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¥ ••• 'jf- G >'IX «• )k THE County TIMES-NEWS Vol. 81 No. 51 THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1972 Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium ir if ic ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926 lOc Per Copy Rjch Square, N. C. Two Sections 20 Pages RCA Project Changes Ownership March 1 SEASON'S GREETINGS From The North ampton Seat Of Government RICH SQUARE — The RCA Service Company has been officially notified by the North Carolina Council of Churches Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Association, Inc., that its contract to operate the Family Development Project in Rich Square will not be renewed. The present contract will run through February 1973, and the RCA component at Rich Square has begun a phase-out program to terminate its operations by that time. According to John Taylor, Executive Director of Choanoke Area Development Association (CADA), the North Carolina Council of Churches became the grantee of the Project October 1. “Only two agencies in the state can handle Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) Migrant Division funds; one is CADA and the other is the N. C. Council of Churches,” Taylor said. The Migrant Division developed a new method of directing the program this year in which they say the grantee Area School s Provided | Tax Deadline $8,666,439 state Fijn* ' '' ' RALEIGH — Roanoke- Chowan school units received $8,666,439 from the state nine months school fund for the 1971-72 fiscal year. Figures are based on an audit of the fund by the State Board of Education, released by Controller A. C. Davis. The nine months school fund includes the bulk of the state money allocated for public education. Northampton County Northampton County schools received a total of $2,663,125.70 which provided $50,671.55 for general control; $2,018,504.32 for instructional services; $106,698.08 for operation of plant; $287,317.55 for compensation; and $199,934.20 for auxiliary agencies. Gates County The Gates County School system received a total of $1,027,756.70 for the current term. This expenditure included $29,417.06 for general control; $742,154.89 for instructional service; $38,240 for operation of plants; $110,658.99 for compensation; and $107,285.76 for auxiliary agencies. Hertford County Total expenditures in Hertford County were $2,617,655.51 which included $48,401.18 for general control; $1,990,070.75 for instructional services; $100,463.12 for operation of plant; $291,910.85 for compensation; and $186,809.61 for auxiliary agencies. Bertie County The state school fund provided $2,357,903.43 for Bertie County which covered $49,660.25 for general control; $1,745,247.50 for instructional services; $92,609 for operation of plant; $254,679.59 for compensation; and $215,707.09 for auxiliary agencies. Categories Definition of categories under the total expenditures are: General control — This includes such items as salaries of superintendents, assistants, travel and office expense and salaries of clerical assistants . in superintendents offices. Instructional service — Under this heading are wages for teachers, principals and supervisors as well as instructional supplies and clerical assistants in schools. Operation of plant — This includes telephones, fuel, water and wages of janitors. Compensation — This heading includes such things as tort claims, reimbursement to injured school children, employer’s retirement cost and employer’s social security costs. Auxiliary Agencies — These include wages of bus drivers and mechanics, operation of school buses, library supplies, child health programs and kindergartens. State Expenditures North Carolina school units received nearly $487 million from the state nine months school fund for the 1971-72 (See SCHOOLS, Page 14) December 31 JACKSON — “Northampton taxpayers have paid $544,858.23 since the start of this fiscal year (July 1) and over $200,000 this past month” said Turner Bradley, county tax supervisor. He estimated that ap proximately 50 per cent of the year’s taxes have now been collected and that at least 90 per cent will have been collected by the end of the month. “Taxes paid after December 31 will have interest added to the bill. The interest rate will be two per cent in January and three-fourths of one per cent per month, thereafter,” said Bradley. “This could add up to 10'/4 per cent the first year and nine per cent per year for each following year.” Total personal and real tax in North ampton County for 1972, based on 50 per cent of assessed tax value, is set at just over $75 million. Taxes levied for this year are $1,167,388.19. Bradley said the tax collector’s office will be open next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in order that those owing taxes can pay them before the December 31 deadline and avoid a penalty. The office will be closed Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Stanley Elected Chairman Local Board WOODLAND — Dr. John Stanley has been elected to chairman of the local board of the North Carolina National Bank in Woodland. Religion and as a director of the Roanoke-Chowan Mental Health Service. He is also a lay leader for the Methodist Church of Woodland. A TOTAL BASE BID OF $226,569 for general construction, plumbing, heating and air conditioning added up to the lowest figures Friday when sealed bids were opened for the Northampton County Home building renovation in Jackson. Here Paul H. Brown, (left) president of Brown, Edwards and Miller, Inc., of Raleigh, consulting engineer, is shown opening the bids, which are being recorded by David Arnold, consulting architect. The county commissioners have 30daysinwhichtoacceptor reject all bids. Low bidder for general construction was T and S Construction Co. of Greensboro with a bid of $149,288. Plumbing construction low bidder was T. E. Turner Plumbing Co. of Wilson with a bid of $12,423. Henry Baker Heating Co. of Wilson was