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THE County TIMES-NEWS A Combinadon of Vol. 81 No. 22 THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1972 ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926 lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C. 12 Pages Death Takes N'ampton Attorney A. McKellar Party Convention Sat. JACKbUN — Northampton County Attorney Angus Alford McKellar, 49, died May 25 in Duke Medical Center. He had been hospitalized since he suffered a heart at tack in the Northampton County Courthouse several weeks ago and was un dergoing heart surgery at Duke. McKellar, who has been practicing law in Jackson since 1952, has served as the county board of com missioners’ legal advisor for the past six years. Once a candidate for the state House of Represen tatives, McKellar served as mayor of Jackson several years ago. At the time of his death he was county cam paign manager for Pat Taylor for governor. He served for years on the Northampton County High School Booster Club and was a member of Jackson Lions Club, the American Legion and the Jackson United Methodist Church. At the time of his death, the Rowland native was prac ticing law in Jackson and was the newly-appointed attorney for the Northampton Pollution Abatement Authority. County Auditor Tim Ellen of Jackson, a friend and associate of McKellar, stated, “Angus McKellar was cer tainly a vital asset to the county in handling county legal problems. “He expressed keen interest in the Northampton County Historical Society and was instrumental in developing the regional library plan for the area. His services will be greatly missed,” Ellen said. McKellar is survived by his wife, Doris Hurley McKellar; two sons, John Franklin of Virginia Beach, Va., and Benjamin McKellar of the home; a stepson. Matt W. Ransome IV of Lake Gaston; three brothers, McMurray and Henry N. McKellar, both of Rowland, and Charles H. McKellar of Lumberton; and two grandchildren. A funeral service was held Saturday morning in Jackson United Methodist Church by the Rev. Charlie Eakin and the Rev. Joe D. McLean. Burial was in the Rowland (N. C.) Cemetery following a graveside service. Jasper Eley Elected Democratic Chairman JACKSON —Jasper Eley of Jackson was elected chair man of the Northampton Executive Committee during the County Democratic Convention here Saturday. With delegates from 16 of the 17 county precincts at tending, the convention elected Executive Committee officers and delegates to the District Congressional Con vention to be held in Roanoke Rapids June 10. Opposing Eley for the position of chairman were Bruce Johnson of Conway and James Boone of Rich Square. Eley got 64>/2 votes as com pared to Johnson’s 30‘/i and Boone’s 19. Elected to the Executive Committee along with Eley, who succeeds T. G. (Sonny Boy) Joyner of Garysburg as chairman, were Mrs. Jasper Jones of Gaston, first vice- chairman; Mrs. Thomasina Boone of Woodland, second vice-chairman; Miss Ruth Edwards of Gaston, third vice- chairman; and Miss Margarett Burgwyn of Woodland, secretary-treas urer. A motion was passed naming the county’s 17 precinct chairmen, along with Eley and two Executive Committee vice-chairmen, as delegates to the district congressional convention. In other convention business T. G. Joyner of Garysburg and Jasper Jones of Gaston were elected members of the State Executive Committee and Judge Perry Martin and Robert Lee Moore, both of Rich Square, were named to the State Senatorial Com mittee. Also Bruce Johnson of Conway and Melvin Broadnax of Seaboard were elected to the House of Representatives Committee and Dillard Drewett of Seaboard and Glover Edwards of Gaston Teacher Training Set For June 79 Thru 23 JACKSON There will be one week of inservice training for teachers and teacher aides for the summer program from June 19 to 23, Northamtpon County School officials have an nounced. Personnel employed to work with grades 1 — 3 are to report at the Eastside School at 8 a.m., Monday, June 19. Personnel working with the kindergarten will report at 10 a.m. that day. All professional personnel working in the summei' program will be employed five hours per day, five days per week, for a period of five weeks. Country Music Show Success Three Northampton 4-H'ers Are State Project Winners CONWAY — Nearly 3,000 country music fans jammed into the Northampton County Man Arrested For Taking Peanut Seed JACKSON - A Seaboard man has been arrested and charged with stealing 400 pounds of treated seed peanuts. Officers from the North ampton County Sheriff’s Department apprehended William Banks, 25, Route 1, Seaboard, Monday night in connection with the larceny of almost a quarter ton of peanuts from Randolph Moody of Seaboard. Estimated total value of the stolen seed is $175. Bond was set at $1,000. High School gymnasium Thursday night to witness a three-hour show staged by a troupe of the nation’s superstars. The production, sponsored by the Law Enforcement Association of Northampton, Hertford and Halifax Coun ties, drew the largest crowd ever known to assemble in Northampton County. The entertainers, headed by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, gave a spectacular performance despite the fact that they had given the