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Vol. 10 No. 19
SERVING GROWING PAMLICO COUNTY
Thursday, May 12, 1977
Local Student
Wins Texas
Gulf Scholarship
Miss Janet Lane, a senior at Pamlico County High School is
among eight area high school students winning college scholar
ships in the Third Annual Texasgulf Scholarship Program. The
grants are worth $2,500 annually.
Miss Lane is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Ray Lane of
Stonewall. Lane is employed in the Super Phosphoric Acid-Tank
Farm Department at Texasgulf’s phosphate mine and fertilizer
materials manufacturing complex at Lee Creek in Beaufort
County.
MlssLane is in the top 10 percent of her class and has received
awards in English and science. She has served on the school’s
yearbook staff two years. She is a member of the Future
Business Leaders of America, and is active in her church youth
fellowship group.
She plans to study elementary education at Campbell College
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The renewal scholarship provides annual payments for a
maximun of four years of undetgraduate study at an accieited
university or college or three years of study at an accredited
juniui or community college.
Children of Texasgulf employees were eligible to enter the
grant competition. Texasgulf retained Educational Testing Ser
vice of Princeton, New Jersey to administer the scholarship
Program. Winners were selected on the basis of Scholastic Ap
titude Test (SAT) Scores, academic performance in high school,
school appraisals, and replies to biographical questionnaires.
Tickets On Sale
State Chairman Jerry Creech
today announced the South team
for die 1977 Jaycee Boys Home
Game. This year the teams will
consist of 31 players instead of
the previous 30.
The game will be played at
7:00 p.m. July 23 at Ficklen
Stadium on the campus of East
Carolina University.
Tickets for the game are
available now from North
Carolina Jaycees, or by writing
to Tickets, P.O. Box 2161, Green
ville, North Carolina, 27834.
Jones, Jr.
Appointed
Waiter Jones, Jr., who has
been a frequent visitor to
Pamlico County in recent weeks
while gathering information on
some of the problems being en
countered by commercial
fishermen, has been named
President Jimmy Carter’s
representative for Eastern
North Carolina, according to E. _
Sutton Venters, local
Democratic Party Chairman.
Attends Secondary
Road Council
Louise Muse of Oriental was one of 14 members of the State’s
Secondary Roads Council that attended the Council’s May
meeting. The Secondary Roads Council met in Raleigh on May 6
at 10 a. m. in the Board Room of the Highway Building, Wilm
ington and New Bern Streets. The Council approved a number of
additional additions and abandonments to North Carolina’s
secondary roads system and, in general, assisted the Board of
Transportation in administering the construction and
maintenance of secondary roads througout the State. Muse
represents the State’s 2nd Highway Division which en
compasses Beaufort, Cartert, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir,
Pamlico and Pitt counties. (NCDOT Photo by Charles Johnson)
More Women
Becoming Criminals
More women are becoming
criminals according to Clarence
M. Kelley, Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
in a bullentin to all Law Enforce
ment Officials. Over the past
decade, American women Have
achieved notable successes in
obtaining social and economic
equality in areas formerly
dominated by men. Unfortunate
ly, this trend toward sexual
equality appears to have
manifested itself also in the
criminal arena. Increasingly,
women are participating in
crime.
Even the most perfunctory
glance at recent newspaper ac
counts will underscore this dis
quieting national phenomenon.
In Washington, D. C. it was
reported last October that a 17
year-oid girl had been charged
with assault with intent to
murder following the stabbing of
two teenage sisters on a crowded
suburban school bus. The story
of two women believed to be
responsible for three recent
-holdups of banking institutions
was news in Los Angeles in
December. In the same month
fit
Lupin, atandaaapier at OrtnWdnrtly before
beading for Hampton, Virginia, (or a five or six
day flatting trip. (Photograpii by Jerry Rbjmor).
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an account of the sentencing of
two women, described as key
participants in a scheme to
embezzle more than $90,000 from
a union welfare fund, appeared
in a New Orleans newspaper.
Arrest statistics for 1960-75
reveal a substantial rise in
female involvement in criminal
activity. The total arrest trend
for this period indicates a 102
percent increase in arrests of
females, more than four times
the rate of increase in arrests of
males. The number of women
arrested for the offense of
larceny-theft alone increase 465
percent during these 15 years.
There is ample evidence in
dicating that women are not only
becoming more frequently in
volved in crime, but they are
participating increasingly in
crimes of a more serious nature.
In the past, domestic misde
meanors, shoplifting, and pro
stitution comprised traditional
modes of female criminality.
This is no longer the case.
2nd Annual
Invitational
Super Bowl
Golf
Tournament
Plans have been announced
for the Second Annual Pamlico
County Jaycee Invitational
Superball Golf Tournament at
the Minnesott Golf and Country
Club, Minnesott, on the 14th and
15th of May.
There will be a practice round
on Friday, May 13th and a pig
pickin that evening beginning at
6:30 p.m.
The first round of tournament
play will begin pn Saturday, May
14th. There will be a dinner
dance that evening beginning at
7:30 p.m. with live entertain
ment.
The final round will be on Sun
day, May 15th with the presenta
tion of awards to be made im
mediately following completion
of play.
The format will be 36 holes
-two man superball, with three
prizes given in each flight. Entry
fee will be *60.00 per team.
Application can be obtained
from most any Golf and Country
Club in Eastern North Carolina,
or by calling the Minnesott Golf
and Country dub (919-249-8031)
lor the did) Manager, Grover
Sirmora.
