THE County TIMES-NEWS
Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium
Vol. 82 No. 44
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892
THURSDAY, Nov. 1, 1973
☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C.
16 Pages
Nine Municipal Elections Set Same Day
County Voters To Voice Opinions
On Three Statewide Issues Tuesday
Balloting in Tuesday’s general election will
determine how Northamptonians stand on school
and clean water bonds and on liquor-by-the-drink.
Municipal voters will elect nme mayors and 38
town commissioners the same day.
Polling places in the county will open at 6:30
a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
Voting machines will not be Former Mayor Grace
Seeking the five seats on the the three town board seats in
commission in Garysburg are Seaboard.
W. W. Hughes, Arthur Lee In Lasker incumbent Robert
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COMING DOWN — Willie Duke, general plant manager, of Georgia-Pacific
in Conway gestures towards the plant’s tee pee or conical waste burner that
has been the source of a pollution problem at the plant. The burner will be
replaced eventually with a modern boiler that will be fired from the plant’s
waste matter. In the interim the plant will operate a sanitary landfill to
handle the solid waste.
Controversial Burner Dismantled
Georgia-Pacific Meets
Anti-Pollution Deadline
CONWAY — The Conway
plant of Georgia-Pacific Corp.
has met the Nov. 1 deadline on
eliminating an air pollution
problem at the plant.
Willie Duke, plant manager,
announced Wednesday that
the conical or tee-pee burner
that was .ifdered ;loEc-d by
today was used for the last
time at 4 p.m, Tuesday.
Crewmen from Howell
Metal Works in Murfreesboro
began dismantling the
structure Wednesday and the
project was one-third
complete late in the day.
The Division of Air Quality
Control of the state Office of
Water and Air Resources
over a month ago ordered the
cone-shaped waste burner be
retired from service by today.
All conical burners across
the state are being phased out
of operation.
Duke stated that the
company has opened a
sanitary landfill southeast of
the plant and it will be daily
burying solid waste that
heretofore has been burned in
the tee-pee.
The landfill, however, will
only be a temporary solution
to the plant’s problem, Duke
stated. The' company is
working in consultation with
four experts on developing a
nev' iKhier thr.t would be fired
by the waste that ig now being
buried.
Rich Good, public relations
director for the southeast G-P
region, stated the company
has perfected the boiler at
other plants, but problems
have developed at the
hardwood plant in Conway. He
noted that the type waste
being burned in the boiler is
the source of the problem. He
is confident the problem can
be ironed out and the boiler,
which has already- been
constructed, be put to use in
Conway.
“We do not know what to
expect from the new boiler,”
Good said. “To date we cannot
predict the effects on the
effluent.”
The plant, which operates
around the clock seven days a
week, has been subjected to
criticism from Conway
residents who complained of
the emission from the burner.
Duke said the company “is
one step toward completing
utilized in Northampton for
this election since there are
only three statewide issues on
the ballot — the $300 million
school bond issue, liquor-by-
the-drink option and an
amendment to the Clean
Water Bond Act of 1971.
Town Elections
Municipal elections are
being held for the first time
this year in conjunctiori with
the general election by decree
of the state General
Assembly.
The only mayoral races in
the county are in Garysburg,
which is holding the first town
election in its history, and in
Jackson.
Incumbent Garysburg
Mayor W. E. Conwell is being
challenged by political
newcomer William L.
Thompson. Jackson’s
incumbent Charlie Bass is
faced with opposition from
Hoyt Giles.
Incumbents are running
without opposition in Gaston,
Conway, Seaboard, Woodland
and Lasker. The respective
mayors are Firman Myrick,
Grady Martin, H. M.
Eastwood, John Stanley and
Harry Johnson.
Incumbent Mayor R. D.
Johnson did not file for
reelection in Severn and
neither did anyone else. That
seat will be determined by
write-in.
Lambertson resigned recently
to run for a commissioners’
seat and acting mayor is Joe
Gordon, who, too, is running
for reelection to the town
board.
Others running for
commissioner in Rich Square
are former Mayor Charles
Myers, Dr. Julian Hall
Edwards, Doug Draffin,
Claudie Lassiter, John Bowen
III, Joseph Majette, Catherine
Bolton and David Wallace.
Five of the 10 will be elected
in Rich Square. Five
commissioners will also be
chosen in Conway, Gaston,
Severn and Garysburg. Four
will be elected in Woodland
and three each in Jackson,
Seaboard and Lasker.
