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Art Director
''Making Plans
Ms. Linda Francis Penuel has
begun her duties as executive
director of the Northeastern Arts
Council. She will be working in
Bertie, Martin, Chowan,
Perquimans, Gates and Hertford
counties.
Hie new council is supported by
the Department of Cultural
Resources, Division of State Arts
Council, and Alliance For
Progress.
Ms. Penuel will endeavor to get
more local art participation as in
creative crafts and the little
theater. The council will also work
with the Poetry in the schools
program as well as artists in
residence.
Efforts will be made to establish
art center in each county for
me local artists to display and sell
their work. Also, the council will
work toward performances for
both adults and children.
A graduate of N. C. State
University, the executive director
previously was state coordinator
of National Alliance for Arts-
Education, sponsored by the John
F. Kennedy Center in Washington,
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Farm - City Week
Edenton and Chowan County
will again participate in National
Farm-City Week, November 22-28.
George Lewis, chairman of
Chowan County Planning Board,
has been named chairman.
Highlight of the week will be a
banquet November 25 at Jaycee
Building on Base
Road.
The activities are sponsored by
civic clubs in Edenton and Chowan
County and the Agriculture
Committee of Edenton Chamber
of Commerce. W. Earl Smith is
committee chairman.
Project Gets Feasibility Funds From State
The N. C. Bicentennial Barge
has been given a substantial push
on its path along the watery
byways of the state through a
grant from the N. C. Department
of Cultural Resources.
In announcing the grant, to be
used for a feasibility study and
development of an action plan,
Grace J. Rohrer, department
afcretary, said,' “The barge
concept has aroused our active
immediate interest and we look
forward to completion of the
study ant * the aipport of other
appropriate state and civic
organizations”'
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Volume XL—No. 45.
Recently the board of Albemarle
Regional Planning & Development
Commission decided, in the
absence of its amiable executive
director, to ask the N. C.
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources to said in
independent consultants to
:review regional planning,
development and program
operations along the Public
Parade and throughout
Northeastern North Carolina.
The area, designated as
Region “R” in the State’s multi
county {dan, has been studied by
agencies from as far away as
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Personnel has been invited to
appear before congressional
subcommittees in Washington, D.
C., because the area has been
innovative in human resources
planning and service delivery.
Unfortunately, Wesley
Cullipher, ARPDC executive
director and father of regionalism
in this sector of Tar Heelia, is
'confined to Veterans Hospital in
Richmond, Va., and cannot
participate in this examination.
His absence of the past 10 weeks
has been at a crutial time when
Jim Holshouser’s designation of
Lead Regional Organizations to
parcel out certain programs was
necessary.
The Albemarle Human
Resources Development System,
the program implementation arm
of ARPDC, has from the outset
pledged its full support to assist in
carrying out the governor’s
mandates. Unfortunately, there
has been some disagreement in
interputation of the mandate.
AHRDS has operated on grant
funds from numerous sources,
without asking local governments
lOr fUitfßng therefore, has been
4uccSSiluT I ln'Tbmaining non
political. ARPDC, although a
majority of the operating funds
come from Economic
Development Administration,
assesses counties and
municipalities on a per capita basis
for a certain amount of funding.
While this has been somewhat
awkward, the boards of AHRDS
and ARPDC have been able to
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The Chowan County Courthouse lithographic prints by Jerry
Miller are available at the Edenton Chamber of Commerce.
These prints are 10 by 14 inches and are selling for $lO.
Proceeds will go to the Chowan County Bicentennial Committee
for projects.
miles of the ports selected, and
that an additional 2,400,000 in
Virginia and South Carolina are
within easy traveling distance of
the barge stops.
An architectural firm is working
on plans calling for construction of
a barge pavilion about 200 feet
long and 40 feet wide with a ribbed
dome rising about 40 feet above
the water. Within the dome would
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VOTING MACHINES BRING SMILES—Chowan County used voting machines for the first time in
Tuesday s election and the expression of the faces of those pictured here would indicate they were well
received. Election officials said there were no problems encountered by the 28 per cent of the
registered voters who went to the polls. The picture here was made at Edenton Municipal Building,
polling place for West Edenton Precinct. (Staff Photo by Asbell).
Chowan Democrats Did Their Thing Tuesday
Chowan County voters,
following past patterns, gave huge
majorities to Democrat
candidates in Tuesday’s General
Election.
There were no local contests and
28 per cent of the registered voters
cast ballots. Mrs. Joseph M.
Thorud, executive secretary of
Chowan County Board of Election,
To Address Area Banquet
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt
be enclosed exnibit and
performance areas.
The N. C. Bicentennial Barge
Foundation, a nonprofit
sponsoring organization, will
present a bill seeking state funds
for the barge at the next session of
the General Assembly.
The Chowan County
Bicentennial Committee recently
donated $250 to the barge fund.
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, November 7, 1974.
said it was the same percentage of
voters who cast ballots in the 1970
election.
Voting machines were used
throughout the six precincts and
reports are that everything went
smoothly.
Both constitutional amendments
were favored in the county.
The biggest majority went to
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt will be
principal speaker at a dinner
meeting to be held here, at the
Edenton Jaycee Building on
Tuesday. The meeting will get
underway at 6:30 P.M.
