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Volume XL.—No. 34. Edenton, fforth Carolina, ftwrsday, August 22, Single Copies 10 Cents.
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NEW HOSPITAL STAFFERS-Thomas M. Surratt, left,
I executive vice president of Chowan Hospital, Inc., is pictured
here with two new vice presdients-Bill Underkofler and Mrs.
Linda Cook. They assumed positions following an organizational
change at the hospital.
Hospital Fills Two Positions
Two new vice presidents have
been named at Chowan Hospital to
fill slots in a revised plan of
organization which was recently
approved by the executive
committee of the board.
W. J. (Bill) Underkofler has
joined the hospital as vice
School Bells
Ready To Ring
The summer vacation ends
Tuesday for more than 2,600
\ Chowan County youngsters who
will answer school bells in the
Edenton-Chowan system. School
will start at 8:30 A.M. with a one
half day orientation session
scheduled.
Tuesday’s dosing time at the
various schools will be: Swain
Elementary, 11:40 A.M.; D. F.
Walker Junior High, 11:40: John
a. Holmes High, ilift; White Oak
Consolidated, 11:40 A.M. and
Chowan High, 11:35 A.M.
During the orientation Tuesday
students will register, receive
homeroom assignments and run
through their daily schedules.
School buses will transport
students on Tuesday, following
jLheir regular routes and pick-up
*imes as in other years. But,
according to the schedule,
students will be returned home
v early and the cafeterias will not
operate.
Wednesday will be the first full
day of school for students. Again,
buses will observe their regular
routes and full day time schedules
for picking up and returning
students home. If the
transportation needs of students
are not being met adjustments will
be made in bus routes after the
first few days of school, according
to a spokesman.
Supt. Eddie West said there will
be no school on September 2 due to
the observance of Labor Day.
However, the schools will resume
their normal schedule the
following day.
homeroom as
signments are printed in this
issue of The Chowan Herald.
Calendar Sale .
The annual community birthday
calendar sale will officially begin
tonight (Thursday) When a door
to-door canvass begins. The
canvass is expected to be
completed by September 5.
Birthdays, anniversaries ahfjt
club listings are 25 cents each and
calendars are 81.
Those who are interested in
paitteipaMng in this community
project who are not contacted are
atend to fit in touch with any
wieiiiber Os the BPW, or Woiftea’s
Qub, Jaycees or Jaycettoa. The
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president, management services,
and Mrs. Linda Cooks has the
responsibility of vice president,
administrative services. Both are
new employees at the hospital.
Thomas M. Surratt, executive
vice president, noted that Dr.
Bernie B. Baker will continue as
vice president, medical affairs,
and Mrs. Barbara Cale continues
in her responsibilities as vice
president, professional services.
Underkofler is recently retired
from the U. S. Air Force, and has
had extensive management
training, according to Surratt. He
said the new executive “comes to
us highly recommended.”
He is married and has four
children. His family will be
moving to Edenton shortly.
Mrs. Cook and her family
recently moved to Edenton from
the Raleigh area where she was
employed by the N. C. Department
of Public Instruction. She has two
children and is living in the Cape
Colony area. Her husband was
transferred to Edenton by
Gregory Poole Equipment
Company.
Miss Jeanette Parker, formerly
administrative secretary, has
assumed a newly created position
of patient-employee advocate.
Surratt said there is a growing
need for such a position in
hospitals and the local institution
is fortunate to have Miss Parker
already on the staff and available
to fill the slot.
EAHEC Formed
Thomas M. Surratt, executive
vice president of Chowan Hospital,
and Dr. Richard Hardin, a
medical staff member, have been
named to the board of the newly
organized Eastern Area Health
Education Center, Inc. Surratt is a
member of the organization’s
executive committee.
The executive committee met in
Greenville Tuesday to select a full
time administrative director.
EAHEC is the largest element in
a state-wide network of nine area
health education centers
authorized and funded by the 1974
General Assembly.
Dr: Edwin W. Monroe, vice
chancellor for health affairs at
East Carolina University, has
been elected president of EAHEC,
Inc., which embraces
representatives of 16 area
hospitals and the ECU Division of
Health Affairs.
