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public Parade EDA Designation Helpful Recently Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First. Congressional District announced that Chowan County had become eligible for federal financial assistance to plan and carry out projects which will stimu late long-range economic growth and cre ate new jobs. The designation of Cho wan as a redevelopment area by the Eco nomic Development Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce car ries many benefits. Twenty-five areas in eight states were so designated. And it prompted Robert A. Podesta, assistant Secretary of Com merce for economic development, to say: “The areas were declared eligible to participate in the development programs of EDA as part of President Nixon's pledge to help communities stimulate new uses of resources and thereby assist private enterprise to expand and create new jobs.” The designation followed the prepara tion of an Overall Economic Develop ment Program, an inventory of com munity assets and needs, by Albemarle Regional Planning and Development Commission. The OEDP helps set priorities for projects needed to stimu late orderly economic growth. Redevelopment areas are eligible for the full range of EDA benefits under the Public Works and Economic Develop ment Act. These include: —Grants and loans to help build pub lic facilities essential to long-range eco nomic growth. —Loans to help private industry ex pand and create new job opportunities. —Planning and technical assistance to help solve problems blocking growth. —EDA public works loans are repay able in 40 years at a current annual in terest rate of 5! '> per cent, business loans are repayable in 2 S'years at an an nual interest rate of 6 per cent. The designation of Chowan County as a redevelopment area is another step to ward new jobs and increased income: for the residents of the county. BPjHBwtWSPAPERS WfcCk ,he fuu ■■ IH information B I medium tI€WS-«BV(RTISinC fOITSRIJIS SERVICE »»[ilTioii'-fßfnom Many Weeks In One This could probably be best determin ed as The Week That Is” along the Public Parade and throughout the na tion. As the art work above indicates, it is National Newspaper Week. But. also, it is Nurses Week, Fire Prevention Week, and yes, School I.unch Week. L. C. Bunch, H. Fahey Byrum and Joe A. Webb, Jr., officers of the Chowan Unit, Albemarle Soil and Water Con servation District, were quite compli mentary in a resolution handed us this week. While we do try hard we are not sure we measure up to all their “where ases,” which follow: WHEREAS, the free How of public information is vital both to the people and to the objectives of the Chowan Unit of Albemarle Soil and Water Con servation District; and, WHEREAS. The Chowan Herald has played an important role during 1972 in the dissemination of such information; and. WHEREAS, National NewspaJ>er Week for 1972 is being observed in the U. S., October 6-14, with the theme: “Newspaper: The Full Information Me dium.” NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the undersigned Board of Super visors of the Chowan Unit of the Albe marle Soil and Water Conservation Dis trict unanimously commend The Cho wan Herald for its continuing efforts in informing the public on conservation and Environmental quality, to assist in mak ing wise decisions on our natural re sources. The story of Fire Prevention Week was handed to us by Kermit Layton, Jr., executive director of Albemarle Fire men’s Association. It is quite interest ing and we pass it along as it came to us: On a warm Sunday evening of October, 1871, a thoughtle&, careless act sparked a fire at a modest city home. It seemed small and easy to control. But it wasn’t. Thirty hours later 2,100 acres of Chi cago was a blackened, smoldering waste. More than 200 of its citizens had per ished. 100,000 were homeless, almost 17.500 buildings were in ruins. Direct losses were $J 68-million, the indirect costs incalcuable. To mark the Chicago conflagration, Fire Prevention Week is observed annu ally during the' week containing October gcilts anniversary date. Fire Prevention fenrirwed on Pag* 4 El wisp? IHHHk WSB : ■ 1 I it. n B XfcjK 1 - i V Jesse Helms Helms To Speak Here On Saturday Jesse Helms of Raleigh, Republican nominee for the U. S. Senate, will test the waters in Northeastern North Caro lina Saturday. He will attend a dutch luncheon at Edenton Restaurant. Joe Hollowell, coordinator of a Cho wan County “Citizens for Helms” com mittee, said the luncheon will begin at 12:30 o’clock. The public is invited to attend, meet and hear the candidate. It was recently announced that the Chowan committee would be composed of Hollowell, Byron Kehayes, Dr. David Wright, Rev. Paul Hawkins. W. A. Whichard and T. B. H. Wood. Helms has said he was “extremely proud of these distinguished citizens who have agreed to lead my campaign in Chowan County. “This kind of bipartisan support by prominent leaders of the community will give our campaign a big boost throughout the area," he said. Hollowell, meanwhile, said he was confident that recruiting the necessary number of workers would present no difficulty. “We expect thousands of Chowan County citizens to give Jesse active support because of his integrity and common sense approach to govern ment,” Hollowell said. “President Nix on has said he needs Jesse Helms in the U. S. Senate, and we expect the Nixon-Helms ticket to carry Chowan County by a large margin.” FCAI Is Caught The interim report of a Chowan River water quality study confirms what many have known for