THE County TIMES-NEWS
Wol. 82 No. 37
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — ErtabUshed 1892
THURSDAY, Sept. 13, 1973
Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium if if
☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — EstabUahed 1926
lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C.
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Plans For 1973-74 Revenue
Sharing Announced By County
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THIRD TRENCH — A drag line trenches another ditch at the county latidfill
north of Jackson. The 15,000 cubic yard ditch is the largest of the three
trenches dug to date. Landfill employes cover daily refuse deposites at left.
JACKSON — Plans for
expenditure of $547,209 in
revenue sharing funds were
approved yesterday at a
special meeting of the
Northampton County Board of
Commissioners.
The commissioners were
required by the federal
government to file a report on
what the board plans to do
with the money when it is
received. The first quarter
payment of the 1973-74 fiscal
revenue sharing payment is
anticipated Oct. 1.
County Manager Tim Ellen
stated that $411,209 of the total
will be used for capital
expenditures for public
schools, multi-purpose
government, and in the broad
fields of health and economic
development.
The remaining $136,000 will
Gaston Contracts New
Municipal Town Hall
GASTON — A $24,490
contract for construction of a
new Town Hall in Gaston has
been signed, Finance
Commissioner Elton Odom
informed fellow Gaston
commissioners Tuesday
night.
Odom stated that some
errors were detected in the
contract and others were
found in the actual
coiutructiou, but he
landfill and dig another trench
to be used for burying waste.
— Accepted a bid submitted
by Eddie W. Warwick of
Gaston to remove junked
autos from the corporate
limits. Warwick will be
responsible for finding a
suitable place fof the cars he
is authorized to move by the
police chief. His fee is $5 per
vehicle.,
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be used for operation and
maintenance of programs in
public safety, environmental
protection and recreation.
A total of $200,000 is being
reserved for health programs.
Ellen stated the funds could be
used any particular project
that would raise the health
standard of the county. The
funds can be used for Health
Department programs for
health facilities and for
emergency medical services.
He noted that none of the funds
is earmarked for a specific
project at this time, however,
half is for equipment and half
for construction.
Another $100,000 has been
reserved for educational
building programs. Ellen said
the money is strictly for
construction and all projects
must be approved specifically
and must meet all revenue
sharing guidelines before the
county board can approve a
proposal.
Multi-purpose and general
government will have a
$86,209 reserve to draw from,
Ellen said. The money can be
used for such projects as
purchasing equipment for
county offices and renovation
of the courthouse and county
offices.
A total of $25,000 was set
aside for economic
development projects. Ellen
said the funds would be used if
an industry needed to have
water lines extended to a new
plant locating in the county.
In the area of operation and
maintenance, commissioners
chose to allot $36,000 for public
safety for fire departments
and rescue squads.
The county manager noted
that the county’s seven
volunteer fire departments
now receiving an annual
contribution of $1,500 from the
county will be eligible for
$3,000 in additional funds
each, provided the
departments’ requests meet
federal guidelines.
The three rescue squads
serving the county — Rich
Square, Woodland and
Roanoke Valley in Roanoke
Rapids — will be eligible for
$5,000 in additional funds as a
result of yesterday’s action.
Rescue units, too, must apply
for specific funds for specific
projects meeting revenue
sharing guidelines.
Another $50,000 has been
allotted/ to environmental
protection programs such as
the county landfill program.
. The remaining $50,000 is for
recreational purposes with no
specific proposal prepared at
this time.
Rich Square Pays For
Trash Collection Error
conjtructioi^ out lie a^^uieu ;— --4o xeiiitoui stt
the boartTthe agreerft'ent with “‘Cornelius Pmtna'h, provided
Double Fatality Occurs
On 1-95 At County Line
he submits an appropriate
bill, for farm machine parts
and tobacco chemicals
mistakenly taken from his
property by town sanitation
men.
— Failed to act on a request
by James Lyerly that the town
construct a driveway on his
property at Lyerly’s expense.
One board member said the
work would create a drainage
problem for other residents.
Rufus B. Hux and Son
Construction Co. in Roanoke
Rapids is sound.
Construction on the Town
Hall, which will replace a
small frame building on the
same site on Craig Street, is
underway. Sidewalls are up
and cross beams are. to be
installed this week.
