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Display Skeleton Sheriff Troy Toppin and SBI Agent Bill God
ley are shown above with portions of a skeleton unearthed at Cho
wan Beach Monday evening. The bones have been sent to Raleigh
for examination.
Skeleton Is Found
At Chowan Beach
A skeleton was uncovered Monday
evening from a shallow grave at Cho
wan Beach by a Virginia man.
Forrest Jordan of Holland, Va.. was
digging a hole for the housing of his
water pump when he began unearthing
the bones of a skeleton, reported Sheriff
Troy Toppin. According to authorities.
Jordan paid little attention to the bones,
thinking they were animal remains, un
til he finally came up with the skull.
The grave, about two feet deep and
a yard long, was located approximately
30 yards from the shoreline. Sheriff
Toppin stated that no remnants of
clothing or any type of casket were
1, found in the hole or surrounding earth.
At the present time investigation con
tinues by the Sheriff's Department and
SBI. The skeleton has been transferred
to Raleigh for examination and analysis
with hopes of establishing some kind
of identification.
The sheriff declined to speculate the
reason for the unusual burial. He did
comment that the remains could be
those of an Indian, and he noted that
trenches were located along the shore
line of the river during the CfviTWar.
He added the person may not. neces
sarily, have been a victim of foul play.
Farm Price List
ATLANTA. Ga Flue-cured tobacco
prices continued to increase and hit
new record high levels during the week
ended August 10, USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) reports.
Prices for broilers and heavy-type
hens also trended higher, while egg
prices trended lower. Prices for lighi
type hens held steady.
Hog, cattle and fruit and vegetab’c
prices trended unevenly during the
week.
Spot cotton prices trended steady to
slightly lower.
The third tobacco belt opened for
sale of the 1972 crop when seven of the
17 Eastern North Carolina markets held
first auctions. The price patterns of
the two baits, which opened July 25,
also was evidenced in Eastern North
Carolina.
Government loan receipts in all belts
were extremely small and the volume of
sales was heavy.
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Funds Drive Begins Mrs.
Clarence Britton, Chowan Coun
ty chairman, Cerebral Palsy of
N. C., is shbwn receiving a check
from Wayne Ashley of Bank of
Carolina, N. A., as the first
contribution to the local
* funds campaign. The drive is of
ficially/ underway with Mrs.
Faye Hampton as treasurer and
Miss Mary Helen Dail in charge
of coin containers throughout tne
area. '
public parade
Let's Help COA
We want to be among the first to
agree that recent news articles and edi
torials about broadening the base of
financial support for the College of the
Albemarle arc “unfortunate.” Discus
sions along the Public Parade and
throughout Northeastern North Carolina
have been informative, but the finger
pointing has put the entire topic out of
focus. !
As “unfortunate" as previous articles
is the fact that they prompted N. J.
George, a Chowan County commission
er, to make some very forceful state
ments in an “attempt to set the record
straight.” Mr. George, in our opinion,
acted in good faith and on good author
ity, but this is already being questioned
in many quarters.,
It is true that nearly 12 years ago
Pasquotank voters held a referendum on
support for a community college and ap
proved a maximum tax levy for this
purpose.
While Pasquotank’s tax base has been
broadened in the - past decade, we are
quite confident the demands on that
county for financial support of an insti
tution of higher learning such as COA
have increased at a more rapid pace.
For this reason, if no other, we have
supported the Community College Dis
trict Plan approved by the 1971 General
Assembly to provide monies from coun
ties being served by COA.
Chowan County citizens cannot place
? dollar value on what COA means to us.
From past performance, however, we feel
•he voters, if given the facts and the op
portunity, would agree to a reasonable
special tax for the college.
Air. George himself, who is a former
hool teacher and school board member,
said he would vote for and support such
? referendum. And he knows, first hand,
•he squeeze being placed on the county
budget, not only as a commissioner but
also as chairman of the finance com
mittee.
The call for .help coming from COA
is not one which originated in the wild
erness. It has a considerable amount of
merit. And while it is true Chowan
County has no legal obligation to render
aid there exists an adequate moral obli
gation to create something more sub
stantial than finger-pointing.
Victory Easy To Smell
It’s a long way from the Town of
Columbia, in little Tyrrell County, to the
White House. And a man of lesser abil
ity than First Congressional District
Rep. Walter B. Jones could not have
.made the connection.
After nearly 10 months of waiting,
Columbia finally received approval of a
$260,000 Economic Development Ad
ministration grant for water and sewer
system improvements.
