THE County TIMES-NEWS
A Combmadon of
Vol. 81 No. 21
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — EstabUshed 1892
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1972
☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
10c Per Copy Rich Square, N. C. Two Sections
22 Pages
Seaboard Bank
Plans Merger
SEABOARD — The Board of Seaboard bank’s directors,
Directors of the 66-year-old noted that “since 1906 The
Farmers Bank of Seaboard Farmers Bank of Seaboard
has voted to merge with Bank
of North Carolina, N. A.,
subject to approval by
stockholders at a special
meeting which has been called
for June 27.
The announcement was
made jointly by H. R. Harris
Jr., president of the $3.5-
million Seaboard bank and J.
Hugh Rich, president of Bank
of North Carolina, N. A.
The merger will bring to 52
the number of branches
making up the $290-million
Bank of North Carolina
system.
Seaboard is in the heart of
Northampton County, some
five miles from the Virginia
state line. It has a thriving
agricultural economy, with
emphasis on the production
and marketing of peanuts and
cotton.
President Rich, in
welcoming the move by the
450 Northampton County Seniors
Graduate From Five High Schools
has played an important role
in the development of
agricultural and commercial
interests.’’
President Harris of the
Seaboard bank noted the
“continual and exceptionally
vigorous growth of Bank of
North Carolina since it was
formed less than 20 years
ago.” He also said his board
gave “careful consideration to
the interests of our customers
and neighbors” in electing to
merge with Bank of North
Carolina.
One of many benefits noted
was the sharp increase in the
legal lending limit for The
Farmers Bank — increasing
from approximately $36,000 at
present to $1.2-million after
that bank becomes part of the
BNC system.
Approval of the merger
plans is also required from the
Comptroller of the Currency.
JACKSON — Four hundred
and 50 seniors are candidates
for graduation in com
mencement exercises at
Northampton County’s four
public high schools and one
private school.
Northampton County High
School has the largest
graduating class with a total
of 195 senior candidates for
graduation. Gumberry High is
FLASH !
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Second District counties
(Edgecombe, Halifax and
Northampton) have been
approved for extended
deadline date of June 10 for
planting peanuts under
Federal Crop Insurance
Program.
Regards, L. H. Fountain.
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The Farmers Bank of Seaboard Building
Run-Off Set For
Saturday, June 3
JACKSON — When North
ampton voters go to the polls
Saturday, June 3, for the
second primary of Campaign
’72 they will see 10 names on
the ballot. If they are
registered as Republican they
will have only one choice to
make — that will be for
governor and it will be be
tween James C. (Jim) Gard
ner and James E. Holshouser
Jr.
Democrats will have four
times as much to do as they
will have to make choices
concerning a U.S. senator,
governor, commissioner of
insurance and commissioner
of labor.
For senator in the
Democratic Party there will
be Nick Galifianakis and B.
Everett Jordan.
In the governor’s race there
is H. P. (Pat) Taylor and
Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles.
Commissioner of insurance
finds John Ingram and E.
Russell Secrest in the race.
Commissioner of labor has
John C. Brooks and W. C.
(Billy) Creel running.
County Marks
6th Fatality
GASTON — Northampton
County recorded its sixth
highway death for the year
and second in less than a week
last night when a Garysburg
man was killed instantly in a
single car accident.
According to Deputy Otis
Wheeler of the Northampton
County Sheriff’s Department,
Ely Coy Bell, 23, appeared to
Demo Precinct
Meeting May 27
have lost control of his car on
the rainslick N. C. 46 two miles
east of Gaston.
The accident report stated
that the Bell car ran off the
right shoulder of the road,
struck a light pole and
overturned on its side,
throwing the driver from the
vehicle. The car had just come
out of a slight curve when the
accident occurred at 9:35 p.m.
There were no passengers in
the car.
second with 103, W. S. Creecy
High School is third with 63
and Gaston High has 57.
Northeast Academy at
Lasker, with 32 seniors, has its
largest graduating class since
the school was established six
years ago. This year’s class
marks the academy’s fourth
graduating class.
Northampton
Graduation exercises will be
held at Northampton County
High School Thursday, June 1,
at 8 p.m. H. J. Campbell,
principal, and R. F. Lowry,
superintendent, will present
the awards and diplomas.
The following students will
be in charge of the program:
Gary Woodard, Paula Barnes,
Debra Gatling, Betty Jo
Woodard, Fred Vaughan,
Elizabeth Parker, Joan
Fisher, Michael Edwards,
Donna Britton, Kent
Stephenson and Russell
Johnson III. The Glee Club
will also have a part in the
program.
