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The following item, “Don’t Light
Up Your Gum!”, was found
recently in our unattended
typewriter:
Smokers—attention, please!
Another new method to help you
quit smoking is on the counters in
Switzerland and Canada. Unlike
some other methods which sub
stitute lettuce or herbs for the
tobacco in cigarettes, this seems
to be entirely new.
It is a chewing gum that
satisfies the craving for a
cigarette because it contains
nicotine. It is the withdrawal from
f
nicotine, a substance which
produces a form of drug addiction,
that causes the most trouble when
people try to quit smoking.
The gum has a spicy flavoring
and is intended to replace the
nicotine in a cigarette for the first
weeks after quitting.
Tested extensively in Europe, it
is now being tried in the United
States before approval for sale.
Not intended for use for more than
a few weeks, it satisfies the urge to
have something in your mouth
while assisting in the withdrawal
from nicotine.
Special Visitors
There are some very special
people meandering along the
Public Parade during the next few
days. They include: Gov. James
B. Hunt, Jr.; Sec. Howard Lee of
the State Department of Natural
Resources and Community
Development, Luther H. Hodges,
Jr., deputy secretary, U.S.
Department of commerce; Robert
M. Baker, regional director,
Heritage Conservation and
Recreation Service, U.S.
Department of the Interior; Rep.
Walter B. Jones of the First
Congressional District.
Gov. Hunt fulfilled a campaign
commitment yesterday (Wed
nesday) when he landed in Rocky
Hock. It will be the first time a Tar
Heel chief of state has come to the
area via helicopter since
Republican former Gov. James
Holshouser. Earl Smith is well
aware of this fact.
Gov. Hunt made a fast tour of
the Chowan River before meeting
with Capt. Alfred Howard and the
Chowan Regional Task Force.
Sec. Lee and Mr. Baker will be
key figures in the dedication
ceremonies for Queen Anne Park
along Edenton Bay. This
ceremony is set for 4 P.M. Friday.
The public is encouraged to show
appreciation for state and federal
support given efforts to beautify
the waterfront.
Mr. Hodges will be keynote
speaker at the first Business
Appreciation Banquet of
Albemarle Area Development
Association next Tuesday night.
Rep. Jones will introduce him at
the 10-county event being held at
the American Legion Building.
You don’t have to pay to attend
the Queen Anne Park dedication.
It is necessary to have a ticket to
the AADA function. C.B. Smith at
Seabrook Blanching Corp., is
chairman of the banquet and will
be pleased to fill the ticket order.
Weekend Report
Well, we went up to Lynchburg,
Va., last Friday afternoon to
participate in Parents’ Weekend
at Virginia Episcopal School. As
expected, we found Paul no worse
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WltlTK NOTES—WiII this be the lucky card? Tiffany Belfieid,
Kirk DqVine, Jarret DeVine, and Crystal Belfieid all hope to be
the long-distance prize winner when more than 700 balloons are
launched at noon Saturday from Colonial Park. Each balloon will
bear ih«* name of a K-3 schoolchild in Chowan County.
Charles T. Busby
Law Firm Gains
New Associate
Charles T. Busby of Plymouth
has become associated with the
local law firm of Earnhardt &
Busby, P.A., on West Eden Street.
The attorney is the brother of Max
S. Busby of the firm.
A native of Salisbury, Busby
received his BA degree from the
University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill in 1958. He was a
member of Sigma Chi fraternity
there.
He is a graduate of the Wake
Forest University Law School in
the Class of 1978 and was admitted
to the bar the same year.
Before joining the Edenton firm,
Busby was associated with Hut
chins, Romanet, Thompson &
Hillard in Plymouth.
Busby is single.
Threats Result
In Heavy Fine
Herbert Ray Lane, Route 1,
Edenton, was given a suspended
sentence Tuesday morning after
being convicted in Chowan County
District Court of two counts of
communicating threats.
Judge Richard Parker sen
tenced Lane to 30 days, suspended
upon payment of S2OO fine and
costs. Prosecuting witnesses were
Thelma H. Lane and Roger C.
Bunch.
Asst. Dist. Atty. KePh Teague of
Elizabeth City prosecuted the
docket. Other action taken in
cluded:
Johnny L. Owens, assault and
injury to personal property, six
months, suspended upon payment
of $75 fine and costs and make
restitution.
Jeffrey Wayne Vaughan, stop
sign violation and exceeding safe
speed, five days, suspended upon
payment of $35 fine and costs.
