Fishing Creek Proposal f
Meets Stiff Opposition
By BOY HARDEE
News ud Observer
Staff Writer
ROCKY MOUNT - A proposal
that would designate a
portion of Fishing Creak
"natural, scenic or recreational"
met stilt opposition at
a public hearing here Tuesday.
A state study committee Is
considering six streams as
possibilities for a state system
of scenic waterways—streams
left in their natural condition
free of Impoundments and with
undeveloped shorelines.
Fishing Creek in Halifax,
Edgecombe and Nash counties
is one of the streams under
consideration.
While opposing the scenic
classifications, several speakers
favored a Corps of Engineers
plan for construction
of a dam at White Oak about
midway along a 25-mlle-long
strip of the waterway.
Fishing Creek, which has its
headwaters , northeast of Henderson
In Vance County, touches
six counties before emptying
into the Tar River Just north
of Tarboro.
Supporters of the dam approach
said recreation and
wildlife would be enhanced
and that a source of water for
many towns would be provided.
Opposing Impoundment of
water which the dam would
create were three wildlife
agencies.
A spokesman for the North
Carolina Wildlife Federation
termed the river as "unspoiled
as God made it and truly
a unique piece of property."
J. H. Cornell of the N. C.
Wildlife Resources Commission
said studies on Fishing
Creek reveal "a large
population of harvestable fish In
the stream now, but fish production
would be restricted by
impoundment and not In the
best Interest of the fishing interests
of the state."
Also opposing the Impoundment
was the U. S. Sports Fisheries
Division.
The Corps of Engineers
report on the project says: "The
White Oak project is a key unit
of tbree multi-purpose reservoirs
ofa.. .plan being composed
to meet the water resource
development needs of
the Tar River twain."
The report went on to say
the project Is needed for flood
control, water supply, recreational
purposes, and la economically
justifiable. __J
Nash County Industrial Development
Specialist Wilbur
Rose and Frank W. Reams of
Warren County endorsed the
dam Impoundment, saying the
areas would benefit both from
Increased recreational, wildlife
and development of the
area in general.
George A. Hux, attorney for
the Fishing Creek Basin Association
and the Town of Enfield,
said the dam is vitally
needed to provide such towns
as Enfield with a source of
drinking water and for expansion
of Industry. He said often
Fishing Creek's water level
drops to the point that sand
bars are exposed and the
flow greatly reduced.
Chairman Dick Allen said
recreation would be limited if
such a designation was made and
an easement of 400 feet along
each bank would be needed.
Mack Pearsall urged, as did
former State Sen. C. S. Bunn,
that local Interests be protected
in planning for use of the
river. Bunn said Nash commissioners
are on record
favoring the White Oak dam.
The White Oak dam project
has been delayed pending final
action by the study commission
on possible designation of
Fishing Creek as a scenic and
free flowing river.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Brauer on Thanksgiving
Day were Mr. and Mrs. Jlmmie
Webb and children, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Martin, and Mr. and
Mrs. W. Paul Burney and Miss
Paula Burney of Greensboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Jlmmle Webb
and children, Chris and Vlckl,
of Plymouth spent the Thanksgiving
Holidays with Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Brauer.
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Deaths And Funerals
MRS EMMA SEAMAN KREIDT
Funeral services for Mrs.
Emma Seaman Kreidt of 1345
SW 15th St., Miami, Fla., were
held Wednesday morning at l'l
o'clock. Mrs. Kreidt, a native
of Rldgeway, died Saturday at a
Miami Hospital after a lingering
illness.
Surviving are her husband,
George Kreidt; a son, Wallace,
her mother, Mrs. Annie S. Kllian
and two grandchildren, all
of Miami; two sisters, Mrs.
Rosa Kreidt of Miami and Mrs.
W. J. Hecht of Route 2, Norlina;
and two brothers, Herman and
Henry W. Seaman of Route 2,
Norlina.
G. B. CHAMPION
Funeral services for Gordon
Brack Champion, 43, of Man son
were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday
In the Waite and White Funeral
Chapel in Henderson by the
Rev. G. T. Naumann, pastor of
the Rldgeway Lutheran Church.
Burial, with military rites, followed
In the Middleburg cemetery.
Active pallbearers were A. D.
Evans, Ellis Fleming, Richard
Bender, Bernard Holtzman,
Millard Paschall, Jr., and
Richard Matthews.
Mr. Champion died Sunday
night at his home in Man son.
He was born April 16, 1927,
In Warren County, the son of
the late John Thomas ChampIon
and Annie Duke Champion
of the home. He was a World
War n veteran of the Army Air
Corps.
Surviving are his mother,
Mrs. Annie Duke Champion of
the home; a daughter, Mrs.
Becky Lee Conway of Richmond,
Va.; four brothers, Duke Champion
of Henderson, Raymond
Champion of Baltimore, Md.,
JOhn D. Champion of Louisburg
and Clifton Champion of the
home; two sisters, Mrs. Elsie
C. Buchanan of Henderson and
Mrs. Margaret Kimball of Manson;
and two grandchildren.
