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years ,ift[expected to continue. In
1950, netifarm income as a per cent
of gross,farm income was 41.2 per
cent. By 1960, it dropped to 29.6 per
cent and by 1980, it was down to 13.2
per cent.
To offset that trend, farmers will
need to rely on new technology to
make themselves increasingly effi
cient. Foi; example, PCA “Farm
ing” predicts that by the year 2000,
tractors will be equipped with on
board computers that will
automatically adjust the transmis
sion setting and engine rpm to trac
tor load and field conditions for op
timum fuel efficiency. Combine co
puters will control all major
machine functions, including
automatic steering. Computers on
corn planters will automatically ad
just planting depth and planting
rate, depending upon soil moisture
and fertility levels in different parts
of the field.
Genetic engineering will allow
plant breeders to accelerate the
growth rate of wheat and soybeans,
allowing more opportunities for
double-cropping and boosting
yields by 20 per cent to 50 per cent.
Interferons, experimental drugs
genetic engineers are currently
developing to cure some forms of
human cancer, will be widely used
in livestock herds to provide fast
acting cures and broad spectrum
protection against viral infections.
These new technologies will be
expensive, which means many
farmers will face continued
pressure to expand their operations
to spread these costs over more
acres. With the year 2000 only 17
years away, farmers should start
planning for these new
developments, because once the
farm economy pulls out of its cur
rent slump, changes will start tak
ing place at a more rapid pace.
Take Top Honors
Operating and support teams for
Weyerhaeuser Company’s NC-2
machine at Plymouth were given
top honors from the Company’s
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ROnnie Thompson, Fred Williams
and Bill Redd accepted The Im
proved Performance Award.
According to Hans Brune, group
vice president - pulp and secondary
fiber, who presented the award,
NC-2, a 19th century second-hand
“antique”, has been turned into the
most productive machine in the
whole company. The award
recognized the teams for their
highly successful transition from
milk carton stock to fluff pulp
production.
“An achievement like NC-2 has
made is the result of this total team
effort and an example of the
cooperation and positive attitude
that runs throughout this com
plex,” said Brune. “You accepted
the challenge of change instead of
resisting it,” he continued. “It is
this spirit of determination that has
made it such a pleasure to work
with all of you.”
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and cost of court.
Edward Earl Hall, Sr., was found
guilty of selling malt beverage to a
person under 18. He was sentenced
to 12 months with two years
suspended, fined SIOOO, cost of
court, is not to operate an establish
ment named Ed Hall’s Shop for two
years, and is not to be employed at
any place where malt or alcohol is
sold for two years. He has
appealed.
Sonnie Mae Hurdle Dillard was
found guilty of one count of selling
alcoholic beverage to a person
under 21 and one count of selling a
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TO ENTERTAIN AT MAY PLAY DAY CELEBRATION—Southern Crescent will be playing their
own brand of traditional Southern music at the May Play Day. They will be among the many enter
tainers to sing, juggle and dance at the celebration this Saturday at Rocky Hock Community Center.
Southern Crescent To Entertain At May Play Day
The Southern Crescent Enter
tainers will be playing their own ex
citing brand of traditional Southern
string band music at May Play Day
on Saturday, May 7 at the Rocky
Hock Community Center. In rare
and beautiful fiddle tunes, square
dance pieces, ballads and comedy
songs, the Entertainers
demonstrate why traditional music
continues to have great appeal to
audiences both young aqd old.
The Entertainers are Wayne
Martin on fiddle and mandolin,
Margaret Martin on guitar and
string bass, Bill Mansfield on
5-string banjo and harmonica, and
Jim Collier on fiddle, guitar, and
autoharp. The band members at
tended high school together in
Raleigh, North Carolina; it was
then that they bought their first in
struments and began to perform
together for schoolmates and
friends. In order to learn the tradi
tional styles of playing, they sought
- out-and-yisited many older folk
musicians throughout the South to
learn from them first-hand pieces
such as “Arkansas Traveler,”
“Soldiers Joy” and “The Girl I
Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind.” They
learned their lessons well, for the
band has earned the respect of
scholars and folklorists for the in
tegrity which they interpret the
traditional string music of the
South. Still, they bring their own ex
uberant style to the music that they
have learned from the bows and
strings of generations now mostly
silent. (
The members of the band have
accounted for numerous awards at
fiddlers’ conventions and have per
formed from concert halls to pig
pickings to the Governor’s Man
sion.’Margaret and Wayne are cur
rently sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Arts to bring
malt beverage to a person under 18.
