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We have been asked bj
members of the Center Hill
M Crossroads Volunteer Fir*
Department to help them express
their regret for some mix-up in
plates at the Anniversary Supper
last Saturday.
It seems that some who
produced tickets for large plates
of Fire House barbecued chicken
actually got small (dates. This was
not intended and the folks at the
fire department are sorry that it
happened.
They have already worked out a
solution for next year. There will
be only large plates.
A Real Slorie
Ray Storie is among the
newcomers along the Public
Parade. But he is catching on fast,
t For those who don’t know him,
he is the husband of Pat, the father
of Mark and Susan, and the former
owner of a nice 18 horsepower
Evinrude motor. He is also rector
of historic St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church.
It has been learned on good
authority that Pat and Jackie
Mason of Morehead City, the
former Storie port-of-call, were
visiting in Edenton last weekend
and the amiable rector wanted to
show the Carteret County lawyer
some shoreline.
Ray was especially pleased with
his 14-foot skis and shinny motor.
. Primarily because he had just
made the last payment on the
power package.
The were breezing along up the
Chowan River at unknown speeds
when all of a sudden they were
| deafened by the lack of the
"’’whine of the motor. The reason?
They didn’t have one.
The motor come off the boat
and found a resting place
somewhere in the depths of the
river. They rowed to shore where
“two nice ladies” allowed them to
use the telephone to get more
dependable transportation home.
Ray wasn’t too upset about the
ordeal. However, Pat lodged a
complaint about having to row a
motorless boat with a plastic
Clorox bottle.
An Oversight
Last week we recognized six
budding young poets along the
Public Parade for haying their
works published in a publication
called, “I don’t need you, Rod
McKuen, good-bye!” It has been
>. called to our attention that the
work of a seventh youngster was
overlooked.
The 136-page anthology of
poems written by public School
students contains, in addition to
those printed in this column last
week, one by Chris Stallings, who
wrote last year from Grade Six at
Swain Elementary School:
A wreck sounds like somebody
squeezing the life out of a bird.
Tires sound like a screeeech
owl.
A wreck sounds like the
craaaaaaash blam of an
explosion.
When one of your friends gets
hurt you go away with stomach
sorrow. ‘ «
Sorry about that Chris!
The Bold Years
County has become a lead
ex in the Albemarle Area in. its
s&rch for a better life for all the
citizens who reside along ■ the
Public Parade. Every attempt is
being made to preserve our
heritage while taking bold new
steps to faring about a better
balance in the economy.
The county is now on the brink of
one of the boldest endeavors it has
ever imckrtaken. We refer to a
regional water system which will
make available pure water to a
majority of the people in all
sections of the county.
The Chowan system would be
the only county wide project east of
Anson County tome
million in a loan and grant from
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PRINCIPALS AT WORKSHOP—Among program principals at last Satruday’s workshop for
Democratic Women of the First Congressional District were: Mrs. N. J. George, Rep. Walter B. Jones
of Farmville, Mrs. W. J. P. Earnhardt, Jr., and Mayor Roy L. Harrell.
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MORE DEMOCRATS—Rep. Jay Huskins of Iredell County,
left, is shown with Miss Susan Shearin, an Edenton native who is
on the state party staff in Raleigh, and Ben Utley, state executive
director.
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AND MORE—Mrs. Edward G. Bond, acting chairman of the
Chowan Democratic Executive Committee, and Maru Amburn, a
possible Teen-Dem, listen to Rufus Edmisten of Sen. Sam Ervin’s
Watergate staff.
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THEN MORE—Rep. Stanford White, left, and Sen.-Elect
Melvin Daniels enjoy posing with Mrs. Verona Cratch of Beau
fort County, district director.
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Jones Calls
For Unity
Rep. Walter B. Jones of
Farmville made a pitch for
greater party loyalty as he kicked
off the annual Democratic
Women’s Workshop for the First
Congressional District at Edenton
Restaurant last Saturday.
Rep. Jones said the fact North
Carolinians elected a Republican
governor and to the the U. S.
Senate two years ago was because
“too many Democrats went off
and sulked.” He warned against
becoming “inbitter ed and
indifferent” in the general
elections.
“If we are to survive as a party
we must close ranks after the
May primary,” he added. And be
cause this wasn’t done two years
ago is why “we now have a Hol
houser full of strange people” in
leadership positions in govern
ment.
The congressman was critical of
the recruitment of key personnel
for state positions from other
states. “Those of us who live in
North Carolina, either by birth or
choice, know more about our
state,” he said.
- “It is the responsibility of the
people to restore the Democrats
back to power,” he concluded.
Rufus L. Edmisten said during
the afternoon session that if there
had been more women in positions
of responsibhty in Washington
there would have been no
Watergate. Edmisten is deputy
chief counsel of the Senate Select
Committee on Presidential
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Increased Hog Production Makes N.C. Leader
By WOODY UPCHURCH
N. C. State University
One reason North Carolina has
emerged as a major pork
producer in recent years and, at
times, led the nation in rate of
expansion, has been the rapid
buildup of hog numbers in the
northeastern coastal area around
the Albemarle Sound.
