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IN DEEP FREEZE One of the few things not hampered by the recent deep freeze in Nor
theastern North Carolina is the shutter on Staff Photographer Luke Amburn’s camera. Some of the
most enjoyable scenery - in every season - can be found along Edenton Bay. This old tug b6at
added to this scene. (See Public Parade).
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Frigid Weather
I There is some serious discussion
I going on around the country on the
I subject of weather. There are
I those who believe all the hardware
I shot into space has more than a
M casual effect on weather along the
| Public Parade and throughout the
United States.
I We tend to agree. However, it is
I not our intent to go into a long
I dissertation here on the subject.
I But we want to inform those who
might not know, it’s cold!
I It was reported from downtown
I Rocky Hock on Tuesday morning
V that at least one reading was two
I degrees cjted. Yes, two, like the
I number between one and three. If
I that low on Cheapside the
cold was flirting with such,
i We number among those who
I believed. the- ChambeE, of .Qua****
[ merce declaration of mild to
I moderate temperatures along
L the Public Parade. The snows of
P early 1980 which out did areas like
I New Hampshire, the hot, dry
I summer of the same year, and
now this bunch of frigid weather
bears out that one experience is
worth many, many claims.
Noted And Passed
History was made in North
L Carolina last Saturday as Gov.
“ James B. Hunt, Jr., was sworn
into office for a second-term, the
first Tar Heel chief executive to
repeat the oath of office in this
century.
: The following paragraphs are
lifted from a Doug Gardner story
in The Virginian Pilot:
“The parade included bands
t from Williamston High School,
Perquimans County High School,
Mattamuskeet High School, Hyde
County, Washington High School,
Gates County High School, Nor
thampton County High School,
Plymouth High School, Bertie
High School, Ahoskie High School,
and Northeastern High School in
Elizabeth City.”
f “Currituck, Beaufort and Dare
counties and (the Town of) Manteo
each sent floats to the parade.”
Something missing? Yes,
Chowan County and the Town of
Edenton.
Employees Speak
f Atlantic Forest Products, Inc.,
employees showed good judgment
l last Thursday by voting not to
affiliate with a union. The nearly 2
to 1 vote against United
Warehouse and Industrial Af
filiate Trade Employees Union
was not merely a victory for the
wood products company and its
employees, but a victory for the
community.
Atlantic Forest Products, Inc.,
► is a good corporate citizen. The >
company is the biggest taxpayer
along the Public Parade and the
majority of its $2.5-million annual
payroll is spent locally.
Organized labor in North,
Carolina has a Mack eye. The New
York-based trade union which
targeted AFP for a southern
| breakthrough is a bad egg run by
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Jaycees Schedule
DSA Banquet
The 1980 Distinguished Service
Award will be presented by the
Edenton Jaycees during the
twenty-seventh annual DSA
Banquet on January 22 at the
Jaycee Community Building on
Base Road. In addition, past
recipients will be recognized, said
president W. T. Culpepper, 111.
Guest speaker will be John
Lowery of Lincolnton, president of
the N. C. Jaycees.
A social hour will begin at 6:30
P.M. followed one hour later by
the program. Tickets are $5.
Continued On Page 4
New Postmaster
For Tyner Area
Sectional Center Manager
-Postmaster Gold Joyner, Jr., of
Rocky Mount today announced the
appointment of Hallie T. Lewis as
the new Postmaster at Tyner
effective Saturday, December 27,
1980.
Lewis, 50, a native of Sunbury,
N.C., has served as a clerk at the
Sunbury Post Office for the past 29
years.
Postmaster selections for of
fices of this size are made on the
basis of merit from a list of
qualified candidates submitted to
the Sectional Center Manager at
Rocky Mount. He selects and
recommends to the Postmaster
General the best qualified person
for appointment to each vacancy.
Hallie T. Lewis
Employees Vote Down Union
Employees of Atlantic Forest Products, Inc., voted overwhelmingly
against forming a union in an election held Thursday of last week. The
vote was 113-411.
Five ballots were contested in the vote supervised by the National
l,abor Relations Board, but they wouldn’t hardly make any difference as
those who opposed affiliation with United Warehouse and Industrial
Affiliate Trade Employees Union was nearly &to 1.
“I hope that we can now put this union matter behind us and work to
make Atlantic Forest Products an even better place to work," Bruce
Weber, general manager, said after the tally.
AFP. the county’s largest employer, is located adjacent to Edenton
Municipal Airport. The company's payroll exceeds $2.5-miilion annually,
and wages paid are close to the state average manufacturing wage of
15.52.
