One For Us
Well, we went out to D. F.
; Walker Cafeteria last Friday night
to preaent an award and ended 19
receiving one. It was one of the
most thrilling experiences of our
life.
To be of service to the 10-county
Albemarle Area is in itself a signal
honor. To be recognized in the
company of Dave Dear and Leon
Ballimce is something else.
Mr. Dear, now of Washington,
D. C., was one of the early
presidents of the Albemarle Area
Development Association. During
his tenure the Economic Im
provement Council, Inc., was
formed and has reigned as one of
the most respected anti-poverty
agencies in the country.
Mr. Ballance is from Hyde
County and is in our opinion, one of
the most respected leaders in the
entire area. If a stablizing force
1 exists in the area it resides in Leon
Ballance.
We were pleased to have been
asked to become the first AADA
president to serve two consecutive
terms. We were further flattered
when we were asked to pick up the
reins when employment required
our successor to move out of the
area.
The time spent with AADA is
rewarding. It is an opportunity to
see people grow and not crow; to
see people witness collectively; to
see them compete openly and with
pride; to see them serve and not
wait to be served.
It is a signal honor to be asked to
participate in a position of
leadership, with the greatest
reward and recognition being the
expression on the faces of those
who are recognized for excellence.
the area is full of Dears and
Ballances who have not yet sur
faced. But to be singled out as one
of three among the many is an
honor which causes lumps to
develop in the throat and causes
one to stop and take stock, not so
much as where we have been, but
to the future and what contribution
can be made.
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We want to be among the first to
publicly congratulate Mayor Bill
. Cox of Hertford upon his election
as chairman of the Albemarle
Association of Counties and
Towns. Mayor Cox, who also
serves as town manager, is an
able leader who is vitally in
terested in the 10-county area.
Mayor Cox has maintained a low
profile in past skirmishes within
the region. He does not enter his
new chairmanship with a lot of
scars. For this reason he is the
logical person to lead the logical
organization to bring order out of
the choas which now exists in
regionalism along the Public
Parade and throughout North
eastern North Carolina.
- We have long maintained that
our problems would not have
developed in such magnitude if
locally elected officials had kept a
handle on what was happening.
When things appeared to be
getting out of hand they turned
loose rather than tightening their
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BANQUET PRINCIPALS—Lt Gov.-Elect Jimmy Green of Bladen County, center
in picture at left, talks with State Sen. Melvin Daniels, left, and Mayor Roy L. Harrell
of Edenton, at Friday night’s annual meeting of Albemarle Area Development
Association held at D. F. Walker School Cafeteria here. In the other picture, W.
Raleigh Carver of Elizabeth City, outgoing president, is shown at left with Thomas
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Thomas M. Surratt
Announced
By Surratt
Thomas M. Surratt, president of
Chowan Hospital, Inc., resigned as
chief executive officer Tuesday.
He has accepted a position as
administrator of Carteret Gener
al Hospital in Morehead City, a
120-bed acute care facility with
a medical staff consisting of 20
physicians.
f J. Gilliam Wood, board chair
man of the hospital here, an
nounced the resignation following
a breakfast meeting of the
Executive Committee. The
resignation was accepted “with
deep and sincere regret”.
W. A. Whichard was im
mediately named chairman of a
Selection Committee that has
instructions to “pursue im
mediately and with all de
liberation and speed” a replace
ment for Surratt. Serving with
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Chowan County Takes Top AADA Award
Chowan County has been named
recipient of the area development
award in the 10-county Albemarle
and Hudson Grove placed second
in the small community category
of the Albemarle Area Develop
ment Association.
These and other winners were
announced Friday night at the 15th
annual AADA banquet where R. L.
Stevenson of Hertford was elected
president. He succeeds W. Raleigh
Carver of Elizabeth City.
