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VOLUME II NO. 37
SEPTEMBER 15, 1988
VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
PHONE 244-0780 OR 946-2144
(UPSP 412-110)
25 CENTS
SIX PAGES
North Carolina. The last 20 years
were spent in the New Bern-
Craven County Schools.
Several people praised Mrs.
Harris for her many years of "de
dicated and outstanding service
to education and the sommun-
ity." The program, similar to
‘This Is Your Life,” was narrated
by Pat Gavin, a college classmate
of Mrs. Harris. Others paying tri
bute to Mrs. Harris were: co
workers from New Bern High
School, Betty McKay; former co
worker at West Street)F.R.
Danyus School, Bernard Pick
ens; Cove City community, Janie
B. Oillahunt; Fort Barnwell com
munity, Sudie S. Way; family
members, Helen H. Hargett and
Frances Harris; friends, Jennifer
Kilpatrick and Maggie Blow.
Leaton G. Harris, Mrs. Harris'
son and a freshman at West
Craven High School, read a spe
cial tribute to his mother from his
sister Nicole Harris, a student at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. In his closing re
marks, he called her "the world's
greatest mom."
Rosetta Lewis presented the
honoree an engraved plaque on
behalf of the sorority. She wel
comed Mrs. Harris to the Retire
ment Club and the 26th day of
every month. (This is payday for
state retirees.)
Mrs. Hargett, sisterof Mrs. Har
ris, presented her a money purse
from her nine brothers and sis
ters. The recollections Rom fami
ly and friends were affectionate,
emotional and, at times, hila
rious.
Also appearing on the program
were Mrs. Elizabeth Covington,
soloist, and Mrs. Gladys Brown,
chaplain.
Robbie's Rib House was the
caterer and Mrs. Way baked the
retirement cake.
The Christian Education De
partment of Bryant Chapei
(See HARRIS, Page 2)
Teacher Honored For 32 Years In The Classroom
Doris H. Harris, a veteran edu
cator in the state's public school
system, was honored Sunday
with a surprise reception at the
Jimmy Dillahunt Office Com
plex in New Bern.
Serving has hostesses were
members of Iota Sigma Zeta
chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Soror
ity, Inc.
Mrs. Harris retired Aug. 1 Rom
New Bern Senior High School at-
er 32 consecutive years of
baching in the public schools of
Festival
Features
Balloons
NEW BERN — Imagine all the
color and enormous scale of a hot
air balloon. Imagine a mass of
them moored to one site, dancing
a graceRil ballet as pilots skillRil-
ly adjust their altitude with the
(Jumer.
Now imagine one of those bal
loons with your name on it—and
thousands watching. You’ve got
a glimmer of the spectacle a bal
loon ballet will create in New
Bern on Oct. 14 — and the excit-
ment of being involved.
The ballet will take place in
Lawson Creek Park beginning at
5:30 p.m. as a major event of New
Bern's three-day Chrysanthe
mum Festival. The rain date is
Oct. 15, at the same hour.
The balloon is a dramatic
medium that can reach a wide au
dience, hence its popularity as a
means of creating public aware
ness of a sponsoring company or
individual. Beyond immediate,
on-the-spot recognition, there is
the bonus of press coverage
when the balloon is part of a com
munity event such as the Chry
santhemum Festival.
The festival is being sponsored
by Swiss Bear, the downtown
New Bern revitalizatin corpor-
ation,in cooperation with the
Tryon Palace Restoration Com
plex. Robert Bosch Power Tool
Co. is underwriting organization
al work of the balloon ballet, and
invites other businesses and in
dividuals to join in making it a
tremendous success.
A $500 full scholarship or a
$250 co-sponorship insures name
identification on a balloon and in
the program of the Chrysanthe
mum Festival. Also, sponsors
will experience the thrill of rid
ing the basket of a buoyant bal
loon, and at the VIP reception
will have the opportunity to meet
pitots of participating craR Rom
several states.
For more information about
(See MUMS, Page 5j
Mrs. Doris Harris
Shrimpers
Discover
No Battle
Proposed Ban Is Opposed
By Marine Fisheries Head
Thirty to 40 balloons expected at Chrysanthemum Festival
Angry commercial fishermen
packed the Beaufort County Su
perior Courtroom last week pre
pared to combat a proposed ban
of trawling and haul netting in
local waters, including the Neuse
River, but they found they had
nothing to fight.
The fishermen had learned
that a report was to be presented
to the Board of Commissioners
proposing such a ban and they
turned out in force to show their
disapproval.
But the commissioners said
they had no jurisdiction to act on
the report and the director of the
N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries
told the shrimpers that he
opposed such a ban.
The commissioners had set
aside time to hear from Wilton
Smith, one of three Beaufort
County men who wrote the re
port, and the large turnout forced
the meeting to be moved from
the meeting room to a cour
troom. Commissioners Chair
man Ledrue Buck said the meet
ing was not intended to be a pub
lic hearing on the proposal.
Smith presented his report,
which says that shrimping has
caused declines in fish popula
tions and recommends a ban on
haul netting and trawling in local
rivers and sounds, and said it
“expresses the concerns of a lot
of people."
He said he and his co-authors
were not scientists and had re
searched and written the report
out of concern for the area. He
said their concerns were shared
by many recreational fishermen,
boaters and people who make
their living from pound nets and
crab pots in the sounds and
rivers.
