Another View
It has been our policy along the
Public Parade for nearly two
decades to use this column for
discussion of local, regional and
state matters. Seldom, if ever, have
we branched into the national
arena.
The reasoning behind this
general policy has been that the
“boob tube” commentators, and
editorialists in the Ivory Tower of
the daily press give you an ade
quate dose of the big picture. It may
be contradictory, then, that we
have picked TV editorialists as our
guests here this week.
Things have been running in
Russia faster than the presses of
candidates for public office in the
state and nation. Therefore,
because of the importance of our
relations with this world power, we
need to know as much as we can
about the leadership. Some of the
best we have read were written by
two commentators at WRAL-TV,
Channel 5 in Raleigh.
J.D. Lewis wrote the piece on An
dropov while his colleague, Joel
Lawhom presented the overview of
Chernenko. Here they are:
The many weeks of speculation
concerning the whereabouts and
physical condition of Soviet Presi
dent Yuri Andropov have finally
ended. The official announcement
of his death lays to rest that con
cern. His short, 15-month tenure as
president of the Soviet Union held
little promise for the de-escalation
of the nuclear arms race and any
hopes for our long-term, peaceful
co-existence. His background as
the former head of the KGB pro
trayed him to be a staunch com
munist, rigidly conforming to the
Soviet ideology.
Now, speculation begins as to his
successor and whether Andropov’s
death provides the opportunity for
President Reagan to make over
tures to effect som£ improvement
in U,S - Soviet relation!. President
fleagatrRls rlHai2sre?rfir8 W
ingness to negotiate and we ap
plaud his position.
But forgive us our lack of op
timism. The Soviet Union has
shown that it is rarely, if ever, in
fluenced by the opinion of the free
world. The Russian Communist
philosophy is committed to world
domination. Russia’s history of be
ing invaded by Hitler, Napoleon
Bonaparte and other armies, dating
back to the year 990 A.D. and
beyond, has influenced its hardline
position.
Andropov’s predecessors, Lenin,
Stalin, Malenkiv, Khurshchev and
Brezhnev, all seemed to have been
cut of the same communist cloth.
Andropov’s replacement is likely to
be a carbon copy.
But “Hope springs eternal” and
as long as there’s life, we live in the
hope that the next Russian leaders
will recognize the wastefulness and
futility of nuclear escalation and
war, and come to the peace table in
the interest of all humanity.
Constantine Chernenko is the new
leader of the Soviet Union.
Chernenko is 72 years old.
His counterpart in the United
States is President Ronald Reagan,
age 73.
For better or for worse, this may
be the last time that two veterans
of the World War II era head up
Russia and America.
So what can be expected in the
future, with both nations led by men
in their 70’s?
We think a short answer would
be: more of the same. Older men
are inclined to be conservative in
terms of change. Neither Reagan
nor Chernenko is apt to move very
far away from the basic
philosophies that distinguish and
separate the two countries.
It is unlikely that the two will
reach any new compromise that
would usher in a new era of peace.
On the other hand, neither is apt
to push the panic button. Instead,
both are apt to follow the pattern
set by all the other old timers who
have headed up the United States
and the Soviet Union since World
War II: the pattern of avoiding
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Volume XLVIIII-No. 58
Edanton, North Carolina, Thursday, March 1, 1984
Single Copies 25 Cents
Hayes Manuscript Collection Given To UNC-CH
CHAPEL HILL— One of North
Carolina’s oldest and most valuable
manuscript collections has been
given to the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill by John
Gilliam Wood and his family of
Edenton.
The collection is made up of more
than 20,000 loose manuscripts and
164 manuscript volumes covering
HAYES PAPERS—The Hayes library (wing on right) formerly
housed the collection of historical papers which will now be a part
of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
the period 1694 to 1928. It has an ap
praised value of approximately
$200,000.
Announcement of the gift was
made Friday by University
Chancellor Christopher C. For
dham III.
“The Hayes Collection, covering
nearly 250 years of North Carolina
history, is probably the longest run
ning manuscript collection of its
type in the United States,” For
dham said.
“Though long known to
scholars,” he said, “it is regarded
as one of the most significant
privately-owned groups of
manuscripts for the study of
American history in the late 18th
and 19th centuries.”
“The University and the people of
North Carolina are indebted to
John Gilliam Wood and his family
for this rare and outstanding gift,”
Fordham said, historians will find
these manuscripts of exceptional
value because the Hayes Collection
and the Johnston and Wood
families are so deeply rooted in the
soil and drama of early North
Carolina.”
