THE County TIMES-NEWS
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Vol. 82 No. 19
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIME5 — Established 1892
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1973
☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
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King Track Meet
To Be Run
At Duke, May 12
DURHAM — World class
track is coming back to North
Carolina. Some of the world’s
finest athletes will compete
here May 12 at the Fifth
Annual Martin Luther King
International Freedom
Games Track and Field Meet.
The King Games, held the
past four years in
Philadelphia, will be moving
to Wallace Wade Stadium at
Duke University for the first
time.
Two years ago the Duke
Track was the scene of the
highly successful Pan Africa-
U.S.A. Track Meet.
The King Games are the
first major international
outdoor invitational track
meet of 1973. While no official
competitors have been
announced as yet, it is almost
certain that at least 30
Olympic participants will be
in the competition.
The performers from the
1972 Olympic Games will be
from the USA and foreign
countries — Kenya, Canada,
Trinidad, Jamaica, Australia,
(See MEET, Page 3)
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School Board Re-Elects Bullock
\
THESE EIGHT MEMBERS of the graduating graded school class of
Woodland of 1913 gathered at the Quaker House Restaurant last Thursday
for a luncheon to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their class reunion. They
are seated from left, Lilian Carter Riddick, Hobbsville; Pauline Outland
Holloman, Woodland; Mary Ella Copeland Parker, Woodland. Standing
from left are Roy Griffin, Woodland; Hanna Holloman Brannon, Dunn;
Margaret Futrell Hughes, Jausson; Jessie Griffin Motzno, Woodland; and
Dr. Raleigh Parker, Woodland.
60% Of Roanoke-Chowan
Graduates Continue Study
RALEIGH — The four
Roanoke-Chowan counties are
above state average in their
number of 1972 high school
graduates continuing higher
education.
Out of 1,237 graduates from
high schools in Gates,
Hertford, Northampton and
Bertie Counties last spring,
743 continued higher
education. This was 60 per
cent of all graduates and the
number topped the 58.1 state
average continuing higher
education by 1.9 per cent.
Percentage calculations are
based on '‘Survey of 1972 High
School Graduates,” released
in April by the North Carolina
Department of .Public
Instruction. The publication
identified students continuing
higher education as those
enrolled in senior colleges,
community colleges and
technical institutes, junior
colleges and trade, business or
nursing schools.
The Roanoke-Chowan
counties were slightly below
the state average of 30.9 per
cent of students enrolling in
senior colleges. (The
exception was Northampton
with 37 per cent enrolled.) The
area’s high showing in the
‘‘student continuing higher
education” category resulted
from higher than average
enrollment in junior colleges,
community colleges and
technical institutes.
The area as a whole was
substantially above state
average in the number of 1972
students entering military
service. State average was 3.9
per cent and area counties
showed, 7.3 per cent from
Gates; 5.3 per cent from
Northampton; five per cent
from Hertford; and 3.2 per
cent from Bertie, the only
area county below state
average.
Gates
Gates County was the
second largest Roanoke-
Chowan county in its
percentage of students from
the Class of ’72 continuing
education. Sixty-two per cent
of the 165-member class
enrolled in schools of higher
learning, compared with a
state average of 58.1 per cent.
The county was only slightly
below state average (27.9 per
cent compared with 30.9 per
cent) in the number of
students enrolling in senior
colleges. Gates was
considerably above state
average in the percentages of
students enrolled in junior
colleges, community colleges,
technical institutes, trade
schools, business schools and
nursing schools.
The county ranked number
nine in the state in its high
percentage of students
entering military service and
higher than any other
Roanoke-Chowan County. Out
of the 1972 graduating class,
7.3 per cent entered military
service compared with a
statewide average of 3.9 per
cent.
The 1972 graduates from
Gates were categorized as
follows:
Senior colleges, 27.9 per
cent; community colleges and
technical institutes, 24.8 per
cent; junior colleges, 2.4 per
cent; trade, business, and
nursing schools, 7.3 per cent;
military service, 7.3 per cent;
gainfully employed, 25.5 per
cent; all others, 4.8 per cent.
Northampton
Of the Roanoke-Chowan
counties, Northampton had
the highest percentage of
students continuing education.
Sixty-three per cent of the
county’s 397-member 1972
graduating class continued
studies. Northampton was
well above state average in its
number of students continuing
higher education and in its
number of students attending
senior colleges.
