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WEEKLY Volume 34, No. 33 U.S. SENATOR JESSE HELMS Helms breakfast outlined The North Carolina Congressional Club is expecting a large crowd to attend a breakfast in Elizabeth City on Saturday moraine, Aug. 19, honoring U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. The breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn. Area residents are invited to come meet and talk in formally with North Carolina's Senior Senator. Several members of the Democrats for Helms Steering Com mittee in this area are expected to attend. They include Cader Harris from Pasquotank County, Mrs. Travis Owens from Camden County, and two Chowan County Democrats; Roland Vaughan and V.P. "Spec" Jones. Senator Helms was elected to the Senate in 1972. He serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is ranking minority member of the Arms Control Subcommittee. He also serves on the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, where he has worked on behalf of the North Carolina farmers, and the preserva tion of the small family farm in America. The American Security Council recently published its National Security Voting Index. Senator Helms received a 100% rating by the Council, which attests that his voting record is totally consistent with ma jority public opinion on national security issues. Included in the na tional security sampling were the key issue! of the Warnke SALT nomination, ratification of the Panama Canal treaties, loan assistance to Viet Nam, the B-l bomber discontinuation, and other defense budget-cut proposals. The sampling indicates that the American people are overwhelming ly in favor of strategic military superiority. Senator Helms is actively protect ing and supporting the tobacco in dustry in North Carolina. He is working towards eliminating unfair competition between North Carolina tobacco farmers and other tobacco growing countries around the world, CO A selects new dean Dr. J. Parker Chesson Jr., presi dent of College of The Albemarle, announced this week that Dr. Gerald W. Bray has assumed the duties of Dean of Administrative Services at the college. A native of Pasquotank County, Bray has held the position of Vice President at Rockingham Com munity College in Wentworth since 1971. In making the announcement, Chesson said, "We are extremely fortunate to have found a person with Dr. Bray's qualifications and ability. His 13 years' experience in I the area of higher education has resulted In &. -broad latitude of koowledge in every phase of com munity college management. We feel certain that his association with COA will provide another strong fac tor to the continuing growth of the institution." Bray is the son of Mrs. Lillie Bray who resides at 1226 North Road Street in Elizabeth City, and the late Lessell W. Bray. He was a 1953 graduate of Central High School. He received his baccalaureate degree in history from Elon College in 1957, and was awarded a masters degree in education at Duke Univer sity in 1961. In 1967, Bray received his doctorate from Purdue Universi ty with graduate specialties in educational administration, psychology, sociology and counselor education. The new dean possesses an im pressive list of experience in the educational profession. He began his career in the field as an elementary teacher In the Caswell County Schools in Yancey ville from 1956 through 1959. Following a year as a high school teacher and coach in the public school system in Ninilchik, Alaska in 1959, Bray returned to Yancey ville as an elementary principal. He was also the administrator of a coun tywide guidance program there until 1963, when he enrolled at Purdue University to pursue his doctoral studies. He was employed by the North Carolina State Board of Education in the Department of Public Education in 1964, as a school administrative consultant. During the summer of 1965, Bray served as a visiting pro fessor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. His initial association with Rock ingham Community College began in 1965, where he was employed as the director of student affairs. He held this position .yntjl 1971, when he was selected to become the institu tion's vice president. During his tenure at RCC, he also taught graduate level courses as an adjunct professor at Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.; VPI in Richmond, Va.; and at Emory and Henry College. Bray is a licensed psychological examiner. He served as a consultant for psychological services in the Rockingham County Schools. He also has served as a consultant with the American Association of Com munity and Junior Colleges since 1968, and has been a member of many accreditation teams for the Southerns Association of Colleges and Schools, visiting institutions in the states of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky. In addition to these activities, the dean has served on numerous state advisory comtnittees. He is a member of the American Associa tion of Community and Junior Col leges, American Educational Research Association, American Personnel and Guidance Associa tion, North Carolina Personnel and Guidance Association