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Safe Road Act Roads Art introduced in the General Assembly In January at the suggestion of Gov. James B. Hunt,' Jr., has been ratified, signed and will become effective at 11:01 AM:'* October 1. Gov. Hunt cites the measure as the-toufbest piece of legislation in the United States to combat the driver. Previsions of the act art capsuled elsewhere in todays issue of The Herald. It is interesting to note that on the someday North Carolina got tough on the driving and drinking issue, a California court threw out the .10 blood-alcohol level used by authorities to determine whether a driver is legally drunk. This is still a major provision of the Safe Roads Act, but the emphasis in the Hunt bill is focused on driving-while impaired. The problem is, as the California Court of Appeals “reluctantly” rul ed, whether most people are “legal ly "drunk with a blood-alcohol level about .10. It is again a reliance on a machine rather than bow much it takee for a person to register a cer tain amount, as compared to the other fellow, and which is actually impaired. Another problem area of the new Safe Roods Act is the provision which authorises the use of roadblocks to screen for drunken drivers. This is going to consume a lot of law enforcement time, if it is enforced, not to mention the time of breathalyser operators and magistrates. One magistrate along the {Public Parade has noted privltely that be has had to nol pros a lor of low breathalyser readings in recent months, just because an officer detected the odor of alcohol on a ikiver he may have stopped for a routine check. One of the strong points in the act dealewith those under age buying alcoholic beverages. Recently in this column we pointed out the results of police undercover work in Ratygh. In the pest couple of weeks. a similar move was undertaken in firoinshoro with equally alarming results. And we are sure it is hap pening along the Public Parade. There has been a marked decrease in alcohol related highway fatalities in Ter Heelia since the conversation increased about stiffsr penalities on violators. This is a welcomed statistic. However, law enforcement of ficers must be careful not to become over zealous with regards to public opinion and the new law to what has boon permissive murder or potential murder on our streets and highways. There is still a place for good judgement, logic and common some in law enforcement. Like morals, this cannot be legislated. Artist-In-Schools Grant Received Edenton-Chowan Schools have received an Artist-in-Schools grant Aram the N.C. Arts Council. It pro vides 96,750 fur one-semester drama raaklency. The grant is one of nine awarded public et a coat of 951,990. Jointly aponeored by the Council and the National Endowment for the Arta, the program will be sup porting reoidoodoa in drama, poetry, **»■***• architecture visual environment next year. The grant was among 9550,493 awarded by the council and the an nouncement came from Gov. Jamee B. Hunt, Jr., and Mrs. Sarah W.Hodgldm, secretary of the State Department of Cultural Reeources. I The Chowan Herald £ (USPS 104480) -P.O. Box 207 Efro**, NC 27932 wr gj Dr. James S. Pressley Perry And Pressley To Speak At Alternative School Commencement Elder Jerald I. Perry, member of Edenton-Chowan School Board and Dr. James S. Pressley will be the speakers at the Commencement Exercises for the Edenton-Chowan Alternative School on June 10 at 8 P.M. Elder Perry, in addition to being a member of the School Board, is a member of the Management In formation Task Force System In Washington, D.C., the North Carolina Humanities Committee in Raleigh, N.C., the Edenton-Chowan Civic League and the First Con gressional District Black Caucas. He ha; been appointed to several Boards and is the Pastor of Com munity Temple Church of God in Safe Roads The major provisions of the Safe Roads Act enacted Thursday by the General Assembly will: • Abolish the driving-under-the influence statute and all related lesser offenses, replacing them with a driving-while-impaired statute that would not be subject to plea bargaining. • Raise the minimum legal age for buying and consuming beer and wine to 19 from 18. • Impose civil liability on establishments that sell alcoholic beverages to underage customers Court News f , Continued From Page 1 guilty of wreckless driving. He was sentenced to 30 days with one year suspended, fined SSO, cost of court, is not to operate a motor vehicle unless mother is ih the car and is not to go on the premises of Chowan Junior High School for one year. Honor* L. Blount was found guil ty of disobeying a