Vol. 82 No. 28
THE Coiinty TIMES-NEWS
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THE ROANOKE-CHOVAN TIMES — Established 1892 ☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1973 lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C.
16 Pages
News Notes
BURLINGTON, Vt. —
Actress Veronica Lake, the
sultry peek-a-boo blonde of
lithe figure who flashed to
movie stardom during World
War II then fell into seedy
oblivion when her box office
magic vanished, died
Saturday at the age of 51.
In the days of her Hollywood
glory, her picture hung in GI
dugouts from Europe to Asia
and vied in popularity with
that of Betty Grable who died
last week of canser.
WIMBLEDON, England —
America’s Billie Jean King
wrapped up three titles in the
87th Wimbledon lawn tennis
championships, winning the
mixed doubles, women’s
singles, and women’s doubles.
Mrs. King, of Hilton Head,
S.C., defeated Chris Evert of
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 6-0, 7-5,
to collect her fifth women’s
singles title, a post-war
record.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
President Nixon declared
Monday that America is
entering a new era of peace at
home as he presided at the
swearing-in of Clarence M.
Kelley as the new director of
the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
ATLANTA, Ga. - The Rev.
Ralph David Abernathy
announced his resignation
Monday after five years as
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference.
Abernathy, who succeeded
the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. as president of the
civil rights organization, told
a news conference he was
stepping down August 16, the
date of the SCLC’s annual
meeting in Indianapolis, Ind,
'WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Supporters of legislation to
clear the way for construction
of the $3.5 billion trans-Alaska
pipeline are nearing a
showdown with Midwest
members of Congress who
want a Canadian route studied
first.
The Senate opened debate
on the bill Monday and
approved an amendment that
would speed up the application
of tougl^ new controls on
tankers carrying Alaskan oil.
Sponsors hoped this would
ease the fears of
environmentalists about oil
spills.
The Canadian route is
favored also by
environmentalists who say it
would do less damage to the
Artie tundra and eliminate the
danger of oil spills at sea.
WASHINGTON, D.C. —
John N. Mitchell testified
Tuesday that he kept what he
knew about Watergate and its
coverup from President Nixon
because he feared that his
friend and former boss would
take actions damaging to his
own re-election campaign.
The former attorney
general denied the charge that
he personally approved the
wire tapping of Democratic
Party headquarters. In fact,
he said, he vehemently vetoed
all political espionage
proposals.
KEY WEST, Fla. - Tresure
Salvors uncovered a 17th
Spanish galleon whose
wreckage is believed to have a
cargo worth $400 million.
CHICAGO, Ill. - The
Supreme Court decision on
obscenity has prompted
Playboy Magazine to consider
making ‘‘editorial
adjustments” in its
photography. But its rival
Penthouse, arguing that the
human body is not obscene,
says it has no intention of
changing its pictures.
Both magazines said they
regretted the high court ruling
which gave power to local
officials to judge what is
obscene on the basis of
‘‘community standards”
rather than national tastes.
The ruling has resulted in both
publications being taken off
the stands in many towns,
particularly in the south.
Children To Pre-Register
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In Squire School District
JACKSON — All parents
with children living in the
Squire School District of
Northampton County who
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Reference is made to
kindergarten, first graders,
who did not attend the pre
school clinic, and students
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have not registered for the transferring from other
1973-74 school year are asked schools. Registration hours
to register them at the earliest from 8:30-4 p.m. daily,
possible date.
Northampton Has
11 -Year 4-H Leader
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BUILDING A TOOL BOX are Ruben Martinex
(left) of the Rich Square Summer Migrant
Education project and his sister, Lupe, with the
aid of volunteer instructor, Charles Landrum
(center), who teaches regularly at W. S. Creecy
School as electronics instructor. They are two of
some 85 migrant children participating in the
learning center at Rich Square Elementary
School.
Volunteer Teaches Children
In Migrant Education Program
RICH SQUARE - A W. S.
Creecy electronics instructor
who believes in helping
educationally deprived
children is giving five weeks
This is the third year that Landrum and 14 paid
Charles Landrum of Rich professional specialists in
Square has instructed migrant working with children are recognition
children from related areas in directed by Mrs. Jasper Eley efforts, .I’n
wood working, use of hand at the Learning Center they
of his time again this summer tools and safety in the use of have set up to teach
to the Migrant Education electricity to introducing them
program now going on at Rich to farm animals and the
Square Elementary School, family garden.
