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Scene of Recent PRA Convention on West Coast
flublic |larade
System In Danger
- The question of restructuring higher
education in North Carolina will not
be considered during the regular ses
sion of the General Assembly. There
fore, it is apparent that Speaker Phil
Godwin’s adjournment target date of
July 9th can be met.
The foes of the Warren Commission
report are already claiming victory.
When Gov. Bob Scott broke the dead
lock Tuesday afternoon by agreeing to
the issue being resolved in a special
session later this year, the power struc
ture around the Old Well in Chapel Hill
began to applaud.
However, Gov. Scott did not compro
mise his position. He has promised an
even stronger plan than the Warren
Commission when the legislature meets
b to consider higher education.
What has been comprised, apparently,
are citizen-legislators and biennial ses
sions of the General Assembly. Time
was the question and time will be the
lever proponents of salaried legislators
and annual sessions will use in the fu
ture.
Gov. Scott said there was sufficient
time to act on the higher education
matter. There was little new which
could be said in committee since higher
education has about been studied to
death. In fact, the Warren Commis
sion was the 11th such study. _ _/ .
Speaker Godwin disagreed with tlov.
Scott. He contended the issue should
be given time to cool; time should be
given for the air to clear. Lt. Gov. Pat
Taylor tended to agree.
Then came Sen. John Burney of New
Hanover with his “cocktail” to stop the
“blitzkrieg’’. Gov. Scott had the votes
in the House and Sen. Burney had the
votes in the Senate. Only a special
/session proposal would head off a stalc
The alma mater tears will really flow
between now and the special session.
. For this reason there won’t be an
abundance of time for cooling off or for
the air to clear.
What is happening is that North Ca
rolina is on the move toward salaried
legislators and annual sessions. There
doesn’t appear to be enough time for
citizen-legislators to devote to the state’s
business in biennial sessions of six or
seven months.
Why? The legislators get restless
after the appropriations bill is passed.
The supply of “green stamps” has been
exhausted.
Legislators are playing into the hands
of those who want to spend half of each
and every dollar in Raleigh and who
want the postman to drop a check from
the State Treasurer on their desk each
and every month when important legis
lation such as the higher education mat
ter is shuttled off into a special session
k because there isn’t enough time to con
sider it.
Members of the General Assembly
take such time as is necessary to force
auto manufacturers to place little con
tainers in new cars being sold in North
Carolina. In our opinion, they could
have found the time between now and
adjournment to establish laws which
require all state supported institutions
of higher learning not only to be fed
from the same spoon, but fed the same
diet
On Going To Pot
The following little verse was found
is our unattended typewriter. We un
derstand credit is due High Point Mer
chants Association Bulletin, via Nick
George.
We’ll give it to you just as it came
to us:
r rf -. We've Came A Long Way, Baby!
Remember when hippie
Meant Mg in the hips.
And a trip involved travel
In cars, planet and ships?
When fix was a verb
That meant mend or repair.
And be-in meant supply
Existing somewhere?
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Brock Makes Big
Flight In Copter
The Ninth Annual Professional Roto
craft Association convention at Edenton
Municipal Airport this weekend will
be anti-climatic for at least one gyro
copter enthusiast. He is Ken Brock of
Anaheim, Calif., who this week com
pleted the first coast-to-coast flight in
a putt-putt aircraft.
Brock set out from California on June
11 with his sights set on Kitty Hawk,
the birthplace of aviation. “Doing his
thing” to Brock was a reversal of the
flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific
oceans. After a short delay in Edenton
Sunday, he was successful in getting
to the Outer Banks Monday about noon.
Brock, Southern California represen
tative for Benson Aircraft Corporation
of Raleigh, experienced difficulty with
the Bensen chopper in mid-afternoon
Sunday while crossing the Albemarle
Sound. He landed safely at the spaci
ous Edenton Municipal Airport and af
ter some parts of the “bug” were dried
and he had an enjoyable night at a local
motel, he was off on the last leg of his
flight.
The pilot will be back in Edenton for
the three-day PRA convention, being
hosted on the East Coast for the first
time by Edenton Jaycees. Competition
is scheduled for Saturday and thous
ands of spectators from throughout the
area are expected to be on hand.
Dr. Igor Benson of Raleigh, gyrocop
ferTnventor and head of PRA. will have
to perform some fancy maneuvers in
order to recapture the spotlight from
his Southern California representative.
Brock, 38, flew the cockpitless craft
without instruments on this journey
mainly because “it hadn’t been done
before.”
The gyrocopter has the gas tank built
into the seat, carries less than 10 gal
lons of gasoline that can cover about
Continued on Page 4
County Tax Set
Chowan County commissioners ten
tatively agreed Friday night to a tax
rate of $1.60 per SIOO valuation for the
coming fiscal year. The special fire
tax rate was set at eight cents.
The rates came out of a lengthy bud
get session. There were no motions
recorded and the definite amount of
the budget was not determined. How
ever, it was generally agreed among
commissioners that the amount of local
tax money to support the budget they
were considering would require a five
cent increase.
Commissioners, who have been at
odds with Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education over the school budget, in
cluded a levy of 86 cents for schools
in their proposal. Since the levy will
be on an additional $ 1-million, the
schools will automatically get a $8,600
increase over the current fiscal year.
Mrs. Pansy Elliott, county account
ant, left Saturday on a family vacation
to Florida so details of the proposed
budget were not available to the press.
Shepard Chosen
Blount Shepard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas H. Shepard, Pembroke Circle,
Edenton, has qualified for the National
Junior Olympic Games to be held in
Athens, Ga., on July 17.
1 Shepard is a 3-sport
I letterman at Holmes
and is the recipient of
I the football sportsman*
[ ship award.
