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WANTED—A lady for hou«e work. S days per week, 9:30 to 5:30. Reference required. Call AhosKie 332-2692 between 9:30 and 4:30. Mac 2-16 The ad ran on Friday and was cancelled Monday because had plenty of calls— 10 or 15 to choose from and some excellent references. 1 was very well satisfied.” THE County TIMES-NEWS A Combination of THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926 Volume LXXVI, No. 7 Rich Square LE 9-2869 Jackson LE 4-2656 Rich Square and Jeckson, N. C., Thursday. February 16, 1967 Covers All of Northampton’s Towns and Communities 10 PAGES 1 BRIEFS ... I SENTENCED HALIFAX-Charlie Lee Champ, 23, a Garysburg Negro, received sentences on three counts of as sault with a deadly weapon in Halifax Recorder's Court Tues day totaling 18 months imprison ment. Champ received four months on each charge and a previous suspended sentence was invoked giving him a total of 18 months to serve. He was charged after a Saturday night affray attheSavoy Club near Weldon, CUTTING GASTON - Northampton Coun ty Sheriff Frank Outland report ed Wednesday investigation is continuing into the cutting Wed nesday of a Gaston woman. Library Board Fails To Reach Decision JACKSON - A special meeting Wednesday of the Northampton County Library Board failed to produce a “definite" recommen dation regarding the county's joining the Albemarle Regional Library Association, according to Mrs, Frances Midyette, coun ty librarian, Mrs, Midyette explained, how ever, the board would oppose “any action which would take the library out of the state system,” She said board members would suggest to county commissioners in a joint meeting February 20 that the library not join the re- Accordlng to reports, the worn- glonal association if the county ■ an was treated for a laceration of the wrist. Deputy Sheriff Ed ward Ingram said he believed the would was “self-inflicted.” The woman's identity was not given. Seaboard Lions To Hold Farm Equipment Sale SEABOARD - The Seaboard Lion's Club will hold its annual farm equipment sale Wednesday, March 14, according to M err ell Gay, All types of farm equipment will be sold on a consignment basis during the sale. Gay said. Farmers having equipment they desire to be sold should con tact Randolph Howell at Howell Equipment Company in Seaboard, The sale will be held at the Seaboard ball park and will be gin at 9:30 a.m. Gay said March 17 was select ed for a “rain date,” can remain outside the regional system and maintain its state support. The state will not supplement the operation of any library not under direction of a certified li brarian. Mrs. Midyette said that Miss Elizabeth Gish, regional repre sentative of the N.C. Library at Raleigh, would attend the joint meeting. The library board previously had recommended that commis sioners petition the regional as sociation for membership. The action was taken shortly after the retirement of Mrs. Nancy Froe- lich as county librarian. Under the regional system, the county could operate its li brary with the existing staff which would come under the region's certified librarian and still qual ify for state support. None of the library’s present employees are certified. Membership in the regional system also would provide a wider range of books that the county could provide in an inde pendent status, but the cost of operation probably would be high er. County Manager Melvin Holmes reported at the recent meeting of commissioners that the county would have to contrib ute a portion of the salaries of workers in the Winton office of the regional association. An alternate plan to joining the regional library would be to em ploy, if possible, a certified li brarian on a part-time basis if the state would continue to sup port. State funds cannot be used toward the salary of any non- certified library personnel and there exists some doubt as to whether the state would go along with the part-time librarian pro posal. If not the library probably then would be willing to go into the regional organization, Mrs. Midyette says. She emphasized that main tenance of state support of the library will be the key factor in the final outcome. Chuckle SANDS OF TIME A teacher, annoyed with his clock-watching students, cover ed the clock in the school room with a sheet of cardboard. On it he lettered these words: “Time will pass. Will you?” Area Students Visit Gaston Power Plant STREET WIDENING PROBLEMS Face the town of Con way but may hove been solved by action spearheaded by R. L. Gront, a local businessman. Although no official word has been received. Grant is optimistic that funds allocated the town in the 1965 Road Bond will be used to replace sidewalks along Highway 158 through Conway which will be torn up when the