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Continued From Page 1 billion, so it went into a juggling act which made it appear that a big saving had been achieved. Like so many other things that are now in vogue in Washington, it’s as phony as all those budget “cuts” the President claims to have made in the successive pro posals he has sent to Congress during the past six years. The fact that the pool of red ink has gotten bigger each year represents the reality behind all this fiscal magic. When it comes down to the economic facts of life, both the President and Congress have been play acting. The President, hav ing talked himself into a comer by his continuing anti-tax protesta tions, now waves the red veto flag every time some member of Con gress proposes to balance the budget by levying enough taxes to carry it. And Congress, by and large, responds by giving the ap pearance of fiscal knife wielders, yet rarely draw little blood from the red ink pool. And, as usual, it is the taxpayer who continues to suffer. By fixing the final payday of the year as December 31, the manipulators have robbed the service folks of the small tax advantage a January 1 date would have allow ed them. School Policy Continued From Page 1 The old policy said the person administering the punishment must be of the same sex as the child being punished, but some schools in the county do not have male teachers. The new version says punish ment shall be administered by the school principal, assistant prin cipal or the child’s teacher. Another change in the mandate says students must not be punish ed in the classroom or in the presence of other students. Corporal punishment, or spank ing, must be administered only on the buttocks with a paddle designated and approved by the superintendent. Other rules in the new policy say that corporal punishment shall not be administered routine ly for specific offenses or as mass punishment. Instead, each case must be received and handled individually. The student’s age and ability to understand the reason for punish ment shall be considered and punishment shall not be ad ministered when a person is angry. Punishment must be given in the presence of the principal or assistant principal and the student must be told the reason he is be ing punished in their presence. The principal or his represen tative will inform the parents in writing that punishment has been given, including reasons, date and name of the person present. , The board of education will ap prove annually the discipline rules of each school. These rules shall be published in the newspaper and presented at parent meetings at the beginning of each school year. The Chowan Herald (USPS 106-380) P.O. Box 207 Edenton, N.C. 27932 (919) 482-4418 Published every Thursday by The Chowan Herald, Inc., J. P. Huskins, President, 421-425 South Broad Street, . Edenton, North Carolina 27932. Entered as a second-class matter August 30,1934 at the Post Office of Edenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1870. E. N. Manning - General Manager Jack O. Grove.Managing Editor 11,11111 A ffAf/gff Editor Irene Stotesbury.Advertising Mgr. Susan Bunch.Office Manager Subscription Rates One Year (outside N/C.).$12.50 One Year (in N.C.).$11.55 Six Months (outside N.C.).$ 7.50 SU Months (in N.C.).$ 7.56 RONALD McDonald HOUSE GET BOOST—Preston Sisk (left), supervisor for McDonald’s in Edenton, accepted a check Friday from Dr. Allen Hornthal, member oft the board of directors of the local NCNB. The donation goes to the Greenville Ronald McDonald House, a McDonald's project used as a home for families with children hospitalized or requiring treatment at Pitt Memorial Hospital. Chowan businesses and individuals have furnished one room of the new home. Food Distribution Planned The Chowan County Depart ment of Social Services will be distributing cheese, butter, flour, corn meal, dry milk, rice and honey to the residents of Chowan County at two locations on Wednesday, September 23. Ap plications will be processed and commodities distributed at the Edenton-Chowan Rescue Building, 208 West Hicks Street, Edenton, during the hours from 9 to 12 noon; and at the Chowan Community Building, Tyner, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on the same day. The commodities will be available as long as the supply holds out to all households receiv ing food stamps in Chowan Coun ty and other households meeting certain income levels. The food stamp households will be notified prior to this day to bring in need ed information. Each food stamp household will be required to pre sent the form they received from the Department of Human Resources in Raleigh. They should be careful to follow instruc tions on the card. One