THE County TIMES-NEWS
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Wol. 82 No. 39
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892
THURSDAY, Sept. 27, 1973
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☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — EstabUshed 1926
10c Per Copy Rich Square, N. C.
6 Sections
112 Pages
Gaston Without Gas
Wilbert Gamer, owner of Gaston
Produce in Gaston, gestures
towards one of the signs he has
posted on his gas tanks at his station
at NC 46 and NC 48. A few miles to
the east weeds are taking over a
former self-service gas station that
was forced to close due to the gas
shortage.
Fourteen File
Filing Activity Picks
Up In County Towns
N'ampton Towns To Get
$81,391 In Powell Funds
RALEIGH — Northampton based on 8.41 miles of non-
County municipalities will state streets and a population
receive $81,391.23 in Powell of 1,280, some 26 less than in
Bill funds, the state 1970.
Department of Transportation geaboard will get $8,857.13
announced this week. ^ population of 610
and 4.3 miles of non-state
share are based on the latest ,,,reefs The town’s 1970
population estimates and on towns 1970
non-state street mileage iii the P®P'^^adion counted only one
® more Conway resident.
Conway with an estimated
-700 o!.,, basod 00 B populotion of 360
population of 700, six more 3.25 miles of non-state
streets. The town has grown
by four persons since the last
census.
and which is built and
maintained by the
municipality.
Of the total allocation, 75 per
cent is proportioned among
the towns on the basis of
relative population and 25 per
cent on the basis of relative
non-state system local street
mileage.
Eacii muHicipaliiy funnsiits
its own certified mileage and
populations are the most
recent annual estimates as
certified by the Secretary of
the North Carolina
Department of
Administration.
In prior years the latest
federal dens’-s figures have
beep u.!f*d in computing
Po'.-'c'': Tei'.i ■■.hct'.'tict’':.
JACKSON — Fourteen
candidates have filed for
election in county municipal
political races in
Northampton.
According to Barbara Jean
Wheeler of the elections office
in Jackson, Dr. John Stanley,
incumbent mayor of
Woodland, paid his $5 filing
fee and is again seeking the
seat he has held for several
years.
Incumbents W. C. Reece
and John G. Outland have
entered the commissioners’
race.
Filing activity has been
heaviest in Garysburg, which
is having its first town election
in the municipalitie’s history.
Joining Stanley Davis Sr.,
who filed last week for
commissioner, are W. N.
(Smokey) Hughes and
Wendell Perry.
Incumbent Mayor W. E.
Conwell, who in the past has
been appointed by the General
Assembly, is seeking the
mayoral post.
Former Jackson mayor and
former county Health
Department employee Floyd
W. Price has filed for the top
seat in Jackson.
Other election activity in the
county seat saw J. D. Carver,
a Jackson grocer, enter the
commissioners’ race with the
already declared first woman
candidate Jerri G. Boone.
Funeral operator Joe
Gordon, who has served six
years on the Rich Square town
board, is seeking his fourth
two-year term. No other
filings were reported in the
county’s largest municipality.
Candidate Melvin Broadnax
in Seaboard was joined in the
commissioners race by
political facob l>;id V.
tVbd.v' rnrBfPhev!
L. Wilson.
No candidates had filed late
Wednesday in Gaston or
Severn, which are running
their elections independent of
the county, as is Rich Square.
Persons wishing to file for
office have until noon Oct. 12.
Filing fees for mayoral and
commissioner races are $10 in
Gaston and Rich Square and
$5 in the other towns.
Registration is continuing
on a fulltime basis until Oct. 8
when books will be closed in
preparation for the Nov. 6
general election.
There are no county officials
up for election this year;
however, Northampton voters
will be voicing favor or
opposition to a $300 million
school bond issue, to a multi
million dollar clean water
bond issue and to liquor-by-
the-drink legislation.
Prospective voters 18-years-
old or older not registered
may do so from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday, Wednesday and
Friday in Jackson or at
registrars in the
municipalities.
Conway Plant Handed
Nov. Pollution Deadline
CONWAY — The Conway
Georgia-Pacific plant has
been given a Nov. 1 deadline
on cleaning up air pollution
problems that exist at the
plant here.
According to Gary Fore,
chief engineer of the Division
of Air Quality Control of the
state Office of Water and Air
Resources, a conical or cone-
shaped burner at the plant
must be retired from service
by Nov. 1.
Fore said the company,
which has in the past always
complied with state pollution
restriction deadlines, in
constructing a quench-take
facility to quench wood
particle fires in the process
and eliminate the conical
burner.
