Flu Clinic This Weekend
Area residents will have an op
' portunity this weekend to obtain
free vaccination against Swine Flu
in a mass clinic being held at
National Guard Armory on North
Broad Street:
The clinic, sponsored by the
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repeated many times over this weekend at National Guard Ar
mory as a Swine Flu clinic will be held. In the above picture Mrs.
Susie Carter; LPN, gives a shot to Mrs. Linda Williford at Chowan
County Health Department.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Volume XLH.—No. 47. Edenton, North Thursday, November 18, 1976 Sinfle Copies 15 Cents.
DOT Approves Contracts
RALEIGH —The N. C. Board of Transportation approved Friday a
$2.4-million contract for paving and signing work on US-17 (Edenton By
pass) from near the Chowan River easterly to just west of the Chowan
County line.
The 7.2-mile paving and signing job will be awarded to Dickerson, Inc.,
of Monroe, the low bidder for the project. Work on the Chowan County
project may begin as early as in January and is scheduled for completion
in November, 1977.
In addition, the transportation policy group, chaired by Secretary of
Transportation G. Perry Greene, approved for contract in its November
meeting in Asheville more than 30 other construction jobs for an ex
penditure of more than 10-million toward new highway improvements in
North Carolina.
Appointed
Haywood Harrell and Steve
Hampton have been appointed to
Jfejßriaalip Authority
and H. 0. West reappointed, all for
five-year terms. The ap
pointments were made recently by
Mayor Roy L. Harrell.
The annual meeting of the
authority was held Tuesday af
ternoon at the Administrative
Building on Blades Street. A. C.
Hudson was re-elected chairman;
West, vice chairman; and L. F.
Amburn, Jr,, secretary and
executive director.
Edd Lee Owens is also a
member of the five-man board.
The authority operates 100 units
of low-rent public housing that is
located on four sites in various
sections of Edenton.
In his report to the com
missioners, Amburn noted that the
average rent has reached s7l per
month, including utilities. The
authority this year has a $5,784
subsidy from the U.'S. Depart
ment of Housing & Urban
Development.
The authority maintains an
applicant file and an increase in
income limits is being sought so
families with a higher income will
be eligible applicants. Those in
terested in making application
should go to the Administration
Building on Blades Street. There is
no obligation and housing can be
rejected at any time because of a
change ih family status or the
location of the available unit.
Os the 10d units 30 are
designated for elderly occupants.
The authority’s next meeting
has beat set for December 20.
Tax Monies
Quarterly distribution of county
sales and use tax has been com
pleted by the State Department of
Revenue with $65,816.09 coming
into Chowan County.
Os the amount available for
distribution, the county received
$48,601.16 while the Town of
Edenton received $17,214.93.
_Net distributed proceeds in
other Albemarle Area counties for
the quarter ending September 30
amounted to:
Camden, $88,606.76; Currituck,
$38,919.21; Dare, $875,249.09;
Gates, $18,416.08; Pasquotank,
$213,867.81; Perquimans,
$89,984.98; Tyrrell, $13,929.21; and
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District Health Department, is for
anyone 18 years and older. “The
vaccination is free of charge and
we urge you to take advantage of
it,” a spokesman for the Chowan
County Health Department stated.
The clinic will operate from 9
Parade Set
December 2
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Parade in Edenton is December 2.
The time is 3 P.M.
Gary Anderson is chairman for
the sponsoring Edenton Jaycees.
Those who desire to enter a float
or other type unit in the popular
event are requested to contact him
at Atlantic Credit.
Also, Robert Moore of Edenton
Chamber of Commerce will be
happy to take a list of possible
participants.
Like the Peanut Festival
Parade, the Yule event will make
up at Northside Shopping Center
instead of Hicks Field.
The Christmas Parade opens the
holiday shopping season and year
after year has attracted thousands
of people to Edenton.
Half-Way Point
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The membership campaign of
Edenton Chamber of Commerce
has now passed the half-way point
during the first month of
solicitation.
Robert W. Moore, chamber
executive, said more than half of
the $21,000 budget has been sub
scribed.
J. H. Conger, Jr., membership
chairman, urges those with
solicitations to make to do so
immediately so the campaign can
come to a successful end.
MEETB—Dr. E. W. Furguson, right, a
Washington County physician, was the speaker last Thursday
night at a meeting of Albemarle Area Development Association.