She was sentenced to 12 months
with two years suspended, fined
$l,OOO, cost of court, is not to
operate an establishment named
Ed Hall’s Shop for two years and is
not to be employed at any place
where malt or alcohol is sold for
two years. She has appealed.
Paul Gregory was found guilty of
shoplifting. He was sentenced to 30
days with two years suspended,
fined $lOO, cost of court and is not
to go on the premises of A&P for
two years. He chose commitment
for 30 days.
William Herman Felton was
found guilty of shoplifting. He was
committed for six months. He has
appealed.
Frank Vozzo was found guilty of
inspection violation. He was fined
135 and cost of court.
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traditional music into the public
schools. In addition to performing
with the Entertainers, Bill is Artist
in-Residence in the prestigious
Visiting Artists program. Among
his musical achievements, Jim was
the featured musician in Carolina
Regional Theatre’s touring produc
tion of Appalachian Sounding.
Band members continue to make
their home in Raleigh, North
Carolina.
Other May Play Day visiting ar
tists will include Rudy Tyson, jazz
pianist. Rudy began playing piano
at nine and began his musical
studies at East Carolina Universi
ty at the age of 13. He received his
degree in Creative Arts from UNC-
W and furthered his studies in
Music Education at NCCU. Tyson
also participated in advanced Jazz
Studies with Mary Lou Williams at
Duke University and at Jazz Mobile
Workshop ip N. Y. C . A recipient of
a fellowship grant in composition
from die National Endowment for
the arts, Tyson is a published com-
Road Petitions Are Approved
The Board of County Commis
sioners for Chowan County met in
its regularly stated monthly session
on Monday, May 2 at 9 A.M.
The meeting was called to order
by Alton Elmore, an invocation
given by Barbara Ward and the
minutes of the last meeting were
approved.
The first item on the agenda was
to consider road petitions and to
decide whether or not to recom
mend these petitions to the Depart
ment of Transportation. One peti
tion and one pending petition were
approved. The petition came from
the Property Owners Association at
Arrowhead Beach. They requested
that an additional 1.2 miles of road
be added to the state system. The
commissioners endorsed the peti
tion and recommended it to the
D.O.T.
The pending petition, for the road
that parallels Nixon’s Fishery, was
approved tentatively upon its
submission.
The second item on the agenda
was to replace Dr. James Slade on
the Airport Commission. The deci
sion to appoint someone else to the
Commission was tabled until the
budget was set for the next fiscal
year and it could be determined if
the county would continue to sup
port the Airport.
The Commissioners next ap
pointed Marshall Jordan, Sr. to fill
the position on the Edenton Plann
ing and Zoning Board that was
vacated by Larry Swindell.
The Commissioners voted next to
support the Chowan Hospital in the
acquisition of the lifeline system
and directed Cliff Copeland to
assist In making contacts for the
hospital to find funding. Lifeline is
an emergency response system
contact with the hospital in case of
an emergency.
me uximy commissioners voted
to agree with and support the
Hackney Amendment to the Safe
Roads Act Bill. Hie amendment
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poser. He has been in concert and
on radio and television throughout
the United States.
May Play Day, the second arts
festival sponsored by the Chowan
Arts Council will present more than
thirty professional and amateur
groups and individuals in forty-four
performances on indoor and out
door stages.
Besides the stage performances,
three other areas of interest include
the Visual Arts, where artists will
be demonstrating paper-making,
fiber crafts, photography and car
toon drawing; the Children’s Cor
ner with hands-on activities, magic
tricks and balloon sculpture, pot
tery demonstrations, baton twirling
workshops, story-time and creative
dance; and Field Activities with
games, drill teams, and karate and
gymnastic demonstrations.
Throughout the day there will be
plenty of good things to eat, and
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andjfriendlv clowfS a^itt ,r rirlfegle
with festival goers, adding to the
lively atmosphere.
Roads Act Bill require for certain <
offences, like driving under the in- |
fluence, second offence, is required i
to carry a 10 day jail term. j
In business not listed on the agen- 1
da the county declared the trailer, *
currently being used as the hospital 1
administration building, as surplus (
property, since the county could ’
find no other use for the trailer.
In final action the Commissioners
voted to transfer Phase II capital ■
project funds into the water fund,
since the project the Phase II
monies were intended for has been 1
completed.
The Commissioners then ad- |
journed into executive session to
discuss an urgent legal matter with '
Sheriff Troy Toppin.
