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Toward Good Sense
School superintendents from
across Tar Heelia met recently in
Wilmington. A headline in Mon
day’s edition of the Morning Star
proclaimed: “Superintendents
Are Managing More And
Edticating Less.”
The headline might come as a
shock to some, even along the
Public Parade. But to those
closely associated with public
education -- and there are more
and more in this corner as
volunteers are used heavily -
there is growing concern over the
old fashioned structure of the
Ivory Tower.
In every county in North
Carolina, the school budget takes
the biggest bite of the tax levy.
This is compounded because of the
enormous contribution of funds
from state and federal sources.
Public education is the biggest
business along the Public Parade,
yet it is administered by people
trained not in business, but
education. This have proven
beneficial in the County Health
Departments.
One superintendent at the
Wilmington conference observed
that the time is drawing near when
a superintendent will come from
the ranks of a management
specialist rather than education.
“That sounds like heresy, but
managing is a skill,” Stanley
County Supt. Jim Martin was
quoted as saying.
State Supt. Craig Phillips looks
upon the changing role as positive.
A good example of the lack of
sound business management in
public schools is what happened
along the Public Parade last year.
Expenditures were frozen and
the county commissioners had to
copie up with additional funds
when the school budget faced
difficulty. This could have been
avoided.
Any move toward better
business management in public
schools is a move toward good
sense.
The New DA
This week marks a changing of
the' guard in judicial circles along
the Public Parade and the other
six counties of the First Judicial
District in Northeastern North
Carolina.
District Attorney Tom Watts
moves up the bench Friday. He
will take the oath as a Superior
Court judge in Pasquotank County
Court House. The ceremony will
follow a flurry of action earlier in
the week regarding his successor.
H.P. Williams of the Isle of
Pasquotank went to the trough
twice this week and was well fed.
First, down in Manteo a special
committee nominated him as
candidate to succeed Mr. Watts.
Then, only hours later, Gov.
James B. Hunt, Jr., up in Raleigh,
chose Williams as interim
prosecutor.
This procedure practically
assures the nominee a four - year
term as district attorney. Since he
will replace Watts as the
Democratic Party nominee on the
ballot in November, it would take
a mighty aggressive write - in
campaign by the GOP to knock
him off.
A lot of people along the Public
Parade will find a newness to the
name of H.P. Williams. He has
prosecuted the docket in Chowan
County District and Superior
courts for about four years. From
the time he went to work in the
DA’s Office he demonstrated the
ability to fit into a team situation
which Mr. Watts had developed.
Mr. Williams has not been a
sensational prosecutor. He has
•proven to be a dedicated student of
the law who is hard hitting rather
than tough talking. This is the
style he learned from Mr. Watts
and the style which can be ex
pected to continue for at least the
next four years.
Mr. Williams has paid his dues
as an assistant. He moves into the
top spot with a reputation of being
firm but fair. As long as he
maintains such a balance he will
enjoy the respect and cooperation
of those who have business with
the courts.
Tunnel In Order
Finishing touches are being put
on the annex to the Legislative
Building up in Raleigh. One touch
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NEW OFFICERS—New officers for the Chowan Arts Council were elected in June for the 1982-83
year. Tuesday night was their first official meeting since being elected. The waterfront picture
includes: Bruce Wackelin, President; Mary Ann Morris, Vice President; Betty Bissette, Secretary;
and Marie Pierce, Treasurer.
Chaffin Presides Over Chowan District Court
The following cases were heard
in Chowan County District Court
on July 20 by the presiding judge,
John T Chaffin.
Joan Carol Bembury, shoplif
ting, 90 days suspended 2 years,
Margaret Davis
Taken In Death
Mrs. Margaret Smith Davis, 87,
of 200 E. King St. in Edenton, died
July 19 at Chowan Hospital. A
former school teacher and wife of
Junius (Doc) W. Davis, Sr., she
was a member of Edenton United
Methodist Church.
Other survivors include one son,
Junius W. Davis, Jr., M.D., of New
Bern; two grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
graveside July 21 at 11 A.M. by
Rev. Clifford Shoaf at Beaver Hill
Cemetery. Pall bearers were
Herbert Hollowell, Jim Blount,
Gilliam Wood, Joe Conger, Jr.,
Tom Shepherd and Bill Gardner.
