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Mr. Gray Takes
Baptist Position
Rev. Robert E. Gray of Durham has
accepted the call to become pastor of
Edenton Baptist Church. Mr. Gray as
sumed his duties here this week.
He comes to Edenton from Grace Bap
tist Church in- Durham where he has
been pastor sittce 1965. Prior to that he
held positions in Liberty, Hillsborough
and Erwin, Tenn.
Mr. Gray, 37, succeeds Rev. R. N.
Carroll who retired April 26 after serv
ing the church for 24 years . Mr. Car
roll moved to Tennessee. Rev. Percy
Upchurch of Williamston has served as
interim pastor.
Mr. Gray is a native of Newport
News, Va., and is married to Mrs. Eulene
Wilson Gray. They have three children,
ages, 10, eight and six.
The minister is a graduate of War
wick High School and received his under
graduate, degree in 1958 from East Ten
nessee State College. He graduated from
Southeastern Baptist Seminary at Wake
Forest in 1968. He has also studied at
Moody Bible Institute and Mars Hill
College.
The Grays have moved into the par
sonage on Blount Street.
Mrs. Chesson Dies
Funeral services were held at 3 P. M.,
r Friday in Edenton Baptist Church for
Mrs. Earl G. Chesson. She was 16.
Rev. Percy B. Upchurch and Dr.
Francis Chesson officiated and burial
was in Beaver Hill Cemetery:
Mrs. Chesson, the former Bonnie
Flanagan, was stricken at her home on
Country Club Drive at 11:30 P. M.,
Wednesday. She was pronounced dead
on arrival at Chowan Hospital.
A native of Oxford, she was born
April 1, 1954,' daughter of James F.
(Pat) Flanagan 'and Helen Currin Flan
agan. She was married to Earl Goodwin
Chesson.
■" In addition to her parents and hus
band, surviving is a daughter, Elizabeth
Currin Chesson; a brother, Dwight
James Flanagan; and a sister, Patricia
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THE CHQWfl|| HERALD
Volume XXXVII—No. 49.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 3, 1970.
Public |lararlt
How Much For How Long?
The ability of Northeastern North
Carolina to adequately support a state
university and a community college is
seriously questioned in a Letter-to-the-
Editor found elsewhere in The Chowan
Herald. This is a question many have
pondered privately for some time.
It has been brought out into the open
as a result of a comprehensive plan by
College of the Albemarle in Elizabeth
City to secure funds for a new campus.
Committee leaders have been chosen to
head a drive for $500,000 from the Al
bemarle Area.
There are some serious questions being
raised within state government as to how
far state-supported institutions of higher
learning can go in securing outside funds.
They are invading the only coffers of
private institutions, who have now re
taliated by attempting to get state funds.
The opening sentence in the letter in
this newspaper illustrates a point and
raises a question within the minds of
many outside Elizabeth City. How “com
munity” is the COA?
While it provides a learning lab in
Edenton and offers adult education
courses here, as well as providing bus
service from Edenton to Elizabeth City,
citizens of Chowan County, and other
counties outside the Perquimans-Pasquo
tank clique, have had little or anything
to say about what happens at COA.
To be loved only when you are needed
doesn’t breed the most charitable atmo
sphere. This is especially true when
there are serious questions about how
long the taxpayers of North Carolina can
continue to support, and to what degree,”
“community” colleges and the other
higher education complex.
Welcome, Gov. Scott, AAD A
We want to be among the first to wel
come Gov. Bob Scott and visitors from
the other nine counties making up the
Albemarle Area Development Association
to meander along the Public Parade. The
welcome mat is out and we hope every
one will profit from the gatheriner.
Gov. Scott is not coming into strange
territory. Chowan County gave him a
handsome majority in the Democratic
Primary as well as the General Election.
It was on each occasion an expression of
faith in the young “doer” from Haw
River. He has not disappointed his
faithful followers.
This is one reason why Gov. Scott will
feel so at home along the Public Parade.
He will be meandering with his type
people—people to put little emphasis on
“isms” and labels of all types, working
for the betterment of the entire area.
Selfish motives have been short lived
here. We lack the fancy highway sys
tem many enjoy; we lack the concentrat
ed population many enjoy (?); we lack
many other things, too numerous to
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Jaycees Back At Work Edenton Jaycees have wasted little time
in putting the shoulder to the wheel to secure a new Community
Center on Base Road The old structure was destroyed by fire a few
weeks ago. In the picture at left, Oscar White appears to be enjoy
ing the oysters Milon Stilley is opening for him. It is not all work,
as the other pictures illustrate. White gets back to digging out for
the foundation and Stilley cracks a few for himself. Jaycees have
already received more than $3,000 in donations toward the new
center. (Dail Photos).
Single Copy 10 Cents
Bulletin
WASHINGTON, D. C. Rep. Wal
ter B. Jones of the First Congressional
District announced at noon Wednesday
a decision by the U. S. Department of
Housing & Urban Development to al
low the use of federal housing funds for
the purchase of mobile homes in relo
cation.
This is believed to be the first time
such a relocation plan has been ap
proved by HUD.
Rep. Jones said the decision came in
the matter involving Edenton Housing
Authority. The Edenton authority has
been delayed from progressing with the
construction of 100 low-rent public hous
ing units because of difficulty in the
relocation of seven families now on sites.
