j| '< lllllv ft iSistif £0 ' IgjMjPß I Pajllll - fl| Pffr j«§§ff jk « f~ Jy K; 11 ..;.. ife ; pgMr WTZ^' . ,**sW<§"W« pjP^|»’'^B CHECKING SYSTEM Larry Powell, central office foreman from Roanoke Rapids confers with Gordon Asbell, central office repairman, as they check the accuracy of the new automatic number identification system installed at the Norfolk Carolina Telephone Company office in Edenton. After June 13, operators will no longer ask one-party customers to give their phone number when dialing direct long distance. New Telephone System On June 13, automatic number identification (ANI) for customer dialed long distance calls will become effective for all one-party telephone subscribers served by the Edenton exchange. With ANI, the telephone number of the calling party will be recorded automatically when a long distance call is dialed by the customer. Terry F. Daniels, commercial and marketing manager for Norfolk Carolina Telephone Co., said, “This service is planned at this time only for one-party telephone customers and only for long distance calls which are dialed by the customer (DDD). Operators will no longer ask one party customers to provide their Mllphgne nnumber when placipg DDD calls on and after June 13.” ANI offers faster service and increased billing accurancy, Daniels added. After dialing of a DDD call is completed, there will be a waiting period of from two to 12 seconds before the dialed number begins to ring. This is because of the Additional Peanuts OK’ed The USDA has authorized the contracting of additional peanuts again this year, according to Joe S. Sugg, executive secretary of the N. C. Peanut Growers Association. The buyer and the seller may enter into an agreement to con tract additional peanuts produced above the quota and within the allotted acreage on the farm; these peanuts to be used ex clusively for export or crushing; total and final payment at time of Grant Approved Congressman Walter B. Jones today announced the approval by the Office of Human Development Services, HEW, of a grant in the amount of $363,500 to the Economic Improvement Council, Inc., Edenton, North Carolina. These funds are intended for use in the Head Start Program. bumblebees will be part of the Chowan Academy of Dance recital, •kited this Saturday night at die John A. Holmes High School auditorium atIP.M. Under the direction of Marsha Gordon, the company will perform “The Animal Game”, “All That Jam" and “A Salute to Scott Joplin”. Shown above from die left is Denise Moye, Sarah Coleman, Gina Swanner, Salena Bend, Amy Cobb aod Tammy Btpodley. Proceeds from the shew will be donated to WvmvwWWWv OT W mwOOuT. - ' . automatic routing of the call and the distance involved. During that time, the calling party may hear clicks and tones on some calls while there will be complete silence on other calls. This difference results from the several types of complex equip ment in use throughout the country. Norfolk Carolina also is rerouting customer-dialed long distance calls. This will enable subscribers to place their own long distance calls with less chance of receiving a busy signal because of overloaded circuits. Daniels said, “We sincerely hope that these conveniences, at no additional cost to the customer, will be of benefit. These changes are other milestones in Norfolk Carolina’s continuing effort to provide its customers the most modern telephone service available.” Norfolk Carolina is a subsidiary of United Telecommunications Inc., and a member of the United Telephone Ssystem. delivery; the price to be that agreed upon by the buyer and seller. Sugg warned growers con sidering contracting that they should read the contract carefully, discuss its provisions with the buyer and the ASCS Office Manager, in order that he thoroughly understand the con tract into which he is entering. Sugg says that if one price is involved on the additional only Section B of the contract should be used and a zero entered in Section A. Further details concerning contracting may be obtained from the County ASCS Office or by contacting the N. C. Peanut Growers Association in Rocky Mount, or the Peanut Growers Cooperative Marketing Association in Franklin, Va. Courthouse-Jail Costs Show Overrun Chowan County’s water system is flourishing but the courthouse detention facility project has encountered $89,830 in cost overruns after 75 per cent of the grant funds have been expended. These were contained in verbal reports given by department heads at the monthly meeting of county commissioners. Graham Farless, head of the Water Department, said May was a banner month. The county sold 9,250,000 gallons of water to 1,968 customers with an average bill of $10.02. Farless also reported that the THE CHOWAN HERALD Volume XLV-No. 23 Public Parade Another Flag Recently, via this column, we flagged the proposed 166-bed expansion of Pitt County Memorial Hospital as a possible threat to smaller, community facilities in Northeastern North Carolina such as Chowan Hospital. Last Saturday, our least favorite newspaper of general