Vol. 82 No. 34
THE County TIMES-NEWS
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THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — EsubUshed 1892
THURSDAY, Aug. 23, 1973
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September 14
Filing Date
JACKSON — Sept. 14 is the
earliest possible filing date for
candidates in Northampton’s
municipal and county
elections.
R. L. Grant, chairman of the
Northampton County Board of
Elections, noted this week that
registration is currently
underway for the Nov. 6
general election and
announced that books in the
county will close Oct. 8 in
preparation for the election.
Grant stated that
commissioners seats now held
by Jasper Eley of Jackson,
Jack Faison of Seaboard and
W. W. Grant of Gaston will be
at stake in the election as well
as a host of mayoral and town
commissioners’ posts. County
commissioners serve two-
year staggered terms and
most town officials serve
straight two-year terms.
For the first time this year,
the elections board is
Commissioners Discuss
Fulltime Sanitation Employe
.UKii!
FOOTBALL COACHES Dave Davis and Joe Jernigan observe football
managing the ballotting for candidates at Northeast Academy as the boys go through an agility exercise
several municipalities.
Conway, Woodland,
Garysburg, Lasker, Seaboard
and Jackson municipal
elections will be directed by
the county.
Gaston, Rich Square and
Severn will exercise the option
of running their own elections.
All precinct registrars and
judges will be appointed by
Sept. 24, the elections chief
reported.
on the school’s practice field. The team’s first game is at home Sept. 8 with
NEW .Academy.
Northeast Fields First
Football Team At Lasker
JACKSON — County
commissioners this week
discussed the possibility of
employing fulltime men to
supervise the building
inspection operations and the
county sanitation program.
Horace Guthrie, county
building inspector, is
currently shouldering the
responsibility of both
operations.
County Manager Tim Ellen
stated that Guthrie feels a
better job can be done in both
departments if fulltime
supervision is provided.
Commissioners took no
action on the matter. R was
tabled until the September
meeting.
Commission Chairman
Jasper Eley asked Guthrie if
his building inspection job
suffers because of his
responsibilities at the landfill.
on
moving the office of the Clerk
of Court into an expanded
space now occupied by the
Register of Deeds office. The
register of deeds will move
into the old clerk’s office.
The move is necessitated by
cramped conditions in the
clerk’s office, Ellen said.
Guthrie stated that on County Manager Ellen
occasions both operations can proposed internal renovations
be supervised smoothly by one at the courthouse,
man, but, he noted, during The commissioners
periods of breakdowns and instructed Ellen to seek
other unusual circumstances approval of the state courts
at the landfill, the landfill is system prior to proceeding
demanding of the supervisor’s with the plans,
time. Ellen’s plan calls for
Guthrie stated that site
maintenance needs to be
improved at dumpster
locations and an additional
garbage truck is needed, he
added.
In other matters, the board:
—Adopted a resolution
changing the name of the
county Civil Defense
organization to the office of
Civil Prepardness. _ The DURHAM — There preschool children,
change is underway apparently are 595 children Since only 425 children
nationwide. under six years of age in under six actually are enrolled
—Authorized a $300 annual Northampton County who in child-care services, the
salary increa^ for county child-care services but report states, more than 170
Register of Deeds Wilson receiving them. others are:
Bridgers, for serving as jg ^ne of the major uncared for while their
secretary to the commis-g^^ygy rnothers work.
sioners. conducted as part of a cared for in places not
—Heard plans presented by statewide child-care services
N'ampton Child
Services Needed
School Will Open
Next Monday
JACKSON — School kids in
Northampton will get back to
the business of the three R’s
next week as school doors
open to pupils Monday.
County Supt. Roy F. Lowry
states that all students should
report to school for a half-day
session Monday for class
assignments which will be
followed Tuesday by a regular
full day of school.
Teachers, under the state’s
new 10-month school term,
have been at work over a week
ill preparation for the stiideni
influx Monday.
Sept. 3, Labor Day, will be
observed as a school holiday.
Students attending private
school at Northeast Academy
at Lasker should report to
classes Tuesday. Teachers
will report Monday at
Northeast.
LASKER — Northeast
Academy is fielding its first
football team this fall with
seven games on its schedule
and two open dates.
