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Vol. 81 No. 5
THE County TIMES-NEWS
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THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — EstabUshed 1892 ☆ THE NORTELtMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
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RCA-CADA Project Closing
Four Offices; Is Refunded
MURFREESBORO — by the Office of Economic Development Project it has
Choanoke Area Development Opportunity’s Migrant operated since 1968 as a
Association has been nnfifieH Division that the Familv demonstration project will be
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PROJECT LIFE SPEAKER, Dr. Joe Fleetwood
of Conway, addresses a gathering of 30 profect
workers at a meeting Monday in the new
Murfreesboro Municipal Building. Dr. Fleetwood
explained the complications of Kirwin Vann's
condition, the treatments, possible solutions and
the costs which accompany these actions. Also
speaking to the crowd was the Rev. A. M.
Williams and Mayor Billy Hill of Murfreesboro.
Initial reactions to this drive are very favorable,
the committee has reported. Seated at the desk
(from left) are Joe Edwards, chairman; Mrs.
Hazel W. Tayloe, vice-chairman; and Don
Burkett.
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‘Project Life’ Gathering
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RICH SQUARE — At a
“Project Life” meeting in
Murfreesboro Monday night
the committee and
approximately 30 student
representatives from local
area schools discussed Kirwin
Vann’s condition, possible
solutions, desired goals and
proposals for raising funds.
Leading off the meeting was
a talk by Kirwin’s family
doctor, Dr. Joe Fleetwood of
Conway. He covered all of the
points in Kirwin’s condition
and the long-range actions
which must be t^en for a
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The students ask^ several
questions and, “appeared to
be well informed on the
subject,” commented Mrs.
Hazel W. Tayloe, vice-
chairman of the committee.
F ollowing Doctor
Fleetwood’s talk the Rev. A
M. Williams of Ahoskie spoke
on his past experience as a
director of the Operation
Hope project which was
instrumental in saving the life
of Michael White of Ahoskie.
The Rev. Williams told the
students that they must
believe in this project
theniselves before they can
sell it to their fellow students.
A show of hands demonstrated
the student’s belief,in this
cause.
Committee chairman, Joe
C. Edwards of Pendleton,
reported on the initial reaction
to Project Life and said that
funds were already coming in.
next week a weak!-
progress report will be made
in this newspaper.
Kirwin Vann is a 16-year-old
Northampton County high
school student who has a
kidney infection which
requires a thrice-a-week
treatment on a kidney
machine at the Duke Medical
Center in Durham. This
treatment is costly and an
eventual operation to
transplant a kidney will also
be expensive. Having diabetes
complicates the situation.
Kirwin’s father is also a
diabetic and has a heart
condition.
Although known to the
family and immediate friends,
Lirwu)’.s C'oiitfiliofi CecamV
known to the general public
last week as a committee was
formed to raise funds to cover
the medical expenses.
In addition to Edwards,
Mrs. Tayloe and the Rev.
Williams, other
committeemen are Brodie
Harrell, Jackson; Ben Mann,
Pendleton; C. J. Watson,
Conway; O. B. Spaulding,
Pendleton; Frank Burleson,
Murfreesboro, Austin Lewis,
Jackson; and Don Burnett,
Murfreesboro; andJoeCovolo
of Ahoskie.
In discussing plans for their
participation the students had
many suggestions ideas
which they took baclJ to their
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CLOSING DOWN AT THE END OF this month is the Jackson Training
Center of the RCA-CADA. This is one of four center^, affected by a funding
cut The others are in Ahoskie, Enfield and Windsor. Plans to transfer some
of the staff from these centers to the Rich Square operation are not vet
complete. '
Larceny Cases Reduced
In District Court Wed.
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Rood Job Bid
$172,316 For
Area Counties
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the meeting. After nex
meeting the Projec>»*’^
committee hopes to release a
list of scheduled fund raising
_ _ events.
Two Sentenced
not limit the campaign just to
that county. This is a
Roanoke-Chowan area
project and the entire
area should benefit from this
(See LIFE. Page 11)
Poisoning Cows
RALEIGH — A bid of
$172,316.50 from Dickerson,
Inc., Monroe, was submitted
for review of the State
Highway Commission for road
projects in Bertie, Gates and
Northampton Counties.
The bid covers 0.378 mile of
grading, bituminous concrete
base and surface for
improvements on N.C. 308 in
Windsor, on U.S. 158-A in
Gatesville and N.C. 35 in
Woodland.