low for heating and air conditioning with a bid of $38,936. Whitley's Electric Service of Wilson gave the low bid for electrical work with a bid of $25,922 A native of Conway, S.C., He is married to the former Dr. Stanley is a graduate of Geneva C. Applewhite of the Citadel and the Medical Halifax and they have two College of South Carolina. He daughters, serves as mayor of Woodland, president of CADA, president of the Northampton Medical Society, chairman of the Board of Directors of Pine Forest Rest Home, county physician for Northampton County Health Department, member of the Board of Directors of the N. C. Cancer Society, member of the N. C. Committee for Medicine and miv. ALL MV SHOPPING’S PONE.,, ANP SOME PEOPLE HAVE ONLV 2 PAVS LEFT.' boards should have 51 per cent migrants on them. CADA could not reconstruct its board to meet these requirements so the Council of Churches took over. The council now has the authority from OEO to make any changes they deem necessary in the program.” It is understood that the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Association will continue the project, though any changes in the programs there which will come about under the new management are not known at this time. RCA began operations of the Family Development Project in May of 1968. By September of that year all arrangements had been made for a full program of training families, and the first groups began moving into the new mobile homes. By the end of 1968 more than 30 families were in training. During the past four years the project has guided more than 700 families out of the ranks of the unemployed,, including those who went to work from the four centers and those who completed all phases, of training at the residenUal center at Rich Square. More than 200 have ?-■?: V.- vl 'rr and placed in employment requiring those abilities. Nearly half of these are working in metropolitan areas of North Carolina and Virginia. When RCA began operations in 1968 the program Included the residential center at Rich Square and four non- residential education centers, one in each of the four counties, in the towns of Ahoskie, Enfield, Jackson, and Windsor. In February of this year the four centers were discountinued. The residential program has included training in the fields of auto mechanics, building trades, plumbing-wiring, television repair, and welding. Women’s areas of skill training have included nurse’s aide, day care aide, and office worker. Marshall Grant To Lead N. C. Cotton Delegates GARYSBURG Twenty-two: cotton leaders have been named North C)arolina delegates to the National Cotton Council’s annual meeting in El Paso January 29-30. State Unit Chairman Marshall Grant, Garysburg cotton producer, will head the delegation which will join with representatives from other cotton-producing states in adopting guidelines for 1973 Council programs and policies. Other North Carolina delegates are: Producers — E. Hervey Evans, Jr., Laurinburg; Victor Crosby, Harmony; C, Hoke Leggett, Hobgood; and J. Nelson Gibson, Jr., Gibson; Ginners . - - .lack More.«n, S'-eljirr: Earl Vann, Murfreesb.'iro: and J. Marvin Johnson, Smithfield; Warehouseman — F. J. Beatty, Charlotte; Merchants — W. W. Holding, III, Wake Forest, and W. D. Lawson, III, Gastonia; Crushers — W. T. Melvin, Rocky Mount; Cooperatives — V. Leroy Jackson, Raleigh; Manufacturers — George McQuilkin, III, Charlotte; Sam R. May, China Grove; Fred L. Smyre, Gastonia; James D. Barbee, Greensboro, W. A. Blackwood, Winston-Salem; Hurdle Lea, Eden; W. A. Wooten, Jr., Memphis, Tenn.; Paul Kincaid, (Cherryville; and 0. Leonard Moretz, Maiden. Alternate delegates include: R. W. Howey and J. Donald Kerr, both of Waxhaw; J. N. (Jack) Karshner, St. Pauls; R. Hunter Pope, Jr., Enfield; J. Joe Miller, Pineville; and J. P. Sumrell, Ayden. Holiday ^ Sf.hedfjlG •" f JACKSON — All county offices in Jackson will be closed December 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26. They will be open December 27, 28, and 29. Normal working hours will resume January 2. EAS Survey One Step Closer To Reality JACKSON — Extended Area Service (EAS), a much needed tool for progress in Northampton County, got one step closer to becoming a reality Wednesday when County Accountant Tim Ellen took a list of endorsements to Grady Strickland, district commercial manager of the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company in Roanoke Rapids. Strickland checked the lists and accepted them as sufficient for him to begin action. This action will be to send the indorsements, together with his personal recommendation that a survey be made, to A IW ■ the Division Commercial Manager in Rocky Mount and to the General Comnlercial Manager in Tarboro. He will also send copies to Jeff Holmes, Ahoskie District Commercial Manager. These men will review the endorsements and Strickland’s recommendation and send them back to Strickland with their own recommendation as to whether or not a study should be made. Strickland will then forward all indorsements and recommendations to the Utilities Commission in Raleigh. The study should take about 60 days to complete, according to Ellen. Dr. John H. Stanley A ST. JOHN'S MAN WAS CRITICALLY INJURED in this head-on collision on U.S. 258 between Rich Square and Scotland Neck Friday morn ing. Raymond F. Parrisher Jr., 18, Tarboro was driving south on U.S. 258 in a heavy rain when he attempted to pass a vehicle and ran head-on into a 1963 Volkswagen driven by Thomas W. Roberson, 37, of St. Johns. Both men were taken to Our Community Hospital in Scotland Neck. Roberson, was transferred to Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount and later to Duke University Medical Center in Durham. Parrisher was treated at Scotland Neck and then transferred to the Tarboro Hospital. Damage to the Parrisher vehcile was estimated .at $1,500 while the Roberson vehicle sustained about $1,000 in damages.
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