Vying for commission seats
in Conway are incumbents
William M. Garris, James G.
Taylor, William D. Johnson
and Sidney M. Edwards. They
are opposed by J. Raynor
Woodard, B. Hailie Bridgers,
W. Jennings (Bill) Lassiter,
Leo W. Barnes and L. G. Britt
Jr.
In Gaston present board
members Danny Copeland, M.
C. Dunlow and Cirven S.
Burnette are running for
office again while newcomers
there are Annette Claiborne,
James David Allen and
Ronnie Owens.
The full slate of incumbents
is unopposed in Severn. They
Best Sr., Stanley Davis Jr.,
Wendell Perry and T. G.
(Sonny Boy) Joyner.
In Woodland eight are
running for the four seats.
Those in the race are Aubrey
R. Smith, Kimsey King, W. C.
Reese, Mrs. James E. Lee, E.
E. Bowen, John G. Hunsinger,
Thomas E. Whitley and Sam
Lassiter.
Four are going after three
seats on the board in the
county seat. They are
incumbents Jimmy Wood
Boone and J. S. Cocke and
newcomers Jeri. Gay Boone
and J. D. Carver.
Melvin F. Broadnax, Reid
V. Harris II, Robert L. Wilson,
I. B. White, S. Y. Daniel and
W. T. Briscoe are running for
Collier is joined by Edward
Lane, Milton C. Odom and J.
V. Wade in the commission
race. One will be eliminated.
Polling Places
There are 11,433 eligible
voters in the county, but a
meager turnout is expected by
election officials due to lack of
interest in the three major
state issues.
Polling places are as
follows; Jackson, courthouse;
Rehobeth, community
building; Lasker, Smith’s
Shop; Creeksville, Lassiter’s
Store; Galatia, Piland’s
Store; Severn, fire house;
Pendleton, Stephenson’s
Store; Conway, school gym;
Milwaukee, community
building; Newtown, Parker’s
Store; Potecasi, Jenkins’
Store; Woodland, armory;
Rich Square, community
building; Gaston, high school
lobby; Seaboard, Town Hall;
Pleasant Hill, Little’s Store;
and Garysburg, school gym.
The county is conducting all
municipal elections with the
exception of those in Severn,
Rich Square and Gaston.
Voters in Rich Square must
vote for town officials at City
Hall and the county issues will
be voted on at the county
polling place. In Gaston, the
municipal election will be
handled at Town Hall.
All races in Northampton
are non-partisan.
Voting will be on printed
ballots and separate ballot
boxes will be provided for
each ballot.
Seaboard Store Taken
Off Stamp Program
SEABOARD — A
Northampton grocery store —
The Rich Square mayoral are commissioners Ralph W.
race is uncontested with Britt, Richard McGee, M. E.
Commissioner Jimmy Lassiter, J. R. Railey and
Outl:.T>d « ;ek;ng that p.... t, Hu^o Um«lead
Woodland Youth Dies
In Wake County Wreck
disqualification period. produce food. Shepherd
^ With the exception of garden added, food stamps, by law,
Broadnax Brothers Store of seed and plants to be used to can be used only to buy food.
Seaboard — has been
disqualified from the federal
food stamp program for
violations, the U. S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS) reports.
The store, which is owned by
Melvin F. Broadnax, was
disqualified for one year,
starting Oct. 21, after being
charged with selling ineligible
items for USDA food coupons.
Among the items were
cigarettes and other tobacco
products, paper products,
clcaniTi" products and insect
spray.
Shepherd L. Schulz, in
Postmaster A t
Conway Dies
CONWAY — The funeral for
Conway Postmaster J. Ivey
Bridgers, who died Monday at
his home was held Tuesday.
Bridgers, former
Northampton County auditor
and tax supervisor; w»r«4.
Bridgers has served as
1. - rr- postmaster at the Conway
charge of the Raleigh office of post office for over 13 years
the Food and Nutrition Bridgers
Service, explained that the
store will not be allowed to
accept food coupons during its June 1959
was county
accountant and lax supervisor
from August of 1953 and until
WENDELL — A Rt. 1, Timberlake was a student at
Woodland youth was killed in Atlantic Christian College in
a truck-car collision on US 64 Wilson and was believed to be
bypass here early Tuesday, traveling from Chapel Hill to
William L. Timberlake died Wilson when the accident
as the result of injuries occured.
sustained in the 12:30 a.m. The car, the driver of which
not yet been determined
Timberlake s companion, jjy the Highway Patrol, was
Clinton W. Holloway, 18, of apparently headed east on the
Jarrett, was admitted to Wake wrong side of the road when
Memorial Hospital where he is
listed in fair condition.
it was struck by the truck.
