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And North Carolina’s blacks
aren’t pleased with the newspaper
coverage of issues important to
them and to low-income people in
general.
Those were among the findings of
the fall 1982 Carolina Poll. The poll
is a statewide pubic opinion survey
conducted twice yearly by students
in the School of Journalism of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The poll, first conducted in 1975,
has become best known for its
reports on political contests. But it
asks a variety of other questions
each year, and it gathers results
like these:
Evolution
A Georgia judge blamed it for
virtually all of society’s ills, but
some people see it as the foundation
of all science. Less than one
quarter of the North Carolinians in
terviewed by the Carolina Poll,
however, said they believed in
evolution.
Just over half of all North Caroli
nians believe in biblical creation as
opposed to the theory that grew out
of Charles Darwin’s 1859 book
“Origin of the Species.” More than
a quarter of the 584 people polled
said they did not know which theory
came closest to their own views,
and only one in five professed to
believe in evolution.
Persons with less education were
more likely to believe in crea
tionism, and Baptists were more
likely to reject evolution than other
mainline Protestant
denominations.
More than half the state’s
residents, according to the poll,
believe both theories should be
taught in public schools, and only 5
per cent said that the evolution
alohe should be taught.
Cigarette Tax
Nearly half the nation’s cigaret
tes are manufactured in North
Carolina, and four or five adults in
terviewed by the poll said they
thought the increase in the federal
tax on cigarettes would hurt the
state’s economy. , ■
Democrats were more likely than
Republicans to see the bigger tax as
damaging. Two-thirds of those
identifying with North Carolina’s
majority party said the tax would
hurt, while only 53 per cent of the
GOP members polled agreed.
The poll was taken only about
three months after Sens. Jesse
Helms and John East, both
Republicans, had cast controver
sial votes in favor of the GOP
backed “fiscal responsibility bill”
that included the cigarette tax hike.
Insanity Plea
Only a few months after John
Hinkley was acquitted-by reason of
insanity-of trying to assassinate
President Reagan, 78 per cent of
those polled said the insanity
defense should be made more dif
ficult to use, and only 1 per cent
said it should be made easier.
There was, however, a marked
difference in response by race, with
84 per cent of the whites polled
favoring making insanity a more
difficult defense to use, but only 53
per cent of the black respondents
taking that view. Lower-income
respondents also were less likely to
favor stiffening the law than those
with higher incomes. More of the
black and low-income respondents
were undecided on the issue.
Local attorneys said North
Carolina’s insanity defense could
not be much more difficult to pro
ve, though, one said Hinkley pro
bably would have been convicted in
the state.
Abortion
Only 27 per cent of the North
Carolinians polled said they
favored a constitutional ban on
abortion. Most took a more
moderate stance than that of Sen.
Jeaae Helms, one of the nation’s
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When asked whether abortion
should be legal under any, some or
no circumstances, 64 per cent of
those surveyed chose the middle
ground. Another 13 per cent said
abortions should always be legal,
and 21 per cent took the other ex
treme and said never.
Whites and persons of higher in
comes and education levels were
most likely to support some sort of
legalized abortion (98 per cent of
the respondents with some
postgraduate education favored
this), and, surprisingly, Catholics
were less likely to support a total
ban than Protestants.
Herpes
Carolina poll respondents in the
most sexually active and high-risk
age groups were least concerned
that fear of herpes would reduce
pre-marital sexual activity.
Three-fourths of those between
tha ages of 18 and 29 said they
thought herpes would not affect
sexual permissiveness.
Those findings differed
somewhat from an earlier
Washington Post-ABC New poll
that reported only 14 per cent of the
nation’s young, single population
expressing little or no concern
about the risk of herpes or the need
to change sexual behavior.
Blacks and the Media
Blacks in North Carolina are not
pleased with the newspaper
coverage of issues important to
them and to low-income people in
general, the poll found.
Forty per cent of the blacks con
tacted rated coverage of issues im
portant to them as poor, and even
more were critical of coverage of
issues imporant to the poor.
Only 10 per cent of the whites
surveyed said coverage of issues
important to blacks was poor, and
30 per cent took the same position
with regard to issues important to
the poor.
Program
It is rare to see such nonpartisan
support as that which is developing
in Congress for repeal of the pro
blem to withhold federal income
tax from interest and divided
payments.
