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widespread.
“The third point is most im
portant. It has been the sustained
momentum that citizens of the
Albemarle Region brought to bear
that led to action taken by State
Government. You must maintain
a strong coalition for clean water
and insist that every future ad
ministration make the Albemarle
a high priority.
“The Chowan River and
Albemarle Sound are too im
portant to ignore, and even when
we have no blooms we must
continue to work on improving
water quality. In my opinion this is
the most important economic as
well as environmental issue in the
Albemarle region.”
Guest Editorial
One of the challenges that we
face here at the beginning of the
New Year is how to offset the
cutbacks in federal funding of
social programs designed to meet
the needs of the state’s less for
tunate citizens.
If we are going to continue to
provide services for the needy
among us, the private sector,
individuals and agencies are going
to have to assume more respon
sibility. The situation calls for the
collective strength, talents,
energies and skills found in our
volunteers.
Volunteers have long been a
mainstay of American life. Long
before there were government
social service agencies, people
were helping one another as
volunteers. This kind of spirit
needs to be rekindled.
If the needs of people are real
and immediate then what is lost in
federal money and programs has
to be made up thru the ingenuity
and energy of those special
people called “volunteers”.
Capitol Broadcasting Co. Inc.
Fountain Presides
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remanded to District Court, where
he received 60 days suspended one
year, SIOO fine and cost of cotiff,
and ordered to surrender his
operator’s license.
Charlie Walter Paylin, charged
with 70 MPH in a 55 MPH zone,
reckless driving, and DUI, had his
case remanded to District Court
where he received six months
suspended three years, on un
supervised probation, S2OO fine in
each case, cost of court, and or
dered to surrender his operator’s
license.
James Linwood Phillips,
charged with 101 MPH in a 55
MPH zone, was found guilty and
received 60 days suspended
sentence, SIOO fine and cost of
court, and told to report to the
Sheriff of Chowan County Jan. 22
at 5 P.M. and remain confined in
Chowan County Jail until 5 P.M.
Jan. 24, and ordered to surrender
his operator’s license.
James Robert Boone, charged
with 45 MPH in a 55 MPH zone and
no operator’s license, was found
guilty and ordered to pay cost of
court.
David Thomas Nixon, charged
with murder, was found not guilty
by the jury.
Residents Urged
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Crossroads Fire Dept, on Mon
days and Tuesdays.
The deadline for listing in Jan.
30 at 12 noon, with a 10 per cent
penalty after that.
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EH#:?*'*,* »i.< Thursday. J- <uary 21, 1982
COUNTY COMMISSIONER DONATES J. D. Peele, vice
chairman of the Chowan County Commissioners, donated a unit
of blood at Tuesday’s Bloodmobile. The Bloodmobile received 161
units of blood from 185 donors, surpassing their quota of 150 units.
Bloodmobile Exceeds Its Quota
The American Red Cross
Bloodmobile visited the American
Legion building in Edenton
Tuesday. The Bloodmobile began
at 12-noon with a quota of 150 units
and, upon ending at 6 P.M., had
received 161 units from 185 donors.
This is the second time in a row
that the Bloodmobile has sur
passed its quota in Chowan
County.
According to Bruce Wackelin,
Tax Estimated
At $1.7-Million
ROANOKE RAPIDS - Vepco
will pay about $11.7-million in
North Carolina state and local
taxes in 1931. This includes $9.9-
million for taxes on gross receipts
and about $1.7-million for property
taxes.
Chowan County will receive
$19,318 while the Town of Eden
ton’s take is $2,772.
Os the 1981 property tax
payments made on December 31,
1981, Northampton County's
$344,759 was the company largest.
Halifax County had the second
largest bill at $288,602. The Gaston
and Roanoke Rapids hydroelectric
facilities are located in the two
counties.
Other counties receiving checks
include Martin, $95,212; Hertford,
$75,406; Dare, $158,539; Currituck,
$56,608; Washington, $32,950;
Bertie, $72,476; Edgecombe,
$33,442; Warren, $31,514; Gates,
$35,581; Pasquotank, $33,671;
Perquimans, $27,593; Pitt, $25,334;
Nash, $13,120; Tyrrell, $10,227;
Beaufort, $11,814; and Camden,
$9,130.
The City of Roanoke Rapids
received $70,671, and the Roanoke
Rapids School District and the
Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District
received $24,503 and $6,195,
respectively. Elizabeth City
received a check for $8,986. Other
cities receiving checks include
Greenville, $11,032 and
Washington, $4,3%.
