Vol. 82 No. 5
THE County TIMES-NEWS
^ if if it Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium if if it it
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892 ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1973 lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C.
12 Pages
Merger
Final
Today
JACKSON — The Bank of
Northampton here opens its
doors today under the new
name of Peoples Bank and
Trust Company.
Merger of the two banks
became effective last
midnight following a 30-day
waiting period during which
no appeal was filed by the U.
S. Justice Department. The
waiting period was the last
step in the merger which
began last summer when the
banks’ boards of directors
approved the union.
The only difference
noticeable to cutomers of the
Bank of Northampton will be
the name change, and an
increase in bank assets
(See BANK, Page 12)
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Four County Seivicemen
Died In Viet Nam War
AT BOTH ENDS OF
Northampton County
people are coming by
year. At left Rudolph
THE VAULT IN THE
Court House basement
to list their tax for this
Pope of Rich Square is
while Mrs. R. R. Boyd, 2d from right, aids Randy
Garris of Rich Square. According to Turner
Bradley, Northampton Tax Supervisor, the
deadline for listing is February 15.
attended to by Mrs. Mary Barrett, tax clerk.
March Hearing Maybe County ESEA Personnel
For 38 Dove Hunters ,,11— . .
Hold Training Session
RALEIGH — North
ampton’s 38 dove hunters,
charged with hunting over
baited fields, may finally have
their case tried in March.
Orginally charged in
September for the alleged
violation, the hunters went
before Federal Magistrate
William D. Ethridge in Rocky
Mount, Friday, October 13,
and at that time they
requested a jury trial in U.S.
District Court.
This request was honored
and the case was reviewed
December 4 but it was
reported unofficially that they
“had no right to a jury trial.”
At that time it was incorrectly
reported that the case was
sent back to Magistrate
Ethridge.
In a telephone interview
with Ethridge last week the
Times-News learned that,
although possible, it was not a
regular procedure to return
f'pses to low'^r courts.
The Times-News was
directed to the U.S. Attorney’s
office in Raleigh where it was
told that the case would
probably come up before a
Scout Banquet
February 7
At Chowan
federal judge in March.
“The calender for March is
not ready yet but chances are
that case will be on it when it
is,” a spokesmen from the
U.S. Attorney’s office said.
JACKSON
and three
One hundred
Northampton
County Elementary and
Traveler Helped
By Local Agencies
RICH SQUARE - At 3 a.m.
Tuesday morning. Deputy
Sheriff Grover Parker of Rich
Square received a phone call
from an unidentified woman,
who said she was at the
outside telephone booth near
the Colonial Restaurant.
The woman said she and her
four children had stopped
about three hours before and
had eaten hot dogs at a
restaurant somewhere in the
western part of the state. She
«3id she now found her crrns
and legs numb and she felt
sick
Suddenly the call was
disconnected, so Deputy
Parker jumped in his car and
rushed to 'he Colonial
Restaurant. There was no car
there, but he saw wet tire
marks moving out from the
booth and going towards
Woodland. He was driving
towards Woodland when he
received a radio message
from the Ahoskie Police to the
effect they had a small boy on
the line, who said he was at a
telephone booth outside of the
Texaco station in Woodland
and that his mother was sick
and needed help.
Deputy Parker asked the
Ahoskie police to tell the boy
to remain in ti)ie phone booth
until he arrive i He also asked
that the A'Anskte Po'ice
contact the Woodland Rescue
Squad and get them to the
scene. '
Upon arriving in Woodland,
the deputy found'the boy still'
in the phone booth and the
mother and three other small
children in a station wagon
(See HELPED, Page 12)
Secondary Education
Administration (ESEA)
professional and
paraprofessional personnel
held a full day’s training
session last Wednesday
throughout the county.
The personnel received
instruction from some of the
best known authorities on
reading and early childhood
education.
Miss Patsy Montague,
consultant Early Childhood
Education, Granville County,
conducted the workshop for 28
kindergarten personnel at the
Eastside School near Jackson.
Miss Montague discussed
behavioral problems in
kindergarten and prirnary
grade children. She pointed
out effective methods of
dealing with children in this
age group.
Mrs. Billie Allen, general
supervisor of Education
Granville County Schools,
conducted the workshop for
the 53 tutorial reading aides of
the county at Coates School in
Seaboard. Mrs. Allen is a
recognized authority in
reading in the South; she
assisted in developing the
reading tutorial program
which is now widely used
throughout the Country.
ESEA Director of Granville
County Vance Reese
introduced Mrs. Allen and
assisted in the tutorial
instruction.
Mrs. Peggy Wynne McGhee,
reading supervisor of Title I
program of Franklin County,
gave instruction for 28 reading
personnel at the Jackson
School. Mrs. McGhee pointed
out methods of motivating
children who are deficient in
reading ability. She also
described effective methods of
assessing children’s reading
ability.
