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* EMPTY TODAY The bandstand like the rest of the Fair Grounds is empty today, but soon the
bark of the carnie caller will fill the air.
County Fair
Starts Sept 20
The Fair grounds are empty
today and there are no teamming
masses of people to be en
tertained. You can hear none of
the usual grunts, moos or bays
from the livestock exhibit. There
are no crafts or canned goods on
display in the exhibition hall. No
games, rides or any of the usual
things associated witht the fair.
But, as fall approaches an thrill of
anticipation is beginning to fill the
air.
The Chowan County Fair may
not be here yet but the plans have
been made and preparations for
fair week, Sept. 20 - 25, are already
well underway.
Among the acts that will be
appearing at the fair this year will
be the high wire artist, Carla
Wallenda, the country band, The
Good Old Boys, and a soul group
U)ck, Stock and Barrell. There
mill also be the exhibits of
livestock, field crops, canned
gobds, crafts and fine arts.
The fair will be the scene of the
Northeastern Pork Queen Contest.
As young women, between the
ages of 17 and 22, compete to be
crqjpted Northeastern Pork
Queen. The contest will be held on
Tuesday, September 21 at 8:30
P.M.
As the fair booklet says, “The
Chowan County Fair is a picture of
the 'people, businesses and
agriculture of the Albemarle
Area.”
The Fair grounds may be empty
today but on the 20th of Sep
tember, excitement will be word
of the day as the fair opens its
doors to the public.
Heart Association
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continue their medication; to help
expand public knowledge of how to
react to a cardiac emergency; and
other Heart Association programs
designed to reduce premature
’death and disability from heart
disease.
“It’s frightening,” said Gillikin,
thing, to know that people
are- walking around today with
higli blood pressure, which can
cause a stroke, heart attack, or
kidney damage, when we know
that proper treatment by a
physician can reduce the risk of
these dangerous conditions.”
The Chowan Herald (USPS 106-380)
P.O. BOX 207, EDENTON, N.C. 27932
..Published every Thursday at Edenton by The Chowan Herald,
Jfac., 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
fltEdenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1870
L.F. AMBURN. JR. E.N. MANNING
Editor ft Publisher General Manager
i SUSAN BUNCH J. EDWIN BUFKLAP
|v Office Manager Editor Emeritus '
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leaving the county before they
reach the age 29. This out -
migration by the young people has
implications for economic growth
as well as population growth. It is
a well known fact that most
children are born to parents who
are in their 20s and 30s. Since
many Chowan residents migrate
out of the county before or soon
after reaching the age in which
most people begin their families,
this loss is likely to reduce the
natural population growth during
the coming years.
Using past trends to project the
future population, Professor
Horace Hamilton of State College
and Joe Perry of DCP have for
casted the population in Chowan
County to continue to decrease
during the next two decades. If
past trends continue, it is likely
that the county population will
number no more than 10,700 by
1970, a loss of almost a thousand
'fieoplb dqring ttfis decide, Wrt will
number less than 10,000 by 1980.
Sigpe the county shgft on
young adults during the coming"
years - and as a result will have
only limited need for additional
housing units - this lack of young
married couples may tend to
stymie employment opportunities
in the construction industry and
reduce commercial activity
considerably under what it could
be if all young adults would
remain in the county because it
has been shown by surveys that a
large proportion of total purchases
for goods and services are made
by people between age 30 - 39.
This is not to say that out -
migration or the decreasing
population is responsible for the
lack of sufficient employment
opportunities in the county. On the
contrary, out - migration is the
result of and not the cause of
relatively poor employment op
portunities.
While the population was
decreasing by 6.5 per cent during
the past decade, total employment
in the county dropped by 1 per cent.
The substantial gain in em
ployment in all nonagricultural
industries combined was not
sufficient to offset the rapid
decfine in agricultural em
ployment. As a result of the
exodus out of agriculture, the
population is about equally
divided three ways between the
urban, rural nonfarm, and rural
farm classification.
