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Page 8-B Baseball Leaque The Allviiiarle semifro Kisolkill loanuo was birthed recently ala meeting in llio Kilobits Crook Recreation Center in Elizabeth City. Various interested adults from around the Albemarle got their heads together, elected a commissioner and made a few rules that would be in effect for the first season of the league. At the moment, four teams have-indicated that they plan to be ready for the inaugural date of May 22. They are Dare County, Perquimans County, Currituck County an ’ Pas quotank County. A jple more teams would m k? the league more interesting n its first year of existence an of ficials hope that Gates, Chowan, Camden or soms of the other counties may i • id atteam. Residents of any respective county are eligible to play on that county’s team provided they are nineteen (19) years of age prior to August Ist, 1963. Players who want to sign up to play can contact Donnie TVyne in Manteo for the Dare County team, Bobbi Veon in Hertford for the Perquimans County team, Rodney Kight in Maple for the Currituck Coun ty team and Jerry Allen in Elizabeth City for the Pas quotank County team. Citizens in other counties that may want to organize a team can contact Commissioner Roy Perkins (426-5157) in Hertford for information. During the first year teams’ will play Sunday afternoon double-headers on a home and home basis. The first game will begin at 2 P.M. with the second getting underway twenty minutes after the first one has concluded. Two seven inning games will make up the double-header. A number of excellent col :ge players are expected to participate in the league as well as many former high school players. Since the league does not have an age limitation in regards to how old you can actually be, pro bably a few that made it to some level of professional baseball may even put on the spikes again. Pasquotank County is look ing for a coach and a sponsor for its team at the present time. Anyone interested in either could contact the Parks and Recreation Department. Chowan Committee Os Conservation The Chowan Committee of the Albemarle Conservation District, are: Lloyd C. Bunch, Chairman. Bunch is a retired fanner and has been a super visor for over 35 years. He is also past president of the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts ; Watson Earl White, Secretary and Treasurer, is a farm manager for Hayes Farm in Chowan County and has been a supervisor for the past five years; Shelby White, District Secretary; Roberts S. Harrell, Chaplain, is the only appointed supervisor in the District and has served as District Chaplain for the last year and a half. Robert is pastor of Bandon Chapel in R*o. « Boy* 11-4, Mon* 7-12 Block or Wlno s*S2i Vtfc f ft \ Shoe Show «£/ l ViHoq« C#nl#r sh*- ** ->n. Thor*. 10 /. / / / The Evans Report By Rep. Charles I). Evans Representative First District On March 21, marks the 49th working day of the 1983 Legislative Session. As of March 18,478 bills have been introduced in the House and 210 bills have been introduced in the Senate. Based on the number of bills introduced in previous Sessions, I expect these amounts to more than double before the Session ends in May or June. There are several matters pending before the General Assembly which I will discuss in this report. They include a new sales tax proposal, Senate Bill 13, which deals with declaring certain roads to be public roads, House Bill 463, which is Mecklenburg oc cupancy tax measure, and several local bills. A few days ago, Rep. Ver non James, colleague from the First District, Represen tative Jeffd Enloe of Macon County and I introduced House Bill 426 which is a new sales tax proposal which is designed to raise revenue for the local governments in our state as well as the State itself. Under this bill, 50 per cent of the revenue collected from an additional one cent levy would go to be distributed to the local governments including coun ties and towns and cities as the present one per cent local option is now distributed, and the remaining 50 per cent would go to the State to be us ed for matters as determined by the General Assembly. There has been a great deal of discussion, during this Ses sion as well as during the last Session, of finding a new revenue source for local governments. At the same time, pressure has been building for the State to in crease its revenue sources in order to fund measures and programs that are being demanded by the people of North Carolina. Unlike the other two proposals that are Chowan County; and H. Fahey Byrum, Vice- Chairman, has been a super visor for 24 years. He is the senior partner of Byrum Farms, Inc. and also manages the gin for the Albemarle Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. The Committee attended the Area Five Spring Meeting of the North Carolina Associa tion of Soil and Water Conser vation Districts held on February 17 in Williamston. Along with the District Super visors from the fifteen nor theastern North Carolina counties that make up Area