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Vol. 9 No. 49 The Pamlico County News Dedicated To The Progressive Development Of Pamlico County _ "HOME OF AMERICA'S OLDEST, LARGEST MOLLY TREE" FAttUCU BAtBORO CO' 'N" . «C •I ' .1?? SERVING GROWING PAMLICO COUNTY Thursday, December 2, 1976 Soundside 4-H’ers Collect Toys SOUNDISE 4-H’ERS, left to right are Kathy Truitt, Victoria Spain, Kim Alcock, Murray Gllgo, Lelghan Swindell and Tommy O’Steen. ByR.W.PILAND Assistant Agricultural Extension Agent Sometimes, old toys are hard to give up. They can be the only reminders we have of our carefree years as children and represent thousands of hours of contented pastime. Our child development experts tell us that toys are instrumental in the normal development of our children’s physical and psychological make-up. The Soundside 4-H’ers recently went through their own toys and collected toys from their neighborhood to help with the Jaycee Toy Drive. These toys will be repaired and cleaned up for the Jaycee Christmas Party on the 21st of December. The Soundside 4-H’ers are to be commended for their help with this worthwhile project for underpriv ileged children. If you would like to help with this project, you can by collec ting toys and bringing them to the 4-H Office in the Courthouse Annex. If you can’t bring the toys, call 745-4121 and someone will pick them up. Remember, “The only difference in men and boys is the price of the toys.” A Preview Of Pamlico County Recreation Basketball League By C. RAY DUDLEY With the opening of the Pamlico County Recreation Dept. Basketball League less than a month before the premiere date, the talk and boasting of “Who’s No. 1” has been mounting. The League is expecting three new expansion teams this year with each of them holding Championship potential. Defending League Champion ship, Pamlico, seem all but finish with most of the players going elsewhere, while all the other teams seem intact. All County center, Rudolph Gibbs, is expected to go elsewhere while All-County guard, Gene Dudley, is listed as getting a starting role with the new expansion team, the Bayboro Jets. Ronnie Rig gins, another star off that Pamlico team, is expected to join forces with the new expan sion team from Alliance. Dan Swindell is no longer with the Pamlico team, either. With Pamlico sort of dismantled eyes should be switched to runner-up Stonewall. Stonewall shared the regular season championship with Pamlico but a number of their players have been traded to the newly expanded Bayboro Jets team. Coach Solomon Jenkins still has his shooting ace Claude Davis to star in the premiere role while Charles Smith and Hiawatha Fisher have been rumored to move to another team. Ray Gibbs of Oriental who finished third last year expects more out of a more matured ball dub this year. The versatile center, Grayling Whitney should be controlling the boards while Bryaon Greene should be adding the missing scoring punch. Player-coach Ray Gibbs should be there with his inside game. Another team seem to be bud ding out of Oriental with the likes of Hamp Spruill and Ray Tingle. The “Over the Hill Gang” from Maribel is expec ting new faces with Coach F. A. Filler bringing in more ex perience. Ronnie Miller and Charles Gibbs are still expected to lead off where they left last season that saw the team come on the second half of the season. Clifton Sawyer and his Alliance team plan to stop that porous defense into something that is more steady this season. Tom Jones and Keith Bennett should ! 1 be in better form for the team from Alliance this year. Coach Joe Whitford needs more than points on the board to come up with a team from his Bayboro squad. A great number of his players have moved on to higher grounds. He still have his hot shooter in the hands of Eric Blue and Steve Miller. PTI, a team that was faced with more ups and downs last year than a torrid ocean is ex pected to have a great rebuilding year with a turn over in the stu dent body. PTI has great poten tial in young and agressive players. None the least is that team from Goose Creek that became the most liked team in the league last year. Coach Jerry Sykes see his team with more experience and his hot shooting hand hasn’t cooled off. He still have Marvin Davenport, Craig Hammond and Marc Atkins back to patch up a 4-10 season. Sykes sees his team with a more balance at tack this year. This ‘77 season plans more fun and excitement for the fans as well as the teams. The organiza tional meeting for the Adult League which includes both men and women is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8th, at 7 p.m. for women and 8 p.m. for men, in the Pamlico County Courthouse Annex Auditorium. This meeting is important and if you plan to have a team in the League you or a representative must attend to register your team in the ‘77 League. Again this season is planned for both men and women. Bar-B-Que Pork Dinner The Reelsboro Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor a Bar B-Que Pork Dinner on Saturday, December 4 from 11 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Reelsboro Fire House. Tickets are available from any member of the Reelsboro Fire Department or at the door. The cost will be $2 per plate. Come out and support the Reelsboro Fire Department and enjoy delicious Bar-B-Que Dinner cooked by the firemen themselves. Your support will be greatly ap preciated. Dallas Taylor Named Key Banker To coordinate the agricultural activites