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SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY Classified Want Ads work for everybody— farmers, housewives, used car dealers, real estate agents or what have you — they’ll find users for baby cribs, cemetery lots, used wedding rings, apartments or electric blankets and rent apartments or formal clothes. Read 'em — use 'em. THE County TIMES-NEWS Volume LXXV, No. : THE ROANOKE CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 A Combination of ★ ★ ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS - ■ Established 1926 Jackton LE 4 Rich Square and Jackson. N. C., Thursday, January 20, 1966 Talon, Inc. Expands At Woodland WOODLAND - Talon, Inc., is In the midst of an expansion at their zipper plant here. Plans call for a 15,200 square foot raw material warehouse that will free existing warehouse space for manufacturing operations. It is the plant’s second ex pansion since locating in Wood land in 1953, The present ware house was constructed in 1957 to provide more warehouse and storage space, thereby increas ing floor space for manufacturing operations. The warehouse now under con struction is approximately the same size as the present ware house and is located at the rear of the plant. Increasing demands for zippers and need for better service to customers have brought about the expansion pro gram, accordingto ManagerT, P. Boyd. Air conditioning of all manu facturing space is Included in ex pansion plans. Talon’s plant at Woodland em ploys 165 people. The current expansion is not expected to in crease this number, Boyd ex plained, because of automation of operation. An automatic produc tion line was installed at the zip per plant during 1957 and 1958, increasing production without in creasing personnel. General contractor for the job is D. J. Tinkham, Ahoskie, and construction is scheduled for completion early in April. 24 Persons Sought By Local Board JACKSON - Twenty-four men are being sought as delinquents by the county Local Board No. 67, Selective Service System, ac cording toJamesW. Boone,board The men' have been declared delinquent'“by the L od'al Board, and as delinquents, are subject to Immediate induction, ifthede- linquency Is not cleared Imme diately, Boone said. '■Therefore,” Boone says, “the Board urges each of the men to contact his local Board either in writing orlnpersonlm- mediately in an effort to remove his name from the delinquent list.” Anyone knowing the address of anyone on the delinquent list is requested to contact the Local Board office in Jackson. The delinquents sought are: Percell Martin, Bronx, N, Y.; John Wilson Worrell, East Or ange, N. J.; Willie Lee Roberts, Seaboard; Clarence McDaniel Rogers, Pendleton; Joe Willie Smith, Newark, N. J,; Eddie Wel- ford Jones, Pawling, N. Y.; James William Kee, Staten Island, N. Y,; William McKenly Price, Balti more, Md.; John Washington Thompson, Jr., Jackson; Lesley Vincent, Garysburg; Russell Henry Deloatch, Bronx, N. Y.; Joseph Edward Dickens Faison, Montclair, N. J.; Simion Ed wards, Jr., Conway; Henry Thrower, Henrico; Ernest Lee Goodwyn, Newark, N. J.; James Earlie Smith, Garysburg; Earl Lawrence Blunt, Pendleton; Rob ert Alphouso Lundy, Jr., New York, N. Y.; Roger Lee Locket, Bronx, N. Y.; Robert Lee Dan iels, Garysburg; Wilbert Lee Goode, Jackson; John Henry Pel ham, Rich Square; Lamont George Epps, Baltimore, Md.; George Wilson White, Jr., Wash ington, D. C. Enroll Friday Under Medicore RICH SQUARE - Tomorrow (Friday) representatives from the social security office in Roc ky Mount will be In Rich Square to assist area citizens, age 65 or over, to enroll in the medicare program. Representatives will be at the Charles E, Myers Community Building from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pastor's Group To Meet Tuesday MILWAUKEE -TheNorthamp- ton Pastor’s Association will meet Tuesday, January 25 at Bethany Methodist Church here beginning at 10:00 a.m. The Rev. James E. Sutton, secretary, invites all new minis ters in the county and all mem bers of the association to attend, I', WeotJier'Wa*"'1 tai Northampton School Transfers Ordered By Justice Department JACKSON - About 120 Negro Saturday. By Thursday morning students in Northampton County 14 had been transferred from public schools are expected to be squire ElementarySchool at eas tern, and when registration time neared the board made assign ments so schools could open for f#' EXPANSION BEGINS at Talon, Inc., Woodland, with clearing of land at rear of the present plant for addition of a new raw material warehouse. Construction markers at the edge of the