He was also a starter
in basketball and is
fourth in the state in
the sophomore and iun-
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ior division in the two-mile run.
Shepard qualified for the National
Olympics by winning the preliminary
State Olympics that were held in Jack
sonville.
Shepard is a rising senior at Holmes
High School.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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Volume XXXVII—No. 23. Edenton,
Schools Still
Seek Funds
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For Budget
By Patricia M. Arnold
The Edenton-Chowan Board of Edu
cation will request another meeting
with the Chowan County commissioners
to discuss the school budget.
Carlton Goodwin made a motion, at
a special meeting called Monday night,
that a committee of two along with the
board chairman, Eugene Jordan, meet
with the commissioners and try to iron
out the matter of the remaining $37,000
needed but without funds. •
Thomas Paul Griffin and Morris
Small were appointed to be on the
committee.
The budget as it stands to date is
$433,270.42 but the revenue budget is
only $396,000 which leaves the $37,000
deficit.
The board of education feels they
cannot cut the $37,000 without endan
gering the academic program and it is
their hope that some portion of the
15-cent local school tax can be put into
force to help the situation.
The board received a letter from the
commissioners on June 17 which stated:
“The Board of County Commission
ers have received your letter dated
June 11, requesting additional tax for
schools.
“The Board held a meeting Wednes
day P. M. After consideration and dis
cussion the Board determined that the
levy of additional taxes in the amount
requested was not feasible at this time.
“It is the feeling of the Board that
the present tax levy is as high as prop
erty owners can reasonably be expected
to raise.”
The board of education had requested
that the commissioners adopt what por
tion of the 15-cent that would cover
the $37,000. The amount would have
been between 11c and 12c ©£4he 1 recent
optional school tax.
According to the law, if the board
of education and county commissioners
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Progress Made On New Structure —Workmen continue to make
progress on the new home of Peoples Bank & Trust Company at
the corner of Broad and Church streets. Rafters have been put into
place as has the tower. Slate shingles, in foreground, await crafts
men Who will install them. No completion date has been set for the
building which has been under construction for several months.
Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday,
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Popcorn In Chowan— Chowan County Extension Chairman Pete
Thompson and Astor Perry, N. C. State University peanut special
ist, are shown inspecting a field of popcorn. Twelve Chowan farm
ers, working under a contract with Jimbo’s Jumbos of Edenton,
have planted nearly 100 acres of popcorn. NCSU crop specialists
have high hopes for the future of popcorn as a field crop in North
eastern North Carolina.
Chowan Farmers Watching Popcorn
A new field crop is appearing on
about 12 farms scattered throughout
Chowan County this year. It is pop
corn and specialists have expressed
Program Funded
A full time Head Start program for
Northeast North Carolina has been
funded by the U. S. Department of
Health. Education and Welfare, accord
ing to Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First
Congressional District. The grant is for
$288,525.
The program to be administered b\
Economic Improvement Council, Inc..
headquartered at Edenton Municipal
Airport, is for 240 children from low
income families living in the 10-county
Albemarle Area.
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the opinion that a good stand has been
realized.
Nearly 100 acres have been devoted
to this experiment supported bv N. C.
State University and through a contract
with Jimbo’s Jumbos of Edenton.
Pete Thompson, extension chairman
in Chowan County, said Jimbo’s Jumbos
is anticipating 400,000 pounds of pop
corn from the crop. He added that
farmers hope to yield 80 bushels per
acre.
“With the combination we have (good
soil for popcorn, farmers willing to try
something new, specialist supplying
expert advice, and an industry with a
market) this could be a big boost to ag
riculture in this area in the coming
years,” Thompson stated.
Dr. Bill Fike, a member of the crop
science department at NCSU. is given
a great deal of credit with the develop
ment of popcorn for sale commercially
in Northeastern North Carolina. J ha
Bunch, Jr., is Jimbo’s Jumbos super
visor who is doing field work on the
crop.
Astor Perry, peanut specialist, went
with Thompson on a swing through the
county to look at crops in gen i .
Looking at a handsome stand of corn
in the field of Fahey and Carroll Bv
rum, Perry commented: “We have got
to have something to go along with
peanuts.”
Perry was impressed with the stand
of peanuts throughout the county. He
commented that they were especially
green and clean.
Thompson, speaking about crops in
general, said rains in the past week had
aided crops tremendously. “The rains
have actually saved a lot of sweet corn,”
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Ray Is Promoted
ATLANTA, Ga. Robert H. Ray of
Edenton has been named manager of
the McKinney Lake National Fish Hatch
ery, near Hoffman. This announce
ment was made recently by C. Edward
Carlson, regional director of the Bu
reau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife's
Southeast Region.
Ray replaces Glenn F. Adams, who
retired after 28 years of service with
the Bureau.
Ray came to the Federal fish hatch
ery program as assistant manager at
Cohutta National Fish Hatchery, Ga.
After completing the 11-month training
course at the Bureau’s National Fish
Hatchery In-Service Training School in
Marion, Ala., he was assigned to the
Mammoth Spring National Fish Hatch
ery, Ark., as assistant hatchery mana
ger.
Ray was later promoted to Fishery
Management Biologist and transferred
to the Edenton National Fish Hatchery,
where he has remained until his present
assignment.
A native of Lyerly, Ga., Ray attended
Reinhardt College at Waleska. Ga.. and
Jacksonville State College, Jacksonville.
Ala. His major fields of study included
biology, parasitology, and embryology.
As administrator of the McKinney
Lake National Fish Hatchery, Ray will
be responsible for the complete opera
tion of the hatchery. TTie McKinney
Lake Hatchery plays a large part in
stocking channel catfish for the Urban
Fishing Program in Washington, D. C.
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