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Rev. Raymond W. Storie
St. Paul’s
Calls Rector
Rev. Raymond W. Storie of
TOorehead City will assume the
pastorate of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church here Sunday. He will
deliver his first sermon as rector
at the 11 A.M. worship hour.
Mr. Storie comes to Edenton
from Morehead City where he
served the parish of Saint
Andrew’s Church. His first parish
in the Diocese of East Carolina
was in Ginton, which he joined in
1963.
Earlier he served parishes in the
DioceSe of South Florida,
including Tampa, Winter Garden
and Sebring.
Mr. Storie was educated in the
public schools of Miami, Fla., and
attended the University of the
South in Sewanee, Tenn. He is also
a graduate of Seabury Western
Theological Seminary in
Evanston, ill.
The rector is married to the
former Patricia Musick of Tampa,
Fla., and they have two children,
Mark, 13, and Susan, 11.
Resigns Post'
E. L. Hollowell, 13 Queen Anne
Place, resigned Monday as
chairman of the Chowan County
Democratic Executive Committee
to work actively for thr
nomination of Atty. Gen. Robert
Morgan as U. S. Senator.
Hollowe” c aid he did not consider
it proper u retain his party post
and work on a state-wide basis for
a particular Democratic
candidate in the prim -v He
pointed out that ha a. the
attorney general have beer close
personal friends for many years
*nd he felt an obligation to assist
him anyway possible in his bid for
the nomination.
In a letter to George Alma
Byrum. secretary of the executive
committee, Hollowell simply
stated: “1 have enjoyed working
with you and the rest of the county
executive committee. I shall
continue to work with you and
other committee members in any
way that I can.”
Hollowell was in Raleigh
Tyesday attending an
organizational meeting of
Morgan’s Finance Committee, of
which he is a member. There are
25 members on the pommittee and
Hollowell is the only
representative from Northeastern
North Carolina.
committee member served
nearly two years as party
chairman and previously was a
member and chairman of the
Chowan County Board of
Elections. His other community
activities have included work with
the Lions Gub and American
Legion.
Hollowell is president of Chowan
Veneer Company, Inc.
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“Northeast Eyed lor Prison",
was the headline Tuesday in our
favorite morning deity of general
circulation in Northeastern North
Carolina.
That ain’t news! This area of
Tar Heelia has been imprisoned
for decades by politicans who have
been successful in moving the
citizens like pawns.
So, for 97,000 people who have
been imprisoned by state
government for such a period of
time a 250-bed unit is just another
level of confinement.
Fortunately, the natives are
getting restless and many are now
showing a willingness to scale the
wall.
Better Business
Business activity was brisk
along the Public Parade and
throughout Northeastern North
Carolina during December,
according to the State Department
of Revenue. Chowan County had
one of its better months with net
collections from the 1 per cent
sales tax amounting to $16,028.73.
Revenue from the local option
tax and revenue sharing has
provided local governmental units
funds with which to provide much
needed services and purchase
equipment which would otherwise
have to be delayed until sufficient
tax money could be raised.
And the effect on the citizens
and the federal government has
been almost painless. But, one of
the greater aspects is that local
elected officials have kept their
pledge to the people. They have
budgeted the funds wisely. So long
as they continue on this course one
can expect some of the tax burden
on property to be eased.
Chowan County commissioners
and Edenton Town councilmen
will soon begin the budgeting
process for fiscal 1974-75. They
will do it with a new property
valuation in addition to the sales
tax and revenue sharing funds.
The manner in which they go •
about their work will certainly
determine their longevity in
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should be sufficient.
EIC Forges Ahead
The status of the Office of
Economic Opportunity and the
Community Action Program
changes almost daily. But the
uncertainly of funding for various
programs and the diversion of
others to new agencies doesn’t
appear to have deterred the
Economic Improvement Council,
Inc. (EIC).
As the anti-poverty agency
along the Public Parade and
Northeastern North Carolina, EIC
was a ready-made target for
criticism from many quarters.
Barbs have mainly come from
those who are ill informed of the
organization’s activity and
success; those who read in big
daily press or weekly slicks of the
failure of similar agencies in other
areas.
