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... W- m W M Vj jgp-*- j£M j ,’- se«. George Wood Wood Is Voted « ' J University Post RALEIGH State Sen. George Wood of Camden has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of N. C. State University. His election came during a board meeting on Thursday of last week. It was the first meeting of the newly established 16-member board under the University of North Carolina reorgani zation adopted by the 1971 General As sembly. In the reorganization, pro posed by Gov. Bob Scott, all high edu cation institutions in the state were brought into a statewide system under a 32-member Board of Governors. A board of trustees was also established for each institution. Sen. Wood, who did not seek re-elec tion in the May Democratic Primary, is president of F. P. Wood and Sons in Camden, a large-scale agricultural com- W-pany engaged in agricultural produc o lion and marketing and agricultural Supplies. He is an alumnus of N. C. State and has served in the General Assembly . since 1963, first in the House and then in the Senate. \ Miss Dail Wins Mary Helen Dail, member of Four Leaf Clover. 4-H Club located in West.; over Heights, won first place in State Forest Demonstration Contest held last week during State 4-H Congress on campus N. C. State University in Ra leigh. Mary Helen described the di sease Fomes Annosus of Conifers (Pine trees mainly) and told means of control ing the fungus infection. She is at present secretary of the Chowan County 4-H Council and presi- dent of her local club. This is the sec- A ond year that Mary Helen competed in State Forestry Demonstration contest. Last year she was second place winner, k Cindy Davenport and Susan Jordan f received Key Award Honors for lead ership. Susan also was presented a SSOO 4-H Development scholarship. Beechye Lou Ward served as a page for all evening assembly programs. Gene Jordan led the Pledge of Allegi ance to the American Flag on Thurs day morning. On Thursday night at State talent show Lou Ann Bunch and Janet Har rell sang their now widely acclaimed “Phfff - You Were Gone”. There were only 16 numbers in State Talent show selected from 250 district entries. Altogether 27 boys and girls attended thastate meeting from Chowan. Mur rayi’Ctoodwin, agricultural extension agemt says, "I think this is the largest delegation Chowan County has ever had at State 4-H Congress, but I’m not sure. However, I feel confident it is the best group .ever to represent our county.” Marta Rogerson competed in horse contest; Cindy Daven jport in vegetable production; Tony ♦ Langley in tractor operation; and Joan 9 Jordan in girls’ public speaking. Top 4‘ff‘er Vary Helen Dail, Westover Heights, Edenton, won Mb state honora in the 4-H forestry demonstration contest during Sbate 4-H Congress in Raleigh. She was awarded a watch from Southern Bell. Shown with Miss Dail, ceftter, are Murray Good- Shk ChoWan County extension agent and Mrs. Swannoa Dail, the jffiiibltc ffiaracb j Has Columbia Been Forgotten? While the Soul City plan is reportedly on schedule, the residents of Columbia are holding their'breath in fear of an other major storm which could totally destroy their sewerage system. We agree with J. Jordan Bonner, GOP candidate for the U. S. Congress, that the Soul City project is an exam ple of wasteful federal spending. Why spend millions to build a new town when Tyrrell County’s only town is on the brink of disaster because $260,000 in federal funds cannot be found to re pair broken sewer lines? The federal government has agreed to guarantee up to sl4-million for de velopment of Soul City. On the strength of this commitment, Floyd McKissick, former head of the Congress for Racial Equality, has raised $2-million through his McKissick Enterprises. And in addition to this, the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare has approved a sl.l-million grant to establish a health care program in Vance and Warren counties, where Soul City is being developed. Columbia’s application maybe should have been for SSO-million then it would have gotten the attention of the bureau crats in Washington. It is criminal that a town like Columbia must struggle so for survival apparently because there aren’t Negroes and Republicans within its limits. A Hand For Hand Harry Hand has almost single-handed ly provided a Babe Ruth baseball team for youngsters along the Public Parade this summer. And he is due a pat on the back for his successful efforts. Harry is a teacher-coach at Chowan High School. He has given nearly two months of his summer to the local Babe Ruth team. He has raised funds to pay expenses, and used his own money when it was necessary. The team was further hampered be cause all night games were required to be played away. The lights at Hicks Field are set for football and no