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DR. DAVID PHELPS
AADA To Hear
ECU Professor
Dr. David S. Phelps, professor
of anthropology at East Carolina
University, will be the speaker
tonight (Thursday) at the monthly
meeting of Albemarle Area
Development Association.
The meeting will begin at 7 P.M.
at the fire house in Columbia.
Mrs. Lane Kinion is {urogram
chairman for AADA. She said Dr.
Phelps will speak on the subject of
“Archaelogy Resources in the
Albemarle Region: the
Development of the Potential”.
Dr. Phelps has been associated
with ECU since 1970 and earlier
was for six years with Florida
State University in Tallahassee.
He has also done work for Tuland
Univeristy in New Orleans, La.
He has done extensive
research and writing includiqg an
archaeological survey of the
Chowan River Basin and
archaeological investigation of the
North Carolina Coast.
L. F. Amburn, Jr., is AADA
president.
The Albemarle Regional
Planning & Development
Commission’s board, of which W.
B. Gardner is chairman, will meet
at 5:30 P.M. at the same location.
Receives Grant
By an act of the May 1974
General Assembly, $900,000 was
appropriated for 60 fid jtimSL
school psychology consultant
positions across the State.
Jonathan Robinson, a native of
Elizabeth City, has been employed
by the State Department of Public
Instruction as the consulting
psychologist the six counties in
legion R, which includes Chowan,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Gates,
Camden and
Currituck counties.
Edenton-Chowan Schools will
benefit from Robinson’s services
regularly on the first and third
Wednesday of each month, and at
other times upon special request.
The role of school psychologist is
not synonymous with testing.
Robinson will be doing some
testing, but no more than 40 per
cent of the time. The remaining
time will be used in terms of
consultations and education with
teachers, students, and parents.
He will be working primarily with
teaehers in helping them learn
how to recognize possible
problems of students and methods
of dealing with them.
Robinson states that he sees his
“role in the light of three broad
area of psychological services:
consultation, education,- and
evaluation. But within these
broad areas of service,
many specific functions exist. As a
performing my job by meeting the
specific needs of the students and
teachers I serve.”
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Our Week
This is our week along the
Public Parade. National
Newspaper Week is the rare
occasion for the editor to toot his
own horn.
We have come to this position
cautiously.
One of the things in which we
take the most pride is that in more
than two decades of handling the
news we have never intentionally
slanted it.
In the eye of some we have
developed and adhered to what
might be considered harsh
policies. We have, however, acted
fairly and impartially.
Our intent has been to honor and
cherish the freedom of the press,
not abuse it. It is more difficult to
publish a /newspaper in a
community, where you constantly
come face-to-face with your
adversaries. Nevertheless, the
joys of being steadfast and honest
mean much more than all the
awards which hang on the walls of
newspapers which write for them
rather than write in the best
interest of the community.
To us, this is what the free press
and the observance of National
Newspaper Week is all about. In
this instance each week is
newspaper week as we carry out
our responsiblity to the
community we serve.
Shortly after we came to
meander along the Public Parade
we got a call at home one night.
We were lectured that “if you keep
writing like this you are not going
to be very popular”.
To this we replied that we didn’t
intend to run a popularity contest,
but a newspaper.
Because of this conviction we
don’t fear the challenges being put
to the press these days. I fthe press,
to draw upon a saying by the late
President Truman, can’t stand the
heat then it is best that it stay out
of the kitchen.
We, however, find the heat quite
comfortable.
Universal, Yet!
The menu for Wednesday in
EdenfawChowan Schools wifi take
on a carnival air. It is the
Universal Menu with catchy
descriptions of the food to be
served that more than likely will
attract a record number of students
to the cafeteria along the
Public Parade.
Mrs. Etta Hathaway, food
service director in the system,
notes the menu as follows:
Circus submarine sandwich;
Flying french fries;
Barnum-Bailey green beans
Big Top fruit cup;
Greatest chips on earth; and
Midway milk.
And if you can get more
universal than that you’ll be going
some!
The *Better Hair
The wives of Republican
candidates for state-wide office
are on the road for the next eight
days, joined by Mrs. Pat
Holshouser and a batchelor
candidate for the Superior Court.
The press release said the tour
was organized by the State
Republican Party and is aimed at
allowing the voters to get a look at
the ‘better half” of the
candidates.
