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Thursday, March 31. 1983 f^^polrtTofview ' I ’ j > i* BYIBILL NIXON Editor'* note: Nixon, an Eden too •alive, la vice-president «f Parker Brethen Newtpapen «( Aheekle. Hie eelaaui appears weekly la a another el that poop’s publications. 1 As a normal rule, I don’t * use comments in this column from other writers, other than an occasional short quote or 1 humorous comment. The > following comments, written by associate Kevin Braun, publisher of our Garner publication, The Garner News, are an exception. An item that appeared in the news recently most likely struck a nerve with the general public, but it drew even more attention among members of the media - in -1 eluding myself. It concerned a man in Jacksonville, Ala. who set himself on fire, reportedly to protest unemployment, in the town square. The man had asked two cameramen from a local television station if they wanted to see someone burn, so they turned on their cameras and recorded the event. As a Newsweek article on the subject states, “The cameramen) may not have wanted to see the man burn, but they were trained to record events, not prevent them.” While the man sus tained extensive second- and third-degree burns, the real furor over the incident arose when it was reported that men had started their camera before the first match was struck, then waited 37 seconds before one of them tried to ex tinguish the blaze. One of the cameramen later said, “My job is to record events as they happen. I "f thought, “The police are go § ing to arrive. I’m going to .j have video of them subduing ithe guy.” The same article states local residents felt strongly £ that the cameramen should $ have been more concerned ■ with saving a life than getting i ?.n.w,;Wßg9i | haven’t fortunately, been sac -1 ed with similar situation, I believe my concern for fellow (man would override my jour nalistic instincts. | While this is an extreme ex | ample, journalists must con i’ stantly wrestle with similar | internal conflicts. It made me | think of times when I had to i do just that. One occurred about five years ago,, when I was work : ing with apaper in Ahoskie. It was around noon on a Friday j when we got a call about a | DOA (person killed in an ac- I; cident) out in the country. CHICKEN MANURE For Sale Bag or bulk. Will consider delivery. 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Edenton, NC 482-8421 It’s always something of a funny feeling that I go out to an accident of this nature, knowing that someone has been killed - but at least this time, it was in the middle of the day. I had previously been called out in the middle of the night. As I approached the acci dent scene, what I saw made me sick to my stpmach almost immediately. Lying on the side of the road, next to the crumpled remains of a bicycle, was the body of a young girl. Kneeling over the body and crying hysterically was a woman, presumably the girl’s mother. While the thought of “A pic ture of this would bring me a press award” came into my mind, I didn’t do it. Feeling physically ill was one reason; but considering a photograph would be a massive invasion of privacy was the main reason. I waited until the mother - still understandably hysterical - was driven away and her 12-year old daughter’s body covered Albemarle’s Spring Arts Festival Warmth, color, and the sound of music aptly describes College of The Albemarle’s Spring Arts Festival that will begin on Sunday, April 10 in Elizabeth City. This year’s five-day event will emphasize the associa tion of music with the season by featuring a musical pro gram each evening. Each day, visual arts workshops, lectures, and exhibits have been scheduled. Organized by Dr. Leland Chou, COA fine arts depart ment chairman, and Clifford Tretick, visiting artist, the week of sights and sound will begin at 4 P.M. on Sunday at the First United Methodist Church. Pianists Lily Chou and RachetGragson will pre-“ utfent an allplozart proggfrn^ ' f The well jmown locajjhjpsi-j cians will be accompanied by the Collegium musicum or chestra, composed of musi cians from East Carolina and Elizabeth City State univer sities. A special segment of the program will be the ap pearance of the COA Chorale and Albemarle Community Chorus, conducted by Chou. The second performance will take place at 8 P.M. on Monday in the COA library. A varied program will be presented by a trio composed of Sherrick