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DISCUSS HEALTH PROJECTS-Jeffrey Dick of Plymouth,
right, president of the Albemarle Area Development Association,
welcomes Jim Lewis as speaker for last week’s meeting at
Edenton Restaurant. Lewis is executive director of the
Albemarle Human Resources Development System. (See Public
Parade).
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Light Bulb Sale
Being the father of a Boy Scout
requires many things. Among
them is helping to promote their
activities and projects. Being in
the newspaper business, then
gives us some advantage.
I Those along the Public Parade
* who want to help the parents help
the boys will have an opportunity
Monday night. Members of Troop
164 will hold its annual light bulb
sale on that date, beginning at 6:30
P.M.
The news release passed along
by Luke Amburn states that the
money made from this project wiil
go for needed equipment.
Therefore, your support will be
greatly, appreciated, both by the
parents and the boys, especially
since someone is going to have to
buy the bulbs the boys have
purchased for this project.
Roundup Returns
Our favorite female columnist,
Mildred A. Huskins, has returned
to Raleigh with her legislator
husband and this week resumes
her weekly columns on the distaff
side of the General Assembly. Her
Raleigh Roundup is found
elsewhere in today’s paper.
Mrs. Huskins’ style, while
developed up in Iredell has a flavor
which fits right in along the Public
Parade. She writes The Herald
Kitchen column weekly and is also
a contributing editor of The New
Eas£ magazine.
A semi-retired editor over in
Williamston once wondered aloud
how this!, newspaper could afford
such talent. Since she is a part of
The Herald family she works
cheap. And bargains like that are
hard to come by these days.
Visibility As By Product
There is a strange element of
most state and federally funded
programs and projects. It is that
often times more emphasis is
placed on “visibility” than on
delivering the service to the
people.
One area where the importance
of visibility is being minimized is
in the Albemarle Human
Resources Development System,
which functions in the 10-county
northeastern area. This was quite
evident last week when Jim
Lewis, AHRDS executive director,
went before the Albemarle Area
Development Association to
report On progress made by the
system in its first year of
operation.
He noted that AADA is among the
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Market Hog
Event Slated
The Albemarle Area Market
Hog Show and Sale will be held in
Plymouth on February 5 at the
Livestock Arena. The show is
being sponsored by the Area Swine
Development Committee with
financial assistance from Daly
Herring Company, Albemarle
Production Credit Association,
Allied Mills, G. & M Sales
Company and N. C. Swine
Producers Association.
Any hog producer in the area
can exhibit up to five top hogs: one
barrow in the carcass class; two
lightweight hogs (180-210 pounds)
barrows or gilts; and two
heavyweight hogs (211-240
pounds) barrows or gilts.
A sausage-burger supper will be
served to all contestants and
spectators at 5 P.M., just prior to
the sale.
Any farmer interested in
participating in the show should
contact his County Extension
Office.
Rehearsals Set
Rehearsals of the Albemarle
Choral Society have resumed on
Monday night with John Allums as
director. The sessions begin at 8
o’clock in the Parish House of
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
The choral group is practicing
the “Messiah” for their spring
concert.
Review Planned
Edenton Town Council will meet
with representatives of J. N.
Pease, Architects, from Charlotte
at 8 P.M. Tuesday to review
preliminary plans for a downtown
project.
W. B. Gardner, town
administrator, said the plans had
been in the making for some time
and have now reached the stage
where they need to be reviewed by
council members.
Legislators To Speak At Area Functions
State Sens. J. J. (Monk)
Harrington of Lewiston arid Phil
Godwin of Gatesville will be
making banquet speeches in the
Albemarle Area this week.
Sen. Harrington will deliver the
keynote address at the annual
Distinguished Service Award
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Democrats Seeking Various Posts
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t'oi .5 statements are flowing
as fr .5 2 as the waters of the
Alber & Area as candidates
annoi j; 0 heir intentions to seek
distri q S 1 state posts in the May
7 Dei J S tic Primary.
A r_» _ jveloped for the District
Court bench with announcement
by Grafton G. Beaman of Elizabeth
City that he would file for one of
the two seats. Two other
Elizabeth City attorneys have
already announced plans to run.
Melvin R. Daniels, Jr., senior
vice president of Peoples Bank &
Trust Company in Elizabeth City
and chairman of the Pasquotank
County Democratic Executive
Committee, announced that he
would run for the State Senate
from the First District. Sen. Phil
Godwin is expected to announce
this week that he will not seek re
election to the Senate but aspires
to be attorney general.
Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan
announced Monday that he would
be a candidate for the U. S. Senate.
Morgan, who has held his present
Atty, Gen. Morgan Grafton G. Beaman Melvin R. Daniels, Jr.
Conservation Leaders Cited For Contribution
Three Albemarle Area men
Monday were paid high
recognition by the N. C.
Association of Soil and Water
Conservation Districts. The
association met in Wilmington for
the 31st annual convention.
M E. Knight of Gates County,
state association president,
announced the following
recipients:
George W. Lewis, Edenton
banker and farm manager,
Conservationist Award for 1973;
Lloyd C. Bunch of Chowan
County, President’s Award for
outstanding service to the
conservation movement; and
E. E. Parker of Sunbury, in
Gates County, North Carolina’s
Conservation Farmer of the Year.
The citation honored Lewis for a
wide variety of activities, ranging
from conservation work on farms
managed by the Peoples Bank to
his support of the Albemarle
Resource Conservation and
Development Council. He was also
honored for his work with the N. C.
banquet of Edenton Jaycees to be
held Thursday night. Sen. Godwin
will speak in Elizabeth City
Friday night at the third quarterly
meeting of the N. C. Senior
Citizens’ Federation, Inc.
The DSA banquet begins at 6:30
P.M. with a social hour. The
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Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, January 24, 1974.
position since 1968, will seek the
seat being vacated by North
Carolina’s senior Sen. Sam Ervin,
Jr.
A former state senator and
Superior Court clerk, Morgan, 48,
said his campaign will contain the
same elements as his service in
the office of attorney general.
“The bid problems confronting
America today are people
problems. We need better health
care delivery, a more realistic
effort to insure reasonable prices
for housing, food and clothing and
in general a government which is
more responsive to the needs of all
our people,” Morgan said.
“During the next three and one
half months I will outline for the
people of North Carolina the
programs I believe should be
implemented in Washington. I will
discuss these issues in detail as I
travel throughout our state,”
Morgan said.
While attorney general, Morgan
concentrated much of his efforts
on establishing a Consumer
Wildlife Federation and for
motivating his fellow bankers to
conservation needs as vice
chairman of the Agriculture
Committee of the N. C. Bankers
Association.
“He is not only involved in all
these worthy activities, but
successfully motivates others to
the same goals,” President Knight
said.
Knight cited many years of
support by Bunch himself a part
president for the state-wide
association to the Albemarle
District, to the state association,
and to the National Association of
Conservation Districts, where he
heads the Third Forest
Subcommittee.
Townson Given Contracts
Two new government contracts
totaling $601,180 have been
received recently by Townson
Pallets, Inc., of Edenton. The
announcement was made by Wiley
dinner will be held at 7:30 o’clock.
President Joe Hollwell will
preside.
The Senior Citizens’ meeting
begins at the Holiday Inn at 4:30
P.M. today (Thursday) with
registration. The first session will
be held at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs.
Inez Myles, executive director,
giving a review of the program.
The session on Friday will begin
at 9 A.M. with workshops on
legislation, OEO programs, board
responsibilities, the energy crisis,
and Senior Citizens programs.
Among those from the State and
National offices will be James
Coats, director, N. C. SEOO,
Department of Social Services,
Raleigh, and Taft Holland,
assistant to the director of OEO,
Washington, D. C.
The speaker for Saturday
morning will be R. W. Alford,
branch manager of the Social
Security office of Elizabeth City.
This sasskm will be from 9 until 10
A4I. At 4 A.M. Myles, will give
Protection Division, improving
the State Bureau of Investigation
and working with young people in
an attempt to reduce juvenile
delinquency.
Daniels, a native of Wanchese,
Dare County, is a graduate of
Manteo High School and a 1941
graduate of Campbell College. He
is also an alumnus of N. C. State
University and Virginia
Polytechnical Institute where he
majored in engineering.
He served as a reserve pilot with
the U. S. Army Air Force in 1943
and 1944. He now holds the reserve
grade of Lieutenant Colonel. He
was employed for two years as an
engineer with the N. C. Highway
Commission and served for five
and one half years as a field
deputy for Eastern North Carolina
with the N. C. Department of
Revenue.
He has been in banking for the
last 20 years having started as a
teller with the Industrial Bank and
now being the Senior Vice President
for Peoples Bank and Trust Co.