circulation along the Public Parade ex pressed similar concerns in the lead editorial. Headed: “East’s Medical Concerns”, it follows: Governor Hunt’s strong support of a 166-bed, $5.32-million addition to Pitt County Memorial Hospital (for the benefit of the East Carolina Medical School) makes it highly probably that the project will get approval in spite of the concerns of other hospitals in the region. But neither Hunt nor the Division of Facilities Services in the state Department of Human Resources should amend the state and regional hospital-bed plans so drastically without two things: 1) satisfying the governing board of the East Carolina Health Systems Agency (ECHSA) that the new beds in Greenville are absolutely essential to training medical students and keeping the school’s accreditation, and 2) assuring that present and future bed needs of other hospitals in the 29-county ECHSA region can still be met without waste or needless duplication. Other hospitals in medically poor Eastern North Carolina also are concerned that more con centration of facilities in Greenville will drain doctors and other medical personnel from the surrounding area and de emphasize the cooperative teaching arrangements originally planned. One thing seems clear. The 166 beds planned at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, if finally approved, should not count against the 248 new beds that would bring Eastern North Carolina up to the health-planning standard of four beds per 1,000 population. The East is under bedded compared to the rest of the state. And Dr. William E. Laupus, dean of the ECU medical school, says the region will need at least 404 more beds by 1983. Several years ago a decision was made to use the new Pitt County Memorial Hospital as a medical school teaching facility rather than build a S2O-million, 200-bed facility for the medical school itself. Hie Liaison Com mittee on Medical Education (LCME) also urged the school to make teaching arrangements with area hospitals to take up the slack. But Dr. Laupus says the 166 beds were planned as far bade as 1974- 75 and are needed in addition to teaching arrangements planned in Kinston, Goldsboro, Cherry Point, New Bern and other eastern locations. “Give us time,” Laupus pleads. "The game plan has not chained.” There is irony in the growtag concern in areas other than Pitt Ommty that, in the ehort run at least, the new medical school migit have adverse effects on P»«* I department has $89,000 in the capital project account and $145,000 in the water fund. Farless told the board that only eight water taps were made in May, primarily due to the weather. Eleven requests have been processed and taps will be made as soon as weather permits. Later in the meeting the board adopted a resolution needed to sell $46,000 in water bonds as the county’s participation in another phase of construction. (Mrs. Pansy A. Elliott, finance director, said this puts the county’s bonded indebtedness at $2,582,000.). Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, June 7, 1979 Schools Must Cut Gas Consumption State gasoline allocations to the Edenton-Chowan Schools will be cut 20 per cent in anticipation of shortages in the state. In a letter presented to the Board of Education at their meeting Monday night, Louis W. Alexander, director, Division of Transportation, called for a five per cent reduction in gasoline use immediately, and an additional 15 per cent cut back as soon as possible. Allocations for 1979-80 will be based on 80 per cent of the 1978-79 consumption of 36,967 gallons, for an allotment of 29,574 gallons. The directive also contained a lengthy list of ways to conserve fuel, including re-routing of buses, combining bus stops, and elimination of activity bus use, all of which were embraced by the board. Assoc. Supt. James Kinion told the board 4,000 gallons could be saved from cutting field trips. He Crop Disaster Status Considered Steps are being taken to have Chowan and surrounding counties declared a crop disaster area. This was discussed Tuesday morning at a meeting of the Chowan County ASCS Committee. R. M. (Pete) Thompson told Chowan County commissioners Monday that between 1,000 and 1,500 acres of peanuts have not yet been planted. He said those not planted by June 15 would not produce a profitable crop. Hie extension chairman said his department has research that shows that peanuts planted up to June 15 will beat corn and soybeans for income. Heavy rains Friday and Sunday nights have set farmers back even further. “We have some farmers who are in real trouble,” Thomp son stated. Chairman C. A. Phillips ex pressed concern over the crop prospects. “We all feel for the farmers,” he noted. Ml 111 ■mHIdIT m ilill"* * r ' fj « v I Jk 1 1.11 1 J 1- I XV\->'4‘vß ' —. CHAPTER RECOGNIZED Vann Johnson of Edenton, receives the N. C. Heart Association’s Presidents’ Award on behalf of the Chowan County Heart Association. Presenting the award at toe association’s 90th Annual Meeting for outstanding achievement in fund raising was Susan Cross, 1979 Queen