Volume XXXIX —No. 19. |3aracb On Being Tough Edenton-Chowan Board of Education has submitted a $590,660 budget to Chowan County commissioners for fiscal i 973-74. Dr. Eddie West, superintendent, used one of his subordinates to illustrate the close to the belt approach taken in developing the budget proposal. Pointing to Cecil W. Fry, assistant superintendent who has been put in charge of the school budget, Dr. West said: “He’s so tight he wouldn’t even give me a raise.” We would give Mr. Fry credit for having more foresight than this. At least he could have proposed it, knowing it would be among the first items deleted. Not suggesting a raise for your superior is being tough beyond the call of duty. Delaying The Draw News that Pasquotank County is growing tired of playing the role of “brother’s keeper” will be welcomed news to many along the Public Parade and throughout Northeastern North Carolina. The best and quickest way for them to spread the responsibilities around is to quit being so quick on the draw with the chedcbook and allow other counties to vie on equal terms for service centers in the Albemarle. The latest whimper from the fat cats on the Pasquotank came Monday when they officially approved the expenditure of $20,000 for construction of a speech and hearing diagnostic and rehabilitation unit next to the District Health Department in Elizabeth City. This prompted one commissioner to complain that Pasquotank County has to come up with money to benefit W counties. “I’d like to tee the uUTBT Albemarle counties play the role of brother’s keeper,” he is quoted as saying. “Pasquotank has done that long enough.” Bologna! To the casual reader this would immediately justify a stream of crocodile tears. But those knowledgeable of the preliminaries know Pasquotank was willing to spend $20,000 just to keep this center from being Continued on Page 4 County Hungry Chowan is one of 29 North Carolina counties included in a list of “hunger counties” by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. Also on the list are Pasquotank, Camden, Perquimans and Gates counties. A “hunger county” was defined as one having more than 25 per cent of the population below poverty-level income and 33 per cent or more not benefiting from food programs such as fodd stamps. The committee, in a report, “Hunger-1973”, said that although the South has made substantial gains in 4he last five years in subduing hunger, North Carolina has made almost no progress in supplying food to its poor. ■ I 1 / ifr Is. // _ I fwj ; WEEKEND EXCURSION-Eighty-ooe people, traveling in 18 boats of varying sizes, traveled in a group of Portsmouth, Va., on a weekend excursion. Nine of the boats left from Eden ton at 6:30 A.M. Saturday and were joined by the others at the mouth of the THE CHOWAN HERALD Tom Seeking Aid 7c§! ird , .'|-S National Guard An||>ry c i Edenton Town Council will seek the cooperation of Chowan County commissioners in the proposed erection of a new National Guard Armory near Edenton Municipal Airport. AJfter hearing a preliminary report from Town Administrator W. B. Gardner, Mayor George Alma Bynun asked the Finance Committee to “get the feeling of thfe county” prior to a special meeting of the council in the near future. Gardner reported that an engineering officer of the N. C. National Guard visited Edenton on Wednesday of last week and indicated that a five-acre site where the old military administration building is located would be acceptable. It fronts on Base Road and backs up to the hanger building. The administrator said the existing armory would revert to the town and could be used for recreational purposes as well as to house the Edenton-Chowan Rescue Squad and other operations. Councilman W. H. Hollowell, Jr., said it is a good facility for the project and Gardner called for prompt consideration. He said he feels Edenton could be tops on the priority list after the present biennium. In other action, council called for the following public hearings to be held at the June 12 meeting: Petition to pave Granby Street; EIC Making Appeal For Funds Economic 'lmprovement Council, Inc., the anti-poverty agency functioning the 10-county Albemarle Area, is appealing to TSJOnty boards of commissioners for funding. Chowan County’s share of the EIC administrative budget has been placed at $10,700. In a letter to commissioners presented Monday, Wilbur G. Pierce said the over-all 10-county budget request for fiscal 1973-74 is $96,200. He noted that this would include administrative and county offices with “a skeleton staff”. “This agency began in 1965 with a funding grant of $25,000 for the 10-county Albemarle Area,” the executive director wrote commissioners. “Today, this agency is funded at a level of $1,680,000 annually.” as Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, New Careers, Economic Resource Centers, Wflken Leaving The Roman Catholic Chancery Office at Raleigh announced this week the transfer of Fr. Robert L. Wilken from Edenton to St. Paul Church in New Bern. Fr. Kenneth I. Parker of New Bern will be new pastor of St. Ann’s in Edenton. Official date of the change in pastors is May 18. Fr. Wilken has served as pastor of St. Ann’s and St. Joan of Arc Church in Plymouth, for the past three years. He has beat > active in Continued on Page 4 Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, May 10 -gy.