Within just a few weeks of the
opening of the new Congres, more
than 340 members had either in
troduced or were co-sponsoring
withholding repeal bills in the
House and Senate. In fact two
states - Mississippi and West
Virginia - had 100 per cent of their
Congressional delegations sponsor
ing or cosponsoring repeal bills.
It’s also rare for the major finan
cial trade associations, which have
deep-seated differences, to agree so
completely on any issue; but they
are unanimous in their calls for
repeal.
Congress is being flooded with
mail from irate savers and in
vestors who only now are beginning
to understand how complicated
withholding will be when it goes in
to effect on July 1- and 10 per of
their taxable interest and dividend
income will be withheld at the
source.
In view of all this, you’d think
repeal of interest and dividend
withholding would be a sure thing.
Unfortunately, that’s not so.
Withholding’s backers are dig
ging in for a fight - and because the
plan’s backers include the Ad
ministration and some powerful
members of the Congressional
committees that handle tax legisla
tion, repeal will be difficut.
Even more disturbing is the
heavy-handed response of some of
withholding’s friends. Treasury
Secretary Donald Regan and
Senate Finance Chairman Robert
Dole (R-Kans) implied that if
withholding is repealed, financial
institutions will be punished with
higher taxes.
To this Sen. David Pryor (D-
Ark.) properly responded in a let
ter to Mr. Regan that individuals
and organizations have a right “to
write to their elected represen
tatives in Congress about matters
that effect them without being
threatened with legislative
reprisals.”
But after rushing this program
through the last Congress before
opposition had time to develop,
withholding's backers apparently
now are making every effort to sti
fle further discussion.
It’s not surprising that they don’t
want people to understand bow
withholding will affect them until
too late. Interest and dividend
withholding is a bad idea which, in
one form or another , Csngcess has
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transmission equipment and a new
tower. Hie only piece of equipment
left from the old WCDJ is a thou
sand watt tube transmitter for AM,
bought in 1955. WCDJ is not off the
air however, but it is undergoing a
conversion and will soon be WZBO
AM.
The driving force behind WZBO
is its station manager, Chuck Sher
man, who began working here in
Edenton on January 24. His name
may be familar to many radio
listeners in the area as he was
formerly employed at WCMS as
program director. He began work
ing in radio 20 years ago in Norfolk,
Va. and has since been the general
manager at four stations from
Portsmouth to the piedmont of
North Carolina.
Mr. Sherman when discussing
WZBO’s philosophy stated that the
goal of the station was to provide
this area with a radio station which
would not only provide a public ser
vice but also to be of profit to the
listeners.
“We wanted to bring to North
eastern North Carolina a major
market radio sound.” Mr. Sherman
said.
When he left WCMS Mr. Sherman
brought with him Doug Moreland to
be the program director for both
the FM and AM station. Mr.
Moreland has also been associated
with WCMS and 2WD before com
ing to Edenton.
Mr. Sherman also hired Maureen
Boyle to be the areas first promo
tions manager. Ms. Boyle is respon
sible for the coordination of promo
tions of civic and business
activities.
Flynn Surratt and Rita Basnight,
both former employees of WCDJ,
are still with the station.
Mr. Sherman also announced
that he is “... extremely happy to
have Anne Dale back, who had been
off the air for several months.”
In closing the interview Mr. Sher
man stated, “We are excited about
the response from the people of
Edenton and the area . . . and we
are really just beginning.”
been rejecting ever since it -was
first proposed in 1942.
It is unnecessary because the In
ternal Revenue Service can catch
tax cheaters with its information
reporting system - and in fact even
IRS statistics show a compliance
rate of some 97 per cent when the
1099 information reporting system
is used.
All withholding will do is drown
honest taxpayers, many of whom
have a number of sources of in
terest and dividend income, with
new paperwork.
It will result in overwithholding
for people who already have
enough withheld at work, or who
have little or no tax obligation - in
cluding retirees and the
unemployed. In effect, they will be
making interest-fi-ee loans to the
government.
There is an exemption system for
senior citizens and others with low
incomes, but to get exemptions they
must file with each interest and
dividend payer. This forced
disclosure of general information
about age and income is a gross in
vasion of privacy.