Fore said, though not
desirable, the conical burner
is better than open burning of
refuse. He said 50 of the cone
like burners exist in the state
now and all will eventually
be phased out.
Fore stated that Georgia-
Pacific is also having
problems with its boiler which
utilizes wood waste. The
company has until Nov. 1 to
reconstruct the boiler.
Fore said he had met with
company officials in Conway
and discussed the problems.
G'burg Store Ginnot
Accept Food Stamps
than in 1970, and 3.61 miles of
non-state streets will receive
$9,251.11.
Gaston will get $17,209.38
based on 9.83 miles of streets
and a population of 1,080, some
25 less than in 1970.
A total of $11,140.43 will be
appropriated to Woodland
based on the town’s population
The county seat will receive of 770 and 5.37 miles of non
Jackson Bloodmobile
Visit Set Wednesday
$10,010 in Powell Bill funds.
The allocation for Jackson is
based on total street mileage
of 3.87 and a population of 760,
only two more than at the last
census count.
Lasker with .97 miles of
streets and 110 inhabitants
will get $1,731.31. Lasker’s
population in 1970 was 114.
Rich Square will get the
highest amount of any of the
county’s municipalities at
$18,163. The allocation is
state streets. The town’s 1970
population was 744.
The 1973 allocation of $29.2
million more than the amount
distributed statewide' last
year.
State law provides that one
cent of the State’s nine cents
ptir gallon gasoline tax be
distributed to state
municipalities on a basis of
population and street mileage
within their boundaries, which
is not part of the state system
JACKSON — The Tidewater country that accepts Red
Regional Bloodmobile visit to Cross blood.
Jackson Wednesday will There is no charge for the
Outland Again Heads
County Republicans
JACKSON — W. T. Outland Outland Jr. and Sandra
of Woodland Saturday was Barnes of Woodland and
elected chairman of the Glenn Pritchard of Seaboard.
Northampton County
honor Mildred Joyner.
The bloodmobile, sponsored
by the Red Cross, has a quota
goal of 80 pints. It will set up
from noon to 5 p.m.
Wednesday at the Jackson
Lions Building.
According to Joe D.
McLean, Jackson blood
program chairman. Miss
Joyner is one of many persons
in the county who has recently
received blood from the
Tidewater Red Cross Blood
Center in NoftSlk.
A Jackson resident. Miss
blood when used, but a charge
is made for drawing,
processing, cross-matching
and administrating the blood,
McLean stated.
GARYSBURG — A store
here has been taken off the
food stamp participation
program for a year for
violation of federal
’egulaMiins.
Moody s Grocery, owned by
Sam P. Moody, has been
disqualified as of Sept. 11 for
selling ineligible items with U.
S. Department of Agriculture
food coupons.
The announcement was
made today by USDA’s Food
and Nutrition Service.
Shepherd L. Schulz, in
charge of the Raleigh field
office of the food service,
explained that the store will
not be allowed to accept food
stamps during
disqualification period.
The Garysburg store is the
second Northampton
establishment to be removed
from the program in six
weeks. D. A Clarke G'’'eerv
south of Ri .’h Square was
suspended for six months for a
similar regulation violation.
Food coupons, by law, can
be used only to purchase
certain food items.
The stores may reapply for
food stamp qualification at the
end of the penalty periods.
Diset'nlific" frr'.T. th.'
program is not a criminal
offense and no warrant will be
filed against either of the
Northampton stores. ,
Attorney Advisor
Named For Region L
ROCKY MOUNT
Rep. Revelle
ECU Medical
Supports
School
MILWAUKEE —
Northampton State Rep. J.
Guy Revelle this week in an
Republican Party.
Outland has served as party
chairman for the past 29
years.
Russell Johnson Jr.,
Conway attorney, was elected
secretary of the county party
at the annual Republican
County Convention.
Outland and Johnson will
represent the county at the
district and state conventions.
Other Northampton GOP
delegates elected Saturday,
who will also represent the
county at district and state
conventions, are Nickey
Martin and Sarah Francis
Martin, both of Conway, John
W. T. Outland
Lake Homes Vandalized
LAKE GASTON -
Northampton County sheriff’s
deputies are investigating five
incidents of vandalism and
larceny at Lake Gaston.
Deputy 0. B. Johnson of
Gaston said the break-ins
occurred in mid-September
and a number of small
appliances were stolen from
lake homes and cottages.
A portable television, radio
and tape player are missing
from a mobile home at Indian
Rock owned by Sonny Warren
of Weldon.