It nas been estimated that less
than 10 per cent of North
Carolina’s labor force will be
required for agricultural
production by 1975. If this estimate
holds true for Chowan County,
then the movement off the farm
will continue for many more years
because 24 per cent of the em
ployed county workers in 1960
were engaged in agriculture.
Based on past national
agricultural employment trends,
the county is expected to lose over
350 jobs to farm mechanization
during this decade.
Should the nonagricultural
industries presently located in
Chowan expand at the national
growth rate, total employment
will be slightly greater in 1970 than
was the case in 1960. However, it
should be pointed out that
manufacturing, the county’s
second major source of em
ployment next to agriculture,
grew at only 5 per cent during the,
«<p&st decade while the national
rate was much higher at 19 peril
cant. Sincg thq.Hjpanufacture ofl.
food, textiles, and apparels are
increasing faster in this state than
throughout the nation, it is
possible that these industries may
grow faster than the national
rates. That is doubtful though
since employment opportunities in
the local food and textile plants
declined during the past decade.
Lumber - furniture, the county’s
largest source of employment is
manufacturing, is expected to
experience slow growth according
to the national growth rate for this
industry.
Over the 10 year period 1950 - 60,
Chowan County had a gain in the
number of people employed in
commerce, professional services,
and transportation - com*
munication - utilities. According to
the national growth rates, each of
these industries is projected to
show substantial growth in em
ployment opportunities during this
decade. However, the expansion in
these nonbasit industries depend
very heavily on what happens in
agriculture and manufacturing.
Should the slow growth trends in
manufacturing continue in
Chowan County, along with the
movement off the farm, em
ployment in the local nonbasic
industries probable will not ex
pand at anything like the national
rates. If this happens, total em
ployment opportunities in the
county probable will decrease
rather than increase slightly as
the national growth rates indicate.
Even though many people are
leaving the county in search of
relatively better employmnt
opportunities, there is an adequate
supply of production workers
available for employment in any
likely industrial expansion.
Estimates by the Employment
Security Commission of North
Carolina show that there are over
2,300 production type winters
available for employment within a
20- mile radious of Eden ton. While
only 500 of these available workers
have skills or semiskills - with
experience in textiles, apparel,
logging, construction, machinery,
pulp, and paper, wood wetting,
and ship building - all of them are
considered to be trainable for
production jobs demanding skill
CRC To Develop
Fund Guidelines
Friday action by the Coastal
Resources Commission means
that coastal towns and counties
will get state support as they begin
planning for rebuilding after a
major storm. At its August 26-27
Wilmington meeting, the com
mission concluded 18 months of
study and two public hearings by
voting unanimously to develop
guidelines for coastal com
munities to use in post-disaster
reconstruction planning.
“The necessity of planning for
disasters and the rebuilding effort
which follows has been un
derscored by everyone who ad
dressed the Commission,” said
Dr. J. Parker Chesson, Jr.,
chairman. “Now these guidelines
will help our coastal communities
make important decisions for the
future. The Commission will also
be developing state policies to
guide reconstruction when issues
affect the entire coastal area. We
will bring these policies back to
the people and local governments
for a thorough public discussion of
these choices.”
The commission voted that
plans developed by communities
and counties must establish
policies on the most important
post-disaster issues including
utility and rights-of-way
relocations, sound engineering
practice for construction, local
plans for public works projects
and resubdivision of lots into
adequately sized lots. These issues
must be addressed in the local
plans although specific decisions
about how best to accomplish the
goals are left to the local govern
ments. Once the local policies are
set, state and federal agencies and
public utilities are bound by law to
comply with them.
In other action, the commission
agreed to take several important
issues to public hearing at its next
meeting. Among the hearing
topics will be a proposal to no
longer require permits for certain
kinds of minor development in
volving public trust or estuaringe
r waters. Another ..proposed rule
change would allow
i bulkheads to reclainvwftore thaWWs
tone year’s erosion when ism aller
bulkheads are impractical.