The building will contain
about 2,000 square feet and
will house a large meeting
room for the board, a police
chief’s office, mayor’s office,
spacious clerk’s and tax office
and public and private rest
rooms.
Gaston residents have been
paying a 10-cent tax per $100
valuation for the past decade
to build up a reserve fund
making construction possible.
The fund totals over $12,000.
Revenue sharing funds will be
used to cover the remaining
half of the building’s cost.
The town hopes to occupy
the building by mid-fall.
In other action,
commissioners:
— Appointed Mabel Coker,
Clifton Pearson and Ashley
Dixon to the town elections
board and set a $10 filing fee
for mayor and
commissioners.
— Agreed to have Davie
Street, leading to park land
recently acquired by the town,
surveyed by an authorized
surveyor prior to paving the
street.
— Amended an August
motion that called for r-. ur c ^ i r
elimination of all parking on
R^ia Qfroof octuKii.v, ® „„ Woodland was elected
treasurer and elected
New Aging Council's
executives To Meet
RICH SQUARE - A
meeting of the executive
committee of the newly
formed Northampton Council
on Aging will be held Monday
at 1:30 p.m. at the Multi-
Services office in Rich Square.
Objectives of the aging
council will be discussed at
this first meeting of the
executive body that was
elected at an organizational
meeting in Jackson this week.
Rev. Harold Rumfeldt of
Rich Square is chairman of
the council that will attempt to
study the housing, medical
and recreational needs of
Northampton elderly.
Fannie T. Newsome of Rt. l.
Rich Square was elected vice
chairman and John H. Foriest
of Pendleton was chosen
— Gave former Police Chief — Approved the tentative
Charlie Ball notice to remove purchase of a typewriter and
his personal effects from a calculator for the clerk’s
municipal garage to allow office,
room for parking the town
police car.
— Appointed Com-
missioners Danny
Copeland and Odom to study
compensation for the street
superintendent for
supervision of extra summer
empuwes. • ^ . . -
J , , ‘ G A R-Y G — badly charred and were taken
“ .Agreed jfi ^ Northampton County to North Carolina Memorial
drainage pipe on Grant Street recorded its 12th highway Hospital in Chapel Hill for
to prevent further washing of (jeath of the year in a double identification,
the street. fatality Friday one mile south Dr. John Daly, associate
— Referred to town attorney of the Garysburg exit on 1-95. state medical examiner, said
Nick Long of Roanoke Rapids Two teenagers, identified as identification was made
a complaint about livestock in I^iehael Perkins, 18, and
the corporate limits on Duane Ford, 15, both of
the property of C. H. Jordan Hampton, were killed about
on Lawrenceville Road. 3:30 p.m. in the firey wreck.
Town ordinance prohibits Dr. S. J. Cochran of Weldon,
area medical examiner, said
the two died when their station
wagon ran out of control on the
Roanoke River bridge just
yards north of the
Northampton-Halifax county
line. The vehicle burst into
flames and smoke from the
burning wreckage was seen
one-half mile from the scene
of the wreck.
The Gaston Volunteer Fire
Department and the Weldon
he The'rp«nnn«Ihiirt*v of The Fire Department extinguished will be asked to express favor
aging council to coordiante all ‘he fire after which the bodies or opposition to liquor-by-pe-
activities of interest to senior were removed from the drink and for a record $300
citizens. He noted that . a.
attendance at council Both bodies were reportedly issue.
meetings is open to anyone
interested in the elderly.
There are presently no
senior citizens organizations
in Northampton and the aging
council is the first attempt
made here by a non
governmental agency at
tackling the problems of the
county’s aged.
livestock within 200 feet of
dwelling.
would be under the council’s
guidance.
Rumfeldt added that it will
through dental records.
File Friday
Friday is the first day
candidates for municipal
elections can file for office.
Persons seeking offices for
commissioner and mayoral
seats in Northampton towns
may file for election after
noon tomorrow. All filing must
be complete by noon Oct. 12.
No county offices will be
decided in the Nov. 6 election;
however, Northampton voters
the fire after which the bodies or opposition to liquor-by-the-
Hal Tech Gets
Accreditation
RICH SQUARE - The Town
of Rich Square last week paid
one of its taxpayers $218.57 for
picking up the wrong garbage.
Town commissioners voted
to reimburse service station
operator David Wallace on a
complaint by Wallace that
municipal sanitation men
mistakenly discarded a
number of auto parts not
intended for refuse collection.