Darryl Glenn Stallings, failure
to stop for school bus, S4O fine and
costs.
Charles Herbert Small, 111, stop
sign violation and Joseph Beasley,
unsafe move violation, called and
failed.
Samuel Boston, inadequate
support of children, six months,
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Lighter Than Air Contest Set
More than 700 helium-filled
balloons will take to the air from
Colonial Park at noon Saturday.
Each balloon will carry with it a
postcard bearing the name of a K
-3 schoolchild. The entry traveling
the longest distance will win a
for both the finder and the
child whose name is on the cards.
Milkshake Bandit Escapes With Drugs
By L. F. Amburn, Jr.
A strawberry milkshake bandit
with a shopping list for drugs is
being sought in connection with an
armed robbery Sunday afternoon
at Hollowell & Blount Rexall
Drugs, Inc., 323 South Broad
Street. W. H. Hollowell, Jr., two
young clerks and several
customers were frightened but
unharmed in the daring episode.
Police were notified at 4:50 P.M.
by Hollowell, an official of the
store who is a member of Edenton
Town Council.
Drugs with a street value of
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Vol. XLVI - No. 40
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DEDICATION FRIDAY A dedication ceremony for the new Queen Anne Park will begin at 4
P.M. this Friday afternoon. A host of local and state officials will be on hand including Howard N.
Lee, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, who will be
guest speaker.
Sec. Lee Speaker For New Park Dedication
Edenton’s second waterfront
park - Queen Anne - will be
dedicated Friday afternoon. In
conjunction with the dedication
will be presentation of an
Achievement Award from the
Heritage Conservation and
Recreation Services of the U.S.
Sec. Howard Lee
The event is a preliminary to the
Edenton Tea Party Celebration
which takes place the following
weekend, October 25-26, and is
sponsored by the Edenton Rotary
Club. Through Rotary’s spon
sorship, it has been possible to
match a balloon to every K
through 3 schoolchild in Chowan
County. Lenita Campen is in
charge of the activity.
Teachers have selected one
child to represent each class, and
each will release 30 balloons.
Teachers have been advised that
selected children should wear a
tag with own name and teacher’s
name on it, plus school and class,
and should be at the park t 11:30
A.M. Saturday.
Scouts Needed
Boy Scout Troop 156 has a new
scoutmaster and the sponsoring
Edenton Rotary Club is recruiting
new boys. David Twine has
assumed the duties of scout
master.
Parents with boys 11 years of
age or older are invited to attend a
reorganizationa! meeting at 7:30
P.M. October 23. The meeting will
be heid at the Scout Hut on North
Broad Street.
about $2,000 were taken by the lone
bandit who left via the front door,
moved swiftly down East King
Street and disappeared down
Colonial Avenue to the waterfront.
He carried a paper bag containing
the drugs in his left hand and
nervously held a small caliber
pistol in his right.
One employee of the store
became suspicious of the man who
turned out to be a bandit and was
about to notify Hollowell when the
robbery unfolded.
Police Chief J. D. Parrish said
law enforcement officers
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, October 16, 1980
Department of Commerce.
Sec. .Howard Lee of the State
Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development and
Bob Baker, Southeastern regional
director of HCRS, will be central
figures in the program.
Mayor Roy L. Harrell will
preside at the 4 P.M. dedication.
Town Administrator W.B. Gard
ner will recognize special guests
and introduce Sec. Lee.
The Town of Edenton was
nominated for the federal
achievement Award by Stephen H.
Moler, park-recreation consultant
with NCDNRCD. Moler said in the
10 years he has worked with the
municipality he has seen ex
ceptional efforts in historic
preservation and recreation.
“Edenton has excellent and
Suspect Jailed
A man wanted in the August 11
armed robbery of Fast Fare on
North Broad Street has been
arrested in New York and
returned to Edenton to stand trial.
Police Chief J. D. Parrish said
George Lee Re veil, 28-year-old
Negro, is in Chowan County
Detention Facility. He is being
held in lieu of $75,000 bond.
Revell, a former resident of this
area, is charged with three
counts: conspiracy to commit
armed robbery, armed robbery,
and discharging a firearm into an
occupied vehicle.
John Robert Bush of Syracuse,
N.Y., and Charles P. Bond of
Liverpool, N.Y., were arrested
several hours after the robbery.
They were recently tried in
Chowan County Superior Court.