A total of 147 Northampton
students, or 37 per cent of its
1972 graduating class enrolled
in senior colleges, compared
with a statewide avenge of
(See GRADUATES, Page 3)
JACKSON — The
Northampton County Board
re-elected E. J. Bullock,
Associate Superintendent of
Schools and W. R. King,
Assistant Superintendent of
Schools in charge of ESEA
Title I.
The firm of Riddick and
Urquart, Certified Public
Accountants, was again
retained to audit the records
of the Northampton County
Board of Education and the
records of the fourteen schools
in the county.
After considering a
recommendation of the
Executive Board of the
Garysburg Parents-Teachers
Association that the Board of
Education increase the
distance of out-of-state trips
which elementary students
are allowed to take during the
time the schools are in
session, the following
resolution was passed;
Whereas the Northampton
County Board acknowledges
the request of the Executive
Board of the Garysburg
Parents-Teachers Association
“That the Board consider
altering the regulation
governing ‘No elementary
pupil may be solicited for or
carried on an out-of-state trip
of more than one hundred
miles one way from the
Northampton County line
during the time school is in
session.’”
And, whereas since it
appears that the teachers are
to be employed for 200 days
during the 1973-74 school term
and thus there are likely to be
more days when the teachers
will be employed and the
schools not actually in
operation.
And whereas students could
be carried on trips on these
and other holidays.
Now, Therefore, Be It
Resolved:
That the Northampton
County Board of Education
requests that out of state trips
of more than 100 miles from
the Northampton County line
by planned for days when the
schools are closed so that
students will not lose time
from their classes.
The budget for the summer
Migrant Education Project
calling for the expenditure of
federal funds in the amount of
$20,000.00 was approved.
Plans call for the staff to begin
work June 11 and for the
students to report June 18. The
program which will be
conducted at the Rich Square
School will be concluded July
23.
The following resolution
pertaining to ESEA Title I
personnel was adopted:
Whereas, it is rumored, and
it appears that the rumor is
correct, that a large
percentage of the ESEA Title I
Funds are not likely to be
available for the 1973-74 school
term.
And whereas, the Director
of the Division of Personnel
Relations of the State
Department of Public
Instruction has stated that a
school system “would be wise
to forstali the issuing of
formal contracts until
notification of positions to be
funded for tbe 1973’74 school
year is given.”
Now, Therefore, Be It
Resolved:
That all ESEA Title 1
(See SCHOOL, Page 3)
Budget - Highway Bill
Top Legislative Week
By ANDY JACKSON
RALEIGH — The State
House of Representatives is
looking after the Budget this
week, with the tentative
proposals going before the full
joint House-Senate
Appropriations Committee
Thursday.
On the other side of the hall,
senate conference committee
members faced some hard
bargaining with their House
counterparts in an effort to
break a deadlock over the
Senate amendments to the
highway restructuring bill.
The bill would abolish the
CADA
From
Requests $25,277
Northampton County
JACKSON — John Taylor,
executive director of
Choanoke Area Development
Association, addressed the
Northampton County Board of
County Commissioners
Monday afternoon and
requested $25,277 from the
county for the financing of
CADA’s independent services
such as day-care and child
services and transportation
10 Commandments
For
Traffic Safety
I. Thou Shalt not murder by
motor.
II. Thou Shalt not mix
alcohol with gasoline.
III. Thou Shalt not exceed
the speed limit.
IV. Thou shalt not follow too
close.
V. Thou shalt not weave
from lane to lane.
VI. Thou shalt not fail to
signal.
VII. Thou shalt not lose thy
temper.
VIII. Thou shalt be
courteous to thy fellow
motorists.
XI. Thou shalt favor the
pedestrian and bicyclist.
X. Honor traffic laws that
thy days may be long.
for aged people.
These services, titled
Operation Mainstream, are to
be continued over a four-
county area with a budget of
$126,000. Northampton’s share
amounted to 20 per cent of the
total budget. The
commissioners dicided to
make final decisions at a
budget meeting.
The board elected R. M.
Jeffords of Seaboard to the
county planning board to fill
the vacancy made by the
resignation of Thomas
Foreman Sr. last month.
The commissioners
approved the following draws:
Whitley Electrical System,
$8530, T & S Construction,
$23,305.32, T. E. Turner
Plumbing, $589, for the county
home; Wood and Peterson,
$2000, for the courthouse
inside painUng; Whitley’s
Electircal System, $11,
Antrim Technical
Corporation, $9415.80, for jail
renivating.