Matthew Eason, union president, signed a full page ad in The Chowan
Herald last week in which he attacked the company on unfair practices
as well as low wages. He said the organisers for the union, which natil
now had concentrated on businesses ia the New York - New Jersey area.
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Moyer Smith
Local Athletes
To Be Honored
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Moyer Smith, associate athletic
director at the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill, will be
keynote speaker at the Fall Sports
Awards Banquet next Monday
night in the Edenton National
Guard Armory.
Sponsored by the Edenton Aces
Booster Club, the banquet will
spotlight outstanding athletes on
the football team and girls’ tennis
team of Holmes High School as
well as members of the
cheerleading squad.
Tickets are $5 for the steak
supper.
Before being named associate
athletic director, Smith served for
six years as assistant football
coach at UNC and was an original
member of coach Bill Dooley’s
staff beginning in 1967. He coached
the freshman team for three
years with a record of 14-1 and was
offensive backfield coach for the
1972 team which went 11-1.
Before starting his career at
Carolina, the 1961 UNC graduate
coached high school teams in
Lexington, Winston-Salem and
Albemarle, and coached for one
year at Florida State University in
Tallahassee, Fla.
Smith is a member of the Chapel
Hill Kiwanis Club, and University
Methodist Church. He has
served as campus advisor for FCA
and is presently faculty advisor
for Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Smith was bom and raised in
Lexington.
The Chowan Herald
Vd. XLVII • No. 3
Surcharge May Be Necessary
Rate Increase In Effect
Virginia Electric & Power
Company has put a 9.5 per cent
wholesale rate increase into effect
this month which will cost the
Town of Edentort an additional
$221,000 annually. The increase
comes in the middle of a fiscal
year and local officials are
rushing to get recommendations
from rate consultants.
W. B. Gardner, town ad
ministrator, told Town Council
Tuesday night flatly: “The town
doesn’t have this money.” He
indicated that Vepco’s action may
require a surcharge on customer
bills until July 1 when the town’s
new budget is effective.
“This action puts us in a price
squeeze, pure and simple,” he
said in response to a question.
“Yes, it has us in a terrible bind.”
Ollin Sykes, a local Certified
Public Accountant, cautioned the
town not to get in the financial
condition of the Town of Hertford.
Hertford officials failed to pass on
to customers the Vepco increases
and got into a financial crisis.
Councilman Gil Burroughs
observed that as long as profits
from the utility system are used to
maintain a low property tax
“these are the things we have to
face.”
James Martin, director of
utilities, said negotiations are “hot
and heavy” now to buy-in to
Carolina Power & Light Com
pany’s generating facilities. He
noted that Vepco has indicated the
municipalities could expect
cooperation in getting off com
pany lines sooner than outlined in
an existing contract.
Gardner’s announcement about
the Vepco rate increase, which
was put into place via a bond while
the increase is challenged before
regulatory agencies, threw a wet
blanket on earlier discussions at
the meeting about continuation of
the development of the waterfront
along Edenton Bay.
Howard Capps, land planner
from Elizabeth City, reported that
a long-range plan developed in
1976 is on target. He noted that the
town has been offered a $193,000
grant for development of the old
Conger property.
Reynolds Funds $ 1 -Million Research Program
By L.F. Amburn, Jr.
RALEIGH lf there were any
“no smoking” signs on the
premises of the McKimmon
Center here Tuesday they were
well concealed. “Pride In
Tobacco” banners, bunches of the
golden leaf, and specimens of new,
healthier varieties heralded a joint
announcement by N. C. State
University and R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company.
RJR is financing an innovative
sl-million program to assure a
continuing supply of high quality,
domestically produced tobacco.
The program is being im
plemented by the School of
Agriculture & Life Sciences
through Extension and Research
services.
(Another story and picture on
Page 2-B.)
NCSU Chancellor Joab L.
Thomas presided at a luncheon
following a press conference. Gov.
James B. Hunt, Jr., couldn’t at
tend the luncheon. He was
represented by Sec. Lauch
Faircloth of the State Department
of Commerce.
Dr. Thomas told about 125
people at the luncheon that Gov.
Hunt observed that the press
conference was more widely
attended than any other such
function he had ever attended.
And Gov. Hunt gets around.
Since the U. S. Surgeon
General’s report on smoking was
released the same day, one scribe
inquired of Edward A. Horrigan,
Jr., RJR board chairman,
president and chief executive
officer, if there was a little
relation between the report and
his announcement.