Wallace presented the town
with a bill.
The sanitation crew
collected trash as usual from
Triangle Service Center.
Refuse was picked up on the
inside of the business, as
requested by Wallace, but
garbage men apparently
ridded the establishment of
more material than was
intended.
The town will no longer offer
inside collection at Triangle
Service, which has since
moved to another to'vn.
Tiie incident piuratiieu u
policy statement by the town
board in the form of a motion
made by Commissioner
James 0. Outland. The town
will no longer be responsible
for any losses or damage to
any property left for refuse
collection.
In other matters, the board:
— Voted to give Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Storey a 10-day
notice that water service to
their house trailer would be
discontinued since they have
not complied with an
agreement made with the
town.
The Storeys were allowed to
park their mobile home in a
residential area on Bryantown
Road with the understanding
in
that construction on a
permanent dwelling would be
Started within six months and
completed in 18 months.
No construction has begun
and the town’s new mobile
home ordinance prohibits
location of house trailers in
non-conforming residential
areas. The ordinance requires
that all mobile
homes be situated
designated trailer parks.
After hearing a discussion of
the situation. Mayor Grace
Lambertson suggested that
immediate action be taken to
cut off water service to the
trailer.
— Discussed door-to-door
solicitations by Jehovah’s
Witnesses, who have not
obtained town solicitation
permits as required by town
ordinance. The town attorney
will b/f consulted in the
matter.
— Voted not to exempt T. C.
Draper Jr. from a late listing
pertalty as requested by
Joyner.
— Agreed to consult Howard
Simmons, operator of The
Patio, concerning noise
reported coming from the
establishment late at night.
Mayor Lambertson stated
that numerous complaints
about the drive-in restaurant
had been filed with the town
and with her personally by
residents in the area.
Miss Lambertson said if the
situation is not improved, the
town wil have to consider a
court order closing the
business after midnight.
— Authorized payment of a
$668 water and sewer
equipment bill.
Fireman's Pension
Plan Initiated
RICH SQUARE —
A fireman’s pension plan was
approved last week by the'
Rich Square Board of
Commissioners.
The board agreed to pay $60
per year per fireman, a figure
totaling $1,200, to initiate the
pension plan set up by the
North Carolina Fireman’s
Association.
The pension plans provides
retirement benefits of $50
monthly for firemen after age
60. The benefits can be drawn
on a prorated scale after age
55.
The town will pay the
insurance for a maximum of
20 years per fireman. The
town has 20 volunteer firemen.
Commissioner Billy Ivey
stated, “I feel it is a very nice
gesture to give this to
volunteer firemen of Rich
Square, who get no
compensation and ask for
nothing in return for their
service.”
For the first year, the funds
will be taken out of the fire and
rescue squad allocation of
$2,896 for the current fiscal
year.
Preacher Takes Post In RR
Supports Clinic
Reid Street to establish one-
hour limited parking i on the
street with a space marked in
front of each dwelling.
Mayor Firman Myrick said
the no parking order was
causing an inconvenience for
people who live on Reid Street.
— Gave street and
sanitation Supt. Chester Vann
the authority to employ a
heavy equipment company to
pack refuse at the town
New Trooper
On Duty
LASKER — Highway
Patrolman Fred Hampton, a
new state trooper assigned to
Northampton, is on the job.
The Currituck County
native, who joined the state
patrol April 1, is filling a
vacancy left following the
transfer of John Lucas of Rich
Square.
members at large are Rev.
Ludy Edwards of Rt. 1,
Woodland and Shirley
Edwards of Potecasi.
Twenty persons attended
the organizational meeting at
the county Agricultural
Building Monday night.
W. R. Collins of the
Governor’s Council on Aging
addressed the group and
encouraged it to get involved
in activities for the aged. He
cited an example of a multi
purpose senior citizens
complex, Pinecrest Manor, in
Henderson.
Pinecrest includes living
quarters for senior citizens, as
well as recreational facilities
and medical treatment
facilities.
Rumfeldt stated that the
Northampton council does not
have a direction and is not
sure the senior citizens
complex discussed for
Henderson is the answer to
Northampton’s needs.