Thirty boys in the school’s
top four grades are
undergoing daily morning
practice sessions under the
direction of Coaches Dave
Davis and Joe Jernigan.
The boys are practicing
from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday
through Friday and next week
night practice sessions will be
added. Coach Davis reports.
The team’s first game is
Sept. 8 with Nash-
Edgecombe-Wilson Academy
at 2 p.m. on a-field adjacent to
the school in Lasker.
Other games scheduled are
with Wilsgnj^lDCistmn School,
Hobgojd Academy, Halifax
Academv and Bertie
Academy, all away games,
and with Enfield Academy
and Albemarle Academy,
home games.
Coach Davis, who
successfully coached the
Viking basketball team to
second place in state
independent school play last Skip Rickey, Neil Vaughan
year, said, “We have a very and Tommy Vaughan are
inexperienced group of young junior candidates,
boys. Their enthusiasm is Sophomores trying out are
tremendous; I couldn’t ask for Kent Kickerson, Charles
a more cooperative Timberlake, Britt Lassiter,
group. Ray Woods, Stevie Rose,
“If desire can help win Drew Carver and Terry
football games, we will have a Co^pedge.
very respectable season,”
Davis speculated. “I don’t
want to make any wild
prediction, but the boys are
enthusiastic.”
Davis played football,
basketball and baseball at
Forest Glenn High School near
Suffolk, Va. He is a graduate
of Elon College and teaches
physical education at
Northeast.
Jernigan, Davis’ assistant,
coached the girls and the J.
basketball teams last season.
He teaches eighth grade.
Seniors going out for the
team are Joey Davis, Pat
Bolton, Jerry Vick, Stuart
Hall and Tommy Massey.
Johnny Sykes, Gary Britt,
Parker Barnes, Ralph
Knowles, Mike Wood, Keith
Dickerson, Moochie Joyner,
Freshmen footballers are
Johnny Brown, Keith Britt, L.
K. Burnette, Ricky Collier,
Bentley Stephenson, Paul
Harrell, Edward Barnes and
Perry Martin.
The team will play all home
games at 2 p.m. on an
unlighted field behind the
school. The school’s booster
club is preparing the field
surface for marking and is
attempting to locate bleachers
for the-field.',
POTECASl POST
MASTER — Aubrey S.
Vinson of Conway was
sworn in Friday as the
new postmaster for
Potecasi. This is his
firsi appoi.“iment.
Health Board
Approves Landfill
JACKSON — The Sanitary
Division of the North Carolina
State Board of Health has
again given its stamp of
approval on the operation and
procedures employed at the
county sanitary landfill north
of here.
County Manager Tim Ellen
reported Wednesday that for
the second time in less than a
month the landfill has been
evaluated by the state and
found to be operating
according to state health and
environmental laws.
Ellen noted that the checks
are routine and unannounced.
The report came two days
assessment by the Learning
Institute of North Carolina
(LINO, Durham.
The county survey was
coordinated by Mrs. Goldie
Eley of Northampton County,
chairman, with the assistance
of Mrs. Doris L. Stephenson.
Reports for each county are
being issued by LINC as they
are completed, and a state
report will be published in
November.
The survey covered day
care centers, day-care homes,
nursery schools, and
kindergartens. A total of 425
children under six in the
county are enrolled in these
services, the survey report
indicates.
Eleven of the 13 child-care
services identified were
selected for the survey. Totals
in the county report, however.
on the heels of discussion by are projections for all known
county commissioners on child-care services.
possible changes in
sup^fyision and management
oi t.ie sa’iiilation operation.
BNCs Top Woman Officer
Named Seaboard Manager
Man Handed Probation
In Assault Case
SEABOARD — Miss
Elizabeth Harris, vice
president and highest ranking
woman executive of Bank of
North Carolina, N.A., has
been named manager of the
Seaboard office replacing
Bobby Jeffords who has
become loan officer for BNC
in Wilmington.
In announcing Miss Harris’s
appointment, BNC President
J. Hugh Rich also announced
that Jerry E. Gardner has
transferred from the bank’s
Lillington Office to become
assistant to the manager at
Seaboard.
Miss Harris began her
banking career in 1944 when
the bank was known as the
Farmers Bank of Seaboard. In
1953, after the death of her
father who was a founder and
then president of the bank,
she was named executive vice
president. She held that
position until the bank merged
with Bank of North Carolina,
N.A. in October 1972.
