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Vol. 9 No. 32
SERVING GROWING PAMLICO COUNTY
Thursday, August 5, 1976
Reports
Move
Toward
Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
potentially significant move
toward food stamp reform oc
cured this week in the House
Agriculture Committee Con
gressman Walter B. Jones
(D-N.C.) reported today.
In that move, the Committee
adopted an amendment spon
sored by Jones which requires a
token sharing by States—2
percent— in the overall benefit
costs of the food stamp program,
with a comparable lessening in
federal funding requirements.
“Up to this point,” Jones
emphasized, “we have had the
unusual situation of a program
administered jointly by the
States and the federal govern
ment, yet with the federal
government paying the entire
benefit costs. Any management
analyst will tell you that is not
good business; funding should go
hand in hand with ad
ministration.
“Certainly the States have
been struggling manfully with a
program which has many
statutory loopholes, and we are
trying to fix that as well. At the
same time, however, no one can
look you straight in the face and
tell you that management
decisions cannot be affected by
the one picking up the ball.
“The food stamp program has
one of the worst track records of
any public assistance program,
with error rates exceeding 45
percent. Millions of dollars in
tax funds are unaccounted for;
fraud and abuse go largely
uncontrolled.
“By providing a 98 percent
2 per cent sharing ratio, we may
have begun to build in some
additional incentive for
management improvements in
the day-to-day administration of
this program. At the same time,
the amount which we have
selected —2 percent— should not
be an unreasonable burden upon
the States, and offsetting
requirements will, of course,
occur federally.
“The real savings, however,”
Jones concluded, “hopefully will
come in the improved
management of the program.
Just $1 in savings per person per
month means an overall savings
of 1228 million nationally. Those
are the kinds of savings that the
taxpayer has come to expect,
and we must do everything
possible, both.ipgislatively and
administratively to bring this
program under control.”
Edmiston
Alerts
Farmers
RALEIGH — Attorney
General Rufus L. Edmisten has
advised North Carolina farmers
to be alert to individuals seeking
investments in illegal
agricultural cooperatives.
“The Consumer Protection
Section of my office has been
informed by Commissioner of
Agriculture James A. Graham
and Secretary of State Thad
Eure that promoters of bogus
cooperatives have recently
contacted residents in the
western part of North Carolina,”
said Edmisten. “We have reason
to believe that the operation of
these illegal cooperatives in
Kentucky, Illinois and several
other states has resulted in the
loss of hundreds of thousands of
dollars to farmers who have
been inducted to invest their
hard-earned income.”
The promoters are offering
interests in agricultural
cooperatives with the promise
that farmers will receive an
investment return and the right
to purchase goods, services, and
products at a reduced rate. The
only drawback is that the
companies cannot, or do not,
fulfill their financial promises.
“Agricultural cooperatives
play a valuable role in the
marketing and supply of our
farm products if used in the
proper manner,” said Edmisten.
“Unfortunately, smooth talking
con men, promoting bogus
cooperatives, can swindle our
farmers out of all that they have
worked so hard to earn. We will
do everything possible to see
that such schemes do not
operate in this state.”
Anyone having knowledge of
such an operation in North
Carolina should notify the
Consumer Protection Section of
the Attorney General’s Office or
the Markets Division of the
North Carolina Department of
Agriculture.
Lupton
Reunion
The 16th Annual Lupton
Reunion will be held Sunday,
August 8 at 1 o’clock at the
Lupton Cottage in Whor
tonsv’ille, N.C. All Luptons and
their relatives are invited to
come and bring a picnic lunch.
Walter
Jones, Jr.
Named
Walter Jones, Jr. of Farm
ville, son of veteran 1st District
congressman, Walter Jones, has
been named a field rep
resentative with Jim Hunt’s
campaign for governor in
Eastern North Carolina and is
helping to organize a massive
eastern rally for Jim Hunt in
Greenville August 12.
The younger Jones, who is 32,
is assisting Thomas F. Taft of
Greenville, eastern N. C. field
representative in Hunt’s cam
paign.
The Greenville event is one of
a series of major rallies that will
be held across the state in the
last weeks of the campaign. It
will be held in Minges Coliseum
at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 12.
Tickets cost $5, and en
tertainment and a barbeque
supper will be included.
In announcing this week that
Jones has joined his campaign,
Hunt, who lives in the Rock
Ridge community of Wilson
County, said, “Walter Jones
knows Eastern North Carolina
the way few people do. He has
travelled throughout that area
and knows the people. He will be
a strong asset to our campaign.”