The board voted to appoint
Mrs. Beale G. Vick of
Seaboard to the library board
of trustees and to execute
change order for improved
sewage facilities for the
county jail in Jackson.
Soil conservationist John
Litchfield requested the board
to hire two sml technicians for
a proposed five-year soil
survey of the county, but no
action was taken.
The board agreed to send a
letter of intent concerning the
$20,000 budget request from
the Roanoke Chowan Mental
Health Clinic in Ahoskie. The
clinic serves Northampton,
Bertie, Hertford, and Gates
counties.
State Highway Commission,
replacing it with a
Transportation Board which
included General Assembly
members and a Secondary
Roads Council.
The bill easily passed the
House earlier and was passed
by the Senate last Thursday,
but not before 10 amendments
were tacked on to it, thus
sending the amended bill back
to the House for approval.
Friday morning the
amended bill failed to pass the
House so a conference
committee was set up. |
The conference committee
met Monday for the first time
and Bertie Senator J. J.
“Monk” Harrington said
“There were some differences
of opinion between the Senate
and the House, but I think we
can resolve these by the end of
this week and we can have a
good bill for the people of
North Carolina.
Two of the main objections
that House members had to be
amendments included one
which would require the
General Assembly to approve
roads to be worked on by the
highway department.
Harrington said this
amendment was deleted
Monday.
The other
change in
objection was a
the Board of
Transportation. The House
had approved four year terms
for the nine members. The
Senate set the length of
service at the “pleasure of the
governor.”
Tuesday afternoon, the
conferees came to an
agreeipent and said that they
would recommend an
amendment that would give
the nine members of the
transportation board
appointee by the governor
four year terms. The governor
would be empowered to
remove any of them for cause.
Three other members will
serve on the board. One will be
appointed by the lieutenant
Governor, one by the speaker
of the house and one by the
minority leader of both
houses.
Another portion of the bill
would 'require the
Transportation Board to
furnish the General Assembly
annually lists of highway
projects and reports on high-
way maintenance
expenditures.
Harrington said that the
House version of the bill got
into too mapy specifics and
the Senate version which was
kept in the revised edition of
the bill, provided the general
(See WEEK, Page 3)
Burgwyn, Morris Appointed
To Bank Board
ROCKY MOUNT — Peoples
Bank and Trust Company,
head-quartered here, today
announced board of managers
appointments at two of its
offices. Appointed are John G.
Burgwyn and W. P. Morris,
Jackson board; and Edward
H. Austin, Elizabeth City
board.
The announcement .was
made by Robert Mauldin,
executive vice president.
Peoples Bank. “We welcome
the ability these men bring to
their position,” Mauldin said.
“We’re confident we’ll benefit
from their association with
Peoples Bank.”
Burgwyn, a native of
Northampton County, is a
farmer and serves on the
board of directors of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers
Association. He is a past
president of the Woodland
Cooperative Bonded
Warehouse in Jackson. He and
his family are members of the
Episcopal Church, Jackson.
Morris is a native of
Pasquotank County and is
owner and operator of the W.
P. Morris Lumber Company,
Jackson, and Roanoke River
Ranch. A registered Polled
Hereford Cattle raiser, Morris
also operates a farm
Burgwyn Must Forfeit
Double ABC Position
RALEIGH — B. R.
Burgwyn, chairman of the
Northampton ABC board and
acting supervisor of the
system, must forfeit one of the
two positions, said the State
Board of Alcoholic control,
which is acting to eliminate
conflicts of interest involving
more than a dozen local ABC
boards.
Six boards will be notified
this week of conflicts that
must be corrected
immediately, said Dr. L. C.
Holshouser, chairman. Eight
other boards have been
granted an extension of time
to resolve conflicts.
Most of the conflicts involve
local boards that have
employed a relative of one of
their members or board
members who are employed
by their boards.
The state ABC Board made
its decisions in these conflict
of interest cases April 24 and
April 30, but did not begin
notifying local boards of its
decisions until this week.
The state board adopted a
conflict of interest regulation
last March, prohibiting local
boards from employing any
person related to a board
member by blood or marriage
to a degree of second cousin or
closer.
Holshouser said the state
board’s investigation of
possible conflicts of interest is
continuing.