In essence, according to Dr-
Monroe, EAkEC will seek to
establish structures 1 through
which the necessary numbers and
kinds of health manpower will
become readily available to,
provide the fullest possible
measure of health care to each
substantial challenge sines the
east presently is in s situation
where major categories of health
services end manpower have bean
neglected or inadequately
distributed and utilised,” be
“EAHEC represents a ittqito
partnership between hospitalsof
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B. Warner Evans
A Chowan County stalwart
succumbed to nearly a decade of
illness on August 10, leaving a void
in sectors such as business,
farming, church and community
activities and politics. And
through all the agony, B. Warner
Evans never wavered, always
maintaining the highest principles
of life.
He was a man who took all of his
endeavors seriously. He was a
faithful and considerate husband
and father; he was loyal to his
church and the Democratic Party;
he was a charitable citizen along
the Public Parade who always
gave more of himself than he
could ever expect to receive in
return.
Warner Evans, even in his
senior years, was innovative as a
farmer and businessman. He
weathered the valleys and enjoyed
the peaks in the same manner. If
there is a single word to describe
his philosophy it would have to be
“equitable”.
He served in the 1963 General
Assembly but resigned after being
hospitalized in mid-December,
1964. He once told us that while he
might have been able to “limp
through” the 1965 session he
couldn’t bring himself to the
prospects of doing a half-way job.
Warner Evans was a charter
member of Edenton Rotary Club
and was active in the American
Legion. He was a member of the
Edenton Historical Commission,
Chowan County Board of
Education and secretary of the
Chowan County Road
Commission. And he served as
chairman of the county
Democratic executive committee.
Warner Evans was a man you
could never have caught looking
back. He plowed a straight furrow,
always looking ahead. After 81
years the comforting thing for his
loved ones and friends is that he
took death in the same stride.
A Study In Contrasts
There are those along the Public
Parade and throughout the
country who wouldn’t turn a
comer to gamer a “smokeless
dollar.” Nonetheless, tourism is a
major industry and one that is
expanding faster than major
corporations.
Historic Edenton cannot be
compared to Colonial
Williamsburg except that both
offer the visitors the opportunity
to wallow in history. The precious
heritage of Edenton has been
preserved; Williamsburg has been
restored into a more commerical
and packaged atmosphere.
The theory that you have to
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Morgan Pushes Voter Response For Election
Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan met
briefly here Tuesday morning
with a group of Democratic
leaders to stress the importance of
getting out a big vote in the
November election.
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‘CAROLINA SPEClAL’—Southern Railway’s vintage steam locomotive “4501” will take on water
and fuel in Edenton Saturday afternoon during a one-way excursion from Norfolk to Greenville. The
locomotive will be here from 12:30 P.M. to 1:15 P.M. and is expected to draw a lot of attention.
Tax Collections
Are Distributed
Chowan County has received
$37,164.09 and the Town of Edenton
has gotten $11,853.49 as a result of
the quarterly distribution of the 1
per cent sales tax.
The report was issued this week
by Sec. J. Howard Coble of the
State Department of Revenue. The
report showed that net quarterly
collections in the state amounted
to $28.5-million.
Sec. Coble also released the
figures for July which showed net
collections in Chowan County to be
$19,4%.40
In other Albemarle Area
counties the collections for the
past month were:
Camden, $3,406.42; Currituck,
$9,493.47; Dare, $52,571.45; Gates,
$5,186.07; Pasquotank, $61,568.47;
Perquimans, $8,295.63; Tyrrell,
$4,321.21; and Washington,
$23,605.63.
County Road Allocation Low
Chowna County allocation from
the state’s Secondary Road
Improvement Fund for 1974-75 is
$32,820. The average cost of
construction per mile is $47,250.
In a report released by Sec. Troy
A. Doby of the Department of
Transportation and Highway
Safety, the allocation is based on
unpaved mileage as of January 1.
As of that date there were 40.90
miles of unpaved secondary roads
in Chowan.
Fourteen Northeastern North
Carolina counties in Division I
received an allocation of $1,074,207
and had unpaved mileage of
nominee, said he is depending on a
big vote in Eastern North Carolina
in order to overcome the
anticipated heavy Republican
vote west of Raleigh. “What
concerns us now is the apathy
which is apparent among the
Vintage Steamer Here Saturday
Sounds from railroad’s
romantic past will be heard in the
Richmond area this weekend as
Southern Railway’s vintage steam
locomotive “4501” powers a one
way excursion from Norfolk to
Greenville on Saturday.