Short In Northampton
No Local Rationing
RICH SQUARE — four in June,” Glover
Northampton County is facing observed. ‘‘I haven’t reduced
the same gas shortage that the store hours but I closed the
has beset the rest of the nation self service station for two
but it is not suffering rationing months. I just reopened it July
such as neighboring Virginia 2 and I’m sure I will have to
where stations will sell only 10 close it before the month’s out.
gallons at a time to a I’m under an allotment and I
customer.
Thirteen service stations
throughout the county were
surveyed and only six faced
any problem, most of them not
even serious compared to the
gas shortage in the piedmont
section of the state.
The following is a talley of
the findings:
H. L. Evans’ Texaco, Rich
Square: “We got all the gas
we needed in June and we’ve
had no trobule this month,”
said Evans. “We don’t have a
quota.”
Howard Brown Oil
Company, Rich Square: “We
are on an allocation based on
last year’s sales,” commented
C. W. Lassiter, general
manager. “We’ve been lucky.
We distribute to the service
dealers and customers on the
same type basis.”
L. D. Glover, Exxon, Rich
Square: “I ran out last month
for a couple of days and I’ve
had to close Sundays due to
the shortage,” said Glover.
“There’s an Increase of 20 per
cent through August and I
hope it’s gonna get better.”
C. G. Hall, Citgo, Rich
received only 80 per cent in
April, May, and June. I
received 100 per cent July 1 —
the same amount as last year.
Unless the gas situation
improves from now on, the
heating oil will be mighty tight
this winter.”
Billy Cox, BP, Jackson: “I
ran out twice but I got the
gasoline in a day or two,”"
commented Cox. “I’m under
no allotment and there’s been
no change in station hours.”
Phillips 66, Jackson: This
station faces no problem. The .Conway,
gas supply has been cut but p.m.”
they have not run out.
Hasty’s Shell, Jackson: Last
Wednesday was the first time
the gas from Newsom Oil
Company in Roanoke Rapids
had alloted gasoline but the
station retains the same
hours.
W. R. Powell, BP,
Woodland: “I’ve been out two
or three times during the
allotment and I’ve shortened
the hours. I close early at 7
p.m. instead of 8:30 p.m. I’ll
sell it as long as I got it and
then quit.”
John M. Lee, Exxon,
Woodland: “I’ve had no
shortage,” Lee reports. “Gas
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deprived children in the areas
of basic education, cultural
enrichment and vocational
education.
“It’s the most worthwhile
program we’ve ever worked
said the retired Nn'.y
veteran of 23 years service
whose specialty now is
teaching occupational
education.
Third graders through
eighth graders receive
individual attention in his
work shop.
A native of Colorado, he
travelled extensively while in
the Navy including the
continents of Asia, South
America, Europe and
numerous islands in the
without gas the rest of this Pacific and Atlantic oceans,
month because I’ve got all my “I feel deeply that these
allotment in the ground now,” children need special help as
he said. “I still operate the their families move frequently
same hours. and they drop out of
Mrs. Ray Cutchins, EPCO, school... some of them are
Conway: This station was lucky to finish the fifth grade,
completely out of premium
gas, having sold the last eight
open. I’ve come close to it but
I haven’t run out yet.”
Ted Cofield, Union 76,
Conway: “If I run out of
regular and high test. I’ll be
“Here they get a chance to
achieve and the satisfaction of
for their
m just sorry that
the time they will be with us is
so short.”
The Migrant Summer
Education Program at Rich
Square is one of four in North
Carolina. It is funded by the U.
S. Office of Education.
The pleasant soft-spoken
motfuctor has a variety of
experience behind him.
During his Navy service in
1956-57 he “wintered over” on
the Antarctic Continent in
support of the International
Geophysical Year.
Prior to his retirement and
coming to Northampton
County, he was assigned to the
U. S. Navgl Cryptographic
Repair School, Portsmouth,
Va. He served there in the
billets of assistant director of
training, staff division officer
and first lieutenant.