Another portable TV was
taken from the C. B. Harding
cottage at Little Emporia.
Moody at Chestnut Hills was
entered and a TV and radio
were taken.
A portable TV and radio was
stolen from the William
Robinson cottage at Crescent
Beach. Robinson is of
Petersburg.
A mobile home owned by
Frank Allen Jr. at Little
Emporia was vandalized and
two pairs of skis, two
motorcycle helmets and a
tape player were taken.
Deputy Johnson asks that
persons with knowledge of the
break-ins contact the
Northampton Sheriff’s
Department or any law
Joyner has worked for several interview lent full support for
years as secretary to the a four-year medical school at
Home Economi9s Division of East Carolina University in
the Northampton County Greenville.
Agricultural Extension His statement follows a
Service. report reviewed by the
“She is well known for her University of North Carolma
devoted service, especially in of Trustees earlier this
the county 4-H work^ McLean recommended no
stated further expansion of the
Miss Joyner, who has been program at
on sick leave for a number of u t . j u r 1.
months, has received a , Rf who stated he felt
number of units of blood in the four-year program should
recent weeks and has ^
expressed gratitude for the
blood program and for blood f
donors who have provided
School. He noted that the
“It is hoped that Jackson
area residents and others will ^
honor Mildred Joyner and *100-*150 million.
help others who need blood by The freshman legislator
giving a pint of blood,” the said he is concerned about the
chairman stated. lack of general practitioners
' He noted that persons 18-66
ar, eligible l» Sonata blood STlo "
and persons over 66 may do so ^ ... f-„i ^ „
with a doctor’s permission. nJorf L r • i’’®
Donors must weigh at least “J® if," ‘‘i
110 and have no liistory of better of
hepatitis, malaria or heart
disease. There must have had .
student.” “Northampton County
Revelle estimated it would needs more doctors than any
take $20 million to beef the place in the world,” said the
ECU program up to two years representative,
from its present one. “We’ve got the money. What
The General Assembly has better use could we put it to
already reserved $7 million than an expanded medical
for a new or expanded medical school at Greenville?” he
school.
asked.
A
its Tarboro lawyer has been
selected as legal counsel for
Northampton, Halifax, Nash,
Edgecombe and Wilson
County law enforcement
agencies.
The announcement was
made Wednesday by Bill
Howell, executive director of
Region L Council of
Governments (COG).
T. Perry Jenkins, who holds
a juris doctor from the
University of South Carolina,
will begin his duties as legal
advisor Monday.
His office will be in the
Municipal Building Annex at
Rocky Mount, the seat of COG
offices.
The lawyer’s duties will
consist primarily of assisting
and advising all sheriff anc
police departments in Region
L in matters relating to
criminal law and court
procedure. He will also seek
to establish and coordinate
training programs to keep
officers abreast of legislative
changes affecting law
enforcement.
According to Howell, former
Northampton economic
development director, most
metropolitan law enforcement
agencies have a fulltime legal
advisor assigned to their
departments. The agencies in
Region L normally cannot
afford a fulltime legal advisor,
so the regional legal advisor
approach is being
implemented, Howell stated.
no
serious
Revelle said the state has no
transfusions or pregnancy in [^h'e"'excSn^of tp’s
thp last siY mnnths anrf no exception Ot G. P. S.
surgery.
He noted the state cannot be
assured of an influx of doctors
to rural sections if the school
granted to ECU, but he
IS
A trailer owned by John C. enforcement agency.
the last six months and no
exposure to hepatitis within
six months.
A prospective donor should
have no skin infection, serious
infection or cold, he should not explained that it is at least an
have had a tooth extracted in attempt at solving the
the previous three days and problem of the rural doctor
have taken no antibiotic drugs shortage,
in the previous two weeks.
The Northampton Red Cross Revelle also made a pitch
Chapter is a participating for the B-student. “The field of
member of the Tidewater Red A-students is well covered.
Cross Blood Program. “A student has aLnost to be
Through the participation all the son of a doctor to get into
blood needs in the area will be med school now. There is
met by any hospital in the room for the average
GOLDEN HONORS — Robert C. Pugh (left) of
New Bern, past grand master of the Grand Lodge
of North Carolina, presents 50-year membership
certificates to Judge Ballard S. Gay and former
Judge Eric Norfleet, both of Jackson, as the
Masons’ wives look on. A dinner honoring the two
members of the Jackson lodge was held Wed
nesday night at the Jackson Lions Clubhouse.
Pugh was guest speaker.