At the same time three past
presidents—David Dear and
Washington, D. C.; Leon Ballance
of Engelhard; and L. F. Amburn,
Jr., of Edenton—were voted
special-- eertifieutes-—of- -ap
preciation for service to AADA.
The Albemarle Regional
Planning & Development Com
mission’s designation of Duke of
the Albemarle went to Dr. Tom
Hobgood. Dr. Hobgood, veteran
area community development
specialist, has been transferred
from the Northeastern to North
western region. Amburn pre
sented the framed certificate.
Dr. Vance Hamilton, who
replaces*Dr. Hobgood here, was in
attendance.
Lt. Gov.-Elect Jimmy Green of
Bladen County was keynote
speaker and in his folksy nature he
promised to give the state’s
Warning Issued
Police Chief J. D. Parrish today
issued a, warning to motorists that
he has instructed local officers to
more strictly enforce the one-way
ordinance on Park Avenue, bet
ween North Broad and North
Oakum streets.
Chief Parrish said he realizes a
lot of violations are creatures of
habit but Town Council made the
designation in order to make the
street safer and in the future the
ordinance will be strictly en
forced.
Commissioners Okay Proposal
Chowan County commissioners
have approved a proposal from
Albemarle District Jail Com
mittee which allows local
v prisoners to continue to be housed
in the Elizabeth City facility.
The cost to Chowan County over
the next six months would be
$10,475. (to July 1,1977, the district
committee will evaluate the
agreement and re-negotiate terms
for continued use bf Tri-County
Jail by a non-member govern
ment.
Elizabeth City Police Chief W.
C. Owens proposed an agreement
based on population per capita
plan and that depreciation costs
- based on a 50-year period. Chowan
County would also pay necessary
mecfical or other extra expenses
incurred for Chowan prisoners.
Chowan County prisoners have
been housed in Elizabeth City
since June v 1976. The cost has been
sls per day with no adctttional cost
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 16,1976
second highest office his personal
touch during the next four years.
And he expressed his awareness
and concern over the need for
better highways in the East as
well as greater use of Tar Heel
ports.
As a member of the State Board
of Education he promised to “go to
school” and sit down, look, listen
and see what is taking place.
“That is the kind of lieutenant
governor I will be,” he said.
“We have to improve the roads
in Eastern North Carolina, he
declared.
Hertford Mayor Heads Revived Association
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Local elected officials from the
10-county Albemarle Area talked
to and heard from four members
of the General Assembly as they
revived their association Monday
night at Angler’s Cove Restaurant
in Perquimans County.
State Sens. Melvin Daniels of
Elizabeth City and J. J. (Monk)
Harrington of Lewiston; and
Reps,. Vernon James of Weeksville
and Stanford White of Manns
Harbor, attended the re
organizational meeting of the
Albemarle Association of Counties
and Towns.
Mayor Bill Cox of Hertford was
elected chairman. W. Raleigh
Carver of Elizabeth City was
elected vice chairman, with R. S.
Monds, Jr., of Hertford, being
named secretary-treasurer.
Prior to discussions of the
Dismal Swamp Canal, utility bills
and the Coastal Area Management
Act the group heard Sen.
Harrington call the meeting with
elected officials “the greatest
single meeting he attends in the
district.”
Upon the suggestion of Macon
Johnson of Camden County the
group passed a resolution against
closing of the Dismal Swamp
Canal. Mayor John Bell of
for a matron if other females are
already being held.
Earlier the jail committee had
forwarded a proposal which in
cluded Chowan County becoming
a permanent member of the
facility. It included also a plan for
Chowan to pay the cost of a 16-cell
addition to the jail which opened in
1972.
Chowan commissioners found
this to be unacceptable and asked
that a new plan be drawn. The
latest proposal was accepted
unanimously.
Sheriff Troy Toppin has sup
ported continued use of the Tri-
County Jail for locql prisoners
However, in an application for
federal funds the commissioners
wrote in a jail proposal.
