Big Grant Approved For Water, Sewer Project
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The Town of Edenton’s nearly sl-mil
lion water and sewer extension project
will be aided by a $329,500 federal grant.
Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First Dis
trict announced approval late Tuesday of
the grant by the Department of Hous
ing & Urban Development.
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Heart Disease: A Local Problem
The heart problem isn’t a distant and
nebulous national problem of concern
only to medical centers, physicians and
research scientists. It is a local problem
—one which casts its ominous shadow
over every home along the Public Parade.
If you are skeptical, just note the fre
quency with which the words “heart at
tack,” “stroke” and “heart disease” show
up in the obituary columns of this news
paper. Here, as elsewhere throughout
the nation, approximately half of all
deaths are caused by a cardiovascular
disease. Cancer is a distant second,
while accidents are third.
In these circumstances, it is vital that
we give our full support to the Heart
Fund, which makes possible the research,
education and community service activi
ties of your Heart Association.
Over the past 20 years Heart Fund
dollars have speeded virtually every ad
vance in cardiovascular medicine. These
gains are reflected in a 20 per cent de
cline in the cardiovascular mortality rate
for those aged below 65.
But much remains to be done. This
year more than a million Americans, in
cluding a number from this community,
will die from a cardiovascular disorder.
So give generously when your Heart
Fund volunteer rings your doorbell late
in February. Give —so more will live!
Two Edged Sword
Dr. Bruce Petteway of the College of
the Albemarle Saturday morning attempt
ed to scotch the rumor that HEW might
order the merger of his institution with
Elizabeth City State University.
Edenton Atty. Thomas Chears, Jr.,
suggested that if things got too tough
COA could join us along the Public
Parade. Therefore, Elizabeth City
wouldn’t have two institutions of higher
learning for HEW to pick on.
Later in a discussion group one of the
questions was concerned with pollution
and the part COA should play in train
ing technicians, etc. Chears said the col
lege should move right along with such
training. “We have quite a few smoke
stacks over in EVenton,” he said.
“We can solve that for you by moving
some of them over to Perquimans,”
quipped J. D. Coston, Albemarle REA
executive.
The first COA planning conference
had its serious moments and West By
rum, Jr., led an interesting discussion
by group representatives from Chowan
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Town Council, in regular session Tues
day night, took action leading toward a
local general obligation bond issue for
$600,000. It is expected to be held
May 2.
Mayor George Alma Byrum and Town
Administrator W. B. Gardner were quick
to point out that the bonds and interest
could be paid without any property tax
increase. Gardner went so far as to say
the town might be able to reduce taxes
by a few cents in the July budget.
The biggest single item in the $934,200
project is additions to the water supply
and a 500,000-gallon storage tank. These
items are estimated to cost $341,000.
The project, according to Mayor By
rum, will give both water and sewer to
most of the newly annexed areas, as well
as provide services to the new Chowan
Hospital. It will open up another sec
tion of Morgan Park with the developers
paying about $35,000 of the cost.
Included also are Paradise Road, Al
bemarle Street, Hertford Road and Pax
ton Lane.
Mayor Byrum called a joint meeting of
the council and Board of Public Works
to further discuss the project as well as
the assessment policy and figures.
J. N. Pease & Company, consulting
engineers, have already been instructed
to furnish final plans and specifications
for the project. This was done in anti
cipation of the grant and favorable vote
on the bonds.
Gardner said if the bonds are approved
on May 2 then the town would not be
pushing the deadline for the hospital pro
ject. Later Mayor Byrum said it would
be terrible to have a $2-million hospital
with no sewer facilities.
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Tax Help Ready
Roy L. Lowe announced today that the
lccal offices of the Economic Improve
ment Council, Inc., has volunteered to
assist those in the lower income brackets
in preparing their 1969 Federal Income
Tax returns.
The program, known as VITA, is being
manned by employees of the EIC.
Training for these employees has been
provided by the Internal Revenue Ser
vice.
Assistance in preparing returns will be
available at the Elizabeth City office,
506 W. Ehringhaus Street, Wednesday
nights and at the Economic Resource
Center in Edenton, 114 N. Oakum
Street, on Thursday nights. These cen
ters will be open at 7 o’clock.