That is, if you live in Greenville
or west.
They began in Raleigh Tuesday
with a news conference at 9 A.M.
they are touring 32 counties in Tar
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- HERE COMES THE BANDS —Colorful bands are the highlight of any parade and according to the
latest news the Tea Party Celebration parade here October 26 will have plenty of music. Included will
be the Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic Drum and Bugle Corps, pictured above.
Parade High On Activity List
J. Clarence Leary, Jr.,
chairman of the Chowan
Bicentennial Commission,
announces that the Jaycees will be
handling the Saturday
morning parade which is a part of
the “Tea Party Celebration”
planned for October 25-27. The
parade is scheduled to start at 11
A.M. and will begin at Hicks Field
and extend down Broad Street to
Water Street and back up Oakum
Street.
Jaycee chairman, Ray Midgett,
states that out-of-town responses
for participation in the parade
have been good, and that a
number of colorful marching units
will be on hand. Midgett states
that one unique group that will be
featured is the “Second North
Carolina Regiment of Foote”, a
member of the N. C. Brigade from
Dunn. This group of authenically
dressed colonial soldiers will
provide music from drums and
bag pipes and will actually fire
their colonial muskets during their
drill routines.
Another atfrqctipD.tathe parade...
will be the Tactical Air Command
Marching Bond out of Langley Air
Force Base, Va. This Air Force
Band consisting of 60 members is
the largest and considered to be
the finest Air Force Band on the
East Coast. In addition to the Air
Force the 38th Army Band and
Honor Guard from Fort Eustis will
be participating.
The Marine Corps will be
providing the Atlantic Drum &
Bugle Corps out of Norfolk, Va.
KAY CURRIE
Rotary Speaker
Kay Currie, woman’s director of
WITN—TV in Washington, will be
guest speaker today(Thursday) at
the luncheon meeting of Edenton
Rotary Club. The club meets at 1
o’clock at the Parish House of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Jack Harris is program
chairman.
Mrs. Currie has held her present
position with the TV station for the
past four years and has appeared
as hostess of Hospitality House,
aired Sundays at noon. She also
serves as an “eyeWlTNess News”
reporter and handles the weather
assignment on the noon news each
weekday.
She is a graduate of Centenary
College for Women in New Jersey,
a charter member of the
Washington BPW Chib. In the past
she has served on the board of the
United Ftand in New Ban and the
board of the Mental Health
Association in Beaumont, Tex.
Thia cummer cbe was a TV
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, October 10, 1974.
Many other marching units have
consented to participate in the
parade, and in all the Jaycees
promise that his will be a most
colorful part of the celebration.
Midgett states that the local
“Youth for the Bicentennial”
headed by Gris Bond, is working
very hard on behalf of the parade
and the entire celebration, and it
appears that they will be very well
represented. Midgett urges those
area clubs and organizations who
have not yet made a decision to
participate and may desire to do
so, to contact any member of the
Bicentennial Committee as
quickly as possible.
Council Concerned
Virginia Electric and Power
Company has informed the rural
electric cooperatives,
municipalities and one private
utility it serves on a wholesale
basis including Edenton of plans to
increase the rates these customers
pay for electircity by about $21.6-
million.
"—TOg’ftjWh'drEdenton throughlts
member organization,
Electricities, has continuously
protested the rate increase of
Vepco. W. B. Gardner, town
administrator, and James Martin,
director of utilities, said the town
will continue to object to higher
electric rates.
Vepco will seek a 28.68 per cent
increase from the municipalities
and one private utility.
Peanuts, Soybeans Damaged By Earliest Frost
BY R. M. THOMPSON
County Extension Chariman
We had quite a frost in most
areas of Chowan County last
Thursday.
Checking the sweet potatoes in
the county for frost damage, we
suggest that you make an effort to
get these potatoes out as soon as
possible and by this we mean
within a week to 10 days after the
frost.
The peanuts that were hit by
frost, and most of them were that
were not plowed up, probably
should be dug as soon as possible,
fitting it into the curing program
as best you can. We would like to
suggest that you do not mix the
peanuts that were dug the day of
the frost with other peanuts.
We’re not saying that these
peanuts were damaged but just in
case they were and you did not
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WHERE BODY WAS FOUND-Sherrif Troy Toppin, right! ami
Deputy Joe Byrum inspect the location where the body of a
Virginia man was found last Thursday morning. A motorist on
Highway 37 spotted the body floating face down in the canal at the
county line.