Northampton Awarded
$6400 Federal Grant
Rion Allan Causey
Causey Wins
Academic Honors
At NCSU
Rion Allan Causey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Donald M.
Causey of Rich Square, will
receive double honors when he
is graduated Saturday from
North Carolina- State
University according to
information released by the
Registrar’s Office.
Rion has been selected the
outstanding Nuclear Physics
student and commendation for
outstanding scholarship; he
maintained a perfect grade of
4.0 for the eight semesters
enrollment at the University.
Rion was graduated from
West Columbus High School in
Columbus County. He served
two years in the United States
Army, stationed one year in
Viet Nam.
Rion is married to I'ictoria
Barnes Causey, who is now a
classroom teacher in the Cary
Schools in Wake County. They
reside in Raleigh.
He is now engaged in
research studies at the
University and will continue
post-graduate studies there.
JACKSON — Northampton
is one of the 79 North Carolina
communities and counties
that have been awarded a
total of $331,000 in federal
grants for local planning,
according to Ralph H. Lassen,
Assistant Field Office Chief
for this area. ^
Northampton County will
receive a $6400 grant, which
will be matched by $4160 in
local money.
The funds will be used to
finance planning over a 13-
month period in the area of
land and economic
development.
The Division of Community
Services, a part of the
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources, will
provide the technical planning
assistance.
While the news was good for
79 communities, applications
from 80 others had to be
turned down, according to
Lassen.
One problem was not
enough money.
“Interest by local
government in planning has
skyrocketed in the past few
years. Unfortunately funding
for local planning has not kept
pace.” Lassen said.
While federal funding for
local planning was up only 10
per cent, requests for
assistance from local
government has doubled.
Some relief could be coming
lt> tl.c Tear fsjf'.iro
General Assembly approves
all or part of a $150,000 request
for supplemental state funds
for local government planning
assistance.
Julius Erving To Coach
At Chowan Basketball Camp
Julius Erving, one of the
offensive standouts in the
American Basketbail
Association and considered by
many to be the greatest player
in either the NBA or ABA, will
head the guest coaching staff
at Sports Camps of America,
Incorporated basketball camp
to be held this year from July
22 through the 28th, inclusive,
at Chowan Coilege,
Murfreesboro.
Sports Camps f.' .'imerica is
the result of a recent union
between Uvo of the finest boys
basketball camps operating in
the Midwest: Adolph Rupp-
Dan Issel Basketball Camps in
Kentucky and Ed Macauley
Camps for Boys,
Incorporated, in St. Louis.
Macauley’s instructional
sessions have been enjoying
increasing popularity over the
past twenty years. Boys ages
10 through 18 will be taught the
fundamentals of shooting, one
on one, passing, dribbling,
defense, and the other
techniques they wiil need to
develop into fine players.
Joining Julius Erving as
members of the guest
coaching staff at Chowan
Coilege will be Lou Hudson of
the Atlanta Hawks. Lou, a true
superstar, is in his seventh
year and nas averaged over 22
points a game for Atlanta. He
was in the top ten scorers in
the NBA this season and is a
great ball handler and a fine
teacher. Also joining the staff
will be Dan Issel, great all-
star forward for the Kentucky
Colonels of the ABA,
University of Kentucky all
time leading scorer. Rookie of
the Year and ABA ieading
scorer 1970-71.
Those interested in
obtaining information may
write to Sports Camps of
America, Incorporated, 1517
Kentucky Home Life Building,
Louisville, Kentucky 40202.
implement dealership in
Jackson. He is an active
member of the Jackson Lions
Club and First United
Methodist Church.
Austin is a native of Four
Oaks, N. C., and is a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. A certified
public accountant, Austin is a
member of American Institute
of Certified Public
Accountants (CPAs) and the
North Carolina Society of
CPAs. He and his wife Audrey
are members of the First
United Methodist Church,
Elizabeth City.
THE OLDEST LIVING VETERAN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY is
Walter W. Carter who was presented one of the medals for service in World
War I that were recently found in Raleigh. Carter served in Company F of
the Sixth Division Army and was sent to France in July 1918 for a year of
overseas duty. The 83-year-old veteran is possibly the oldest vet in the state.
Standing with him are Mrs. Lilian Carter Riddick, his sister from Hobbs
ville, and Mrs. Frances Hoggard, his daughter from Windsor.