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THE Northampton County TIMES-NEWS j|y 25, 1968 Lt own THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 A Combination of ☆ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926 Vol. LXXVIl, No. 31 Jackson, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1968 Rich Square, N. C. ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN is the situation regarding the runway lights at Tri-County Airport where lights have been turned on at night by an electronic device despite the lock of obstruction lights which have been held up due to the heavy rains mak ing it impossible to get into areo with necessary equipment to raise poles. Re volving beacon also is yet to be installed. Runway lights have been ordered cut off for safety reasons until obstruction lights are completed at areo at for end of field beyond highway. 3,444 Residents Receive $198,918 In Benefits ROANOKE RAPIDS - A record $198,918 was paid out in social security cash benefits to 3,444 residents of Northampton County for February, according toEdW. Deese, officer-in-charge of the Roanoke Rapids social security office. This is an increase of $36,393 over the amount paid out for December 1966. On a yearly basis, Northampton County so cial security beneficiaries re ceive approximately $2,387,016. “February 1968 was the first month in which increased bene fit rates provided by the 1967 amendments to the Social Secur ity Act were payable,” Deese noted. Nationally, the amount of monthly benefits exceeds $2 bil lion, an increase of more than $360 million above theDecember 1966 figure. More than 24 mil lion men, women and children, or nearly one out of every eight Americans, are now receiving Connie Jenkins Wayne Woodord Two County Youths Tapped In State 4-H Honor Club RALEIGH - One of the highest honors in 4-H club work was be stowed Monday night on two Northampton County youths. Connie Jenkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jenkins of Potecasi, and Wayne Woodard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woodard of Conway, were “tapped” into the state 4-HHon- or Club in a colorful candlight ceremony marking one of the highlights of state 4-H Club Week at N. C. State University. Membership in the 835-mem ber organization is a reward for outstanding service to 4-H club work. The 4-H’ers are judged on their leadership abilities, moral standards and 4-H activi ties and records. Selection is made after careful study by the state honor club members. Miss Jenkins has been a 4-H member eight years. During her membership she has completed projects in foods and nutrition, breads and cereals,frozenfoods, baking, outdoor meals, foods for special occasions, home manage ment, clothing, home improve ment, junior leadership and health. She has held all offices of her local club and also served as county reporter. She is a mem ber of the county 4-H Honor Club, blue ribbon winner in county dress revue and talent, county champion in 16 projects, recipi ent of Key Award, leadership and achievement awards, a two-year district winner in foods and nu- (See YOUTHS Page 4) some type of monthly benefit. About 18.4 million of those re ceiving benefits at the end of February were 62 or older. An additional 2.2 million were dis abled workers under 62 and their young dependents. About 3.4 million social se curity beneficiaries were young widowed mothers and their chil dren, Deese said, noting that a total of about $19 billion has been paid to orphaned children and their mothers since January 1940, when monthly survivors benefits first became payable. In the past six years alone, benefit payments to this “young er group” have amounted to one and one-fourth times as much as the amount paid out in this cate gory during the preceding 21 years. Many younger people also re- hpnpfHc f^iie to dlsabilitv. More than $2.2 million is being paid each month to disabled work ers and their dependents - a rate that is 10 per cent higher than that of December 1966. “Most of the changes in the 1967 social security amendments provided more protection for younger people,” Deese noted. For instance, some 175,000 chil dren are now eligible for bene fits based upon the earnings of a mother who has died or is entitled to disability or retirement bene fits. Previously, women needed to have worked for at least one and a half of the last three years. However, that requirement has been removed. Payments can now be made to the children of a wom an worker who has died, become disabled or retired if she has enough work credits — earned at any time-to be “fully insured.” Another change made 100,000 younger persons—disabled work ers and their dependents - eli gible for benefits. The amount of social security work credits re quired for the payment of bene fits to workers who become to tally disabled before they reach 31 years of age