The Tri-County facility, the only
one of its kind in North Carolina,
was constructed at a coat of
$459,771 from participating
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Paul Griffin of Edenton, who holds the area development trophy won by Chowan
County; R. L. Stevenson of Hertford, newly elected president; and Dr. Tom Hobgood
of Raleigh, area community development specialist who was presented the Duke of
the Albemarle certificate.
He served notice on State Sens.
Melvin Daniels, who introduced
the speaker, and J. J. (Monk)
Harrington that he would be a
tough boss. He said he would
demand 40-hour work weeks.
Amburn, as chairman of the
nominating committee, presented
the slate of new officers. In ad
dition to Stevenson they are: Mrs.
Leon Powell of Shawboro, Mrs.
Nellie Sanders of Plymouth, and
Tom Hutto of Sunbury, area vice
presidents; and Mrs. Gloris Elliott
of Edenton, secretary-treasurer.
Thomas Paul Griffin, head of
Elizabeth City spoke in favor of no
alterations to the canal schedule.
Mayor Cox brought up the
question of high utility bills with
Sen. Harrington responding by
explaining a utility watch-dog
committee, of which he is a
member.
He said the committee has
gained the attention of the big
power companies; that Gov.-Elect
Jim Hunt is “no darling” of big
utilities; but that he doesn’t
foresee a cut in utility bills
although the committee is getting
a handle on it.
T. Erie Haste, Jr., of Hertford, a
Haste Is High In Praise Os
Many CRC Accomplishments
T. Erie Haste, Jr., was a natural
choice to fill a position on the
brand new N. C. Coastal
Resources Commission back in
1974. His activities in his com
munity have alwasy reflected his
concern for the future of Nor
theastern North Carolina.
He is serving as a councilman
for the Town of Hertford. He was
president* of the Albemarle Area
Development Association during
the creation of the Albemarle
Regional Planning and
Development Commission, the
Lead Regional Organization for
the area. He is on the board of
directors for the Bank of North
Carolina in Hobbsville in Gates
T. Erie Hade, Jr.
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the AADA committee in Chowan,
accepted the first place trophy.
Griffin was in charge of banquet
arrangements which saw more
than 200 people attend at D. F
Walker School Cafeteria.
Mrs. Lillian James of Plymouth
presented the development
awards with Pasquotank being
judged second and Tyrrell, third
Ed Brown of Hertford, chair
man of the industrial committee,
presented 10 county industrial
awards. The Chowan County
award was garnered by Edenton
Cotton Mills.
member of the Coastal Resources
Commission, said it is in the best
interst of most people in the state
to have such a measure as is now
being challenged in the courts.
“This is not something the
General Assembly has done to the
coastal area but something they
have done for us,” he declared
Haste continued by saying the
act is designed to do away with
some duplication in permits, etc
Sen. Melvin Daniels said leg
islators are there to serve and
see that something “good is going
to happen to you.” He said North
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County. He is owner and operator
of Hertford Hardware & Supply
Company, Inc., in Perquimans
County and City Marina, Inc., in
Camden County. His familiarity
with all these areas proves to be a
great asset to the operations of the
Coastal Resource Commission
When reviewing the activities of
the commission for the past two
years in a recent interview. Haste
admitted that the commission
started out with a monumen
tal task: “All of the original
commission members were ap
pointed from the 20 coastal
counties. We were all laymen that
knew little about the Coastal Area
Management Act and the
responsibilities we would have as
commissioners.”
Their first job was to help local
governments produce land-use
plans for long term growth. “This
was a painfully slow process ... a
learning process for all involved. ”
attests Erie.
Yet Haste feels that the quality
of the land-use plans approved this
year reflects the extensive work
and research that was expanded in
their development. He points out
that Chowan and Perquimans
counties, for instance, have had
some “helter-skelter develop
ment” in the past. “Two
developments in this area,
Holiday Island and Snug Harbor
have had serious problems,”
asserts Haste. “These mistakes
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