Mrs. Harrell Directing Heart Fund
Mrs. Scott Harrell has been named the
1970 Heart Fund Campaign Chairman
for 1970 by Rudolph Dale, president of
the Chowan Heart Association.
Mrs. Harrell reminds the public that
Heart Fund dollars fight heart attacks,
high blood pressure, rheumatic fever,
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Volume XXXPII.—No. 7. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 12, 1970 Single Copy 10 Cents
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Judge Naomi E. Morris
Talk Slated Here
By Judge Morris
Judge Naomi E. Morris of Wilson, a.
member of the N. C. Court of Appeals,
will be keynote speaker here February
19 as Edenton Business and Professional
Women’s Club observes Bosses’ Night
and gives the club’s Woman-of-the-Year
Award.
The banquet will be held at 7 P. M.,
at Rocky Hock Community Center.
Mrs. Beulah Boswell, president, will pre
side. Miss Beulah Perry is chairman of
the banquet.
Judge Morris is a niece of the late
A. C. (Lonnie) Boyce of Edenton.
She was appointed to the Court of
Appeals by former Gov. Dan K. Moore
in July, 1967, and in 1968 was elected
for the remainder of an eight-year term.
Judge Morris is a native of Spring
Hope in Nash County but moved with
her family to Wilson while still an in
fant. She was engaged in the private
practice of law in Wilson at the time of
her appointment to the bench. She is
one of two females serving on appeals
courts in the state —the other being State
Supreme Court Justice Susie Sharpe.
She is a graduate of Atlantic Christian
College in Wilson and received her law
degree from the University of North Ca
rolina at Chapel Hill.
congenital heart diseases and other di
seases of the heart. She asks your gen
erous support in this campaign.
The rural Heart Fund directors are
Mrs. Albert Ward, Mrs. Gladys White
and Mrs. Robert Bembry.
Clarence Shackelford is chairman of
this year’s Heart Fund benefits. Chair
man of special gifts is Mrs. Earl Good
win; business days, Chuck Benson;
Heart Sunday, Mrs. Edward G. Bond
and Mrs. Claude Griffin; and balloons
and tags, Mrs. Herbert Hollowell.
Mrs. Fred Keeter is treasurer and
chairman for memorial gifts. Medical
representative is Dr. Edward G. Bond
and public education, Mrs. J. P. Ricks,
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The rural community chairmen are
Rocky Hock, Mrs. Tommy Leary; Gli
den, Mrs. Lloyd Briggs; Tyner, Mrs.
Daisy Jordan; Ryland, Mrs. Suzene
Jordan; Macedonia, Mrs. Dick Lowe,
and Yeopim, Mrs. Yates Parrish.
The 4-H Clubs will assist in the fund
collections.
Drug Talk Is Set
The second of two programs on the
problems of drug abuse will be presented
tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in the
auditorium of the Perquimans High
School.
The school’s PTA will bring in Rev.
John Gimenez, head of PROCLAIM in
Norfolk, Va.
He will be accompanied by three teen
agers who are former drug addicts and
they will comprise the program.
Mr. Gimenez was on drugs for 16
years. Now he heads an organization
that is devoted to working with young
people that are slaves of the drug habit.
He has been on the Mildred Alexander
Show on Channel 3 and the subject of a
number of newspaper articles.
Parents and teenagers are urged to be
at the high school for tlys important pro
gram.
Airport Gets
FAA Praise;
Work Noted
Federal Aviation Authority unofficial
ly reports Edenton Municipal Airport to
be one of the most active non-controlled
facilities in Eastern North Carolina.
With three FAA approved runways,
and the north-south strip being lighted
for 4,350 feet, the local airport continues
to attract many visiting aircraft and is
creating much interest in flying.
Edenton-Chowan Airport Commission
has authorized lighting of a large wind
vane and Rep. Walter B. Jones of the
First District has arranged for the air
port to have a radio beacon.
The addition of the beacon, which
costs $15,000, will make the local airport
a foul weather facility also. The beacon
will be on a leased basis at no cost to
the commission.
It will send out a constant signal to
identify the airport for aircraft in a 150-
mile radius.