Hunt added that “the name of
Walter Jones has been
associated with public service
for years in this part of the state,
and I’m proud to have the son of
this outstanding congressman
working with us.”
Class
Reunion
The Arapahoe graduating
class of 1935 had its 41st class
reunion on July 10 at Minnesott
Beach. The member’s were en
tertained with a reception at 7:30
p.m. by Mr. and Mrs. Garvin
Hardison at the Hardison Beal
Estate offices. Refreshments of
shrimp and dip and corn chips
and dip with punch was served
from a lovely decorated table.
After refreshments and lot of
picture taking the class mem
bers and guest went over to the
Pomeiok Room at the Minnesott
Beach Cafe for dinners of
seafood and steaks.
Present with the class were
it’s mascots, Mr. George R.
Brinson and Mrs. Pearl Andrews
Muraglia, also a former teacher
and principal, Mr. Archie Reel
and Mr. J. J. Collier. Present
with Mr. Brinson and Mr. Reel
were their wives.
All members were present but
five. They were Mrs. Alvia
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A SUMMER BEAUTY... With summer getting
into (nil swing, the warm weather and sunlight
hare done wonders for plants, Including this
hanging basket. In the past several years, bouse
plant* aujpended in plantar* with foliage
cascading earthward have become increasingly
popular. (Photo by Jerry Rajrnor)
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Congratulations to the winners in the Summer Reading
Program sponsored by the Pamlico County Public Library.
Mrs. Mildred Carey, librarian, and Dottie Sawyer, visiting
librarian, can certainly be proud of a successful program en
joyed by all participants.
James Earl Wilkinson, age 12 of Bayboro, has loaned three
very interesting bottles to the Pamlico County Museum. They
are a 1933 V. Loewer’S Canbrinus Brewery Company bottle in
excellent condition; a Sauer’s extract bottle, and an E. W. Hoyt
Company, Lowell, Massachusetts drug bottle. He has also
donated an assortment of other bottles which will soon be
displayed. We want to take this opportunity to thank him for his
interest in the museum and its collection. We are grateful for the
loaned items and the donation.
Please note that the Museum is now open weekdays from 2 to 5
p.m. Our hostess is Mrs. Jennifer Reece. She will be happy to let
you browse and is also most willing to accept donations or Ions.
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Southern Railway Systems have acknowledged our request to
attempt restoration of the depot located in Bayboro for an ex
tension to the museum. Their representative and the Pamlico
County Museum Committee will be working together to ac
complish the necessary legal work so that work on this project
will soon begin. Other contacts are being made for materials
and other assistance. We have some of the papers pertaining to
the operation of the railroad which we hope to have preserved in
the near future. If you have items which you would like to
contribute, please let Mrs. Reece know during the hours the
museum is open or contact the Bicentennial Office (745-4461).
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The Pamlico County History Committee is continuing its
research. They are in need of material for Vandemere,
Stonewall, Olympia, and Minnesott Beach. Please let us have
any material you may have on information pertaining to these
areas.
“We got the harbor dredged about 1915 for large boats. They
made a bulkhead and built up land and sold lots to help pay for
it. The storms finally washed it down and we now have our
breakwater where it was.
We had five different churches here and they were all doing
pretty good: Methodist, Missionary Baptist, F.W. Baptist,
Episcopal, and Disciple.
We have had fishouser here since Oriental was first settled. A
Mr. Dudley was the first I knew, but Sam Midyette and Joe
Caroon bought and sold fish before him.
We had a nice canning factory for oysters and vegetables in
the 1920’s. I have seen the harbor so full of oyster boats you could
walk across it from one boat to the other. And in the 1940’s the
shrimp boats were the same way. I have counted 200 shrimp
boats in front of our home at one time. Now we have the
sailboats and they are pretty when lots of them go out together.
We had three doctors at one time in Oriental and all the time
we had two. All made a good living. We also had a nice drug
store operated by Mrs. Maude Walker.
We built a pavilion at Lewmack Park, had music every
Saturday night and danced and sang while some went swim
ming in the moonlight. Also we built our only hotel, the Breeze
Inn, near by. They were damated so badly in the 1933 storm that
we never got them rebuilt like they were.