-' -i.. h^m. ! ‘ --~±z. / * » mFJM » i r [ I i a St ma I Local School Budget Form Is Presented ByL. F. AMBURN, JR. Dubbed “no nonsense, straight forward and realistic”, the $590,660 current expense and capital outlay budget of Edenton- Chowan Schools went to Chowan County commissioners Monday. Commissioners were quick to put a pencil on the increase, which amounts to more than $140,000. Dr. Eddie West, superintendent, also passed out a separate document which contained line item clarification and supporting data on the budget. Later he said he is in a position to defend all line items. Dr. West specifically pointed out that the proposed budget contains $47,378 for capital Outlay. There was no capital outlay budgeted for this year. Also, it was noted that some $103,000 has been included for maintenance. “Take away maintenance and capital outlay and there is no big increase in the budget,” he added. Commissioner N. J. George, co chairman of the board’s finance committee, said one of the first things commissioners must do is “amiably settle the school Aces Champs The Edenton Aces, functioning without an adequate practice facility, continue to dominate track and field events in the Albemarle Conference. The thinclads of John A. Holmes High School last week won their 17th consecutive conference crown. The event was held in Jackson whereEdentonedged Northampton 45-42 and set two meet marks. Edenton has yet to lose a conference track championship. The Aces had four first place finishes in the meet. Bill Chesson ran the 880 in 2:03.5 and Percy Twine ran the 440 in 50.9 to establish conference marks. Ernest Brothers finished behind Chesson in the 880 run. Donald Hassell and Mike Fry finished first and second in the shotput. And despite a fall on the baton handoff, the Aces' mile relay team of Thomas Slade, Brothers, Chesson and Twine won in 3:36.6 Athletic Director Marion Kirby coaches the track team along with a highly touted football program. Local Employers Can Get Credit Edenton employers may now claim a special federal tax credit for hiring welfare recipients under the Work Incentive (WIN) Program Mrs. Alice W. Bond, manager of the Employment Security Commission office here reports. The Internal Revenue Service will allow a 20 per cent tax credit on wages paid these workers during their first year of employment. To receive this credit, the employer must hire a participant from the WIN Program and get certification from the local Employment Security Commission office that he employed the worker through the WIN Program. “We can now issue these certifications,” reports Mrs. Landis Voigt beams approval of his new Fiberform boat while Mrs. Voigt and Mrs. L. F. Amburn, Jr., study agenda. The trip was under the direction of J. Scott Harrell of Edehton Marina. •• Ss v,.Jsi budget”. Earlier, Chairman C. A. Phillips said the county would be in good shape if “we only carried out our constitutional obligations” to build and maintain the schools. He said the state is asking local government to pick up a goodly portion of their obligation. Cecil W. Fry, assistant superintendent, was given credit by Dr. West with developing the “no fat” budget. Also, Dr. West said Fry would be responsible for the maintenance program. (Elsewhere in The Herald, Dr. West, goes into greater detail on the budget in his column, ‘ ‘Superintendent Reports ”.) Commissioners declared June as Agriculture Month in cooperation with the Albemarle Area Development Association. They expressed concern over the dog problem at Cape Colony but said the property owner’s ordinance could not be legally enforced by Melvin Evans, animal control officer. Evans reported 153 dogs picked up last month and 151 of them were disposed of. He disposed of 104 dogs in March. Tom Cassell of Washington, community planned, presented a land potential study and sketch development plan for Chowan County. He called it an ideal configuration of land use for development over the next 20 years. Cassell said the study lays a foundation for zoning. Dallas Jethro, Jr., tax collector, said 92.42 per cent of the 1972 levy has been collected. Commissioners also were told of his plans to list personal property at a percentage of the real estate value to speed up listing. Continued on Page 4 Called the “job development” tax credit, the new regulations are related to the Talmadge Admendments of the Social Security Act which requires all adults over 16 receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children payments to register for jobs at State Employment offices in order to continue to receive welfare benefits. In North Carolina, the Department of Social Services determines which AFDC recipients are exempt from the program, then registers all non exempt individuals and volunteers with local ESC offices. Businessmen interested in hiring WIN participants should contact their local State Employment Office. il^” 1 . * l« JR Sga^^Ajfl