Gov. Hunt interrupted to say:
Edanton, North Corollna. Thurtdoy. Jonuory 15, 1981
Discussion of an entertainment
shell in the area was discussed.
Such treatment of the area
covered by the grant could be
changed to include such an ac
tivity, even it is on a temporary
basis.
However, Gardner said the town
must make a decision within the
next 90 days as whether or not to
accept the matching grant. Dr.
Allen Homthal suggested that the
matter be studied by the Finance
Committee and Recreation
Committee. There was agreement
on this plan.
Mayor Roy L. Harrell touched
briefly on efforts being made to
Day Care Program Expanded
RALEIGH Chowan and five
other Albemarle Area counties are
among target areas for new day
care programs, expanded existing
ones or upgrading of programs in
North Carolina. The other area
counties are: Currituck,
AFP To Meet
The Alliance For Progress, Inc.,
board of directors will have a
meeting January 28 to receive
committee reports and elect new
officers.
Til Brown, chairman, an
nounced the meeting will begin at
2 P.M. in the AFP Conference
Room at Trap.
Richard W. Baker, Jr., is AFP
director. AFP is a six-county
educational consortium serving
Martin, Hertford, Bertie, Gates,
Chowan and Perquimans.
Chamber Banquet
On January 23
The Edenton-Chowan
Chamber of Commerce annual
banquet meeting has been
scheduled for 6:30 P.M.
January 23 at Chowan Golf &
Country Club.
Jerry Hendee, executive vice
president, said tickets are now
on sale at the Chamber of
Commerce office on East King
Street.
“Absolutely none. It was timed for
the first day of my second ad
ministration.”
The same kind of good natured
humor spilled over into the lun
cheon. Horrigan said RJR’s credit
might be an issue so he brought
along a $250,000 check as the first
of four installments.
“You have just paid for your
lunch,” Dr. Thomas said. “And by
the way you can feel free to
smoke.”
The Council of State was well
represented. When Henry Bridges
was introduced as State Auditor,
he replied: “I’m retired, as of
today.” (Ed Renfrow was sworn in
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SUPPORT TOBACCO RESEARCH AND EXTENSION -
North Carolina higher education officials gave representatives of
Reynolds Tobacco Company a big welcome Monday as the
company announced a sl-million gift to be used toward tobacco
research and extension. Left to right are: Chancellor Joab
Thomas of N. C. State University; Edward A. Horrigan, Jr.,
RJR’s ranking executive; Dr. Durward Bateman, agricultural
research director; John Jordan, chairman, UNC Board of
Governors; and Dr. T. C. Blalock, director of agricultural ex
tension.
Single Copies 20 Cents.
obtain another access off US 17
bypass. The mayor said a
representative of the Department
of Transportation had been in the
area and right now priority is
being given to the Paradise Road
overpass. DOT has scheduled a
feasibility study. “We are real
pleased just to get. discussion
started,” the mayor said.
In other action, bids received on
the purchase of land in the com
munity development area were
received with action set for
February 10.
The Town Charter update
Continued On Page 4
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell
and Washington.
Dr. Sarah T. Morrow, secretary,
N. C. Department of Human
Resources, has announced a
$300,000 allocation for the 16-
county program. Counties outside
the Albemarle Area are:
Beaufort, Bladen, Cabarrus,
Columbus, Granville, Halifax,
Hertford, Northampton, Onslow
and Pender.
Mrs. Hazel Elliott, director,
Chowan County Department of
Social Services, said a
representative from her staff is
designated to receive information
about the program.
Participation in this project,
entitled Start-Up Project, will be
limited to non-profit day care
providers and public agencies. It
will be administered by the Day
Care Section of the department.
Application from these counties
will be solicited and be given
preferential treatment. Day Care
Section staff will be available to
work with groups from these
counties who are interested in
making application for funding.
Criteria for ranking individual
applications include such factors
as the degree of need for ad
ditional day care services within a
county, the cost-efficiency of an
application and written en
dorsements from community
leaders and groups. Applications
will be accepted through March
15.
Saturday as the new State
Auditor.)
Commission of Agriculture Jim
Graham was quick to tell the
group: “I ain’t retired.” And
Secretary of State Thad Eure
announced that he “is just star
ting.” Others in the audience were
Attorney General Rufus Ed
misten, Insurance Commissioner
John Ingram, and Commissioner
of Labor John Brooks.
In a serious note, Horrigan said
the tobacco industry continues
independent, non-emotional,
scientific research.
Horrigan reminded the luncheon
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