Services Held For
Retired Merchant
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon for Miles Augustus
(Gus) Hughes, retired prominent
local merchant, civic and religious
leader. He was 79.
The services were held at 2 P.M.
in Edenton Baptist Church where
he served as a deacon. Dr. John
Allen officiated and burial was in
Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Hughes was a founding part
no* in Hughes-Parker Hardware on
Broad Street. He retired in 1972,
and had an extended period of ill
ness before his death Sunday in
Chowan Hospital.
A native of Chowan County, he
was the son of the late Haywood
and Lena Hedrick Hughes. He was
the widower of Mrs. Helen Goodwin
Hughes.
Surviving is a son, Miles A.
Hughes, Jr., of Cary; and two
li anacniinrßn,
In addition to boing a leading
Mother’s Day
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By Preston Cayton
The word mother and home are two of the most beautiful words in the
English language, and probably in every language. The thought of mother
and home carries with it some of the sweetest and finest sentiments of the
human heart. Those who roam in far countries, who leave their place of
birth, always carry in their heart a picture of mother and home.
Children should be thankful for their fathers and mothers, and the home.
I have visited orphan homes in my ministry; it would almost break my heart
to realize that these children have no home. Children, if you have a home,
you should be thankful to God, and you should obey your father and mother.
We read in the Bible the following words: Children, obey your parents on
the Lord: for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first
commandment with promise; That all may be well with thee, and thou
mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children
to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
A man by the name of Payne was invited by a friend to have dinner with
him, at his home. While the mother was preparing dinner she was singing,
he could bear the laughter of the children while they were playing. After
dinner Payne went to his two room apartment on east side of New York
and wrote the ever loving song Home Sweet Home. Be it ever so humble,
there is no place likehome. Payne was not a married man. He lived in this
apartment alone. I don’t think God gave man anything here on earth bet
ter than a good woman. It has been said many times, behind every suc
cessful man there is a good woman.
I have lived a great deal of my time away from home. I lived out of a
suitcase for months at a time. I have stayed in some beautiful homes with
all the conveniences of life, with some of the best people on earth.
But I was always glad to return to my loved ones.
Home is where we can come to find love, encouragement.
Home is where we come when our friends and the world has turned us
down. It takes more than brick, beautiful furniture, plush rugs and beautiful
pictures on the wall to make a home. It takes love among the family to make
a home.
It’s the home life that is the true index of one’s Christianity. I know he’s
a Christian, said a wife to me once, for I’ve lived with him for 20 years.
That is what counts. The home is a place of test. It is mother who can say,
put your head on my shoulder, and tell me all about it.
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister,
Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary! Magdalene. When Jesus therefore
saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto
his mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold
thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
So Mary went home with John. Tradition says that for 12 years while the
other apostles were carrying the gospel to all parts of the Roman Empire,
John remained in Jerusalem just looking after his Lord’s mother.
Dear friends, to whom Christ is precious, around you are widowed hearts,
orphaned hearts, lonely souls whom you could cheer, whom you ought to
cheer. Young man, young woman, there is some old lady living all alone,
or some bereft grandfather, in need of life’s necessities, don’t you know
of such a one? Why wait for someone else to receive the blessing that came
to John. Why wait for some committee to assign you that service, thus rob
bing you of its privilege, and making it a duty. Remember, you will never
have but one mother, so give her the roses while she is living.
I love you mother.
Not only for what you have made of yourself.
But for what you are making of me.
I love you because you have done more than any creed to make me happy.
You have done it without a word, without a touch.
Without a sign.
You have done it just by being yourself.
'ASer.®rperHs6i that Is what love means.
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has been advertised for sale.
The next section of the Board of
Education’s agenda called for the
consideration of three items. First
the Board of Education considered
and approved the employment of
adult bus dirvers for all
kindergarten through the sixth
grade schools. The second was the
agreement between the recreation
department and the schools for the
use of school facilities, it passed.
Lastly, it was resolved by the Board
that the schools should support the
400th commemoration of the first
English colonies in America.
In final action the School Board
approved the minutes of the five
meetings held in April. Also ap
proved was the resignation of
Debra House, a math teacher, at
John A. Holmes and the hiring of
Coleen Karl to replace Mrs. House
for the remainder of the year. Ap
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driver and the class trip to Atlanta.
The most important thing ap
proved was two budget amend
ments. The first to transfer funds
and the last to accept monies into
the budget that were not previous
ly budgeted.
The Board of Education closed by
adjourning into executive session to,
discuss personnel matters.
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