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NUMBER ONE
It is disturbing when people ques
tion if the United StttM is slipping
in vital areas, as the editors of a na
tional news magazine did recently
in an article headlined, “Is The U.S.
Really No. 2?”
While that question dealt with
U.S. military strength as compared
to the Soviet Union, other critics
suggest that our political and legal
systems are unworlnble, that our
corporations habitually place pro
fits ahead of people, that only the
rich can afford health care, that our
industries are outmoded - with non
existent quality control reflected in
a continuously declining U.S.
productivity.
It is time to call a halt to this
fbolish denial of American
greatness.
Dislike the phone company? Try
it in China. Unhappy with mail ser
vice? Consider Uruguay where tons
of undelivered mail have been
routinely burned. Try naming the
Country with a better judicial
system (Iran? Poland? South
Africa?). Concerned about money
yalue and national financial stabili
ty? Look across our borders in
either direction...or to 100 per cent
inflation in Brazil, higher in
Argentina.
We are not saying we should be
happy to live with American infla
tion, unemployment or other pro
blems. What we are saying is that
our political system has produced
a national stability second to none.
If you dislike two-party politics,
consider Italy with more than two
dozen parties and almost a monthly
change in administrations. Com
pare U.S. health care services and
opportunities with the socialized
programs of Great Britian and
Sweden. One good American super
market contains more food and
consumer goods than the total
found in many foreign capital cities
- and at a fraction of the {nice.
Unfortunately, there is just
enough truth in most .negative
statement abouttbe UmfcedStates
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represent whole truths, rather than
a glimpse of truth surrounded by a
very complex issue or abstract
problem.
Perhaps a letter-to-the-editor by
a Soviet immigrant provides the
perspective we need.
He wrote: “If Americans knew
what it is like to search for a piece
of meat and never find it; how it is
not to be able to buy a refrigerator
unless you stay on a waiting list for
ten years; what it is like, by man
datory registration, to be commit
ted forever to living in one place;
how easily people are put in jail for
complaining about it; what it is like
to live in constant fear and to strag
gle for survival every day in a coun
try where courts are designed to
protect the government and justice
is formulated in one simple concept
of guilty unless you can prove
otherwise . ..
“If they knew all this . . . they
would whisper, as I do: ‘God bless
this land and its people’.”
We ARE number one. Never
forget it,
NOTED AND PASSED
Where did you pick up the talent
and inclination to open your own
business? r
Two Purdue University pro
fessors asked that question of near
ly 2,000 entrepreneurs who manage
their own companies. The predomi
nant answer was: working at other
small companies in the same line.
If you are a typical owner
manager, the professors found, you
are under 40, educated, still live
near where you always did and
have parents who started their own
businesses too.
Sellers Named To
Local Commission
Gov. Jim Hunt has named
Franklin O. Sellers of Edenton to
the Historical Commission. He will
serve at the pleasure of the
Governor.
Sellers is operations manager of
the Avoca Division of RJR
Technical Go. He is chairman of the
lltS Edanten Peanut Festival and
president e# the Chowan Junior
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Frank E. Cox
Major Promotions Announced By
Officials Os Peoples Bank & Trust
A major promotion and new
assignment of key personnel at
Peoples Bank & Trust Company in
Edenton has been announced from
officials at the Rocky Mount
headquarters.
S. Brace Gillikin has recently
been promoted to senior vice presi
dent in the bank’s Edenton offices.
As city executive in Edenton, he is
accountable for directing efficient
operations and profitable growth in
those branches, it was stated.
Frank E. Cox, assistant vice
president with Peoples Bank and
Trust Company has assumed new
responsibilities in the Commercial
Loan Department of the bank’s
Edenton office.
An Edenton native, he is a
graduate of John A. Holmes High
School and attended Elizabeth Ci
ty State University. He has com
pleted several AIB courses and
graduated from the North Carolina
School of Banking at University of
North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He
recently completed a Management
Development course.
Cox has been associated with
Peoples Bank since 1973, having
worked in the Consumer Credit
Departments of the Edenton,
Scotland Neck and, most recently,
the Elizabeth City branch.
A community and dvic-mined in
dividual, he served as President of
the Elizabeth City Downtown
Business Association, Residential
Chairman of the Pasquotank Coun
ty Cancer Society and volunteer
Chowan County District Court Session
The Criminal Calendar of
Chowan County District Court was
heard on March 15 by the
Honorable J. Richard Parker.
W. W. Kilgore received a volun
tary dismissal on the charge of
false pretense.
Ronald Alfonza Armstead receiv
ed a prayer for judgement con
tinued for having improper lights.
