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Christmas 1981
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possible to improve on the
BetH Jem scene as described in
the I dispel according to St. Luke:
Ait jf it came to pass in those
day:, that there went out a decree
froo | Caesar Augustus, that all the
should be taxed.
(Vnd this taxing was first made
whan Cyrenius was governor of
Syria).
And all went to be taxed, every
one into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of
Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city
' of David, which is called Bethle
hem ; (because he was of the house
and lineage of David:)
To be taxed with Mary his
espoused wife, being great with
child.
And so it, was that, while they
were there, the days were ac
complished that she should be
delivered.
And she brought forth her first
born son and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in
a manger because there was no
< room for them in the inn.
And there were in the same
country shepherds abiding in the
field keeping watch over their
flock by night.
And, 10, the angel of the Lord
came upon them, and the glory of
the Lord shone round about them:
and they were sore afraid.
And die angel said unto them,
Fear Not: for, behold, I bring you
good tidings of great joy which
shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in
the city of David a Saviour, which
* is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto
you: Ye shall find the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly
host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward
men.
And it came to pass, as the
angels were gone away from them
into heaven the shepherds said
one to another, Let us now go even
unto Bethlehem, and see this thing
which is to come to pass, which the
Lord hath made known unto us.
And they came with haste, and
found Maiy, and Joseph, and the
babe lying in a manger.
And when they had seen it, they
made known abroad the saying
which was told them concerning
this child.
And all they that heard it
wondered at those things which
were told them by the shepherds.
But Mary kept all these things
and pondered them in her heart.
Cotton Council
Plans Survey
MEMPHIS The National
Cotton Council will mail
questionnaires December 3l to a
sample of cotton growers to assess
their 1962 planting intentions,
President Frank M. Mitchener,
Jr., said today.
Mitchener said the council is
conducting the survey because the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
plans to consolidate its January
and March surveys into (me. It will
be carried out in February, and
results will not be reported until
late February.
“The council survey will provide
planting intentions earlier. In
dividual cotton growers need this
information for planning pur
poses. In addition, Council
delegates will need it for their
policy at our annual
meeting early in February,*'
Mitchener explained.
“We want to encourage every
grower who received a
questionnaire to complete and
return it promptly,” the council
president said. “Results will be
made available to all cotton
growers through announcements
in the media.” v
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Vol. XLVI • No. S 3
Chowan Hospital Expansion Plans Are Postponed
By Jeffrey W. Winslow
Construction for the expansion
of ancillary departments and the
addition of ten beds at Chowan
Hospital has been postponed until
May 1982. The reason for the delay
is because studies for the com
bined project have yet to be
completed.
The need for expansion was
approved in 1980 after the patient
census hit 92 per cent, causing
delays in elective surgery and
crowded conditions. Also, some
patients had to be taken to
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth
City for complex services,
because Chowan Hospital didn’t
have the facilities to perform
them.
A long-range plan had been
Edenton-Chowan School System Is
Arts Council Grant Recipient
Edenton-Chowan Schools will
receive a $3,000 grant from the
N.C. Arts Council. The visual arts
residency grant is among $20,575
in arts - in - education grants from
a total of $484,755 to support arts
activities across the state.
The arts-in-education grants go
to elementary and secondary
Perdue Announces
New Construction
HALIFAX Perdue Farms,
Inc., has announced plans to build ,
a multimillion dollar broiler chick
hatchery near here.
Construction is planned to begin
in March and the hatchery will
begin operation early in 1983. The
site is on N. C. 561, two miles west
of Halifax.
Thomas Shelton, senior vice
president, said the company has
entered into an agreement to
purchase approximately 127 acres
for the facility.
The hatchery is a part of a
major company expansion in
Eastern North Carolina, ac
cording to William Bollinger, N. C.
operations manager for the
company. Perdue is presently
enlarging its Lewiston processing
plant with an additional 70,000
square feet of processing area
which will enable production to be
increased by 600,000 broilers per
week. In addition, the feed mill
has been expanded and a new
soybean processing plant is under
construction in Cofield.
Hatching eggs from the present
breeder farmers in the Nash and
Warren county areas will be in
cubated, hatched and chicks
delivered to broiler growers in
Halifax, Nash, Warren,
Edgecomb, Martin and Nor
thampton counties. With a new
hatchery in Halifax, an additional
25 breeder producers will be
needed to supply hatching eggs.
Perdue, a 62-year-old Maryland
based company, has been
producing broilers in Eastern
North Carolina for eight years.