Northampton County ESEA
Director W. R. King and
Superintendent Roy F. Lowry
met with the visiting
educators during the 'unch^on
break and discussed future
training sessions with them.
JACKSON — The United States’
involvement in Viet Nam officially
ended at 7 p.m. Saturday. Peace, as
we will know it, came quietly in
Northampton County with the ex
ception of the pealing of church bells
in several communities and the
random blowing of automobile
horns.
Between 1960 and 1972 377 of the
county’s men were drafted and
many of those served in that war,
the longest one in the history of this
country. At least four gave their
lives. So far as is generally known, ho
county men are prisoners or are
listed as missing.
According to the best information
available, records at the office of the
Veterans’ Service Officer Ola Mae
Johnson show that the first county
man killed in action in Viet Nam was
U. S. Army Specialist Fourth Class
George S. Walton Jr. He was killed
in March 1967. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. George S. Walton Sr. A
Roxobel address is now listed.
Army PFC Rudolph Gorham, 21,
of Garysburg was killed August 29,
1967. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Godfrey Gorham.
On November 13, 1967 Army PFC
Lament G. Epps, 23, was reported
killed in action. He was the son of the
late Annie Stephenson of
Margarettsville.
Last of the county’s men killed in
the war zone was USMC Willie Lee
Broadnax, 21, The son of Mrs.
Verline Lewis of Jackson, Private
Broadnax was killed November 21,
1967, near Thua Thien Province.
One other serviceman reported
killed in Viet Nam was born ih Rich
Square but moved to Scotland Neck
at an early age. He was USMC First
Lt. Stephen Albert Dean, 24, son of
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Dean. Lieutenant
Dean was reported lost at sea
December 20, 1972, while on a
helicopter mission with the U.S.
Seventh Fleet off of the coast of
North Viet Nam.
Legislators Voice
«
Their Interests
By JOSEPH COVOLO JR.
Managing Editor
AHOSKIE — After 13 days
of legislative sessions in 1971
the number of bills introduced
totaled 199. This year the
nnnber was 30ft eve" — a .50
per cent increase. According
to Bertie’s Senator J. J.
(Monk) Harrington, “I think
we are all moving at a faster
pace this year because I’m
sure we feel we will be going to
annual sessions which could
begin next year.”
Further comments on
innur.! sessions came frsm
Gates’ Sen. Phil Godwin and
Hertford’s Rep. Roberts
MURFREESBORO — A
District Recognition Banquet
will be held Wednesday,
February 7, at 7 p.m, in the
Chowan College Cafeteria,
Levie Dilday, district
chairman, announced this
week.
Earlier it was incorrectly
announced that the dinner
would be held February 8 in
the President’s Dining Room
of the college.
Ticket chairman for the
banquet is Ray Harrell of
Murfreesboro. Tickets may be
purchased from any Scout
leader.
“We must know by
February 5 just how many
people are planning to attend
this annual event,” Harrell
said.
Regional Officials
Study Legislation
New Long Line Phone
Rates Now In Effect
ROANOKE RAPIDS — In
order to better acquaint
county governing bodies with
legislative programs,
commissioners from the
counties in Regions K and L
met in Roanoke Rapids
Friday in one of six regional
meetings held across the
state.
Commissioners expressed
opposition to legislation for
state administration and
consolidation of health
services.
The county officials also
were against a proposed bill
which would establish
minimum pay and training
standards for law
enforcement officers.
Attending the meeting from
Northampton County were:
Board of Commissioners
Chairman' Jasper Eley,
Commissioners W. W. Grant,
W. D. Edwards, John Faison
and County Attorney Felton
Turner.
John T. Morrisey of
Raleigh, executive director of
the
North
Carolina
AHOSKIE — The American
Telephone and Telegraph
Company has filed a new
schedule of rates for interstate
long distance calls with
Federal Communications
Commission, which was
effective January 22.
This new schedule for out-of-
state calls increases charges
for: some customer-dialed
calls during weekday business
hours; some operator-assisted
calls; and some person-to-
Don't Use
Containers
As Crypts
JACKSON - Don’t put dead
animals in the county trash
containers. This order came
this week from Northampton’s
Solid Waste Supervisor
Horace Guthrie.
“When you have a dead
animal all you have to do is
carry it out to the land fill
north of town and we will take
care of disposing of it,”
Guthrie said.
Anyone with questions on
this matter can call Guthrie at
534-5161 for assistance.
Bloodmobile
At Conway
11-3 Friday
CONWAY — “Put Friday on
association’s board of your date book to make a date
directors. Bobby Strickland, with us to give blood anytime
Association of County
Commissioners explained that
a bill has been introduced that
would provide $6 for health
care improvement. A proviso
of the bill, however, is that
each department serve a
minimum of 75,000 persons.