has been reduced substantially - for those below 24 years of age, to as little as a year and a half of coverage. Some 65,000 widows, unable to work because of severe disabil ity, were able to get monthly benefits as early as age 50. De pendent disabled widowers also became eligible for payments, and in some cases, so did di vorced wives of deceased work- Lights Off At Airport For Safety TRI-COUNTY AIRPORT - Landing lights at Tri-County Air port, which have been auto matically turned on and off by a special electronic switch on top of the small airport building for the past two weeks or such a mat ter, were turned off Friday by direction of John K, Barrow Jr., head of the Tri-County Airport Authority, . Barrow gave as his reason the I fact that the obstruction lights at I the east end of the field, and also ' east of the highway, have not been installed, due to weather. Lacking these lights, the air port lighting system is a hazard at this time as a night-flying plane coming in conceivably could collide with the obstructions - namely some tall trees in the way with disastrous results — either in take-off or landing, Barrow indicated. Barrow said that he had not been advised that the lights had been turned on and only had be come aware of it when driving by the field after dark. The wind sock also has been lighted, but the big revolving air port beacon, which will go in at the circle just south of the park ing area, remains to be installed. Rockwell Radio and Electric Co. of Rockwell is installing the lights which would have been completed had it not been for the recent heavy rains which have bogged down the necessary heavy equipment required to put in the poles which will support the ob struction lights at the same height as the obstructions. The beacon installation also has been held up for the same reason. The $22,000 project was let to contract late in the spring with the Rockwell firm having 45 working days to complete the project. Tuesday evening, a three-place light plane was set down at the airport about dark-landing li^ts were on when it came in — but the pilot appeared to be well fa miliar with the field and the wind from the east so that he Search Continues For Prisoners JACKSON-Northampton Coun ty lawmen and prison guards con tinued their combined efforts Thursday morning to find two of four convicts who walked away from Odom Prison Farm near here Monday. The other two were recaptured less than two hours after their walk-away. An Odom official said Wed nesday morning that searching efforts had so far failed to turn up Donnie Lee Martin, 18, Dur ham, and Franz; Miles, 25, Char lotte. Recaptured within a short time after leaving a work detail around noon Monday were Robert Lee Roseboro, 21, Route 1, Winter- ville, and William Ragan, 21, Wil- min^on. They were recaptured near Jackson while apparently trying to reach town. All four, serving felon sen tences, were honor graders. Aug. 20 Seei Eastern Opei Woodland and Mr. and Mrs. Har vey Hurdle of Aulander, Mrs. R, E. Dunning of Plym outh spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Judson Dunning and Miss Minnie Dunning. Jerry Dunning has returned home from summer school at East Carolina University. Mrs. Frances Mouser of Vir ginia Beach spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs, Pete Tyler and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warren and Miss Jessie Allen visltedMr. and Mrs, R. T. Joyner Sunday. GREENVILLE - Members of the Eastern Carolina Warehouse Association adopted August 20 as a tentative opening date for the 17 flue-cured tobacco mar kets of the Eastern Belt at its meeting Thursday at the Green ville Country Club. This date is still subject to further board of directors’ ac tion. Last year’s opening date was August 24. The association adopted a statement sayingthatit(theEast- ern Belt) “desires to retain full and active membership” in the Bright Belt Warehouse Associa tion, a five-state trade organiza tion, The group voted to appoint a committee to confer with Bright 21 4-H’ers Attend State Club Week JACKSON - Twenty-one 4-H club members and two agents are representing Northampton Coun ty at State 4-H Club Week in Raleigh this week. The Northampton County dele gates are among some 1,250 club members and leaders participat ing in the annual four-day pro gram which began Monday on the North Carolina State University campus. The program consists of rec reation, attending classes, com petition, election of state officers and a lot of fellowship, “Four-H Club Week offers an excellent opportunity for per sonal grov/th and development,” comments Dr. T. C. Blalock, state 4-H club leader. “It is an event that club members look forward to each year with great anticipation,” he added. During the week state winners are determined in the demonstra tion programs and various judg ing activities. Among the events in which