street is widened to 24 feet. Grant contacted highway officials and requested CoiTHmjITltV funds be made available for the purpose. The rood will be * widened from its intersection with Highway 35 in Conwau to Highway 258 near Murfreesboro. The sidewalks orig inally were constructed w)th all local capital. To Northampton Farmers Minimum Wage Bill Enigma JACKSON —Much confusion ex ists among farmers and agricul tural workers as to who will be covered under the 1967 Wage and Hour Law which became effective on February 1. According to information re ceived by “Your Home News papers,” the bill specifies that for a farmer to be covered under the act, he must have used 500 man days of labor in any one quarter in theprecedingcalendar year. A “man day,” loosely defined, is any day in which an employee works one hour or more in any agricultural labor. To come under the 500-man day clause, a farmer would have to work seven men at least 72 days during 1966 before he would be forced to pay the minimum wage in 1967, The minimum wage for 1967 is $1. In 1968, the figure will jump to $1.15 and 1969 will bring it to $1.30. Farmers are not required to pay the minimum wage on em- *ployees of his immediate family. The law contains provisions prohibiting the employment oi children under 16 years of age during school hours in the dis trict in which they live. Children also are excluded from performing “hazardous” agricultural work unless em ployed by their parents. When employees are working on a “piece-rate” basis, salar ies of workers whose perform ance does not come up to the min imum wage provisions of the law must be supplemented by the farmer until they are equal to the minimum wage provision for hours worked. Farmers do not have to pay the minimum wage to farmer workers on a piece rate basis in an operation which has been, and is customarily and generally recognized in the region as hav ing been paid on this basis. To be considered apiece work er, an employee also must com mute daily from his permanent residence to the farmwhereheis 'employed. The tenant question, however, is likely to effect many North ampton farmers. Since cases must be judged in dividually by the facts of that case, specific inquiries should be addressed to the appropriate local office of the Wage andHour Public Contracts Division, U,S, Department of Labor, According to circulars being distributed by the Agricultural Extension Service, the act re quires that sharecroppers, un less they are true independent operators, must be considered as employees and will be count ed in determining man days and must also be paid the minimum wage. A sample test, provided by the circular, is as follows: College Bill introduced RALEIGH - State Representa tive Roberts Jernigan Jr. of Ahoskie reported Wednesday bills were introduced in the Gen eral Assembly to establish a unit of the N.C, Community College system in the Roanoke-Chowan area and a historical commis sion in Murfreesboro. Jernigan said a bill introduced in the house by JerniganandRep. Emmett Burden of Aulander and in the Senate by J, J. Harrington of Lewiston and George Wood of Camden, provides for the estab lishment of an extension unit of the N.C. Community College sys tem to be designated the Roanoke- Chowan Technical Institute Ex tension Unit. The bill was referred to the Committee on Education. Jernigan said the measure will carry appropriation funds for the GASTON - Fifty science stu dents and eight teachers, repre senting Ahoskie, Murfreesboro, Calvin S. Brown, R. L. Vann, Northampton and Bertie County High Schools, visited the Gaston power station as guests of the Virginia Electric and Power Company. They were among almost 2,000 high school students in Virginia and North Carolina who visited VEPCO’s power stations during the observance of the I20th an niversary of the birth of Thomas A. Edison. Edison's birthday, February 11, was designated as Science Youth Day throughout the nation. VEPCO engineers and offi cials conducted a tour and ex plained production procedures of the generating station. A panel discussion to answer questions about the station's op eration followed the tour. Stu dents were luncheon guests of the company. This was the 11th consecutive year that VEPCO has participat ed in the Science Youth Day pro gram. The tours were designed to make high school ^udents aware of the growing need for engineers in industry today, to tell the story of the free enter prise system, and to help the stu dents learn more about the elec tric utility industry and other phases of science. Traffic Cases Dominate Recorder’s Court Session To qualify as an independent year 1967-68 in the amount of operator, the sharecropper must $140,850. Appropriations for make day-to-day decisions as to what to plant, when to