That legislation would force
consolidation of programs in
the predominately rural
Regions K and L.
The bill also provides an
opportunity for counties to
contract administration of
health services to the state.
In addition it would set
standards for local health'
departments and would alter
the composition . of county
health boards.
The same commissioners
expressed discontent with
suggested legislation that
would require minimum pay
for sheriff’s deputies and
other officers. Training is also
proposed as a requirement
under the legislation.
County officials expressed
sentiment that the state would
be stripping the county of
authority by passage of the
bill.
All participating counties
were strongly opposed to the
legislation.
Tom Daniel, a Wilson
County commissioner, will
represent Region L as a
nominee for a seat on the
person calls.
New rates for WATS (Wide
Area Telecommunications
Service) will be applicable
starting on March 13, 1973.
These changes will affect
subscribers of Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph
Company, as well as
customers of all telephone
companies in the nation,
according to J. F. Havens,
vice president of Carolina
Telephone.
Havens emphasized that all
rates for interstate long
distance calls dialed by the
cusomter without operator
assistance in the evenings, at
night, and on weekends will
remain unchanged.
Some rates for customer-
dialed station-to-station calls
without operator assistance
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week
days will increase five cents
or ten cents for the first three
minutes.
There will be an increase of
five cents for the first three
minutes on some rates in all
time periods for operator-
assisted station-to-station
calls (including credit card,
collect, third number, hotel
guests, and coin telephone
calls).
Increases of five or ten cents
for the first three minutes on
some person-to-person calls in
all time periods will become
effective.
The rates for each
additional minute on some
calls in all time periods will be
raised in a range from one
cent to five cents.
Rates will remain the same
for customer-dailed station-to-
station calls without operator
assistance during evenings,
nights, or weekends.
Jernigan.
“The state of North Carolina
is a $5 billion a year operation.
A two and one-half million
dollar legislative cost to run
the state is a pretty small
operating cost in
said.
Rep. Jernigan added the
fact that, “Along with the
annual sessions legislation,
which we all feel will pass this
year, is the clause that
committee assignments would
generally stay permanent.
This will give us some much
needed uniformity and also a
general consistance in
committee' memberships.”
Each of our four
representatives from the
Roanoke-Chowan area had a
different subject to specialize
on this past weekend. Sen.
Harrington’s interests were
with the highway commission.
Sen. Godwin discussed the
kindergartens and the soft
drink tax reduction
legislation, Rep. Jernigan
reported on the appropriations
sub-committee in charge of
General Government and
transportation and
Northampton’s J. Guy Revelle
reported on a possible merger
of the state’s two schools for
the Deaf and Blind.
Merger of Schools
Since arriving in Raleigh for
this legislative session Rep.
Revelle has toured both
institutions for the deaf and
blind and is now discussing
with other committee
members the
recommendation by the
(See OPINIONS, Page 12)
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MRS. EVA JOHN SON OF MILWAUKEE, left, receives instruction in her new
duties as typist in the Food Stamp section of the Northampton County Social
Services Department in Jackson from Mrs. Deborah C. Lassiter of
Creeksville, whom she is replacing. Mrs. Lassiter has been promoted to the
position of eligibility specialist. Social Services Director Jim Clark stated
the office has been operating on an appointment basis and is now about one
month behind. With the addition of another employee he expects to catch up.
He further said that the office is now issuing about $1,200,000 in food stamps
yearly and it is believed that figure will rise to about $2,000,000 in the not too
far distant future.
Franklin County commission
chairman, was elected Region
K nominee.
Jerry Elliott, formerly of
Roanoke Rapids and now
information director of the
NCACC, explained that the
meetings are set to inform
county commissioners across
the state on current legislative
matters.
The Roanoke Rapids
meeting at Howard Bloom
Restaurant is the fourth in a
series of six such workshops.
Other participants were
from Halifax, Wilson, Nash,
Edgecombe, Franklin,
(See REGION, Page 12)
between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at
the Conway Woman’s Club
building,” said Mrs^ J. T.
Fly the, blood drive chairman.
The Tidewater Bloodmobile
will be looking for 75 pints to
build up the blood bank and
meet emergency needs.
Mrs. E. Frank Outland,
Northampton County
Volunteer Red Cross Blood
drive coordinator, suggested
that “each volunteer bring a
friend.”
Conway has fallen a little
below each quota due to the
number of people who have to
be turned down for various
health reasons.
V %
FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF our last surviving former president,
Lyndon B. Johnson, the staff in Congressman L. H. Foutain's office found
the above photograph. It was taken at a breakfast at the 1960 convention the
morning after Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
were nominated. At the time Congressman Fountain was serving his fifth
term from the Second Congressional District.