Steps Are Taken
On W ater Project
Chowan County commissioners
have formed a Temporary
Advisory Committee to proceed
with plans for construction of a
county-wide water system. The
commissioners, however, will
retain full control of the project.
During the sometimes heated
discussion Monday of how best to
proceed, C. A. Phillips, chairman,
said his suggestion to work with a
committee was not designed to
“pre-empt the responsibilites of
the commissioners”.
“This is a major project and-we
have to start hitting the ball,” the
chairman said of the $3.2-million
undertaking.
Commissioner N. J. George at
first opposed the committee idea,
saying “the only way to make sure
it is constructed properly is for the
control to remain with the
commissioners.” Later he said he
understood an attempt was being
made to establish a permanent
authority which should only be
done after the project is
completed. - -•
Commissioners C. M. Evans and
Alton G. Elmore agreed that the
establishment of a permanent
authority now would be
premature. Commissioner Evans
said once an authority is appointed
it should have representatives
from every township.
Phillips and David Bate
man will represent the board
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detect it you would not want to
contaminate good peanuts with
peanuts that might have been
frozen.
Frost on October 3 is the earliest
that we have any record of and
there are many things that we
don’t know the extent of the
damage cause we have not had
this type of experience at this time
of the year.
Virginia Man’s Body Found
The body of Joseph O’Shields,
66, of Portsmouth, Va., was found
in the canal at the Chowan-
Perquimans county line on
Highway 37 Thursday afternoon
by a passing motorist.
The badly decomposed body was
removed at the direction of
Coroner Marvin Barham and later
Single Copies 10 Cents.
Nurse Drain
In Hospitals
Is Alarming
The “ever increasing” number
of professional nursing positions ’
being created by the N. C.
Department of Human Resources
and other regionwide agencies
throughout the state has become a
threat to acute care hospitals.
This “real dilemma” was
discussed recently in a letter from
Chowan Hospital to all
professional nurses in its service
area who are working in nonacute
care situations.
In a letter signed by Thomas
M. Surratt, president; Mrs.
Barbara R. Cale, vice president,
professional services; and Dr.
Bemie B. Baker, vice president,
medical affairs, it was noted that
some hospitals in the state and
elsewhere have had to close down
nursing stations and reduce the
number of patients they can care
for because of the serious drain of
nurses.
At a recent meeting of the
medical staff and members of the
nursing department at Chowan
Hospital it was unanimously
agreed that top priority must be
given “to our intensice and
coronary care unit”.
“You can see that establishing
priorities in the manner
mentioned means that other areas
in the hospital needing
professional nurse service will
have less than what we feel is
adequate staff,” it was stated.
“This then causes a further
dilemma for this violates our
philosophy so the highest quality
service to the people in our
community in our care.”
In an effort to solve the problem,
action was taken to elicit the
support of all nurses in the
community .by seeking their
agreement to work whatever time
is possible for them to give the
hospital.
The hospital has established
“team scheduling” to look at new
and different ways to accomplish
the goals. This will include
establishing more effective ways
time can be scheduled to make it
(acute care nursing) more
attractive.
It was noted that the hospital
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We are sure that late soybeans
are hurt, that we have to dig sweet
potatoes and peanuts before we
want and this will reduce yield.
But we still do not know exactly
how much damage has occured.
We just would like to see you take
all care possible not to
contaminate the good with the
bad.
sent to N. C. Memorial Hospital
Hospital in Chapel Hill for an
autopsy. Sheriff troy Toppin said
the report had not been received
Tuesday afternoon
G. B. Munden of Elizabeth City
saw the body and the Chowan
County Sheriff’s Department was
notified at 11:05 A.M. Deputy
Joseph Byrum responded to the
call and then notified the coroner.
The body was fully clothed and
face down in the canal. The victim
was last seen on September 25 in
Currituck County.
The investigation is continuing.
Fall Holidays
Hie next two Fridays will be
holidays for students in Edenton-
Chowan Schools, while the
teachers put in their usual time.
This week is the district NCAE
meeting in Greenville which
teachers will attend.
The following Friday is the day
set aside for parent-teacher
conference to dtauss progress
bong made by the studants. The
report cards will have been
distriMM prior to this day to
allow parents to know what
progress their child is making.