Farmer income from hogs in the
10-county area jumped by nearly
sll-million last year alone. Since
the Agricultural Committee of the
Albemarle Area Development
Association and the N. C.
Agricultural Extension Service
have been placing special empha
sis on pork opportunities, begin
ning about 1965, income from hogs
has grown from SB-million to over
$29-million.
Large numbers of farmers have
put in hog operations, either as a
source of supplemental income on
crops farms or as the sole farming
enterprise. For some, like Carlton
Perry, it has meant a complete
switch and a much improved
financial situation.
Perry, who farmed between 400
mid 500 acres of crops frith his
father on mostly rented land, gave
it all up four years ago and started
producing feeder (rigs. He says he
has.doubled his income.
Another Chowan County family,
theGoerge Jones’, aotinta the hog
County's Tax
Rate Is Slashed
Chowan County commissioners, holding to earlier expressions of their
intention to significantly reduce taxes, Monday night gave tentative
approval to a budget which carries a 70-cent tax rate for fiscal 1974-75.
The current tax rate is $1.65 per SIOO valuation. Therefore, the new rate
would reflect a 25-cent reduction, or about 15 per cent overall.
Mrs. Pansy A. Elliott, finance director, presented the proposed bud
get to the board at a special meeting in the County Office Jhdlding.
The record budget calls for expenditures of $1,566,183.49. The proposed
levy on 95 per cent of the assessed valuation would bring in $661,647.13
The county’s valuation exceeds $99-million.
Funds from revenue sharing is set at $190,000 and sales tax, $135,000
with $331,234 being budgeted from surplus.
The first district levy would remain at three cents per SIOO valuation.
This is based on a rural valuation of $60,422,810.
Edenton-Chowan Schools would receive $538,000 for current expenses
and $50,000 in capital outlay. Another $29,849.53 would go toward debt
service. This is the entire amount requested by the board of education.
However, commissioners failed to go along at this time with a request
to establish a capital reserve fund for construction of new facilities.
The local share of the Department of Social Services went from
$80,135.28 to $97,899.40, primarily due to a 30 per cent increase in the
amount budgeted for Medicaid.
The commissioners took no definite stand on salary adjustments
although there was some general discussion about increases.
The budget includes $30,000 for a new fire truck to be based at Edenton
Fire Department; $6,000 for renovations at Shepard-Pruden Memorial
Library; and $14,093 for Economic Improvement Council, Inc.
A public hearing on the proposed budget will be held at 11 A.M., June 3
in Chowan County Courthouse.
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Scholarship Given
- Mary Helen Dail, 20 Westover
Heights, has been named winner
of a SSOO educational scholarship
from the N. C. 4-H Development
Fund.
Miss Dail, a senior at John A.
Holmes High School, is one of 12 4-
H members from across North
Carolina selected to share in $6,000
of scholarship money being
distributed this year by the fund.
Wayne A. Corpening, senior vice
president of Wachovia Bank and
Trust Company in Winston-Salem
and president of the fund, says the
scholarships are awarded to
outstanding 4-H members for
college study during the 1974-75
academic year.
The4-H Development Fund, with
headquarters at N. C. State
University at Raleigh, was
organized in 1958 by friends and
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farrowing and feeding business
when the first expansion push
began in the I%o’s. Currently,
they’re running 300 sows and
investing in the future', as
illustrated by the recent
construction, of a $15,000-plus hog
TALK ABOUT HOG PROriUCTTWJ-CArltoo Perry,
help from the N. C. Livesu.
Grant Given
Water System
Farmers Home Administration
has approved a loan and a grant
under the Rural Development
Program to Chowan County to build
a regional water system. The $2.6-
million project would serve 1,250
county residents.
Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First
Congressional District announced
the loan of $1,550,000 and a grant
of $400,000.
The Chowan Herald learned
from a highly reliable source that
the county will definitely receive a
$250,000 grant from another
federal agency. This would leave
an additional $400,000 to be
obtained.
The county has already made
application for funds from the
N. C. Clean Water Bond Act of 1971,
for assistance in financing
the construction of wastewater
treatment works, wastewater
collection systems and water
supply systems.
The FHA funds will be used for
Phas I of a regional water system
to include two water treatment
facilities and wells, three elevated
storage tanks and 700,000 feet of
pipe.
The loan will be repaid in 40
years at an interest rate of 5 per
cent.
It is anticipated that the county
will call for a referendum on the
loan which would be repaid by
income from the system. The date
of such a referendum has not been
established.
Chowan County would be the
first to develop a regional water
system in North Carolina east of
Anson County.
confinement unit.
“It has been a case of an
opportunity just waiting to be
seized upon to help an area meet a
serious need,” commented Jack
Parker, N. C. State University
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