He had to pay cost of court.
Leo William Hermans was found
guilty of failure to report an acci
dent. He was sentenced to 60 days
with one year suspended, fined SSO
and cost of court.
Timothy Cornelious Hughes was
found guilty of shoplifting. He was
sentenced to 60 days with one year
suspended, fined SSO, had to pay $35
cost of court and is not to go upon
Food Lion.
Darrell Alexander Gibbs was
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TREE CITY AWARD PRESENTED—On Tuesday, March Bth, the
Town of Edenton was presented the Tree City Award at Town Coun
cil’s regularly scheduled meeting. Pictured above is North Carolina
State University Forester, Herman Terry (right) presenting the
award and Chuck Sopher (left), Chairman of th4 Tree Committee.
The Tree Committee would like to remind residents that Friday is
National Arbor Day and the Town will plant a live oak tree across
from the Barker house to celebrate.
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S. Bruce Gillikin
with Pasquotank County United
Way. He is currently serving as a
Director of the Elizabeth City Boys
Club and a member of the Adopt-A-
School Program, and Edenton Bap
tist Church.
He is married to the former Toni
Smith of Edenton, North Carolina
and they have two daughters, Tara,
age 11, and Bonnie, age 8.
A Bettie native, Gillikin is a 1972
graduate of UNC- Chapel Hill. He
holds a B.S. Degree in Business. In
1979, he joined Peoples Bank in the
Raleigh Offices as assistant city ex
ecutive and vice president. He was
transferred to Edenton and pro
moted to city executive in January
of 1982.
He has completed several bank
ing courses including Mid-
Management and Advanced
Management at the UNC School of
Banking and receiving a diploma
from the National Commercial
Lending Graduate School at the
University of Oklahoma.
Active in many civic and com
munity affairs, he is presently ser
ving on the Board of Directors of
the Edenton Chamber of Com
merce, President of the Chowan
County Heart Association and is a
member of the Edenton Rotary
Club and the First Presbyterian
Church.
Gillikin is married to the former
Rose Marie Pittman of Davis,
North Carolina and they have two
daughters, Elizabeth, 2%, and
Carolyn, age 1.
found guilty of trespassing. He was
sentenced to 30 days with one year
suspended, fined $35, $39 cost of
court, is to stay off Edenton
Recreation Department Property,
and is on supervised probation.
Otis McCurtis was found guilty of
assault on a female and resisting
arrest. He was sentenced to six
months with 2 years suspended, fin
ed SIOO, cost of court and is not to
assault the prosecuting witness for
two years. He has appealed.
Ellis (NMN) Bonner received a
voluntary dismissal on the charge
of false pretense.
Joseph Lee Beasley, Jr., was
found guilty of assault on a female.
He was sentenced to 90 days with
two years suspended, fined $75, cost
of court and is not to assault the
prosecuting witness for two years.
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Volume XIVII-No. 11
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Town Makes Improvements On Carteret St.
The Town of Edenton has been
doing a lot of improvements to West
Carteret Street over the past
several weeks. These im
provements may be causing a
slight inconvenience at the present
time; but, when they are com
pleted, around April 1, they will im
prove drainage, offer greater fire
protection and make West Carteret
Street more attractive.
The improvements to West
Carteret Street will cost the Town
around $70,000. SII,OOO of which is
to replace the water main, from the
present 2” main, to a 6” main. The
increased size of the water main
will increase water pressure in that
part of town giving residents better
water service and offering increas
ed fire fighting capabilities. The
Town is also widening the street to
accommodate traffic. Other im
provements include curbing and
guttering.
The Town is making these im
provements in response to a peti
tion presented to Town Council by
the people who live on West
State Secretary Os Commerce Will Be Keynote Speaker
ELIZABETH CITY-D.M.
(Lauch) Faircloth, State Secretary
of Commerce, will provide the
keynote address at the banquet held
D.M. (Lauch) Faircloth
Smith Appointed
As Chairman Os
Wheels For Life
Mr. Chuck Smith, has been ap
pointed Chairman for the annual
“Wheels for Life” Bike-A-Thon in
Edenton, to benefit St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital. The
event is scheduled for April 9,1983,
with a rain date of April 16, 1983.
The starting point and registration
will be held at the Old U.P.S.
Building on Coke Avenue at 9:00
A.M.
St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital is a research-treatment
education center where physicians
and scientists working side by side
have actually succeeded in
rewriting medical textbooks
through painstaking research and
treatment advances.
