Chapel Hill) being diverted to
personal use of Jaycee officials as
well as creation of phantom
chapters to boost the careers of
individuals.
N.C. Jaycees had one of it’s
most successful years under the
direction of Joe Hollowell of
Eden ton. Sufficient money was
accummulated during his
presidency to get the burn center
open. The following year,
however, the old gang was busted
up and thankfully there has been
no hint of wrongdoing by Mr.
Hollowell.
The Jaycee organization is now
on schedule with payback of the
illegally diverted funds from the
sale of jelly. At this time, though,
there is serious doubt whether or
not the organization can be held
together long enough to com
pletely replace all of the $150,000
involved.
The Jaycees needed to rally
around the new leadership. Local
chapters, like the one along the
Public Parade, need to be
strengthened through renewed
dedication of existing members
and via a statewide membership
campaign. A new statewide
project should be undertaken with
all the proceeds going to wipe out
the Jamscam debt.
The general public is ready to
forgive and forget. The ac
complishments of the past cer
tainly can’t be erased by one bit of
wrongdoing by only a few men at
the top. Edenton, Chowan County
and North Carolina needs the
Jaycees.
Young Narcs
Parents of school children who
are transported by bus have a lot
of justified anxiety so long as
student drivers are used. Drivers
in Edenton - Chowan Schools have
a good safety record, and should I
be commended.
However, almost daily there are
reports of mishaps involving
school buses. One report which
should hoist a caution flag came
out of Trinity, in the piedmont
section of North Carolina.
Al - year -old high school junor
was charged with driving under
the influence of drugs Friday
afternoon after the school bus he
was operating rolled down an
embankement and crashed, in
juring eight passengers.
State Trooper Tony A. Miller
said he did not know what drug the
youth is accused to taking.
The bus carried 40 to 45 students
and all those injured were high
schoolers.
The principal of the Randolph
County school had held a safety
session with the drivers Friday
morning. He said the session was
prompted by the fact that students
take matters “a little less
seriously” as the year draws to a
close.
The report showed that the bus
rolled nose first down an em
bankment located in a sharp curve
in the road leaving the high school.
Drugs are a growing menice in
our society. There is no place for
young narcs in society, especially
not behind the wheel of a school
bus.
Definition
Secret - Something that is
hushed about from place to
place to (dace.
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SAVE THE LIGHTHOUSE Gilliam Wood, right, holds a check for $2287, presented to him by
school superintendant Dr. John Dunn, as Bruce and Terry Wackelin look on. Wood is the overall
county chairman for the Save the Lighthouse (in Cape Hatteras) campaign. The money will be used
to try and stop the gradual erosion around the lighthouse from the Atlantic Ocean.
Students Recognized For Fund-Raising Efforts
A most successful Save the
Lighthouse campaign in Chowan
County schools was recently
completed when Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Wackelin, co-chairmen of
the in-school effort, and Dr. John
Dunn, school superintendent,
presented Gilliam Wood, overall
county chairman, with a check for
$2287. The money, which will be
used to help implement plans to
rescue the historical Cape Hat
teras Lighthouse from being
washed away by the ocean, was
raised one dollar at a time by local
students who sold Save the Light
bumper stickers to citizens
throughout the county.
Much credit is also due, ac
cording to Wackelin, to the county
School Board for making a special
one-time waiver of the county rule
against public solicitations which
enabled the children to participate
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charge of reckless driving after
drinking, found guilty, 90 days
suspended 2 years on payment of
S2OO fine and cost of court. He is to
surrender license and not to
operate a motor vehicle until he is
privileged to do so. He is to attend
the Drug Alcohol School and pay a
fee of SIOO. Appealled. The spin
ning tires charge was dismissed.
Fred P. Markham, 111, 70 in a 55,
plead guilty to exceeding safe
speed. Cost of court.
Jeffrey Wayne Vaughan, DUI,
guilty, 90 days suspended 2 years
on payment of SIOO fine and cost of
court. Pay S3O to benefit of
Albemarle Hospital and pay SIOO
to Clifton Booker. He must give up
his license and not drive until he is
licensed to do so.
Jerry Lee Jones, littering, not
guilty.
Michael Wayne Miller, reckless
driving, guilty, 30 days suspended
1 year on payment of $75 fine and
cost of court. Exceeding safe
speed, voluntary dismissal.
Danny Glenn Wells, 77 in a 55
guilty, 10 days suspended 1 year on
payment of S3O cost of court. To
surrender license and not to
operate a motor vehicle in North
Carolina except as allowed
privileges.
Fred Blount, inadequate support
of wife, guilty, prayer continued
for 12 months.
Isaac Jones, larceny, Edward
Louis Cofield, larceny, probable
cause hearing set for June 8.
in this worthwhile historical ef
fort.