The largest town check of
$37,915 went to Kitty Hawk. Other
towns receiving checks included
Williamston, $25,463; Ahoskie,
$10,236; Plymouth, $12,876;
Murfreesboro, $4,807; Nags Head,
$10,198; Manteo, $13,112; Tarboro,
$3,720; Kill Devil Hills, $11,646;
Weldon, $3,941; Winfall, $2,727;
Aulander $1,919; Belhaven, $1,372;
Bethel, $1,097; Columbia, $1,%2;
Gaston, $1,352; Winton, $1,389;
Whitakers, $1,271; Robersonville,
$1,643; Conway, $1,799; Jackson,
$1,303; Kelford, $1,787; Rich
Square, $4,834; Seaboard, $3,867;
Southern Shores, $2,716; and
Woodland, $2,553.
Bloodmobile chairman, special
thanks should be given to the
American Legion for donating the
building and to the following
volunteers, groups, and
businesses who contributed to the
Bloodmobile’s success: Edenton
Jaycees, Jerry Hendee and
Kathleen Jethro of the Chamber of
Commerce, Nancy Morgan,
Phyllis Swain, Mike McArthur,
Thelma Smith and the Chowan
Hospital Auxiliary, Maggie Stokes
and the American Legion
Auxiliary, David Ambrose, Gail
Johnson and Ida Harris and the
Chowan County Emergency
Medical Services, Mary Louise
Phelps and the Edenton Jaycettes,
Claire Mills and Chowan Hospital,
Dr. L. E. DeVine, Terry Williams
and WCDJ Radio, Jeffrey W.
Winslow and the Chowan Herald,
the staff of WBXB Radio, Rob
Boyce and the staff of Holmes
High School, Peoples Bank and
Trust Co., Pert Labs, W. T.
Culpepper, 111 and Farm Bureau
Insurance -for providing the
canteen, A. C. Hudson, Rosa
Rountree Davis Jewelers, and
Edenton Cotton Mills.
Caution Urged In I
(Editor’s Note: This story of
interest in Edenton and Chowan
County first appeared in The
Virginian - Pilot on January 18.)
ByHarry Stapleton
Some peanut quota holders in
Virginia and North Carolina could
be voting themselves out of
business in the Jan. 25-29
referendum on the federal price
support program.
A provision of the peanut section
of the 1981 Farm BUI permits the
secretary of agriculture to with
draw the allocation of quota
holders who have leased or rented
their farm’s poundage to another
grower for cash in two of the past
three years, 1979-81.
Grower associations in the two
states say a strict interpretation of
the section means farmers in the
lease-rent category would lose
their historic quota, the poundage
that receives the high price
support of $550 per ton this year.
Russell Schools, executive
secretary of the Virginia Peanut
Growers Association, said it did
not appear that the provision
applied to quota holders who
leased out their entire farm or
rented their poundage on a profit
sharing basis instead of taking
cash.
County officials of the
Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation Service, which
administers the program, said
they had not yet received
guideline rules and regulations
interpreting the new peanut bill
for the crop years 1982-85.
Schools and Fleetwood Sugg,
executive secretary of the North
Carolina Peanut Growers
Association, said, they had ap
pealed, through congressmen in
the two states, to the secretary of
agriculture to modify the section.
The section was included, ac
cording to Sugg, in the last hours
of the debate on the peanut bill in a
conference committee of the
House and Senate. He said the
industry only learned of the
section about two weeks ago.
The' committee’s chore was to
resolve differences in the. House
and Senate legislation on peanuts.
The House had voted to kill the
program white the Senate bill
continued allotments price
Watts Files For Re-Election To DA Post
District Attorney Thomas S.
Watts announced his filing as a
candidate for reelection with the
State Board of Elections, subject
to the Democratic Primary on
May 4, 1982. Watts has? served
seven years as District Attorney
for the seven county First Judicial
District which includes Chowan
County. Prior to assuming his
present office as chief criminal
prosecutor he served for four and
one half years as an Assistant
District Attorney and as District
Court Prosecutor.
In announcing his candidacy,
Watts pledged to, “continue to
vigorously prosecute those per
sons who violate our laws in an
impartial manner without fear or
favoritism.” Watts further stated
that he would, “maintain the
highest possible level of efficiency
in both courtroom and office
operations, consistent with our
prime objectives of fairly and fully
representing the interests of in
dividual crime victims and society
and advising the law officers
of the District.”
