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Chesson To Talk
At Varsity Club
The Varsity Club honors John A.
4 Holmes High School athletes tonight
(Thursday) at the annual awards ban
quet scheduled to begin at 7 o’clock at
the Jaycee Community Building on Base
Road.
One of Edenton’s finest former ath
letes, now a star in the Atlantic Coast
Conference, will be the guest speaker.
He is super-star Wes Chesson who
brought much fame to the Edenton Aces
during his high school years and is now
on the Duke University varsity.
Clarence Shackelford, Varsity Club
president, said having Chesson as guest
speaker makes this banquet unique in
the club annals. He said the home
towner has excelled in so many ways he
was the logical choice when it was de
cided to break with the tradition of hav
ing a college coach speak.
At the same time Pat Flanagan of
WCDJ will present the station’s sports
manship awards.
Officers Elected
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ATLANTIC BEACH—L. F. Amburn,
Jr., president and general manager of
The Chowan Herald, Inc., has been
named first vice president of the East
ern North Carolina Press Association.
The election of officers was held dur
ing a business meeting here Saturday
morning.
Eugene Price, editor of the Goldsboro
News-Argus, was elected president. He
succeeds Jim Robinson, editor of the
Jacksonville Daily News.
In addition to Amburn and Price, of
ficers are: Carl Worsley, general mana
ger, Rocky Mount Evening Telegram,
second vice president; and Mrs. Ruth
Grady, of Chapel Hill, secretary-treas
urer.
Livestock More Than Squeal To Farmers In Area
Diversification in farming is a popular
movement in Northeastern North Caro
lina. The movement away from a single
major crop is well underway with the
addition of a hog operation being the
most popular.
Jack Parker, area livestock specialist,
said in Chowan County alone the in
come from the hog industry, from the
baby pig to the slaughter house, has
increased tremendously in the past three
year?. In 1967 the income was $967,000
here and moved up to $1,064,000 in
1968. Nearly another million dollars
was added in 1969 when the figure
reached $2,016,000.
Parker says with the addition of a
single sow the income to that farm in
creases at the rate of SBOO per year.
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Volume XXXV" No. 21.
si Levy Expected To Hold
Big ISchool Budget
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A record budge * $735,811 Monday
night was approved by Edenton-Chowan
Board of Education. Revenue from
sources other than county taxes is expect
ed to be sufficient to hold the levy for
schools at the current 86 cents per SIOO
valuation.
The increased cost 'for instructional
public |3aradt>
Noted and Passed
Uur favorite Northeastern North Ca
rolina afternoon daily reports that “Pas
quotank commissioners are considering
property on Pritchard Street for a coun
ty complex which would include the Tri-
County jail”.
Had Chowan County commissioners
been foolish enough to go along, making
it a “Four-County” jail the Pasquotank
commissioners would still be considering
property on Pritchard Street.
For those who meander along the
Public Parade who don’t know, Pritch
ard Street is in Elizabeth City—some 35
miles to the northeast of Chowan County.
Not To Be Used
The newspaper industry in general,
and Edenton in particular, has been good
to us. In return we have always tried
to do the best job possible for our ad
vertisers as well as our subscribers.
There are certain policies of this news
paper which are tested from time to
time. In some cases we are confident it
is by well meaning people. At other
times, we are just as confident it is by
those who seek to use the newspaper for
their own personal reasons.
Upon returning from Atlantic Beach
Saturday afternoon we found in our un
attended typewriter a piece, .addressed
“To All People”. We assume it was
intended to be a Letter to the Editor.
But we just don’t run eight page letters.
The author of this epistle was at
tempting to justify, from the best we
could learn, why he dropped out of
school. This, in our opinion, he does
not have to do to the general public.
He did it in the first paragraph yet he
rambled on for many more, bringing in
many other things as he went along.
It reminded us of the first assignment
we had as a cub reporter. We had tak
en a ream of notes while covering a visit
of the circus to town. We put every
thing but blood into the story and were
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Looking at the Albemarle Area where
he works, Parker points to a nearly $4-
million increase in the same three years.
In his area hog production is second only
to soybeans in farm income. In Cho
wan County it is third behind peanuts
and soybeans.
And Parker predicts the best is yet
to come. “We are in a natural location
here in Northeastern North Carolina,”
he says. “Grain is one of the primary
needs in raising hogs and there is an
abundance of it here.”
North Carolina is ninth in the nation
in the hog industry and the only state
in the Southeast in the top 10.
Parker and Harry Venters, county
extension agent, have worked tirelessly
with farmers who’ wish to solve the labor
THE CHOWAN HERALD
service accounts for one of the major
changes in the budget. Supt. Bill Britt
reported the loss of six elementary teach
ers from the state which must be paid
locally if the schools are to function on
the desired basis.
Dr. J. H. Horton, who was on the
board’s budget committee, said: “The
things in here which cause the biggest
increases are things over which we have
no control.” In addition to the six
teachers, he pointed out the state 10 per
cent increase for teachers.