We have had four different banks in Oriental: (1) The Bank of
Oriental, about 1906-1915; 2) The Bank of Pamlico, 1916-1930 ; 3)
The Eastern Bank and Trust Company, 1930-1932; and 4) The
First Citizens Bank and Trust Comany, 1972 on. All have given
good service and have helped the town a lot.
• We got our curbs and gutters and sidewalks around town in
1926. Some were against it, but it has been a good thing and has
helped the whole town.
The women got their club started in 1916 as the “Women's
Club of Oriental” and have been very active in different projects
ever since. They got the Women’s Club Building finished in 1924.
They helped get the road hard surfaced to Oriental. The high
way department paved the road to Bayboro and stopped in 1925.
The women took one look at that and not like it a bit. They got
cars to take them to Raleigh on one or two trips and we got the
hard surface to Oriental in 1927.
L. F. McCabe had an Oriental Building Supply Company here
one time. We bought all of our doors, windows and hardwood
floor from him. In 45 years we have never had to replace a piece
<of it except one window which washed out in a storm.
No one can tell the story about Oriental without telling about
Lewis B. Midyette, better known as Uncle Lew, who first settled
Oriental.
Auer we Duut our nome in i»3Z, ne would come sit on tne porch
and tell me about his first trip to Smith Creek in 1872. He lived on
Roanoke Island and they carried their fish and salt mullets to
Norfolk. That year the market got dull in Norfolk and they heard
there was a good market in New Bern. So he got four or five
more who had salt mullets to bring them to New Bern.
He said they came through the sound and up Neuse River.
When it started to get dark they looked for a place to camp for
the night. Before they could get in Smith Creek, a bad squall
came up and they ran aground. He said he and one more follow
waded ashore. He climbed a tree and saw a light. He told the
rest to stay in the boat and he and the other man went for help.
They walked to the house with the light. A Nr. Chadwick lived
there1. He went back with them to get their boat in Smith Creek
and to tie it up. Then they all went to spend the night with
Chadwick. During the night he learned that Chadwick wanted to
sell the place.
The next day they went on to New Bern and sold their mullets
at a real good price. Uncle Lew said on the way back from New
Bern he kept thinking about Chadwick wanting to sell his place.
At that time Uncle Lew was a young man just married and he
didn’t have any money. He said he had an Uncle Robert
Midyette that was a Marine Insurance Adjuster for the beach
from Manteo to Hatteras. He got a percentage from all the
wrecks that they could salvage anything from and with all the
wrecks they were having, he knew his Uncle Bob had some
money. So he got the other men with him to stop in Smith Creek
and stay another night with Chadwick. He asked Chadwick not
sell that place until he could get home and see what he could do.
He said that he had bragged about Smith Creek and Oriental
ever since he had moved here but that he had never painted a
more rosey picture than he did to his Uncle Bob when they got
back to Wanchese. There was a good market in New Bern and it
was easy to get to and the Dismal Swamp Canal was bad to get a
sailboat through. Plenty of mullets and other fish were in Neuse
River for he could see them jumping everywhere. It was a good
harbor for their boats. There was plenty of land for his Uncle
Bob to farm. So he and Uncle Bob came back and bought the
place. His Uncle Bob let him have the land around Smith Creek
and Uncle Bob took the farm. The deed is registered in Bayboro.
It is the first deed registered after Pamlico County got its
charter in 1872—book one, page one, deed one. There were
people living all around here then—out at Kershaw, up Smith
Creek and Pamlico but there was no one down in the old part of
Oriental.
There was a Confederate Post Office up Smith Creek in 1862
63.1 have seen a letter stamped at Smith Creek 1863 which was
from some soldiers to their commandinr office in Kinston. They
wrote that their orders, to put the Cape Lookout Hghthmwe out of
of commission in order that the Federals could not use it, had
been completed by a trip from Smith Creek to Cape Lookout. It
was a rigorous trip by boats and by foot. They were resting at
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W.O.W. Rangers Attend Camp
A total of thirty-three boys
from the Florence Woodmen Of
The World Ranger Unit 1345
attended camp recently at the
East North Carolina W.O.W.
Youth Camp at Fort Barnwell.
The unit placed first in Riflery,
second in Archery, and fourth in
Vollyball, Kickball, Swimming,
and Track and Field.
Roy Brinson, Jr. of Reelsboro
received special honor during
the week when he was awarded
the blue ribbon for Most
Valuable Player in Riflery. He
was high score in riflery with a
perfect score of fifty. He was
also honored when he received a
blue ribbon for Leadership.
