Albemarle Area. 8 The new rate for Chowan County residents and those B I throughout North Carolina will be $10.40 for one year. Outside* f the-state rates for a year will be sll. The student rate (for nine months) will be $8.32. The six-month rate for North Carolina will ■ be $7.28 with outside-the-state being $7.50. B ■ All of the above rates include North Carolina sales tax and §§ || must be paid in advance. However, telephone subscriptions will . be taken and billed immediately. Anyone who renews a sub* jj I scription prior to January 1,1982 will be allowed to do so at the I 8 existing rates. V ■ ■ Also, the U. S. Postal Service considers any subscription six I months in arrears as not a paid subscription and cannot legally I be mailed in accordance with the Second Class Postage Permit; 8 B These subscriptions will in the future be discontinued without a 8 second or final notice being sent. TheCtawMHerJd.tac., I L. F. Amburn. Jr ■ of Edenton, the chairman ofl Chowart County commissioners and the State Secretary of Cultural Resources or their designees. The commission has had a mem bership of more than 50. The creation legislation called for a commission consisting of 33 members, 18 appointed by the governor to serve at his pleasure, and 12 elected from according to the procedure it tf&pts, plus the ex-officio *£g’he commission then established by laws which, among other things, limits a member to no more than four two-year, terms. Mrs. Vaughan said the com mission was composed of 27 members prior to Gov. Hunt’s recent action. It will now consist of 33 members, with Wood and Mrs. Bair not being reinstated in Monday’s action. The eight people most recently named include: Mrs. Francis Hollowell, Mrs. April Lane, Mrs. Betty Miiuming, I. R. Self, Mrs. Kathy Busby, Christopher Bean, Mrs. Tama Clark and Mrs. Emily Brooks. Timothy Wesley Ester, DUI first offense, guilty, 90 days suspended sentence, S2OO fine and cost of court, and ordered to surrender his operator’s license. Robert Wayne Sawyer, ex ceeding a safe speed, guilty, $lO fine and cost of court. A voluntary dismissal was given on a driving while license revoked charge. Betty Arnold Byrum, 48 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, prayer for judgment continued on payment of cost of court. Joseph Bunch Byrum, non support of child, dismissal by prosecutor. Edward Lee Lawson, DUI, guilty, 90 day suspended sentence, $l5O fine and cost of court, and ordered to surrender his operator’s license. Jimmy A. Williams, disobeying a stop sign, guilty, cost of court. KttBUL diving .Mdiile license revoked disobeying a stop sign, 90 days commitment). Appealed. ’ ’ Grady Sessoms, assault on a female, guilty, 60 days suepended one year, SSO fine and cost of court, ordered not to assault Ella Gregory for one year. Marcus Richard Frear, 50 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, cost of court. The following cases were heard in the Chowan County District Court on Dec. 15 by John T. Chaffin, the presiding judge. Nancy Marie Jemigan, two counts of larceny, a motion to dismiss was allowed. Annett Palin Basnight, two counts of assault on a police of ficer, two counts of larceny, and one count of resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer, a motion to discuss was allowed. Floyd Goodwin, worthless check, not guilty. Curtis Rudolph Anthony, reckless driving after drinking, 60 days suspended two years, SIOO fine and cost of court, ordered to at tend the Drug-Alcohol school. James Harry Bowen, exceeding a safe speed, SSO fine and cost of court.
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