Newspapers / The Northampton County Times-News … / Feb. 10, 1972, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Northampton County Times-News (Rich Square and Jackson, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE Northampton County TIMES-NEWS Vol. 81 No. 6 THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1972 Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium 'A' 'A’ ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — EstabUshed 1926 lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C. 10 Pages Jernigan Files For 5th House District •jrts H. ie, five- e North of se first for the ■ou. " District ■lerttord. Gates, Northampton AHOSKIE — R( Jernigan Jr. of Ah. session veteran Carolina Representat’ candidati to new Fifth which covers Bertie and Counties. Jernigan, wh'i served the Hertford-Bertie-Northampton Sixth District from 1963 through 1971 described the new four-county combination as being “ideal” for purposes of representation. He said, “Because the counties have so much in common, what is good for one is usually good for another. The uniformity of needs within the four counties presents a unique opportunity for progress when the four work as one unit.” Jernigan cited close ties be tween Gates and the other Roanoke-Chowan Counties using as examples geographical location and shared public services such as library, health department and mental health facilities. “We even grow the same crops and have the same agricultural needs,” he added. The new Fifth District was (See JERNIGAN, Pa^e 10) Roberts Jernigan Liverman Files For House Seat WINDSOR - Bertie County has a candidate for one of two seats in the North Carolina House of Representatives , from the Fifth District (Bertie, Hertford, Northampton and Gates Counties). He is Luther Tennyson Liverman Jr. of Windsor, who paid his filing fee on Wednesday. Born December 31, 1921, in Winton, Liverman is toe son of Mr. and Mrs. Liverman Sr. of Memorial Drive, Ahoskie. He is married to the former Nancy Gray Burden of Windsor and they have three children, Mrs. Donald Graham Cowan of Asheville; Mrs. George W. Clear of Wiicon and' Luther T. Liverman III, a student at North Carolina State University. They have three grandchildren. He is a graduate of Ahoskie High School and attended North Carolina State College (University) in 1939. From 1940 to 1942 he attended Wake Forest College (University). He entered the Army in the spring of 1942 and graduated from the School of Engineering at Fort Belvoir, Va., in 1942. He served in toe Armed Forces as captain in the Corps of Engineers until May 1946 and then served seven years in toe Army Reserves. He has made his home in Windsor at 203 West Gray St. since 1946. He is a land surveyor and owns East Coast Surveying Service and has other business interests. He is a town commissioner and serves as mayor pro tern for Windsor. He is also on the executive board of toe Mid- East Regional Commission. He previously served 13 years on the Windsor School committee and was chairman of this group five years. He is a past member of the Windsor Merchants Association, toe (See LIVERMAN, Page 10) PROJECT LIFE CENTRAL FIGURE Charles Kirwin Vann (left) of Conway, discusses his kidney disease with Michael White of Ahoskie. Kirwin is suffering from the disease and must be treated on a kidney machine three times a week at Duke Medical Center. Because of the overwhelming expenses involved the Roanoke-Chowan Area is conducting Project Life to raise funds to cover treatment and recovery for Kirwin. Mike, suffering from the same disease two years ago, was the centra I figure in Project Hope. This drive for funds saw the purchase of a kidney machine for the area and the saving of Mike's life. Above, Mike tells Kirwin of what lies ahead on the road to recovery. Hope // For Life During February MURFREESBORO Activities at toe six Hope II centers during February are being devoted to Project Life, the area-wide campaign to provide necessary medical treatment for Charles Kirwin Vann of Conway. The 16-year- old faces a similar situation as ‘hat faced by M'chae? White of Ahoskie for whom Operation Hope was established. Approximately 241 teen agers involved in Hope II activities will be conducting fund-raising projects. Included in toe projects now underway are preparation of posters and donation cannisters for businesses and schools throughout toe four- county area and door-to-door canvassing. Projects being planned are bake sales, basketball games, white elephant sale and traffic solicitation in cooperation with police departments. High scho-i' ((irs in the centers have vot^ to give all funds on hand from previous projects to toe Kirwin Vann fund. Youth who planned Operation Hope to benefit Michael White were active in the planning and implementation of Operation Hope II, a student-youth Two Manslaughter Cases Sent To Superior Court L. T. Liverman Jr. Jackson Visited By Morton JACKSON — Hugh Morton, gubernatorial hopeful, spent three hours in Jackson t^ay talking to political leaders and the voters. After visiting several offices in the courthouse, Morton H.W. Grant Is