same show only five hours earlier at Ft. Bragg in the rain and had experienced a bus accident on the way to Northampton County. More than 1,000 people arrived a couple of hours early; some to eat the bar becue prepared by the school’s athletic department, (See MUSIC, Page 8) Jackie Burgess JACKSON — Jackie Burgess, Vickie Eason and Mitchell Taylor, Northampton 4-H club members, have been named 1972 state 4-H project winners. Miss Burgess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Burgess of Pendleton, receives an ex pense paid trip to 4-H Club Congress as her award from U.S. Gypsum Company. Her winning project was peanuts, a project she has been in volved in for five years, with an average yield of 4,490 pounds per acre and a net profit of $2,303. She has received two certificates of achievement and was county field crop project winner for three years. In other 4-H projects Miss Burgess has received a blue ribbon in dress R-C Hospital Auxiliary Holds Annual Meeting Mitchell Taylor revue, county champion in canning, frozen foods, home management, small fruits, dog care, food preservation, swimming, marketing and health, five times each. She is a member of Roberts Chapel 4-H and has served in the offices of vice president, president, reporter and secretary of the club. Adult leader of the Roberts Chapel Club is E. J. Burgess. Miss Burgess is a member of the ninth grade at Northampton County High School. Miss Eason, a member of the Jackson 4-H Club, was winner in dairy foods project, a project she has participated in for six years. She has completed dairy food science activities and experiments, experimented with and developed new dairy food recipes and worked with Extension program aides in Vickie Eason four counties on dairy foods. She hhs presented numerous demonstrations and talks promoting dairy foods con sumption. She was named county project winner four years and district project winner three years in addition to being named state dairy foods demonstration winner. She also has won county championships in food project, personal appearance, safety and leadership and received a superior camper award. She served as junior leader of the 20-member Jack- son 4-H Club and held the following club offices: secretary, vice president, reporter and recreation leader. She has promoted county-wide workshops, served as junior leader at camp two years and also served as county council (See 4-H, Page 8) 7 Accidents; 2 Hurt; $8,050 In Damage were named to the Judicial District Committee. Last of the actions taken was the election of J. Ivey Bridges of Conway and C. L. Boone of Rich Square to the Congressional District Executive Committee. Individual precinct voting went as follows: Eley Johnson Boone Conway 9 Creeksville 3 3 Galatia 3 4 Garysburg 12 Gaston 15 Jackson 5 2 Lasker 2 1 Milwaukee (Not Present) New Town 6 Pendleton iVi IVz Pleasant Hil 2 Potecasi 2 Rehobeth 3 i Rich Square 5 2 7 Seaboard 6 4 Severn 3 i Woodland 5 5 643019 FOLLOWING HIS ELECTION AS executive committee chairman Jasper Eley (left) hears a speaker from the floor during the county's Democratic Convention Saturday. Others in the picture are Mrs. Edna Futrell and T. G. (Sonnyboy) Joyner, outgoing chairman. Another Trip To Polls Saturday; 70 Running JACKSON — When North ampton voters go to the polls Saturday 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. 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. Released $500,000 For N. C. Farmers RALEIGH — Congressman Nick Galifianakis announced today that North Carolina farmers will receive ap proximately $500,000 from the additional $37 million federal farm operating loans released Friday by the administration. Marvin Coleman, North ampton County FHA supervisor, welcomed the announcement: “Normally, we make more operating loans in July and August than we do this time of year,.but we do have a few applications in hand that we will try to take care of with this allotment.” “We’d like to encourage any farmers with needs for operating loan funds — to purchase equipment, make repairs and such — to come by and talk with us.” Coleman feels that those Northampton farmers who would like to have the operating loans should apply as soon as possible. “Since the loans are awarded on a first- come-first-serve basis for the whole state,” he says, “promptness on the part of local farmers in applying for these funds is quite wise.” The money had been im pounded by the Office of Management and Budget before Galifianakis began asking for its release earlier this year. Galifianakis said he had learned from the Farmers (See FARMERS, Page 8) OLD NORTHAMPTON STRUCTURES ♦ AHOSKIE — Highlights of Friday’s Roanoke-Chowan Hospital Auxiliary Annual Banquet included a very favorable report by the president, Mrs. Maurice Mitchell, and a talk of the woman’s place in todays medical world and home by Bryant Aldridge, hospital administrator of Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount. Leading off the program was a meditation and in vocation by Mrs. S. J. Boyette and a welcome by Mrs. Mit chell. This was followed by a delicious buffet dinner. Mrs. Mitchell’s report of the progress of the past year of the auxiliary included a (See AUXILIARY, Page 8) / I h h HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR JOHN Blanton (left) and Mrs. Maurice Mit chell, president of the Roanoke-Chowan Hospital Auxiliary, talk with Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Aldridge of Rocky Mount. Aldridge, hospital administrator for Nash General Hospital, gave the address last week at the R-C Hospital Auxiliary Annual Banquet. JACKSON — Accidents in Northampton County in the past week resulted in $8,050 property damage and two injuries. Taken to Roanoke Rapids Hospital May 24 at 11:15 p.m. was Patricia M. Crocker, 16, of Margarettsville, operator of a 1967 Volkswagen, who was also cited for driving on the left. According to State Trooper J. C. Wood, her vehicle ran off N. C. 195 and struck a tree with damage estimated at $500. The other injury occurred May 26 at 8:05 in a rear-end collision at the intersection of N. C. 195 and U.S. 301. Cherry E. Clarke, 70, of Roanoke Rapids, a passenger in a 1971 Ford, was taken to the hospital in Roanoke Rapids at 8:05 p.m. after the car collided with a 1955 Chevrolet driven by Raymond L. Davis, 16, of Pendleton, who was charged with failure to reduce speed. Damage to each car was $100. Stanley L. Clements, 29, of Emporia, Va., did $200 damage to the 1970 Ford he was driving May 26 at 10:20 p.m. when a deer jumped onto paved road 1210 into the path of his car. Venell J. Whitaker, 34, of Rich Square, operator of a 1970 Chevrolet was cited for leaving the scene of an ac cident May 26 at 4 p.m. when his car ran off the road into a ditch at the intersection of N. C. 305 and paved road 1118 with damage of $700 reported. A 1971 Mack truck was damaged in the amount of $5,000 May 6 at 3 p.m. when it ran off N. C. 48 and the load shifted causing the driver, Rayfield Rooke, 28, of Weldon to lose control. A two-car collision May 27 at the intersection of U.S. 258 and paved road 1529 resulted in $200 damage to a 1963 Ford driven by Bernice V. Hardy, 31, of Aulander and $150 to a 1970 International truck operated by Roy Faircloth, 24, of Watha. Raymond Cain, 30, of Rich Square, driver of a 1965 Ford, was charged with driving under the influence May 27 at 10:45 a.m. when he was in volved in an accident on U.S. 258 with a 1967 Mercury driven by Joseph B. Baggett, 45, of Virginia Beach. Damage to the Ford was $200 and to the Mercury, $500. Delorese M. Hodges, 30, of Washington, D. C., operating a 1970 Chevrolet was traveling on 1-95 Mav 27 when a left rear tire blew out at 6:15 a.m. causing her to lose control. The car veered to the left and collided with a guard rail doing $400 damage to the vehicle. Concord AA. E. Church 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.) The first record of a Methodist Meeting House in Northampton County is that of the Concord Meeting House built in 1795. The church is located about four miles from Seaboard on the old thoroughfare between Emporia and Franklin, Va. Built of clapboard, painted white, the church is small, being about 25 x 35 feet and having only the single room sanctuary. The building is of simple design, has a double door entrance, three clear glass windows on each side and two at the rear. The timbers underneath are hand hewn. It is believed that the bricks were also handmade. The interior has pine floors, handmade pews and railing. The ceiling is of wood in the batten board style. The small edifice is surrounded by large oaks. To the left of the church is a cemetery of relatively recent graves. On June 12,1793, for the sum of 20 shillings, Howell Hobbs of Brunswick County, Va., deeded one acre of land for the Concord Meeting House to Matthew Myrick and Nathaniel Mason of Bruns wick County and Henry King and John Moore of North ampton. This is the first record of a Methodist Church in Northampton. A deed for land for Rehoboth Methodist Church is dated 1798. A memorandum dated June 5, 1793, specifies that the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church South who have use of the benefits of the meeting house shall use it so “long as they expound the word of God... and preach the doctrines contained in Mr. Wesley’s notes on the New Testament and his four volumes of sermons.” The church today has 32 resident and 23 nonresident members. Its average at tendance is about 15. Many of the nonresident members retain their membership because of their family con nections. In the early days of the church, the attendance was large, being made up of wealthy plantation owners. Families came from miles around to all-day religious festivals which were often extended into gay social ac tivities in the homes. It is said that slaves served the food at the all-day meetings. Some of the notable members of the church in its early days were Captain Nathaniel Mason (1757-1834), William Reid, the Vassar family and others. Miss Zenobia Harris, an elderly member of Concord, tells the handed-down story of the time the church prepared a squirrel stew at Halloween. Someone hung on a tree a pumpkin with a candle in it. At the sight of it, the crowd, frightened, ran away and left the stew uneaten. Another story about a dog which silenced a woman was shouting up and down the aisle during a service. The dog, sleeping in the back of the (See HOMES, Page 8)
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