Need Certificate
Gains Approval
The Certificate of Need Section,
Divsion of Facility Services, N.C.
Department of Human Resources
announced on September 30 ap
proval erf the proposal of David L.
Henson to incur a capital ex
penditure for the proposed an
cillary departmental expansion of
Chowan Hospital, Inc.
Review of the project was
conducted pursuant to Section 1112
of the Social Security Act and
Chapter 131, Article 18 of the
Genral Statues of North Carolina.
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throughout Northeastern North
Carolina and Southeastern
Virginia are searching for the
suspect who ordered a strawberry
milkshake and casually spent
some 30 to 40 minutes at a table
before making his move. He is
described as a young white man
who was wearing thick, wire
framed glasses. The escape
vehicle is believed to be an old
model, red small car.
Witnesses told investigating
officers that the man entered the
drug store and paused at the
magazine rack. Janet Hollowell, a
enthusiastic leadership at both the
governmental and private levels,”
according to Moler. "The local
citizen support for the community
and its programs is probably the
highest in Eastern North
Carolina.”
Moler said NCDNRS and the
State of North Carolina share in
this special recognition for
Edenton.
The HCRS Achievement Award
is a new program for the U.S.
Department of the Interior, ac
cording to Baker. It is now com
bined with the Outdoor Recreation
Award and Cultural Achievement
Award. “By combining these two
awards...(the department can)
recognize a broad spectrum of
individuals and organizations both
within and outside government
who have made significant and
continuous contributions in
fostering preservation and ex
pansion of our recreational and
cultural heritage.”
Edenton is being recognized, in
part, for leadership in raising
public awareness and interest in
the preservation of our historical
and natural heritage and con
tributing to the recognition of
significant cultural properties
through the National Register of
Historic Places and of natural
properties through the National
Register of National Landmarks.
The town is also being cited for
the design and utility of recreation
areas and equipment.
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AT HOSPITAL HEARING—Buck Lattimore of Raleigh, right,
of the N.C. Department of Human Resources, conducted a
hearing here Friday on a petition of Chowan Hospital to construct
10 additional beds. Shown with him are David Henson, left,
hospital director; and Jesse L. Harrell, board chairman.
clerk, asked if he needed
assistance and he replied that he
was just looking around.
Some five to 10 minutes later he
ordered a strawberry milkshake.
He then sat at a table for some 30
to 40 minutes before going back to
the soda fountain, poiting a gun at
the young girl and announcing that
it was a robbery.
As he moved to the rear of the
store with Miss Hollowell he
disabled a telephone. He ordered
Sheila Cherry, another young
clerk, John Hobbs, a customer and
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Single Copies 20 Cents.
Hospital Gets
Strong Support
For More Beds
If there is room for community
support in the methodology used to
arrive at numbers for hospital
beds, Chowan Hospital will be well
on the way to setting precedent.
Thirty-two local people spoke at a
public hearing here Friday and
several statements were entered
into the record, all supporting the
hospital's petition to have the
State Health Plan modified.
As it now exists. Region “R” is
shown as being five beds over
what is needed through 1985. In
order for additional beds to be
constructed here the plan must be
amended. If this happens it will be
a first in North Carolina health
annals.
Buck Lattimore of the Division
of Facility Service, State
Department of Human Resources,
was hearing officer. After the
lengthy hearing in the Conference
Room of the County Office
Building he made an observation
which might question his
neutrality. He said approval of the
Chowan Hospital petition “would
open a Pandora’s box” for state
health planners.
However, in opening the
hearing, he said I. O. Wilkerson,
director of the Division of Facility
Services, had determined that the
local application had sufficient
merits to go to a public hearing.
Jesse L. Harrell, board chair
man, testified that in many cases
of emergency patients are ad
mitted to the hall or other sections
of the hospital. “This is not the
kind of health care we desire to
give,” he said. Harrell also
pointed out that continued
crowded conditions would affect
accrediation in the future.
Pointing out that the local board
is “very conservative,” he said a
decision was made to seek a 10-bed
expansion rather than 30 beds, as
recommended by Hospital
Associates of Atlanta, Ga., a
consulting firm who studied the
facility about 18 months ago.
The chairman further pointed
out the expansion of the hospital
medical staff to 24 physicians, four
dentists and four emergency room
doctors. The hospital now has less
than three beds per active staff
physician.
Dr. Lee DeVine later testified
that in the past year 40 per cent of
the people he admitted to the
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