Morton's N'ampton Man RALEIGH — Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Hugh Morton this week named H. W. Grant, a Jackson farmer, as his Morton for governor committee chairman in Northampton County. This was one of 12 appointments made. Grant is a lifetime resident of the county and has a past record of political service and activity dating back to toe mid-1940’s. V, addressed a group at the Jackson Lions Club and asked those present to tell him how he could best benefit this area if he were elected to toe governor’s office. Among toe suggestions given were: better training for employees, better forestry protection, more medical facilities and aid to control wide range busing. The candidate made the following comments, “The governor can bring about pressure on others to equalize the busing in all areas in toe nation and thereby bring about more practical methods of integration; 100 million dollars for East Carolina University Medical School had to be explained to him before he could go along with it; and he favors community efforts to bring doctors into areas by providing them with guaranteed facilities and finances. JACKSON — Two manslaughter defendants with two counts each against them were bound over to Superior Court Wednesday in District Court by Judge Ballard S. Gay. Defendants were John Stephen Williams and Jimmie Jones Jr. who were charged in connection with toe October 26 highway deaths of 18-year-old George Branch and 20-year- old David Williams. Superior Court bond was set at $2,500 for each defendant on each charge. Williams was found not guilty of public drunkenness but was fined $100 for driving under the influence which he appealed. Jones was fined $50 on a charge of reckless driving. In other cases disposed of driving under the influence defendants and dispositions were: Charlie Lee Wallace and Moses Lyons Jr., $100 fines and restricted driving privileges; Ray Thomas Carroway, Junius Lee Deloatch and Joseph S. Malone, all reduced to lesser charge of reckless driving, $100 fines with Malone order^ not to drive in North Carolina for one year; Eldridge B. West, also charged with no GUBERNATORIAL HOPEFUL Hugh Morton (center) talks with J. C. (Country) Pruden (left) and H. W. Grant, his Northampton campaign manager, during a three-hour visit to Jackson Wednesday. operator’s license, $100 fine; William Lewis Long, $100 fine and William Lewis Staples Jr., $100 fine with a speeding charge nol pressed. On a speeding charge Raymond E. Powell was fined $50 and his license was revoked while Essie Lucas Bowser paid a $10 fine on a like charge. On two charges of assault with a deadly weapon, Randolph Butcher was given a 60-day suspended sentence on payment of costs and medical bills on each charge. He appealed and Superior Court bond was set at $100 each. McGlen Webb received a »• day suspended sentence, was fined $50 and placed on probation for two years tor possession of nontax-paid whiskey and possession fw sale while Agnes Webb was found not guilty of like charges. Irene Scott was assessed costs for assault with a deadly weapon as was Bobby Earl Wilkins for improper brakes and Joseph Allen Peede for speeding. An assault with a deadly weapon charge brought Cleveland Barnes Jr. a six- Rich Square's Draffin Gets PNB Promotion RICH SQUARE — F. Douglas Draffin Jr. has been promoted to assistant vice president and manager of Planters National Bank’s Rich Square office. Announcement of the election by the bank’s directors was made by James 0. Outland, chairman of PNB’s Rich Square board of managers. “Doug Draffin has been a credit to the bank and to the community since he joined us in 1970,” commented Outland, “ and all of us who know him are pleased to acknowledge this well deserved recognition.” )e^i' ^ CADA Trains In New Technique MURFREESBORO — A two-day training session in toe New Grant Application Process was conducted at toe Choanoke Area Development Association (CADA) headquarters in Murfreesboro this week. Making the presentations were three representatives from toe State Economic Opportunity Office in Raleigh and a member of the Southeastern Regional Office in Atlanta. The Murfreesboro office controls CADA activities in Northampton, Hertford, Bertie and Halifax Counties. Revelle Enters Fifth District House Race project funded by HEW’s Emergency School Assistance Program. Their intent in choosing the project name was to continue and expand on the spirit of cooperation the bi- racial group of teen-agers experienced in the initial Operaticp^^Ifope project. With *\heir February activities. Operation Hope II youth join many other groups throughout the Roanoke- Chowan area in efforts to ensure that Kirwin Vann has adequate funds to pay all medical expenses, including a kidney transplant, to correct his kidney condition. JACKSON— J. Guy ReveUe Sr., 63, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Northampton County, filed Wednesday afternoon for one of two seats in the North Carolina House of Representatives from the Fifth District. Revelle has been a member of the Board of Commissioners for the past 19 years and chairman of