To those who have Worked closely
with the request, it is funny to note the
impact the EDA grant release received.
And, of course, since Rep. Jones’ district
has but 21 counties, including Tyrrell—
more than one-fifth the number in the
entire state the role he played in the
successful funding was almost lost in the
shuffle by the gliberals and the press that
listens to them. j
One newspaper even had the announce
ment coming from Rep. Nick Galifiana
kis, Democrat nominee for the U. S.
Senate.
During all the wait-and-see over the
months since Hurricane Ginger paralyzed
the town, the closest the Republicans
got to the scene was recognition that
Mayor Clarence Cahoon is a card-carry
ing member of the GOP. But from the
White House came the word, and Bill
Dansey, Jr., of Greenville, First District
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Projects Total S3OO-Million
ELIZABETH ClTY—Local governmen
tal units in the 10-county Albemarle
Area of Northeastern North Carolina
have nearly S3OO-million in project re
quests on file and while Albemarle
Regional Planning & Development Com
mission is one of the youngest such
bodies in the state it has the largest
budget.
This information was released here
last Thursday night as Miss June Myers,
ARPDC projects director, summarized
the commission’s first year of operation.
Miss Myers was addressing the monthly
meeting of Albemarle Area Develop
ment Association at Holiday Inn.
Also, AADA unanimously approved a
resolution asking that all of Gates Coun
ty be served by Norfolk-Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph Company’s Albe-
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Volume XXXVIII—No. 31.
Columbia Given
Water, Sewer s’s
Engineers and town officials of Co
lumbia huddled early this week getting
necessary documents in order to adver
tise for bids on water and sewer system
improvements.
Their action followed announcement
from the White House Friday, through
the office of Rep. Walter B. Jones, that
the Town of Columbia’s application for
a $260,000 Economic Development Ad
ministration grant had been approved.
The town will hold a bond referen
dum to pay the local share of the $325.-
000 anticipated project costs.
Mayor Clarence Cahoon and Town
Clerk Juliah Poston expressed extreme
relief after the funding. They said it
would take a lot of the burden off the
town which experienced disaster from
the flood water caused by Hurricane
Ginger in October, 1971.
Since then fire hose has been used
to bypass broken sewer lines and the
town’s almost new treatment plant was
closed down because .of the sand and
other foreign debris flowing in the
lines.
The situation became so critical-then;
was danger that the schools could not
reopen and the only medical facility
in the town would be forced to close.
Albemarle Regional Planning & De
velopment Commission has been spokes
man for the town and pushed the ap
plication through the Atlanta Regional
Office and through channels in Wash-
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Director Named
The College of The Albemarle an
nounces that W. Clayton Morrisette has
been named Director of Continuing Ed
ucation. For the past three years, Mor
risette has worked for the college as
Director of Project COA, a Rockefeller
Foundation project to.train the unem
ployed and disadvantaged with market
able skills.
Shepard Buys Home Feed Stock
J. Gilliam Wood announced today
that he had sold his interest in Home
Feed & Fertilizer Co., Inc., to Thomas
H. Shepard, who has been corporate
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marie Metro System. The resolution
stated that the county is now served
by two telephone systems, with only a
portion being within the Metro System,
with its county seat excluded.
The resolution said a hardship is im
posed upon the county’s economy and
its citizens as a result of the two sys
tems and “constant confusion is created
as a result of the dual system.”
L. F. Amburn, Jr., of Edenton, AADA
president, said ARPDC would be asked
to assist Gates County in its endeavor
to be joined in its entirety with the Al
bemarle Metro.
Miss Myers, using visual aids created
by Barbara Sutton of the commission
staff, presented the goals and accomp
lishments of programs being directed
from the Edenton office.
Edenton, Chowan Cbunty, North Carolina, Thursday, August 17, 1972
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Symposium Planned AI Honeycutt, Jr., of Raleigh, represent
ing the Office of Archives and His.ory, is shown with local leaders
who are planning an Edenton Symposium in October. Represent
ing Edenton Historical Commission are, from left, Mrs. Lena M.
Leary, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. W. J. P. Earnhardt. Sr., vice chair
man; and Mrs* Edward G. Bond, symposium chairman.
Edenton Symposium Is Scheduled
The Edenton Symposium on history,
architecture, archaeology and furnish
ings, will be held here October 23-25
with an estimated 65 participants and
a program of outstanding speakers.
