WEEKLY Volume $3, No. 44 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 3, 1977 15 CENTS Convention To Be Held : School Board member* and administrators from throughout North Carolina will gather Thursday, November 3 in Wilmington for the Eighth Annual North Carolina School Boards Association Convention. , ; According to Dr. Raleigh Dingman, Executive Direc tor of the Association, over 390 are expected to attend the Convention, to be held >ai the Wilmington Hilton Hotel. - The Association will elect officers and directors for two year terms . at a business session which will conclude the Convention on Saturday , November 5. ? Major highlights of the Convention will be con sideration of education legislation enacted by the 1977 General Asaembly and legislation to be considered or supported in 1978. Primary topics of con cern will be implementa tion of legislation proposed by Governor Jim Hunt and enacted by the Legislature. The Primary Reading 4 Program, Community Schools Act and Testing Program* will be discussed at a Roundtable discussion Friday morning. Proposals to increase state funding in the areas of additional instructional personnel, school plant operations, programs for exceptional children and other areas will also be discussed. Former National PTA President Carol Kimmel of Rock Island, Illinois will present the Convention's keynote address Friday morning. Other speakers include Assistant State Superinten dent of Public Instruction Dudley Flood, Dr. Charles Gibboney and National School Boards Association First Vice President Margaret Buvinger of Enid, Oklahoma. Convention participants will focus on a number of educational and legal Issues in discussion groups Friday. Legal issues such as the Open Meetings Law, Con ?Library Update By WAYNE HENRITZE BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE NEW STOP ON DURANT'S NECK ROUTE. The y bookmobile will be operating in the Durant's Neck and Woodville sections of Perquimans County this Friday, November 4 and every third Friday thereafter. The stop at Galatia Baptist Church is being moved to Overton's Store due to a larger number of residents in the area. ? Destination Arrives Departs WoodUlrt Church 10:0ft 10:25 Whitehat Landing 10: J5 11:00 Berea Church 11:10 11:35 New Hope Methodist * 11:40 12:05 Overton's Store 12:10 12:35 Leigh's Temple Church ' *? 12:45 1:10 J.H. White Store 1:30 1:55 Woodville Baptist ?:00 2:25 Towe and Quincy Store 2:35 3:00 Parkville Holiness Church 3:05 3:30 STORY HOUR ?' Our usual Friday morning story hour for preschoolers will continue as usual from 10-11 a.m. If someone in your - neighborhood with children ages 3-5 still doesn't know about this story hour, please let them know about it. NEW BOOKS THE SILMARILLION by JLR.R. Tolkien is another is the best selling series about middle earth, hobbits, and the like. Although published last and written before his other works, it was his favorite. LUCIFER'S HAMMER by Larry Niven is a tale of world-wide disaster in which the earth is ravaged in a brush with a comet. THE EXPERIENCE OF INNER HEALING by Ruth Carter Stapleton is an account of faith healing by Jimmy Carter's sister who is well known in the field. THE MAN FROM NEXT DOOR by Honor Traey is a novel of two diaries kept by two people with radically dif ferent points of view, one a proper English girl framed for a crime and the other the man who framed her. * THE DRAGONS OF EDEN by Carl Sagan, the Tonight Show's resident astronomer, is an account of the develop ment of human intelligence and the possibilities of similar development elsewhere in the universe. flict of Interest and Hearing Procedures relating to non-renewal of teacher con tracts will be discussed. Participants will also consider ways of dealing with school personnel, the public and County Commissioners. According to Dr. Dingman, "Attendance at Conventions and other meetings ie extremely important to school board members and administrators." "None of these public of ficials operates in a vacuum," he added, "By sharing ideas and gaining access to innovations, local board members can im prove education in their local communities." "In addition to improving education," Dingman noted, "ideas generated during conventions often result in substantial sav ings of the tax dollars." "As a result," he pointed out, "attendance is well worth the small cost involved." The Association's Ex ecutive Director em phasized that the annual Convention is one of many ways the Association at tempts to serve '-'Its members. "This is our largest meeting of the year," he noted. "But the Convention, District and other state meetings, as well as our ef forts to represeat local boards at the state level are directed at two major goals." "Primary is the need to maintain control of public education in the hands of those citizens closest to the schools, those at the local level," he said. "A related goal is to assure that those citizens are as well equipped as possible to see that our schools and school systems are operated economically and for the benefit of our young people," Dingman stated. Advisory Council The Albemarle Advisory Council on Aging held its first monthly meeting for FY 78 on October 20, 1977 at the Edenton Municipal Building, Edenton, N.C. Following approval of the minutes, a report relating to progress under the Area Agency on Aging was presented by Naomi C. Hester, Program Administrator. CAPITAL CXIDIT CHECK PRESENTED ? Capital credit checks will be mailed to members of Albemarle Elec tric Membership Corporation this week, accorlfnf to general manager Ed Brown Jr. Brown (right) a check lor ^*1.51 to Carroll Williams ?fRt. 2, Hertford (or capital credits earned Id 1MM9. A non-profit, member-owned butineti. Albemarle EMC assigns all margins left over at the eodof each year's operations to the Bombers. Some *42,000 is being mailed