of the N.C. Bankers Association in this area, Dallas W. Taylor has been named County Key Banker for Pamlico County. NCBA President John F. McNair, III has announced that Mr. Taylor will serve as County Key Banker during the next twelve months. He is Vice President of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., N.A. in Bayboro North Carolina. McNair called attention to the projects that are sponsored by the association such as the an nual Agricultural Credit Con ference, the Short Course in Modern Farming at N.C. State University for young farmers who are provided scholarships given by their home community banks, and the co-sponsorship of the FFA Land Juding Meet in the interest of soil conservation. He also said that banks in North Carolina provided $264,591,000 in farm loans to farmers in the state as of January 1, 1976. Citing results of the American Bankers Association’s annual farmcredit study, he said that North Carolina banks provided $173,956,000 in non-real estate loans, a 25 percent increase over 1975. Bankers in North Carolina, it was pointed out, are well aware of the large capital investments required in agriculture today and are making every effort, through improved lending programs, to meet these changing credit demands of state fanners. On January 1,1976,83 of the 93 banks in North Carolina held farm loans. McNair, who is executive vice president of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A. Winston-Salem, reported. Tideland EMC Meet Dec. 3 The annual meeting of the membership of Tideland Electric Membership cor poration is scheduled for Friday night, December 3 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Pamlico County High School in Bayboro. In addition to the business session and election of the Board of Directors and Directorate for Districts, there will be a number of prizes awarded, including the grand prize, a portable TV, free gift for all members attending, many valuable door prizes and an Early Bird prize drawing. Registration is at 6 p.m. and all members are being reminded to bring their registration cards. Nominees for Board of Directors are, District 1 Directorate, Malvin Respass of Pantego and National Holton of Pantego; for Directorate of District 9, George Lupton and Bradford Rice, both of Araphahoe; Directorate of District 11, George Wilkes and Frank’ Wilkes of Ocracoke; Directorate of District 12, Leon . Ballance and J.W. Tomlinson of Engelhard. \ FHA To Guarantee Rural Housing Loans WASHINGTON, N.C. - The Farmers Home Administration (FmHa) will begin a new program of guaranteed rural housing loans, the U S. Department of Agriculture (SDA) announced recently. FmHa, the USDA’s rural credit agency, will garantee up to 90 percent of principal and interest of loans for single family rural housing made by private lenders. Final regulations for the new program have been published in the Federal Register and will become effective January 1, 1977. Housing is the third major area of FmHa credit services in which the agency has introduced the guaranteed loan. FmHa also guarantees private lenders’ loans, as well as making its own loans, under its business and industrial (B&I) and farm loan programs. Nearly all of the lending under the B&I program is guaranteed. All lending under a special emergency livestock credit program is guaranteed. A small portion of the agency’s other types of farm credit is guaranteed. In housing, FmHa at present will offer loan guarantees only under its single family housing loan program to applicants who cannot get housing mortgage credit without a guarantee. FmHa will continue to make single family housing loans with its own funds to low-to moderate income borrowers who cannot qualify for guaranteed loans, including those for rural rental housing, farm labor housing and housing site development in rural areas. FmHa makes and will guarantee housing loans in rural areas— defined as open country, towns of up to to thousand population and 337 places between 10 thousand and 20 thousand population which are not Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas and are seriously lacking in housing mortgage credit for low and moderate income borrowers. Regulations for the new FmHa housing loan.gurantee program (Continued on page 4) 4-H Is Successful By LINDA O’NEAL The Lowland 4-H would like to thank all of the Lowland citizens who made our fund-raising project on November 20 a suc cess. Eight members and one leader worked hard on the door to door project. The 4-H’ers would go to one house and ask for the donation of an egg and proceed to the next house to sell it. They buyers paid whatever price they wanted and the generosity of all came through. We collected a total of seventy dollars which will be used in various projects throughout the year. Thanks again to all who helped. You made the in troduction of a new and very different fund-raising project lots of fun! Recreation News Tips By C. RAY DUDLEY ADULT ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING (BASKETBALL) An Adult Basketball or ganizational meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8th at 7 p.m. for women and 8 p.m. for men. This meeting is very important in that you or a representative must be present to register your team for the ‘77 season. Ground rules and regulations will be gone over at this time. The date is December 8th at 7 p.m. for women and 8 p.m. for men in the Pamlico County Courthouse Annex Auditorium in Bayboro. Please be