Hiscock, ECSU clarinetist; Tretick, flutist; and George Peoples, bas-' before taking the picture. The girl had ridden her bike into the path of a car, where she was struck. While legal guidelines for journalists are broad, self imposed ethical ones out of necessity should be stricter. There would have been nothing legally wrong with me taking a picture of the grieving mother and her dead daughter - but my conscience would have hounded me for a long time had I done so. When I got back to the of fice, one of my colleagues reacted that I had lost a chance to get an award winning picture by my action. But I wondered how she - or anyone else - would have reacted in that situation. You don’t know until you’re there. I know there are some peo ple who would have acted the same way I did, while others - more accustomed to scenes like that - would have taken the picture without a mo ment’s hesitation. My point in all this is to show that jour nalists are human. soonist from Pennsylvania State University. Local audiences will return to the Methodist church for an 8 P.M. performance on Tues day by the Ciompi Quartet. The string ensemble is com posed of musicians from Duke University. The Elizabeth City String Quartet asd Tretick will per form at 8 P.M. on Wednesday in the library. Local musi cians Gragson, Bobbi Hunsberger, Wesley Gragson, and John Dewey are members of the group. The final performance will consist of a series of short recitals by Tretick and four other visiting artists at 8 P.M. on Thursday at the church. Performers are: Thomas Sffitatek, ssxophfflitsrr Paqjljjpo College' I WWH* 5 . Piftf* Craven Community College: Bill Carter, guitarist, Carteret Technical College; and Chris Deane, percus sionist, Pitt Community College. Capt. Wright Chosen Air Force Capt. Linwood L. Wright, son of George A. and Mary M. Wright of Route 3, Edenton, has been chosen as outstanding logistics plans of ficer of the year at Zaragoza Air Base, Spain. Wright, a logistics plans, programs and mobility of ficer, was selected in com petition among contem poraries for professional skill, duty performance and ex emplary conduct. His wife, Christine, is the daughter of Hattie L. Alex ander, Route 1, Edenton. Wright is assigned with the 34th Strategic Squadron. He received a master’s degree in 1982 from Troy State University, Ala. Completes Trailing Pvt. William M. Rountree, son of Kay Rountree, 102 Car the Lane, Edenton, has com pleted one station unit train ing (OSUT) at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benn ing, Ga. OSUT is a 12-week period which combines basic combat training and advanced in dividual training. The training included weapons qualifications, squad tactics, patrolling, landmine warfare, field communica tions and combat operations. Completion of this course qualifies the soldier as a light weapons infantryman and as an indirect-fire crewman. Soldiers were taught to per form any of the duties in a ri fle or mortar squad. THE CHOWAN HERALD Charles Jeffress Guest Speaker At Safety Banquet Assistant Commissioner of Labor, Charles Jeffress was guest speaker last Wednesday evening for the 6th Annual Safety Awards Banquet. Co sponsored by the Elizabeth City Area Chamber of Com merce and the N.C. Depart ment of Labor, the banquet is a recognition of area businesses who have main tained a perfect safety record during the year or recorded an occupational injury in cidence rate at least 50 per cent below the statewide rate for their particular industry. Ricks Laundry & Cleaners of Edenton .was, given high praise as they received their 18th year consecutive award. Other local awards were presented to Dennison Carter’s, Atlantic Forest Pro ducts, P. H. Rose Store <l*2l, Tee-Lok Corporation, Gregory Poole Equipment Co. and The Chowan Herald, Inc. Weyerhaeuser Highlights About 40 forestry employees of the Neuse Timberlands District, which covers the Southern half of the North Carolina Region, have completed First Aid training. Dean Morris, a certified Red Cross first aid instructor and a Weyerhaeuser employee at the New Bern Pulp Mill Woodyard, con ducted the course. The purpose of the First Aid Class was to provide employees with on-the-job safety and medical training that also could be used on their private lives, if necessary, according to John M. Angst, Neuse District Forester. Taught at the Vanceboro Volunteer Fire Department, the course was coordinated by Marion