The congressman said he argued to
HUD that the use of mobile homes for
relocation purposes was the only practi
cal and most economical way of making
sites in small towns available for low
rent projects. He noted that the $ 1.9-
million Edenton project had been de
layed for weeks because of the question
about relocation.
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FISH FRY RECEIPTS -- Chowan
Shrine Club last week turned over to
Sudan Temple checks totaling $1,346.59
for the Shrine hospitals for burned and
crippled children. The money repre
sented profits from an annual fish fry.
Potentate Luther Cromartie of Wilming
ton, center, accepted the big check and
is being aided by Willie Bunch, left,
club president; and William Easterling,
treasurer.
4-H Corn Yields Short Os Record
The average per acre yield in the 1970
4-H Corn Contest was well below the
1969 record but Connie Monds posted
a 166 bushel per acre yield to lead all
comers.
Average yields to contest winners this
year ranged down to 106 bushels per
acre.
Announcement of the winners and a
dinner in their honor was held November
23 at the Edenton Restaurant. It was
sponsored by Edenton Lions Club which
puts on the 4-H Corn Growers Contest.
Connie, competing in the 13-14 age
group, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Preston Monds. Nadine Monds, daugh-
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Officers Are Lauded The work done by law enforcement offi
cers in Chowan County was lauded last Tuesday night at a banquet
sponsored by Edward G. Bond Post 40, American Legion. Pictured
left to right are: Roy Blackley, post commander; Sheriff Troy Top
pin, Superior Court Judge Robert Rouse, Jr., of Farmville, and
Edenton Police Chief J. D. Parrish. Approximately 200 people at
tended the banquet at which Judje Rouse spoke.
Hog Cholera Overcome
The State-Federal Eradication Task
Force is now in the phase-out stage as
hog cholera quarantines in Northeastern
North Caroiina and Southwestern Vir
ginia are lifted.
Dr. Grant E. Blake announced from
the Suffolk, Va., office and James A.
Graham, N. C. Commissioner of agricul
ture, announced the lifting of quaran
tines in Camden and Pasquotank counties.
Gift By Ruritans
A check for S7OO was donated to the
Chowan Hospital and presented to Ad
ministrator Thomas M. Surratt at the
Chowan" Ruritan Club Ladies' Night
meeting Monday.
Also, the 1971 officers were installed
by State Trooper C. H. Mims, a past
president of the New Hope Ruritan Club.
Officers installed were: T. O. Asbell.
president; M. J. Privott, vice president;
Clarence Bass, secretary; Fahey Byrum,
treasurer; and J. T. Hodges, director.
Entertainment was given by the Rocky
Hock Clodhoppers.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Monds, was
second to the winner and high in the
the 9-12 age group with 153 bushels per
acre.
Harold Lloyd Bunch, Jr., was next
with 142 bushels; and was followed by
Jerry Castelloe in the 15 and above
group who posted 125 bushels.
Bob and Bill Jordan had 119 bushels
and Gene Jordan had 106 bushels.
Harr;- Venters presented the awards.
Pete Thompson, county extension
chairman, headed the program and re
marked abo. t the yields.
The 1969 average yield was 145.2
bushels per acre, a new high for the
county 4-H’ers.
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Earlier Chowan and six other Northeast
ern North Carolina counties had been
cleared as no new cases were diagnosed.
Hog cholera was first diagnosed in
Gates County on June 3. In a few days
Chowan and Perquimans counties, along
their common boundary, were under
quarantine as the disease hit epidemic
proportions.
State and Federal personnel was rush
ed into the area and headquarters were
established at Edenton Motel. Recently
the State-Federal Task Force was es
tablished to eradicate the disease in an
area surrounding the Dismal Swamp.
The office was moved to Suffolk. Va.,
with another office in Elizabeth City.
The task force has been under the
supervision of Dr. R. E. Omohundro,
assistant director of the Animal Health
Division, U. S. Ttepartment of Agricul
ture. At its height, state and federal
personnel assigned to the operation num
bered as high as 172. They included
U. S. veterinarians and livestock inspec
tors from over 40 states. The number
will now be reduced to less than half
the peak figure.
In early stages of the operation, it was
necessary to enlarge the diagnostic lab
oratory facility on Paradise Road, out
side Edenton, and to install an emergen
cy lab in Chesapeake, Va. The Edenton
lab will now be turned over to regularly
employed state personnel.
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Fayton Is Chosen
Chowan Nominee
Charles Earl Fayton. 210 East Hicks
Street, has been nominated for a coveted
Morehead Scholarship at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fay
ton is a senior at John A. Holmes High
School.
Fayton will repre
sent Chowan County
in district competi
tion and if chosen
there will have final
interviews in Chapel
Hill before the More
head committee.
It was pointed out
that Morehead Scho
lars are nominated
on the basis of lead
ership and all-around
at Holmes and secretary of the Senior
Class. He is a member of the National
Honor Society and the Monogram Club.
He was co-captain of the football team.
The popular member of the Edenton
Aces was chosen on the All-Conference
grid team.
ability. Financial need is not consider
ed. The award provides all funds needed
for four years at UNC and in recent
years graduate awards have been made.
The Morehead Award at UNC has
gained the reputation of being one of the
outstanding scholarships in the nation.
Fayton is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Linwood Fayton.
He is president of the student council
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