In lieu of flowers, the family
suggests that memorial con
tributions be made to the charity
of choice. Williford-Barham
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
New Doctors Join Medical Center Staff
Two new doctors have been
named to the staff at Chowan
Medical Center. Drs. Joseph Ray
Haskett, Jr, and John Christopher
Perry have joined forces at the
Medical Center at a time when
extra efforts are being made to
make Chowan County a regional
medical center. Both doctors will
NEW DOCTORS AT CHOWAN MEDICAL CENTER—Dr.
Joseph Ray Haskett, Jr., left, and Dr. John Christopher Perry,
right, have joined the staff at Chowan Medical Center. Dr.
Haskett specializes in internal medicine. Dr. Perry’s specialty is
family practice. We welcome both to Chowan County.
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SIOO fine and cost of court,
reimburse the court for state
appointed attorney, ordered not to
go on the premises of Macks for 2
years.
Ada Holley Leary, attempted
larceny, 9 months suspended 2
years, SSO fine and cost of court,
ordered not to go on the premises
of Food Town for 2 years, ordered
to attend Albemarle Mental
Health Clinic.
McCoy (NMN) Bazemore,
communicate a threat, assault
with a deadly weapon, and assault
inflicting serious injury, con
solidated for judgement, 18
months suspended 2 years, SSOO
fine, cost of court in each count,
ordered not to assault or go in the
vicinity of Thelma L. Ford, Leo
Parker, John Ferebee, Jr., Eric L.
Jordan, Jr. or Thelma C. Ford for
2 years, ordered not to carry any
knives, guns, or other weapons for
2 years, ordered to pay $318.20 to
Clerk’s Office for benefit of Roy
Rogers Ford and Chowan
Hospital. Appealed. Two other
counts against Bazemore, assault
with a deadly weapon and assault
by pointing a gun, were dismissed
by the prosecutor.
John Ferebee, Jr., assault with
a deadly weapon, dismissed.
Thelma Lue Ford, assault with a
also work part of the time in
Hertford’s Medical Center.
Dr. Joseph Ray Haskett, Jr., 33,
a native of Perquimans County
and graduate of Perquimans High
School, received his un
dergraduate degree and medical
degree from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
Edonton. North Carolina, Thursday, July 22, 1982
deadly weapon, not guilty.
Trespassing, dismissed.
Walter Earl Leary, failure to
yield right of way and DUI, 90
days suspended 2 years, $125 fine
and cost of court, surrender
operator’s license.
Roy Rogers Ford, trespassing,
30 days suspended 2 years, SIOO
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Gross Retail Sales
Are Noted
Gross retail sales in the 10 -
county Albemarle Area of North
eastern North Carolina totaled
nearly |SO • million in April, the
latest figures available from the
State Department of Revenue.
Chowan County sales during
that month were recorded at
$5,295,563.
Total sales in the state were $3.2
billion with $195.2 - million being
in foreign sales.
Gross sales in the nine other
counties in the Albemarle Area
were;
Camden, $936,824; Currituck,
$5,374,700; Dare, $9,289,927; Hyde,
$ 1,533,603; Pasquotank,
$15,901,604; Perquimans,
$2,426,708; Tyrrell, $1,138,282; and
Washington, $5,215,373.
then served a 6 - year hitch in the
United States Army, where he
served his internship at Fitz
simmons Army Medical Center in
Denver, Colorado and also at Fort
Eustic, Virginia. Dr. Haskett’s
specialty is internal medicine.
According to Haskett, “After
living in several parts of the
country, I just wanted to move
back home,” and added, “I’m
very happy to be here.”
Hobbies of his include, when he
has time, tennis, sailing, hunting
and fishing, in that order. Dr.
Haskett and his wife, Sharman,
have two children, Jo Anna aged
12, and Joey aged 6, and make
their home in Perquimans County.
Dr. John Christopher Perry, a 29
year old Baltimore, Md. native,
completed his undergraduate
work at Florida State. He received
his medical degree from the
University of Florida and served
his internship and residency at
Roanoke Memorial Hospital in
Roanoke, Va.
According to Perry, he and his
wife, Marie, were “looking for an
area near the coast, a place where
we were between my wife’s
parents in Florida and mine in
Baltimore. We found Chowan
County to be extremely attractive
and its people very nice, very
friendly.”
When not working in his
specialty of family practice, Dr.