Ray Ellis, airport manager for Eden
ton Aviation, Inc., said in the past two
years 21,000 gallons of gasoline has been
sold; 1,100 visiting aircraft logged and
10 aircraft are permanently based here.
There were but two permanently based
planes here two years ago.
In the same period of time there have
been 50 students and eight with private
license. The airport will soon have a
home-based FAA approved flight in
structor.
Members of Chowan Countv Board of
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Jones Pays Fee
RALEIGH—First District Rep. Wal
ter B. Jones Tuesday paid his filing fee
to the State Board of Elections, for re
election to Congress for a fourth term.
Rep. Jones mailed the fee. effective
February 10, the date on which he was
first sworn in office in 1966. It is also
the birthday of his son Walter, Jr. “It
has always been a good day for me”,
he commented.
Because of pressing congressional ac
tivities, Rep. Jones said it was impossi
ble to file personally. He is pushing a
bill he introduced last week making it
possible for farmers to receive advance
feed grain payments. The house bill
was necessary because of announced
plans by the administration to withhold
payments. This he said “would create
an undue hardship on thousands of
farmers.”
Rep. Jones represents the 19-county
First District which runs from Jones and
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Perquimans Economic Study Ready
N. C. Highway Commission Chairman
D. Me. Faircloth will speak to local of
ficials and business leaders Wednesday at
D. Me. Faircloth Kenneth W. Lane
Among the major topics covered by
the study are the area’s physical assets,
manpower, market resources, government
and finances, and representative indus
trial sites. The report will serve as a
directory of current information and is
designed to be used by anyone interested
in the economic development of Per
quimans County.
Copies will be distributed to officials
of the county and municipalities, plan
ning commission, area chambers of com
merce, local industrial development
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J. Clarence Leary
Leary Will Seek
New Board Term
J. Clarence Leary, 219 West Queen
Street, announced today that he would
be a candidate for re-election to Chowan
County Board of Commissioners from
First Township.
Leary, president of Leary Bros. Stor
age Company, is the second of three in
cumbents to announce plans to seek an
other term. Last week C. M. Evans,
who resides in Second Township, said he
would be a candidate.
Candidates must reside in particular
townships but are voted on at-large.
N. J. George, currently a member of
the Edenton-Chowan Board of Educa
tion, announced last week he would be a
candidate for commissioner from the
First Township. Two commissioners are
elected from this township with one each
from the remaining three townships mak
ing up the five-member board.
Chairman W. E. Bond has made no
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Brown Being Held
Willie Lee Brown, 19-year-old Negro,
108 East Freemason Street, was bound
over to Chowan County Superior Court
on seven felony counts Tuesday. His
bond was set at $5,000.
Judge W. S. Privott found probable
cause in all but one case at a hearing
in District Court.
Police Capt. C. H. Williams testified
as to break-ins and thefts to which
Biown had admitted. They included
John A. Holmes High School. D. F.
Walker Junior High School, National
Guard Armory and the coin-op laundry
in Mitchener Village Shopping Center.
Police arrested Brown inside the laun-
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the presentation of an economic study of
Perquimans County. The study was
made by Virginia Electric and Power Co.
The presentation will be made
to Mrs. Jean Harrison, chairman
of the local study committee, by
Kenneth W. Lane, assistant man
ager of community development
for Vepco. The dinner meeting
will be held at 7 P. M., at the
Perquimans County High School
in Hertford. Co-sponsors of the
dinner are Peoples Bank and
Trust Company at Hertford, and
Vepco.
Vepco conducted the study at
the request of the Perquimans
County Board of Commissioners
and the Perquimans County In
dustrial Development Commis
sion. Company researchers work
ed with a local committee com
posed of area representatives in
obtaining data to be included in
the report.
groups, the N. C. Division of Commerce
and Industry, N. C. State Chamber of
Commerce, railroads, colleges, universi
ties, and local public and school li
braries.
Commenting on the study, Thomas
Brown, director, Perquimans County In
dustrial Development Commission, said,
“The study should prove valuable in pro
moting the economic development of our
area. We are grateful to Vepco for their
contribution to our development pro
gram.”
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