important instruction is that the person whose naihe is on the card has to sign the card for the family to be eligible to receive commodities. Application forms will be available for other interested per sons to sign a self-declaration in come statement. For those households not on food stamps, gross monthly income levels to be eligible should not exceed: Household Gross Income Size » Per Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Add for $596.00 802.00 1,008.00 1.214.00 1.420.00 1.625.00 1.831.00 2.037.00 each additional household member 206.00 One person from each household should come in and sign the application and receive the commodities. Child Needs Special Shoes By JEANETTE WHITE At least one Edenton grand mother and guardian is unable to obtain special shoes for a child with orthopedic problems because no merchant has been located who will assume the state paperwork involved. The grandmother has legal custody of a grandchild with cerebral palsy. Because of the disease, the grandmother must purchase two pairs of shoes at the same time, one pair a size larger than the other because of a leg brace. The Child Special Health Ser vices program, under the Division of Health Services, pays, for the $400 brace and will pay for one pair of the shoes if a vendor will come forward. Child Special Health Services is more than 50-years-old and pro vides special equipment, physical and occupational therapy, medical equipment and drugs under certain chronic conditions. The child must also meet financial and diagnostic guidelines. For instance, the program will not buy regular shoes, since it says parents have to purchase shoes anyway, but will pay for special footwear. The Edenton child qualifies for shoes for the crippled leg, but the grandmother must purchase shoes for the other Man Drowns The body of an 80-year-old man was recovered from Edenton Bay last week and cause of death has been listed as drowning. According to Chowan Sheriff Fred Spruill, relatives of Luther Outlaw, of Hayes Farm called his department around 7:15 a.m. Thursday and said one of the family members had spotted the body in the water. Edenton-Chowan Rescue Squad recovered the body from the bay side of Hayes Farm Bridge. The family said the victim was suffering from an advanced stage of cancer. In other sheriff’s department activities, Deputy James White is heading the investigation of a break-in September 8 at White’s Country Store in the Cape Colony area. Entry into the store was through the front door and $250 was stolen. The stcre owner is Herman White. foot. j Robin Smith, who works with < the program in Elizabeth City, lays this particular case has been Especially frustrating and that most parents with children who qualify for assistance are not aware bf all benefits available, i Ms. Smith went to a chain shoe ( store in Elizabeth City to see if it g would be volunteer vendor for the area, but the store’s home office ( refused, even with the assurance ] that the state would foot the bill, j Rules and regulations govern- ( ing the chain store said it did not want the state paperwork involv ed. The store’s main office said if it did volunteer, it could be February before shoes were available and then would not guarantee two pairs of shoes that ] matched. ( Ms. Smith feels that a privately- : owned business might be more ] able to handle the red tape involv- ( ed with the program, “and we are . not talking about cheap shoes,” j she said. c “The store would very likely get J a fair amount of business and we would send all our cases to him. * I aftvays call ahead and send the £ paperwork with the parent to get ( shops,” Ms. Smith said. ( She was able to locate an ‘ Elizabety City pharmacy to 1 assume vendor’s responsibilities * for the medical program and said the store manager “has business < coming out of his ears". i A Greenville regional office 1 worker for the program says it ( does not require a voluminous a amount of red tape, “just state ] paperwork”. t Ms. Smith says she runs into no j problems when braces with t specially made shoes are needed, ( because they must come from an j orthopedic supplier, who is f familiar with the program and j how it operates. “But I was almost to the point of buying this kid’s shoes myself ” t the day she visited the Elizabeth City store, Ms. Smith said. She emphasized that if any j Edenton merchant would assume 1 the paperwork involved to be paid j for shoes bought through the into- 1 gram, he should telephone her at the Pasquotank-Perquimans- * Chowan-Camden District Health 1 Department in Elizabeth City, I 338-4066. A < The local program serves a t 10-county area, - | . - 'A..