Five, they met to discuss the resource problems for this area and their role in helping to solve these problems. il now pending before the Legislature, our proposal would allocate the amounts unrestricted which means that they could be used by the State and the local govern ments as they see fit and as they may determine the need to be on a local basis. One of the major revenue needs of the State at the present time is finding an additional $55-million to S6O-million for each year of the biennium, 1984 and 1985, to provide mat ching funds for the federal highway funds that our state can receive. The amount of funds we would received would be in the neighborhood of $275 million which would be used for the construction of/or the replacement of highways and bridges in or state. If our state is to continue to have a progressive construction schedule and to provide the roads and bridges necessary to promote commerce and economic development in the State, it is very important that these funds be found. The local governments continue to say that the property tax has about reached its maximum and that they cannot continue to increase taxes on their pro perty in order to provide ad ditional funds that are need ed. This measure is strongly supported by the Association of County Commissioners of North Carolina as well as the N.C. League of Municipalities. Last week, Senate Bill 113, introduced by Senator Melvin Daniels, was sent to the House after its passage in the Senate. This bill deals with establishing public access on roads which provide the only land access between two United States post offices located in separate com munities. Although it* m»y apply to other areas in our state, the only one that I know it applies to is the private road leading to the village of Cor olla from Dare County. There has been, already, a great deal of discussion about this bill. The bill was sent to the Judiciary 111 Committee in the House of which I am a member. At this time, I do not know when the chairman of the J 3 Committee will schedule consideration and discussion for this bill, but bfecause of a backlog of other bills since we have been deal ing with the Governor’s Safe Roads Act, it may be a couple of weeks before we reach it. I intend to request the Chair man of that committee to pro vide ample time for in terested parties on both sides of the issue to appear before the committee. On March 18, House Bill 463 was introduced by Rep. Parks Helms which would establish a Mecklenburg occupancy tax. I have not had the oppor tunity at this time to THE CHOWAN HERALD familiarize myself with this bill, but as I understand it, it is a local bill that would app ly only to Mecklenburg Coun ty. ft would allow a three per ceit tax to be charged against the receipts' from accomoda tions in Mecklenburg which would be used by the local governments there for the Hoke Roberson, Jr. I Announces I ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE I V.. I Brick, Oldsmobile, I Pontiac Or GMC Trucks I ■ 1 \ j§§| N°w tiirough .March 31,1983, you can get Low GMAC financing on the finest line of ( low 11.9% GMAC financing on quality 1983 GM GM vehicles ever offered. Available from Hoke 1 cars and light trucks.* And this low rate is not Motor Corp. on vehicles delivered by March 31. I just limited to selected models. Qualified Vehicles ordered by February 28 are also eligi- I buyers can finance any new 1983 Pontiac, ble. Dealer financial participation may affect I Oldsmobile, Buick or GMC light-duty truck or final negotiated price of the vehicle. So make 1 van at just 11.9%. your best deal and get a big break with low 11.9% GMAC financing. *Excludes fleet sales and leased units. PONTIAC GMAC BUICK I OLDSMOBILE iJSSoSSaPmOTOK CMC TRUCKS I Xm VISIT THE HOME OF THE *GM* GIANT I pfniniir mot ° r corp * I Y? M Hlllh EDENTON 482-8421 I § UIIUIILN Broad St. Ext. I promotion and development of tourism and convention facilities. As soon as I am able, to learn more about this bill and have had the opportunity to have it explained, I will report further on the measure. At the present time, I am having drafted several bills at the request of local governments in the First House District. We have been requested to introduce a measure dealing with the pro hibition of hunting within cer tain areas of Perquimans County. I have also been re quested by the Board of Com missioners of Dare County to introduce a measure dealing with establishing authority for !!»■ !■. ,Uid of Commis sioners to eliminate certain fire protection districts and create new districts. This, ap parently, is necessary because of the fact that municipalities ha’-e been formed and incorporated in the old fire protection district. i 1 1> . March 24, 1983 There will be some more local' legislation which I mayj discuss in future reports. As always, I desire to hear from any interested persons, or organizations concerning any measures with which we" are dealing in the 1983 Ses-. sion. I look forward to hearing from you. if
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