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J. Richard Conder
N.C. Farm Market
Grain prices were lower
this week with declines of 11
to 15 cents per bushel on
com, 12 to 13 cents on
soybeans and 10 to 11 cents
on wheat through Thursday,
July 2 compared to the same
period of the previous week.
No. 2 yellow shelled corn
ranged mostly $3.27 to $3.49
in the Eastern part of the
state and $3.45 to $3.68 in the
Piedmont. No. 1 yellow
soybeans ranged mostly
$6.73 to $7.16 in the East and
$6.40 to $6.92 in the Pied
mont; No. 2 red winter
wheat $2.85 to $3.29; No. 2
red oats $1.60 to $2; and
barley $2 to $2.20 per bushel
and milo $5 to $5.40 per
hundred. New crop prices
quoted for harvest delivery
corn $3.07 to $3.43; soybeans
$6.84 to $7.05. Soybean meal
44 per cent FOB the
processing plant ranged
$218.40 to $234.50 per ton,
according to the Market
News Service of the North
Carolina Department of
Agriculture.
A total of 8,951 feeder pigs
were sold on 14 state graded
sales during week of June
29. Prices were $1.50 to
$12.75 lower. US 1-2 pigs
weighing 40-50 pounds
averaged $73.62 per hundred
pounds with No. 3s $63.10;
50-60 pound l-2s averaged
$68.03, No. 3s $57.13; 60-70
pound l-2s $60.34, No. 3s
$53.30; 70-80 pound l-2s
$57.58 per hundred pounds
with No. 3s $52.12.
At weekly livestock
auctions held within the
state the week of June 29,
prices for slaughter cows
were .50 to $1 lower.
Slaughter steers were $1.50
to $5.50 lower and feeder
calves $2 to $6.50 lower.
Utility and Commercial
cows brought $39.50 to
$49.50; Good slaughter
steers above 800 pounds
$51.50 to $57.50; Good
slaughter heifers above 700
pounds brought S4B to
$54.75; Choice Veals S6O to
$74; Good slaughter calves
250-350 pounds $55 to $63.50.
Medium frame Number One
muscle steers 400-500
pounds brought $53 to $60.50
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OPEN
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Sponsored by all churches
Ml items
50*
per hundred pounds and
same grade heifers 400-500
pounds sold $47 to $55.
Feeder cows, beef type
average flesh sold from
$40.50 to S4B. Baby calves
under 3 weeks of age
brought $35 to S9O per head.
Market hogs brought mostly
$47 to $54.50 per hundred
weight and 30(1600 pound
sows $42.25 to $52.30.
Vegetables are available
throughout eastern North
Carolina. Dry weather has
reduced the supply, but a
good volume of pepper and
some cucumbers and
squash remain to be packed
in the Faison area. Due to
the holiday, no prices were
available on Thursday.
Sweet com was mostly $6
per crate on July 2. The
season for western North
Carolina vegetables was
just beginning with beans,
cabbage and a few Ten
nessee tomatoes being sold
this week.
Egg prices were higher on
large and fractionally
higher on medium and
smalls compared to those of
the previous week. Supplies
were light to moderate.
Demand was moderate. The
North Carolina weighted
average price quoted on
July 2 for small lot sales of
cartoned grade A eggs
delivered to stores was
$71.07 cents per dozen for
large, Medium 56.72 and
smalls 48.42.
The broiler-fryer market
is 3 cents lower for next
week’s trading. Supplies are
moderate. Demand is
moderate. The North
Carolina dock weighted
average price is 51.23 cents
per pound for less than
truckloads picked up at
processing plants during the
week of July 6. This week 7.9
million birds were
processed in North Carolina
with an average live bird
weight of 3.97 pounds per
bird on July 1.
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Conder Raps Federalism; Supports Reagan Federal Aid Policy
WASHINGTON, D. C. afi -,
J. Richard Conder of
Richmond County
(Rockingham), N. C. says
he comes from a
region of hard - working
people - his constituents
never give him the luxury of
waging an unopposed
campaign! Nevertheless,
five times Conder has been
elected commissioner of this
small Southern community
of 46,000 located mid-point
between the two Carolinas.
This term Conder will be
celebrating his 20th year in
public office. He has served
18 consecutive years as
chairman of the board.
He will concurrently be
serving as president of the
National Association of
Counties (NACo), a
Washington-based public
interest group that
represents over 2,000 of the
Letter To
The Editor
(Editor’s Note: A copy of
the following letter to Rep.
Vernon James was sent to
The Chowan Herald for
publication.)
Dear Rep. James:
I believe in getting
straight to the point and
cutting out all of the
“political garbage” that you
and your esteemed
colleagues seem to enjoy
wallowing in, so here it i5...1
think that House Bill 1176
(which I understand you
cosponsor) is one of the
most absurd things I have
heard of coming out of
Raleigh, especially in times
like this when it is a miracle
that any of us can make it
financially.
I am ashamed that a
person from my part of the
country has anything to do
with a piece of unfair
legislation such as this
House Bill 1176. I think I’ll
start another “Edenton Tea
and Coffee Party”....don’t
laugh, it was unfair taxes
such as you propose that
gave good cause to have
demonstrations such as the
“Boston Tea Party” and of
course our own “Edenton
Tea Party”.
I don’t know who you talk
to these days, but it surely
isn’t the working man who
put you in office. I haven’t
found any of us “common
folks” who really would like
to pay an additional 96 cents
per pound for coffee!! As a
matter of fact, a lot as us are
getting fed up with stupid
legislation such as this and
the type of politicians that
propose them.
Your House Bill 1176
proposes a tax of 6 cents per
ounce or 96 cents per pound
on coffee. The tax on tea
would be 8 cents per ounce
or 1.28 per pound. I buy
approximately 2 cases of
coffee a week at around S7O.
per case, but if your tax
goes through I would have
to pay an additional $23.52
per case in tax making it
$93.52 per case.