stop signal. He was fined $lO and cost of court. Herbert Ray Evans was found guilty of non support of child. He was sentenced to six months with five years suspended on payment of cost of court and is to give 9150 per month for support of child. Tony (NMN) Cofield was found guilty of assault and battery, he was sentenced to 30 days with one year of supervised probation, fined 950, cost of court, is not to assault, harass or intimidate Eddie Morris and is not to pay to the court 9143.27 for medical expenses. Herbert Thomas Barnes was found guilty of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to three days with three days credit for time spent in Chowan County Jail. Richard Lee Barnes was found guilty of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to three days with three days credit for time spent in Chowan County Jail. Class Os 1983 Continued From Page 1 Principal J. Robert Boyce and Assistant Principal Charles Everett Jr. The awarding of diplomas will be made by Superintendent John Dunn and Mr. Cecil Fry, Chairman of the Edenton-Chowan Board of Education. Turning of the Tmseeh will be leh by Co-Presidents of the Class of 1993, Pam Spruill and Kenneth Valentine. The program will feature a soprano solo by Kim .Baker, a soprano solo by Denise Leigh, and music by the Concert directed ter Mrs. ShNby Sdfby M? Awkfsnt Principal 1 p* r ■ •■ f ■ . . a ; SSjwHBB §■ ' M .. Elder Jerald I. Perry Sr. Christ in Winsor, N.C. All of which attest to his civic mindedness and concern for the people in North eastern North Carolina. Dr. James S. Pressley will be the second speaker at the Alternative School’s Commencement Exer cises. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and is at present the superintendent of Woodville School District located in Bridgeville, Delaware. He is af filiated with several professional organizations and is certified as a superintendent in' both North Carolina and Delaware. Both speakers will be trying to in spire the students as they go forth into life. Acts Enacted Thursday who later become involved in motor vehicle accidents. • Authorize police to use roadblocks to screen for drunken drivers. Officers would not be re quired to test each driver stopped and would have to end the roadblock if a traffic congestion developed. • Make it a criminal offense for a driver, but not for passengers, to consume beer or wine and possess open beer or wine containers. • Create a second, or penalty, phase of a trial for defendants con vtafod ofJWMNhjs phased judge will whether grossly factors are* present. A finding of two such fac tors will require a minimum 14-day jail term; a finding of one factor will mandate a minimum seven day term. If no grossly aggravating factors are found, a judge will weigh aggravating and mitigating factors in determining a sentence that could range from 24 hours of community service to 24 months in Airport Commission Abolished In a Joint meeting with the Air port Commission on June 7, the Edenton Town Council abolished Airport Commission and made the airport a department of the Town. The action was taxen to streamline the services provided by the airport and to delete the duplication of audits and other governmental red tape that existed under the Commission system. Under the Commission system both the Town and the County were both' responsible financially for the air port requiring a duplication of services. Capt. A1 Howard, chairman of the Airport Commission, stated that when the Airport Commission started it felt that the airport would be a regional service. He also stated that since the County reciev ed the benefit of taxes from the air port, the Commission felt it should also support the airport. Sam Noble addressed Capt. Howard’s concerns by stating that the only income from taxes that the County has recieved from the air port has only come from the airplanes themselves. The Town in abolishing the Air port Commission has asked the ex commissiooers to stay on as part of the Town’s Airport Advisory Board. Bill Myers, mem boos the Air port Commission, said, “I would hope that the Council would see the airport as a valuable asset and would lock at the advice given by the Board (Airport Advisory) on the airport” Omfoir^SrtSrT^n^ ik ■ ti i «*« , i.u_ ty Os the airport. ' Ik* IWa Council then moved ;; 7... : -'V • _'• *• ■ , - Budget Receives Tenative Approval j The Chowan County Board of Commissioners received and tyo- > tatively approved the budget : presented on Monday, June 6, dur ing its regularly stated meeting at 8 P.M. Cliff Copeland, County Manager, in presuiting the budget said, “Once again, the County address ed the