woods show the size of the zipper plant’s second expan sion since opening here in 1953. Upon comple tion, the new construction will free existing warehouse space for manufacturing operations. C Of C Has Minor Problems But Major Plans For 1966 JACKSON — The Northampton move into the county with any new for a request to the telephone throughout the county, asking not County Chamber of Commerce is industry locating here. If the company. only that they join the chamber, having growing pains due to a banks find terms for such loans At the January 12 meeting of but also offer suggestions for membership lag and little re- tod long for their approval, the the Chamber, the possibility of needed projects and programs, sponse to the 4,805 letters mail- banks will be asked to join togeth- c of C sponsoring a Northampton During theDecember member- ^ to all county box holders in er in a cooperative effort to pro- County pageant was discussed by ship drive, 727 letters explaining transferred to predominately ton, Gumberry High School and theterm.”Allstudentsrequest- white schools this week, accord- Willis Hare Union School to Gas- ‘ ' ing to Superintendent of Schools ton School, Northampton County Roy Lowry. High and Conway Elementary. The transfers were ordered by the U. S. Department of Justice Last April 18 school prefer- after, "apparently,” that agency ence forms were distributed to received complaints that North- students with a request for ^om of choice forms this week ampton students were not given transfer form attached to befill- djd not request transfer on the freedom of choice in school as- ed out by those not satisfied with slgnments for the 1965-66 term, schools to which they were as- Freedom of choice forms, signed by the BoardofEduca- Lowry said, were mailed to par- tlon. Lowry said, "The Board ents of the 120 Negro students members wereunderthelmpres- slon they were responsible for pupil assignments and adminis tration of the county school sys- ing transfer from the school to which they were assigned to an other school, the superintendent said, were transferred. He ex plained Thursday morning that the 120 who received new free forms distributed last spring. In giving the reason for the current transfers, Lowry said, "No complaints have been filed with the County Board of Educa tion, but apparently some were reglster§,d directly with the Jus tice Department.” All transfers are expected to be made this week, according to Lowry, as the new semester opened Thursday. In reporting 14 transfers early Thursday morn ing, Lowry added, “This number may not be the same 15 minutes froni now because freedom of choice forms requesting trans fer are being brought Into the of fice every few minutes and re ceived through each mail.” No major changes in school bus assignments or routes are ex pected to result from the trans fers, Lowry said, “Although one or two students may require re assignment for more convenient transportation.” Redistricting Recapitulation: _ 10 N.E. Counties Hardest Hit By SID STAPLETON, Jr. Exclusive to Your Home Newspapers RALEIGH - The northeastern December. But in spite of theseproblems, proposal is not accepted, private this week the group hopes to have ■"’ ■ ■ ' ■ ■ Interests will be asked to estab- plans laid for a pageant this lish a savings and loan or build- spring. Until now, Northampton ing and loan organization. The county girls have entered the chamber feels, according to its "Miss Roanoke Rapids Pageant,’ measure. ments. Harrington and Winslow hated in any future race, Harrington to be thrown into the same dls- has a healthy lead because his trict together, since they will county, Bertie, is almost three vide building loans. Then, if this the directors, Mrs. Howard said the purnose of the chamber and North Carolina counties, hardest face each other come election times the size ofWInslow’shome .--..i...... ... . .. r t' hit rtf 4^nir e/^rttirtn rtf In fima 'Diif tKar A c Hffla n................. y- .L.. the Chamber is moving ahead with plans for thenew year.Home financing source, countywide tel ephone dialing system, and a Northampton County pageant - officers, that this resource is a Last year the covmty had~a wln- (See C OF C, Page 4) preliminary to the “Miss Amer ica” Pageant - are three major projects now under considera tion. Local banks will be contacted. must before industry hunting be- ner In Sylvia Moose of Seaboard gins. Countywide telephone dialing has support of many county peo ple, but no concerted effort has according to chamber secretary been made by a large majority of Mrs. Marlalne Howard, to deter- residents to have such a