Currently, 300 fanners own over
600 broiler houses producing
1,300,000 broilers per week. Local
farmers will construct over 100
broiler houses this year and the
company will need farmers to
build an additional 150 houses
during the next year to meet in
creased production needs.
The Halifax location was
selected because of its favorable
location for receiving eggs and
shipping chicks as well as the
availability of an ample supply of
quality labor.
The investment in the new
Halifax Hatchery confirms
Perdue’! commitment to the area.
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prepared for the 11-year old
facility by Hospital Investors, Inc.
of Atlanta, Georgia, in May 1979.
This plan, which pointed out the
need to expand the ancillary
departments and add ten beds for
the present and future health care
needs of the citizens of Chowan
County, was presented to the
Chowan Hospital Board of
Directors. After careful study and
consideration of the long-range
plan, the Board applied to the
Eastern Carolina Health Systems
Agency in July 1980 for the ex
pansion of the ancillary depart
ments and addition of ten beds to
the hospital.
A Certificate of Need for the
ancillary departments was issued
to Chowan Hospital on Nov. 12,
schools and other non-profit
organizations for the development
of programs in the schools in in
volving professional artists and
community resources.
The grants were announced last
week by Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr.,
and Mrs. Sara W. Hodgkins,
secretary of the N. C. Department
of Cultural Resources.
The grants were awarded in the
following categories other than
arts-in-education: visual arts: aid
for touring exhibitions; sup
plemental support, creative
project; and statewide arts
resources. r
Three Jailed On Burglary Charges
Three Edenton men, arrested in
Suffolk, Va. in connection with two
burglaries on December 16,
remained, in Suffolk City Jail
last Friday in lieu of bail set at
$6,000 each.
The charges against the men are
in connection with burglaries in a
rural section of Suffolk near the
AWARDED FIRST PLACE The Garden of Eden Club
recently held a Christinas Decorating Contest. Placing first place
in Traditional Decorations was Mr. and Mrs. James Bond. The
Bond’s reside on West Church Street. (Staff photo by Jeffrey W.
Winslow).
Bond, Swicegood Homes Win Ist Place Decorating Awards
The Garden of Eden Club would
like to announce the winners of the
Christmas Decorating Contest.
Before doing so we would like to
commend all the townspeople for
making Edenton so beautiful this
Christmas season.
The first place winner for
Traditional Decorations is Mr. and
Mrs. James Bond, West Church
Street. Second prize goes to Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Elmore, Granville
Edanton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 24, lo«|
1980. However, a Certificate of
Need for the expansion of the beds
was not issued until April 23, 1981.
Due to the closeness of the two
projects and in order to maximize
Women’s Art
Series Planned
Edenton will host a women’s
artist series, beginning January 7.
The four-performance package,
sponsored by the Chowan Arts
Council and College of The
Albemarle, will continue into
February.
Three performing artists and a
painter will participate in the
programs planned by Michael
Chapdelaine, CO A visiting artist.
The events will begin with a piano
concert by Dr. Lilly Tong Chou on
January 7 at the Edenton United
Methodist Church.
The old Chowan County Cour
thouse will be the setting for the
second performance on January
19 with Laura Oltman, classical
guitarist. At the courthouse again,
on February 4, artist Karen
Perrella will exhibit her work and
give a slide presentation on
.painters.
The final performance will
feature Elga Jones, soprano, in
concert at the church. She per
formed at COA earlier this year
during the college’s weeklong.
spring arts festival.
Chapdelaine said the programs
are open to the public, and no
admission will be charged. Each
event will begin at 8 P. M.
North Carolina line.
Charged by Suffolk police were
Edward M. Felton, 39; Paul
Gregory, 39; and Michael Lamb,
30, all of Edenton, with two counts
of burglary, two counts of grand
larceny, one count of possession of
burglary tools, and one count of
possession of a sawed-off shotgun.
Street.
The first place winner in the
contemporary category is Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Swicegood, Kimberly
Drive and second place goes to
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Leary, Robin
Lane. Our congratulations to the
four top winners.
Honorable mention goes to:
Downtown businesses: Davis
Jewelers, Quinn Furniture, Elliott
company, Courtney’s: For Outd
cost savings, the Board of
Directors voted to combine them
into one project to coordinate the
financing and constructions. This
would avoid duplication of ar
chitectural, financing and con
struction costs. With one project
instead of two, it would allow the
hospital to make plans on the best
utilization of all available space,
and allow the hospital to function
in a more normal manner.