WILTON M. STRICKLAND
Funeral services for Wilton
Mahartney Strickland, 74, of
Warrenton were held at 2 p. m.
Thursday at Blaylock Funeral
Home by the Rev. Ted Fuaon.
Burial was in the Warren Plains
Baptist Church cemetery.
Mr. Strickland, a retired
farmer, died at Maria Par ham
Hospital in Henderson on Friday.
He was the son of the
late Turner H. and Flora
Pearce Strickland of Nash
County.
He Is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Florence Frazler Strickland
and a daughter, Mrs. Dora
Lou Carroll, nine grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.
The surviving grandchildren
are Mrs. Arthur Edmonds and
Mrs. Lawrence Edmonds of
Richmond, Va., Mrs. Freddie
Robinson, M. P. Carroll, Jr.,
and Betty Lou Carroll of Warrenton,
Mrs. BUI SJouvanger
of Sumter, S. C., Mrs. Robert
Smith of Phoenix, Arizona,
Mrs. Rob Schln of Chaster, Pa.,
and Raymond Ricciboni, Jr.,of
Sumter, S. C.
MRS. R06E R. PITT
Funeral services for Mrs.
Rose Rue Pitt, 85, of Littleton
were held at 11 a. m. Wednesday
at Gay-Yost Funeral Chapel
In Rocky Mount by the Rev.
Paul Edwards. Burial was In
Pine view Cemetery.
Mrs. Pitt, the widow of Nathan
Gilbert put, died Monday.
She Is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. A. W. Parker and a
son, Nathan Gilbert Pitt, Jr.,
both of Littleton; a sister, Mrs.
Jane W. Blum of Raleigh; and
several grandchildren.
DANIEL T. ASKEW
Funeral services tor Daniel
Thompson Askew, 19, of Roanoke
Rapids, who died Monday,
were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday
at Darlington Pentecostal
Holiness Church by the Rev. W.
K. White and the Atv. W. T.
Reeae. Burial was la Crest view
Memorial Cemetery.
Surviving are his father,
Paul F. Askew ot Route >, Littleton;
five brothers, Paoi,
ad Charles of!
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Eastern Black «•
Election Suit In U. S. Court
| A dozen black citizens repreaentlng
eight Northeastern
North Carolina counties have
filed suit In Eastern U. & District
Court in Raleigh to strike
down two state voting laws thai
allegedly "operate effectively
to perpetuate the white Democratic
party In office.'*
Filed by the Golds bo ro law
firm of Smith and Patterson and
the Warren ton law firm of dayton
and Ball an ce, the suit named
among the plaintiffs from
Warren County John R. Ellis
and Patsy T. Hargrove. Plaintiffs
were also listed for the
other seven counties.
The suit, filed against the
North Carolina Board of elections
, claims voters In many
counties have been deprived of
voting "In a f air and equitable
manner for elected office In the
House and Senate of the North
Carolina General Assembly,"
an In county elections.
Ellis said yesterday that Included
In the suit were complaints
against the Warren
County district system of electing
members of the Board
of Education and the Board of
County Commissioners. He
contends that these officials
should be elected from the county
at large.
Specifically, the suit attacks
the numbered seat law, which
requires candidates to file for
specific legislative seats, and
the so-called anti-one-shot
law, which requires voters to
cast as many ballots as there
are positions to be filled. One
or both of these laws Is In effect
In 60 of the state's 100
counties, the complaint says.
These laws, the complaint
alleges, "were cnacted with
the intent, and have had the
purpose and effect of diluting,
minimizing and cancelling out
the voting strength of Negro
and Republican minorities In
North Carolina."
The suit notes minority political
factions have strategically
cast bloc votes for single candidates
in many elections In an
effort to break the long-time
hold of a single majority faction.
The two laws In question,
the complaint says, are aim- .
ed at defeating this strategy.
AM a contra*, the complaint
cites Un iiupli of Forsyth
County, where, it notes, "Republicans
won all House and
Senate Mat*" In 19M. The following
year, tha suit claims, the
General Assembly "exempted
Forsyth County from coverage
by the numbered seat law."
This was done, the suit says,
(Or the obvious purpose of permitting
the Democratic minority
In the county to use the same
techniques to maximize its voting
strength in the manner that
is dented to Republicans and
Negro minorities elsewhere."
The 12 plaintiffs ask the
court to issue a temporary
restraining order, a preliminary
injunction, and a permanent
injunction against
the Board of Elections to keep
the two laws from being enforced.
They charge the two laws violate
the 14th and 15th amendments
of the V. S. Constitution
and "constitute an arbitrary,
capricious, and unjustifiable
classification between
the 60 counties of the state
covered by one of the statutes
and the 40 counties of the state
not covered by either of them."
The suit, which was filed In
the Raleigh court Friday but not
processed by the clerk's office
until Monday asks for a threejudge
panel to pass on the
constitutionality of the laws and
further asks that the statutes
be declared null and void.
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The recently announced 1/2
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