Father's Day
Our prayers and very special
wishes go out to all fathers on their
special day June 20th.
Men who are the longest
remembered, and whose
memories are most highly
revered, are not those that make
the most money; but those whose
hearts were gentle, whose sym
pathies were broad, and who best
served humanity.
Dear Dad.
What shall you give to one small
boy?
A glamorous game, a tinseled
toy,
A barlow knife, a puzzle pack,
A train that runs on a curving
track?
A picture book, a real live pet.
No, there’s plenty of time for
such things yet.
Give him a day of his very own.
Just one small boy and his dad
alone.
A walk in the woods, a romp in
the park,
A fishing trip from dawn to
dark,
Give the gift that only you can.
The companionship of his
father.
Games are outgrown, and toys
decay.
But he’ll never forget if you Give
him a day.
Rev. Preston Cayton
Four Step Plan
Is Approved
by Doug Gardner
Va-Pilot Staff Writer
RALEIGH —CF Industries and
the. Division of Environmental
management have agreed on a
four-step program to reduce the
flow of nitrogen into the Chowan
River at Tunis.
The company and the division
have been negotationg since
March 11, when the En
vironmental Management
Commission denied a request by
state officials for an' order
Requiring CF to take steps to clean
up the river. . -
"Our agreement on these four
basic, vital actions is a significant
Step toward control of one source
if nutrients in the river,” said
Joseph Grimsley, secretary of the
State Department of Natural
Resources and Community
Development.
CF officials would not comment
on the agreement.
In 1979, the state determined
that CF’s fertilizer operation
contributed 3 per cent on the
nitrogen pollution found in the
Chowan. The presence of nitrogen
was blamed for periodic algae
blooms that have fouled the river
since 1972.
Most of the nitrogen pollution
was found to come from
municipalities in the Chowan
River basin and from farm fer
tilizer runoff. Three-fourths of the
pollution came from farms, towns
and plants in Virginia.
The division and CF have
agreed that:
Specific locations will be set for
placement of automatic samplers
in the river upstream and down
stream from the plant. State
personnel will operate these
samplers. CF agreed to review its
flow calculation procedures.
The company will provide a
material balance study of all
significant nitrogen air emissions.
The company will evaluate the
east ditch drainage area that flows
through a flood plain, provide the
state with previous monitoring
data from the east ditch and work
with the state on monitoring the
area.
The company will consider
redirecting storm water drainage
away from the west side of its
property. The state believes that
would reduce the amount of
nitrogen flushed into the river.
The environmental division
fined CF $2,000 in November for
violating its water quality permit
by allowing too much nitrogen into -
the river.
Since its struggle with the state
began, CF has spent $1 million
building an underground con
tainment wall to prevent nitrogen
tainted groundwater from seeping
into the river, pumped chrainage
water away from the river, and
planted soybeans to minimize
rainwater runoff into the river.
JAIL UPDATE—These four men are discussing plans for a policy and procedure manual to be
used throughout the counties in North Carolina jail systems. They are Sheriff Troy Toppin, left
rear; Walt Linhardt, left front; Gary Willis, right rear; and Joe Thompson, right front.
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Chowan Herald
Volume XLVII - No. 23
Mrs. Graham Is Named Committee Chairman
Gov. Jim Hunt has appointed
Dorothy C. Graham of Edenton as
chairman of the Chowan County
Committee for America’s Four
Hundredth Anniversary.
Mrs. Graham, widow of the late
John W. Graham, is a graduate of
Stanford University in California.
She is activ# in a number of
historical and community service
organizations, including the
Democratic Woman’s Club, the
Edenton Woman’s Club and St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Graham has the power to
appoint three members to the
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Marion Jones
Miss Jones, Miss Roberts Are
Alumni Scholarship Recipients
Marion Jones and Karen
Roberts, valedictorian and
salutatorian respectively of the
class of ’B2 at John A. Holmes High
School, have been selected by the
faculty of East Carolina
University to receive an Alumni
Honor Scholarship for 1982. These
scholarships recognize the most
academically outstanding fresh
men each year. The Alumni Honor
Scholarship is the most
prestigious academic award of
fered to new freshmen at East
Chowan Hospital Receives Certification
RALEIGH - Hie N.C. Volun
tary Effort (VE) has announced
the names of the state’s acute care
hospitals including Chowan
Hospital in Edenton, which have
been certified in recognition of
their successful completion of the
criteria for this cost containment
program.
In congratulating certified in
stitutions, Dr. Edward L. Walls,
Jr., professor of business at
UNC—Charlotte, and chairman of
die state Steering Committee for
Health Care Cost Containment,
stated “We are pleased that this
program has been so well received
by the hospitals of North Carolina.