system mine if those institutions will installed. The chamber is ex- provlde long term loansforhome pected to survey the county dur- flnancing for families that would ing the year to determine support EDA Program Be Explained hit of any section of the State in Congressional redistricting and reapportioning of the House of laid down its population require- Representatives, found they were hurt badly by the shifts accom plished last week In the General Assembly, but not as badly as some of them had feared. In effect, the representation of these counties, stretching from Northampton, Bertie and Hert ford on the west, to Camden and RICH SOUARE-RoanokeElec- Currituck on the east, found their only over the proposed 1966 trio MemborshipCorporatlonhas representation In the Senate cut odom Prison Farm since Its Joyed my live and ona-hatf years projects. Personal letters are paid over $900 In county and lotm 1"'•s''- opening live and ono-hall years here In the east. no« being mailed to individuals taxes for the year 1965^he llrst Before the leglsimuremetlast ap has been promoted to Dl- "We have made some won- tax payments^ ever made by the Raleigh, Northampton, vision Supervisor of Division 7 derful friends here and have en- who represented the Roanoke Rapids area at the state pageant. Membership Drive A drive for membership among small merchants and individuals, however, is expected to takepri- Remco Pays = County, Town Taxes time. But there was little way base in Perquimans County, out of the mix since the court (See Redistricting, Page 4) Mojor Logan Promoted; Ross Assumes Odom Duty JACKSON - Maj. Hugh A, Lo- pects of moving back to his na- gan, Jr., superintendent of the live county, “1 have really en- Plans Will At Windsor WINDSOR - Representatives from 11 eastern counties have been Invited to Windsor for one of a series of meetings this month for the purpose of explaining the programs of the Economic De velopment Administration. Charles S. Edwards, EDA North Carolina coordinator, said county and town officials, repre sentatives of planning and indus trial development groups, bank ers and others Interested are urged to attend. Counties Invl County Courthouse at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Janaury 25, Beaufort, Bertie, Gates, Curri tuck, Halifax, Dare, Hyde, Tyr rell, Warren, Northampton and Van''-e, Twenty - six North Carolina counties and the Cherokee Res ervation are eligible for EDA corporation, Vernon E. Taylor, manager, presented the checks to Melvin Holmes, county manager and to Mrs. Joyce C. Clark,RichSquare cl-^rV, as psymant r.f ad valorem taxes on property of Roanoke Electric. The county's check was in the amount of $547.96. The Town of Rich Square received $391,40. funds. Among those participating velopment programs and all loans The General Assembly at its in the e:q>lanatory meetings will and grants must be consistent last regular session passed an be John R. Hampton, coordinator with approved over-all economic act which made electric coopera- of the State Planning Task Force development programs. tlves subject to the same taxes designated by Governor Mooreto commercial power compa- represent the state in matters. , Under termsoftheactgeneral- nles. Also this act established involving the Economic Develop- territorial protection for elec- ment Administration, and Mr. Edwards of the Raleigh EDA of fice. The Public Works and Econom ic Development Act of 1965 was signed August 26 and is designed to help communities, areas and regions in the UnitedStates which are suffering from excessive un employment or underemployment by providing financial and techni cal assistance needed for the creation of new jobs. Hertford and Bertie each had one representative In the House. As of last Thursday, however, they are all three In a House district that elects two men to represent all three of the counties. in UlO Slali&iOf t-ir 1 trlcttng, the three counties shar ed one Senator, J. J. (Monk) Harrington of Bertie, Now, the representation of the three coun- of the State Prison Department, joyed the hunting and fishing of according to an announcement the area, too,” Logan continued. Monday. The major said he had already accepted duties and responsibil ities at his new job and was trav eling back here lor the weebonda* ' - y ; - '''' ' ■ u/iiii he coUid move i.is iamuy* » charge of the prison unltso/Gas- expect to move some time ton, Mecklenburg, Lincoln and flrsf of February,” Catawba counties. Maj. Fred Ross, 46, of Lln- he said. Maj. Logan came to North- ties is shared with seven other coin County, a veteran prison of- ampton County while the Odom J_ - i...