Perry likes carpentry, sailing and
jogging. He and his wife reside at
106 W. Church St.
Phillips Addresses Concerns
On Albemarle Sound Bridge
Following is a copy of the
statement delivered by Chowan
County Board of Commissioners
chairman A1 Phillips, at the July
20, hearing of The North Carolina
Department of Transportation in
Ahoskie. The following delegation
attended to call attention to the
serious problem existing with the
Albemarle Sound bridge on Rt. 32:
County Board of Commissioners
Chairman A1 Phillips, County
Sheriff Troy Toppin, County
Manager Cliff Copeland, Edenton
Town Administrator Sam Noble
and Chamber of Commerce
Executive Jerry Hendee.
Interested readers can write
their concerns on this matter to
Cliff Copeland, Chowan County
Manager P.O. Box 583 Edenton
27932.
“Undoubtedly the greatest
transportation need of Chowan
County and perhaps this entire
region is the replacement of the
Albemarle Sound (Route 32)
Bridge. I need not cite statistics
about the deteriorated condition of
the bridge. As members of the
hearing panel are aware, the
bridge simply needs replacing. At
present the remaining life ex
pectancy of the bridge is only two
to three years.
I will emphasize the importance
of the bridge to Chowan County
and our region. The closure of the
bridge would result, in devastating
financial loses to many of our
businesses and industries. Our
medical community would be
severely impacted. Chowan
Hospital, for example, employs
MERCHANT OF THE MONTH—John Mitchener, Jr., left, and
son John Mitchener 111 stand in the doorway of their business,
Mitchener’s Pharmacy in downtown Edenton. They were
selected as our Merchant of the Month for July.
Mitchener’s Pharmacy Continues
68-Year Old Tradition Os Service
By Richard Williams
According to John Mitchener Jr.
- the elder of the combination of
the father - son ownership of
Mitchener’s Pharmacy in
downtown Edenton - he, at 68, is
the oldest merchant in the same
location, operating the same
business, under the same name in
all of Chowan County.
In lieu of this outstanding feat
and their accomplishments in the
community, John Mitchener Jr.
and John Mitchener 111 has been
named the Chowan Herald
Merchants of the Month.
John Mitchener Sr., now
deceased, had the building con
structed in 1913. In the year his
first son, John Jr. was born, 1914,
the pharmacy was opened for
business.
Sixty - eight years and a lot of
blood, sweat and prescriptions
later, the pharmacy continues as a
mecca for weary shoppers and a
place where old- timers can enjoy
a cup of freshly brewed coffee.
But over the years, from one
generation to another, there have
been advances in technology and
in the field of medicine.
“Pharmacy today involves a lot
more thinking and analyzing of
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Single Copies 25 Cents
seventeen full-time employees
who commute via the Sound
Bridge. Twenty-three per cent of
the patients admitted to the
hospital during FY 82 were from
Washington, Tyrrell, Hyde, and
Beaufort Counties.
Mr. Marc Basnight, Mr. Atkins.
Mr. Moore and the remaining staff
of the North Carolina Department
of Transportation - all appreciate
the magnitude and severity of the
problems. All are leading the fight
to obtain financing for a
replacement bridge. Given the
present financial plight of the
North Carolina Department of
Transportation, 41 million dollars
is going to be difficult to obtain.
But we must persevere, we must
obtain the needed monies. We ask
for your continued support and we
pledge our unwavering assistance.
Construction
Grants Awarded
RALEIGH—Gov. James B.
Hunt Jr., and Dr. Sarah T.
Morrow, secretary of the
Department of Human Resources,
announced state grants totaling
sl4-million have been made to 60
local governments in North
Carolina for construction of water
supply systems projects.
Chowan County received
$12,206.
This funding was allocated
under the provisions of the North
Carolina Clean Water Bond Act
which authorizes grants of up to 25
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medical alternatives than it Cd
several years ago,’’ said Mit
chener, who graduated from
UNC—Chapel Hill with a degree in
Pharmacy in 1963.
“Part of this, he said,
“is because of the sheer develop in
chemistry the past 50 years or so.”
“A lot of people think that anti
biotics have always been around
but actually they’ve been around
just the past 40 years or so,” he
added.
How long does a business with
such tremendous longevity con
tinue to attract a sizable market?
According to Mitchener, a well -
traveled man of vast experiences
and expertise, the future of the
business looms no doubt in his
mind.
“I think we have got a good
future; with the influx of nursing
homes, people are having
problems today that they didn’t
have 40 years ago because people
are living longer. Frankly
speaking, said Mitchener, “Our
future is tied up with the future of
Edenton.”
John is married to the former
Ginette Nhan whom he met while
serving in Vietnam. They reside.
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