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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
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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
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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.
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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 <x
Hearts tram West Carteret High School in Morehead City. The
In her report, Mrs. Elliott noted
that the total courthouse-detention
facility budget is $2,480,003.25. If
this amount, the county received
an Economic Development Ad
ministration grant of $1,826,419.
The county paid $563,754 for the
site and has $89,830.25 in overruns.
The figures Mrs. Elliott
presented do not include funds for
such things as furnishings and
landscaping.
Commissioner Alton G. Elmore
said plans were made to advertise
for bids on necessary furniture in
a manner that the county could
pick some items if funds could not
added that new school buses with
eight cylinder engines and
automatic transmissions will be
getting only 4.5 miles per gallon as
compared to the old yellow buses
with six cylinder engines and
standard transmissions, getting
about six miles per gallon.
Supt. John Dunn told the board
every effort will be made to cut
gas consumption by 20 per cent
through better scheduling of bus
routes and stops, before moving on
to activity bus use.
He added thah club sponsored
and funded field trips would not be
effected when commercial gas
stations were used instead of the
school system supply.
Budget cuts totaling $47,604
were approved by the board
bringing their proposal down to
$745,720.
Included in the cuts was a 12
passenger mini-bus, one staff car,
a lawn mower, two custodial
positions and those benefits, and
architects funds. No funds for
instructional programs were
deleted.
Mrs. Jane Underkofler and Joe
Hollowell, members of the Swain
School PTA presented results of a
survey conducted among parents
of children at that school. With the
exception of facilities, it was
stated the schools were rated
highly.
John A. Mitchener.lll, another
parent, asked if there was a gifted
and talented program planned for
D. F. Walker School.
Dr. Dunn explained that ex
pansion of the gifted and talented
program would be an advantage of
consolidation of the 7 and 8 grades.
At present there are two state
alloted gifted and talented
positions, now housed at Swain
Elementary and Chowan School.
He did not foresee an additional
allotment and stated there were no
local funds available for another
teacher.
Director of Instruction James
Pressley explained that in order
for the program to be properly
administered, it should follow the
students through to at least the Bth
grade. He stated it is his hope that
be arranged for the entire list.
Mrs. Hazel Elliott, director of
the Department of Social Services,
informed board members that
food stamps were not being mailed
to recipients. Also, she noted that
recent food stamp legislation
leaned very heavily in favor of the
client.
In her prepared report it was
noted that the caunty had 555
cases for food stamps covering
1,764 persons with $49,407 being
issued. Thirty cases were denied.
During the meeting, com
missioners passed a motion to
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in the future the school system will
gain an additional allotment to
allow the program to continue
through high school.
Mrs. Lueta Sellers, president of
the Swain PTA, said that while the
needs of physically and mentally
impaired students are more ap
parent, the needs of the gifted and
talented students should not be
overlooked.
The Swain PTA presented a
letter of commendation citing
principal Gilliam Underwood for
supporting the exchange of ideas
and opinions between educators
and parents, and for his
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Dr. T. C. Blalock
Dr. Blalock
Guest Speaker
For AAD A
Dr. T. C. Blalock, associate dean
of the School of Agriculture and
Life Sciences at N. C. State
University and director of the N.
C. Agricultural Extension Service,
will be guest speaker at the
quarterly meeting of the board of
Albemarle Area Development
Association.
The meeting will be held June 14
at 7 P.M. at Angler’s Cove in
Perquimans County. Larry
Davenport of Washington County,
president of the 10-county
organization, will preside.
The speaker will be introduced
by L. F. Amburn, Jr., of Chowan
County, a past AADA president.
Davenport said a large turnout
is expected for the meeting and
those who desire to attend should
contact their county extension
office immediately.
As associate dean, Dr. Blalock
helps to make policies for the
school’s three divisions-teaching,
research and extension. As
director of extension, he gives
leadership to the service’s
statewide educational programs.
These programs are designed to
promote-efficiency in agricultural
production and marketing, to
improve family living, to develop
youth through 4-H work, to aid
community resource development
and to preserve the environment.
Dr. Blalock is a native of Wilson
County, grew up on a farm and
became an outstanding 4-H’er in
his community and county. He
served for six years as associate
extension director before
assuming his present duties on
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