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, June 17, 1982
local committee for the Four
Hundredth Anniversary. The
chairman of the county com
missioners or his representative
will also have a seat, and three
appointees will be made by
America’s Four Hundredth An
niversary Committee (AFHAC),
the arm of the N.C. Department of
Cultural Resources responsible
for coordinating celebrations of
the quadricentennial of the
Roanoke Voyages of 1584 - 87.
The Roanoke Voyages, spon
sored by Sir Walter Raleigh, were
the first English attempts to settle
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Carolina University and are
renewable for a four - year period,
contingent on students main
taining a 3.0 grade point average.
The Alumni Honor Scholarships
were presented to Marion and
Karen at the Awards Day
program at John A. Holmes by
Mr. Ron Brown representing East
Carolina University. These
scholarships helped to make up a
total of over $31,000 awarded to
students at John A. Holmes High
School.
It remains among the few state
level activities firmly committed
to reducing health care costs.”
The N.C. Voluntary Effort this
year introduced a complex budget
analysis program, permitting
each participating hospital to
compare its performance with
other institutions in its peer group.
Additionally, hospitals were
required to operate cost
awareness programs that called
for multi - disciplinary cost con
tainment committees, the sending
of copies of patients’ hospital bills
to their physicians and to hospital
boards of trustees, and the posting
of hospital charges for members
of medical staffs.
Single Copies 25 Cents
North America. Probably the
most famous of the Voyages is the
mysterious “Lost Colony” of 1587,
but several earlier expeditions
also reached the shores of
Roanoke Island on the Outer
Banks.
“Appointment of these county
chairmen marks a very, very big
step in planning for an exciting
commemoration,” according to
John Neville, executive secretary
of AFHAC.
“Our AFHAC chairman, Lind
say Warren of Goldsboro, is
determined that this com
memoration will involve every
North Carolinian in every part of
the state. Local leaders will be
able to give us enormous help in
reaching everyone interested in
North Carolina’s history.”
The chairmen met with
Governor Hunt and AFHAC
members May 25 in Raleigh. They
received guidebooks and ex
tensive suggestions on local in
volvement and heard details about
commemorative projects already
underway.
The first official project will be a
visit in April of 1984 by an
American delegation to Plymouth,
England, from which Philip
Amadas’ Roanoke expedition set
sail 400 years earlier. An English
delegation is due in Manteo in July
of 1984, the quadricentennial of the
landing of that expedition.
That date is also scheduled for
the christening of a sailing ship
built in the style of the 16th cen
tury, a project already underway
under the direction of the
American Quadricentennial
Corporation.
Plans for the ship, to be named
the Elizabeth 11, are complete,
and construction is scheduled to
begin sometime this summer in
Manteo. The ship will be berthed
permanently in Manteo, but it will
be able to sail to other ports in
North Carolina.
Also a key part of the com
memoration is a joint exhibition
with the British Library featuring
documents and artifacts con
cerning Sir Walter Raleigh, the
power behind the “Roanoke
Voyages,” and the entire
Elizabethan era. The beautiful
drawings of Indians done by John
White, governor of “The Lost
Colony,” will also be included.
The exhibition will open in
England in the spring of 1984 and
travel to the N.C. Museum of
History in Raleigh in early 1985.
Archaeologists are already
working on another aspect of the
commemoration, the search for
remains of the “Lost Colony.”
Private citizens and
organizations are working on
several other projects, including a
British - American Festival of arts
and folklife, an Elizabethan
Festival at Roanoke Island’s
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Chowan Detention Facility
To Participate In Pilot Program
by Richard Williams
Two instructors from Ap
palachian State University are
spearheading a study to upgrade
jail systems in the state of North
Carolina.
■ Chowan County Sheriff’s
Department and Detention Center
has been selected as one of only
three counties in North Carolina to
be a part of the Pilot Im
plementation Study to compose a
policy and procedure manual.
“We selected this facility
because Sheriff (Troy) Toppin and
(County Manager) Cliff Copeland
have demonstrated a willingness
to work with us,” said Gary Willis,
who has taught criminal justice
for thirteen years at Appalachian
State University.
“Also because it is a modern and
small jail,” said Dr. Joe Thomp
son, instructor of political science
at A.S.U.
Chowan County will have tlje
first policy and procedure manual .
The two instructors are assisting
Toppin and Detention Center Chief
Walter Linhardt to start their own
and other counties will use it as a
model to start their own.
Executive Director of the
Sheriff Association predict fifty to
seventy-five of the counties will
adopt the model.
The manual will have a three
fold purpose defined by Willis 1.
“to standardize jail operations, 2.
to prevent law suits and suc
cessfully defend them if any do
occur and 3. to upgrade the quality
of service rendered 1 to persons
incarcerated.”
