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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 wed^ng rings, apartments or electric blankets and rent. apartments or formal clothes. Read ’em — use ’em. THE Northampton County TIMES-NEWS A Combination of THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — EstabUshed 1892 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926 Rich Square and Jackson. N. C., Thursday, August 4, 1966 -CADA Officials Listen- Negroes Express Desires At Meet ^ -i H. (.N FAMILY AFFAIR—Old and young alike were on hand ot the People's Program on Poverty meeting held Saturday in Woodland's Notional Guard Armory. An estimated 600, mostly Negroes, attended the meeting at which Choonoke Area Development Association officials at tempted to answer questions on proposed poverty projects. The group of Negroes above seems to be in deep thought concerning the proposals and ideas being brought up by representatives of the four counties — Hertford, Bertie, Northampton and Halifax—served by CADA. By MARIE WOOD WOODLAND — The Negroes’ ' greatest needs are “not lux- , uries but the type of help that will make it possible for us to stop feeding human resources into the riot areas of the cities because rural areas couldn’t sup port them and put food in their stomachs and roofs over their heads.’’ These are the opinions ofMrs. Louise Newsome, who spoke for Hertford County Negroes, Mrs. Clara Watford who spoke for Ber tie County Negroes and Lafayette Majette who spoke for Northamp ton County Negroes, expressed at the People's Program onPov- erty (P-Pop) meeting held in Woodland’s National GuardArm- ory Saturday. The feelings of ail three were very eloquently put into words by Mrs. Newsome but the other two followed and echoed her chants, “We want to be told what is available through the Choanoke Area Development program and how to get It." She added, “Out of ignorance, we don’t know where the CADA responsibilities lie." And, she told the assemblage of around 600 Negroes from the four-county area of Hertford, Bertie, Northampton and Hali fax counties, CADA and North Carolina Fund representatives, and the People’s Program on Poverty who arranged the four- hour meeting, “We represent those who were not able to come today." She went on eloquently; “We want to be able to live in human dignity; we want what others want." In what was a meeting called by the People’s Program on Pov erty headed by the Rev. C. Mel vin Creecy of Rich Square to give CADA a chance to find out what the Negroes want and to provide Negroes with a chance to ask CADA questions, Mrs. Newsome was one of four representatives of as many Roanoke - Chowan counties on the program. She decried what she described as the lack of “direct line of communication between CADA executive officers and poverty stricken.” She listed needs of her people in Hertford County as “adequate housing, to be able to borrow OEO Gives $493,369 For CADA Programing WASHINGTON, D. C.-Sidney H. Woolner, acting regional di rector, Middle Atlantic Regional Office, (OEO), announced Satur day a grant of $493,639 to Ber tie, Hertford, Halifax and North ampton counties for a 12-month five-component Conduct and Ad ministration program to employ 68 i)ersons. The applicant agency is the Choanoke Area Development As sociation and the local share of the grant is $40,400, making the total $534,039, The first component, for Con duct and Administration, will provide for the limited expan- Welfare Department Gets Clerical Worker slon of the Choanoke Area De velopment Association, enabling this agency to supervise, admin ister and coordinate the activities of four new multi-purpose cen ters. CADA also will continue its Program Development projects, which at this time have not yet been completed. Staff for this component will comprise eight professional and six nonprofes sional employees. The other four components will provide for the establishment of four multi-purpose centers, one in each of the counties of (See OEO, Page 10) money without being put through the third degree, day care cen ters — the few jobs available to most Negro mothers, such as housework," she said, “don’t pay enough that they are able to buy day care for their chil dren." She said of the day care cen ters sought, “What we need are centers which will charge a nom inal fee which the mother can pay." She described the need for “adult training centers, so when farm work Is over our people can be trained so they can find some thing else to do. “We’d like to be able to care for our aged," she listed. And she said of the people of Cofield, “They want better, purer, clean er water," She describedaneedfor“mar- riage counselors. To the people in the black belt," she s^d, “these services have not been available." And, she pleaded, “Please don't send us an organi2ation to absorb the funds of another or- organization." To explainthis, Mrs. Newsome told her audience that “in Hertford County, stu dents who are on relief are sent to the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act pro- gram)to let them be added to what the ESEA already is doing,” She said that “social case workers don’t do the job, that (See CADA, Page 10) JACKSON — The Northampton County Board of Commissioners discussed a lot but took little ac tion during a somewhat routine, yet day-long, monthly meeting Monday. About the only clear and defi nite moves taken by