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt will address
the 19th annual meeting of the 20-
; - county Northeastern Area Soil arid
Water Conservation District
Supervisors.
Area Chairman, Lloyd C. Bunch
of Chowan County, speculates that
over 400 conservationists and
guests will gather to hear Hunt
speak. He urges the public to
attend for an evening of fellowship
and at the same time lend their
support to the Soil and Water
Conservation District Program.
Tickets for the event are
available from the local Soil and
Water Conservation District
Office located in the basement of
the U. S. Post Office.
Aces Put String
On Line Friday
The Edenton Aces go for all the
marbles at Hicks Field Friday
night as they play host to Ahoskie.
The Aces are undefeated and a win
over Ahoskie will give them the
conference title.
Edenton defeated Bertie last
week, 28-0.
Kickoff time at Hicks Field is 8
P.M.
Holders of reserve tickets have
been asked to have their tickets
available this week if they want to
sit in the reserved section. In the
past the reserve seat section has
not been strickly enforced, but
officials say it will be this week
due to the large turnout expected
for the game.
Johnson Named
Macon Johnson, chairman,
Camden County Board of
Commissioners, had been named
chairman of the Advisory Council
of the Albemarle Aging Unit.
Elected during a meeting at
Edenton Municipal Building
recently , Johnson will serve with
Mrs. Rosa B. Gibbs of Hertford,
vice chairman; and Mrs. Brenda
Vanhorn, staff secretary,
secretary.
Hie Advisory Council serves to
assist the delivery of services and
programs for senior citizens
(those persons <0 and over)
through the Albenu^Rgton.^
Mrs. NaomT C. Hester for
Albemarle Regional Pl*mtag &
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Superior Court Judge J. William
Copeland of Murfreesboro who
was elected an associate justice of
the State Supreme Court. He
polled 1,127 votes to 234 for
Appeals Court Judge James
Baley, Jr.
Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First
Congressional District, who is
always a popular vote getter in
Chowan received 1,120 votes as
compared to 297 for Harry
McMullan.
Robert Morgan defeated
William Stevens at Chowan polls,
1,119 to 307 and Rufus Edmisten
polled 1,080 votes for attorney
general with James Carson, Jr.,
getting 311.
Returns late Wednesday
morning showed that Morgan won
the IT. S. Senate seat with 63 per
cent of the vote and Edmisten was
elected attorney general by about
the same majority.
Judge Copeland, who is
presiding over a civil term of court
in Chowan this week, soundly
defeated Judge Baley.
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Joint Training Session Held
By STANTON HARRELL
Soil Conservation Technician
A joint training session with the
Corps of Engineers, the N. C.
Division of Marine Fisheries and
with Soil Conservation Service
personnel from 11 of the
Northeastern Coastal Counties
was held Wednesday of last week
in Ecienton. The purpose of the
session was to provide each
agency with an opportunity to
learn about the other’s responsi
bilities and interest in river
and sound shore erosion work.
John Parker, permit
coordinator with the N.C. Division
of Marine Fisheries, cited the
state’s permit requirements
relating to shore erosion control
measures. Federal permit
requirements were discussed by
Charles Hollis, chief permit
branch, with the Corps of Engi
neers out of Wilmington.
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To Purchase
Armory Site
Chowan County commissioners
agreed Monday to purchase land
from the Edenton Airport
Commission as a site for a ne> v
National Guard Armory. Thn
price of the land was $19,050.
The request came from Edenton
Town Council after it was
determined by the Federal
Aviation Authority that the
commission could not donate the
land for the armory.
Earlier the town had agreed to
pay 12Vi> per cent of the construc
tion cost, which is another
requirement.
Monday’s action puts Edenton
and Chowan County in a priority
status for a new armory,
according to a spokesman.
When the new armory is
completed, the existing facility on
North Broad Street would become
the ownership of the town and
county. It is already being used as
headquarters for the joint county
town recreation program.
The commissioners also
Monday accepted low bids on a
new county fire truck to operate
out of Edenton Fire Department.
Atlantic Supply Company’s bid for
the equipment was $28,984.23 and
Albemarle Motor Company
submitted the low bid of $13,086 for
the chasis.
The commissioners had
budgeted $30,000 for the truck and
equipment but since it cannot be
secured during this budget it was
noted that the $12,070 balance
could be budget next fiscal year.
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Benefit Saturday
Saturday is Buddy Poppy Day in
Edenton and members of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
Auxiliary will be selling them
throughout Edenton.
At 11 A.M. Monday, a wreath
will be placed at the Confederate
Monument at the plaza in front of
the Municipal Building, in
recognition of Veterans Day. A
short program will be held.
Both stressed the importance of
accurate information along with
the prescribed drawings when
submitting requests for structural
permits on any navigable stream
in North Carolina. Processing of
permits should be handled more
rapidly now beacuse of additional
man power in each agency. They
also stressed that because a
certain job may require a permit,
that one should not be discouraged
since nearly 90 per cent of all
received by the two agencies are
approved.
Technical assistance available
to landusers on shore erosion
problems was presented to the
group by Robert Jessup, state
conservation engineer with the
Soil Conservation Service in
Raleigh. A trip to the field related
to the group some of the erosion
problems being experienced along
the Albemarle Sound in Chowan
County.