Smith’s comments and those
of other speakers were often in
terrupted by outbursts from the
audience. One fishermen laun
ched into a tirade against almost
every official at the meeting.
William T. Hogarth, director of
the Division of Marine Fisheries,
said his agency had received a
copy of the report in February
and planned to have a response
from the N.C. Marine Fisheries
Commissions at its Sept. 14 and
15 meeting in Manteo.
He said the division was “total
ly opposed to a ban on shrimp-
trawling," and he hoped the divi
sion's view was shared by the
Marine Fisheries Commission,
which will make the final deci
sion on the proposal.
He said it had not been estab
lished that trawling was causing
the damage to the fish popula
tions that the report indicated it
had.
He said a proposal to ban trawl
ing as a solution to fish popula
tion problems was “one that I
would never recommend as long
as 1 am director."
Hogarth also said that any ac
tion on the matter by the county
commissioners would be invalid
under state law, that it was the
(See SHRIMPERS, Page 5)
Bears Shut Down Eagles
West Craven Falls
To New Bern, 21-0
B, MIKE VOSS
Editor
New Bern's Bears sloshed over
a rainy field Friday night to more
than double West Craven's offen
sive output to claim a 21-0 non-
conference win over the rival
.Eagles.
,.p.Robert Henderson paved the
way with two touchdowns for the
Bears and Shunard Brown
added another touchdown on 21
carries and 131 yards rushing.
The Bears finished with 196
yards total offense.
Playing in a steady rain, the
Eagles could not get untracked
on either side of the ball. West
Craven, which scored over 20
points in each of its first two
games, was held to just 76 total
yards on offense.
Sophomore running sensation
Lee Becton was held to 28 yards
on 11 carries after averaging 233
after the first two games.
The Eagles were unable to
penetrate past the 31-yard line of
the Bears and picked up only two
first downs.
New Bern picked up 11 first
downs and enjoyed good field
position most of the night in tak
ing advantage of Eagle problems
with the punting game.
New Bern’s first score came
with 9:24 left in the second quar
ter, with Brown going 10 yards
(See EAGLES, Page 2)
Vanceboro Man Is Injured
When Car Runs Into Train
A Vanceboro man was hurt last
Thursday when the car he was
driving ran into a train.
A report filed by Trooper
Joseph T. Hofmann of the N.C.
Highway Patrol identified the in
jured man as Alton Earl Corey,
52. He was taken to Beaufort
County Hospital, where his con
dition was listed as satisfactory
Friday, a hospital spokesman
said.
The report said that Corey was
driving a 1975 Cadillac east on
rural pavement 1476 in the Wil-
mar community about 8 miles
Rum Chocowinity when the acci
dent occurred. It was just inside
Craven County.
The report said that as the train
entered the intersection about 9
a.m., Corey was unable to stop
his car and the car struck the
train broadside.
Hofmann charged Corey with
driving while impaired and fai
lure to yield. The train, a Norfolk-
Southern operated by Joe Mar
vin Plavec, 44, of Knightdale, suf
fered $300 damage. The car suf
fered $3,500 damage.
Baptist Pastor Says
Hope Lies In S.B.A,
West Craven fan braves rain after game
By MICHAEL ADAMS
Special to the
Weil Craven Highlighu
The pastor of a large, moderate
Baptist church in Charlotte said
Monday that programs cut by
ftindamentalists could be saved.
The Rev. Henry Crouch, pastor
of Providence Baptist Church,
said in an interview that the mod
erate Southern Baptist Alliance
would fund programs that the
fundamentalist-controlled con
vention considered unworthy.
Crouch was in eastern North
Carolina visiting his son-in-law,
the Rev. Keithen Tucker of First
Baptist Church in Washington.
Crouch was a founder and the
first president of the Southern
Baptist Alliance, which was
formed in February of 1987. The
alliance held a convocation in
Nashville, Tenn., last week at
which members resolved to fund
moderate causes.
He said the group was formed
not as a political foe of fun
damentalists, but as a group con
cerned with furthering causes
moderates find important.
Fundamentalists currently
control the 14.7 million member
convention — and the coopera
tive ftind to which member chur
ches contribute. The cooperative
ftind is used to pay for Baptist
seminaries, presses, missionar
ies and other programs.
Crouch said that the fun
damentalists have been cutting
the Rinding of some groups and
programs — programs that be
nefit women who wish to be
come ministers as well as medic
al, social or political mission
programs—and spent money on
programs agreeing with their
theological perspective.
The principal difference be
tween moderates and fun
damentalists in the Baptist
church is that the fundamental
ists believe the Bible is without
error, while moderates say there
is room for interpretation.
Crouch said the alliance offers
the churches another outlet for
their money, one that is a suppor
ter of women ministers and
broader-based mission prog
rams. He said that churches can
join the group by a vote of mem
bers or by supporting it with con
tributions.
At the convocation in Tennes
see, SBA members decided to
pay for the publication of Folio, a
magazine for Baptist women, to
fund the construction of five
houses under the auspices of the
Habitat for Humanity program
and to pay the salary of a female
associate pastor in Louisville,
Ky., who was rejected by the con
vention's home mission board.
Couch said.
He also said the alliance had
not yet agreed to pay the salaries
of five other pastors rejected by
the board, but would probably
do so.
The alliance also approved the
trial use of new literature for
Sunday schools. Couch said the
material being printed by the
(See BAPTISTS, Page 5)