Edenton Historical Commission, meet
ing in special session Friday afternoon,
agreed to sponsor the symposium in
cooperation with Historic Edenton. Inc.,
The Cupola, Iredell and Barker house
associations and N. C. Department of
Art, Culture and History's Office of
Archives and History.
The commission is sponsor of Ilidoiic
Edenton which includes the thieo volun
teer association. The commission re
cently donated all existing funds to aid
Historic Edenton in securing sufficient
local funds to obtain a $15,000 state
vice president, will become president.
Wood has been personally associated
with the firm since January 1. 1947.
and his family founded the parent eom-
Sany more than 50 years ago. He said
e will devote his time to farming and
other interests.
Shepard became affiliated with the
firm on October 1, 1961. He will con
tinue as one of the two magistrates in
Chowan County.
The new owner is well-known in busi
ness, religious, political and civic affairs
of Edenton and Chowan County. He is
immediate past-chairman of Chowan
County Democratic Executive Commit
tee and is an active member of St
Paul’s Episcopal Church, where he is
a ranking layman.
Shepard is also a former Clerk of
Chowan County Superior Court.
He is married to the former Rebecca
Walker of Alamance County and they
have three children. The Shepards re
side at 98 Pembroke Circle.
Home Feed & Fertilizer serves farm
ers within a ■ 30-mile radius of Eden
ton —in eight counties. The firm has
a reputation in the industry as being a
pioneer in new fields of endeavor and
was the first such firm east of Rocky
Mount to handle liquid nitrogen.
It is a modern up-to-date facility with
bulk handling for grain, fertilizer and
fertilizer materials. It was incorporated
as Home Feed in 1943.
Wood’s father founded the business
as Farmers Peanut Company more than
50 years ago. The peanut mill burned
in 1932 but the fertilizer business sur
vived.
A feed mill was installed in 1943;
seed processing in 1955; grain elevators
and liquid nitrogen in 1957; and liquid
fertilizer in 1965.
In her remarks she noted that ARPDC
is an outgrowth of AADA and the com
mission “feels a keen responsibility to
AADA”. “Actually we would be some
what useless without the back-up of
AADA to reach into areas which staff
members cannot touch,” she stated.
Miss Myers placed emphasis on the
need for a regional housing authority,
and an area-wide transportation sys
tem “to get the people to the services
while we are getting the service to the
people.”
Os a total budget of $283,751, local
monies involved amount to $24,421.50.
Programs in excess of sl-million were
funded during the first year and she
said the S3OO-million in projects are
“well on their way.”
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matching grant.
Mrs. W. J. P. Earnhardt. Sr., vice
chairman who presided, said it had been
suggested that the symposium be plan
ned to coincide with the commission's
October meeting. The commission meets
semi-annually.
A1 Honeycutt, Jr., of Raleigh, a res
toration specialist with the state, said
of some 20 historical commissions in
North Carolina only a very few have
an operating arm such as Historic Eden
ton, Inc. “What you have done has
been 'Outstanding,” he added.
He said the Office-of Archives and
History had been discussing a sym
posium of this nature for some time and
it is felt that Edenton is the ideal place
for such an educational program.
Honeycutt said the program is de
signed to provide maximum exposure
of Edenton’s charm and beauty, includ
ing a candlelight tour of the Cupola
House 3nd other walking tours, in ad
dition: to lectures.
He said his department is hopeful
that the Edenton Symposium will be
come an annual affair.
Mrs. Earnhardt said Mrs. Edward G.
Bond will be chairman of the event.
Office Will Close
The office of the Selective Service
System Local Board No. 21, of Chowan
County, now located on the second floor
of the bus station, 147 North Church
Street, Hertford, will be closed next
week, August 21-25.
Mrs. Margaret S. Scaff, executive sec
retary, will be in Raleigh attending a
statewide convention.
The office in Hertford is open from
8:15 A. M., until 5:15 P. M., Monday
through Friday,
School Date Set
Mrs. Frances Hollowell, headmistress
at Chowan Academy, announces that
school will open on September 5 for
all students in grades kindergarten
through 10.
The faculty and staff will be pre
paring for school opening the week of
August 28. Other dates will be an
nounced in the school calendar which
will be mailed to parents.
A science laboratory is being equip
ped for this year, she stated.
The maximum number of students in
each grade is 25. ' Vacancies still exist.
Parents interested in considering the
Chowan Academy for their children
should contact the headmistress im
mediately.