West Leary agreed. “We have got to
make these schools better. Now is not
the time to start cutting corners (in in
structional service).”
The new budget, which calls for $421 ,-
875.63 in local revenue and $313,935.37
from other sources, includes one new
position—that of physical education
supervisor.
Dr. A. F. Downum, Sr., questioned the
wisdom of creating this position. He
said it seems like an unnecessary posi
tion if physical education instructors are
doing their job. Later he “wondered if
we are not getting too many chiefs.”
Dr. Edward G. Bond defended the
budget committee’s recommendation. He
said he feels the physical education pro
gram on the intermural level “has been
terrible” and “really needs attention.”
Supt. Britt agreed. He said in his
opinion it could only be done by a su
pervisor and one not oriented toward
team sports. He cited instances where
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College Given Federal Grant To Aid In Health Field
ELIZABETH CITY Dr. S. Bruce
Petteway, president of College of the
Albemarle, announces that a federal
grant in the amount of $12,2448 has
been approved which offers financial
support to a proposed seven-county pro
gram which would help alleviate a short
age of health personnel and improve
usage of area health facilities.
Dr. Petteway said that “the proposed
program which could affect about 77,000
people living in the predominantly rural
Albemarle Area has been approved by
the N. C. State Board of Higher Edu
cation.”
Ed Cox, director of Adult Education
at COA, will head the program which
will begin July 1, and be completed on
June 30, 1971, under the present plans.
Cox identified the community pro
gram as one of health education, proper
use of health facilities and services, and
lack of training for health professionals.
problem as well as the unpredictable
truck farming prices, with a more stable
product—livestock. In the past three
years they have seen IS farmers go to
the new farrowing house technique alone.
Parker said instead of everyone hav
ing a few sows, farmers are getting big
enough to have to pay attention to their
livestock operation. “And only through
good management, like in any other
business, can they succeed,” he added.
One of the newest in Chowan County
is Claude Small, Jr. Small has been
known for years as one of the county’s
most successful truck crop farmers. The
uncertainty of that industry, coupled
with the harvesting problems, caused
Small to turn to livestock.
Any day now his first group of gilts
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 21, 1970.
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■hewn beeida the sink In the bonk raom of the modern facility. The livestock industry in Northeastern
Neath Carolina has great petcntlcl as farmers like Small further diversify their operation, according to Parker.
SIGN ATHLETIC GRANTS— Two star athletes at John A. Holmes High School this
week signed grants-in-aid to attend college next year. Above, Fred Kecter is Hanked
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Keeter, in their home at Cape Colony, as he signs
to play baseball at College of the Albemarle. Behind them are Lynn Jordan, baseball
coach here, left, and Shelby Mansfield, COA coach. Below Coach Marion Kirby is shown
with Sidward Boyce, who signed with Livingstone College in Salisbury. Boyce is a fcot
ball tackle of considerable talent.
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He also said that “people in the area
have been extremely reluctant to take
advantage of existing health services.
There is also a shortage of professional
health and medical personnel in the
Sales Tax Report
Net collections from the 1 per cent
local option sales tax in Chowan Coun
ty during April amounted to $10,467.34.
Collections in 26 counties in the state
affected by the extra tax was $1,642,-
490.62.
Mecklenburg County, which has col
lected the tax for more than two years,
realized $573,032.29.
It was not immediately known how
much income the first month’s collection
would mean to Chowan County and the
Town of Edenton.
will find pigs. He has a new farrowing
house with all the features of home. It
is not only comfortable but sanitary.
Like most farmers in the livestock bus
iness, Small grinds his own feed and it
is piped into the farrowing house auto
matically. He also has a bunk room
since the sows need constant attention
while they are finding pigs.
Small will run 80 sows with four boars
at present. He plans to keep them to
feeder pig size, between 10 and 12 weeks,
and sell them to someone else to feed
out.
One of the largest, and oldest success
ful operations is George Jones. He is
adding to his livestock industry to have
210 sows and feed most of his pigs out
to slaughtering size, about 200 pounds.
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Athletes Signed
Two athletes at John A. Holmes High
School this week received grants-in-aid
to North Carolina colleges—for one in
stitution it was the first such grant ever
given.
Sidward Boyce will be attending
Livingstone College in Salisbury on a
football grant.
Fred Keeter Monday night signed the
first athletic grant-in-aid given by the
College of the Albemarle in Elizabeth
City. He will play baseball.
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area.” he said.
He further stated that the program is
needed because “the area averages one
public health nurse to 7.000 people,
there is now employed only one certified
nutritionist in the seven counties, and
three jpf the .counties have a part-time
public health director and four have
none.”
One of the objectives of the program
is to assist professional and practical
nurses and nursing aides in updating
the knowledge, skill and understanding
of health programs. To aid in carrying
out this objective, a series of educa
tional workshops for health personnel
and community leaders will he held.
This part of the program will consist
of five on-campus workshops for health
personnel.
Each workshop will be designed for
three hours of instruction for profession
al nurses, health directors and other
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