-. '.AAA: '■ : - System Proposals Heard heard proposals Monday morning for improvements in the county water system. Bill Diehl of the engineering firm of Diehl and Phillips, reported that the Yeopim plant was being over-worked, having to operate 24 hours a day during peak demand days. In contrast, he said, the new plant at Valhalla operates 12 to 13 hours daily. He listed two possibilities to ease the situation: installation of new pumps at Yeopim to increase the output from 200 to 500 gallons per minute; or connecting the nor thern and southern systems with a water main along U.S. 17 Bypass. Diehl said that connection of the systems would allow abandon ment of the Yeopim plant in the future and would centralize treat ment of water at Valhalla. “I think centralization of the plant is the best solution,” he commented. Connection of the systems could provide a much quicker solution he said and the Yeopim facility could be converted to a booster pumping station. The engineer pointed out another problem area in the southern system. A 200,000 gallon elevated storage tank at the Yeopim plant stands 20 feet Higher than the 150,000 gallon tank at the airport. The height differential causes vater pressure to hold water at he airport tank with resultant vater quality loss in that tank. Diehl recommended replacement >f the airport tank, built in 1943, vith a 400-500,000 capacity tank. 3e said that the airport remains i good location for an elevated ank. Diehl said that his firm would >repare a full report on the op ions for review by county by November 1. In other business the :ommissioners: 1 Approved technical changes to he county’s flood insurance >rogram; 1 Named Stanton Harrell of SCS . Man Faces Car ¥heft Charges A New Hampshire man was ar ested here Tuesday night and harged with possession of a tolen vehicle. According to Edenton Police )hief J.D. Parrish, Robert Olen tloulette, was stopped on U.S. 17 typass and found to be driving a ar stolen in New Hampshire. Bloulette had two passengers, Early Diagnosis Very Important Historically, the research on locky Mountain spotted fever is ilosely tied to the establishment ind development of the Rocky .fountain Laboratory (RML) of he National Institute of Allergy .nd Infectious Diseases. This aboratory became the center for tudies of spotted fever and other ick-borne diseases, and several arly scientists lost their lives to potted fever. Eventually, a vac ine made from tissues of crush d ticks was developed at RML, nd batches of it were shipped out o physicians all over the United Itates. Spotted fever is caused by one f a group of organisms known as ickettsiae, which are structural y related to bacteria but, in some f their properties, resemble iruses. The spotted fever agent, tickettsia rickettsii, is transmit ed by the bite of an infected tick, ifter an incubation period of three o ten days, the rickettsiae pro luce an inflammation of the inner ining of the blood vessels. This in lammation is eventually visible » the form of a rash comprising aany red spots under the skin. The appearance of this rash on be wrists and ankles is one of the lain clues used by physicians to liagnose spotted fever. However, be rash is preceded by several lays of chills, high fever, eadache and bone pain. Early diagnosis is especially uportant since it eliminates the eed for heroic treatment, and revents any damage to the brain and Doug Belch, CMS Coor dinator, to a regional environmen tal advisory committee sponsored by the Albemarle Commission; • Established a local Emergency Planning Committee mandated by federal and state regulations and named 15 members. Dr. Hasweli C. Jackson Memorial Fund Is Established The board of directors and members of Edenton-Chowan Kiwanis Club have established a memorial scholarship fund to honor the late Dr. Hasweli C. Jackson, who served as secretary and news reporter of the club. The H.C. Jackson Memorial Scholarship Fund will be used to extend the education of selected students at J.A. Holmes High School in Edenton. Dr. Jackson was a charter member of both the Mount Airy and Edenton-Chowan Kiwanis Clubs, joining in 1952. During the past year, he wrote a weekly news article about the club for The Chowan Herald. Anyone wishing to contribute to this tax-deductible scholarship should make checks payable to the Edenton-Chowan Kiwanis Club, with designation for the H.C. Jackson Memorial Scholarship Fund. Checks should be sent to Edenton Savings and Loan Association, 322 South Broad St., Edenton, NC 27932. * ti L j a I ss both juveniles, whose parents have been notified. Bloulette has been jailed under $5,000 bond and the juveniles are being held until their parents arrive. Heading the investigation are Sgt. F.M. Parker, Patrolman W.L. Phillips and Capt. C.H. Williams. THE SEARCH FOR HEALTH A Report from The