Public Parade
Service Vanishing
There is a sign posted in the
Edenton Post Office advising
patrons that effective April 3
window service will he
discontinued on Saturday. This is
another step towards removing
the service from the U. S. Postal
Service.
Postmaster James M. Bond is
bound to be on the receiving end of
a host of complaints about this cut
in service. However, he has no
control over the quotas placed on
the local office.
There is a nation-wide effort to
improve the financial condition of
the postal service. The gliberals
thought once it became an
independent agency of the federal
government all the problems
would be solved. Not so. The
have been compounded.
In the name of economy, the
service is trying to reduce the
number of business mail
deliveries per day in the big cities
and the number of days per week
in the residential areas.
We applaud the first, but abhor
the second.
We do not understand, in the
first place, why there should be
three deliveries of business mail a
day in New York City when users
in other large cities are restricted
to two deliveries, and one along
' the Public Parade.
Is the mail more important or
more urgent in Gotham than in
Podunk?
We doubt it. And with the closing
of the window service on Saturday
sometimes urgent mail will pile up
V from Friday until Monday and
those who rely on the mail
businesswise will be severely
handicapped.
Although the cut in service is
proposed in the name of economy,
we are inclined to go along with
Kep. David Henderson of the Post
office and Civil Service
Committee, who says the proposed
retrenchments would not save
money anyway.
According to him, the three-year
labor contract which the postal,
service signed with its-760,000
employees has a provision which
prohibits layoffs. Consequently,
very little can be saved by cutting
down on service if you cannot at
■ the same time reduce personnel.
The local post office employees
work hard in an effort to get all
first class mail in the boxes by 8
A.M. Curtailing the Saturday
window service won’t help this
situation, but will reduce the
service offered postal patrons.
Maybe we are old fashion, but
we still believe that no dollar value
can be placed on service. By the
same token, we resent some areas
getting too much of a good thing
while others suffer.
By increasing prices and
curtailing service the U. S. Postal
Service may just be on the brink of
pricing itself out of the market.
God forbid!
Play By Rules
In our mail Tuesday afternoon
was a letter headed: “About to
loose (sic) more service.” It was
signed: “Taxpayer”.
The letter was well thought out,
well constructed, well within the
desired for publication, and
on the same topic of another piece
in this column. Except for the
signature, it passed all our
requirements to be circulated
along the Public Parade.
And what makes it more
difficult, the writer’s thinking was
in tune with ours. Nevertheless,
when letters are sent for
publication in this newspaper they
must bear a genuine signature.
In particular cases we will
withhold the name, but we must
know who the author is. The
reason is simple-protection.
Our policy then is by no means
designed to discourage letters
from concerned or unconcerned
citizens. To put it pure and simple,
we just have to know who is the
force behind the pen.
Therefore, no matter how much
are agree with the oontent,
'unsigned letters won’t “show” in
•this newspaper. While the rules
m&re simple everyone who plays in
arena must abide by them.
Cutting Down Wrong Tree
Ned Cline has done another
hatchet job on the East Carolina
Medical School and Ms editors
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
Volume XLn.—No. 13.
Carter, jßeagan Win At Polls
Two former governors, Ronald
Reagan of California, and Jimmy
Carter of Georgia, lead balloting
in Chowan County Tuesday.
Reagan, a Republican, and
Carter, Democrat, were the
choice of their respective parties
REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC
Ford Reagan No. Prei. Wallace Carter Jackson Udall Harris Bentsen No. Pref.
East Edenton 6 10 0 91 115 9 3 4 1 8
West Edenton 18 28 0 80 181 14 13 4 4 25
Rocky Hock 3 6 0 03 34 5 0 0 0 6
Center Hill 6 0 0 v 44 36 2 0 0 1 7
Wardville 7 3 0 23 22 4 1 0 0 1
Yeopim 12 20 1 45 40 6 4 2 1 3
54 68 1 347 433 43 22 10 7 50
AMENDMENTS
Health Care Anti-Pollution Gen. Construction
For Against For Against F« - Against
East Edenton 128 58 133 47 120 67
West Edenton 207 98 197 93 197 102
Rocky Hock 63 24 48 28 48 32
Center Hill 43 35 39 35 46 29
Wardville 23 26 22 23 25 22
Yeopim 82 34 74 37 75 40
545 282 521 271 522 297
Pact Aids Herring Industry
A bilateral agreement signed
March 1, by the Soviet Union and
the United States should help the
troubled North Carolina river
herring fishery, according to Mike
Street, North Carolina’s
representative at the State
Department negotiations.
The agreement is timely. When
"iKe dogwoods bloom Tt istime
again for river herring to leave the
ocean and enter fresh waters to
spawn. Last year the historically
important N. C. river herring
fishery suffered the lowest harvest
since 1937.