one was apparently willing to get them changed for the summer. The local Babe Ruthers had a most successful season although their coach had to spend more time overcoming problems than in teaching them the art of the game. So, we want to be among the first to give a hand to Harry Hand. Adding And Subtracting During the six-month period ending June 30, nearly 1,675,000 federal in come tax returns of North Carolinians were computer-checked for errors in arithmetic. IRS Director J. E. Wall in Greensboro reported that 89,000 of the total returns reviewed contained math errors. Os these, 52,000 taxpayers made errors in their favor, totalling $5,226,000 in ad ditional tax. On a happier note for the taxpayer, Mr. Wall reported that nearly 37,000 returns contained errors in favor of IRS, amounting to $2,318,000 in addi tional refunds. But on a happier note for IRS, $3- million will pay for a lot of computer time. Sex And Marriage Os all the sensitive subjects editors usually avoid, sex and religion are probably the foremost. Yet in thought ful discussion of sex education, sexual health and knowledge, and questions concerning religious teaching and or ganizations probably lies the only path to progress and truth. In the case of sex as it affects marri age, two noted sex researchers, Dr. and Mrs. William Masters, recently told the American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco half the country’s marriages are troubled by some form of sexual problem. The Masters believe that in these millions of cases one partner, or both, Continued on Pago 4 B 1 t Lbmh * ' I I » a swjv \ At Regional Conference The Albemarle Area was well represented on Wednesday of last week in Williamston at a meeting of the Council on State Goals and Policy, led by Gov. Bob Scott. It was one of five such meetings held in the state. In the picture at left, Gov. Scott and Secretary of State Thad Eure are shown with Dr. J. H. Horton of Edenton, a member of Edenton-Chowan Board of Education and Albemarle Regional Planning & Development Commission. Shown with Gov. Scott in the other picture are Roy L. Harrell of Edenton, a town councilman and specialist with N. C. Rural Fund For Development; and Lester Simpson of Hertford, chairman, Perquimans County Board of Commissioners. THE CHOWAN HERALD £ Volume XXXVIII.—No. 29. Campbell Heads New Medical Group Representatives from an “action oriented area” organized the Albemarle Human Resources Development System to administer a unique $49,383 health education system here Tuesday night and elected an action oriented slate of officers. Howard Campbell «of Elizabeth City, administrator of the 4-county health de partment, was nam ed chairman of the new organization— the Only such sys tem in North Caro lina. Campbell, a member of Albe marle Health Plan ning Council, most recently headed the Campbell Family Planning Families Begin Move Into Project Tuesday was a red letter day for Edenton Housing Authority and the families who had been temporarily re located in Guyette Mobile Home Park on Ryder’s Lane. These were the first seven families to move into the 100- unit project. At the same time. Jack Habit, chair man, announced that commissioners at a recent meeting named the four sites in the project. The names are: Holly Acres, located on North Oakum Street between Blades and Walker streets in honor of the late Dr. 0. L. Holley; Griffith Place, located on East Free mason and East Carteret streets, in honor of Rev. S. N. Griffith; Farm Tour Slated COLUMBIA The Albemarle Area Development Association’s Agriculture Committee is planning a farm industry tour to the Eastern Shore Tuesday through Thursday, -according to Joe Landino, chairman. * He reports that the hub of the tour will be Salisbury, Md. While the stop schedule is incomplete, the following visits are planned: an outstanding all around farming operation; cattle pro duction and finishing operations; swine production and finishing operations; and fruit and vegetable production, pro cessing and marketing operations. The maximum cost of the tour is SSO per person, plus meals. Departure is scheduled from Eden ton, back to the County Office Building, at 7:30 A. M., Tuesday with a stop in Elizabeth City at 8::30 A. M., for those from that area to be picked up. De parture from Salisbury is scheduled for 1 P. M., on Thursday. Those interested in participating in this tour should contact Pete Thompson, county extension chairman, immedi ately. Sales Tax Report Net collections from the 1 per cent local option sales tax in Chowan County during June amounted to $13,166.36, according to a report released by Com missioner G. A. Jones, Jr., of the State Department of Revenue. Collections from the seven other Al bemarle Area counties where the tax is levied included: Camden, $2,001.52; Currituck, $5,- 