For further Information con
tact:
Dallas W. Taylor, Publicity
Chairman 249-7781
Or Grover Sirmons, dub
Manager2498031.
VD On The
Increase
Raleigh — A continued in
crease of epidemic proportions
in gonorrhea and syphilis has
caused public health officials to
zero in on another of the state’s
hot spots - The Fayetteville
Fort Bragg Cumberland area
and surrounding counties.
Hie blitz will last about two
weeks, according to Joe Martin,
head of the State’s VD Control
Program. The concentrated in
vestigation program will be re
appraised at that time to deter
mine if it is responding, Martin
pointed out.
The VD Specialist said a
gradual increase in syphilis and
gonorrhea centered in the
Fayettcville-Fort Bragg area of
Cumberland County prompted
the blitz — which includes br
inging in additional in
vestigators and personnel to
staff clinics. He said early
syphilis jumped 60 percent since
1974, while gonorrhea went up 32
percent in the area. The effort is
being conducted in cooperation
with the Cumberland County
Health Department, headed by
Dr. Jesse F. Williams.
Martin said there are about 14
sexually transmissible disease,
but only five are reported. He
emphasized his biggest concern
is the spread of syphilis, which
has increased 200 percent over
the past five years in North
Carolina; gonorrhea has in
creased 67 percent.
“Our blitz in the Charlotte
Mecklenburg County area was
highly successful,” Martin
revealed, “we have been able to
pull our investigators away and
place them in the Fayetteville
Fort, Bragg, Cumberland
County area.”
Martin said additional person
nel in a given area permits an
immediate interview of early
syphilis patients so that sexual
contacts can be diagnosed and
treated before the disease is
spread.
Return
From Raleigh
Pamlico County Democratic
Chairman E. Sutton Venters and
Mrs. Venters, Sheriff and Mrs.
Leland Brinson and Mr. and
Mrs. Joe McClees have returned
to their homes following their at
tendance at the Jefferson
Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh.
They report a wonderful event
that was highly successful.
Mr. and Mrs. Venters were
special luncheon guests of
Governor Jim Hunt and
members of the North Carolina
Council of Government.
Cancer Crusade
Goal Raised Here
Jim Rea, president of the
Pamlico County Division of the
American Cancer Society and
Gladys Lee, who is serving for
the third year as the local
Crusade Chairman, urge
everyone to support the crusade
and help Pamlico County go over
its goal once again.
In the past several years
Pamlico County’s involvement
in the American Cancer Society
Crusade has been outstanding.
In both 1975 and 1976 Pamlico
County exceeded its goal of
$2,000 by more than $1,000. As a
result, the North Carolina Divi
sion of the American Cancer
Society has raised Pamlico
County’s goal this year to $3,000.
With the strong leadership and
support of Pamlico County
residents, attainment of this
goal is inevitable. Many people
are working diligently to make
1977 the most profitable and
rewarding Cancer Crusade year
ever. One facet of the program
which may be unknown to some
of the county residents is that
forty percent of the total con
tributions remain in the county
to aid Pamlico’s cancer patients.
For the past four year, Jim
Rea, Agricultural Agent for
Pamlico County, has served as
president of the Pamlico County
Division of the American Cancer
Society. Prior to becoming presi
dent, Mr. Rea served in several
other capacities within the
organization. His strong
leadership has con
tributed much to the success of
the county’s involvement. Other
leaders of this county’s division
are Pete and Hilda Alderman,
the service and memorial
chairmen for the past 15 years.
Their involvement has been in
the greatest capacity. Gladys
Lee is serving for the third year
as the American Cancer Socie
ty’s Crusade Chairman. With
two very successful years on her
record, Gladys feels that the
overall success of the Crusades
has been totally due to the
dedication and involvement of
the neighborhood captains and
their crusades. This year, those
serving in the capacity of
neighborhood captains are as
follows: Dawson Creek, Louise
Lee: Arapahoe, Neva McCotter
and Vernon Sutton; Baird’s
Creek, Rosa Blanch Brinson:
Scott Town community, Kitty
Whitford; Grantsboro, Minnie
G. Meyers, Reelsboro, Sadie Me
Glone and Katherine Potter:
Prescott Road, Doris Prescott;
Olympia, Ann Holton; Silver
Hill, Millie Hunnings; .Alliance,
Julia Spencer; Bayboro Jean
Gibbs and Ruby Monk;
Stonewall, Beatrice Gatlin and
Lenore Rouse; Merritt, Mary
Williams and Virginia Davis;
Oriental, Florence McCreary
and William and Bessie Gibbs;
Pamlico, Irene Muse and
Ernestine Mattock;
Whortonsville, Mildred Silver
thorne and Mr. and Mrs. Von
Stokes; Florence, Mr. and Mrs.
Von Stokes and Gentry Jones;
Maribel. Dorothy Mizzell and
Emma Beasley; Vandemere,
Sally McCotter; Mesic, Murial
Jones and Indiana Jones;
Hobucken, Hazel Alcock;
Lowland. Edith Ireland.
The money people give to the
American Cancer Society buys a
lot: it supports vital research; it
helps educate the public and
safeguards against cancer and it
supports service and rehabilita
tion programs for cancer pa
tients and their families. Fight
cancer with a check-up and a
check to the American Cancer
Society.
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SEAWARD BOUND - The “Little Miles,” operated by Captain
MMeeflhltqr Beni Oriental, la pictured n a recent photograph aa it
backed ont a( berth to head out lor fishing waters. The fishing boat
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Is one of many operated by Pamlico people in the annualharvert of
food from coastal waters. (Photograph by Jerry Raynor).