THE County TIMES-NEWS
Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium
Vol. 81 No. 10
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1972
☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — EstabUshed 1926
lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C.
12 Pages
N'ampton County Accountant
Appointed By Commissioners
JACKSON — A county Board of County
accountant for Northampton Commissioners in executive
County was selected by the session Monday afternoon and
NEW COUNTY ACCOUNTANT Sidney Ellen with
his wife, Janey, and daughters, Caliie Jane and
Agatha Myra.
One-Car Accident
Hospitalizes Youth
JACKSON — A Pendleton
youth was hospitalized in
Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
Sunday with head injuries he
received in an accident on
paved road 1365.
Joseph H. Kirkland, 18,
driving a 1964 Dodge ran off
the highway on the right at
1:35 a.m. and collided with a
concrete culvert five miles
east of Conway, according to
State Trooper B. W. Corey.
His condition was reported
as “poor” Wednesday by
hospital authorities. Damage
to his car was $300 and he was t
cited for operating on the
wrong side of the road.
In other accidents
investigated in Northampton
County, five persons reported
given emergency treatment at
Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
Saturday following a 6:55 p. m.
three-car collision at the
intersection of N. C. 35 and
paved road 1508. They were
Ricky R. Cumbo, 17, of
Milwaukee, operator of a 1968'
Chevrolet; Vaughan M.
Edwards, 16, of Conway,
driver of a 1%3 Oldsmobile;
and passengers in the two.
cars, Rudolph Cumbo, 41,
Eleanor Cumbo, 40, and
Milton T. Boone, 15. The other
car involved, a 1%4 Chevrolet,
was driven by Warren H.
Futrell, 18, of Conway.
Edwards was cited for a stop
sign violation. Damage to the
Cumbo car was $1,000; to the
Edwards vehicle, ^00, and to
the Futrell car, $200.
Orville B. Johnson, 39, of
Gaston, operator of a 1971
Ford, was charged with no
operator’s license, no
registration and hit and run
February 26 at 11:45 p.m.
when he was involved in a
collision on paved road 1214
with a 1954 Chevrolet driven
by Tilghman Fields, 17, of
Henrico with damage to each
car of $200.
George W. Jones, 33, of
Scotland Neck came upon a
((See YOUTH, Page 4)
named to the post in a short
open session which followed.
He is Sidney T. Ellen, 41, of
Jackson. He has been
appointed to fill the post for
the unexpired portion of the
term of L. H. Holoman Jr. who
resigned December 31 for a
similar position in Nash
County. The current term
runs to June 1, 1973.
The position is officially
titled county accountant-
manager. Like his
predecessor, Ellen will begin
as county accountant and in
an eight month period will
attend a 160 hour course on
city and county
administration at the Institute
of Government at Chapel Hill.
Upon completion of this he will
be eligible for appointment to
the manager’s position.
Horace Guthrie, previously
appointed as a temporary
administrative aid to the
county commissioners, will be
retained in that position on a
permanent basis.
A native of Wilson, Ellen
graduated from high school
and Atlantic Christian College
there with a bachelor of arts in
business education.
Following graduation he
Profect Life
Gets $50 From
Water Board
GARYSBURG— The Board
of Members of the
Progressive Water
Association of Garysburg
voted at its regular meeting
Tuesday night to donate $50 to
Project Life. In passing the
motion Edward Harding,
president of the association,
said that there is no price tag
on a human life and everyone
should do what they could in
helping save a life.
.Association Manager, N. B.
Luffaluc reported on a visit to
the Northampton Board of
Education the day before and
their complaint on a high
water bill. Buffaloe said that
they had found an error in
computing the bill and that
they had sent an adjusted bill
of $iM to the board. The former
bill was for $129.
Other items discussed at the
meeting centered around the
purchasing of equipment and
furnishings for a soon to be
completed office for the
association.
World Mission
Fair Planned
CONWAY - A “World
Mission Fair” is planned at
Conway Baptist Church on
Sunday, March 19, beginning
at 2:30 p.m. The missionaries
for the week will be introduced
and a short message will be
given by one of the foreign
missionaries.
Nine foreign missionaries
from seven different
countries; home missionaries
from many different types of
mission work; and state
missionaries from different
areas will tell about the world
mission ministry.
The public is invited.
fi'/j
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taught business and coached
tract at Laplatta, Md.
In 1957 he came to the
Jackson High School business
department and coached
basketball and baseball. In
1964 the Northampton schools
consolidated and he went to
Northampton County High
School as head coach and an
instructor in the business
department. He has been
atheletic director for the past
three years.
Ellen is an Air Force
veteran and an active
sportsman. He is a member of
the First Baptist Church of
Jackson.