Members of the graduating
class are as follows;
Rickie Lee Alexander,
Bettie Jean Allen, Dianne
Anderson, Dennis Wilson
Artis, Andrew Thomas
Barnes, Charles Leander
Barnes, Paula Lassiter
Barnes, Steve Alan Barnes,
Virginia Burwell Bass, Joseph
Ward Beasley, Clarence
Leroy Bell, George Thomas
Blowe, Gladys Marie Blythe,
Patricia Marie Blythe,
Marjorie Lois Boone, Thorn
ton Fennell Boone, William
Lee Bowser, James Randolph
Bradley, William Turner
Bradley Jr., Connie Branch,
Melvin Branch, Dorothy Mae
Branch, Lois Odessa Branch,
Rosa Lee Branch, Tyrone
Branch, William Steven
Bridgers, Donna Marie
Britton, John Sherrod Britt
Jr., Judy Ann Buffaloe,
Roberta Buffaloe, Steven
Randolph Burgess, Geraldine
Delois Bynum, Karl Clanton,
Elizabeth June Cofield, Janie
Cooke.
Joyce Mae Cowan, Billy
Crocker, Trudy Lee Crowder,
Willie Arthur Cumbo,
Barrington Keith Davis,
Cynthia Elaine Davis, Joey
Weathers Davis, Brenda
Joyce Daye, Carlton Harvey
Daye, Jacqueline Diane Daye,
Diane Deans, Tony Hugar
DeBerry, Annie Mae Debrow,
Dennis Deloatch, Dorothy Ann
Deloatch, Emily Lucinda
Deloatch, Thonald Deloatch,
Jesse Julius Dickens, Mary
Madaglene Dickens, David
Lewis Dillman, Joan Creach
Draper, Michael Charles
Edwards, Patsy Christine
Edwards, Charlie Fermon
Everette, Roslyn Orneader
Everette, Charles Lenwood
Faison, Sandra Kaye Fields,
Beverly Joan Fisher, Cor-
nelious Flood, James Earl
Flythe Jr., Sharon Lorraine
Flythe, Barbara Elaine
Freeman, Annie Lurine
Futrell, Earleen Futrell,
Pamela Rose Futrelle,
William Earl Futrell Jr.
Pauline Dickerson Gary,
Brenda Diane Gatling, Calvin
Lee Gatling, Debra Teressa
Gatling, Emma Lean Gatling,
Reaver Rebecca Gay, Sandra
Elizabeth Gay, Marian Lee
Gibbons, Pamela Scott Grant,
Ueritta Grant, Willie Louis
Grant, Albert Sidney Harrell,
Denise Ray Harrell, Joe
Thedro Harrell, Raymond
Harrell, Clarence Harris,
Joyce Annette Harris, Martha
Watson Harris, Robert Diego
Hasty, Pamela Denise Her
bert, Helen Ann Hines, Ethel
Mae Hoggard, Jesse Lament
Hood, Deborah Jean Howard,
Mary Beth Hughes, Nancy
Dickens James, Smitty
James, Ernest Thomas Jef
fries, Geraldine Yvonne
Jerman, Donald Ray Jernigan
Jr., Alice Jean Johnson,
Russell Hagood Johnson III,
Leroy Jones, Carolyn Cornelia
Jordan, Daniel Ray Joyner.
Kenneth Gregory Joyner,
Sallie Marie Joyner, Tony Lee
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Polls in Northampton will be
opened from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30
p.m.
Returns will be posted as
they come in the parking lot
behind the courthouse.
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HONOR STUDENTS who will conduct Britton, Joan Fisher, Debra Gatling, Elizabeth
graduation exercises at Northampton County Parker and Paula Barnes; (second row) Gary
High School Thursday, June 1, at 8 p.m. are Woodard, Michael Edwards, Kent Stephenson,
(from left, first row) Betty Joe Woodard, Donna Russ Johnson and Fred Vaughan.
Memorial Day
Off And On
Holiday
JACKSON — Monday will
be an off and on holiday. For
some it will be a day away
from work, for others it will be
the same old Monday rou
tine.
Most state and federal
workers, including postal
employees will have the day
off to celebrate a long
Memorial Day weekend.
County offices in the cour
thouse will also observe the
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OI(j Northampton Homes
RALEIGH — State chair
man of the Democratic Party
of North Carolina, John T.
Church, today reminded
county chairmen of the con
siderable business that must
be handled at this year’s
county conventions to be held
Saturday, May 27, at 2 p.m.
Church pointed out that only
delegates elected at the
precinct meetings could vote.
According to Northampton
County T. G. (Sonny Boy)
Joyner of Garysburg the
election will be held in the
courthouse in Jackson.