Each child who participated in
the drive will receive a Jr. Keeper
of the Light certificate. The class
with the greatest participation in
each school will receive free
hamburgers courtesy of Hardees.
In addition, those individuals
raising SIOO and groups raising
SSOO will receive a Keeper of the
Light certificate on a print of the
Lighthouse signed by Gov. James
Hunt and Senator Jesse Helms.
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BIENNIAL PILGRIMAGE Ann Matteson, left, and Terry
Wackelin are co - chairmen for the upcoming Biennial
Pilgrimage in April of 1983. Plans are under way to make this the
biggest and best event of its kind yet.
Pilgrimmage Tour Date Is Set
The Edenton Woman’s Club is
pleased to announce that the
Biennial Pilgrimage of Colonial
Edenton and Countryside will be
held April 8. 9, 10,1983. Along with
several old favorites there will be
quite a few new homes added to
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served for two years in Nairobi,
Kenya with the. Foreign Mission
Board as Missionary Journeymen.
Previously, he served Baptist
churches in Bentonia and
Florence, Mississippi.
Stanley is residing at 307 N.
Granville St., Apt. No. 2, and
phone number is 482 - 7577.
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County Jaycees Distinguished
Service Award in 1978. In 1962, he
received the N.C. Most Out
sending Young Man award from
Gov. Terry Sanford.
Evans has been an active 4-H
Club member since the 60s,
winning that organization’s state
public speaking contest in 1960. He
was tapped into the State 4-H
Honor Club in 1964. A year earlier,
he represented the organization at
the National Congress in Chicago.
The legislator graduated from
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in 1967 with a
bachelor’s degree in economics. In
1972, he received his law degree
from the UNC Law School.
He is married to the forma:
Rebecca Aydlett of Elizabeth City.
The couple reside in Nags Head
and are parents of three children.
Much credit should also be given
to Mary Rhea Gardner, com
munity schools coordinator, and
all the school chairmen for their
support. The individual chairmen
are Susan Hill for Walker
Elementary; Elsie Currin and
Butch Ricks for White Oak School;
Ed Williams for Swain School;
Winston Dail for Chowan Jr. High;
Debra Vaughan for Holmes High
School and Shirley Perry for
Edenton-Chowan Alternative
School.
this year’s Pilgrimage. The
houses will date from the
Revolutionary period to the
Victorian era with each home
displaying a unique architectural
style and decor.
Since the Pilgrimage’s in
ception in 1949 we have received
the community involvement and
support that has made the
Pilgrimage the success it is today.
The Edenton Woman’s Club would
again like to solicit everyone’s
participation in this special event.
All proceeds from the
Pilgrimage will go toward
maintaining Edenton’s historic
properties or to the benefit of the
town.
As in the past, several special
events are in the planning stage
for April 8,9, 10. These activities
along with the Pilgrimage should
make it a most enjoyable and
fulfilling weekend for all.
Unemployment
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Jemigan pointed out that the
state has once again fallen below
the national unadjusted rate of
unemployment which stood at 9.2
per cent in April.
Jemigan says: "Declining
unemployment is due to increased
seasonal employment activities in
agriculture and some increase
among nonagricultural wage and
salary workers. Indications are
that some- 20,000 people also left
the labor force between March
and April.
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Few radio stations boast
jockeys who know, and play,
good musk.
Billing Change Is Noted
The cost of reaching out and
touching someone quietly went up
April 2.
With little publicity, telephone
companies across the nation,in
cluding Carolina Telephone,
revised their method of charging
for interstate long distance calls
during periods of rate changes.
The method, callAl rate period
specific billing, splits the cost of
calls made during all rate'
changes. Before the change, an
entire call was charged at the rate
in effect when the call was placed.
The charge does not affect calls
made within the state.
“If you call before the rate
changes you pay that rate for that
amount of time,” explained T. F.
Daniels, spokesman for CT&T’s
commercial department. “If you
call across the breaking time you
are billed the rate for that par
ticular portion of call in that rate
period. If the rate changes then
costs do as well.”
In other words if a customer
makes a call at 10:55 P.M. and
talks for 15 minutes he is charged
one rate for the first five minutes
and a different one for the last 10,
since rates change at 11 P.M. on
week nights.
This was a nationwide change,
Daniels explained, that went into
effect April 2 and was approved
when AT&T was given an increase
for long distance WATS lines and
private line services.
“They weren’t large increases,”
he added. “Regular interstate
long distance went up about 1.4 per
cent, WATS rates, went up about
4.1 per cent, and rates for most
private line services went up
about 1.6 per cent.”
The Federal Communications
Commission regulates interstate
calls, Daniels explained, and when
rates changed for interstate long
distance calls for AT&T they
changed across the board.
“Overall the new rates will
increase revenues by less than 1
per cent,” he said. The change has
received little publicity, Daniels
added, primarily because the
resulting changes in charges are
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received all conference honors.