He is married to the former
Janey Pitt of Pine Tops and
they have two girls, Caliie
Jane, 12, and Agatha Myra, 9.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FROM North
ampton and Halifax Counties were briefed this
week by representatives from the Albemarle
Paper Company on the company's new $3.3
million project increasing its waste water
treatment facilities. The main plant is located on
the Halifax side of the Roanoke River but its
water treatment area is on the Northampton side.
Above, Jack Gladstone goes over one of the many
facets of the project with the commissioners.
"Upon reentering the river, the water should be
cleaner than it was before it was taken out," a
company spokesman said.
Public Kindergartens
Lead Board's Agenda
JACKSON — Authorization 'in operation in each school
by the Northampton County where a first grade is being
3 Drunk Driver Cases
Reduced By Judge Gay
Board of Education to operate
the first state supported
Northampton County
kindergarten program at the
Willis Hare School beginning
this fall led the list of actions
taken by the board at their
monthly meeting this week.
Superintendent Roy F.
Lowry was advised recently
that the county had been
allocated a state public
kindergarten program for
five-year-olds beginning in the
fall. An ESEA Title I
kindergarten program is now
County
ji^ct,
JACKSON — Actions on four
secondary road projects led
the list of items covered lay the
Board of County
Commissioners when they
met this week.
Two of the actions
concerned applying to the
State Highway Commission
for industrial access funds.
The first, in George, pretains
to .2 miles of SR 1526. This is
known as the Pruden Road.
Industrial access funds
were also applied for .2 miles
of SR 1534, the Lassiter’s Mill
taught. There are also five
private kindergartens in the
county at this time.
“We’re one of the few states
in the union without public
kindergartens,” said Lowery.
Other actions by the board
at this meeting included:
—Approval the contract
of Mrs. Rachel H. Johnsoi to
teach in the county schools.
She is now at the Willis Hare
School filling a vacancy left
when William B. Kemp
resigned and returned to
(See AGENDA, Page 4)
JACKSON — Judge Ballard
S. Gay reduced three driving
under the influence charges to
the lesser charge of reckless
driving in District Court
Wednesday.
Defendants named and
judgments were:
Samuel Moody was fined $50
on the lesser charge while
New Genes Kee and Linwood
Pope Jr. were fined $100 each.
Pope was also given a six-
month suspend^ sentence.
In other cases disposed of, a
charge of speeding against
Freddie W. Lewis was nol
pressed. scene of an accident without
Robert Louis Ussery was giving the license number and
given 30-day suspended registration number; Ovell H.
sentence upon payment of Lawrence, charged with
costs on a speeding charge, engaging in an affray and
Donald Ray Jernigan Jr. destroying a door in the
charged with speeding 59 in a Jackson Police Station;
35 mph zone, was founded Thomas Earley, charged with
guilty of speeding 50 in a 35 reckless driving; and James
mph and John Jettiro Ferebee Lewis Ingram, charged with
charged with speeding 64 in a assault with a deadly weapon.
35 mph zone was found guilty Haywood Turner was found
of speeding 50 in a 35 mph guilty of assault on a female
zone. Sentences of each were and paid $50 fine and costs and
suspended upon payment of received a six-month
costs. suspended sentence. He also
A charge of failure to drive ^gs ordered remain of good
upon right half of highway behavior for one year.
Commissioners
Road. This is in Potecasi.
Two other road projects are
combined with a primary and
alternate plan.
The primary project is the
grading and paving of SR 1119
from SR 1121 to SR 1118 and
down SR 1118 to cover the
frontage of Cumbo Chapel
Church. This would be 2.5
miles in length, need a bridge
replaced and costs $113,000.
The alternate plan would
take in the grading and paving
of SR 1118 from N, C. 305 in a
southward direction to SR 1119
and across the frontage of the
Congressman Fountain
Speaks To Rotarians
ROANOKE RAPIDS —
Congressman L. H. Fountain
expressed guarded optimism
Monday about the textile
import quota agreements
made with Japan, Taiwan,
Hong Kong and Korea and
now being implemented by a
Presidentially - appointed
Commission.
Representative F ountain
made these comments in an
appearance before the Rotary
V
Club of Roanoke Rapids.
The Second District
Congressman said the
agreements were “signed,
sealed and delivered during
December and January, but,
we don’t know for sure how
good they’ll prove to be in
practice.”
Congressman Fountain,
dean of North Carolina
Congressional Delegation in
Washington, pointed out that it
took a lot of Congressional
pressure and a lot of hard
bargaining over a long period
of time before the agreements
were finally reached.
He called the flood of foreign
textile imports one of the most
serious problems faced by our
country in recent years and
noted that thousand of North
Carolina textile workers lost
their jobs as a result.