The collision occurred just
east of Hepzibah Church.
The truck was carrying
46,000 pounds of cabbage and
was operated by George
Taylor of Orland, Fla.
Trooper J. E. Broughton,
investigating officer, said he
put out a fire in the car before
Wendell Rescue Squad
arrived to free Holloway from
the wreckage.
No charges were filed in the
accident.
The funeral for the victim
was held Thursday at 11 a.m.
at Woodland Baptist Church.
Burial was at Cedar Lawn
Cemetery.
Surviving are his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Timberlake Jr., and three
brothers, E. L. Ill, Charles
Brown, and John Franklin
Timberlake, all of Woodland.
He three times ran for the
office of clerk of superior
court but was never elected to
the post.
A World War II Veteran, he
was active in the Red Cross
blood program in the county.
In addition he was active in
the Rotary Club, the Riritan
Club, the Masonic Lodge of
Pendleton and he served as
secretary of the Conway Little
League. He was a member of
Zion Methodist Church.
J, Ivey Bridgers
Gilbert S. Sauls of Conway is
officer in charge at the Post
Office until a new postmaster
is named.
Randy Burnette
Gaston and Garysburg, those two sister
towns that respectively stare Roanoke Rapids
and Weldon right square in the face on the
opposite side of the Roanoke, may in the
future be part of a single municipality formed
from the consolidation of the four
governmental units.
The Town of Weldon is having a great deal
of difficulty with federal environmental
people concerning a current annexation
proposal. Out of talks with federal
representatives, Weldon officials were
informed that the government is thinking in
terms of at least a single water and sewer
district serving the four towns.
Gaston boasts at three-year-old municipal
water supply and Garysburg is in the process
of expanding its water district. Weldon
provides for its own water and sewer and
Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District serves all
of Roanoke Rapids and some outlying areas
of that city.
The government is interested in
conducting a study which would weigh the
pros and cons of merging all the water and
sewer works into a single unit, creating a
regional sanitary district serving the four
towns and, no doubt, blazing the trail for
eventual consolidation of the governmental
units as well.
Baptist Association, has his grave marked by
a state marker on N.C. 308 near the Bertie line
and Col. George V. Holloman, a pioneer in
developing automatic devices for airplane
control, is remembered in a marker on U.S.
258 in Rich Square.
Two markers briefing the significance of
the Roanoke are located on U.S. 258 and on
U.S. 301 where the roadways cross the
historic river.
Boone’s Mill near Jackson is also the
subject of a historic marker. It was the site of
a famed Civil War battle.
Henry K. Burgwyn, “boy colonel” of the
26th State Regiment, killed at the Battle of
Gettsburg, is remembered in a special
marker on US 158 west of Jackson.
A great deal of history is kept alive by the
state highway markers which bridge the time
span between then and now.
Gaston 4-H'er Takes State Award
CADA Seeks
Nominations
GASTON — Winner of state
competition in the National
Junior Horticulture
Association Experimental
Horticulture project is Randy
Burnette of Gaston.
Randy, a Northeast
Academy sophomore, is son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Burnette of
Gaston.
By virtue of winning on the
state level, he will represent
North Carolina in southeast
regional competition in
Oklahoma City this weekend.
MURFREESBORO —
Meetings for the nomination of
electors to select
p.m.; Garysburg —
Community Building, 6:00-
9:00 p.m.; Occ. Neck —
(See 4-H, Page 16)
Mayors Endorse Bonds
There are 11 state historical highway
markers in Northampton, according to a
publication of the state Department of Art,
Culture and History.
Thomas Bragg, confederate attorney
general, governor and U. S. senator, is
remembered in a marker on U.S. 158 in
Jackson and Matt W. Ransom, confederate
general, U.S. senator and minister to Mexico,
is memorialized on U.S. 158 five miles west of
the county seat.
On U.S. 301 at the state line a marker
points out the end of Cornwallis’ campaign
through North Carolina in the American
Revolution.
Again on 158 between Garysburg and
Jackson, Brigadier General Allen Jones, a
member of the Provincial Congress and the
Continental Congress, is honored and another
marker laying claim to the state’s first
railroad is on U.S. 301 at the Roanoke River
bridge.