Landrum is married to the
former Rhae Fairchild of
Enid, Okla. They have four
children, Therese 15, Charles
Patrick, 9, Vickie 7 and
Tammy Michelle, 18 months.
JACKSON - Mrs. Ola Mae
Murph, a native of Potecasi,
has been a 4-H leader for
almost 11 years in
Northampton County. During
this time she has slipped about
through 4-H meetings and for
five additional years, she has
been active in home
economics clubs throughout
the county.
Need Volunteers
Through August
JACKSON — The social
service department has
received three new
volunteers, from Woodland,
Milwaukee, and Jackson, to
transport James Wheeler to
Norfolk General Hospital
through July 17.
The department was also
notified that the kidney
machine the youth needs will
be shipped August 15 from
California from the Life Med
Corps. Supplies that will be
needed will be sent to James
at home two weeks before he
leaves the hospital.
Suitcase
Found
RICH SQUARE — A
suitcase containing lady’s
clothing was found on High
way 305, two miles west of
Rich Square Sunday night,
June 8, by Chief of PqUqc W.
W. Connor.
The bag can be claimed at
the town hall if it can be
identified.
Library
Closed
JACKSON — The
Northampton County
Memorial Library closed at 5
p.m. Tuesday and will remain
closed until futher notice
because of an air conditioning
breakdown.
Hopefully, the library will
reopen Friday, July 13.
“I work with homemakers
and youth. I work directly
with food recipients, with their
needs, gardening, food
has been allocated but I and nine-tenths gallons for U
haven’t run out and I still have
normal hours.”
L. D. Bryant, Gulf,
Woodland: “It’s the same as
last year and we haven’t been
out at all,” said Linda B.
Bowen who operates the
station between Woodland and
We still close at 9
Clyde Odom, Texaco,
Conway: “My gas allotment
has been cut 20 per cent and I
closed the station Sunday,
a week ago. “We haven’t
received the gasoline for July
yet” observed Mrs. Cutchins.
Travis Flythe. Shell,
Conway: “We’re not running
out.” said Mrs. Flythe. They
receive their gas from
Newsom Oil Company in
Roanoke Rapids.
Obviously there is
somewhat of a shortage
thorughout the county but
Northampton can boast that it
has yet to resort to strict
Home Economic Specialists
Visit Northampton County
Mrs. Ola Mae Murph
shopping, and planning
menus,” she commented. “I
teach them the basic
nutritional foods.”
Mrs. Murph extended these
services to the recent day
camp nutrition day sponsored
by the extension service. She
taught about food groups and
the breakdown in nutrition
value of the four food groups,
milk, meat, vegetables and
fruits, and breads and
cereals.”
“My purpose in helping food
recipients is to help them try
to learn to spend food stamps
wisely when they are used
only for food,” she explained.
“If we see other family needs,
we take them to other
departments to get help.”
Mrs. Murph attended 4-H
camp last week, the second
time in 11 years. “We had
classes in wildlife,
handicrafts, swimming,
electricity, and recreation.”
Although she didn’t don a
swim suit, she did make it on
the dance floor until a twisted
foot left her on the bench.
However, laurels she did bring
home. Mrs. Murph served as
leader of the girls in Camp 3
and they won the best camp
award for neatness.
Her foot is fine now as she is
busily preparing for more 4-H
activities.
May 6, to keep the self service • gasoline rationing tactics.
Georgia-Pacific Still Seeks
Improvement In Air Quality
CONWAY — Three years
Square: “I ran out of gas three and nearly $1 million worth of
days in May and April and engineering modifications and
equipment have still not
solved all of the
environmental problems at
the Georgia-Pacific
hardboard-chemical complex
here, Richard good, public
relations manager of the G-P
southern division, told the
Times News earlier this week.
“Our water quality
problems are over, but
emissions (air quality),
particularly fiber fallout, are
still well above what we
predicted two years ago,”
Good said.
“We are making good
progress in eliminating smoke
emission at our other mills in
North Carolina, but at Conway
the nature of the fuel and the
way it must be handled has
presented unusual difficulties
for G-P engineers and outside
engineering firms,” said
Gerald W. Tice,
environmental engineer for
Georgia-Pacific.