The “Carolina Special” will
leave Norfolk at 9 A.M. and pass
through Moyock, Elizabeth City,
Hertford, Edenton, Plymouth, and
Washington en route to a 5:15
P.M. arrival at Greenville.
The train will consist of both air
conditioned and open-window
coaches, open-sided observation
cars, a baggage coach combine,
and a commissary-food car where
snacks and souvenirs can be
purchased.
Passengers may board or
detrain at any of the scheduled
stops and tickets can be purchased
on the train.
Train buffs will recognize
“4501” as a 2-8-2 locomotive of the
Mikado type. Originally built by
1,292.90.
Bertie County had 210 miles of
unpaved road and received an
allocation of $175,987. Davie has 32
miles of unpaved secondary road
and that county’s allocation was
$28,532.
Chowan County has a total of
225.11 miles of road on the state
highway system. Os this total,
184.21 miles are paved. A
breakdown shows 172.60 miles on
the secondary system; 10.35 on
state urban system and 42.16 on
the primary system.
The state system consists of
74,914.22 miles of which 52,992.42
miles are paved.
voters,” the candidate said.
The nominee will step down
Monday as attorney general to
devote full time to campaigning.
In this regard, he urged local
leaders to get behind the
candidacy of Rufus Edmisten,
who was recently chosen as the
Democratic nominee for the
Council of State position.
Edmisten is the best qualified
candidate, according to Morgan,
who noted the candidate’s
experience with Sen. Sam Ervin,
Jr., and the Senate Select
Committee. “The attorney
generalship is more administrative
than involving legal practice and
Rufus has had this administrative
experience which is required in
the job,” he added.
Turning to his own campaign,
Morgan said he has read news
accounts of his opponent being
critical of his (Morgan’s) political
career. “Well, if they had had
anyone around the White House
with any practical politics I don’t
believe we would have
experienced Watergate,’' he said.
Morgan said he has never seen
the party unity which now exists
among Democrats in North
Carolina. He said he is getting
great cooperation from his two
major opponents in the
Democratic primary. “And my
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the Baldwin Locomotive Works in
1911, it was the first of its type
employed by Southern and served
the line until 1948.
The vintage locomotive, now
carefully restored to the better
than-new condition by Southern,
was once used to haul coal from
various Kentucky coal mines
where it spent much of its time
covered with layers of soot and
cinders.
Purchased by the Tennessee
Valley Railroad Museum in the
mid ’6o’s, “4501” was later
restored by Southern to its present
green and gold colors for use
(exclusively on the steam powered
excursion trains. Thousands of
r ail buffs have ridden behind this
rolling example of railroad
Americana.
The Schedule
Lv. Norfolk (N-S Ry.) “ ’J A.M
Lv. Moyock, N.C. 1®:15 A.M
Lv. Elizabeth City 11:20 A.M
Lv. Hertford 12:05 P.M
Ar. E'denton 12:30 P.M.
Lv. E denton 1:15 P.M
Lv. Pl ymouth 2:20 P.M.
Lv. Washington 3:50 P.M.
Ar. Greenville, N.C. 5:15 P.M
Frinks Jailed
In Street Case
Golden Frinks, leader of
demonstrations in Edenton last
summer, wa.s arrested by Chowan
County’s Sheriff’s Department
Wednesday morning to begin
serving a sax-month prison
sentence.
The N. C. C’ourt of Appeals
recently held that the
“defendant’s received a fair trial,
free from prejudicial error’’ and
upheld the judgments.
Frinks and numerous others
arrested during the' trial were
tried by Judge Willia m Copeland
in Chowan County Sup erior Court
in September, 1973 1 "hey noted
appeals in several cases and in
each incident the appends court
has found no error.
The trials of several deft 'ndants
was halted when Frinks petitioned
that they be placed in lJ- S.
District Court. Judge dohn
Larkins has ruled that it wjAs a
delaying tactic and ordered the
cases returned to Superior Court
for trial. Several of the cases wei *e
docketed in the last term of cour t
and defendants entered pleas of
guilty and accepted the District
Court judgments.
Sheriff Troy Toppin also
reported that Prentice Sylvester
Valentine was arrested Tuesday
afternoon to begin serving a three
month sentence for his
participation in the dem
onstrations.
Chamber Event
The annual membership
banquet of Edenton Chamber of
Commerce has been scheduled for
September 19, according to
James C. (Pete) DaiL president.
The meeting wiH be Md at