Officer Election
Officers of the County
Executive Committee must be
elected. This includes a
chairman, first vice-
chairman* which must be of
the opposite sex to the
chairman and a second vice-
chairman. If the chairman
and first vice-chairman are of
the same race, the second
vice-chairman must be of that
race other than the race of the
chairman and first vice-
chairman, which constitutes
at least 20 per cent of the
registered Democratic voters
in the county. A third vice-
chairman must be 30 years of
age or under if the other vice-
chairmen are over 30 years of
age. A secretary and a
treasurer must also be
elected.
Other Positions
Other positions to be filled
are: Members of the State
Executive Committee,
members of the State
Senatorial, House of
Representatives, Judicial and
Congressional Districts and
delegates and alternates to the
Congressional Convention to
be held in each district on
Saturday, June 10.
Church added, “Our 100
county chairmen have spent
considerable time recently in
planning for their county
conventions and they have
been urged to follow the guide
lines set down by The Plan of
Organization. Our young
people, women and blacks are
becomeing involved and we
welcome their help. We an
ticipate successful con
ventions in each of the
counties on May 27.”
Three-Month ABC Sales
At $756,493.45 Mark
RICH SQUARE - North
ampton County’s ABC Board
has reported a net profit of
$66,368.11 for the first three
months of this year. This is an
Three Calls
Reported
By Sheriff
JACKSON — At least two
cases of larceny and one of
attempted larceny are
currently under investigation
by the Northampton County
Sheriff’s Department.
One of the larcenies and the
attempted larceny may be
related, according to Sheriff
E. Frank Outland.
The Charles Demory home
in Garysburg was broken into
May 12 and a television set
and a 50-pound ham stolen.
The same day that the
Demory home was
burglarized, a case of
(See CALLS, Page 5)
increase of $958.37 over the
same period a year ago.
Out of a gross sales, of
$756,493.45, the system paid
the State of North Carolina
$137,138.29 in a sales tax and
surtax of five cents per bottle
sold. Also paid out was
$11,985.60 for alcoholic
rehabilitation for the state.
The $66,368.11 net profit was
distributed as follows;
Northampton general fund,
$49,776.08.
Town of Rich Square,
$3,708.31.
Gaston, $3,087.77.
Jackson, $2,132.08.
Woodland, $1,952.88.
Conway, $1,942.93.
Seaboard, $1,826.78.
Severn, $967.32.
Garysburg, $632.16.
Lasker, $341.80.
Rich Square led in gross
sales with $178,462.85. It was
followed by Conway with
$174,231.85; Gaston,
$164,712.35; Jackson,
$121,817.20; and Garysburg,
$117,269.20.
Gary-Collier House
By HAZEL GRIFFIN
(Editor’s Note: This is one
of a continuing series of old
Northampton County homes
and structures. The aim of this
series is to create an interest
in the welfare of these old
structures as well as the
history of the area.)
GARYSBURG - The Gary-
Collier House in Garysburg
was built in 1840 by Roderick
Gary, who used slave labor to
build it.
Built for a hotel, it is an
immense, long, rectangular
two-story structure with a
two-story wing built later to
the rear on the right side.
Room additions have also
been made to form a left rear
wing. The building is of white
clapboard and has windows of
both average and slightly
under-average size, but no
shutters. It has no distinctive
architectural features.
A porch extends across the
front and right side. Its many
chimneys are both exterior
and interior ones, the exterior
ones being gabled-ended.
For many years it served as
a hotel as it was on the
railroad and Garysburg
thrived as a commercial and
traveling center because of its
being located on a main travel
road and on the railroad.
The hotel was sold to a
Yankee Hunting Club, then to
Bill Kee, whose son-in-law,
John Livesay, had placed in it
a door retrieved from a
wrecked railroad car. In 1910,
J. R. Collier purchased it. His
heirs own it today.
Garysburg took its name
from the Gary family. Maj.
Roderick B. Gary, who built
the hotel, was postmaster and
hotel keeper and in 1849
donated the land on which the
Garysburg Methodist Church
was built in 1853.
Both the Wilmington-
Weldon and Raleigh-Gaston-
Weldons were completed in
1840 and went through Garys
burg.