Watts, 42, is a graduate of
Davidson College and received his
law degree from Wake Forest
University. He is a member of the
National District Attorneys
Association and the North
Carolina District Attorneys
Association as well as local, state
and national bar associations.
Watts has held numerous offices
within the North Carolina District
Attorneys Association, including
serving as the organization’s
President in 1979-80.
Watts has attended training
courses conducted by the National
College of District Attorneys and
has lectured on criminal law at
schools and training seminars
conducted by the State D. A.
Association, the N. C. Justice
Academy and the University of
North Carolina School of
Medicine.
In addition to numerous
charitable and civic activities,
Watts is a past President of the
Pasquotank Young Democrats
Referendum Vote
Last year, the poundage quota
was 1.44 million tons. Under the
new legislation, the quota this
year is reduced to 1.2-million tons,
a reduction of 240,000 tons.
Under the quota-reduction
mandate, School said that
Virginia’s poundage would drop
from 112,000 tons to 94,000 tons and
that about three per cent of the
decline would involve poundage of
holders caught in the lease-rent
category.
Sugg said North Carolina’s
poundage quota would decline by
about 25,000 tons. At a support
price of $550 per ton, that’s a loss
of more than $12.6-million.
Under the new bill, anyone can
grow peanuts anywhere in the
country but only the poundage
quota holders are entitled to the
high price support. All additional
peanuts will be supported at a
lower level, to be set by the
secretary of agriculture. Last
year, the support price for ad
ditional peanuts was $250 per ton.
School said the secretary of
agriculture was empowered to
reduce poundage in a “fair and
equitable” manner, using four
methods, including the seizure of
quotas held by those in the rent
lease category.
Other methods include taking
the quota of any holder who does
not have tillable land to produce
it; eliminating the quota of any
holder who has not produced the
quota anywhere in the past 10
years; and reducing, a cross-the
board, the quota of each holder.
Schools said that in 1969
Congress approved a bill that
allowed the lease, sale or transfer
of a peanut allotment within a
county.
An action that was legal during
the past three years is now
grounds for penalty, Schools said.
In the five-day mail vote by
peanut farmers Jan. 25-29 on
whether to accept and continue the
peanut program, two-thirds of
growers voting must approve it.
Anything leas than a two-thirds
majority will mean the end of the
1 peanut program and federal price
supports for all growers.
Inflation, like some diseases, is
rkiMMunni of ita after-
Club and served as a Democratic
Precinct Chairman.
In 1968 Watts was recognized as
one of the Five Outstanding Young
Men of North Carolina and also
received the Distinguished Ser
vice Award presented annually by
the Elizabeth City Jaycees. He
was recipient of the first annual
Outstanding Service Award
awarded by the Elizabeth City
Phone Co. Pays Whopping Tax Bill
Carolina Telephone’s 1981
Chowan County tax payment here
amounted to $50,555.65.
The company’s check makes it
one of the largest taxpayers in the
county.
T % F. Daniels, Carolina
Telephone’s district commercial
and marketing manager in
Elizabeth City, said that the
company’s total tax bill within
Chowan County, including all city
taxes, is $67,580.15.
“The taxes reflect Carolina
Telephone’s continuing in
vestment in buildings and
equipment to help meet the high
demand for telecommunication
service,” said Daniels.
Carolina Telephone’s total
operating tax bill for 1961, in
cluding all state and federal taxes,
is expected to come to nearly
$56.9-million.
This figure does not include
almost $5-million in two per cent
federal excise tax payments which
were billed to telephone users by
the company. The excise taxes are
remitted to the federal govern
ment upon collection.
The company has applied for a
general rate increase which would
increase its intrastate operating
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touring symphony orchestra, will
bring a wonderful experience of
music to all in attendance.
Rossini’s “Overture to the Italian
in Algiers” and Benjamin Brit
ten’s “Soirees Musicals, Suite of
• v «.Moyements from gQtafa’'
Op. 9' will comprise a major
prbtion of the* program prior to •
intermission.
Richard Fecteau, principal
Tromboniest with the Symphony,
will be the featured soloist during
Carl Oestreich’s “Trombone
Concertine.”
Following intermission, local
citizenry will be further enrap
tured by the blended voices of The
Edenton Choral Society and The
John A. Holmes High School
Concert Choir. The beautiful and
challenging works of art which
these choruses will perform in
clude Holst’s “Festival Te Deum”
and “Vivaldi’s “Gloria.”
In honor of visiting musicians,
everyone attending the evening
program is invited to attend a
reception immediately following
the concert. The Chowan Arts
Council is sponsoring this informal,
festivity.