Pictured with him prior to the meeting at Soundview Restaurant
are Raleigh Carver of Pasquotank County, AADA president; and
Mrs. Da Gray White of Perquimans, area nutrition specialist.
A.M. untO 6 P.M. on Saturday. It
will be open from 12-noon until 6
P.M. on Sunday.
Consent forms, which must be
filled out and signed before the
shot is received, are aivaUable at
the health department, various
stores and the Chowan County
Department of Social Services.
The form itself answers many
questions about Swine Flu, ac
cording to Prudence Gulley,
health education with the
department.
The educator stresses that it is
important to have the consent
form filled out and signed before
you come into the clinic. This will
save a lot of time and allow you to
get in and out quickly.
Things to remember about
Swine Flu:
1 — Free clinic, Saturday and
Sunday.
2 Located at the National
Guard Armory on North Broad
Street.
3 Pick-up consent form and
have it completed.
4 An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.
—Dr. [mi, Jf.
Lucas Earns
Fellowship
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Dr. C.
Clement Lucas, Jr., of Edenton,
has been named a Fellow of the
American Academy of Family
Physicians.
The degree of Fellowship may
be attained in either of two ways:
successful completion of 600 or
more hours of accredited con
tinuing medical study, or
achievement of diplomate status
in the specialty of family practice
as a result of passing a certifying
examination administered by the
American Board of Family
Practice.
Fellowship entitles the conferee
to use the title “Fellow of the
American Academy of Family
Physicians,” of “FAAFP.” The
degree was conferred September
21 upon more than 800 members of
the Academy in conjunction with
the AAFP’s annual convention and
scientific assembly in Boston,
Mass.
Ceremonies were held in
Boston’s Hynes Veterans
Auditorium before some 2,000
persons. Fellowship candidates
wore academic robes and mor
tarboard caps.
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PROMOTE SPECIAL ACTIVITY— C A. Phillips, center,
chairman of Chowan County commissioners goes over a
proclamation he and Mayor Roy L. Harrell, right, signed
designating next week as Farm-City Week in the area with
Wesley Chesson, county chairman for the event. Phillips is also
state chairman of this year’s observance.
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Don’t Be Snookered
Greenville is rapidly becoming
the center for medical expertise in
Eastern North Carolina. This
could be good, or it could prove
fatal.
If those connected with the
programs and projects know there
are roads leading out of the capital
of Pitt County, it will be good. If
the same people try to demand
that everyone come to Pitt on
bended knees it will end in a fight
greater than expansion of the
athletic facility at East Carolina
University.
A strangle hold is certainly not
the answer.
Designation of a specific area is
necessary to have a balance of
trade, so to speak, among those
charged with health delivery
services. The greedy, can
however, prove fatal.
What is good for ECU and
Greenville is not necessarily good
for the balance of the state east of
1-95. Those interested in rrxal
health programs must remain
viable and vocal. They must not
succumb to academic double-talk.
The glib voices from the
wilderness have caused enough
suspicion and concern already. To
continue on such a collision course
would be fatal, to say the least.
The Piedmont has learned,
through the political process, to
divide and conquer. If we play into
the same hands we are getting just
what we deserve. But we cannot
afford to be snookered.
On The Inside
Two pages of this year’s Farm-
City Week promotion focus in on
the Farmers Home Ad
ministration and the role this
federal credit agency plays in the
scheme of things along the Public
Parade.
It took some extra doing to put it
all together but with the favor
which FmHA has shown this area
and with C. A’. Phillips state Farm-
City Week chairman we felt we
couldn’t have done less.
What surfaces next year is
certainly a matter of conjecture at
this time. But we felt the vastly
diversified programs FmHA of
fers individuals, local govern
ment, business and industry
certainly needed to be emphasized
in this Bicentennial year.
We are a community of people,
people concerned with not only
ourselves but with each other. If
we don’t possess the proper
balance then we don’t deserve the
benefits such a balance can
provide.
Various surveys taken around
the country during the past
several years show that con
sumers have a high opinion of
farmers and are generally
sympathetic toward their
problems. Even so, a continuous
effort to bring about a better
understanding between the rural
and urban segments of our society
is essential.
Farm and city people depend on
each other for products and ser
vices that are necessary to
modern business and living. One
can’t live without the other. The
farmer of today depends upon the
skills and abilities of many
specialists to help him in his job of
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Statistics
On Yield
The peanut yield in Chowan
County averages 3,065 pounds per
acre with 65 per cent of the
marketing cards recorded with
the ASCS office, reports H. O.