Joyner, Mary Elizabeth Kee,
Amy Diane Lane, Ricky
Marvin Lanier, Deborah Gail
Lassiter, Jo Ann Lassiter,
Judson Alexander Lassiter
Jr., Julian Perry Lassiter Jr.,
Marshall Wayne Lassiter,
Ovell McKinley Lawrence,
Cynthia Lee, Robert Earl Lee,
Annie Parks Little, Deloisteen
Long, Earl Long, Larry
Donnell Lynn, Cecil Jarvis
Maddrey III, Pauline Majette,
Clyde Otis Manley, Carrie
Martin, Donnie Gene Martin,
Eleanor Wilson Martin, Larry
Leon Martin, Tony William
Martin, Phil Adam Matthews,
Katherine Deloatch Mitchell,
Melton Wendell Mitchell,
Diane Motley, Leon Carl
Motley, Joseph David Motzno
Jr., Cecil Steven Newsome,
Ralph Gregory Newsome,
Delois Odom, Elizabeth
Lamay Parker.
Kathlyn Carnell Parker,
Laurel Jean Parker, Larry
Ray Parks, Henry Cecil
Parrish, Marion Gray
Peoples, Patricia Ann Pernell,
Thomas Lewis Person Jr.,
Claude Bailey Pope, Margaret
Yvonne Price, Mildred Arleen
Ramsey, Milton Cornelius
Rawles, Clifford Gail Rice,
Cynthia Adelia Richey, Grady
V. Ricks Jr., Keith Hill Ricks,
Douglas James Rinker, Anna
Mae Rogers, Ida Jean Rogers,
Brenda Ann Rose, James
Edward Savage Jr., Lucille
Sharp, Annie Ray Smith,
Macon Smith Jr., Michael
Wayne Smith, Ella Louise
Stephenson, Mary Elizabeth
Stephenson, Shirley Line
Stephenson, Thomas Kent
Stephenson, Eloise Stewart,
Alexander Deal Taylor,
James Patrick Taylor, Nancy
Sue Taylor, Warren Douglas
Taylor, Randy Curtis Thomas,
Patricia Ann Turner.
Cynthia Evette Tyner,
David Frederick Vaughan,
Jesse Harold Vaughan,
Patricia Ann Vaughan,
Raleigh Thomas Vaugh,an J' .,
RobertEugene Vaughan, Willie
Lee Vaughan, Willie Clinton
Vinson, Earvin Lee Wade Jr.,
Frederick O’Neal Walton,
Donald Keith Warren, Robert
Lee Wilkins Jr., Barbara
Williams, Eula Mae Williams,
Gladys Virginia Williams,
Betty Jo Woodard, Dennis
Ray Woodard, Gary White
Woodard.
Gumberry
Six honor students will
address their fellow graduates
when Gumberry High School
holds its commencement
exercises at 8 p.m. May 30.
The Rev. Millard L. Boone,
pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church in Emporia, will be the
baccalaureate speaker at the
services May 28 at 5 p.m.
Students who will address
the 103 seniors are Ernestine
Epps, Paul Hardy, Wynona
Sykes, Helen Williams,
Carolyn Bracy and Michael
Clark.
L. H. Mosely, principal, will
present the diplomas to the
graduating class.
Honor graduates in ranking
order are Helen Maxine
Williams, Ernestine Epps,
Wynona Sykes, Michael A.
Clark, Carolyn LaVerne
Bracy, Barbara Ann Edwards,
Jewel Rita Buffaloe, Esther
Michelle Murphy, Georgia
Ella Dailey, Malinda Hughes,
Hattie Mae Banks, Wendell
Pasco Broadnax, Joan
Peebles, Madgeline Harris,
Rose Ann Edmond, Imogene
Greene, Freida Peele, Annie
Marie Williams, Shirley
Lassiter, Harold Louis
Williams.
Other graduates are;
Joe Bennett Anderson,
Wilson Lee Anderson, Carl
Durantye Belle, Jestine
Benjamin, Arthur Lee Best
Jr., Willie Lee Blount, Emma
Allees Boone, James Lee
Boone, Lavonia Mae Boone,
Calvin Ronald Boone, Jerry
Brooks, Sondra Drew Brown,
Brenda Faye Brown, Russell
Donnall Carroll, Lannie
Clanton, Napoleon Jerome
Coates, Sandra Coleman,
Vivian Copeland, William
Agusta Cumbo, Eddie Wilson
Deloatch, Eula Mae Deloatch,
Audrey Lea Demory, Janet
Orstall Demory, Joyce Ann
Douglas, Gail Sue Edwards,
Saint Paul Edwards Jr.,
Donald Lee Galloway, Ella
Mae Galloway, Dinah Mae
Gary.
Shirley Marie Gary, Yvonne
Gary, Clarence Davis Gee,
Darries Ghee, Simon Lee
Goods, Vance Greene, Paul
Thomas Hardy, Robert Payne
Hardy, Bobby Lee Harris,
Ronald Ray Harris, Jesse
James Hill, Percy Lee Jacobs,
Regina Durham James,
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