National Inatltute of Health Bethesda, Maryland spotted fever. However, at pre sent, most diagnoses must be made on the basis of clinical symptoms and the awareness by both patient and physician of the possibility of tick-borne disease. Generally, ticks are found in mountainous, heavily wooded or sagebrush areas. The tick season runs from spring through early summer, although ticks may also be encountered in the fall and winter. If a tick is found, it should be removed immediately and carefully. This can be done with the fingers or, preferably, with tweezers, being careful not to crush the tick, thus avoiding con tamination of the broken skin with any infectious material. The tick should be grasped as close as possible to the point of attachment and should be pulled repeatedly and gently until it is free. A tick should not be jerked loose since this can result in breaking off the mouthparts, which would remain embedded in the skin. The bite wound should be treated with an antiseptic, and the hands, which may be contaminated with infec tious tick fluids, should be wash ed thorougly with soap and water. He may be the next President of . the United States. He is right here in North ' Carolina making a pitch for sup port — giving his stump speech to t a small group in someone’s home, * at a hotel or club, or a room at the * airport. I am there. Most of the other people there are “party ; regulars”. They are polite, reserved and unenthusiasiic. ' Underneath, they are critical, saying to each other, “He doesn’t / have the issues. He doesn’t have charisma. Does he have what it take§? Could he win?” - Who is the candidate? It could •. have been any of them. Almost all of them have been to see us. Sometimes, as I watch one of these candidates, I stand back and | think, whfere is everybody else? Where are the people who count? | Why aren’t they here sizing up % this person who —18 months from '& now — could be in charge of this | country. Defining our national a agenda. Negotiating with the Rus- 2 sians. Dealing with the budget | deficit and the trade deficit. ^ Why weren’t you there? f. Didn’t you want to take a look {* at the next President? Are you go- a ing to wait until one of the can- I didates actually becomes Presi- § dent before you take time to get a {j look at him? ;; Then, it will be too late. Then, | you will be able to see him only ?• from a distance at a parade, or a § stadium or an auditorium. But now you can actually get to fj know him — if you want to — face | to far H /ill be so glad to see | you that ae will probably *] remember our name — even I after he is President. J In the past, presidential can- '3 didates didn’t have much to do f, with North Carolina — or the rest f> of the South. They spent almost all Jj of their time courting voters in B New Hampshire and Iowa. North ?j Carolina was lucky to get a visit fromqny candidate — at any time t| duftdg (fampaign. so, two questions, wny are tney 'y coming to see us? And, why aren’t « we going to see them? Super Tuesday is the reason •; they are coming to see us. Next ji year, for the first time, North ?' Carolina and most other southern jj states are holding their presiden- j; tial primaries on the same day, il March 8, 1988, right after Iowa ?: and New Hampshire. A candidate i who does not do well on this Super :• Tuesday is going to be in trouble no matter how well he does in :j Iowa and New Hampshire. That is why they are coming to $i see us. Why aren’t we going to see them? t: I don’t know for sure. Maybe, it is because the favorites have not § been identified. There seem to be £ so many candidates that we don’t X know which ones really have a £ chance, and we aren’t going to :• waste our time on somebody who i doesn’t have one. Or, maybe it is because we are j} not used to having such an impor- | tant role in the process. We just jj don’t know how to handle the at- | tention. We don’t know how to participate. •' Or maybe we don’t think we can | make a difference. That is simply not true. If you | signed up to help any one of the I candidates — and you really went i to work — you could help your | candidate get a little edge early in f North Carolina. That edge could translate into a victory on Super , Tuesday, then the nomination, * and the Presidency in November. You can make a difference — maybe THE difference. If you want to get involved in a campaign by organizing your community or running for a | delegate’s position to the national | convention of your party, drop me | a line and I will put you in touch with the people who wiU put you to work. Write me at Box 37283, Charlotte. N.C. 28237. Check Out The Chowan Herald’s Classiflad Page! s* ---?!---»-— "
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