The recipient was praised for
youth work and for motivating
others to improve environmental
quality, as well as outside civic
activities.
Parker won the top annual
award of the association after
winning on the county and area
level before competing with
several others for the state honor.
The citation for Parker lists
"almost 30 years" of conservation
farming as a cooperator with the
Gates Soil and Water
Conservation District, and also
lists his accomplishments in
wildlife habitat, in maintaining his
own farm in model condition, and
for his support of the Hobbsville-
Sunbury Watershed Project.
S. Messick, director of Region IV
of the Small Business
Administration, headquartered in
Atlanta, Ga.
Under a federal program which
sets aside a portion of U. S.
Goverment procurement for small
businesses, Messick said the
Defense General Supply Center
has awarded contracts in the
amount of $274,420 and $326,760 to
Townson for material handling
pallets.
‘‘This set aside program,”
Messick explained, “is part of
SBA’s continuing effort to assure a
fair share of federal contracts to
small businesses to enable these
small firms to develop and grow.
It also helps foster .economic
competition,” he said, “the life
blood of the American free
enterprise system.”
‘Mother’s March’ Is Sunday
The Edenton Jaycees and
Jaycettes remind everyone that
January is “March Os Dimes”
month throughout the nation. On
Sunday mothers from throughout
the local community will be
joining together for the annual
‘“Mother’B March” on behalf of
the March of Dimes.
The National March of Dimes
Foundation says that every year
over 250,000 babies are bora with
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Daniels, a Democrat, is a
Methodist, a member of the -
Masonic order, the Elks Club and
the Lions Club.
He is presently serving as a
member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, president
of the Pasquotank Chapter of the
American Cancer Society, a
member of the Board of Managers
of Peoples Bank and Trust Co.,
member of the American Bankers
Association, the N. C Bankers
Association, a director of the First
Flight Society, a director of the
Elizabeth City Boys Club, a
director of the Salvation Army
Advisory Board, a member of the
Elizabeth City Airport
Commission, a member of the
North Carolina Marine Science
Council, and a member of the
Elizabeth City Chamber of
Commerce.
He is the past president of the
Elizabeth City Lions Club, the past
chairman of the Salvation Army
Advisory Board, a part director of
the Elizabeth City Girls Club, and
past chairman of the Elizabeth
City Planning Commission on
which board he served for ten
years.
Daniels is the third generation of
an active East North Carolinian
political family and he has been
active in many District, State and
National campaigns.
He is married to the former
Gladys Toxey of W’eeksville, and
they have three children, Melvin
Roy, 111, age 21, Donna DeLane.
age 18 and Linda Dianne, age 13.
In announcing his candidacy,
Daniels states that he wishes to
bring to the office of State Senator
the same degree of hard work and
dedication that has been shown by
the former State Senators who
have represented this district so
well.
Beaman joined Winfield A
l Worth in the practice of law in
Elizabeth City in September. 1967,
and this partnership continued
until Mr. Worth's death in 1969.
In addition to practicing law.
Beaman has served since 1971 as a
U. S. Magistrate from which office
he has just recently resigned in
order to run for district judge. As a
federal magistrate Beaman
conducted trials on federal
misdemeanor violations and held
preliminary hearings on federal
felony cases which occurred
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Interviews Set
WILLIAMSTON Leonard
Collins Small. Jr., of Edenton. is
among 20 high school seniors from
17 counties in this area who will be
interviewed here Tuesday by the
District I Morehead Selection
Committee. Interviews will be
held at the Town and Country
Restaurant.
Lorimer Midgett of Elizabeth
City is chairman of the district
committee.
Six finalists will be chosen to
appear in Chapel Hill February 28-
March 4 for interviews with the
central committee. Each of the
state’s 10 districts will be
represented along with nominees
from 26 private preparatory
schools.
Morehead Awards provide all
expense paid undergraduate
educations at the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
With the increase in tuition and
other education expenses, the
Morehead Foundation Trustees
have increased the value of the
award to $2,500 per year, making
the four-year award for Tar Heel
residents SIO,OOO.
birth defects. Another 500,000
unborn babies die every year as a
result of birth defects. One out of
every ten families knows the
anguish that comes withhaving a
child with a birth defect.
Jaycee chairman, Ray Midgett,
urges everyone to please give
generously when these mothers
come to call. Remember, birth
defects are forever, unless you
help.