- Sv'.y •• ' Guest Editorial & The following editorial, headed “Tuition, Fees and Quality”, ap peared in The Washington Post on November 21. The unsolicited response is from someone close to the national scene as well as to this writer. Here they are: From time to time, various listings and guides rank the col leges by tuition and the cost of a 0 year’s education. It’s generally pretty depressing, especially for the parents of children in their last years of high school. Mo6t of the at tention generally goes to the top of the list, a position currently oc cupied by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where tuition and fees now run $8,700 a year, and the total cost for a resident I undergraduate is around $13,500. But it’s more interesting to look down the list for those institutions that maintain superior standards while managing, somehow, to keep the price down. The leader in that more difficult test, among the large universities, is the University of North Carolina. I tuition and fees there come to $702 " this year for local students. (Those who are not fortunate enough to be North Carolina residents are charg ed a less unusual $2,260.) Including living expenses and all, a resident student can typically get through the year on $3,800. Throughout the country, on the average, college co6ts in both public and private in * stitutions have been rising at just “ about the rate of inflation, which is to say that in the past four years, they have gone up by nearly half. At the University of North Carolina, they have gone up by less than a third. Why does the student pay less? Because the state pays more. Public education is a creed and a passion in North Carolina. The peo | pie of the state make it a point of pride not only to run a university that is manifestly one of the finest in the country, but to keep its doors open to students who haven’t much money. North Carolina is not a rich state, bat it has clear ideas about - ' .. iuf Here in Washington, there is much urgent talk about the need to |) strengthen the national economy and the country’s technological base. That talk usually drifts toward tax gimmicks to push com panies into more industrial research. How about investing that money, instead, in the people who are going to be running the com- Continued On Page 4 * Chowan District Court Report Chowan County District Court was in session on Tuesday, November 30 with the Honorable Gaston G. Beaman presiding. York Hayes failed to show for ) commitment. An arrest order was -issued and SSOO security bond. Charlene Felton Richardson was found guilty of going 70 in a 55 zone. She was fined S4O and cost. Linda McDougle Robinson was found guilty of going 65 in a 55 zone. She was fined $5 and cost. Robert W. Sawyer did not show \ on two counts of passing a worth less check. Charles Leslie Russell received voluntary dismissals for driving under the influence and driving with no operator license. He did receive a SIOO fine for reckless driv ing and a $35 on delay or obstruc ting an officer. He had to pay cost for both of the last two charges. Ernest Willie Hardy was found guilty of reckless driving. He was fined $75 and cost. He has appealed. Sylvester Armstead was found guilty of secreting property. He was sentenced to 30 days with 2 years suspended. He had to pay s2ll to the Carpet and Appliance Plaza for restitution. Archie Stanley was found guilty ) of disposing of mortaged property. He was sentenced to 30 days with 2 years suspended, cost of court and $187.35 to Goodwin’s T.V. for restitution. He has appealed. Richard Elliott was found guilty of trespass. He was sentenced to 90 days with 3 years suspended, fined S6O, cost of court and must stay off ; the premisses of Edenton Laundry } and Car Wash for a period of 3 >J'yaars. .'V " The Chowan Herald Volume XIVII - No. 46 sl ’ iii In if rim i fsS. JR* 1 FINAL SHOT—Cast and crew of “The First Holly Day” are shown here preparing for the final shooting in Edenton where the flash-back ends and time is again in the present. Edenton Is Chosen As Site For TV Series The Frog Hollow series, a pro duction of WRAL-TV Raleigh, came to Edenton this past week as the cast and crew spent two days, November 29 and 30, taping the series “Children’s Holiday Special”. The special, “The First Holly Day”, is about a winter celebration in Frog Hollow, which is a small country town of some age. The show itself is set in the present but flashes back into the past so that one of the characters can see and ■mmmm KE ■* flu SPEAKER RECEIVES GIFT—Mr. Billy Jones, Vice President of N.C. Jaycees, receives two drawings of Historic Edenton from the Edenton Jaycees in appreciation for his speech. Edenton Jaycee’s Hold Boss’ Banquet In Honor Os Their Employers The Edenton Jaycees held their annual Boss’ Banquet on Tuesday, November 23. The banquet was not to honor one specific boss but all the bosses that members of the Jaycees work for. The speaker at the banquet was the State Vice-President for the Jaycees, Billy Jones, from Gard ner, N.C. His talk revolved around the importance of a good boss/employee relationship; especially for members of organizations. First he talked with members of the organizations urging them to get involved with outside organiza tions, that will help themselves and their community. It is important,” Mr. Jones said, “for young men to join the Jaycees and other groups and to be involv ed with the community.” “People have to get their priorities in order,” he continued. The family, job and community is the proper order for priorities ac cording to Mr. Jones. “You have to think about what you have to do and [dan ahead,” Mr. Jones continued, “You know for example you have to be off x number of times.” “You’ll need to make ar rangements with your boss to be off these times.” Some of the arrangments men tioned were to: com* to work early Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 2, 1982 participate in the original “Holly Day” that took place hundreds of years before. Thus the need arose for historic location. The producer, Julie Wick, called the Department of Historic Sites in Raleigh to find a historic location that would fill the needs of the show. The “Department” in return gave her a list of several towns that it felt would match her re quirements, Edenton was on that list. Ms. Wick came and previewed the area on October 22. to make up the time or to get the boss and company involved with the organization and the community. When he spoke to the bosses he asked them to grant time off to those people involved with civic organizations because they [day a “...more vital role in the life of the community and the company.” He also asked them to be attentive to the needs of the people who are in volved with civic organizations.. Mr. Jones encouraged the bosses to encourage young men to join the Jaycees and other civic organiza tions and to get involved with the community. He clsoed his formal talk by reminding both the employees and bosses that getting along was a two way street and they both need to work at the relationship. Banks Fund Educational Loans For Students ROCKY MOUNT-North Carolina banks are funding educa tional loans for North Carolina students for the 20th consecutive year. Since 1983 the banks have pro vided student loan funds through College Foundation, Inc., a private, non-profit corporation serving as Continued On Pago 4 Single Copies 25 Cents “I was struck by the beauty and the appropriateness of Edenton to the needs of the show that I didn’t have to look any further,” Ms. Wick said. Edenton’s participation in the holiday production was vast. It in cluded the taping of scenes around and in several of the historic homes in Edenton including the Coffield House, the Skinner-Bond Home, the Homestead and the East Custom House. The series also needed and used several people from Edenton in one of the scenes which took place on the Courthouse Green. The scene involved a choreographed dance in front of the Historic homes. The Edenton participants: Ruth Rose, George Byrum, Sheila Snell, John Smith and Ctrol Baker- played the - parts of musicians during the dance scene. Other people in Edenton helped in the production by loaning the cast their their 18th Century costumes. Chief Parrish of the Edenton Police Department also helped in the production by stopping traffic on the streets where the show was being shot. Julie Wick expresses her ap preciation for all help given to the production by the people of Edenton. The program “The First Holly Day” will air on December 16 at 7:30 P.M. over Cable; channel 11. Santa Makes Appearance In Edenton’s Christmas Parade It was a dark and rainy Sunday afternoon as a large crowd gathered to watch Edenton’s An nual Christmas Parade. The weather may have been gloomy but the spectators who watched the parade warmed themselves on the sights, sounds and colors of the parade. The entrants ranging from Joh.. A. Holmes High School Junior NROTC class to a horse drawn sur rey to the queens of various con tests marched strolled or rolled iEpF' K w*