the board bills, okavinv ths of additl-.n^/ • --cai workei welfare depart ment with funds allocated entire ly by the state, and turning down a request for a salary increase. County welfare director, Mrs. Janet Brown, told the board that she had “received and deposited a check for $3,400 from the state to be used for administration pur poses." She told the board that the de partment could use the funds for any purpose directly connected with administrative work, but that she suggested the money Squabble Settled be used to hire the new clerical worker. Mrs. Brown included in her original budget request to the board funds for adding a clerical Jackson Doclor On Welfare Bd. RALEIGH - Dr. Carroll B. Robertson, Jackson physician, has been appointed to the Northampton County Welfare Board. Announcement was made by Robert C. Howlson Jr., chairman of the State Board of Public Welfare. The appointment to the county board is for a three- year term. worker to the present welfare department staff. The board did not approve the additional funds and thus the worker has not been hired. Commissioner David Gay ask ed Mrs. Brown if “the funds will be available ^ain next year." I Mrs. Eto\v;i sa-.d that it v.'as not guaranteed that the money would be made available to the county again next year by the state but that “If a person is hired she will be hired with the understand ing that the job may last just the one year." The welfare department head stressed upon the board, once again, that she is in vital need of the clerical worker to relieve her regular case workers from extra duties. With the assurance that the person hired would be hired with the understanding that the job (See WELFARE, Page 8) JACKSON - A 36-year-o\d Garysburg Negro was released in Northampton County Record er’s Court Friday when the state’s eye witness failed to tes tify. Chester Butcher was foimd not guilty of being drunk and dis orderly and ofdischargingafire- arm in a public place when Rob ert Squire, who owns the small business in Garysburg where the alleged offense occurred, failed to testify once he took the stand. Sheriff Frank Outland and Dep uty Ed Ingram testified that they did not see Butcher shoot a gun and that he was not disorderly when they arrived on the scene. Both did say that the defendant Garysburg Project Is Delayed JACKSON - The Northampton County Board of Education ap parently has to re-advefftise for bids on the proposed addition to the Garysburg school. It was revealed at the board’s monthly meeting Monday, that the original low bid accepted by the board in 1964 has been withdrawn by the contractor. Originally the lunchroom, gymnasium and auditorium com bination was to be added to the ex isting structure in the fall of 1964 but funds were not avail able after bids had been let. ‘It now appears that the orig inal contractor will not accept the job as proposed originally," commented Superintendent of County Schools R. F. Lowry. The board set September 7 as the date for accepting new bids on the proposed project. Six new teachers were also approved by the education board ' (See PROJECT, Page 10) was drinking. Squire took the stand and show ed all the effects of a man who, in the words of a law enforce ment officer in the court, “is scared to death.” After answering two routine questions concerning his seeing Butcher on the night in question, Squire became highly nervous and seemed to lose his voice. He asked to be allowed to get a drink of water and left the wit ness stand and left the court room.. After the sheriff and the dep uty both testified but could not offer any evidence other than the word of Squire, the judge asked that the man be returned to the courtroom to finish his testi mony. Butcher told the court, “1 didn’t shoot the gun, I took it from an other boy after he shot it and sent the gun home" by a third party. Sheriff Outland left the court room to retrieve Squire and ask ed that the court “not turn him loose yet.” He returned after a short time and told Judge Ballard S. Gay that he (Squire) said that he “didn’t see him (Butcher) shoot it.” Judge Gay ruled the man not guilty. Other than the charges j^ainst Butcher, a family squabble and two illegal whiskey charges, Judge Gay, who returned from (See JUDGE, Page 8) I Chuckle I A WHAT? Stranger In town: Did you see a pedestrian go by here a while ago? Villager; No, sir. I've been here an hour, and there hasn’t been a thing go by except one man, and he was walking. Rep. Jernigan To Address Independents WOODLAND - The North ampton Independent Club will meet Monday, August 8, at 8 p.m. in the Woodland Com munity Center. According to a spokesman for. Hif or gan izaMpn, state representative fcoberts Jer nigan Jr. will be guest speak er at the meeting. Emergency Loans Are Sought For Farmers JACKSON — Despite the week end rain and due to the 38-day drought that preceded the soaking rainla.ll, Northampton County Ag- rlcu.