and Phi Delta Kappa education fraternity. which have been trade advantages over North Carolina and other tobac co states. In support of the tobacco program in this state, Senator Helms affirms, "We must eliminate this unfair competition, so that the quality tobacco grown in North Carolina can find new and additional markets overseas. North Carolina farmers don't mind competition, just so long as it is fair competition." In a effort to save American tax payers millions of dollars, Helms sponsored successful amendments to the Foreign Aid bill to cut foreign aid spending. One such amendment, which passed unanimously in the Senate, provided for the elimination of aid to countries permitting ter rorist outfits. Helms stated, "I think that the American taxpayers ought not to be forced to send money abroad, send any foreign aid to any country as long as we have inflation and unemployment at home." Senator Jesse Helms serves as honorary chairman of the North Carolina Congressional Club, a bi partisan organization with thousands of members statewide. The Club stands for the conservative principles of individual freedom, the preservation of the free enterprise and fiscally sound government. For tickets, please call Southgate Cleaners (335-5720). DR. GERALD BRAY Bray is married to the former The couple has three children: Mar Ellen Alice Martiny of Mesa, Ariz, ty, 14; Zach, 13; and Jeremy, 11. Government Internship Program open to students Learning by doing is the goal of the Fall '78 State Governemnt In ternship Program which will run from October to December. Any student attending a North Carolina college, university, technical institute or community college or any North Carolina resi dent attending such a school outside the state is eligible to apply. Students are required to spend at least IS hours a week "on the job" SUMMERTIME TREAT - Per quimans County's Recreation Direc tor Billy Woolen is the picture of pore enjoyment as he partakes of -v the traditional summertime fruit ? the watermelon. While this site might have taken place in any backyard during weekend outings in ? I ' v ' ? ;? ' 4 v ?"* ' - :l Perquimans, Wooten was spotted in this pose at the girls' softball team Picnic, pictures of which appear on page I. (Staff photo by Paige Sure) and may carry reguair course loads. They do not receive stipends but are eligible to receive academic credit through individual arrangements with their respective schools. The program is sponsored by the N.C. Internship Program of the Department of Administration's - Youth Involvement Office. i Brochures explaining the fall pro gram and state employment ap plication blanks are available in placement offices of colleges, universities, technical institutes and ; community colleges. Application deadline is September 15. For additional information, call or write Ken Wright or Jeannie Jo Bell at the N.C. Youth Involvement Of fice, 112 W. Lane St., Room 115, Howard Building, Raleigh, N.C. 27603, 919 733-5966. Region R birthrate shows 2 % increase According to the latest statistics from the N.C. Division of Health Ser vices released this week, Region R's birthrate rose in 1977, showing an in crease of two percent over 1976. Of the 1,626 births for the north eastern 10-county area, 394 or one out of every four births was to a teenager. Of these 394, it is estimated by the Family Planning Program of the Albemarle Regional Planning and Development Com mission (ARPDC) that over half were unplanned births. Firstborns went to 294 of these mothers, the youngest mother being 12 years of age. Quite a few vied for the youngest mother with the most children. At age 14, one mother gave birth to her second child and a 15 year old did the same. Some 16- year olds were giving birth to their se cond child, while 17, 18 and 19-year olds were birthing their third. And three birthed their fourth child at age 19. Perquimans County showed a total of 139 births for 1977 with 35 of those being to teenagers. This represents 25 percent. The region showed a 24 percent birthrate among teenagers when computing the total. Governor announces appointments to CRC Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. made three new appointments and four re- appiontments to the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission today. New appiontees were Mrs. Mayme W. Davenport, Cresswell; Mr. Jim Sykes, Morehead City; and Mr. William Gibbs, Orients!. Mrs. Davenport, a Washington County Commissioner, fills the local government appiontment on the Commission. Mr. Sykes, with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Beaufort, fills the commercial and sports fisheries appiontemnt. Mr. Gibbs, businessman and member of the Pamlico County Planning Board, fills the at-large appiontment. Members re-appionted were Dr. J. Parker Chesson Jr., Elizabeth City; DeWitt Darden, New Bern; Frank Furlough Jr., Columbia and Dr. Gene Huntsman, Beaufort. The 15-member Coastal Resources Commission provides guidelines and policies for the orderly development and protection of important coastal natural resources under the 1974 Coastal Area Management Act.
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