Fordham said copies or parts of
the Hayes Collection have been us
Doctors Vauehan. Williams Are Honored
Dr. L. Polk Williams, Sr. and Dr.
Roland H. Vaughan, Sr., two physi
cians who provided a total of 88
years of dedicated care to area
citizens, have been posthumously
honored by Chowan Hospital,
hospital officials announced
Tuesday.
At the suggestion of the hospital
medical staff, names of the two
nurses’ stations at the hospital were
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recently changed to Williams Sta
tion and Vaughan Station.
Dr. Williams moved to Edenton
in 1922 and opened a general prac
tice of medicine which he operated
until his retirement in 1976 at the
age of 82. Following retirement, he
remained active and for several
years was Medical Director for the
skilled nursing unit of the hospital.
Dr. Williams died in 1983 at the age
of 91.
Dr. Roland H. Vaughan, Sr.
Dr. L. Polk Williams
Burger Denies N.C. Request
By Maru Am burn
U.S. Chief Justice Warren E.
Burger Friday denied North
Carolina’s request for a stay of a
federal court order to redraw seven
state legislative districts.
Burger denied the appeal, but did
not issue a written opinion.
The court order which instigated
the Supreme Court decision was
issued by a three-judge federal
panel last month, The judges ruled
that the districts diluted black
voting strength under the Voting
Rights Act of 1965.
The order directs the General
Assembly to redraw the districts by
Local Sales Tax
Figures Released
Collections from the local option
sales and use tax in the 10
Albemarle Area counties for
December, 1983, were nearly
$28.8-million, according to a report
released this week by Sec. Mark G.
Lynch of the State Department of
Revenue. In Chowan County, the
net collection totaled 861,358.81.
In the area, only Dare County
does not collect the extra one-half
of 1 per cent authorized by the 1983
General Assembly for local govern
ments. Collections in Dare
amounted to $111,579.92.
Net collections in other counties
included:
Camden, $7,930.55; Currituck,
$274183.30; Gates, $15,834.13; Hyde,
$14,435.13; Pasquotank, $195,021.04;
Perquimans, $15,437.54; Tyrrell,
$10,244.75; , and Washington,
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March 16 or submit to new boun
daries drawn by federal judges.
House Speaker Liston B. Ramsey
has made preparations for a special
redistricting session at 10:00 A.M.
on March 7 if the full court rejects
the appeal or does not hear it in
time.
The legislature, in its petition to
the high court, requests that the
districts be allowed to stand until
the ruling can be appealed. Accor
ding to the State of North Carolina,
a stay is necessary because the
legislature does not have sufficient
time to redraw the districts and
also have orderly elections.
Chowan County is part of the 2nd
District Senate seat which is ef
fected by the ruling.
Senate District 2, with one
senator, was drawn to cover most,
of Northeastern North Carolina
north of Pamlico County and east
of Edgecombe and Halifax
counties.
Chaffin Presides
Over Calendar
Chowan County District Court
was in session February 28,
The Honorable John T. Chaffin
presiding.
Michael Wayne Jones was found
guilty of disobeying a stop sign. He
paid a fine of $50.
Probable cause was found in the
case of William Jennings Edwards,
Sr. who was charged with discharg
ing firearms into an occupied vehi
cle. The case was hound over to
Superior Court. *
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During his 54 years of active
practice, Dr. Williams treated
many patients and was responsible
for the delivery of an untold
number of babies; hence, the
reason for naming the nurses’ sta
tion adjacent to the hospital’s
nursery Williams Station.
Dr. Vaughan came to Edenton in
1938 as a general practitioner. At
the time of his death in 1972, he was
60 years old and was senior partner
at the Chowan Medical Center. He
had practiced for 34 years in Eden
ton’s medical community.
Immediately following his death,
a memorial fund was established
and the contributions received were
utilized to establish the Vaughan
Respiratory Care Center at
Chowan Hospital.
For this reason, the nurses’ sta
tion on the hallway to the
respiratory therapy department
has been named Vaughan Station.
Continued On Page 4
ed in historical research, but until
now the full body of original
manuscripts has not been accessi
ble to scholars.
The topics with which the collec
tion deals include the economy and
politics of the colonial era, the
American Revolution, antebellum
plantation management (including
agricultural reform and the slave
labor system), the Civi’ War
Reconstruction and farm and
fishery management in the second
half of the 19th century.
The collection is named for
Hayes Plantation near Edenton,
which was owned and operated by
two families, the Johnstons and
later the Woods.