Allen, assistant woodyard superintendent at New Bern and Bob Dor chester, New Bern Safety Engineer. -0- Benjamin A. Daniels of Jamesvillejmd Churchill R. height j)f Washington bav£, 1983. Daniels, a Power Depart ment Shift Engineer in the Plymouth Fiber Group, join ed the company in January of 1943. He retires with 40 years of service to the company. Bright, a Grinderman in the Plymouth Wood Products Group, joined the company in Belch Graduates Airman William T. Belch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Belch, Route 1, Edenton has graduated from the U.S. Air Force munitions maintenance course at Lowry Air Force Base, Colo. Graduates of the course learned how to inspect, assemble and dispose of ex plosive munitions, and earn ed credits toward an associate degree in applied science through the Com munity College of the Aiir Force. Belch will now serve at Langley Air Force Base, Va., with the Ist Equipment Maintenance Squadron. "Subdue your appetites, and you've conquered human nature." Charles Dickens Edenton Village Shopping Center. Shop Mon.-Thors. 10-7; Fri.-Sat. 10-9; Son. 1-6. \k\. —reg. 10.95 \\\. M Girls 11-4 £ Black or white rag. 6.99 jjfej, s^)9o Girlsß'/i-3 reg. 10.95 Infonts 5-8 Boys B’/j -3 BBc. Patent Black CU#%A 12.95 lUv Jeffress told the (business representatives that the 1 oc cupational injury and illness rate declined in the state again in 19&1. The rate drop ped from 7.3 to 7.1 cases in volving days away from work per 100 workers. Roughly 3,500 fewer North Carolinians were hurt on the job and lost work time. North Carolina’s rate continues to be 15% bet ter than the national rate and the 1981 rate was 30 per cent better than our rate in 1973. “However,” said Jeffress, ‘ ‘the real challenge lies ahead of us. As the recession ends and our economy picks up later this year, production will start speeding up, and new inexperienced workers will be hired. Historically this is the time when accidents have shot up.” He urged businesses to be especially vigilant in their safety pro grams over the next 12-18 August of 1970. -0- Fourteen Weyerhaeuser employees from the North Carolina Region will be honored this month for 15 years with the company. They are Henry C. Cowan of Williamston with the Fiber Group; Samuel L. Fenner of Roper with the Fiber Group; Charles B. Gibbs of Jackson ville, Jacksonville Wood Pro ducts; Ross D. Green of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Wood Products; Barry C. Henderson, Maysville, Jacksonville Wood Products; Wachovia To Award Scholarship 4 Wachovia Bank and Trust Company will award a scholarship to a College of The Albemarle technical stu dent this fall. This is the se cond year the bank’s technical scolarship program has been in operation. Lloyd Armstrong, student financial aid director at the community college, said that ■ ■ application! far tho S6OO grant k will be accepted throughJu i ly 1. Applicants must be* 1 second-year tsbftlii£Sl students. Wachovia established a $250,000 trust fund in 1981 to provide 51 awards at 38 in stitutions in the bank’s ser vice area. Thirteen additional scholarships are disturbed ac cording to enrollment in technical training programs For All*of Your Insurance Needs Cridtact Allen B. Harless, Jr. Ml Kellogg Morgan Agency, Inc. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA 27932 PHONE 919 - 492-4491 months. “Safety is good business, to,” stated Jeffress. He related the story of a small business owner whose firm suffered 6 lost-time accidents last year. Direct costs of those accidents was over SIOO,OOO, and does not include downtime for the business and equipment, lost time and cost of new employee training. Jeffress announced two new incentive programs in stituted by the Department of Labor. The first is a “a pro gram whereby companies with outstanding safety records and an ongoing safe ty and health program can earn an exemption from general schedule OSHA safe ty inspections.” The second refers to “companies who in vite OSHA consultants to work with them in recogniz ing and correcting hazards in Franklin J. Hill of Roper, Plymouth Fiber; Gilford Hines of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Wood Products; Benson C. Jett of Belhaven, Plymouth Fiber; Elvin Leigh of Creswell, Plymouth Fiber; Lowry J. Norman of Roper, Plymouth Fiber; Freddie L. Pittman of Plymouth, Timberlands; Thomas H. Webster of Pinetown, Raw Materials; Raymond E. Wilkins of Roper, Plymouth