Final completion date is
October 1.
Bids totaling $29,505,474.05
were received January 25 by
the State Highway
Commission at its regular
monthly letting. There were 27
projects in 29 counties
involving more than 374 miles
of road improvements.
All apparent low bids were
reviewed by the commission
in a meeting in Raleigh
February 3.
(Editor’s Note: Due to the
additional day of District
Court last week the TimesJ
News was not able to report itS
results. However, one case of
major importance, that of
poisoned cows, is reported
below.)
JACKSON — Calvin
Deloatch and Wallace Little
Lewter, both of George, were
each charged with 19 cases of
poisoning cows in Woodland
this past December 10.
Deloatch was found guilty of
all 19 charges and sentenced
to six months each on all
charges. (Six-month
sentences of the last 11 cases
were to run concurrently with
the first eight.)
Four of Lewter’s charges
were dismissed. On eight
charges he was given six
months each and in the other
seven he was given concurrent
judgments with the four-year
The cows belonged to Billy
Jenkins of Woodland and Joe
Brown Jr. of Rich Square.
Prior to the incident it was
reported the two men had 54
cows. Two have been bought
and added to the 35 left from
the original herd. There was
no insurance. Four of the
poisoned animals were
carrying at the time of their
deaths.
The operation was closed
down for 12 days after the
poisoning. Prior to the
incident an average of 3,100
pounds of milk was available
at each pick-up. Now it has
dropped to 1,300, the owners
reported.
Gaston School
Entered Sunday
JACKSON — A breaking
and entering and larceny
occurred at Squires
Elementary School in Gaston
Sunday night, it was reported
by Northampton Sheriff E.
Frank Outland.
The school was entered
through a window and
between $10 and $20 was
removed from a drink
machine.
The incident is being
investigated.
Winter To Be
Six Weeks
Shorter Now
RICH SQUARE — For
the edification of our
readers the Times-News
staff wishes to announce
that, if legend is correct,
winter will be six weeks
shorter this year — that Is
if It ever begins in the first
place.
According to the
Farmers Almanac it Is a
popular belief that if the
ground hog saw his shadow
Wednesday (February 2)
he returns to his burrow
and winter continues six
weeks longer.
The only way he could
have seen his shadow
Wednesday would have
been with the help of a sun
lamp and power line from
Roanoke Electric
Membership or Vepco and
at last report they had not
participated in such action.
JACKSON — A Jackson
man was given a four-year
suspended sentence on two
charges of larceny and one of
breaking and entering by
Judge J. T. Maddrey in
District Court Wednesday.
Defendant was John
.wiili (he theft of Mrs. Lloyd
Parker’s 1963 Ford. The
charge was reduced frtHn
larceny to larceny of less toan
$200. Sentence in this case was
two years suspended, $50 fine
and probation for five years.
On the charge of breaking
and entering and larceny of
Mrs. Parker’s pocketbook, the
court reduced the charge to
felonious breaking and
entering. Fine and suspended
sentences were the same and
he was ordered to pay cost of
repairs of the Parker
automobile.
In other cases disposed of, a
charge of larceny against
James Henry Richardson was
reduced to temporary larceny
of a motor vehicle. He was
given a nine-month jail
sentence.
Richardson was also
charged with breaking and
entering larceny which was
reduced to non-felonious
breaking and entering. He was
sentenced to nine months in
jail to serve at the expiration
of the sentence imposed in the
other case.
Driving under the influence
charges against Alexander
Peebles and John Thomas
Stephenson were reduced to
the lesser charge of reckless
driving. Stephenson was given
a six-month suspended
sentence, fined $250 and costs
with license revocation for 12
months. Charges of resisting
arrest and assault on an
officer were nol pressed.
Peebles was given a 90-day
suspended sentence and fined
$100 with limited driving
privileges.
John Wilson Darden
received a 60-day suspended
sentence and was fined $100
with limited driving privileges
for driving under the
(See CASES, Page 4)
Harrington Seeks
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LEWISTON — A sixth term
as one of two senators from
the First Senatorial District in
the State Legislature is being
sought by J. J. (Monk)
Harrington of Lewiston,
according to an announce
ment made Wednes
day.
Four additional counties
have been added to the
senator’s district making this
the largest in area in the state.
New counties added are
Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell and
Dare. The 10 counties
previously in the district were
Bertie, Chowan, Gates,
Hertford, Northampton,
Washington, Perquimans,
Pasquotank, Camden and
Currituck.