that body for toe last eight. He had previously filed for another term with toe commissioners but withdrew from this to run for the House. A native of Northampton County (Kirby Township) he graduated Woodland-Olney High School and attended Wake Forest. He now lives within one mile of his birthplace. He retired last January from a 35-year career with Armour Fertilizer Company as a company representative in the Roanoke-Chowan Area. He is still active in the peanut buying business and has farming interests. A deacon for toe past 40 years in toe Ashley’s Grove Baptist Church, Revelle was encouraged to run for toe house seat to give added representation to Northampton County. ' S. ■ J. Guy Revelle The training included two lecture sessions and an exercise in developing and using a model. One evening affair was devoted to training for the 36-member board of directors led by Dr. John H. Stanley, newly appointed CADA president. In describing toe program Mrs. Dot Wagoner, CADA public information officer, said, “Under this new process the local board, which represents the total community, will have greatly increased responsibility in direction of the total CADA program.” John W. Taylor, executive director, said that this is all part of an overall change in toe program with toe local Community Action Agencies (CAA) and the community itself now getting more fexibility and freedom to (See CADA, fage 10) Bowles Picks J.W. Boone For N'ampton RALEIGH — Jackson grocer, James W. Boone, was announced this week as North ampton County manager in the campaign of Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles, Democratic candidate for governor. Boone, 46, manages Boone’s Supermarket with his father, D. L. Boone. In toe fall he operates a peanut-buying station is Jackson. Commissioners Attend To Hog Burial, Tax Refund JACKSON — Payment for hog burial and a tax refund and toe naming of a new deputy sheriff and library board member led toe list of actions taken by the Northampton County Board of Commissioners at their meeting Monday. A bill of $50 was paid to Cecil Maddrey of Severn for burying 12 dead hogs which are believed to have been dumped in a field in the county. The matter was discussed and it was suggested that it be turned over to the Sheriff’s Department or Health Department. The board approved payment of a tax refund of $76.80 to Mrs. Claudia Lassiter of George. She had been overpaying since 1%5. Ellis David Squire of Gaston was assigned as deputy sheriff of the Gaston-Garysburg area. The post was formerly held by Andrew L. Coleman. month suspended sentence, $25 fine and a good behavior period of two years. The following cases were nol prossed or nol prossed with leave: David Cameron Stevens Jr. and James Wilkins Evans Jr., speeding; Alonzo Peters, owning an illegal whiskey still and operating same for purpose of making nontax- paid whiskey; Walter Junior Rook, failure to comply with license restriction and Lillian Bonner, failure to comply with city ordinance pertaining to use of sanitary facilities. Fifth District House Filing Plans Varied RICH SQUARE — In toe race for toe two Fifth House District seats three have filed, one is very interesting in filing, one has no plans of filing at this time and one has given a definite “NO” to toe filing question. Incumbent Roberts Jernigan of Ahoskie has filed along with L. T. Liverman Jr., a Windsor surveyor and businessman and civic worker, and J. Guy Revelle, chairman of the Northampton County Commissioners. “I am very much interested in the seat and some day intend to run for it,” said Murfreesboro Mayor W. W. “Billy” Hill. “I’m so involved in Murfreesboro and enjoying my work here that I just hate to give up my position as (See PLANS, Page 10) Appointed to fill a position on the Northampton Memorial Library Board was Dan Wilder. He will serve for toe unexpired term of the late Walter Reinhardt. The commissioners met jointly with toe Board of Education and the County Board of Health and approved a 5.5 per cent pay raise to the county Alcoholic Beverage Control chairman B. R. Burgwyn. That position will now pay $6,330 annuaUy. Other actions taken by toe board included: —voted to join toe Coastal Plains Development Association, a 10-county development group made up of counties in Regions L and Q, Council of Governments. Also approved was toe payment of $200 in dues to that association. —approved the purchase of 13 6-cubic-yard trash collection containers for toe county from the Tidy Corporation of Lynchburg, Va. The containers will cost $280 each and should be more practical than the four-cubic- yard containers now in use. m -N. AT EMPORIA OPENING — Among those attending dedication ceremonies of the Georgia- Pacific plywood plant at Emporia Tuesday were (from left) Julian Brown, William D. Doughtie, Police Chief Robert Wheeler, Mayor W. W. Hill, William Lawrence and Charlie Langley, all of Murfreesboro; and Mayor Grady Martin of Conway.
The Northampton County Times-News (Rich Square and Jackson, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 10, 1972, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75