There is a definite place for EIC
in the Albemarle. There are
’ citizens in the area to which no
other agency can relate; they are
the ones who need a relation with
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Copeland Presented Jaycee Distinguished Service Award
Edenton Jaycees have bestowed
the highest award available to
them on one of their own—Woody
R. Copeland. He was presented the
1973 Distinguised Servce Award
by Mayor Roy L. Harrell at
Thursday night’s banquet held in
the Jaycee Community Building.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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CANDIDATES FILE-Sheriff Troy Toppin and Mrs. Lena M.
Leary, clerk of court, Tuesday visited the office of Mrs. George
Hoskins to file for re-election to their respective posts in the May
4 Democratic Primary. Sheriff Toppin will be seeking his second
term of office and Mrs. Leary will be seeking her third term.
Myers’ Bargaining Pays Off
ELIZABETH CITY-Plea
bargaining paid off for a Hertford
man charged with two 1973 bank
robberies in the Albemarle Area.
Johnnie A. Myers, 31, was given
an effective prison term of 25
years on the two counts and a third
involving auto theft.
Judge John Larkins of Trenton
sentenced Myers to 20 years each
for the robbery of banks in
Edenton and Hertford, with the
sentences to run concurrently.
Also pleading guilty to the theft
of an automobile from Pensacola,
Fla., the defendant was given five
years. This vehicle was used in the
getaway after the September 18,
1973 robbery of the Northside
Shopping Center Branch of Bank
of North Carolina in Edenton.
_ JTb.e defenriant.was arrested in
Gates County shortly after he held
up Peoples Bank & Trust
Company in Hertford.
One of the items purchased with
a portion of the money taken in the
Edenton robbery was a $5,300
automobile, confiscated when
Myers was arrested after the
Hertford job. It has been
Change Is Noted
A change in service to the people
of Edenton and Chowan County
was announced by Robert W.
Alford, manager of the Elizabeth
City Social Security Office.
The Social Security
representative will meet with
people in the Commissioner’s
Conference room on the fourth
floor of the Chowan County Office
Building instead of the courtroom
of the courthouse. He will
continue to assist people with
Social Security as well as the new
Supplemental Security Income
program.
The , Social Security
representative will continue to
be in Edenton each Thursday
from 9 A.M. until 12 noon.
Thomas W. Willis, director of
the Regional Development
Institute at East Carolina
University, predicted in his
keynote address that the looming
battle between economists and
environmentalists would cause
more polarization in this country
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Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, January 31,1974.
impounded.
Herbert Mullen, attorney for
Myers, said the defendant is will
ing to turn over the title to the car
once it is determinded who is to
get it—the Edenton bank or the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
When arraigned shortly after
court opened here Monday, Myers
pleaded not guilty to all three
indictments. At about 1 P.M.,
Mullen informed Judge Larkins
of the change in pleas to guilty.
An FBI agent who testified in
the case said while all the money
taken in the Edenton robbery had
been spent by Myers, the money
taken in Hertford was recovered
at the time of the arrest.
Swine Co-Op Meeting Set
The Albemarle Cooperative
Association, Inc., will hold its
annual membership meeting at 7
P.M., February 8, at the Jaycee
Building with Rep. Walter B.
Jones as featured speaker.
This is the third year for this
event and the first since the
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than any issue we’ve seen.
Willis was pinch-hitting for State
Sen. J. J. (Monk) Harrington who
was kept in Raleigh because of an
important meeting dealing with
the expansion of the ECU Medical
School.
Mayor Harrell noted that
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Action Is Brisk
For Democrats
Candidates for various positions
to be voted on in the May 4
Democratic Primary, continued to
either announce their intentions or
formally file. In Chowan County,
the first two people to file were
Mrs. Lena M. Leary, incumbent
clerk of Superior Court, and
Sheriff Troy Toppin.
Mrs. Leary and Sheriff Toppin
filed Tuesday afternoon with the
Chowan County Board of
Elections.