months— the river is heavily polluted and is un dergoing euthrophication. Also, the river may continue to experience massive and, perhaps nuisance algal blooms for some years to come. Presented at a public meeting in Winton last Thursday afternoon, the report noted that while the Chowan is the first North Carolina river to show the beginning of a state of euthrophica tion, it probably will not be the last. The first recommendation in the re port was that the discharge of large amounts of nutrients from Farmers Chemical Association, Inc., at Tunis, not be allowed to recur. It was reported, however, that un treated waste water from the complex was flowing, via a ditch, into the river Thursday night. A. C. Turnage -Jr., of Greenville, regional engineer with the state air and water quality division, was dispatched to th? scene and wit nessed the dumping at about noon Fri day. State water quality experts then re quested the state attorney general's of fice to take legal action against the fertilizer factory, because it was claim ed that the waste water was being dumped in violation of a state permit. Donald Valverde of Harrison, Tenn., FCAI president, said the incident re sulted from extremely heavy rains. Once again nature had taken its course and once again FCAI and state officials were to meet Wednesday “in an effort to set a procedure to separate waste water and rain water runoff streams and to provide a proper meth od of disposal.” This quote is from Ed Bingham, a director at FCAI’s home office. The meeting was planned at a time when the attorney general’s, office was trying to decide the proper location for filing a suit against the fertilizer manufacturer. At first it was believed the suit would be filed in Chowan Continued on Page 4 Lions Support Help For Blind Couple Members of Edenton Lions Club have agreed to underwrite furnishing an apartment in the local low-rent public housing project for a blind couple. The Wind program is a major part of lionism. E. L. Hollowell, who presented the project to the dub Monday night, said at least $250 will be obtained from in dividual members. Also, he said Eden ton Baptist Church had agreed to con tribute $75 to the fund. New Careers Project Junked New Careers, a major program of Economic Improvement Council, Inc., will terminate October 31, according to Wilbur Pierce, EIC executive director. This is the date the contract between EIC and the U. S. Department of Labor expires. While the USDL said the nine New Careers programs in North Carolina ESA THE CHOWAN HERALD EHj Volume XXXVIII—No. 39. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 12, 1972 jh ■MIb. Frank Horton Edenton Symposium Appears Popular Edcntonians celebrated the 250th anniversary of their town charter in June. Now the Edenton Historical Commission invites interested persons to gather here to take a firsthand look at the past by attending its first Eden ton Symposium October 23-25. To coincide with the symposium, the commission will hold its annual meet ing at Edenton Restaurant at 12:30 P. M., October 23. Reservations should be made with Mrs. Lena M. Leary, sec retary, at Chowan County Courthouse by October 16. Registration for the symposium be gins at 1 P. M„ October 23 at the Bark er House Visitor Center-Museum. The symposium ends with a banquet at Chowan Golf & Country Club at 7 P. M. on October 25. All commission members are invited to attend a reception at the courthouse at 7:30 P. M., on October 23. The purpose of this symposium is to use the Town of Edenton as a labora tory where the physical remains of the past may be studied. Edenton is one of the few early Southern towns where the residential and business areas have never shifted from the center of the town. It is a place where the overall scale of build ing and the way of life have not bee y interrupted by modern development. The town plan is essentially unchanged since it was enlarged 250 years ago, when the town was chartered. Along the tree-lined streets stands an amazing concentration of fine buildings from three centuries. Speakers on the Ihrcc-day program Rap House Asked Approximately 250 youth as well as adults turned out at the Courthouse Green Sunday for a rally to promote a proposed “rap house" to be initiated as a community service for youth and other interested individuals in Edenton and the surrounding area. As stated by Mrs. Barbara Wood, now working actively in the effort, “What we were trying for Sunday was youth involvement. We need to get it together.” This project is planned to give youth a place to enjoy music, games, and other forms of recreation. The theory is to get good people off the streets and out of danger of getting in trouble. In cluded in the program would be a paid adult supervisor approved by both the youth and adults. It was emphasized that this house would not be open to those with alco holic or drug problems, and no effort would be made to counsel those in volved in that caliber of activities. “The house would be open to parents Continued on Pago 4 Hollowell said efforts are being made to secure necessary furnishings, includ ing linens, cooking supplies, and other items for the couple. The money will be spent for “material things” since a “pounding” is being planned for food items. He said anyone with items to donate should contact him at Chowan Veneer Company or Wesley Chesson at Hobbs Implement Co., or W. H. Hollowell at Holloweirs Drug Store. can no longer be funded, Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First Congressional Dis trict told The Chowan Herald he has been