perennial dilemma in obtain ing additional monies to meet the. expanding and often mandated fun ding needs of the county. I do believe this budget is realistic and provides a very adequate financial base for the county,” Among the needs'mandafod is fraud investigation for Social Ser vices and another increase in Medicaid funding of 955,000. In his budget address, Mr. Copelandaaid, “As in previous years, the County continues to absorb tremendous in creases in this particular item.” The budget also included gn in crease in funding for the School System of 992,790. This increase is 2.2% less than the increase re quested by the School Board. Ten Chowan County Residents Graduate From COA S Robert W. Scott, president of the state community college system, told 10 Chowan County residents who were among the llftcandidatee for graduation at College of The Albemarle last Thursday nighfcthat adaptability to change is tanta mount to success. They included: Crystal Lynn prison. - • Require an immediate 10-day license suspension for any defen dant who refuses a Breathalyzer test or records a blood alcohol level of 0.10 per cent or more. There will be a $25 license restoration fee. • Allow a judge to confiscate and dispose of the motor vehicle of a driver convicted of DWI while driv ing under a license suspension for a past drunken driving conviction. • Revoke the driver’s licenses of 16- and 17-year-old drivers who are found to have consumed any anyone under 19 to use fraudulent identification to buy or attempt to buy beer or wine and for anyone under 21 to buy or attempt to buy liquor or mixed drinks. In addition, underage persons who buy or at tempt to buy alcoholic beverages will have their driver’s license suspended for one year. and adopted an ordinance making the airport a department of the Town and setting up the Airport Ad visory Board. In other action on the airport the Council adopted an increase in T- Hanger rentals and incorporate in to the T-Hanger lease agreement that only airplanes could be stored in the hangers. Contribution To Trust Made Manager Melvin C. Lane Jr., of the local Rom’s Stores, Inc. an nounced that more than 6,300 associates of Rom’s in thirteen Southern states shared in the 1982 Company contribution to the Associates’ Profit Sharing Trust. The contribution, $3,669*228.00 was the 39th consecutive annual pay ment made by Rom’s since the Pro fit Sharing Plan was started in 1944. Manager Lane handed statements of their personal ac count to ll local participants, show ing how each shared in the Com pany’s 1982 profits and what each had accumulated. He pointed out that a typical participant in the Plan (a Saleslady in one of the stores) who had shared in every one of the 39 Company contribu tions now has a balance in her ac count over six times iter 1982 earnings. ‘ >. Mr. Lane advised that Cdntral Carolina Bank k Trust Comnanv iruKee of cm nose 8 trout soar tag Trust, reports that the fund holds Sll 566 500 of U S Govatu* ■■ • v ■* r ■ * -V. 0+ " . Other items of the budget ed a five j(>er cent cost of living adA justment for county a* five per cent increase in the library appropriation and an toCMaar la Edenton-Chowan Recreation Department’s budget. <t Chowan County took a more con servative approach to Revenue Sharing than did the Town, other , counties, and communities. The Revenue Sharing Act ends in Oc tober and the County chose to only budget Revenue Sharing until Oc tober; then it budgeted 9160,000 from the General Fund to covqt ex pense* that Revenue Sharing may have been used for. The Commis sioners felt that it would be better to budget the needed funds locally rather than budget and spend monies that may not be coming, should Revenue Sharing not be re enacted. On the income side of the budget, the county expects a tax base of 9276,633,000 which is a reduction of 92,000,000 from last year. The Coun ty Commissioners, to balance the Smith, general education; Brenda Sue Layton,, general office technology; Sylvia Kay Harrell, drafting and design technology; Rudolph Leon Foxwell and Barry Lamont Twine, electronics technology; Nada Ann Noble and Arthur Lee Stephens, Jr., associate degree nursing; Randolph Holley, light construction; and Frank Ran dall Chappell and Robert Preston Dail Jr., machinist trade. “If we can be sure of anything,” the former North Carolina Gover nor said, “we can be sure of change.” The truth of the speaker’s message was plainly evident to those who had assembled In the gymnasium at Northeastern High School in Elizabeth City. The graduation ceremony originally was to have taken place on the front lawn of the COA cam- Apply Early ( ■* • Aired advises that the 1980 cen sus is to be used Wherethe ap plicable rate of tax is based upon population. Applications for licenses, together with the cor rect remittance, should be mail ed to the North Carolina Depart ment of Revenue, Post Office Box 25000, Raleigh, North Carolina 27640 or submitted to the local North Carolina Depart ment of Revenue office. He also advises that the penalty for failure to comply will be 5% for each delinquent month, or frac tion thereof, after July 1,1983. North Carolina’s Close-Up Met On May 28-28 approximately 350 students and teachers gathered in Raleigh for the 2nd session of North Carolina Close-Up. Area represen tatives who wore among the par ticipants included Lillie Sellers, Jewel Langley, William Beasley, Percy Rountree, Vincent Bond, Dwight Bonner, and their teacher coordinators, Mrs. Shirley Perry (Alternative School) and Mr. George Johnikins (Holmes School). North Carolina Close-Up began in 1978. It is an educational program which was designed to allow students and their teachers to in teract with state officials, legislators, representatives from the news media, lobbyist organiza tions, etc. through panel discus sions, seminars, question and answer sessions, etc. The program is modeled after the highly suc cessful National Qoee-Up program which provides opportunities for teachers and students to use same manner that Raleigh is wed for the North Carolina program./ North Camina Close-Up J* now in its ffxth year pf Wtkn, R to lng advisory committee (/tesgerft OAUAMitwANfa} - a*- kuVC* itiHvilwU HlkiUr, Ittß- fHI DV lire listruction. *° v-.*i - A" budget, found it necessary to in crease the tax rate bv is cents tt H^dget, even with the toxin: fa; than tavkwl r SdSy $40,000 more than 116¥a , budget t The County Commissionera at its . , ' June 9 meeting ateo made the n following board appointments : ABC Board-John Fayton; Eden-' 1 * ton Board of Adjustments Roy Forehand, Haywood Jones and James Slade; Edenton Zoning Board AI Everson,* Julia Small * and one member to be named later; Medical Development Authority —•*- Alan Sikee and Morris Small, (4 Industrial Revenue and Pollution Control Financing Authority—Bill ' Culpepper and Weldon HolloweU. : ‘nwfhiwrnkriftwwniihftMihrfHt.. . • ■■ ■ w wv wwww WS !\ a request for tax relief ; set date for . : a public hearing on June 13th at A.M. concerning the application for a Community Development Block*' j Grant and heard two reports, ;* on the purchase of an Animal Con-. *4 trol Vehicle and one by Dr. George Knowles on Civil Preparedness; pus. A torrential downpour forced a change to the indoor location. Scott emphasized the impact that the present technological revolution ‘ : is having on daily living. “High - ■ technology industries, at this very moment, are changing the way we do business, learn, play, and live," ; he said. “That’s the kind of world : •' you are graduating into - the world; . in which you will work." He said that almost overnight, J' new technology changes industry’s criteria for skilled workers. "The : i; Job you are training for today, may A not be there in 10 years,” he said. Using his personal experience as an example, the speaker, who has £ been a successful dairy former. ? held the gubernatorial office from 1989 through 1973, and is now the . state community colleges preai- -i dent, emphasized the point that the j{ average parson changes careers /• three times during his or her work- 3 tag life. He said he is proud of the fact * ■•that OOA and other community col-4 $ -legeeinthe state look into the || future in order to anticipate' i| 11 change. “The programs sou need; ': for upgrading your skills . . . to* :; meet the changes brought about by , } technology, will be offered at tids? if college,” Scott said. In his remarks, COA president ;• Dr. J. Parker Chesson Jr. told thoa*: •: present that the college has enjoyed if a successful academic year. He ; if cited the school’s record enrollment, if and financial contributions fromi !- the community as major factors, if . Prior to conferring degrees, j: t nesson pros6nt6d v&roi ucnlM *5 Sawyer with COA’s highest honor, $ the President’s Service Cup for f outstanding achievement *■ a stu- ;| dent. Sewyer received her associate in applied science in general office technology. C-’j Tony M. Copeland ' Receives I Degree Tony M. Copeland, son of Mr. and Mrs. WiUard Copeland, of Hertford, N.C. and grandson of Mrs. Cora N. Harrell, 157 Morris Circle, Edenton, was recently graduated from the Thomas ' M. Cooky School of Law es alt ! |g| xt7B. Hi obtained ’Bacnaior of Arts in
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