State Rep. Vernon G. James of
Weeksville filed for re-election
with the Pasquotank board
Monday, and Elizabeth City
attorney Grafton G. Beaman, on
the same day filed with the State
Board of Elections in Raleigh as a
Democratic candidate for judge of
the First Judicial District.
Beaman, a former U. S.
Magistrate, is seeking the seat
being vacated by Judge Wilton F.
completion of the cooperative’s
new sale facilities on Paradise
Road.
The membership meeting
comes after what has been a
successful year for the
cooperative. Roy L. Harrell,
director, stated that the market
now serves about 364 producers
and there are approximately 160
members now in the association.
Jack Parker, area swine
specialist, stated that the facility
has provided a marketing service
not only for the 10-county
Albemarle Area, but for several
counties to the west, bringing its
range of service to cover some 15
counties. He said that the market
has likewise allowed the area
swine industry to grow as well as
allow the small producer to
expand.
Those attending the meeting will
be treated to a pork barbeque
supper and door prizes will be
awarded. Business of the evening
will include the election of
directors and presentation of the
annual report at the Ladies Night
function.
Copeland, 29, is cashier of Peoples
Bank & Trust Company in
Edenton, had served in leadership
positions on numerous committees
and commissions locally.
A Bertie County native,
Copeland is serving as state
Jaycee vice president for the
Northeast and has been nominated
for Northeastern regional national
director by the Edenton Club.
He is a graduate of Atlantic
Christian College and is a past
president of Edenton Jaycees.
Joe Hollowell, dub president,
said this is the 20th such award
presented by the local chapter.
John Paul Bass, president of the
Exhausted Roosters Club,
presented the Jaycees with a
check for $450. The money is profit
from a recent dub function to
boost the building fund.
Willis said he did not believe the
problems of the economic man
and environmental man cannot
solve their problems and the
problems of the nation by fighting
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O. C. Abbott
Walker, Jr., of Currituck, who has
previously filed as a candidate for
the Superior Court bench. Beaman
will oppose 0. C. Abbott for the
post.
Attorney John T. Chaffin has
filed for the other District Court
judgeship to replace Judge
Fentress T. Horner of Elizabeth
City who is retiring.
Sheriff Toppin. who assumed his
post to fill the unexpired term of
the late Earl Goodwin and was
consequently elected sheriff in
1970, is a volunteer fireman at the
Center Hill Crossroads Fire
Department, member of the
Chowan Ruritan, and is
commander of the Edward G.
Bond Post, American Legion.
He has also served as district
commander of the American
Legion and is a member of Center
Hill Baptist Church.
Mrs. Leary has served in the
office of the clerk of court since
1949, when she began as assistant
clerk. Involved in many civic
organizations. Mrs. Leary has
served as president of the Edenton
Business and Professional
Women, past director BPW, and
state parliamentarian. She has
also served as president of the
North Carolina Clerk's
Association, and is president of the
Edenton Historical Commission.
Mrs. Leary is director of the
Children’s IV Department of
Edenton Baptist Church where she
is a member and part of the Adult
Choir.
Both candidates reflected that
they are eager to continue to serve
the citizens of this county, and will
continue to do so to the best of
their ability.
Rep. James is president and
manger of James Brothers, Inc., a
farming operation in Northeastern
North Carolina. He was a
representative in the General
Assembly in 1945 and 1947 and
served on the Board of Trustees
on the Greater University of North
Carolina from 1947 to 1955.
He was president of the National
Potato Council in 1965 and was
appointed by Secretary of
Agriculture Orville Freeman to
the Potato Advisory Committee in
1961 and served until 1968.
Rep. James was the first
individual to receive the
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In Compliance
A report recently released by
the State Board of Education’s
Division of Teacher Allotment and
General Control reveals that
Edenton-Chowan Schools are
among the 99 units reportedly in
compliance with the class size and
limitation bill passed by the 1973
General Assembly.
The new legislation required the
following class size maximums:
(a) no more than 26 students per
teacher in average daily
membership for grades one
through three; (b) no more than 33
students per teacher in average
daily membership for upper
elementary grades; (c) and no
more than 35 students per class or
150 students per teacher per day
for junior and senior high schools
estept as permitted by rqgMpal
accrediting agencies.