present. BASKETBALL REGISTRATION I N FORMATION — Registration for the Youth Basketball League is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 4th for the Pee Wee League (from 9 a.m. to 12 noon) and the Termite League (from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.). The Pee Wee’s ages are for 7,8 & 9 year olds and you are ineligible if you are 10 before January 1st. The Termite’s ages are 10,11 & 12 year olds and you are ineligible if you are 13 before January 1st. Registration for the Junior and Senior Leagues will be Saturday, December 11th. The Junior League will register from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and is for ages 13,14 & IS year olds and you are ineligible if you are 16 before January 1st. The Senior League is scheduled for registration for 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and for ages 16, 17 & 18 years of age and you are ineligible if you are 19 before January 1st. Registration fees are FREE for Pee Wees, $2.00 for Termites, $3.00 for the Junior Leaguers and $4.00 for the Senior Leaguers. This registration fee must be paid on the day of registration at the Pamlico County Junior High School on the 4th and Uth of December. For further information contact the Recreation Dept, at 745-4240. TOY DRIVE - We are still taking toys for the Pamlico County Jaycees Christmas Party for underpriveledged children. LADIES NIGHT (BASKET BALL) — Wednesday’s nights are Ladies nights. That’s right. All you ladies who want to get out and learn the game of basketball come to the Gym at the Pamlico County Junior High School. The Gym is for “Women Only” on Wednesday nites so come on out and have a good time. FASHION-TALENT SHOW — We are still looking for local talent to participate in our Talent/Fashion Show on December 10th. If you are inherested in participating please contact Mrs. Vennie Miller, Pamlico County Youth Coordinator, at 745-4361 or 24^ 3861 or Mr. Don Carter, Director of Parks & Recreation, at 745 4240. If you have some new fashions to show off come on out and support the Fashion/Talent Program of December 10th. BASKETBALL - BASKETBALL - Come on out December 1st at the Pamlico County High School Gym and watch Coach Hebert Monk’s Hurricanne Basketball team take on a team from Aurora. Aurora spoiled the season’s opener last year and we need the fans support behind our Hurricanes. Come on out and support our J. V., Girls and Varsity teams. Celebrate 350th Anniversary The Oriental Free Will Baptist Church celebrated the three hundred and fifieth anniversary of its founding by under Paul Qalmen in 1727 and the co insident Bicentennial of national life. The Women’s Auxiliary set forth celebration in a pageant Wednesday, November 17 at 7 o’clock. The vent opened with a presentation of the national flag and the Christian flag, following the call to worship by the pastor. The pledge to the flag was recited by the congregation and they sang the national anthem for the national flag. For the Christian flag, “Onward Christian Soldiers” was sung. Following a brief survey of the orgiin of Thanksgiving season by the pastor, a reading was con ducted from the booklet on social seasons, particularly Thanksgiving, by Mrs. Bertha Thompson. Afer singing a devotional hymn of patriotism and prayer, themeeting adjoured to enjoy refreshments with coffee and cocoa. Setting forth the abundance of the season, a display of all the fruits of the eth was arranged at the front of the church. This consisted of producting from orchards, various citrus fruites to pineapples, topall the graden products that appeal to taste, beauty, appetite and from the farm orchards, overflowing from comicopias. Standing in the midst was a Pilgrim farmer in work garnets, topped by a wide, high broad brimmed straw hat that stood for service. The display was the effivy of the call to Thanksgiving. The audience was representative from a three months old baby, who silently viewed the whole, to grandparents and great grandparents. I W.O.W. Present Flag Woodmen of the World representative, James L. Lupton, is shown presenting a beautiful American flag to the Pamlico County Agricultural Extension Service officer in their new location at the courthouse annex in Bayboro. Mrs. Betty C. Spain, shown with Mr. Lupton, recived the flag in behalf of the office. FFA On All Lips The FFA is on all lips. There are six hundred voluntary workers operating in all but 100 counties of North Carolina. They are not only the ones repeating “FFA” but throughout the state newspapers have told the story, and that story is now being told on radio and television in North Carolina. It is no wonder that people are asking about FFA. The FFA,Future Fanners of America, have been operating with a potential membership of 40 thousand. The FFA is a youth organization in every Junior and Senior High School with a vocational-agriculture course. Girls and boys participating in what made North Carolina great, agriculture. Yes, all of you North Carolinians please ask questions and we will try to give you the answers. The FFA Association in our state has three camps; one located in our beautiful mountains 22 miles above (Continued on page 4) FBLA Celebrates 50’s By DARLA STEPHENSON - The Pamlico County Chapter of Future Business Leaders ol America held their regular monthly meeting Thursday November 1-8. The meeting was called to order by the president, Dorinda Cahoon, followed by the pledge of allegiance to the American Flag. After this, the meeting