This institution, now the largest
childhood cancer research center in
America, owes its establishment to
a promise made years ago by enter
tainer, Danny Thomas. His dream
became reality when the doors of
this non-sectarian research hospital
opened in 1962 dedicated solely to
the conquest of hopeless diseases of
children.
When St. Jude Hospital accepted
its first patient, the survival rate
for children, diagnosed with acute
lymphocytic leukemia was less
than five per cent. Today, the
disease-free survival figure for
children in long-term remission has
grown to more than 50 per cent.
Procedures that originated at St.
Jude are now being used to treat
children throughout the United
States and other parts of the world.
St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital has treated children from
43 states and 29 foreign countries.
Upon referral from their physician
they are admitted to a research
study without regard to race, creed,
national origin, or ability to pay.
The sole criterion is a medical
determination that their disease is
under study. They receive the very
best and latest total medical care
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Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday. March 17, 1983
Carteret.
The Town is also working on
several other projects at the pre
sent time. One project will be the in
stallation of sewer lines on Coke
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CONSTRUCTION ON WEST CARTERET CONTINUES The
Town of Edenton continues the work along West Carteret Street for
the improvement of drainage.
during the Northeastern North
Carolina Tomorrow Annual
Meeting on April 21. Faircloth was
appointed secretary in 1977 by Gov.
Jim Hunt and was reappointed in
1981.
As Secretary of Commerce,
Faircloth oversees a variety of pro
grams, including industrial
development, tourism, state ports,
energy, banking, international
trade, savings and loans, the in
dustrial commission and the
employment security commission.
He has been a strong supporter for
regional economic development
and has advocated groups such as
Northeastern North Carolina
Tomorrow and Western North
Carolina Tomorrow.
“Sec. Faircloth has been involv
ed with us from the start,” Joe M.
The NCNB National Bank Merger
Completion Results In New Signs
Edenton and several other towns
in eastern North Carolina have a
new bank in town this week -
NCNB National.
The merger with the Bank of
North Carolina was completed dur
ing the weekend of March 12 with
the changing of the signs on branch
offices from Bank of North Carolina
to NCNB.
“While our merger with Bank of
North Carolina has resulted in new
signs and other similar changes,
former BNC customers will con
tinue to receive the same kind of
personal services they’ve grown ac
customed to from the same people
they are used to doing business
with,” said Sidney Warner, coastal
area executive for NCNB.
The merger, the largest bank
merger in the state of North
Carolina’s history, was phased in
over the last three months. The first
phase affected Bank of North
Carolina offices west of Raleigh.
The second phase included Edenton
along with Benson, Burgaw, Dunn,
Elizabethtown, Farmville,
Havelock, Hertford, Hobbsville,
Holly Ridge, Jacksonville,
Kenansville, Lillington, Maysville,
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NEW BANK IN TOWN—W.P. Jones, business development con
sultant and member of theNCNB local bank’s Board of Directors,
and George A. Byrum, also a member of the Board, take a moment
to pose in front of the Nr™ ’~ tHp Frfonton main office.
Single Copies 25 Cent*
Avenue ana ula tteruord Road.
The Town has also announced
that the sewage line to McDonalds
has been installed and the water
line will be in place soon.
Parker, NNCT chairman said.
“Our future is bright because he
and others in Raleigh support our
efforts.”
Faircloth’s business interests in
clude farming, construction, farm
equipment, automobiles, milling
and commercial real estate. He is
married to the former Nancy
Bryan of Greensboro and has one
daughter. He is a native of Clinton.
The NNCT annual meeting will
be held during the afternoon of
April 21 at the Graduate and Conti
nuing Education Center at
Elizabeth City State University.
Registration materials will be sent
to everyone currently on the mail
ing list. Anyone interested in atten
ding the meeting should write to:
NNCT, ECSU Box 5-S, Elizabeth Ci
ty, N.C. 27909 or call 335-3491.
Mount Olive, Richlands, Seaboard,
Shallotte, Swansboro and Wallace.
The last phase of the merger, the
sale of Bank of North Carolina of
fices in Wilmington and NCNB of
fices in Jacksonville to Peoples
Bank of Rocky Mount, should be
completed later this month.
Jim Ball, local bank manager, is
very excited about the merger
because it brings to the people of
Edenton the vast resources of a
large 11.5-billion dollar bank on
which to draw.
These resources will mean that
local customers will have several
new services that they formally did
not have. Services include more
specialized lending, better
customer service and the first bank
in the area that has an international
department.
The Edenton NCNB as Mr. Ball
puts it, “... is now on line with the
central operational computer
which gives us immediate informa
tion on customer accounts. This
cuts out the delay time in getting in
formation to the customer.” In this
manner the customer is served
better.
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