Northeast
Calendar
Approved
LASKER — Northeast
Academy Headmaster Arthur
Dempsey Jr. announced last
week the Board of Trustees
has approved the school
calendar for 1973-74.
Dempsey said students will
report for their first day of
school on August 28.
The holiday schedule
includes Labor Day, Sept. 3;
Thanksgiving, Nov. 22-23;
Christmas, Dec. 21 through
Jan 1; Spring April l2 through
15.
The last day of school for
Northeast students will be
May 28 and graduation will be
May 29.
JACKSON — Mrs. Lois
Brown and Dr. Leo Hawkins,
district home economics
specialists, visited
Northampton extension
agents Tuesday.
The two specialists serve
the north central district
which is composed of 16
counties, a part of the North
Carolina Multi-County
Planning Region, and both are
a part of the faculty of N.C.
State University.
“We work with professional
county extension personnel in
relationship to programming
and keeping them abreast of
the latest information in our
subject area,” Mrs. Brown
explained. “Our total
program is in home
economics.”
Dr. Hawkins is a specialist
in charge of family relations.
“We keep agents abreast of
the latest information on
family relations and human
relations centered around the
family,” he added. “There are
county workshops on a district
or statewide basis, conducted
in home economics or
participates in the expanded
foods nutrition program and in
the agricultural technician
program which works with
small farmers. “The method
of expansion is to reach the
needs of more people,”
commented Mrs. Brown.
Extension agents provide
information in many areas:
family relations, home
management, foods and
nutrition, housing, clothing
and aged. Specialists in
Raleigh help them by sending
materials and identifying
needs in the county to help
enhance the quality of life.
Mrs. Brown described the
tax-supported agency as “not
counseling but education.”
Tobacco
Harvest of North Carolina’s
flue-cured tobacco crop is
gaining momentum with
about three per cent of the
crop now barned. This is about
equal to last year’s pace but
ahead of the 10-year average.
Harvest is more advanced in
the border and eastern belts
than in the old belts where
harvest is just getting
underway. Topping and the
application of sucker control
is active in the flue-cured
(See Picture Page 16) areas.
;‘The people of Conway,” he boiler system to further cut
added, “have been very down on smoke,
patient with us because we The Conway plant is one of
announced two years ago, only two Georgia-Pacific
after deciding to install a hardboard plants. The other is
modern emission-limiting at Coos Bay, Ore. Hardboard,
boiler, that the smoke and n composition board made out
fiber problems would soon be of hardwood fiber and fiber
solved. We felt, at the time, bundles with a resin binder, is
the boiler would perform as used primarily by the furniture
efficiently as predicted by the industry.
manfacturer. So far, it hasn’t —
lived up to expectations.” ~~
G-P told the Times-News Peanuts
that it has spent $660,000 on air The crop got off to a good = accordine to the
quality alone in the past two start this year and is about agriculture, according to the
years and more expenditures (wo weeks ahead of last year. g
lay ahead. Still another Stands are excellent. About 92
engineering firm from Atlanta per cent of the crop is rated in
is currently working on the good to excellent condition
fiber fallout problem. and eight per cent in fair
“Our engineers and the condition,
state Air Quality Division Cotton
have agreed upon a November Recent rains and warm
1 date to disconnect the weather has been most
‘Teepee’ burner which will beneficial to North Carolina’s
virtually end smoke cotton crop — crop condition
emissions,” Tice said. He also bas improved steadily. The
said the burner at G-P’s crop is well ahead of last year
Ahoskie sawmill will soon be when unfavorable weather
replaced by a clean-burning stunted plant growth.
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The extension service
funded by the federal, state,
and local governments and is
an arm of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
under which it operates.
TWO STUDENTS IN THE SUMMER MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM
are building a bookend and are being observed by Issac A. Battle, who is in
charge of the federal program in Hertford County. He was there as a part of
The north central district the on-site visiting team and to visit Mrs. Goldie Eley, director of the
employs 125 professional migrant program in Northampton; Mrs. Dora Peele, director of a similar
arfeonSteZra Swide Program in Bertie; and Dan Pratt, consultant for the program from the
basis. Northampton County state department in Raleigh.