West, executive director.
The latest figures were com
piled from cards returned through
Monday afternoon. Three hundred
farms are included in the report
and 11,389,832 pounds of peanuts
have been harvested on 3,716.3
acres.
The highest yield by any farmer
from all the land he tends remains
at 4,629 pounds per acre, as
reported earlier.
West said the 1975 average yield
was 2,508 pounds per acre.
Chowan County has 459 farms on
which peanuts are growm and a
total allotment of 6,272.9 acres.
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Pembroke Hall
Pembroke Hall On Register
Rep. Walter B. Jones of the First
Congressional District announced
today from his Washinton, D C.,
office that the National Park
Service has entered Pembroke
Hall in Edenton in the National
Register of Historic Places.
The National Register of
Historic Places is the official list
of the nation’s cultural resources
Selby Elected
The Board of Directors of the
Eastern Carolina Health Systems
Agency (ECHSA) elected Rcy
Selby as executive director at its
regular monthly meeting
November 10 in Greenville.
Thomas Surratt of Edenton is a
member of the board.
Selby has been active in the
formation of the ECHSA since
January, 1975, when the National
Health Planning and Resources
Development Act (P. L. 93-641)
was signed into law.
Prior to becoming acting
executive director of the ECHSA,
Selby worked with the Mid-East
Commission in Washington as
director of Comprehensive Health
Planning.
The board discussed their
responsibility to review and ap
prove health-related programs
such as construction and ex
pansion of hospitals and nursing
homes and any changes in service.
Selby announced that the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare has determined that
all or parts of all counties in
Eastern North Carolina are
medically underserved, with the
exception of Chowan County, and
have a high incidence of infant
mortality.
First Peanut
Festival Nets
$5,000
What determines success?
It’s different things to many
different people measured in
varying degrees by as many
different viewpoints.
To some it’s financial success, to
others it’s the amount of fun had.
In some cases the number of
people attending the participating
become a criteria; in others, the
amount of cooperation extended.
The satisfied feeling of ac
complishment for the benefit of
others or the overall spirit of
personal reward are other gauges
of success.
To Bob Harrell, chairman of the
First Annual Peanut Festival and
president of the sponsoring Band
Parents Association, the Peanut
Festival was all of these and then
some!
Proceeds from the gala event
netted over $5,000. Considering
that a free dance for teenagers
was provided, 5,000 free souvenir
programs distributed, a well
organized parade coordinated,
and the costs connected with
acquiring permanent equipment
for future use met, the financial
net proceeds met and exceeded
the anticipated first year effort.
Funds derived from the Peanut
Festival will be turned over to the
Edenton-Chowan Band Depart
ment to purchase uniforms and
equipment essential to guarantee
a continued successful band
program for students in the school
system.
The entire community can take
pride in and credit for the success
of the Peanut Festival, a
spokesman said.
Otis Strother, Band Director,
the band students, and the Band
Parents Association are all
grateful.
worthy of preservation
Pembroke Hall, owned and
occupied by Col. and Mrs. W. B.
Rosevear, is located at 121 West
King Street. Complimented by its
grounds and gardens the structure
is considered to be among the
chief landmarks of the Greek
Revival style in North Carolina.
Nomination for the National
Register of Historic Places came
from Dr. Larry E. Tise, state
historic preservation officer.
The history of the property dates
back before 1750. In 1899 it was
bought by William O. Elliott and
until 1951 was occupied by his
family.
Mrs. Coffield, 90
Mrs. William H. Coffield, 104
West Albemarle Street, died
Monday in Chowan Hospital. She
was 90.
Funeral services were held at 11
A.M. Wednesday at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, where she was
a member. Rev. Raymond Storie
and Rev. Fred Drane officiated
and burial was in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Mary Jones Coffield was
bom in Chowan County on July 31,
1886. She was the daughter of the
late John Meredith and Lelia Bond
Jones. Her husband preceded her
in death.
Surviving is a niece, Mrs.
Frances Ferguson of Chapel Hill;
and three nephews: Burton Jones
of Virginia Beach, Va.; John
Meredith Jones of Winter Park,
Fla.; and Meredith Webb Jones,
also of Florida.
Williford-Barham Funeral
Home was in charge of
arrangements.