The hospital employed Deloitte,
Haskins and Sells in September
1981 to perform a feasibility study
to determine if the need for ex
pansion was still evident and
whether the revenues of the
hospital would be sufficient to pay
the principal and interest on
revenue bonds which would be
issued to pay for the construction.
All hospital expansion is
regulated by the state. There is an
estimated surplus of 3,000 beds
statewide. The addition of more
beds is expensive. Five years ago
the average investment per bed in
Northeastern North Carolina was
$54,000, with an annual operating
cost per bed of $32,000.
The issuance of these tax
exempt industrial revenue bonds
will finance the expansion. Ac
cording to officials, no tax money
will be used to retire the bonds,
with hospital charges repaying the
debt. According to Hospital
Director, Marvin Bryan, room
Services Are Held
For Mr. Crisanti
HERNANDO, Fla. Joseph S.
Crisanti, 79, land developer and
rancher, formerly of Edenton,
died Friday. Funeral services
were held at 9; 30 A.M. Monday at
Robert C. Neary Funeral Home.
Burial was at St. Catharine’s
Cemetery, Wall Township, N.J.
Survivng: Mrs. Esther H.
Crisanti; sons: Dr. John W.
Crisanti of Lockhaven, Pa.,
Joseph S. Crisanti, Jr. of Holmdel,
N.J.; daughter: Mrs. Dorothy
Joyce Ketterer of Wall Township,
N.J.; brother: Andrew Crisanti of
Boca Ratan; sisters: Mrs. A. L.
Timira Antonaroli of Locharbor,
N.J., Mrs. Assunta DelFabro of
Italy; 10 grandchildren; five
great-grandchildren.
PLACES FIRST IN CONTEST The Contemporary Category
in the recent Christmas Decorating Contest was won by Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Swicegood, who live on Kimberly Drive. The contest
was sponsored by the Garden of Eden Club. (Staff photo by
Jeffrey W. Winslow)
oor Trees: Wilbur Pierce, Morgan
Park, Johnny Arcaro, W. Gale
Street., Marshall Whitt, Morgan
Park.
Also for homes: Scott Harrell,
Jr., E. N. Manning, Charles
Creighton, Warner Perry, Wallace
Evans, W. B. Gardner, J. M.
Parrish, Richard Taylor, Philip
McMullan, Mrs. J. Paul Bass, Bill
Easterling, Walter Bond, Mrs.
Kermit Layton, Sr., Wendell
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rates will probably rise next
October to offset the construction
costs.
The firm of Deloitte, Haskins
and Sells sent a report to the
Board of Directors on Nov. 25,1981
stating that it should continue its
planning for the financing of the
current project.
Peterson Associates, P.A.,
architects, in Charlotte, N.C.,
were employed by the hospital to
conduct the design, architectural
drawings, and to write the
specifications for the completion
of the ancillary and bed ex
pansion. They have finished the
preliminary work at this time and •
have started writing the
specifications for the project.
Additions to the emergency
room, laboratory, respiratory
therapy, pharmacy, physical
therapy department and ad
ministaative offices will be in
cluded on the plan. A new
department, the department of
nuclear medicine, will also be
added.
The intensive care unit, moved
to make way for other department
expansion, will be relocated in the
new $3.3-million addition.
The Chowan County Com
missioners and the Chowan
Hospital Board of Directors met in
Oct. 1981 and selected Interstate
Securities of Charlotte, N.C., and
Carolina Securities of Raleigh.
N.C., to be the underwriters of the
Bond Issue.
The Local Government Com
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Local Churches Plan
Joint Holiday Service
The Providence Missionary-
Baptist Church and Warren Grove
Missionary Baptist Church will
hold joint Christmas service at the
Providence Missionary Baptist
Church on Dec. 25, at 11 A M.
Rev. Wilbert Mills. Pastor of
Warren Grove Missionary Baptist
Church will be guest speaker.
Music will be rendered by
combined choirs of the two
churches. Also, the combined
usher board of both churches will
serve.
The public is invited to attend.
Copeland, Johnny Woolard, Leo
Katkaveck.
We can’t fail to mention our
usual beautiful decorators and
some of the past winners: Thomas
Byrum, Marion Thrower, Mrs. W.
B. Rosevear, Mrs. John Graham,
Tilmon Keel, Allen Homthal, J. M.
Thorud, W. P. Jones, Mrs. R. H.
Goodwin and Mrs. Earl Goodwin,
Tom Hopkins, and R. N. Camp
bell.