plant, what and how much supplies to pur chase, when to harvest and where to sell and all basic managerial decisions. Big Community College Cut Could Be Disastrous To R-C By RANDOLPH THOMAS RALEIGH - Almost unnoticed in Governor Dan Moore’s State of the State message to the Gen eral Assembly Thursday was a 50 per cent cut in establishment of new community colleges which may affect the possibility of the Roanoke-Chowan getting such an institution for several years to, come. Hailed by legislators in the Roanoke-Chowan area as “pow erful,” “to the point,” and “a program that the General As sembly can take guidance from,” the address recommended a re duction from eight to four the number of new community col leges to be established in the near future. At the same time, Moore called the Community College system “among the most valuable edu cational resources of our state.” He told legislators: “I rec ommend a substantial increase in appropriations to meet expected needs. I also recommend the con version ofWayneTechnicallnsti- tute to a community college, the establishment of four new branch units and an increase for new industry training programs.” The State’s Advisory Budget Commission had recommended the establishment of eight new community colleges, including a proposed industrial Education Center Unit in Hertford County to be located at the Union Prison Camp facility, which would be purchased by the county. Governor Moore did not say which of the proposed new branches he would recommend cutting. Most legislators feel the decision as to which shall and which shall not will rest in the Appropriations Committee. (Rep. Roberts Jernigan of Ahoskie is vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and Sen. J. J. (Monk) Harrington is a member ofthe Senate Appro priations Committee.) Despite the Governor’s recom mendations, Legislator Philip Godwin of Gatesville said that all of the proposed eight com munity colleges may be estab lished. However, the Governor’s recommendations “will have a lot of influence” on the com mittee’s final decision. Godwin said the Governor’s recommendations were “based on facts and figures we (the leg islators) have not had access to,” but added, “the Appropriations Committee will have the final say and I wouldn’t discount the fact any of the eight are out de spite his (the Governor’s) rec ommendations. “I still think there is a good chance this will come about,” he said. Only One Side State Senator George Wood said it would be next to impossible for him to make any positive conclu sions from the Governor’s ad dress as yet “becausewe’veonly seen one side of the coin.” He added that legislators will have more to comment on when they hear the Governor’s budget address Monday night. “I still think four new colleges is enough for one session,” he said. “That sounds like a plenty to me,” Wood admitted he was “dis appointed” by theGovernor’sre- marks regarding independent university status for East Caro lina College. He said he felt the college has “made its big growth” and turning down its plea for university status “will be holding the college back.” At Crossroads Moore told legislators: “High er education in North Carolinais at a crossroads. In one direction is the continued orderly develop ment of our institutions, full uti lization of our higher education al resources, and attainment of defined goals by set standards. The other direction goes off into the unknown, leading perhaps to imwise duplication, unnecessary rivalry for limited appropria,- tions and a general weakening of our state-supported higher edu cational systems.” Moore added, “The direction North Carolina takes, ladies and gentlemen, is for you to decide in the months ahead.” Representative Emmett Bur den of Aulander agreed the Gov ernor “might be closing the door on university status for East Carolina.” He added, however, he felt the Governor’s address over-all was “leaning toward a boost for edu cation in North Carolina,” Although 14 bills have been introduced so far, legislators have not yet settled downtobusi- 1968-69 will total $80,529, he said. “This is to be used to equip and operate the extension unit,” Jernigan reported. Jernigan said he hoped the ear ly introduction of the bill would help Hertford's chances of get ting an lECU this year. An advisory budget committee recommendation calling for the establishment of eight new units in the community college system was halved by Gov, Dan Moore’s State of the State message, Hertford County’s proposed branch, which is to be located at the site of the Union Prison Camp in Union, was among the eight originally proposed. The Governor's message rec ommended str engthening the present community college sys tem “and the establishment of four new branch units,” Rep. Jernigan