He stated that the council
HALIFAX — Halifax “Needless to say, we are
County Technical Institute, delighted that Halifax Tech
ROANOKE RAPIDS — The serving Halifax, Northampton has received this
Halifax-Northampton Orth- and Warren counties, last recognition.”
opedic Clinic is now under new week received notification of Taylor noted that the school
sponsorship. Dr. Leslie Hoag, full accreditation by the State is not resting with state
■ Board of Education. accreditation. Work is
Of the 57 community underway on receiving the
colleges and technical
institutes in North Carolina,
only 29 are accredited by the
state.
director.
Halifax health
announced today.
The Shaw-May Post No. 38
of the American Legion, based
in Roanoke Rapids, will
replace the March of Dimes as
same distinction from the
Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary
Schools, an association that
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Hampton and his wife, the could construct such a center
former Mollie Griggs of Point accomodate 100 people for
Harbor, and their son, Fred sbout $250,000 with the
Jr., are residing in Lasker. authority borrowing money to
construct the facility which
Dr. Phil Taylor, president of has standards stricter than
Hal Tech, said today, state guidelines. Thirty-three
institutes in the state system
now boast the regional
accreditation.
Taylor, who pointed to the
school’s proposed $1 million
expansion project on a new
100-acre campus on U. S. 158 in
Weldon, added that the
greatest drawback in
attaining the regional
accreditation is the present
inadequate facilities.
The institute is located in a
former motel-restaurant-gas
station complex three miles
north of Halifax on U. S. 301.
Plans are to abandon the
temporary campus over a
five-year period.
Dr. Taylor stated that Dr.
Ben Fountain, president of the
state Department of
Community Colleges, in a
letter to Hal Tech
congratulated the two-year
Midget Footballers
To Organize In RS
RICH SQUARE — There According to Dave Eberle of
will be a meeting in Rich the Scotland Neck Recreation
Square Tuesday night for the Club, the meeting is being
purpose of organizing a sponsored by the Scotland
midget league football team in Neck group which is
the town. attempting to expand the
The meeting will Include midget league now composed
plans for acquiring team of teams from Williamston,
uniforms, coaches, equipment Enfield and Scotland Neck,
and making plans to play
teams from neighboring Eberle said he feels the
towns. interest is in Rich Square and
All boys in grades five and he is sure the town will
six as well as all parents and support the midget league
interested adults are asked to effort.
attend the organizational He encouraged boys and
meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at parents to attend the Tuesday school on its most recent
Rich Square School. meeting. acheivement.
ROANOKE RAPIDS — A
Gaston minister has been
appointed supervisor of the
Roanoke Rapids Union
Mission, mission board
Chairman Marshall Grant of
Garysburg announced
Tuesday.
Rev. Herman Coker, pastor
of the Shiloh, Oak Grove and
Pleasant Hill United
Methodist churches, will
assume his duties in Roanoke
Rapids Oct. 1.
Coker, 55, fills the vacancy
left following the death of the
mission’s first superintendent.
Rev. Carson Blanton.
The mission serves the
needs of the homeless and of
troubled people in Halifax and
Northampton counties.
Rev. Coker and his wife,
Mabel, will reside in the
mission building in uptown
Roanoke Rapids.
Coker is a Fayetteville
native and he was reared in
Mt. Olive. The son of a farmer-
merchant, he graduated from
Piney Grove High School in
Mt. Olive.
He served in the U. S. Navy
for eight years and was
discharged a first class baker.
He was in the bakery business
for 20 years prior to his
entering the ministry in 1968.
Rev. Coker completed
seminary work as a parttime
student at the Duke Universtiy
Divinity School in Durham
and he is presently six hours
away from a BA degree in
religion at North Carolina
Wesleyan College at Rocky
Mount.
Prior to accepting the
charge at two years ago. Rev.
Coker served charges in
Selma and in Turkey, N.C.
Rev. and Mrs. Coker have
six children, all of whom are
now living away from home.
I Mission board Chairman
Grant stated, “I take a great
deal of pleasure in announcing
the appoint of Rev. Coker as
supervisor of the city’s,
mission. The mission has had
trouble finding a man to fit its
special needs, but we feel
Coker is amply qualified, due
to his background and
experience.”
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FORGIVE HIM HIS DEBTS — Joe Mack Davis
has a special place for those brown colored
monthly statements from creditors. He wants the
mailman to sort the legitimate mail for the
legitimate mailbox. What he considers bur
densome correspondence is meant to go the
alternate route he has provided at this roadside
box between Conway and Jackson on U.S. L58.