Procedural rules on hearings, civil
assessments and rule-making will
also be covered in the October 7-8
meeting. The meeting site has not
yet been set.
In committee action, the
Commission directed that studies
be completed on ways to improve
and create public beach areas
along the shorelines of the coastal
sounds. The Commission also
directed staff to draft policies
which would forbid the mooring of
floating homes in the waters of
coastal North Carolina for con
sideration at the next meeting.
The ban was proposed because the
structures pose navigation and
pollution threats and interfer with
the use and enjoyment of public
waters.
In a major address Natural
Resources and Community
Development Secretary Joseph W
Grimsley told the Commission
that the continued funding of the
Coastal Area Management Act
was essential to the future well
being of the coast. “You don’t
have to look far to see the value of
coastal management in North
Carolina,” Grimsley said. “Other
states have left their coast and its
resources to chance and now are
overcrowded, polluted and at the
mercy of the next lag storm.”
Grimsley noted that there are
special problems and issues on the
toast. “These issues arise from
the area’s popularity and its
delicate and productive system of
land and water. With CAMA,
North Carolina has a tod for
finding answers to these and other
important decisions for our
future.” Grimsley added.
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mittee.
The program is scheduled to
begin the week of October 18,1982.
A solicitation of funds will begin in
a few days. Advisers are being
■elected and participants will be
recruited by visitation to the
school system. “We are loakii«
forward to another successful
ye v with Junior Achievement and
are happy that Perquimans
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Mrs. Alice Ward
Ward Becomes
New Part-Owner
Wind - Lee Restaurants, Inc.
announced last week that Mrs.
Alice Ward had been named part
owner of the Chicken Kitchen.
During the week that followed
Mrs. Ward has had to come to
grips with her new status.
The Herald interviewed her this
week to get her first impressions
of becoming part owner in the
Chicken Kitchen.
She started the interview by
saying, “You know I can’t even
say what I feel, its such a won
derful feeling.”
“I’m just filled with so much joy
knowing that God blessed me with
so much, that I never thought
would happen to me.”
“When Mr. Joseph Bowles made
the announcement I was taken by
surprise...what a thrilling and
exciting moment the an
nouncement was for me. I was
reminded of the hard work and
many hours I had contributed to
the business’ success.”
Mr. Joseph Bowles when asked
about the announcement said,
“Alice has worked for us for the
past' 11 years and we thought that
she deserved to be rewarded for
her hard work.
Mrs. Ward would like to thank
her many customers, the em
ployees of the Chicken Kitchen
and Mr. Bowlfes.
AcesJQefeat
The Aces offence had a disap
pointing second half as they could
not score a touchdown or ef
fectively move the ball, but by the
same token neither could the
Eagles. Until Northeastern scored
finally with 4:30 left in the game as
they executed a flea-flicker from
the junior quarter back, Hawkins
to Doug Shannon to Larry Brooks
who caught the ball in the end
zone.
The game came to a close with
Edenton victorious over the
Eagles.
Media Study Set
A new and innovative seminar -
type Adult Education program on
News Reporting and News Media
Study will be sponsored by College
of The Albemarle.
The program will include guest
lecturers from all sources of
media: newspaper, radio,
television, and magazine
publishers. Lectures already
scheduled include - Lee Kanipe
with WITN-TV channel 7,
Washington, N.C.; Jan Gardner
with WVEC-TV channel 13,
Norfolk; Harry Styles Manager of
Public Relations and Community
Affairs, with WYAH—TV channel
27, Portsmouth, Va.; Mike
Goodman, Executive Editor, “Hie
Daily Advance”, Elizabeth City;
Flynn Surratt with WCDJ,
Edenton; Doug Gardner with
“The Virginian Pilot,” Norfolk;
L.F. Amburn, Jr., Editor and
Publisher, and E.N. Manning,
Manager “The Chowan Herald”,
Edenton. Field trips to news
media sites will be a component of
the Seminar.