In addition, withholding will
discourage savings by reducing the
return, and it will erode savings
capital by taking money directly
from savings accounts.
Withholding will add to the cost of
financial services and could not
come at a worse time - just as the
economy is trying to pull out of a
recession.
Why are withholding’s backers so
insistent in trying to foist this pro
gram on American savers and in
vestors, even though the public is
clearly against it?
Primarily, just to speed up the
collection of some taxes the govern
ment would get anyhow - and
“dress up” current budget
estimates. v
That doesn’t strike us as suffi
cient reason to unleash a blizzard
of new paperwork which in many
cases will involve just a few dollars
- but which for many people will re
quire a host of new calculations at
income-tax time.
Fortunately, there’s still time to
repeal this bad law. Despite the for
midable opposition, Congress will
act if enough of us write our
Representatives and Senators and
let them know how we fed abot in
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lerest ana dividend withholding.
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Chowan District
Court In Session
The Chowan County District
Court was in session on March 29
with the Honorable John T. Chaffin
presiding.
Lloyd Edward Privott was found
guilty of improper parking. He had
to pay the cost of court.
Isaac Taylor, Jr. was found guil
ty of driving under the influence.
He was sentenced to six months
with two years suspended, fined
S3OO, cost of court, surrender
operators license and is not to
violate any laws for 12 months. He
has appealed.
Charles Black Mclntyre, 111 was
called and failed to show on the
charge of driving 66 in a 55 zone.
Ernest Linwood McDaniel was
found guilty of being intoxicated
and disruptive. He was sentenced to
30 days with two years suspended,
fined $25 and cost of court.
Murray Wheeler was found guil
ty of driving under the influence
two. He was sentenced to six
months with two years suspended,
fined S3OO, cost of court, surrender
operators license and is not to
violate any laws for 12 months. He
has appealed.
Graham Lee Overton, Jr. was
found guilty of transport of
alcoholic beverage with seal
broken. He was sentenced to 30
days with two years suspended, fin
ed $75, cost of court and is not to
violate any laws for 12 months.
Tony Levester Cofield was called
and failed to show on the charge of
making an unsafe move.
Robert Bass was found guilty on
two counts of passing worthless
checks. He was sentenced to 30
days with two years suspended, fin
ed $25, cost of court, pay restitution
of $41.33, not violate any law for 12
months and must not write a wor
thless check for two years.
Karen Denise Rose was found
guilty of going 75 in a 55 zone. She
was sentenced to 30 days with two
years suspended, fined $75 and cost
of court.
Shelton Grey Nixon was found
guilty of nonsupport of child and
sentenced to six months active
time.
Frederick Robert Rowe was call
ed and failed to show on a charge
of going 67 in a 55 zone.
Carl S. Williams was called and
failed to show (Hi the charge of pass
ing a worthless check.
James Edward Brickhouse was
found guilty of nonsupport of
children and given six months ac
tive sentence. He has appealed.
Richard (NMN) Welch was found
guilty of disposing of secured pro
perty. He was sentenced to six
months with two years suspended,
fined SIOO, cost of court, pay restitu
tion of $690.85 to the benefit of Quinn
Furniture and not to violate any
laws for 12 months. He elected to
serve an active sentence in lue of
the judgement.
ASCS Office Discusses
Totals Os PIK Program
H. O. West, County Executive
Director of the Chowan County
ASCS Office said that 396 farmers
in the county have enrolled in the
1983 Acreage Reduction and PIK
Progams. A total of 9993.4 acres
will be left idle. This represents
about 25 per cent of the crop-land
in the county.
49,501 North Carolina farmers
have enrolled 836,888 acres which is
30.1 per cent of the total base
acreage in North Carolina.
Nationally farmers have signed
up in the Acreage Reduction and
PIK Programs 187 million acres of
feed grain, wheat, rice and upland
cotton base acreage. This
represents 81.2 per cent of the 230
million acreas of total base
acreage. The total idle land will be
82 million acres.
The signup was necessary to
determine producer eligibility for
program benefits such as Com
modity Credit Corporation loans
and purchases, PIK, target price
protection and -for wheat and feed
grain participants -eligibility for
grain reserve.