The Administration’s textile
agreements are “progress of
sorts,” adding, “But, it
remains to be seen how they
work out in the long run,” he
added.
Dance Benefits
Praject Life
church. This would be 2.9
miles long and cost $111,000.
Determination of which plan
to use will be based on right-
of-way access.
To finance either of these
projects the board voted to
request the State Highway
Commission to use the
balance of the 1971 funds and
the remainder from the 1972
funds.
Last of the road work
pretained to 500 feet of the
Jesse Wheeler Feed and Grain
Mill Road in Lasker. Cost of
this would be $900.
Other actions by the board
included:
—Appointment of J. H.
Foriest to replace Oscar
Spaulding, both of Pendleton,
on the Region L. Economic
Development Commission.
—Voted to subordinate a
welfare lien on property of
Herman B. Stephenson, Kirby
Township, in favor of
Farmer’s Home
Administration in order that
the property owner may make
certain home improvements.
—Appropriated $1,890 to
modify voting machines for
the coming election.
—Approved preliminary
plans for renovations and
additions to the county jail as
submitted by Architect
Charles Davis of Roanoke
Rapids.
against Andrew Lessie Faison
was nol prossed.
A charge against William
Jessie Gardner of no
operator’s license and
improper passing was nol
pross^ with leave.
William Junior Fields,
charged with no ■ operator’s
license and driving under the
influence, paid $100 costs and
was given a six-month
suspended sentence.
The foilwing were found not
guilty:
Kattie Daniel Parker,
charged with leaving the
Gene Mills and Amos
Pierce, both charged with
larceny, paid $125 fine and
costs. Both received a 12-
month suspended sentence
and were placed on probation
for two years.
Bobbie Clements, fou
^ilty of diriving under the
influence, received a six-
month suspended sentence,
$100 fine and costs. On a
charge of driving while license
revoked, he received a six-
month suspended sentence,
(See CASES, Page 4)
Hoke Hog Cholera
Brings Quarantine
RALEIGH — Hog cholera Zweigart said, “but its length
discovered in Hoke County, will be determined by the
Wednesday has resulted in a source of the Hoke County
state-wide quarantine of case and whether there are
swine, effective at midnight, other problems.”
frnm Commend all involved for
The sole exempti9ns from their cooperation in the effort
the quarantine are for swine
moving to immediate
slaughter and limited other
movement allowed under
special permit from the state
veterinarian. Dr. T. F.
Zweigart. Questions
concerning special movement
such as breeder sales,
exhibition animals and farm-
to-farm movement within
ones own farming operation
should be directed to fte state
veterinarian’s office in
Raleigh or to a State or
Federal animal health
regulatory official.
“We sincerly hope this will
be a short Quarantine. “Dr.
to eradicate hog cholera and
exfiect the same support
during this temporary set
back.
“Hog Cholera eradication is
an expensive program but it is
very economical when
compared with the cost of hog
cholera vaccinations and
deaths when the disease was
rampant,” continued Dr.
Zweigart.
“The full efforts of State and
Federal Veterinary officials
are now employed to isolate
this case and to remove the
quarantine at the earliest
j^ssible date.”
’1,!
W. S. CREECY BETA CLUB members returning
from the Northeastern District Beta Club
Convention in Manteo recently are (front row,
from left) Kathy Colson, Denise Conwell, Becky
Hyman, Rhonda Winfrey, recording secretary;
Martha Rose, corresponding secretary; and
Elizabeth Creecy; (back row, from left) Miss
Jean Manning, sponso^; Gregory Edmond, vice
president; Dana Coleman, treasurer; Nancy
Bryant, Kenny Branch, president; Cynthia
Boone, Keith Britton and Kenny Wooten. Not
present was Wanda Chappell. National Beta Club
Week ends Saturday.
JACKSON — Project Life
gained $180.11 from a dance
held at the Lions Club here on
February 26.
All proceeds from the dance
were directed to Project Life.
Providing music was the
four-member Blue Sage Band
from Faisons Old Tavern.
Refreshments were furnished
by Zion Church and were
served by Misses Joan
Draper, Jean Daughtry and
Beth Cofield.
Chaperones were Mr. and
Mrs. James Lloyd, Mrs.
James Hedspeth, Mrs. Jerry
Hedspeth and the Rev. and
Mrs. Billy Herbert.
Wm
SCOUTS FROM RICH SQUARE'S TROOP 236 spent last weekend in the
woods near Windsor as they took part in the 1972 Klondike Derby. Under the*
direction of Scoutmaster Don Leggett they were Wayne Womble, Joe
Shoulars, Jimmy Clark, Dennis Wright, William Colson, Perry Martin Jr.,
Henry Bennett and Robby Bryant.