was turned over to Mrs. Ann Holton of Olympia. Mrs. Holton, a graduate of Pamlico County High School in 1958, spoke to the Club about F.B.L.A. in the 50’s. Mrs. Holton, herself, was was an active F.B.L.A. member, winning several state positions, including state secretary and Miss F.B.L.A. Following Mrs. Holton’s presentation, Dorinda Cahoon recognized the school-wide 50’s day, sponsored by the F.B.LA. A fashion show demonstrating the fashions of the 50’s was performed by approximately 20 F.B.L.A. members. The fashion show illustrated wedding and evening gowns, school clothes, the fonze-look, and even a variety of dances popular in the 50’s. Television coverage was courtesy of WITN Channel 12, New Bern. With this the meeting was adjourned and refreshments served. The F.B.LA. would like to thank all the students who participated in the 50’s day. Because of the spirit of P.C.H.S., it was quite a success. We can now see that the 50’s were truly a large part of “the good ole days.” Tf Hope all of you had a most enjoyable and nice Thanksgiving without enjoying the food too much. I noted somewhere in the past week that the main item on the menu — the turkey — is not one of the more intelligent fowls. The article about the turkey was explaining the old method of a turkey shoot versus the modern day method. Instead of always shooting at a paper target, it seems that the first turkey shoots used the real thing. The turkey was bound and placed behind a log. Being a curious critter, he would eventually poke his head up to see what was going on and some marksman would releave him of his head and win the turkey. Should the shooter miss the mark, OLD TOM would would wait awhile and then not having learned, would poke his head out again. In the very early days of the turkey shoot, the youngsters began to practice their marksmanship in the early Fall to be ready when the season for Turkey Shoots started. Some of them became very expert with their guns and the table fare always benefited. Of course wild turkeys were used in those days. As the Thanksgiving holiday drew near, turkeys were penned for the big day. As times changed, so did the turkey — now you get a frozen, oven ready bird. One of the more unique events during this Bicentennial year has been the celebration by the Masons. They are visiting the original Masonic Lodges this year. This has created an in terest in this fraternal organization since some of the lodges were charted from England. The Pamlico County Museum has benefited from area interest. A copy of the address delivered at the dedication of the Bayboro Lodge on December 28,1874, has been donated. It will soon be displayed in a cover so that those who are interested can read the remarks made by J. C. Coolidge. Several other items, including a Masonic Bible will be catalogued to go with this address, will be displayed in the very near future. Am very pleased to pass along that I learned this week that Mrs. Rena Daniels, a former county resident who was very interested in our heritage, is doing very well. She is able to correspond with some of the friends here in the area following a stroke which had left her partially paralyzed. I regret that I was not fortunate to know her but know what a marvelous person she is from the reports of her friends. We are looking for articles written by Dallas Mallison about Pamlico County which appeared in several papers. If you have these articles and wish to retain them in your collection, please advise this office of the dates the articles were published and the name of the publication. It will then be possible to contact the publisher to get copies. Most publishers have these items on file by dates and cannot supply them without specific issue dates. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. Call 745 4461 or 249-1011 or write to P. 0. Box 337 in Bayboro if you have this information. Don’t forget the Pamlico County Christmas Festival this Saturday at Pamlico Technical Institute. Many local craftsmen will have items displayed. Today these items are made mainly for enjoyment but our forefathers made them from necessity — supermarkets and department stores were not a part of their life. We are grateful that these artists have preserved part of the past for us to enjoy today. What Is It? Pamlico potpourii. What is it? It’s the Flea Market located in the Old Social Services Building one block behind the Courthouse Annex in Bayboro. It’s misplac ed items looking for a new home. They maybe interviewed on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. to determine suitability for placement in a new environ ment. Very small storage fees. As an added attraction there are weekly prizes and a grand prize—details available at the Flea Market. This week’s special is a 10 cent cupacoffee! Offered subject to prior sale are such items as fossilized whale vertabrae, cheese box (no charge for the aroma that comes with this item), ebony statues from Africa, and some mason jars. Come out, browse, and perhaps find just what you have always wanted. Sponsored by the Pamlico County Museum Committee, all proceeds will be used to support the county museum. Space is available to take other misplaced items. Dona tions of paperback books, old records, jewelery, most anthing you no longer have a need for, are solicited to aid this endeavor. Some new items are also available. Discuss consign ment terms with cashier on du ty % f
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