Through the years Miss
Harris has gained extensive
experience in every phase of
banking — and she still enjoys
waiting on customers at the
teller window.
“My work is gratifying. I
have watched our bank grow
with emphasis on serving the
customer, as was the goal of
the founders of this bank,” she
said.
Her advice to women
considering a banking career:
“Equip yourself with the best
possible education and
cultivate an expertise in the
public relations field. A
banker must communicate
well with the public as well as
with the employees,” she
added.
Jerry Gardner brings
varied experience to his
position as assistant to the
manager. He has been
assigned to BNC offices in
Dunn and Lillington where he
Jerry E. Gardner
Elizabeth Harris
JACKSON — A Garysburg
man was handed a
probationary judgment in an
assault with a deadly weapon
case heard yesterday by
Judge Joseph D. Blythe.
David Clark pleaded not
guilty to the felonious assault
charge and was convicted and
handed 90 days suspended and
fined $50 and costs.
He was placed on probation
for a year and was ordered to
pay $300 in restitutions to Tom
Alston of Garysburg, the
injured victim.
Alston pleaded not guilty to
assault with a deadly weapon
and he was acquitted.
Other cases heard
Wednesday and their
dispositions:
Elmer Vinson Lassiter of
Jackson had a former
suspended sentence envoked
for a probation violation.
Morris Turner of Rt. 1,
Garysburg had charges of
transporting liquor with a
broken seal and speeding 65 in
a 55 zone nol pressed with
leave.
Ned Parker of Seaboard was
found not guilty of a trespass
violation.
Junie Jim Lee of Garysburg
was active in the Jaycees and Gardner attended
the Lillington Improvement Campbell College and served had a charge of assault by
Council. Originally from New two years in the U. S. Army, pointing a gun nol prossed
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W.4TERMELONS FOR SALE — it’s not the biggest or the newest business
venture in Northampton County. It’s just one of the oldest and one of the
friendliest.
with leave.
Carolyn Hill Barbour of
Raleigh had no probable cause
found in a manslaughter
charge filed against her
following the death of Mildred
E. Caudle near Rich Square
July 15. She was taxed with
court costs for driving left of
center.
Richard Douglas Bennett of
Roanoke Rapids was handed
prayer for judgment
continued on costs for
speeding 70 in a 55 zone.
Thomas Fields of
Garysburg was fined $10 and
costs for speeding 70 in a 55
zone.
Ronald Sessoms of
Garysburg was acquitted of
assault and threat charges.
Elizabeth Quay of Gaston
was found not guilty of assault
with a deadly weapon
charges.
Lee Otis Artis of Milwaukee
was taxed with court costs for
assault on a female.
Claude DeLoatch of
Pendleton was fined $25 and
costs for assault on a female.
In a companion case, James
Parker of Pendleton was
handed 90 days suspended on a
$25 fine and costs and $65 in
restitutions.
Hugo Moore Jr. of Gaston,
charged with assault on a
female, had the case nol
prossed with leave. Ida Hall of
Roanoke Rapids, in a
companion case, had a charge
of assault with a deadly
weapon nol prossed with
REMCO Business
Meeting Set
For Saturday
RICH SQUARE — Scores of
co-op members of the Roanoke
Electric Membership
Corporation (REMCO) will
convene at the arena here
Saturday for the 34th annual
business meeting.
Three directors will be
elected to the corporation’s 11-
man board during the
business session Saturday.
The meeting begins with a
barbeque dinner at noon
which will be followed by
entertainment and the
business session.
leave.
Willie Lee Harris of Rich
Square was handed six
months suspended on $25
weekly support in a
nonsupport case.
Charlie Weaver of
Garysburg had frivolous
prosecution declared in an
assault on a female case.
Gloria Weaver was taxed with
costs.
Teacher
Named
GUMBERRY - A
distributive education teacher
at Gumberry High School has
been apointed to the State
Advisory Council on
Vocational Education.
Robert L. Moore of Rich
Square was notified by the
office of Gov. Jim Holshouser
last week of the appointment.
The 12-member board
serves at the pleasure of the
governor rather than for
established fixed terms.
The council will render
advice to the governor
concerning the vocational
aspect of public education as it
relates to matters of statewide
importance.
