Public Parade
Sing Along With COA
Friend Willie Ainsley of neighboring
Perquimans isn’t just whistling Dixie
r when he praises College of the Albe
marle. Efforts are now being made to
have others pick up the tune.
His claim that COA is one of the
greatest things to happen to Northeast
ern North Carolina isn’t an exaggera
tion; neither is his claim that the col
lege contributes greatly toward keep
ing young people at home.
The establishing of any institution
of higher learning in an area can justly
be hailed as “great” and the benefits
aren’t going to be limited to those who
matriculate there or who own business
es in the hometown. Surrounding com
munities enjoy the benefits of the col
lege without being bothered with the
undesirable aspects.
It is because of the benefits to those
outside the college community that lo
cal governments should provide finan
cial support for COA. At the same
time some form of voice in the opera
i*tion of the institution should be grant
ed those putting up the cash.
The College of the Albemarle, located
in Elizabeth City, is a comprehensive
community college serving seven of the
10 counties in Northeastern North Ca
rolina. The actual service aspect of the
college is debated because there is not
sufficient widespread knowledge about
what COA is doing. Steps are now be
ing taken to remedy this problem and
we hope the medicine doesn’t come too
late to save the patient.
Pasquotank County is now bearing a
heavy financial burden where COA is
concerned. They need help and help
will come when other counties are made
aware of their true responsibility to a
community college.
| Two years ago at a seminar concerned
"more with the future of COA rather
than the past, it was learned that as
few as three counties in the service area
td representation on the trustees. In
e other four counties there was no
one individual to which the institution
could turn and cry: “Help!”
Because no steps were taken to broad
en the base of representation on the
policy making board, the campaign to
raise $500,000 for a building and devel
opment fund lags in all but one coun
ty Pasquotank.
Now, however, a concentrated effort
j* being made to establish a communi
ty college district with all seven coun
ties participating yes, even finan
cially. Along with this is a proposal
to change the method of selecting the
trustees to allow at least one represen
tative from each participating county.
Because of past criticisms of COA
activities this newspaper has been label
ed anti-COA. We plead guilty to being
Vanti” on many fronts and unwilling
to wave the flag for phony causes.
Anti-public education, from kindergart
en through the highest of higher edu
cation, we are not. We do, however,
want it to be public and with represen
tation at the policy making levels at
least commensurate to community input.
The College of the Albemarle cannot
expect returns from its service area
equal to the contribution made by the
institution. There just isn’t that kind
of support available. On the other
hand, the college deserves more than
it has been getting from the area serv
ed in money and public support.
The practice of loving someone only
when you need them doesn’t enjoy long
life in most places, especially east of
the Chowan River. The people who
meander along the Public Parade just
ain’t that naive.
If the establishment of a community
college district for College of the Albe
marle, which brings restructuring of the
board of trustees and a search for more
widespread support for the ambitious
building and development fund is a
coincidence, then a happy coincidence
it is. The good in both outweighs the
bad. This won’t only improve an image
but also make the cash register ring.
The Voice of Industry
Gully Gullander is a brave, map. As
president of the National Association of
Manufacturers he had gained the repu
tation of being industry's No. 1 spokes
man in America.
He put that reputation on the line in
Raleigh Tuesday at the annual meeting
of Capital Associated Industries, Inc.
He changed the format of most public
speakers by conducting a live news
press conference at swank North Ridge
Country Club.
Armed with an almost uncanny abil
ity to turn a question around to put his
position in the best light, along with a
outlook in industry’s behalf,
the jovial New Yorker educated and
entertained his audience.
Frank Krieger invited six Eastern
North Carolina newsmen to tar Mr. Gul
lander and four others to observe the
feathering. We were among the last
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Board Votes
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New Budget;
Britt Hired
A record budget of $473,314.64 local
money was approved by the 'Edenton-
Chowan Board of Education at their
regular monthly meeting Tuesday night.
Supt. Bill Britt’s contract was also
renewed for a period of two years.
He has been superintendent of Chowan
County schools for four years.
Last year’s local fund budget was
$386,875.65 and Supt. Britt stated that
the board members had taken much
consideration and time in planning the
forthcoming year’s budget. The budget
will be submitted to the county com
missioners today.