The seminar is designed to
assist club presidents, publicity
chairmen, civic dub members
and individuals wishing to gain a
better understanding of news
reporting. Providing helpful bints
and insights in news reporting
from the initial steps of writing a
news item to the finished
published artide is the objective
of the seminar.
You m«y sign up at John A.
Holmes High School at 7 P.M. oo
September 14*. The fee for the
seminar will be sls. For farther
Perquimans Hosts
Sept Food Fair
One Mg event in Perquirrians
County during September is tte
Annual Food Show and Tasting
Tour. This year’s Food Show wfij
be held on Wednesday, September
15, 1982 at the ARPDC building on
Church St. Extended in Hertford.
The theme of the Food Show 4s
Indian Summer Food Show and
the hours are from 7 P.M.-9 P.M.
A special guest is Miss Patrick
Russell, Home Economics Ex
tension Agent in Halifax County
who will be sharing her expertise
in Breadmaking. She will share
tips for successful breadmaking
and have samples for tasting.
Other exhibitors will indude &-
Her’s, Extension Homemaker
Clubs- Burgess, Pooles Grove,
Bay Branch; local Business and
Professional Women’s Club, E.L.
Hurdle and Earline White with
their famous French Fried Sweet
Potatoes, Douglas Umphlett with
Microwave Cooking plus other
food exhibits. Food Show recipe
books wiU be avaUable and on sale
for fifty cents per copy. For more
information call 426-7697. >t<
Soil Erosion
Action Urged ;
The N.C. Sedimentation Control?
Commission this week urged local ]
governments to enact local soil?
erosion and sediment controls
programs.
“Soil erosion is the number one]
polluter of North Carolina’s lakes,
rivers and smaller streams,”]
Chairman Dr. Joseph A. Phillips-:
told the 11 member commission:
during its September 1 session
hdd in Raleigh.
“We have a state law on soif
erosion,” Phillips stated, “but
more local governments need tot
include erosion control in theiri
land use and construction;
regulations.” Phillips added thaf
only 36 of the state’s tities and
counties now have local or-i
(finances' to hdp control soil
erosion. 1
an ordinance to their specific*
needs and respond more efj
fectively to citizen concerns, than
can the statewide law,” Phillipg
said. “We find that most of thri
large earth moving contractors fit
our state are aware of the state’g
sedimentation law, but it’s the
smaller operator with only a few
pieces of equipment who needs ta
be made aware of ,the law,” the
chairman said, adding, “and
that’s where local governmdhft
come in.”
North Carolina’s 192$
Sedimentation Pollution Control
Act requires anyone grading ones
or more acres of land to file ag
erosion control plan with tlffe
Department of Natural Resourcqf
and Community Development
Agriculture, mining and forestry
activities are not covered under
the law. Erosion control at mining:
sites is covered by Norts
Carolina’s Mining Act.
“Thirty-six local government#
in North Carolina already hav&
their own sedimentation anile
erosion control ordinances,]?:
according to Harland Britt, chig£
engineer with the NRCD, Lang!
Quality Section. “State officials;
charged With enforcing erosion;
control statewide would like to sag
more and are willing to work witfr
the localities toward developing
than.” (Edenton and Chowagi
County are not among them.) fj?
Communities' interested &!
developing their own progran|
should contact their NRCfii
regional office or the Norn
Carolina Division of Lanm
Resources, Land Quality Section
P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, Nor#
Carolina 27611 or call (919) 73*
4574. “Sedimentation engineeaj
will visit the locality, explain hoSf
to develop the ordinance, help
write it, and train the personnel,*
Britt added.
Net Collections
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for the month of June.
The 10 Northeastern Nortlß
Carolina counties are as follows £
Camden, $908,141; Chowaii
$5,387,877; Currituck, $5,076,143
Dare, $18,119,276; Gatesl
$2,513,749; Hyde, $1.906.335S
Pasquotank. $16,280,509*
Perquimans, $2,439,109; Tyrrell!
$1,461,758; and Washington!
$5,471,502: *