C. J, Maddrey, Warren Taylor, Riddick Ricks, Charles Jenkins, Arthur Jenkins and Michael Tay lor, Belt officials and make every ef fort to resolve differences. The association voted to appoint a committee that would confer with Bri^t Belt officials in an attempt to resolve differences, A dispute over an extra hour of daily selling time on the Eastern Belt triggered a withdrawal of representatives of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association at the in dustry-wide Flue-Cured Tobac co Marketing Committee at a meeting Monday night of last week. After the Flue-Cured Tobacco Marketing Committee refused to rescind a five-hour allocation of daily sales for the Eastern Belt, as against a four-hour allocation for other belts, managing direc tor F. S. Royster of Henderson left the meeting sayingthe Bright Belt had been placed in an “un tenable legal position” and was forced to withdraw from the com mittee. The Georgla-Florlda opening will be on July 31, considerably later than usual. Buyers and graders will not be available for the Eastern Belt markets until toi ROANOKE Motor Sales, Inc. HOME OF • BUICX • OPAL • GMC TRUCKS FINE SELECTION OF USED CARS Tel. 537-3597 season^ including a labeling plan to identify Georgia-grown tobac co and the opening of South Caro lina and North Carolina Border markets on the same date as the Georgia-Florida. Eagles told the group that by waiting until Georgia auctions have been under way for a few days, “possibly you could come up with a date you can stay with which might be earlier than one you would set now.” Spencer Edmondson of Rocky Mount urged the setting of the August 20 tentative date saying this date might put pressure on the Georgia markets to move (See OPENING, Page 4) 'Segregation, Suspicion And Distrust Have To Go’ came in from the west with the Northampton County 4-H’ers are obstructions no problem. participating are egg cookery iiiicuiu aifc wiiio oe iiom Uic , - ' •. west and a plane coming in from home improvement demonstra- the east, the situation would be tion, Jo Ann Nance; fruit and entirely different, hazard-wise, vegetable use, Phyllis Taylor; Or should an after-dark take- dairy foods, Cynthia Boone; poul- off be made east with pilot una- try barbecue, Vickie Eason; for- ware of obstructions and not ostry demonstration, David Eley; climbing sufficiently steeply to horse demonstration, Jimmie avoid them, a crash could result. Jenkins. The lights will not be turned Paula Jean Davis is serving on again until the project is com- o" the “Clover Leaves staff, pleted, Barrow indicated. Warren Taylor is modeling men’s Tri-County Airport’s 3,950- clothing in the state dress revue loot long runway is sufficient to f-ikt Riddick Ricks is represent- handle the smaller jet planes as ihS the district in the State Health was demonstrated in the spring Pageant. of 1967 when a twin-jet Aero Barry Jenkins will be honored Commander executive plane car- at the Key Award banquet and rying top officials of Northern ^nna Beale Burgess and David Electric of Chigago landed with Eley will be honored at the state passengers en route to the Ahos- recognition banquet for state kie Sunbeam plant. Correction RICH SQUARE - In lastweek’s issue of the “Times-News” the spokesman for Rich square citi zens protesting water and sewer service to the new RCA training program area was identified as Jack Warmack, The spokesman for the 10 fam ilies involved was Charles War- mack. The families residing on West Jackson St., who do not have town sewer service, are Harlee Har rell, Joe Vick, Charles Warmack, Mrs. Betty Branch, Carroll Bry ant, C. W. Lassiter, Lewter Grif fin, Barry Pope, Bing Williams and Julian Edwards. Edwards is a member of the town board. MURFREESBORO - Breaking down barriers of segregation, suspicion and distrust to bring more creative Christian fellow ship among people of different races is being urged during the second annual Chowan Week of Christian Study and Fellowship by leaders in North Carolina’s two large Baptist conventions. Program personnel directing activities at Chowan College, which began Monday, are leading churchmen from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and the General Baptist State Conven tion, whose churches are mainly Negro in membership. “No Christiaiv,” caid F^rv. James Heaton, “ought to allow himself to support a sub-Chris tian practice by appealingtopre- Christian laws of the Old Testa ment,” during a New Testament study session Monday afternoon. Improper race relations, seg regation, polygamy, divorce, envy, hatred and vengeful atti tudes were cited by the pastor of Raleigh’s Tabernacle Baptist Church as practice that might be supported by proof-text reason ing “but not by the spirit of Christ.” Appealing for unselfishness at Monday night’s session, Dr. O. L. Sherrill, executive secretary of the General Baptist State Con