Lemuel Burkitt, founder of the Kehukee
Creecy Coach John Beverly is the happiest
coach this side the river following his team’s
34-0 victory Friday night in Rich Square over
Eastman of Halifax.
The victory was perfectly timed. It was
homecoming and the Creecy Panthers had
not won a game in the six season tries.
Beverly has his fingers crossed for this
week’s contest against cross-county rival
Gaston.
The hot rods and the music of the 50’s are
back as well as some of the era’s fashion
trends. Accompanying this revival of the
fizzled-out 50’s is the appearance of so-called
unidentified flying objects, UFO’s, so
common in the 50’s.
Northampton County is right in there with
its share of sky-watchers reporting strange
things under the cover of darkness.
Agatha Ellen of Jackson, daughter of
County Manager Tim Ellen, reports seeing
UFO’s on numerous occasions. She says she
has at least four or five friends who can vouch
for her unusual spottings.
Agatha has seen odd combinations of light construct
patterns in the sky which she proclaims
cannot be aircraft lights as we know them.
“Something or somebody is trying to
communicate with us,” Agatha predicts. “I
think we should do something about trying to
communicate with these things and find out
why they’re coming down here.”
Eight Northampton County
mayors have endorsed the
proposed $300 million school
bond issue that faces voters
Tuesday.
Mayors Grady Martin of
Conway, F. C. Myrick of
Gaston, Joe Gordon of Rich
Square, Charlie Bass of
Jackson, H. M. Eastwood of
Seaboard, John Stanley of
Woodland, Rufus D. Johnson
of Severn and W. E. Conwell of
Garysburg signed a joint
resolution this week.
The resolution reads in
part: “The citizens of North
Carolina are called upon to
vote upon the question of the
issuance of $300 million in
school bonds to defray in part
$1.2 billion of school building
needs in the state.
“It is the duty of counties to
levy taxes to raise the
additional $900 million.”
The bond issue, the first
school construction issue in 10
years, would guarantee
Northampton County
$1,566,197.
The funds can be used to
facilities
new
or
improve existing physical
plants.
Some county school officials
have hinted that if the bond
issue does not pass, the county
will be faced with the total
financial burden of providing
adequate school facilities,
thereby causing property
taxes to increase.
SITE Chairman
Seeks Vote
CONWAY — Dr. J. A.
Fleetwood Jr., chairman of
the Northampton County
Sound Investment in
Tomorrow’s Education, today
urged the citizens of the
county to vote for the state
school bond issue Tuesday.
Providing the issue carries,
according to Dr. Fleetwood,
Northampton County will
receive $1,566,197.55 to use in
the construction of new school
buildings and the renovation
of old ones.
He points out that the voters
should vote yes for the
following reasons:
— In the event the issue does
not pass the $1,566,197.55 will
probably have to be raised in
the next few years locally
from property taxes.
— A vote for the issue is a
vote to have some of the
money paid in state sales and
other taxes returned to the
county.
— The money is greatly
needed to construct new
buildings and renovate or
replace old ones, he said.
State Treasurer Edwin Gill
has stated that the bonds can
be issued without a state
income tax increase.
from Bertie, Halifax, Hertford
and Northampton Counties for
the Board of Directors,
Choanoke Area Development
Association, are set for Nov.
12 and 13 for all neighborhood
organizations.
Northampton
County
Polling places and time for
voting in Northampton
The county board of County for November 12, are
education has prepared a list follows: Galatia — Zoar
of 19 building projectsCommunityBuilding,7:00-
proposedfor the county at this 9^00 p.m.; Woodland —
time.
Deloatch’ Place, 5:00-6:00
9:00 p.m.; Potecasi —
Community Building, 6:00-
8:00 p.m.; and Conway —
Community Building, 6:30-
8(00 p.m.
Polling places and time for
voting in Northampton County
for November 13, are as
follows: Crebo — Community
Building, 6:00-7:30 p.m.; Rich
Square — CADA Office, 6:00-
9:00 p.m.; Jonesboro —
Jonesboro School, 6:00-9:00
p.m.; Allen Chapel —
(See CADA, Page 16)
NEW QUARTERS — Social Services Director Jim Clark of Woodland
discusses a record with Social Services secretary Linda Moody of Seaboard
in the reception area of the renovated county home, now home of the welfare
department. The department Tuesday moved 21 offices from two buildings
in Jackson to the new headquarters north of Jackson.