Winberry Hears
Superior Court
The following Superior Court
cases were heard last week in
Chowan County Superior Court by
the presiding judge, Charles B.
Winberry, Jr.
Michael Thomas Perry,
careless and reckless driving after
drinking, 120 days suspended 2
years, SIOO fine and cost of court,
ordered to attend Drug - Alcohol
school.
Clarence E. Walker, failure to
comply with terms of suspended
sentence in re support of
illegitimate child, 6 months in the
N.C. Dept, of Correction.
Robert Archer Prezzano,
violating a Town Ordinance (dog
at large), $25 fine and cost of
court.
Roy Donald Powell, 59 MPH in a
45 MPH zone, the case was
remanded to District Court where
he received 10 days suspended 1
year, $35 fine and cost of court.
Marvin Bonner, worthless
check, the case was remanded to
District Court where he received 5
days suspended 2 years, $5
restitution to S&R, and cost of
court.
Joe Nathan Holley, littering,
this case was also remanded to
District Court where he received a
$25 fine and bost of court.
Gary Lynn Smith, exceeding a
safe speed, $25 fine and cost of
court.
Harold Jones, defraud inn
keeper, 6 months suspended 1
year, $25 fine and cost of court.
William Earl White, violated the
terms and conditions of a
probation judgement. Probation
was modified and extended.
Joseph E. Robinson, violated the
terms and conditions of a
probation judgement. Probation
was modified and extended.
Charles S. Fearing, felonious hit
and run resulting in death, 3 years
to run concurrently with a former
sentence, suspended 3 years on a
$750 fine and cost of court
amounting to $981.50.
John David Rose, Jr., obtaining,
property by false pretense (three
counts), 3 years in the N.C. Dept,
of Correction. He was charged
with three additional counts of
obtaining property by false
pretense and received an added
three year sentence in the N.C.
Dept, of Correction.
Thomas Alvin Fleming,
discharging a firearm into a motor
vehicle and assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill, after
evidence was heard both counts
were dismissed.
Herbert Ray Lane, violation of
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This is the second attempt to
develop such a manual. Die first
attempt failed because “there was
not enough support from the of
ficials in the criminal justice
system,” Willis said. “But the
need is extensive.”
In 1979, the Comprehensive
Crime Report issued by Gover
nor’s Crime Commission stated,
“We believe it absolutely essential
that local and state law en
forcement agencies develop
adequate policy and procedure
manuals.”
The impetus for the present
project was provided by a request
from Sheriff R.L. Thomas of
Carteret County to the GCC to
develop a policy and procedure
manual for North Carolina’s jail.
As a result of his request, a jail
technical assistance group was
established in January, 1981, to
begin work on the development of
an outline for a policy and
procedure manual.
Work on the manual is expected
to be completed in all N.C.
counties by August, according to
Willis.
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John Dowd
Dowd Addresses
Graduating Class
Sunday evening John A. Holmes
High School held its annual
commencement excercises in
Hicks Field. Diplomas were
awarded to one hundred sixty-five
students.
John Dowd of Dowd Insurance
and Real Estate was the guest
speaker for the event. An in
structor at the school for eight
years, Dowd informed the
audience of his graduation day
fifteen years ago, in his address.
“In high school I saw myself as
just an average kid,” he said, but
that is not a lot to be proud of
- just average.”
He informed the audience of the
importance of setting goals. “If
you don’t set goals, how will you
know if you’ve succeeded,” said
Dowd, who served as assistant
football coach at Holmes in 1979.
Dowd graduated from East
Carolina University in 1971 with a
B.S. in Business Administration.
Earlier this year he was named as
an Honorary Life ttylember of
North Carolina DECA.
Mrs. Kay Cherry, senior class
advisor, said Dowd’s speech was
“one of the best that she can
remember ever.”
Marion Jones was the
valedictorian. Salutatorians were
Harriet Abbe, Anna Goodwin,
Deneen Roberts and Barbara
Wright.
There were eighteen honor
graduates. Diey include: Harriet
Abbe, Suanne Bass, A1 Bunch,
Sheila Cherry, Paula Dunlowe,
Arlene Evans, Anna Goodwin,
Mary Hollowell, Valerie Jerkins,
Marion Jones, Connie Lane, Kim
Maglione, Deneen Roberts, Darryl
Stallings, Kim Swanner, Sara
Twine, Debbie Ward and Bill
Which ard.
Advisors to the senior class were
Lee Bass, Gloria Bryant, Kay
Cherry, Hugh Dial, Peggy Har
mon, Nelia Lane, Lois Lassiter
and Harriet Small.
What were the feelings of this
year’s graduating class?
Graduating senior Thomas White
expressed it best, “Free at last!
Free at last!”