A full schedule is planned for
North Carolina’s “Cultural Am
bassadors” while in Edenton.
Following rehearsal with the
choral groups on Wednesday
night, there will be a free
educational concert for Edenton-
Chowan’s 4th through Bth grade
students on Thursday morning.
Conductor Ogle has graciously
consented to visit Holmes Concert
Choir classes on Thursday af
ternoon prior to the upcoming
evening concert for the com
munity. An informal Tea is
planned to honor the genial con
- ductor by the school’s Modern
Music Masters Club.
The N. C. Symphony is being
sponsored in Edenton by the
Chowan County Chapter of the
N.C. Symphony organized this past
summer under the auspices of
Edenton-Chowan Schools Com
munity Education Program.
Providing an annual concert in the
community is a major function of
this body.
Advanced tickets to the January
28 evening concert may be pur
chased at Hollowell-Blount’s and
Mitchener’s pharmacies, The
Edenton Chamber of Commerce,
or from secretaries at any of
Chowan County’s public schools.
Sections of the auditorium wiH be
reserved for advance ticket
purchases and those who have
become members of the N. C.
Fraternal Order of Police in 1972.
Watts is married to the former
Marguerite Peters of Richmond,
Va. and has one daughter, Kathy,
age 17. Mrs. Watts is active in
civic and charitable endeavors
and presently serves as President
of the Albemarle Hospital
Auxiliary and the Pasquotank
P.T.A. Council.
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revenues by $47.2-million an
nually. Should the N. C. Utilities
Commission approve the request,
federal and state taxes would take
a little more than half of the
requested revenues. The
remaining dollars will be used to
continue meeting increased
operating expenses, interest
payments, depreciation and
employee wages and fringe
benefits, and to provide a fair
return to investors.
Governor To Be
Guest Os Honor
Gov. James B. Hunt, will be
guest of, honor at the first
Albemarle Ball hosted by
Democratic Party organizations
in a ten-county area, according to
Gwenn Cruickshank, publicity
chairman for the event.
The February 12 event will be
sponsored by Camden, Chowan,
Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde,
Perquimans, Pasquotank, Tyrrell,
and Washington counties. Bill
Owens, Democratic Party
Chairman of Pasquotank County
is chairman of the ball.
Site for the ball will be the
Vaughn Center on the campus at
Elizabeth City State University.
Music will be furnished by the
March IV band.
Among prominent Democrats
expected to attend are members of
the General Assembly, the Council
of State, and the Democratic
Executive Committee. Tickets at
. _ JKAjper JSJUpIq ,Qr T S2O per person
* van *be * pUchased from county
it..iChajFputoos ol dfoec#y from the
Democratic Party Headquarters
in Raleigh.
Final arrangements for the Ball
will be made at a meeting of the
ten-county chairmen, the in
dividual committee chairmen, and
the coordinating staff during early
January.
IRS Eliminates
Walk-In Service
GREENSBORO - The Internal
Revenue Service is eliminating
walk-in assistance to taxpayers
who in previous years have vifeited
the Elizabeth City, Franklin,
Gastonia, Goldsboro, Henderson,
High Point, Lumberton, New
Bern, Rocky Mount, Salisbury,
, Sanford, and Shelby offices for
return preparation and bfank
forms, the IRS has announced.
Glenn Jones, IRS Public Affairs
Officer said, “In our effor|s to
more efficiently use our liijiited
resources in the taxp ayer
assistance area and to servi i the
largest number of North Car ilina
taxpayers, we are dive: ting
resources to our Toll- i’ree
Telephone System.”
Jones said that the tol -free
system has always been the nost
effective way in which taxpi yers
receive assistance. The tol -free
number is 1-800-822-8800.
Jones added that additional
forms and publications ma r be
ordered on the handy coupe i in
cluded in the personal tax f >rms
package, or by telephoning -800-
,241-3860 toll-free. Also, most t anks
and post offices stock a lii lited
number of the basic tax fom j, he
said.
Another option, is the Volu teer
Income Tax Assistance (V TA)
Program. “Free assistance I > the
elderly, handicapped and low
income taxpayers may be
available from these local g sups
of volunteers trained by the kS,”
Jones said. The locations and ours
of assistance by these groups may
be obtained by calling the IRJ toll
free number listed in the ocal
Phonebook.
Jones added that taxpayer will
still meet with collection jmd
examination personnel by ap
pointment at the local offices.
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