ij li ii 1 1 c i it u l Class Os 71 We want to be among the first to congratulate the 168 students in the Class of 1971 at John A. Holmes and Chowan high schools. Again this year we join with local business enterprises in a salute to the graduates through printing individual pictures of those in the class. The picture pages are on three and four in Section C. As the graduates pass another mile* post and enter a new era in their lives, we enjoy recalling the little story that goes: “Know what happened to the young ster who set out to set the world on fire?” “He soon returned home for some more matches.’’ Congratulations, grads! We hope you always keep your powder dry. I v Jfi t * Clyde Cobb Rhea Adams Glenn Turner An American Phenomena ■i. Glenn W. Turner last week returned to where it all began. The homecoming was more successful than the Jaycee Air Festival. The festival was not as 1 great a financial loss as it might have been had not Turner agreed to under write a portion of the cost. It was from Northeastern North Ca rolina and Southeastern Virginia that the 36-year-old harelip has recruited his best talent. He had three of them with him on this trip—Rhea Adams and Clyde Cobb of Edenton, and Ben Bunt ing of Williamston. DubbeTa‘ 7i supef huckster” last week in an 11-page article in Life Magazine, Turner proudly points out that nine of his best minds came from a 30-mile radius of Edenton. It is because of his judge of men and character, along with his super-human ability to motivate people, that he has managed to amass a tremendous amount of wealth in a short period of time. In little more than three years he has turned a borrowed $5,000 into what he claims to be S2OO-million in assets in 45 corporations. (That was Satur day night. He may have a couple more corporations in his stable by now—and he’ll own 100 per cent of the stock). It was in Wilson in April, 1968, that we first met the South Carolina share cropper’s son who was “on the way to harvest the world.” From this inter view he enjoyed his first good press, with his most recent being the Life article which also treated him decently. Turner blames the negative-minded big city press with creating a cloud of doubt over him and his enterprises, thus resulting in failure by some who otherwise could be living a better life. It is for those who lost along the way side that Clyde Cobb wrote the “Dare to be Great” course which today is the hottest selling item in Turner Enter prises. This is consistent with the Turner philosophy. He definitely has sympa thy pains for those who invested a wad on faith, sat on that faith looking for Continued on Pago 4 ffcft*, AJ£ > r M Kr'il I RrT at* Jla - \Jtt » n \ w" AUKBB&rf * • wMJ&?Xm /k# k L^y^^^gfßtlißrHßFT l BP^BIBBmR* ■ lliiir ? 1 if b^^bMMlWUbx «iM#li 1 'lll & g| ! V|BBBi *-i™siß—» fißiig • aMi^ Kfßr g!t - Dr 1b - ysixter' jtEfSMKr XBBBBB^X^T’-B^^^X - _ . . M « « ilir Festival Weekend Scenes—' The Chowan Herald camera was at all of the events during the Jaycee Memorial Day Air Festival Weekend and shown here are some of the coverage. At left, Charles Dunn, director, SBI, is shown as he de livered Sunday’s Memorial Service at Edenton Municipal Airport Left to right are: Mayor George Alma Byrum, Rep. Walter B. Jones, Dr. Bill Thornton, Roy L. Blackley, and W. B. Gardner. Miss Hettie Wallace, a Holmes High senior, was , \ School Tax Stays Same; Budget^ut A total of $37,460 wt % • b y the Edenton-Chowan Board o. t a -ation to get the budget in line v& S hat the county commissioners ■*| l and thought was enough toi i 11 ' 1 ly run the schools. The final figure the commissioners gave the board of education was $395,450. This figure is based upon a 86 cents per SIOO valuation on revenue derived from ad valorem tax plus non tax funds. The budget originally submitted to the commissioners was for $476,768.64. The commissioners felt they could not fund this and the board of education went back and could only cut some $25,000 out so they re-submitted the original budget without any cuts. The commissioners told the board they could not fund the budget and gave them the 86 cents per SIOO valu ation last week. Cuts in the budget that is to be re submitted include an English supervis or’s position, a fire escape, not con verting a coal furnace to oil, a speaker system, improvements on athletic field, arid the loan payment to the county commissioners. Continued on Page 4 Bid Openings Set Bids will be taken in June on two municipal projects in Edenton one for 100 units of low-rent public hous ing, the other for street improvements in Morgan Park. At 3 P. M., today (Thursday) in the Municipal Building, bids will be opened on the low-rent housing project which has been developed over the past three years by Edenton Housing Authority. Construction could begin within 30 days if the bids are within available funds. Town Administrator W. B. Gardner said the council is this week advertising for bids on curb, gutters and pavement in the Morgan Park development. Water and sewer extension has been completed in the area and bids on the street improvements - will be received June 17. Lambeth Retires W. O. Lambeth, area conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, announced his retirement effective May 28. The Chowan cooperative was recently granted a loan-grant from 1 the Office of Economic Opportunity, through the N. C. Rural Fund For Development. Since that time, Roy L. Harrell, NCRFD specialist in the area, has assisted the cooperative in organizational work. Also, an active search has been under way for a full-time manager. Sherlon Layton, cooperative president, said the group feels extremely fortun ate to secure the services of Price, who has extensive background in farm marketing. For the past 20 years Price has been employed by the Markets Division, N. C. Department of Agriculture, as a market ing specialist and area supervisor of inspection. His duties were to recruit, train, and supervise the inspectors in the performance of their actual grading work. He also made on-the-job visits to buyers, packers, growers, and millers in the fruit, vegetable and peanut industry to promote uniformity and good rela tions with the trade. Price is actively engaged in a farm ing partnership with his son, Donald, in Martin County. He is 43 years old and married to Dorothy Marie Jones of Selma. They have six children. He holds membership in Martin Coun ty Farm Bureau and the Federal-State Inspectors Association of America. Students Decline Edenton-Chowan Schools had a total student enrollment of 2,894 with 141 professional personnel working with them at the end of the first month of the 1970-71 term. This was revealed in a recent sur vey released by the State Department of Public Instruction which showed that enrollment in North Carolina schools this year decreased over the previous year by 6,888 students. While the number of students decreased, the number of teachers, supervisors, and principals increased by 241. Os the teachers in the Edenton-Cho wan unit, three, or 2.1 per cent, had less-Jthan a class “A” certificate and none were teaching out of their certifi cate field. The survey also reveals that although 1,200 new classrooms across the state were made available for use during the 1970-71 year, 7,035 are still needed to take care of excess enrollment. The local schools had nine new classrooms available at the beginning of the school year but need 33 to take care of excess enrollment. and cash prize for their float entry, “Our Defense Yesterday, Today, To morrow.”. Also taking home a trophy was the Circle K club of COA for win ning second place with their entry, “POW-MLA”. In the mini float division, Girl Scout Troop 757 took home a trophy and cash prize for their entry of the Wright Memorial. Second place winner was Boy Scout Troop 164 for Prisoners of War-Missing In Action, and third place went to Boy Scout Troop 156 for Wright Memorial. On Saturday night, approximately 400 people attended the banquet and ball to listen to Astronaut William Edgar Thornton, Rep. Walter B. Jones and Glenn W. Turner of Turner Enterprises speak. Sunday afternoon over 7,00 people gathered at Edenton Municipal Airport Continued on Pago 4