Fiber Group and Edith D. Wolfe, Plymouth with the Fiber Group. at participating institutions. Armstrong said that full time, second-year technical students who are enrolled in any of the eight technical pro grams at COA may apply. He explained that applicants must have and maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average, and submit the financial aid applications nor —mally required by the colfrge. on satisfactory evidence 9f "financial need, scholastic p/o --mise, and prior performance. Recipients receive the grant in three quarterly payments. The Canadian Falls of Ni agara has carved out a "plunge basin" over 180 feet deep. their workplaces” thus earn ing them a 1-year exemption from scheduled OSHA safety inspections. Companies in terested in these programs may contact the department. As he presented the awards, Jeffress relayed the congratulations of Governor Hunt and Commissioner Brooks and encouraged at tendees to keep up the good work. Marine Resources Center To Open Beginning with the first weekend in April, the North Carolina Marine Resources Center/Roanoke Island will be open Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Weekend hours will be 1 to 5 P.M. with the center exhibit areas and aquarium galleries open to the public. Admission is free to the state operated marine education and research facility Weekday hours will remain the same with die center open from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Monday through Friday. The Marine Resources Center features 14 large aquariums containing a variety of fishes and marine life native to northeastern North Carolina coastal waters. A large live animal touch table features such species as starfish, oysters, clams, and horseshoe crabs. The center also houses ex hibits on coastal natural history, coastal culture and commercial fishing. Each afternoon at 2:30 P.M. a film is shown to the public concerning some aspect of the coastal or marine environ ment. A mini-theater features slide/tape presentations for the public throughout the day. A marine resources library is available to the public. Books, posters and other educational publications can be purchased in the center bookshop. *■<»■ O ■ft O -4». ■»>- ■<». HoUowell’s f ' 1 * - < <t ti ill » < ; W T Electrical Service Route 3 I Edenton i *fl | ) Alvin Hollo well } Owner I I (Licensed Electrician) J T Phone 482-2608 For Free Estimates j Call After 3:30 1 } New Work Contractor —--rr- -if- -ir- -ti- **o» p* > v > t il Old bills. it with farm needs in We re farmer owneii I lower pay * mind to succeed and famiei controlled ments. re We speak Farm We know what you're financing, competitive Debt Consolidation up against rates, no penalty for We make long Call or come prepayment it's the term loans to farmers by today languageof farm debt to refinance their op consolidation And erationsand manage FARMING you’ve got to speak their debts realistically Sp<)koll lICfC f? ©. I ■ T \ ... DEBT : CONSOLIDATION spoken here. Federal Land Bank Association of Ahosk'e Industrial Park*'" j V Phone: 482-490* Thursdays 10A.M. -12 Ncan Page 3-B Swain Hono^Roll / Ik “A” Honor 4th Six Weefe n Grade 4^^ Tonya Bass, Deborah Wright, Kenneth williams, and Lynn Jordan. Grade 5 Chad Riley Kinlaw, Melissa Lawrence, and Sarah Singh. Grade - George Katfjfp “AB” Honor-fl#ll 4th Six Weeks ( Grade 4 •»>.. Shannon Castelloe, Desi McClease, Raymond Layton, Lori Lichtenwalner, Jennifer Castelloe, Jarret DeVine Jonathan Ervin, Shelli Ho: ton, Gwendolyn Marrow Stewart Nixon, Marcie Jo: dan, Gina Swarmer, Selen; Bond, LaTanya Wilson, Toda Emmert, Ethan Blount, Ken dra Bailey, and Taylor. Grade 5 Susan Barnes, Liz Kelly. Maricia Moye, Wade Privott. Monica Sharpe, Micha< Bass, Lori Berryman, Jin Blount, Kathryn Goodwin Kristi Hardy, Sandra Parrish John Staton, Eric Taylor Felicia Etheridge, Robert Holley, John Keeter, Dana Winslow, Thomas Moore, and Tracie Hughes. Grade 6 Katy Emmert, Sus; Jones, Shannon Jordan, Jo Lowe, Peter Mitchener, Bria. Rascoe, Kim Watson, Tasha Williams. Gearld Morris, Jen nifer Owens, Paul Ward, Heath Hughes, and Gwen dolyn Holley. Card Os Thanks I would like to thank everyone for the cards, flowers, gifts and visits I received while in the hospital and since my return home. 1 am also thankful for the many prayers and concern shown to me and my family "May God Bless all of you. Lee Sadler & Family pd
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