Eleven boys were awarded
archery patches after receiving
a safety course and successfully
proving their skills in the
shooting of the bow and arrow.
Five boys completed a course in
patriotism and were awarded
patriotism patches. Six com
pleted a beginners swimming
class and six more completed a
general swimming class and
received swimming patches.
Two others received Junior Life
Saving awards. Twenty-five
boys also completed a course in
Hunter Safety and received
awards.
Those attending and enjoying
camp included: Gene Wooster,
Roy Brinson, Jr., Dalton Dixon,
James Meekins, Harry Ireland,
Jr., Don Johnson, Marty Lee,
Ray Lewis, Craig O’Neal, Daniel
Potter, Oswald Williams, Mark
Powers, Charles Robinson,
Marty Shaw, Tommy Spencer,
III, Jerry Warren, Robbie
Whorton, Bruce Wilkinson,
Keith Wilkinson, Roger
Brabrant, Timmy Day, Michael
Health, Paul Peterson, R.M.
Humphrey, Todd Whorton,
Mitchell Roberts, Todd Roberts,
Mead Roberts, Bryan Glisson,
Mark Lilly, Church Lilly, Steven
Stevens, and Kenny Paschal.
Adult Youth Leaders during
the week included: Bruce
Lupton, Rick Rhodes, S. D.
Daniels, Edward Hill, and
Richard Peterson.
Tournament Of Champions,
Softball Invitational News
By C. RAY DUDLEY
Two Craven county teams who
entered into this double
elimination affair were a bit
lightly regarded and it proved
fatal to a total of fourteen teams
that felt their sting. Harlowe of
Craven county won the men's
division by possessing a team
defense that allowed only four
runs the entire tournament. Josh
Mills of Craven county won the
women’s division by also
possessing a team defense that
saw them edge Pamlico 1-0 in
the finals and that took nine
innings.
The Pamlico women and the
Plymouth Rams' men were the
tournament favorites but each
had to settle for second best. The
Bayboro Jets took on Smalls in
the first round. The Jets could
generate little offense as well as
defense. Smalls scored five runs
in the first inning — including a
three run homer by Marvin
Fulcher of Smalls. Gene Dudley
of the Jets hit a triple in the top
of the third to cover one of the
Jets’ five runs in this game as
Smalls took command 13-5.
Harlowe had the Bayboro
Mustangs singing a different
tone as the Mustangs hit a stone
wall and couldn't operate any
form of offense. Though both
defenses were pretty tough,
Preston Justice and Rickey
Burroughs were able to mass
one run in the bottom of the
second. A sacrifice by Jimmy
Caton brought in George Kelly
who had doubled earlier and
made the score 2-0 in Harlowe’s
favor and brought the Bayboro
Mustangs one game down.
wit as of Aurora had
Bayboro’s women heads
swimming as B. Lewis, L.
Honeycutt, R. Hopkins and D.
LaVictoria all contributed to a
six run sixth inning and taking a
8-7 lead over Bayboro. It was
singles by Kitty Whorton, Pat
Sodoma and Luray Wilkerson
and doubles by Lana Toler and
Betty Scott that sent in six
needed rims for Bayboro as they
came back to edge Nita’s 13-8.
Reelsboro scored three runs
off of hits by Bill Harper, Tom
Jones and Dennis Brison while
the Plymouth Rams scored four
runs off of hits by McNeil,
Brown, Davenport and Hooker
to take an early 4-3 lead.
Reelsboro ran into a hitting
problem as they were unable to
score anymore. The^Rams went
on to score three more runs
including a homerun by Andy
Hooker and take the game 7-3.
When Smalls’ women of
Aurora invaded Josh Mills’ turf
they really made them feel
‘small’ as Small was able to
score only one run the entire
game. Dawn Cayton singled and
Joan Edwards brought her in for
i
one run. Josh Mills scored five
runs in the first with Nettie
Hatch leading the way. Lulua
Price, Diane Kornigay and
Cathy Hiller singled to bring in
the five runs for Josh Mills. Josh
Mills tallied five more runs in
the fourth to take the game 15-1.
Mayo’s Mill of Tarboro
planned to give league cham
pions Pamlico a run for their
money. Christian Bell, Dent
Moore and Phoeby Pearsall got
things rolling for Pamlico as the
bases were loaded and Pamlico
going ahead 4-0 in the top of the
first. This didn’t last long as
Mayo’s Mill came back for two
runs in the bottom with T.