- r4t rt - .... Dt-iCrtTI p-QT-m U/OC IIFldor counties In a two-senator dis- fleer, has accepted theposltlon of trict. Odom superintendent, Logansald The three counties, formerly Monday. Ross, who has been su- known as the Third Senatorial pervisor of Division 8 of the District, have now been put into State Prison Department, took what wastheFirstDistrictofSen. over his new duties lastWednes- area if it has suffered from sub- trie power suppliers. When the J. Emmett Winslow - with Wash- day. stantlal andperslstent unemploy- protection clause of the act Is ment for an extended period of put into effect by the Utilities time or if the median family in- Commission, electric coopera-- come of the area is less than 40 tives will be assured of being per cent of the national median able to reap the benefit of future „ or if major unemployment has re- electric load growth in an area Counties Invited to the Bertie to help communities, areas and suited or threatens to result from where they extended the original 3unty Courthouse at 7:30 p.m. regions intheUnitedStateswhich the closing of a major source of electric service. I Tuesday, Janaury 25, are are suffering from excessive un- employment. “Needless duplication of elec tric lines win be avoided and, in Of particular interest to towns the long run, this will mean a and counties will be the provi- savings to both the member-own- sions of Title I of the act for dl- gj-s of electric cooperatives and rect grants of up to 50 per cent the customers of the power com- All eligible areas must have projects such as waterworks panies because electric service approved over-all economic de- lines, sanitation facilities, rates are based on the amount of access roads for industrial ar- money Invested In the building eas or potential industrial ar- of the total electric system,” eas, public tourism facilities and Taylor said. ington County thrown In for good Maj. Logan said uponthepros- Prlson Farm was still under construction and opened thedoors to the flrsf Inmate after It was completed. He Isaveteranprison officer, having served In various other police jobs before entering service with the StatePrlsonDe- partment, One Out Of Ten Northampton Residents In Government Jobs Your Home Newspapers Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C. - How many Northampton County resi dents are holding down govern ment jobs at the present time? in most parts of the UnitedStates, Out of every 10 persons In the area who are employed, one works for some branch of gov ernment. The findings are based on data Assault Charges Net Sentences For Two How does the number compare, compiled by the Department of in proporation to population, with Labor and the Department of the number so-employed in other Commerce. vocational schools, airports or Roanoke Electric with head-- areas? Tlieir figures show that gov- flood control projects for which quarters In Rich Square serves According to latest figures ernment isnowtheblggestgrowth there is a serious need but for Northampton, Hertford, Bertie, which other Federal financing is Gates, Halifax, Perquimans and there are relatively fewer local industry in the country. In the not available, Chowan Counties. people in public Jobs - Federal, state and local - than there are JACKSON - Two men were handed sentences in last week’s session of Recorder’s Court on assault charges. Judge Ballard S. Gay sentenced Robert Hardy, 22, of Weldon to two 18 month active sentences, to run concurrently, after finding Hardy guilty as charged with as sault on a Seaboard woman and her one-year-old son. Lonnie Daye of Conway was handed an 18 month road sen tence, He was charged with as sault on Ms wife. Hardy was charged with as- pended. Roland Scott, Garysburg, non- support, not guilty. Clarence H. Spence, 43, Gas ton, assault on female, six months on roads suspended upon pay ment of costs. Odell Jacobs, 54, Rich Square, driving under influence; war rant amended to charge reckless driving, not guilty of driving drunk, $100 and costs, Merlyn Vincent, 31, Star Route, Roanoke Rapids, (1) posesslon of equipment for manufacture of non-taxpaid whiskey, (2) manu- V' / past five years alone, approxi mately 1.5 million people have been added to public payrolls. Despite general belief, only a small part of this expansion, about 150,000, was at the Federal level. The bulk of it was account ed for by state and local gov ernments. Northampton County’s 1965 figures show that an estimated 9.6 per cent of the local work ing force are public employees. This compares with 13.6 per cent in the United States as a whole and 11.4 per cent in North