Front Page On Page 3 Phillips, f ones, Fry Win Victories In Primary By L. F. Amburn, Jr. A political novice, George E. Jones, was nominated to the Chowan County Board of Com missioners and C.A. Phillips also won in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary election. Cecil W. Fry, former assistant superintendent, beat two female opponents for a six-year term On Edenton-Chowan Board of Education in a non partisan election. Another race which drew considerable local attention saw • Wt Kg* Rep. Vernon G. James I For House of Representatives Ist District (You May Vote for Two) CHOWAN 1)103 1)1U5 878 PERQUIMANS 1 ) 187 1)352 671 CAMDEN 13016 738 CURRITUCK ??? 901 577 DARE 2 )k 18 1)153 1)388 TYRRELL 365 391 WASHINGTON I)SU 1)21*1 1,81*5 1079 J? nr/2'28 7,517 TOTAL I—± TOTAL l TOTAL 3 18A 19A 20A Evans James White 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR For Associate Justice For Associate Justice of Supreme Court of Supreme Court (You May Vote for One) (You May Vote for One) (You May Vote for One) EAST EDENTON UP 3 WEST EDENTQN 86 1 13 381 Utl U 8 6 20 ~ ~ ROCKY HOCK 10 2 U 76 25 13 7 6 . “ CENTER HILL 12 1 5 76 21 9 0 7 : h9 U7 60 Uo WARDVILLE h 0 3 k 2 U 1 0 ?h “ ~ ~ YEOPIM 23 2 h 113 UU ll 5 6 8U ABSENTEE 1 0 0 8 6 1 0 3 I “ —7 10 5 ii 2 TOTAL 12 .TOTAL —2 TOTAL M TOTALL*OSI TOTAL -3£S ToTAL _H2 TOTAL _2ll TOTAL TOTAL 699 600 876 ssl . 1A 2A SA 4A 5A 6A 7A 8A 9A 10A 11A 12A Felmet Griffin Hodges Ingram McKnight Sawyer Smith Brock Martin Britt Frazier “ “ 15 “ 17 18 19 20 21 22 - 28 24 25 ! POR MEMBER OF CONGRESS For Hon*. of W*. F. r C mty C„ nhsi „»er C ~‘ of App*,h Ut Cfcwta*! DMrict M Dintrlct , 8t Tnwnnhip 4th Township (To. M., V.U 8- On., (Too Hoy Voto tor Ono) «hn M»y Vo* Two, (.» V.p,. M ,V„ M. y Vo* 0„«, EAST EDENTON 2* WEST EDENTON JW 395 5U 662 23 I*3 ltliO 308 *, 7Z H ~ TT. ROCKY HOCK ' ■te 65 1,5 131 ~ « « Z ZZ ~ 42 122 CENTER HILL E 71 17 lilt 5 72_ 91 51 57 71 — f„ WARDVIUE H. 39 11 72 It 37_ 58 1,3 35 & y YEOPIM. i * HL, ' 30 ' US m 103 61 ABSENTEE _i 13- . It . 16 0 12 13 9 1° 3 ' 6 16 h ~ | hSSL t~~ J 1-» ilW__ „HL ~A *“ *»* m 4 P* 2SA 25A BOBmr . Lesfrtt Em Jam White Georre Jones Spruill, Jr. Philips Sdleru THE CHOWAN HERALD Volume XLIV.—No. 18. Mayot D. Evans of Nags Headti umbent Rep. Vernon G. Jams - for one of two seats in the First House District. However, Evans carried the eight county district by more than 700 votes. Rep. James was second and incumbent Rep. Stanford White trailed by nearly 3,000 votes. Jones defeated N.J. George, chairman of the commissioners, and Haify A. Spruill, Jr., an Edenton town councilman, for the First Township seat. Nomination m HU* mj -v Charles D. Evans in the primary is tantamount to election since there will be no Republican opposition in November. Jones polled 1,141 votes to 718 for George and 186 for Spruill. Phillips, former board chair man with a lengthy record of in volvment in public affairs, defeated Lueta C. Sellers, 1,256 to 742 for the Fourth Township seat. In the school board race for the Fourth Township post being vacated by Morris Small, Fry received 783 votes to 597 for T. Gwen VanDuyn and 554 for Thirza B. Shields. Evans received a total of 10,937 votes to lead the incumbents in the First House District. Rep. James received 10,228 votes while Rep. White garnered 7,517. Evans won big in Dare County and also carried Tyrrell County. Rep. James was the leading vote-getter in Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, and Currituck. Rep. White led the pack in Washington. On the state ballot, Luther DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY AND BOARD OF EDUCATION ELECTION Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, May 4,1978 Hodges received 1,051 votes in his bid for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate, also as many as the seven other candidates on the ticket. 4 Rep. Walter B. Jones, as usual, was tjie heavy favorite of Chowan voters. He received 1,681 votes to 208 for James J. Bonner and 71 for WmaF ' - iBSI ... .. Cecil W. Fry 26 27 28 29 FOR COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Ist Township FOURTH TOWNSHIP (Vote for One) (You May Vote for One) EAST EDENTON 371 215 229 129 WEST EDENTQN 273 185 277 ROCKY HOCK 77 88 9 ' " 'SB CENTER HILL 73 I*l 19 WARDVILLE I*l 50 12_ 15 YEOPIM 121 75 75 90 ABSENTEE 21 9 _ 3 Total -1) 207 Total -7.83 Total 551* Total 597 268 278 288 298 Horton Fry Shields Van Duyn Gene Leggett. Judge Walter E. Brock received 699 votes in his bid for Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court with Judge Robert M. Martin getting 600. Judge David M. Britt received 876 for another high court and Reginald Frazier received 551. George E. Jones Single Copies 15 Cents Court of Appeals Judge Richard C. Erwin received 1,057 in his bid for full term with Austin B. Campbell gaining 404. The Chowan County Board of Elections reported a total of 2,231 votes cast. This is 42.57 per cent of the registered voters C.A. Phillips