Other business carried out by the
board members including awarding the
contract to audit accounts for the school
year 1970-71 to Max G. Warren, CPA
of Raleigh.
A letter was received by the board
from Mrs. J. L. Winslow requesting
permission for their children to attend
Perquimans County schools for the
1971-72 school year. The motion was
passed.
Supt. Britt gave a report on the adult
education program being put on by the
College of the Albemarle in the Eden
ton-Chowan schools.
Resignations were accepted with re
gret by the board members from Mrs.
Maie P. Asbell, fourth grade teacher at
Swain School, and Mrs. Kathryn Holton,
math teacher at Holmes School.
A one-year leave of absence for the
coming school year was granted Mrs.
Laurie Owens, first grade teacher at
Walker School.
The board approved a motion to hire
only teachers with an “A” or higher
certificate and to allow the teachers
presently employed a year to raise their
“B” certificate to an “A” rating. Supt.
Britt noted there were only four or five
teachers in the county with a “B”
rating.
Policeman Saves Victim Os Hanging
The quick response and fast thinking
ofthelEtfcnton Police Department and'
Edenton-Chowan Rescue Squad is cred
ited with saving the life of a nine-year
old boy on his birthday, as he some
how was hung on a limb on a tree in
his yard.
Sidney Lee Ward, Jr., North Oakum
Street, and several friends were play
ing in his yard when he was hung.
His aunts, Geraldine and Bernice
Ward, cut the boy down from the tree
Privott Is Elected
Mac Privott has been elected presi
dent of Edenton Jaycees. Privott and
other new officers were elected at a
regular meeting of the club Thursday
night. Installation will be April 22 at
a special banquet at American Legion
Building.
Privott will succeed Robert P. Dail,
who becomes chairman of the board of
directors.
Henry Overton was elected first vice
president; Bill Hamilton, second vice
president; Howard Collins, treasurer;
and E. C. Toppin, secretary.
John Guard is corresponding secre
tary; Wallace Evans, state director; with
Carlton Layton, Ray Midgett and Milon
Stilley elected to the board for two
year terms; and Joe Hollowell and
Wayne Sawyer to serve one-year terms
on the board.
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CONFERS WITH NAM PRESIDENT James Darnell, right
executive vice president, Chowan Veneer Company, Inc., is shown
with W. P. Gullander of New Ycrk, president, National Associa
tion of Manufacturers. Gullander spoke in Raleigh Tuesday at
the annual meeting of Capital Associated Industries, Inc. E. L.
Hollowell of Edeaton, president of the veneer company, is on the
CAI board. (See Itablic Parade).
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NOT A PRETTY SIGHT— Mr. Clean would have taken ill hereabouts Monday and Wednesday had
he viewed the sights shown here. The main picture is the entrance to Edenton’s sanitary land fill on
Highway 32. Chowan County furnishes a big container at the gate for county residents to use when
the land fill is not in operation. The long Easter holiday filled the container to overflowing and has
prompted Town Council to request the commissioners to purchase another one. The insert is a por
tion of an unsightly scene on East King Street Wednesday morning when a trash can on the curb blew
over and trash was blown throughout the block.
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Volume XXXVII—No. 13.
10% Power Surcharge May 1
Edenton Town Council Tuesday night
agreed to seek enabling legislation for
a referendum in May, 1972, regarding
abolishing the Board of Public Works.
The citizens, by a 38-vote margin,
agreed to maintain the two-elective
board system here.
At the same time, Town Admini-
and laid him on his back.
When Policeman McCoy Parker arriv
ed at the scene, he could not feel any
heartbeat and noticed the boy was not
breathing. A friend of Ward’s, Joe
Hathaway, gave him artificial respira
tion and Parker began pumping the
boys’ heart manually, he reported.
When Eld Taylor of the rescue squad
got there, he began using a resuscitator
on the child and finally his heart began
beating and he began breathing.
Officer Parker accompanied the boy
to the hospital in the ambulance and
when he left the boy was still un
conscious but breathing on his own, he
stated.
Ward was released from Chowan
Hospital Tuesday morning.