-'.are :cadex's have taken tvc steps to relieve hard hit county farmers. The first move calculated to aid the farmers was taken last week when the County Techni cal Action Panel (TAP) met with Farmers Home Administration director Marvin Coleman and re quested that i'.e (Ccieman) rec ommend that the county farmers become eligible for FHA emer gency loans. If the recommendation is okay- Judge Releases Man HORBSt MSII When Witness Mum CSH Still Be Found By SCOTT BOWERS JACKSON - The day’s newspa pers may be crowded with de tails of crime and violence, but old-fashioned virtues of honesty and neighborliness still exist, a Jackson man discovered last week. Matt T. Edwards Sr., whose friendly face and fragrant bucket of freshly parched peanuts have been a familiar sight on Jack son’s Main Street for many dec- (See HONEST, Page 8) Woman Is Charged With Murder GARYSBURG - An elderly Ga rysburg Negro woman is being held In Northampton County jail in connection with the Friday night death of Steve Barkley, 67, also of Garysburg. According to the county sher iff's department, LulaMaeWalk er is accused of stabbing Bark ley to death in her Garysburg home. The accused murder ess is scheduled to appear in the Au gust term of Superior Court, to begin Monday at Jackson. Sheriff Frank Outland indicat ed that the Walker woman first denied killing Barkley and stated that he (Barkley) committed sui cide. She later told the sheriff that Barkley was after her with an ax and she stabbed him with the but cher knife, which was found in the front yard of the home shared by the couple on U.S. 301 about two miles north of Garysburg. I*. AviA'' - /SiA k-r Jlwr- 'M. ^ : -X'p “ j'- '/'■ ■.. ‘.■s-’r, / 'r^'' ' / ed, many county farmers will be eligible lor loans within the next few days, according to the FHA office. The emergency loans make it possible for more farmers to borrow money than usual through the FHA. It doesn't alter the rules for obtaining FHA loan.?, that a farmer must not be abletoobtain the loan from commercial sourc es. The second step taken by the county leaders was taken by the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service director Ben Mann, Wednesday. Mann told “Your Horae News paper” that his department had made recommendations that the county be declared a ‘disaster area.” According to Mann, if approv ed, the recommendation would make it possible for farmers to use diverted crop lands for graz ing purposes and thus enable them to “relieve their pasture land and allow it to recuperate from the long drou^t.” Coleman told TAP that before he could make a recommenda tion an estimate of the loss caus ed by the drought would have to be made. The panel estimated that the county has suffered losses of I at least 60 per cent on corn and I 50 per cent on tobacco. Soybeans, peanuts and cotton was not hit as hard and the panel estimates that 30 per cent of the crops would be lost. Given these loss estimates, Coleman said, it is reasonable to expect that such a credit need will exist in the county next year. As head of the FHA in North ampton County, Coleman cannot make Northampton County eligi ble for emergency loans, but it is up to him to recommend the county for such loans. Coleman told the panel that he is recommending that the FHA make emergency loans available to eligible farmers in the county for the year August, 1966-August, 1967. According to Coleman, loans will be made only to those who cannot get credit from their reg ular sources. “Emergency loans are made to eligible farmers in dtjignalou areas where natural disasters such as floods and droughts have brought about a temporary need for credit not available from other sources," Coleman said. “Loans may be made for the purchase of feed, seed, fertilizer, replacement of equipment, live stock and for other items needed to maintain normal operations," Coleman continued. (See LOANS, Page 8) '''iM ■ PREPARES FALL GARDEN—Roy Joyner is in the process of planting foil peas on a plot of ground previously used for a to bacco bed. Joyner is also planting col- lords, cabbage, kale, turnips, green beans and other fall crops in the garden. Other county farmers and home gardeners ore also preparing the ground and planting fall vegetables. Although the recent rain was not in time to help summer gardens, it will help fall vegetables get a good start. Servicemen In The News ELTON W. SMITH PORTSMOUTH - Storekeeper Third Class Elton W. Smith, USCG, son of Mr. and Mrs. Au brey R. Smith of Woodland, is serving at the U.S. Coast Guard Supply Depot in Portsmouth. He is responsible for assist ing in the procurement, storage, stores accounting, issue and ship ping of supplies and equipment to field units of the Fifth Coast Guard District, which Includes Maryland, Virginia, North Caro lina and the island of Bermuda. A graduate of Woodland-Olney High School, Smith entered the service in March, 1964. John P. Gorriss Sr, Insurance Awards For Conway Man ROANOKE, Va. - Insurance honors have been awarded John P. Garriss Sr., a field under writer for Shenandoah Life In surance Company in the Conway area. He is one of 40 field under writers of the company to receive the National Quality Award pre sented by the National Associa tion of Life Underwriters. The award is given each year in recognition of outstanding service to policyholders, the community and for exceptional quality of life underwriting. Garriss, receiving the award for the fifth year, has been a member of the company’s Ra leigh agency for 14 years. Garriss has also qualified for membership in the Shenandoah Life Insurance Company’s Top Ten Club for the month of June, according to Robert M. Pope, CLU, vice president-agencies. Members of the Top Ten Club are the company’s top field un derwriters based on volume of new individual ordinary life in surance sold during the previous month. //
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