assured, “broadly speaking”, the students or administrative employees would not be affected. Rep. Jones said he was informed that the USDL can no longer fund communi ty action groups but that “a similar Kay Wilkinson include: Mrs. W. J. P. Earnhardt. Sr., vice, chairman, Edenton Historical Commis sion; Sam Regan, secretary, N. C. De partment of Art, Culture and History; Dr. H. G. Jones, administrator, State Office of Archives and History; and Dr. Thomas Parramorc, assistant professor of History, Meredith College. Also. John G. Zhcmcr, Jr., director, State Division of Historic Sites and Mu seums; Calder C. Loth, architectural Historian, Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. Dr. William Kelso, archae ologist with that commission: Frank L. Horton, director of restoration, Old Sa lem; Rav S. Wilkinson, farm director. WRAL-TV, Raleigh: and Fred F. Harbin., director. State Division of Historical and Commemorative Commissions. Other information concerning the symposium may be had bv contacting Mrs. Edward G. Bond, chairman of spe cial events, or Mrs. Earnhardt, both in Edenton. Lewis Takes Area Health Position James E. Ixwis of Rocky Mount has assumed the position of programs ad ministrator for the Human Resources Development System which operates in the 10-eounty Albemarle Area. His appointment to the new position was announced this week hv Howard Campbell of Elizabeth City. lIRDS chairman. He said Lewis will operate out of an office at Albemarle Regional Planning & Development Commission on East Queen Street. Prior to accepting the area post. Lewis was administrator for two years of the Edgccombc-Nash Mental Health Center. From 1963 through 1970 he was comptroller of the West Virginia Department of Mental Health. Campbell said the area is fortunate to have been able to employ Lewis, who he described as very well qualified for the position. lie said the admini strator's bas.ic duties will be to coordi nate programs that arc now in the mill i nmm 1 * New Staff Member Howard Campbell of Elizabeth City, left, District Health Department administrator and chairman of the Human Resources Develppment System in the 10-county Albemarle Area, is shown with James E. Lewis of Rocky Mount who has been named programs administrator for HRDS. Lewis will maintain his office in Edenton with Albemarle Regional Planning & Devel opment Commission on East Queen Street Another Vehicle Hinted £4* Single Copies 10 Cents Sam Regan program will be provided under some recognized state agency yet to be de termined.” Therefore, he said, in the broadest concept the idea of the New Careers program will be continued, but under a ' different administrative process. The EIC budget for New Careers is nearly $200,000. The program in the 10-county Albe marle Area has been highly successful, according to public agencies that have participated. The first director was Rev. H. L. Mitchell of Gates County. When he retired last year Horace Reid of Perquimans County became director. Pierce pointed out that the termina tion of the contract might be illegal since the trainees are involved in a two-year work/training agreement with agencies and institutions throughout Region “R”. The agencies and insti tutions affected are: Extension service, health departments, College of The Al bemarle, local housing authorities, Eliz abeth City State University, public school systems, municipalities, and Cho wan Hospital. “This program has provided training and permanent employment for approxi mately 156 men and women within the Albemarle Area since its beginning in 1968,” Pierce stated. Wesley B. Culliphcr. executive di rector of Albemarle Regional Planning and Development Commission, wrote the congressman that “as the Lead Regional Organization for the 10 coun ties of Region ‘R - we are appalled to receive word that the New Careers Program” was being discontinued. Cullipher said the commission de plores the situation in view of the al ready severely poor economic circum stances of this region. At press time ARPDC was attempt ing to determine from James A. Lowe, associate regional manpower admini strator with USDL in Atlanta. Ga„ the future of those participating in the New Careers Program in this state, especial-' ly in Region “R". In a letter to Pierce, dated Septem ber 28, Lowe wrote: Continued on Page 4 Chamber Report During two weeks of solicitation, vol unteers have obtained $9,000 in mem berships to the Edenton Chamber of Commerce. This .is my-half the budget for this year. Richard D. Dixon. Jr., membership chairman, has encouraged all team captains to check with their individual workers and asks that firms be contact ed immediately so the drive can be completed during the month of October. as those being proposed. While at Edgccombc-Nash Mental Health Center. Lewis assisted in writ ing the construction project and federal staffing grant. The clinic- was complet ed in Tarboro on September 1. The center’s budget increased from $89,000 to $337,000 in two years and the clinical staff increased from eight to 45 dur ing the same period. Lewis started the first day care cen ter for retarded in Nash County. In West Virginia, his home state, he devised and installed a cost account ing system for six mental hospitals to comply with Medicaid and Medicare standards. He was responsible for a $22-million budget and assisted and wrote 11 different program grants which were implemented. Lewis is manied and the father of five children. He plans to move his family to Cape Colony within the next few weeks.
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