How the incident happened is still
under investigation by the Edenton
Police Department with Capt. C. H.
Williams and Officer Parker on the
case.
Aid To Taxpayer
R. M. Midgett, local collector for the
N. C. Department of Revenue, advises
that personnel will be available in Eden
ton on April 15 to assist individuals in
filing their intangible and individual
income tax returns.
The revenue office is located on the
second floor of the County Building on
East King Street.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 15, 1971 Single Copy 10 Cents
strator W. B. Gardner announced that
electric customers on May 1 will begin
paying a 10 per cent surcharge on their
electric bills. This is brought about
by a negotiated settlement in the
VEPCO rate increase request.
Gardner said the Board of Public
Works had approved the temporary
surcharge while a comprehensive rate
study is being made. Permanent rate
adjustments will be made following the
study.
Mayor George Alma Byrum called for
action' on a bill to be presented to the
General Assembly on the plan to abol
ish the E&W board. He said it had
generally been agreed such a vote
should be held and it should be held
at a time when no town elective offices
are on the ballot. “This will tend to
keep personalities out of the issue,”
he noted.
Commenting on a recent joint meet
ing of the two municipal boards, Coun
cilman Leo Katkaveck said: “We didn’t
get anything we didn’t expect. The ar
gument they had didn’t change my
mind.”
Councilman David White said it
should be brought back to a vote of the
people.
The vote to seek legislation on the
question was unanimous.
Mayor Byrum said he would confer
with Jesse L. Harrell, E&W board chair
man, about certain language to go into
the bill.
Gardner said a complaint had been
received from Morris Small relative to
the trash on Highway 32 at the entrance
to the sanitary land fill. The admini
strator passed out several photographs
of the area around a county-owned trash
container which he said justified the
Small complaint.
The administrator said the town
opened the land fill to use by county
residents to cooperate with county of
ficials. The county purchased an eight
yard container but that has been deem
ed to be insufficient.
Council action called for the county
to purchase at least one additional con
tainer.
Council was shown drawings of pro
posed downtown beautification which
includes brick sidewalks.
A delegation from Morgan Park ap
peared to request faster action on pave
ment of streets in the subdivision.
Plymouth Man Dies In Local Wreck
The second fatality for Chowan Coun
ty was reported early Saturday morn
ing when Vannie Taylor, 17 years old,
of Plymouth, was killed in an automo
bile accident that injured three other
Plymouth teenagers.
The accident occurred on U. S. 17,
two miles north of Edenton, according
to Trooper C. T. Thomas, investigating
officer.
Trooper Thomas stated the accident
happened around 2:15 A. M., when a
1960 Chevrolet, driven by Robert Lee
Blackwell, 18, of Madison Street, Plym
outh, went out of control in a curve,
ran off the road and hit a utility pole.
Bill To Ask Death Os Board
Gardner said engineering is expected
to be completed in the near future with
the council giving him authority to ad
vertise for bids as soon thereafter as
possible.
Gardner said the General Assembly
had passed legislation which will in
crease Ekienton’s take on Powell Bill
funds by $25,000 for the period begin
ning October, 1972. Powell Bill funds
received this year were $25,000.
The administrator was authorized to
advertise delinquent taxes in May and
Mayor Byrum asked the finance com
mittee to study making funds available
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VANDALISM —VandaIs in the
past week have pulled up more
than six of the new street signs
recently installed in the Town of
Edenton. J. C. Parks, superin
tendent of the street department,
holds one of four signs taken out
of the ground in one night. Po
lice are looking for a white teen
ager for questioning in the van
dalism.
Taylor and another passenger, Sammy
Williams, were taken to Chowan Hos
pital, then transferred to Norfolk Gen
eral Hospital, Norfolk, Va., where Tay
lor died early Saturday afternoon. Wil
liams is still in Norfolk General in
serious condition.
Blackwell and Tony Moore, another
passenger, were admitted to Chowan
Hospital for treatment and Blackwell
was released on Monday. Moore re
mains in the hospital in a satisfactory
condition, stated a hospital spokesman.
Trooper Thomas chrrged Blackwell
with driving on the wrong side, of the
road and manslaughter. \
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