The acreage taken out of produc
tion will be devoted to a conserva
Science is a first-rate piece of fur
if he has common sense on the
groUnd -O.W. Holmes
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ROSE PLANTED IN REMEMBRANCE OF MARINES The
Edenton Historical Commission was given a “Lady Marine Rose”
by the Women Marines Association. Ruth Rose, Business represen
tive, Marguerite McCall, educational coordinator and tour guide,
and Rosa Davenport are shown planting the rose to honor all
Marines, especially those who served here in Edenton.
The Edenton Historic Commission
Receives “The Lady Marine Rose”
In October of 1981, the Women
Marines Association held a four
day reunion in Edenton. These
were the ladies who had been sta
tioned at the Edenton Marine Air
Base during the 1940’5. They spent
a great deal of the four days here
in Edenton in nostalgic
reminiscence.
Shortly after their visit, the
Association President, Mrs. Shirley
Emery, of Kittery, Maine, inform
ed the Edenton Historical Commis
sion that the group wanted to give
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day night when Bobby Owens of
Nags Head, chairman of Dare
County Board of Commissioners
contributed that amount and pledg
ed his full support to Edmisten.
Life would be much simpler if we
didn’t try to make people think
we’re what we’re not.
The Emmaus Road
By Preston Cayton, Minister
On the same day of the resurrection two of the followers of Christ were
walking out of Jerusalem to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles
away. While they were talking over the strange happenings of the day,-*
they saw that a stranger was walking beside them. It was Jesus, tl.eir
risen Lord. But they were held back from knowing him. Jesus said to
them, “What words make you feel and look so sad.”
One of them named Cleopas, answered, “Are you a stranger in
Jerusalem and have not heard of what things have taken place there
in the last few days?” Jesus said, “What things?” And they said, “the
things with regard to Jesus of Nazarerth, who was a prophet mighty
in his acts and his words before God and all the people; how the chief
priest and our rulers caused him to be sentenced to death and how he
died on the cross. But we hoped that he was the promised one, who was
to save Israel. And now it is the third day since he was put to death.
And today some women of out company who were early at the tomb sur
prised us with the news that the tomb was empty, and his body was not
there; and they had seen the angels, who said that Jesus was alive. Thai ,
some of us went to the tomb and found it just as the woman had said;
but they did not see him.”
The Jesus said to them, “O-foolish men, and slow of heart to believe
what the prophets have said. Was it not needful for Christ to suffer these
things and then to enter in his glory.”
Then he began with the books of Moses, and went through the pro
phets and showed them in the scriptures the meaning of all that was *
told about the Christ. And as they went on, they came to the village to :
which they were going, and he made though be would have gone fur- :
ther. But they constrained him, saying, “Abide with us; for it is toward j
evening, and the day is far spent.” And he went in to tarry with them. I
And he went in with then) and sat down with them to a supper. }
As they were about to eat, he took the loaf of bread into his hands, \
and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them. And at that moment,
their eyes were opened and they knew that he was the Lord, and he pass
ed out of their sight. They said to each other, “Was not our heart burn
ing within us while he talked to us on the way and while he openedto
us the words of the scriptures?” The two men hastened to Jerusalem
that night to tell what they had seen. They rejoiced to the fact that they
had seen the risen Lord, not dead but living.
When Paul talked about the resurrection of Christ, he applies it to our
lives by saying it implies walking in a newness of life, and serving in
newness of spirit What a beautiful application of the central Easter fact.
Just as nature is blossoming with new leaves and flowers after winter
death so Christians are to demonstrate that the resurrected Christ makes
their lives new. . ;
Spring is setting the stage in beautiful symbolic language for Easter.
A time ot JW when everything saysi: Hope, life and pow«r. Worn h«rU
and have planted at the Barker
House “The Lady Marine Rose”.
This rose is a hybrid, fragrant tea
rose, Montazuma Red.
The Women Marine’s Associa
tion’s desire is that a “Lady Marine
Rose” be planted in every corner of
our continent in honor of all
Marines.
It is with appreciation of the
Rose, and with gratitude to those
who have served this country, that
the Edenton Historical Commission
accepts this living token of
remembrance.
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Corporal Chuck Alexander and
Patrolman D.E. Jethro are in
vestigating this series of apparent
break ins.
Chief Parrish stated, “We are
still investigating them - we hope
we can come up with some arrests
on it.”
He also indicated that no break
ins had occurred this week ... so
far.