Street, chief of research and
development for the N. C. Division
of Marine Fisheries, said
information gained from a long
term N. G. research program
figured prominently in the
negotiations. The only U. S.
offshore data was taken by
biologists aboard N. C.’s research
exploratory fishing vessel DAN
MOORE. Street said the
successful negotiations were the
pay-off from a five year N. C.
research effort.
Street said the Soviet Union
agreement is complex. The river
herring agreement (also including
flounder, bluefish, black sea bass,
scup (porgy), and other species)
covers an area of international
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RESEARCH TEAM—Mike Street, left, and a fellow scientist
Mover some fishing gear used to gather data which led toaU.
S.—Russian agreement which should improve herring fishing in
the Chowan River area. The state’s research-exploratory vessel
is In the background.
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, March 25, 1976.
£ m the first Presidential
J o eference Primary here.
§ V 'be two constitutional
wS3 lendents and the higher
education bond issue were heavily
favored in this county.
Twenty-one per cent of the
waters that extends from the 35
degree north latitude line
(offshore Ocracoke) to Long
Island, N. Y. The menhaden
clause gives protection down to
Jacksonville, Fla. The agreement
areas are within 200 miles of U. S.
shores.
The main agreement,. Street
safdr was establishment of a
closed area offshore Little
Machipungo Inlet, Va., to offshore
Ocracoke (from the international
boundary 12 miles offshore of
about the 100 fathom curve). The
area will be closed during
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Funds Allocated
Edenton-Chowan Schools and 12
other administrative units in the
First Congressional District are
getting HEW funds to provide
assistance for schools in federally
affected areas.
Rep. Walter B. Jones announced
that the local unit has been
certified for a $3,749 payment.
Other Albemarle Area units
receiving funds at this time are
Dare County, $20,916; Currituck
County, $45,884; Camden County,
$15,979; Perquimans County,
$11,337; and Elizabeth City-
Pasquotank, $57,668.
registered voters cast-ballots in
the .election, 16 of who voted
absentee. Except for Wardville
the rural precincts voted a higher
percentage of registered than did
East and West Edenton.
The heaviest vote was in
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Last Os Series
To Be Presented
The American Experiment, a
series of Bicentennial forums, will
conclude at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday at
Chowan County Courthouse with a
discussion of the coming century.
N. C. Wesleyan College
Professor Corbitt B. Rushing has
entitled his talk “An Agenda for
Our Third Century”. His remarks
will include comment on the dim
prospects and the bright spots of
our world currently at peace, the
high and low points of the quest for
ecological sanity and a proposal
for a 1987 Constitutional
Convention.
The forum series is presented by
the Bicentennial Committee of the
N. C. Library Association and the
N. C. Humanities Committee and
locally sponsored by Shepard-
Pruden Memorial Library.
J. Clarence Leary, Jr., will
introduce Rushing and preside
over the discussion panel which
includes Pat Trube, Willis Privott,
Swain Principal Ralph Cole, Dr.
John Dunn and Gatesville author
Frank Adams.
Rushing has studied at
Oklahoma Baptist University, the
University of Chicago and the
University of Oklahoma. Three of
his five children are graduates of
the Rocky Mount college where he
teaches..
The sponsors of the forum series
wish to give special recognition to
Dr. Robert S. Rankin of Duke
University and Dr. Jim Noel of the
N. C. Humanities Committee for
their wisdom, inspiration and
untiring efforts to insure this
would be the finest forum effort in
North Carolina thusfar.
Registration Set
Children who will be five years
of age on or before October 16, are
eligible to enroll in kindergarten
for the 1976-77 school year.
Registration will be at White Oak
School on April 1 from 9 A.M. until
1 P.M. and at D. F. Walker School
on April 8 during the same hours.
Please take with you a copy of
your child’s birth certificate and a
copy of his immunization record.
The immunization record may be
.obtained from the Health
Department of your local
physician.
Only children entering First
Grade that are not presently
enrolled in Q, F. Walker or White
Oak need to register for the First
Grade. It is not necessary that the
cnuG D 6 present tor registration.
Should you have questions,
ptese call the principal's office.
Single Copies 10 Cents.
Yeopim where 29 per cent of the
registered voters cast ballots.
Twenty-four per cent voted in
Rocky. Hock and Center Hill, 12
per cent in Wardville, 16 per cent
in West Edenton and 17 per cent in
East Edenton. Twenty per cent of
the registered Democrats voted
while 30 per cent of the
Republicans cast ballots.
Carter out distanced George C.