Carolina. In line with the changes record ed generally throughout the coun try in the last five years, there are now some 790 local residents in government jobs, it Is estimat ed. This represents an Increase' over the total reported in i960, when a Commerce Department survey listed the number of pub lic employees locally at 676. AS for government payrolls, they have been rising much fast er than employment. Since i960, the outlay in this direction has jumped about 50 per cent nation ally. The increase in personnel and the 1 n c r e a s e In wages ac counted for it. The new figures reflect the expansion that has been taking place in recent years In the services provided by public agen cies. A substantial part of it has been in the fields of education, welfare, urban renewal, medical care and pensions. The net result is that some 10.3 million people are on gov ernment payrolls now, compared with 8.8 million in i960. They receive $54 billion annually at the present time. saulting Hattie Louise Kee and facture for non-taxpaid for pur- her son in the Kee home near Seaboard on January 7. The Kee woman was treated for injuries and released from the Roanoke Rapids Hospital; however, the child was admitted with a broken arm, bruises about the body and other injuries. Other cases disposed in the pose of sale. Vincent was given a six months sentence in the first case, suspended upon payment of $25 and costs; in the second case, six months suspended upon pay ment of costs. Wilson Alton Edwards, 16, Sev ern, attempt to obtain an opera- Court Grants 5 Divorces, Favors Slade In Verdict uu.«i .1. ^ license through fraud, court session by Judge Gay and ’ Solicitor J. Buxton Weaver were; Kenny Lee, Garysburg, drunk and disorderly, not guilty. William L. Majette, 26, Route 1, Conway, (1) speeding 100 mph in a 35 zone, (2) unlawful speed competition with another Calvin Gray, 19, Route 1, Rich Square, in prearranged speed competition with another motor vehicle; warrant amended to charge racing, but not prear ranged, six months on road sus- vehicle. In the first case, Majette pended upon payment of $50 and was given 60 days on the roads, costs. $50 and costs; on the second, 60 days sentence suspended upon payment of $50 and costs. John Elwood Clark, 59, Rich Square, speeding 70 mph in 55 zone, prayer for judgment con tinued upon payment of costs. Howard B. Williams, 20, Wood land, breaking, entering and lar ceny, 12 months on roads sus- J. L. Edwards, Jackson, driv ing under influence, warrant amended to charge reckless driv ing, not guilty of driving drunk, $100 and costs. James Herbert Wade, 45, Route 2, Conway, driving under influ ence, warrant amended to charge public drunkenness, not guilty of driving drunk, costs. FIRST TAX PAYMENT — Vernon E. Taylor, manager. Roanoke E'ectric Membership Cor poration, presents a check to Melvin Holmes, right, county manager, as payment of ad val orem taxes on property of Roanoke Electric for the year 1965. The tax payment, in the amount of $547.96. is the first tax payment made to the county by the Corp. Recent legislature made electric cooperatives subject to the same taxes as commercial power companies. A tax payment was also made to the Town of Rich Square, where the Corp. maintains headquar ters. JACKSON - The first day of the civil term of Northampton County Superior Court that con vened Monday was taken up with divorce actions. Divorces granted on one year separations were: Lizzie Odell Dugger Bracy from Ransom Bra- cy; Margaret G. Vann from W. Andrew Vann; Tommy Jackson from Lucille Edwards Jackson; James Parker from Shelby Jean Parker; and Mary Lillie New- some from Joseph Newsome. The first verdict rendered by the jury came Wednesday in an action brought by the Nationwide Insurance Co. against Charles Slade of Rich Square. The jury’s decision was in favor of Slade who the insurance company al leged owed them $1,257, unpaid since Slade was dismissed as an agent for the company in 1963. Judge Walter Cohoon, presid ing at his first term in Northamp ton Court after his recent ap pointment to the bench, excused W. R. Brown, Enoch A. Bridgers and Mrs. Eva Haley on doctor’s certificates presented by them. Thomas J. Bell was excused by the Judge and V. R. Glover ex cused for this term to report for duty during the April 4 Term, Of the 33 jurors drawn for du ty this week, five were excused and five could not be found in the county. Jurors whose names were drawn, and who were not found in the county, were Mrs, Irene Hill, H. W. Bryant, Joseph Davis, James Luther Wages and Vaniel Delbrldge.
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