It includes papers of Gabriel
Johnston (1699-1752), the surveyor
general of the colony; Samuel’s son
Samuel (1733-1816), a lawyer,
delegate to the Continental Con
Home Federal
To Open Branch
By Maru Amburn
Home Federal Savings and Loan
Association, a Greenville-based
bank with assets of $75-million, will
open an Edenton branch this
summer.
The bank has offered Chowan
County $75,000 for the Rescue
Squad Building and lot at the cor
ner of Broad and Queen Streets.
Following a 10-day bidding period
which ends on March 5, the County
intends to sell the lot to Home
Federal.
—County Manager Cliff Copeland
explained that, “In 1974, the Coun
ty purchased the lot and building
for $27,500, eight years later, we are
selling for $75,000.”
Copeland described the advan
tages of locating a financial institu
tion in downtown Edenton as: im
provement of the appearance of the
corner and relocation of emergen
cy medical services to a more
pragmatic area.
“The Commissioners intend to
allot funds from the sale toward
Continued On Page 4
Electricities’ Attorney Fees
Increased Over Half-Million
By Maru Amburn
Town officials met with Elec
tricities representatives Monday in
Wilson to discuss a proposed legal
services fee increase.
The Town of Edenton was among
six member municipalities who
voted against the adjustment which
will result in a $536,100 increase in
legal fees for the agency over the
next ten years.
- The increase calculates to 30
cents per $1,000 of the face amount
of indebtedness on all bond financ
ings in which a legal opinion on con
tract validity is rendered.
“This amount applies only to
legal work in connection with bond
issuance, a power agency
spokesman stated.
The Board of Commissioners of
North Carolina Eastern Municipal
Bower Agency (NCEMPA) delayed
action on the proposed cfiarige at its
February 22 meeting.
“It appears that we are spinning
our wheels and spending a lot of
potential savings on attorney and
engineer fees,” Samuel Noble,
Edenton Town Administrator said.
In a February 10 letter to
NCEMPA, DeWitt McCotter of
Spruill, Lane, Carlton, McCotter &
Jolly, of Rocky Mount and Raleigh,
described the necessity for review
of the arrangement made with the
agency in May, 1981.
McCotter said, “In today’s
climate, more emphasis is placed
on our opinion than at any time in
the past and its importance has
taken on new significance.”
The legal counsel emphasized at
the meeting Monday that the ex
posure to a law firm involved in the
issuance of municipal debt has
changed dramatically over the last
three years.
The decision of the State of
Washington Supreme Court in June
1983, concerning the Washington
Public Power Supply System
(WPPSS) and the ultimate default
on WPPSS bonds has placed con
sultants in a more exposed position,
according to the law firm.
The effect of increasing the rate
on financial activities is to provide
legal counsel with compensation
should their opinion be challenged
in court.
The opinions and certificates
rendered by North Carolina counsel
are a requirement for the
marketing and sale of the
NCEMPA debt.
The power agency currently has
$1.3 billion in outstanding debt and.
Continued On Page 4
Chamber Aoooints Senior Committee
Bruce Gillikin, President of the
Edenton Chowan Chamber of Com
merce, recently appointed a Senior
Economic Development Commit
tee.
Gillikin said, “The purpose of this
committee is to assist, in an ad
visory capacity, those chamber
members who have the need of
their services.”
According to Gillikin, this service
is being offered to chamber
members free of charge and should
be very helpful to the business com
munity in Edenton.
The committee is composed of
eleven Retired Business Ex
ecutives who live in Edenton and
Chowan County.
Their collective years of ex
perience and expertise is extensive.
Some of the areas of expertise
available are in marketing,
manufacturing, finance, personnel,
legal, communications, agriculture
and utilities.
Members of the committee are:
Charles H. Shaw, Jr., Chairman,
E. L. Hollowell, West Leary, Alice
Bond, Lena Leary, A. C. Hudson,
Walter Hege, Walter Abbe, Bob
Beaumont, Pete Dulaney, and Bill
Pierce.
Committee Chairman Charlie
Shaw is an accredited represen
tative of SCORE (Active Corps of
Executives), which is sponsored by
the Small Business Administration.
Gillikin urged all chamber
members to take advantage of this
new service. He also requested the
membership to submit the names
of other senior retired business
executives.
RETIRED EXECUTIVES—The recently appointed Senior Economic Development Committee met
Tuesday to organize their efforts. Members pictured (1 to r) Lena Leary, Pete Dulaney, Alice Bond.
Walter Abbe, Bob Beaumont, West Leary, Charlie Shaw, Chairman, Walter Hege, E. L. Hollowell.
and A. C. Hudson. (Not pictured: Bill Pierce.)