Wallace in the Democratic
Primary. He garnered 438 votes to
347 for Wallace. There were 50 no
preference votes, 43 for Henry
Jackson, 10 for Fred Harris and
seven for Lloyd Bentsen.
President Gerald Ford trailed
Reagan 54 to 68 in the Republican
Primary. There was one no
preference vote.
Reagan carried four of the
county’s six boxes but failed to get
any of the six GOP votes in Center
Hill. He beat President Ford 10-8
in East Edenton but picked up 28-
18 in the West Edenton precinct.
On the Democratic side, Carter
received heavy votes in the two
Edenton precincts but lost in Rocky
Hock, Center Hill, Wardville and
Yeopim.
The health care amendent
carried 545 6o 282, carrying all but
one precinct-Wardville.
The tax-free industrial bonds
were approved here, 521 to 271, but
also was voted down in Wardville.
The higher education capital
improvement bonds were
approved in all six precincts for a
total vote of 522 to 297.
Evans, Perry Enter Race
The race for Chowan County
Register of Deeds is getting
crowded as two more people
announced candidacy,
subject to the August Democratic
Primary. They are Mrs. Laura S.
Evans, Route 1, Tyner, and
William A. Perry, 9 Hawthorne
Road.
They join Mrs. Anne K. Spruill,
1025 North Broad Street, and Mrs.
Jean A. Bunch, Route 2, Edenton,
who earlier announced their
intentions to seek the office being
vacated by Mrs. Bertha B. Bunch.
Mrs. Pansy A. Elliot, county
finance officer, told The Chowan
Herald this week that she had
decided against seeking the
elective office. She said her
decision was reached prior to a
March 15 meeting of Chowan
County commissioners at which
time the salary was cut from
$11,400 to SIO,OOO and the hours
increased from 35 to 40 hours per
week.
Six other county offices are up
for election this year, according to
Mrs. Bryon Kehayes, chairman,
Chowan County Board of
Elections. They are the coroner,
two four terms on the board of
commissioners (Alton G. Elmore,
First Township; and David T.
Bateman, Third Township;) and
three non-partisan seats on the
Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education. The school board seats
are held by Dr. Edward G. Bond
and Thomas Paul Griffin, First
Township; and Carlton Goodwin,
Third Township.
Filing opens at 12-noon on April
5. The last day to file is 12-noon on
May 28. Persons must file with
either Mrs. Kehayes or Mrs.
Joseph M. Thorud, executive
secretary of the board of elections.
A person may file, pay his fee and
then decide not to run. His fee can
Vann H. Johnson
Johnson Fills
Bank Post
ROCKY MOUNT-Vann H.
Johnson, a native of Suffolk, Va.,
has been named Senior Vice
President and City Executive of
the Peoples Bank in Edenton.
Peoples Bank Chairman and
President, W. H. Stanley, said of
Johnson’s new position: “We are
extremely pleased to have a man
of Mr. Johnson’s vast experience
and feel confident that he will
provide strong leadership for our
bank in Edenton”. Stanley added,
“His general knowledge of all
aspects of commercial banking
and his management experience
will be vital to our continuing
efforts to serve the financial needs
of the area. In addition to his
banking expertise, Mr Johnson
has been extremely active in
community activities in each city
in which he has lived.”
He replaces Harry Litchfield,
who died recently.
Johnson, a U. S. Navy veteran,
is a 1957 graduate of Virginia Tech
where he received a BS degree in
business administration.
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be returned if the would-be
candidate withdraws before the
filing date.
Where there are more than two
people seeking the same post,
there must be a clear majority,
otherwise the second high person
could call for a second primary, or
run-off.
The filing fee for Register of
Deeds is $100; for coroner, $29.87;
for county commissioner, $10; and
for the school board, $5.
Mrs. Evans is a legal secretary
with 10 years of experience.
Currently she is employed as
secretary to Max S. Busby of the
Earnhardt & Busby, P. A., law
firm in Edenton.
In a statement she said:
“Integrity, quality service and
dedication to her employer are a
few of the prerequisites of a legal
secretary. If I am elected Register
of Deeds, I feel these qualities plus
the experience obtained by my
affiliation with the legal
profession will enable me to bring
about a continuity in the standard
of excellence set by Mrs. Bunch
during her years of service to
Chowan County.
“I ask for the support of all
citizens of Chowan County in my
endeavor to serve them in the
capacity of Register of Deeds.”
Mrs. Evans is a native of
Chowan County. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Alma L. Ownly of
Capron, Va., and the late W. C.
Skinner, Sr., of Chowan County.
She is married to Melvin H.
Evans, animal control officer of
Chowan County.
She has served on the Edenton-
Chowan Educational
Development Council and was
employed for two years as a
teacher-clerical aide in Edenton-
Chowan Schools. She has prior
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