990.55; Dare, $25,737.61; Pasquotank, $45,547.34; Perquimans, $6,495.82; Tyr rell, $2,926.21; and Washington, $14,203.42. The tax is not collected in Gates and Hyde counties. •J. ' ■ Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday. August 3, 1972 Task Force which has submitted a pro posal for the 10-county Albemarle Area. Elected to serve with Campbell were: W. A. Miller of Swan Quarter, direc tor of Hyde County Department of So cial Services, vice chairman; Wilbur G. Pierce of Edenton. executive director of Economic Improvement Council. Inc., secretary. The following board members were named: Wesley B. Cullipher, executive director, Albemarle Regional Planning & Development Commission; Thomas M. Surratt, executive vice president of Chowan Hospital and chairman of th area health planning council: Robert Jefferies, administrator of Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City; Di. Thomas E. Vernon of Elizabeth City, dean of the College of the Albemarle; and Dr. John B. Sledge, Jr., of Manteo, head of Dare County Health Department. Byrum Park, located on Twiddy Ave nue an West Gale Street, in honor o" Mayor George Alma Byrum; and Mitchehui’ Plaza, located on East Al bemarle and East Gale streets in the block immediately off North Broad Street, in honor of former Mayor John A. Mitchener, Jr. Habit said many suggested names were submitted to the authority but these men were chosen for the tremen dous contribution they had made to the betterment of the community. Edenton Housing Authority was es tablished during the Mitchener admini stration. L. F. Amburn, Jr., executive director, said the screening of applications will continue and families will be moved into other units within the project dur ing the next 30 days. Those families who were temporarily relocated receiv ed priority. He also said that second priority will be given those families now residing in homes which have been condemned by the Town of Edenton. Amburn said those who have made application for units in the project will be notified immediately upon their ac ceptance as tenants. The Local Authority, in Cooperation with Agricultural Extension Service and Economic Improvement Council, Inc., has held two weekends of open house. Continued on Page 4 A 'S I \ ««m »*>«••* ** i ita*t v«■«*«—* ■• H i- m * ' i 1— ?i=.\ :a:;=. I ~ *.**» «-«’» •*-*, -* K^y. ■■ ; t HT ~>Vv; jq3|Hn» ■ Association Gets Staff Member Dennis Swain of Columbia, seated, is shown with Kermit L. Layton, Jr., newly employed execu tive director of Albemarle Firemen’s Association. Swain, fire chief in Columbia, said Layton would operate out of offices in Eizabeth City and coordinate emergency service activities with some 30 lire departments in the 10-county Albemarle Area. Single Copies 10 Cents Surratt, who called this an “action oriented area”, pointed out in his re marks that the system could only be effective by involving more people than those in the health care field. “We are getting ready to spring-board into some great things for the Albe marle Area,” Surratt predicted. He said he hopes that the human re sources development system can get “at least $500,000 worth of grants in three years”. Cullipher described in general terms how Albemarle Regional Planning & Development Commission recognized the need for such a study and prepared the proposal which was the only one fund ed by the N. C. Regional Medical Pro gram. It is designed to improve the health services in the area. Di. Jerry Hallan, director of the In stitute of Human Ecology in Raleigh, presented the planning grant proposal saying the money will be used “to ga ther information on what we have now, our needs, and how those needs can be met”. During the dinner meeting held at Edenton Jaycee Community Building, participants also adopted hy-hws. Par ticipants include representatives from hospitals, nursing homes, medical or ganizations, health departments, mental health, social services, public schools, high education, agricultural extension, rescue squads, and other organizations. Layton Takes Job ELIZABETH ClTY—Kermit L. Layton. Jr., of Edenton, has been employed as executive director of Albemarle Fire men’s Association. Layton began his duties July 15. In this position he will be an emer gency service coordinator for approxi mately 30 fire departments in the 10- county Albemarle Area designated as Region “R”. The departments have a total complement of nearly 1.000 fire men. “This is a new position and it is be lieved to be the only one in the state,” said Dennis Swain of Columbia, presi dent of the association. “I think we have a good man and in the first few days he has already accomplished a lot,” Swain said. Layton said there is a great oppor tunity in this position. He specifically Continued on Pag* 4 $ < lit Ks \\ j t> t m
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