In announcing his candidacy
for another term. Senator
Harrington stated it has been
a pleasure to serve the 10
counties in the district and he
looks forward to serving the
new counties which were
added. He promised to
continue a policy upon which
he prides himself and that is
trying to serve all the people
of all the counties “to the best
of my ability.”
The senator, first elected to
office in 1962 and going to the
Legislature first in 1963, says
his experience puts him in a
position to know how to go
about getting the job done.
He has served as chairman
of the public roads committee
for three terms and has had
extensive experience in
budget matters of the state
having served as vice-
chairman of the finance
(See HARRING'TON, Page 11)
J. J. "Monk" Harrington
.. .for State Senate
refunded as a permanent
training facility effective
March 1. There will be,
however, two major changes
in the total program for 1972-
73.
The two changes, according
to CADA President Dr. John
H. Stanley, will be the closing
of the non-residential ABE-
Prevocational Centers at
Ahoskie, Windsor, Jackson
and Enfield and the expansion
of the recruitment area for the
residential center at Rich
Square.
Fletcher Lassiter, manager
of the program for RCA, said
that the closing will affect 60
students, 17 full-time and four
part-time staff members.
Dr. Stanley explained that
the Family Development
Project’s residential center at
Rich Square will continue to
operate at the current
capacity of 50 families and at
the current training level,
with long-range planning for
expansion statewide expected.
Closing of non-residential
centers has been necessitated
by a 28 per cent reduction
infunding for 1972-73, he
continued, but their closing is
considered a temporary
move.
CADA staff and
representatives of Halifax
County and Roanoke-Chowan
Technical Institutes have been
negotiating with other federal
agencies for funds to continue
and expand the ABE-
Prevocational phase of the
program. “At this point, we
are reasonably certain that
this phase will again be
operational within 60-90 days
with the technical institutes
operating the non-residential
centers,” Dr. Stanley said.
OEO Migrant Division has
stipulated that CADA should
concentrate on making the
residential center at Rich
Square a focal point for skill
training and family
involvement, assuring that
throughout th\^” Vte be ■
allow^ to receive training.
Federal officials have pointed
out that the Migrant Division’s
limited funds for operating
full scale migrant programs
nationally and its plans to
utilize the CADA Family
Training concept elsewhere
have required the reduction in
funding of the CADA project.
Implications are, it is said,
that to date CADA has
received a disproportionate
share of the national migrant
budget.
Amended legislation
governing migrant programs
requires that grantee board
composition consist of 51 per
cent migrant and seasonal
farm workers. To continue
operating the Family
Development Project under
this requirement, CADA will
relinquish its grantee status to
the N. C. Council of Churches;
Migrant Project on September
1 and assume operational
responsibility under a
delegate agency agreement.
No significant changes are
anticipated in the program’s
operation other than that the
N. C. Council of Churches’
Migrant Project will assume
responsibility for recruitment,
job placement and follow-up.
Since its inception in 1968
(See PROJECT, Page 11)
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Former Jackson Man
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FLORENCE, S. C. - Dr.
John Andrew Britton, son of
Mrs. Guy Britton and the late
Mr. Britton of Jackson, begins
his duties as assistant history
professor at Francis Marion
College in Florence at the
beginning of the spring
semester.
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OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMER of the Newton Community, Winston
Warren (center), receives a scholarship check from Northampton County
Key Banker T. W. Cooley. Looking on is County Extension Chairman Brodie
Harrell. The check is to be used to cover expenses to attend a short course in
Modern Farming at N. C. State in Raleigh this month. This check, one of
many, is presented to young farmers throughout the state who show
potential leadership and have a keen interest in the field of agriculture.
Dr. J. A. Britton
A 1961 graduate of Jackson
High School, Dr. Britton
attended the University of
North Carolina as a Josephus
Daniels scholar and was
awarded his B.A. degree in
1965. In September of the
same year he entered Tulane
University and earned a
master of arts degree in 1967.
In 1971 he was awarded the
doctorate degree at Tulane.
Dr. Britton is married to
Kathleen Agnes Smith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Terry Smith of San Francisco.
She is a 1%9 graduate of
Sophia Newcomb College.
LOOKINGOVERTHISMONTH'Sdisplay in the Buxton Room of the North
ampton Memorial Library are Miss Lori Giles and Miss Kim Stephenson,
both of Jackson. This month books on art from the early period of Arabia
and Central Asia on through recent works of American artists are on dis
play. In addition to the books films are presented each Wednesday on an art
theme.