...Now if you don’t think
that is absurd....there ain’t
no cabbage in Weeksville!
Sincerely,
Jim Boswell
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Officer!"
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surance is on the spot to
cover the loss. A free
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West W. Byrum Agency
will reveal any insurance
shortcomings.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
nation’s 3,104 counties.
Conder will be inaugurated
during the association’s
annual conference July 11-15
in Louisville, Ky.
Like most county officials,
Conder, 51, is a part-timer,
and a product of his
hometown. He estimates he
spends about 20 per cent of
his time on public affairs,
thanks to an employer he
says “has a deep com
mitment to the com
munity.”
He is vice president of
First Union National Bank,
a subsidiary of First Union
Corporation of North
Carolina. Conder says he is
also representative of
growing numbers of county
officials who are first,
businessmen, with the skills
necessary to conduct the
increasingly complicated
affairs of local government.
“When I entered office the
commissioners used to meet
like a social club. They’d
pay the bills, chew the fat
and go home. Today there
has been a tremendous
change in the way con
stituents expect politics to
be conducted. Citizens are
more deeply committed
than ever before to quality
local government.
Richmond County com
missioners for instance, now
administer a sl2-million
budget derived from
property taxes, the state
and federal government.
Conder calls upon volun
teers from the area’s
professional community -
lawyers, utility managers
and small businessmen - to
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help plan for community
growth.
Conder sees his year as
NACo president as an op
portunity to increase the
visibility of county govern
ment. “Most citizens have
no idea what counties do,”
he says. “In the last two
decades counties have
assumed a vast array of
services formerly provided
by cities and state?.
Counties have become the
primary providers of public
services to the nation’s
citizens...but it is an unsung
song, a generally
unrecognized role we county
officials play. We’ve gone
along minding our own
business for years. Let’s
look at some of the changes
those years have wrought in
my county, for example:
“For years, my people
enjoyed a stable population
and an unemployment rate
of about 5 per cent,” Conder
said. Farmers and textile
workers, mostly, committed
to the traditions of family
and home. This way of life
was seriously threatened by
modernization in the textile
industry, and other
economic changes that
threatened our economic
base.
“What did we do? We
appointed an Economic
Development Committee,
not of professional planners
and futurists, a committee
of like-minded citizens.
People that already have a
stake in the well-being of the
community. A committee of
volunteers,” Conder said.
This team had two major
successes, Conder noted.
They brought about im
provement in die water
supply. The $5-million,
“phase one” was completed
in 1977, phase two is under
construction. Secondly, they
began to attract new in
dustry, notably the Clark
Equipment Company,
makers of heavy-duty
transmissions. Other local
industries include textile
mills, sail boat and furniture
makers.
“We did a good job,” he
says. The population of the
county grew 15 per cent in
the last 10 years, a rate
comparable to other areas
of the Sunbelt. But along
with population growth
came other worries: in
creasing number of felonies,
the need to fund more
education and social ser
vices, and most important,
an unemployment rate that
has risen to 12 per cent in the
last months.
“What we need is jobs,”
Conder says. “One of the
accomplishments I am most
proud of is development of a
big, modern high school
with a beautiful campus,
fine teachers and a wide
range of activities.
“It’s band and athletic
teams are among the top in
the state. Well, that school
graduates 700 seniors a
year. Most of them leave
home...never to return.
Their parents call me and
they say, ‘My kids would
like to stay, but they can’t
find jobs.’ ”
It is an emotional issue,
one that hits close to home:
Conder and his wife Bar
bara, have three teenage
children.
The new NACo president
received his bachelor’s
degree in accounting at East
Carolina University,
Greenville, and attended
Louisiana State University
Graduate School of
Banking, Baton Route; and
N. C. Banker’s Association
School in Chapel Hill.
He has served as senior
vice president and area
manager of Southern
National Bank and worked
for Dixon and Odom, a
Rockingham accounting
firm. Conder is a veteran of
the U. S. Air Force.
“Government in Rich
mond County has done a
good job, now we have to do
better,” said this tall
authoritative figure, with a
good-humored chuckle,
suddenly turning serious
with the declaration that
unemployment and inflation
are symptomatic of a
“troubled economy. That is
why,” Conder explained,
“last November, a majority
of the voters in an over
whelming number of states
said ‘enough’.
“Ronald Reagan ' was
elected with a mandate for
change in the way the
federal government does
business and particularly, a
mandate to reduce the
amount of government
intervention in the affairs of
local government, of
business and in people’s
daily lives. In the govern
ment sector, this relationship
is called federalism. We in
Thursday, July 9, 1981
county government are
hopeful that the promises of
the Reagan administration
will spell greater in
dependence and greater
cooperation between the
various levels of govern
ment.
“I cannot deny federal aid
has helped Richmond
County. We have developed
a water supply, constructed
an airport, purchased a
multi-purpose recreation
facility, provided meals for
the elderly and improved
our health care ser
vices...all with the
assistance of the federal
government,” Conder
continued.
Now much of this help will
be withdrawn. Recently the
county laid off 90 of its 300
employees whose salaries
were paid by the Com
prehensive Employment
and Training Act (CETA)
program. Now the board of
commissioners will be
called upon to make a list of
“priorities.”
“Which services do our
citizens want to fund, which
must be cut?” Conder
questioned. “Os all the
services we provide, one of
the least popular is “Meals
on Wheels” program for the
elderly. But I have visited
all four of our meal sites,
and I have found this service
has become a focal point in
the lives of many lonely
people. Without a place to go
may of these individuals
would be starved, starved
for personal attention,
fellowship and human as-
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