Johnson and S. Leonard clearing
the way and trailed 4-2. Christine
Bell singled and Florine Moore
brought her in to make the score
5-2. Mayo’s Mill went on to score
three more with S. Taylor, T.
Johnson and S. Leonard all
contributing to Mayo’s Mill five
runs. Pamlico scored two more
off of hits by Christine Bell, Dent
Moore and Phoeby Pearsall.
Pamlico’s defense held as they
won over Mayo’s Mill, 7-5.
HARDEES vs PAMLICO
BADGERS — G. Johnson and G.
Kindell each singled to give
Hardees of Tarboro an early 1-0
lead. It didn’t last long as Danny
Rice singled and John Lanvist
tripled and helping the Badgers
take a 2-1 lead. In the bottom of
the second, Joe Small, Dewitt
Rice and John Caraway all
singled with doubles being
recorded by Ted Tyndall and
Jay Woodard and giving the
Badger’s a 7-1 lead over Har
dees in the top of the fourth, A1
Leonard tripled and G. Kindell
doubled followed by another
double by L. Rogers to give
Hardees two runs and trailed 7
3. The Badgers came back of
fensively with John Caraway,
Dan Rice and Sam Spencer all
singling and Charles Rice top
ping the cake with a three run
homer and a 11-3 victory for the
Badgers — sending Hardees to
the losers bracket.
LITTLE AURORA VS
PAMLICO COUNTY
ALL'STARS — Beverly
Carawan of the All Stars started
things rolling with a single
followed by a double by Linda
O’Neal in route to a 3-0 first
inning lead. Sandra Banks and
Annette Jones contributed hits
for the All-Stars as they tallied
one run in the bottom of the
second for a 4-4 lead. Little
Aurora broke the scoring
column in the top of the fourth
with M. Blount and J. Smith
getting singles and M. Williams
bringing two of Little Aurora’s
four runs in and tying the score
4-4. The All-Stars went on to
score five more runs en route to
their 9-6 victory over Little
Aurora.
route to their 9-6 victory over
Little Aurora.
BAYBORO JETS vs
BAYBORO MUSTANGS - Gene
Dudley and Hubert Monk
doubled while Hubert Sawyer,
James Mason and Mike Monk all
singled to give the Jets an early
3-0 lead. All of the Mustangs
forces stamped in the bottom
of the second as C. Baker, D.
Stepheson, R. Bowles, J. Ireland
all singled and doubles coming
from Eddie Mayo and Charles
Toler to give the Mustangs a 5-3
lead. It took the Jets only two
innings to record two more runs
and a 6-5 uplift over the highly
regarded Mustangs totally
eliminating them from the
“Tournament of Champions.”
REELSBORO vs HARDEES
—Hardees’ J. Brewer hit an
early homerun to give Hardees
1-0 lead. It took Reelsboro until
the fourth inning when Dennis
Brison returned Hardee’s favor
by hitting a one-run homer tying
the score 1-1. In the top of the
fifth, Bill Harper, Steve Pipkin
and Duffy Toler singled while
Tom Bray doubled in adding five
runs for Reelsboro and a 6-1
lead. In the bottom of the
seventh, A. Robinson singled
and was followed by Doubles by
J. Brewer and G. Kreidell. They
added two more runs but not
eough as Reelboro sent Hardees
home 6-3.
SMALLS vs NITA’S — When
two Aurora teams meet that are
in the same league you can bet
that there will be plenty of ac
tion. Well, both scored a lot of
runs off of errors but it was
Nita’s that came out on top by a
score of 18-11 thus eliminating
Small’s women from com
petition.
LITTLE AURORA vs MAYO'S
MILLS — Mayo’s Mill took
advantage of Little Aurora’s
twelve errors and turned them in
to scores as they walked away
victorious 16-4. Little Aurora
could not generate no offense
and scored their four runs in the
top of the fourth.
BAYBORO vs JOSH MILLS —
Josh Mills used their superior
defense in not allowing Bay boro
a runner beyond second base
and gave Bayboro no hits nor
runs in a 8-0 softball no hitter,
shutout. The Josh Mills’ women
played the field well and defense
became the key for their 8-0
victory.
PAMLICO vs PAMLICO
ALL*STARS — Pairings like this
often happen when you play
double elimination matches and
two county teams fell victims of
circumstances as Pamlico by
passed the All Stars regardless
of the Afl Star hitting of Sandra
Banks, San Smith, Beverly
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