The team finished 3-9 under first
year coach Randy Hollowell.
In track, Head Coach Robert
Shields named Troy Wright Most
Valuable Player while Ken Jones
received the Most Improved
Player award. The Coach Shields
Award went to Butch Everson.
In girls track, Yulanda Shields
and Ruth Sutton were named all
conference. Carolyn Armstead
was the Most Valuable Player;
Yulanda Shields - Most Out
standing ; and Ruth Sutton was the
recipient of the Coach Shields
Award. They are coached by
Lorraine Jordan.
Girls Head Basketball Coach
Fred White gave the Most
Valuable Player award out to four
year starter and the recipient of
the Most Valuable trophy for the
third year in a row, Kathy Blount.
Blount has also been on the all
conference team the last three
years. She recently signed a grant
in-aid to play basketball at
Elizabeth City State University.
Zina Cofield received the
Leadership Award. '
Coach White also gave out these
awards in softball: Most
Dependable - Marion Jones; Top
Offensive - Wanda Liverman.
Debbie Ward was named first
team all-inference; Liverman
and Dawn Umphlett were named
to the second team. Kim Baker
and Diane Goodwin wfere named
Honorable Mention.
At Tuesday’s banquet com
memorating a former John A.
Holmes graduate, whose death
was tragic and untimely, the
Bonnie Flannigan Chesson
Memorial Award was presented to
Debbie Ward.
AH of these coaches coherently
agree that these victories and
eventual awards could not have
transpired had it not been for
some very special people. The
cheerleaders.
The Holmes cheerleader squad
tied Washington High School for
the Conference Cheerleader
Sportsmanship Award. Pam
Spruill was named Cheerleader of
the Year and Elva Holley was
dtied as the Most Improved.
so slight. “We haven’t had ted
many calls about it," he said.
Additionally, Nichols added,
when the rate period specific
billing went into effect so did
another change, a 5 percent in
crease in discounts for interstate
calls made between 5 P.M. and
11 P.M-
While the old discount stood at 35
per cent, the new discount has
increased to 40 per cent.
Holiday Deaths
Are Predicted
It is estimated that 15 persons
will lose their lives from vehicle
accidents in North Carolina over
the 78-hour Memorial Day holiday
weekend which begins at 6 P.M.
Friday, and ends at midnight
Monday.
The N.C. State Motor Club,
which has predicted holiday
weekend statistics for the past two
decades, estimates that this year’s
carnage will exceed 1981
Memorial Day weekend totals by
67 per cent. Last year, nine per
sons died during the 78-hour
reporting period.
Thus far this year, 376 traffic
fatalities have been recorded,
according to statistics released by
the N.C. Department of Trans
portation, Division of Motor
Vehicles as of 10 A.M. May 19.
That’s 129 fewer than the 505
recorded as of the same date in
1981.
N.C. State Motor Club President
John G. Frazier, 111, says the two
leading causes of street and high
way deaths in the Tar Heel State
continue to be excessive speed and
driving under the influence of
alcohol. “If a scientist suddenly
invented a simple way to reduce
traffic fatalities nationwide by
25,000 a year,” commented
Frazier, “he would be hailed as a
genius. If society could solve the
problem of the drinking driver,
that many people could be saved
each year.”
Most traffic statistics show,
state by state, that about 50 per
cent of all driver fatalities show
blood alcohol levels above the
legal limit. Frazier hopes the
Governor’s focus on drunken
driving in North Carolina will lead
to workable, responsible solutions
which protect the public from
drivers who mix driving with
drinking.
“We’re seeing a ground swell of
public opinion build in support of
the Governor’s efforts,” said
Frazier. “We applaud and support
his efforts. Our state has a great
opportunity to break new ground
in this effort,” Frazier concluded.
in the meantime, said Frazier,
the driver with the best chance
will be the defensive driver.
Buckle seat restraints and insist
that all passengers do the same.
Gardens Urged
ATLANTA - Food stamp
recipients are being urged
to stretch their food stamp
allotments by planting
vegetable gardens.
Mrs. Cherie Morris,
Southeast Regional Director
of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Food and
Nutrition Service, reminded
the recipients that they may
purchase garden seed and
plants with food coupons if
they are to be used to
produce food.
With food prices con
tinuing to spiral, she ad
vised everyone to sup
plement their food stamps
by growing vegetables.
“Os course,” she said,
“there are some without
garden space, but it is
surprising how many
vegetables can be grown on
a small plot in the back yard
or even on the patio.
Mrs. Morris also
reminded food stamp
recipients that there is no
expiration date on food
coupons. This means that
families can save some of
their coupons during the '
summer months to help with
the food budget next winter.
She urged all food stamp
recipients to use some of
their food coupons to buy
garden seed and plants to
start a garden. >