said he also in troduced a bill entitled “An Act Establishing the Historic Mur freesboro Commission.” Murfreesboro recently became the first community in the state ness. Most of the time spent thus of North Carolina to undergo far has been in getting into new historical survey. The Historic offices and moving. Murfreesboro Commission will Some committee assignments encourage the development of the have been made, such as the ones previously mentioned, but most assignments will not be made until later this week. Republican Picture State Senator J. J. (Monk) Harrington is particularly pleased he was named chairman of the Roads Committee. He also was named a member of the Ag riculture Committee. Sen. Harrington said one thing that impressed him was the fact that Republicans were “better organized” in the 1967 Assem bly than they have been in years past. Of the 14 new bills introduced. Republicans have submitted sev en. They also had their own can- (See COLLEGE, Page 8) community's historical resourc es. JA?KSON -Traffic cases dom inated another session of North ampton County Recorder's Court Tuesday. Of the 25 cases tried, only one did not involve a traffic violation. Tried for speeding were the following: Estle Norman Hemmings of Portsmouth, Va., $10 and costs; Richard Wendell Campbell of Norfolk, Va., $10 and corts; Leo nard Deroy Pringle of San Fran cisco, Calif,, $15 and costs; Paul Alfred Richard, Newport News, Va., $10 and costs; James How ard Prevatte, Hampton, Va., costs. James T. Bullock, Newport News, Va., costs; William Lee Grant of Wilson, costs; Marie Wiggins Reynolds of Rocky Mount, $15 and costs; Robert C. Gilliam of Savannah, Ga., $10 and costs; Elsworth Barnes of Rocky Mount, costs; Robert Glenn Stevens, Virginia Beach, Va., costs; Harlan James Gardiner of Murfreesboro, $10 and costs, Benjamin Thomas Gayof Jack- son, $10 and costs; Terry Leon Anderson of Murfreesboro, $10 and costs; Luther K. Dority of Lumberton, $10 and costs; Ro- zell Roland Yoder of Goldsboro, costs; Charles W. Eckels of Hampton, Va., $15 and costs; Cary Grant Woodard of Fort Bragg, costs; Spencer W. White of Scotland Neck, $10 and costs, Ronald Larry Blanton of Fay etteville, $10 and costs; George Taylor Jr. of Hampton, Va., $10 and costs. In other cases, Waverly Davis of Newark, N. J., was fined $40 for speeding and $75 for driving without due caution. George W. Earner of Roanoke Rapids was fined $10 and taxed court costs for driving in a man ner likely to endanger lives or property. George Nelson Jr, of Halifax was charged with driving with out due caution. The case was nol pressed. Percell Maggette was found not guilty of assault on a female inflicting painful injury. E. B. "Skinny" Grant N’pton Mourns Loss Of County Attorney Grant JACKSON-Northampton Coun- tiaiis mourned tho loss list v’ftV , of County Attorney Eugene Bow ers “Skinny” Grant, 63, who died Thursday at his home. He was a lifelong resident of Northampton County and devoted much of his life to the better ment of the community and area in which he lived. A former Jackson mayor, he was a member of the county wel fare board and for the past six years had been county attorney. He attended the University of North Carolina and graduated from Wake Forest Law School. Surviving are his wife, Mrs, Minnie Grant; one daughter, Mrs, J. R. Wills of Bangkok, Thailand; one son, Eugene Grant Jr. of Roanoke Rapids; one sister, Mrs. B. G, Thomas of Erwin; one brother, Dr.Leroy Grant of Jack- son; and five grandchildren. M. Gay Named To Head Seaboard Industry Group SEABOARD - Merrell Gay was elected chairman of the Seaboard Development Corporation in a special organizational meeting Tuesday, members ofthe organi zation reported. Other officers elected were C. C. Howell, H. R. Howell Jr., and M. Thomas Flythe, directors, and Henry R. Ricks, secretary. The Seaboard Development Corporation is an organization devoted to the industrial develop ment of the Seaboard community. S. J. Motzno, chairman of the Northampton County Industrial Development Commission, re ported that similar groups would be established in other North ampton communities. The Seaboard “industry hunt ers” will work in cooperation with the county-wide unit. SENATE PAGES—Charles L. Bridgets, left, son of Mr. ond Mrs. Wilson Bridgets, and Kenneth Wayne Woodard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woodard, both of Conway, will leave Sunday for Roleigh to begin two week's service os senate pages. Both young men are seniors at North- ompton County High School and ore members of the Beta Club. Woodard also is president of the student council. They were recommended os pages by Sen. J. J. Harring ton of Lewiston and appointed by Lt. Governor Bob Scott.
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