vention, said. “When vou live for (See SUSPICION, Page 4) Northampton School Case In Judge’s Hands Now NEW BERN -Superintendent of Schools Roy F. Lowry, school attorney Perry Martin and coun ty attorney Angus McKellar re turned Tuesday from the hearing before Federal Judge Larkins at the district court in New Bern where the case against the North ampton County school board by the Justice Department was tried. They were unwilling to com ment upon the outcome of the case since Judge Larkins did not make public his decision at Record $2 Million Budget For Chowan winners. Arthur Jenkins is serving as campaign manager for Tommy Cahoon of Tyrrell County, state president nominee. Participating in a week long choral workshop are Betty Lou Hill, Cleve Taylor, Debra Mc Dowell, Phyllis Taylor and Paula Jean Davis. Leading the delegation are Mil dred C. Jenkins, associate home economics extension agent, and Douglas Eason, agricultural ex tension agent. Four-H club members attend ing club week are Paula Barnes, Betty Jo Woodard, Betty Lou Hill, Paula Jean Davis, Phyllis Kay Taylor, Vickie Eason, Jo Ann Nance, Connie Jenkins, Anna Beale Burgess, Deborah McDow ell, Jimmy Jenkins, David Eley, Barry Jenkins, Cleve Taylor, MURFREESBORO - A record $2.06 million proposed budget for operating expenses for the 1968- 69 academic year has been tenta tively adopted by Chowan College. Salary increases for the col lege’s faculty, increased costs represented by adding two new facilities and general escalation of academic costs on every level are represented in this budget. Added facilities are Daniel Hall for the Fine Arts and the Whita ker Library, costing $850,000 equipped. Thebudgetfor 1967-68,' also a record at the time, was $1.9 million. This budget has been approved by the executive committee of the Board of Trustees, which serves as the finance committee for the college and its trustees. Chowan’s administration pre pared the budget for presenta tion to the executive committee and it will be presented for final' approval by the Board of Trus tees on September 12. Anticipated expenditures in clude $702,150 for instructional expenses; $323,350 for admin istrative and general expenses; $151,000 for plant maintenance; $455,000 for auxiliary enterpris es; $56,300 for special activi ties; $128,700 for scholarships and grants to the college’s stu dents. The chairman of the executive committee, attorney Dewey Wells of Elizabeth City, pointed out that this multi-million dollar pro posed budget accents the phenom enal growth of Chowan College since Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker be came president in 1957, when 235 students were enrolled and the budget was approximately $200,- 000. Slightly more than 1,300 stu dents are expected to enroll for the 1968-69 fall semester. that time. He will take the case under advisement and announce his findings in the near future. It is expected that the school system will be requir(3dto meet his findings by the opening of the new school term in the fall. The county had filed more than 100 pages of depositions and evi dence supporting their claim that the county was effectively com plying with the law through its “freedom of choice” plans. The (See SCHOOL, Page 4) Odom Prison Is Back To Security JACKSON - Odom Prison Farm near here is gradually be ing returned to a medium secur ity unit - for which it was de signed. According to word received this week, the medium security unit here is being utilized with prisoners from Central Prison since the April 4 prison riots thei'e that resulted in several deaths. The unit had been being used for a youthful offender’s camp housing young prisoners who worked the vast acreage of farm land. These youthful offenders have been mostly transferred to oth er state units throughout the state. This program now initiated is said to be temporary, but is ex pected to last two years. "TRY THIS ON CINDY" — Prince Charm ing tries the golden sneaker on Cinderella and finds that it fits perfectly. This "Psy chedelic Cinderella" story was part of the final day’s octivities ot Woodland-Olney School Tuesday as the countywide sum mer enrichment program came to a close. SHARON BRANCH of Rich Square holds a piece of cloy pottery she made in the art class as part of the summer enrichment program that came to o close Tuesday. Mark Ollington, head of the North Carolino Children’s Theatre, was in charge of drama during the six-week course. CREATIVE ARTISTS — These Rich Square youngsters show some of their creations that were drawn and constructed in the ort phase of the summer enrichment pro gram that came to a close Tuesday. Spon sored under Title I of the ESEA, this pro gram brought to Northampton youngsters some of the top creative people in the state.
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald (Ahoskie, N.C.)
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