Moore, 64, has made public
education a lifelong career.
He has taught at Severn
Elementary School, Willie
Hare School and at Creecy
High School and he was
principal of the old Garysburg
Elementary School before it
closed.
Moore has also spent time
working in the federal ESEA
office in Jackson. He has been
at Gumberry for the past
three years.
He is a Mason and Elk and an
member of the National
Education Association, the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People and the North Carolina
Vocational Education
Association.
He received his B. S. in
The LINC report indicates
that there are 2,388 children
five years of age or younger in
the county, and 458 women in
the labor force with children
under six.
U. S. Census information
shows that the average North
Carolina woman in the labor
force with a preschool child,
or children, has 1.3 children
under six. Therefore, LINC
estimates that the 458 women
in the labor force with children
under six have a total of 595
Conway Well
Contracted
CONWAY — A well that will
greatly improve Conway’s
water supply has been
contracted by the town. Mayor
Grady Martin announced
today.
The well, engineered to
produce 1,000 gallons of water
per minute, will be the fourth
well maintained by the town.
The combined capacity of the
municipality’s existing wells is
1,400 gallons per minute.
Mayor Martin stated that a
contract has been awarded a
Smithfield, Va., drilling
company and work on the
project is scheduled to begin
as soon as equipment is
delivered to the site.
“Tests have been run and
the water is there,” the mayor
stated. The well site is located
on a street that runs by the
town’s mobile home park.
Mayor Martin said the town
anticipates completion of the
412-foot well by October.
He stated that the method of
financing the water expansion
project has not been finalized.
The town has not ruled out use
of federal revenue sharing
money for the project, Martin
said.
known to the volunteers in the
county who helped identify
child-care services.
left with relatives
during the day.
cared for by their
mothers because there is no
place to enroll the children —
though the mothers are trained
for employment.
The number of children
needing child-care services is
greater than 170, the report
notes, because all of the child
care services enroll children
whose mothers do not work.
Other highlights of the
report:
All of the child-care
services report that they
provide comprehensive care
(health, educational, or social
services in addition to safety
and food), and most use
services provided by the
county departments of social
services, mental health, and
public health.
Zero per cent of the
child-care .scvices have a
waiting list because they are
at maximum capacity.
Sixty-seven per cent of
the services reporting costs
indicate they rely on fees from
parents. Also, 67 percent
receive some financial
support from government
purchase of child-care, zero
per cent from churches, and
zero per cent from industry.
The LINC survey, first of its
kind in the nation, was
conducted with the help of
more than 600 unpaid
volunteers across the state.
Sponsored by grants from
the Mary Reynolds Babcock
and Z. Smith Reynolds
foundations, the survey will
provide information that can
be used to expand and
improve child-care services.
CADA
Meeting
Cancelled
MURFREESBORO — The
regularly scheduled meeting
of the Choanoke Area
Development Association
(CADA) Board of Directors
Tuesday evening was
postponed because of a large
number of board members
being out of town it was
reported Wednesday.
According to Jim Barnett,
CADA Associate Director, the
majority of the board
members were out of the area
for numerous reasons.
Board President Mrs. Doris
Cochran is expected to
announce shortly the new
meeting date and time.
Roanoke Rapids Man
Killed Near Gaston
GASTON — A Roanoke
Rapids man became
Northampton’s ninth fatality
when he sustained fatal
injuries following a
motorcycle accident Sunday.
Julian Grant Lashley, 38,
was pronounced dead on
arrival at Halifax Memorial
Hospital following injuries
sustained in a car and
motorcycle accident Sunday
business administration from
earned his masters in
education and history at North
Carolina Central University in
Durham.
According to Trooper B. W.
Corey of the Highway Patrol,
Lashley was operating a 1970
Honda and was traveling with
companion Theodore Porch of
Garysburg on a 1972 Honda on
NC 46, over 1-95, three miles
east of Gaston.
Corey stated his
investigation indicated
Lashley lost control of his
motorcycle and ran into the
rear of the motorcycle
operated by Porch and
Lashley fell into the path of an
oncoming 1968 Plymouth
operated by Daniel Epps of
Emporia.
The Epps car was unable to
avoid striking Lashley.
No charges were filed by the
Highway Patrol.